The Doug Pike Show 11-9-24

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Doug Pike Show, brought to you by
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
All right, here we'll go. Saturday Morning starts right now
for us, for all of us. I think it'll be
a good one. I hope it'll be a good one. Anyway,
I had a good time yesterday playing golf. I'll tell
you about that later in the program. I'm not gonna
I don't even want to try to get into it
just yet. What happened to this piece of paper? I'm
missing a piece of paper. Oh well, it's not that
important there, We're only two little things on it.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Anyway.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
We are one week into duck, goose and deer seasons,
and things appear to be going about as expected. I
think for early early on. There's a great deer coming in.
Already everywhere you look there's some really really good deer
faux pros. One of his doctors, I can't remember what
she does, what her specialty is, but her other specialty

(00:57):
apparently is deer hunting. According to the picture I saw
of the buckshi shot goes on all over this state
of ours, that's something we could talk about this morning.
I've got that. I had that on my list, whether
or not you're having a good start to your dear season,
whether or not you're having a good start to your
duck and goose season. The more information we can gather

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from the more parts of the state, the better overall
picture we'll see. I don't think it's gonna I don't
think anything's gonna change much. I think we're gonna be
overall in for good hunting seasons. And frankly, every one
of them that I've ever been through and not had
anybody I know get hurt, I consider that a really
good season. I still want to live long enough that

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I get through an entire hunting season, and I've been
I wrote about this when I was at the paper,
and that's been a hot minute. I want to get
through an entire season where this state of ours, and
where we haven't been far off lately, actually records zero
hunting accidents zero. Just nothing to see here. The entire

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the entire folder of hunting accidents for whatever season that is,
has nothing in it. I'm hoping the optimistic part of
me looks at and this is something that if you
ever are in a with the cup well, the holiday's
coming up. You'll be in these situations pretty regularly. Probably

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if you're like most of us. There'll be a Christmas
party at work, There'll be some holiday festival here, there, everywhere,
wherever it is, and wherever you're standing around talking to people.
If the subject of hunting comes up and you see
a couple of people cringe or they say, oh, I
would never do that. I could never do that, ask
them why this, why not? And if they say it's

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it just goes against my grain to kill an animal, don't.
Don't bring up the fact that they're sitting there eating
a tea bone. They don't. They don't think of it
that way. They really don't. And you have to be
very You need to stand your ground because you and
I and anybody else who's out there hunting or fishing

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for that matter, and bringing fish home where we're availing
ourselves of a very renewable resource, and there's absolutely nothing
wrong with that. I have no problem with moral, ethical
hunting practices anywhere on anywhere around the planet, as long
as it's sustainable. I don't want to I don't want

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anybody to ever shoot the last of something, the final one.
That's well, that's it. We're out of those now. But
that's not going to happen in the foreseeable future. And
I can see pretty far down the road. It's not
going to happen to whitetail deer. It's not going to
happen to ducks or geese. There are gonna be years
when they have better and worse reproduction, better and worse recruitment.

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But we're not going to wipe out the whitetails in Texas.
It'll be something far more catastrophic than a million people
sitting in deer stands exactly one hundred yards away from
a feeder trying to put some put some meat on
the ground. Boy, I just got off, totally off where
I was gonna go. I just can't help myself when

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I start thinking about it. And I've been in this
situation before. Oh, you're that guy. You're Doug Pike. You're
the guy that talks about killing animals all the time. No, No,
I'm not that guy. I've never seen that guy, never
heard of him. I don't know anybody who talks about
killing animals all the time. I'll talk about I'll talk
about taking out enough deer from our population every year

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so that we don't wind up with an entire herd
of deer starving or dying of some horrible disease like
chronic wasting disease. I'll talk about maintaining a good balance
in that herd so that all of the animals in
it can be healthy, because it's far more dangerous to
just leave them alone and letting nature take its course.

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It's if people could see, if the people who are
against hunting could see how devastating it is when a
disease wipes out animals. I watched it with avian cholera.
I watched it on the Kadi Prairie with avian colera

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probably what thirty years ago now somewhere in there, twenty
five thirty years ago, and that stuff ravaged that goose population,
roost ponds all over the Kdy Prairie back when there
were more than a million waterfowl roosting on there. Every winter,
wiped out tens of thousands of birds. We had to
go in there with elbow high, rubber gloves and knee

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boots and all that and just walk through those roost
ponds picking up dead birds to be incinerated or buried
or whatever, and then those roost ponds had to be drained,
they had to sit for a while, and then they
had to be refilled with fresh water, and that fresh
water costs money and waterfowl hunters, and to their credit,

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the Autobon Society, they were out there in force, members
of the Autobon Society. They recognized that this was a
need for This was for the birds. It wasn't for hunters,
it wasn't for birders, it wasn't for any people anywhere.
This was being done for the birds. And you know
who didn't show up? Animal rights people, not a single one.

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They didn't lift a finger to help with all that
clean up effort. They didn't invest a dime in any
of the pumping costs, or labor costs, or fuel costs
to run the pumps, whatever it was. I wrote about
that a lot because it was really telling about exactly
who those people were at that point. They were anti

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hunting period. They didn't give a toot about the animals.
They didn't give a two about anything except stopping us
from doing what we do. Holy cow, there's a guy
I hadn't talked to him a little bit Dave, what's up?

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Man?

Speaker 3 (07:10):
I was, I like, Man, I know, you know, I
heard a little bit about this, and tell me what
you call?

Speaker 5 (07:16):
Okay, here listen, Uh yeah, I need to listen to
fifty plus a little more. You know. I got stold
up with some polidas and my stom with man and
you know, yeah, and they and man, I tell you what,
I just buckled up. Willis Fire Department had to come
and carry me out of there in one of them
stretchers like hit the big Fishop. I was in the

(07:37):
hospital for four days. I couldn't even get out of
the bed without the alarms and bells and whistles going.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Oh man.

Speaker 5 (07:43):
But anyway, yeah, yeah, I'm in great shape. I got
all my stomach doctor and everything.

Speaker 6 (07:51):
They're doing good.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
I got everything going, and we got smart points next week.
But everything's okay. But hey, I'm standing out here right
here with the N thirty. I got six boats and
trailers here, trucks with their trailers and so and we
got six boats out good. H The wind is just good.

Speaker 7 (08:07):
Hey.

Speaker 5 (08:08):
The reason why nobody can find any duck is because
they're all over here by me to my left tide.
But uh yeah, I hear you. Oh yeah, I know.

Speaker 8 (08:19):
I ha no.

Speaker 5 (08:20):
But my buddy, uh red Nick Mike, Yeah, he's over here.
He he mens close by here and he's got a
place in Corpus Christy Tube. But he's got his uh
young uh I got uh his young dog is one
of the uh uh I can't think of the name
of it. I'm looking right at her well uh yeah, yeah,

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and her ears are pointed up looking at me right now.
She's only about one years old. She wants to play anyway,
he he he. He hooks me up straight, yeah he
he uh. Then Nick Mike hooking me up with uh
about five brim and two caps, just heady, I got
them with. I'm gonna probably just go ahead and bake

(09:07):
them with some darlic butter and seasoning and don't pick
through them. Then.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah, you just can't go wrong with garlic butter and
seasoning of some sort for any kind of fish. I
don't think.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
Yeah, yeah, well no, no. Other than that, I'd say,
I'm feeling it is a little cool out here right now.
Wins pick it up a little bit, yeah, because I'm
standing up like right up here at the top boards
be where you first start going into the boat loss
and these are real nice boat lounches. And if you
do come out here, Okay, I was telling you about

(09:39):
the bay camps on the way out here. Okay, when
you're coming at down eight thirty on the right end side,
going going there and talk to mister Beamy. He's real
nice man. They got live menace in there, they got
your worms, they got all kinds of equipment in there.
And you know, so, I mean, we got plenty of
places to pick some stuff up real quick, so you
don't have to go to somewhere else box store or something.

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And then so there's there's quite a few little spots
around here that they sell minas and stuff good. And
uh the ones I looked at there, the men as
I looked at it in there, they looked real healthy too,
So that's a good thing.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yeah, you don't want some of gampy old menow out
there on your hook.

Speaker 5 (10:15):
Man, No, no, no, but uh yeah, I gotta I
gotta get back, uh right now, I got to follow
jay Len in to the dealership. She has to have
her winding shield replace.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
So boy, oh, I know, I know. Let's see, if
you if you were listening to fifty plus, you'd know
about know about vi P Auto glass. They just come
to you and put that windshield in.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
Well.

Speaker 5 (10:36):
I tried to talk to her about it, but she
already got well she has to take it to where
her insurance come.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
H But anyway, I'll talk to you, okay.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
Well, hey man, all right, Dave. Hey, it's good to
hear from you.

Speaker 9 (10:48):
Man.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
I knew you were. I don't say anything to anybody
about it, but I knew it, and I was thinking
about you.

Speaker 8 (10:52):
Man.

Speaker 5 (10:53):
No, no, I'm I hey. I was bauled up like
trying like a baby man, and and I'm not ashamed
to say.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Well, I'm glad to go back to yourself.

Speaker 8 (11:05):
Man, Thanks Dave, appreciate y'all.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
All right, audios. He is back to full speed. Melvin's
sure it is. That's a good thing too, man. Yes,
missing last week and anytime somebody like that doesn't call,
I kind of worry about him. You know what. I
was worried last week as well because I didn't hear
from him. Yeah, it's just kind of cricket. So where's
Dave Man, where's Dave?

Speaker 10 (11:30):
Well?

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Good, he's back up to speed. Everybody's back up to speed.
I hope anybody who's been down a little bit. Man,
I got my flu shot this week, and for the
first time ever I've had. It's a minor reaction. It's
not a big deal, but I just got kind of
kind of felt crummy yesterday and I couldn't figure out
what it was, and it dawned on me. Okay, it's
a stupid shot because I've never reacted to one before.

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It just went on about my business. But yesterday, man,
I had kind of a scratchy throat. I had just
I just felt really lethargic, even though I did play golf.
I powered through it. Let's just put it that way.
And yeah, it was weird because I couldn't explain it otherwise.
I'm ninety nine point nine percent sure there's nothing wrong

(12:15):
with me as far as getting sick goes. But it's
just reaction to the shot. I guess you ever had
that happen to you. No, but my grandmother she just
had her shot the other day and she had some
problems as well. Yeah, it just makes you it. It
creates flu like symptoms, and that's the last thing you

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want when you get a flu shot. For God's sake,
you know, I'm kind of counting on not getting anything
that feels like the flu. Actually it doesn't. It really
doesn't prevent you from getting it. All it does is
make it a little milder thing to experience and deal with.
Build up your resistance, your tolerance. Yeah, yeah you can.
You can take it and take it on the chin
and just get right back up and keep fighting. Do

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they offer flu shots during the summer as well? I
think you could get a flu shot just about any
time you wanted to. I don't know how necessary it
would be in the summertime. I'm only saying that because
I wouldn't much rather get it during the summer because
of the heat and the sunshine and make me feel
much better about getting that shot. But you still got it. Yeah,

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but it doesn't last for a whole year. Okay. Oh see,
that's the thing that's you get one in the winter time,
because I don't think that. I think that's correct, because
you get it in the fall to get you through
the prime flu season and not beyond there. You're you're
not getting it in November to get you through July
and August. You get me because the stuff kind of

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goes away anyway. Yeah, So that's a method to the madness. Yeah, yeah,
they they thought it. They've thought it through much. Unlike
you and me. We just we're knee jerking. That's all
we do, man, that's all we do. See to the pants,
fly around, have some fun. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety Email me Doug Pie at iHeartMedia
dot com. By the way, we are gonna talk to

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Cowboys and Mask at about eight o'clock this morning. I
want to have him on because he is going to
help us understand. First of all, if you're thinking about
getting somebody a real cool knife for Christmas, a hunting knife,
a fishing knife, a pocket knife, whatever, I'm gonna get
him to try and give us some questions. We could

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ask of someone about what they do in the outdoors
that doesn't come out and say, hey, what kind of
knife would you like? But if he can, if he
can get the answers to those questions, after you ask
him of this person you want to buy a knife for,
he can probably guide you to the right one, and
then we're gonna talk about we'll talk about price point

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two because there's a big difference. You can you can
go out and buy a knife for about four dollars
probably if you go to the go to the wrong
store and get a bad knife. But an investment and
a really good knife warrants the attention you'll give to
making sure it's the right knife for whatever that person
wants to do. And I'm also going to get him
to talk to us about how to sharpen knives, which

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I think is pretty dog one important because I know
there are right ways and wrong ways to do everything.
And if we're gonna talk about sharpening knives, I'm gonna
learn from the guy who makes knives. That's all he
does out there in Belleville. I'll talk to you a
little bit about him in a little while too. Your
Rockets and Astros live here.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
We are Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 11 (15:30):
The conversation continues this as The Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
Seven twenty one on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug
Pike Show. Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. I
or something I was gonna talk about when we got
back and already forgot what it was. It doesn't matter,
It absolutely does not matter what Matt. I'll tell you
one thing that's good to know, Old Raphie L. We
weren't sure what raphaie L was gonna do. Early on,
when it was all the way over in the Eastern Caribbean,

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the models showed it getting into the Gulf of Mexico,
and then most of the models early on showed it
taking a rite going back north and going in somewhere
around the Florida Panhandle or maybe Mississippi or Alabama, and
then it moved over all the way to Louisiana. It

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never it never ever showed that it was going to
come into Texas at all. But the farther it got
into the Gulf, the more it showed that it was
going to turn south instead of north. And that's that's
pretty well dialed in. Now we don't have to worry
about Raphael. It's gonna go on down and keep going
down and keep becoming less and less scary. It ripped

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it ripped Cuba pretty good one it did. It ripped
up Cuba. It went ashore as a cat too, I think,
and tore stuff up down there. But from that point forward,
not so much of a big deal, not at all,
not at all. Seven one three, two, one two five
seven ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.
Going back to bird hunting for a minute, if you

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haven't done much of it and it interests you, and
it kind of peaks your it gets your attention and
you want to go try it. Get some lessons first,
like I was talking about with American shooting centers. Get
some lessons, and then once you get out there, understand
the difference in how how all these different bird hunts work,
because they really are different. Doves are kind of they're

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an entry leveled bird hunt, I would say, honestly, and
I'm not picking on doves, and I know I've had
some tough days with doves because man, they're bouncing off
the wind and all that. But they're not the hardest
target in the air. They're just not quail. Quail are
like that. They're the sprinters. Okay, they're the.

Speaker 7 (17:52):
Man.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
They're the jump out in front of you and scare
the heck out of you. And if you've never hunted
and you like adrenaline rushes, that's gonna be that's the
bird for you. That's the bird for you. I've been
hearing good things about the numbers of quail out there,
by the way, good good numbers of covees in places
where they're hunted regularly, and the guys who are checking

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them can tell the difference and good numbers of birds
in each of those covees. So if you've got a
quail hunt and you've been invited on and you haven't
done it before, by all means, go go practice some
wing shooting, and that would be a good, good reason
to be on a trap field. Actually, that's much more
of a simulation of quail hunting than Skeet could ever

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present for you. There's probably quail I think the potential
for potential for accident. Talking about hunting accidents a minute ago,
the potential for accident is probably higher on a quail
hunt than maybe any other hunt, because things happen so fast,

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and there's so many moving parts. You've got you've got
people moving through the brush, and then you've got dogs
running around, and then all of a sudden, out of
nowhere where you're looking, you're looking right at grass. It's
only about four inches high, and the dog's got his
nose in there. Boy, there's something in here, all right,
And all of a sudden, ten quail come out of

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there and go in ten different directions. It happens really fast.
If you're gonna go quail hunting for the first time
this year. Listen to the instruction you're given, all of
the instruction you're given, and ask questions. Don't be scared,
don't just because you're a rookie doesn't mean you have
to keep your mouth shut. That's, in fact the best
time to open your mouth. Hey man, I've never done

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this before. What do I need to do? And as
a guide, I would always say, well, first you need
to stay close to me. I'm going to keep you
close to me. I'm going to keep you from shooting
somebody else or keep you from shooting your own toe off,
and we'll go from there and it knock on wood.
It worked out well for me every time. I never
got anybody hurt in any of my spreads, and I'm

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really kind of proud of that actually, because that didn't
go that way for a lot of guys. So quailed
are the sprinters. They're the one hundred yard dash guy.
They're the Hussain Bolts of the bird world. Then you've
got ducks and geese. They're kind of they're running. The
ducks run the quarter the geese run the half mile,
maybe a mile, and then you get up into the

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the the cranes, the sand hill cranes, they're like the
they're the marathoners.

Speaker 4 (20:29):
I guess.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
They just slow and steady, and they're not actually flying
as slow as you think. A lot of people think
ducks fly a lot faster than geese because there were
little wings that are just beaten so fast to keep
them up in the air. They got that big, strong
chest and they have to beat those little stubby wings
pretty hard to stay in the air. Man a lot
harder than the goose. But if you're out as I

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had the opportunity to do for twenty something years, be
on that prairie when you often see ducks and geese
flying together, flying at the same speed, Geese don't have
any problem keeping up with ducks, and ducks don't have
any problem keeping up with geese. They just do it differently,
and they look differently in the air way. Different Let

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me go to these phones here before I mess up,
make them boot them myself and have to have somebody
on hold. David, what's up?

Speaker 9 (21:18):
Man?

Speaker 7 (21:19):
Hey, I'm doing well. How are you doing, sir?

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Fine? Thank you.

Speaker 7 (21:23):
I want to share a story about a teal hunt
that I went on a number of years ago. It
was a combination teal.

Speaker 6 (21:30):
Hunt dove hunt.

Speaker 7 (21:31):
And I've been on several dove hunts before, but never duck.
And the guide was very well known out in the
area and he's able to get the leases on several
farms and ranches.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Wonderful.

Speaker 6 (21:46):
And we hunted the flooded field.

Speaker 7 (21:47):
And that morning it rained, it was cold, and we
were skunked on the teal hunt, and I was pretty upset.
It was my first teal hunt. I expected to shoot
some birds. So it was a two day hunt. So
later on the guide uh got with his father.

Speaker 6 (22:09):
And took me on a on a separate hunt in
a different area.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
Oh wow, okay, And I said, this is.

Speaker 6 (22:15):
My first duck hunt. What can you what can you
teach me?

Speaker 7 (22:18):
And believe it or not, the man said, it's not
necessary to use the duck call. What you need to
do is pay attention to the wind and so. And
I'm listening to him because I don't know anything about
duck hunting. And he says, when you watch these these
war movies, before the planes take off of the carrier,

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the captain always tells the guy who's running the ship
right to point the carrier into the wind.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
Yes, sir, birds to fly into.

Speaker 7 (22:47):
The wind to take off, and they have to fly
into the wind and land, he said. So when you
see these birds coming down, that means they're flying into
the wind. When they're abody ready to land on the water,
you will see their legs come down, just like you
see an aircraft carrier's wheels come down.

Speaker 6 (23:05):
And with that little bit of instruction.

Speaker 7 (23:08):
I believe that year Texas had raised the limit on
teal to six from four, and I shot three that morning.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
Good for you.

Speaker 7 (23:16):
Yeah, And so I think that you know, when people
go hunting for teal or hunting for duck, especially birds
that are very maneuverable and and not that easy to
shoot on the wing, that they need to have patience.
They need to practice, like you say, uh, you know,
go out and shoot some trap and skiek and and
and and get some get some time some trigger time

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at the range on that and then ask your guide
questions if if it's your first time asking, even if
there are other seasoned hunters there, don't worry.

Speaker 6 (23:48):
That you might ask a dumb question.

Speaker 7 (23:50):
You paid your money and you want to know, and
they are going to be more than have to explain.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
Things as far as when I was a guide, if
if if you had paid your money and you were
in my spread, you can ask all the questions you want.
And I would encourage that man and a lot of people.
Maybe the guy doesn't communicate it, but especially when somebody's
brand new, you're gonna have a thousand questions and don't
be scared to ask any of them.

Speaker 10 (24:14):
You know.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
That's great. That's great advice. By the way, on the
feet down, boy, that's that's when they push those feet down.
What they're doing. They're pushing the brake pedal. They got
their wings out, and they're usually kind of just staying
out and they flaps down, wings out, gear down, and
they want to slow down and come in, and that's
a good time ambush them.

Speaker 6 (24:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (24:36):
Now he did say while the duck call is really
not necessary, he says, it's always a good idea to
put up your decoys.

Speaker 5 (24:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (24:44):
Yeah, they've got eyesight. They've got very good eyes sighted.

Speaker 7 (24:47):
From the altitude that they're flying, they can see the
decoys that think that there are other ducks and that
helps spring them in. So, according to this particular guide,
the decoys work better in that situation than call.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Oh, Yeah, decoys are way more important than a call,
and if you ever get an opportunity, it may not
happen again in our lifetime. But out on that Katie
Prayrier somewhere where there's a lot of ducks and you
can park close enough to a bunch of feeding ducks
that you can actually hear what's going on out there.
When ducks are coming in, the ducks on the ground
that are feeding, they're not calling those other ducks. They're eating,

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that's what they're doing. And it is a lot of
people just they blow that call way too much, wait
too much.

Speaker 7 (25:29):
And one of the one other thing I want to mention, okay,
that I learned on this trip was that most people
are used to buying their food at the grocery store,
and they're used to buying white meat and dark meat.
Oh okay, When when you go dove hunting and duck
hunting for the first time, and then either either you

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clean your your birds or your guide does for you're
in paid for, you're going to see all dark meat.
And the reason you're going to see all dark meat
is because the mess stick birds like chicken and turkeys,
they don't exercise their wings by flying like wild birds do.

Speaker 6 (26:07):
So the meat is darker on.

Speaker 7 (26:09):
A wild wild animal because of the chemical that's generated
by the body when they move it, when they exercise
their muscles.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
Exactly what it is. It's a chemical that's in that
in that meat that makes it that red, and that's
what gives them the ability to fly long distances. They're
not sprinters. Quail and pheasant have white meat breasts. They do,
but they're sprinted. They can fly. They can fly really
fast for about forty fifty yards and then they're spent down.
They go duck and ghost cuts forever.

Speaker 7 (26:37):
Yeah, so the hunters shouldn't be put off by the
dark color of the moon. Now, on domestic turkeys and chicken,
the dark color of the meat is on the drumstick
and thigh because they're rooting around all the time. Those
are good that the muscles that are getting exercised. But
I got to tell you there's a ton of recipes
and cooking guys on YouTube on how to prepare peal,

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you know, duck and quail and dove. There's a ton
of stuff out there. So there's a million different ways
you can go. You know, just enjoy what you shoot
and it's not about getting your limit. It's a lot
about spending time with the other guys, meeting new people,
talking about how their experiences and sharing your own about learning.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
You know, you don't.

Speaker 7 (27:22):
I don't mind if I get skunked on a dove
hunt or if I go fishing and come back with
just a wet hook. You know, it's it's it's enjoying
the outdoors. It's enjoying being with other people that like
to do what you do, and trading stories and the camaraderie.
That's the most important thing, you know, just because you
pay a few hundred dollars a few thousand dollars if

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you get skunked, don't take it personal.

Speaker 6 (27:45):
You cannot control.

Speaker 7 (27:46):
Wild animals, and.

Speaker 6 (27:49):
You know, just enjoy on the trip for what it is.

Speaker 7 (27:52):
And any game that you take is a bonus.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
Amen to that. I couldn't have said it any better.
You scored an A plus on your first duck hunt
for refresher tests. Man, that was awesome. You learned a
ton and I can tell you enjoyed it too. Thank you, David.

Speaker 6 (28:06):
It was a wonderful time.

Speaker 12 (28:07):
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
I appreciate my pleasure. Bye bye, Holy Cow. You talk
about you talk about a guy who gets it. He
got it from day one because well, first of all,
he had a guide who was willing to work with
him and talk with him and teach him. And second
of all, he was receptive and he asked a lot
of questions that man, I so encourage that, whether you're

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with a fishing guide, a duck guide, a goose god,
any kind of outdoors guide who does that, professionally ask
them questions because I guarantee you they know stuff you
don't know. I don't care how many years you've been
hunting with your friends. There are things that guides observe
by being out there so long and by their livelihoods

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depending on it. Man, just ask questions. All right, quick,
I'll take a right quick or a left quick, doesn't matter.

Speaker 13 (29:00):
What's up, Brandon, God morning, mister pride, carry you this morning,
good man. I love y'all's conversation that show we're just
having this morning, and it is the comradere. I've seen
more wildlife this year. I've seen more ten bucks ten
point bucks in Wharton County and the last two to

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three weeks then I'm seen in a lifetime. This is
a brag coons, I mean, possings everything, and like the guy,
like the guy was talking, he goes, hey, if you
get skunked on a hunt, it's all about the camaraderie.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
Well, just being being outside, you know, that's just so
life giving to me. Man. It makes me feel alive
to be out there when it's well, not so much
when it's ninety eight degrees, but when it's about well,
you got fifty to fifty five somewhere in there, just
cool enough it's going to get your attention, but not
so much that you're going to just sit there and
shiver all day.

Speaker 5 (29:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
I love being here man, Yes, sir.

Speaker 13 (30:01):
Yeah, Well, like I say, I'm uh at my age.
I mean, I've shot a lot when I was very young,
and now I much rather shoot them with a camera.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
I can I can relate to that. I now. Ducks
and geese if if they're still flying after everybody else's shot.

Speaker 8 (30:20):
Knock one down, Well that's how I'm right there with you.
I can see.

Speaker 13 (30:25):
I still like the swing of shot gun, but as
far as deer and all that other stuff, I much
rather shoot them with the camera.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
I'm with you. It's fun It's funny either when the camaraderie.

Speaker 13 (30:36):
Is that that's the main thing.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
Yeah, that's that's the important thing to remember, is what
you're really really to just get together.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
Yes, sir.

Speaker 13 (30:45):
And the thing about it is take your kids, grandkids, whatever,
and let them sit around and enjoy that.

Speaker 6 (30:52):
And I guarantee those seeds will be playing.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Yeah they will. Don't let don't get me on that soapbox.
I'll never get down.

Speaker 13 (30:58):
Man fit on it myself. Thank you, Brandy all right, man, yes, sir,
thank you.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
Yeah, there's another guy who gets it right there, there's
another guy who gets it. We do have to take
a little break.

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in all kinds of cool directions and I like it.
So I'm not gonna I'm not going to rock the boat.
Let you guys steer the ship for a little while. Jeff,
what's up man morning?

Speaker 12 (31:53):
Rather than a Borian weather question in the veterans day
is Monday. I was wondering if you were going to
do anything tomorrow or thread something in today. You always
can't handle something, even if it's just for a couple
of minutes to talk about it. It's even more important
than this this year that it has been in a
long long time. Just my opinion.

Speaker 3 (32:13):
I couldn't agree with you more. I think every I
don't know that any year is more important. Well, yeah,
this year's yeah, I get where you're going there. However,
the thing that is troubling to me is that we
we have to find some reason to make it more
important than another year. Every day people in this country

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ought to be thinking they're lucky stars that there are
men and women brave enough to go out there and
fight for us.

Speaker 12 (32:40):
You know, well, I try to even remember back in
the wars. I don't study enough because they're just too
hard to like. The Civil War and World War One,
they're just horrid. Maybe it's the photography, maybe it's just
the casualties, but it was just brutal body and those
guys are as important as ever, and not just the
ones from the Gulf War, the ones from the at
least my father, but I'm not going to go into him.

(33:03):
You've given me a lot of time with them, but
any but not just combat, but warring that we're in
the uniform.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
Yeah, it doesn't you don't have to even go to war.
The fact that you put that uniform, wants to put
it on says if you tell me I need to go,
I'll go. And not everybody goes, but everybody has has said, yeah,
if I'm called, I'm in, and that that takes a
tremendous amount of dedication. I fear that there are fewer

(33:30):
and fewer young men and women in this in this
country are willing to do that. That bothers me. It
concerns me.

Speaker 12 (33:39):
That's a law off question. But I feel the same way.
They don't believe in anything, they don't want to defend anything,
they don't have any loyalty to anything. And I think
it's very scary, not just not just criticizing them, and
it's very disturbing.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Yeah, and there's reasons that they're that way, and that's
something that we all need to kind of step back
and think about, because without without a good deef, you
have no offense.

Speaker 12 (34:03):
Oh well, another thing is you would know more about
this than I do. There's probably a lot of veterans.
To some of them, I've already passed around here. Houstonians
have always showed up the site wars that I haven't
looked at the numbers, but it always seems like they have.
This is This is not a military town like San Antonio,
but people always get mad enough about here, put down
whatever they're doing and go over and take care of business.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
Yeah, that's kind of what it comes down to. Unless
you want somebody, unless you want somebody meddling in your business,
you got a good scoope, take it to them and
take care of business. Thanks Jeff, it was good to
hear from you.

Speaker 12 (34:36):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
Have a good sir.

Speaker 5 (34:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
Monday. Monday is Veterans Day, formerly known as Armiciste Day.
It is not Memorial Day. There's a big difference. Memorial
Day honors those who have served and made the ultimate sacrifice. Essentially,
they gave their lives for our country. Monday, November eleventh

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is the day that we recognize anybody and everybody who
ever served in any branch of the military, because especially
in this day and age in our time going back
after Vietnam, it wasn't mandatory. There was no draft after that,
not that I recall. And so everybody who went and

(35:24):
fought in the middle of they signed up, they went
in and volunteered to be in our armed forces to
make sure this country stayed safe. And anybody and everybody
like that just deserves some recognition and some thanks, I think,
And anybody who disagrees with that, I would love to
hear why you think you shouldn't care about the people

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who enable you to take whatever stance you take in
this country still and be protected in your ability to
do that. Let's get off of that. Though I don't
want to, I don't want to dwell. I'll go into
this a little bit more at length in fifty plus.
I can assure you because I've got the freedom to

(36:08):
do that. But I also want to make sure that
we cover the outdoors because there's a lot of stuff
going on right now, just a lot of good stuff.
By the way, going back to the bird hunting thing,
and especially back to quail or pheasant hunting. Pheasant they're
kind of the I guess quail is like a like

(36:28):
a little half back, the little bitty guy back there
who who is just runs like a water bug. And
then the the pheasants. The full back, he's the one
who's going to open the hole for the quail if
if they were all on the field together. And it's
just that's how my mind works. I just have all
these weird things going through it and I just say

(36:51):
them and see how it works out. A lot of times,
quail and pheasants, man, they're just if there were horses, okay,
they'd be they'd be quarter horses and they flat out
and go fishing. We got to get to that, and
we're gonna spend a lot of time. Cale, Lie, am
I already pass another break? Oh my god, you know what.

(37:11):
We're having such a Melbourne time. I am learning so
much today. You're just not looking at the clock and
I appreciate that. Yeah, let's take this break. I want
to I want to try to stay on time anyway
because I want to get the cowboy right at eight o'clock.
And I'll give you that number in just a minute. Melbourn.

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Speaker 3 (37:38):
Seven fifty four on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug
Pike Show. Thanks for listening. Captain Scott sent me a
picture of what appears to be his daughter with a
nice buck. Well done, both of you. I'm pretty sure
that's her. I'm pretty sure that's sir. Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety. Email me Dougpike at
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(38:04):
that just goes on and on and on. I got
to check that out. Uh oh yeah, Mark from over
in Georgia. Just like you predicted. Monkey farm in Texas
not a good idea. We talked about that last year. Actually,
I think it was there was There were plans to

(38:25):
put a big old monkey farm down south of here,
between here and the beach and over in South Carolina.
Just this past Thursday, two days ago, residents in this
particular area were warned to lock their doors and windows
over in South Carolina after more than forty monkeys escaped

(38:47):
from a research lab. As of Friday, the monkeys had
still not been captured. And there was video actually that
I saw yesterday of a bunch of these monkeys running
around in the woods over there, like holy mackerel, just

(39:07):
big old fat holy mackerel. Mm mm hmm. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety Email me dougpick
At iHeartMedia dot com. I still haven't seen a story
yet to tell me whether or not those monkeys might
be carrying anything that would alarm the public. My gut

(39:30):
tells me that they're not. That whatever they were, however
they were being studied, isn't potentially going to just destroy humanity,
because if it were, they would at least have to
caution people to stay away from them a little more
vigorously than they're doing. But yeah, forty, and these aren't

(39:54):
little tiny monkeys either. These things are pretty big from
what I read. I don't know what species exactly they are,
but they they're big enough that they could put a
whooping on you if you dare challenge them and try
to round them up yourself. I don't know how they're
gonna round up forty monkeys, because when they start rounding
up the first five or six, the other thirty or

(40:15):
thirty five are gonna they're pretty smart animals. They're gonna
become more elusive, They're gonna move I don't know, I
really don't know what to think about these monkeys. I
really don't know. I don't know what the heck they're
gonna do. I haven't studied that before. I've never had
to deal with them in the wild. Thank goodness, there

(40:36):
still are some, I think that just roam South Texas
pretty freely. From an escape down there many many years ago,
All kinds of animals get loose. I've never seen one
of those monkeys down in South Texas, but I know
people who have, and it's a according to them anyway,
it's kind of a very surreal. You have to rub

(40:57):
your eyes four or five times to make sure that
you saw what you thought you saw. All right, let's
pause here, get to this break on time, so when
we get back we can talk to cowboys and ask
you about knife making and knife carrying and giving knives
as gifts and sharpening knives and well, you get the theme.
After all, he is the guy who was in the

(41:17):
original episodes of Forged to in Fire. That'd be Cowboys
and mask.

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Speaker 3 (41:35):
All right, second hour of the program starts right now.
Thank you all for listening. I certainly do appreciate it.
I'm looking over at my emails just to make sure.
And there you go. We are gonna talk in this
segment with a guy that I have. Man, I've admired
his work for an awfully long time, I really have.

(41:56):
And he he's pretty much good as it gets when
it comes to knife making. And on the original episodes
of Forge in Fire and in Belleville, goodness gracious, since
nineteen and seventy nine, that would be one Cowboys to
mask you from Phoenix Nives. What's up, cowboy?

Speaker 10 (42:12):
Hey Doug, how are you doing today?

Speaker 3 (42:14):
I'm good man. You got something in the fire now?

Speaker 6 (42:18):
No, not yet.

Speaker 8 (42:19):
We are well.

Speaker 10 (42:20):
Yeah, we've got a lot of the fires always, you know,
we've got our new shop open. We've got right now.
My wife is at the Texas Custom Knife Show over
in Conro Wow, so you can meet Doug, Mike Markaida
out there from Foreship Fire. Yeah, with several other Foreshapark guys.

Speaker 8 (42:34):
So we've got I've.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
Got people everywhere.

Speaker 5 (42:37):
We're doing great.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
So we're coming up on the holidays, and I want
to talk about some of that. Has anybody ever asked
you to create a carving set for Thanksgiving?

Speaker 9 (42:46):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (42:47):
Yes, many of them.

Speaker 3 (42:48):
You got anything in the shop now like that? Or
would that? Would that be a custom job all the way.

Speaker 10 (42:55):
Right now? That would be probably a custom job because
generally most people are actually they pick up their butcher's
knife thinking they're going to carve up their turkey, and
you're really better doing it with a boning knife.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
We'll see you got a little more.

Speaker 10 (43:08):
Flexibility, you can get around the bones and things.

Speaker 4 (43:10):
Like that makes a job a whole lot easier.

Speaker 10 (43:12):
So we happen to just sell out of a bunch
of those, so we're in the process of making as
many as we can.

Speaker 3 (43:17):
You know, that's a good good point to bring up.
And the various says, so many different knife styles out there,
is there any way you can boil it down to
just a few. For the difference between say, a carving
knife and a filet knife and a bone in all
of these different knives, how do you figure out which
one you need?

Speaker 10 (43:37):
Oh, that's kind of tiling error. And everybody uses our
own style knives. When you come to our shop. I've
got twenty seven years experience making knives, and one of
my lead journeymen has got twenty one years as a
professional chef before he started making knives. So we've got
the guys, the professionals to sit down and help guide you.
A longer blade is good for slicing your briskets, things

(43:59):
like that. You know you're shorter. More curve blades that
are very thin and flexible, kind of like a filet blade,
are gonna be more of your boning knives. They're gonna
be able to flex and make those curves when you're
carving that turkey and the angles that you need to
carve them at. So you're you're gonna have a large
selection of knives depending on what you're trying to cut,

(44:19):
so there's not one knife to do at all.

Speaker 3 (44:22):
No, they're definitely not if you had to boil it
down to three, because no nobody can really nobody wants
to carry around a whole suitcase full of knives, cowboy,
So and like you, you could probably you would probably
be able to boil it down for yourself to about twenty.
But for the average person who's not gonna carry twenty knives,
what are the three they need for around the house,

(44:44):
for food for cooking.

Speaker 10 (44:46):
Oh okay, I would probably tell you to get obviously
a pairing knife, yep, small little blade right.

Speaker 1 (44:54):
You have.

Speaker 10 (44:54):
The second knife is going to be one of two
saw blades either like I said, and toku and nik kiri,
a vegetable style chopper some people prefer. The other one
would be possibly a utility blade, a little smaller blade
you know, six inches are under for doing your vegetables.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
And simple work. Okay.

Speaker 10 (45:14):
From there, your next larger knife probably would be a
good boning sleigh blade, okay, so you can do your meat,
your fists, things like that. And the final blade obviously
is going to be a larger butcher knife or your
large slicing and things like that.

Speaker 3 (45:29):
So that's very enough the main.

Speaker 10 (45:32):
Knives I would tell you that you need to have.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
All right, So, and now we're coming into this gift
giving season, okay, and without coming right out and just
asking somebody, hey, what look, look, here's a bunch of
pictures of knives right here from Phoenix Knives. Which one
do you want? What kind of questions could they ask
this person who's going to get that knife? And then
if they come to your store and your shop, and

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they tell you the answers that they got into those questions,
you can probably make something exactly what that person wants.

Speaker 10 (46:03):
Yes, we can. The first question we're going to ask
or what are they going to use the knife for?
Are they a hunter? Are they fishermen? Are they a chef?
Or is this an everyday carry what we call an EDC.
So I'm going to ask what the knife is going
to be used for. Then I'm going to ask their preferences,
like do they like a big knife a small knife.

Speaker 8 (46:24):
I'm going to ask how.

Speaker 10 (46:25):
Large are their hands? You know, something that's going to
fit a lady's hands is not necessarily going to fit
the NBA basketball player's hands. He's got this big monster
double or triple X sized glove. You know, you've got
to fit that handle for the individual. And then from
there it just becomes fun aesthetics.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
What color do you want?

Speaker 10 (46:46):
How do you want to look at this knife? I'm
going to ask them how do they want to carry
the knife? What kind of sheep do they need? So
there's a lot of detail questions. We can use all
sorts of exotic handles. We can use all sorts of
exotic woods and many different colors. I mean, there's just
so many facets to designing your perfect knife.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
It's a menu. Really. You have to go down the
menu and make your selections to get that beautiful meal,
which is the knife at the end of the deal.
That makes sense exactly.

Speaker 10 (47:17):
It's like asking somebody what kind of car.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
Are they going to buy?

Speaker 10 (47:20):
You're going to buy them a car?

Speaker 3 (47:21):
Well, I was they going to drive this car? You
know the off road?

Speaker 10 (47:25):
Are they going? Are they pulling their boat? Or are
they just driving to work? They got really small parking
spots and they need a compact. Are they more worried
about fuel? What color do they want? What kind of
interior do they want? You know, you get a six
foot seven guys not going to fit in a little
you know, tessela or what are these idgitty tiny little

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visions or something like that.

Speaker 12 (47:47):
Whatever.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
The cars are a small one, whatever they are, it
doesn't look like your truck exactly where you're going? Oh Man,
Cowboys and MASKI from Phoenix Niles On the dug Put Show,
you mentioned adding more knife makers the last time we
talked to your staff, how many people you got out
there this time of year?

Speaker 10 (48:07):
Well, I have three full time journeymen that work in
my shop and they're honing and improving their skills there.
And my wife has three part time counter people that
are working. So we have increased one at the moment
and above and beyond that since we have now moved
to our shop. I really hated giving up the eighteen

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ninety one blacksmith's shop.

Speaker 4 (48:30):
Yeah, A, that broke our heart.

Speaker 10 (48:33):
It was really hard to do after twenty one years
of being there. But we moved right next door and
we've now gone from eighteen hundred square feet to five
thousand square feet. So the new facility is huge, and
it's offering us the capability of going from three hundred
knives three hundred and fifty knives in our showroom that

(48:54):
very shortly I'm going to have a thousand knives in
my showroom. So we will have every knee, every color,
every design met and something for everybody.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
You guys, have you guys at the end of the day, cowboy,
when when we have locked the front door and everything's
been taken care of, y'all ever just kind of get
on one side of the big new place and throw
tomahawks all the way to the other side.

Speaker 6 (49:20):
Oh, I wish we could.

Speaker 14 (49:22):
Unfortunately, that was the one thing that we did not
move next door. Oh okay, okay, we actually we gave
up the Tomahawk Alley for the capability of offering you
more knives and going from two forging stations when you
bring your family in there to forge a knife with us,
we now have three forging stations. And when I have

(49:45):
my boy Scouts and my homeschools and my corporate team
building experiences, I now have almost a sixteen hundred square
foot area just for doing.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
That, right.

Speaker 10 (49:56):
Yeah, that's on my sales floor, my showroom. So I've
now off bring more facilities by having to sacrifice a
little bit here and there. But I think it's to
the betterment of everybody that's coming to enjoy our shops.

Speaker 3 (50:08):
Yeah, I would agree. I think that's a fair swamp.
If somebody in this audience wanted something really specific, really custom,
how much lead time do you need.

Speaker 10 (50:18):
Custom? Probably anywhere from two months to.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
A year.

Speaker 10 (50:26):
It depends on what we're doing. If it is a
simple piece, depending on what kind of things we need,
I can actually put my dream in on there and
they can get some of the stuff done in that
two plus months. If it's something handhammered that they want
me to excuse make me to do. I am probably

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just about a year out. I've just taken several corporate
and several big orders. I got two big families came in,
and I just got piled up with a out twenty
four knives that I've got to make on top of
the few orders I already had. So I'm a little
further out than my guys are. So we will meet
your needs. We will get them done as fast and

(51:11):
as capable as we.

Speaker 3 (51:13):
Can, and talk about we can't. We can't talk about
something that custom and that beautiful without mentioning price point
at least, what's kind of entry level when you get
up into that stratospheric custom knife these days? What's what's
the starting point? And I presume there is no endpoint.

Speaker 10 (51:30):
Huh No, there's not an endpoint. Anything you want you
can have, we can figure it out.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
Okay.

Speaker 10 (51:40):
But that's a great question, you know, And that's also
part of the benefit of enhancing the size of our
children to such a large facility. We are able to
carry knives from many different knife makers now, so I
still don't do any manufactured knives, right, but for handmade production,

(52:01):
I mean handmade custom work. We're selling a lot of
forger Fire knives and other guys knives in our shop.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
Now that's awesome.

Speaker 10 (52:08):
And you can come in and get a knife starting
in the one hundred and seventy five dollars price range
now okay, and they start going up from there. So
these are all hand crafted. You're going to see these guys.
You'll see these guys on fortune Fire. You're going to
see some of these are other makers. There's new makers.

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Some of these guys are high, high, high end makers
that never wanted to be on fortun Fire. I haven't
done it, but they are considered some of the top
in the nation. So if you've got a couple thousand
dollars you want to spend on something, I will have
some really high end pieces. So we've got a little
bit of everything for everybody.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
And that's I think the only way that people can
understand how much a quality knife like that is worth
is to put it in their hands really right.

Speaker 10 (52:58):
Yes, you got It's like a pair of shoes. You
just can't go pick up a pair of shoes. It's
got to fit your foot, it's got to do what
you need, and that's it. A knife is a tool,
is the tool you'll use every day. So how it
fits in your hands is more important actually than how
it looks. You know, it could be pretty, and if
you don't like the way it works, you're not going

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to use it. That It's more about what fits your hands.
You don't pick up a fishing pole and go fishing
if you're not going to use a deep water saltwater
reel if you're fly fishing.

Speaker 3 (53:31):
You know that's a good way to look.

Speaker 10 (53:33):
You're going to choose the tool that you need to
do your job.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
You got my attention. Can you do me a favor
and sit to a break and then come back and
talk about sharpening knives for just a couple of minutes.

Speaker 10 (53:43):
Of course I can't.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
Beautiful. Yeah, thanks a lot. I'm gonna put you on hold.
Hang on, Cowboys and Manski. He'll be back in just
a second. We got to take this little break before
we get too late and all the way out.

Speaker 11 (53:54):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety online at sports seven
ninety dot com.

Speaker 4 (54:00):
Out there more Doug Bite.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
Eight twenty two on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug
Pike Show. Thanks for listening. Certainly, you appreciate it. Got
cowboys and Manski on the phone. I'm going to get
him right back on the phone. Hey cowboy, welcome back, man,
thanks for hanging on.

Speaker 4 (54:14):
I no problem.

Speaker 5 (54:16):
Good.

Speaker 3 (54:16):
I appreciate that. So let's let's talk a minute about
sharpening knives. What's the single worst thing that people can
do if they think they're doing it right, but they're
really messing up.

Speaker 10 (54:31):
Buying those little plastic things with the car buy it
in search and drag your blade down. You just about
see a sliver of metal, just shave off in a
little coil bade.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
Oh yeah, oh wow, awesome. What's the right way? Let's go.
Let's go there, Let's go the right way.

Speaker 10 (54:50):
A good simple, a good stone will do everything you need.
And like everything in life, practice, practice, practice, it is
a muscle memory. I think the easiest thing, and the
first thing I described to most of my clients is
understanding what happens when you're chopping on your cutting board,
or you're hitting the bones on when you're fleshing your

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deer out. You're doing things like that, you're chopping and
it causes what's called the burr on the edge that's
your cutting edge slowly starting to bend a little. Okay,
So all of us have a steel rod in our
butcher's block, and this is called the hon The hone
is for straightening. What honing means is to straighten the edge.

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So everybody grabs that hone and they want to go
cutting edge down. Well, you're folding that burr back towards
the spine of your blade.

Speaker 3 (55:42):
You just cause yourself.

Speaker 10 (55:42):
Problem if you go away from the spine and you
go backwards, pulling that cutting edge back down, or that
bend back towards your cutting edge. You're straightening it or
honing your blade. So this will actually prolong the life
of your blade and make it feel sharper after you

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hold your blade. Now you sharpen your blade. You lay
it down on that stone, and depending if it's a
kitchen knife, you're going to be at like a fifteen
maybe seventeen degree angle. If you're using an axe or machete,
you're going to be at like a thirty thirty two
degree angle. Most of us run closer to about a
twenty or twenty two degree angle. Somewhere in that range.

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That gives you kind of the best of both worlds. Okay,
but you're going to work down your stone like you
are trying to just barely shave off a sliver at
the top of that stone. You're like you're trying to
flay it. Just a real gentle cut. You're not putting
a lot of pressure, and you work one side then
the other side. By working both sides, you keep your

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center in the edge. If you work two on one side,
two on the other, you're pushing that edge back and forth,
back and forth, harder to keep it centered. So I
always recommend one on each side and just gently slice.
Now here's the tree. You want to keep that same angle.
This is the muscle memory. Yeah, just real lightly slice
that down and like you're taking a sliver off of there.

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And if you go back and forth, usually you can
sharpen a knife pretty quick. If you don't get this
and you have a hard time, you come to our shop.
We will sharpen anything you've got, and most of the
time we can do it while you wait, So that
makes your life a whole lot easier. Just come in,
drop it off, run down to the meat market, shut
yourself up some jerky, go drop off your venison or

(57:32):
your deer. Yeah, man, come back picking knives up, and man,
we've got you taken care of right here in Belleville.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
Go home and just start chopping it up and throwing
it on the grill. It sounds good to.

Speaker 6 (57:41):
Me, exactly.

Speaker 10 (57:42):
You know, save yourself a few minutes, let us do
it for you.

Speaker 3 (57:45):
Yeah. My grandfather taught me about wetstone sharpening, and it
just it really, it's stuck with me. I'm not I'm
not in your grade, and I don't pretend to be,
I promise you, but at least he taught me the
right way a long time ago, and that's stuck with me,
it really did. I just sit out there and watch him,
and he just sit out there and sharpen that knife
out in the garage so he didn't have to go

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in and deal with everything that was going on in
the house with my grandmother.

Speaker 10 (58:10):
I think that was the reason all those knives.

Speaker 3 (58:13):
Yeah, the little blade that I got, I think I
told you I got a little folding knife from him
when when he passed, and that blade on that thing
had been whittled down so and sharp and so many times.
It was just this little sliver of metal coming out
of there. It was. It was really interesting to see
you know, he'd had it that long. Fascinating.

Speaker 8 (58:31):
I see a lot of those.

Speaker 10 (58:32):
A lot of people bring their heirloom pieces in for
us to clean up and sharpen and do things.

Speaker 4 (58:37):
Like that and that.

Speaker 3 (58:38):
Then they show use, They show that that it was
used for the purpose it was intended. It's really neat. Yeah,
I'm fascinated.

Speaker 10 (58:44):
By We call that being we call that being loved. Yeah,
that knife has seen a lot of love. It's been
taken care.

Speaker 3 (58:49):
Of, no doubt. Man, Cowboys and Manski out there at
all you gotta do is go out there to Phoenix
Knives right there on Main Street. You can't miss it, right.

Speaker 10 (58:59):
Nope, you can't miss new building's got a big bright
red roof and everything like that is beautiful.

Speaker 3 (59:03):
That's a nice landmark. We'll find it, Cowboys, Amanski, Phoenix Knives.
Thank you so much.

Speaker 10 (59:08):
My friend Doug has always I enjoy being on the
show and visiting with you.

Speaker 3 (59:13):
Thank you so much for having me. You bet all right,
we got where are we were at? Now we've got
a little time here. Let's go get these calls real quick. Yeah, absolutely, Brandon.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
What's up, buddy, Good morning, Good morning?

Speaker 3 (59:25):
Are you I'm good. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (59:31):
Jetting.

Speaker 11 (59:33):
Oh, I'm doing okay, I'm fantastic.

Speaker 3 (59:38):
Good. What are you gonna do today?

Speaker 4 (59:42):
We're doing some boxes today.

Speaker 2 (59:43):
Been back in okay.

Speaker 3 (59:45):
Oh that's right. You're moving, aren't.

Speaker 4 (59:47):
You nowhere where we moves?

Speaker 3 (59:50):
Oh? You're unpacking then, huh yeah, okay, Well that's gonna
take a while. So you're over at the new house
right now, aren't you. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (59:58):
I'm in there in the house already.

Speaker 3 (59:59):
I can you know. I can't how I can tell
because it sounds like it's it doesn't have everything in
it yet. It's got a little bit of an echo
to it. That's how new house empty houses sound.

Speaker 4 (01:00:08):
Yeah, right now, you guys.

Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
You guys work all day. It's going to be a
home by the by the s evening. Man, by the
time it gets dark, it's going to go from being
a house to a home. Huh yeah, good for you.

Speaker 15 (01:00:20):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:00:21):
Well I'm glad. Are you excited?

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
I am good?

Speaker 3 (01:00:24):
Good? You got more space or less space than the
last one.

Speaker 4 (01:00:28):
Yeah, we're doing Christmas here?

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
Oh? Oh man? How many people coming over?

Speaker 4 (01:00:36):
We'll see we're having people over for Christmas.

Speaker 3 (01:00:45):
Oh, that's going to be awesome, man. Yeah, it's gonna
be awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:00:48):
You think where you going?

Speaker 5 (01:00:49):
What are you going to do?

Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
We stay in town. We'll probably go up to my
mother in law's house. I don't know. We'll see. We'll
find it's ongoing right now. They had a game this
morning at eight o'clock. I haven't looked at Game Changer,
but I'm gonna go check it out as soon as
we go to this break in a minute. All right, okay, man, Yeah,

(01:01:11):
good luck unpacking everything. Good luck, buddy, I'll see you.

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
Let me catch Rick real quick before we go to
this break, Rick, what's up?

Speaker 8 (01:01:23):
Hey, good morning morning. Earlier you were talking about the monkeys. Yeah,
I have a monkey story. Bring When I was I
don't know, fifteen, sixteen years old, there was a girl
down the street.

Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
This isn't some story about monkeying around, is it?

Speaker 5 (01:01:40):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:01:41):
Okay, I just want to make.

Speaker 8 (01:01:42):
Sure family friendly as all right. Okay, she comes down
the street and uh she had momp a spider monkey.

Speaker 3 (01:01:54):
Oh man, I said it coming out.

Speaker 6 (01:01:56):
I don't like monkeys, period.

Speaker 4 (01:01:58):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (01:01:59):
I watched too many National read too many National geographic
magazines about how how they could rip.

Speaker 4 (01:02:05):
Your arm off.

Speaker 3 (01:02:06):
That's a wizard of all stuff. Too. Man.

Speaker 8 (01:02:10):
Anyway, So anyway, she says, she said, you want to
hold my fighter monkey. I said, what, yeah, I'll do it. Well,
I got him, kind of had him cradled like a baby,
and he turned around and he bit me.

Speaker 6 (01:02:24):
Oh no, And when he bit me, I kind of chunkedy.

Speaker 8 (01:02:30):
And they're about three or four feet from us.

Speaker 5 (01:02:32):
Was about eighty foot tall.

Speaker 8 (01:02:34):
Pine tree and he hit that tree, went up that
tree and it's never been seen since.

Speaker 3 (01:02:38):
Oh my word, Oh I do have a monkey.

Speaker 6 (01:02:43):
That's my one and only monkey.

Speaker 8 (01:02:44):
Story.

Speaker 3 (01:02:45):
Short, but sweet Holy threw him into the wild. I
bet he. I bet he had a long, weird life
from their holy cow man.

Speaker 8 (01:02:57):
He probably wore I lived out in the north side
of Euston. He I don't know. I ain't gonna know there,
But anyway.

Speaker 6 (01:03:04):
Who knows. It's a beautiful day out here. Weather's perfect,
wendy and little cool. I wish I had a long
sleeve shirt of him. Be honest, it's to jump out
do some things here.

Speaker 3 (01:03:17):
Let change you later, all right, man, thanks Rick, all right,
all the way out. I'll I tell you what. Speaking of,
We're gonna play the Texas temperature game when we get back.
I think if we can get somebody who wants to
win a little golf or maybe a trip down to Galveston.
I got a couple of gift cards we could do
down that way. We'll figure out a prize if you win.
And most of you probably know how to play, So

(01:03:37):
if you want to play, all you got to do
is get on the phone and let Melvin take a
call and put you on hold and we'll we'll tee
it up when we get back. You got a pinky
swhere that you haven't looked up anything to do with
the temperatures today. That's the rule. That's the only rule.
You got it. It's on the honor system and we'll
take it from there.

Speaker 11 (01:03:57):
This is sports Stock seven eighty from dot com slash
Sports Talk seven ninety back to the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 3 (01:04:06):
Hey thirty six on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug
Pike Show. Thank you for listening.

Speaker 4 (01:04:09):
Certainly good, appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:11):
Staring at my emails here and I can see all
the emails, but for some reason, the the little boxes
that tell me how many in it on? Now I've
got this awe snap it says here trying to be
hipping cool. Something went wrong. While displaying this web page.
Do tell, let's reload this bad boy and see if

(01:04:31):
it comes up. We'll find out. Let me while it's
grinding through the recharge whatever. Let's go talk to Drew here.
What's up?

Speaker 13 (01:04:40):
Drew?

Speaker 3 (01:04:41):
Oh? Holy cow? I got I'm well. How are you? Man?

Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
Man?

Speaker 4 (01:04:48):
I'm great. I'm ready to go.

Speaker 3 (01:04:49):
I think you're tough enough to take take old Melvin down.
Hang on, I got, what's up? All right? Hang on? Okay,
playing the music, Melvin, and we'll get after it. Is
it hot? Is it cold? We'll find out on the
Texas temperature game is because you're.

Speaker 4 (01:05:09):
Hot, yours cold as ice?

Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
All right, here we go, Drew. You want to go
first or second?

Speaker 13 (01:05:26):
I'll go second.

Speaker 3 (01:05:28):
All right, Melvin? What do you believe to be the
low temperature in the state of Texas? Right this very minute?
Let's write this very minute? Okay, it is eight thirty eight.
Say about you're already overthinking this, Melvine. Let's say sixty

(01:05:48):
three sixty three. I can barely hear you, by the way, whatever,
for whatever reasons, Melvine, Oh that's much better. Okay, great,
I had to read it. Oh yeah, the wrong micup,
didn't you?

Speaker 4 (01:05:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:05:59):
All right, Drew, what do you think is the low
temperature in the state of Texas? Thirty nine thirty nine,
he says, Okay, hold on, I'm doing some math here. Okay, right, Melvin,
what do you think is the high temperature in the
state of Texas right now? High state? Let me see

(01:06:26):
seventy eight seventy eight. Okay, Drew, what do you think
is the high temperature in the state of Texas right now?

Speaker 6 (01:06:34):
Well, you know in hockey it's sixty four right now, it's.

Speaker 3 (01:06:37):
About eighty degrees difference in Gaston, so about seventy one
seventy one, he said, He's really capitul with these. Okay,
here are the scores, Drew. You missed by an overall
total of eleven degrees. Pretty good. Wow, Melvin, you missed. Melvin,

(01:06:58):
you missed by an overall total thirty four degrees. Out
of here, yeah, man, it's it's it's thirty two degrees.
Thirty two degrees? Where is it? Hold on, I gotta
I gotta ease in here, and fil I wonder I've
been broadcasting there it is. It's up there.

Speaker 5 (01:07:14):
You got some panhandle, man, you got that?

Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
Yeah, got to remember that big old northern is coming now. Actually,
earlier the low temperature was thirty and that was down
again out in West Texas at Peko's. I think it
was early this morning. It dropped to thirty degrees, for
heaven's sake, but it's warmed up to the freezing mark. Okay,
we got to figure out what you're gonna take home

(01:07:37):
with you. Get my prize bucket out here? Are you
a golfing man? No, sir, okay, let me well, let
me open the whole thing up. Then I gotta find
something different for you. I got some places in Galveston
you could go. If that makes that gets your attention
a little bit. Let me see what I can. Oh,

(01:07:57):
I got all kinds of stuff. Hold on, I gotta
get this all big old, big old bunch of stuff.
And it's in somebody put it in an envelope. That
makes it even harder to get out of here. It's
really a bucket. Yeah, it might as well be a bucket.

Speaker 9 (01:08:11):
Where is this?

Speaker 3 (01:08:12):
Oh, here's what I'm looking for right here. Now I've
got what I want. I can give you one hundred
bucks off on a charter with mosta fishing. I can
give you fifty bucks off off your meal at the
Gumbo Diner down in Galveston. There's a Gumbo bar. I
got fifty bucks. There's Mario Seawall Italian Pizzeria, fifty bucks.

(01:08:35):
And that's looking like unless you want to take up
the game of golf.

Speaker 4 (01:08:40):
You know, where's that game of golf?

Speaker 3 (01:08:42):
The golf is gonna be either. I think I could.
I can do black Horse, black Horse, Yeah, I can.

Speaker 6 (01:08:47):
What part of town you in, Yeah, that's that's my house.

Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
That's the man. Well let's do that. Yeah, you and
a buddy go play golf at black Horse. You got
to come into town and pick up this certificate from us,
and then once you get that and you can go
tee it up. Man, I knew you were a golf rocking.

Speaker 4 (01:09:01):
I appreciate it, my pleasure.

Speaker 3 (01:09:03):
We are in the Galleria area, just about maybe three
four blocks north of the Galleria on the on the loop,
right on the loop, man, easy to get to. All right.

Speaker 8 (01:09:14):
I appreciate you.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
Yeah, my pleasure. I love your show man, Thank you,
love love love the show bro. Thank you so much, Drew.
All right, he's back on hold. Kind words always welcome
here too. I appreciate that, I really do. Oh Drew,
call back. You just hung up, buddy, did a hang
up on him? Yeah, call right back, Drew. And I've
never done that before, have I'm Melvin, Maybe not with you. No,

(01:09:35):
I'm just so man. There's one other thing I have
here too, by the way, the Brian Museum. In case
anybody's interested in that. We have an annual membership to
the Brian Museum available as well. So if that's something
that that suits your fancy and you'd like to have
that that a lot of people would, I know, by
all means, ask for it. If you win this game,

(01:09:56):
and it's such an easy game to win, I make it,
make it pretty all going easy. I would say, all right, Melvine,
he'll call back. I know he will. Yeah, I'm waiting
for Drew to call back. Drew, come back there, right there,
Drew and Hockley. I bet Drew, if he's lived out
in hockey for a little while, he could tell you
stories about geese coming over in the middle of the night.
I guarantee he could. That's boy. We I don't mean

(01:10:21):
to keep beating this horse, but I'm so I'm so
disappointed by the the slow and steady demise of the
Katy Prairie and the prairie west of town for that
or east of town for that matter. It's still more
agriculture than the Katy Prairie is at this point. But

(01:10:42):
that that Katy Prairie just really was something special. And
I want to think that somehow someday we might at
least get a glimmer of that back, because there is
still a lot of agriculture taking place out there, but
the fall are different there. A lot of them are

(01:11:02):
owned by big corporations, and a lot of them that
the rice production is down now. It's up this year
from last year from what I've been told, but it's
still nowhere near nowhere near what it was before. And
that's what really drew those birds. Rice to geese is
like cotton candy. They love it, They absolutely love it.

(01:11:24):
When it gets really cold, you'll see those birds move
over to bigger pieces of food, like a kernel of
corn or soybeans, stuff like that. And it's just a
matter of survival. It's not that their preference changes, it's
not that their taste buds change. It's not that they're
anything but survival. If you are a goose and you

(01:11:46):
have to eat by bending your head, down to the
ground and picking something up off the ground. Well, every
time you bend down and stand back up, you use
a certain amount of energy. And if in return for
that energy spent, you get, say, with a grain of
let's say a grain of rice gets them.

Speaker 4 (01:12:07):
X.

Speaker 3 (01:12:08):
Well, eating a soybean or a kernel of corn gets
them about probably twenty or thirty X. And when it's
really cold and they really need to put some fat
on and something to help them make it through, makes
more sense to eat something that's going to give them
more in return. But they do like that rice. Oh

(01:12:28):
my goodness, they do like that rice. Someone three two
five seven ninety email me dougpick at iHeartMedia dot com.
We got to take a little break here.

Speaker 11 (01:12:37):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety the Houston sports fan
on air and on Facebook.

Speaker 4 (01:12:42):
They contact back to the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 3 (01:12:48):
An hour trying to communicate back and forth, and he
is taking a call and the music started, and all
I hear is yes, sir, yes, sir, what do you
want to talk about? Man, he's got so many he's
got way more buttons to push than I do. And
I have no idea how to do what they do
in that room. Man, I really don't. And I think

(01:13:11):
that's only fair. I think that's only fair. They got
that on me for sure. Let me go talk to
Aaron and see what's up, Aaron. What's going on? Man?
I was asking?

Speaker 16 (01:13:21):
It was it is pretty over there as it is
over here at San Antonio.

Speaker 3 (01:13:25):
I have no idea. I can't see out. I have
no window in this stinking studio. I bet it is
pretty there. So north wind going already?

Speaker 16 (01:13:34):
Uh, it's it's settled down over here. And make matters worse,
I'm heading down to Pens without a single fishing ball.

Speaker 3 (01:13:42):
Oh what's wrong with you? There's some place that sells
in between between hither and Yon?

Speaker 16 (01:13:48):
Man, are you telling me I'll stop there at Victoria?

Speaker 3 (01:13:53):
Why do you? Why do you need more temptation? How
can you possibly be driving to South Texas to the
coast without a fear? Were on your truck for a word?

Speaker 16 (01:14:03):
Back over to Tampa? Tampa yet again? Tampa? Then up up?

Speaker 3 (01:14:10):
Hey, real quick, before before you ask an outdoors question
or tell me an outdoor story, real quick, tell you
how big was that job you talked about being the
biggest one you guys had ever done.

Speaker 16 (01:14:21):
Okay, so it's uh, seven million pounds of steel and
uh we were that we finished that seven years ago. Uh,
I think it was a couple of days ago.

Speaker 3 (01:14:31):
And uh yeah, you.

Speaker 16 (01:14:33):
Had to drive from one end of the warehouse to
the other.

Speaker 17 (01:14:36):
Uh.

Speaker 16 (01:14:36):
It was the biggest one or the biggest one done
in the nation at that point. And I just start
get getting going in my business. And they said, can
you do it? Well, you bet, you do it?

Speaker 18 (01:14:48):
You bet?

Speaker 16 (01:14:49):
Okay, you got it.

Speaker 8 (01:14:50):
Now what do we do?

Speaker 16 (01:14:51):
Yeah, but uh it's a testament to my guys. Uh
that just really uh sought great culture.

Speaker 3 (01:14:59):
How my square feet was that?

Speaker 5 (01:15:02):
Oh jeez, I want to say like six millions?

Speaker 3 (01:15:06):
Oh my word. Yeah, you would have to drive from
and Dan, wouldn't you. Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:15:11):
Oh what they did with that play it was a
distribution center for uh for Kroger out on the East coast.
They didn't turned it into a movie movie set. Apparently
they fill a lot of movies out there in the
Atlanta area. And uh they're towards the end. Yeah, we
started seeing movie stars. They had had a stunt driver
out there. If you ever look at my YouTube page,

(01:15:32):
you can see the guy's out there testing, uh testing
the parking lot, doing all kinds of cool stuff out there.

Speaker 3 (01:15:38):
I'm sure that was that was cool. Yeah, no doubt,
Holy cow.

Speaker 16 (01:15:43):
Anyways, I'm gonna have the itch when I get back.
The Papao's are going to be in the surf at
that point.

Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
A couple of weeks. I don't know, man, I don't know.
We got this bile front blowing through here right well,
coming anyway right now, and so in a week or
two it might be a totally different story. I don't
want to speak out of turn. I'm not that I'm
maybe somebody down that way is listening this morning and
has a better handle on it than I do. But

(01:16:08):
that's not my That's not my area of expertise, and
I'll be the first one to admit it.

Speaker 15 (01:16:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:16:14):
I'd just like to try to not to put so
much pressure on specled trout. Uh, you know, especially if
I would take something.

Speaker 4 (01:16:20):
Home and cook itt.

Speaker 3 (01:16:21):
Uh sure, you know.

Speaker 16 (01:16:22):
Uh, they don't fight quite like a speckle trout. But
we we had a lot of fun catching. Uh it's
called Atlantic kingfish. It is like a whiteing.

Speaker 3 (01:16:31):
Yeah yeah, yeah, man, we we.

Speaker 16 (01:16:33):
Cleaned up on those of those guys out there.

Speaker 3 (01:16:36):
Great SPEECHI they are like a whiting and that's that's
a fish. Boy. I hadn't heard that name in a
long time, but yeah, that's a that's a tasty little fish.

Speaker 16 (01:16:46):
Yeah, well there were there were until like twenty twenty
one inches. It's caught that that twenty one inch pompino too.

Speaker 3 (01:16:52):
That Yeah, that's a big talk. That's tasty stuff right there.

Speaker 16 (01:16:58):
Sir, All, all right, man, we'll be listening to all
along the glos A.

Speaker 3 (01:17:03):
Buddy, safe travels man.

Speaker 16 (01:17:05):
Hey man, y'all have a good one.

Speaker 3 (01:17:06):
Hund yourself A fishing rock audios.

Speaker 4 (01:17:11):
Man.

Speaker 14 (01:17:11):
That the.

Speaker 3 (01:17:13):
Move that I made many many years ago, back in
the very late nineteen and seventies, was on a trip
down to the Cayman Islands, and it was supposed to
be a business trip. Get down there for a few days,
take care of business, and come back. And the first
morning I woke up and looked out in my little
bungalow it was called what was that place called? Oh,

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I'd know it if I heard it. I can't recall
off hand, but there was a little kid sitting out
there fishing by a lagoon. It's kind of a title
lagoon that maybe had some water transfer in it, maybe not.
I don't know. But anyway, the long and the short
of it was, I watched him catch this little fishing.
It kind of I wanted to think I knew what

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it was, but I couldn't say for sure. And I thought,
I got to walk out there. This kid's catching fish.
And what he was doing is rolling up little dough
balls and putting them on the end just a hook,
just a bare hook, and he put a little dough
ball on the end of his hook, and he'd just
kind of roll it around or put a lead but
maybe three feet a line. He'd pinched the line and

(01:18:21):
kind of sling it out there with an open bail
on his little spinning rod he had, and then just
let that dough ball sit out there close to the
top of the water, really slow sink. And what he
was catching, it turned out, were a little like one
and two pound tarpin, little baby tarpin. And this looks

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kind of fun. Well, I had no rod and real
I hadn't intended on fishing at all. While I was
down there. I was just quick up, down and back.
Gotta do that. And as it turned out, it was
a Sunday morning and the only business open that day.
I went down to the lobby of this place I
was staying. I wish I could remember the name of

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because it was gorgeous right on seven mile Beach, and
there were only about four properties even built on seven
mile Beach. Seven Mile Beach was about six miles of
bare ground. Bottom line is the guy up front said, yeah,
that the grocery store or the drug stores open on Sundays,
but that's it. And yeah, they do have a little
bit of fishing tackle, if I remember correctly. Well, I

(01:19:23):
hopped a cab immediately went down there and bought myself
the only rod and reel they had in there, just
a blister packed little spinning outfit, if I remember correctly,
and came back and made good friends with that kid
fast as I could, and we sat there and caught
those little tarpain for quite some time. It was a
lot of fun, man, And I there's no way I'm

(01:19:48):
ever going any place where I might have an opportunity
to fish ever again without a fishing rod somewhere on
my person, or at least knowing that when I get
where I'm going, that somebody's got some gear. And that's
something real quickly if you're going somewhere and somebody says, yeah,
we got tackle you can borrow, don't worry about it.

(01:20:09):
Ask some questions. I've been burned. I've been burned twice
into thinking that the gear that they had that they
said would be fine when I get there, not so fine.
And I'm not going to tell you either of those
two instances on the air because I don't want to
upset anybody. But yeah, I got burned twice when I

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thought for sure, just for sure, that was gonna be
all right.

Speaker 1 (01:20:34):
All right, how s This is the Doug Pike Show,
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Speaker 2 (01:20:46):

Speaker 3 (01:20:48):
All right, welcome back. Doug Pike Show. Nine o'clock hour starts. Now,
we've got a golf tournament to look at down in Mako.
Hang on, let me get my glasses on so I
can see the bloody thing. Here we go, I'm gonna
go over here, get back. I had to run over
and get some cups to take into the K t
rah newsroom from whence we get our coffee around here,

(01:21:13):
and I took care of that business. Now we're going
to go to the Worldwide Technology Championship ongoing Nico at
Chavaria and Max Grazerman, both at twelve under par through
two rounds. Nico got there sixty nine sixty three, by

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the way, he shot thirty on the front nine yesterday thirty.
Max Grazerman got there sixty eight sixty four. Both of
them twelve under par no matter how you cut it,
eleven under par. A Loan in third, Carson Young ten
under par, Dylan wu alone in fourth place, and then

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fifth place Todd with Austin Eckrot, Maverick McNeely and Kelly Kraft.
I hadn't seen him long in a while. He kind
of dropped off the radar a little bit Kelly Craft did,
but it looks like he's playing a little bit better now.
I'll read the eighth real quick and then we'll move
on Tom Huge, Ben Griffin, Ryan Girard, Ryan McCormick, Joe

(01:22:20):
high Smith, and Tom Whitney, and that takes you down
to fifteenth place. Be hard for somebody to come back
from the seventh spot and jump over fourteen guys who
are all PGA Tour players. So I guess they're just
trying to play for better checks. Which isn't isn't a

(01:22:40):
bad thing really On the PGA Tour, if you're carrying
that card, if you're qualified to enter PGA Tour events,
you can probably make a pretty good living at it.
Right now. The money ever since Live Golf came along,
the money generally for professional golfers went sky high, and
they're reaping the benefits of that. And I have more

(01:23:04):
power to them, you know, more power to them. I
don't blame them. I'd take every dollar I could give
if somebody wanted to pay me that kind of money. Yeah, Melbourne,
would you leave if somebody if somebody said, hey, if
you'll come over it and do the same job you're doing.
Actually you don't even have to do as much. Instead
of working forty hours, you only have to work about
thirty hours a week, and we'll pay you, I don't know,

(01:23:25):
fifty times what you're making now. Gone be righth, Just
be a little a little cloud of dust where my
heels had been. Just I don't know, man, It's I
so love what I do, I really do, and I
like the company I work for so much. It would
be hard, it would be hard to leave it. And

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I think that's how a lot of those players felt
about the PGA Tour until the money just got to
be life changing. And I don't blame any of them
for going over. I think what it did when live
golf kind of came in and the money really started flowing,
is it made everybody look around again and try to

(01:24:10):
figure out exactly what needed to be done to make
everybody stick around. And that goes for all the tours.
Even the women's tour is paying more money now, which
I think it should. I don't know that that it
will ever garner the attention that the men's golf does, because,

(01:24:30):
let's face it, the fans want to see three hundred
and twenty three hundred and fifty yard drives. They want
to see somebody hitting wedge in from one hundred and
seventy yards. They want to see the bombing goals. They
want to see guys chop it out of knee high
rough and somehow manage to make pars. And that's that's

(01:24:52):
where you have to look to find that and until
that can be changed, and it's it's a hard climb.
It's the same with the WNBA. It's very hard climbing
women's sports to get the same acknowledgment, the same recognition,
the same salaries as the men's sports Maybe someday, who
don't I don't know. I certainly don't know someone three

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two one, two five seven ninety email me dougpick At,
iHeartMedia dot com. So while Maverick McNeely was shooting or
not Maverick, excuse me, it's Ekavaria, Rico hang on or
Nico I'm sorry nico Atkavaria from Columbia goes sixty three
with a thirty thirty three, thank you very much. The

(01:25:35):
last he came out with four pars. Then he went
Bertie Bertie, Eagle Bertie, and then apart to finish off
the nine to shoot thirty. At the same time, I
was putting up one of the most bizarre scores I've
ever put up in golf. Stunk up, absolutely stunk up

(01:25:55):
the front nine. I made triple on the first hole,
which is just a straight in front of you, four
par and I'm not gonna go into the details. I
just I missed the putt for six, Okay, that's all.
So I make seven on the first hole. I bogie too,
which was inexcusable as well, and then proceed to stink

(01:26:17):
it up all the way around the front to shoot
forty five on the front. I'm not proud of that.
I told my guys, I said, I'm gonna play better
on the back, a lot better. And I did even
par on the back, forty five on the front, even
par on the brat on the back, And if only

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I don't know how it happens that way, that's just
kind of a that's a little micro shot of what
golf will do to you over time, too, And you
never know who's gonna show up on what hole. Even
as a player on the back nine, I couldn't miss.
I hit some good shots and if i'd have been
able to put better, which I wasn't yesterday, that I

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don't know. Putting's long been a pretty strong suit of mine,
and I just I couldn't get anything to go. I
absolutely just couldn't make a putt go in the hole.
I had one putt stop one revolution short from about
thirty feet of just going right into the middle, and
I had two or three of them that I left
within six inches of the hole either way, left, right,

(01:27:23):
sideways behind it when I'm wrapped around behind it. And
that's just how golf is, And if you're going to
play the game, you can't be you can't be worried
about stuff like that. I had another good conversation with
somebody just the other day who wants to get into golf,
who's excited about golf, who's motivated to play, but there's

(01:27:45):
still that little bit of hesitation about how, well, yeah, yeah,
I'd like to get into it, man, but ge golly,
g whillakers, I don't want to embarrass myself. Well, you're
not going to embarrass yourself in golf, because everybody you're
playing had to start at some point in their lives,
and unless you're playing partners Tiger Woods, who is too

(01:28:06):
young probably to remember his bad shots because he's been
hitting it well for a very long time. But even
somebody with that kind of talent, even somebody with the
talent of arguably the best player in the game, still
hits shots that are embarrassing to him. They might look

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like the best shot you ever hit. But for Tiger,
or for Phil in his heyday, or for any of
the guys out there now. Rory McElroy, I'm not going
to sit here and name all the best players you
know who they are. Some of the shots they hit
that look pretty good to you, missed their targets by

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margins that are inexcusable to them, and they can't imagine
how they hit that shot. You'd be thrilled to death
to hit the shot, but they they take it as
a total failure and the only thing they do. You'll
never know it. You probably won't be able to read
it on their faces. In most cases. Some of them
are pretty out there and pretty vocal and expressive, but

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mostly they just hand the club back to the caddy
and start walking up the fairway and go find the
ball and hit it again. So, Bob, how you doing? Man?
I'm good?

Speaker 9 (01:29:26):
How about you, Derek?

Speaker 3 (01:29:27):
I'm all right, thank you.

Speaker 9 (01:29:29):
I got a little quick golf story I thought was
sort of cute, and I want to preface said first
by it was many many years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:29:35):
Okay, fair enough.

Speaker 16 (01:29:37):
My son and I were playing.

Speaker 4 (01:29:39):
He didn't get to play very much.

Speaker 9 (01:29:40):
Yeah, hardly at all, and we've finished the front nine.
He was all excited. He said that I shot thirty nine. Man,
that's great. He goes, what'd you shoot? I said, I
beat you by six shots? That really did more?

Speaker 5 (01:29:54):
Like?

Speaker 4 (01:29:54):
Oh man?

Speaker 3 (01:29:55):
Yeah, yeah, I was playing good.

Speaker 10 (01:29:57):
Golf.

Speaker 9 (01:29:57):
But sure, no, he had a ball and I hated
even say what I shot because that's.

Speaker 16 (01:30:03):
So proud of it.

Speaker 3 (01:30:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we played.

Speaker 9 (01:30:06):
Over was it where they played the old Houston Open?
He hit the part four, the one short part four
and made an eagle.

Speaker 4 (01:30:17):
Oh no, I still have that on video.

Speaker 3 (01:30:19):
Oh that's great, man, that's one of the greatest.

Speaker 9 (01:30:22):
You know, with someone like that, are you taking fishing?
It cats the best fish?

Speaker 3 (01:30:26):
Sure, that's what exciting. We've been there and we do. Yeah,
I don't you know. I'm kind of laughing about the
forty five on the front, and I'm proud of the
thirty six on the back, But holy cow, you know
where was that guy on the front? Nine? I could
have done it too.

Speaker 9 (01:30:41):
I think every golfer in the world.

Speaker 3 (01:30:43):
Oh sure, sure they have.

Speaker 9 (01:30:45):
Man, Sometimes I think we just lose concentration.

Speaker 3 (01:30:49):
Yeah that could be. Well, you come out and you
triple one. I've got too many weird thoughts going through
my head. How did I do that?

Speaker 9 (01:30:56):
There you go, there you go, and then you're carrying
it on the neck one?

Speaker 3 (01:31:00):
What did I do wrong?

Speaker 4 (01:31:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:31:02):
And try to try to fix it on the fly
and that never works out. Well, I know what.

Speaker 9 (01:31:08):
I thought it was. Yeah, I love him to death.
And he didn't get to play very much. But he
shot him at thirty nine and so proud and so
was I.

Speaker 3 (01:31:17):
Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 9 (01:31:18):
And he asked me what I shot and I hated
to tell you.

Speaker 3 (01:31:21):
Oh man, Yeah, so I did, all right too. You
just gotta bite your tongue. You gotta bite that tongue, Bob,
all right.

Speaker 4 (01:31:28):
When I was a plus two though, look at you.

Speaker 3 (01:31:32):
She just tossing out numbers, all right, man. Yeah, I've
never been plus anything except frustration a little bit. All right, man,
Thanks Bob, you take yeah, you too, audios. A plus
two Holy cow. For those of you who don't know
what that means, that means if he and I go
play golf, he has to He's starting out expected to

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shoot two under par basically. And that's pretty strong, right there.
That's pretty strong. Seven one three two one two five
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Speaker 11 (01:32:12):
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Speaker 3 (01:32:18):
We'll get that information to them. This is the Dog
Pike Show, all right, Welcome back, Dog Flight Show on
Sports Talk seven ninety. I appreciate it, and really do
mel I saw this yesterday and I didn't get a
chance to mention it on fifty plus, but I'll mention
it today because a lot of people in this audience
have dogs. What is the most absolute, positively, the most

(01:32:38):
you would ever spend on a doghouse, even if you
had a boatload of money. Oh wow, well, I know
my dogs are very important to me. Oh yeah, you
know it. If I had a boatload of money, yeah,
money's no object. Money's no object. I would say at

(01:32:59):
least two thousand for a doghouse, depending on how many
dogs I have. Oh that's a lot of money. Now
if I have about three dogs in a nice big
backyard to way he could run out. Yeah, maybe two thousand.
I'm talking a doghouse eight day dog just okay, let's
go grand maybe five hundred. Okay, well, then Louis Vauton's
doghouse is not for you, Melvin. Wow, take a guess.

(01:33:24):
It's part of their new pet line that also includes
a dog bowl, a poop bag holder, and how much
is the doghouse Louis Vaton. Let's see, Oh, Louis Viton
Oh yeah, damn, we're not playing around here. Okay, I'm
in the high I'm in the upper class here. Yeah, man,
you're stratosphere class. Let's go twenty five thousand. How about

(01:33:47):
sixty grand for a doghouse? Are you kidding? I'm not kidding.
They've lost their minds, and if anybody else buys one
of those, if anybody buys one, they also have officially
lost lost their minds and have lost touch with reality
and everything else. And they're only doing it just to
show that they're so loaded that there can also be

(01:34:09):
you can be stupid and loaded at the same time.
I could buy a neighbor's house next door. Yeah you know, honestly,
sixty grand will buy you a tiny house. Yeah you could.
You could buy a whole house for sixty grand. How
about the dog bowl? How much would you pay for
a dog bowl? It's very much more. It's very much
more reasonable than the house. But I'll say about fifteen hundred,

(01:34:31):
not twenty two hundred. What I'm in a ballpark somewhere
the dog poopy bag holder four hundred seventy bucks, four
hundred and seventy bucks. You could they they should throw
in a dog with that that's a lot of gold.
You should get a dog if you're gonna spend four
hundred and seventy dollars, right, and you know if you

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can tell, how you can tell if your dog's a snob.
This was kind of cute if the dog refers to
his crate as the gated community. Wow, nice, sixty grand
for a dog house. I just had to throw that in.
What's wrong with people? Man? You know, they're just very
one more sentence. There are people in this country who

(01:35:14):
are starving to death, who are living under bridges. And
I'm talking about Americans too, And somebody's going to go
pay sixty grand for a dog house. That's just I
don't know, man, I can't. I gotta put that away.
I don't want to go down that road. Let's go
back to the fishing road where haven't really talked that

(01:35:35):
much about fishing this morning. Bring it my fish question.
My grandmother always talk about a shoe pick. I see
various names for the shoe pick. Yeah, where can I
get a good you know, go out and catch one
of those shoe pick fish? Well, you're gonna have to

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go probably up. You can go to East Texas, East
Texas yeah. Yeah, you can go up in East Texas
catching one. Well, yeah, with my grandmother. But she makes
them all different kind of ways. She's from Louisiana, of course. Yeah.
That I'm looking at a picture of one. Rolls them
up in balls and mcpatty's and stuff like that. Yeah,
they to make fish fish cakes out of them. Right, sure, man,

(01:36:19):
that's good stuff. It's not bad eating. Buy you shoe
pick because I'm looking at see this place is full
of them. Holy cow, that's where you'd want to go.

Speaker 10 (01:36:28):
Then.

Speaker 3 (01:36:29):
Yeah, they've got half a dozen names, probably just a
lot of little local names, but shoe picks away. I
grew up talking about them. Okay, Grennell, I think that's
the same fish. I can't remember. I'm drawing a little
bit of a blank and that may be.

Speaker 7 (01:36:43):
Boy.

Speaker 3 (01:36:43):
If I'm messing up, I'm gonna be very disappointed in myself.
Catching both end. Let's see, I'm looking at all these
different I've seen a both end. Yeah, all that both end.
It's a well fends swamp one. Here's here's a place
that calls them swamp trout. I don't know about that.
That's kind of rough. Holy cow, shoe pick mm mmmm right,

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it's a it's an if it's a fish I'm thinking about,
and once again, I'm just my my mind is playing
tricks on me right now. But if it's the one
I'm thinking about, it's kind of a weird and scary
looking little fish. Man. Yeah it is. It does have teeth.
Oh yeah, it's got some teeth. Yeah, it's the same
fish we're talking about for sure. Then my son actually submarines.
My son caught one at the golf course, and I'm

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sure it came in through the pumps out of out
of the Brass River where they get some of their water.
That that's the only way, or maybe after a flood
it might have gotten in there. Oyster Creek runs close
to there, and there's a possibility that a flood sent
some sent some of them up into the property and

(01:37:51):
then when the waters receded, that fish just went to
the deepest place he could find. It got stuck on
the golf course property. But that was that was quite
surprise out there. There are some fresh water drum on
that golf course, plenty of them, uh, but not not
shoe picks, not grinels. Man, that's a one in a

(01:38:11):
bazillion thing. I think. Ummm yeah, back to the doghouse.
Dennis Waite and I have a back deck that the
dogs slept under. They were pretty happy. Yeah, the dogs
don't know that you got a sixty thousand dollars doghouse.
But and you know who, you know how you would
know if somebody paid sixty thousand for a Louis Baton

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doghouse Melvioyne, how's that? They'd tell you? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Yeah,
what'd you do yesterday?

Speaker 12 (01:38:40):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:38:40):
I went out and bought a doghouse? Really? What kind
Louis Vauton? Really? Well? That sets you back feet? How
many square feet is this I have? I don't even
care enough to go look what you could research that? Yeah, well,
you know what, let's let's hang tight. Let's go into
this break. Let's go into the break, and I'll do
that while you cause I know you of other stuff
you have to do during breaks. So let's go through

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the break, and then when we get back, I will
tell you how big that doghouse is on the way
and be guessing in your mind how big it is,
And I'll bet you it's not much bigger than a
normal doghouse. It's just gonna be well appointed.

Speaker 11 (01:39:19):
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Speaker 4 (01:39:25):
Back to The Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 3 (01:39:28):
Nine thirty five on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug
Pike Show, Thank you for listening, Old Melvin. I could
I could sing either, I could go high, I could
go low. In that harmony of that everything, They're both
within my range, whatever range that is. I'm no professional singer,
I'll be the first to admit that, but I greatly
appreciate harmony and did a little of that back back

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in the day, a long long time ago. Not not
in front of a lot of people, but there was
just a group of us in high school who got
together and did that every now and then. It's kind
of fun. The Louis Baton thing before I go to Danny,
Louis Biton doghouse isn't any bigger than any other standard doghouse,

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but it's got the logo all over the darn thing,
and apparently every one of those logos cost you about
fifty bucks. It's the only way you could get to
sixty thousand, and it's just it's all just fancy pants,
nothing but a doghouse. The front, the whole front I
think it is, or the bottom will kind of come
out for cleaning, which is handy. But other than that,

(01:40:33):
it's it's not even a big dog house. It's really not.
You couldn't put a Labrador Retriever wouldn't be caught dead
in this thing, I don't think, and probably wouldn't fit.
Let's go talk to Danny before I lose my mind
looking at this goofy doghouse. What's up, Danny?

Speaker 17 (01:40:50):
Yes, uh, I'll call a little while. But I had
I had a crystal at all, But it's crew those
are you're with the Texas State over Sam Marker. Yeah,
that boal hadn't been called that for evident. He's cover
another name, and they chose it.

Speaker 3 (01:41:10):
Believe it was Sam Houston, wasn't it. Well Sam is
up in Hutsville. Oh that's right, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're
right about that.

Speaker 12 (01:41:17):
It was.

Speaker 3 (01:41:19):
I don't remember, and I'm not the guy to ask.
I tell you who would be. It'd be Dan Matthews
when he comes on at ten o'clock. He would know
the answer to that for sure. But yeah, it was different.

Speaker 2 (01:41:30):
What do you want up for this phone number of his?

Speaker 3 (01:41:33):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, just call straight back, talk to Melvin
again and he'll he'll punch you into Dan, and Dan
will know the answer to that question. If I can't,
I bet you somebody will send it to me. Somebody
will email and email me in the next few minutes.
It's just not coming to the to my head right now,
Old Rod, though I've always enjoyed Yo, Thank you very much.
I appreciate you listening.

Speaker 5 (01:41:53):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:41:53):
Hell, good day, all right, man Ce Denny. Okay, where
I got to get the right mouse in my pocket?
Here there we go. Okay, that's that's done. I'm trying
to get a good look at the beach front just
to kind of see. The wind's been blowing pretty hard
all morning long. Still is holy cow. Yeah boy. Last
week I think we were looking at a bunch of
zeros and nothing more than ten miles an hour. Now

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I'm having a hard time finding something less than ten
miles an hour along the coast Galveston. I got a sixteen,
I got a nineteen, another nineteen, and then you get
on down a little farther, you get down to Port O'Connor,
twenty three miles an hour showing northwest. But the actual

(01:42:35):
flow it's showing is more northerly twenty two down at
Port Aramsis, there's a nineteen of seventeen sixteen. Yeah, all
everything in the teens. I'd say more in the high
teens than the low teens now up here pushing over
to the east side of East Bay and Upper Endo,

(01:42:56):
Galveston Bay or Trinity Bay thirteen fourteen, fifteen miles an hour,
But you can bet that it's probably stronger than that
down there on the water. Some of these things. It's
kind of like the old old fishing guide's way of
figuring out how much the wind's gonna blow. You look
at the forecast and it says ten to fifteen. You
just add them together, and that's what it's usually gonna be.

(01:43:19):
Is about twice what they're saying. It just double up.
Pretty windy day to be on the water. It'd be
a pretty windy day to try to play golf as well,
But that's not the end of the world, certainly. I
played in a pretty good win yesterday afternoon through that back.
Now it was actually blowing harder on the back than
it was on the front, and I made the decision
really early after I parted ten, I thought, okay, I'm

(01:43:41):
gonna turn this around. And I played. I didn't play conservatively,
but I tried to stop like an idiot I was
throughout the front. One of the problems I had once
I dug myself into that first first hole hole, if
you will, was that I was trying to be too
precise on a day when I clearly wasn't hitting the

(01:44:04):
ball precisely, and it did ended up cost me and
have that horrible front. But the rewarding back, which is
what golf does for you every now and then, it'll
throw your bone. So he got a lot of win
along the coast, pretty good amount of win on the
inland lakes as well, none of which is gonna do
anybody any favors. Honestly, I wish there were better news.

(01:44:25):
But like we've said before, any day that you can
go fishing is a good gay to go fishing, and
you'll learn something even if you don't catch anything. That
was one thing that came up in that conversation I
had earlier. I want to say it was maybe with David,
Maybe I think it was, Yeah, what you learn from
going hunting and fishing is worth whatever you've invested in

(01:44:49):
actually going out there to do it. Whether you're using
a professional guide, if you take advantage. David talked about
this first duck hunt he ever made. He made sure
to ask a bunch of questions. And that's the absolute
best thing you can do, absolute best thing you can do, Melan,
Can you grab that car real quick? When you're out
there paying good money to a guide, you the last

(01:45:12):
thing you want to do is just sit out there
and be quiet and not ask any questions because you
don't learn anything. You're paying in addition to paying for opportunity,
you're paying for some education. And a good guide should
be able to answer any questions you've got. A good
guide should be able to help you understand how this
is going to work and how they expect you to

(01:45:36):
do your part as the fisherman or the hunter whatever.
I didn't mind at all if guys couldn't shoot, if
they were, if they were poor shots, and they would
ask me, where am I missing this bird? Or why
am I missing these birds? Well, how come I can't
hit these birds? I could tell them. I could be
from sitting behind them. I could tell where they were shooting,

(01:45:56):
because I'd done a lot of it. And like I wrote,
probably thirty years ago, now maybe more. If waterfowl backed
up three feet when they heard a gun go off,
they'd be extinct. Right now, Ninety percent of the missus
you're gonna make, probably on ducks and geese, are going
to be behind because it's not hard to flatten to
level the barrel on when you're swinging on a shot,

(01:46:22):
it's not hard to get it level, but it's hard
to figure out where and just how far in front
you need to shoot, and most people underestimate that distance,
especially when the birds aren't just right in your face.
And if they would learn to do that, they would
be far better equipped to hit more birds than they're hitting.

(01:46:43):
It's I go back to lessons. I lean on that
a lot because and frankly, I was kind of self taught.
I actually got to visit more than once on a
shooting range with Grant Elsing, who was one of the
best instructors there ever was, and learned a little bit
from him. And when gil Ash and his wife Vicky

(01:47:06):
invited me out to learn their new system the way
they're teaching wing shooting now, and they were brought up
the same way they were teaching that same stuff, but
they came up with what I consider a better way.
I really do a better way to shoot. And I
wouldn't have believed it. And I didn't believe it until
I actually got out there and had gill show me
what he was talking about. And I don't want to

(01:47:28):
go into it. It would take a long time to
do it right. But maybe go to their website. I
think it's osp shooting school, I believe, or just just
do a Google search for gil Ash. Just those six
letters g I l Ash, put a space between them
and look up gill Ash and then look at what
he's kind of teaching. Get an idea, and if you

(01:47:51):
get a chance to get in front of him or
Vicky or his son Brian. Actually they all teach the
same thing, and they're all very good at what they do.
That's who taught my son how to shoot before I
messed him up. I don't I can practice what he
says to do, but I don't know that I could
teach it because like any good teacher, whether it's golf
for shooting or fishing or anything, you have to be

(01:48:13):
able to relate to your student, and they're very good
at doing that. They teach thousands of people every year,
all right, anyway, we gotta take a little break here
on the way out.

Speaker 11 (01:48:22):
We are Sports Talk seven ninety. Ready listen online at
sports seven ninety dot com.

Speaker 4 (01:48:28):
Now more Doug Fike.

Speaker 3 (01:48:40):
Nine fifty one on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug
Pike Show. Thank you for listening. I really do appreciate it.
For those of you who were wondering and didn't remember,
I will refer to the the responses I got from
those who did know and remember that Texas University Texas
State University used to be drum roll please, you got

(01:49:05):
a drum roll over there, Melbourne. That's perfect. There you go,
Southwest Texas State, Southwest Texas. The fighting Bobcats is who
they were, and I got three almost instant responses on that.
I do appreciate it. Let me go talk to Steve O.
See what he's up to.

Speaker 8 (01:49:25):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:49:25):
I hadn't talked to him in a bit. What's up,
Steve O?

Speaker 15 (01:49:28):
What's up, mister Pike?

Speaker 3 (01:49:29):
How are you today? You know I'm doing all right
for a guy who just got his flu shot a
couple of days ago. I'm feeling fine. I'm good.

Speaker 2 (01:49:37):
I haven't walked down that path yet.

Speaker 3 (01:49:38):
Man, that's all right. You're young. You see, I'm pretty young.
You don't need it. You're tough.

Speaker 4 (01:49:43):
Well, I'll be forty Wednesdays.

Speaker 3 (01:49:45):
Like I said, you're pretty young, You're way young. Good.
I have a pretty good question there.

Speaker 15 (01:49:51):
So I'm I'm like about a year year and a
half into this whole soft plastic game, okay, And I
was thinking about taking the kids out today, trying to go,
you know, throw split some lures, and I kind of
want to ask, like, what do you think like the
best color combination for like these overcasts? I mean, I
would think it'd be bright, bright colors.

Speaker 18 (01:50:09):
But I remember one time I was doing a welding
job and Tiki Island and brought my fishing pole and
it was a little overcast, and I had like a
pumpkin spice sharp truths tail cocoha got a slot trout
on the third freaking cast, I know, but I haven't
caught anymore after that's all.

Speaker 3 (01:50:25):
Well, the word it's third cast is okay. Anytime I
go fishing, I catch a fish on my first cast,
which if you go fishing enough times you will at
some point. Oh yeah, that's that's like for me, that's
bad luck, Like, oh great, first cast, right, that's just
not right. You know, you feel kind of weird. I honestly,
if you've got a couple of kids going with you,

(01:50:46):
i'd i'd load three different tails and throw three different
tails until somebody gets up by about two fish on
somebody else. That's the way I like to do it. Man.
There's a lot of guys, especially in the Middle Coast,
who will tell you that if you don't tie on
this particular bait, then you're not gonna catch any fish.
And every time somebody's told me that, I just say,

(01:51:07):
challenge accepted, and I'm gonna throw something different on the
outside chance that maybe they're wrong, And a lot of
times they were either right or close to right. But
until you figure out what they want, that may be
something different that they're eating today than they were eating yesterday.
It may be the clouds, it may be the tidle move,

(01:51:28):
and it may be what at water clarity. But whatever
it is, don't discount any lord. There's a reason there's well,
one of the reasons there's about a thousand different colors
and shapes of salt plastics is because they got to
keep showing new stuff to us. Because we all have
a garage full of soft plastics. Man, you could probably
fill a fifty five gallon drum with soft plastics if

(01:51:50):
you root it around your garage long enough. My kid's
got a tackle box.

Speaker 18 (01:51:55):
I got a tackle box, and yeah, a couple of
the tackle boxes full of crank baits soft.

Speaker 3 (01:52:01):
Of course there are. And that's that's as it should be,
because it's fun to go buy them, it's fun to
throw them, and you never know what you're gonna need.
I get boies to be horrible about going like to
the surf side Jetty, and I was carrying ten pounds
of lures. Ten pounds of lures, man, and I just
I put this big old heavy thing over my shoulder.
I finally started using a backpack because it just got coversome.

(01:52:24):
And I asked myself, why am I doing this? Because
the whole time I'm out there, I would I had
my favorites, and I had backups to the backups to
the backups of those favorites. But then I just couldn't
stand the idea of being out there and having somebody
else throwing something I didn't have and catching fish. So
that's where that ended up. But the bottom line, like

(01:52:45):
I said, is just let the fish tell you what
they want. There is no specific color that's gonna be
better every single day.

Speaker 16 (01:52:52):
Just live and learn, right.

Speaker 3 (01:52:53):
Yeah, and you know, go fishing more often. The more
you go, the more likely you are to catch a fish, now,
aren't you.

Speaker 4 (01:52:59):
Definitely I agree with that.

Speaker 3 (01:53:01):
You got to get out there to get the bait
in the water. I never caught a speckled trout or
a largemouth bass off my couch, not once.

Speaker 18 (01:53:09):
There you go, all man, all right, man, I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:53:13):
Yeah, thanks Steve. It's great to hear from you. Man. Bye. Yeah,
he's he's getting into it. It reminds me a little
bit of Robert, my buddy down there who lives on
the water. I don't tell people where he lives because
he's in a kind of a secret spot and there
are a lot of people who have boats who could
just ease up into his backyard basically and fish where
he fishes. But almost every time he goes out there

(01:53:35):
he catches something on something. He's still he still kind
of leans back onto the the crutches of live bait
every now and then. But that's that's okay. There's nothing
wrong with that. I have no problem with fishing with
live bait. Uh, it's it's not for me personally, for
trout and redfish, for inshore stuff. The last time I

(01:53:56):
threw live bait was a long time ago, and and
I'm fine with that. And if you're throwing live bait
in the same boat as me, that's fine with me too.
I'm trying to catch one on a lure just to
prove to you that I can. And a lot of times,
a lot of over the course of how long I've
been fishing, there have been more than one or two

(01:54:16):
days that artificial lures out fished live bait even And
that's that's not an easy thing to do, but it
does happen sometimes. Well, I've seen some neat ways to
hook live crokers too online that make me think twice
about the way some of my fishing gud friends even
are fishing them already. Holy cow, it's been a blast.

(01:54:39):
I'm glad to be back in the saddle as I
am every Saturday and Sunday morning here on KB and me.
I'll be back tomorrow morning at eight. Well, we'll do
some more of this. We'll talk and explore the great
out of doors once again. Figure out maybe who's going
to win that tournament down in Mexico. Those guys live
the life, don't they. A lot of them travel with
fishing rods too. I can't blame them for that. I

(01:55:01):
would as well get outside, have some fun. There's a
slight chance of light rain today. Don't let that scare
you away from anything you could possibly do outside today.
Take that family out there, stay safe, have some fun.
We'll see you tomorrow morning. Today, thank you all so
very much for listening. I truly do appreciate it. So
that's it for today. Thank you Melvin. Great music. By

(01:55:22):
the way, I got a couple of compliments for you. Audios.

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