The Doug Pike Show 11-16-24

In this eposide  Doug, talks about flounder season being closed and how Gulf red snapper season opens for the party boats. Plus, fire arm safety with caller Guitar Dave and Rick Bice. Do not hunt or fish while consuming  alcohol.  Do you know how important the wind is when hunting? Let Doug explain to you why you should pay attention to the wind. Bow hunters and their new technology when deer hunting.What's your opinion on all of this?  Are you Old shool or New school which would you prefer when hunting? Doug also has a golf interview with Art Stricklin and an interview with Mitchell from Water Fowl Specialities.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the dog Pike Show, brought to you by
American Shooting Centers Guns Shooting at Instruction since nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now here's dog Pike.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
This microphone turned around. Here, see what I can do.
Saturday morning starts right now. I had a pretty dog one,
nice one if you don't mind the fact that it
came up in temperature. Well, yesterday morning I got a
chance to go play some golf. I'm going to talk
about that in a little while, But yesterday morning felt good.

(00:33):
Even before I walked outside. In anticipation, I asked my
in home friend Alexa, what the temperature was outside, and
what I found out is that the temperature was forty
nine degrees. Forty nine degrees in sugar Land yesterday. Pardon me, morning.

(00:53):
That's not bad. The bad news, well, who cares? Really,
it's still not horrible outside. It was about all I
want to say, maybe seventy one to two this morning,
something like that. It wasn't bad at all. And I
have no problem with today's seventy eight degree reading. Anything
in the seventies is fine, and it's going to get

(01:16):
better too. I'll talk about that a little bit, a
little bit farther down the road the whole. Well, today's good.
If you can overlook a ten percent chance of rain,
which I certainly can, I have no problem whatsoeather ever
doing that. And yesterday I did get what was that noise?
Did you hear that? Melvin? No, I didn't hear anything.

(01:39):
Don't jick. It's probably just my imagination. Whatever it was
that happened to me yesterday evening too, Just as I
was dozing off, I thought I heard this loud sound
from somewhere downstairs in the house, and I called down
to my I said, did you hear that? And she

(02:00):
said no, No, I didn't. I thought, oh boy, here
it goes starting up, isn't It just sounds out of nowhere.
But I think I was just dozing off in my sleep.
Maybe maybe the preamble to a good dream or something
like that. But nevertheless, it was it was a non
event ten percent chance of rain today and then tomorrow

(02:22):
and Monday. Sunday and Monday. As long as I'm in
this forecast, I'm gonna go ahead and get through it.
Sunday and Monday sixty and ninety percent chances of rain, respectively.
I don't know how much rain we're gonna get. I
don't think it's gonna be a lot. Let me scroll
down to this official forecast that I kind of look,
I respect and trust. Uh. Sunday sixty percent chance of rain,

(02:47):
new fall amounts. New rain fall amounts up to a
quarter of an inch, so that's not exactly gonna cause
a deluge. And then on Sunday or on Monday, it
said ninety percent chance of precipitation, and then by that
night twenty percent. But it doesn't even talk about how

(03:08):
much rain it will be. That says with showers, isolated thunderstorms,
and a high blah blah blah, so probably not a lot.
Some areas, these scattered showers and thunderstorms tend to dump
pretty good amounts of rain. But at least it'll at
least it'll keep us from having to run the sprinkle

(03:29):
or some on our way out the door to go
hunting or fishing or wherever we're going. This time of year, everybody,
everybody who loves the outdoors, and I include golfers in
that because I'm one of them as well. I just
like being outside this time of year. It's so fresh
and nice and gonna be even better in a couple
of days. That Monday Tuesday thing is ushering in cooler temperatures,

(03:55):
and by the middle and late next week we're gonna
catch How about Wednesday, Melvin pop quiz And this is
not You don't get extra credit on the Texas Temperature
game if you get this within five degrees? What do
you think the high temperature is going to be next
Wednesday and Thursday and Thursday in a city of Houston? Yeah,

(04:16):
city Houston. Let's say forty the high? No, the high? Okay,
holy cow, man, this is not anchorage. Let's say sixty three.
You nailed it because Wednesday sixty four and Thursday sixty
two that is the correct. Boy, that's one hundred percent

(04:37):
score on that test. Wow. Yeah, that's its sixties. The
highs are in the sixties. And it's been a hot
minute since we had that. Man, that's a good running
well like back to April maybe, yes, and even if
not earlier than that. We can put out the trench coat.
Now careful you got a trench coat. Those have a

(04:58):
bad reputation, don't they, because in all the cartoons and
all the creepy movies, there's nothing under the trench coke.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
But wearing Texas, I mean the slightest little temperature dip.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Everybody wants to break out the bumping all the boots. Yeah,
everybody breaks out the boots, even if you don't need them.
And oh, do women still wear uggs? I don't know.
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
I think they may be out of style, but you know,
you don't even know when when when it gets cold,
they might drag.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Them back out of the closet. They still got them
and they don't want to go buy something else. Who
can afford more boots nowadays? Holy cow, by the time
you've spent all your money on fishing gear and hunting gear,
you just don't have money for new boots, new golf clubs,
all of that. Boy, I'm having to think about that
as well. We'll see how that works out. So anyway,

(05:56):
looking around here a little closer, Flounderses is still closed.
It closed on the first and it will stay closed
through December fourteenth to let more females, just really more
flounder in general make it on out to the open
Gulf of Mexico. That's where they spawn in as much
as and if you didn't know this, it'll be something
that will kind of surprise you. When you think of flounder,

(06:19):
you think of a lot of them up on the flats.
They're in little gullies and drains, and they work their
way way back up into the marsh, chasing down food
whatever they like to eat. Sometimes you'll get them out
there over open water. A lot of times they're more
structure oriented than that. They'll be around peer pilings and whatnot.

(06:41):
But they spawn in as much as one hundred feet
of water out in the gulf, one hundred feet of water.
And one of the other a sidebar to that is
the realization that out there where all those flounder are
staging up to spawn, big hammerheads kind of cruise along there.

(07:06):
And there's video I saw years ago. I can't remember
exactly where or when, but there's video from a little
shallower water where you still got some light penetration and whatnot,
but still out there in the Gulf of Mexico of
hammerheads cruising the bottom and smacking their jaws together real hard,
just clacking their teeth together, real hard. And what that

(07:28):
does is it spooks those flounder, and it lifts them
up off the bottom temporarily. They kind they go oh
and they jump, they flinch, and the next thing and
the last thing they remember is those hammerhead jaws wrapping
around them, and it's done. It's like picking up potato
chips off the sidewalk for them. For those hammerheads, I guess,

(07:49):
pretty cool stuff. Speaking of fishing seasons, by the way,
the Gulf red snapper season, at least for charter boats
and party boats and whatnot, is going to reopen. I
didn't think I would see this day come, but the
Feds have decided that during the season we already had

(08:10):
for federal waters that we didn't take as many snapper
as the population could handle without any problems. So they're
reopening red snapper season just for charter bows.

Speaker 5 (08:25):
Now.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Have you If you run your own boat, you can
still go catch them in state water, but you can't
sneak out farther into federal water and then come on
back with bigger fish or whatever.

Speaker 6 (08:37):
Federal water is.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
Going to reopen one minute after midnight on Monday, the
eighteenth of November and run through all of December. That's
a pretty good lick. If the weather cooperates, and it should,
there will be days just like there are in summertime.
I would imagine over those what will that be five
and a half six weeks Somewhere in there, I will

(08:58):
imagine there'll be at least eight or ten good days
that you can get out there and catch a bunch
of snapper if you want to go out there. Trout
reports keep getting better, just better and better, and they
will keep doing that thanks in great part too well. Actually,
it goes beyond just the new rules. You have to

(09:20):
consider some good recruitment behind that disastrous freeze we had
years ago. Now it's way back in the rearview mirror.
We had pretty good recruitment. Then we've had good recruitment
more recently in a couple of seasons. And then you
add in you layer on top of that the fact
that we're allowed to keep sixty percent of what we

(09:43):
could a year ago, and this new three fish limit
is already kind of paying dividends. And honestly, it's been
a long time since I've heard I've heard fishing guides
as optimistic as for quite a few year years most
of my guy friends were pretty down really on our

(10:03):
speckl trout fishing around here. They weren't getting many big ones,
they weren't getting many keepers and they're just warn't enough
little fish to to get them excited about a future
for this fishery. This past year, there's there's a legitimate
change in the way they talk about speckle trout, a
genuine optimism for the first time I've heard it in

(10:25):
a long time. And that's that's gonna be fun. That's
up and down the entire coast too. And all the while,
of course, redfish haven't lost any steam at all. They've
been Boy, they eat lost speckl trout too, straight up
they do. If anything, there are more redfish now and
the top end for bay redfish is inching upward. So

(10:47):
there's gonna be a lot of competition, which is Boy,
if it's if it comes down to having that many
big redfish and that many big trout in the bays
and that many of this, that and the other. Uh,
this is we're headed into what potentially could be a really,
really good time if there's just if we don't have
any hiccups in it. That's and I'm not even saying

(11:08):
I'm not gonna say that word. I'm not. Everybody knows
what I'm talking about. Everybody knows what brings a trout
population down in a heartbeat, because they're pretty fragile and
sensitive to the to the you know what's that? Continue?
It just continue to threaten us at least every winter.
I think about half the speckled trout fishermen in the

(11:28):
state probably just hold their breath around the end of
November and don't take another breath until probably March. At
least we've seen what it can do, especially those of
us who are a little bit older than average, the
senior at trout fishermen amongst us, we've seen what happens.
Eighty three, eighty nine. What was that? That last one,

(11:52):
the one they named whatever? Tropical storm? What was it?
Mement Do you recall uri was that it? Oh? That
when they named that winter storm? And now we got
to do that, we got to have a separate list
of names for tropical or for winter storms. I just
hope it's a no name winter. That's what I'm going
to be crossing my fingers for a no name winter.

(12:15):
I don't want to see any of that come around here.
Let's pause before we get any more into this. By
the way, you're welcome as always to call or email me.
I'll check those emails a little more often. Today, I've
got the laptop set up a slightly differently, and I'll
try to go to them at least every break.

Speaker 7 (12:36):
This is Sportstock seven ninety, Facebook dot Com, Slash, sports
Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
Back to The Doug Pike Show. Right, Welcome back seven
nineteen on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show.
Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. Melvin just reminded
me that it's up to you and me and all
of us to determine the theme of today's musical interludes.

(13:04):
And I don't know. I guess it could have something
to do with the artist. It could have something to
do with the titles, It could have something to do
with anything. So we'll figure it out. No, I need
to go, really only you. I need to go talk
to Tony Box. What's up man, Tony? Oh, he's probably
taking a shit. Oh oh no, did we lose him?

(13:28):
Call back, Tony.

Speaker 8 (13:29):
Come.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
He probably just dropped the phone because he had to
take a shot. He's in a duck blind. I do
know that. Let me go talk today while we're getting
Tony back on the line. Now, what about that one?
Now that's weird? Oh yeah, that was really weird? Did
I lose both of them? Okay, there's Tony. Okay, I'm
a cute get.

Speaker 9 (13:48):
Tony. Good morning.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
Yay, there we are. Yeah, there's something wrong with our
material or our equipment. Again, imagine that I knew how
to reconnect. Yeah, I know you do.

Speaker 8 (13:59):
Man.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
So what's going on on the blind this morning? Anything?

Speaker 9 (14:02):
Well, got a speckabilly right off the back?

Speaker 10 (14:04):
We another duck sense I'm trying to work, trying to
work group now, so I'm trying to be somewhat quiet
and steel.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
Well that's okay. If you have to pull up and
take a shot.

Speaker 10 (14:14):
Take a shot, Oh well, i'll let I've got six
of the guys with the handle that.

Speaker 9 (14:20):
But it's sure nice to be out.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
Yeah, guy, what a nice morning too. How much how
much of a difference in temperature did you have this
morning from yesterday?

Speaker 9 (14:28):
A little warmer twelve degrees?

Speaker 3 (14:30):
Okay? Yeah, it's still not unbearable, though, is it. No,
it's not bad at all, certainly not like Teal. I'm hunting.

Speaker 10 (14:37):
I'm hunting just your shirt without a jacket, and I'm
very comfortable.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
You probably should have put on pants too, Tony.

Speaker 9 (14:44):
Well, I do have some of those.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
Okay, good, I don't do like you guys.

Speaker 9 (14:48):
And hunting shorts, oh.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
No, man, I'm my My hunting and shorts days are done.
If it's not gonna stick me or something. I'm worried
about stickers, I'm worried about getting Yeah, I just know
I'm not doing that anymore.

Speaker 10 (15:02):
But it's awful plays. We're out here in Colorado County
in the regard wood and pretty good group of burn's
been working us this morning. So the guys you're shooting, well,
that helps the fact that we got a specabilly over
aduct decoy group was.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah, that's pretty impressive. How many have you seen?

Speaker 10 (15:22):
Really not a lot, not not near what you and
I used to Well now out there.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
On the good Lord, no, that will never happen again.

Speaker 9 (15:30):
And we're starting to see some specks move in.

Speaker 10 (15:33):
We've got our partner, we've had snows moving and we've
been here in specs all morning, and we've got probably
a group of gadball trying to works right now.

Speaker 9 (15:41):
That's what you hearbody yecting about.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
Yeah, I hear it. I hear it, man. It makes
me want to be there. It makes holy cow, I'm
in a like a ten by twelve or twelve by
fourteen room. And that's all I got.

Speaker 9 (15:54):
Little just filmed with Tucks Unlimited on Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Oh good, where was that man?

Speaker 9 (15:58):
We used? That was here? We used all hand carved decoys.

Speaker 10 (16:02):
Oh nice, that was an experience for all those guys.
But shoot that day too. I'll bet I'll try to
get you out here. Is just you know, it's just
like you and I We've got busy schedules and stuff.
Even at the tender age of seventy, I'm still heavily
involved between Safari Club International and real politics keeps pretty
darn busy.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
I'm sure it does, Tony Holy Cown, man, you know
we don't. We don't want to slow down, that's for sure.

Speaker 9 (16:29):
No, I'll fall down if I slow down.

Speaker 10 (16:31):
But being president of the local chapter ended getting named
to the international Board of Directors for the Foundation, it's
saddled me with quite a few hours.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
I'm sure. I'm sure, man, that's all right.

Speaker 9 (16:40):
I willingly take it on and I'm glad to do it.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
So yeah, well, you're a good guy to have at
the helm.

Speaker 10 (16:47):
It's been interesting, to say the least, especially working with
the South African guys.

Speaker 9 (16:51):
And the European guys.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
Oh boy, I'll bet for.

Speaker 10 (16:54):
Those that don't know, s CI South Safari Club and
National is expanding. We're taking on more and more responsibility worldwide.

Speaker 6 (17:02):
Wow.

Speaker 10 (17:03):
And if you haven't, anybody has some chance to attend
the National Convention in Nashville in January, starting on the
twenty second.

Speaker 9 (17:11):
There will be forty three forty four hundred exhibitors there.

Speaker 10 (17:14):
Everybody, ebody in the sporting world with shot equipment or
paraphernalia or mix will be there.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
Wow. Yeah, that's pretty impressive. Sounds like Shot Show.

Speaker 9 (17:27):
A little bigger. In fact, Holy cap having been to both.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
Wow, Okay, I just thought, yeah, heavy birth, rub it in,
that's okay, No, that's okay. Man, mornings we have indeed, Tony,
and I'm glad you're still out.

Speaker 9 (17:42):
I need to get you out. I need to get
you out again.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
Just I'll do it too much older, I'll take a day.

Speaker 9 (17:47):
Tell me what this beard I've got to look like? Brister?

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Oh my gosh, I'll have to say that. Start laughing,
all right, buddy, Yeah, good luck, Tony? All right, man,
take videos. All right, Melvin, let's see if we can't
get lost you in here. Melbourne too. Let's see if
we can't get get Dave on hit him, Dave, Hey,
what's up?

Speaker 8 (18:10):
Hello?

Speaker 3 (18:11):
Hello, come in Tokyo.

Speaker 8 (18:14):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 9 (18:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (18:15):
I got you man, Okay, okay, all right.

Speaker 11 (18:17):
Uh wow, I'm at the eight thirty. I got two
guys in them with a mercury in the tracker boat
or leaving out right now. And uh but I mean
I'm looking at twenty. What kind of duck is It's
a solid black duck with an orange beat.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
A black duck with an orange beak. Yeah, i'd have
to see that thing. I'm not sure. There's a bunch
of them now, so muscobee ducks or something could be.
I don't know.

Speaker 11 (18:46):
They're just over there, but they're oh lord, something that
jumped up out of the water over there. So, I mean,
I wouldn't need to get a hook in here.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
Men just asked if it was daffy.

Speaker 6 (18:56):
Duck, could be.

Speaker 11 (19:00):
But the Mallard, the Mallard duck was swimming right here
in front of me. If I had a little laughing,
I could have probably a lasting. He mean, but he
was pretty too.

Speaker 8 (19:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
If I back up a second, I have never heard
of anybody trying to lasso a duck. If you could
pull out all and show me a man, you'll be
my hero.

Speaker 11 (19:21):
Well, I'll tell you what it was right here at
my feet. You know, all I do is kind of
pitch it up there. But anyway, now, well at least
I do have my hunt license. But hey, there's stuff
jumping up out of the water over here, and I'm like, man,
you know, I'm right here at the boat launch. But
oh on kind of a sad note, but a happy note.

(19:44):
My buddy son day and said, you know his daddy
boy had did true, you're right, And then Sundance he got,
you know, he got a third in the idol and
then he got and he got if he's won the boys,
he accidentally had his farm had his hunt and rifled
with him, but then his gun fell out and he
accidentally shot himself in the stomach. And yeah, yeah, it

(20:08):
was on the news while thirteen.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah, I saw something about that this morning, and I
didn't I didn't get back to it in time. Dad guns,
So that was wow. Holding No, no, it missed.

Speaker 11 (20:18):
It missed all vible organs. Yeah, I'm and we're friends
on faith. Well, I mean we're personal friends.

Speaker 9 (20:25):
Man.

Speaker 11 (20:25):
You know, you know, I've known, I knew, I known
his dad. His dad used to come up here to
the fishing shoves, you know up there, and bring you
a case of knives that were had deer horned handles
on him like that.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 11 (20:37):
Yeah, yeah, so oh and then my brothers they ended
up backing him up. I think that's when I had
to go in the hospital for something. But they backed
him up at a concert or something one time. His
daddy boy it. But anyway, the main thing is I
want to yeah, safety, safety, safety, because I know people
that's accidentally shot yourself in the flood, accidentally shot yourself

(21:00):
in the heel with the carrying the shotgun down and
then they had a YMP for the rest of their life.
And then I know the people that the dude said
his brother barred his gun and he didn't check it
and then he got a finger off. Yeah that's not good.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
None of that is not good.

Speaker 6 (21:20):
Every bit of it.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Every bit of it's preventable too. That's what bothers me
about gun accidents is that ninety nine percent of them
are preventable. There is the occasional time when a firearm
just grossly malfunctions, and and and but that's one in
a thousand, you know it. Just the rest of this
stuff just go ahead.

Speaker 11 (21:42):
Like when I was saying, when I carried my thirty eight,
it's got six, I can put six bullets, but I
put it on five. I put five in and I
keep that one.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yeah, keep the hammer on the empty cylinder.

Speaker 11 (21:53):
Yeah yeah, yeah, in that case of it just falls.
But seeing it doesn't have a hammer on, just pull it,
you know. And it's a thirty eight special. But uh yeah, well,
I mean I carry five and not like Barney going
in my pocket, you know.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
But anyway, keep you.

Speaker 11 (22:11):
I'm looking down here. Hey, I'm looking down here right
now at my feet, and I'm seeing some somebody dump
some mines out here. I may hook one of them
on my line, and uh I guarantee.

Speaker 6 (22:21):
Yeah, get you.

Speaker 11 (22:22):
When I was at yeah, when I was at uh oh,
a white perds man. When I was over there in Temple,
they'd be I figured it out. When it rained, people
would put their bait out there and they would dry out,
and then it would go over the cliff there. And
every time I every time I would take I would
take some rocks and just kick it off in there

(22:42):
and then next thing, you know, they think it's that bait.
You know, then I would drop a minute down there.

Speaker 9 (22:47):
Both.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
Yeah, there's all kinds of ways. Full fish had little
old brains. We got them out smart and most of the.

Speaker 6 (22:53):
Time, I don't know they're tricky.

Speaker 3 (22:57):
H Dave, I got a rod man.

Speaker 11 (23:00):
I appreciate y'all. Y, Hey, thanks a lot.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
Thank you, audios. Does he okay, let's catch in before
we go. Then, Warren, what do you think that duck was?

Speaker 12 (23:12):
Well, he said black with an orange beak. I assume
orange beat. It sounds like a black duck, black mallard.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
You know, I hadn't even thought about that. Yeah, it's
not true black, but it's a dark, dark, dark brown. Yeah, yeah,
it might have been. It might have been. I'm gonna
have to I'm gonna have to send Daves some flash cards.

Speaker 6 (23:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (23:36):
Wow, I know you're up against the break.

Speaker 6 (23:38):
All right.

Speaker 12 (23:39):
A great little segment there on on firearms safety. Man, Damn,
why would you have a loaded weapon in a case?

Speaker 3 (23:48):
Yeah, that's a really loud question.

Speaker 12 (23:52):
It's dangerous as Helly. I talked my kids and my grandkids.

Speaker 6 (23:56):
Somebody.

Speaker 12 (23:57):
I don't care if you're the gun store, they look
at it and make sure, and they handed to you.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
You make sure. Of course, I don't know if I've
been doing some some podcasts with the guys from Carter's Country,
and Billy Carter was telling me that they keep on
the shell or on the counter down or up at
the north side store of the tresh Week store where
the range is, there's a big old pickle jar full

(24:21):
of live rounds that have been extracted from guns that
have been brought into the store empty.

Speaker 6 (24:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (24:28):
Absolutely, incredibly careless and worse. Andrews, So thanks you as
a brief saying, y'all don't have a safe segment.

Speaker 13 (24:36):
I don't want to.

Speaker 12 (24:37):
They had to run your show segment some firearm safety.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
You know, that's not a bad idea. If it sounds
like to me, if you and I got together, then
I would I would open the gun and show you
it's empty. I'd handed to you, you'd open the gun
and make sure it was empty for yourself, and then
when you handed it back to me, I'd do the
same thing. Absolutely, we definitely get to talk about the gun.

Speaker 12 (24:59):
There a lot of people that I don't hunt with
because I consider them innately unsafe. I'm not talking about
you know. I was quail hunting one day and a
guy put it that we were taking turns shooting. We don't
shoot out of the covey, and he said, I forgot
to have my shotgun on safety. I said, you've been
walking around this field for half a day and that thing.

(25:21):
He said, Oh I never I said that. I'll turn
around and walk back to the truck. Yeah, yeah, I
can't believe you can be that ignorant, you know. So anyway,
I always enjoy your showing around here, and then you'd
be safe, Yes, sir, so pay the bills.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Audios all right, we do need to do that. And
this is boy, this is one of my favorites to
go to it for sure.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety the Houston sports Fan
on air and on Facebook. That contact back to the
Doug Bike Show.

Speaker 3 (25:59):
Melbourne's playing his little game with us on this vump music.
If you think you know what the theme is for
these bumps, there's been two so far, and if you
missed the first one, you're just gonna have to listen
closer to the second one or the third one. I
guess I gotta get this email up in here on
my laptop. I don't have it up yet, and that

(26:19):
that means I can't see them, but I'm gonna get
them there they are okay, Now I'm in good shape.
Well we'll press forward from here seven one three two
one two five seven ninety email on me Dougpike at
iHeartMedia dot com. Let's scratch all that out right there,
check that out. I tell you what we might be
able to get Mitchell on, Yeah, Melbourne. Let's hold on.

(26:43):
Let me get his number, rolland seth oh Man, Captain
Scott ways in. Yeah, I'm headed to Catula. I'm gonna
go do some guiding down there on a new ranch. Oh.
I feel so sorry for you, I really do. Okay,
and that number is Oh he loves that man, that's
his business. Yeah, he wants people to call him all right,

(27:05):
two eight one seven four four one eight eight eight.
See if you can get him kicked up. Actually, hold
you go ahead and write that number down, but hang
on and get forced. I'll talk to him and then
we'll get We'll get Mitchell at after the break at
forty three. This So this is boy, this is inside stuff,
isn't it?

Speaker 8 (27:25):
So?

Speaker 2 (27:26):
Well?

Speaker 3 (27:27):
You talk about a well oiled machine. That would be
Melvin and me. We just we never miss a beat,
never make mistakes. It's so fun. Let's go ahead and
get it. Let me try. You want me to try it,
or you want to just go ahead and take it.
You try and let me see how it works. Hold
on it. Didn't know.

Speaker 4 (27:42):
We having some problems. See we lose him and I
don't think so no, ie do it? There he is there,
it's on my now.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
Faux pro. What's up here? You get me in on
the second Dan?

Speaker 8 (27:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (27:56):
Well yeah, yeah that For whatever reason, there's something out
this I don't we don't understand it. But that's we're
wasting time talking about the outdoors. What's up hey?

Speaker 14 (28:06):
Yeah, it seems like you and Melbourne are trying to
light up my life today.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
Oh really? Okay, Melvin, you know what that means. That
means you gotta work harder. That's too easy, okay, now
too easy.

Speaker 14 (28:18):
That's two of my favorite songs too, So I Mel's
got to work a little bit harder today.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
We're gonna start excellent, excellent thing though, yes, sir thing though,
we'll tighten it up for you. We'll tighten it up. Yeah.
So what's going on.

Speaker 14 (28:33):
Well, unfortunately I'm not hunting this morning. I'd like to be,
but I'm waiting on a guy to come redo my
door frame on the back of the house here. Who've
had a little water in it there in all the storm.
So I've been out planting rye grass this morning since
it's finally cool enough. I failed to put it out,
but yeah, so got that done and had a pretty
good hunt yesterday. Went down to my nephew's Thursday evening
and got the blind set up on a pond back
there on this farm and picking up the gold able

(28:56):
to bring it back. I got to put a new
battery and stuff in it today. So I getting on
the livings and later do they do some scouting. But
a Sittnario was you know, it's one of them calm
clear days.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
You know, it was nice.

Speaker 14 (29:05):
It was like forty forty three degrees, so that was nice.
But it's one of them dead calm. You could hear
you could hear a mosquito on the other side of
the pond both through the tree.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
Or are you are you hearing much shooting in the
mornings here on?

Speaker 14 (29:17):
Livy said, I'm hearing a little bit, but it'd be
like one, you know, one group of guys shooting seventeen
tis probably at one till.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
That everybody missed. So you can't let it judge that.
You know who he comes back, They probably would he
knows we can't shoot and just land right in the
middle of the decoys.

Speaker 14 (29:34):
Or eating one of them lake Conrode bread eaters or
French freighters, you know, shooting that. But now we we
about seven thirty. We had one one single widgeon come
in at a minute. It just come in beautiful, and
he folded right over the mojo and another hour pass
and we're thinking it was getting eight thirty. We're thinking, well,
you know what seven thirty row get seven thirty a
minute and maybe one of them days. And I always

(29:56):
carry where everybody go in this part of the state.
I carry ring neck decoys. Oh sure, so you see
him good, and I shoot a lot of ring necks
and I look over the pond, damn, and here come
a group of about eight ring necks with a group
of five on top of it. That group of eight
come in and just right in front of the blind.
We're trying to work that group of five and they
try to field off and my nephew.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
He likes to get it started by picking out through
the skillet shooting, and we shoot everything.

Speaker 14 (30:23):
I said, it's your pond, it's your blind, it's your rules,
I said, I said all ready. I said, you go
ahead and pick you. So he picked out the skillet
shot too. When they come up, I got my first
triple of the year.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
Triple. Then he doubled good.

Speaker 14 (30:37):
Then when I was reading, and then when I was reloading,
I looked up, and I know, I looked up waterfliding
right at the blind, and I had just enough time
to see the roof on it. I had just enough
time to swing up and get in front of that
duck and ship at the base.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
Of the blind. So we got eight out of that
one group. Holy cow man, something seed. I know we would.

Speaker 14 (30:59):
I told my and that for us that nobody leaves live.
But we got a boss. We ended up with nine birds.
We said ore at about nine o'clock and got conflict.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
We end up nine birds. Got a breath. Yeah, And
you bring up a really good point about just hanging
out till about nine o'clock. There's a lot of guys
I know, back when I was guiding, especially some of
the guides would even do this. They they'd shoot until
about maybe on these goose hunts, the big goose hunts,
they'd shoot up until about eight forty five and then
start talking to their guys about how well that's in.

(31:28):
It's probably not going to be any good much later
in the morning. You know, we've had a good day.
Let's just go ahead and pack it up. And I
would keep them out there. Man, you drove halfway across
the state, or you flew in from out of state,
and we can stay in this field until noon, And
I will if you want to. And they'd almost have

(31:50):
to drag me out of there, because that's the whole
reason they're there. And I think some of the some
guides who do it all day every day kind of
get tired of it, and they get numb to the
experience and numb to how very refreshing it is to
just be out there. And I'd always kind of can't

(32:12):
tell my guys stick around. We may not shoot but
two or three more bird between nine and eleven, but
we'll be out here on the prairie, not just back
at another restaurant eating ham and eggs.

Speaker 6 (32:24):
Oh exactly.

Speaker 14 (32:24):
I got an old buddy of mine I met in
two thousand and six, and he's up.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
He's up righte eighty. He don't get around like he
used to.

Speaker 14 (32:30):
But we would go out there and like, say the
scenario yesterday morning, we would have shot that widget for sure, Yeah,
but we would have let all fifteen of them ring
next sent and we'd come in at eleven thirty with
you know, five Mallard drakes and a widget and people
are like, well, you see no mallards all year? Yeah,
but after eleven o'clock all year either, Yeah about it.
Mountains and pintos are smart. They know when they see
boats going home, Okay, we can fly now.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
That's the same on that prairie out there, man. The
movement on the prairie got got birds back up again.
And it wasn't because they were so smart necessarily, but
just they were disturbed. But you know, everybody's hunting until
at least nine o'clock, and so those birds will kind
of get in and sit down somewhere and it doesn't
look like there's anything going on. And then as these

(33:13):
people get up and start driving around, and they stop
on the side of the road and get out and
slam a truck door to look at a bunch of
geese and it spooks them up again. There's all kinds
of reasons that especially little small groups of birds even
will get up to ten fifteen maybe, and they're the
easiest ones to decoy. So yeah, I kept my people
out there.

Speaker 10 (33:33):
Man.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
Yeah, I don't know if you had chests and checked out.
I did. I did shoot you, shoot you a tech
yesterday of the strap. I don't know if you had
a chest and check it or not. But no, I
don't want to look at your strap of ducks. That's
not all right man. Yeah, I'm running late. I gotta go.
I got you all right, Yeah, thanks bo bro, light

(33:57):
me up. I got it by all right. Let's see
if we can undo that one. Yeah, there is something
wrong with this whole board in here for me, Melvin,
and I don't know what it is.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety, breaking sports news on
Facebook twenty four to seven.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
We don't get that information to them. This is the
Doug Fight Show. Turn this into a music program, man,
you're picking some good songs this morning, all right, seven
fifty on Sports Talk seven ninety. I got Mitchell Holder
on the phone. He may be in a goose blind
or a goose spread. I don't know. Let's click him
in here and see what's up. Mitchell, Are you out

(34:32):
on the prairie?

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Good morning, Doug. I am.

Speaker 13 (34:35):
I just walked out of the duck blind.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
Oh why did you leave it?

Speaker 8 (34:41):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (34:41):
I've got another guy?

Speaker 3 (34:42):
Okay, all right, So what's going on down there in
the great outside of anyway El Campo with waterfowl specialties?

Speaker 9 (34:51):
Right now?

Speaker 3 (34:52):
What's going on? How many birds you got?

Speaker 5 (34:55):
We're sitting on fifteen right now. We're dealing with that
full moon. So it was pretty pretty western early and
going through a little mid morning lowell.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
Right now, Well, that's that's perfectly normal. Anybody who's hunted
long as you have and long as I have, knows
that there are going to be ebbs and flows. When
those birds, it'll for for thirty minutes, it'll be like
they're coming from every direction, and then it just does.
Somebody flips a switch and they just go sit down
and relax for a little bit.

Speaker 13 (35:22):
Oh yeah, that moon was was bright.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
Holy cow. I called my wife outside. I went outside
to pull my car off the driveway off the street,
and I said, you got to come see this moon.
It's just bright as can be, holy cow man.

Speaker 5 (35:37):
Yeah, So a lot of birds fed, okay, you know
they'll feed all night, so they kind of chaotic this
morning with everyone, you know, busting in on them.

Speaker 13 (35:47):
Everyone duck hunting out here. So just going through that low,
I'm sure it'll pick up here in forty five minutes
or so.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
Yeah, it always does. So you know what I'm going
to ask you, Well, how many geese you're looking at lately?

Speaker 5 (36:01):
You know, last Sunday we had a really good goose hunt.
We went in on just a couple hundred speckle bellies,
but got a ten man limit of specks, four snows
and a cream winged deal. Small spread well you know,
small full bodies spread hit real good and panel blinds
and yeah, they didn't move till nine, but when they

(36:25):
did it was on.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
Yeah, and you know that's that small spread thing. That's
something that a lot of my guid buddies and I
would do if we didn't have hunts one day, especially
a little bit later in the season, maybe not so
much early, but we'd go out. We'd leave the dogs
at home, leave everything at home. Two guys go out
and dig two deep holes and then put like maybe

(36:47):
maybe a dozen full bodies, just a dozen right looking
full bodies in there. We knew how to be quiet,
we knew how to call, and we just lay there
and just watch it happen. And twos and threes would just.

Speaker 5 (36:59):
Eat that up, especially late when those specklebillies really started
segregating from the snows, you know, And yeah, they don't
want nothing to do with those white white.

Speaker 13 (37:09):
Geeth late in the season. They know their trouble.

Speaker 12 (37:11):
So wee.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
Yeah, it really is weird. How many snows you got
down there now?

Speaker 5 (37:16):
And I, oh, yeah, there was a handful last weekend.

Speaker 13 (37:21):
But yesterday morning we were.

Speaker 5 (37:24):
Duck hunting and we watched we sat there one of
the private ranches we hunt next to. They pump a
ton of water and we watched them those snow gees
all morning file.

Speaker 13 (37:37):
Into that roost pawn.

Speaker 5 (37:38):
I get that flown, flown all night last night, four in.

Speaker 13 (37:43):
That full moon.

Speaker 5 (37:44):
And yeah, it was by the time it ended, it was,
you know, three or four thousand on the roosts. Not
bad at all, No, no, yeah, it went from a
handful to quite a bit in a day. So and
I think we're supposed to get some some colder weather.

Speaker 13 (38:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
Yeah, you're going to see highs in the sixties and
lows in the mid forties about the middle of next week.

Speaker 13 (38:10):
Oh, it'll be a nice change of pace.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
I know that.

Speaker 13 (38:13):
I'm tired of sweating and killing.

Speaker 3 (38:17):
Yeah, something knock those der mosquitoes down. Holy cow, So
what kind of crazy what kind of ducks you're shooting?

Speaker 6 (38:24):
Green wing? Green wing?

Speaker 5 (38:27):
A ton of pintail showed up that week with that moon,
and it's just you know, the big rafts of them.

Speaker 13 (38:35):
Yeah, they do that. I'm watching a big group spin
on these guys.

Speaker 5 (38:40):
They they but it's just big wads, you know, and
one gets a little spooky and then they'll go laying
on the other side of the pond. Or at least
I thought it's been this morning, but no, we've been
killing quite a few gabble on Widge in these first
couple of weeks, which is.

Speaker 6 (38:57):
For this early.

Speaker 5 (38:59):
I know they both had good hatches this year, so
it's good to see something besides just chealing pintail down
kind of help fill that bag out, you know.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
Really, man, and I think which is one of the
prettiest ducks there is. I really that in a drake penttail.
Those are my two of my favorite drakes man. They're beautiful.

Speaker 13 (39:19):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 5 (39:19):
And those gadwall when they when they get down here
in good numbers. Oh yeah, I know how to give
it up, you know they do.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
Yeah, they'll make it look good sometimes. Well that's good
to hear from you again. So everybody, everybody paying attention,
everybody knocking down birds? Are they missing more than they're hitting.

Speaker 5 (39:37):
It just depends on the crew, you know, as long
as they're shooting.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
Yeah, that's exactly right. You know, that's exactly right. Man,
keep it busy. Well, look, I'll let you get back
in there and take care of your hunt. What is
your phone number? Actually I told it a little while ago,
but tell it again so they can find you down
there at Waterfowl Specialties.

Speaker 5 (39:56):
Yeah, you can call the office at nine seven nine
five four three eleven oh nine, or you can.

Speaker 13 (40:02):
Call my personal cell phone, which is two eight one
seven four four one eight eight eight.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
That's what I gave out over the air a minute ago.
And Melbourn's going, no, no, no, don't get his number
out over the air. I said, I kind of think
he'll want me to.

Speaker 13 (40:18):
There's a lot of people that have that number. It's
easy to remember.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
Yeah, yeah, I know what it's like, believe me. Man,
all right, Holder Waterfowl Specialties. He's covered up with ducks.
I'm gonna call you a little later today. I want
to I want to visit with you about some dates
on something.

Speaker 5 (40:32):
All right, Yeah, all right, manly, I appreciate it, Doug,
we'll talk to you.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
Better go take care of you guys, audios.

Speaker 13 (40:39):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
All right, Let's click that one out somehow, Melbourn. Okay,
that worked and I didn't lose you that time. That's good.
I got my end figured out kind of sort of.
I'm still not gonna be able to pull the calls
up though, I don't know what this is about. Really
makes no difference. Software update, Yeah, you just at some

(41:01):
point some of these things make it's good things. Some
of these PCs aren't in this room. They're over in
another room, a rack room or whatever you call it,
where all that stuff is. Because some of these guys,
especially mornings and middays and all these high power shows,
some of these guys are kind of hardwired to get
upset by technical difficulties. They might just pick one up

(41:23):
and throw it across the room, Elvin. You never know,
you never know. I've been like that myself sometimes. Oh man. Yeah,
mine is at the end of its life expectancy, according
to one of our IT guys, and I should get
a new laptop, but I'm I'm kind of meeting some
resistance on getting the new laptop. And every now and

(41:47):
then when I come in and start this thing up,
it's like having to warm up a diesel truck at
ten below zero. You just got to sit there and
listen to it and kind of grumble and whine and
moan and chug a chug a chugga. And it's the
stuff randomly comes up on the screen that I shouldn't
be there. It's a treat. It's a real treat, all right.

(42:08):
Someone three two seven ninety email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia
dot com just for giggles. We're gonna get out on
time for this break. Maybe the only time it happens
this whole show, Melvin, So I'll write it down.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
This is the Doug Pike Show, brought to you by
American Shooting Centers Guns Shooting at Instruction since nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
Now Here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
All right, second hour of the program starts right now.
Let me send this little text message to somebody. We
got stuff to do. Let's say we can get Rick
on the phone, and I'm not even gonna I'm not
gonna touch anything. You just tap him in when he's ready,
Fire away, Rick byes. No, there we go. Now there
you are? Okay, what's up?

Speaker 11 (42:53):
Man?

Speaker 8 (42:55):
Hi, I'm actually gonna deer hunting here a little bit.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
Good for you? Good for you? Now you got some
specific goal in mind? Or are you just gonna kick
back and relax and see how it unfolds?

Speaker 8 (43:11):
Very specific? Yeah, otherwise I it wouldn't go. But it's
just the deer art where I'm at. The deer aren't
moving early. They're moving anywhere from about ten to two
because of the moon.

Speaker 3 (43:24):
Yeah yeah, yeah, it's a full move.

Speaker 8 (43:27):
We had a little cloud cover last night. Of course
it's cloud this morning where I'm at. But I was
what I was calling you about. I'm lifting a ranch
February the first, and I went out and met the
guys that have at least and it's twenty two hundred

(43:47):
acres and all they are bow hunters.

Speaker 12 (43:49):
That's it.

Speaker 8 (43:50):
Oh wow, Okay, these guys are so serious it's unbelievable.
I just want to tell you I learned a lot,
so I knew you never can stop learning.

Speaker 6 (43:59):
Right.

Speaker 8 (44:01):
These guys have deer stands that are no less than
thirty foot up in there, and they have at least
two to three on every fear.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (44:14):
And the thing that really got my attention and made
me go kind of the wow factor. You know how
you go to a box store or a landscape place
and they have these little windmeal fans that spin and turn,
you know, and all that. They have at least three

(44:36):
of them stationed around those theaters.

Speaker 3 (44:39):
Interesting. Interesting, they always know.

Speaker 8 (44:42):
Which way that winds blowing, and if they have to,
they'll climb down and go. They'll walk over their thirty
forty ards and they'll climb up in another one so
they so they don't get winded. I mean, how serious
is that?

Speaker 3 (44:58):
That's pretty dog one serious. I've used little pieces of
like survey or ribbon or something like that to mark
the wind around both stands, but I never got that sophisticated.

Speaker 8 (45:10):
I've had, you know, places where I had set up
I'm not a big bow hunter. I've told you my
bow hunter catastrophes. But I have had some deer stands
that when I really was, you know, mad at the deer.
I did the same thing with survey steaks, you know,
fifty hundred to one hundred and fifty, two hundred to

(45:33):
fifty whatever, and it would just help me work where
I wouldn't get distorted on the distance where that dere
was where I had to make an adjustment because my
guns were all my rifles were sighted in at two
hundred and at fifty yards. You put the cross theairs
on something. You may make a bad shot, that's a

(45:55):
good point. You get my points, So I have them.
I have my hunting lane smarked. If I'm really serious
about it. Today I'm just hunting a deer. He's older,
he's gonna score big, and I'm I'm I'm just kind
of excited about it because it's it's it's a unique

(46:19):
situation of a hunt. I have to tell you about
it some other time when we have more time, but
otherwise I wouldn't be doing this on this day with
this deer. But anyway, I just wanted to share that
little tip to all the bow hunters and even the
riffle hunters out there. Hey, go buy them little cheapy things.
You see who side of the road, and that's spin

(46:39):
around and it'll tell you what that wind's doing. And
when you're hunting, I don't have to tell any serious
hunter how important the wind direction is for your success
of your hunt?

Speaker 3 (46:49):
Boy, Isn't that the truth? Isn't that the truth? You know?

Speaker 6 (46:53):
What?

Speaker 2 (46:53):
Something?

Speaker 3 (46:54):
Have you ever seen the if you if you watch
any TV, especially any hunting TV, there's one of the
works that runs these shows on this ozonics and I'm
I watched these things and I'm really curious. But then
I wonder to myself, if this is if this product
is really as good as they say it is, why

(47:16):
are they having to buy hour long infomercials to sell it?

Speaker 12 (47:21):
You know?

Speaker 3 (47:21):
It kind of makes me skepch in.

Speaker 8 (47:24):
I'm on the end of that. I do some guided hunts.

Speaker 3 (47:27):
Yeah, and pay to play sure.

Speaker 8 (47:32):
And the you know, they'll say, well, uh, you know,
I'll call and say you I gotta I got a
deer in the in the area that I think you
would probably want. Well, do you have any pictures on
your camera? I don't do cameras.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
Well, I'm not talking about cameras.

Speaker 8 (47:50):
This is how you're talking about the smoke lozonics. I
know what you're going about. And I don't do cameras.
We're gonna don't do it though, fashion, Yeah, I got you.
We don't kiver there, and you know you walk away
and you ain't cost you a penny. But I by
finding for you. I'm on finding. But yeah, we're not

(48:13):
gonna go chase down a bunch of deer on a
bunch of cameras. I don't I don't use true, but
I don't do that no more.

Speaker 3 (48:20):
All right, I don't blame you.

Speaker 8 (48:22):
I'm just getting old, just getting old.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
Well, you're old school, and there's nothing wrong with that.
We you and I and anybody who's who's reached the
age we've reached did an awful lot of hunting without
all of this stuff. And yeah, technology is just we're
overwhelmed with technology. And I say, and I see it.
In Golf boy House, Sutton had a lot to say

(48:47):
about young golfers and how when he was trying to
teach a lot of them, as soon as they would
hit a shot in one of those very big, very
expensive had all the latest technology in there, they'd hit
the shot that was going to land somewhere out on
the practice range. And as soon as the ball left
the club, they turn around and look at all the

(49:07):
the the the information, the data on that swing. Where
was the club face, how fast was it moving, was
it open or shut? Was it hooded or whatever, and
they forget to just watch the golf ball. And like
he said, he is very correct in this. If you
just watch the ball, it'll tell you if you know

(49:29):
what you're looking at, it'll tell you exactly what that
machinery will tell you, just not in numbers, it'll tell
it in in real life. There it is. I'm watching
that ball go a little bit left to right, and
and you can figure out what what caused that. You
don't have to have all that machinery.

Speaker 8 (49:47):
Every Just my closing statement, Okay, I only I only
got low fence, Okay, I these guys that want to
pay the big money for a really nice low fence. Dear,

(50:09):
although it is there, how much time is it gonna come?

Speaker 3 (50:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (50:13):
That's the key and I and you know that really
hacks me off. And you know, well I need to
come you and can I be back at work at
one o'clock?

Speaker 6 (50:23):
You know?

Speaker 8 (50:23):
I mean, you know, and I'm like you don't even
need to come hunt with me. Yeah, we're hunting. There's
hunting and their killing.

Speaker 12 (50:32):
They won't killed.

Speaker 8 (50:33):
I want to hunt and maybe we'll have an opportunity
to maybe harveston dere So anyway, I'll let you go.
Done you, Thank you, Thanks Melvin. He worked with me
real hard to get me out.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
We got it covered, buddy, any anytime, every time, Ricky,
thanks man audios. All right, Yeah, we're close. We'll take
another break on time. I do if any of you
out there use that ozonics equipment to to break up
your scent, I'd be curious. I want to hear from you,

(51:05):
I really do whether it truly performs as build where
you can just sit there and have deer just wander
write down wind of you and never be really spooked.
I don't know. I don't know, and like I say,
I'm leary. I'm a little skeptical because they're trying so
hard to sell it on TV. A lot of the

(51:30):
major camo makers, all of these products that you and
I all use regularly, they don't have to advertise so
much because their products work and that spreads pretty fast.
So I don't know. I'm well, there's all kinds of

(51:52):
scent eliminators. This is an electronic device that kind of
covers up. It confuses them when they're looking around, it
confuses them when they're trying to smell stuff, and it
just I'm not sure what I could compare it to
or really not. So maybe somebody knows. Maybe nobody knows,
and it'd be I'd be as interesting if nobody has

(52:16):
that and can talk about it. We'll see how it
goes through the rest of the show.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety Houston, Sports online at
sports seven ninety dot com.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
Back to the Doug Bike Show. Good song, A lot
of good songs with light in the title. Clearly you
know more to come. I'm sure too. Blinded by the
light now, that's always that's a good one. Yes, And
then this one will kind of chill you out a
little bit, blinded by the lot to get you tapping
your toe. Yeah, right, speeding if you're on the freeway. Boom,

(52:49):
boom boom.

Speaker 6 (52:50):
I didn't.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
Oh, by the way, public service announcement. I'm sure it's
still there coming in this morning. Just as I was
getting about to maybe, oh, guessner in bel air, I'm thinking, Okay,
I'm running pretty good on time. I get in here
and do some prep work and be ready to go.
And right as I crossed over Fondretto, was it Fondring, Yeah,

(53:12):
Right as I crossed over Fondreing, I started seeing brake
lights in front of me, like, oh boy, what's going on?
And I actually thought that I saw emergency lights up
there too, kind of maybe over on the feeder. I
didn't know what it was. Bottom line was, well, they've
got construction going on on fifty nine inbound, and if

(53:34):
you don't know that and you were going to take
fifty nine inbound to the loop, you might want to
find an alternate route. Because it took me. Now, granted,
I thought it was gonna take forever to get through there.
It was gonna make me late, and all this I
was ready to call Melvin. It's probably it was at
the time. Bear in mind, this is at six fifteen

(53:55):
in the morning. It was about a maybe a fire
or six minute delay, but I got a hunched that
by now, I bet it's ten or fifteen minutes to
get through because they have it scrunched all the way
down from six lanes to two and it takes a
long time to get six lanes scrunched down to two

(54:16):
at eight twenty on a Saturday morning. I can assure you,
so find your way around. Double check your traffic app
if you have one on your phone, and if you
don't have one, load one. They're not entirely unhandy. Do
you use a traffic app Melvione or do you just
kind of wing it? I'm o school, Yes, I kind
of wing it too usually.

Speaker 9 (54:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (54:38):
I never got any warning for this closure. I didn't
see any and it may have been up yesterday, but
I didn't get on fifty nine yesterday at all, so
I never saw it, and there was no indication when
I got on the freeway back out there at the
fountains that that was coming up on me.

Speaker 9 (54:55):
So it took me.

Speaker 3 (54:56):
Just hit me like a wet mop to the face,
and just I just tucked in and said, you know what,
there's no way to get they have the Hillcroft eggsit
was closed too, I believe, or no Hillcroft you could
still get off, but after that, no on, no off
all the way to the loop. So you're in it
at that point and you might as well just sit

(55:16):
back and enjoy the ride. Bring yourself a video game
to play. Put your car on auto drive. You're a
fan of that Melvine, the car that drives itself. Oh no, no, no,
I'm not either.

Speaker 1 (55:29):
Man.

Speaker 3 (55:30):
I like to have control. Yeah, I want both hands
on the wheel. I want my hands on the pedals.
Now I'll use if I'm on the freeway or you know,
the interstate, going somewhere hitherto Yawn, I'll put it on
cruise control. Oh, of course, I'm safe with that. Yeah,
but I'm not. I don't want something else driving my car.
There's just too many variables, I think, and I have.

(55:51):
I've read too many stories about problems with that where
people have been injured or killed because their car didn't
know a stop sign from a hole in the world,
you know. So that's enough of that. That's not anything
related to the out of doors. Speaking of out of doors,

(56:11):
we got rid of Raphael. It fell apart last week
before it became much of anything. It just rolled around
in the Gulf of Mexico and shoved a bunch of
water onto the Texas coasts. There are still high tide
advisories and high water advisories for the bays pretty much
up and down the coast. Some it's a little bit

(56:32):
more pronounced down the coast farther, probably south of Mata
Gorda and Port O'Connor and more towards South Texas. But
there's still generally higher water than usual, and that stuff
down around Corpus is gonna take a while to drain
out too. There's not many places for it to get

(56:53):
out once it's pushed up in there, and so we'll see.
I don't know that it's gonna be a w The
asterisk to that is SARAH Tropical Storms SARAH now on
the map heading across the Yucatan Peninsula as we speak.
And once that thing hits the Gulf, it's hard to

(57:15):
tell whether it will kind of regroup and strengthen. But
generally almost every model I looked at this morning had
it going into the Gulf of Mexico, getting maybe I
don't know about to the middle, and then just making
a sweeping right turn back over toward Florida. God bless

(57:39):
those people in Florida. They've been in the crosshairs all
season long, just all season long. Everything that's gotten into
the Gulf, with the exception of Barrel, pretty much every
one of them has made a beeline over there to
that western side of Florida. I hate that for them.
Maybe this one will fall, Maybe Sarah will fall apart

(58:00):
before it gets before it gets to land again, I hope.
So we're gonna have cooler water in the Gulf of Mexico.
There's no question. Cool water and steering winds should keep
that thing well away from us. Uh. But if you're
living in Florida, you just got to be rolling your
eyes back in your head and trying to renting. You know,
if if a lot of people in a certain in

(58:22):
some neighborhood were smart, they would chip in, they would
rent a storage facility, and they would just use and
reuse and reuse and reuse the plywood they put on
their windows. Half a dozen small businesses just say okay, uh,
borge one through fifty go on the barber shop, barge

(58:44):
fifty one through one hundred of the ones that go
on the on the mini mart, and then there's the
ones that go on the chiropractor's place. But just instead
of trying to buy that stuff every time and running
all over town trying to find plywood and just stack
it up and hang on to it, maybe even put
it up on cinder blocks, just in case the storage

(59:06):
facility has a problem. That makes sense, Melvine, So any
I'm so full of good idea really, since yeah, think
about every time every time a storm hits anywhere, there's
this mad rush for for plywood. And if you have
bought that plywood and you custom you could do it
this time of year. Buy the plywood, measure it all out,

(59:30):
custom cut it for your house. Number the pieces one, two, three, four, five,
and have a have a chart that tells you where
they all go, and then throw it in your storage unit.
Most of us have them. And if you don't have one,
you can just get a little five by ten and
probably put in enough plywood to do two or three houses.

Speaker 4 (59:49):
And don't forget to put some type of water resistant
paint on it. Is something like a water seal. Yeah,
that's not a bad idea to reuse it. And you
know you got all winter to get that done.

Speaker 3 (59:59):
Just get you a couple of sawhorses, put it out
in the backyard, or take it somewhere where you can
paint it without getting that stuff all over your house,
and seal it up. Get some of that stuff. What's
that stuff that is supposed to be so watertight you
can just make a boat out of it that spray.
Oh yeah, sort of like what is it called? I

(01:00:20):
can remember some black sc Yeah, just a glebine tar.
Just aerosol tar is what it is. I've got some
of the tape that they make, and I'm kind of
happy to have that hanging around just in case something
goes crazy. Man, the guy played golf with yesterday Alan,
Alan invited me to go down and play Magnolia Creek

(01:00:42):
and I hadn't been down there in twenty years. I'll
talk more about that in the Golf Hour because there's
a lot I can say about what's going on with
golf around Houston, and that weaves right into the story
i'll tell. But yeah, we were talking about that yesterday
and he had a bad leak in the place he lives,
and that just he's trying to get He lives in

(01:01:03):
an apartment and he's tried to get management to come
fix it and they're having a hard time, hard time
hearing him. I got a hunch they hurt him pretty
good yesterday afternoon. If there's anything still leaking, as he
was all he was all boiled up when he left
the golf course. All right, let's take this break at
the bottom. When we get back, we'll talk more about
the outdoors. I want to talk a little bit about geese.

(01:01:25):
I want to talk well, you know what wouldn't wouldn't
hurt never does. I'm gonna make a note here hunter safety,
if you have ever had an issue where you were
hunting with whom you were hunting, kind of like we
were talking about earlier. Somebody makes a mistake around me,
I'm not gonna go hunting with him again. And it's
not not an accident, not something, not something that can't

(01:01:48):
be corrected with a stern talking to, but somebody who
just has a habit of doing stuff. Uh yeah, I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna go back with him because
I'm not gonna get myself shot because of their miss
just not.

Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
We are Sports Talk seven ninety. Are you ready listen
online at sports seven ninety dot com. Now more Doug Fike.

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
Hey thirty six on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug
Pike Show. Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 9 (01:02:17):
On this.

Speaker 3 (01:02:19):
It was a little bit muggier, a little damper this
morning than yesterday. Yesterday forty nine degrees at my house
this morning about probably, I'm guessing sixty five clear, very
very palpably, very palpably warmer. It wasn't warm, but it

(01:02:43):
was warmer than the forty nine it was yesterday. It
was nice. Dan Wade in What's Up, oh Man, Happy
birthday to her turns eleven. Dan's granddaughter, Jacqueline. Happy birthday, Jacqueline.
That's kind of cool. Sent me a picture, happy young woman,
a little girl. She's still a little girl. She's just eleven.

(01:03:05):
That's a good age to be a kid too. Do
you remember being eleven? Melvin?

Speaker 4 (01:03:11):
Vaguely, but it was a good time. I remember what
I do recall.

Speaker 3 (01:03:15):
Yeah, it is a little bit just well way to
you're my age. Holy cow. The little stuff gets blurred out,
but the big things are cool. That some of the
things that I remember doing, even a little bit younger
than that. I remember riding my bicycle down the street

(01:03:35):
farther than I was supposed to by the way, I
had to go about a block farther than I was
supposed to ride my bicycle away from home. But I
was going fishing in the little ditch that ran through there,
and so I was willing to take the punishment if
I got caught. As if my mother and father didn't

(01:03:55):
know that when I left with a cane pole and
a piece of blooney that I'm oh, no, I'm just
running down to Ronnie's house. That yeah, I'm just gonna
drive down there, was showing my cane pole. I'd be
parked up under that bridge, man, a bicycle sitting up
at the tie. If I was smart, I would have
pulled my bicycle down where they couldn't find me. But

(01:04:16):
every now and then my dad would just drive by
and hank the horn. Go home. But I got one.
Go home. Your mother's worried about you. It was I
remember that. I remember catching tadpoles at the baseball fields
up where the Sharpstown and Bravern Little Leagues are. My

(01:04:37):
buddies and I after a good rain would go up
there with with jars and bring home tadpoles and grow
them into frogs and let them go in the backyard.

Speaker 6 (01:04:47):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:04:48):
It was cool. Yeah, that's early biology lessons. Of course
kids don't have that now. They just learned it all
on their phones. Everything they know they learned from their phone.

Speaker 6 (01:04:57):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:04:59):
That's frustrating when I see little kids out playing in
the mud and stuff like that, like we used to do.
That's something else. You hardly ever see a kid allowed
to get dirty. Does that make sense if you? You know,
the parents just grab them and snatch them away before
they get their feet wet, before they get their fingernails dirty.
And that's it's a great learning experience, it really is.

(01:05:21):
Let them, let them make a mess. Yeah, you know,
whatever happened to mudpie? One oh one? Oh my gosh, man,
you know. Okay, here's this will take me back to
I'll determine your age. Did you ever when you were
young you would go in and break a limb off
a tree, or find a little stick on the ground
that was pretty straight. It had to be pretty straight
and maybe two feet two feet and a half long,

(01:05:44):
and you would take mud and wrap it around the
top of the stick and then lean back and kind
of fling it. Yes, did you ever do that?

Speaker 9 (01:05:52):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:05:52):
We did that, mad and you get windows with it?
Oh gosh. Oh yeah. Now then of the house, some
get a little loose, you know, early just trying to
learn golf overhead golf is what that was, man. Yeah,
those bring back those days, bring back memories holy cow,

(01:06:13):
all right, I promise I was going to talk a
little bit about hunter safety again, and honestly, I don't
know where to start except that if you don't understand,
if you feel like you have a little bit of
an understanding of hunter safety, then just read some articles
about it. And sometimes the Internet can be very helpful.
And this is one of those instances where there's all

(01:06:35):
kinds of information about the most common causes of hunting
and fishing and gun related accidents. There is information add
nauseum on how to avoid making mistakes, on how to
carry your guns, on how to carry your fishing rods,

(01:06:55):
on how to keep from hooking people when you're cast.
All of that's out there, and if you're new to
any of this, well, welcome aboard. I'm happy to have
you as a hunter. I'm happy to have you as
a target shooter. Whatever you want to do with the
shooting sports or with fishing, whatever it is, but just

(01:07:17):
make sure you're doing it safely. And I think the
one thing that's it's even more important in shooting than
it is in fishing and boating, but it's still important
in both, is paying attention to your alcohol consumption. Okay,
that's nothing to play with. I don't cut anybody any

(01:07:38):
slack when it comes to especially hunting, And like Rick
and I were talking about, I think it was Rick
pretty sure talking about some people that I just don't
hunt with anymore because they choose and it's their choice.
May bite them on the behind one day, but it's
their choice. They choose to drink beer while they're hunting doves,

(01:08:00):
and I'm just not a big fan of that. I
don't think that I don't need a beer so badly
that I've got to do that while I've got a
gun in my hands. And it's like I've said, God
forbid anything should ever go wrong if you're out there
hunting and there's an accident and it was your firearm
that caused it. Because one of the very first questions

(01:08:22):
you're going to be asked by the game warden and
you're going to be under oath is were you had
you consumed any alcohol before this happened. And as soon
as you open that door, you've opened yourself up to
a lot of trouble, a lot of trub. It's just
not worth it. It's just not worth it. So no,

(01:08:44):
And on the fishing side, I mean, if you can
fish with a few beers in you, that's fine, but
just don't drive the boat. Have somebody on that boat
who's not drinking, who can drive you around. And if that,
if that me off your boat. If you're gonna, if
you're gonna drink beer all day while you drive the boat,

(01:09:05):
then that's fine, you be you. But I'll go fish
with somebody else and I'm probably gonna have statistically, certainly
I'll have a better chance of getting home. That's something
else that bugs me too. People drink all day on
the boat and then they go put the boat on
the trailer and drive home. And that's another issue. Boy,
that didn't take long to fill up. A few minutes,

(01:09:26):
did it. Safety Safety, Safety, Just like old Dave said earlier.
I mean, he says that a lot because we talk
about it a lot, Rick Bise. He's the same way
I'm on gun safety. And that's that's just the only way.
I really can't imagine. I shot competitively for years, for years,
and everybody I shot with because it was one of

(01:09:47):
the rules, and these shoots were drawing one hundred, one
hundred and fifty two hundred guys every time we went
and shot somewhere. There was zero alcohol consumed during the
day when everybody was out. They're doing what we were doing.
Once the guns were put away, everybody cocktails, poker games,
gen games, you name it. It was all going on.

(01:10:11):
Fine dinners. Everywhere we went there was there were people
having a couple of cocktails, a couple of glasses of wine,
but not when those guns were out. Never and anybody
who ever got caught doing that, You're out for the day.
See you later, see you tomorrow. Don't show up like
that either. All right, I gotta get to it. I
gotta get to the break. I'm a little bit late

(01:10:32):
for this one. So there's balance in the universe. I
had two on time, Melvin. That's good, isn't it. You know,
let's see, we need to play the lottery. Basically, two
above average. Your rockets and astros live here. We are
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:10:50):
The conversation continues this as The Doug Fight Show.

Speaker 3 (01:10:55):
Welcome back eight fifty on Sports Talk seven niney The
Doug Fight Show. I think we've all figured out your
theme this time, Melvin. We got it and I like it. Actually,
you're gonna be able to run it all the way
through of course, got them teed up all right. That's
you know, it's been probably if I were to judge them,

(01:11:16):
which I'm not gonna do, but if I if I
were to, I would just, off the top of my head,
probably the best, the best songs available to use as
a theme that I think we've ever done. And I
used to do this. One of my old producers many
many years ago, did this for a while, and I
don't recall any theme that he chose, having as many

(01:11:41):
good titles as what you found for light. That's good stuff. Man.
I could just I could put that all, put them all,
put all those songs on a loop, and I just
listened to them one by one. Yeah, it's good driving music.
Going back to Dave's wondering what kind of duck he
was looking at now that now I've got more information,

(01:12:03):
and somebody called him to tell him what he's probably
looking it up at up there, and and I can
see them being where he's looking at them, might just
be old fashioned coots. I hadn't when he said duck
enough times that I didn't I didn't allow the word
coot to come into my mind. But that could be

(01:12:24):
what he's looking at. And at various stages in their
lives that they can have kind of an orange just
looking bill, mostly a little bit whiter bill, but still
the very young ones actually do have kind of an
orange bill. Basically, it's a gizzard with wings, is what
it is. The gizzard and a coot Melvin is like

(01:12:45):
the size of a of a cantelope Almo. Then the
bird's not much, but it's just it's a gizzard surrounded
by feathers with wings and a beak. And that's about
what a coot is. And you know that they are huntable,
right they are, indeed. But the next coat I eat,
I'm pretty sure would be my first. I'm just not

(01:13:08):
It'd be like eating a hardhead catfish for me. You
would have to find some way to cook them that
and then not tell you what it was. And it's
like redfish, maybe like black and red fish. When Paul
Prudin came up with that, all he did was take big, old,
big giant red fish that were spawners. Unfortunately that sparked

(01:13:29):
a big problem for the red fish population, and then
just absolutely smothered him in heavy seasoning to where you
couldn't really taste the fish. You were just you were
just biting into a Tony Chatchery's sandwich. Just all that
seasoning is what flavored those things. And I don't even

(01:13:51):
want to get into what I thought about how that
what that did to the red fish population. We've talked
enough this morning. I think about hunter safety to kind
of let it go for a little while. I'll never
let it go completely. And anytime there's good just cause
to talk about hunter safety, which is all the time, really,
but you kind of guess what I'm talking about, I'll

(01:14:14):
let it go for today. Anyway, Deer season, as Rick
was talking about, off to a good start, and I've
seen pictures of some fantastic deer coming in. I got
to hunch that before tomorrow afternoon, Scott and Noll will
have inserted himself into places where he can go pop

(01:14:35):
a couple of good bucks for some clients on a
big ranch. I'd miss some of that. I used to
before my son was born, and before I was doing
radio six days a week, I was making some pretty
good trips and getting to hunt some really nice places,
and I genuinely miss that. And if the opportunity arises again,
I'll go down and sit in a blind. I like

(01:14:57):
when I get invited to ranches, because I don't want
to be the guy who from the media who comes
down and expects to shoot the biggest deer on the place.
Quite the contrary, I would rather go in and either
if there's a need to take off a couple of
what I hate to use the word coal buck, but

(01:15:18):
if if a ranch is trying to achieve a specific
goal with its bucks and there are there are bloodlines
in there that don't meet that goal, then I'll help
them with that. Or if they need to take some doze,
I'll do that. But I'm not going to go in
there and try to be try to do something that
I just I really don't want to do. I don't

(01:15:39):
want to be that guy like I was saying. And
it's it's fun for me to go to these places
and sit in blinds where nobody's sat in a long time.
You know, what do you know about what's at this
blind right here?

Speaker 6 (01:15:53):
Why?

Speaker 3 (01:15:54):
Why does it look like the little pin on it
is all dusty? Well, nobody's really hunted there, probably being
about I don't know a year. Okay, I'll go there,
let's see what's in there. Well, we have a couple
of cameras back there, but we know they one of
them works, one of them doesn't, and we're just not
really sure how it's gonna work. If you go sit

(01:16:15):
in that blind, well, that's where I want to go.
I want to go in there. I want to see
what's there for myself and just tell me what's fair game.
And if fair game steps out and something you want
taking off the ranch been bye, gosh, I'll help you out.
I love doing that. I'm kind of old school like
Rick in that there is technology available to show you

(01:16:36):
exactly what's at every stand when those deer. You get
to pattern the deer without even being there. It's not
like a camera that just shot pictures and he didn't
even know when they were being shot. All that technology
is out there. If you want to use it, and
if you do, more power to you. If you want
to live scope your fish, more power to you. It's
available and it's lawful. Why not use it. You'll increase

(01:17:01):
your efficiency, You'll increase your opportunities. And that's really what
that's a lot of what fishing and hunting are supposed
to be is opportunity. And you put the opportunity in
your own hands, and you execute the shot or you
make the cast or whatever it is, and you get
rewarded for it. And that's how it's been forever, even

(01:17:22):
long long ago, when there wasn't any of this technology,
there was still work to be done, and if you
did the work, you would get rewarded for it. All right,
we're gonna have to Yeah, you want to get grab
Brandon real quick. I can get him in a minute,
because that's all I got, And then we're gonna go
talk to Art Strickland. Go ahead and pop him up
if you want.

Speaker 9 (01:17:40):
I don't want to take it. I don't want to
take this.

Speaker 11 (01:17:42):
Oh are you there, Brendan, Sorry, I need to take
this outside.

Speaker 3 (01:17:47):
Okay, all right, we'll catch you up a little later
in the program. All right, audios, go ahead and let
that go, and we'll go ahead and go to the break,
and when we come back, we're going to talk to
Art Strickland, my buddy, my golf buddy. I played a
couple of rounds with him lately on some very nice tracks,
and he's back at one of them today or for
the final round of the Spirit International up there at

(01:18:10):
Whispering Pines. We'll get Art on the line when we
get back from this break.

Speaker 1 (01:18:15):
This is the Doug Pike Show, brought to you by
American Shooting Centers Guns Shooting at Instruction since nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
Now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (01:18:26):
All right, welcome back, Thanks for listening so far. Two
hours down, one to go, and we're going to start
this one with a guy I played a little golf
with lately. As a matter of fact, let me say, no,
I'm not going to touch that button. Melt and they're
not working. You bring him up there we go, aren't
strictly what's going on?

Speaker 9 (01:18:43):
Man?

Speaker 6 (01:18:44):
Hey, anybody that mets playing golf with me?

Speaker 3 (01:18:49):
I set it out loud too.

Speaker 6 (01:18:52):
Yeah, well, I know I was supposed to be done.
Doug just doing it, you know, it's part of the deal.
But yeah, good time.

Speaker 15 (01:18:59):
Man.

Speaker 6 (01:19:00):
You got play of Whispering Pines, which is you know,
number one courts and textaves.

Speaker 3 (01:19:04):
They got around.

Speaker 6 (01:19:05):
So what's wrong with that?

Speaker 3 (01:19:07):
Nothing, There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. We had a
good day for it too, didn't we. Holy god?

Speaker 6 (01:19:13):
You know I was talking to somebody at the Spirit
this week. This the weapons Spirit tournament they've had. I know,
they did the best weather by far, they've oh.

Speaker 3 (01:19:23):
Really a weapon.

Speaker 6 (01:19:24):
It's been spectacular.

Speaker 3 (01:19:26):
Yeah, no doubt. I got to play yesterday and it
wasn't a cloud in the sky. I just we kept
looking all around, all around that cloud in the sky. Man.
So you're up there, just outside of Trinity, and have
you heard any have you been up early enough to
hear any duck hunting or deer hunting going on in
the distance?

Speaker 6 (01:19:42):
Uh, you know, I saw a little bit. I've seen
some my deer. I saw a deer across the road.
I was okay the other day, so big horn deer
crossing the road.

Speaker 3 (01:19:54):
If he's smart, he'll stay in. Was he inside the property?

Speaker 6 (01:19:59):
Just outside? Would you take the kids of the property?

Speaker 5 (01:20:02):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:20:02):
I got on the right hand side and they crossed over,
and I'm like, wow, be careful.

Speaker 3 (01:20:06):
Well, let's let's focus on the golf part up there.
Give him this audience a mount of rundown of kind
of what the spirit is and why it's going on.

Speaker 6 (01:20:14):
Yeah. Well, it's really the most unique tournament in amateur golf,
I think, because what it is is that Corby Robertson,
who people into Houston may knows live here forever. And
you know, a businessman, forns multi millionaire, whatever, you want
to call him. He's all those things. And you know

(01:20:35):
what he does is that he owns Whispering Pans. And
they bring two men and two women from countries all
over the globe to play here. And so this year
there's twenty countries represented. Wow, all the way Korea, you know, Japan,
you know, Colombia, to America, Canada, Mexico, you know, England

(01:20:58):
and so neither two women.

Speaker 3 (01:21:00):
They are really good players too, aren't they.

Speaker 6 (01:21:03):
Yes, sir, yes, that's correct. And you know bring them,
bring them, you know, fly him into Houston, bring them
to Trinity Camp Olympia, which is adjacent to Whispery Path.
House them all there, feed them three meals a day.

Speaker 9 (01:21:18):
You know games.

Speaker 6 (01:21:19):
They had a big mugician the other night. They had
the games last night. I mean, uh, it's incredible. Or
Kirby and his staff, you know, Chris Row, the director
of Golf, is part of this. So really amazing. But
if you look at who they've had in the past,
you know guys that have played here, uh, you know

(01:21:41):
Scottie Sheffer, Mary Maham, Uh, you know Jordan Speed, how
about Loreno Choah, you know World Golf Hall of Fame
seven major championship winners have all played at Whispering Find
the spirit from Danny will Witt, you know Masterchief, Charles
Cotsall to a Mark Climbers play here. So just an incredible, uh,

(01:22:04):
incredible line up of players U and you know Corby
and his team puts it all and then pays for
it all.

Speaker 3 (01:22:13):
Yeah, that's incredible, incredible.

Speaker 6 (01:22:14):
Commitment to amateur golf. Everything is first class, uh. Food,
the golf course and Chant Williams, who I know has
been on your show. Sure you know, designed Whispering pens
and you know, spectacular. So just an incredible event, incredible event.
And you know what, Thank Chris Rowe told me the
other day, Thanky said that if every country in the

(01:22:37):
world did this, if they came together for a week
eight together, bump together. Yeah, you know, play golfing all
the time together, this world being a heck of a
lot better spun poor, wouldn't you get to know them
and you can have fun with them? You realized they're
not bad people up for all.

Speaker 3 (01:22:55):
So back to the back to the golf side. What's
going on up there the competition? I didn't see the
US of a very high up the board. What's going
on there. We got a good team, Well, yeah we did.

Speaker 6 (01:23:07):
Tommy Morrison, you know you're Texas bar and coach Field's
out here with his wife yesterday rode around with Tommy
and everything. But yeah, England blitzed the field.

Speaker 8 (01:23:18):
What end.

Speaker 6 (01:23:18):
It's a football tournament, so uh, it's not you're not
playing your own ball or you're not playing your own ball,
but you're just keeping one score for the for the
two teams. And so uh yesterday England where you know,
like I said, Danny, well it's played on. That English
team had a lot of great players. You know, they

(01:23:40):
had nine birdies and one eagle, so that that so
England's got a six shot wed Wow the final day,
like I said, four ball, Uh best scorer of the
up to two and so United States and Tommy Morrison's
on there and you know, uh, yours or your kids there,

(01:24:01):
so you know they are at ninth place. But you
know this kind of event, every everybody's bunched up pretty good.
So you know, oh yeahtter of what could happen and
what could happen. But the American captain was it is
the first American captain, Doug that is actually play here
Nathan Smith.

Speaker 3 (01:24:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:24:20):
Wow, in the spirit with Kelly Craft and the Pghir guy.

Speaker 3 (01:24:25):
I was up there the year Kelly was there. Yeah,
it was it was fun because he was staying in
the same house I was in.

Speaker 6 (01:24:32):
Yeah, and Nasus Vincent's was on that team and so
he's now the captain and he's going to captain the
or the Walker Cup team next year at Cyprusport. So uh,
but I just you know, a great golf you know,
the American women. Astrakt Terry is a fifteen year old

(01:24:54):
sophomore made me feel really old when I.

Speaker 3 (01:24:57):
Talked Surely cow Man.

Speaker 6 (01:25:00):
She had braces and she had the rubber bands on
the braces. Oh yeah, when I did that one hundred
years ago. But uh, you know, fifteen year old. She
is the youngest American woman ever to play on the team.
She is only the only person in golf history to
be in three USGA Amateur events and championship events in

(01:25:21):
one year.

Speaker 9 (01:25:22):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (01:25:22):
So at a second in the US Amateur and uh,
you know mid am and everything. So e strict cherries
here and I think the American women are fourth, so
they're they're a little bit closer to the top. But uh,
you know, as I asked her, I said, what, what
do you you know? Only Brooke Henderson and Lexi Thompson,

(01:25:44):
obviously to you, LP Church, well the only two other
high school players ever to play in the Spirit for
the American Fat And she said, well, that motivates me
because I want to do what they did and I
want to do a good job for America. I said,
are you starting to look at college? And she goes, well,
I'm looking a lot harder than I used to, but

(01:26:05):
college is still my goal.

Speaker 3 (01:26:07):
You know what, I don't know how much she's looking
at colleges, how much college is looking at her.

Speaker 6 (01:26:14):
Yeah, that may be so, but you know, the biggest
mistake and you know this is kind of all target,
but the biggest or that you can make. Miles Russell,
who is a sixteen year old American kid, point in
Permuter this week, you know, said well, you know, my
dad said, Dot where we need to go to college?

Speaker 9 (01:26:31):
And you know, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:26:32):
I'm thinking about any college kid, no matter how good
you are, needs to go to college experience some of
that have a little fun, have a little how well
we'll go thing go to the plus because you know
what the prose for Asterric Kerry or Miles Russell or
whoever it is is going up there. It's always going
to be there and the money's always going to be Yeah. Yeah,

(01:26:55):
go to college, have some fun tway some golf experience
when you're going to be with the rest of your life.
And you know what, Tiger Woods guy, he went to college,
didn't let the fit's career going to Stanford.

Speaker 3 (01:27:09):
Okay, turned out our right for Woods, it turned out okay.

Speaker 6 (01:27:13):
I mean, and if you're really good, then you're really
good at every level.

Speaker 3 (01:27:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:27:18):
True. So you know Miles Russell or this aster Terry,
you know, it's really good at the amateur level. You know,
I said, made the finals US Amateur at fourteen last
year and you know, made a mini and everything. Well,
she said, good, Then she'll be that good in college.

Speaker 12 (01:27:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:27:34):
And you know, if there is some flaw in their game,
it'll be exposed in college and they can fix it
then when it's not costing the money.

Speaker 6 (01:27:42):
Well, and I said, what do you hope to get
out of this week? Ask? Because great week and great course.
She had never been to Trinity obviously, and never been
to any of the play that I don't even know
if she'd been to Texas much, but she said, this
is the off season for us. She goes to the
high school and yeah, that's good. Point, Yeah, this is

(01:28:03):
the all season for us, and I want to see
what I need to do to get my game better.
That's what I want to see. And so you know,
that's that's good. You got to get better, and you
got and you play every level you're better. But if
you're really good like Scotti Scheffer won a gold medal
here at the Spirit, you know, uh, you know all

(01:28:26):
the winner Chow won three gold medals, the women's and
the team and the individual and now she's in the
world golf all things. If you're good at this level, well,
you know what, you'll be good at the next level.

Speaker 3 (01:28:38):
The Spirit has has made so many people better than
they were when they teed it up for the first
hole at the Spirit.

Speaker 6 (01:28:45):
Huh, well, I think so, and you know, and I
think that the fact that you realize what has been
done at the Spirit, you realize, say, point, it's important
than that is. Man, that's one of the great things
about golf. Doug. I think we talked to this before.
You're playing the same course as your hero's play you're
playing the same course and things, and so you know, uh,

(01:29:09):
Tommy Morrison's playing the University of Texas kid playing the
exact same course, exact same tournament, the University of Texas kid.
Jordan'st play, the University of Texas kid, Scottie Scheffer play
and he's so Tommy can measure himself. It's what Scotty did,
Here's what Jordan did, and here's what I can do.
And here's why I need to get better because he'll

(01:29:31):
be back at Texas this year and you're hooking them,
you know, for the spring semester. So you know, it's just, uh,
it's great the fact that they're here. And I just
love people that have a commitment. And you know, I
mean you probably know him better than me, But Corby
Robinson doesn't have to do this. He's doing fir if
he never did this, But this is his commitment to

(01:29:54):
Amad Goff to put this on, do a good job.
And you know, I mean so uh, you know, props
to him, Props to you know, Chris thrown all those
guys that work and put this on. And Chris is like,
you know, because uh, Westman Pins has the largest membership,
prop you be really good. What a great members Rob

(01:30:16):
Eddington former captain here. He said, Man, I wish we
could gets this kind of weather for member guests because
when we have a member guest here and it's uh,
you know, it's forty degrees and raining, there is nowhere
to go. You were out here, yeah, buddy, and there's
nothing to do.

Speaker 3 (01:30:35):
He said, yeah, I know where to hide from.

Speaker 6 (01:30:38):
Weather and use it for a member guests. Man, I'd
be the greatest pro of all time.

Speaker 9 (01:30:42):
Amen.

Speaker 3 (01:30:43):
Well, we're gonna have to run art. I'm out of time, unfortunately. Man,
you take care of it up there and tell Corby
and Chris, I said, hello, will you. I'm so graciously appreciate,
greatly appreciate all their hospitality over the years.

Speaker 6 (01:30:58):
Well, it's a great event. I would encourage, you know, spectators,
welcome out him. So I would encourage anyone that's listening
or anyone that webs golf, webs him your golf, come
out here, watch this, you know, catch the spirit is
Corby there you go, all right?

Speaker 3 (01:31:15):
Man?

Speaker 6 (01:31:15):
So, like I said, it's a great event, a great time.
And you know also they went media tizes like you
and me play here every now and then every now
and then.

Speaker 3 (01:31:26):
Oh that's yeah, that's one. As soon as I get
the dates on that, I just I just put it
in sharpie in my calendar, so nothing else touches it.
All right, I gotta run, Art, I hate to do it. Man,
tell everybody hello for me, Will you tell tell Will
I said hello as well, right, but it's the Spirit. Oh,
I've got it man, all right, thanks Art Audio. Yeah, okay, boy,

(01:31:48):
all right, we got to take a little break here
on the way out. If you're driving up to the
Spirit on a day like today, it be a beautiful
day to go up there and watch those young people
play golf. It's a little bit of a drive, but
if you want to make a day of it, doesn't
cost you anything to get in and watch some of
the best future golfers, future professional golfers working their way

(01:32:09):
around a track. That's I want to say. The count
of Art mentioned, I think eight Masters or eight Majors
winners coming out of the Spirit, but the actual number
of tournaments won by Spirit participants is in the hundreds.
Professional golf tournaments won by them in the hundreds. These
are good players.

Speaker 1 (01:32:29):
We are sports Stock seven nineties Houston Sports where you
go with iHeartRadio Now Now Get More Doug nine.

Speaker 3 (01:32:39):
Twenty three on Sports Talk seven to ninety The Doug
Pike Show. Melvin thinks that song is gonna be in
my head all day. No it won't. I guarantee by
any time it tries to creep in, I'm just gonna
fire up, blinded by the light in my head. And
that's good. Comes all that problem. That'll take that. That's

(01:33:00):
just an anchor man. That would slow down a fighter jet.
Just put that on. Just just just roll over and crash. Yeah,
that's kind of that. One's too slow and too soft.
I think, not my favorite. Let's get Jeff on the
phone here. I know who that is. Kick him in.

(01:33:22):
This goes straight to him when I when I see people,
I recognize. I'm ready to go push.

Speaker 9 (01:33:28):
Is he there?

Speaker 3 (01:33:29):
You there, Jeff? Now he is, go ahead, I got you?
Uh oh no, I don't. Now there we go, Melvin,
come on, man, get him in. He's on. He's on, Okay,
go hold on, let me let me put him on.
Oh boy, difficult. He dropped off. What is going on?

Speaker 6 (01:33:47):
Man? Well?

Speaker 3 (01:33:48):
Why why he called him back? I'll tell you that
round I got to play yesterday. It was so fun
because I hadn't played this course down the League City,
but just barely a stone's throw from Timber Creek. Really,
if you were, if you were super gung, you could
probably play both in the same day, both of which,
by the way, have twenty seven holes. And I got
to I played with with Alan and you've heard me

(01:34:09):
read his emails, and we had a great fun going
around that course. I got to meet the GM there,
Steve McCrae, and visited with him for a couple of
minutes after we played too. He and Allan play hockey together,
which is something you'll never see me on the hockey ice,
I can assure you, And if you did within short order,

(01:34:29):
i'd either be in a splint or something or break
a hip. But that's beside the point I got. It
was probably the first time in twenty years really i'd
played down there. Everything I remembered about it really just
exactly the way it was left. Of course, it's in
great shape all the time. It's a links layout, a

(01:34:53):
true links layout. I don't remember even having to deal
with anything that remotely looked like a tree. There's a
lot of native areas out there that'll bite you if
you get in them. Before yesterday, Alan kept mentioning to
me too that he hadn't played golf at owe. Man,
I hadn't played any years, Doug, I don't know. It
probably wouldn't be fun for you to play with me.

(01:35:14):
But the more we played and the more he shared
about how he'd been raised in a golfing family. Dad
was a great instructor. He'd actually been an instructor for
a while too. Probably a good thing that I didn't
ask him if he wanted to bet a little money
on that round, because he's got way more game than
he's letting on. There's a little rust in his swing,

(01:35:36):
I could see it, but he had a lot of
good shots, and he drives the ball straight too, which
is something that just drives me crazy. Definitely a good
player hiding behind that you haven't been playing much. Yeah,
it wouldn't take long to polish him up. I guarantee
you if he gets chance, if he has the time

(01:35:57):
to get out and practice, the time to get out
and play a few more rounds, he can go. He
can go for sure. By the way, the greens at
mad Creek excellent, which I always appreciate on a golf course.
Houston has just it's got so many, so many quality
golf courses. Really, we're truly blessed in that regard. I

(01:36:17):
do wish Memorial hadn't jacked up the rates on people
who don't live in Houston proper. I haven't been back
there in a while, partly because of that. I think
it was a great part. It's an attempt at minimizing
the number of rounds between Houston opens at this point
and that now that it's the host of that tournament.

(01:36:38):
But from what I hear, it's still as busy as ever.
It's hard to get tea times at that place. It
wasn't hard for us to get on a twenty seven
whole course. And you got mad Creek and Timber Creek
both sitting right down there. Literally, well it'd be a
pretty good stones throw, but just a little bit of
time between them. And that's man, that's a lot of
golf holes sitting down there that are totally different places too.

(01:37:03):
That's what I love about golf around here. You can
walk yourself into a true Links style course. You can
walk yourself into really tight fair ways and small greens.
On a lot of courses around here. You can walk
yourself into really good. There are probably two dozen, maybe
three dozen premium premium daily fee courses in this area,

(01:37:29):
and that's unusual. We're pretty lucky to live where we
live when it comes to golf. You know, the courses
I play the most, and the courses I like, I
talk about them, and I talk about them sincerely because
I've known them for many, many years and played a
lot of tournaments at both of them, played on my
own ball, played a bunch up at black Hawk too,

(01:37:50):
on my own ball. That was my go to when
I would go out to black Horp. When I was
going to black Hawk and get out there because I
don't get the member emails I get secondary well, I
get my stuff from Golf Club of Houston. So I'd
go out there to play on Mondays with my old
buddies and there'd be a tournament going on. Like dad,

(01:38:11):
gum it. I didn't get that message, and so I
just shoot up the black Horse and go make three
new friends. I talk about doing that when I talk
about going and playing golf at some of these places
around here. If you're just bored one afternoon, well not
in much afternoons anymore, now that it gets dark at
two in the afternoon. But a morning, a Saturday Sunday morning,

(01:38:32):
you got nothing to do, all your chores are done.
Throw your clubs in and go to one of these
courses around here and go make three new friends. They'll
get you out. There's a lot of golf to be
played in this city. I'm very fortunate in that between
the time I was at the newspaper and the time
I've been here, I have played golf at least once
at more than one hundred of the golf courses in

(01:38:54):
this area. And a lot of the ones I played
back when I was at the paper have come and gone.
They've been shut down, quite a few of them, actually,
But the ones that are left are still, by and
large pretty good, and some of them are better than others.
But they're all legitimate options for a big community of
people who love to play golf and love to fish

(01:39:15):
and love to hunt. And the golf courses are somewhat
similar to the fishing waters around here, and that a
lot of golfers are off deer hunting on the weekends now,
so it's a little bit easier to get a tea time,
even not a bad thing to do on the way
out to this break.

Speaker 1 (01:39:34):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety on the go with
iHeartRadio Friends.

Speaker 6 (01:39:39):
You've got to try.

Speaker 1 (01:39:39):
The conversation continues this as The Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 3 (01:39:44):
Welcome back to nine thirty five on Sports CALLT seven
ninety The Dougpike Show. Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (01:39:50):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:39:51):
I got some kind of a pop up notification from
Life three sixty. But I don't know what it is.
I don't know where it is, I don't know why
it is. You know, probably my son riding around going
to get breakfast with some of his buddies. They camped
out at one of their buddies houses last night up
in West you and maybe it's maybe it's them on

(01:40:14):
the move. That's a nice little app boy, if you
if you have teenagers, especially teenagers who drive, and you
want to keep track of them, that's a great app
Life for you sixty is can you kick him in
for me? Can you make that happen? Melvin swing batter
batter Jeff you there?

Speaker 15 (01:40:37):
Thanks?

Speaker 3 (01:40:38):
Yes, here we are. Yay what you got mann?

Speaker 8 (01:40:41):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 6 (01:40:42):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:40:43):
I hear you?

Speaker 6 (01:40:43):
Great?

Speaker 15 (01:40:45):
All I had? If the theme is what I think
it is for the music, I would would request to
Step into the Fire by Nielsen, which was used in
Goodfellows to a great effect. Even if you don't recognize
the title, you'll know you'll know this song immediately.

Speaker 3 (01:41:01):
All right, well, Melbourne's listen. We'll see what happens. We
will see what happens.

Speaker 15 (01:41:07):
I've I've only been able to listen interventently. I'll ask
you how you're doing, and thank you for everything else,
and I'll try to listen a little bit closer tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:41:16):
Oh no, no problem at all, man. You don't have to.
You don't never have to. You never have to apologize
for not listening to every single minute of any of
these shows. Man, I know life goes on outside of here.
I'm just trying to get you where you're going, That's all.

Speaker 8 (01:41:31):
Well, let me I keep adding things, what do you think?

Speaker 9 (01:41:33):
So what the weather's going to be?

Speaker 15 (01:41:34):
And I'm enjoying the hell out of what we're having already.
So I just hope that I know we're getting rain,
but I hope this continues.

Speaker 3 (01:41:39):
Well, we're supposed to get rain Monday and two or
to see today is Saturday, Sunday and Monday. And then
I was looking at it earlier, and hold on, I
can get to it very quickly here. I just got
to scroll down a little bit and tap it. And
I think you will be pleasantly surprised to know that
come Tuesday we start cooling off pretty good. Tuesday is

(01:42:04):
going to be clear. Seventy four for a high, fifty
five for a low. Wednesday sixty four for a high,
forty four for a low. Thursday sixty two for a high,
and forty six for a low. So it's a pretty
big dump once this front comes through. Sunday and Monday
sixty and ninety percent chances of rain. So and you

(01:42:27):
know what that. I mean, sixty percent chance of rain,
forty percent chances are dry. They have to cover themselves,
and that's fine, I get it.

Speaker 15 (01:42:33):
But that Wednesday it's changing and maybe we're going to
get some football weather at least for a few days.

Speaker 3 (01:42:39):
Yeah, we'll get them through Thursday anyway, and then well,
Friday's not bad. Actually, sixty five and fifty three, which
is which is about kind of what we had yesterday.
It heated up a little bit more than that. It
was probably seventy five when I hit my t shirt
off the eighteenth tee yesterday. But in the morning, right
as I was leaving Sugarland, I asked Alexa what the
temperature was, and it was forty in Sugarland, so it

(01:43:02):
was a little brisk.

Speaker 6 (01:43:04):
Oh good, all right, I'll let you I'll let you go.

Speaker 15 (01:43:06):
We appreciate the weather, the accurate weather, and I will
tune in tomorrow. Thanks again for your work, absolutely, thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:43:13):
Yeah, thanks, Jef. I appreciate you listening, man, I really do. Yeah,
that's the boy. Don't ever feel don't ever apologize for
not listening or missing something in the show. I'm happy
to repeat something I said earlier or not or whatever.
But yeah, it's I certainly understand. When I'm listening to
the radio, I'm kind of the same way. I'll punch

(01:43:34):
around every now and then, somebody's talking about something that
grabs my attention, I'll listen, and if they're not, I'll
move on. It's gonna be interesting to see how, speaking
of to see how radio listening gets gets counted coming
up there, changing the rules of engagement essentially to where

(01:43:54):
currently somebody has to be listening for fifteen minutes for
us to get a little tick. You're aware of that, right, Melvin. No,
that's something new. I mean, you know, they got they
gotta do fifteen minutes, They got to stick around for
fifteen Well, they're gonna change that because we are, after all,
living in the age of instant gratification. That is true,
and I think they're dropping it down to only like
maybe five minutes or three minutes to get counted as

(01:44:17):
as a listener, which I think is gonna be really
good actually for radio in general. I think you'll find
that there are a lot more people out there listening
based on just based on conversations I have with people
in even and every now and then, and it's not
that I'm some big important figure, but just in my
little piece of the radio world, every now and then,

(01:44:39):
I'll be talking to somebody, talking to a cash here
or whatever, and somebody will say, hey, aren't you that
guy on the radio? And I said, no, I'm not
Michael Berry. Not okay, right, But you know, then they
know who it is and they and I greatly appreciate that.
If you ever see me, or you ever actually hear

(01:45:00):
me somewhere, don't be shy. Just say hey, man, hey,
and introduce yourself. I'd love to meet you. I really would.
I enjoyed genjoying knowing who's out there listening tells me
more about what I want to put in the show.
By the way, I want to go back to the
Saint Jude Tournament. December ninth is when it is. It's
not that far away anymore. All of a sudden, it's

(01:45:21):
just right around the corner. And on December ninth, we
are going to do our level best to raise close
to a half a million dollars just in that one
day at that one tournament. And I feel like, honestly,
I feel like after the election, there's a lot of
you guys who may have been on the fence about
trying to play, about trying to buy a team or
do a sponsorship or something. If your mind has changed

(01:45:43):
now and you're interested in being a part of this tournament,
know that I'm kind of steering the ship, and I
would be happy to explain to you. Just shoot me
an email or call me here at work. Well it's
hard to call me at work. Shoot me an em
Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com, and I'll explain what sponsorships

(01:46:05):
we still have left. We have a few teams left,
not a lot We're going to fill up both courses
at Golf Club of Houston as we always have. We've
got ten years under our belt. Now we're going for
eleven and going to We're going to try and do
it all the better again this year and keep making
money to help these kids who are sick and just
at no fault of their own. And it's fantastic the

(01:46:30):
story behind Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital over there in Memphis.
I got to tour that place a few years ago,
and that trip literally changed my life. It just I
had no idea how magical that place is. There's not
even a patient billing department in the hospital. There's no
place that anybody who's a patient or a family member

(01:46:53):
of a patient could pay a bill for anything, not
for food, not for housing, not for transportation to and
from the hospital. And the kids are in the hospital
if they got a toothache, if they're in the hospital
being treated for cancer, if they have a toothache, the
hospital pays to get them to a local dentist in Memphis.
It's just remarkable. And the cure rate for pediatric cancer

(01:47:16):
since that place opened has has really really gone up,
really gone up. It's just amazing the work they do
over there, and they share all the research they do
with the whole world. So anyway, it is absolutely Danny
Timas started it. And there's a great story behind that too.
He was way ahead of his time in Memphis and

(01:47:37):
changed the way all of Memphis felt and thought about
people when he built that hospital. There's a great story
behind that too. At some point I may share that
with this audience. Takes a little time to tell about
how he started that hospital, but it might be worth
hearing sometime between now and that golf tournament. Again if
you want to, If you want any information at all

(01:47:58):
on the tournament, just email me and I'll send you
back everything we've got left. Sponsorship wise, they are just
a few things, really, but they're good. They're solid sponsorship.
So get your company name out there if that's what
you want to do, or you can just do it
in honor of somebody. That's a lot of these sponsors
I get for this week in US Military history, my

(01:48:19):
little sixty second deals I do a lot of those
come from people who just want to thank the military.
They don't even care about promoting a business. And if
you'll listen to these, they really don't promote the business.
I'd certainly acknowledge who's sponsoring, but they've opted to share
this appreciation for our military rather than do a full

(01:48:42):
commercial just about their own companies. And I think the
fact that they support this effort is reason enough to
consider them if you're needing something like that done. Whatever
they do, all right, well, good heavens. I got to
take a break. I'm just yapping and yapping and yapping.

Speaker 7 (01:48:58):
This is Sports Talk seven online at Sports seven ninety
dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:49:03):
Now more Doug Fight.

Speaker 3 (01:49:07):
What was that three an hour? We had nine good
light songs? Is that right?

Speaker 6 (01:49:13):
Rock saying?

Speaker 3 (01:49:14):
Is the red light? Oh? It's a stop light? Yeah?
Kind of man that There's some weird stuff goes on
in the world, isn't there, Melmane, Tell me about it?
Holy cow? Well I can. I haven't really, I haven't
involved myself in any of that over the years, but boy,

(01:49:36):
I've watched enough episodes of Cops when they do those
undercover sting operations. Yeah, holy cow. Yeah, these guys just begging,
please don't take me in for this, and my wife
will kill me. Well, you shouldn't have done what you're doing.
Should wat about that long?

Speaker 12 (01:49:52):
Time.

Speaker 3 (01:49:52):
I should have thought about that that afternoon when you
took a left instead of a right, because right takes
you home and left takes it a bad direction. Holy cow, Oh,
there's a left handed guy on now he's goofy oh. No,
this guy is not a golfer. I don't know what
show I'm watching here, but I know this. This guy's

(01:50:16):
no golfer. There's no way he's left handed.

Speaker 6 (01:50:18):
Though.

Speaker 3 (01:50:19):
I'll give him credit for that. Some of the most
some of the best golfers in my family are left handed.
I'm the only one, so there you go. My son
he does everything he throws left handed, but he he
hits and plays golf right handed, which is has been
eminently more helpful than anything else for me because buying

(01:50:42):
left handed clubs you can get starter sets. Now that
the beauty of technology is that when they're when they're
making the computer models for the right handed clubs, and
that's what they start with when they're trying to work
out their their templates and whatnot and run the tests

(01:51:03):
on all these things. It's all done with computers now
until they're very far down the way, and all they
have to do is flip the thing. One hundred and
eighty degrees and they can turn a left handed club,
the machining for the left handed club gets turned into
a right handed club, and vice versa. So it's not
that hard for these manufacturers to make the opposite handed stuff,

(01:51:28):
except that they have to they have to make the
tooling for it, and then it just becomes a matter
of whether they want to offer it in a left
handed for everybody in the world, and apparently there are
enough left handers playing golf now that it works out
because pretty much everything you can get righty, you can
get lefty as well. You ready for that one, Melvin

(01:51:50):
or No? I have no idea? Oh yeah, real quick?
Who is it, Todd? You got a minute, Todd, you
got a minute? Ready to go?

Speaker 6 (01:52:03):
Okay?

Speaker 16 (01:52:04):
Well, and three weekends wely had one good day at
duck hunting out in Chesterville and Huhwood, which is basically
either side Eagle Lake. I was just wondering what reports
you've heard, because I'm not hearing much good from duck
hunting population.

Speaker 3 (01:52:18):
You know, that's one of the reasons. Yeah, I'm gonna
call I'm gonna call Mitchell this afternoon and talk to
him about it. Down there at El Campo. He was
having a pretty good hunt this morning. But he's also
got some some pretty good spots he really does that
are traditional spots that kick off early. And so I'm
gonna find out what he's thinking about the next few weeks.
There's a couple of reasons I need to know. Overall.

(01:52:42):
I think you're not You're not the odd man out
because it's still You got to remember we're still in November,
and when when I was waterfowl guiding, the best part
of the season was about from maybe Thanksgiving through Christmas
or maybe through New Year, somewhere in there. Meat of
it was right in the middle. Things get kind of

(01:53:03):
thin toward the ends. Uh, And we still haven't had
that much cold weather. Let this next front that's gonna
come down Wednesday or Thursday, pop through and see if
you don't start seeing more duck. Do you usually do
well at your spot where you are?

Speaker 5 (01:53:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (01:53:17):
Yeah, I've got forty acres of water in Garwood, oh Man,
thirty acres of water in Chesterville.

Speaker 3 (01:53:23):
Holy cow, it's just Dad's.

Speaker 16 (01:53:25):
There's some outfitters around me too. Yeah, I hear a
little more shooting we had. We've had slightly better luck
in Garwood.

Speaker 3 (01:53:34):
Okay, I'll just call it back. Yeah, give a holler tomorrow.
Let's explore that a little bit. I'm kind of curious
to see what you are seeing down there overall, because
that's a pretty good, pretty good area, pretty good barometer
for the rest of the prairie.

Speaker 16 (01:53:47):
Just south of those sandfits in Garwoods.

Speaker 3 (01:53:49):
Well oh yeah, okay, yeah, all right, Well, thank you, Todd.
I got a run, man. I hate to do it
to you. Yep, all right, audios, all right, we got
to take you out of here. I'll be back tomorrow
morning at eight, hopefully Todd will call back. I want
to I want to deep dive a little bit more
into where he's hunting and what that water looks like,
because a lot forty acres of water is great, but

(01:54:10):
it just needs to be a little bit. There's ways
that's gonna be better in ways not for ducks. He
sounds like a duck hunter to me. We'll talk to
him again tomorrow. I think he knows what he's doing.
That's it for today. Be safe outside, okay, Audios.