Father's Day Episode

On this episode, Doug talks about reaching out to your fathers, the PGA's, and much more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let me grab that microphone, get it on over here.
Welcome to Father's Day, everybody. I've already gotten a couple
of emails from old friends, good friends, new friends in celebration,
and I'll issue the entire celebratory Happy Father's Day to
you as well, all of all of you who qualify.

(00:23):
And if you don't qualify and you wish you had,
maybe your day will come. If it won't, figure out
a way to maybe think back to your childhood, if
it was a good one. Not everybody's childhoods are good.
Not everybody's fathers are great, but I think that if

(00:43):
you look there, there's good in all of them.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
At some point.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
My dad wasn't he wasn't an angel, he wasn't a
choir boy. But when I look back, he took me
fishing almost And by the way, Father's Day stories welcome here.
All the way through the show, we're going to talk
about the US Open, We're going to talk about trout fishing,
We're going to talk about redfish and pretty much anything golf,

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anything else you want to talk about.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
But Father's Day is a day that.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Stories about dear old Dad are certainly going to be
welcome and back to mine. My dad really, he wasn't
an outdoorsman. He wasn't an outdoorsman. But almost every weekend
when I was a kid, we'd leave the house in
Sharpstown and head out ninety toward Richmond and Rosenberg, and

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we end up stopping at this little baitstand that was
on ninety in Stafford.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
It was there for a very long time too.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
I went back to it as an adult in the
years close to when it was going to close, and
if I'm not mistaken, I think I wrote a column
about that place and about the smells and the sights.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
I can still see it in my mind.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
I was four, five, six years old, maybe three the
first time we went in there, because that's about that's
about when I caught my first fish, and I can
visualize that place still.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
It's the whole layout of it is etched in my head.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
You'd walk in there and there'd be a little bit
of tackle underneath the register and around some shelves around
and on peg board around the walls, and there were
night crawlers you could get, and there were minnow tanks
where you could kind of small, medium, large, and if
you were really rich, you'd get goldfish live goldfish for bait,

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all kinds of stuff in there, and that smell of that,
the water, the bubbling of the air raider and all
that stuff just as is as fresh in my mind
as if it were yesterday, And off we'd go to
little ox bows and a couple of little lakes he'd
found where we had access. There was no Internet to
tell him where to go fish. It was just word

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of mouth, and I'm sure he was getting his information
from the guy who ran the store. And we ended
up catching little fish as little kids should catch growing up, and.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
I had an absolute blast.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
I didn't realize back then that my dad wasn't really
into fishing like I was either, And I'm so thankful
now that he chose me over himself on all those weekends,
so many of them, he would rather have sat in
the den and watched a baseball game on TV or
maybe whatever early programs were on in the only air

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conditioned room in our little house, by the way, a
little window unit in the den, and that was it. Otherwise,
if back in the other end of the house you
wanted a breeze, you had to open the window, and
if it was hot outside, you just opened the window
A little wider and maybe.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Turn on a fan for a little while.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Instead of that, he chose to take me fishing, and
that's just one of the sacrifices he made for me.
He and my mom came to nearly every one of
my baseball games, and there were a lot of It
wasn't like now where baseball has played year round, And boy,
I saw something that made so much sense yesterday. There
was a guy kind of laying it out there about

(04:12):
travel sports and select sports and all of that where
one one time you'll hear somebody say, play different sports
year round to develop fully, and then somebody else is
going to tell you, well, we play our sport year round.
I don't care if it's soccer, if it's baseball, if

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it's softball, if it's volleyball, if it's dance, cheerleading, all
of that stuff. Well rounded athletes tend to play a
lot of different sports, especially.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
When they're young.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
But the people who run those sports and run the
travel empires will tell you that, oh yeah, play year
round if you play.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
With us, and that's a.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
Sideball for later. I don't want to get distracted from
Father's day, because mine, for all his troubles and he
had them for all his troubles.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
He took care of me pretty well.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
And I remember just piloting the car and with such anticipation,
didn't have to stop and buckle of seat belt either.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
They weren't invented back then. They weren't even around.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Vacations to Florida, I'd crawl up in the back window
and just lay there for one hundred two hundred miles.
Off to our grandparents' house, whereas my mom's parents lived
in Pompino Beach. That's where my grandfather and grandmother retired
to after he left at and T after being one
of their lead engineer guys. Instead of finally getting to

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sleep late my dad, my dad woke up almost every
morning at four point thirty to go to work Monday
through Friday. Four thirty in the morning, he's up, He's
got a little pot of coffee going. He's fixing himself
some eggs and bacon. I remember smelling him in the house.
And then we go on vacation. He drives us for

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two days to South Florida, and when he gets there, Hey, Dad,
I'm tugging at his pant leg already, Dad, tomorrow morning, Yeah,
up and early. We got to be on the pier
right at sunrise, and he did that for me. I
don't know how many summers we went down there. I
probably didn't realize fully what my mom and dad had
given up for my sister and me until I became

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a parent. And now I'm doing the same thing for
my son. I did it from the time he was little.
He wanted to go somewhere we were going, and I
think he's well rounded.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
He hasn't picked well.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
He's picked baseball as the sport he wants to play most,
and he's devoting himself to that. But he'll still go
fishing every now and then, still play a little golf
and messed up knees took him out of tennis.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
He liked that. But it's fun watching him grow up.
It really is. On a lighter note about my dad
not being an outdoorsman, I'll share a well, i'll share
it once more.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
I've told it before, but it's really a kind of
a telling story about who he was and how little
really he knew about the outdoors. He for as little
as he was a fisherman on fishing scale, on the
fishing scale, and no pun intended. I'm kind of a
ten for interest and like from there, Hang on a minute,

(07:27):
I've got to get something up here. I don't know
where it went.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
I got to get this screen back up here so
I can see what's going on there we go.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Oh good, heavens, let me go talk to Victor. I'll
get to my own story later on. I didn't realize
he was up there. The screen went black on me. Victor,
what's going on, my friend?

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Hey, good morning, Happy Father's Day.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Happy Father's Day to you two.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
I met you. I guess about maybe, and it's probably
about fifteen years ago over on the Gallaston Fishing Pier.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah, when we were about twenty five, I think, huh.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
Right, I'm sixty now. Oh man, it was a long
time ago.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
I was riding a ten speed bicycle when you were born. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
No, it's just gotten so expensive to fish there on
that pier because they're not selling the passes anymore.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Oh really, I did not know that.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
Yeah, because before I just moved to Galveston about years ago.
I was originally from Southwest Houston, moved out here, and
before I used to be able to get a pass
for three hundred bucks for the whole year.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, cool, yeah, because.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
Sometimes you know, you only half an hour or two
to fish. Sure, and so now kind of like looking
for other places.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
What does it cost to get on the pier now? Eighteens?
Oh my god, it's like a dollar when I started going, wow.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
Plus plus you have to pay for the parking also,
oh that's right, yeah, yeah, it's between ten and six.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:54):
But anyway, so I'm kind of excited because I hear
they're building a peer over on the Bottleber side.

Speaker 5 (09:02):
They are.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
It's kind of a consolation prize for taking away the
pass over there at Rollover and a pier is not
a pass but it's better than nothing. And I still
I don't know how much progress it's been made on
it yet. I don't know when it's going to open,
but at least it will be an option, and I

(09:23):
hope a lot of people, I know a lot of
people will go to it, especially when it's brand new
and shiny and the fish finally find it and all
of that good stuff, And hopefully that might convince the
guy at ninetieth Street to maybe bring the rate down
a little bit when everybody's going the other way.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
Yeah, yeah, that's true. You know, I guess it's not
going to be a free pier.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
I don't know, not a chance, I doubt I doubt it.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
I don't know how they could operate it unless it
was operated with tax money, which that also wouldn't bother me.
There are some states around the Gulf and up the
East Coast that have municips piers that are paid for
with tax dollars, and that wouldn't be bad.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah. Sorry, Yeah, over at the Seawolf Park.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
If you're a resident, and if you can show them
on your license that you are a Galvestonian, yeah, uh,
they'll show you the past for twenty bucks for the
whole year.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Oh yeah, See, that's how it should be. And I
liked that ninetieth Street pier and the man.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
The next fish I caught off that thing wouldn't be
but probably the millionth one I was. I was a
peer at I would spend the night on that pier.
Some buddies of mine and I would we'd stay. We'd
get there in the afternoon and stay all night and
just to get a little you know, sleep an hour here,
an hour there, if nothing was going on, bring toothbrush
and toothpaste and all that stuff, and uh, yeah it was,
and it was so much fun, and that annual pass

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made that affordable.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Right, dang right, may call go ahead.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
The last time I called into your show was uh
during a hurricane Ike. Oh boy, it was like I think, like, uh,
maybe a few days after and uh, you would ask
I guess it was a question about they had just
found like the oldest living animals somewhere, and you asked,

(11:11):
if anybody gets what it was, that you would give
them a ride. Yeah. I used to have those to
give away. I did, so I called. I called in
it to be eternal. But then I don't know what happened.
You're the personal takes down the information begging messed up
because I never did receive that ride.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Well, well, here's the deal on any prize you win
from down here, you got to come pick it up.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
Oh well no, well huh okay, yeah, yeah we don't.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
You know, we don't like if, say, if if anybody said, okay,
I'll give you a bunch of rods to give away, Doug.
We can't just get your information and then ship it
to you. It's it has to be picked up in person,
because that's just kind of that's like radio rules. They
have to keep track of who wins what. And you know,
if you win something worth a lot of money, you
got to pay taxes on it, all that.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Stuff, right right.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
I don't know how we got messed up.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Then, No, it's okay.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
But you know, going back to father States, you know,
really special, really special for me this time. Tell me
because I was I was shot three times in the
southwest Houston. Yeah, okay, yeah, so.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
You know it's special.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
You know, get to space day, my son, take your time. Yeah,
it's just you know, it's just special. The sem today
after work, you're gonna get together.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Good, it's good. I'm glad to hear that. Who's cooking?

Speaker 4 (12:36):
Oh no, No, we're going to uh to a restaurant
out here now in Galveston.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
That's the way to do it.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
Yeah, yes, sir, I haven't.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
I haven't eaten down there in a while. Where is
where's the locals place for seafood?

Speaker 6 (12:52):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (12:53):
You know we usually I've had so many bad experiences
at these restaurants.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Uh, don't name any of those right now, please, can I? No?

Speaker 4 (13:06):
No, Miller's is an excellent place, okay, and so they
have they have everything there. They're good breakfast lunching or
you can't go wrong nice and uh, we're going to
a different place today where they sell up Toml's and
it was uh barber Claw Top.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Oh yeah, man, yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
But I mean I checked the reviews and this this
place has sounded like a four point seven and.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Oh wow that's for me. Yeah, that's better. I've eaten
it a lot less, right, A couple of two's wait
talking to you?

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah you too, Victor. Holy cow, it has been a while.
I remember talking to you now and hearing your voice.
I remember talking to you before I do.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
What's so distinctive.

Speaker 4 (13:52):
What's so distinctive about my voice?

Speaker 1 (13:54):
I don't know, man, It's just you know, it's just
like you hear a voice and it just it just resonates. Yeah,
I've heard that voice.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
Okay. Yeah, if you ever see me at any anywhere
I might be.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
If you see me and you don't come up and
pat me on the back and say, hey man, remember me,
I'm gonna be very disappointed.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
Well. See, when I met you on a pier, you
came up to me and you asked me, it's like, hey,
you doing any good? I said no, not really, and
he says, well, you should because you're right here, like
where the between the second and third saturna bar?

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Like, yes, yeah, you know what you were doing.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
It's hit or miss.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
You didn't tell me who you You didn't tell me
who you were, but I sort of recognized you from
your voice.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Well, thank you. I appreciate that, all right, that you
have a good one.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah you too, Man, have fun with your dad today.
I'll see Victor all right. Man, what a great call.
I'm glad to hear from him. I really am. I remember.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
I remember all of that. I do.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
I used to walk up to people all the time
on the pier because I wanted to know, not just
for work, but for myself, because if I'm standing on
a pier with a fishing rod, I'm trying to figure
out what it's going to take to catch fish. And
usually you can spot them on the piers. They're the locals.
The locals you can spot, the people who know what

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they're doing, you can spot. And the guy who's got
the spinning reel up on top of his rod and
he's cranking it backwards.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
You can spot those guys too.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
And if you if you shoulder up to the people
who know what they're doing, and strike up a conversation
without muscling into their spot. That's the one thing you
don't want to do is just walk up to somebody
and start casting right next to them.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
That's that's taboo. You don't want to do that. You
absolutely don't want to do that.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
But you can walk up and just stand there with
your rod at your side and talk to them and
they'll they'll give up a little information, maybe what they're
catching them on, maybe whether the bite's on or a
little slow.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Right now, that's a good way to speed up the way.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
You're gonna your actual catching a fish on a pier.
Gather all the information you can before you finally stop
and set up shop somewhere.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
All right, we gotta take a little break here on
the way out.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
I'll tell you about shooters to corner down there at
Palmer Highway and twenty Night Street in Texas City.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
It's run by Jerry and JTK.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
That's the father and son I've told you about for
years now, and I mean a lot of years. They
had a whole lot of gray in Jerry's beard and
probably a little bit now by.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah, he's old enough.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
He might even have a few Jay might have a
few gray hairs in his beard. Two of the best
gunsmiths I've ever met. They make an incredible well different
plenty of different ones. The custom rifles, they're all different,
really customer rifles are and I yeah, they're amazing, absolutely amazing.
They have been down there for forty three four five

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years now, same spot, little old school gun store at
the corner of a strip shopping center. Very it's not
flashing lights outside. There's not one one of those inflatable
things that has the arms in the head waving around.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
It's just a door.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
You walk in, I think a little bell rings maybe,
and you go in there, and if you like the
shooting sports, you're gonna love it. You're gonna love the smell,
You're gonna love the conversations you're gonna hear. You'll listen
to somebody else's stories, they'll listen to yours, whether it's
about competitive shooting or hunting or just target practice.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
They've got plenty of guns in there.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
They've got Ammo, they've got Camo, they've got optics, they've
got reloading supplies. Anything you need to enjoy the shooting
sports more tomorrow than you did today, they'll have it
right there at Shooter's Corner. The shooters Corner TX dot
com is website. If you wear a badge for a living,
you get a discount. I think that's fantastic. I wish
every store in the whole country would do that. D

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shooters Corner, TX dot com. This morning looks pretty.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Good, the afternoon looks a little bit. Maybe Randy. Who knows.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
But it's Father's Day and if you want to go
play golf, you go. Black Horse Club up there off
two ninety at Fry Road. Two great courses, the North
and the South. The South became a private course actually
at the beginning of the year. The North one's still
wide open. Still a great place to go, especially for
somebody who maybe sprays their driver a little bit like

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I used to. I'm getting better with it, knock on wood.
Black Horse has been around for close to thirty years now,
plus or minus a few I've played dozens of tournaments
up there. It's such a big facility, can warm up
huge groups of players really easily for a big tournament,
or you can just restrict it to one course. Maybe

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just do on the North course, take the North course
over and raise a bunch of money for charity.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
If your game is not what you want it to be.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Down at the far end of the range, you'll notice
some ten buildings down there, just single story ten buildings
across a pretty wide swath actually down there, that's where
the instruction goes on.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
And they have an.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
Outstanding crew down there who can knock the rust off
any old golf swing. Great place to eat, little something
before or after you go out. There'll be somebody driving
around and coming by regularly to make sure you're fed
and water during the round. Great fun place to play.
I've been down there a million times. Take two ninety
to Fry Road. Hang a south, go south about two

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three miles you'll start seeing golf course.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
Watch for the gate on the west side of the road.
That'll be your right hand side going south, and then
pull in and from that point forward, anybody and everybody
inside there who's wearing a name tag is just wants
nothing more than for you to have a good time.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
Golf club dot com. That's black Horse goolf Club dot com.
I'm not even really familiar with that song, but I'm
in here tapping my foot. How's that all right? Welcome back,
Dougpike show. This Father's Day, this US Open fourth Round day.
This probably gonna be a little rainy this afternoon day.
But that's nothing that would ever slow anybody in this
audience down. I don't think lightning slows me down. Lightning

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brings me to a grind halt. I'm not a fan
of lightning. I don't want to be out in it.
I don't want to mess with it. I have been
in situations where you make a cast, a long cast,
as the air kind of feels funny and the dark
clouds are gathering around you and your line just the
lure hits the water, but the line actually hangs in

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the air. That's that's when you know it's time to go.
And if you haven't ever seen, by the way, this
is a quick little sidebar. If you haven't ever seen
the effects of lightning hitting fishing rods, look it up
online and then tell me that you don't mind being

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out fishing in the rain.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Let me go talk to Kevin. Hang on one second, Kevin,
what's up, mister Pike? Was that you who was caught
in all my numbers? Yes, hilarious.

Speaker 7 (20:55):
Accidentally, somehow I always have your number in my call log,
and somehow I evidently got inadvertently deleted.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
O Lord whenever.

Speaker 7 (21:03):
And I've got two different listings on my on my
address book for you. One's your personal stuff and the
other one's the radio show stuff.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah, the show, the show line you got right after
we talked just then. And then on top of that,
it doesn't show as you coming in, it shows as
another name coming in.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, my better half Michelle.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
I couldn't figure out who in the heck it was.
So what's going on down there today?

Speaker 2 (21:27):
In La Man?

Speaker 7 (21:28):
I'm just riding around Bersouria County taking care of these
inland parks, which most of them got pretty good amount
of water on them. The Bernard River there at Hanson
at bit jumping out of its banks are fishing pier
there and the pier by the boat ramp are both
underwater about probably chest deep. And the same thing out

(21:51):
it in Liverpool on Shot the Bayo the little Albert
Finkel Park out there, the fishing piers probably way deep
on it too, good Man. But other than that, I
sent you an email earlier this morning about the Texas
Kingfish Championship Fishing Tournament. It's gonna be held July twelfth. Okay,
there at Surfside Marina. That's the the Freeport to Port

(22:15):
O'Connor Toy Run tournament where they raised money for the
boat parade they do where they leave from Freeport and
go all the way down to Port O'Connor and they
distribute presence to the police departments along the way, which
you're thenn't turned distributed to the underprivileged kids along the
coast through the Blue sign Up program.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Outstanding man. Yeah, it's a really good program. What's a
website for the tournament?

Speaker 6 (22:41):
You know what?

Speaker 2 (22:42):
Off hand? It's I don't know it right off hand,
but it's on the email that I sent to you. Okay, yeah,
I'll double check. There's a link link link for it there. Yeah.
I hadn't even looked at it. Wanted I wanted to
wish your happy Father's Day. Pop a pike.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Well you down there, you've got you're like a pied piper.
You've got little kids fallowing you all around going fishing.
Oh yes, yes, sir, you're a very blessed man. I
love teaching kids how to fish. It's so cool to
see the lights come on when that little court goes
down and they feel that tension and they reel it
in and the smile just gets bigger and bigger every time,
doesn't it.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
I enjoy teaching them everything.

Speaker 7 (23:21):
I mean, whether it be sports, even just about nature
or whatever. But it's I'm blessed to have seven grandkids
down here, and I've got wow, several more up in
Houston area that have graduated from college already.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Even good golly man, good for you. Yeah, I've got
such a late started. That's all foreign to me. I
don't know if I'll make it to be a granddad.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
We'll see. I'm gonna have to have.

Speaker 7 (23:50):
The oldest one graduated from A and M and he
is just now engaged, So who knows how long I
may even make it to be a great ground.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Oh my word? All right, Kevin, Hey, it's good to
hear from you, man, happy father. You have a great Yes,
so you too, have a great weekend. You to thank you.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
Let me go get Rick before we go to break.
We're gonna get you in right now.

Speaker 8 (24:11):
Rick.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
I'm not gonna make you wait through another break. You're
a very patient man when you do that for me.

Speaker 8 (24:15):
So what's up, budd, Well, we could probably just go
back to our chives and I'll say the same thing
every year.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
On Father's Day, say it again.

Speaker 8 (24:25):
The first thing is two points you know, cut, but
all right, Happy Father's Day to you and everybody that
applies to that's listening.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
You, my friend.

Speaker 8 (24:37):
I'm a father of two, as you know. And but
one of my big deals on Father's Day is remember something.
Be sure and hug and kiss and love and do
what you can for your wife because with the mother
of your children, yes, sir, because without her you wouldn't

(25:00):
have a very happy, ponderous day. And if you can't
comprehend or understand that, I would suggest you seek professional help.
And the second thing is, and this is annually, I've
always text my boys and I say, what have you

(25:22):
done productive today? What are you going to do productive today?
In what wise decision are you going to make today?
And of course they just I know them, They just
roll their right. But you know what it seeks.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
In over the Yeah, that's true. It really does, doesn't it.

Speaker 8 (25:42):
It's it's true true for me.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
Met up on it.

Speaker 6 (25:46):
You know.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
I'm waiting to see the results of all these seeds
I've been planting with my son because he's still in
that I know better age, he'll get out of it.
I know he will.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
I did. It took me a while. There was a
few years when I didn't talk to Paris.

Speaker 8 (26:01):
I'll do the third third thing and then I'll cut out.
I get you know, I've had We've had this conversation.
I've had a wonderful opportunity to be a part of
a lot of kids life hunting and fishing through my boys, okay,
no doubt, and introduced a lot of them to it.
I will get more phone calls and messages and texts

(26:22):
from them today than I will from my two sons.
That makes my day. Now I will hear from my boys.
Don't get them wrong, but I'm going to get delsed
before this day is over. Hey, remember this, and they
call me Papapie. Now I'm not crazy about that.

Speaker 9 (26:41):
Any at least they think about me on Father's My friend,
you feel good, all right, have a good one Father's Day, man,
I'll see you all right. Let's take a little break here,
uh tiny bit late, but it's Father's Day, so that's okay.
On the way out, I will tell you about Riceland

(27:03):
Waterfowl Club. This is David Prutz's baby and it has
been for fifty years. He is he is not only
an outstanding world class world champion duck and goose caller,
He's also a guy who runs one of the tightest
ships for waterfowl hunting. Down there on that prairie west

(27:24):
of town, all the way out to Eagle Lake is
where most of his properties are, and he has watched
over them.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
For all these years. He's shifted gears when he had
to shift gears. He's picking up. He told me a lot,
a lot more property this year to hunt on for
his hunters, And it's just going to be another good
season for Riceland Waterfowl Club and all its members. It's
only members in their guests who get to hunt down there,
and I think I'm gonna be I might be one

(27:51):
of David's guests. I'm hoping I'm gonna try and talk
him in to let me come down there and hunt
a time or two with him this season and see
if we've knocked down few ducks together. I really look
forward to that. The way he's got this system set
up too. If you're a club member and you want
to try to get a particular spot, you have the

(28:11):
same chance as anybody else.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
No matter how long they've been there. You have the
same odds of getting that number one spot of yours
as anybody else.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
He's got a really fair system figured out. There's no
guided hunting out there that's going to take the great spots.
There's no special treatment for anybody else. You can't slip
him at twenty and influence him to give you something better.
All these blinds are at least a quarter mile apart.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Too. There's a kind of a running joke down there.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
There are actually two blinds that are four hundred and
thirty yards apart according to some guy's range finder, and
he's been He gave David At a little heckling over that,
but four hundred and thirty yards is enough to I
think I could manage to hunt on the other end
of a piece of water that the other guys were
four hundred thirty yards a well. I wouldn't be bothered

(28:59):
by at all, even as an old duck guide. Riceland
Waterfowl Club dot com is the website. If you're duck
hunting wasn't all that great last year, and you're looking
for something different and you want to see a whole
lot more ducks, you will Ricelandwaterfowl Club dot com. Riceland
Waterfowl Club dot com. If you are not registered yet

(29:22):
for the CCA Star Tournament, you might want to go
ahead and jump in. I don't want to name him,
but I talked yesterday and I didn't name him yesterday either, about.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
A young man who was the only guy on.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
The boat who wasn't registered for the Star Tournament through CCA.
You have to be a member of CCA and then
you get to register for the Star, and you can
do both at one time. At the website, it's just
Star Tournament dot org. He wasn't registered, and guess who
caught a tagged redfish?

Speaker 2 (29:51):
It was him. That's a spoiler alert.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
Guess who caught that tag redfish that was worth If
he had been entered and been a member of C,
he would have been eligible after pending polygraph. They always
say he could have caught himself a boat, a motor,
a trailer and a truck to pull it.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
With, but he doesn't get anything because he wasn't registered.
Same with the kids.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
If you're taking the kids fishing along the coast this summer,
you might want to go ahead and get registered for
the Star for them too, because there are scholarships up
to thirty thousand dollars available through CCA and the Star Tournament.
They've got great prizes. They're ATVs their gift certificate. There
are two thousand dollars gift card to Academy. Think you

(30:38):
couldn't do a little fishing tackle damage or maybe a
little hunting damage with that, it'd be pretty good. All
kinds of good prizes brought to you by all these
great sponsors of this tournament. You got Texas Ford Dealers,
you got Academy Sports and Outdoors, Progressive Insurance, Mercury, Whataburger
must thank, kat Lone, Star Coastline Trailers, Texas Fishing Game Magazine.

(30:58):
I'll write for them, Power Transport Boats, McClain Trailers, Dargles,
Shoal Water, and Chris's Marine, and probably a bunch more
that didn't make the early early list that I got.
They all support CCA, And if you like saltwater fishing
in the state of Texas, you should do the same thing.
All you gotta do is sign up. All you gotta

(31:19):
do is go fishing. And what a great excuse to
fish all summer long. Really, you know, honey, it's for
the kids. Really, I gotta take them fishing. We're gonna
get a scholarship out of this. Don't you worry. Come
along with us. Sign you up to get another line
in the water. It's another chance to win a truck.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
Figure it out.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
This is carte Blanche fishing all summer long, and it's
for a great cause.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Star Tournament dot org.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Star Tournament dot Org eight forty on Father's Day, Doug
Pike Show on Sports Talk seven to ninety as Late
to the Dad Table. I'm not just just what it is,
but I'm enjoying it. And I left the house about
the same time this morning. He's got a baseball game
and I had had to come in. Well, I didn't

(32:06):
have to come in and do the show. I could
have taken the day off. I left ten vacation days
on the table last year. I'm not doing that this year,
I can assure you. And here we are six months
into the year, and or five and a half months anyway,
and I haven't used up, but like one of a lot,
so there's gonna be some quiet times around here between

(32:26):
now and the end of the year. I've got to actually,
I've got a couple of short trips coming up. What
I need to do at some point is take an
entire week off. Just take a week off the world's
not going to stop turning because Doug Pike takes a
week off. I recognize that. Believe me, I would hope
that a couple of you would might maybe email me

(32:49):
during the hiatus say man, we sure miss you.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
That would make me feel good.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
But even if I don't get something, I don't have
to have that pad on the back.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Sure is nice.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Every now and then, I've got to finish this email
to I'm not gonna do it right now.

Speaker 6 (33:05):
But.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yeah, pee me. You know who you are.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
I'm gonna get you at email in just a second.
I haven't had a chance to read what you sent.
Let me see who else is in here. I need
to deal with Mojo a good morning, and I've already
taken care of that. That's an interesting I hear from Mojo,
and Mojo hears from me every single time over the weekend,
and I get worried if I don't hear, if I

(33:33):
don't see that email, I worry.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
It's yeah, we never even met, and become like, okay,
is she okay? Is he okay? Is she okay? Is
he okay?

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Father's Day is a very special time. If you've got
a Father's Day story you want to share. By all means,
please do, by all means called let me know. Uh,
this is a great chance to well, just like Victor
and I were talking, you could you could hear it
in Victor's tone toward the end when he was talking
about what happened to him a few years ago. And

(34:07):
I'm really glad that he's able to celebrate Father's Day
with his own dad.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
I'll tell you another one.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
Hold on, I got to get back to my emails
real quickly because there's something else I need to talk about.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Let me get down to it.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
I've got to go back to yesterday because that's when
it came in, and I'll get to it.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
It won't take but a second. Once I get to
the other day. Here we go.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
There it is okay. So Robert sends me this email yesterday.
She said, Hey, man, you have a happy birthday. Shout
out to Manny Lopez's Pops, the original El Cubano. This
is if you don't know about El Cubano's Cigars, I've
been talking about him now for quite some time. Manny

(34:48):
is running the show. But dear old Dad celebrating his
ninety second birthday. So there you go, right there and
by and away. This also includes a nice little invitation
to apparently somebody's got a really nice ranch, and holy cow,

(35:09):
I've been invited, my son and I have been invited.
Thank you for sending that. Because many didn't let me know. Man,
he didn't let me know that his dad's birthday was today,
But I can dog on sure send him a happy birthday.
Wish anybody who makes it to ninety two, everybody ought
to be singing happy birthday to them. By the way,

(35:30):
Robert is, he's down at the discount. He runs a
discount tire store down in Keema, So if you need
tire stuff done, that's a pretty good place to go.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
I can tell you that right now, my son.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
That's where I send my son when he's got issues
with tires. He had some very early on with the
purchase of the little truck we got him too. He
seemed to be like a nail magnet for his tires.
I don't know where he was driving, but probably down
Aisle six at the hardware stock or is what it
seemed like. Every time I turned around he had a
nail in his tire, and the guys at discount tire

(36:06):
uppear by me where I live out towards Sugarland, helped
him out just a couple of times.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
They just ad know, we can just plug that now.
We're I got charge you for it. Really nice. And
they didn't know me for madam, They didn't know who
he was. He was just a customer and they took
good care of him. So I would imagine that Robert
and his crew down there in Kima would do the
same for you. Cally. It's already break time again, Frankie.
What's going on here? Man? Love? Holy cow? All right,

(36:35):
let's let's take another one and we'll come back and
talk a little bit more.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
We're gonna get to I can assure you we're gonna
get to the US Open. I haven't yet, and I
kind of apologized for it. But there's so much going
on today. Champion Tree Preservation. Let me tell you about that.
I remember all that damage that Hurricane Barrel caused last year. Well,
we're right smack at the well. It's the onset of

(36:59):
the storms season. The water is still not quite warm
enough to spin something off just yet, but it's not
going to be long and your trees need to be
ready for yet another blow. If they're weak, if they've
got problems, if they're dead, limbs on them. In a
big old hurricane, they're probably gonna come down. At least

(37:21):
those big limbs will come falling down if they're dead.
And that's the last thing you want. You don't want
it falling on your house. You don't want it falling
on the neighbor's house. That's even worse.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
And Champions Tree Preservation is going to help you with
all of that. I'll come out of the house.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
I'll send an arborist out there, assessment for all your
trees and let you know whether it needs food and water,
whether it needs pruning, a haircut, or whether it needs
a complete makeover, or whether it just has to go.
And if they tell you it has to go, there's

(37:56):
a reason, and they will help you do that professionally
and with their own equipment. A lot of times these
guys who come through the neighborhoods and whatnot, they might
own a chainsaw, but they certainly don't have a stump grinder.
They don't have any of the other big tools big
like a bucket, all that stuff that you need to
really do good tree work safely. Well, they own all

(38:18):
that stuff and they own a tree farm too. So
if you take out a big tree and you want
to plant something to make you look shady in the
yard for another twenty thirty years, whatever it takes, they'll
bring you a tree to replace the one you lost.
One stop shopping for your trees to make sure that
they're ready for storm season.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
That's a big deal.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
Think about look at the big trees in your yard
next time you go outside and ask yourself which way
they're gonna fall, and how far it's gonna go before
it hits something. And chances are if it's in your yard,
unless you live on twenty acres, there's a good chance
of falling tree is gonna hit something that's valuable. Two
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go to their website championstree dot com. That's championstree dot com.
Eight fifty one on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show,
Thank you for listening.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
I certainly do appreciate it. Now, got that, got that,
got that, got that, check that box. I got a
couple more emails. I got to deal with here in
a minute.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
Uh, and I will. But right now I'm gonna go
talk to faulk Pro.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
What is up? Faux Pro?

Speaker 3 (39:29):
Hey, Mary, father's data you and all your listeners.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
Mercy sakes, you know we're responsible for a lot of
a lot of kids. I think all overall this audience
is I do believe. So how did you turn out yesterday? Man,
that's what I want to know.

Speaker 10 (39:45):
Well, we'd think I ended up officially in fourth. Uh
that's bad, yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
Bad unless there was only five people fishing. Oh wen,
I actually had eighteen, so heck yeah your top quarter.

Speaker 10 (39:59):
Oh yeah, but I'll tell you what, man, I'm kind
of it was kind of sketchy going out there. I
had to hit the emmodium pretty hard that morning, if
you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
And I'll tell you what.

Speaker 10 (40:09):
I ain't been able to get more than fifty feet
from my bathroom for the last forty hours.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
Cheerful breakfast hour. Thank you so much for that, folk, bro.

Speaker 10 (40:17):
Oh yeah, well I can't eat anyway, so all right,
but uh no, that's pretty much this. I'm committed to
the house today with my landscaper to get here, and uh,
I'll tell you what this us open I know you're
getting ready to talk to golf.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
I think it's the first US Open.

Speaker 10 (40:33):
I watched, not to see the play, but just to
see who's gonna spin out and break or throw something
or cust somebody out.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
I think that seems to be the.

Speaker 10 (40:41):
Focal point of the other than Patrick, Other than it
was it Patrick Reid, I think it was that had
an albatross on a par five.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
Yeah, I think, yeah, that's a crazy shot.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Ah god. You know, anytime.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
Guys go for the green, especially at PGA Tour level,
they go for the green on five pars almost all
the time, and a lot of those holes are set
up to where as far as these guys drive it,
they're getting in there with mid irons. You know, it's
not like they're having to hit driver three wood all
the time. But for the ball to actually get on
the green, it's kind of a big deal. And then

(41:15):
for it to go in the hole, you know, that's
just well you I mean, you've probably already seen the odds.

Speaker 2 (41:20):
It's one in a bazillion whatever that is.

Speaker 10 (41:23):
Yeah, for sure, I think he's the only guy out
there not breaking something there.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Yeah, kicking, Yeah, And there's gonna be a little bit
more that.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
I think the guys who are in contention right now
are going to settle in and go about their business.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
I think they're gonna be able.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
To hold their emotions in check and just and just
do what they have to do to try to win
the tournament. But somewhere along the way, these guys are
gonna have to take some real chances. And that's where
you might see a little bit of a flare up.
If somebody thinks, Okay, I've got to really go for
this pen even though it's in a tough spot. And

(41:58):
they go for it, and they miss it, and they
missed the bunker, and they missed the fringe and they
hit into that knee high grass man. That's that's gonna
frustrate him because they know they they didn't opt for
a safer route when when the shot was in front
of them, they knew they had to go ahead and
try that.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
It's it's gonna be interesting. It's gonna be a head
game today for sure.

Speaker 3 (42:20):
Oh for sure. You might be able to expand on
this a little bit.

Speaker 10 (42:23):
But I just caught I didn't I didn't have a
chance to look at it, you, but I saw the
announcers talking about it.

Speaker 3 (42:27):
They're like, that's not him. I don't know what's going
on with him, And I think it was a ry Malroy.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
Yeah, he's he's been.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
He's been avoiding the press a little bit more and
a little bit more since he won the Masters and
and finished off his Grand Slam. And somebody was calling
him out a little bit yesterday about you know, why
are you doing this to us we I don't remember
exactly what was said by the reporter he was talking to.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
But basically what he and they they don't have.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
To come out and talk to you, apparently, is what
is my understanding that they're encouraged to but they don't
have to. And somebody was kind of putting the heat
on him for skipping a couple of pressers after his
rounds recently, and he came out and said, I think
I've earned that, and I thought my knee jerk reaction.

(43:22):
My first reaction was, no, man, you need to talk
to the press. But then it dawned on me he
doesn't have to. And if he's not in a really
good mood and there's a chance he might say something
he might regret, hey better to just keep your mouth
shut and just just take your shower and go home,
go back to the hotel. And I don't blame him

(43:44):
for that, because every one of these guys is under
such great scrutiny and they get picked apart for every
tiny little mistake they make.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
I think he's just tired of it.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
Oh yeah, So that sounds like Barry Bonds back in
the day would know.

Speaker 10 (43:57):
He would he didn't want to talk to the press
or everybody didn't like him, because Matthew's the greatest baseball
player on earth.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
They just didn't talk to He just did, We'll talk
to the press.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
They yeah, And that's his prerogative. Nobody has to You can't.
You can't force somebody to go up there and give
up ten minutes of their time and be asked the
same stinking questions every week.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
Exactly, exactly.

Speaker 11 (44:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (44:17):
Man.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
Oh well, well, I hope you have a good Father's
Day plan.

Speaker 10 (44:20):
I'm going to try to get to see my daughter
today if I get this stomach thing done, and I'm
going to get get it here and try to finish
watching this bass master lead lead lead on Lake ten
Killer in Oklahoma with the water four feet up in
the trees.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
Oh my gosh, that reminds me of a I'm flashing backs.
You mentioned that Happy Father's Day to you two, by
the way, but you mentioned that water being so high.
There was a time I went up to Rayburn. The
lake's rise and fall there. Sometimes it looks like they're
gonna dry up, and the next time they're out of
the banks. And I actually was one of the guides
up there thirty years ago, and I fished a park,

(44:55):
a lakeside park, and we were keid on picnic tables, no.

Speaker 10 (45:00):
Kidding, I remember those days, picnic tables and pine trees.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
Yeah, man, fisher under the picnic tables, like, holy cow,
that's funny, man. That break a good memory, it really does,
all right, Bob bro Happy Father's Day.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
Man, Oh you too, Man, you have a good one.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
Yes, sir Audios. That's a good dude right there, Absolutely
good dude. All right, we got to take a break.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
Manny Lopez mentioned him a little while ago when we
were talking about his father's birthday. Happy birthday, Pops. If
you're listening, I don't know if you are turning ninety two.
I hope I make it to ninety two, I really do.
That opens up a lot of things that I'll see
that I probably wouldn't get to see if I've already
outlived my father by considerable margin. Actually well, not not

(45:46):
a ton, but nonetheless that's kind of in my rearview
mirror now. I worried for a long time that I
might not make it because that his aide, the agent,
which he died, seems so old to me when I
was younger, and gosh it was it's been a while now,
it's been a while.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
In any event.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
On the way out, let me tell you about El
Cubano's Cigars, hand rolled in Texas City by Manny Lopez
and a few others, all of Cuban descent actually now
and originally by him and his dad. They started this
company years ago. They bring in only the finest Cuban

(46:24):
seed tobaccos from Central America and all the way down
through there. And you can watch the rolling process. Actually,
it's fascinating. I got the full tour, I really did.
And if you can talk, you can talk Manny into it.
He might take you back there and show you where
all the tobacco is. I don't know, it's his business,
that's up to him. But where he works and where

(46:46):
they roll those cigars, one hundred and fifty different kinds
of them. By the way, they're rolling them all day
every day, because they ship out hundreds and sometimes thousands
of cigars a week to places all over the country.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
They'll do it for you too.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
They'll come to your event, by the way, Maniel, he'll
come out and set up a little one of those
little tents, those little pop up things, put a table
under it, put a couple of chairs under it, spread
out some tobacco, and roll cigars at your event, whether
that's a golf tournament or some fancy family celebration, anywhere
you want to impress people, have him come out and

(47:21):
roll some cigars for you. Or if you've got clients
maybe who would like to be who love cigars.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
If you've got friends who are.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
Got a big wedding coming up, and maybe the groom
and his grimsman all wants cigars. You can get him
to make your custom cigars with a company logo on it,
with a family crest on it, on the band, with
pretty much anything anything you want on that band he
can put on there. He did some cigars for iHeartRadio,
put the iHeartRadio logo on the bands of a whole

(47:53):
box of cigars, and they were a huge hit with
our clients around here.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
Believe me.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
Elcubano Cigars dot Com. There is there are smoking lounges
in Texas City and League City. You can go to
either one of those and really kind of kick back
and just maybe watch a watch a sporting event something
like that on the TV. Card game might break out.
Who knows. Elcubano Cigars dot Com.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
Tell many.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
I said, hello, he's a great guy. He'll take care
of you. And there's no high prices here either. You
got to remember you're dealing with the manufacturer, not a
middleman who's got to cut little something off for himself.
Elcubanocigars dot Com, Great people, elcubanocigars dot Com. All right,
second to final hour of today's program starts right now.
You know, early on early this morning, Frankie, I came

(48:43):
in here and I thought, what could I do to
make Dad's day different and special and fun on the radio?

Speaker 2 (48:49):
And I thought, what better than dad jokes?

Speaker 1 (48:52):
And I was gonna try to tell like one or two,
and I'm not gonna tell on the air the one
I just told you so don't worry. And I could,
but I won't. It's just I'm just not going to
so anyway. The bottom line is I had all I
printed out. This little site had like one hundred and
forty five dad jokes. I printed them all out and
I highlighted like eighteen of them, and I'm not going

(49:14):
to sit here and read them all now. Yeah, but boy,
if there's one slow second in this hour, I'm gonna
throw one in.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
Let me see, hold on, I might might just start
with one. Okay.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
The waiter said, do you want a box for your leftovers?
I said no, but I'll wrestle you for some cheesecake.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
You like that one? Crickets, I'm blanking. Hold up? Did
you not get it? I don't get it. Well, do
you want to box? Like boxing? Oh? Do you want
to box?

Speaker 11 (49:52):
Because I took it as like, do you want it
to go? Yeah, I'm able to go box. Now you
think outside the box? What concert? And if you don't
get it, then I'm gonna do another one? So you
better get this one. What concert just costs forty five cents?
What fifty cent? Featuring Nickelback?

Speaker 2 (50:09):
I like that? Okay, you can use that sometimes.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
I like it all right, Let's move on to the
US Open, shall we, where, By the way, I got confirming,
I got confirmation in a couple of emails actually that
I was pretty much right about Roy McElroy, and I do,
I do think that he has earned the right to
not talk anymore, just like Tiger Woods earned the right
to not talk anymore, just like Phil Michelson doesn't really

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have to address the press.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
They have nothing to prove.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
And if they accidentally let one incorrect word or incorrect
phrase slip out of their mouths and not get and
don't have a chance to fix it, they're gonna see it,
They're gonna hear about it, and they're gonna be criticized
by people who don't even know them. The reporters in there,

(50:57):
they have this professional relationship with the players and the
players with them. But I can guarantee you those interviewers
don't know anything really about what's going on in these
people's lives. They have to be so private just to
keep it together. And I don't blame McElroy at all

(51:18):
for just saying no, I don't feel like talking to
you guys today.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
All you can do is just say thank you. Maybe
next time.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
So the leaderboard the guy everybody's watching, Sam Burns has
just quietly hung around, as has JJ Spawn and Adam Scott. Actually,
after grinding through a couple of well even par rounds
on Thursday and Friday, shot sixty seven yesterday three under par,

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he finds himself in the mix. At three under par.
He and JJ Spawn are tied for second. Sam Burns
seventy two. He shoots two over in his opening round.
He comes back with five under and then comes back
with another one under yesterday find himself at four. He's
out front by one. Carlos Ortiz is even and that

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list right there, five players are the only players in
this year's US Open to be even par or better.
Everybody else is trying to get into red numbers, starting
with the plus ones at Terrell, Hatton and Thriston Lawrence
plus two all by himself, Rasmus near Guard I can't

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remember his other last name. Robert McIntyre's at three, Cam
Young's at three, and these are all plus numbers. I'll
give you the fours two because they're kind of sitting
there there. Eight shots out of the lead, but two
or three strokes can go the other way. On any

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hole out there, any hole out there. Sam Burns trips
over his shoelace today and makes two bad mistakes, he'll
be back to even parr. It makes two double bogies,
He's back to even parr. And double bogies are all
over that golf course.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
Uh So, if you.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
Take them into consideration, let's go to the four overs,
because who knows they could find lightning in a bottle
and shoot even Parr and find themselves tied with him
if all these crazy scenarios happen, the four overs, Mark Leishman,
Chris got her up, Scotty Scheffler for to him, Nick Taylor,
Christian Bezenhout, Max Greiserman, Emiliano Grillo, Russell Henley, Victor Perez,

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and Ben Griffin. Ben Griffin was humming along at even
Parr until yesterday when he went four over.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
This golf course will do that to them. Let me see,
I'm just kind of curious the guys who made the cut.
I want to see how many of them shot under
parr yesterday. Why is this thing not wanted to do
this for me? Come on, get a little click for me.
I want to see round three scoring, and that's all
I want to see it. Won't let me do it.
I'm gonna take a.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
Quick scroll here. Yeah, you don't have to go far
once you get to the plus fours with the exclusion.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
Wow. Ryan Girard shot sixty nine yesterday. He was six
over par. That left him at five, so no chance.

Speaker 1 (54:27):
But still there were some couple of scool two scores
in the sixties among this group, and that's it. And
if you go down a little farther you find sixty
or seventy six, seventy seven, seventy eight, seventy five. These
guys shooting five, six, seven over is not out of
the question. For Sam Burns, he's been steady eddy all

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the way through. Okay, he's playing well, but nothing lasts forever,
especially on that golf course.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
They have verification.

Speaker 1 (54:59):
Underneath the green means too, they have a way to
suck all the moisture out and dry those greens back up.
I don't believe they have rain in the forecast yet
or today, but they got to a bunch of rain
day and a half ago and that's gonna be gone.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
So the greens are gonna be harder than they were yesterday.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
And those guys were able to throw darts at a
lot of holes yesterday. Man, it's anybody's tournament, it really is.
Sam Burn's just sitting there with a with a one
shot lead, and he's gonna have to do a whole
lot more.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
He's gonna have to He's gonna.

Speaker 1 (55:37):
Have to pick off I would I would say conservatively,
he's gonna have to shoot two under today. If he
can get it to six, I think he probably wins it.
But if, like I said, if he comes out to
shoot and goes bogie par double bogie and all of

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us sudden and he's three, he's down to minus one.
If he slips up at all early, that'll get in
his head because he knows how hard it's gonna be
to get him back. Every one of those guys knows
that any birdy chance they get is gold, and they've
got it's gonna come down to a putter.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
It's gonna come down to putting.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
They're finally they figured out how to hit the greens,
figured out how to hold the ball on the green
for the most part, but they haven't figured out the
putting yet.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
Except for Sam. Sam's rolling them pretty good. I think
Adam Scott rolled some pretty good ones in yesterday. We'll
see JJ Spond has been pretty steady. A couple of
guys have just not. They just have not.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
All right, let's get a first break out of here
and we'll come back. Father's Day calls, welcome all day.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
If your dad's a big golfer, was a big golfer,
was a great golfer at one time, never broke one hundred,
and still loves the game, all of that, it's all
fair game. It's your dad. It's your dad. You ought
to be looking up to him.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
The reason he's not able to break a hundred maybe
because he gave a lot of time to you that
if he had given it to golf, he might have
been a better golfer. Instead, he chose to make you
a better person, whoever you are.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
Think about it that way.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
A lot of things that our dads didn't accomplish in
their lives, and a lot of that may have been
because they were making sure that you and your siblings
were taken care of the big responsibility being a dad.
I know, I do, and I take that responsibility seriously.
All Right, one more time for Cca Star Tournament. Okay,

(57:36):
if you haven't registered yet and you're not fishing. Every
chance you get. You can't win a prize. And by prize,
I don't mean a ribbon, I don't mean a trophy
to put on the mantel. I'm talking about real prizes.
I'm talking about two thousand dollars gift cards to academy.
I'm talking about ATVs, talking about grand prizes of a truck,

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a boat, a motor, and a trailer.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
All shiny and brand new.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
They hand you the keys to both of them if
you win, if you pass your polygraph, and to join
and to enter, it's very simple. You just go to
Star tournament dot org. You're gonna have to fill out
a little form there and get yourself going, and once
you get registered, then you are eligible for the prizes.

(58:24):
Until then, we had one example of it this year already.
Until then, I don't care how many people in your
boat or how many people in your group are registered
for the tournament. If you're not and you catch the
fish which happened to I don't want to rub this
guy's nose in it.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
I can't do it. I'm not gonna give you his name.
I'm not gonna give you anything about him.

Speaker 1 (58:45):
Because it's happened to other people before, and they just
get so distraught they can't believe what they did. This
guy caught a tag redfish, one of the special tags
that get you that boat, motor, trailer, and truck package.
And he was not registered in the tournament. Everybody else
in his group, Yeah, we're in.

Speaker 2 (59:02):
We're in, We're in.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
He catches the fish. Oh I didn't enter, so sorry. Back,
it goes into the water. Maybe who knows, maybe one
of you will catch it if you get interered up.
Greatest excuse to go fishing all summer long ever ever devised.
CCA gets full credit for probably helping thousands upon thousands,
maybe millions of people get extra easy permission to take

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the family fishing, just because there's a chance they might
win a scholarship for the kids, might win a truck,
who knows, might win a boat, who knows.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
But you can't win if you don't play.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
Star tournament dot org is a website. Star tournament dot Org.
How about a little southside golf on Father's Day Timber
Creek Golf Club FM twenty three fifty one in friends
would been there. A lot of these good courses around
here been around since maybe the late nineties.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
Early two thousands.

Speaker 1 (59:53):
Timber Creek's one of them, and it's still going strong.
Twenty seven holes, beautifully laid out, meandering through the woods.
There's a creek runs through the property, a couple of
couple of lakes on the golf course, and enough bunkers
to keep you honest, but not enough to frustrate you
if you don't hit the ball straight every time. Really

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good teaching staff too, with the JJ Woods Golf Academy
right there at Timber Creek, right next to the driving range.
If you're out there stinking it up with your range balls,
just just hand them to somebody else. Walk into JJ
Wood's place and say I need help, and they will
help you. It'll be a better golfer when you walk

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out of there than when you walk in.

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
I promise you.

Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
That great place for a fun tournament on the south side.
Great place, and just grab a couple of buddies and
go out. Every now and then, what I'll do is
just show up unannounced, all by myself and just say
put me out with the next threesome. I'll go make
three new friends. I love doing that. It's you never
know who you're gonna meet. I'll just tell them. I'll
play from any teas you want me to, except the
back ones. I'm not long enough any more to play

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from the back tees. But anywhere else, we'll tee it
up and we'll have some fun and nobody will get hurt,
and nobody will care what scores.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
Well, shoot, we'll just have a good time. Timbercreek goolf
Club dot Com.

Speaker 1 (01:01:11):
That's what golf's supposed to be, and Timber Creek is
a great example of it. Timber Creek Golf Club dot Com.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
Yeah right, Frankie, is that appropriate during that song? I
think so.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
All Right, Welcome back Doug Pike Show on Golly What
It's Everything weekend. It's a pretty good day to bass
fish weekend. It is not a bad day to be
on the coast weekend. Let me check the wind really quickly.
I haven't looked at it in a while. It was
not It's come down some now. Once you get a
little ways, itling it quits. I got zeros of three

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of four, four or five, six, and the six is
right here in downtown Houston. What's at Rice University Along
the coast, there's seventeen thirteen and then a little farther
down eleven, fifteen fourteen eleven, not horrible and all just
almost dead onshore wind. I haven't looked at saltwater recon.

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I'm gonna do that right now. Log me in, please,
thank you very much. I always have to tell it.
I have to do a math problem to get logged
in here for some reason, and that's great. They've got
to protect their site. Okay, let's get to these cameras
right now. I want to I want to look at
the surfside camera. TikTok, TikTok, TikTok, come on surfside, beach, surfside,

(01:02:26):
Jetti Park. That's what I want to see. I want
to see how many thousand. Oh wow, the water aren't well, yeah,
there's a bunch water may be okay, it's relatively calm.
I'm glad to report, although there are some guys, some
surfers out, so there's got to be some chop somewhere.
Bottom line, though, not a bad day to be on
the beach right now. And those those showers and whatnot

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aren't here yet, that's for sure, so hopefully we'll get
in some recreation time today. Uh, Frankie, I used to
be addicted to soap.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
But I'm clean now. I love that You like that one?
That's good? All right?

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
Umm, shout out to my fingers, Frankie, I can count
on all of them.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
That's good. You like that one tastes good? Want one more?

Speaker 8 (01:03:17):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
What kind of cars do eggs drive? I don't know. Yolks, wagons? Yep?
All right, then we're gonna stop on that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:28):
Well, well, there are more, but I'm not gonna waste them.

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
Uh yeah, that's already enough time wasted on that. Seven
one three seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
Oh, good news.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
Let me let me run this radar and see when
there's gonna be some stuff bubbling up because it's.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
Gonna as the heat rises.

Speaker 1 (01:03:49):
It's so muggy outside, by the way, if you're new
to Houston and you've never realized that that it could
be so humid outside of the bottom of a swimming pool.
This morning, this morning was one of those mornings where
you feel like you almost need a you almost need
a snorkel to just walk to the car.

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
Oh, grab that phone, man, I'm gonna talk to him.
I think I know who that is, Frankie.

Speaker 1 (01:04:16):
Yeah, and I'm looking at here between one and two o'clock.
We're gonna have some actually starting a little bit earlier
than that. Let me look at okay, ten eleven, and
then all of a sudden it just pops up at
about a little afternoon, little afternoon. It's gonna start getting
a little wonky in some areas, but it's patchy stuff.

(01:04:38):
It's not widespread rain until about maybe two three o'clock
somewhere in there. Yeah, then it kind of fills up
pretty good. Ooh, three four o'clock is gonna be pretty
yucky in many areas.

Speaker 2 (01:04:53):
Whatever that means. We'll see how it works out. Let
me go to Alan and see what's on his mind. Alan,
what's up, man?

Speaker 8 (01:05:01):
You want to you doing?

Speaker 6 (01:05:02):
So I was up my little property in East Texas
putting out some minerals yesterday, and I was sinking. Okay,
so down in South Texas, I'm assuming the deer get
big in Mexico because of the minerals in the ground.
And that's why we put minerals, you know, in our

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part of the world where there are that big, so
we try to help them out culth wise and maybe
growth wise. So can the same be said about trout
and Baffin Bay compared to trout and back of Gordon Bay.
I mean, why is it such a contrast between big

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trout in South Texas compared to up here in our
little Galton Bay.

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
You know, you bring up that's a really good question.

Speaker 1 (01:05:54):
And while you were asking it, I'm thinking, Okay, baff
And Bay has the reputation. That's where that's big trout,
Mecca right, that's it now. Twenty five thirty years ago,
Trinity Bay giant trout, Matta Gorda Bay, giant trout. Even
over into Sabine Lake, there were some really big trout caught,

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and big numbers of them too.

Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
Trinity Bay.

Speaker 1 (01:06:21):
I can remember making trips with Blaine and Mickey and
James and Guy Ali, all those guys. I can't every
one of those guys I fished with over there, and
we'd stand around and catch just as many six seven
eight pounders as we wanted to. On some mornings, Micky'd
always be out farther than us because he's darned tall,

(01:06:41):
and James would. Mickey be in front of me and
James would be behind me, and we're all trying to
get as far out as we can without drowning. And
just hanging on to one big giant trout after another.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
And then all of a sudden, we.

Speaker 1 (01:06:55):
Got some freezes come along and the trout population is rebounded,
but the size didn't rebound. And so now you have
to ask yourself what is different about Baffin And the
only thing that pops up is all.

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
Those rocks in Baffin. Think about that.

Speaker 6 (01:07:13):
What are they made? They have a lot more inlets
and outlets.

Speaker 2 (01:07:19):
Well, yeah, there's more exchange. Well now there's nothing.

Speaker 8 (01:07:22):
Really, there's not.

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
That much exchange really down south.

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
I bet that something. Well think of this too. Baff
And Bay doesn't have skyscrapers around it. Baff And Bay
doesn't have giant developments of beach houses around it. It's
still kind of natural runoff, which is what Matta Gordon
was thirty forty years ago. At fifty one hundred years ago,

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which is what Galveston Bay was fifty years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
There weren't all.

Speaker 1 (01:07:54):
These and that's the only major visible change you can
look at is is human development.

Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
So maybe that has something.

Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
Whatever's washing off of that land in baff And Bay
and into the bay, that's that's trout food. Whatever the
trout minerals it's not food.

Speaker 6 (01:08:12):
But it's now you know my dad, You know my dad,
he's going up there this week, uh with my nephew
to do some fishing. And he was asking me where
should I fish? And I said, well, if Rollover Pass
was still open, yeah, I would tell you in that area.
But since it's not, move further, move further towards the
ship jail and in the yacht basin, So that's where

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you're You're less fresh water is going to be because
we have so much fresh water coming down, so hopefully
they'll have some success.

Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
Yeah that the beach road is going to be on
paws until all this fresh water gets out of there.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
And we needed the rain.

Speaker 1 (01:08:48):
Everybody needed the rain, we really did, and I'm glad
we got it, and we're about to get that more
this afternoon. It doesn't look like there's going to be
much lightning with it, thank goodness. I don't I'm not
a fan of lightning.

Speaker 2 (01:08:58):
But yeah, that's a really good question. And the only
thing I can look at is is development. That's the
only major change we haven't had. Everybody's had freezes. We
all have up and down the coast. We've had freezes
up and down the coast. We've had drought, we've had
all all these different things. But the development is what's different.

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The development.

Speaker 6 (01:09:20):
Yeah, you know, no, that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
I mean, anybody's got a better idea. I'd love to
hear it.

Speaker 6 (01:09:27):
I was just putting up minerals yesterday and I was like, yeah,
for whatever reason that crossed my mind, I thought Mondy
talk about that. Maybe he knows.

Speaker 1 (01:09:36):
Yeah, well, yeah, so something about that water was different
in the exchange there there are there, there's not as
much tidal exchange.

Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
Most of the water movement down south is just wind driven.
That's it. Yeah, they've got a couple of little spots
that will open up every time.

Speaker 6 (01:09:53):
We have heard I know, I knew that. I knew that. Uh,
who's the guy down there?

Speaker 5 (01:10:00):
It was Christy Cliff, Cliff Webb Cliff.

Speaker 8 (01:10:02):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:10:03):
I was telling Mickey a while back about you know
they've got there opened them some more channels.

Speaker 2 (01:10:08):
Yeah, there have been what Packy is a great thing.

Speaker 6 (01:10:13):
We closed up the fresh water and salt water cells like, okay,
well that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (01:10:18):
Yeah, we closed up Rollover Pass and they opened up
Packery Channel, and guess who's better fish. It just makes
no It made no sense at all, except for a
money standpoint.

Speaker 6 (01:10:29):
It still makes me sick, but me too, you know
it is what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:10:33):
Yeah, me too. You know what.

Speaker 1 (01:10:36):
Yeah, the next big old hurricane might just open up
one or two now that rollovers not there, A big
storm is going to want to open land, open up
a pass somewhere, now, Beckett, what was it twenty thirty
years ago?

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
Not that long? Fifteen twenty years ago?

Speaker 1 (01:10:53):
Big hurricane in South Texas opened up temporarily at least
like eight or nine new passes to the Golf of
Mexico from the Bay. And that's gonna happen at some
point somewhere, all.

Speaker 6 (01:11:05):
Right, man made they can't close it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:10):
Then, well, yeah that well sadly all Like a lot
of those ones that happened in that South Texas hurricane,
they kind of close themselves up after a little while.
They don't really wash out channel deep, but it's a
pass for a little while. And what that does think
of think of hurricanes as nature flushing the toilet, Okay,

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And that's exactly what happened, so that all that water
rushes in and that pass opens up temporarily, so that
all the bad, gooey, nasty stuff on the bottom of
a shallow bay gets flushed out into the ocean, into
the Gulf of Mexico.

Speaker 2 (01:11:49):
All right, that was a fun exchange. I like that.
You had great ideas. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:11:55):
See you, oh man, you get me thinking about that.
I love thinking about stuff like that. And the only
thing I can look at is development. And the other thing,
at least specific to our Gallaston Bay system is the
loss of rollover pass.

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
But you know, we got some new beach houses down there,
and more power to them. That's you know, that's so important.

Speaker 1 (01:12:18):
I would much prefer better natural resources than more houses
on the beach, honestly. And you know, if you've got
a beach house down there, more power to you. I
wish I had one too, but I don't. And it's
just the way it goes. All right, we got to
take a quick break. Whoever that is, Frankie, let them know.
I'll get to them right when we get back, I promise.
Belleville Meat Market, it's got a lot of stuff going

(01:12:40):
on down there right through summertime. Of course, the smoke
sausage samples available every day in the store. Of course,
the barbecue, lunch and dinner available from ten to seven
every single day of the week. Great delicious stuff down there,
traditional barbecue meal for grown ups. And then you can
get a little pull poor or maybe some homemade hot

(01:13:01):
dogs also down there on that menu. Bulk pricing available
all the time for fresh ground beef and all that sausage.
And then, gosh, the laundry list of stuff that's so good.
The homemade hot dogs you can get them with or
without cheddar cheese already in them. The chuck Wagon patties
that are half pound beef patties, all seasoned up already

(01:13:23):
and stacked with cheddar cheese. The stuffed mushrooms, the stuffed peppers,
stuffed pork tenders. Belleville Meat Market's going to be your
backyard barbecue and block party headquarters if you just let
them go out there with a big laundry list of
stuff you want to bring home and then sit out
there on the patio and enjoy a nice lunch for dinner.

(01:13:43):
Simple thing they do while game processing year round. But
we've talked about that before. Give them a call before
you start dragging stuff out there. Make sure that what
you're planning to bring to them is acceptable this time
of year, because it's a different time of year for
their processing. Beef, jerky, turkey, jerky, dry sausage, dry stick,

(01:14:04):
everything for that grab and go snacking when you're driving
around the state, to the lake, to the beach, wherever
you're going, doesn't hurt to pull out a bag of
dry stick.

Speaker 2 (01:14:14):
I guarantee you.

Speaker 1 (01:14:15):
The next one I pull out of the center console
not going to be the first. Belleville Meat Market is
on Highway thirty six, about fifteen minutes north of Sealy,
fifteen minutes south of Hempstead. Very easy to find. You'll
love it when you do too. Bellville MeetMarket dot com.
That's Belleville Meatmarket dot com. Iron doors are beautiful and
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(01:14:37):
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(01:14:59):
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be quite pleased if you'll go see them, especially since
you know all this tariff talk.

Speaker 2 (01:15:33):
The deal is.

Speaker 1 (01:15:34):
I talked to Jason Fortenbert, he's the guy who owns
a company, and Jason said, look.

Speaker 2 (01:15:39):
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on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dunpike Show, thank you
for listening on this Father's Day, this US Open Day.
I'm gonna try and wash the little golf this afternoon.
Then I'm gonna actually go work on my golf game
and hopefully improve it sometime between now and tomorrow morning,

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when there are plans to play and fingers crossed.

Speaker 2 (01:16:49):
I don't know when.

Speaker 1 (01:16:50):
They're supposed to be like a sixty percent chance of
rain tomorrow, I really don't care. I'm gonna go on
over to the golf course and unless they they blow
the lightning sire and run everybody off, I'm gonna find
a way to I don't know, chip putt, play, go
fish whatever, have a good time.

Speaker 2 (01:17:08):
Well, let's get to David, shall we what's up? David?

Speaker 5 (01:17:11):
Yeah, Doug, thank you for taking my call real quickly.
I wanted just to remind everybody that, like Christmas, Father's
Day can be kind of a stressful time for people.
My college roommate has not heard from his He's reached
out to his children, boy and girl multiple times, but
he went to a very nasty divorce.

Speaker 8 (01:17:30):
Oh and.

Speaker 5 (01:17:32):
I'm sure that has torn up a lot of relationships
and just you know, people like if you, if you
have a good relationship with your with your children, be
thankful for that. Yeah, if you don't, don't, don't let
the bitterness will it'll lead a hole through you.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
Yeah, yeah, I really will.

Speaker 1 (01:17:48):
You just got to take what you got and know
that in his mind, in that man's mind, he knows.

Speaker 2 (01:17:57):
That he did the best job he could. I hope
he did.

Speaker 1 (01:18:00):
And if he did, then he can't he can't blame himself.
That sounds like maybe his you know, maybe somebody tainted
the other people in his lives opinions of him, and
that's that's a sad thing, But it does happen. You're right,
and everybody's got a story they do.

Speaker 5 (01:18:18):
And it's all it's about forgiveness. You know, our dads
did the best job we could, but went out perfect.
No man is perfect. And uh, if somebody out there
that needs to reach out to their to their son
or daughter or are you know, the circumstances and just
try to get rid of get rid of that bitterness.

Speaker 2 (01:18:38):
Shake it off and alcohol.

Speaker 5 (01:18:40):
Yeah, there you go, exactly the all right, thank you
for taking Thank.

Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
You, David. Yeah, I appreciate it. Yeah, there are, there are.

Speaker 1 (01:18:49):
Everybody's got a different story, and these days that's a
that's a really good reminder that not everybody wants to
be wished a happy Father's Day. If it wasn't a
pleasant experience growing up, perhaps and.

Speaker 2 (01:19:06):
Take that into account.

Speaker 1 (01:19:08):
I like David's idea of forgiveness, and if that can
be accomplished, then maybe maybe the road between those people
can be mended and be traveled again. But if not,
you just have to have to I don't know. I

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just feel badly for people who are not celebrating, and.

Speaker 2 (01:19:33):
I think we're going to turn it around. We'll just
continue to stay on the positive side of this, and
if anybody's having trouble with that, I feel for you.
I truly do. I'm so sorry for you.

Speaker 1 (01:19:45):
All Right, Frankie, I got to go to one more
of these things. Hold on a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
Let's see. My dad told me a joke and I
kind of didn't get it. I guess I just didn't
get the punchline. M That one's not very good, is it?
I don't really like that one. Uh what did one

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hat Frankie say to the other hat? What's that? You
stay here? I'm going on ahead. I like that.

Speaker 1 (01:20:15):
Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one. I'm
running out of good one though. Man, Okay, I'm in
What do you call a fake noodle?

Speaker 2 (01:20:25):
I don't know?

Speaker 12 (01:20:26):
An impasta?

Speaker 2 (01:20:27):
Oh god, that would be an even better joke in
New York. Exactly, you got one more? No bring it?

Speaker 12 (01:20:38):
Why did the scarecrow win an award? I don't know,
because he was outstanding in his field?

Speaker 2 (01:20:47):
Oh god, all right, we're gonna we're gonna get kicked
off the air.

Speaker 1 (01:20:51):
I think we tell many more of these, But they're
supposed to be corny. That's the that's this, that's the object.
That's the object of a dad joke. What do you
call it when a snowman throws a tantrum? What a meltdown?

Speaker 9 (01:21:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:21:07):
Like that one. I like it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:08):
It's really corny, not so corny as the scarecrow joke
pun intended.

Speaker 2 (01:21:15):
Where'd scarecrow stand after all? Out in the cornfields? Yeah?
All right, holy cow. So let me see.

Speaker 1 (01:21:22):
I'm gonna check this leaderboard real quick, and then we've
got to go to the last break of the program.
The leaders don't go out for another couple of hours, obviously.

Speaker 2 (01:21:31):
I'm just kind of what I want to do is
look at what's going on.

Speaker 1 (01:21:33):
With the people who are out there now, and okay, well,
here's Sideki Matsiyama. He's through ten holes today and he
is even on this round. That's good.

Speaker 2 (01:21:49):
There's some plus ones, plus two, plus three. Taylor Pendrith
not a bad player. He's three over through eight holes today.

Speaker 1 (01:21:58):
These guys, though, the guys at the end of the
list here, they just want to get around and get out.
Even Rory McElroy, when asked about today, asked how he
would approach today, he said, I'm just gonna try and
get in a four and a half hour round and
get out of here.

Speaker 2 (01:22:15):
I can't blame him. He's nine over par.

Speaker 1 (01:22:17):
He's one under actually today through three holes, which is
good for him.

Speaker 2 (01:22:23):
But he knows that no matter.

Speaker 1 (01:22:24):
What he shoots today is not going to change his paycheck,
not gonna change his bank account, it's not going to
change his sponsorships. It's just one he can just chalk
up and forget about. You got to have a very
short memory. To play on the PGA Tour or any
professional golf tour, you have to have a very short
memory because you're not gonna hit great shots every time

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you swing the club, and if you dwell on the negative.
And this is good advice really for anybody who plays
this game. This is the most difficult game on the
planet as far as I'm concerned. And the ball's not
even moving. It's hard to hit a moving base. But
when you're on a baseball team, you got eight other
guys out there who could pick you up if you
mess up. The golf course, it's just you and you're

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taking on one hundred and something other guys who are
at least close to as good as you and could
beat you on any given day.

Speaker 2 (01:23:18):
And you got to maintain your cool.

Speaker 1 (01:23:20):
You got to maintain your head so that you remember
everything you've been taught since you were three years old.

Speaker 2 (01:23:28):
And you got to go out there and perform. And
it's not easy.

Speaker 1 (01:23:31):
I'd tip my cap to anybody whose business card ever
said professional golfer, because that's not an easy thing to achieve.

Speaker 2 (01:23:40):
It really isn't.

Speaker 1 (01:23:41):
There are a lot of people who get close, and
the many tours are full of them. The overseas tours
are full of them. They're great players, and they could
come back and win any club championship just about in
the country, except maybe some of the ones down in
Florida where you've got a half a dozen tour members
on your roster. They're exceptional players, and it's fun to

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watch them play. But it's even more fun to watch
the PGA Tour players play when they're just goofing off
and having fun with each other. I've been fortunate enough
to be in some of those groups and watch them
do things with golf balls that you will never see
them do on TV because there's so much at stake
in those official tournament rounds. But when they're out there

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having fun, they can work miracles with golf balls. Holy cow,
let's get out of here, Frankie. Let's get this break
done so I can come back and summarize the comings
and goings of this weekend's programming. All the way out,
I'll tell you about American shooting centers. It's fine to
be out there right now. You could go out there

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and blaze away have a little fun. Anything from the
rim fire pop up range to the rifle and pistol
from five to six hundred yards, to the three sporting
clays courses and ten trap and skeep fields, five stands, setups, beginners,
wing shooting. It's all out there, everything waiting for you
to just get out there and enjoy the shooting sports.

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Very safe, very fun place to do that. It's on
West tim Or Parkway. American Shooting Centers is about midway
between Katie and Highway six.

Speaker 2 (01:25:18):
You won't be able to miss it when you drive
up on it. I promise you. It doesn't even need
a sign.

Speaker 1 (01:25:23):
It just needs a driveway, and it's got both so
you won't miss it. Great instruction available as well for
all the shooting sports. Need some handgun instruction, you've got it.
You need rifle instruction, you got it. You need shotgun
you got it. Great fun place, been there forever. Edarriiggie
owns the place. He's a sporting place guy and darned good.

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Don't bet against him. Don't let him walk you into
a bet unless you got money just falling out of
both pockets. American Shooting Centers dot Com. I'm just kind
of joking. He's a super nice guy. He would never
do that. American Shooting Centers dot Com One more time
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come to your house. They'll send it an arborist to
your house to check out every tree you've got in

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the yard and make sure that they're ready for storm season.
We've had these temperature extremes that come and go around
here lately, damage underground the root systems of your trees potentially,
And the best way to find out whether your tree
is ready is to have somebody who knows what they're
looking at come out and look. Because green leaves don't

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mean automatically that the tree is ready to go for
hurricane season. No, not at all. So get them to
come out there. They'll take a look at your trees.
They will let you know whether they need to come out,
which some will. Some trees just can't be saved. But
their goal is to save your trees. That the company
is Champion Tree Preservation. Now if one has to come out,

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they also own a tree farm. How coincidentally convenient is that,
and they can replace that tree for you with something
of a size that fits your budget and your needs
and whatever. Get that shade coming back for you. If
it only needs feeding, they'll tell you that and they'll
provide that for you that service. If that needs some

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they'll take care of that for you. And they own
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Speaker 2 (01:28:02):
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Speaker 1 (01:28:05):
All right, Holy cow, Father's Day edition to the program
is pretty much done.

Speaker 2 (01:28:11):
Man, this was I enjoyed it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:12):
I enjoyed talking to all of you. Everybody out there
who is a father, Happy Father's Day. If you're not
and you're waiting for your turn, congratulations, you'll get it
at some point in your life, I hope, because it's
a wonderful experience for most of us. If whatever you
do today, just recognize that without moms and dads and

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all the people in your lives who helped you out,
there ought to be an aunt and Uncle's day too.
I think because aunts and uncles help out a lot,
there ought to be grant. I think there is a
Grandparents' Day. I'm not sure when it is, but today
is Father's Day. I'm a dad.

Speaker 2 (01:28:47):
I'm gonna get some special attention, I hope. I'm gonna
flip on my son's baseball game too, and see what's
going on with that as soon as we finish up here.

Speaker 1 (01:28:56):
Frank, you got any special plans to that? Oh, y'all
were going out to eat, right.

Speaker 12 (01:28:59):
Yeah, they're gonna get Indian food again. That's just what
we do.

Speaker 2 (01:29:03):
What was the last occasion that y'all went and did that?

Speaker 12 (01:29:08):
I remember, I forget now maybe Mother's Day.

Speaker 1 (01:29:12):
Ah yeah, probably so it's a family tradition. All right, Well,
go enjoy your Indian food. I'm gonna be having spaghetti
this evening after after I get back from the golf course,
whenever that is. I don't know when it's gonna be.
Thank you all for listening. I truly greatly appreciate it.
I'll be back next weekend, same time, same place. I'll

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be back Tuesday, actually on fifty plus over on KPRC
that starts at noon, and then right back in this
chair next week. Get outside, for heaven's sakes, please get outside,
have some fun with your family. Make sure you appreciate
everybody in your family for all that they've contributed to
get you where you are today.

Speaker 2 (01:29:55):
And if you're not in a great place, find your
way there. I hope you. I hope you can do that.
Really do That's it for now, Stay healthy, stay safe,
and I'll see you next week. Audios mm hm