Wind and Rain and Thunder and Lightning

Originally aired on October 25th, 2025. On this episode, Doug looks forward to hunting season next week, and addresses how to work with digital licenses. He also interviews Tommy O'Brien, PGA teaching pro from Black Hawk Country Club, about putters and how/when to use them. Doug also talks about using public land for your outdoors activities, the Bank of Utah golf championship, and much more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's Doug Fike. All right, Saturday Morning starts now.
And I picked up a set of headphones that don't
work in here because I left mine, I think on
my desk. I had them in my hand. I may
have put them down by the printer. I'm not really sure.
If Frankie, if you can just kind of backtrack where
i'd have been, that would be absolutely awesome, because my

(00:24):
headphones are somewhere between hither and yawn and this little
jacket and working in here. Let me see something. Hold
on one second, Yeah, these thays, Oh yeah, they do work.
So I'm gonna come over here. Wow, that's loud. I'm
gonna come over here and hopefully I'll get my own
headphones back in here. And I had that same situation

(00:46):
I've had before. Wow, oh this is terrible. Now I
can't do that either. I'm just gonna have to wing
it right now until we get to the end of
the first segment because there's horrible feedback and way everybody's
had some trouble. Maybe it's storm related. I don't know.
My buddy down the dial was off the broadcast part.

(01:06):
Fortunately they were able to get out other ways, and
that's good. For all of us who like the outdoors.
Mickey and I our friends, we go way way back,
and we have some good conversations sometimes Saturday mornings in
the middle of the morning, after we've kind of settled out. Cob,
what a night, Huh, Holy cow, wind and rain and
thunder and lightning. For I don't know. At my house,

(01:28):
it was almost an hour and there was absolutely nothing
I could do about it. I thought, for sure I
brought those things in here. I'm second guessing myself. In
any event, it was about I want to say about
three twenty two twenty or three twenty I can't even
remember now. No, it's two twenty two, twenty two thirty

(01:50):
somewhere in there. And the worst of it lasted a
solid i'd say, thirty or forty minutes at my house. Uh,
and then it kind of eased up, and then there
was some real thunder and lightning, the big league flashing
through the windows and all that stuff, and we had
I don't know, I think at least three maybe four

(02:11):
times that the power very briefly thankfully went out. I
don't know what Center Point did over the summer to
fix all the problems we had from last year. When
barrel came through and I had no power for like
eight or nine days. I don't know what they've done,
but knock on wood, it seems to be working. The

(02:34):
power would go out and then within fifteen twenty seconds
or so I think was about the worst of it,
it would come back on, which you would think would
be no big deal. What difference does it make if
the power goes on and off like that, it just flickers.
And most of our appliances have backup power, back up batteries,

(02:55):
so even if there's a clock on it, it's not changed.
My little arm clock has a backup battery, so if
it goes out for a little while, it kind of
just stays on. It doesn't lose its memory on when
alarms go, it doesn't lose its memory of what time
it is. And actually, the last time before, when I
finally felt like I could go back to sleep and

(03:17):
feel comfortable about it, I went ahead and set an
alarm on my phone, knowing that that would take care
of it one way or the other. And then when
I was awakened by my phone finally, oh great, I
had said it. Well, it wasn't much. It was only
five minutes earlier than I had thought it would be,
but it was still five minutes that I would like

(03:38):
to have had after being up for the better part
of thirty or forty minutes, at least maybe forty five. Anyway,
that stuff is behind us now. If the radar's right
by the way, there's a neighbor near me whose alarm system.
Everybody else I think the power goes out and the
power comes back on. The power goes out and the
power comes back on. Well, there's when the power goes out.

(04:02):
Nothing happens when the power comes back on. Their alarm
lets them know that's the powers back on for about oh,
I don't know, five seconds, which is when you're hearing
a very nearby alarm. That's pretty eye opening and awakening
and alarming. But we're used to it and we get

(04:23):
through it and we're all good friends, good people. Oh
that's that's a very little thing. I'm not even gonna
bother them with it. I'm sure it drives them crazy too,
because it's at their house. Seven one three two one
two five seven nine. I tell you what, hold off
on calls, if you would, until we get the second
segment and I can figure out what's going on with
this headphone jack in here once again, I don't know.

(04:45):
I don't know what they do Frankie over the between
Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. But this is kind of
a recurring theme, isn't it. Well, I guess I don't know.
I can't hear you though. Never mind, never mind, that's
so free emails. I could do emails. I can get
them back and forth. I've got one i'm looking at

(05:06):
right now that I need to take care of, and
I will do that as we speak. You know, I
really the little bit of whether we got last night,
that's okay because we could be down. This is in
all caps, and when the person who gets it gets it,
just know that I didn't mean to PLoP it out

(05:27):
there in all caps. It's just where I was when
I was doing my prep. So, in any event, the
issue down in the Caribbean right now is I don't
know if she's a hurricane quite yet, but she will
be probably today, Hurricane Melissa. I'm gonna call it, just
to be on the safe side. Actually, I can find out.
I've got it on my laptop here. I was looking

(05:48):
at it earlier, and what a horrible, horrible message is
let me get to there. I'll go to here. I'll
go down to here and click National Hurricane Center Official.
Right now, she is still a tropical storm, probably today,
almost certainly by tomorrow she becomes a hurricane and is

(06:09):
going to spin up pretty quickly into a major hurricane.
And it seems almost though the weather pattern has Melissa
trapped right in where she is, which is a little
bit south of Cuba, pretty much gonna hammer Jamaica and

(06:32):
Haiti's gonna get a hit. I mean, there's all kinds
of all kinds of damage is gonna be done because
that thing is predicted to just be sitting there, kind
of like Harvey did to us with the rain. But
this one is going to be sitting on top of
that little region of the Caribbean as a major hurricane
for several days, and there's just no telling what could

(06:56):
happen down there. It's not gonna run away. It's finally
gonna leave and go back out into the Atlantic Ocean
where it belongs, not soon enough to finally fall apart
and wither and die on the vine. But man, that
one's gonna be That one's going to be significant. So
if you lost power for fifteen minutes last night. Just

(07:18):
remember you're not down there in the Caribbean where you
were about to get just belted in both jawbones by
a big old Ham sized fists. Around here, the overnight
storm might have shut down a few golf courses around
town at least through the morning, I hope not for
those of you who have tea times. But on the

(07:40):
plus side, really all of our courses needed that water.
They desperately needed that water. The lakes where I play
mostly have been drawn down significantly in the last few days,
and the pumps are running at both ends of the
course replenishing those lakes as fast as they can, but
just not fast enough. There's one leg that hasn't been

(08:04):
pulled down as far as it is now in probably
I don't know, three four years, and they've got it
down now. And there are eight billion golf balls along
the left side of one particular green. It's a very
popular hole for people to try to reach the green
in two and a very popular thing with the the

(08:29):
whoever's setting the pins out there to kind of tend
to put them on the put those pins on the
left hand side of the green, which is the closest
to the water out of some diabolically cruel move on
that person's part. And I mean there are stacks now,
I wouldn't be surprised. I didn't look too closely, but
I wouldn't be surprised, true confessions, if there aren't at

(08:51):
least one or two balls in that pile down there
with the iHeart logo on them. And I don't give
those away over there, so those would be errant shots
of my own. I bet I'd bet good money there's
at least one. If you pulled all the golf balls
out of there right now, I bet for sure you
could find at least one, and then if you came

(09:13):
back up the fairway a little bit, you could probably
find another one or two. Oh maybe one from this
past Monday. As a matter of fact, I did. I
splashed one over there. I hit the ball really well.
It just moved laterally a little bit more than I
had hoped and or expected. A crazy little day that was.

(09:34):
I'll tell you what, Frankie, I'm gonna go ahead and
take this break a little bit early so I can
run over there and get my headphones and see if
that makes a difference in this jack, because if it doesn't.
I'm gonna have to move everything down to the other
end of the console to get this job done, and
I want to do this job right today. On the
way out, I'll remind you that hunting season is well,
it's here. It's here if you're a dove hunter, and

(09:57):
it's about to be here if you're a deer hunter,
or a duck hunter or a goose hunter. Next Saturday,
November the first is opening Day. That means that's how
little time you got TwixT here and yon to get
out to American shooting centers and dial in your rifles
or get your shotgun motion back, get your mojo back

(10:19):
from your shotgun in days of last year. I don't
know if you remember all the birds you missed last year.
You probably only remember the really good shot you made,
But you missed a lot too, Probably most of us do.
If that's the case, get out there and get some instruction.
They have professional instructors in every shooting discipline. They'll take
care of you. They'll get you back on point, get

(10:39):
you back to punching bull's eyes with your rifle, get
you back to breaking clay targets from every different direction
and speed, and all of that stuff. Practice. Good practice
makes perfect, practice makes permanent. And if all you're doing
to improve your shooting is going out into the blind
and kind of crossing your fingers and hoping for the best,

(11:01):
you're not gonna get any better. It's a lot more
fun when you're knocking down birds and you can get
your limits pretty easily, and then just kind of relax
a little bit and maybe wait for a specific kind
of duck come flying through the blind or through the spread,
or maybe a big blue blue goose that you want
to get mounted somewhere. We might have some geese down

(11:23):
this year. I just I have a good feeling about
getting a few more geese, So you better be ready
and American Shooting Centers will get you there. Three sporting
place courses, ten trap and skeet fields, rifle and pistol
from five yards to six hundred yards. They've got it all.
Five stands, beginners area for wing shooting, pop up silhouette
range for twenty two's West tim Or Parkway between Katie

(11:45):
and Highway. Six American Shootingcenters dot Com. All right here
we go. I think this is gonna work. Boy, somebody
needs to put some oil on this thing. Holy cal
see here that freaky. It sounds like a burrow? Do

(12:09):
you hear that? Just sound like a donkey to you?
Listen one more time to see if you can hear it.
Hang on, no, never mind, it's not working. Grab that phone.
We'll see what happens. Let him know what's going on.
To see here, back to that's kind of funny on

(12:32):
the fishing side around here on the fishing side, And
we're gonna get to a lot of it as we
go through the program. You've got shorter days, cooler air temps,
falling water temperatures, and overnight last night an hour or
so of hard rain in most of the state. That
adds up to what I guess could be a pretty
good day for bass fishermen today now that everything's behind us,

(12:56):
except I guess if you live over in far East Texas,
you may still be getting a little bump. But I
haven't looked quite not quite close enough to know whether
it's doing anything yet. I spent most of the five
minutes I had during that break taking care of this good,
golly messed up little phone jack we've got again. But

(13:16):
it could be worse. It always can be worse. That's
the way I look at it. I used to get
flustered by stuff like this, but I've done it so
long now it's just it just is as they as
they say what it is. How back to where was
I there?

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was talking about how much of
these golf courses needed the water. And I'll dig into
this maybe a little bit more during the nine o'clock hour.
At least there's some golf we can talk about, some
professional stuff going on, and I'll go into a little
bit of that as well. But the bottom line is
around here the courses needed the water. So just if

(13:57):
you have to forfeit your tea time this morning, is
it's sloppy, wet, and it's cart path only if it's
even open. A lot of these courses may hold off
on letting people onto the golf course for a couple
of hours and at least let get let the big
puddles get out of the way. The last thing you
want to do on a wet golf course is put

(14:18):
golf carts on it, because once they're on it, a
lot of the people who especially daily feed courses that
don't charge a lot, because some of those people don't
really and it's not because of what it's charged. I
don't know whatever it is. There are just some people
who don't care about the golf course they're playing because

(14:41):
they're not going to go back to it for a while,
so they'll just got a puddle between you and the ball.
That's okay, drive across the puddle. It's okay. It's okay
if you make two inch deep dents in the fair
way for fifteen yards. No, it's not okay if you're
on that golf course at all, play and play by
the rules so that you don't have to come in

(15:05):
next time behind somebody like that same person who doesn't care.
It's golf courses. They have a hard time enforcing the
rules because there are people scattered out over three hundred
and fifty acres and you got maybe one, one, maybe
two marshalls on a very well patrolled course trying to

(15:26):
keep things going, and it's really hard for them to do. Okay,
now I can't get over there. It is okay. Let
me go get Dave.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
Dave.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
What's up? David? Hey Dave? Okay, let me put him
back on hold. Oh there, you are? You catching a
fish or you hear me?

Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (15:44):
I got you man.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
No, hey, no, no, no, the thunder boomers they came through
about thirty thirty old here.

Speaker 5 (15:50):
You know, I'm.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
Eight thirty boat launch. But I mean I'm only two
minutes or five minutes from here. Yeah and yeah, and
it wasn't too too bad. You know, knock over a
couple of things here and there in the you know,
some of the plants in the yard over here. But no,
but now I'm down here. Uh, they're gonna have a
swim of being over here. These big yeah, they got

(16:15):
a big giant orange booy things that they didn't have
to go swim around like three four or five times
Lord to be close to eighty people.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Now, good for them. Huh.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
I don't watch, I said. All I could do. All
I can do is a backstroke, maybe with a live
jacket on.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
You get some water wings, Dave, go to go to
the store and get some water wings. Man, dive in,
put on your speed out. I just jump.

Speaker 5 (16:45):
Oh no.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
I went over there to doctor Simms and they, uh,
they had me laid down my neck to the right
and he comes in and he started talking.

Speaker 5 (16:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:57):
I called James Flogg and I told Captain James Fogg
and I told him that I'm gonna be putting the
needle in you over here there. Maybe they have me
laughing so hard. Now in about a couple of days,
that's all gonna be good. Hey, uh wait wait then
uh oh and then uh. I took two packages of
that Bellville uh Hamburg meat out and I'm gonna go

(17:20):
up I'm gonna run up here to the story and
get some ingredients to get all that. We're to make
some meat load. I don't know if I told you
she ordered the turkey. We're going to pick it up, man. Yeah,
that was the pecane smoke turkey. We're gonna go pick
that up. And then we're gonna be going to Austin
up there the sons and for that. And then she

(17:41):
ordered also ordered some of the she likes the hot
and spicy breakfast sauces. But yeah, but and then real
quick last night I went up there dressed up the
beetle juice at the American Leason, and I had I
had a tabouflage. I had a wife that I put
some unter's green kind of camouflage bucket on their shoulders,

(18:05):
and they had all the candy and I was jumping
around everything with them kids. They had such a good
time fishing booth. They had a fishing booth, they had
a toss of ring booth, they had a bowling boots.

Speaker 5 (18:18):
It was just wonderful.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
Bud all right, right now it's not sprinkling. Uh, it's
just it's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
I've been watching that one guy casting.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
I've been watching the weather or the radar, and it
appears that we're in by about ten or eleven o'clock
this morning. It'll just be an ugly memory. I think
we're gonna be okay, I don't I don't want to deal.

Speaker 4 (18:43):
With it afternoon this afternoon, about this afternoon, you.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
Know, I'm hold on, let me open this thing up
a little bit.

Speaker 4 (18:50):
They're saying that they're saying it's going to be another
come through. That's why I may come up there and
start fishing before it comes in.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah, I heard about some of that. But I'm looking
now all the way out to I'm looking all the
way out to one o'clock here, and everything that's coming
across the state between about eleven and one is mostly
north of us. There's not anything that looks like what
we had. And then looking back, see there's two bands here.

(19:19):
If you look at the radar right now, there's the
big band that went through a little while ago, and
then there's kind of that one behind it, But it
looks like almost all of that is going to pass
north of US Dave, and then behind that it's it's
clear all the way out to Ensenada. You know, Phoenix.
You can't find a cloud between here and Phoenix once
this gets through. So hopefully that second band they kept

(19:41):
telling everybody was gonna be just as bad as the first,
is gonna be a minor a little bit of sprinkles
now north of Houston up toward Huntsville, maybe yeah, but
not down here. It doesn't look like there's going to
be much of nothing. So fingers crossed.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
Yeah, I'll just keep it. And then, like I said, then,
you know, I always kind of kind of go in
on the radar thing over.

Speaker 5 (20:06):
There and figure it out.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
But hey, when you were saying about some of these
older guys that dress up for with their swim suit,
oh lord, you gotta close your eyes, you know, that's.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
All you can. You can't unsee things like that. That's
like when I was down there wadefishing at surfside and
I cannot get this out of my head. It never
will leave my head. And it was just horrible. There's
it was super crowded. Everybody's wadefishing. There's trout being caught everywhere,
and I was just trying to find a place where
I could get in without overcrowding somebody. And there's this
one guy standing out there. He got a big old

(20:39):
floppy hat on his head, you know, and he's waiting
back in, and I think it good man, I'll just
go take his spot. And he's wading in, and I'm
getting my stuff out of the truck and getting ready
to jump into water and wade back out past him.
And he comes up onto the second bar, or actually
onto the first sandbar, I guess. And I figured I

(20:59):
found out why he was all by himself in the
surf when the surf was full of fish. He was
out there fishing in a hat and a speedo, that's
all he had on. And yeah, like, I can't unsee that, man,
I just can't.

Speaker 6 (21:12):
And let me just know what my.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
Bathing suit, Yep, it's a it goes down to about
my middle of my thighs, sure, and it's a it's
an American flag I'll put.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
This as gently as I can on the image that's
in my head. Now, Okay, his next his next triple
cheeseburger with bacon will not be his first. Okay, you
get it, Okay.

Speaker 6 (21:38):
Sir, you follow me.

Speaker 4 (21:41):
He was a large man tonight. I don't want to.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
Oh yeah, you think about that. Think about it as
soon as you see that meat loaf come out of
the oven, Dave, Speedo, It's gonna go in your head Speedo.
Oh lord, go away, go away. This is too much,
all right, man, audios could heavens? Yeah, that was. I
hate to even tell the story again like I did,

(22:06):
but that is the one outdoors image. I love the
outdoors and everything about it, but that's the one day
I wish I could forget, just just let it get
out of my head. But it won't. And it's funny
more than anything else, it really is. But yeah, that guy, Honestly,
I think he was a genius. Because the surf had

(22:27):
been so crowded that week, there were so many fish
being caught that literally the surf side beach front about
from oh a couple of miles go over the big
bridge and go down about two and a half three
miles and then from about there it seemed like almost
all the way to San Luis Pass there were people
in the water every fifty seventy five yards. And then

(22:51):
here's this guy all by himself. And I couldn't figure
out why until he got into shallow water, and then
I knew why. But I do believe that he was
a genius in a way because he by dressing up
in costume in a in a weird costume. On top
of that, for most of us, he had established this

(23:13):
no fly zone all around him and nobody wanted to
fish close to him and whatever. Uh so it worked
for him. Seven one three two seven ninety Email me
Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot. Come so glad I found
a little place where I can sit. I've got my
stuff all scattered out over here. It's a smaller space.

(23:33):
It's kind of like moving in moving from a uh
where I was earlier would be described like as a
two bedroom apartment right Frankie, where I was sitting, there's
ample room or elbow room. There's all kinds of room
to spread all my stuff out. And now I've moved
into a studio where if I'm watching TV and feel
like I want to go to bed, I just roll over,

(23:53):
turn off the light. Belleville Meat Market out there on
Highway thirty six, about fifteen minutes north Sealy, fifteen minutes
south of Hempstead, very easy to find. They found it.
He and his wife went out there and bought one
of those turkeys that's going on now, the pecan smoke
delicious turkeys. They're averaging about eleven to thirteen pounds, which

(24:14):
is gonna make a pretty good meal for anywhere ten
to twelve people. So and since it's just David, his wife,
maybe me, you, and about six or eight other people
can just drive up there and have some of that
turkey they're having. They're gonna have leftovers. They've got stuffed
pork tenders. They've got that. You can get them stuff
with jalapeno cream cheese, sweet chipotle cream cheese. That's what

(24:35):
I like. Boot An stuff, pork chops, pans, sausage, all
kinds of things at Belleville Meat Market. They don't do salads,
so don't go up there looking for one of those.
They have I think it's two dozen plus flavors of
pecan smoke sausage. They have all kinds of appetizers and
all kinds of snack foods like the dry stick and

(24:56):
the turkey jerky and the beef jerkey. Been there a
lo long time, They're gonna be there a long time too.
Fifteen minutes north of Sealy, fifteen minutes south of Hampstead
on thirty six. Or if you can't get there, get
online and they'll ship just about anything in that store
right straight to your door. Belleville MeetMarket dot Com is
the website Belleville MeetMarket dot com. Fie, Welcome back, Dougpike

(25:24):
Show on Sports Talk seven ninety. Thank you for listening.
I certainly do appreciate that. On the on the backside
of that storm that passed through here, I'm pretty well
convinced that most of the rest of it. And hey,
I'm no weather forecast, but I'm watching the weather channels,
moving radar, the future cast radar, and that second wave

(25:45):
that a lot of people talked about yesterday is probably
gonna pass. If you're north of it ten, you may
get it. If you're south of I ten, probably gonna be. Okay,
let me go see what's on Brian Treadway's mind here. Brian,
what's up man?

Speaker 7 (26:01):
Well, we are on the eve of hunting season.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
Earlier Holy Cow, one week, one week from the real
hunting season.

Speaker 7 (26:12):
That's exactly right. So a lot of people that your
listeners are like, you know, I can't afford a lease.
I don't own a bunch of land. You know, I'd
like to go try hunting. What do I do? Where
do I go? Interesting statistics for you, Texas has roughly
a million acres of public hunting.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 7 (26:34):
And so now Texas is a pretty big state, as
we all know, so you had to kind of figure
out where to go. But your listeners just up in
the Conroe area have Texas's largest w NA Wildlife Management
area within the San Houston National Forest. It's within driving
distance of everybody. And it's not just deer. You can

(26:56):
shoot pigs and there's even some up there that you
can take as well. It's there, it exists, and I
just point out, like it's there if you want to
access them.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Hey, well, I talked to faux pro Forrest Wilkinson, I
think it was this past weekend about it. He bought
one of those public lands passes what I can't recall
what they're exactly called, but he he bought the access
to all of that public land, and he and I
think it's a nephew. Maybe we just went and scouted
four or five places before duve season. They were trying

(27:31):
to find some place to go dove hunting, and they
found a couple of places that had some promise, but
they also and a couple of the places they went
tripped over some nice little ponds full of bass, and
just all kinds of things you could do if you
own property like that. But well, I guess in a
way we do as citizens of Texas. We own it.
We just all share it. And I would be willing

(27:53):
to bet that ninety percent of those almost a million
acres are empty most days.

Speaker 7 (28:02):
You're right, it's just it's an education knowledge and what
we have out there. It's just getting to go do it.
And you've got to go out and explore. Nobody's going
to point out their public huntings boy to you and
say hey, come over here, and.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
No, hey, I found a great place back in the
woods where nobody ever goes, and it's loaded with deer.
Follow me right, I'm not saying a word.

Speaker 7 (28:25):
I don't get my flounder spots up, So you know,
it's the same thing. But there are some threats out
there when it comes to public hunting land, not just
in Texas but also across the nation, and I'll briefly
touch on them. Persure, when you do hunt public land,
some of that land is private land that's being leased
by the state, right and we are Stewart's when we

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actually approach that. So littering is a quick way for
that landowner not to renew that lease of the state
the following year. So that's a threat that other people
have out there of Hey, if you're hunting public land,
it's very very important we help do our best and
treat it like our own and keep it clean. The
owners don't want their land trash out.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
I wouldn't. Yeah, the first time I saw that, I'd
bail out on the program. I'm not putting up with that.

Speaker 7 (29:13):
Go ahead absolutely, and the state, the State of Texas
actually leases private land, so we have more areas behind.
I got to speak to one of the guys this
week about it. The second thing is there are a
lot of forces that want to take away your rights
to public huming land. That's trost the nation. Two big

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ones that are recently in the story a senator out
of Utah, Last Angeles. I think it's like Lee put
In or tried to sneak in the Big Beautiful Bill
a sell of three million acres of land in the
Western United States, not in Texas, to sell off to
private entities. Hey, they don't need it. They nobody uses this,

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not just hunters, hikers, campers, people that enjoy the outdoors,
and they were trying to sell it all. So understand
that there are people trying to take it away, and
there are organizations that very much are against anybody selling
public family that This is.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
A prime example, Brian, of how many people there are
out there because they don't care about it, they don't
use it, they don't think anybody uses it, and they
have no real skin in the game when it comes
to outdoor recreation. So they just we don't need that,
Just sell it, put a warehouse on there, and that's

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the last thing we needed. These natural resources of ours
are worth every ounce of whatever it takes to protect them.

Speaker 7 (30:41):
They are. So another recent case that actually just went
to the Supreme Court. In different parts of state, there's
public honeyland, but they don't all match up border to border.
Some of them matchup corner corner to corner. This is
the corner crossing case. And so in this particular case
ull Wyoming High they went to a corner of a

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of a map and they were going to cross over
to the next corner. They jumped the fence corner and
a corner. The landowners on both sides filed trespassing charges. Yeh,
that there, and this case went all the way up
to the top and said, well, that's our airspace. The
Supreme Court came back and said, well, they still didn't
touch your land. They had to go to some of

(31:24):
the highest courts to get through instead of precedence for this.
In Texas, there are some things where there's parts of
public land that we have access to areas like access
to water sure that nobody really knows what department maintains.
And when nobody maintains it, the private landowner right next

(31:45):
door starts maintaining it, and then he gets tired of
maintaining and he just spends it off and makes it
its own. And so in North Texas there's a big
case that's being fought and right now in your state,
and this particular case is gonna move to the highest
court where it was the Northern Trinity where guy's accesses
to go hunt and fish, and that landowner came and

(32:07):
just put a fence across them, yep, and kept you
all of you listeners from access in that.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
And they're out there, yeah.

Speaker 7 (32:15):
They are, and they just what you do.

Speaker 4 (32:17):
You know.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
One of the things I think that bothers some of
these landowners, honestly is the risk of somebody ingress and
egress on their property to get to public land to hunter,
fish or whatever, and if they slip and break their ankle,
they're going to sue the landowner. That's that's the kind
of society we live in now. And I understand sometimes
why they're doing what they're doing, but I do agree

(32:39):
that if it's public land, we need access. And maybe
there's some sort of step that's missing in the whole
process whereby these these landowners could be protected from frivolous lawsuits.

Speaker 7 (32:53):
There is, and so, you know, other things that the
listeners can do is understand any the organizations that we joined,
the five to one c threes and what they do
and how to protect it. When I was getting shut
off from certain flounder spots that I used to love
to walk into I call a great organization that I've
been a part of, I feel like my whole adult life,
which is cca some of those guys they said, listen,

(33:17):
we're here to protect the resource, not the land and
access to it. And the same thing for Ducks Unlimited.
They're there to really protect the resource and build more
areas to kind of benefit that. These are no hot
hacks against them, it's just what those purposes are. So
one of the five to one C threes that I

(33:37):
got involved with is called backcountry Hunters and Anglers. I
want to put that out there. It's naturally recognized that
they really focus on protecting your access as hunters and
anglers to the land that we have. We have a
small Texas chapter here, but they're nationwide. But during that
big beautiful build, that Texas chapter generated roughly thirty thousand

(33:58):
calls to Center and Center for Corning and that do
not vote for this. This doesn't affect us in Texas,
but this affects the nation. They finally yeah, they finally
took their phone off the hook and that we get
it that day that they generated. But that's what you
have to do. You have to stand up for that.
So so where little plug.

Speaker 5 (34:19):
On that order.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
All right, one minute on flounder, what do you got?

Speaker 5 (34:23):
All right?

Speaker 7 (34:23):
Water timp's still too warm? Yeah, and you not run
the family pass. Uh, here's the thing. They're stalking up
ready to make the move. You're gonna go to those passes.
You're only gonna catch the small males. Go stay up
in the bay. Look full points. Look for anywhere that
gets water flowing outgoing time. That's the key. The dish
will get in shallower water than six inches. Look for bait, drag,

(34:47):
a gold or anything flashy. Of course, thing or mullet
can't go wrong.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
Oh yeah, thank you, Brian. Great to hear from you.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
Man.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
I'm so yeah. I kind of agree with you that
we have all these acres and acres and millions of
acres in the country of public land. But if we
can't access and then don't do us any good. And
the access is critical to maintaining the to helping the
people who truly care about elk and bears and deer

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and wolves and and well we don't care so much
about coyotes and wolves. But nonetheless they're all out there
for a purpose, and that they all belong in the
right numbers. And if if we, as consumers of the
outdoors aren't there to monitor those populations and keep them
in balance, then it's gonna go. It's gonna go sideways

(35:38):
really really quick. And that's not anything anybody wants.

Speaker 7 (35:43):
It's true. Just look at the candy berry that you
used to get that.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah, turn our backs for five minutes,
and it's neighborhoods and warehouses. Now, Oh well, buddy, yeah,
thank you. We'll see who he is. So right, And
it's imperative upon all of us, guys my age and

(36:08):
a little bit younger and a little bit older, some
of them still a little bit older than me. It's
still around. We remember how good that was, and we
remember year by year watching little pieces of that prairie
get gobbled up and get sold off. And part of
it is just inevitable. There's families, long standing farming families

(36:32):
raise their children. They want better lives for their children,
so they send them off to a university somewhere to
get a college education that they never got. And they
have four or five kids in the family. And when
somebody passes, a decision has to be made about that
family farm. This happened on the prairie more than once
in the last twenty years. Decision has to be made, Well,

(36:56):
nobody really wants to run the farm. They want a
big city They went and studied to become something that
is a big city job, maybe an engineer, maybe whatever,
And so they don't want the farm. Their brothers and
sisters don't want the farm really in its entirety. So

(37:16):
they sell it, and they sell the property, or they
keep little pieces of it for weekend entertainment for themselves
and their families, put by a put a big, nice
new home on it so the kids and the grandkids
and everybody can come out and play. But the farm
gets sold off and fragmented, and it becomes what's out

(37:39):
there now, right around that katy prairie sometime from five
to twenty nine. This is a little piece of it
five twenty nine south to ninety and then say from
twenty eight to fifty five out past Brookshire. And understand
that when you're riding around out there, that when I
was out there hunting, there wasn't anything taller than about

(38:01):
maybe a two story farmhouse out there. There were no neighborhoods,
there were no warehouses, and now that's pretty much all
you got, and that's why there are no geese on
that prairie anymore. Pretty sad really from my point of view,
it it breaks my heart that this generation can't experience

(38:22):
that now. Is the hunting goods still? Yeah, duck hunting's
great out there still, and there still are pockets of
geese out there, but it's just not what it was.
And maybe we can talk about that some more a
little bit later. Anyway, on the way out here Timber
Creek Golf Club, I'm gonna shoot Mike Griswold a note
just to see how bad they got hammered by that

(38:42):
rain overnight and whether they're up and running. I'll try
to get him during the break if I can. On
f twenty three fifty one in friends, would just a
little ways west of the Gold Freeway, twenty seven holes
that meander all through a beautiful piece of property. Really,
there's some big creeks that kind of run through there.
I bet they're and speaking of there are enough bunkers

(39:04):
to keep you honest, but not enough to drive you
crazy and just make you want to go through your
clubs in the lake. Great food, a great teaching staff,
if you're having trouble with your swing. With JJ Woods
and his staff, the food and the grill is great,
great place to run a tournament. I bet I've played
in two dozen tournaments down there at least over the years,
and then just gone down there for fun as many

(39:26):
times as I could. I always keep my golf clubs
in the car, and the next time that I just
get a wild hair and show up at timber Creek
and put my name on the list won't be the first.
Timber Creek Golf Club dot com is a website. Set
yourself with tea time there right now, timber Creek goolf
Club dot com. Oh my, only wish I could play

(39:48):
keyboards like that. Holy cow, that's some fast fingers right there. Frankie,
you're a music connoisseur. Do you appreciate keyboards, more stringed instruments,
more of the brass? Oh gosh, I like all of
them too, all I Yeah, I'm with you. And I

(40:10):
was fascinated by music when I was younger and really
liked it a lot, did some very amateurish singing and
stuff like that with some friends of mine. I dabbled
with keyboards for a while and actually had a few
things that I had composed myself that were put onto
the memory of a keyboard I used to have. And

(40:31):
I'm boring anybody who's heard this before too, But somehow,
some way that keyboard got unplugged and the battery back
up in there, like four D cell batteries that could
run the thing on that power died too, and with
that went the memory of those recorded songs like Golly.

(40:54):
And now it's been so long that I can't there's one,
maybe two that I could play part of and remember,
but the rest of it is long long gone. Unfortunately.
That's what happens when you get old. That's what happens,
young whipper snepper. By the way, moving to the far
end of this console, there's a little bit of trash

(41:16):
can in here, well, standard issue office trash can. Let's
call it the one you'd have by your desk. It's
about that size. It is that size, that's what it is.
And from my original seat, and Frankie about for this,
the shot from there with a crumpled piece of paper,
the shot from where I normally sit to that can
on the side of the studio over there would equate

(41:39):
to a free throw range. If it was basketball, would
you say, oh yeah, where I am now though, is
full on. I'm at the three point line right. So
during the last segment, I had a piece of paper
that I decided to wad up and throw away and
just guessing because I've got hands in my face. I
eve these two monitor and the whole console. I can't

(42:02):
see the bucket, but I know where it is because
I'm familiar with the court. So I let go and
I think, guysh that thing had to just absolutely just swished.
It had to be a perfect shot. And when I
got up to go get coffee after or when the
break started a minute ago, I walked down there and
looked Frankiett sitting like touching the bucket. It's touching the

(42:26):
trash can dead in the middle. But on the floor,
I was like a two inches short from the perfect
blind shot. Hands in my face, I'm getting fouled. On
the way up and on the way down. Oh well,
march on, march on back to the coast. For a minute,
I found it was really interesting. I was looking at

(42:48):
the wind because we had all this weather coming through
and trying to figure out what the prospects were down there.
And that was actually earlier than I could see, pardon me,
earlier than I could see the cameras down on the beach.
I'm trying to get one of them, get my saltwater
recon camera to fire up again now while there's daylight.

(43:10):
But what I did find down there was some wind
values that really confused me. For example, it went from
dead calm at see where was it was dead calm
at Bay City? It was dead calm at the Naval
Air station down in Corpus. It was twenty four miles

(43:31):
an hour at the Sabine river mouth, twenty five miles
an hour in Port O'Connor. And then there was someplace
else farther down the coast where it was kind of
a train wreck to I can't remember exactly where that was,
but the bottom line was it was it was all
over the board, like okay. Sometimes sometimes it's all come through,

(43:52):
sometimes it hasn't. We don't know what's going on, but
the bottom line is give it some time to settle out.
No telling what you'll find. Forrest sent me something and
what is that? I'll have to look at that later
seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety email
on me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. A couple
of things from the Parks and Wildlife Department came in. Actually,

(44:14):
I got four different emails, which is unusual for them.
Four different emails from the Parks and Wildlife Department about
various and sundry things they wanted to share with we
the media, in turn hoping that we the media would
share it with all of you. And I think at
least three of them warrant some attention, not the least
of which is November two. Brian Treubway and I just

(44:35):
talked about how November one, a week from today, is
opening day of deer and duck and goose seasons. But
number two or November two, that Sunday, and I think
they're I don't know whether this is deliberate, and if
it's deliberate, I don't know why, because it could be
one of two reasons. But the bottom line is it's

(44:57):
free admission day into the Texas State Parks that the
press release leads off. Have you always wanted to visit
the state park but never been? Make plans to visit
one of eighty nine Texas State parks on November second?
Exclamation point. That's the most overused by the way punctuation

(45:19):
mark in grammar or in writing. In honor of Texas
State Parks Day, a tradition born from twenty twenty three
centennial celebration, everyone can visit a state park for the
day for free. So what you can do is go out.
You can do all the day, use activities that you
would imagine doing in there, walking, hiking, biking, swimming, paddle boarding,

(45:41):
all kinds of things you can do. There's programs that
go on regularly at all these parks as well. And
it says here also ahead of Veterans Day, which is
November eleven, Texas State Parks reminds visitors of parkland passports
available to veterans, duty and Gold Star family members. Now,

(46:03):
these passports are available at zero costs. It's not going
to cost you a dime to get that pass, and
that pass gets you free entry to every Texas State Park,
which is a nice gesture on the on the part
of the Texas Park and walleyte Department. I think it's
a very good opportunity for people my age, a little

(46:24):
bit younger and a little bit older. Again, like there
aren't that there's a lot more younger than older than
me at this point in my life. But the bottom
line is, if you're a veteran and you'd like someplace
to just go get away from it all every now
and then, go go visit a park. Get that get
that passport, get that park Land passport, and go visit

(46:45):
some of these state parks. They're absolutely beautiful places I've
been to, probably not that many. I haven't been to
maybe twelve or fifteen state parks, but every one of
the ones I've been to in its own right is
is absolutely unique and beautiful, and the people who work
work there really can tell you about them. That's one
thing I like about the If you just go to

(47:07):
a state park and you get out and you have
a picnic with your family on some mode field, that's
cool if that's what you like. But if you'll stop
by the visitor center and take five ten minutes to
talk to somebody in there, Just walk in and say, hey,
tell me about the park, what's out there, what's out
there that I ought to go see, And you'll find

(47:28):
out that that park is way more than just you know,
just sidling off of the paved road and throwing out
a blanket on the grass. And eating a some fried
chicken and some coal slaugh and some potato salad. There's
way more than picnics to the state parks. There's all
kinds of wildlife out there. Speaking of wildlife, Oh my gosh,

(47:49):
I'm running late. I'll tell you when I get back
about where I went on Wednesday, kind of right in
the middle of the big city. But you wouldn't know
it once you get there. If I drove you to
where I was and had you blindfolded the whole way
there and we got out of the car, there's no
way you would be able to tell me where we were.

(48:10):
El Cubano's Cigars. You'd know that play if you walk
into one of those smoking lounges that Manny Lopez has
down there. One's in Texas City where he manufactured cigars,
and the others in League City. If I took you
in there blindfolded, you may not know exactly where you were,
but you'd know what kind of place you were in.
The aroma of fine custom cigars would be in the air.

(48:34):
And if you like that, that's where you probably need
to learn how to get to the place in Texas City,
as I mentioned, is a manufacturing facility as well as
being a smoking lounge where they make hundreds of cigars
every day they roll them. These are Cuban born people
who worked in Cuban cigar factories and have brought their

(48:54):
skills over here. Manny and his dad actually opened El
Cubano Cigars back in two thousand and six and now
it's still going strong and they're shipping cigars all over
the country every single day because they're that good and
because people want them, and around here many will. If

(49:15):
you want him to, he'll come out and put up
a little table in a canopy at your big event.
Maybe it's a wedding reception, maybe it's a golf tournament,
maybe it's a sporting clay shoot, whatever this gathering of
people is. If they like cigars, they're gonna love seeing
Manny there because he'll roll them a personal cigar right
then and there. Or he can bring plenty of cigars

(49:38):
with Let's say you work for XYZ Corporation. You've got
a big golf tournament, Well, he will put XYZ Corporation
bands on every one of the cigars he brings out
there for you, and so the people at your tournament
can take something home or maybe they'll smoke it right
there on the golf course whatever, but it'll have your

(49:58):
company's brand on it, which I think is pretty cool.
And on the boxes. He can do that too for
special occasions. El Cubano Cigars I think it's one hundred
and fifty different kinds, everything from very mild to very
robust tobaccos that come in from Central America, most of
them Cuban seed. By the way. It's the finest stuff
on the planet. Get some for yourself. There's no middleman too,

(50:21):
by the way, so you're not paying extra for the
cigars like you would have to anywhere else in this city.
This is one of only four dozen manufacturing facilities of
cigars in the entire country, and L Cubana is one
of them. Right down Texas City on Main Street. Go
down there. It's a kind of a cool place. Lcubanocigars
dot Com is a website. Elcubanocigars dot com. Holy cow,

(50:46):
second out of the programs already starting right now. Let
me check. Let me get over here and check emails
real quick. I didn't get a chance to during the break.
I was trying to cover some other stuff and I
don't want to neglect anything importance. Let's see that's okay.
Oh wait, I gotta go over here this sum when

(51:07):
I have to work off this little bitty screen on
my laptop after working at the desk all day on
two very large screens, it's really kind of weird, it is.
It's hard. It's hard to get ahead of all of it. Okay,
that's good, that's good. I'll take that down. That's not
what I want to see. Now we're cooking. Now we're cooking.
Let me get this back up here. That's going to

(51:29):
be today. Aha. Oh, let's see what happened here? Oh man,
tee it up right here with a little bit of
bad news. Let me see what happened here before I
tell you about it. Let's see here. This is from
Kevin that I really want to give you ment Give

(51:51):
a mention to the young man that was tragically killed
in Hitchcock this past weekend, twenty six years old. Guy
named Hayes Gardner, his dad and Kevin worked together down
there in Texas City on the water early, just like
in the middle of the night, around Harbor Walk and

(52:11):
somehow collided with a bridge for people on the boat.
And this fella young man passed away dead. Gum it.
I hate that. I hate that that. Apparently the bull
tie was pretty bad. One still in the hospital. The
other team two seem to have made it out, Okay,
go Lee. Boating accidents, hunting accidents, fishing accidents don't tend

(52:38):
to have tragic outcomes, but boating accidents, especially if there's
any speed involved, especially if the person in the boat
isn't wearing a PFD, And I'm as guilty as anybody, Okay,
I I tend not to put on a PFD just

(53:00):
for riding around from place to place in a boat.
And at my age and my physical capability level right now,
it's not like I'm totally out of shape. But it's
not like I could swim half a mile if I
had to in rough water. I don't know how far
I could swim in rough water, but I don't want
to find out. But every time I read a story

(53:22):
like this, I just I just wonder how it could
have been prevented. And I'm not trying to diminish the
the tragedy of what happened, period, end of story, but
it just it makes me want to make it better
next time. For whatever happened there? Who knows? Who knows? Gosh,

(53:42):
I hate that seven one three two two five seven ninety.
Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Kevin, thank you
for letting me know that. And yeah, just let the
family know that we're all kind of rooting form whatever
it takes. Holy cow, uh Keith ways in Ah, he's
going surfing today. Let's see what he's got going on.

(54:05):
Attached image shows me spinning that treble hook off that
ring been getting these Oh man, oh, I see what
he's doing now, Okay, hold on, I won't take a
look at this. He is modifying lures, which more of
us than you would think probably should do. Oh okay,
I see what he's doing now. Holy cow, that's that's

(54:26):
a big rig right there, big old slab seven on
three two one two five seven ninety Email on me
Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot Come. I did a story.
I bet it's been thirty years ago. That's how old
I am. About thirty years ago, I wrote a story
for Field and Stream about modifying lures just for bass fishing.

(54:48):
I didn't even get into the saltwater side of it.
And there are so many things that so many people
who you buy a lure and you throw it in
the water and you retrieve it the way you're supposed
to retrieve it, And some of us go, yeah, that works,
you get a bite on it. What are you going
to change? Why would you change it? But there are

(55:09):
others who walk among us, and I know Forrest is
one of them, Faux Pro is one of them. I'm
one of them. You throw a lure out there and
you want it to do something a little bit different.
What if you say, in your mind, what if like
a little pop ar? I bought pop rs for probably
a decade before I ran into them. Kind of think

(55:30):
of who showed me this? Who showed me this? But anyway,
if you understand what a pop r is, it's a
top water plug that has kind of a cupped front end,
so when you twitch the rod tip, it throws a
bunch of water forward. Well somebody it may have been
Will Kirkpatrick, it might or it might have been somebody

(55:53):
on Lake Conrad. I can't remember. Who might have been
Billy Mills. In any event, this guy says, hey, I
see you like popart. Oh yeah, I love him. He said,
try this one, and I throw it out there and
I start twitching it and it just doesn't seem to
be throwing as much water as mine. And what he

(56:13):
had done is taking a little file and just kind
of or a pocket knifef you can do it with
a pocket knife too, very gently. You got to be careful.
You got to be able to take the skin off
a tomato with a pocket knife to be able to
do what you have to do to that lure, which
is just shave that lip a little flatter at the
bottom so that instead of really with that sharp leading

(56:35):
edge catching water like a pitching wedge, it pushes water
more like a five iron, not quite so much. It
still spits water out in front a little bit, but
it's just not such a violent a violent movement of
water forward. And boy, there were days I can't even

(56:56):
remember what exact conditions he told me this would work
better for I honestly can't, but it did. It absolutely
worked better. And I got a hunch I would say,
like probably when the when bass are schooling in open
water and big open water, something like that would probably
work very well. Now, we used to throw clear top

(57:17):
waters at them with no lip at all, little dog
walking things. Clear spooks and stuff like that at those
top water bass. But yeah, up in the in shallow water,
if it's pretty calm where you don't want to scare
a bass out of the weeds and have it go
take off halfway across the lake with this blush, this
big old splash. The best thing to do is just

(57:41):
shave that bottom lip a little bit. Just shave that
bottom lip. Boy, I was gonna say something that would
have made a lot of people in this audience really
mad if I'd have said it. I'll tell Frankie off there.
It wasn't bad. It wasn't it wasn't dirty or anything.
It was just I'll tell him. I'll tell him. When
we get finished with this, I'm gonna go to black
Horse dig myself out of a whole black Horse Golf

(58:02):
Club up there on Fry Road, just a couple of
miles south of two ninety two great golf courses, the
North and the South. North is daily fee, South is
a private facility, and both of them are outstanding golf courses.
The daily fee course, the North course, still is a
little more open than average around here. So if you're

(58:24):
somebody who like me for the longest time, tended to
spray your drivers a little bit. That'd be a great
place to go play. If you want a more private experience,
take a look at membership in the South course, which
can also get you. There's an option there that also
gets you access to the North Course, so you get
both of them at black Horse. You get both courses

(58:46):
at Golf Club of Houston because these are all owned
by the same entity. And then you also get black
Hawk Country Club down there in Richmond where I play.
So five for one is what you're getting there, and
that's great if you like to mix it up a
little bit. Sometimes, if you've got a home course, you
like to go somewhere else just to see what's going
on and just to see some new ground. And that

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membership option through black Horse gets you that opportunity to
play five different golf courses, and all five of them
definitely different, definitely different personalities. I love them all though.
Black Golf Club dot Com is the website you can
set your own tea time right here, right now, black
Horse goolf Club dot Com. All right, welcome back to

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almost said fifty plus. Holy cal sleep deprived after those
thunderstorms kept me awake all night long. That's another song
title right there. Oh it wasn't so, Frankie. I had
a roof issue years ago that woke me in the
middle of the night during a very heavy rain that

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persisted on and off for several days, and there was
water getting in my house. Holy cow. I had a
little one years and years ago that was remedied within
twenty four hours by a very good roofing company, and
then I had this bigger one a couple of years
ago that really it just I woke up in the

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night hearing grip. It wasn't like it was a flood
coming in the house, but it was just a steady drip,
and I ended up having to put a bucket under
it until the guys could get out there, and it
actually took them a couple of times to get it
fixed where it didn't leak anymore. Thank goodness. It is
fixed now, knock on wood. And yeah, it wasn't like

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I had to go empty the bucket either, But it
was just the fact that there was water dripping from
the roof into my house that disturbed me considerably. But
we got it all taken care of. Uh, Frankie. I
got an email from Rick bice asking me about He
just said something about what do you do on a
rainy morning when you just got nothing to do? And

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then he says, you ask your phone dumb questions. And
so what he did was check into the names of
groups of animals, for example, a flock of birds or
something like that. So, just out of curiosity, since you
claim yourself not to be an outdoorsman, I'm gonna see

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if you can make a passing grade by by naming
what telling me what it's called. When you see a
group of something, for example, lions, you know that one. Huh?
What's a group of lions called pride? Correct? That's one.
That's one for one. Uh, there are three correct answers

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for a group of whales. What would one of those
three be? I don't know. Not a fish or a school.
No schools is for fish's I'll give you all three
of a pod. Oh, actually, a school did you say school?
Yes you did, didn't you?

Speaker 7 (01:02:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
Yeah, yeah, so you're two for two. A school of
I think a school of whales. It just kind of
is not flattering to the whales. They're much more majestic.
A school of guppies, yes, but not a school of whales,
a pod or a gam I didn't know that one.
Let's go for something a little more difficult. Since you're
two for two already. What about a group of zebras

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not a herd? I couldn't I, by the don't don't
worry because I couldn't have told you any one of
these three. Either you give up, yeah, give up? A zeal,
a dazzle or a cohort h. I mean, who knows? Okay,
now this one. If you if you had ten or
fifteen minutes and ten tries, you could probably come up

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with this one. But we don't, so don't don't waste
too much time on it. What is a group of
giraffes called uh throwing the towel? Yeah? A tower? How
about that? Yeah? I could kind of see that. I
can see that too, because they are majestic towering animals.

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It goes on and on. I'm not gonna I'm not
gonna beat you up and try to get you to
get do any more of these, because a lot of
them I didn't know either. A group of frogs I
would have never come up with. It just seems so
out of place as an army, an army of frogs,
sounds like they're taking over the neighborhood, doesn't it. Yeah,
but if they're toads, it's either a knot or a

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nab and spelled k nab. I never could have come
up with that in a million years. A group of flamingos?
Any shot you want to take a shot at that one?
And it's it's kind of a it's an associated word.
There's no way, there's no way. Don't worry about it.

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A flamboyance. How about that. Let's go talk to Alan.
Let me get my little cursor moving over there if
I can find it. There we go, Alan, what's up?
I didn't see you on over there. I'm kind of
sitting at a different spot. What you got?

Speaker 5 (01:04:03):
You know? It's okay? And a group of babboons is called.

Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
I have no idea Congress? Oh, well played, well played?

Speaker 6 (01:04:15):
Yeah the idiots?

Speaker 1 (01:04:18):
Yeah all right? So what do you need to know?

Speaker 3 (01:04:20):
Man?

Speaker 5 (01:04:22):
So on your hunting license?

Speaker 1 (01:04:24):
Yes, sir?

Speaker 5 (01:04:26):
What is up with the digital? Do you know anything
about the digital where you don't have to carry the
paper tag around?

Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
I bit the bullet and did that this year. But
here's how old school I am. I have up until
this year, I have always gone in somewhere and bought
the paper license and folded it up gently, yeah, and
put it in a walt This year what.

Speaker 5 (01:04:47):
I did, I'm about your age.

Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
Okay, well this year what I did was at the
nudging of Captain Scott and Noll. He said, man, I've
been doing it for six years, not a problem. I
went ahead and bought the digital license. But then I
also screenshotted that they send you a receipt to and
so I have, uh a screenshot of the receipt and

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I have that on my phone as a photograph somehow.
And then I also wrote down the license number. This
is where I went super old school Belton suspenders and
I wrote down the number and I put it on
a little piece of paper. And where did I put
it in my wallet? So I'm covered every way from Sunday.

Speaker 5 (01:05:30):
You know, okay, no, and I'm withy there. But as
far as.

Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
Tagging also electronic, you have to there's something you have
to put on the deer. I can't remember exactly what,
but you also then have to register that deer. I
think I don't know how many hours you've got, but
pretty much by the end of the day, I think
you have to have that thing registered with the state.

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And if Scott's listening, he could probably all and tell
us in that second and a half. I'm gonna go
during the break when we get there. Fact, we're almost
there now, I'll go during the break to the Parks
and Walleife department site. Because I read through it, and
the more I read through it to make you feel
any better allan, the more comfortable I got with the
whole process. If you just if you know how it works,

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it works very simply. If you don't like you and me,
you read it the first time and go, oh, man,
I don't know if I can do all this. Then
you read it again. Well that's not that hard. And
that's not that hard either. So yeah, it's just the
times we live in. Man.

Speaker 5 (01:06:35):
See, I thought I thought it was something like after
you after you drop your animal, you take a photo
of it and then you immediately just send it into somewhere.

Speaker 1 (01:06:47):
Yeah, that's kind of where I am. Yeah, I'll go
grab it up. I'll get it up.

Speaker 5 (01:06:52):
I'm listening and if you come up with something bad,
if not, I'll try to look at it now.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
I'll find it during the break or that or Scott
will call and tell us how to do it, but
I'll find it. I'm reading it. No worries, man, Thank
you appreciate it, you bet audios. Yeah, that's a good
call right there, and I'm glad he did because there's
a whole lot of people out there, probably in the
same boat that we are. First time with the digital license.
What happens when my deer falls over dead and I

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made a great shot, and I want to do everything
by the rules because that's Allan and me and ninety
nine point nine percent of the hunters in this state.
I got to take a little break here, and during
that break, I am going to look that up for
him and anybody else who's interested. It took me, however,
many years old. I've been buying licenses now to finally

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go digital, and I did it, and I don't think
I'm gonna have any problem. I've got all my endorsements,
I've got all of that. But we're gonna find out
what you do with the deer on your digital license
when we get back. Speaking of hunting, Carter's Country been
around for sixty plus years selling guns, Ammo and hunting
stuff all Houston, No sneakers, no snorkels, no footballs, no

(01:08:06):
baseball bats, just guns, ammo and hunting stuff, full service
range and gunsmithing up there at the flagship store on Treshweed,
just north of the big Airport. Two other big stores
in town here to make sure everybody can get what
they need and or want in this final week before
hunting season starts. You're running out of time. If there's

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stuff you want, Now's a good time to be in
Carter's Country too, because they've got their big annual, same
time every year red tag sale going on, hundreds of items,
all greatly reduced to make room for more stuff that's coming.
Carter's Country own and operated by the Carter family, the

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descendants of Bill Carter, one of my best friends when
I was at the newspaper and for a long time
here at the radio. He gave me opportunities and taught
me so much about hunting, and his family is carrying
on his tradition, carrying on his message of making sure
that anybody and everybody who needs something to make themselves

(01:09:08):
enjoy the hunting sports a little bit more tomorrow than
they're doing today. That's what's gonna be there at Carter's Country,
for you. Carterscountry dot com is the website. Go there,
check it out see if you can find one two
three dozen things you need and want. Carterscuntry dot Com

(01:09:30):
eight thirty six on Sports Talk seven to ninety The
Doug Quake Show. Thank you for listening. I certainly do
appreciate it. I found everything Alan and I needed to
put our worried minds at ease about these digital licenses
here in the age of AI, which, by the way,
I saw a story yesterday. I talked about it on
fifty plus very briefly, but nonetheless I talked about it.

(01:09:54):
AI isn't all it's cracked up to be. There are
on average, y'all want to say, it was forty something
percent of stories that AI generated about news events about
just about most things. If you just say give me
three hundred words or give me five hundred words on

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X whatever that topic may be, about forty five percent
of the time there are going to be significant errors
in that in whatever they send back, whatever it sends back.
And there was one of them, and I wish I
could remember exactly which one it was, Oh gosh, because
it was it was one of the more popular AI
sites and I wish I could remember, because anyway, it's

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its error rate was more like about sixty five or
seventy percent more often than not. That thing had pretty
significant mistakes in it. So before you turn that in
as your mid term exam essay, you might want to
do a little fact checking all the way through it. Okay,

(01:11:01):
so back to Alan and me and anybody else who
is walking that digital license trail for the first time
this hunting season. Here's how it's gonna work. This is
right from the TPWD site. Your digital license must be
available while hunting or fishing. The license can be viewed
through tpwd's Outdoor Annual and Texas Hunting Fish Mobile apps.

(01:11:25):
That's something you're gonna have to put on your phone
is the Texas Hunt and Fish Mobile app. And then
when you get it there, you go ahead and tap
view my licenses to make sure that everything is correct,
kind of like you would do when they when they
hand you that paper thing. Does this all look right?

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And then you tap ad account and follow instructions to
connect your digital license to the system. You confirm all
of that, make sure it's accurate, and it's here from
the desk of Captain Obvious ensure that your device is
charged while in the field. Yeah, we're all gonna do that.

(01:12:10):
So this is let's see, let's get down to what
needs to be tagged, when and where. Digital tagging for
harvested deer turkey and oversized red drum must be completed
through that app. You have to have proof of your
federal duck stamp if you're hunting duck stamps. Your other
licenses and tags are digital. Blah blah blah. Yeah, all

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the sand Hill Crane, the Bonus red Drum, annual public hunts,
all of that is just digital and it'll show up
in the app. And now let's get down to tagging,
actually tagging. Immediately upon take of a deer turkey or
oversized drum, there should be a comma here. You must

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execute an appropriate digital tag using the Texas Hunt and
Fish Mobile or web app down load the Texas Hunt
and Fishmobile that prior to heading into the field. We
already talked about doing that. That's something you ought to
do as soon as you get the license number for
Darren turkey. A physical, handwritten document must be attached to
the carcass. And I'll get to more about that in

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a second. Says here. If data service is available, the
app will provide a confirmation number upon submission of the
harvest report. This confirmation number must be written on a
durable material. In the photo on it, it shows a piece
of duct tape, and what's written on there is written
in sharpie, which makes good sense. That's all durable and

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the ink's not gonna wash away you it, attach it
to the harvest, and maintain that tag in legible condition
until tagging requirements cease. If data service is not available,
you report the report you put into that device on
your phone is going to save it as an unsub

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submitted its unsubmitted status. And then here's what you got
to write on that durable material and attach it to
the harvest first and last name of the person who
harvested that animal, the hunting license customer number which is
found in your app, and the date and time of
the harvest. And then as soon as you've got service again,

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you've got to go ahead and complete that thing and
get it submitted so that you're doing it all correctly.
I would hope that if a game warden stumbled upon
me or Allen or anybody else our age in the
field and recognized that we didn't grow up with electronics.
If there was some minor issue, maybe they would give

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us a little break and just a verbal warning or
a written warning or something like that rather than just
fine us right off the hit just straight from the hip.
But you never know, so do it right and go
to the same site I just read from TPWD dot
Texas dot gov slash on and on and on. Just
go to TPWD and then and it's a great website.

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It's very easily navigable. Go to the search bar and
just type in digital license and all of this information
will come up. And it really once you read through
it and know what you need. What you need to
put in your bag is maybe a second little source
of battery power for your phone in case you're out
there a long time and you forgot to charge it
or you didn't have time to charge it or whatever.

(01:15:27):
So make sure you have some power for your phone
in case the game warning comes walking up on you,
because that would be kind of embarrassing. And like I'm doing,
and I bet Alan's gonna do, have that digital license
number on a piece of paper in your wallet instead
of the whole license at least so that you have
some backup, and from there it should be pretty simple.

(01:15:49):
You need duct tape, you need a sharpie, and you
need to know what day it is and what time
it is so you can write all that stuff down.
All right, Moving on, Holy cow, let's go ahead and
take a break. I was gonna say moving on to
something else, because I wanted to talk about game Wardens
and some celebration of their excellence that took place this

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past week. On the way out here, though, I'm gonna
tell you about a ride bikes up on tom Ball Parkway.
This is Wayne Errington's baby. He's had that company going
for quite a while now and selling electric bikes, which
I got on for the first time only two weeks ago,
and already I'm thinking, man, what a great thing to
have for riding up and down the beach on North

(01:16:30):
Padre Island steading. Instead of having to get back in
the truck or the suv or whatever and load everything
back in and then go down the beach half a
mile and get everything back out, you could just have
saddle bags on an electric bike that has a modified kickstand,
so you could leave it propped up because you're not

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gonna be walking way you're not wading out too far.
Your bike's not going to disappear. But I digress for that.
For deer, honey boy, we talk about getting a rind
on the woods quietly. An electric bike makes no noise
at all, and it will get you from hitherto Yon.
He's got a new bike in there now. He wanted
me to tell you about two. It's the Truxis Explorer Plus,

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and that one would operate perfectly for what I'm talking about.
There are there are some bigger ones, there are some
tougher ones there. This is This is a solid choice
for anything you and I mostly would would like to
do in the in the woods or on the beach.
Got seven hundred and fifty watt hub drive motor. It
has got top assisted speed up to twenty eight miles

(01:17:37):
an hour. It's got plenty of range that the manufacturer
says under ideal conditions, which hey, honey, and fishing aren't
ideal conditions. But then again, when are you gonna need
to know, need to go up to ninety miles on
your bicycle. I don't need that. I need about I
need about ten really good miles. I'm not going five
miles in either direction. I don't think. Got a good

(01:17:59):
bad batter. Got good terrain adaptability comes with big old
fat tires, so you can operate in mud and sand
and whatever you want to drive in. Got a nice
front suspension for it all. Just there's a rear rack
that can carry up to one hundred pounds, a big
tough frame, lighting sensors to make it functional in low light,
which is really cool. Just a very versatile machine. And

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he's added it to his inventory. Up there at a
ride Bikes on Tomball Parkway. Go up there, talk to Wayne,
tell him I sent you up there. I don't know
if he'll give you a discount for that, but he might.
He might do something, maybe some little tassels for your handlebars.
Who knows, great guy, great store a ride bikes right
up there on Tomball Parkway on two forty nine.

Speaker 5 (01:18:44):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:18:44):
You can give him a call if you want eight
three to two three six nine two five two four
eight three two three six nine two five two four,
Or go to a ride bikes that's a r R
ID two rs in this a ride bikes. Oh lord,

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they may never sing this song. Racky. I'm on yeah,
long introductions, long, long, long, let's get going Welcome Back
eight forty nine on Sports Talk seven nine. He got
about ten minutes before we hit the top of the hour.
Here a couple of phone calls. Well, I had two,
then I got one. Now it's faux pro, faux pro.
What's up?

Speaker 5 (01:19:30):
What is up?

Speaker 4 (01:19:31):
Though, glad, oh.

Speaker 1 (01:19:32):
Bud, before you go into your deal. When I was
talking about making sure you had charge for your phone
if you've got the digital license and all of that,
I heard from JTK down there at Shooter's Corner, and
it's just genius. These are things that because I didn't
grow up in this world, I don't think about them
at all. He's in the subject line. It's just put
the phone on low battery mode. So it's just yeah, okay,

(01:19:54):
that makes sense. Hello, So it's gonna last twice as long, don't.
I don't need to have that says to all my
apps when I'm sitting in the deer stand. Believe me,
I don't need access to any apps when I'm in
a deer stand. What's up?

Speaker 3 (01:20:06):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
Exactly? Oh man, sitting out here, I just had to
put a little windbreaker on to sit out here, and
going on the front port, I had to go back.

Speaker 1 (01:20:14):
Lad, get you a little blanket for your knees, just
an idea. Oh my word. So what was it up there?
Probably about sixty five maybe or.

Speaker 4 (01:20:24):
So sixty Yeah, low sixties are pretty good, pretty good,
stiff breathing.

Speaker 2 (01:20:30):
Yeah, okay, here, so that's pretty nice. Yeah, but U
took a buddy out that I have a buddy of
mine that I worked at Academy back in my late
teens early twenties, back when Academy actually still sold army helmets.

Speaker 1 (01:20:43):
And yeah, oh wow, that holy cow.

Speaker 2 (01:20:46):
That's when I met this feller. We have a big
autition for several years. So he was mad, I've been
wanting to go to that games Lake and go through
all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
Okay, I said.

Speaker 2 (01:20:55):
Because I can beat you there at nine o'clock. I said,
I'm going to get there at seven and try to fire,
try to figure it out. By not a fox that
he calls out, I'll go picking up the gated not
a fox and we go out there. Kind of had
something figured out on the fish shallow early. It was
like the dead seat. The grass is kind of died
back getting brown. I vacated the shallows and went out
and turned the cheaterbox on and uh turned the spotlight

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on and uh, these fish, you know, your typical meadow bait,
dirt dirt bake stuff like that, just follow they rush
it and stopped rushing. Wow, couldn't figure it out. So
we finally went to a tiny crank bait that one
of my fosses based this custom bakes at the Santa Tony.

Speaker 5 (01:21:37):
He.

Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
Uh, I started throwing that little crank bait out. It
only died about three to four feet, and these fish
were coming up from fifteen feet like mything and just
crushing the wild.

Speaker 1 (01:21:45):
I need some That's what I'm looking for. Something that
will just go down like three or four feet. I got. Yeah,
I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:55):
But uh, but he he's a power fishing, a whole
lot of good fishing. He actual he won the big
bass flash last year on the Raven Road dodged truck,
or he won the whole thing at the eleven eleven
plus counter. But I told him, I said, on this lake,
said the drop shot is king and it's got to
be a morning glory color in the roboworm.

Speaker 1 (01:22:17):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:22:18):
Man, I don't even I don't even own that, but
I got one rigged up because I've never done it.
So I got him out there with the spot of
the fish, farted a few fish on the bottom of
twenty six feet of water, and.

Speaker 5 (01:22:28):
I showed him.

Speaker 2 (01:22:29):
I showed him a line with my rocket and cast
here a boat and a half boat leaked out. So
he made a perfect cast. We washed the drop, shot,
go down, got down, and a couple of fish followed.
Now dressed the bottom. Just hold your line tight, don't
move your weight. Just typed up your line and just
shake it real bottle shake and about a two powder
it over and grabbed it. I said, down, set the hook,

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and he set the hook. He looked at me, goes,
this is blank and that's all it is, dude, and
he he He went to do that for about thirty
forty five minutes straight and he goes, he goes, he goes,
I gotta buy center rod now, But I guess you do.

Speaker 1 (01:23:06):
Yeah, yeah, a convert, another convert.

Speaker 2 (01:23:10):
Another, another corruption. But yeah, we had a great time.
But on the uh, on the public hunting thing, I
know you're talking about it in a minute, goes up.

Speaker 5 (01:23:19):
Just to recap a little bit of that.

Speaker 2 (01:23:21):
Sure, make sure if your listeners or whoever goes out
and buys this public hunting permit, download the app and
you could search by species. Oh well, they'll just show
you the places you could hunt. That what I don't
want people to get into the idea because the place.

Speaker 3 (01:23:37):
Is me and my neck.

Speaker 2 (01:23:37):
You's got it, like you said, had the fishing on
in the pond. Well, I know these places are also
gonna hold up. There's gonna be big deer. But these
places are very specifious. You can only shoot dubs, so
make sure when you're on that property once you can shoot.
And they all have a big bulletin board. You scan
it with the scan code that you run, you can out,

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it'll ask you what, it'll walk you all through it automatically.
But there's a bullet and border, and all these properties
are pretty well tagged on the border. So you get
the border they'll be there'll be a yellow sign.

Speaker 1 (01:24:12):
I like that idea of you know, just because just
because there are big deer on a place doesn't mean
it might not be fun to go hunt ducks on
the place and just let the big deer come around,
take a picture of them and plant that in your
memory bank, and kill a few ducks and get out
of there. Just access to the land is that's the

(01:24:33):
value right there is the access to all of this
land that in most states, especially up in the mountains
the Western States, they have tons of public land and
we don't as based on our size, we don't only
what maybe five or six percent of our land is public.

(01:24:55):
But because we're so big, it is. You know, there's
millions of acres of public land and some accessible, some not.
But if you take advantage like you and your nephew did,
and spend a little time scouting around and put the
effort into scouting exactly places where you can do what
you want to go do, it can probably be a

(01:25:16):
little more successful than a lot of people think. And
there's probably a couple of guys in this audience right
now scratching their heads going shut up, you know, quit
telling people how good this is, because then it's gonna
get crowded. But it should be crowded.

Speaker 2 (01:25:31):
Yeah, we can't all the four deer leaves. If you
just take the west side of Lake Livingston, yeah, all
the way over through Lake Conrod, you have one hundred
and forty six thousand acres of the Sam Houston National Force. Yeah,
you could deer hunt, Hall Hunt, Dug Hunt and you
just got to know what section to be. But all

(01:25:52):
that's available in it right here, you know, I'm you know,
not even an hour from Houston. You got one hundred
and twenty six thousand acre deer leaves. That's leaves.

Speaker 5 (01:25:58):
Whatever you have.

Speaker 1 (01:26:00):
You know, it takes researching, it takes work, and it
takes boots on the ground to get out there and
get far enough off the beaten path that you're not
competing with thirty or forty guys who just can't walk
more than a quarter mile. Get up in there and
mix it up with nature, and I guarantee you there's stuff.
There's little ponds. When I got to make that ride

(01:26:21):
in the Goodyear blimp one hundred years ago when the
Shell Houston Open was coming to town at the Woodlands,
that's how long ago it was. I'm up in the
air and we're puttering around, like say, between the Woodlands.
We went east for a way, as I was the
only guy who showed up for a media ride in
the blimp, and we spent about ten minutes over the

(01:26:41):
golf course. I took a few pictures. I said, man,
can we just kind of go somewhere else? He goes,
we can go wherever you want. You got an hour, man,
we can go wherever you want. So well, let's go east.
So we just go off into nowhere basically, and I'm
looking down on woods and there are so many ponds
up in those woods. Forest. I just, holy cow, where

(01:27:02):
is all this water coming from? So many places? I
wanted to go, And I was learning, you know, the
different stuff that's on top of the water. Some of
the water looks really clear, some of it looks bad.
And but the bottom line was there were a million
little stock tanks and.

Speaker 2 (01:27:17):
Part of that land, and you know, and and to
wrap it up, just you know, and be safe. I
got a buddy of mine lives right on the across
the street, the National Forest, and he had two bullet
holes in his garage over the.

Speaker 7 (01:27:33):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:27:34):
Yeah, you gotta be.

Speaker 5 (01:27:36):
Careful being aware where your hor is.

Speaker 1 (01:27:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:27:38):
Yeah, no go sneaking through there too bad. You know,
you're walking through the forest. Got the water be seen.
Make a little noise like a tree, you know, let
people know you're there.

Speaker 1 (01:27:50):
Amen to that, my friend, forest. Thanks man, always a pleasure, Yes, sir,
all right man, sir audios, all right, thank you for us.
That's good stuff. Good up. Hey, he scouted it out.
He really did. He knows what he's doing up in there,
and that's something I may tackle at some point. I
might take a week off and just go scout some
public land just to see what it's like and see

(01:28:13):
what's out there. Really, I got a hunt, though, like
I said a minute ago, a lot of people are
probably thinking, shut up, Doug. Because we figured this out.
We know how to go find the good parts of
these places because we're using Google Earth, We're using We're
getting out and scouting these places in advance. And man,

(01:28:36):
how much fun would that be? Realize you have access
to close to a million acres and they're not all
going to be super productive if you're not gonna limit
out every time you go to one of these places.
But most people don't. The average deer hunter doesn't limit
out every time they every season. Shooters Corner Palmer Highway

(01:28:56):
at twenty nine Street in Texas City, owned by Jerry
and j TK. I just heard from Jay a minute
ago talking about using the digital license, but keeping your
phone on low battery mode while you're out there in
the field so it doesn't go bonkers on you and
you don't get to do the right thing. They build
beautiful custom rifles down there at Shooters Corner. They have

(01:29:18):
all the ammo you can possibly imagine, even the boutique calibers.
Jerry and Jay want to make sure that anybody and
everybody who comes in that store can get what they
need right there in that little strip shopping center, Palmer
High Went twenty nine Street. Outstanding gunsmithing work. If you've
got any gun in your cabinet, in your safe, in
your whatever that has some sort of little hitch and

(01:29:40):
it's giddy up for whatever reason, take it to Jerry
and Jay. They have solved problems for my listeners for
the better part of ten or twelve years now, guns
that had problems that other gunsmiths told them would either
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And so far, not a single person is called back
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(01:30:02):
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The shooters Corner TX dot com. The shooters Corner TX
dot com. Now here's Doug Fike all right, third and
final hour starts right now. Let me get some a

(01:30:24):
little touch up little stuff going on here, there and everywhere.
I gotta take that and move that over here, carry
the two. Blah blah blah blah blah. Gotta get this
website up to make sure I'm gonna say something smart. Yes,
there it is right there, the Bank of Utah Championship underway,

(01:30:46):
The Bank of Utah Championship. Ay, it's live action with
real golfers, and off they go. Let me see who's
winning this thing. Black Desert Resort, that's where it is
and currently leading.

Speaker 5 (01:31:05):
This is the.

Speaker 1 (01:31:05):
There we go. Hold on, all right. Michael Brandon is
at ten under par through two round. Jackson Suber is
at nine along with Pierson, Cooty and justin lower eight
under par Matt McCarty. Then Taka Takumi kanayah, sorry about that.
Takumi and David Ford all at eight and the sevens

(01:31:28):
I'll read and then we'll move on. Braden Thornberry, Thornborn, Olison,
Sam Ryder, Sahith Tagala, Ben Silverman and Connor Howe. And
as you might have recognized, they're just there. Aren't a
whole lot of household names on this list. These are
guys who are who are still there. Some of them

(01:31:51):
have more familiar names than others, but the majority of
people on this list just you don't know much about
them because you haven't heard their name, you haven't seen
them on leader boards. They're either well, you get a
little farther down. I'm looking at Doug gim I know
who that is. Harry Higgs, Billy Horschell, we all know him,

(01:32:13):
Pat and Kazaire, Francesco Mulinari, Kirk Kindeyama, Holy cow, these
guys are kind of in the middle of the pack.
Is Brent Snedeker. He's been around an hour and a half.
There are some bigger names than I thought I would
see here, and all of them playing for status, playing

(01:32:33):
for exemptions, playing for all kinds of things that come
along with winning a PGA Tour event. Projected cut line
on this ones only at minus one too, so that
course is apparently playing pretty pretty difficult, and after two
rounds with Brennan the only guy in double figures, it

(01:32:54):
doesn't necessarily say anything about their ability. It just says
that the course is playing pretty hard. Because any one
of anybody on this list, anybody whose credentials, say PGA
Tour player, anybody on that list can go low. On
any given day. They get hot and every club in
the in the bag is working, and all of a

(01:33:16):
sudden they'll find themselves eight, nine, ten under par, maybe
for the for the day. It happens quite often, maybe
not tens, but at least seven or eight per day
they could. I've seen them pull that off more than once.
And some of the winning scores now are going up
into plut more than twenty under par for four rounds.

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That's not that was was unheard of twenty twenty five
years ago, and certainly any farther back than that, And
a part of that was from course conditions to the
greens weren't as weren't as perfect as they are now,
the fairways weren't just nothing on the golf course was
as consistent as it is now up to and including

(01:33:59):
the rub. That's how they make it a little harder.
They narrow the fairways, grow up the rough if they
want the scores to go a little bit higher, and
then they open it up a little bit and I'm
talking maybe five yards difference in the width of a fairway,
or maybe a quarter inch difference in the height of
the rough. All of that plays into these guys' hands

(01:34:22):
because they're just that good. And unless you've played golf
with people on the PGA Tour, I've never played with
anybody on tour in an actually competitive round. I've gotten
to see them when they're out there because they had
to be to meet a requirement of the PGA Tour
to play in so many pro ams, or they wanted

(01:34:44):
to be because it was just a fun day for
charity or something like that. And when they're really loose
like that. I've talked about it on the show before.
They can do things with golf balls that you and
I can't even think of doing with golf balls. It's
really fascinating and I've really I've learned a lot, not
just about how to swing the golf club, but how

(01:35:05):
to manage a golf course and how to make golf fun.
When you're playing with somebody who's that good and they're
out there having fun even though tomorrow they're gonna have
to play for a lot their livelihood, it just makes
me remember that sometimes I take golf too seriously, and
because I do because I want to be better, then

(01:35:27):
I'm probably gonna be able to get with the amount
of practice time I have. I just have to kind
of check myself and go, you know, I am who
I am, and I don't have a super high handicap,
but nor is it low. I'm not a plus. I'm
just teetering on the edge of back getting back into
single digits. If I can have a couple of good rounds,
I'll be back there. Right now, I'm at ten and

(01:35:49):
I wish I was at about seven, and the strokes
are there. I know where I'm gonna get them to
when I finally do so, I just need to go
work on that stuff. And today he doesn't look like
I'm the day I'm gonna get to do that, because
I got a hunch to range is gonna be sopping wet,
and even if I go up there, I'm just gonna
end up splattered with mud. The way I swing now,

(01:36:11):
my buddy Tommy Brian O'Brien does have me shallowing out
a little bit and getting more air under the ball
and hitting it straighter and farther and all those good things.
But I still when push comes to shove every now
and then, I'll revert to that old swing. And if
I hit one of those on a sopping wet range,
I would come out of there looking like a chocolate

(01:36:34):
chip cookie. I would have. And I'm talking about chips, ahoy,
not the cheap ones with only four chips. I'm talking
about one hundred little dollops of mud on me after
one swing. It could happen. I don't want it to happen,
but it could. I'm looking. I'm gonna try and get Tommy,
speaking of I'm gonna try and get Tommy on the
phone here, maybe today or tomorrow, to talk about putters.

(01:36:57):
And some of these new putters that are coming out
that are designed by design. They keep that club face
square through impact, almost all the way back, and almost
all the way through. There's still a little rotation and
a little bit of an arc in the swing. But
for some somehow, some way, they use waiting and balance

(01:37:20):
and all of this stuff of the clubhead and matching
it up to the shaft correctly to keep that thing
from wavering and wandering on its way back and then
through the ball. I want I'm gonna find out which
is more important having a very expensive putter that's supposed
to do half the work for you, or just learning

(01:37:41):
to do the work yourself and relying on your own
hands and your own muscles to keep that club Bay square.
I think it'll be a pretty interesting conversation. I may
call Tommy during the break here and see if he
can give me five minutes. In fact, I think I will.
I'm gonna go to this break a little bit early.
I'm gonna try and call Tommy O'Brien and get him
on the phone. If I can't get him, there's a

(01:38:03):
couple other guys I might check in with all the
way out. Berry Hill Baja Grill down there in sugar
Land fifty nine at Sugar Creek Boulevard. My wife and
I had food from there last night. I went up there,
picked it up, brought it home, absolutely delicious as usual.
The fish tacos were on sale because it was Friday,
so that's what I got. My wife gets the chicken tacos.

(01:38:25):
When we don't get that, my go to is usually
the seafood Enchilada. I love those things, and they make
them a couple of different ways. The two people who
have been in that kitchen running things, the two main
people in that kitchen making sure everything comes out consistent,
Everything comes out exactly the way they want it. Each
have more than a decade in that kitchen themselves. That's

(01:38:49):
a consistent Tex Mex product, with a lot of sweet
Little Berry Hill variations on traditional themes, if that makes
any sense. It's also a very family friendly place. When
you walk in the door, well before you walk in
the door, you'll see the outside dining and as these
evenings keep getting a little cooler and a little cooler,
it's going to be more and more relaxing and comfortable

(01:39:11):
to be out there. And then inside to the left
is family tables and booths, and to the rights kind
of a sports bar where I'd be willing to bet
that tonight there'll be a baseball game on in there.
Great fun place, wonderful food. They cater all over town
if you'd like. We use them right here at iHeart
several times a quarter because the food's that good. We

(01:39:33):
all love it, so why not. Berryhillsugarland dot com is
the website. Check it out. Berryhillsugarland dot com nine eighteen.
On Sports Talk seven to ninety, Frank's trying to get
a hold of Tommy O'Brien.

Speaker 3 (01:39:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:39:53):
He's not getting in for some reason, Tommy, if you
can well, no, he can't hear me. Probably, I wish
you could call me. Let me s to him a text.
Oh you got him? Maybe maybe not. It's not going through. Okay, yeah,
dog on it. I'm gonna send Tommy a text real quick.
Wait a minute, because I want him to call because
we're gonna talk about putters and whether I was right

(01:40:14):
or he was right or whatever. I gotta go back
to my phone, which is where I got him, and
I will send him a message. Try to call us
at seven one three two one two five seven nine zero. Period.
Our phone is messed up. Period. That all the work

(01:40:35):
that'll get him.

Speaker 2 (01:40:36):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:40:36):
I thought I woke him up when I talked to
him a little during the break, but maybe not. He
said he was. He was already up at three point
thirty like the rest of us were listening to all
that thunder and lightning come through here. I wanted to
I want to get his opinion on that, on these
new putters that are out there, because Tommy works really hard.

(01:40:57):
He's very good with putting. He's helped me with my
and it's.

Speaker 2 (01:41:03):
He like me.

Speaker 1 (01:41:05):
Feels like it's if you're trying to square the putter
all the way through. It's very difficult to do because
we're standing beside the ball and trying to If we're
turning our bodies normally and not manipulating our arms out
and back and over and under and all that stuff,
then there's gonna be some arc in that swing. And

(01:41:29):
I feel like it's more important to be able to
to square the club up at impact within that arc,
rather than try to hold that thing off and manipulate
it to where it doesn't get as much off the
normal arc. I'm old school in that regard. It just

(01:41:51):
is what it is. I can talk to Mark if
from we can do that until we can get Tommy
on the phone. I don't know where he may have.
He's just sitting there waiting on us. I know he is,
bless his heart, and we'll get it figured out. And
if I can't get tom ill get the other one. Okay,
let me go see what's going on with Mark. I
got this. I can do this if I can find
my little cursor, my cursor around there, it is. I

(01:42:13):
got it. Bam, Hey, Mark, what's up man?

Speaker 5 (01:42:17):
Good morning, Good morning sir.

Speaker 3 (01:42:18):
How are you?

Speaker 1 (01:42:19):
I'm doing well?

Speaker 5 (01:42:20):
How Are you doing well down here? That's everybody in
South Texas doing well. We've got that little coal frunt
come in.

Speaker 1 (01:42:29):
You know what, it's something, it's something different. At least.
Did y'all get much rain down there?

Speaker 5 (01:42:35):
No, we're still waiting on it. They said it was
coming today sixty, but I think it's fake rain. Ready,
it's not coming. Yeah, I got for it never gets.

Speaker 1 (01:42:44):
Here and that's the truth. So what's it looking like
down there right now?

Speaker 5 (01:42:48):
Doing? Everything's going along good at that Uh, I've been
seeing it. I called you last week and told you
about the scrapes and stuff. I found some all their
rubs everywhere. Now, it's just amazing. It's amazing how it's
how it feels like something in the atmosphere or something's changing,
and h I just wanted to share that with you
and your listeners.

Speaker 1 (01:43:07):
Everybody's it's a good feeling too, isn't it to start
seeing all that stuff out there? Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:43:13):
Yeah, especially after the rough summer? You know, it's real bad.
But they got a they got a two o five,
a typical twelve pointer was a beautiful, beautiful bug. Last week.
Actually we got a one seventy ball and narrow. Yeah,
and uh, we've got some hunters here now from Florida
and they're they're after the same thing. So we'll see
what goes on in there.

Speaker 1 (01:43:33):
And they're sure the world.

Speaker 5 (01:43:34):
But it's it's been pretty good. I just wanted to touch.

Speaker 1 (01:43:38):
Base with Yeah, I appreciate it more. I'm looking. I'm
looking at the radar right now. I'm sorry. I didn't
mean you're in a rupt but I'm looking at the
radar in South Texas. Doesn't look like it's gonna get much.
Everything that's boiling up now is and this has changed
even in the last hour. It looks like we are
going to get some more up here where I am,

(01:44:00):
I'll be around two, three, four o'clock somewhere in there.
Nothing as severe as we had last night, but we're
gonna get a little bit more. Hopefully, maybe we can
build a pipeline down there and send some of this
rain down to South Texas. Wouldn't that be nice?

Speaker 5 (01:44:14):
Yes, sir, I'll do the Indian rain dance if it helped.
Whatever it takes, I like to get that.

Speaker 1 (01:44:18):
Well, drop a little bit of go ahead.

Speaker 5 (01:44:22):
Oh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:44:23):
I was just gonna say we can drop a little
rain off in corpus, they could use it too and
then send the rest of you guys. How the quail
looking down there.

Speaker 5 (01:44:31):
Oh, they're everywhere, I mean everywhere, and they don't shoot
any quill on this ranch because they're trying to get
them going a life with Golly, they are everywhere, I
mean all over the place.

Speaker 1 (01:44:40):
Do you think it's time?

Speaker 3 (01:44:41):
Huh. Yeah, it's a.

Speaker 5 (01:44:43):
Beautiful, beautiful sight to see all these natures. I was
going to tell you I didn't get to send you
any email pictures. Something's going on with my email. But
if you go to the Las Rasis ranch that we
have a live stream cavern going nice. We have about
five five of our feeders are live streams all.

Speaker 1 (01:44:59):
Day, all the time. And hold on, I got to
write that down. Spell it for me.

Speaker 5 (01:45:03):
L A S R A I E C E S
last right, he says, branch live stream. If you put
that in YouTube, you'll you'll be able to pop it
up and you'll see live stream and uh, oh gosh,
wait till about right at dark you start seeing the
big ones coming out. You'll see the little baty ones
during the day, but right when you get when it
gets dark, the big ones come.

Speaker 1 (01:45:25):
See.

Speaker 5 (01:45:25):
That's just fun.

Speaker 1 (01:45:27):
That's the That's what I want to see on video.
If I'm going to stare at my phone, or if
I'm going to stare at my big screen on my
laptop or my at my desk, I want to see
that stuff. Holy cap man.

Speaker 5 (01:45:38):
Yes, well you get a little treat there. There's some
pretty good ones coming up to the feeders, and it's
fun to see. Heck, I work here and I still
look at the cameras.

Speaker 3 (01:45:46):
Now what you do?

Speaker 1 (01:45:47):
You're deer hunter man? Hey, mark Man. I greatly appreciate
this call, buddy, Thank you so much.

Speaker 5 (01:45:53):
Okay, you're welcome.

Speaker 1 (01:45:55):
Yeah, I like hearing about that.

Speaker 5 (01:45:57):
Thanks Beta you bet all right?

Speaker 1 (01:46:00):
Man? Okay, gosh, I can't see that scream. I can't. Oh,
there we go, Thank you? Was that Tommy? Did we
lose him again? I've been trying to dial him up.
Holy cow. I wonder if he maybe didn't hang up
his phone completely or something. I don't know. Let me
see if he sent me something. Oh, we had this
great conversation and I'm gonna ask you about this. I'm

(01:46:21):
gonna talk about that, and now I can't find him.
Dang it. All right, Well, I'll tell you what we'll do.
I will when we go to this next break in
a few minutes, I'll try to get him back on
the phone on my cell phone and we'll get him
to call in. I think he's just he's kind of
sitting there wondering what the heck happened? Basically seven one

(01:46:42):
three two one two five seven ninety email on me
Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com once we get out
on this break, I've got several emails. I need to
go check on Captain Scott. Kind of I don't know.
He's not bragging, he's just letting me know. He's reassuring me,
is all he's doing. I'm kind of joking about that.
But he wait, let me get back to my emails,
because that's where that is Scott. No, there we go,

(01:47:04):
tagging deer. I've been using this is Scott. I've been
using the duct tape and sharpie for doze. I zip
tie it to an ear, Yeah, that makes sense. Just
put a little slice in the ear, or you could
just zip tie it around the base of the ear
if you don't want to cut a slit in the ear.
Either way, it's it's going to be permanently attached, and
that's what you're looking for. I mean notes. One other

(01:47:26):
thing I've done on Bucks when I've cut off the
skull cap is just to write the confirmation number on
the bear skull. That makes sense as well. That makes
good sense on the antlers, so that way the all
the pieces kind of go together. That's a a great idea. Oh,
really outstanding. Put him on the phone. Holy cow, Hey,

(01:47:49):
t O, we finally found you.

Speaker 8 (01:47:52):
I didn't realize that I called in and didn't realize
you were trying to call me.

Speaker 6 (01:47:56):
I never got a phone call with well.

Speaker 1 (01:47:58):
Yeah, that I don't Frankie was trying to dial the
number and every time he'd start dialand the line would
just go dead. So we're here though, let's don't worry
about that. So you and I wanted you to kind
of in your from your point of view, talk about
what I was talking about. Whether it's more important to
buy a fancy putter that's supposed to keep you from

(01:48:19):
from turning on an arc and keep that club face
square all the way through the putt somehow, or just
learning to use a good solid swing and use your
own muscles to keep it.

Speaker 8 (01:48:31):
Squared up well, like I was like I was saying you, Doug,
there's you got to kind of know the mindset of
the of the person. Are there someone that's going to
work on their game and and they want to get
better in all avenues of putting or are they just
looking for something that helps them twice a month when
they're or once a weekend when they're when they're playing.
You know, the most important fundamental in putting is the

(01:48:53):
face squared impact. And the beauty of the zero torque
putters is that that really helps average Joe do that.

Speaker 6 (01:49:01):
Like I said, ninety percent of putting is the face
of impact right there. What a zero What a zero
torque does not guarantee is great distance control.

Speaker 4 (01:49:09):
Another thing.

Speaker 6 (01:49:10):
You can't have the distance control with a zero torque putter.

Speaker 8 (01:49:14):
But like I said, there are certain things that a
conventional you know, arcing stroke will help with that. I've
seen most of the greatest putters of our day use.
And then you know, it's very difficult to try to
keep the putter dead square up and down the target line.
I actually think that there's more manipulation in that than

(01:49:34):
there is and trying to keep the square to an arc.
And that's not because I think that way. It's because
we stand to the side of the ball, and any
any short when you stand the side of the ball
where there be tennis, golf, baseball, whatever, you have to
make a slight arcing motion to hit the ball straight.

Speaker 6 (01:49:48):
And so it's a great way of squareing the club
face up there.

Speaker 8 (01:49:51):
But the beauty of the of the zero torque putters
is if you've got a guy, because let's say, got
a cut stroke.

Speaker 6 (01:49:57):
Remember Billy mayfair By today, I'm kind of aging myself
a little bit when to say that he won.

Speaker 8 (01:50:02):
On the tour with a cutstroke, and Billy's face was
really square at impact.

Speaker 6 (01:50:06):
And again that's the most important piece.

Speaker 8 (01:50:10):
I'm never gonna be brashing up to say there's something
wrong with cutting that way.

Speaker 6 (01:50:13):
I mean, if you shoot sixty seven, I.

Speaker 8 (01:50:15):
Don't care what you do, you know, But if you're struggling, yeah,
I mean I got that drugged from my good friend
stan Ettley. I'm a player first, I don't care. You know,
if you play well, we're not going to change anything.
Which I try to really emphasize the people when I
work with him and whatnot. But again, I think that
the beauty of the zero torque cutters is that they
really emphasize having to face square at impact, which is

(01:50:39):
very difficult for a lot of people and whatnot.

Speaker 1 (01:50:43):
But if it's a both, it takes good practice to accomplish, that,
doesn't it. And a lot of people just don't want
to put in the time.

Speaker 6 (01:50:50):
That's exactly correct.

Speaker 8 (01:50:51):
They want to buy a game, which today we can
buy a game more than we ever have with clubs
that don't spend the ball as much, with balls that
don't spend as much.

Speaker 6 (01:51:00):
Actually a complaint that a good player will have that.

Speaker 8 (01:51:02):
Dog going like, I can't draw it when I want
to draw it, I can't fait it when I want
to fait it, because this.

Speaker 6 (01:51:07):
Equipment is made to not spend to day, so at
any rate, it's just it's I would say.

Speaker 8 (01:51:12):
That those zero tworkers are wonderful, especially for shorter shorter putts,
for these people that don't practice a whole lot, right,
because now all of a sudden, you're making that three footer,
you're making that four footer, so instead of having a
three butt, you do have a two pott, you know,
eight feet and in it makes.

Speaker 6 (01:51:26):
Them really really good. It doesn't guarantee thirty five feet
and in is going to be a tapped in after that?

Speaker 8 (01:51:31):
Uh not the saying that you can't do that, but
again it automatically with technology really helps the facety squared impact,
which is most crucial, particularly from eight feeting in right there.

Speaker 1 (01:51:41):
Do you think you and I will live long enough?
You might? I want to see the first gyroscopic controlled putter.

Speaker 6 (01:51:51):
Yeah, it's just you know, that's a big word.

Speaker 1 (01:51:54):
Doug, think about it. I mean they can. They may
have these movie cameras now where somebody can be just
running alongside someone else and the camera when it's filming,
when when it's videoing, has it perfectly level and the
person who's holding is bouncing and jumping and all that,
and they just have a gyroscope steadycam. Yeah you mean

(01:52:15):
an that's exactly right.

Speaker 6 (01:52:16):
Yes, all right, Doug, let's see how Let's see how
good you are? Who made that? Who made that popular
and famous?

Speaker 1 (01:52:21):
First? Not a clue?

Speaker 6 (01:52:23):
What movie?

Speaker 5 (01:52:24):
I have? No?

Speaker 1 (01:52:25):
Irocky? Oh yeah, rocky.

Speaker 8 (01:52:27):
When Stalloan was running up the steps, yep, uh, they
were using a steady cam to run up the steps
as well with him, to make it look as steady
as it was.

Speaker 1 (01:52:35):
And whatnot.

Speaker 6 (01:52:36):
I hope the game doesn't get that complicated.

Speaker 7 (01:52:38):
I'd love that there's there'd be some some art steal
to this.

Speaker 6 (01:52:41):
But at any rate, the the technology is cool.

Speaker 8 (01:52:45):
You know what, these guys have figured it out too,
that if someone will spend six or seven hundred bucks
in a driver who do the same thing for a putter.
It's like scary at the manufacturers have figured out because
that's how these putters cost. You know, it's like amazing
what people will pay. But I mean people will.

Speaker 6 (01:52:59):
Do anything to make putts, you know, so technology is
pretty incredible.

Speaker 8 (01:53:04):
And again, like I said, just based on whatever it
is you're looking to do right there, if it's just
a one time affair, a couple of times a month, whatever,
and you just want to make a few more putts,
I mean, it's a great situation.

Speaker 6 (01:53:16):
I'm not saying it's not good long term.

Speaker 8 (01:53:18):
But you know, I don't see the absolute best putters
that have ever lived using a putter like that. Even
if they came back on the tour today, they would
still use what they what they used. I think again,
I'm not downplaying or talking bad about zero TORQ putters,
but you know, the same time, there is a feel
on our element to it.

Speaker 5 (01:53:36):
I don't.

Speaker 6 (01:53:37):
I don't see Ben Crenchay using zero tork.

Speaker 3 (01:53:39):
But I kind of.

Speaker 1 (01:53:40):
Agree with you, I really do. I would rather practice
and get a consistent stroke than rely on a putter
to do it for me for three footers that I
might make one more of out of five. Hey, I
got to bounce, man. But thank you Tommy, Tommy ogolf
dot Com. Is that right? I hope I got it right.

Speaker 6 (01:53:57):
You got it right, absolutely, Doug, Thank you Tommy.

Speaker 1 (01:54:01):
All right, man, audios my friend? Okay, can you get
get that for me? Yeah, it's Tommy ogolf dot Com.
He's out at Blackhawk and you can. Anybody who wants
lessons from him can get them out there from him.
Let me get Mike Teed up here. There we go,
Hey Mike, what's up?

Speaker 2 (01:54:17):
Man?

Speaker 4 (01:54:19):
Hey, how are you doing? Doug?

Speaker 3 (01:54:20):
Good?

Speaker 9 (01:54:20):
I'm good kid to hear from you.

Speaker 1 (01:54:21):
Yes, sir, you too. What's going on?

Speaker 9 (01:54:24):
I just had two and two point things. One's an observation.
Have you ever played river Point down there below Great Wood?

Speaker 1 (01:54:31):
Yeah? I have several times.

Speaker 9 (01:54:33):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I just had a question.
The front nine is interesting, really great, lots of water,
challenging the back nine is the most boring back nine.

Speaker 5 (01:54:42):
There is four going.

Speaker 1 (01:54:43):
Out that's kind of out. Yeah, that's an out and back.
That was just with the land they had, they did
what they could.

Speaker 6 (01:54:49):
That's what I thought.

Speaker 5 (01:54:50):
Okay.

Speaker 9 (01:54:51):
Second question is, and I'll hang up, do you think, uh,
is there a better way to clear a deer blind
of wasted?

Speaker 6 (01:54:59):
I mean, don't go out to my friend's ranch. He
goes out there and I'm.

Speaker 9 (01:55:03):
So paranoid to those wash can you Is there a
bomb or is there anything you can do to throw
in there?

Speaker 3 (01:55:08):
I know the wash spray that's what we usually use.

Speaker 9 (01:55:10):
Yeah, but kind of days put up in there? Is
there a ball you could throw in there?

Speaker 1 (01:55:15):
And if so, how early?

Speaker 9 (01:55:17):
How long before you go hunting? Do you need to
do that so the smell doesn't affect.

Speaker 1 (01:55:21):
Your your chemistry?

Speaker 4 (01:55:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:55:24):
You don't want to get yourself all poisoned up by
that stuff and be breathing it. I don't It doesn't
take long. I'm a fan of the deer.

Speaker 9 (01:55:32):
I'm thinking about the deer.

Speaker 1 (01:55:33):
So oh, okay, you know, you know if you I mean,
if that's not I don't know how much that would
scare deer. Just something think about it. It may smell
like a flower to them. Who knows, maybe there's some
And you know, I would say, if you're worried about
the smell bothering the deer, you'd probably need to do it,

(01:55:53):
probably at least three or four days. At least three
or four days. They had to let the and open
everything up. But then that opens it up to other
things getting in there.

Speaker 6 (01:56:02):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 (01:56:04):
Yeah, Or you can just put a glove on it,
reaching there and just grab that waspness and throw it
down on the ground. Run how fast can you run? Mike?

Speaker 3 (01:56:15):
You know anymore?

Speaker 1 (01:56:17):
Yeah? I know there was a time when I might
have been talked into that on a on a bed
if I could have made enough money. But not anymore, man,
I Gary, I'll tell you that somebody who just cringed
a little bit. As Captain Scott, he's not once but
twice encountered killer bees in his life, and it wasn't
fine for him either time. Yeah, what a mess.

Speaker 9 (01:56:38):
Yeah, you can hear one person had had a swivel
kind of rocker in his blind and he didn't pay
attention and.

Speaker 5 (01:56:46):
There was a mess under under the chair.

Speaker 9 (01:56:52):
And everything was fine until the things start warming up.
You know, because that's when those watch start moving. Yeah,
and he he got the fortunately someone crawling out and
I guess beneath him and he got out without getting
Gotta check dowunder that seat.

Speaker 1 (01:57:09):
You gotta check everywhere, man. The biggest scare A friend
of mine had one time he opened up the door
and and he checked the thing previously for Washton. Everything
was clear, and he opens up the door to go
in and an owl flew out right past his head
and he said he almost fell on the wire. They
just scared the jeepers out of him.

Speaker 5 (01:57:28):
You know, we like explosions.

Speaker 1 (01:57:33):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, this is out of there.

Speaker 3 (01:57:37):
It's great.

Speaker 9 (01:57:37):
Enjoy everything to give us.

Speaker 6 (01:57:39):
It's it's really entertaining.

Speaker 1 (01:57:40):
Thank you, Mike. I appreciate it. Yes, sir, you too. Audios.
All right, Holy cow, I'm running a little bit late.
I apologize for that to you, Frankie, and we'll try
to catch up here real quick. I'm not gonna go
too quickly though, to tell you about Kobe Stevens, because
there's a lot to unpack when I start talking about
that brand. My favorite golf shirts. I've been wearing him
now for a couple of years. Absolutely love him. Kobe

(01:58:04):
makes stuff in men's sizes, women's sizes, he has stuff
for kids, and it all the way up to four
X for the larger gentleman in our crew. And there
are some of you who wear four X, I'm sure,
and there's nothing wrong with that. Kobe's got you covered.
Kobe Stevens's brand that's been around for quite some time,
and one of the things I most like about the

(01:58:26):
man who owns it, Kobe Gallic, is that he is
a genuine believer in giving back to the community that's
helping him be successful in this business. Every time I
turn around, I talk about this every time I do
a spot for him. It's true. Almost every time I've
called him and said, hey, man, can you play golf tomorrow?
Can you play golf next week? Whatever day it is, Well,

(01:58:48):
I've got a tournament I need to be at. I'm
trying to help people raise money for X y Z.
He's just that way, and he gives and gives and
gives to the community that's helping him be as successful
as he is. Reasoning successful. He sa has great clothes
and not just for golf too. There's also fishing apparel
in there. They got some shorts and pants, and they're

(01:59:09):
just opening and expanding the line every time I turn around,
and everything I'm seeing come out of there is great.
Kobe Stevens dot com. They've got a showroom. They've got
a a brick and mortar place up on the north side.
You can go to the website and find out exactly
where that is. I haven't been yet. I need to
go in there. I want to see a little bit more.
I want to try on some of those shorts too.

(01:59:30):
I'm really interested in that. I was a little bit
jealous that he and a friend of mine named Mike
were wearing Kobe Stephens shorts at a golf tournament we
played in a couple of weeks ago. We got third place.
It was Rod Ryan's tournament. It was a lot of fun.
Kobe Stevens dot com, he was at his booth, was
out there too. He is giving back to Rod as well.
Kobe Stevens dot Com on Sports Talk seven to ninety

(01:59:59):
Good Heaven. We're almost well. We are where we would
normally take a break. But because I'm such a big mouth,
I've run a little bit long. I'm gonna make sure
we get get Aaron's phone call in here. I'll get
that cursor over there and kaboom, Aaron, what's up man?

Speaker 3 (02:00:13):
Hey morning, Deaghalli, good morning.

Speaker 1 (02:00:15):
I'm doing great, I am. I got three cups of coffee.
I mean, I'm bouncing off the walls.

Speaker 3 (02:00:20):
Yeah, I'm on number two. But so trying to wake
up from that drive back Montana.

Speaker 1 (02:00:25):
We'll bet you are. How many hours do you typically
drive straight when you're making these trips.

Speaker 3 (02:00:32):
If I'm coming back to his girlfriends, four hours whatever
it takes. It takes on the way up a lot less,
but it just kind of depends on whether road conditions, weather,
it's the holiday, it's amateur hour out there. Yeah, you know,
I really prefer driving at night now, just because the

(02:00:54):
eighteen wheelers are they're much more professional driver. Yeah, it's
a good points, a little bit cooler out. Yeah, I
lef's traffic. So but you can believe this or not.
But as all going up, my father used to go
up to his yellow jacket mess and just smash him
with his hand. No, never, he would never get stung,

(02:01:15):
my lord. And well, once he caught on to it,
scared the bejeebers out of us. He did it even more.

Speaker 6 (02:01:21):
Yeah, I'm sure he's still he's.

Speaker 3 (02:01:24):
About eighty two now, he's still look at him and
look at us like he's gonna do it. Nope, nope, no,
don't do it.

Speaker 1 (02:01:29):
Oh my word, I was yellow jackets. Man. They scare
me because when I was a little well I did
I say, they scare me. I'll just spray them and
be done with them. But when I was probably eight
years old playing catch in the backyard with either my
dad or there was a big kid down the down
the way who'd come and play catch with me. I'm
just obsessed with baseball. We had the gustrooms across the

(02:01:50):
backyard and I reached in there to grab a baseball,
and when I looked down, I picked up the ball
and when I brought my head back up, I was
nose to back end of a whole yellow jacket nest.
And they said, oh a friend, and they all just
jumped on my face and stumb me. I puffed up
like a toad man. I don't know how many times

(02:02:11):
they stumm. Got it hurt.

Speaker 3 (02:02:13):
Yeah, they' get it on my grandmother's ivy as well.
I feel for your last car too, because OL's they're
so quiet, and many times been down in pierceaw hunting
and a bart out, bring me a.

Speaker 1 (02:02:26):
Treat, treat, leave it in there.

Speaker 5 (02:02:31):
Yeah, gosh, yeah, that's that's.

Speaker 3 (02:02:36):
I didn't realize there's so many barn owls down there,
but yeah, it was. Jibbon's pretty thick, you know.

Speaker 1 (02:02:40):
But I mean it's our own fault because we're out
there in their house. And if we we we leave
our house are blind, our house abandoned. Guess what, there's
gonna be some squatters in there next time you come around, No,
tell them what you'll find it.

Speaker 3 (02:02:55):
Last thing is you happen to see that that hybrid
of green jay and jay that they they'd found that
out here in San Antonio.

Speaker 2 (02:03:02):
I did not.

Speaker 3 (02:03:03):
I haven't seen that new species apparently.

Speaker 10 (02:03:07):
Yeah, a green jay and the blue jay got drunk,
you know them the time, and the new species about that,
I haven't seen it.

Speaker 1 (02:03:17):
What's I mean, what's the predominant coloration on the bird?

Speaker 3 (02:03:22):
Uh, it looks it looks almost like a scrub jay
or opinion ja. Yeah, yeah, it's it's got more of
the physical characteristics of a green jay, but it's got
that blue jay.

Speaker 5 (02:03:33):
Car I'll send you the article.

Speaker 1 (02:03:35):
The first time I ever saw a green Jay down
in South Texas. I thought, I thought I was seeing things,
and what is it?

Speaker 3 (02:03:42):
Yeah, I saw one of the pleasant and believe it
or no, it reached me out to have a great weekend.

Speaker 1 (02:03:50):
All right, you too, man, call back anytime you know
that we will. Thanks, I see man audios. All right,
we got to take a little break here, barely time
for that, but I'm to make sure I get it
in because I want to tell you about Cowboys Zemanski
and Phoenix Knives out there in Belleville, right there on
Main Street, in a bigger space than he's been in
ever because he needed it, because he's got more apprentices

(02:04:11):
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one of the best in the whole country with custom blades.
Any bladed thing you can think of. He will make
you one for anybody you care about enough, maybe it's yourself,
to really have a custom beautiful knife. Cowboy's been doing

(02:04:34):
this since nineteen seventy nine. He's really really good at
what he does. The people who work for him are
getting to that level of expertise, and you can see
all of their work alongside some of his. In the store.
They have about a thousand knives on display from what
I'm told, and more being made every day down there,
and even you and your family can go out there

(02:04:55):
and make your own knife if you would like to
try and do that. Just walk in and say, hey,
we're here to make a knife. Who can help us,
and they'll find somebody. It's kind of a first come,
first serve basis. You're not gonna be there all day.
It doesn't take that long, but it's really a unique experience,
something that most people will never get to do in
their lives, and just most people will never even be

(02:05:17):
in a knife store like that. Usually you just go
to the store, the big box store and buy a
couple of knives. But they have custom kitchen knives, they
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something extremely custom, fully custom made by Cowboy himself, you

(02:05:42):
need to get in there right now, even if it's
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He needs plenty of time to make sure he gets
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And he's gonna ask you a lot of questions about
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(02:06:05):
the website. Go check it out. P H E n
i X Phoenix Knives dot com. All right, welcome back.
Only got a couple of minutes, three or four maybe
before we have to bail out of here. Make room
for sports Investors daily and that if you're man, if
you're in that mood, if you're kind of liking what's

(02:06:27):
going on. You know, there's been a lot of talk
about gambling recently, and not all of it favorable. Apparently
there have been charges filed against some people who were
tinkering with NBA scores and it goes all the way
up to players and coaches, and what a mess, What

(02:06:48):
a hot mess that is.

Speaker 5 (02:06:49):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:06:49):
Frankie took a call from Mark who was asking a
couple of questions. I'm not sure exactly what he wanted
to know about Scotti, Scheffler and Rory. They're okay, they
do this for a living. I'm not whatever concern anybody's
got about those two, I think is not a major concern.
One thing he did bring up also that Mark did

(02:07:12):
was talking about when Lee Trevino interacted with the crowd.
Mark writes, that was really fun. He wishes it was
still like that, or Frankie wrote that part, but anyway,
I would totally agree. And the reason it's unlike that now,
the reason there isn't much interaction I think between players
and the spectators along the ropes now, once they get

(02:07:38):
finished with their rounds, all of these guys, or most
of them anyway, unless they've had just a horrible experience
that day and need to go shake it off, most
of them stop and sign autographs and to intermingle a
little bit. It's almost obligatory that they do that, so
they do. Some stay out there later, another some will

(02:07:59):
stay there till the ink runs dry and there's nobody
left to sign for. Others will give it ten minutes
or so and then just say I gotta go bye bye.
But the bottom line is, nowadays it's it's so much
there are so many more people dependent on that one
person for their livelihoods that the person who is making

(02:08:21):
all the swings and gets all the notoriety, I think,
feels an obligation to the staff the literal staff they
have in charge of all their stuff. They've got somebody
taking care of travel. They've got somebody taking care of
their short game, somebody teaching them on their full swing,
somebody teaching them they're putting. They've got a site coach,

(02:08:42):
they've got head coaches to keep them emotionally balanced on
the golf course. And some of them, some of them
have worse tempers than others, and they've got to keep
that in control to be able to excel at golf.
So they've got all these people they pay and who
depend on them, and I think they they sacrifice fun

(02:09:03):
on the golf course for making sure that everybody's paycheck
is going to be secured at the end of those
four rounds each week. It's kind of a somewhat sad
because back when the players were a little more jovial
and the only person they were traveling with was their caddy,
that's the only person they had to worry about taking
care of. And even then they were just giving them

(02:09:24):
a percentage of what they want. It wasn't salaried at all,
and a lot of times, if you go back far enough,
it wasn't even air travel between tournaments they would ally
the caddy and the player may usually two caddies and
two players jump in a station wagon and drive to
the next tournament. And that's how they worked. And it

(02:09:44):
was a lot looser, a lot less stressful, I think
back then. So that's why it worked. That's all. Those
were the days.

Speaker 3 (02:09:54):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (02:09:55):
I am going to go back over to my desk
on the other side of this big giant office space
we're in and go look up. Las raisis live stream,
and I'm gonna see what's going on with those deer
stands over there. I can't wait for that. I can't
wait to be back tomorrow either. We're gonna I didn't
get a chance today to talk about some game wardens

(02:10:16):
who've been acknowledged for their excellence in service. There was
an awards ceremony a couple of days ago, and I
want to talk about that tomorrow because every one of
these people whose names are in here for winning some
sort of award from their peers and their higher ups
so deserving. You won't believe what some of these people

(02:10:38):
have done. That's it for now. I'll be back tomorrow
morning at eight. I hope you all make it through
whatever the rest of this day has to come and
back here safe and sound tomorrow morning. Get outside, have
some fun with your family's audios.