Watch for Falling Birds, Especially If You're Shooting Them!

Originally aired on October 26th, 2025. On this episode, Doug speaks to David Pruett, owner of Riceland Waterfowl Club, about next week's hunting season. He also recognizes many of our game wardens for their response to the Kerr County flooding earlier this year, and much more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's Doug bike all right. Sunday edition of the
program starts right now. Some miraculous fix occurred overnight. I
guess while it was raining. Maybe I don't know. Along
And the short of it is, I'm back in the
big boy chair, feeling really good about it. I know
I can make my little free throw shots here now.
Had a hard time sending one down rains yesterday on

(00:24):
paper in the trash can. That's just a little thing
i'd do in here. The cans in the right place.
I'm good. I'm in the right place, and all of
you are in the right place. God, Welcome to the
other side of the storms. Holy cow, very quiet. Now
there's a little bit of rain here and there, very
small little pop ups. I guess the clouds are just

(00:45):
kind of ringing themselves out. And then we'll be done
with all of that for quite some time. By the way,
I don't know who was in this studio yesterday evening,
but lucky me, I walk in and somebody his crazy.
Do you know who was in here last night? Frankie's uh,
seventy seven degrees on the thermostat seventy seven on the thermostat.

(01:08):
I'm accustomed to walking in here, and it's just nice
and cool and relaxing and invigorating. And I came in
here looking around for a pillow and a cot to
take a little little nap. In any event, the past
thirty six hours, depending on where you live, either a

(01:28):
great light show, a great sound show with thunder accompanying
the lightning, torrential downpour, or sprinkle. I think the average
average probably Let's just throw a big cast net over
all of Southeast Texas, and I would say, and I'm

(01:48):
talking about from let's talk from Corpus Christy all the
way over to Lake Charles, going west to east, and
from the coast all the way up to Arkansas. I'm
gonna guess the average amount of rainfall was somewhere between
like maybe one and a half to two inches across

(02:10):
the board. I've heard some places that got more. I've
heard a few people say I saw a couple of
emails last night, what's the big deal about all these storms? Man,
I haven't hardly gotten any rain. Well, then you were
living in the lucky hole or the unlucky hole, depending
on whether you haven't been able to water your yard
enough lately to keep it green. This is about as

(02:32):
late into the year as I've seen all the yard
guys in my neighborhood still kind of going full steam ahead.
The grass has continued to grow, unfortunately, so have some
invasive weeds in my yard that are going to need
to be treated before winter gets here. I want that
stuff gone. I want it absolutely gone. We pulled it

(02:56):
off last year in the spring, got it all back
to Saint Augustine, and then somehow someway during the summer.
And it may be that the guy who mows our yard,
just like most others, is picking that stuff up in
other yards and then it just kind of falls off
the lawnmower when it hits my yard. We're trying. I

(03:16):
don't know how much wind I got at the house
last night. It was so there was so much thunder
and lightning two nights ago on Friday night that I
really couldn't tell what was going on as far as
the wind velocity. I guessed that it was blowing around
pretty good out there, but I didn't know. And then
last night, because the stuff I got was not accompanied

(03:41):
by thunder and lightning, I thought, this one's not very
windy either, And then all of a sudden I hear this, and.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
That was it.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
That was the only audible gust of wind. One four
second burst of wind, and that's all I got. Now.
Also around my area in Sugarland, not not hardly any
limbs or leaves or anything knocked down into the street.
As I was driving out of the neighborhood, I didn't

(04:14):
have to go around anything. It wasn't wasn't anything like that. Now,
I'm sure when I get back into the good full
light of day today, I'll see a million acorns on
the ground. Are my eight My oak trees are the
most prolific producers of acorns. Probably if there was a contest,
if there was an Olympics for acorn production, my trees

(04:37):
would win the gold medal. They're all relay. I guess
it's there's four of them, and they have to be
dropping more than any other four oak trees in there.
But I digress. So around the office yesterday, when I
got here, it was light enough to see, and then
when I came out in the afternoon to go home,

(04:58):
even lighter still, and debris everywhere. Little pieces of trees
that had been knocked off by the wind were all
over the street. Did you notice that going home yesterday, Frankie,
Oh absolutely, yeah. What about where you lived? How did
you guys fare? Yeah, light show, sound show last night
last night? Oh yeah, wow, you know, I don't know.

(05:20):
I don't think we got that. Are you now? Are
you up more north? I forgot? Just you're more east? Okay? Yeah, northeast? Yeah,
oh yeah, that for sure. Yeah, all of that big
red blob just kind of just meandered through. How long
did it last last night? I don't know, maybe like
hour and a half. Oh yeah, that's you know, I

(05:43):
guess as long as the power stays on, I don't
really care. I got a good roof on my house.
I got a I got I think Center Point has
finally acknowledged our little group. The grid that I'm on
only has I want to say, twenty or thirty homes
on it, and I don't know why. I would love
for them to just just piggyback us onto some bigger,

(06:06):
major grid somewhere. And I did learn a long time
ago that if you don't want to lose power in storms,
move next to a hospital, move next to a senior
facility of some sort, someplace where life depends on electricity.
And those are going to be the first places if
they do get knocked out. They're likely not to get

(06:27):
knocked out, but if they do, then you're gonna have
power before everybody else gets it because you've got to
keep those seniors going. So I've strongly considered that as
a motivating factor. If, if, and when my wife and
I ever decide to move into a different home, how
close am I to an old folks place? Oh? Oh,

(06:50):
this is one where I'm moving. Oh, I'm sorry, Yeah,
I forgot seven one three two one two five ninety.
Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I watched the
Astro or nothing. I didn't watch the Astros last night.
I watched Toronto and La go at it, and I

(07:11):
thought that if I thought for the longest time that
Toronto might pick up a pair while they were at home,
but it wasn't meant to be. So now they'll get
on out there to La and do what they do
out there, and hopefully I I have a hard time
rooting for the Dodgers. I don't know, They're just they
just stuck in my crawl for years and arch rivals,

(07:35):
arch enemies, and honestly, to if I ever met any
of those guys, it would it would be a totally
different thing. I'm not one who who so dislikes a
team that I dislike the individual players. It's just it's
what LA represents and what Houston represents that I can
I can use that kind of in friendly rivalry. I'm

(07:59):
not one of those ones that's gonna throw something orna,
gonna say something nasty about somebody's family member or whatever.
Poor player out there is just trying to make a living,
make a very good living, nonetheless, but just trying to
make a living. Hopefully, hopefully, somehow Toronto can beat the Dodgers,
and that would be that would be a significant upset.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
I think.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
I think LA went into that first game believing that
they were just gonna waltz through the World Series like
they had all the way through the playoffs, and to
some degree this whole season really never were threatened much
and they got their tails whipped for it for sitting
back and not paying attention. But the Dodgers you saw

(08:44):
last night probably were the same Dodgers you're gonna see
for the next however many games it takes, so Toronto
is gonna have to step up a little bit and
I just I just hope they've got the pission to
get through it. That's a lot of what it comes
down to anyway, back the rain, and I want to
stick with it for a minute, because we we are
now what Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, hunting season, deer,

(09:08):
waterfowl ally, a lot of things open up on Saturday,
and a lot of this rain that's fallen. I can't
say that it couldn't have come at a better time,
but it certainly was well timed. The only the only
real issue that's gonna bother anybody out of this is
gonna be some muddy roads on some ranches. Maybe maybe

(09:31):
your truck slips off in the ditch and somebody's got
to stop there, hunt early to come pull you out
or whatever. But all that water, every drop of water
that fell onto the prairies in the hill country up
through the piney woods even down into South Texas, fair
amount of rain has fallen. Every drop of that stuff

(09:53):
is gonna benefit the animals. It's gonna benefit us when
we try to go hunt them, even down to little
things like the difference between let's say you're a bow
hunter and you're trying to sneak into your stand by
walking two hundred yards into the woods in the dark. Well,
if you're or a rifle hunter, for that matter, if

(10:13):
you're trying to walk into your stand rather than have
somebody drive you up there in a pickup truck and
slam doors and do all that stuff. It's a lot
quieter walking on wet leaves than on dry leaves, and
I've had to do both a thousand times. And trying
to sneak up on deer when you're essentially walking over
a bed of rich crackers, it's hard. You're scaring every

(10:38):
deer within one hundred yards. They've got really good hearing,
and that crunch, crunch, crunch is gonna send them packing.
Get a little water on those leaves. It's now you're
just like you're walking on a pillow. That's all it is.
They can't hear you at all. And if you can
avoid stepping on a limb and snapping that, now you're
home free. You can get up in that tree stand,

(10:59):
get up in that boxble and just get after it
until the warm sun hits the back of your neck
and you fall asleep and you wake up and there's
a deer trotting out away from the feeder, big old buck.
I've had that happen too. I've fallen asleep once or twice,
not much, not many times in blinds because I'm so
excited to be where I am. I really and I

(11:21):
fight it too. If i start feeling drowsy at all,
I'll grab I usually don't take coffee into the stand,
but I'll take maybe a soft drink or something like
that that's got a little bit of caffeine in it.
And guy, the way I am now, I may have
to take energy drinks in there to stay away. Not
so easy anymore. I'm about I don't know. I'm about

(11:41):
probably six eight, ten thousand hours of sleep deprived over
the last few years. But I'm okay.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
I do.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
I do what I need to do. I so love
being outdoors that even when I'm tired. I come home
from come home from work, for example, and especially during
the summer, when there's a lot daylight left, and I
want to go do something. I want to go hit balls,
I want to go play nine holes. I want to
go take a quick drive down to the beach because
there's some good fish on the rocks or whatever. And

(12:11):
I sit down in my big old brown chair and
my eyes start to kind of fall and the eyelids.
I don't know, man, maybe you should take a nap.
And I fight it and I get up and I
just go. I just drive the drive to either even
the coast. I've done it so many times now that
I know exactly where I am, I know exactly how

(12:32):
much time I have to get it's gonna take to
get down there, and so I can do that. And
when I finally can't do that anymore, I may just
hang it up. I might. I don't see that time
coming though, anytime soon. I don't know how. I don't
know very many people actually who are just just bent

(12:52):
so hard on doing things outdoors that they will forego
a nap. That's the age I'm at now, most of
these guys I hang out with, or not most of them.
I can't say that. Some of the guys I hang
out with would rather take a thirty minute nap than
go work on their short game. They'd rather take an
hour nap then drive down to the beach and maybe

(13:13):
catch some trout off the rocks, maybe get a king
mackerel hit a month or so ago. Whatever. But not me,
I'm still. I'm still. Let's go seven one three, two
two five seven ninety. Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia
dot com. Good heavens, it's time for the first break.
I'll tee it up with Carter's Country. That's not a

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bad idea right here, almost to hunting season. This is
your last week to get whatever you need. Get whatever
you need in the duck blind, in the deer stand,
anything to do with hunting, anything to do with the
shooting sports. Maybe you don't hunt at all, maybe you
just like long range shooting, or maybe you just like
breaking clay targets. That's fine. They've got everything you need

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to do that as well, and have been doing just
that for more than sixty years. If you're unfamiliar with
the brand, know that it's kind of a legacy here
in Houston that Bill Carter started Carter's Country in the sixties.
He had four stores at one time. He whittled down
to three now and the one up on the north

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side of town, the original Carter's Country has a full
service range and excellent gunsmithing service available up there on
that side of town. Gunsamo and hunting stuff. That's all
they do. They don't do sporting goods. They do gunsammo
and hunting stuff, anything and everything you could possibly need,
and there are people in there to make sure that

(14:39):
you get exactly what you need and they're not going
to try to upsell you into something you don't need.
Carterscountry dot com. Go check out all the red tag
specials going on this time of year too. This is
the time of year when they're kind of turning over
inventory and they want to make sure that there's room
on the shelves for the stuff that's coming in by
giving you great deals on the stuff they've already got.
There a lot of which you will either want and

(15:02):
or need for hunting season, which starts in five days
six days. Carterscuntry dot com is website. Go check it out.
Carterscountry dot com. Alli, welcome back, Good Heavens. What was
that on my phone? Bounced? Eight twenty It is on

(15:23):
Sports Talk seven ninety. Thanks for listening. Certainly, do appreciate
that I can't get away from all this rain. It's
just it was so important and a lot of people
were getting really really worried about it. The duck hunters,
the deer hunters, everybody needs that water. Everybody needs that water.
And so what it does, what it affords us is

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the opportunity, or not an opportunity, but what it gives
us is someplace for those ducks to stop. It gives
the deer a good solid foundation that all the nutrition
they need to get through winter is going to be
available to them. And it's just the I can guarantee

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you the ducks are going to stick around because the
marshes are in good shape, the coastal prairie is in
good shape. There's all kinds of stuff for those ducks
to eat, and as long as they've got good solid
food supplies, it's going to take a tremendous blow of
cold air to get them out of here. They don't.
They're like any other migratory bird. They don't go any

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farther to endure winter than they have to because it
just waste energy. It's that old conservation of energy thing
that I've talked about, where when you get down to
geese or something like that in a very cold winter,
they love rice. Rice is kind of like potato chips
or candy to them, if you will. It has not

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a whole lot of nutritional value. Corn has far more
soybeans have far more. And when it comes down to it,
in a cold winter, those birds are gonna gravitate toward
corn fields towards soybean fields because every time they have
to bend their head down to the ground to pick
something up that takes X amount of energy. And if

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they're bending down to pick up a grain of rice,
they don't get a whole lot of ROI return on
investment if they're picking up a kernel of corn, picking
up a soybean, a peanut, a whole lot better for him.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. I I told Frankie,
I checked this morning, Uh the temperatures around the state,

(17:38):
and I found out that Well, what I determined is
that I think within a couple of weeks now we
are going why is this thing going to that? I
have no idea what that is. I've got to go
back there we go. That's what I'm looking for.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
What I told him is, I'm gonna give him two
weeks to kind of a pre season warm up. Uh
this is spring training from the Texas temperature game, and
I'm gonna go with the temperatures that were on there
a few minutes ago, just because it's easier and I'm
gonna give him a chance to do to play the
game and play along if you want to riding around.

(18:11):
I do have some golf to give away, by the way,
courtesy of my buddy David Preysler up at Oakhurst. The
prize is once we start playing for real, will be
foursomes at Oakhurst Golf Club up on the north side. So, Frankie,
are you ready to try your trailer? And we're not
going to use the fanfare and the fancy intro and
all that until we played the game for real. This

(18:31):
is just this is cold starts. You're ready, Okay? What
do you think is the current or was the current
low temperature about fifteen minutes ago? Okay, it's like fifty
three fifty three. You say, man, what do you think
was the current high about ten minutes ago? Seventy four?

(18:57):
Pretty good on the high you missed it by only
one seventy four. It was actually seventy five, and the
seventy fives were uh that was Corpus and then the
whole Rio Grand Valley basically is all seventy five However,
we did have a cool front moved through the state,
as you will recall, and the current low temperature. Trying

(19:20):
to see where it is actually, hold on, let me
lean in. Oh, I see it. Wow, out in West Texas,
in the mountains, that's where it is at. Oh gosh,
I got to move the map up just a tiny
bit so I can see where that is. Yeah, Marfa,
I should have known Marfa at present thirty seven degrees. Wow.
That pretty chilly. Yeah, And we'll get some bigger spreads

(19:41):
than that, even the spread between the two the state
range is thirty eight degrees between those two numbers. And
we'll see some mornings as as you get into winter
with me here, we'll see some mornings where there's a
spread of really cold up in the Panhandle, maybe twenty
twenty five degrees, maybe fifteen degrees, and then it'll still

(20:04):
be in the seventies down in South Texas. This is
a big state, a big state. Let me go talk
to Rick, see what's on his mind here. Thanks for
playing Frankie, by the way, you did. Well. That's a
good warm up, Rick. What's up.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
Man? Just missing rain? And this fall, my fall, This
is a perfect day if you were wanting to go
out there crows.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Your phone is all messed up? Are you driving around somewhere?

Speaker 4 (20:36):
I'm driving. They'd be a good morning to be looking for.
I'm a murder of crows. The ball goes, Maybe look
for a roll of armadilla.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Oh good lord, you've been waiting for that all day,
hadn't you?

Speaker 3 (20:51):
All right?

Speaker 1 (20:52):
That's all right, that's good man.

Speaker 4 (20:54):
Outdoors you might have you might have to explain that,
but anyway, man's I don't know what it was last night.
I'm on the highway. I gotta go to them primarily
a farming area and change a key lot to a
combination lots so some people can get into. But it's

(21:19):
unbelievable out here. And there ain't a three inside. This
is all rocop land up here in Mumfords over and
uh anyway, North frist County. And for whatever reason, does
I've already I've already clipped me one right about my
rear view. And Mary, they're all over sitting in the road.

(21:45):
I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
There's not that much gravel in that road.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
You know what road as an FM and I know
they don't like their feet wet, so they're out in
the field. But it's not just them, it's the crows
in the doves.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
There was some pigeons, but you know why, they're all
sitting right here in the middle of the road. But
a lot of doves. Wow, the most I've seen this
year in a group on a three, four, five six
miles span.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Be sure to stop when you get your limit.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
Well, I'm one down. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
It's I don't know if the Parson Wildlife Department recognizes
rear view mirror as a lawful shooting method, harvest method.

Speaker 4 (22:36):
You know. I was going to go speak in a
men's group several years ago out in the hill country
and uh for you know, a retreat deal and the
instruction is said, everybody, all the food was provided for
frightening Thursday and Friday, and that Saturday you bring whatever
you want to eat and they're gonna open up this

(22:56):
big grill, bring you a speaker in with some rafts
for sure, whatever you want. Well, I'm out of nowhere
and I'm double checking it. I thought was shoot, I
ain't got anything, and there ain't no stores and I'm
not kidding you. Within the next mile I come over

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this still on the neft film. This was this was
in the uh Marxtreme Marble Falls and burn it and
uh well in that area and come over this hill.
Two of them on my side, driver mirror, Oh my.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
Gosh, and I start went back and got them.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
That's what I took.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
Be careful out there, man, make sure the pigs aren't
out there with the crows and the and the doves.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
Well, if there's a pig out here, I can see
them about a half a mile away because there ain't
nothing else but dirt.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
All right, man, see save travels Ricky audios. Oh man,
you know I'm a little bit perplexed to myself as
to why the crows and the doves would be standing
in the middle of the FM. Hm. That's interesting. Oh
te him up. Let me go ahead and grab him
real quick.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Hey David, Hey Doug, how's it going.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
I'm all right, man. We were gonna call you after
the break, but I'll take you before and then i'll
make it up down the road somewhere. No worries. So
how much this is David Preuit from rice Land Waterfowl Club.
How much rain did you get out there?

Speaker 5 (24:29):
I forgot about oh maybe between the three rains maybe
half an inch.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
That's it, goylee, that's it.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Enough to make enough to make any difference at all
in your pumping scheduling.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
No, just making things muddy but around.

Speaker 5 (24:46):
But hey, that's what we got water weels from and
everywhere we're pumping water.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
Good for you, man, Good for you. Now you you
told me just a little while ago that you do
have room for a couple of more hunters too, And
with all the water you're putting down, they're gonna be ducks,
aren't there.

Speaker 5 (25:04):
Oh yeah, there'll be ducks. We always have ducks. I mean,
we got one group last year that said they had
over sixteen or seventeen full limit hunts. We've had groups say, hey,
we're still in the four is another group in the
five hundred, So we're still killing birds.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
That's good man. And they so six man groups, am
I right?

Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yes? Or we have six man groups and a single gut.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
I'm gonna try it. I'm gonna oh, a single that's
not a bad. Yeah. We had a bunch of those
when I was guiding. And I know you don't allow
guided hunts on your place, but we had a lot
of guys who just look, I don't want to I'll
hunt with anybody at least once and then see what
it goes like after that. But yeah, that's not a
bad way to get yourself onto something like of the

(25:48):
quality that you got out there and upgrade your duck
hunting act. What kind of ducks you're seeing out there?

Speaker 2 (25:55):
Now?

Speaker 1 (25:55):
How many birds you got?

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Not a lot right now? My grade truthfully, about two
and a half to three weeks behind it. Mostly Sean
and stallup.

Speaker 5 (26:07):
In Michigan, you know the Canada caller callmaker last week
he said they shot a couple of blue bills in
a wood duck. He said, our season is almost over
in Michigan and they're not here. Guys from Canada went
up to Canada. A pastor friend of mine, Rusty Martin,
same thing. He just got back a week ago, and
another group was up there. They just left yesterday coming

(26:27):
back and they said they've only seen a hundred snows. Wow,
I don't know. I'm just having to believe everything I'm
hearing when you talk to him, and.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
You know the guy certainly, you know it's just one
of those years where it's going to be a late migration,
which actually doesn't hurt you and doesn't hurt our hunting
down here. It's opening day, maybe a little slow, but
we're going to have better hunts going into the Christmas
season and going into January. Maybe it'll kind of finish

(26:57):
with a real flurry.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Oh it will.

Speaker 5 (27:01):
We're going to get probably a lot of cold weather
and we always get ducks. It's sometimes you have it
a little slow in the beginning. Sometimes you have a
bangers start. But it's one of those years.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
I can remember one start on that Katie Prairie, David,
and I don't even know what year it was, but
you could probably tell me you got a much better
memory for that stuff as close as you are on it.
But I had to take a group of four guys
and we were going to a place that had had
a bunch of ducks on it. It's big, big, big,
big field, and there was good water on it, and

(27:34):
then for a day and a half before the opener
about it was just a torrential downpour. And when I
got into that field that next morning, I got there's
a wellhead about maybe five six hundred yards in the
road from off the FM road, and I'm looking as

(27:56):
a turn onto that road and there's water on both
sides of that road. There's no where to walk into
the field. It's just it's water up onto the road almost.
And we ended up having a just kind of tuck
in behind little tufts of Johnson grass and anything else
we could find to make ourselves halfway hidden, and ended
up having a really good hunt. But even the ducks

(28:17):
were kind of confused about how much water was in
that place. It was nuts. Man, My poor old dog
didn't know what to do either. He had a blast,
he did, and he the champion mouser of the prairie.
He brought back one of those big old prairie rats.
It's about the size of a two liter coke bottle.
And these guys said, hey, man, your dog's not carrying

(28:39):
a duck. I said, I know he does that. It's okay,
he'll stop. He just goes he gets one, didn't hunt,
and then after that he'll go get some more. So
when in a year like this, and I know you've
been doing this for fifty years, so maybe you've got
some something in the back of your mind that says, okay,
they'll probably start showing up after one more coal front,

(29:00):
two more. What are you.

Speaker 5 (29:01):
Thinking, Yeah, I'm thinking I'm thinking about the second week
of November, we'll start really start seeing a good push.
It's just a little behind. We've had years like it before.
We've always you know, like I said earlier, make it through.
And when I think that push is gonna happen, it's
gonna be a big push.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Because if they're still shooting.

Speaker 5 (29:22):
Blue Wing tealed up in Michigan a week and a
half ago, we're behind.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
I think I've got eight water wells running right now.

Speaker 5 (29:33):
Wow. I mean we're pushing water everywhere. Just finished building
another area. I used a scraper right ran it like
twenty twenty eight hours almost straight.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (29:43):
And got another pine redone and scraped out and big
levies built.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
Water was going into it. It was half full yesterday.

Speaker 5 (29:51):
So we're getting things pushed for when the birds get here,
and we're just getting prepared work. No, I don't believe
there's anybody out there works harder for their Waterfowl Club
than what we do. Is I mean constant tone stuff.
We used too much ahead. It's every day for eighteen hours.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
A day minimum. We're pushing doing something for the hunters.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
That's good, the ducks, that's good. You know, when out
back back in the day. Of course, I'm I'm not
as young in spry as I used to be. But
when people would ask me outside of close to hunting season,
they just say, when's the best time to bring my
dad down from Arkansas or Montana whatever for a goose

(30:33):
hunt or a duck hunt. The standard answer was always
between Thanksgiving and Christmas. That's kind of the peak. Is
it still that way?

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yeah? I think so.

Speaker 5 (30:44):
I think it's still a good time. We're still getting
new birds this year. If it's late snow that they
get up north, we'll still be getting burgets.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
Kind of funny.

Speaker 5 (30:55):
You know sometimes later in the year we're still getting
more birds coming in and instead of your suddings or
shooting the same old steelberg a day after day.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Yeah, you got to remember everybody has to remember that.
The calendar is something that we look at. The birds
are responding to weather conditions, they're responding to light conditions
and all of that, and they've been doing that for
thousands of years. We're just we're tied to this January, February, March,
April May stuff that means absolutely nothing to the birds.

(31:26):
They're just they're working on DNA man.

Speaker 5 (31:31):
Yes, exactly exactly, and they're free flying. They could go
where they want when they want. That lives within a
mile of his home territory.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
And yeah, I wish I had a nickel for every
time I had to explain that to People said, how
come that big old rooster geese got off when that
kyote flew there? Do you think they'll come back? I said,
not till that kayaks or that coyotes a little farther away,
I guess. But yeah, they they pick up and fly
anytime they want to, and they can go as far
as they want, and they don't have to. I'm back

(32:02):
now that's true.

Speaker 5 (32:03):
We shot a wood duck that was in Canada and
he was two. He was banded two days earlier. Oh wow,
I mean that's moving pretty good for a wood duck.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Holy cow. All right, So look, if somebody wants to
jump in, they're still kind of scratching their head, going
where am I gonna hunt ducks this year? How do
they get a hold of you?

Speaker 5 (32:24):
You can call us at nine three six eight two
seven two four one three and we'll be happy to
show you around over our stuff we've got and let
you see what's really going on. For yourself, it's not here,
Say it's here.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
It is. Look?

Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, yeah, give them, give them half the tour that
I got that at to pretty much convince them they're
gonna get to see it. With all the water. You
were telling me where all the water is going to be.
Now they'll get to see that, won't they.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
Exactly? Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
I like the way you set your blinds up to
where a lot of them are very easy, easy, easy access,
where if you if you can't walk, you don't have
to walk.

Speaker 5 (32:57):
You know, that's important, kid, that's the best sight. I mean,
why not be comfortable and making easy of himself as
he can?

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, yeah, tell that to all the guys. Get older, Oh,
tell that to all the guys. I made haul of
a bag of wet rags into a field and lie
down on a muddy, a muddy rice levee that had
fire ant beds all over it. Those were the days.
Oh me, Oh, I saw more than We're going to

(33:26):
be wiser God, isn't that the truth? I saw more
than one grown. I'd tell him about the ants, and
I'd tell them, look, get your flashlight out. That's the
only thing I would let him use a flashlight for
is to make sure they weren't setting up shop on
an ant bed, because the ants go to the high
ground and invariably somebody about maybe two minutes before shooting

(33:46):
time to really mess it all up, just starting to
be able to see, and some grown man would jump
up and start peeling all his clothes off on a
twenty eight degree morning because he was lying in fire ants.
And we all know that when the fire ant get
on you, they wait until there's about a thousand of them,
then one of them blows a whistle and they all
start stinging you.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
All right, for sure.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
Good times. Huh, Dave Good tell you all.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Right, but it's hilarious today. But it wasn't hilarious.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
No, No, it wasn't funny to me the time it
happened to me either. One time I let that happen.
Ricelandwaterfowl Club dot Com. Go give David a portico if
you want to kill some ducks this year. Thanks David,
appreciate it. Man. Yeah, keep me posted, Keep me posted
this week, next week, week after whenever. All right, Holy

(34:35):
col we got to take a quick break. I know that.
I'm sorry, Frankie. I just get fired up about talking
about waterfowl. Bell Bill Meat Market. That's something else that
fires me up. They have got so much good stuff
out there right now, and they're taking orders for those
pecan smoke turkeys ahead of the holidays. They average about
eleven to thirteen pounds. That's going to make a nice
meal with all the trimmings and fixings and whatever for

(34:57):
about ten, maybe a dozen people. On the appetites. They
have homemade stuffed pork tenderloins, Oh my gosh, jalapeno cream cheese,
sweet chipotle cream cheese, on and on and on. They've
got even those labuchery stuffed chickens. If you've never had
one of those, you owe it to yourself and your
family and anybody else you care about enough to feed.

(35:19):
To get something that going on in your house. There's
a new sausage recipe to try. If you've got deer,
Tomali's gonna be coming out with some venison you're gonna
take to Belleville Meat Market, because that's a smart place
to take it. Be sure to ask them about it
and see if you can get a sample. There's probably
gonna be samples of that stuff up almost all season long.
Beef jerky turkey, jerky dry stick. I love that stuff.

(35:42):
Take some into the blind with you next time you go,
or put a bag of it on the boat when
you're going out fishing with your buddies. All kinds of
good stuff, plus a complete barbecue meal. All you know
what that is in Texas. If you know what, if
you're from here or just got here within six months ago,
you've already learned what a barbecue meal is. They serve

(36:04):
at ten am to seven pm daily at Belleville Meat
Market Highway thirty six, fifteen minutes north to Cealy, fifteen
minutes south of Hempstead, more or less each way, or
online anytime at Belleville MeetMarket dot com. That's Belleville MeetMarket
dot com. I make a big, nice industry. Hey forty

(36:26):
four already That means I got to do a short
segment here, doesn't it, Frankie, Yes, sir, just burning turn
basically all right, let's go with Yeah, there's just so
much to unpack this time of year. Oh, I don't
even know if I have time this morning to try

(36:47):
to get into to get into binoculars, things with lenses.
Let's talk about this a little bit. The game cameras
trail cams kind of the it's kind of sort of
the hunting version of forward facing sonar, okay, And the

(37:08):
best cameras out there now are sending signals back to
somebody's phone and allowing that somebody to watch these things
pretty much twenty four to seven. They've got little solar
panels on them to keep the batteries fresh. They've got
all kinds of stuff. Back in the Stone Ages, when

(37:28):
I was using trail cams, you had to go to
the store and buy a roll of film to put
into it, and it would mechanically fire off a frame
when something walked into view with something tripped the motion sensor,
and it was awkward and clumsy and rarely turned up

(37:51):
what you really wanted to see. But on the outside
chance that it might, I and a lot of other
friends of mine bought the camera, put them out there,
had to go back to retrieve the film. And that's
that wasn't bad because the places I was putting them
on were not far from home. It's not like I

(38:12):
was sitting here in inside the loop and having to
drive to del Rio or down into the valley somewhere
to check my cameras. They were just right basically down
the street, and it was more. It was almost a
little bit more entertainment than anything else for me, because
I wasn't I never did kill a deer on this place.

(38:34):
I shot a lot of hogs on it. But the
guy who got me access my buddy Philip Mount, who
I've known for now for gosh, by thirty years. How
are we that old? In any event, I got access
through him to a place that was his in lost
place for a long time. It's since been sold, but
it was a fantastic place. There were wild animals all

(38:57):
over it, and compare that to what's available now. I
had that talk with God. I believe it's is it
Ronnie who called yesterday? Who's the fellow who called from
the Los Rasis ranch?

Speaker 3 (39:09):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (39:09):
I hope I wrote his name down, Dad Guming. I
did not, and I so appreciate those calls. I hope
he'll call me and say, hey, it's me, write my
name down so you don't forget it again. But they
have live stream video from several feeders on that ranch,
which will kind of tell you or tell them so

(39:31):
that they can tell their hunters who are coming in
where to go to look for particular size deer they
might want to take, and that's a wonderful resource. I'm
that the curiosity in me is so strong, though, that
if I go to a ranch that has cameras out
all over the place and they say, hey, man, check

(39:53):
this buck out that's been it's been coming to this
feeder for four days and about two thirty or three
o'clock in the afternoon, when it doesn't think anybody's around.
You want to go get dropped off there at noon
and see what happens. Probably not. I would rather go
someplace where I don't know what's coming. Where can I

(40:15):
set up a ground blind somewhere. The probably the best
buck I ever took came out of a ground blind
that I had put together the day before and just
sitting on a little hilltop down on the Somburrito Bill
Carter's place, or the Carter family's place. Now Bill's long

(40:37):
since past, but yeah, that that's something I like a
little bit more than just oh, man, I don't know, Frankie.
You want me to take this break here real quick
and then catch David when we get back. Are we
that late to Yeah, we're that late? Hang on, David,
I want to take I got Dave and David on
the phone. I'll take care of both of you guys
when we get back. Okay, I promise a ride bikes

(40:58):
up in Tomball. That is where Wayne Errington hence the
air ride. He pronounces it a ride and r r ide.
Just plant that in your memory bank if you are
interested in as I certainly am now after finally getting
to ride one of these things. I was kind of
hesitant to get on an electric bike. I was part

(41:18):
of me was scared I would like it as much
as I actually did. It is just so effortless. You
get on the thing and depending on what speed setting
you put it on, in power setting you start, you
just make a couple of little rotations of the pedals
and the motor kicks in and takes you a little
farther down down the trail, down the road, whatever. And

(41:38):
then just as it's decided okay, that's how much you wanted,
you got to give it a little more and it'll
get you a little farther down the road. Wayne sent
me a piece of paper this week, or it sent
me an email and I turned it into a piece
of paper about the Troxis brand of e bikes. There's
one called the Troxis Explorer Plus that would pretty much

(42:00):
you do anything and everything you'd want to do on
a deer lease. It's got a long range. According to
the manufacturer, you can get up to ninety miles per charge.
Now I don't know about you, but I've never had
to drive anywhere and cover ninety miles to hunt deer
from the from the ranch gate let's call it, or
from the ranch house. Now, that's gonna take care of

(42:23):
all weekend. Probably you won't even have to charge the thing,
I would imagine. And this bike got big old wide
tires to get you through the mud and the brush
and whatever. This bike also will travel if you're on
a nice smooth part of the ranch road, up to
twenty eight miles an hour. It's gonna get you where
you need to go. It's got all the power you
need to get you and your big old buck out
of the woods and back to camp. Really amazing machine

(42:48):
for that, and like I've been talking about, also for
going to the beach maybe and running up and down
the beach chasing fish. That would be so cool on
North Padre Island to be on an electric bike. Got
a little side saddle or get a little saddle bags
on the back full of tackle. That would be amazing.
I can't I'm gonna figure out a way to try that.
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(43:13):
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he will assemble your brand new electric bike. They're very
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and Wayne can tell you all about that. You don't
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(43:35):
I d e A ride bikes dot Com. I don't
know what kind of shape timber Creek Golf Club's in
right now because of the rain we've had for the
last couple of days, but I suspect that they're gonna
get people out there. They've got twenty seven holes. Surely
not all twenty seven of them are unplayable. I bet
you there's gonna be some golf. They may be ten
in them up right now, might be cartpath only for

(43:56):
a little while, but Timber Creek's gonna get them out.
They're gonna have some fun and you can join them.
Be a good easy day to make a tea time too,
because a lot of people probably bailed out when they
saw this rain. FM twenty three fifty one Down there
in Frenswood, twenty seven holes meandering through the woods. A
little bit of bunkering out there, just to keep you
honest if you're hitting more sand and water than you

(44:17):
are greengrass. Slide over to JJ Woods and his staff
at the Golf Academy there at Timber Creeks in that
metal building just on the far side of the range
over there to the right, great people, great teaching staff,
great grill to get a meal before or after you
go out and play. There's gonna be somebody riding around
to make sure you're feding water while you're out there.

(44:43):
Eight fifty six. We're gonna have to burn and turn here.
Let's get David going here. What's up, David?

Speaker 3 (44:49):
Yeah, dog, Thank you for taking my call real quickly.
My first game camera was what we call the home
brew camera, one that we built using security system parts,
and so I feel like I've got good experience with them.
I wouldn't I wouldn't go so far as to say
they're like forward facing sonar, because to me, Doug and

(45:10):
I think you would agree, that's more like using drones
because you're actively looking at an area.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
While you're out there.

Speaker 3 (45:17):
But a camera is more for surveillance. Now I don't
I don't. I don't hunt with a feeder, and they
are tremendously effective and letting me figure out where the
deer are going to be traveling most often. And that's
almost like being able to know what part of a
lake you're going to be most likely to catch a
fish without using forward facing sonar. Right the other area

(45:38):
where they're and I'm not trying to be brief the
other areas those hogs. There's a pond on my lease
and I can I can see those hogs. You know,
hogs are very even more so than deer. They will
come to the same area at the same time, uh
daily and as long as getting what they want, and

(46:00):
I can, I can monitor that pond, and when those
hogs start showing up, I'll be up there the next
stay and I will be giving them hot lead.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
Let me tell you, I was going to ask you
if anybody, if any of those hogs that ever ordered
from the menu a lead sandwich.

Speaker 4 (46:14):
But maybe.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
They're very effective tools. But a better discussion, like you
said on forward face and so on, our and cameras
are really hunting would be drones.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
Uh that's illegal, would.

Speaker 3 (46:29):
Be well, it's true, true, and it should be. Yeah,
but that doesn't mean people don't, you know, wretch it somehow.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
I would like to think that everybody's playing by the rules.
But I know better. I talk to game wardens. I
know better, and it's a it's a shame that it's
come to that, because there's a lot less attention being
paid to law these days than there should be.

Speaker 3 (46:54):
I'm real quickly, Doug that when I say the hogs,
the cell camera, the camera that will send you a
picture to sea to tell you that the hogs were
there that at that time, and you can be up
there then you know, yeah, it maybe at five, but
you could be there the next day and waiting on them.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
Yeah, surveillance is a good that's a good description of it.
Thank you, man, that's perfect, David, Thanks man, Thank you, Yes, sir, audios.
All right, I'm gonna put guitar Dave. I'm gonna let
him hold for a bit. I hate to do it
to him, man, But I got to get through this
break at the top, and I'm I don't like to
be late. Sometimes I have to sometimes I don't American
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(48:12):
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(48:34):
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here we go. Second an hour of the program starts
right now. Thank you also, very very very much for

(48:56):
joining us, for listening to us, and for contributing to
the program. That's what many many years ago I kind
of said, more of you, unless of me, makes this
a more interesting and more entertaining program. And I'm sticking
to that. I am, and I'm gonna prove it because
I'm gonna get guitar Dave on here and see if
he's got a smart question for me. What's up, Dave?

Speaker 3 (49:19):
Hey, I was gonna t call about a question about
rollover pass, but I'm sitting out here and this one
person was skiing and they were skiing all the way
up to north and then they come back. They come
back around and then the person just fell off, so
the boats come about to pick them up. Oh boy, yeah,
it's cool out here. I don't know, man, I can't

(49:41):
tell where they got a wet suits on or not. Hey,
but my question is, go ahead.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
You're fine, Go ahead, you two, you go.

Speaker 3 (49:49):
Roll over past?

Speaker 4 (49:51):
Is it done?

Speaker 3 (49:52):
When is that pier done?

Speaker 1 (49:54):
I don't know if the pier has finished yet or not.
I can, I don't. You can still out google it,
Yeah I can. I can find it. I can. Just
one second. Have you caught any fish up where you
are this weekend?

Speaker 3 (50:10):
So right now? No, it was the weather's been real
bad last night.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
Man, it was not good.

Speaker 3 (50:15):
A tree fell on somebody's house and you wait over
there on Old seventy five. But nobody got hurt, you know. Yeah,
my brother, you know I got one home. You hear
that bell ring? No, I'm being serious, I got a bello.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
Why aren't you really?

Speaker 3 (50:33):
Well, I'm talking to you, Okay, you know he'll stay
on there if he gets owner.

Speaker 1 (50:39):
All right, Well, here's the AI overview of Rollover Past Pier.
It says the rollover Past Pier that's all I searched,
refers to the new fishing pier being constructed at the
site of former rollover pass on Bolivar Peninsula, Texas. This
project is a coastal preservation effort by the Texas General
Land Office. What it is as a token to keep

(51:01):
us quiet because we're all so mad that they close
the pass. Nonetheless, it is expected to be completed by
July of twenty twenty six. Be one thousand feet long.
Bait shop cleaning station. Parking in a dune walkover, Okay,
you know, there we go. So we're gonna have to
park our cars where we can't see them. I guess

(51:22):
if you're three hundred yards out, though, it's doesn't really
matter whether you can see it or not. I hope
there is good lighting in the parking lot and on
the pier, and I hope that they will have some
sort of very sophisticated camera system to watch over the
cars that are parked. I really do. Just that's the
kind of time we live in. Unfortunately, you know what,

(51:42):
that's right.

Speaker 3 (51:43):
Because in case you got your riding reels or some
extra riding reels, and they're sure I may see them
in and break either they're gone. That's why I always
say cover up, you know, came bringing a blanket and
cover everything up.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
I knew a guy years ago. I knew a guy
who bought he had. He had more money than any
he could ever spend in five lifetimes. But he ended
up buying this like twelve or fifteen year old truck.
It was kind of rusted out and torn up, and
he kept it down at his very nice beach house
down toward the west end of Galveston Island. And he
would take that truck when he was going wade fishing

(52:17):
over on the backside of surf side. And he because
there were lots of cars getting broken into over there,
and he said, I didn't leave anything visible in there,
and he'd leave a winded down and stuff even sometimes
and people would realize that it ain't worth breaking into
this thing, and he just smiled and come back all
the stuff still there.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
Yeah, I uh, real quick on that picture. I said
that you meat dressed up. His word, he said, I
need to be Yeah. That was at the American Legion
Post six eighteen. Hey did you look at that. Look
at that little girl's eyes. I know she look man, Well, no,
she's like that's crazy, you know. And then her brother

(52:59):
he was like what's going on? And then she come
up to me and she goes, you know, with my
orange on my face and black around my eyes, she goes,
you look like President Trump. Word wow, because remember remember
when his hair was remember when his hair was orange?
Oh yeah, she goes, you look like President Trump.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
Hey.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
Well, everything was going good real quick. On the on
the on the on the turkey. Yeah, we ordered that
and we ordered the other stuff. But uh, we're going
to go the week before and pick it up. But uh,
I think they can have it delivered too, right, I mean,
like if you wanted them to deliver.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
It, yeah, I'm sure they would. Yeah, and just go
on go to the website and just tell them where
you want it and they'll see it there. Sometime.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
We're going to go and pick it up. But I'm
thinking about for anybody else to order one that doesn't
want to drive over there.

Speaker 1 (53:54):
Now you can't. You can't for your address though. You
can't say I'll be in the third lawn chair next
to the lake. You can't say that, all right, okay,
all right man, all right, okay, sorry, yeah, I'll be
the one with the bell on my rod and reil
on the end of my ride. I've seen those little bells,

(54:16):
and I guess if I were staring at my phone
or not paying attention, I might benefit from those. But honestly,
if I'm fishing and I've got deadbait on the bottom,
trying to get a catfish for a kid, I'm watching
every rod tip i've got. If I've got three rods out,
I'm going ABC, ABC, ABC, just waiting for one of

(54:37):
them to move, just waiting for one but even flicker.
All right, what I want to do now? I mentioned
yesterday that the Texas Game Wardens had a celebration of
gathering at which a lot of people were recognized, especially
this year, for all the work they did up along

(54:58):
the Guadaloop when the Guadaloupe just went nuts and so
many people died up there. These game wardens, they put
their own lives on the line, and many of them
were recognized, And as best I can, in the next
five or six minutes, I'm going to run through some
of these and just let you know a little bit
about what they did, a little bit about why they

(55:20):
earned these recognitions, And honestly, anybody and everybody who was
up there deserves some sort of credit beyond just what
they got out of it for themselves. Everybody needs to
be recognized. This week, the Director's Medal of Honor was presented,
the Director's Medal of Merit, the Director's Citation, the Director's

(55:42):
Life Saving Award. There were nine wardens named Warden of
the Year for their respective regions, and then numerous other
promotions recognized at this gathering of all that law enforcement. Boy,
if if poachers could find out when that day happen,
when all of them gather up like that, all the
best ones gather up, they probably go do something against

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the law. So the Director's Medal of Vowel Valor, the
highest honor bestowed by the TPWD Law Enforcement Division, went
to a man named Sergeant Brent Briggs. He the tactical
Flight Officer Board of Parks and Waldlife Department helicopter. This guy,

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he and his pilot, Robert Mitchell, were on the job.
And also there's a rescue technician guy named Jacob Warden.
Jacob Warden, Jacob Crumpton, that's his full name. They all
played direct roles in rescuing multiple individuals from raging floodwaters.
We all saw the videos of that, and they just

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kept going and going and going and going back out
and looking for more, and going back out and looking
for more. And Biggs has he had a knowledge of
the region, a knowledge of the area beforehand, which made
him all the more helpful, all the more able to
know kind of where to go looking for these people.
Just unbelievable what they did. So you've got them winning

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that award, I believe. And then let's go and there's
so much more here what they did. I'm gonna flip
the page and continue. I want to get to some
of these guys. Near dawn, it says, with conditions rapidly deteriorating,
John Compton, Menard County game Warden and member of the
Texas Game Warden Search and Rescue Team, launched a rescue

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boat into the debris choked Guadaloup alongside fellow wardens. Every
one of those people knew they were risking their lives,
but he and his crew went out there in a
boat and just started plucking victims out of trees above
that flood water, and they helped support helicopter hoist extractions.
They were just out there for hour after hour after hour,

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no rest, no food, no nothing, working hard. Who else
is on here? Let's see Jacob Crumpton, not John Compton.
Jacob Crumpton, two very closely similar names, but he's a
Concho County guy, also search and Rescue team member. He
got lowered into fast moving debris filled waters, plucking people
out of trees and off of debris piles, and earned

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recognition for that. Another guy, Ray Milliway, Lampassa's County game Warden,
right there alongside all those other guys along the Guadaloupe
extreme conditions, extracting victims from life threatening situations. Just it
goes on and on. Lieutenant Robert Mitchell, same kind of work,

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same selfless service to pluck people out of trees and
off rooftops and cars and whatever else was out there
where they could cling to life for a little while
the game wardens were out there picking them up. Michael
Serbinac mcclenan County game warden, search and Rescue team member,
same work, same area. Richard Witt, also Search and Rescue,

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Mills County game Warden. All of this, all those guys
earned that high high honor. The Director's Medal of Merit
went to Let me flipped the page. I'm gonna stick
with these because this is so important, so important. Dustin Janski,
he's a Guadalouke County game Warden Assistant Commander Brandon Rose,

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Texas game Warden Aviation. I got a hunch, Oh yeah,
he's a pilot. He was a very skilled pilot, got
those little helicopters of theirs into places where a little
helicopters probably wouldn't be able to go without an expert pilot.
Lieutenant Tyler Stoyke's h Sergeant Doug White, Cooper Walken, Dustin Barrett,
all of these people, that Ryan Cobb. It just goes

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on and on, and I'll tell you what, I've got
to take a break here. I'm gonna do it, and
then when we get back, I may just just drop
in a couple of more names here if if you
don't mind, these people are These people are here, no
question about it. They're absolute heroes. And every one of
them would say, no, I was just doing my job,
but you and I know better. Not many people can

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say their job involves saving lives. These people can, and
they did save a lot of lives. All right, I
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I'm gonna guess that that's enough. That's big enough. I
don't know what a four X is. I'm not quite there,
but I noted that for big guys, and big guys
need to look cool too, and Kobe's got them taken
care of. Beautiful, beautiful shirts, very comfortable, very affordable compared
to some of these bigger national brands. And you're gonna

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look good. Bottom line, you're gonna look good. You're gonna
wanna shine your shoes before you start wearing your Kobe
Peril Kobe Stevens a pair because you want to project
the right image. You want to project the right image
when you're playing golf so that nobody knows until you
swing the club how you really play. Hey, that guy
looks like a pro. Honest to god. I'm at Blackhawk
one day and I'm wearing Kobe Stephens shirt and I

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got my shoes shined up, and I'm feeling pretty good.
I'm walking off the range toward the course and this
guy and his son walked by and he goes, hey,
aren't you one of the pros out here that is
puffed up, really proud of Well, no, not really. You
clearly you've got here after I made my swings, So
that's okay though. Thanks thanks for the compliment. You'll look
good too. Kobe Stevens dot com is the website. I've

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got a store on the on the north side. Go
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From nineteen twenty one on Sports Talk seven to ninety
a Dugpike Show. Thank you for listening. I certainly appreciate it.
On here, we are what four or five days away

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Oh my gosh, four or five days away from deer
season regular season opener, duck and goose season openers. And
it's it's it's fall, it's not winter. It's a long
ways from winter. Believe me, the ducks and geese will
tell you they're not down here yet. They're not leaving
the north until it is winter up there. Then they'll

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bounce their way down here. Just bounce, bounce, bounce. Someone
three seven ninety email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Boy,
I remember seeing some I'm just kind of when I
was talking about bouncing that just then seeing ducks and
geese coming out of the sky and right at people
on the ground, and watching grown men just dive out

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of the way of what amounts to about a three
and a half pound bird falling stone dead at them.
And I used to, you know, every now and then
one of my hunters would get popped by or hit
by a falling bird, and a lot of them just
kind of laughed about it and shook it off. And
what I reminded them, and I'll I'll remind anybody who's

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either never experienced it, I'll explain it to you, or
or has but never got hurt by it. When those
birds are coming down every now and then, one of
them is going to have a broken wing, and that
broken wing bone pretty good chance it could be exposed.
And if you're not familiar, bird's wings are kind of

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hollow and they fracture very brittally, and if one of
those things comes down and hits you point first broken
part first, it's going to do a lot of damage.
That's the last thing I wanted. When I was out
there in that field, got birds up pretty high and bam, bam, bam.

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Everybody shoots and there's two or three of them, four
of them falling, and one of them's falling right at you.
I strongly recommend getting out of the way instead of
just turning your head and taking the blow. That's that's
a little pro tip from way back when knock on Wood.
I never had anybody in my stand get hurt by
a falling bird. Did other people in other parties? Yeah,

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a couple of them. Nothing, nothing major, nothing we had
to stop a hunt for. But there would be some
pretty good scrapes and just the weight of that thing
hitting you. It's like taking a punch from uh, maybe
not from I don't know who's the who's the toughest
boxer on the planet right now, Frankie, would you know that?

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I don't know, But Mike Tyson's pretty good. Yeah, let's
go with a Tyson punch. That's kind of what it'd
be like. Just and and how appropriate that he's named
for a chicken, you know. Yeah, So just imagine somebody
dropping a chicken on you from fifty yards off the ground,
and that's about what it's gonna feel like. Just the impact,

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let alone broke bones involved be careful here, I am
safety stamp back to the game wardens. I want to
I do want to get there. I'm gonna go here.
I'm gonna go back over here. There are some that
have just the real, the real nuts and bolts of
what was going on. I've talked about that guy talked

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about that. Here's where I wanted to be right here.
I was working on it during the break. The director's
life saving citation imagine putting putting yourself in this situation
early early, early February seventeenth. These are not These are
not Guadalupe River. This is other things that happened all
around this state where game wardens got called to save

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the day. February seventeenth, Houston County game Wardens Curtis Brock
and Connor Sombera respond to a distress call from three
guys in the Big Slew Wilderness area within that Davy
Crockett National Forest, freezing temperatures, flood waters. The wardens located
and stabilized one hypothermic hunter at his truck. He's the

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guy who made the phone call before hiking more than
a mile to reach the other two. One guy was safe,
the other guy was trapped. Across a flooded creek. Simbara
swam through the cold water to get to the guy,
secured him, and then with Brock's assistance and Houston County

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Search and Rescue, got him to shore and got all
three of those people out and treated by EMS with
no severe injuries. That's good work. Michael Ferguson Falls County,
Michael SERVAAC mcclennan County. They had to go rescue a
guy trapped in a submerged vehicle during bad flooding up
in that part of the state on May sixth, with

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no regard really to their own safety. They just kind
of they're just doing their job. They go rushing into
chest deep, fast moving water, break out a window, pull
the guy out of the car. Moments it says here
before the vehicle swept away. And on June first, Sergeant
Michael Gonzalez, Sergeant Travel quog Nawasis County Game Warden O'Ryan Massias,

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and Parks of Wallet Department boat mechanic Corey Schlapia on
board the game Warden patrol vessel and get a call
about some guys having a little trouble forty miles off
the Texas coast, they run out there to a life
threatening medical emergency call from a nearby vessel. They brought
the patient on board, started coming back to shore, ended

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up rendezvoom with a US Coast Guard helicopter and they
took care of that guy. It just goes on and
on and another one Tarren County in August. Some guy
had fallen between a boat and a dock and was
struggling to stay afloat. Game Warden shows up. Joseph Sellers
jumps in the water. It helps the guy get back

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out of the water. Everybody else is standing around like
what are we gonna do? What are we gonna do?
Game Wardens is I'm gonna save the guy. I'm gonna
get in the water and take care of it. It
just goes on and on and on, and no surprise
to anybody who knows anything about Montgomery County, it was
the Montgomery County DA's office that won the Texas Game
Warden Prosecutor of the Year Award. Montgomery down. Montgomery County

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doesn't play around. If you're breaking the law up there,
you're gonna be punished to the fullest extent of law
once you're found guilty. If you're found guilty, and don't
think anything other than that's gonna happen. They like their
natural resources, they like their fish and wildlife. They like
their quiet lifestyle up there. And if you come in

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wanting to upset that apple cart, no politely, well I
don't know how politely, but they will put a stop
to it. Ah, Someone email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
Dan Wade in, Oh, yeah, you're talking about that noise
we kept hearing Frankie's it seems to be gone. Alan
weighed in, let's see now I'm gonna go look at

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that during the break, Allan, I will hmmm. Let's go
to Shooter's Corner, shall we Palmer high Way at twenty
nine Street down in Texas City. If you've never been
to Shooter's Corner, uh, and you don't know what just
a traditional old school gun store looks like, just a
little bitty into the strip center place, a very humble

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amount of square feet for all the stuff they stack
in it that anybody and everybody who loves the shooting
sports is gonna want and like and all that stuff.
Great place to go tell your stories about hunting or
any kind of shooting sports enthusiasm you have and you
want to share a story with people who will listen
anybody who's in there as soon as there's a break

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in the action, because everybody's in there telling stories. Everybody's
talking about where they're going to be hunting, and how
they're gonna be hunting, and what they're going to be
hunting come winter around here. A lot of law enforcement too,
by the way, because if you wear a badge for
a living, you get a discount. At Shooter's Corner, it's
almost always somebody from a PD or the county or
whatever parked out in front of Shooter's Corner. When you

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get in there, you'll see guns, you'll see AMO, you'll
see CAMO, you'll see optics, you'll see everything reloading supplies,
and you'll see two or three people who are genuinely
interested in helping you get taken care of, whether that's
just a little bit of AMMO for deer hunting, or
maybe you need a significant amount of gunsmithing work done,

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or maybe you want a custom rifle. They're fantastic with that.
The shooters Corner TX dot com owned by Jerry and
JTK father and son team. Great people been in that
same place for forty plus years, the Shooters Corner TX
dot com. You've got a little time to kill today
up on the northwest side of town, and you have

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your golf clubs. Maybe not in the car yet or
the truck, but within reach. Get black Horse Golf Club
a call. I got a hunch that a lot of
people cancel tea times over the last two or three days,
and there will be plenty of room to get you
out on that beautiful daily feed North Course. Or if
you want to upgrade your act a little bit and

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exercise your right to choose an option on the South
course private membership to also include other courses. You get
kind of a five for one deal if you join
black Horse Golf Clubs now private South Course. There's an
option at which you get also access not only to
the two courses there, but to the two courses at

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Golf Club of Houston, where I'm thinking about going this
afternoon as a matter of fact, and to Black Country
Club down in Richmond, which is where I play most
of my golf down there. Either way, you're going to
come out way ahead if you can. If you can
do that option, and of course the North Course still
ready for you still able to handle you and all
your buddies who want to play daily fee golf on

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one of the better tracks in this whole region. Great
grill to get some food, great people in the pro
shop out there on the range down at the far
end if you need lessons, in a really good place
to hold a giant tournament, because with two courses you
can get a lot of people out there raising money
for your cause all at one time. Black Horse Golf

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Club dot com is a website. Go check it out.
Make yourself a tea time. Black Horse Golf Club dot
com nine thirty six. It is on Sports Talk seven
ninety The Duckpike Show. Thank you for listening. What do
we have coming up after this? Would it be Fox Sports?
I guess huh yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, I'll listen to

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that on the way home. I'd like to listen to
those guys. I'm kind of curious to see how how
some of these sports national sports shows are gonna handle
that big gambling is that's going on right now. Holy cow,
I would have never thought Shaquille O'Neil came out and
said something pretty pretty spot on. Uh and I can't remember.

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I think it was. It was one of the guys
who's been arrested and charged as far as being part
of all this, and he was addressing just that person specifically, said, man,
you're making nine million dollars a year. Isn't that enough?
Isn't that enough? And I guess not. People who have
a dollar would love to have two. People who have

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a million dollars would love to have two million. People
who have one hundred million would love to have two
hundred million. And then there's Elon, and I think is
it him? Is it him or the other guy? Who's
the other guy who has bazillions of dollars? Oh gosh,
I don't know. Pick one, you'll I think it might
be Elon. One of them is approaching something like five

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hundred billion dollars in networth or something. I don't know.
Is it Bezos now? I don't think. So it doesn't matter,
you know why, because we aren't really in their crowd.
And I don't want I would never be jealous to
somebody who has that much money, because they do and
I don't. And that's okay. I'm content. I'm content with

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what I have and that's what I like to be.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Let's go take
a look at the There. It is the Bank of
Utah Championship and the leader ford their leader board thereof yeah,
named Michael Brennan. He got in on a sponsors exemption.

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He's leading the tournament by two after shooting sixty four yesterday.
Matt McCarty's at fifteen. Brennan's at seventeen under parr by
the way, sixty seven, sixty six, sixty five. And then
right behind him is Matt McCarty. He's at fifteen. He
also shot sixty four yesterday. And Rick Ohoey Hoy, Rico

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Hoy and Kevin U who both shot sixty three yesterday,
And if you think that's the low score of the day,
just hold on a second. They're both at fourteen under par,
along with Pearson Coody. And then here comes Hayden Springer
who rolled out a little sixty two to get his

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name into the conversation. He is at thirteen under par
with friends and tied for the sixth position on the
golf course going into today's final round, which will get
underway fairly shortly. This is a great opportunity for these guys.
The names that I just mentioned aren't I don't know
that even people who follow golf fairly closely would recognize.

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A couple of them I had never heard of, but
I looked them up and they're all, you know what,
They're all PGA Tour players, and they're all playing at
a PGA Tour event, and one of them probably is
going to become a first time winner on the PGA Tour.
And that's the hardest one. Everybody I've ever talked to
who played the game at that level says that first

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one is the hardest one to get, which is kind
of true in any sport, your first home run, back
to golf, your first hole in one. Now, I got
my first and only hole in one probably close to
ten years ago, maybe nine years ago. And I've had
a couple of semi near I can't say I've had

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a couple of near misses, because that would imply that
the ball was actually really really close to the hole,
either when it went by or stopped short, or stopped
left or right. But I've had some drive bys where
it got within three four, five six feet of the hole,
and that I consider I consider a victory at my
level of play. But these guys, somebody's life's gonna change

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this afternoon, for sure, one of those, especially if they're
a first time winner, because that just opens up a
lot of doorsement stuff, It opens up a lot of
exemption stuff, and it just it fattens your bank account immediately.
These guys are playing for very real money now, and
there are a lot of people, as I talked about
yesterday a little bit, there's a lot of people who

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rely on these professional golfers for their own livelihoods. These guys,
a lot of them employ four or five six guys
who are on either retainers or salaries or whatever. All
got to be paid seven one three, two one two
five seven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
The only time I've ever been paid in golf lately

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was out with my buddies who play these little fun
games on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. It's nickel and dime stuff,
but it's still it's in the irony. As all these
guys are are pretty well to do. They've worked hard
all their lives. Most of them are retired or darned
near retired, and lead very comfortable lifestyles, so it doesn't

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matter to any of them. I think how much we're
playing for, and it's a pittance, it really is. It's
the fact though, that you get that dollar from that guy,
and then by the end of the year that, like
I've kind of jokingly said a couple of times before,
when we're all sitting around ten twelve of us at
a big giant table back in the men's locker room,

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laughing about it and talking about it and divvying up
the pot, all we should do, all we really have
to do is every day, every time we all play,
just everybody get out a buck and then hand it
to the guy to your left, and it'd be the
same thing. Is what happens at the end of the year.
You lose sometimes, you win sometimes, and what that means

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is that we've come up with a very fair system
of play. There aren't consistent winners, really, because the teams
get changed up and the handicaps are honest and legitimate.
And so if we all go out there and make
a mess of the golf course the way we all
usually do usually just swap each other's money, ah sip

(01:19:05):
of coffee on that there's a game that I want
to find on the internet again. By the way, it's
a three putt game where somehow everybody puts like five
bucks in the pot at the beginning, and then every
time you three putt, I think you put two dollars
back in and if you one putt, you get a

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playing card. And I'll have to go back and find
it because it seemed like a really fun thing to
do outside of whatever else you're doing. And it's once again,
I mean, if you're Michael Jordan, you can do it
for a thousand dollars, a whole one thousand dollars buy
in and a thousand dollars for this and that and
the other. Or you can do it like most of
us and put a quarter on it or a half

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or a dollar just so you could take money from
one of your friends. You don't want to take all
his money. Just a ten teeny bit seven one three
two one two five seven ninety Email me Doug Pike
at iHeartMedia dot com. I want to go ahead and
get to this final break of the hour, so I
have a little time when we come back to start
talking about what's coming in the next week, week and
a half, whatever week, two weeks, three weeks, five weeks,

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six weeks. It's all gonna be deer season, and it's
all gonna be well. There's breaks in the duck season,
but it's all gonna be fun for every one of
us who enjoys being in the outdoors rain or shine, winter, spring,
summer and fall. There are a lot of guys in
this audience. I'm sure who oh, I don't fish, but
I sure love to hunt. Or I don't hunt, but

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I sure love to fish. But I would guess that
as many or more of us are our adherence to
kind of my lifestyle and my passion for the outdoors.
If I'm sitting around and got nothing to do in
the afternoon and somebody calls and says, hey, meet me
at the club and see if we can help my
grandson catch a fish. Can you do that for me?

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By the time he asked that second question, I'm already
out the door. Heck yeah, I'm gonna come help your
grandson catch a fish. What else could I do with
my time that afternoon that would be better than helping
a little kid catch a fish. That's the way I'm
looking at my life now. I've caught enough fish in
my life. I haven't caught as many as a lot

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of people, but I've caught a lot more than most people,
and so I'm good. There's still some fish I want
to catch that I haven't yet. I want to go
catch a clown or it's oh, what is it? A
clown knife fish in Southeast Florida. They're that one of
the coolest looking, weirdo looking. It's like a it's like

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a dorado, a mahi mahi, and uh a ribbon fish
had a baby. And that's that's a good way to
describe it. And if you'll go look it up, you'll
see what I'm talking about. Tell me, I'm just prove
me wrong on that. It's like a dorado and a
cutlass fish, if you will, had a baby. Eld kubana

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those cigars. Let me tell you about Manny Lopez and
his company. Manny and his dad started this company in
two thousand and six. They've been at it nineteen years,
nineteen years. They use only the finest Cuban seed tobaccos.
It gets grown down in Central America mostly where they
can get it back in here without any problems. And
what they do is they import the tobacco, they get

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it into the store, into the shop, if you will.
The manufacturing facility, it's not a giant factory. It's just
three or four cubans on any given day back there
towards the back rolling cigars to get orders out that
ship all over this country of ours. They're only about
four dozen cigar manufacturing facilities in the entire country. And

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Manny's right down there. El Kubano Cigars in Texas City
is one of them. In the same building right there
on Main Street in Texas City, is there one of
their two smoking lounges where this one is climate controlled summerfall,
it's going to be about the same temperature inside. And
the next card game that breaks out in there won't

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be the first. The next hooting and hollering for guys
watching sports events on the TVs in there won't be
the first, And the next business meeting that occurs in
there won't be the first. It's just a very relaxing,
comfortable atmosphere to go enjoy a nice cigar. And they
make one hundred and fifty different kinds. You can get
something really bold and robust, or you can get something

(01:23:27):
kind of milder, and softer. If that's what you prefer.
They make them all and they sell them all and
if you want, if you want something special for an event,
they also make custom banding for the cigars you're gonna buy,
and you're not paying that extra that most people end
up paying to a middleman either. Remember you're buying from

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the manufacturer, and in almost every facet of commerce, if
you're buying direct from the manufacturer, you're saving money. El
Kubano Cigar, they'll come out to your event, too. Many
will come out there, or one of his guys come
out and roll cigars for anybody at your golf tournament,
at your company picnic, wherever, wherever, whenever, however many you want,

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they'll come out and take care of you. And that's
a really cool experience. They also have a second smoking lounge,
by the way, that's over in League City, and that
one's more Havana style. I think that's that may be
the one that Manny kind of prefers because it reminds
him of home. He was born and raised in Cuba,
born and raised in those tobacco factories, just like his dad,
and he is carrying on that tradition in a grand fashion.

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That guy is always outside. He's like he's like Kobe Gallick.
He's always out somewhere helping somebody at a fundraising event somehow.
Manny Lopez, elcubanocigars dot com. El Cubano cigars dot com.

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All right, welcome back, Thank you all for listening. You're
shooting Captain Scott. They just sent him an email in
response to what he sent me. We were talking a
little while ago of about birds falling from the sky
and Scott wide in. So my buddy and I were
hunting a rice field on Hall's bio ranch when one
of those magical flights of one hundred plus pintails spiraled in. Oh,

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that is just quick sidebar. That is probably the most
exciting moment for me anytime I'm in a duck blind
or in a goose spread or whatever, is when all
those pintails start working and just around and around. They'll
make five, ten, fifteen passes before they really commit. If

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you can stay quiet enough and still enough long enough
for the birds to get comfortable. And there's all kinds
of things we could talk about about how to get
him in and how to not scare them away. Well,
right now, We're in Scott's place with his buddy, and
the birds are in and they get their feet down.
They're committed. They're right on top of them. Scott pops up,

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got three shells in the gun, takes out a triple.
This is a long long time ago, probably back when
they were ten points apiece and his buddy was swinging
to hit his third when one of Scott's birds hit
his buddy right square in the head and I'll quote
knocked him flat on his back and quote, yeah, that's

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a pretty significant payload coming at you. No injuries, he said,
other than having to listen to my triple bragging. Yeah,
And I wrote back to him, I bet he wishes
he'd have thought of this line when it happened. In
the moment. He could have said, well, yeah, you almost
got a triple, but what I got was a triple
and a turkey. Triple on pintails and a turkey. Hey,

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guys can do that. Women would get mad at each
other for joking like that, But that was that was
pretty I thought that was a pretty good thing. Oh no,
now he's messing with me about my garage. What what
got some attachment here? I don't know if I want
to look at this, He's probably yeah, he's gonna I'm
going to wait till after the show because I got

(01:27:15):
a hunch. He sent me pictures of there was something
he was cleaning out a closet or whatever, and he
bet me that he would finish before I did. Now,
to my credit, yesterday after work, I spent the better
part of an hour and a half going through every
paper that was on top of my desk, and there
were enough that it took that long because I had

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to really determine whether or not to keep, whether or
not to throw, and I ended up throwing away probably
seventy five or eighty percent of what I had up there.
And I also discovered a fault of my own, which
is a redundancy. When I'm for example, if I'm calling

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somebody who wants to advertise on the show, I'll get
a little notepad out, and I'll use that notepad pad
to take notes on the conversation to make sure that
I get back with that client with whatever they want. Well,
I had three or four little notebooks up there, each
of which, when I opened them up, had one maybe

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two pages written in them, and then the rest of
the notepad was still blank. So I'm gonna eliminate that
system and try to work off of a task pad
if you will, that I'll complete every day. It's a big,
full sized legal tablet. So I'm not gonna I'm not

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gonna have that many high priority things. If everything you
have to do is high priority, then none of it's
high priority. So what I'm gonna have is things I
have to do, things I want to do, and then
I'm just gonna start scratching them out as I get
them done, and I'm gonna leave a little bit room
beside in case there's a note for a follow up.
The bottom line is I can't fish and play golf

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every day, and I guess coming up soon it'll be
I can't fish and hunt and play golf every day.
So I'm gonna I'm gonna organize my workload a little
bit better so that I can spend more time outdoors.
That's the plan. Okay, that's the plan. Oh is that
the music? Mm hmm? All right. Hats off to every
one of those game wardens I mentioned, and to all

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of them who are gonna be out there next weekend
making sure people don't do stupid stuff and wind up
getting themselves tickets. There's no reason you need your license,
you need your your hip certification. If you're gonna hunt waterfowl,
there's all kinds of things you need to do it
right and do it legally. And so long as you're
doing that, the game ward is gonna be your best friend.

(01:29:44):
They'll help you if you're playing the playing by the rules,
they'll help you more than you can possibly imagine. Ask
them questions, ask them for tips on where everything is.
They're good people, so are you. Thanks for listening. I
really appreciate it. If you want to get involved, just
email me. I'll help you out. Until Tuesday on fifty
plus and Saturday here audios