Martians, Bring Fishing Gear

Originally aired on March 21, 2026. On this episode, Doug discusses the possibility of alien life, and trashes them pre-disclosure if they don't bring fishing supplies. He also discusses the advantages of setting markers in the woods to easily find your way out if you get lost. All of this and more, on the Doug Pike Show.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good Saturday morning. Holy cow, what a good morning it is.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
I don't know that. If you like warm weather, okay,
you're gonna love the next week. And this morning beautiful
when I walked outside. It's gonna change minute by minute
into really a really fantastic Saturday afternoon once we're gone
and out of here, then to be followed by equally

(00:25):
good Saturday night, then a good Sunday, Monday, and probably Tuesday,
maybe even all the way to the end of next week,
mid eighties across the board, all the way through next Friday.
And that's as far out as I look. Partly cloudy
on all of those days, but no measurable chance of rain.

(00:46):
Now that doesn't mean we can't get a pop up
shower in the afternoons. But I got a hunch this
weather's gonna this pattern, at least this very good, very pleasant,
very comfortable pattern until late in the afternoon. If you're
really out doing some heavy heavy lifting or exercise program,
if you're trying to run fifteen twenty miles like Cliff

(01:06):
Over on k K TRH does, sometimes that might be
a little warm for you, but all things considered, it's
pretty good. We might or might not get any more
cool fronts this far south, So make the most what
we've got here before we start having to deal with
you know what kind of days, one hundred degree days,

(01:27):
which I'm guessing maybe I'm gonna guess there are about
ninety degrees away or not ninety degrees ninety days away.
What would you think, Frankie, how far out before we
get one hundred degrees?

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Well, maybe somewhere in May June, somewhere in there.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
It's interesting that you say that. Hold on, you're just
you're smarter than you think. I'm gonna prove it right here.
So I did the research this morning, okay. Found out
that Houston's earliest triple digit day in recent history was
on June second, two thy eleven. But it also was

(02:04):
out or above one hundred degrees here one hundred years earlier,
on May twenty fourth of nineteen eleven. So one hundred
and fifteen years ago, it was one hundred degrees on
May twenty fourth. None of which matters to anybody around here,
I guess. So let's move forward, shall we. By the way,

(02:26):
there was something musical I needed to tell you about, Oh,
and I can't remember. It'll come to me during the
program here. I'm sure there was some sort of musical
something interesting, and now it's just just flew away, just
flip right out of my head. Based on research and

(02:48):
hard work also that I did yesterday afternoon, bass are
still stacked really close to the shorelines on many of
the lakes around here, at least where I've been fishing lately.
And I caught yesterday afternoon in about oh i'd say
thirty hard minutes of fishing, after I played six or

(03:08):
seven holes, and I actually played very well. I've got
a I've got a putting issue that I'm just gonna
keep whining about. I got some really good, some really
good advice from a really great teacher, and I just
can't make it work for me. So now I'm having

(03:28):
to try to unpack everything he packed into my head
and go back to my old stroke, which was at
least coming around, because right now I can't putt for
Diddley squat. I mean, it's it's serious. This is this
is therapy, serious putting, serious putting problem. And hopefully I'll

(03:52):
get it figured out before too, hopefully before tomorrow or
before Monday morning when I have to go out and
play with my buddy over at Blackhawk, because if it's
still on me there, I'm not gonna help anybody's team
do anything. And I haven't posted enough scores since my
putting stroke fell off the cliff to to get a

(04:14):
higher handicap out of it. Even but I'll have some.
I'll have some ugly putting on Monday. If I can't
get this worked out between now and then, I've been
working on it. I worked on my putting longer yesterday
than I did playing golf, I think, until my back
started to hurt. I'm getting old. It's okay, though, that's okay,

(04:37):
moving back into the fishing world. I pardon, pardon the
sidebar on my putting woes. I just had to. I
had to vent to somebody. It's just my whole upper
body just twitches and cringes and muscles that I've never
used in putting. Fire off in the mid mid stroke,

(04:58):
and I'll either yank it right or push it off left.
I'm left handed. That's why I'm I'm speaking in those terms,
and it's very frustrating. Speaking of golf. By the way,
We've got the Texas Children's at Houston Open coming up
next week and in the nine o'clock hour beginning at
the top of it, I'm gonna interview Brian White, He's

(05:18):
vice president of the Astros Golf Foundation, and we're going
to visit a little bit about who's going to be there,
about making the most of your experience there, and about
just a little bit about the Astros Golf Foundation in
general and what it's done in the years it's been
in operation. The fantastic organization. And I'm really the Memorial.

(05:41):
The change to Memorial was kind of bittersweet for me.
It makes it really easy for me to get to
the tournaments when I'm covering them. During tournament week, I'm
here in the galleria, I just go up and shoot
straight down Memorial Drive, and then I'm blessed to have
a parking permit from tournament so I don't have to

(06:01):
worry about going to some satellite lot somewhere part of
the media. Parking is not exactly not exactly right across
the street from the first tea box, but it's a
lot better than it has been in some years. For
a couple of years out at the at At Golf
Club of Houston, they had us parking really really far

(06:24):
away and then having to walk in or wait for
a big, giant, commercial size a short bus sized golf
cart to come by and pick us up and shuttle
us back and forth. And that wasn't bad, except when
the weather was kind of dicey and sometimes you'd have
to just stand by your car and if you didn't

(06:46):
have an umbrella, you were just kind of a goner.
It worked out well though. That was a good venue
as well. But I am, I am, I'm taking a
shine really to Memorial. It does work out well, and
I think it's good for the fans. We'll talk about that.
Good for the viewers, the spectators. It's a it's easy
to walk, it really is. Seven one three two one

(07:08):
two five seven ninety. Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
Uh an interesting note. I was looking at the Texas
Parks and Wildlife Departments fishing report this morning just to
kind of see what's going on here and there. And
Lake Conro's bass are doing the same thing they're doing
at my golf course. Lake. They're right up on the bank.

(07:29):
I can't tell you how many. I was throwing a
white chatter bait yesterday and I'm actually going to go
back and get a couple of more in different colors.
I want to shift over to some perch colored stuff
so that these fish that are up on beds will
be on high alert when they see one of those
things coming through the neighborhood I was reading. I looked

(07:52):
at the size of the Lake Conroe Report, which, by
the way, led off with the word great, okay, the
Lake Conroe Report nine lines long on the screen that
I had up in front of me, all caps great
to lead off, and then it talked about how the
bass were up shallow, the catfish were out a little deeper,
the Croppi're doing something on their shallow on the north end,

(08:15):
not there yet on the south end. And they got
all that done in I think it was seven lines, okay,
seven eight somewhere in there. And then when I went
down to the Lake Fork, just a couple of rows
down in alphabetical order, Lake Fork Fishing Report. First word
was slow. That report was thirteen lines long. As somebody

(08:41):
who did the daily fishing reports in the newspaper for
more than a decade maybe two somewhere in there. Lake
Forks Fishing Report didn't need to be eleven lines long.
The first word said at all slow, period, end of report.
All the guy had to say. But he's I guess

(09:03):
he's kind of like me. Now that I'm doing what
I do here, there's nobody to tell me how many
words I can squeeze into a segment. Even Frankie just
lets me ramble sometimes longer than I should. But that
was Yeah. That kind of struck me as as a
former magazine editor, as a former magazine writer, newspaper writer,

(09:24):
book writer, whatever. It seemed like an awful lot of
words behind the word that really told the entire story. Slow,
Go on to your next lake, go somewhere else until
it gets to be at least fair, if not good,
and then hopefully you'll get a trip off when it
says great, like it does on Lake Conra. Right now, Frankie,

(09:46):
if you had to pick between two lakes to fish
and the report for one of them said great and
the other one said slow, where would you go Probably
the one that said great, yeah, period, and of story.
Again that I don't know why I think some of
these guys, and from reading and especially from past experience
as an editor, some of these overly long reports that

(10:10):
just just go off in the ditch and and there's
a lot of just words. Salad. That's a term that
came into came into popularity a year or so ago,
year and a half ago. And when they do that,
I think they're just trying to they feel somehow obliged

(10:31):
to fill a particular amount of space. And that is
that's especially nowadays. That is not what readers want to have,
is a bunch of words that when they get to
the end, they already knew what was coming, what needed
to be said, could be said in so many fewer words.

(10:53):
And those are great instructions if you ever want to
really tighten up your writing and make sure that every
word you write counts, give yourself an exercise and tell yourself, Okay,
you need to talk about this or you need to
write about that in as few words as you can,

(11:13):
and give yourself three or four paragraphs, but as few
words as you can say what you want to say.
And then once you've done that, go back and say, Okay,
that took me. Let's say two hundred and fifty words.
Go back and say exactly everything you just said, but

(11:33):
do it in about one hundred and fifty words, and
you'll be surprised if you'll actually do that sometime. How
concise you can be, and how many extra unnecessary words
a lot of people put into their conversations, a lot
of people put into their writing, and I know very
few people write letters anymore, and there's a lot of

(11:57):
an AI will spit out one thousand garbled word salad
words on any topic you want in five seconds. Tell
AI to be concise. I want to know about this,
but I want you to tell me about it in
as few words as possible. And what you get then,
even from AI, is probably going to be a lot

(12:18):
more a lot more understandable, and a lot more direct
than if you just ask it the open ended question,
take all the words you want, write a book about it.
There's how we need to do it. Huh ah. Right,
we got to take a little break here on the
way out this first segment. I'm going to tell you
about Belleville Meat Market like I have for so many years.

(12:40):
Belleville Meat Market has been around for gosh forty something years,
somewhere in there and out there in Belleville, obviously, down
Main Street, right in the middle of town. Can't miss it.
Fifteen minutes north of Sealy, fifteen minutes south of Hempstead
on Highway thirty six. All the meat products you can
imagine beef, chicken and port cut the way you want.
They've got stuffed pork chops. They have got gosh you

(13:04):
name it, you name it, two dozen plus flavors of
premium pecon smoke sausage with free samples every single day,
and every day also from ten am to seven pm,
they serve up a delicious barbecue, lunch or dinner, depending
on what time you roll up. If there's anything in
the meat world that you want, it's probably at Belleville

(13:26):
Meat Market. And by the way, they do year round
game processing too. You need to call out there in advance,
especially this time of year, because they've kind of slowed
that operation down, but they never truly stop processing wild game.
If you've got an exotic animal that you took that
you want to get processed, they'll take care of that
for you. If you've got deer quarters in the freezer

(13:49):
that you told yourself you were going to process all
by yourself this past year season, now they're just frozen
in a big giant chunk of meat. Throw them in
a cooler, take them out to Belleville. They will turn
them into something you can eat right away. Belleville MeetMarket
dot com is a website. If you can't get out
there to Belleville that get online, they'll probably ship just
about anything short of a whole cow right to you,

(14:12):
right to your door. Belleville MeetMarket dot Com seven on
Sports Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show. Thank you for listening.
Certainly do appreciate it. I'm not sure, but I may
not be getting my emails this morning. I'll find out.
I asked Frankie to send me a test fire and
we'll see what that looks like. And maybe I'm getting them.
Maybe I'm not. I'll find out soon enough. It just

(14:34):
it strikes me as odd that I haven't had an
email since twelve twenty seven am. And we'll find out.
Oh mercy, Oh, go ahead and grab Allan up there too,
if you would. Frankie, I know it's and I'm asking
you to do a bunch of stuff at once. Back
to where I was, I'll get these piece of paper

(14:56):
over in front of me here. I made some notes
smart things I could do. Oh, yes, it was yesterday
or day before. It may have been day before yesterday,
but it was one of the two parts of Wildlife
Department issued statement a news release if you will, about
this being a particularly interesting time of year in the

(15:17):
state of Texas in that the wildflowers are just blooming
out all over the place. And hey, man, I don't
care who you are, I don't care what you are.
If you can drive down seventy one and not be
amazed by some of the wildflowers between here and up north,

(15:38):
I don't know, man, you're just not sensitive enough. And
they're cool to look at. They really are. We're talking
about some of these fields where wildflowers have been allowed
to just bloom at random for decades, if not one
hundred years or more, just open pasture land that's never
really been worked, or at least hasn't been worked in

(15:59):
a very long time. When you see as far as
you can see nothing but thick, thick growth of wildflowers,
it's pretty cool. It really is, and it's there are
I did the research on this too. There are some
I think it's around four dozen different species of wildflowers

(16:21):
in Texas, and it depending on where you are, what region.
They're going to be blue bonnets, there's gonna be just buttercups,
all kinds of Like I said, there's about four dozen
of them. I don't want to go through the entire
segment here naming them all. But there also were a
couple of cautions put in there. And the one that

(16:42):
the Parks and Wildlife Department got is that from me?
How that may be from Frankie? I bet it is.
Oh that's in my way. Oh no, that's from Okay, Yeah,
I'm getting them. Here we go. Now we're cooking. Now
we're cooking. Dan just sent me one too. I'm here.
Thank you, Dan. I appreciate that man as always, Thank

(17:04):
you too, Frankie. You're testing, testing, made it all the
way over here. So back to the wildflowers. First of all,
is not I'm not handing them a man card just
because I say I think it's cool to look at wildflowers.
And I've actually gotten back when I was shooting a
lot of photographs professionally, I got some really good ones

(17:24):
that actually made a buck or two off of some
of my wildflower pictures. Now, one thing that they do
caution anybody who wants to go see all this about
is walking out into the middle of the wildflowers to
get a picture of you or your precious little baby
or your pet or whatever. If you're walking them out

(17:46):
into the wildflowers, there's a fairly good chance that you're
trampling those plants sufficiently that they so that they won't
come back next year. You've damaged the plant bed on repair,
you've broken a bunch of stuff, you've torn up the
root system a little bit, and oops, that part of

(18:08):
that field is gonna not come back next year. And
that's not right. We can do better than that. So
maybe find spots where I don't know, it'd be hard
to describe on the radio, but there are places where
in a wildflower field where you can access the flowers
and put your subject matter, whatever it may be there,

(18:32):
nail a sign to a pole and stick it out there. Whatever.
But if you get down low enough, you can't see
the bear trail, maybe a game trail through a wildflower field,
for example. If you get down low enough as the
photographer and shoot across the tops of the wildflowers and
include your subject in there, whatever, child, bet whatever, you

(18:55):
can do that without tearing up the flowers. And another
reason to keep yourselves out of the wildflowers is this one.
Snakes are out now. Just keep that in mind. Next
time you go marching off into a field of blue
bonnet somewhere Maryland, there very could well be a rattlesnake
in there, any of Texas's non venomous snakes. If you're

(19:17):
close to any trees anywhere, or really just anywhere near
a wooded area, you might trip over a copper head.
I'm not trying to scare anybody, because the odds of
that are very slim. But there's always that one. It's
one in something. The chance is always one in something.

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Let me go talk to Alan here. What's up, Allan? Allen?
Come in?

Speaker 2 (19:45):
Alan?

Speaker 4 (19:47):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (19:47):
Oh, Frankie, come on, man, what happened to our phones? Now?
I don't even hear myself. Hold on. I'm not sure
whether we're got yet there now I'm getting back out,
I think so. If we can't get hold on, let
me put him on hold. Oh he just went away.
He's gonna come back. I bet though. Call back Alan.
You know you'll get high priority, that's for sure. Uh yeah.

(20:11):
I did want to just kind of say that about
the wildflower thing, because that is pretty cool and the
family's gonna love it. Shoot, drive out to Belleville. You'll
between here in Belleville. On seventy one you'll see or
thirty six, you'll see plenty of wildflowers. If you go
out to Columbus, Yeah, take seventy one up, you'll see

(20:33):
all kinds of wildflowers, all kinds of wildflowers. Seven one
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Speaker 5 (20:42):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
Moving down from there, let's see how did I get that?
Took care of the snake?

Speaker 4 (20:46):
Thing?

Speaker 1 (20:47):
That is important, that's really important. Oh, by the way,
a little bit later, uh in the program at nine o'clock,
specifically when I traditionally talk a little bit about golf. Uh,
i'll gloss over the PGA Tour being down there at
Ennisbrook and Palm Harbor on Florida's West coast, by the way,
just outside Tampa. But more importantly, I'm going to interview

(21:09):
Brian White, who is the vice president of the Astros
Golf Foundation and the Astros Golf Foundation next week is
hosting the Texas Children's Houston Open again at Memorial I've
got a lot of questions for Brian. We're gonna talk,
as I said earlier, about what's going on with the tournament,

(21:31):
and I'll pat him on the back. They're doing a
good job with it over there, they really are. There's
a little bit of a little bit of me just
liked being I was in a comfort zone out at
Golf Club at Houston for a very long time. And
I still love the place, I really do. It's one
of my favorite places to play in the city. But

(21:52):
it's still it's not their tournament anymore, and they're perfectly
fine with that. That ran its course. I'd like to
get live golf back out there, only maybe not in
the heat of the summertime. It was that was rough
out there when that tournament came through. It wasn't their fault, certainly,
it was just it was just brutal weather. And maybe
if we can get the timing right, that would be

(22:13):
I think it would be fantastic to do that again.
But in the now, in the here and now, it
is absolutely positively Texas Children Houston's open next week. I'm
gonna find out from Brian who's coming to town. Frankie,
can you try Glenn there? Thank you. We'll get that one.
See if we can get a phone call to work
here before I go to this next break. Wow, are

(22:36):
they kind of wonky? There we go? All right, Hey Glenn,
what's up?

Speaker 4 (22:41):
Man?

Speaker 6 (22:43):
Now much shake?

Speaker 1 (22:44):
Hey Doug, Yeah, man, you're straight through, so mind your manners.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
I will do that, all right.

Speaker 6 (22:52):
Hey, I just uh, your first segment was more of
the Doug Pike Journalism Hour. I think I like talking
about talking about man.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
I just can't help myself.

Speaker 6 (23:07):
I thought you were I thought there was supposed to
be a sounder from Frankie that' said you know you're
you're getting off topics. But uh, anyway, Hey, in the
first when you let off the first segment, you mention
you're fishing your ponds with this chatter bait. You're gonna
move to something more perch, Like, what colors are you

(23:28):
talking about? Because I'm going up to Carrollton, around Carrollton,
gonna fish some ponds with a buddy of mine. And yeah,
I thought, well, yeah, I got some chatter baits in
my box. But what colors are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (23:40):
The perch colored ones will have browns in them, They'll
have orange, brown, orange green, just the typical sunfish sunfish colors.
And they they do make a difference because what I'm
trying to feed them and it's it kind of works.
And this is a little it's a tiny, tiny, tiny
little laboratory that I'm working in relative to a bigger lake,

(24:01):
but you'll probably be working in similar water. But if
those fish are up on beds and perch're coming around
to eat their eggs, they will, even if they're not
trying to eat that perch, they'll knock the tar out
of it to get it to kind of convince it
to not come back, And you can hook them that way.
It's not a problem. Yeah, I lean on that color

(24:22):
more than the white. It's just been hard for me
to find the white. And what I'm gonna do is
probably go to I don't know, I'll go to maybe
bast Pro or something and buy a bunch of skirts
in the colors I need. And I've got a I've
got a shoe box full of spinner bait frames out
in the garage, and I'll what I'll do is put
those skirts on, and then instead of trying to use

(24:44):
those flimsy little rubber bands that dry out after about
two weeks in the garage, I take zip ties, the
tiniest little zip ties you can get, and I zip
tie my skirts onto those bodies and they they're not
coming off till the cows come home.

Speaker 6 (24:59):
Oh that's I didn't think about zip Tide.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
Oh they work, They work, Superman, they really do.

Speaker 6 (25:05):
All right, Well, I appreciate it, Doug Janks, enjoy your show.

Speaker 7 (25:09):
Thank you man.

Speaker 8 (25:10):
Have a good day.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
All right, Thank you too. Drive safe all right, I
was okay, we got that taken care of. Now it's
time to go to another break. And on the way,
I'll tell you about Shooter's Corner down there and Palmer
Highway at Palmer Highway twenty ninth Street in Texas City.
That would be and has been since it opened, the
proud project of Jerry TK, one of the best gunsmith's

(25:33):
on the planet, and his son Jay, who's been in
there working with him now for the better part of
I think probably more than twenty years. For Jay, even
he's not an older man like Jerry and me, but
he certainly knows he learned from one of the best
there ever will be in that business. Everybody who works
there really is very well versed in guns and AMMO,

(25:56):
in optics, in reloading. All of the people there know guns,
they know the shooting sports, and they will be more
than happy to help you find exactly what you need
or exactly what you want to enjoy the shooting sports
a little more tomorrow than you do today. Good people.
But here's how good they are. And I don't know
of anybody else right now who does this. If you

(26:17):
wear a badge for a living, you get a discount
at Shooter's Corner, which I think is pretty cool. The
Shooters Corner TX dot com is the website. It's an
old fashioned gun store, guns, AMMO and just the basics
of shooting if it's something you need to be enjoy
the shooting sports a little more. It's in there somewhere

(26:39):
and it's not a big store. When you walk in,
you can see all the way across. It can't see
back into the shop where they work on guns and
build guns, but you can see. You can see that
front and that's all you'll need to see. If that's
why you're there is to get something for shooting sports.
The shooters Corner TX dot com. The shooters Corner TX
dot com seven thirty seven on Sports Talk seven ninety

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The Dougpike Show. Thank you for listening. I really do
appreciate it. I'll try not to drive drive the ship
or drive the bus off the road and into a ditch,
and more journalism talk and and editing talk and write tight,
don't waste words, blah blah blah.

Speaker 8 (27:16):
That was.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
That was more newspaper than magazine or magazines. We have
a word count that we kept kind of have to hit, uh,
But newspaper was a very strict word count. But then
you can count on in newspaper jargon about fifty words
per column inch somewhere in there. And so that's what
we had to think about when we were going through

(27:38):
there and looking down at the bottom of the screen
at a word count seven one three, seven ninety. Email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I'm really trying hard
not to go back into some of that, Dave, what's up?
My friend? Hold on, I messed it up, didn't I?
Frankie Ham? Okay, you get him now? Oh we got you?

Speaker 4 (27:57):
Hey?

Speaker 7 (27:58):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 8 (27:59):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (28:01):
Yeah. You know, I'm a singer songwriter. Of A problem
is I can't spell that good.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
You know, it's okay. You can be hooked on fonds
for that, all.

Speaker 7 (28:09):
Right, Well, I know, I just I spell it like
a sound. Sure, But anyway, Okay. On the wildflowers, remember
when I was a kid or whatever. You don't pick
a wildflower the buttercups, man, they go and stick it
on your girlfriend's nose. Yeah, that's a class man.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
I don't remember ever doing that day. Back up, you
you to get the little pollen on there? Is that
what you're doing?

Speaker 7 (28:33):
The polling on the hell on the nose?

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Okay?

Speaker 7 (28:38):
In the all right, okay, anyway, but I don't know
what that means anyway. And don't pick the blue by
the south side of the highway, man.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, that's instinct. That's just little Yeah. I didn't, I
didn't say that, but it's in the release. It just says, look,
don't pick these flowers. Just let them grow and you
take pictures of them, but don't take the flowers themselves,
because if if that's condoned at any time, then sooner
or later, people are going to be out there with

(29:08):
with sickles and carving down a basket full of blue bonnets.
Take a mile, you know what I'm talking about. They
will people will do.

Speaker 8 (29:18):
That, sure.

Speaker 4 (29:20):
For sure.

Speaker 7 (29:21):
Hey, okay, on the bass mission right of your own way,
conn right here, take thirty boat launch the low clouds. Man,
they're going from the west to the knees. And uh so, anyway, man,
this is perfect bass division. We have guys to catching basses.
Like you were saying earlier, I think the catfish are
down deep because I haven't got the middle of a bike. Okay,

(29:45):
And but what I wanted to do, I'm going to
take a boaken back silver Manna, I'm gonna chunk around
this place where I caught that four pound basst on
that did drive up worm.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
The other day.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
Can you believe that? I mean, I work from the day.

Speaker 7 (30:01):
Before right up, and I thought of bore bound, but
well yeah, and but anyway, it's it's with kind of
calm out here, but the clouds are moving, but the
water's not white capping or nothing.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
It's interesting that at least you've got cloud cover because
yesterday and it shows partly cloudy conditions all the way
through next Saturday, but with no rain. And if I
can get clouds on that lake i'm fishing, I think
I can double the number of bites i'm getting.

Speaker 7 (30:29):
That's what I'm talking about. I've caught my best bass
on cloudy days. Yes, yeah, And then you were talking
about Yeah, I went to my neck doctor yesterday and
they're gonna shoot me again next Friday, you know, with
some stuff. So hopefully it's going to get better because
I got metal in my CEA five sixty seven. So

(30:50):
but then then and at nine o'clock hours, I was
telling Frankie, if you're always listening, and I kind of
explained the scoring on golf.

Speaker 4 (30:59):
Okay, you know, uh yeah, And I know.

Speaker 7 (31:02):
I remember something about you're supposed to write your own
thing in turning in at the end, and sometimes people
kind of fudge a little bit or something.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Oh yeah, not not in the professional ranks. They don't
fudge on their scorecards. And all golf is the only
game I know of where the players will and often do,
call a penalty on themselves for an infraction that nobody
else saw. There was nobody around, and they yeah, and

(31:31):
they you know, they grounded the club to get ready
to take a swing, and the ball moved. That's a
problem in golf. The rules are very very strict in
a lot of ways, but if you know the rules,
they can also work in your favor. I won't get
into the weeds on all of that, but I'll just
talk briefly about how how golf is scored and some

(31:53):
of the more common penalties maybe stuff like that. Yeah,
that's a good one.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
Think this morning.

Speaker 7 (31:58):
This morning, I was out of the South South Africa. I
was watching them boys over there hitting it.

Speaker 8 (32:03):
Man.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Them guys are good.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
Man.

Speaker 7 (32:05):
You know there's a there was a deal on the
TV this morning. I was watching out of South Africa. Man,
it's well, that's them guys are really good.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
Golf is a global game, it really is. It's it's
all over the planet and every pretty much almost every
country on the planet can fields a pretty good handful
of golfers. We have a lot, Great Britain has a lot,
South Africa has a lot, all of Europe has great players,
and South America's got great players. They're just literally all

(32:39):
around the world there are great golfers. Because there's more
exposure to it early. Uh, there are more golf courses
in parts of the world that had none for a
long time. Even over in Saudi Arabia and UAE and
all of that, they've got courses in the desert where
they're pumping in water so they can grow grass to

(33:00):
play golf. And yeah, it's just oh yeah, well they
got more money. They know what to do with so
why not yeah, uh yeah, just play.

Speaker 7 (33:11):
On the desert and there's a golf course.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
Well, there are a few older style courses over in
that part of the world where there's just no water.
Where they would set out. They would roll really heavy rollers,
like it's like a steam roller to create the green surface.
And then you would just carry with you from the
tea box to the green h a big square, like
a two meter square of artificial turf, and when you

(33:39):
got to where your ball was, you just put your
turf down and hit your next shot.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
About that.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
That's really wanting to play golf. That's really wanting to
play golf. Bad man.

Speaker 7 (33:50):
Anyway, hey man, all right, well I appreciate again. Yeah,
I'll be listening on that other stuff. And like I said,
this is I see two or three boats as here.
I saw pont going. They're going over the croppie. Now,
mister s k he come in with a limit of
twenty five. Now they weren't you. They weren't real big, yeah,

(34:11):
but they were they Well at least they got their limits.
Good for them all right around here and there.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Yeah, thanks man. Audio. Okay, there's your live from the dock.
Report from Conrode. Thank you, Dave. I appreciate that anybody
else hanging out up at Lake Livingstone or any of
the other lakes around here, even Lake Fork, where you
probably just do be better off listening to the radio
than going fishing. According to the report that that guy

(34:40):
put in with about five hundred words to tell you
how bad it was Houston Gold Exchange. Nothing bad about that.
Where my friend Brad Swiss has been dealing in precious
metals and jewelry and watches and whatnot for more than
forty years. The price of gold is still when you look,
it came down cou If you were thinking about buying,

(35:02):
who knows, you got to call Brad and ask him
whether it's a good time to buy, good time to sell.
But like I was thinking about the other day, if
you need some extra cash, then it's going to always
be a good time to sell. If you're cash flush
and you're thinking about changing over your some of your
investment portfolio, then it's a good time to buy because

(35:24):
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(35:46):
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He is a good straight shooter. It's going to be
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He's a CCA, former CCA board member and lifelong member

(36:07):
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Just a super nice guy who knows what he's doing.
By the way, he told me he buys ninety percent
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Maybe an old boyfriend gave it to your wife or
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(36:27):
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(36:48):
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Sports Talk seven to ninety Oh, I wish there was
a question I wanted to ask Frankie when I got
in here. And it's music related and I cannot remember

(37:08):
what it was, and it's driving me nuts. I'll remember
it probably what like ten oh one, Frankie somewhere around there,
you know, I will. Let's go talk to Aaron. Hey, Aaron,
what's up? Man?

Speaker 4 (37:22):
Hey? Do a long time have you been, sir?

Speaker 1 (37:25):
I've been all right, hadn't heard from you in a while.
What's going on?

Speaker 8 (37:28):
Oh jeez, worked forty one days straight the city Phoenix. Yeah, tired,
I relate, man, but yeah, yeah, you've burned the candles
with both ends as well.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
I don't have to drive as much as you do, though,
and I'm grateful for that.

Speaker 5 (37:45):
Well, you need to drive down to Pens that you
needed to realty soon. Yeah, well we got. We got
Heather into wad fishing a little bit, but now she
is insisting on wearing waiters because of an encounter with
a I guess it's called the moon jellyfish, or the
big ones kind of size of a basketball.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
The cabbage. It's a real heavy one, the big heavy
one with a short tentacles.

Speaker 8 (38:11):
Cabbage.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
Oh yeah, yeah, I know what you're talking about. They've
got pretty long tentacles. Actually, yeah.

Speaker 8 (38:19):
And I was trying to convince her that they're you know,
not even seasonal. If it's the you know, the currents
were or such a way that day, and uh, I'll
go with you. I'm gonna wear waiters, So your best
the best case against that.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
The best case against that when the water starts to
get hot, would be maybe I wonder, and I don't
know how comfortable it would be. I don't know whether
it's a great idea or not, but maybe something like
a leotard, which would not First of all, a leotard
is not going to fill up with water. If you

(38:59):
dunk over the top top of it, you're still going
to be able to walk around. And if you had
a brush with a jellyfish, I don't know that that
jellyfish goop would the stinger stinging part of it, that slimey, slimy,
stingy stuff would penetrate that I don't think it would.
But then again, I have never waited in a leotard,

(39:21):
so I don't know. And trust me, I'm never gonna
What do you think of that?

Speaker 4 (39:30):
She's laughing, Yeah, you know.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
Oh, you're reminding me. You're flashing me back to a
surfside beach encounter I had that I've talked about before.
You remember that. I'll tell you real quick. I'll tell
you real quick. I was trying to find a place
on one of the most beautiful, fishiest days along surfside
beach down towards San Luis where I could get in

(40:01):
the water and not be elbow to elbows. It was
the most crowded I've ever seen that surf line, and
it was full of fish. And there was this one
gap and there was about one hundred yards of open water,
and then one guy standing there, and then another one
hundred yards of open water like man. And this guy
is kind of walking back towards the beach. So I'm thinking,
we'll look if he's got any fish on his stringer

(40:22):
at all, I'm going to fish right there. When he
gets out, I'll have two hundred yards of water to
play with. And so I pull up on the beach,
I'm faced out toward him. He's walking back in, and
he is a larger than average man. His next double
cheeseburger won't be his first, okay. And he's got a
big floppy brim hat on. And as he comes up

(40:44):
onto that first sandbar between the two guts, he exposes
his upper and much of his lower body. And he
is out there wading wadefishing in a thong. And I
will never ever unsee that. Never in my life will

(41:05):
I not be able to see it. And no wonder
he was alone. Every time a wave kind of washed
through there and the water went down and then came
back up, everybody could see almost everything he owned. It
was just uh yeah, I just drove on. Just move away.
Don't believe me now, You'll never be able to forget
that either.

Speaker 8 (41:26):
No, Well, thanks a lot. I stacked up a bunch
of podcasts and he got a long night of driving again. Man,
that's like little presence.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
I really appreciate that. You know what I do?

Speaker 8 (41:38):
Man, Well, that keeps keeps me away. Backed up to
Albuquerque then, uh, norfolks, h after that.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
You're back to full speed.

Speaker 8 (41:49):
Uh yeah, alutely absolutely. Yeah, we're looking to make a
move on the reatail end and hopefull again with you.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
So come to me, man, what do you want to
do with local you want to do it all over
the country. I'm gonna help you. I will take care
of you.

Speaker 8 (42:03):
That's the goal.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
All right, man, you too till Heather Hui, all right,
I see you.

Speaker 8 (42:09):
Yeah, I sure will.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
Oh Man, what a great guy. That guy works his
tail off too. I don't know if you're familiar with him,
if you're fairly new to the program, you may not be.
But he and his crew go to if you've ever
seen the pictures of the inside of an Amazon warehouse
or anything of that scale, and see or a let's Stay,

(42:32):
a home depot store, all of that shelving that goes
all the way up to a thirty forty fifty foot ceilings.
That's what he and his crew do, and they do
it with laser precision. He's sent me pictures from jobs
he's done all over the country, and every one of
them looks like looks like it was done by a

(42:53):
team of engineers, not just one person with a big
set of blue prints. And okay, this goes here, that
goes there, this goes over there. How they do that?

Speaker 2 (43:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
I played with Erector sets as a kid and I couldn't.
I couldn't get those little things to stand up. And
he's he's stacking forty foot forty foot fifty foot shelby.
Pretty cool, Alan, what's up, buddy? O?

Speaker 4 (43:20):
Hey, sorry about that, Doug. Some reason I couldn't hear
you when you what to you earlier? Uh? Yeah, So
I have two questions.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
Okay, hey, do do me a favor, will you? I
want to answer both your questions, and I want to
have plenty of time to answer them. Can you hang
on through a break at the top here? Oh yeah,
all right, good, you do that, and let's see. Yeah,
we got you back on hold and I'll get right
back to you. Don't you worry? All right on the way,
I'm going to tell you about American shooting centers out
there on West Summer Parkway and between Katie and Highway six.

(43:52):
Very easy to find. You can't miss those giant berms
out there. They almost look like pyramids, but they're not
in a Maria. Shooting centers across the grounds owned by
a guy named Ederrige who's a big sporting clays guy.
That's why one of the first moves he made when
he bought the place was to add more sporting clays.
They've got three sporting clays courses, they have got ten

(44:14):
trap in skeep fields. There are five sands setups around
the property. There's a beginner's wing shooting area. There's a
pop up silhouette rim fire range from I think it's
like twenty five to two hundred and fifty yards. You
can go plink with the kids on with the twenty
two's all day long for very little AMMO money. And
then if you want to get into long range shooting,

(44:35):
the rifle and pistol range starts at five yards. That's
home defense stuff, that's personal, get out of my space stuff,
and it goes all the way to six hundred yards.
That's a long ways out there to be shooting bullets,
but there are guys out there on most every semi cool,
calm morning doing just that, taking advantage of that six

(44:56):
hundred yard range to see just how good they can be.
American Shooting Centers has plenty of instruction in all the
shooting disciplines and it's a very user friendly place to
go out there. And shoot. They had no waiting on
kids to come pull targets on the on the clay ranges,
no hassles anywhere. There are always people out there to

(45:19):
make sure that everybody stays safe as well. American Shootingcenters
dot Com is the website if you see ed out
there telling I said hello, and don't bet against him
in sporting plays. American Shooting Centers dot Com. Hi, welcome back.
Second hour of the Dugpike Show starts right now, and
as promised, we'll give Alan all the time he wants. Hey,
Alan wants the hub man.

Speaker 4 (45:42):
All right, a good deal. So there's there's like a
like a spread of podcasts. I listened to Sure and
you're obviously one of them.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
Well, thank you, so.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
So Mickey's show, I know he moved over to angler you.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
Yeah, it's like a chess board that that show.

Speaker 4 (46:01):
That show you cannot listen like your show. I could
listen to Live like I'm doing now, right, I think?
So that show you cannot listen to live? Is am
I correcting that because it's a podcast.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
No, it can be Frankie, you can podcast live right?
Oh no, so Frankie's saying no. Also, so that may
be Yeah that makes sense. Yeah, you can't.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
You're right.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
You're right, it cannot be live if it's podcast.

Speaker 4 (46:29):
You're right, because I knew you were in the I
knew you would know, because you're in the business.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
Yeah, well sometimes I forgot.

Speaker 4 (46:35):
I'm just curious, Okay, I'm just curious. I was scurious
about that.

Speaker 7 (46:39):
True.

Speaker 4 (46:39):
One more question, uh, or one? Two questions? Actually? What
kind of what kind of rods are you using these days?

Speaker 1 (46:46):
You know, I I don't want to name any specific
rod because there are a lot of really good ones
out there.

Speaker 4 (46:54):
Yeah, yeah, a billions.

Speaker 1 (46:57):
Yeah, there's a million and a half now, and they're
all really good quality. The technology has changed so much
since back in the days when they had to test
one hundred different blanks to see which one was gonna
be the one they wanted to make. And it's all
done by computer now, and they can churn out really
good rods for very good prices as long as you're

(47:20):
sticking with a quality brand, and as long as that
brand also offers you a really good return policy and
a really good damage policy or whatever. I would not
I would not say, don't buy that rod. You're not
gonna get a great rod. For ten bucks. But you
don't have to spend one thousand dollars either. I can

(47:43):
remember when there was some rod company that started making
the first thousand dollars casting rod and they've been out
of business town for a long time. Best I can
recall exciting.

Speaker 4 (47:58):
Okay, one more thing, real queer. So it is March.
This is the middle of March.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (48:03):
If you had a deer lease, what would you be
preparing for?

Speaker 1 (48:07):
Huh, cow be preparing for catching trout and the surf
is what I'd be doing.

Speaker 4 (48:13):
Well, yeah, well that's yeah, that's that's the other side
of my life. Yeah, we just would just start putting
the feed minerals out now or what you know.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
It doesn't hurt to do a year round program, okay, uh,
and and have something going on all year round. The
problem for most people is that they're either distracted or
disinterested in being on a deer lease in the middle
of spring.

Speaker 8 (48:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
So yeah, if you've got the you know, if you've
got the time and you've got the the willpower to
force yourself to go out there and walk around the woods,
which should not hard to do for any of us.
It shouldn't be hard. It should be one of the
most Yeah, it's one of the most relaxing things I
could ever do. Go walk through the woods right now,
me and you looking for arrowheads or looking for deer

(49:04):
and seeing if they're starting to grow some antlers and whatnot.
But most people just don't do that. Yeah, I like,
I like supplements year round, But check with your county
biologists to see if if it makes sense to do
too much of that right now, because at some point
those if you're feeding year round, and if you're supplementing

(49:27):
with minerals year round and a bad year comes along
where you can't do that, suddenly you've got a bunch
of deer that are dependent on you for the nutrition
they need and they can't get it from you exactly. Yeah,
so be careful. A little could go a long way.

Speaker 4 (49:46):
The property. I'll hunt timber company, and they just did
a thinning on the property. Oh okay, which I've seen pictures,
which to me it's a little more than thinning, but
which I'm assuming is a good thing because now it's
gonna let a lot more sunlight in there and let
a lot more natural growth.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
Yeah, that'll grow a bunch of deer food. Yeah, I'd
be hunting around that cleared area this winter.

Speaker 4 (50:12):
If I were you, definitely okay, Doug, I appreciated, thank you.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
Thank you Allan. Yeah, being out in the woods anytime
you here's a lot of fun. It's a little bit
hotter now, and you got to watch out for snakes
a little bit more. If you don't own snake boots
and you do a lot of walking in the woods,
it's not a bad idea to have.

Speaker 6 (50:33):
Now.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
If you're walking on groomed trails and and there's signage
along the trail you're walking, probably not going to see
many snakes along those trails because there's just too much
human traffic and the snakes don't like it. But that said,
there still are snakes out there. And I don't know

(50:53):
about you, but when I'm in the woods, I'm really
tempted every step I take to get off the trail
and go look at whatever that is over there, or
go see if I can find something over here. I
pay attention to what I'm doing, and hadn't been lost
in the woods in a very long time, and I've
never been lost in the woods for a long time.

(51:14):
I always seem to find my way out somehow, I've
questioned whether I was going to get out before dark
once or twice on places that I was unfamiliar with,
but I've always made it out. Maybe that's something we
could talk about too. Very briefly, I'll go over how
I do it. If I'm going to a place that
I'm totally unfamiliar with. What I'll do is I'll bring

(51:36):
a little bit of Surveyors ribbon with me, either orange
or just one of the bright colors that you can
see from a long way off. The orange is great
or the fluorescent yellow, and all you have to do
is every so many yards just take a little piece
of that stuff. You don't have to tie yellow ribbon

(51:57):
around the old oak tree. But if you just a
little piece, or tack a little piece to a tree
trunk or a branch that's low enough where you can
just half nod it and leave it there, it's not
going to really impact the fourth I don't think. I
think that's okay to leave yourself a trail in and

(52:17):
a trail out, and you don't have to do it
every ten steps. If you get accustomed to doing this,
you'll know that if you can find one ribbon, you
can look around and probably see the other. And it's best, really,
especially when you're starting to do this, to just wrap
it once around the entire trunk of the tree about
eyeball high. That's going to be right in your sideline.

(52:39):
You don't have to look down to see it, you
don't have to look up to see it. You just
look around the woods, just like a camera panning an
audience in a football stadium or something like that. You
just scan and you will see your next point. And
if you really want to get fancy about it, bring
a sharpie and number them two. If you're leaving a
lot of them every now and then, you might might

(53:00):
walk from number one to number four. If they're not numbered,
you don't know that's number four. You might think it's
number two. And well, you walk around the woods long enough,
all the trees start to look alike. Make sure you
have a compass with you as well. That's not a
bad idea, And say, okay, if I'm going to go
explore these woods, I'm going to walk north. So you
get your compass, you get your surveyors ribbon, and about

(53:21):
every fifty yards and you wrap one around the tree
again and keep moving. And I guarantee you'll get out
of there. Okay. Also, be sure you have your phone
with you. That's a modern convenience. Have your phone, And
if you're really going to be out a long time,
or if you think you might be out a long time,

(53:43):
carry one of those portable battery chargers with you. And
that it's called ways Maybe what six ounces for a
decent one that could get you back to from zero
back probably up to twenty five or fifty percent of
your phone pretty quick. And who knows, it might save
your life when some guy got stuck. There was an

(54:03):
avalanche up in Washington State recently, and I talked a
bit about this on fifty plus yesterday.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
It happened.

Speaker 1 (54:11):
This guy's out skin, he's having a blast. He told
his wife he'd be home at dark or whatever, and
that afternoon there's an avalanche and he's under the avalanche.
Now he's under about four feet of snow, and he
doesn't come home on time, and his wife gets a
little worried. She's calling, calling, calling, he's not answering. She

(54:31):
finally pings his little sight. I don't understand that technology
because I wouldn't know how to do it if I
had to but Frankie would. She knows where he is now,
she knows where his phone is now. And he's up
on the mountain still and he's been there about three
hours and he hasn't moved, and so she calls the authorities.

(54:53):
They send a rescue team up there. They've got the
same cord and she has. They find him four feet
under the snow. Oh, and he had been there for
four hours, still alive, but he was trapped and the
snow was so heavily packed around him that he couldn't
get his arms together even to activate his little Apple

(55:13):
watch which he had on. He couldn't get to his phone.
It was zipped in a pocket. He couldn't get to
the pocket because the snow was so heavy on top
of him. But he's okay, now, he's okay. Seven one
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Speaker 2 (55:33):
What does he do?

Speaker 1 (55:34):
Oh, Glenn, I know what he is doing. I guarantee
you pretty sure he is. Hees out early, waiting for
the feeder to go off, and when it does, they
come a running. Yeah, he's got a little feeder somewhere.
He's relaxing RV somewhere. I'm not sure where he is.
Let me see this picture real quick and i'll know.

(55:57):
M Oh wow, Holy cow, what are all those things? Man?
That's interesting, a big oh wow. The deer are all
over the place waiting for the feeder, that's what he's saying.
Waiting for that feeder to go off. Holy cow. There
are at least a dozen of them, and they're just
kind of standing around like waiting for the gates to

(56:17):
open at a Taylor Swift concert. Good lord, all right,
we got to take a little break here on the
way out. Let me tell you all about Timber Creek
Golf Club if I may. It's one of my favorite
places down on the south side. It really is a
very good twenty seven holes of golf, and they alternate
starting on two nines at a time, so that there

(56:39):
can be this this movement, this fluid movement of more
golfers than on a traditional eighteen whole course. What you
will find is that they're not They're not easy, No
golf is easy, but they're very playable and very relaxing
to play. You're not going to have finished around all
mad and and throwing your clubs and stomping your feet

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because of how the layout was. If you're having a
bad time, it's because you're hitting bad shots, which should
lead you over to JJ Woods Golf Academy at Timber
Creek right on the other side of the practice range.
Very easy place to find too. You just go down
the golf Freeway to the FM twenty three point fifty one,
hang a west, and about four miles into that journey,

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you're going to come to a stoplight where there's a
convenience store on the right and a high school caddy
cornered on the left. You take a right and go
past the convenience store through the gate to Timber Creek
Golf Club. Great people out there from from front to back.
Nothing they want more than for you to have a
good time. Make yourself a tea time right now. Timber
Creekgolf Club dot com. That's timber Creekgolf Club dot com.

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Ad nineteen on Sports Talk seven ninety Well played Frankie
tying ribbons around trees. Yeah, that's a good way to
find your way back out, much better than breadcrumbs gonna
get eaten by the birds. So the the little fun
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bearing in mind how many people in this country now
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More of us are living longer. Granted, but there's a
lot of young people in the in the in the
country who've never heard of Pink Floyd right, never heard
of Dark Side of the Moon. But according to this statistic,
one out of every fourteen Americans has owned a copy

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of Dark Side of the Moon. Wow, it's impressive. Yeah, yeah,
when you think about how many how many people just
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then would have had to either well that would have
probably had to buy the album. I don't think that
when Dark Side of the Moon came out there were
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you think.

Speaker 3 (59:20):
I don't know. I mean, I don't know specifically for
that album, but I mean definitely there's a history of
singles that were going on then. But I mean, yeah,
that's an amazing album.

Speaker 1 (59:31):
One in fourteen people. That's incredible. Yeah, I'll say so.

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There you have it.

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Now we've gone from journalism to rock music and dabbled
in bass on the shorelines, dabbled in catfish being deep
at Lake Conroe and shallow up on the north end
crappie and a little bit deeper on the south end.
Those weekly fishing reports from from Parks and Wallas Department.
I wouldn't if I I had to stake my life

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on going to one place to try to catch a
particular kind of fish. I wouldn't make my location decision
on something as broad brushed as a weekly fishing report.
But it does. If you go through there and read
each of those little accounts for the lakes that you

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like to fish, what you will determine. What you'll see
come into view is patterns. You'll see the patterns and
you'll see where they're happening. And if you put a
little weather knowledge into that, and a little bit of
general fishing knowledge into that, you'll be able to make
your decisions on where to go next week, or even

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the week after, or maybe a month from now. You'll
have a pretty good idea where you need to be
if you want to catch a particular species of fish.
That's the advantage of old school learning. Now in new school,
if you want to go someplace tomorrow, you can get
online and find daily information from just about any water

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body bigger than a bathtub in this state, and that's
also valuable. But don't dismiss out of hand the value
of a printed weekly fishing report as kind of a
kind of a diary, if you will. Back when I
was writing the fishing reports for Field and Stream magazine,

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they did regional fishing reports and I was covering. I
had Nevada, I had Arizona, I had New Mexico and Texas.
I don't think I had Colorado. I had four or five,
maybe six states, I can't remember, but all along the
southern half southwestern half of the country, I had those states,

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and I think it might have been one or two more.
And the issue for me was that those fishing reports
had to be turned in like five or six months
in advance, So right now in March, I would have
been working on maybe the August or September fishing report.

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And you talk about hard trying to get guys who
or fishing guides on some of the major lakes in
those states, get them on the phone, say hey, man,
I need a fishing report. I'm working on it for
a field and stream. Oh sure, yeah, it's been great
this week. No, what about July? What about August? What's
going to happen then?

Speaker 8 (01:02:33):
And it was.

Speaker 1 (01:02:34):
It was complex, and it was a little too far
out for material that was going to be dated long
before we ever got there, And it was it took
a special special way of thinking to make that actually work,
and it worked for several years. That was a good
gig when I had it. It didn't take a long

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time to do it. It just took like maybe an
afternoon on the phone, and it was fun. But I
much prefer the way it is now, where you can
just get online and find current water conditions, current temperature, current, this,
that and the other. And that's I think. Yeah, that's

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part of why things like that fell off the map
is because the social media and the internet just made
all of that stuff obsolete, especially the stuff that had
to be done really way far in advance because of
publishing deadlines and whatnot. It just doesn't work. Unfortunately. I

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wish there were away and there is a way actually
all the digital magazines. They're doing what I was doing,
only they're doing it in real time, and it can
be produced and published in real time. And that's what
makes it so valuable. The Internet is a it's a
bittersweet thing. It's a it gives and it takes boat

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and both times. The good of Internet, I think, is
that you can get information in real time. You can
go back and look at archived information to see maybe
what was happening a week two, three, five weeks ago,
six weeks ago, last year, whatever, and just at your fingertips,

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you just hit a few keys. By the way, we've
got a We've got a guy in the office, Frankie,
who's keystrokes on his keyboard. For some reason, it sounds
like a hailstorm when he's when he's typing, it sounds
like a hailstorm. And I'm not gonna name him because
he's a super nice guy, but man, he's got big
old heavy fingers. Bam bam bam. It's like like that,

(01:04:50):
could you hear that?

Speaker 8 (01:04:51):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:04:51):
Yeah, I bet you could. You know how to sit
where I sit? Seven one three, two one two five
seven ninety Oh what have I done?

Speaker 4 (01:04:59):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
I messed up my whole keyboard. I don't know what
I'm looking at now. It just took everything down, said
you're sick, go away. Oh here, let's shake away from
the internet for a minute. Maybe I'll come back to it,
maybe I won't. But I'm kind of curious if anybody's
been down to see how far along the progress is
with the Rollover Pier, which occupies space that used to

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be a beautiful fishy pass a cut between the Gulf
of Mexico at East Bay, and now it's just land,
developed land. And this pier that they they say is
going to be fantastic, Well, I know peer fishing pretty well,

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having been, having spent many a day and night on
the ninety first Street Pier, not as many nights on
sixty first. But I certainly fish that. I fished a
flagship teahead peer San Luis Pass Pier, surf side fishing pier,
fished it in, surfed it, And I have no idea

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right now what's going wrong with this thing. It is
about they're calling it a thousand feet okay, three hundred
and thirty three yards. Basically they're in thirty four yards
and I'm gonna guess that that includes all of the
part of the pier that goes all the way to

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the parking lot. My gut says it's gonna be about
two hundred and twenty yards or so out over the water,
which is not It's not a short pier, Okay. A
lot of people are saying it has to be longer,
it needs to be longer, and looking at where it
is now, what I would say more than that it
needs to be longer, is that the teahead needs to

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be more of a tea Right now, it's it's more
is more like a Q tip. It goes way out there,
and then there's just this little wad of concrete at
the end that's gonna be I don't know, maybe sixty
feet wide. If that. I can't tell the scale of

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this thing. It's a photograph I'm looking at, and I'm
sure there's video. It says there is, but I can't
really get the scale on it. But if they'd made
that teahead about three times wider than that, I'd be impressed.
In its current form, it's there's gonna be a lot
of people walk all the way out there and realize
there's no place to stand to fish on on really

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pretty days. Now the advantage it has is that it's
in a race piece of surf on the ball ofvar Peninsula,
where there probably will be some pretty good trout action
on that thing on the right days and times. But
the if that's all they're going to do at the
end of the pier, they missed the boat as far
as I'm concerned. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety email on me Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com

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and we'll take a little break here and I'll tell
you about Whitetail Ranch up there, about ten miles west
of Cold Spring, in the middle of the Texas Hill Country.
Just an absolutely beautiful part of the state to be
in and right now you can buy home sites from
anywhere from one and a half to more than four acres.
It's a gated acreage community. Gated is a very important

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thing up there. You don't have to worry about who's
coming in and who's getting out with what concrete roads,
no mud taxes, wonderful amenities for the families, places to
gather with your friends and neighbors, and just a really
thought out Texas hunting ranch theme throughout the property. You
can hold on to that land for as long as
you want. As an investment or, you can buy it,

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sign the paperwork, and get started on building yourself anything
from a little cabin all the way up to your
forever home that you're going to just retire to someday.
That's where you want to be, is up there watching
those sunrises and sunsets over the hill country.

Speaker 2 (01:08:59):
Go check it out.

Speaker 1 (01:08:59):
It's country lifestyle, just designed to last and last and last.
And right now they have their grand opening sale. I
guess is what you want to call it, And what
you get is twenty thousand dollars off any lot or
lots that you buy at least twenty thousand and no

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closing costs either. So that's gonna make it a lot
easier to get your little getaway piece of ground. Go
up there and buy a couple of those big old
tracks and have a little room, little elbowroom to run around.
Even an acre and a half, that's a lot. If
you don't think it's much, wait till you have to
mow it. Whitetail Ranch, tx dot com is a website, beautiful,

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beautiful place. Whitetail RANCHTX dot com. Let me tell you
about air ride bikes up there in Tomball in the
Four Corners Shopping Center. I had an email exchange with
Wayne Errington, the guy who owns the place up there,
and he sent me down things that he wanted to
point out about e bikes. And there's a little laundry

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list here of who they're for and a couple of
things I didn't really think about. First of all, if
you have a short commute, if you're not commuting more
than a few miles, then an e bike might be
a really good alternative to having to drive your car
and get out in the traffic and all that. If
you're just a family looking for some fun without having

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to pedal and really work at cycling, maybe on a
long hike or something like that, an e bike would
be a great thing. If you paddle all you want,
But if you get tired, you've got that security blanket
underneath you. It'll get you back home. Hunters hunting, that's
a no brainer. Riding up and down the beach looking

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for fishing the surf in the spring and summer, that's
a no brainer. How About RV travelers and campers wherever
you're going to. If you've got it's a lot, a
whole lot easier to pack a couple of e bikes
than it is to haul a vehic behind your RV.
And of course if you're just tired of high gas prices,
that's going to help you out as well. They're a

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full service electric bike shop up there in Tomball. Like
I said, they sell service and support everything they carry too,
and that's a big difference from a lot of the
places you might go buy one of these things. Then
you call them and tell them you have a problem.
They go check with the manufacturer. No, just take it
back to Wayne. He'll work with you on it. No
assembly headaches. They take care of that for you if

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you want them to. There's support when something breaks, and
which doesn't happen often with his bike, but sometimes it happens,
and you've got somebody to explain all the features so
that you know exactly what you're getting and how to
get the most out of it. They offer hands on
test rides. They've got a local service department and true

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warranty support for all the big brands. Air Ride Bikes
four Corner shopping Center in Tomball. Go to air ridebikes
dot com a r idair ride bikes dot Com Good
choices today Frankie, good choices, friend, not that taken care of.
I've got this taken care of. I'm gonna hit that
button and go look around here. Ahah. The person I

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was talking about earlier who hadn't surfaced has surfaced. Now
that's good. That's good. That makes me. I breathe easier
when I know where my friends are I really do,
and that they're okay. I hope she's okay. I get
a lot of calls and emails from people who want
to talk about peer and jetti fishing. Okay, no boat

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looking to catch some fish to eat, maybe catch a
bigger fish, just to fight and have fun with, and
peers and jetties are they offer that opportunity. The little
rock groins in Galveston, if you know, you got to
know when and where and how to fish these places.
The rock groins in Galveston, the Galveston jetties, if you're

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willing to walk miles literally to get out there, and
you have to be about half mountain goat by the
way to navigate those rocks. They have no smooth surface
like the surfside jetty does.

Speaker 8 (01:13:11):
They have no.

Speaker 1 (01:13:13):
Handrails, just none of that. Now, a surfside even doesn't
have that anymore. It used to when it was brand new.
But the bottom line is the fishing around those rocks
can be very good. They're structure. They are in the
winter time when the sun beats down on them on
a nice clear day, they offer warmth for those fish

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with cold blooded fish they're looking for warmer water. The
sun hitting the rocks warms that water up a few degrees,
a lot of advantages, a lot of places for a
little bitty fish to hide, that attracts the bigger fish.
Just off the surfside jetty alone, I've caught everything from
just about a to z from little tiny croakers back

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when I was a kid and having to nowavigate those
rocks before they had that slick top on them. Catch
little croakers on fresh deed trip all day long and
have a blast. Then I started catching a few sand trout,
then speckled trout, redfish. Boyd Man September's at the end

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of that jetty on the eastbound side, looking back toward surfside,
there's a hole out there. There was then and I'm
sure there is now. The way the current flows out
of there, it just kind of washes a big hole
for about the last fifty yards out the rocks and
then facing back toward Galveston. And if you can throw

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something out there far enough and it's heavy enough to
get to the bottom pretty quick without getting held up
at all in the tide, when those bullreds are stacked
up out there, Man, I caught so many of them
on that big jumbo magnum sized rattle trap. There were
some jigs that I used to throw out there that
were an ounce a full one ounce head on a

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heavy casting rod, and I could sling them a a
football field almost. It seemed like, let them get all
the way to the bottom and just twitch them a
few times and it was hang on tight, buddy. Many
king mackerel out there, tons of Spanish mackerel off that jetty.
The king mackerel thing was really kind of fun because
I would use old semi retired top waters to fish

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for them. Water's got to be right, it's got to
be absolutely beautiful, got to be a lot of bait,
and those king mackerel will find their way all the
way into about the technically to about two thirds of
the way out that jetty, and you can either throw
big spoons at them. You can throw top waters at them.
You can throw whatever you want, but that top water
bite is just unbeatable because those fish start almost from

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the bottom and then accelerate up to the top and
right through the lure, right through the surface of the water,
and sometimes you'll get six eight ten foot jumps out
of them, and everybody on the jetty goes woo because
it's cool to look at some of the fishing those places.

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Same with the ninetieth Street Pier. I caught king mackerel
off there. I actually caught a bonito one time off
of air when the water was almost inky blue all
the way to the beach. That fish was. It wasn't lost,
and I'm sure some of his friends were there, but
that was a surprise, I think to everybody on the pier.
We thought it was a king mackerel at first, and
it just never it never showed itself at all. It

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just stayed down and turned out to be a benita.
And it wasn't the only one caught that day either.
If you're gonna fish these places, though, if you're throwing
lures like I do, a couple of points to think about.
Number one, pack light, because you're gonna be sticking and moving.
And if you're standing in one place on a pier

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throwing lures all day, you might catch one or two fish.
But if you move up and down during the right
conditions and find kind of the zone that they're in,
then you're gonna catch more fish. So don't overweight yourself
and don't have five things to put under your arms
and over your shoulders. I do like to carry a
second rod just in case there's some catastrophic failure, and

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I don't have to I don't want to have to
walk all the way back to the car to get it. Plus,
there's just something kind of sketchy about leaving fishing rods
in cars parked outside of piers at just sings theft.
Carry extra line, carry extra leader material, whatever hardware you
choose to use. I don't like to put a lot
of hardware on lures. Maybe just maybe one of those

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quick clips, a nice strong one, and there are some
really good ones out there. Now, don't that just give
you a free swinging lure that you can get off
of there and get back to fishing within ten seconds.
It's kind of like the the calf roping of fishing
out there, changing lures that fast. But I also don't

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mind tying knots. It's not that big a deal. You
want to take enough lures, you know what, It's time
to take a break. That's what we're gonna take. We'll
take this break. Come back. Maybe just talk about that
some more. If you've got good or bad peer experiences
or jetty experiences to talk about, let's do that, because
I've had my share of both. Believe me, there's some
knuckleheads on the piers sometimes and you just have to

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deal with them, and that's okay. It's a big public space,
and come one, come all. I'll tell you this though,
before I go to that break, put the number for
Operation Game Thief in your phone. And if you see
somebody doing something really really stupid, call Operation Game Thief
and let them handle it. Berry Hill Restaurant out there
in sugar Land Sugar Creek Boulevard exit inbound, and I

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think it's the same.

Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
I know it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:44):
Let's go Darry Ashford outbound and make a U turn
under the freeway. I think that's what's going to get
you there. Once you do, you'll find outstanding Mexican food
that's cooked by the same two primary people in the
kitchen now for more than ten years, apiece fish, tacos,
seafood enchiladas, cheese enchiladas, beef and chicken faheedas you name it.

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If it's traditional Mexican, they've got it and it's great.
They also do catering all over town. Berry Hill sugar
Land family owned and operated for thirty something years. Berryhillsugarland
dot com. Berryhillsugar Land dot com. If you're looking on
looking at the beautiful weather we've got right now and thinking,
you know, I'm up here on the north side of town.

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I need to go play some golf somewhere, try black
Horse Golf Club. They'll get you out North Course, in
the South Course. The North Course daily fees, South Course
private now and offers a membership option that gets you
access to four more golf courses. There are the two
at black Horse that you now have membership access to,
plus the two at Golf Club of Houston, plus Blackhawk

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Country Club out where I play in Richmond most of
the time. Outstanding courses, an outstanding opportunity for people who
truly love golf and want to get better at golf
to have full access to the practice facilities at these courses.
You have full access to the courses themselves for the
green fees and whatnot and tea times, and plus you

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get if you're on the South Course membership, you get
the opportunity to not have to worry about rushing to
make tea times and worrying that you're not gonna get
a tea time. There's plenty of room for everybody right now,
and they would love nothing more than to have you
out there. If you're still a daily fee guy, you're
gonna love the North Course just as much as you

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always have. Most of you have probably played it at
least a few times by now. I bet I've played
it fifty times over the years, maybe more.

Speaker 8 (01:20:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:20:44):
I've been up there a lot of times. Go two
ninety to Fry Road, hang a south, and about three
miles down you're gonna see golf course on the right
side of the road first. Then when you see golf
course on both sides of the road, turn on your
west blinker and pull into the main drive at Black Course.
And from that point forward, anybody you see with a
name tag on is there solely to make sure you

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have a good time. General managers Craig Hicks. If you
see him, if you get a chance to shake his hand,
tell him I said hello, it's been a long time.
He's a good outdoors guy like us. He loves the
game of golf and he loves nothing more than having
you guys come out there and play it. Black Horse
Golf Club dot com is the website you can set
your own tea time right now. Black Horse goolf Club
dot Com. Eight fifty two. On Sports Talk seven to

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ninety Doug Pike Show, thank you for listening. I certainly
do appreciate it. I would say no place but Florida,
but there are a lot of coastal communities around the
country where this could possibly happen. But it did happen
in Florida. The couple of policemen chatting with this twenty
eight year old suspect on Monday. It doesn't say what
they suspected him of doing, but he ran, and he

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jumped into a river, and the two officers who'd been
talking to him jumped on paddle boards that were nearby
and paddled out to him and dragged his behind back
to shore and cuffed him up and said, now jump
in there. No, they didn't say that seven seven ninety.

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Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Something else I
found this week? That's interesting, Frankie, you keep up with
at all the talk about President Trump releasing all the
alien files and whatnot. I know that he's danced around
the UFO thing, but not not lately. No, what's up?
It says here the government has apparently registered the domain

(01:22:33):
aliens dot gov. Get ready, Okay, get ready? What do
you think? Here's the deal. If they're out there and
they don't fish or play golf, I don't want to
talk to him. I got nothing to say. You know, great,
You've traveled nineteen light years to get here and you
packed no fishing gear. Are you kidding me? You saw

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the planet right, you saw all the water on the
planet right, and you brought no rods and no reels.
I don't We can't be friends. I'm sorry. Just go
back to where you came from, man, get in your
rocket ship and travel another twelve light years to go home. Yeah,
that's on them for not bringing anything. Yeah, really, you're

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not using mine either. I've seen the long fingers of yours.
You're just gonna backlash my reels every time you cast. No,
here's a game pole good luck? Oh what I hot
mess that is?

Speaker 5 (01:23:31):
Can you?

Speaker 1 (01:23:33):
I don't know what it would be. Let's just just hypothetically, okay,
for fun. So eventually this planet of ours is either
gonna destroy itself or work together and find ways to
explore other solar systems and whatnot. And when they do,
and if they come across some planet that looks a

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lot like ours, and there are a lot of them
out there, if they they said, Okay, Doug, which one
do you want to go to? The one that's kind
of like Mars where you can't really there's not a
whole lot to do, or this one over here that's
got all this blue stuff we figures water and they've
got a lot of big land masses too. Like, yeah,
I'm jumping in on that one because there's gonna be

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stuff to do there. But otherwise, can you imagine being
the person who first steps on to Mars. They got
a rover up there for him, a little ATV to
ride around in, and all you do is just ride
around the dusty trails of Mars all day long, can't
find anything else? Yeah, and just go to the ice cap. Yeah,

(01:24:38):
go to the ice cap and bring a blow torch,
and then wait about another billion years for fish to
evolve and you can have fun. Oh Lee, It's be
cool to be in the history books for being the
first person to step on Mars. But beyond that now
I'm passing. I just go out to the club and
catch a bass. Be happier, way happier than being the
first man on Mars three two one two five seven

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ninety Email me Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Back to
the peer fishing and Jetty's thing for a minute, if
you're gonna be and by the way, if you do
plan to keep a couple of fish, which is perfectly
okay if you're you've got a fishing license and you're
legal and you're doing it right. Rather than haul an
ice chest around behind you while you've got your little

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you're very neatly packed with your little bag of lures
and your your two rods and reels, get one of
those fish bags that you can throw over your shoulder.
Some company sent me one years ago, and I use
that thing actually pretty often. You can load it up
with about a half a bag of ice, maybe a
full bag if your if your shoulders are good and
strong and just carry that thing with you. And it's

(01:25:44):
a it's an insulated cooler essentially that goes over your shoulder, uh,
the same as where your tackle is. And if you're
not planning on bringing home anything big, you can actually
just stick your little tackle box in there and it
might get a little fishy smelling by the end of
the day, but at least you don't have to have
a separate shoulder strap for that. We'll keep those fish
fresh for hours, it really will. I used to love

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using that thing. It's still in the garage. I just
haven't brought home a whole lot of fish lately. If
you're a live bait person, and live is always better
than dead down at the coast, same in the bay
or anywhere else except maybe for catfish. But you've got
to keep that bait alive at all costs, and that
means an air raider and probably at least a twenty

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eight or a twenty a thirty two, if not a
forty eight quart ice shift, probably something that's big enough
for those little shrimp to have elbow room and not
bang into each other. You're gonna need a little tackle
box that's gonna go in a wagon too, by the way,
because you're not gonna be carrying three, four or five
gallons of water around for very long. Yellow buckets are
not so good either in tight quarters out of the water.

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If you keep it out of the water with a
little battery air raider, the sun's gonna heat up the
water too quickly and kill them. And if you tie
a rope to it so you can kind of toss
it into the edge of the water at the base
of the rocks or down below the pier, that wave
action is gonna if there's any at all, it's gonna
kind of beat those fish up or those little shrimp up.
So those lures like I do it, you might not

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catch as many fish, but as many days as not
down there because I knew what I was doing and
knew where to go, I catch as many as the
people with live bait do. I really do. And you
can too. You don't have to use you don't have
to use lures if you don't want to, or you
don't have to use live bait. And it's just so
much more effishent it really is, and so much more comfortable.
You don't have to worry about your bait dying Houston

(01:27:36):
Gold Exchange one more time where bread Schweiss has been
doing what he's been doing there at Darry Ashford and
mom or Dry Ashford and west Timer excuse me, dere
Ashford and west Timer for forty something years, buying and
selling precious metals, buying and selling jewelry, buying and selling watches,
fine watches. He's got a lot of all of that

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stuff in there and has for forty years right now.
With gold at the high prices it's at, even even
though it's come off a bit this past week, it's
still extremely high, and you can still swap out some
old scrap gold or maybe some old jewelry you don't
use anymore, whether it's whoever it's for, If you're not
wearing that stuff regularly, you probably don't need it, and

(01:28:20):
you could probably benefit from turning that into cash and
either investing the cash or maybe maybe buying something you've
always wanted and never really had the money for West Timer.
Darry Ashford's he's a plus ready with the Better Business Bureau.
He's he's an outdoorsman like we are. Chances are if
you call him he'll pick up the phone. If if

(01:28:40):
he's not on the phone with somebody else. And if
he's not busy reeling in a redfish on the dock
behind his beach house or his bay house. Super nice guy.
He'll get along with you, you'll get along with him.
And he's a straight shooter. Two, he's not gonnare no
hard sell going on. There's no push. He's just gonna
tell you what you what you have is worth about this.

(01:29:01):
Bring it in and I'll give you an exact number,
or you know what, Why don't you hold He did
this for somebody just a little while back. Why don't
you just hold onto this for a little while because
I think the price is gonna come back up pretty soon.
He's a straight shooter. He will You'll tell it like
it is, and he'd make sure that you get exactly
the experience you want. Coins boollyond anything from a few

(01:29:22):
bucks up to a half a million dollars worth. He
can handle that. He's been in business a long time.
He's got the assets to cover anything. You can bring
to him. Houston, gooldexchange dot com. Call him on his
cell phone. Two eight one eight five one three nine
five five two eight one eight five one three nine
five five all right. Third hour starts. Now I'm going

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to forego talking about the the PGA Tour event that's
going on this week, and instead I am going to
talk with the man who knows a whole lot about
what's gonna happen next week, and that's Brian White, the
VP of the Astros Golf Foundation.

Speaker 2 (01:29:59):
Welcome aboard, Thanks, thanks for having me on.

Speaker 1 (01:30:03):
Oh my pleasure. So let's talk about the tournament first
coming up next week, Memorial Park. I'm presuming you couldn't
ask for a better forecast, right.

Speaker 9 (01:30:14):
Yeah, the forecast looks fadless. Of course, you always hate
to look at it. I think it's gonna happen, but
it does look like, you know, sixty five in the
morning and eighty to eighty five in the afternoon and
sunny sky.

Speaker 2 (01:30:26):
So we're excited about that.

Speaker 1 (01:30:27):
Yeah, this is the first year I can remember where.
And again it's a forecast and we're not gonna I'm
knock on wood and we're not gonna jinx anything. But
it really looks good all the way through. Man, holy cow,
what kind of shapes of tourse end? Right now?

Speaker 9 (01:30:41):
The course, the course is absolutely fantastic. One thing we've done,
you know, we used to be in the fall when
we started the tournament, and then we moved to the spring,
got the great date two weeksplore the Masters, and we
overseed the golf course with winter rye just like Augusta.
So our main goal is this, We want this to
be awesome, the vent for our players here and then

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a prep for Augusta.

Speaker 2 (01:31:04):
So we we seed it. It's I think it's as
good as it could be.

Speaker 9 (01:31:10):
It's the cutting heights are the same as Augustus, so
the guys are prepared for that and it's just gonna
make our golf course play fabulous.

Speaker 1 (01:31:19):
Let's talk about the foundation for a minute to what
before we do, Let's go to the field.

Speaker 2 (01:31:23):
So who's coming, Well, we've got a great field. Let's see.

Speaker 9 (01:31:27):
We got Ricky Fowler this year who's always a fan favorite.
Shane Lowry. Shane Lowry is awesome Brooks Koepka, so he's
coming back off the Live Tour and left there and
now playing on a PGA tour, so this is one
of his few PJ Tours starts, so that's great for
people who haven't seen him in the last three years
to come out. We have the returning champ and with Lee,

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two other returning champions, Tony and Steven Jeger. Adam Scott
I just came in the field, which is great to
have him. Yeah, man as good as player as he is,
Sahita guy, Gary Wood.

Speaker 2 (01:32:00):
Look, we've got it. We've got a great field.

Speaker 9 (01:32:02):
We've got some local guys Jonathan Vegas and Bronson Bragoon
and championships and both those two both play at A
and M and uh they're in the field, and so
it's gonna be fabous for people to come out and
enjoy some good golf.

Speaker 1 (01:32:17):
I saw Sun gay M's name on the list too.
He's leading over there at the vals bar right now.

Speaker 9 (01:32:23):
So yes, I mean there's there's so many we have
will z Alataurus come back after his surgery, and uh,
Ben Griffith, Chris Gollerup who just wanted to WM open
in Phoenix and who's ten in the world chasing day
that we have a great field, real excited about that.

Speaker 1 (01:32:41):
Always do, always do for this one. So let's go
to the founder. Go ahead, It's say, let's just say yes, sure,
I do this all the time. I'm so sorry I
interrupted you. Let's go to the foundation, Okay, founded in
twenty eighteen and just generating all kinds of money for
the city and for charity, aren't you.

Speaker 9 (01:33:01):
Yes, I mean, this was Jim Crane's, you know, idea.
We were talking one day about how when the PGA
Tour had gone away, Mischelle had pulled out. We're like, well,
you know, I can't believe we can't have a PGA
tour Matt, and Jim's like, well, we should do something
about that. I've said, yes we should. He said, well,
I'll just call the PGA Tour commissioner and I'm like, well,
I didn't, Okay, let's do that, And he called up

(01:33:24):
on a hand and basically said, hey, we want to
run the tournament and bring it to Houston. And you know,
Jim's whole idea was, we want to elevate the city
city golf, and we want to run this tournament, make
as much money as we can and return that to
our local citizens. And that's very important for us, for
people to realize, if you come out to the event,

(01:33:45):
we are trying to make as much money through this
event as we can and someone in the town, some
of our community is going to get the benefit of that,
and that's very important.

Speaker 2 (01:33:53):
And we've given back.

Speaker 9 (01:33:55):
We've distributed over twenty three and a half million dollars
so far and we're in our seventh year, so we're
really excited about that.

Speaker 1 (01:34:03):
Yeah, the tournament itself just just next week, it's gonna
generate or overall the tournament generates what like ninety million
dollars a year in economic impact.

Speaker 9 (01:34:13):
Absolutely just the whole the total economic impact, the hotels,
everything in the restaurants. So I mean it's great for Houston.
We also give back to for the tournament. We give
back to the City of Houston. We give money to
the Memorial Park Conservancy, and we support the First Tea
of Houston. So we do that every year guaranteed, and

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then we go out and donate our money for impact
around the community.

Speaker 1 (01:34:38):
Now I'm just looking at a laundry list of donations
that you make to this group and that group, and
it's a it's like a who's who of people who
really need the help. Talk about the volunteers too. This
couldn't be done without volunteers, right.

Speaker 9 (01:34:52):
We wouldn't have a term without the volunteers. I mean,
it takes over two thousand volunteers I think twenty twenty three.
They do forty five thousand hours of work at the tournament.
These people are unbelievable. A lot of people are taking
off from work, they're taking their time off and taking
their vacation to common us make this tournament successful. So

(01:35:14):
it's great that they feel so impactful what we're doing,
and we want to show that we are doing good
things and people can rally around.

Speaker 1 (01:35:23):
That talk a little bit about how to how to
best get around the tournament. Where the best places to
view are maybe some of the premium viewing options.

Speaker 2 (01:35:34):
So we have got a lot of options.

Speaker 9 (01:35:36):
Obviously, we have our just regular GA tickets, but we
have a cool spot called that's called our Venue Hopper.

Speaker 2 (01:35:42):
It's a little upgraded ticket.

Speaker 9 (01:35:44):
You get your food and beverage is free in there,
and it's on the fifteenth hole and the sixteenth hole
and you can rotate back and forth. Fifteenth Cold is
our court Energy Club, which is par three. We've got
the whole hole surrounded and it is a vibrant uh
uh certainly area if you want some action and some

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some people screaming and yelling and for Bode's that's that's
the spot to be in. And then you can switch
that out if you're in there for a while and
go over to the Miklo Boltra Club on sixteen, which
is on our part. Five great hole have a lot
of players can get there and too, so there's a
lot of action on that hole, so you'll you'll see
some eagles and birdies and plenty of action.

Speaker 1 (01:36:25):
Can you get there in two? I can't.

Speaker 2 (01:36:28):
I used to, but senior senior goal But what depends whatever?

Speaker 1 (01:36:32):
Ta actor, Yeah, we move up a couple of boxes.
We'll get there too, won't we.

Speaker 2 (01:36:37):
Brian, that's right.

Speaker 1 (01:36:39):
Oh my goodness. I love the field that's coming in here.
There's a lot of a lot of firepower, a lot
of talent. I like Saheita Gala. I like a lot
of these.

Speaker 2 (01:36:49):
Yeah, he's playing good.

Speaker 9 (01:36:50):
I mean, you know, if people want to come out
and watchers, there's a player named Aldrich platt Geter. He's
from South Africa. Yeah, the longest play on the tour.
He'd be great to come out and launch. But we
we This is a big, big players golf course. You know,
it's a bomber's golf course. You know, it's fairly wide
off the tee and then the greens are very undulated,

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so guys that can hit along have a huge advantage
and that shows in the guys that have won our tournament.

Speaker 1 (01:37:16):
Do you know how how long it's gonna play this year?
Off hand?

Speaker 9 (01:37:19):
About about seventy seventy one fifty or seventy yards.

Speaker 1 (01:37:25):
Oh yeah, there's gonna be some bombing going on there
for sure.

Speaker 8 (01:37:29):
A lot.

Speaker 2 (01:37:29):
It's uh, it's definitely gonna be exciting.

Speaker 9 (01:37:32):
And as we as we cut the rough, I mean
we cut it just like the Augustus, So it's it's
it's playable to get out of that rough.

Speaker 2 (01:37:41):
But with our greens being very.

Speaker 9 (01:37:43):
Firm, and the greens are gonna run twelve to twelve
and a half on a stentin eater, you've got to
be able to control that ball in there.

Speaker 2 (01:37:48):
So hitting the fair was probably gonna help.

Speaker 1 (01:37:51):
Yeah, with no with no rain in the forecast, that's
gonna keep those greens really crispy and fast. Holy cow,
totally and and and and farm. Oh yeah, buddy, that's
a good point too. A lot of a lot of
people who don't play much golf don't understand the the
great advantage that comes once those greens get softened up
by water. Because they these players are so good they

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can they can they can hit it to a dime
sized spot. But if that greens really crispy and and hard,
the ball is gonna bounce and roll off the back.
And at that golf course, you don't want anything rolling
off anywhere, do you.

Speaker 5 (01:38:28):
No.

Speaker 9 (01:38:28):
No, Tom Doe did a really good job of designing. Uh,
you know, this golf course and these greens with all
this undulation and and these pen pin placements where you
think you're in a pretty good spot, and when you
when you get on there and you get out of place,
you're like, oh man, I'm I'm really out of place here.
So definitely, I mean when it's firm, you know, the
ball doesn't catch as much with the spin, and certainly

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if you miss the greens, uh, you're not gonna be
able to hold them very much. But definitely firm and
fast is It'll be fun for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:38:56):
Predict the winning score.

Speaker 9 (01:39:00):
I'm gonna say fifteen, I'm gonna I might go.

Speaker 1 (01:39:06):
I'm gonna go, I'm gonna take the lower. I think
it not not better, but worse. I think maybe like
twelve or thirteen might even do it under the condition.

Speaker 9 (01:39:16):
We've had between twelve and sixteen. And then right in
there one year was it was it was six, which
was really tough. You know, that's a that's a that
shows that it's a pretty good golf course. I mean,
you know, we're not We're not a twenty five under
a golf course.

Speaker 1 (01:39:31):
It's a yeah, it's real golf. He's a grown man.
They're gonna be playing real golf and they're gonna be
scratching their heads and if you, if you stay out
there long enough, you might even hear one say a
curse word.

Speaker 4 (01:39:41):
Huh.

Speaker 9 (01:39:42):
I do want to say this. I want to say
that you know a TEXTA children's is our sponsors. Yeah,
Children's using open We're so we're so thrilled to have
them as a title sponsor and to be able to
support them. That's great for us to rally around a
title sponsor like that that everybody in the community is
affected by. So it's import for us to promote them
and say what a great job that a hospital is doing,

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especially worldwide.

Speaker 1 (01:40:06):
Absolutely, I couldn't agree with you more. Brian Brian White,
me P of the Astros Golf Foundation, Thank you so much, man.
I really do appreciate your time. I hope, I hope
run into you out there next week.

Speaker 2 (01:40:16):
Come on, you got to come out. We want everybody
to come out.

Speaker 9 (01:40:17):
It's gonna be a great, great day and great time,
and please come out and enjoy it and see what happens.

Speaker 1 (01:40:22):
Yeah, we don't have to worry about the weather. No
umbrella is necessary. I'm so grateful for that. Holy cow,
Thanks Brian. I appreciate your time, man, I really do.
Thank yous. All right, Yeah, this is gonna be a
good one. If ever you were going to go to
the Houston Open, to the Texas Children's Houston Open, this
is gonna be the year to do that. I'm pretty sure.

(01:40:44):
And again I'm not I'm not gonna jinx anything, but man,
I don't recall ever seeing a forecast disfavorable for that
golf tournament. And I'm thrilled for him, I really am.
I'm absolutely thrilled for him. They deserve it that. That
tournament's had a history of showers one day, two days.
Always there's always something some hiccup in it, and this

(01:41:08):
one looks like it's gonna go through, go off without
a hitch. All right, we got to take another little
break here if I don't. If I don't, I'll get
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Treaty Oak. That's exactly right. I'm so glad this is
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Treaty Oak is a developer, and Treaty Oak Development has

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home sites from one and a half to more than
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to bigger lakes around there. If you want to bring
your boat up and take it out somewhere, there's a
little I'm sure there's I'm sure there's water on the

(01:41:49):
property somewhere. I haven't asked, but i'd bet there is.
And even if there's not, your only minutes from all
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whichever you want to do. It's your land. Buy two
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dot com is the website. Whitetail Ranch tx dot com.
Nine twenty one on Sports Talk seven to ninety The
Duckpike Show. Thank you for listening. I got an email
that really it kind of made me smile. Let me
go back to it. Hang on one second, I want
to go to the cent because I just sent him
something back to Yeah, this was from Russell. Uh Russell.

(01:42:58):
I think he's out in Katie. It's kind of hard
to tell, but that's something in his thing.

Speaker 8 (01:43:02):
He sent me.

Speaker 1 (01:43:05):
Morning Doug. I'm literally laughing out loud about the aliens,
and my wife came downstairs to see what I was
talking about. Those long fingers back lash year my reel.
That was pretty funny, I said back to him. That
made me smile. Makes no sense to travel across the
universe to explore a bucket of dust. If they come here,
they'll never go back. Probably gonna radio home.

Speaker 3 (01:43:27):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:43:28):
Yeah, uh, this is me. I'm on Earth.

Speaker 5 (01:43:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:43:31):
Uh. The spaceship's blown a gasket. I'm not gonna be
able to come back. I'm gonna have to stay here
on Earth.

Speaker 2 (01:43:37):
Darn it.

Speaker 1 (01:43:38):
It's horrible. Tell the rest of everybody to just not
come here. There's nothing to do. He'll have it all
to himself. All those fish, all those deer got just
gotta assimilate. That's all you gotta do. Just gotta just say,
look here I am. I'm not from around this planet.

(01:43:58):
I'm from somewhere else, but I like what I see here.
I'd like to stay. How do I stay here lawfully?
That'll be a question at some point sometime that's probably
going to be answered or asked at least somewhere a
bazillion jillion miles from here. It's fascinating. Space fascinates at me,
it really does. I'm gonna take a minute to talk

(01:44:19):
about that. And there's something else I think that the
James Webb James Webb telescope recently captured that I'm going
to go look at during the next break. I'd forgotten
to do it yesterday or maybe Thursday when the story broke,
and I'm gonna go figure it out. It's just remarkable
what's out there, and we're getting photographs. We know it's there,

(01:44:43):
we know it's real, but we have no technology at whatsoever,
at least that we know of you and I that
would get us out there to go see that. It
would just take too long, and we don't have ways
to feed and water ourselves ourselves. But they're working on it.

(01:45:03):
Baby steps. Man, we're going to go to the Moon
a few times, apparently in the next couple of years,
and then the Mars mission is there's a race to
be first to do that one. But man, that's gonna
be a long bus ride, huh. Being a essentially put
you in a something the size of a studio, apartment, bathroom,

(01:45:27):
and rocket ship you into outer space and then once
you get out of Earth's gravity, hit a booster behind
you that fires you out there at the speed of
light almost and it's it's still going to take a
long time. And this is all the stuff that's just
celestially speaking, this is all the stuff that's just in

(01:45:48):
our backyard. Mars is like walking to the curb when
you live in Texas, So it's gonna be a lot.
You and I well, I anyway, don't know how young
you are. Anybody younger than me is going to see
more than I see obviously, uh in their lifetime. But
it just does fascinate me. And it doesn't It doesn't

(01:46:09):
take away anything from my faith either, it really doesn't.
But there's there's got to be more out there. I
think it'd be. I'd be foolish to think there's nothing
else out there after all of these these solar systems,
in these these universes that well, the these systems of

(01:46:31):
billions and billions of stars. It's kind of arrogant, actually
to think that we're the only one that can support
life of any form. And I we'll see seven one
three two seven ninety. Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia
dot com and hey, if in the meantime, I think
we got the best planet on the block and we've

(01:46:53):
got all we need. If we can ever stop fighting
each other over it, that'd be pretty good. And I
think that's gonna come to an end. I think there's
gonna be a nice long stretch piece here before too long.
We'll get that taken care of it. We can all
get back to what we like to do. All of
us can. I'm looking forward to it anyway. Hey, I'll

(01:47:13):
tell you what. Let me go back to I want
to go back to the pier and jetty fishing thing
a little bit and talk about etiquette too, because there
are a lot of people who fish those peers and
jetties on this coast of ours and in the bays.
To some degree, the bay piers don't tend to produce
regularly like the coastal piers and even the little rock

(01:47:37):
groins in the bay systems wherever they may be, they'll
produce fish. Don't get me wrong, any structure will. But
you just you just don't get the same experience you
get on a like say on the ninetieth Street pier.
I've caught really big fish off that thing. Of course,
I didn't catch a tarp and I hooked the tarpain there.

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I hooked one at the Saint Louis Pass one night
on a full moon night. It was beautiful watch that
thing come out and just shower water all through that moonlight. Beautiful,
beautiful fish way out there and unforgettable. But if you're
out there with all those other people, you got to
do it right or you're gonna tick somebody off, and

(01:48:18):
you don't want to do that. You don't want to
muscle in shoulder to shoulder with other guys throwing lures.
Give them a little room at least now there have
been occasions. There were occasions on the old said Luis Passpier,
which was a great trout spot, absolutely beautify. I'd rather
they built that, rebuilt that than built the rollover pass Pier,

(01:48:40):
to be perfectly honest, If they rebuilt that sand Luis
Passpier to stand hurricanes, that would produce fish through the
end of time. Unfortunately it's not there anymore. But yeah,
sometimes the fish were just in a certain area and
everybody would kind of gather around. But then most of

(01:49:00):
the time we didn't even cast overhand because there might
be somebody walking behind you. And what we would do
is lean over the railing and kind of pendulum or
lure underneath the railing and underneath the pier a little
bit actually, and then sling it out underhanded. Got it,

(01:49:21):
got the same distance out of it, got the same
ability to catch fish out of it, but nobody was
getting torn up in the process. You don't want to
cross other people's lines. Speaking of if you are not
a good caster, and you tend to throw a little
side arm instead of straight overhead. You need to go
back to some neighborhood pond and learn to cast straight

(01:49:42):
overhead so that you don't hit anybody and you don't
sling your line across everybody else's and tangle up five
lines on your way back in. That's kind of a
no no as well. You're I don't have a problem
at all with somebody asking me questions when I'm out
there at all. It's fine. Ask me all the questions
you want, but then don't don't think you're my new

(01:50:04):
best friend and you can kind of take over my
spot while we chat. If I'm standing there and I'm
catching a fish every now and then and you're not,
you can come ask me why, and if you're if
you're really nice about it, I'll cut the lure off
my line and give it to you and find something
else in my box to throw, Because if that lure
is already producing for me, I know it works. I'll

(01:50:25):
accept the challenge of finding something else that does and
give you the one that'll maybe catch you your first
trout of the day. I have no problem with that.
Go if you ask your questions and then wander off
for a little while and then maybe come back and say, hey,
you mind if I fish close to you a little bit,
I won't mind. I won't mind at all. Somebody needs

(01:50:46):
help land in a big fish, you offer them help
land in that big fish. Now, if they lose that fish,
you go ahead and say you're sorry, even if it's
their fault and you know it, if they did something stupid,
if they put too much pressure on the line, uh,
if they banged their rod tip into the rocks or
something like that, and you know it's their fault the

(01:51:07):
fish got off, just still tell them you're sorry. Oh man,
I'm so sorry that fish got away. You don't have
to explain. You don't have to. Don't blame them, and
you certainly don't have to blame yourself if you know
it wasn't your fault. And if it was your fault,
hey man, that's fishing. If I asked somebody to help
me land a fish and that person makes a mistake,
well that's okay, I lost a fish. It's not the

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end of the world. It's really not all right. One
more time, I am going to remind this audience of
mind that Houston Gold Exchange is they're waiting for you.
And by Houston Gold Exchange, I made Brad Schweiss, this
guy I've known forever. He's a great outdoorsman, big CCA
supporters on their board for a long time, a plus

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ready with the Better Business Bureau. He is going to
be as honest as honest can be with you about
exactly what you have and how much it's worth. Still
at a tremendously high price, and you can still get
a whole lot if you can round up a little
bit of scrap gold. I think you will be pleasantly
surprised at how much that is worth. If you're not,

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you'd go scrape up a little bit more. It doesn't
take much right now to gather up thousands of dollars.
So if that's laying around your house, pick it up
and take it over there. He's at West Timer and
Darry Ashford has been for forty something years. Website is
Houston Gooldexchange dot com. But more importantly he as He's

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told me to please tell them my cell phone number.
Let him know I'm gonna answer unless I'm on the
other line, and if I'm on the other line, leave
your number. And he'll call you back. I promise you
he will. He's ready when you are to help you
make a little extra cash. Or if you want to
buy now, if you think gold's bottomed out, ask him,
call him see if he thinks it's bottomed out, and

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maybe it's a good time for you to buy some.
He'll let you know, and he won't pull your leg
straight shooter from one end to the other. Two eight
one eight five one three nine five five two eight
one eight five one three nine five five. The NRA
is coming back to Houston. They will be here April
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that's the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown. Fourteen
acres of the latest guns and gear. Fourteen acres of
this stuff, thousands of different guns, full product lines from
all the major manufacturers. There is no other show that
gives you this much access to this much hardware for

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enjoying the shooting sports. There's nothing else like it in
the entire world. And it'll be right here in Houston
in the middle of April. Three day passes just thirty
five bucks. But if you are a member of the NRA,
or if you are a family of NRA, then guess
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all weekend. There's educational seminars. They got banquet schedule, there's receptions.
Sunday is Youth Day. There's a concert on Saturday the
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you need to be there. Freedom filled weekend for the
whole family. Get your tickets now. Nraexpo dot com is

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the website, nrxpo dot com. Nine thirty six on Sports
Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show. Thank you for listening.
I certainly do appreciate it. Dan Wade in, I'll be
first volunteer for the mission to Mars. Oh Dan, Dan,
we need you here on Earth, buddy. Yeah, they don't

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need a comedian on Mars. Now, the hard working part
of you they might enjoy having up there and the
ability to fix the spaceship if there's any kind of
any kind of an issue. Yeah, they'd be glad to
have you. But otherwise I'd prefer that you stick around here. Okay, seventh, Well,

(01:55:04):
now I'm not going to give up the phone number
right now. We have a little glitch again. That's worked
its way somehow into the got it that not working?
That's this is Yeah, that's the Creek keyboard. That's the
one you're looking for. We got like nineteen keyboards in
here and monitors and all that good stuff. Drum roll please,

(01:55:24):
we might get it back. Oh man, if you're calling
right now, hang tight. Frankie is working feverishly and I
do mean feverishly to get this thing buttoned up. And
he thinks you can drag that picture of you down

(01:55:45):
into this screen if you want, so it's out of
your way. Okay, you're good. TikTok, TikTok, TikTok, TikTok. In
the meantime, I'm gonna go back to the the Texas children. No,
you know what I need to do right now. What
I need to do first of all is fix what
he just did. And I'm gonna put this here stand by.

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I need five seconds. I'm gonna go back to the
the PGA Tour golf tournament that is ongoing now, and
that would be the vow Spar Championship over there at Innisbruck.
It's close to Tampa. It's northwest of Tampa, which is
northwest Tampa's on the west coast and on the east coast.

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If you go southeast from Tampa, you're gonna hit West
Palm basically the Palm Beaches, which is where they were
what last week. Copperhead is giving these guys a run
for their money, it really is. I'm trying to get
to the dog on score board. Come on, this thing
is really frustrating me. I want to see the scores

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and it won't pop them up for me for some reason.
Here we go, finally, thank you so much. Got phone problems.
I got my own little laptop problems. Sun Ya, who
I mentioned in the conversation with Brian White leading that
tournament at nine under par through two rounds, and at
that pace, let's call the winner. Let's see there's a nine,

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David Lipski's at eight, Doug Gimmon Chandler Blanchett at seven,
Marco Peng is it penghe penge? I'm not sure he
Matt Fitzpatrick, Jordan Smith, Alex Smalley, and Brant Snedeker all
at five, and then there are as many or more
people at four. Tony Fenales in that group. So as

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Brook Kopka, I'm glad to see him back on the
PGA Tour. All of those guys have a shot at it,
and I'm gonna pick a winning number for that tournament
at about eighteen. No, no, no, no, take that back.
I'm gonna go to sixteen on this one, sixteen on
this one, but only about twelve or thirteen on the

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TCCHO the Texas Children Houston's Open next week, because our
golf course is gonna to really shine and show potential
how potentially tough it can be when the conditions are
fast and firm. That's a hard thing to deal with,
fast and firm, even for the pros. They don't like

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those hard greens. They need something a little cushy where
they can put that ball in a specific spot and
spin it back if they want to, let it just
hit and die if they want to, but not when
they're firm. Like that be like kind of well, that
would be too extreme. I'm gonna say it would be
like hitting it onto a sidewalk almost. The greens are

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gonna repel those balls there. It's gonna bounce, It's gonna
bounce big and hard, and they're gonna roll off the
backs of some of those greens. They're they're gonna be
a couple of balls that end up rolling into the water. Uh. Yeah,
they're gonna have their hands full. So let's go back
to Ennisbrook and look again real quickly. I want to
find out where some of the names there are. Tony

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Fenwes at four I mentioned to Force, there's let's see
who do I want to know? Oh, there's Jordan Spieth trying.
He's trying to be somebody again, dog going it. He's
three under. He's not exactly out of the event with
thirty six holes to play, but he's got a big
hill to climb, and increasingly he's having trouble climbing those hills.

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I don't know why.

Speaker 8 (01:59:25):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:59:25):
Nikolai Hoyguard also at three under?

Speaker 2 (01:59:29):
Who else?

Speaker 1 (01:59:29):
David Skins? We hadn't heard a lot from him in
a while, but he's he's at three. Patrick can't lay
at three? Billy Horschell, who else? Let's go down to
the bottom and see who who's hurting now? Is Xander
Schaffel's only at two. Let's go to the bottom and
see who missed the cut and buy it. By the way,

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I don't mean any disrespect to any PGA Tour player,
just for missing a cut, because any one of those
guys on any day could come out and probably play
with clubs of the opposite hand and beat us. They're
that good. I've played golf with a lot of those guys,
and they are just so much better even than what

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you see in their tournaments. Because tournament play, they have
to be professional, they have to try to avoid making
little mistakes. And when they're out there playing on their
own ball and just having fun, oh man, they can
do things with golf balls that you and I can
only dream. Oh man, this is pretty good field, pretty

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good field. There's some of these guys I wouldn't have
expected to miss a cut. But again, like I've talked
about with people like Scottie Scheffler, sometimes when they don't
perform well on a given week, it may mean that
there's something going on at home that's bothering them. It
may mean that there's something they're trying out with a

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new little tweak to a swing. That's what I gotta
go do again this afternoon, is go practice my putting
or I'm not going to be worth a darn on Monday.
That's my own personal prison I'm in right now. Mercy sakes,
let's go ahead and take this last break. I want
to get out on time and see if I can
help Frankie with whatever's going on in his world over there.

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Phoenix Knives boy, you talk about saving the best for last, Cowboys.
Emanski's been in Belleville on Main Street, right down the
street from you know where where you get your lunch
at dinner since nineteen seventy nine. He's been there. He's
in a bigger space than he was a few years ago,
and that's allowed him I had interviewed him last week.

(02:01:37):
That's allowed him to put a lot more people in
there to help build knives. He has knives in there
from I want to say, I don't know two three,
four dozen different makers. Maybe it's more than that. I
can't really remember offhand, but I know it's hundreds, if
not close to a thousand knives of all different sizes
and shapes and configurations. Whatever you need a knife, four

(02:02:01):
he's got them in that store. I'm pretty sure he
also still takes care of people who want to come
out and learn to build their own knife.

Speaker 8 (02:02:09):
Said.

Speaker 1 (02:02:10):
It takes about a half an hour, and there's almost
always somebody on staff in there who can stop what
he or she is doing and then take you guys
back into the place where the metal is heated and
banged out with hammers and ambles and all that good stuff.
Take you about twenty minutes to build your own knife.

(02:02:31):
You can take it home with you. Phoenix Knives dot
Com is the website. They also, by the way, have
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walk around with Cowboy for a day or so, maybe two,
maybe a whole weekend, and really truly learned from one
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Phoenix Knives dot com is the website. P h n
I X Phoenix Knife. All right, welcome back almost nine
to fifty on Sports Talk seven ninety nine to fifty.
Significant because that is the station on which I air
fifty plus on Well Live Tuesday through Friday. And then

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my producer Will Melbourne puts up a recorded version from
this past week and that seems to work out very well.
It gives me one day off a week, which I
greatly appreciate. I want to go back a little bit
to the wildflower thing, Okay, because I did a little

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I did a little looking during the break to find
out exactly what the law is in Texas about wildflowers
and whether or not you can just rip them up
by the roots and take them home. Thanks to AI,
here's what I've got. It is generally not illegal to
pick wildflowers, including blue bonnets, on public land in Texas,

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but it is unlawful to pick them on private property
without permission or inside state parks. State parks, no, no,
you do not want to pick wall flowers there. It's
not illegal. On public road sides. It is highly discouraged though,
to damage them, as they must go to seed to

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bloom again next spring. So takeaways private property, No, you
gotta have permission, considered trespassing by the way, and that
if the owner's just sick and tired of people coming
into his land and picking flowers or her land, yeah,
you could get in trouble for that, and it could

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cost you a lot of money. State parks also against
the law to pick, cut, or destroy any plant life
within Texas state park grounds. So think about that the
next time y'all wonder in state parks where bow hunting
is allowed, I wonder what the ruling would be about

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trying to maybe trim some limbs so you could to
create some shooting lanes. I guess by the letter of
the law it would be against the law, so keep
that in mind. From public roadways, it says, while you
cannot be arrested simply for picking flowers, damaging the scenic
beauty on state maintained rights of way is discouraged. Yeah,

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And then parking on the highways to pick flowers A
lot of dangerous stuff involved there, and it also might
lead to a traffic violation somehow. It's advised not to
destroy the plants again, it says, so they can return
next year. That's from the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association.
That little fun fact to know and tell. Instead, it

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offers from the desk of Captain, obvious photography is highly encouraged.
That was that was the bone thrown into this mix
by the ladybird John and said wildflower Center. So you
could pick them if you want a few, maybe something
to take home to put in a little vase for

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a few days and admire. But don't just go through
there and yank them up by the roots and fill
a bushel basket full of blue bonnets or whatever. Flower
that's just unnecessary, and it's really it kind of takes
away from Texas pride. I think we take great pride

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in our wildflowers in this state, and for anybody to
be out there just ripping them up by the roots,
that's bad. And by the way, there is the security
patrol that's always in those wildflower patches. They have no legs,
they have no arms, but they will bite you if
you step on them. And that would be the wide

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variety of snakes that we have in Texas now at
this point in spring, with these dex five or six
days of eighty plus degree mid eighties weather, the forecast
actually came down a couple of degrees. By the way,
there were I think two of these next four or
five days that were actually kind of tickling the chin

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of the high eighties and maybe some places we're going
to get to ninety. But those have been brought back down,
all of them. I look at on the forecast that
I checked most off and seems to be most accurate.
Everything's down to that eighty five range now, so it
won't just be blistering out there, but that's you're going

(02:07:31):
to get the snakes moving and the alligators by the way,
walking the banks as I was yesterday for a little while.
One time I scared the bejeepers out of an alligator,
and one time an alligator kind of caught me off guard.
The first time when the one caught me off guard,

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I really wasn't paying attention this thing was. It was
on the bank, no question, because I saw the splash
it made when it jumped in, and I had accidentally
gotten to within about I don't know, maybe ten twelve
feet of this thing. And I think at this point,
coming out of hibernation like they're doing, they're still pretty jumpy,
and they don't remember that they're bigger and badder than people.

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Nobody's scared of them, and they're scared of us right
now to a tremendous degree. I mean, that thing when
it saw me it I didn't see it yet. It
just absolutely took off. And then a little later I
saw one and I wanted to go take a picture
of it to send to a friend of mine up
north who absolutely is scared to death of alligators. And

(02:08:40):
I actually I put the sun behind me. I got
myself between the sun and the alligator so he couldn't
see me. Really he'd just be blinded by the sun.
And I got to maybe maybe thirty feet no closer,
and I guess it felt my little tippy toe, soft

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spiked golf shoes touching the ground. I don't know how
or why it realized I was there, but it shot
out of a cannon and got into that lake and
rolled out about twelve to fifteen yards and then popped
his little head up to see who in the heck
I was and why I was in his space. He
was clearly scared of little old me. If he knew

(02:09:23):
who I was and how capable I was of fighting
a seven foot alligator, he probably wouldn't even have gotten
off his feet. He just roll up and chunk my
leg off or something. All Right, the music means we're
done for today. I hope you all enjoyed the show.

Speaker 2 (02:09:38):
I truly do.

Speaker 1 (02:09:39):
More participation from you is always welcome around here. I
love hearing from new callers too. If you've never called
the show, but you've listened a long time, just call
me tomorrow and tell me that. And by the way,
I've got some tickets coming up for that NRA show,
and I'll sort out the details and make sure I
know what I'm doing before I give him away. But
we'll find a good way to do that. And maybe

(02:10:01):
if you're not a member yet and you can't get
in free, maybe I can get you in free. All right,
that's gonna do it for today. Get outside, enjoy this weather. Boys.
It's not gonna last forever, you know that, but we've
got a good week of it coming up. I'm happy
for the Houston, the Texas children. Houston's open. I gotta stop.
I'll see you tomorrow. Audios