A Great Autumn Day for the Outdoors

Originally aired on September 28th, 2025. On this episode, Doug speaks to golf travel expert and guide Art Stricklin about the continung Ryder Cup, takes caller questions about places to fish this time of year, and much. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Sunday morning edition of the program starts right now,
and boy have things changed since yesterday? Well, I don't
know if it depends on what you consider change and
whether you want to limit it to just positive or
just negative or a mix of both. Really nice morning,
though across most of the states. And by that really,

(00:25):
I just I mean every square mile. And I'm not
just guessing when I say there's got to be a
cloud or two somewhere. I've lived in this state long
enough to know that it has I don't know, half
a dozen different ecological systems and its own weather patterns.
We are we lest anyone who's fairly new to Texas forget.

(00:49):
Our state is bigger than most countries in the world.
It's a big old state, and there's always something weird
going on, but dog gone and it felt really good
when I walked out the door this morning. And that's
the part I have to worry about. From my house
to this place today, where I'm going this afternoon, where
I'm going tonight, and that's about all I can work with,

(01:12):
so checking as many boxes as I can in a
single run on sentence. Today is another great autumn day
to go fishing. Or hunt doves, the last day of
teal season, second day of bo season, merciful end of
what's almost inevitable at the Ryder Cup, barring ten miraculous

(01:33):
rounds at Bethpage Black, the day the Oh and three
Texans play the Titans at noon, and the first day
in nine years when nobody's using the words astros and
playoffs in the same sentence.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
But me, I guess I just did that.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Injury riddled journey sadly really ended last night. I just
kept hoping and hoping that these guys would find a
way to pull it out. But they didn't. And granted
the Astros. Astros performed incredibly, incredibly well all season, given
that they lost so many players to injuries for so

(02:11):
very long. Jordan Oolverez only Alvarez only played like fifty
something games a third of the entire season. That's a
big stick to have out of your lineup for two
thirds of the season. It's just impossible when you stack
it all up, and stack it all up in theory,

(02:31):
I think if you if you suit it up all
the Astros who were on the IL this year, you
would have a really competitive major league roster in your pocket.
You'd have half a dozen starting pitchers, any of whom
could have eased over to the to the bullpen. You'd
have an incredible closer on your squad in Josh Hater,
who spent basically the back half of the year just

(02:55):
kind of not able to go.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
And it's tough, it really was. And quickly back to
the rider cut.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
By the way, We're going to talk to Art Strickland
in a little while, somewhere between eight thirty and nine o'clock.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
I think I'll get him on the phone and let him.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Do a post mortem on this one, hopefully before the
Europeans finish us off for good.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
I've still got this.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Blurry vision in my head of the most miraculous comeback
in all of sports. It's just dancing in my head
every time I think about it. But Dead Dancer has
developed a really bad limp right now. I just don't
see it happening. I don't see how we can do it,
which brings us logically back to the out of doors,

(03:35):
which is what we cover so usually this time of
morning on a Sunday, and I want to talk a
little bit about because there is some negative stuff going
on around us now.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Teal season was good, but it wasn't great dove season.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Actually, I've seen more pictures of dead doves on the
hoods of pickups and the tails of pickups and at
tables at hunting camps and all of that enough to
last quite a while from this season's run.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
And it was expected.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
We have what the Parks of Widlife Department called a
record number of doves in the state this year, So
why not have some good hunts. But by and large,
I'm just gonna you know what I'm gonna do. Hold on,
I've gotten so I've gotten a little bit discombobulated because
there's so much I want to talk about today. I've
got to I've got to become more orderly for Frankie,

(04:28):
I really do. And it's I just have so much,
so many things pulling me in so many different directions.
Sometimes it's a little bit difficult. Let's stick with the outdoors, though,
and let's slide away from hunting for just a minute.
And I know everything's opening up as fast as we
can flip a page. Every time you turn the calendar,
some season opens up. But fishing is in the fall

(04:51):
is some of the best you'll ever find. Faux pro
calls yesterday and tells us about being on. I promise
you I wouldn't name the lake because it's still pretty
coqu I'll tell you this. He lives up close to
Lake Livingston, but it's not Lake Livingston, and it's not
not a super far drive. It's a drive that he
can comfortably make for an easy day trip. And that's

(05:11):
about all I can tell you unless he wants to
come on and give more information. But he tripped over
bass schooling, like I recall going on up at Fayette
County and it's heyday when Gene Ballard and Rick Rule
and I were fishing up there a lot together and
he just I think he said he quit counting at
eighty five or he stopped fishing at eighty five fish.

(05:33):
And this is just him in the boat by himself,
just having an incredible day catching bass.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
That's gonna go on for a good while.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
It's actually just getting started as the weather changes, and
it's just gonna keep going because he's fished now. As
the days get shorter and the temperatures drop, the water
temperare is gonna drop. They know that winter's coming, and
they know that they need to fatten up for the
spawn and to make it through winter. They've got to

(06:04):
prepare their bodies to get through all whatever adversity nature
throws their way. This time, I'm still trying to figure out.
There's been no definitive finding out where that Lake eye
fish got a horrible fish kill about three weeks ago now,
and nobody. Nobody has come out and said what it is.

(06:25):
I think I know who to ask, and I'll try
to find that guy. I'm going to probably go over
there this afternoon and work on some things before I
play tomorrow morning. And I think if I can find
this guy, he's one of the grounds crew guys, and
I bet you he knows, and I'm sure he'd tell me.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
There's no reason not to.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
It's it's not the end of the world when the
facility is there for golf, But man, the fishing there
is such a nice little perk.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
It really is.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
It's a nice little extra and everybody who does it
there is very aware that it's a golf first and
fishing second, so you're not gonna stumb up. We used
to have kids walking onto that course all the time,
and they got so bold about doing it. I didn't
really want to run them off, but I would instruct

(07:14):
them because that's I did a lot of that when
I was an early teenager. That's where I learned to
do a lot of my fishing was on country club lakes.
And I would just say, look, wait until late, it's
gonna be better fishing anyway, and stay off the golf
course as best you can, go behind tea boxes, not
alongside fairways to do this, that and the other.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
And it just really it kind of.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Reached a tipping point for the consideration those young people
were being given.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
It did for me anyway, when I saw four of.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Them, two guys and two girls, walk across a fairway
coming out of the neighborhood. They walked across the fairway
carrying enough tackle to do all the fishing they wanted
to do for the next year and a half. Plus
they had a little ice chest, plus they had a

(08:08):
little blanket, and they just set up shop right along
the edge of the fairway. That's not the way to
endear yourself with the members of a club. There's another
guy that I bumped into several times out there.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
He was almost like a ninja.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
I mean, he would you'd never seen anywhere where a
golfer might be, but he always had been catching fish.
I talk to him every time I saw him. He'd
always been catching him and he and I shared some
ideas on when and where and how to do it,
and he he knew what he was doing, and he
knew to stay out of the way. And he probably
still fishes out there. I just still see seven one

(08:44):
three two one two five seven ninety. Email me Dougpike
at iHeartMedia dot com. I apologize. I haven't checked my
email yet at all.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
This morning. I was I was on time getting here.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
I can't. I can't excuse it say I'm being I
was late. Uh Okay, I got that weather. Oh poor Dan,
Oh this is that's a tough way to be right now.
He's just waiting for the dude to burn off so
he can mow. I that's not It's not like you're

(09:15):
waiting for somebody to deliver a birthday cake. Okay, just
just kind of why don't you just kind of quietly
cross your fingers and hope that that duce stays there
for quite some time. There's no way I'd be out
mowing a wet lawn either. I understand that, Dan, but
dang man, you're that's yeah, you got more to look

(09:36):
forward to today than that. Man.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
You're you're a grown man.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, you're just living, living your life and working again
and doing all the things you need to do. Uh yeah,
good luck with that mowing too. By the way, if
you got any energy left, bring it more over to
my house.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
That'd be great. I appreciate that I've got that done.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
By the way, the Trump tropics still hanging on, still
not wanting to leave us alone.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Fortunately for us. For the Texas.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Bunch here, I'll hold on bringing that back up. Did
I close that entire window? No, tell me it's not.
So there's what I'm looking for right there. I want
to go to the National Hurricane Center map and check
out where all these things were going. The Yea umberto
see you later, umberto Gabrielle long gone.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
And then this system number nine is it?

Speaker 1 (10:35):
If you look at it in the short term, it's like,
holy cow, this thing's gonna just clabor the East coast,
but it's gonna stay far enough off shore.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
I think that it's not really gonna be a big deal.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
And then once it gets up to about northern Florida,
somewhere between a little even south of the Florida Georgia line.
It's gonna hang a right and just roll right back
into the Atlantic Ocean.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Curtis.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
See of this big high pressure system we've got bringing
us cooler temperatures. Everybody gets a break off this front,
and I'm glad to have it. Frankly, by the way,
at some point, I think I'm gonna bring in bring
back the Texas temperature game. Frankie, you're not even aware
of that, are you? No, we talked about it, did

(11:20):
we owe? Your camera is frozen, by the way. Oh yeah,
just you could use that if you were gonna, if
you were gonna like put that in a resume or something,
you could use that as your pictures. Yeah, I'm a
radio guy. It just looks so formal, and it's got
just enough logo and just enough of you, and it's

(11:41):
it's actually cropped fairly well. When the camera froze, we'll
have to look at that when when we get a
break somewhere.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
All right, let's take this first break and move forward.
I got a hunt.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
There's still some guys out there trying to scratch out
a trying to scratch out a limited teal. If you
had many people in your blind this morning, it might
have been kind of tough.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
They kind of scattered out some late, and I'm hearing
that there weren't that many. You know, a lot of
times until season you get some really big groups that'll
help you get a real quick limit. And if you've
got a lot of guys in the blind, you get
four or five big groups, you can you can stack
them up pretty quickly. But I'm not hearing much of

(12:23):
that this year. And if you've had that this season,
where you are, I'd love to know where you are
and love to hear how the hunt went.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Well, take a little break here on.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
The way out. Tee it up for Kobe Stevens Golf Apparel.
Outdoors apparel sizes for everybody really, from little bitty kids
all the way up to four X, and they have
fantastic designs. Even if you're not a great golfer, you'll
you'll certainly look better walking up to that first t
in Kobe Stevens gear.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
You look better on the range. People will think you're pro.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
I honest to goodness, one time I was out there
practicing at black Hawk and I had on Kobe Stevens
gear and I was walking back to my cart to
go over to the putting green or go fish or
whatever I was gonna do, and a man and his
son were walking onto the range at the same time,
and this guy.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Goes, are you one of the pros here, like.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
Kind of somewhat embarrassed because clearly he hadn't seen me
make more than one, maybe two swings. Said no, no, no,
I just like I just like cool clothes. And we
got kind of jokingly and fundly talking about Kobe Stevens,
which I'm doing now, men's apparel, women's apparel, kids apparel,
all the sizes, like I said, a wonderful selection of

(13:37):
very contemporary, very cool golf apparel.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Kobe Stevens dot com is the website.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Don't expect Steve go expect Kobe to be at the
store if you go up there, because most of the
days that I talked to him, he's at a tournament
somewhere helping people raise money for charity. That's just he
gives back to the community like nobody's business. Kobe Stevens
died com is that website. C B Y ste v
E N S. Kobe Stevens dot com. All right, welcome back,

(14:09):
eight nineteen on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dug Pike Show.
Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. Let's
go all the way up to Lake Conroe and talk
to guitar Day. Let me get this mouse over here, Dave.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
What's going on up there?

Speaker 3 (14:22):
Man?

Speaker 4 (14:24):
Well, the waters come. I just I just seen two
guys they wouldn't even like at the front of the dock.
Here was the back of the n zone. They were
probably on the twenty yard line over there, and caught
a seven pound.

Speaker 5 (14:34):
Bass right in front of me.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
Get out of here.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
I saw.

Speaker 4 (14:38):
Oh, I'm dead serious because I saw him pick it
up and they had it on the weight scale and
all that, and they let it go back.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Well, that's what people do. What's very interesting. Excuse me
quick sidebar. It's very interesting that bass had been elevated
to such stature that if you catch a bass and
you take it over the cleaning table, you might get
run out of town.

Speaker 4 (14:59):
But you ain't kidding.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Redfish, speckled trout there.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
I don't know of any other fish anywhere that gets
that much respect and that much pampering. If a bass
dies in your presence, you you you might as well
just leave town.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
Yeah, you know what. And they're a great catch, man.
They are hard to catch too, that's why they call
them a large mouth black bassy, but real quick on it.
And if there's any astros listening out there, hey man,
we appreciate everything y'all did. And then you know, thank
y'all for what y'all did. And then hey, come down
here and hang out with us over here lake conrade

(15:37):
and kick back and relax till next season. Get our
barriers together on the Texans.

Speaker 5 (15:44):
On the Texans.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
You know, uh, they were playing the Titans today, So
there's nothing to say that we can't win every game
for the rest of the season.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
Well, there's a.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Lot of people who had a lot of confidence in
the Texans coming into this season and to after the
first game, I asked Chris Hodge, I says, there anything
to worry about now, He'll be fine. They'll take care
of business. And all of a sudden, we blink and
we're zero to three.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
Yeah. But I mean remember we were five and five
and got in on a wild card and be the
ten and O team when I was a sophomore, you know,
in high school, and we want hey, and but another
thing in the local paper over here. I'm leaving. It's
a courier. I saw an article in there. Uh it
says a fish killed on Lake Conroe. And they have

(16:33):
a picture of Bird Island. Now I'm not sure where
that is on here, But then it looks like a
bunch of them big What are the birds that you
don't like to kill?

Speaker 5 (16:43):
Fish?

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Cormorants?

Speaker 4 (16:45):
Yeah, they eat well, it looked like a bunch of
them there, And I think I mentioned to you before
I've seen.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
Some over here.

Speaker 4 (16:56):
They were not laid. They look like they may have
got hit by blades, you know of boat blades, Yeah,
you know, something like that. But there was a big
article and it was all half page article in there.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
So have you seen any any dead fish where you're fishing?

Speaker 4 (17:13):
That's all I'm saying. I've got a few of them
that come over here that look like.

Speaker 6 (17:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
But remember remember when we were talking that one day
and you got them speedboats over here coming through, you know,
and they were having a race over here or something.
From where I'm at, it's about a football field link
away right before you get to the houses on the
other side where the channel is, you know, and you

(17:41):
have to run down that channel. And another real quick
thing I you know, talk about do not ski up
in the second, first, second, or third jungle because then
you know those stumps they are only about six inches
or sometimes one foot below the water. And then I've
had to flag people down up there, you know and

(18:03):
tell them, hey, man, no, don't don't. You ought to
not be skiing here, man, because you can't see what's
right there below you and you'll get hurt.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Yeah, that's spoof.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
You know.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
I hate seeing people skiing where I know there are stumps.

Speaker 4 (18:16):
You know, Hey, when you come out of that boat
launch over there that I'm talking about, the Cago boat launch. Uh,
you got to keep going straight and then you got
to do your triangular stuff. Go straight, then look over
and then find the other deal. And then that's thirteen
seventy five bridge that right you've had under Then you
got to find a channel. And then if you if

(18:37):
you just try to cut straight through, you're going to
lose your lower unit. You know, even if you're just
or knocking prop off, you know.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Something's gonna happen. Something not good is gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (18:49):
Yeah, right, and it costs you. It used to be
three hundred dollars. It costs you about ten thousand dollars now,
you know, just for a prop.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Oh gosh, yeah, boats have just gotten out of control.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
That's six figures to buy a significant bay boat, something
that is super hip, super cool and all that. You're
looking at, one hundred plus electronics, plus maybe an upgraded
motor just so you can keep up with the Joneses
down the street and all of that stuff. It's it's pretty.
It's it's not a I don't know. I'd be perfectly comfortable.

(19:23):
I don't have a boat right now, but I'd be
perfectly comfortable with something kind of under the radar, you know.

Speaker 7 (19:29):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
I don't want something super fancy. I don't have to
go ninety miles an hour on a boat either. I'm
not a big fan of that.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
No, No, as soon as I as soon as I can,
you know, I'm going to pay you this vehicle I
got off now, then I'm going to get a truck,
and then I'm going to go up to the farm
and get my nineteen seventy two lelgen looing them from
ball from Sears and Row Books. Well, I bought one
hundred dollars on the side of the road. But my
dad's got one up there too. It's win to it. Why,

(19:56):
that's what we first started fishing on. Can Uh. It's
got or deals over there with oars and put them
on there and just slide it off the back of
the truck. Put it in there. Make sure you've got
my life jacket. Only get in there and just roll
out like where them guys were.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
You know, Hey, man, I got to run talk to Aaron,
get him in before the break here.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
But thank you for calling Dave.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
No, God bless that's cool out.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
I know it's got to feel good. I'll come see
you sometime.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
All right, let me get TikTok, TikTok. Where is it there?

Speaker 3 (20:32):
It is?

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Hey, Aaron?

Speaker 2 (20:34):
What's up?

Speaker 3 (20:34):
Man? Hey, good morning? How are you?

Speaker 2 (20:37):
I'm good?

Speaker 3 (20:38):
Yeah, it sounds like you talk David. He's that uh
that that little uh wheel you sent me about. Hey,
we got a house, we got a couch baby, we
got a boat.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yes, sir, Yeah, I know that funny.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
You know you said when you got pregnant that we
got pregnant, and when you bought a house, we bought
a house.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
Well we just bought a boat like that.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yeah, yes, sir, I'm looking at the first snowfall of
the year. Only yeah, yeah, it came down. It's it's
melted off, but man, it was a beautiful sight to
see from about sixty one here snowing up there. We're
heading up there to knock out a little job this
morning and then back to back to South Texas. Good

(21:24):
yea yeah, man, it's so do I hit the bait
or do I hit the surfa?

Speaker 1 (21:29):
You know, it's all as the weather starts to cool
off Aeron, it's all going to be pretty good. The
surf is kind of kind of I think it'll kind
of fizzle away, but I don't know how quickly. I
got a picture yesterday from a guy I met on
the jetties a few weeks ago, and we struck up
a conversation and talked about how each of us fishes

(21:49):
it and whatnot. And I like what he's doing. And
I'll tell you maybe if you call me later today.
All right, But the surf I think is still to
be warm enough, and there there still are fish in it,
there's no doubt about it. But I think they're gonna
kind of start liking the the heat that the sun's
gonna put on the rocks and put you know, bring

(22:10):
that water temperature.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
Up a degree or two.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
It's it's still too early to be talking about winter fishing.
But yeah, I know there are trout along the surf
side rocks. I can tell you that from firsthand experience.
So yeah, give me a.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Call later today, go over some more.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
Yeah, there, there's there's a strategy that you can make
them eat top waters. I would I would maybe throw
something a little slow, sink something that will suspend maybe
and it'll all makes sense when we talk.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
I I just I swore to secrecy what he told me.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
And he really, he really did stumble on something that
I hadn't stumbled on. I hadn't fished those rocks in
quite a while. So I'm, you know, maybe I'm behind
the times. I'm old school, uh and and I was
doing okay, but he's he's onto something that is kind
of like an aha moment, like okay, let's try it.
And it worked.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
Well, we'll getting there midweek. I think that that might
serve me too. It won't be so much of a
crowd there.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yeah, hopefully.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
So Yeah, it's it's really not bad during the week anymore,
unless it's Midsummer and whatnot and all the kids are out.
But yeah, you just kind of watch the Tides schedule
and I'll tell you all about it.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
It's no big deal, all right.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
If next time I get back down there, I'm gonna
ask him for permission to talk about it, because he's
a super nice guy and he's about our age. Somewhere
between my age and your age. But he said, look,
I'll tell you what I'm doing here.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
What are you? Oh okay, eight on eighteen?

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah, I hear you.

Speaker 7 (23:39):
Yeah, the man.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
Although I have had to conceive that I can't. I
can't pick up things that used to feel really light
now they feel heavy, Like holy cow, what's going on here? Man?

Speaker 3 (23:52):
Well, I can still do it, it's just not as
fast and left hours out of the day when you
pick it up steel for a living it oh go. Yeah,
you feel your age a little bit. But yeah, and
hopefully we see some elk on the way up to
Logan this morning. Antlers. Yeah, it's seen a lot of
antlers in the backs of drugs. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yeah, tis the season, man.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
Yeah, they're down there and then back up to Montana
in a week and a half.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
So you've done some ile cunning, have you not, Yes, sir, Yeah,
all right.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
Cows, yeah, cows. It's hard to take that scope off
of a bull put the back of the cow. But
I've got I've got a cow cow permit this year
right south of Colorado border. But he's got twenty thousand
acres up there, so nice, Yeah, we'll chase it. Okay,
you have a great.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Week, all right, man, you two are, and safe travels,
my friend. I'll see there.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
Huh.

Speaker 7 (24:47):
Man.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
That guy that's a hard working man right there for
forty eight and he's he's gotten to do a lot
of things involved with his work. It's which, it's it's
a different connection to work and fun than I had
when I was at the paper and that I have
now being here on the radio. But it's still a

(25:07):
good connection for him. And he makes time between jobs
to work in a little fun. And little fun might
be fly fishing for trout, it might be hell cunting,
it might be coming back here and getting down to
the beach front, whatever it is. But he yeah, he
puts a lot of miles on his tires, that's for sure.
Speaking of down here and hunting, Riceland Waterfowl Club Teal

(25:31):
season wraps up today. That's it, and we don't have
just gonna blink and it's gonna be duck season. And
almost everybody I know knows that last year wasn't the
greatest duck season of all time, that's for sure. In fact,
it was one of the worst in quite some time.
And if you were part of that bunch that didn't
do real well last year and you're looking for a change,

(25:53):
give David Prue a call out. At Riceland Waterfowl Club.
He's been operating the same club the same way for
fifty years in managing to make sure that everybody who's
a club member gets access to some really really good
duck hunting all season long. They've got plenty of water,
they've got plenty of blinds, all of which are a

(26:14):
quarter mile at least apart. There's actually one that's something
that somebody brought a range finder out and found out
that it was like four hundred and thirty two yards
apart something like that, and kind of.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
Nudged him a little bit on it.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
But I wouldn't be that way because out there he's
got the great properties, he's got the ducks and all
you got to do is become a member to have
access to the same thing. The system where they picked
blinds for each group is such that you get to
you know where you're gonna hunt the next day the
night before, so nobody it's not like one hundred cars

(26:50):
gather up at one spot and there's this big lottery
or whatever to figure out where you're going hunting. You
pick five or six spots, you send that in and
then he meticulously goes through it with a system he's got.
I don't know how it works, but over the course
of a season, everybody's gonna get great shots at great
duck hunting. That's the bottom line on Riceland, and man,

(27:11):
with that three pintail limit this year, this is gonna
be a good day to be out there hunting on
the Rice Prairies. Riceland Waterfowl Club dot com. No guided
hunting allowed on that property is just the guests of
members and the members themselves and that's it. And your
six person group gives you six spots a day. And

(27:32):
if there's only three from the group going, that means
you can invite three friends and get them in the
blind with you. Riceland Waterfowl Club dot com. Go check
it out, give David a call, get on board. I'm
gonna be out there a few times myself this year.
Ricelandwaterfowl Club dot com. We are looking at five or
six straight days that will be incredible for golf. It's

(27:55):
gonna be so comfortable. Finally, look the afternoon. If you're
out there at four o'clock in the after noon, don't
hate me for telling you you should have started earlier
and enjoyed the cooler part of the day.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
But it's gonna be so much better than it has been.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
And there's gonna be nice, bright sunshine, gonna be a
little bit cooler. You're not gonna have swept through three
shirts and a round of golf. And Timber Creek's a
great place to go play golf down there on the
south side of town FM twenty three, p. Fifty one,
about maybe three miles west of the Gold Freeway, twenty
seven holes, all of which are really they're laid out

(28:30):
there for you. Golf's never easy, but you're gonna have
a good chance to have a good time no matter
what your game is. If you just stand there on
the tea box for about five seconds, just five seconds
and watch where and take a look at where you
think the architect wanted you to hit the ball.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
And if you can hit it, they're great. If you can't, go.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
Over to JJ Woods and his crew at the Academy
at timber Creek and they'll fix your swing for you.
It might take a little bit of time, but the
effort will be well worth it the first time you
go out there and whip your friends who've been teasing
you about your game for so long. Timber Creek Golf
Club dot com. Plenty of people out there running around.
They've got a name tag on.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
They want to help you.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
Bottom line timber Creek Golf Club dot com. All right,
welcome back, eight thirty eight on Sports Talk seven ninety
The Dug Pike Show. On this final day of the
Oh Mercy, Merciful end of the Ryder Cup. We'll talk
to Art in a little while, probably at nine o'clock
straight up. I think I'll go ahead and give him
a call, and in case it's already over, it may

(29:33):
be by then. Let's go talk to Larry. Hey, Larry,
what's up, man, Doug?

Speaker 8 (29:39):
How are you man?

Speaker 2 (29:40):
I'm great, Thank you appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (29:42):
I tell you what I'm enjoying the sunshine and the
light wind down here in Galveston, and that's awesome. If
anybody's not out thinking about going out and tossing the
plug out into the serf, then they're thinking the wrong
thing because they ought to be out there. I wish

(30:04):
I was this morning question. Oh yeah, buddy, it really does.
It looks really nice.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
Every time, every time somebody said the surf looks really great,
I have something to do that afternoon up here.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
It's killing me.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
Man.

Speaker 8 (30:17):
I got you, man, I got you been they're done that. Hey,
I got a question for you. I've got a crossman
tell it gun one seventy seven caliber pump.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
Little BB shooter.

Speaker 8 (30:33):
Okay, yeah, and it's sixty five years old when I
was ten years wow.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
Ten years old wow.

Speaker 8 (30:43):
Okay, And I've got a grandson that I want to
give that to. But I've got to have it fixed
because the the balanced when you go to pump it, uh,
the seal has gone back on that.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Sixty five years. There's a lot of wear and tear
on an old rubber gasket.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
Holy cow. Yes, you know you're done in Galvestre.

Speaker 8 (31:14):
Yeah, where can I can I take you to the
folks over in Texas City.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Yeah, I think.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
I'd call them first and try to maybe save yourself
a trip. I don't know, it might cost you more
to get that gasket replaced than it would to replace
the whole gun, So just try to find out. And
I know it's got a ton of sentimental value. I'm
sure the squirrels and the pigeons in your neighborhood just

(31:43):
woke up scared to death, but that's true. I don't
know where I would have gotten an idea like that,
but the bottom line, yeah them, Just call them and say, hey,
you know, can you guys repair this? And if it
involves taking a gun apart and putting it back together

(32:04):
with new parts, I'll bet they can. It's just a
question of how much it would probably cost you, you know.

Speaker 8 (32:10):
Well, you know, sentimentally wise, Yeah, it's worth it. I
don't think I can put a price on it, right.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yeah, I would be surprised if they can't fix it,
because those guns are still available and they still work
on the same mechanism in the same principle, so there
have to be parts somewhere.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Yeah, I bet they can get you taken care of.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah, call ask for you as for Jerry or Jay,
and if they're not there, just tell them I said,
to call and tell them what you're working with, and
just ask them to give you one of them to
give you a callback, or maybe the guy whoever's over
there can probably tell you whether they can do it.

Speaker 8 (32:54):
And what's what's the name of their business.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
Shooters Corner.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
I've got the number here, hold you all right, okay, yeah,
just it's a Shooter's Yeah, you'll find.

Speaker 8 (33:07):
Okay, Hey, there's one. There's one other thing I wanted
to tell you. You know, I talked to you. I talked
to you probably about two two and a half months
ago because my sons bought some land down in South Louisiana,
just right outside of Mamoo and they had a big

(33:30):
pond slash lake about five acres worth that was eating
up with a whole bunch of weeds and they thought
it was Salvenia, but they didn't exactly know. And I'll
tell you and I'll tell you how they got rid
of it. One of my sons got in touch with

(33:50):
the guy that does uh pond and lakes Frands sure with.

Speaker 5 (33:57):
The drone, Oh, okay, with a drone.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
That's interesting. Yeah, it makes sense.

Speaker 8 (34:04):
And I asked, had him, I said, had that spray work?
He said, Dad, it worked like a champ. He said,
we have no more weeds in our lake.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (34:18):
So the ducks, the ducks, you're going to have a
stage in the area right next to their duck blinds
where they got them set up, and they're in the
process leasing out that property for duck hunters for them.
I just wanted to call you and let you know
I was surprised about it because I know how bad

(34:41):
Salvinia is to try to get rid of.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
Yeah, it's hard. It's hard to get rid of that
stuff once it takes over. It's kind of it's one
step ahead of you when you start spraying. All to
take a break, my friend. But thanks getting over at
Shooter's corner. They'll take care of you.

Speaker 8 (35:00):
I'll do that, sir, Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
Yeah, thank you. Well, that's a good question.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
I might jump the gun on him and call down
there myself during this break.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
Speaking of boy, what teeing them up?

Speaker 5 (35:12):
This is?

Speaker 1 (35:13):
This is just right down the list shoot a corner
Palmer Highway twenty Nce Street, Texas City. That's Jerry and JTK.
Just like I was talking about everybody in there really
is good, but they are the owners, and they're the
ones who are in there practically every day. When they're
not off guiding somebody on a grizzly bear hunt somewhere
up in Alaska, or maybe an l coun up in Colorado,

(35:37):
or deer hunts down in South Texas. Jerry and Jay
are living a really good life and enjoying the things
that they most enjoy and part of that is gunsmithing.
That's two of the best gunsmiths I've ever known. They
built amazing custom rifles and every time I've sent somebody
this is gonna be the latest test, because every time

(35:57):
I've sent somebody down there to get a gun fix
that they were having trouble finding somebody to fix it,
Jerry and Jay took care of them. The Shooters Corner
TX dot com. If you wear a badge for a living,
you get a discount Shooter's Corner, which is pretty cool.
New guns, pre owned guns, all the different calibers of
amo you can imagine, plenty of shot shelves, plenty of camo,

(36:21):
plenty of optics and reloading supplies. It's a gun store,
that's all that's there. Is cool gun stuff the shooters
Corner TX dot com. If you are hungry for something delicious,
meat products, especially the only other than meat product stuff
they have in Belleville Meat Market is going to be

(36:41):
maybe the sides that go with the lunch and dinner
they serve every single day of the week from ten
am to seven pm. They got pulled pork, they got
homemade hot dogs. They got a full service lineup of
brisket and ribs and sausage and all of that good
stuff every single day. The strategy I have encouraged people

(37:03):
to employ for so long now is to load the
whole family in the minivan, the truck, the suv, whatever
it is, and on the way out, make a list
of everything you want to bring home. And then when
you get there, hand that list off to somebody and
then go over there and get in line to get
your lunch, your dinner, or whatever it is. The next boy,
the next week is going to be outstanding to make

(37:25):
that trip, because it's going to be so comfortable in
the afternoons on that patio eating.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Your lunch, your dinner.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
The full service game processing houses open and up and running.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Now that both seasons open, it's one of the best.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
Places you can take in the entire state to get
your deer processed. You come through there, there's three lanes
outside this building that they built specifically for that purpose
a couple of years ago.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
Three lanes outside.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
There's going to be young guys coming out, big, young
strong guys with carts coming out to get that meat
out of your pickup truck. Take it into the processing house.
You'll be handed a menu. You start making your selections.
I want twenty percent of my meat with this finish.
I want this with this and that much of that.
And a few days later you get a call. You

(38:14):
go pick up your deer and you can start chomping
on it. Big old chuck Wagon patties too, I love
talking about them. They're a half pound beef patty, seasoned
and loaded with cheddar, cheese. All the snack stuff too,
for the deer, blind, for the boat whatever, the dry stick,
the dry sausage, turkey, jerky, beef jerkey, it's all there
at Belleville Meat Market. Just no salads. They don't do salad.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Belleville MeetMarket dot com.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
They're on Highway thirty six, about fifteen minutes north Sealy
fifteen minutes south o Hemistead Belleville meatmarket dot com. All right,
welcome back, thanks for listening. Doug Pike Show on Sports
Talk seven to ninety.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
I was just on the phone.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
With JTK, who heard his dad's phone ringing. They're out
in New Mexico and low punting. I don't feel sorry
for them. The hang on one second, Rick, I want
to tell Jerry what I found out from them. He
said that they probably cannot. I hope Jerry still listen.
He said, probably not. However, what Jay recommended and makes

(39:15):
perfect sense is get online. There are many, he said,
forums of people who own these things and work on
them themselves and know where to find parts. He said,
you probably even could find a more contemporary gun that
is otherwise messed up and maybe buy that on the

(39:37):
cheap and get the parts you need, kind of cannibalize
that one to fix yours so that you can give
it to your grandson. It's not something that they can
do in their shop, but he said it, and I
told him, I hope Jerry's listening. He sayds pretty mechanically
able and knows his way around a toolbox and a

(39:58):
work bench. I'm pretty sure he could handle that job
himself if he can just find the part and the
parts out there somewhere. Jerry and Jay said it's out
there somewhere for him, So fingers crossed. And if he
needs any more help, Jerry, if you need more help,
just let me know and we'll keep looking. Seven on
three two five seven ninety, email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia

(40:19):
dot com and let's go talk to Rick.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
What's up man?

Speaker 5 (40:23):
You can pull it over here? Uh, staring at a windshield.
I was gonna call and tell you my fishing story yesterday.
Come on, I made a I made a quick trip
this morning to Florence, Texas, check on the ranch and
checked on BLUs.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
I've been, I've been.

Speaker 5 (40:45):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (40:46):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (40:47):
I commandeered one of the barns with a bunch of
junkie and I've been stacking it in there, so I'm
I need to get it out. So I went out
there and uh, I met not many of your listeners
know where Florence texts as this.

Speaker 3 (41:02):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (41:02):
If you don't know where Florence is, it's just west
of Gerald.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
Okay, okay, so you know.

Speaker 5 (41:09):
Okay fishing store yesterday, my son's family, they were over
my friend daughter. She wanted to go fishing, so and
I had little head up notice on this, so I
got me a camp corn. But I do I don't
do the vanilla abstract.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
That's all right, you know, honey.

Speaker 5 (41:28):
Yeah, I've got my own deal list. And what I
do is, uh, I take a plastic for the sandwich
bagg and I put the camp corn in there, most
of it. I drained about oh eighty five percent of
the juice off and leave the juice in and I
stuff a slice or two of bread in there.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
Oh okay.

Speaker 5 (41:53):
And I'm kind of chum in my case. In my
case because my crappie they for whatever reason, they prefer uh,
bread balls over the corn. Now they'll eat the corn,
but they'll really go after the bread ball. And now
you use the juice just to moisten the bread and
make it stay on a.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
Little bitty up crappy. You're talking about.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
Gills big okay?

Speaker 2 (42:20):
Yeah, oh man, that's sweet of course.

Speaker 5 (42:23):
And we can see them.

Speaker 7 (42:24):
You know.

Speaker 5 (42:24):
It's kind of fun because she can see it to
see the fish too water and we caught our share
of turtles. I'm gonna have to do something about that.
And you don't try to catch in about a ten
pounder on a snoopy rod. Uh that's a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
I've been there.

Speaker 5 (42:42):
But anyway, my wife says, uh, uh, you don't need
to bring some weenies dinner. I said, yeah, go ahead
and bring some meat weenies.

Speaker 6 (42:52):
That'd be good.

Speaker 5 (42:52):
And while you're at it, bring some mustard with them.
You don't fish for deals with wings because she catches
cat's fish on them.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
Cat that's a great catfish base.

Speaker 5 (43:06):
Older, I said, we're not catfish, So you can come
down and watch the other kids and the oldest one,
I said, we go. This is our trip. Y'all can watch.
The other ones ain't big enough to know what's going
on anyway, but uh, my bath. Anyway, anyway, she did
bring me some wingies and some mustard. Now she is

(43:30):
she is a she of something else. She's she's there
to help.

Speaker 1 (43:33):
Very good.

Speaker 5 (43:36):
Probably little little bit of red balls on your little
parts and your sunfish and your blue gills, et cetera,
et cetera. They weren't pretty good too.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
I did that with my son when I was teaching
him how to fish over at that little place. And
what is it called, golly the little it's a very
small baby town, gobbled up by Houston and sugar Land
and all that.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
I'm looking right at it. I can't call the name.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
As soon as I get off there, I'll remember it
and I'll feel stupid for not saying it. Oh but anyway, Yeah,
that that little lad was full of brim and they
would peel. They could get the corn off the hook
a lot easier because they could grab it with the
little bitty dough ball.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
And I was using such small hooks.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
They just they they had to get hook if they
wanted that bread and it was on right then, man,
I use.

Speaker 5 (44:21):
About the smallest zuck. I can get it in the
longest shank. Yeah, oh yeah, I should have you some pictures.
We caught some pretty impressive bluebills.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
They get big the pictures.

Speaker 5 (44:35):
I wouldn't. I'll try to get you some of those
this week. Some of them are pretty big. I mean
you you have a hard time put them in your hat.
I mean they're big.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Wow. Man, Yeah, that's a good size one there.

Speaker 5 (44:45):
But anyway, all right, man, did I'm gonna crank.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
Up and go crank up and go to Florence. Get
out there. What is it like southwest? Maybe of Temple or.

Speaker 1 (44:54):
Something like that about right.

Speaker 5 (44:57):
Generally, Yeah, you're you're on target.

Speaker 3 (44:59):
Yeah right.

Speaker 5 (45:00):
It's north to kind of liberty here west of Florence
sou the Laiedo kind of in the country, Williamson County.

Speaker 1 (45:07):
Pretty country for sure. Man.

Speaker 5 (45:09):
It is rattle snake country too.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
What's not in Texas? You know that's a safe anywhere.

Speaker 5 (45:17):
But I'm there that little media area right there. In
years I've traveled this country, I've seen a lot of rattlesnakes,
but for some reason for me personally, that's been the
hot bed over the years. I gotcha, I didn't see
one this morning. But anyway, y'all have a good thing.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
Yeah man, thanks a lot, Rick, we'll talk to the audios.
All right, let's do that.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
Let's get out of here, and when we get back,
I'm gonna have Art Strickland on the phone.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
Magically, hopefully he's still up there.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
He's still up there at Bethpage Black trying to cheer
the boys on. We only need ten wins today, that's all,
just ten. We just have to win ten of twelve matches.
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second hour starts. Now, thank you all for listening. I
certainly appreciate it. And in this second hour, as promised,

(47:48):
we're gonna tee up Art Strickland and see what's going
on up there at Bethpage Black.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
Have they started taking the bleachers down yet?

Speaker 3 (47:54):
Art?

Speaker 6 (47:57):
The old wayoo Chancer already going early this morning?

Speaker 2 (48:03):
Oh boy, oh boy? Is this?

Speaker 8 (48:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (48:07):
If you're looking for a bright side, and I'm not
sure there is one, but when you get beat this thoroughly,
there's not one or two things that went wrong to
the game. You know, it's just been a total domination.
And you know, I don't even know where to start.
If you're the PGA of America, I don't even know
where you start, you know, saying what do we need

(48:29):
to do?

Speaker 7 (48:30):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (48:30):
For Ryder Cups. It's just been in a domination for
the Americans from almost the first shot.

Speaker 1 (48:37):
It really was. Yeah, you're exactly right there. I can't
find any real highlights if you want to get nitpicky.
I would have to look at the putting that we
were doing. We we just didn't make very many putts,
and and.

Speaker 6 (48:54):
Yeah when we did, and they, you know, they made
one off top of us. Yeah, you know, Scott up
were makes about a twenty foot four yesterday and then
your pants cover them up. But yeah, I guess you'd
have to start with, you know, world number one. How
this player on the planet, Yeah, going, and for you know,

(49:15):
they've only played the Rider Cup now for almost you know,
one hundred years or so, and there's never ever ever
been a world number one player, go oh and four
to start with.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
Ever, that's an interesting stat right there.

Speaker 6 (49:30):
You know, so that you know, if I'm Scotty and
I saw I'm paired up the Controy this morning, or
you know, I got to be thrilled because that's really
my only chance. You know, hard to believe that, Scutty
go and fat, Oh my god, we can so if
wit he has a chance of some kind of salvation

(49:52):
but or it's just been ugly really from the word go.

Speaker 1 (49:56):
Yeah, late yesterday, when it started getting just more and
more parent that we were getting pummeled, I felt like
our guys, I don't want to say they gave up,
but most of them, looking at them, you could just
tell they were just going through the motions. They wanted
off that golf course, didn't they.

Speaker 6 (50:13):
And you know, this is really one of the fundamental
problems you have, is that how do you get Americans
to care about something they don't care about for two years? Yeah, Hey,
it's run a Cup week. You really need to care
this week and they haven't cared for tooth And somebody
made a great point, and we should try this at

(50:34):
the Houston Open. You know, in April, you go and
ask any American what their Ryder Cup record was, they'll
either say I'm not sure, I don't know, or you know,
it's okay. If you ask any European what their Ryder
Cup record was, they'll tell you exactly what it was,
exactly when they played, exactly how the Matcus went. And

(50:57):
to me, that's just the biggest difference.

Speaker 1 (50:59):
Yeah, is you know what I heard that same that
same talk, and I believe it was on PGA Tour Network,
probably this past Sunday morning when I was coming in
that that same feeling that that we don't care, just
like you said, we don't care for two years and
then all of a sudden we all have to care.

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And the people who are there, the people who are
there dressed in the red, white and blue, they care
a lot, and their their level of care is amplified
I think by the availability of alcohol a little bit.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
But none of.

Speaker 6 (51:33):
That's exactly See. You know, anybody who has paid attenps
you could see that coming. Yeah, uh, you know, the
eighteen dollars beer is not going to slow anybody down.
You know, there was a kind of police there. You
can't say there weren't. There wasn't a police present. There
surely was. And you know, the only other thing you

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could do that you haven't done is shut off alcohol tels.
But I confirmish it that won't happened because this is
the PGA of America's money maker. Someone told me one time, Doug.
You may have heard this. The PGA of America loses
money for three years and then when they host a
home Runner cut, they make it all back. And they

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have enough to fund them for the next four years.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (52:20):
You know, the crowds have been huge here. I mean,
you know, for a feet down that we've we've seen
the crowd have really been large. And you know, so
PGA is making a ton of money. I can promise
you that, but it's isn't ut we've seen. And you know,
I mean second gas is what media does. But maybe

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play alternate you know, we talked about this yesterday once
the last time you and I have played alten shot.
So maybe you know what's for two weeks, Let's have
a training camp and do nothing but play alternate jobs.

Speaker 1 (52:59):
Just about just have a couple of tournaments leading up
to the Ryder Cup where you play Ryder Cup format. Yeah,
that's how these guys came up and get comfortable with it.

Speaker 6 (53:11):
And you know, we and you know, Kagan got all
the players as apres Andrews wife's having a kid, very inconvenient.
But uh, you know, I got all the players to NAPA.
They played in Scotty one NAPA. Yeah, yeah, you know,
but you're right, it's not Ryder Cup format. It's certainly

(53:32):
not Ultimate Shot. I just you know, it's a you
know the word, and you know, I think we talked
about this. Obviously they're going to Irewan in a couple
of years, and yes, the afternoon I met with the
Irish Minister for Sport and Culture and he said, they expect,
you know, thirty percent of the crowd, uh next to

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in two years to be from America. So you know,
there's going to be a lot of Americans there. But
maybe what we do is we get over there, we
play Ryder Cup format, but you know, getting people to
care and that's why, you know, and you really grants
me that straws when you get beat this badly. But

(54:14):
maybe having a guy like a Patrick Reed who does
care about the Ryder Cup, maybe having him on there.
You know, I mean, Scotty is going to be disapprning
a bubble by this week, but he's not gonna wear
sleep over it, you know, because he uh, you know,
Scotty's shear has been great because he dominated all year

(54:36):
well and you know, as uh Tiger once famously said,
can anybody tell me what Jack's Ryder Cup record was?
You can't, but you know Jack one eighteen Matris everybody
knows that.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
Yeah, So you know.

Speaker 6 (54:52):
That's kind of where we are and you know, uh,
hopefully today doesn't get out of hand with their out
his behavior.

Speaker 3 (54:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (55:00):
You know, you may have seen the PG of America
fire DJ on the first role, and I didn't know
we had a DJ on the pirvol but fired him,
you know, for we'd evolve chance. And oh yeah, I'm
sure that's the way to go. Just well, a lot
of people, a lot of people dressed up and think

(55:20):
the best man I thought today yesterday Doug was the
guy I had a thick side is that the United
States undefeated in World Wars in nineteen seventeen, nineteen forty five,
which is all very true. We're just.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
Not so much.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
Oh man, hey, I got a question for you, and I.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
Think I know the answer.

Speaker 1 (55:44):
If the Ryder Cup is going to maintain its relevance
and become more important, it has to become more important
to these players. Why aren't we doing more match play
during the PGA Tour season? And I think the answer
is because you can't. You can't tell, and it's gonna end.
If you got a day that goes like Thursday, Thursday

(56:04):
afternoon or Friday afternoon, went the matches are over before
all the.

Speaker 2 (56:09):
TV commercials get to run and is that.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
I mean, that's a it's a revenue thing, isn't it.

Speaker 6 (56:15):
It's a TV thing for sure. I think you might
remember that the PGA Championship used to be mad.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (56:22):
Absolutely, they ended that because you know what, the best
players there.

Speaker 5 (56:29):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (56:30):
I think that. You know, they're talking about bringing the
Austin tournament back and uh maybe making that match play,
which certainly I think would be good, would probably help.
But yeah, it's just, uh, this is not the format
replay and that's played great. There's you know, one of
the one of the cliches and sports is that the

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best team didn't always win. Where I guarantee you the
best team has won this week.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
Yeah, I mean he gives you if we talk about
bringing these things back to make it more relevant and
bring match play back, to do this and do that,
we're only bringing it back so that it helps us
once every two years.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
Is that really worth it? I don't think they'll do.

Speaker 3 (57:14):
It for that.

Speaker 6 (57:16):
Yeah. I think you're fat. And you know, we win
the President's Cup, but that's really more of a more
by the exhibition. Yeah, you're you know you've been over
to Europe before. Uh, I've been a lot. You know,
match players in their blood. I mean, the the golf

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plaint over your is match play. The only people and
I'm chulky of this for sure, but the only people
that really keep score and god over in Europe or Americans.
So I think most guys couldn't even tell you what
they shock because they get played match blood. Yeah, so
it's in their blood, you know, because we ar is

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you know, I guess the biggest disappointment is I really
thought Scotty with toy like glory, worry is quite tremendous.
I mean, you expect that and the fact that you
know you're worry number one, how this player on the
planet has come and four it's just bat point. I

(58:21):
talked to as a coach yesterday, Randy Smith. Yeah, you
know he's been he's been his coach since he was
like fix years old. Randy's from West Texas. R He
just tell you what he thinks. He's not worried about anything.
He said, Randy, what happened? He goes one of those weeks, Baba,
just one of those weeks.

Speaker 5 (58:43):
And that's kind of it, exactly right.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
Yeah, And and true to form, all those guys, every
one of them is gonna wake up tomorrow morning and go, okay,
where are we going this week? And it'll be it'll
be behind him. I don't think they're gonna I don't
think they're gonna let it bother him at all.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
I really don't.

Speaker 6 (59:03):
Maybe Keegan will and you know, I mean when you
keep when you get beat that bad way, you know,
one thing didn't make a difference. But you know, I
think Keegan will always second get Maybe I should have
picked my belt. Well, yeah, I think that that's going
to be Keegan is, you know, And and I would

(59:23):
have made a difference. I don't think so still would
have gotten beat. But I think for Keegan's piece of mind,
he's always paid what space it. You know, he is
likely ever to make another Writer Cup team. What he
did this year was unbelievable, but that's in two years.
I'm very doubtful when you see that from Keegan. So

(59:44):
I think he probably always wonder what would have happened
if I had played on this team? And you know, Parry,
uh hindsight call, you know these guys back out there.
You know it's just been a disaster, real and uh,
you know, really a disaster. Sure, ticket broke I don't

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know if you saw the tickets for day, but you
know the finals, the singles are the highlight event. Yeah,
should be down to three hundred dollars from the secondary market.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
Down to three hundred. Good lord, I wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (01:00:19):
I wouldn't pay three hundred to be out there today.

Speaker 6 (01:00:24):
Yeah, from a faith of seven fifty and come for
a thousand. So friend, you know, with the art of
golf travel we take people in a lot of places.
I have four guys to the writer it four years
ago and had a funny text me yesterday. He said, Man,
I'm really glad I went to color lasted four years
because that was a great trip that I wouldn't pay

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anything to go this year.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
No way, man our Strickland, thank you so very much.
You got probably got early dismissal today, I would imagine.

Speaker 6 (01:00:57):
Yeah, you know, if you look at the if you
look at the the matches, you know Luke Donald, who
has done just everything right as captain, he is very
front voaded. Uh, he's really front voaded the matches. He's
going for early knockout.

Speaker 3 (01:01:15):
You.

Speaker 6 (01:01:16):
Rory is playing in the third i think the fourth
match and John Rome's playing early. So Rory would like
to have a little I mean, uh wc. Donald would
like to have one a proper uh kid crumpets by
this afternoon, if you.

Speaker 1 (01:01:29):
Could probably be very comfortably on his private jet and
on his way back home.

Speaker 5 (01:01:36):
Indeed, yeah, all right.

Speaker 6 (01:01:40):
The mine used to say, do I get paid the
same winter losing?

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
So that's all I'm thinking, exactly right, man, Thank you,
art Hey, thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (01:01:52):
Atrickling there for the art of golf.

Speaker 7 (01:01:54):
He does.

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
He does some little trips with people, and if you're
interested in something like that, he's pretty good at it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
Together seven one three.

Speaker 1 (01:02:01):
Two one two five seven ninety Email me Doug Pike
at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
We've got to take a little break. On the way out.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
I'll tell you about American shooting centers out there on
West Timer Parkway between Katie and Highway six. It's gonna
be a busy place for the next couple of weeks,
next few weeks, next many weeks. Probably a lot of
guys trying to get ready for duck and goose seasons,
quail season, deer season, or just enjoying the shooting sports
like a lot of people do year round out there.

(01:02:28):
Rifle and pistol from five yards to six hundred yards
trapping skeet fields ten of them, three sporting clays courses.
There's a beginners area for wing shooting. There's a pop
up silhouette range for rim fire shooting, all of which
is available. A grand total, I think it is of
something like more than two hundred shooting stations.

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
I don't know that they've.

Speaker 1 (01:02:51):
Ever all been occupied at once, but it's available. There's
always going to be someplace for you to shoot out
there at American Shooting Centers. And if you're you're not
a great shot, that's okay. There's always professional instruction out
there as well to make sure that you break more
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whether you're just shooting because you like the shooting sports.
American Shootingcenters dot Com is the website American Shootingcenters dot com.
All right, welcome back Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk
seven ninety. Thank you for listening. I'm really glad I
got a whole art this morning.

Speaker 3 (01:03:32):
Zee.

Speaker 1 (01:03:33):
He was thinking about packing up and bailing out. You
can't really until it is over, but it's gonna be
over pretty early this morning. The first match, just like
we kind of glossed over. I wish there was a shorter,
little version of what I'm looking at, because this gives
like the.

Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
Well anyway, I'll go with it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:51):
Twelve oh two pm Eastern Standard time, so eleven o'clock here,
Cam Young and Justin Rose. Justin Rose is playing lights out.
Cam Young is gonna have his hands full. Then it's
Justin Thomas and Tommy Fleetwood. Fleetwood also playing really well.
Justin Thomas played pretty good yesterday too, though, so that

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might we might get a piece of that one. Bryceon
de Shamba and Matt Fitzpatrick.

Speaker 4 (01:04:21):
I like.

Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
I like the Shambo and.

Speaker 1 (01:04:23):
That he's he'll bring some fire, and if he can
get a putt to roll in somewhere, he'll he'll.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
I think he'll feed off of that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
If he gets a putt to fall early and gets
a little bit of a lead, I don't think he'll
let it go. The fourth match, the one everybody's gonna
want to watch, starts at twelve thirty five. That would
be Scheffler and McElroy, and everybody's been waiting for that one.
We've all been waiting I don't know that it's gonna
be significant, but at least we'll we'll see them on

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the golf course for quite some time. Match number five
Patrick can't Lay, Ludvig Goldberg, number six, Shaffley and Rum,
number seven, spawn in Straka, number.

Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
Eight, Henley and Lowry.

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
Lowry's gonna win that one. Nothing against Russell. Henley's a
great player, That's why he's on the team. But Shane
Lowry has been pretty solid. Ben Griffin, Rasmus Hoyguard at
one thirty Eastern Time, Colin Moore, col Terrell Hatton, Sam Burns,
Robert McIntyre, Harris English and Victor Hobland. I don't know

(01:05:31):
how long this is gonna go, but I'm gonna watch
some of it, just on the outside, hope that we
can at least make it competitive. If we could win
three out of the first four matches and have the
rest of them kind of close.

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
When that third one finally gets put up, who knows?
Who knows? I remember the miracle on ice.

Speaker 1 (01:05:56):
Nobody thought the Americans could beat the Russians, but we did.
There are all kinds of great comebacks in sports history,
and maybe this will be one of them. Who knows.
I do think that though, I do truly believe that
our lack of experience with match play comes into play

(01:06:19):
with every Ryder Cup, whether we're here or whether we're
over in Europe, no matter where, it is, just like
Art and I were talking about. In Europe, match play
is how you grow up in golf. In the United States,
stroke play is how you grow up playing golf.

Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
What you shoot? What'd you shoot?

Speaker 1 (01:06:41):
And if you're playing match play, you probably don't know
or care what score you shot stroke wise. You just
want to know whether if you ask someone over there,
did you play golf today?

Speaker 2 (01:06:55):
Yes, I played golf. How'd you do? Three and two?
I won? And what scored you shoot?

Speaker 1 (01:07:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
I don't know it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
I won three and two.

Speaker 1 (01:07:06):
I got five pounds and and a in a quart
of ale, two pints of ale from my buddy.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
That's what I got. They don't care about score over there.

Speaker 1 (01:07:17):
It's about just hole by whole competition, and it's a
totally different game and it's very unfamiliar for starters over here.
It's it's awkward and weird when you've got these teammates
playing out there, there's only one team or one tournament
over in New Orleans where the PGA Tour players play

(01:07:38):
a team event two against the world, and it's still
stroke play.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
It's still stroke play. So if we don't do something
about that.

Speaker 1 (01:07:46):
I don't know that we're ever going to have the
mindset that it takes and have it deeply rooted enough
for it to matter in a Ryder Cup. So hopefully
we'll get it figured out and hopefully the next I
don't blame I don't blame Kegan Bradley at all.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
He doesn't hit the shots.

Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
It's kind of like blaming the head coach when a
team of football players or basketball players or baseball players
doesn't win. The players have to play. All he can
do is trot him out there and hope he makes
the right decisions on who's going to play with whom
and see how it turns out. We'll see, all right.

(01:08:26):
One more time for Kobe Stevens. This is I've known
Kobe Gallock now for a couple of years. I've played
golf with him several times, and he's just one of
the most sincerely community minded people and community giving people
I've ever run into.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
He really is.

Speaker 1 (01:08:43):
I'm not kidding when I tell you that most times
when I try to get in touch with him during
the week, he is on a golf course somewhere.

Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
He plays in a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:08:51):
Of these events, and he'll put up a little he'll
put up a little canopy and have a couple of
people manning it for him. But it's his decision to
go and give that time and give whatever merchandise or
whatever discounts he gives them. That's his decision to help
somebody make that community a little bit better than it
was yesterday. For you and me and anybody else who's

(01:09:13):
looking at the gear or going to the store, what
you're gonna find is incredible outdoors wear, incredible golf apparel.
I've got several Kobe Stephens shirts. I wear them most
of the time that I play golf. The only times
I really don't reach for Kobe Stevens is when everything's
at the cleaners or in the laundry.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
It's comfortable, it's smart.

Speaker 1 (01:09:36):
Looking, and it makes you want to shine your shoes
and make sure everything on you looks as good as
those as those shirts do. Also got some fishing apparel
out now. There's a couple of hoodies and there's a
nice kind of a traditional fisherman's shirt, a real be
a good fly fishing shirt. Honestly, next time I go
fly fishing, I guarantee I'm gonna be in my white
Kobe Stephen's shirt, and that only if I can't get

(01:09:59):
him to put it put up a nice sky blue
one that I could wear so I can blend in
with the surroundings when that redfish is looking up trying
to figure out what's looking at him. Kobe Stevens dot com.
They got a store up on the North Side close
to Champions Area. Go in there you can see all
They have everything from little kids stuff to four X

(01:10:19):
for the big guys in the crowd. They've got men's
and women's apparel, and just a really good bunch of
really good company. Kobe Stevens dot com, cob Y st
e v e NS dot com Northwest Side Golfers. If
you have not played black Horse yet, you're doing yourself
a big disservice. I know you've got some good tracks

(01:10:40):
out there, but black Horse has been there a very
long time, and I can tell you personally that I've
played it probably fifty sixty times. I don't know, it's
been a lot over the years they've been open, and
every time it's been a very good experience. Most of
the time I've been up there, I've been raising money
for charity. A lot of times. It's because I want

(01:11:01):
to go try something a little bit different. I get
in a rut and I want to go somewhere else.
I go up there because that's part of my membership
that I have through Golf Club of Houston. And the
North Course still remains it's daily fee and always has been,
always will be. Probably South Course went private this year.
There's a membership option there if you want to go.

(01:11:22):
If you want to go, look at that, and what
that can get you is access to five golf courses,
which is what that company offers. For that, you get
not only the two courses at black Horse, but you
also get both courses at Golf Club of Houston and
Blackhawk Country Club. It's a fantastic option if you want
to look at that. There is plenty of room to

(01:11:44):
hold a huge tournament out there at black Horse. I've
been through many, many of those over the years, and
plenty of room like I've done, and just go up
there on your own and jump in and make three
new friends. That's the first time I played green teas
in a long time. I hooked up with some younger
or a little bit older people. Well I say it
a little bit older. It's hard to be older to

(01:12:05):
me and still be able to play golf. But we
all had a blast and it was it was very
different and fun. Experience always is up at black Horse.
Give them a well, just go up there, you know,
get online, make your own tea time. Everybody up there
is gonna make sure you have a good time, I
promise you. Black Horse Golf Club dot Com there on
Fry Road, just a couple of miles south of to ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:12:25):
Very easy to find and very fun to play.

Speaker 1 (01:12:27):
Black Horse goolf Club dot com. Alli, welcome back Doug
Pike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety. Let me see, Yeah,
there's a lot of good suggestions coming in here. I've
just gotten a chance to get back to my I'm
back to my emails. Frankie out working on something in here.

(01:12:48):
I got that checked out one place. Seal back to
Jerry's pelig gun from Billy comes. I'm not sure if
they will won't fix it, and they're probably not going
to be able to because that's just not what they
work on. He said, you need to replace one seal.
You'll need to replace all the seals and reoil that

(01:13:11):
pellet gun. I would strongly recommend that as well. Anywhere
there's anything made of rubber in that gun. After sixty
five years, it's now made of just dried up stuff
that's not going to seal at all.

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
There are REFERB seal.

Speaker 1 (01:13:26):
Kits for every type of pellet and BB gun, so
that's not the issue. It's getting inside the body to
do it that's the problem.

Speaker 2 (01:13:37):
Oh Man.

Speaker 1 (01:13:39):
Not meaning to scarry you here, Jerry, but according to
Billy says, I'd rather work on the hardest of guns
before I fixed another pellet gun.

Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
I'd say they are some of the hardest pains in
the behind as old as his is it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:52):
Honestly, it may be a simpler design, but i'd bet
hardest to get into because it's probably just sealed off
and not meant to open. That's an interesting thought anyway.
The long and the short of it is pass it down.
But maybe then give him a newer version and possibly
a single shot twenty two and he'd still come out
not only cheaper, but with money left to spare. That

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he would from what he'd say, from refurbishing that pellet gun.

Speaker 5 (01:14:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:14:19):
I tend to agree, Jerry, honestly, because to get into
that gun and refurbish it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:24):
And do all of that work that still may not
work out.

Speaker 1 (01:14:29):
That gun, it's got so many miles on it, and
it's just it's it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
Served its purpose.

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
I'm not trying to run you off your idea and
again hand him that one and say, this is the.

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
One that I used when I was your age.

Speaker 1 (01:14:44):
I want to give you one that's just as nice
and new as this one was when I got it.
Maybe that might help you get over the sentimentality of it,
because the last thing you want to do is give
it to him and have it malfunction the first couple
of times he takes it out, and uh, just I
don't know. I'm not trying to tell you how to

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do what you want to do and give away your
your heirloom gun to him.

Speaker 2 (01:15:12):
But it won't be easy either way.

Speaker 1 (01:15:14):
But I think it would be cost efficient and in
the long run greatly appreciated for him to have a
new gun in his hands, just like you did sixty
five years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:15:25):
Seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:15:27):
Email me Dug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com on to
match play.

Speaker 2 (01:15:31):
Got a couple of them here, Yeah, Alan, just put
match play. Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 1 (01:15:37):
This is an interesting concept, and it needs to if
we're gonna if we're gonna get our country interested in
an accustomed to match play, it needs to start a
whole lot earlier than on the PGA Tour at the
Ryder Cup and and John's wighing in, say, look, let's

(01:15:58):
just start this in junior high and high school and
in college and play more match play there so that
those young men and women can be accustomed to it
and maybe, just maybe someday in the near future, maybe
just maybe we might be able to win one of
these things again. Even though most back to Billy Boy,

(01:16:21):
he sent me some more stuff. Start at this website, Jerry,
if you're still listening, pyramidair dot com. Pyramidair dot com.
So that's the best I can do on that part. Up,
Good heavens, I have knocked out this one. Um. Yeah,
let's go ahead and take this last break of the
program speaking of guns and m and hunting stuff about

(01:16:45):
Carter's country. If you're done familiar, if you're fairly new
to shooting or fairly new to the Houston area, you
may or may not have heard yet about Carter's Country.
I started learning about Carter's Country from the minute I
got into shooting, which was a many many decades ago.
They've been around for sixty some odd years. And what
they do is just sell guns, amo and hunting stuff.

(01:17:06):
That's what it says up on the sign. That's what
it says on the logo. Guns, Amo and hunting stuff.
No sneakers, no snorkels, no footballs, no tennis rackets.

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
None of that stuff. No ski apparel.

Speaker 3 (01:17:20):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:17:20):
What you're gonna find is anything and everything you could
possibly want or need to make you enjoy the shooting
sports better tomorrow than you did yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:17:31):
They got three stores.

Speaker 1 (01:17:32):
The one up on the north side, up by the
big Airport, just north of the big Airport on Treshwig.
They've got a full service range there. You can shoot
your rifles, you can shoot your shotguns. Go up there
and get some of the best gunsmithing too. Up on
that far north side of town. You'll ever find a
great place, the great people. It's a family run business,

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been in business for sixty plus years.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
I remember when.

Speaker 1 (01:17:56):
I first knew I got to know Bill Carter. I'd
go up there and see all these young people kind
of running around sometimes, Oh that's a grandson, that's my son,
that's my daughter, that's this, that and the other. All
great people, all the Cole Carter Country family. And they also,
by the way, have big game hunting on their ranches.

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There's a ranch in Laredo that's the first place I
got to hunt that Bill had and still does. And
there's one in the Hill Country. They're one up in Colorado.
It's just a fantastic operation. The Colorado place is elkhunting
operation that's outstanding. I went up there a couple times
and it was absolutely amazing. Carterscountry dot Com is the website.

(01:18:39):
There's red tech sales still going on. By the way,
there's all kinds of stuff on sale at really good
discounts for and it's not just obscure things. These are
real things that real hunters use every day that just
happen to be on sale. Carterscountry dot Com, Carterscountry dot
Com on Sports Talk seven to ninety, rounding third and

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headed home. Kind of like the Astros, no no fault
of their own. They battled so hard and did remarkably
well under the circumstances. Real quickly before I go to
Faux Pro, I got word from David.

Speaker 2 (01:19:18):
It was a minute ago. Send me an email that hey.

Speaker 1 (01:19:21):
Two more hunters killed by lightning this down in Florida.

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
Two men, two dogs.

Speaker 1 (01:19:28):
Killed by one lightning strike in says in Southeast Highlands County.
And holy mackerel, that's twice that we've lost two people
out and the outdoors, once in Colorado and now down
in Florida. I can't I can't emphasize enough how dangerous

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lightning is, and a lot of us, especially when we're
a little bit younger. These guys were thirty eight and
thirty one, and that's kind of right in the wheelhouse
of still thinking your bullet proof roof and not really
paying attention to the conditions as you should. And I'm
as guilty as anybody, even at my age. I still
now I'll get off a golf course when the lightning

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starts and when the horn goes off. But it's remarkable
to me as we drive in my crew of older
guys just goes ahead and goes back to the clubhouse
and rides it out.

Speaker 2 (01:20:21):
But it's amazing as we go in.

Speaker 1 (01:20:22):
How many people are still out there playing because they
just don't see it, or they they don't think it's
close enough to be a bother. But that's some at
some point that's going to catch up with them. Let
me uh, let me go talk to faux pro, see
what's on his mind.

Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
What's up, faux Pro? You get off the water when
it starts lightning?

Speaker 3 (01:20:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:20:42):
Long cast? Oh yeah, well I make that long cast
in that line. Takes a little bit love to I
tend to crank up the big to get down.

Speaker 2 (01:20:51):
I've seen that, and I don't like it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
Man. That's when you put everything on the bottom of
the boat and you hunker down and haul behind back
the dog exactly.

Speaker 7 (01:21:02):
Yeah, somewhere, I'll challenge a lot of things, but not
one of them.

Speaker 5 (01:21:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:21:08):
I would rather be really windy than have just one
little dark cloud with one little lightning bolt in it,
just eyeballing me and lining me up in its crossairs,
you know.

Speaker 7 (01:21:17):
Oh yeah, I I've got no love loss of those things.

Speaker 1 (01:21:20):
But my stupidest move ever got me the biggest bass
I've ever caught. And I stayed out in an aluminum
boat all by myself on a place called. It was
called I don't know, something to do with three lakes anyway,
three private lakes up kind of your way somewhere. Each
of the lakes was fifty acres and they all had
a ton of fish in It was a big, private place.

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It was fine and a lot of fun.

Speaker 7 (01:21:43):
Oh yeah, I know exactly where he's talked about us
over there out of Cleveland something.

Speaker 2 (01:21:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:21:48):
And so I'm up there and there's several other media
guys up there. I guess maybe dog it was somewhere,
but he'd already run back to the barn, I'm sure.
And I was on half ounce spinner bass, catching big
almost every cast, and.

Speaker 2 (01:22:02):
I just couldn't leave. I couldn't stand it.

Speaker 3 (01:22:03):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:22:04):
I talked about this just the other day, and I
finally The last fish I caught was a giant. It
was one of only two that I know were better
than ten pounds in my life. And I didn't waste
any time trying to weigh it or do anything like that.
I just unhooked that fish, took one more look at it,
dumped it back, and hauled to the dot to the
dock as fast as I could because it was cracking

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lighting all around me. Man, there were tree pars falling,
blowing a hundred. I was out of there.

Speaker 7 (01:22:32):
I believe that place is called Quantum Lakes.

Speaker 2 (01:22:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it probably was. I think that that
sounds right.

Speaker 7 (01:22:38):
If buddy of mine had a ten pounder out there
or a porko. But anyway, I've opened it up a
new toll. I'm finally I got a I got that
ribbing to seven hundred and thirty six with the three
round redfield on it. That's as old as I am.

Speaker 3 (01:22:52):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (01:22:53):
So I'm just now opened up, got her here on
my counter, a brand new vortex scope, so I'm kind
of good up. I don't know if it's my optics
that are failing at this age, or there's just some
rigfield optics would have together the light like it did
back in the seventies.

Speaker 3 (01:23:08):
I guess you know.

Speaker 1 (01:23:10):
You know, that's a good topic you bring up, and
I'm going to talk about it probably next week. A
lot getting closer to deer season is if you've got
great binoculars, that's fine, But if your scope can't see
as deep into the woods as your binoculars can, then
it doesn't do you a bit of good. You've got
to invest enough money in both where you can take advantage.

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That's something Bill Carter taught me. One of the first
times I went down to the som Burrito was when
I'm glassing the edge of the woods. I was always
as a young didn't know what I was doing. Guy
just glassing the edge of the woods, and he goes, No,
set your binoculars, find a tree that you can see
up in the woods, about ten yards into the woods,

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and set your focus there.

Speaker 2 (01:23:53):
And then when you're scanning.

Speaker 1 (01:23:54):
Through there, if you're just on the edge of the woods,
the tree is right out on the edge and you're
all focused up. Any thing ten yards in is going
to be in a little darker setting, and it's gonna
be a little fuzzy, and you may not recognize it
as a deer. But if you set it inside the
edge is a little fuzzy.

Speaker 2 (01:24:10):
But if there's a.

Speaker 1 (01:24:11):
Deer's tanning in there, it's gonna stand out like a
sore thumb.

Speaker 3 (01:24:14):
Oh for sure.

Speaker 7 (01:24:15):
For sure. I'm actually older and getting on Amazon and
my favorite place other than mass pro shouts of Amazon
and getting me another another range finder. We we used
to use rage finer, not only to make sure you're
you know you're setting your scope at the right place
on the deer at that's right yardage. But we incorporate
I carry a range finder in my duck box. We
take one decoy out there, if we'll have somebody the

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rangefinder to blind, and I'll go take a decoy out
thirty five yards. You set it, yeah, in three places,
and uh we said all that we don't shoot outside
that decoy. Better better kill shots instead of oh yeah, blasting.

Speaker 3 (01:24:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:24:50):
I used to do that with them, with my deer
stands that I was putting up when I was a
bow hunting a lot, I would I wouldn't use the
rangefinder as much because I didn't want to have to
pick up things and fumble one and make a noise.
But beforehand, when I spray my sin off of me
and all that stuff, I would bring.

Speaker 2 (01:25:07):
Little just like almost like little survey flags.

Speaker 1 (01:25:10):
You know, if you're marking sprinklers in the yard when
you're gonna get it punched or something, and just put
them out at like ten yards, twenty yards, thirty yards
in three or four different directions, and that way when
a deer walks through there, you know exactly how far.

Speaker 7 (01:25:23):
He is, exactly exactly. I guess today, I'm going to say,
if there's anymore uh Rory, Happy Gilmore Michael Roy on
the away of today, I ain't never seen us laugh.
I felt like I'm watching Happy Gilmore.

Speaker 3 (01:25:36):
What's up with this?

Speaker 1 (01:25:37):
I don't know, man, I don't know. They're finally at
least getting these.

Speaker 2 (01:25:43):
Well soon.

Speaker 1 (01:25:44):
I guess it's in about and I think another hour
maybe even before these last matches start up. And I'm
I at this point, I'm kind of ready to get
it over with, you know, let's just get him out there,
get them played out. Match one starts at eleven oh two,
so we've got another hour, starts at eleven oh two
hour time, and we got another hour before those singles

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matches started.

Speaker 2 (01:26:07):
It's just going through the motions today.

Speaker 1 (01:26:09):
They're done.

Speaker 7 (01:26:10):
You know, there's just no way unfortunately Bob Barker and gone,
or he could run out there and get his walk
of Michael Wood. Maybe have to be a little bit
more entertaining.

Speaker 2 (01:26:17):
But oh man, all right, it's.

Speaker 7 (01:26:23):
Great, but you have you have a good week, brother,
and yeah you too. Monday and go chase and go
chase some schools after just let me know what Monday,
I need to take off.

Speaker 1 (01:26:30):
Yeah, I'm gonna. I'm gonna send an email to that
guy we met down there, because he's the one who
sent me a picture a couple of days ago. Like
I told you about the trout he caught, and and
I would drive down there to catch two of those.
I don't know if I drive down there to catch one,
but i'd drive down there to catch two of them.
It was a good trout man, you.

Speaker 7 (01:26:48):
Know me, I'll drive down there to catch ladyfish.

Speaker 1 (01:26:50):
Oh yeah, you've already proved that you need to aim higher. Oh, bro,
I'll get you on some real trout man, I'll see
buddy audio. That's hilarious. Man.

Speaker 2 (01:27:02):
That guy's ate up with it, just like I was
at his age. I'm still ate up with it.

Speaker 1 (01:27:06):
I just can't functions as easily and on as little
sleep as I used to. Man when I was waterfowl
guiding four night, four hours a night. Yeah, I was fine,
go two three weeks on that and then have one
day where you just couldn't get out of bed.

Speaker 2 (01:27:21):
All right, that's gonna wrap it up for me.

Speaker 1 (01:27:22):
I'll be back in here on Tuesday with a nice
live version of fifty plus over on KPRC at noon,
and then back in this seat next Saturday morning. It's seven,
God willing, and I hope you're all here with me. Man,
stay out of the lightning. Go outside, have some fun
with your family. No light We're not gonna have any
lightnings for several days around here at least, so get outside.

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Enjoy some hunting, enjoy some fishing, enjoy some golf, whatever
it is you want to do, and I'll see you
on the other side.

Speaker 2 (01:27:49):
Thank you for listening. I really do appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:27:51):
Audios.