Doug's Ted Nugent Story

On this episode, Doug talks about boating safety, windy conditions along the Gulf Coast, and much more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
How many fish on our stringer, how many points on
our buck, how many feathers in our bag.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
That's how we keep score around here.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
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Speaker 2 (00:44):
To members and their guests. Now here's Doug Bike all right.
Sunday edition of the program starts now. Thank you all
for joining us wherever you may be. Hopefully we've got
multiple states represented usually Mark, go ahead and pop those
phones open with it, Frankie, thank you man. Hopefully we've

(01:08):
got well, Mark all the way in Georgia. And then
who was it? A couple of weeks ago, there's a
fellow who runs an eighteen wheeler all the way across
the country, then all the way back, and then all
the way across and all the way back. And I
can't remember where he was. Maybe up in the Dakotas
or something like that, but it was a long ways away.
I really do appreciate that because it makes me feel
like I'm kind of doing something that's more entertaining than

(01:30):
just talking about how to put a worm on a hook.
And this show always intends to be that way, and
that's one of the reasons I give the audience such
it's kind of a loose rain. Really let it run.
If there's a question you want to ask about the outdoors,
ask it. If I can answer it, I will. If
I can't, I'll throw it to the audience. And if

(01:51):
the audience can't, which hadn't happened yet, but I'll find
somebody and the next time we speak, I'll bring that
person on the air and they will answer that question.
It's just that simple. If you've got something you want
to know about, letting me know, and I'll go hunt
somebody down. I do that with fifty plus quite a bit.
There are all kinds of things that seniors want to

(02:13):
know about, but not all seniors want to know about
the same things, and so when I solicit questions for
topic ideas, I'm really never sure what I'm going to get.
And it's been kind of fun, really to figure out
what somebody wants to hear about, because every one of

(02:33):
you represents a whole lot more people who probably are
thinking about the same issue or the same distraction or
the same whatever. And I want to help everybody get
the answers they're looking for another nice day on the horizon.
If you don't mind warm and warm warm, we can
live with. And we get another month or so under

(02:55):
our belts, and we're gonna start getting into that really
hot range. And I don't use that word. If you
know the show at all, you know I don't talk
about it being hot until it's one hundred. I don't
talk about it being cold until it's thirty two or
lower enough to make your own popsicles on the front porch.
And we're a long ways from that the hot mark.

(03:16):
I feel. Let's play a game, Frankie, and one of
us is gonna have to make a note of this
somehow electronically, or we'll forget for sure what day of
the year, what month and day of the year do
you think we will get our first actual one hundred
degree high temperature? Not the man. I watched one of

(03:37):
the weather forecasts last night, and one of the forecaster people.
I won't say who it was, it doesn't matter, but
just couldn't wait to get to You could just feel
the gindiness when this person actually got to say, and
the feels like temperatures for the next couple of days,
a couple of them might might go over one hundred. Well,

(03:58):
it feels like, isn't it. If it is one hundred degrees,
you're gonna know it and you're gonna feel it. But
this whole chill factor and it feels like temperature that's
all made up stuff. That's all it is. So back
to what I want to know. We're gonna take a

(04:18):
bet here, what day do you think we will get
our first official one hundred degree day reading in Houston, Texas.
I'm gonna go with June seventeenth. Okay, golly, that's that's
a pretty I like, I'm gonna give us a little

(04:40):
well know, golly, we already had these high nineties, but
these are a typical. So I'm gonna go I'm what
did you say, the nineteenth? June seventeen seventeenth? Okay, I'm
gonna go with June, but I'm gonna give us one
more week and go with the twenty sixth and if

(05:05):
we can find this piece of paper when we need it,
we really need to give you shoot each other shoot
me an email with those dates. Yours is June seventeenth
minus June twenty sixth for the first day, it's going
to be one hundred. And if anybody else wants to
shoot me an email, I'll come up with I'll come
with golf somewhere somebody wants to go. You don't have
to go play golf on that day, by the way,

(05:27):
but I can. I bet you I can find I
can make this worth a foursome of golf to a
nice golf course. That's what I can do for you.
If somebody actually pegs it on that day, and if
it if there are multiple guesses on the same day
and it happens to be that day, then we're just
gonna throw the names in a hat and draw it.
I don't know. I think it would have to become

(05:48):
an official contest, and I got to be careful about that.
Just similar days and I'll I'll work out the details
with the prize department and then we'll go from there.
Of now, it's not anything official with the station or
the company it's just something I'm thinking about, So take
the prize off the board, play for fun for now,

(06:10):
and we'll see what happens. Seven one three two seven
ninety Email me Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com. If you're
thinking about going down to Galaston by the way, know
that all the preemptive work that the law enforcement people
down there did to make sure that Jeep Weekend went

(06:31):
off smoothly and calmly has paid off in a big way.
Most of the troublemakers, whoever they have been over the
past few years, they stayed home. They didn't want to
go to jail, they didn't want to get arrested, and
that turned out pretty good for law enforcement and for
the crowd of just good old fashioned people who wanted

(06:52):
to join up and be on the beach. Most of
the bad guys stayed home. Wasn't especially good for businesses
down there, but it sure made things a whole lot
calmer and more enjoyable for the people who showed up
for the right reasons to enjoy that with their families.
I saw one guy interviewed and for the first time

(07:12):
about Jeep Weekend. I this is the first time I've
ever heard it described as kind of a family atmosphere
like Wow as used to be. It was like a
mixed martial arts cage match down there, a lot of fights,
a lot of weapons confiscated, sometimes used, and JEP Weekend

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had gained a reputation that law enforcement decided to shut down,
and shut it down they did. It was really good
quick message. By the way, if you haven't seen it
on Facebook yet or probably it's probably on x as well, Sharky,
our buddy Sharky Michael Marquez down there in Galison needs

(07:56):
some help finding out. There's video under his name that
shows somebody and somebody. Let's just leave it at that,
and a friend of somebody kind of idling up to
his dock in a little John boat with a big
old black outboard on back and tiller steered, and the

(08:19):
motor's up and tilted, and the guy kind of turns
the bow of the boat away, hits the throttle and
sprays a ton of salt water all over the electronics
of one of Sharky's boats and met with that much
engine on that small a hole, it shouldn't be too
hard to spot that boat on a trailer. And if

(08:42):
the guy is smart he's probably had to ride out
of Galveston at a pretty high rate of speed if
he knows what's good for him. That's a pretty gutless move,
I got to tell you. And I can't imagine what
would motivate someone to do that. You want to call
and comment on that, if maybe, if something like that's
ever happened to you, just do me a favor and
watch your language, because it'll be really easy to go

(09:03):
off the rails and do something FCC doesn't approve of.
When I've got, especially with my family audience here, I
don't want parents having to explain what words mean that
they haven't heard yet. And even if you use that
language in your house, that more power to you. That's fine.
If you post videos of your five year old dropping

(09:23):
bombs and saying things that my son didn't say when
he was that age, uh, more power to you. That's okay,
that's you, u bu. But if you're gonna call and
talk about it, just don't say those words.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
All right.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Let me take a little breath. As a pretty gutless move,
by the way, and I can't imagine what would motivate
somebody to do that. Go Lee, Really, it's just him
and his buddy in that boat, and they just turn
and face the stern of the boat right at Sharky's
bigger boat and hit the gas and just spread all
down with salt water. Totally unnecessary. Let me get Captain

(10:01):
Mike on the Phonecy, what's up? What is up? Captain Mike.

Speaker 5 (10:05):
Well, it's a windy day and I've got three fishing
ones here and we're catching. We've got a red fish,
a puppy drum, two sheep head, and you know, having
a good time. A couple of hardheads but working here.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
That's a workingman's grand slam right there, Mike.

Speaker 5 (10:21):
Yeah, they got a good mess of fish already, you know.
And I'm hot back here. There's no secret where I'm at.
I mean fred Hartman Bridge and back in the back
bays out here, and just they just having, you know,
having a good time. And yeah, you know, you know,
you're right. You know, this is a family show. Let
people enjoy listening to the fishing guys.

Speaker 6 (10:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (10:44):
And I've been guiding for over thirty years and I
know where to go, and I've been fishing the Texas
City area at Galveston Bay and we caught some good
fish right there at the causeway at the you know
the other day. So you know, life is too sh
art to get like that. I enjoy it talking to you,
you know, and and it is what it is.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
You know.

Speaker 5 (11:06):
People just need to relax and enjoy themselves.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Now, you mentioned, you mentioned the causeway, you mentioned fred
harton Bridge. Let me ask you a question. Is it
true or not true that a lot of fishermen drive
that they drive their boats too far, thinking they have
to go that far to find fish. They run past
fish to try to get to fish.

Speaker 5 (11:30):
You know, my dad told me just keep it simple,
don't overfish. And you do the same thing when you're
around those ponds over there and Tugar lamb. Just make
it simple and enjoy yourself even if you don't even
catch a fish. You know, I live in Deer Park
and it takes me fifteen minutes to go catch a
mess of fish if I want to eat something. And
this Galveston Artists Galves Houston Ship Channel, it's a lot

(11:54):
cleaner now than it used to be. I mean, is
it is full of full of fish? You just got to,
you know, just take your time and figure out what
it takes. Like right now, the tide's gonna come in
at ten o'clock, and at ten o'clock I'm gonna move
to an area where we can catch some trout and
it'll be okay. But even with a twenty five mile
an hour wind blowing.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Man, when is that wind gonna stop?

Speaker 5 (12:17):
Mike, I don't know. I fished the last four days
in the road. Matter of fact, I won the red
fish two tournaments in a row up here. One was
nine pounds fourteen ounces, the other was eight pounds and
six ounces.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, other toads, man.

Speaker 5 (12:31):
But you know, I fish different than a lot of people.
You know, sure, I fish for I fish for what's biting. Hey, man,
we just got fish. But I just wanted to say.
We got Memorial weekend coming up, and uh, you know,
just everybody's gonna be on the water. So etiquette, you know,

(12:52):
do you see somebody catching a fish, You know, if
you're gonna fish close to them, just stay away a
little bit and give them a little room.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Stay out of the range, at least in a crowded place,
down of casting range, in a in a an open,
a big open water reef somewhere, give the one hundred yards.
There's gonna be fish you'll find them.

Speaker 5 (13:13):
Yeah, the fish are gonna it's gonna be a good
year this year. And you're probably seeing my posts of
these people catching red fish and stuff, you know, on
my you know, on Facebook. Yeah, yeah, I hope people do.
Remember to just make sure your boat motor runs before
you take it to the bay or to the lake.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah, there's that too.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
Do you do your do dealers you see before you go,
make sure you five jacks, make sure your firest scenery
is Look now, what the coast guard and what the
gate warriors are doing. I talked to one the other day.
He checked my he checked my firest and he checked
the date on it. If you don't have an update
forrest on your boat, he's gonna write your ticket.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Yeah. Well, and should honestly, I mean, you can try
to talk your way out of it, but they've heard
everything you could possibly tell them about that, and it's
it's just not that hard to keep all your safety
equipment up to date. And if you don't, then you're
just asking to get yourself hurt. And the game Warden's
gonna write you a little reminder so that you don't
get yourself hurt.

Speaker 5 (14:16):
Yeah, And they're out here to help you, not to
not to make you mad or anything. They got a
job to do and they're all good. Just talk nice
to them and say, yes, you know you're right. I
should check it. And not out of ten times are
you gonna write your warning?

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 5 (14:30):
The main thing is just be courtesy out here, and
I know your time, but I just want to give
you time that I'm out here fishing, and even throw
the wind blow. I said, don't overfish. There's places up
down the Monument, there's up the ship Channel. There's there's
Burnett Bathe, there's Scott's Bay. There's all kinds of area.
So I just mentioned that. And right now, wait, fishermen's

(14:52):
up east player doing a head of a child.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
They're catching some fishing.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
I oh, I know it.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
Man.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
They're everywhere, all right, Ken can tell them where they
can find you, buddy, I gotta take a break.

Speaker 5 (15:03):
Okay, Hey two eight one five o seven one nine
three three two eight one five o seven one nine
three three. If you never fish salt water, give me
a call and I'll take one hundred dollars off the calls.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
You're a good man, Michael, Thank you. Kevim all right,
see buddy all right by huh ideos Okay, he's thank
you for that, Frankie. Yeah, he's out there catching fish
in the wind like everybody else is trying to do.
And just like he said, keep it simple, don't overthink
it that. Don't spend more time driving around than fishing.

(15:35):
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(16:20):
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Shootingcenters dot com. Hey twenty one on Sports Talk seven
to ninety The Dougpike Show, thank you for listening on
this PGA Championship Weekend slash JEEP Weekend in order of
importance to the world. JEEP Weekend's a big deal for
the people who are down there, but the PGA kind
of over shatters it a little bit. Let's go talk
to Rick, shall we. What's up?

Speaker 7 (17:49):
Rick? Good morning, Doug, Good morning.

Speaker 6 (17:53):
You know.

Speaker 7 (17:53):
One of the things I like about your show, the
most subjects come up that I wished I would never remember,
and and all I love to I love to remember.
This is kind of falls in I wish I could forget. Okay, now,
your your guy was talking about Memorial Weekend and the

(18:14):
game mornings are going to be on the prow which
should be. Now, you're gonna be very disappointed in me
at this point in our relationship.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
I doubt it.

Speaker 7 (18:23):
I have been got I have got a citation.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Well that's not the end of the world. That doesn't
make you a horrible person.

Speaker 7 (18:31):
But I was guilty by association.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Oh, come you keep I.

Speaker 7 (18:37):
Was gonna and reason I remember it happened on Memorial
Day and I'm on the boat with two guys and
they had baited catfish, hoss, and we went out there
and worked at you catfish and a lot of them.
And finally I told them, guys, I said, I think

(18:59):
we need to count these fish. Now. We ain't nothing.
I said, man, I know we're gonna be over this limit.
You got to catch them when you can catch them.
Rick got to catch them when you can catch them.
And I thought we are get in trouble. And so
I kind of rilled my rod in and I'm kind

(19:20):
of cleaning enough. I'm done, and I know they ain't
gonna cull no fish.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Gosh.

Speaker 7 (19:25):
And about that time I heard that blah, I heard
that motor crank up over and then and then in
that and here comes gets Sue to that and they're
watching us. He pulls up, Eric cuts the engine off,
puts his foot over the side of my boat or

(19:48):
their boat, and he says, if y'all had any luck?

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah, exactly. They always say that, how y'all doing you
had any lucky?

Speaker 7 (19:56):
I said, well, my answer was we we did up
until now, Oh lord, we went to counting and they
were coloring and coloring and coling.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Hit them. They kept counting five or.

Speaker 7 (20:11):
Eighty and square on the Bible.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
I had no part of this being I believe you,
I do.

Speaker 7 (20:18):
And but I remember that you think back eighty five
eighty six, we all pay three hundred and sixty five
dollars a piece. I don't remember how many cats.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
This we had.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
Do you know you had too many?

Speaker 7 (20:38):
I knew that before they got there.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Oh yeah, I'm sure. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (20:42):
So my point in all that is be careful, you know,
when you're like that guy says he can go catch
fish all day, just keep up with once you catch Yes,
acause we could have got in a little more trouble
because of just some some available loss. But they were
nice to us, but they get us pretty hard. That
was a whole week's pay check back then.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
No kidding, man, that's a long time ago.

Speaker 7 (21:06):
Anyway, All right, Well that.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Okay, Well, good for you. Got any plans my world
that weekend?

Speaker 1 (21:14):
You know?

Speaker 7 (21:14):
Not yet, Travis.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Yeah, he's.

Speaker 7 (21:21):
I thought he was in the alpine, but I evidently
fishing apparently not he I guess he's got his boat
back down here, So I don't know. I don't have
no clue.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
No, I'm the same way. I'm gonna come in and
do my shows, I think, and just kind of try
to help everybody help me through the weekend. I'm gonna
live vicariously for you guys.

Speaker 7 (21:45):
I'm gonna try to be I'm gonna try to just
stay off of the road and yeah, take care of
my own business and spend time with much of the
time I came with my own family.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
You got it. I'm gonna go catch the other end
of my family, my two my two work uncles, You
and Dave. We'll go get Dave on the phone.

Speaker 7 (22:04):
Hey, we're on the same clock. Kill Dave. Happy birthday.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
There you go, man, I'll see you audios. Rick, All right,
let me get Dave up here. What's up, Dave?

Speaker 6 (22:17):
I made it out alive.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
How was it yesterday? Pretty fun?

Speaker 6 (22:21):
Oh? We we had a time, man, you know all
those boats coming in. Oh yeah, yeah, you know. And
then the band was just wonderful. Uh they played some
uh you know heart that gal that lady she can
I don't remember, yeah, but okay, and then they did

(22:42):
some Pink Floyd and the man, they did all kinds
of good stuff. They had a keyboard player, base, get
lead drums, everything. And then she calls me up there
to the stage for my birthday and sang. If I
closed my eyes, I would have thought it was Marilyn
Monroe scene that president.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Oh lord, yeah.

Speaker 6 (23:05):
Mercy of all the people out there at upset it
up there and turned red?

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Or get a little hot under the collar, did you do?

Speaker 6 (23:14):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (23:14):
And then this morning, now I was coming out of
FM eight thirty. I stopped at the gas station there
and there was a young man there had a double
pontoon boat uh you know, uh yeah, and it was
on a wooden It was a metal trailer with the
wooden top on it, which he had at sitting.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (23:32):
And I said, where are you going? I mean I
thought he was going to go down to let Conloe.
He said, now I'm gonna go catch refuge.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Yeah, he was going to Sea Wolf Park.

Speaker 6 (23:42):
Man, if you're going over there, yes, And then flounder,
I mean that's a good flounder spot. Heck of a
flounder spot right here, Yeah, buddy, can Seawolf Park?

Speaker 2 (23:52):
And oh and.

Speaker 6 (23:54):
Then you were talking about oh, like I said July
fourth one hundred degrees and then uh, responsible for your wake. Yeah,
that's you know, that's a thing that you're not supposed
to do.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
I mean even on yeah this cat well set. Yeah,
there's a lot of ways to throw too much wake
in a boat in a place you're not supposed to.
But what this guy did down in Galveson was an
absolutely deliberate move to spray down that man's boat. Spray
down Sharky's boat with salt water. And that was just
that was so bad. Oh, he's such a good dude too,

(24:30):
Sharky man. Yeah. Hew.

Speaker 6 (24:32):
In fact, I got a I got a risk band
from him. That's the did it gave me for take
a bite out of Cancer Team Shark at the Moon. Yeah,
And I wear that. It's a rubber wristman, and I
wear it all the time. And you know, in reference
to my wife's daughter that passed away at thirty nine,
and then her sister just passed away with breast cancer too,

(24:55):
So you know, not not a good thing, you know,
And and and you know, and then we we've I've
helped out, you've helped out you know the Sunshine Kids,
Sure Finders Kids or you know, any of them guys,
any of them guys and gals, and you know, it's
it's pretty tough watching them go through stuff like that.
And I'm very fortunate to work fourteen of my twenty

(25:17):
seven years at Merrick Brothers in the medical center, you know,
working at those different facilities, you know, and putting together
the research facilities and where they have the rat labs
at and all that kind of stuff. You know, it's
sure it's a high honor in Rice University too. That's
another place.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Where they do explmeing, yes, indeed.

Speaker 6 (25:38):
Yeah, But anyway, no other than that, I'm well, I'm
here in Houston right now. I mean, I didn't get
up till like six thirty. Normally I'm out of there
at four o'clock to get back here, but but I
didn't even get up and then so now I got
to go clean up and then I'm gonna head back.
And I checked my fishing hole over there, and.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
It's, yeah, pretty good.

Speaker 6 (25:58):
It's looking pretty good. And uh, I talked to some
guys over there that were, oh, what about that. It's
a US Navy sailing ship that hit the bridge.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
I saw the video. I wasn't even sure it was
real because it looked like that that old three masted
schooner was was moving backward. It appeared because it looked
like it was the bow that was going in last
and and I don't know, but I saw the video
you're talking about. Yeah, I saw the video. There's that

(26:32):
that weeks of AI to me right now, Dave. I'm
gonna have to get some confirmation on that one before
I'll believe it. Because it did. It did just really
it was swinging rear. Yeah, yeah, that's what it looks like.
And for that thing to have gotten that close if
and especially if there's a tug boat anywhere near that thing,

(26:54):
that that, yeah, that should have been avoidable. I don't
I don't know if it's right or not. I'm gonna
have to get more evident before i'm gonna.

Speaker 6 (27:00):
Believe it search that. Yeah, but I did see it
on the major news.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (27:05):
Yeah, oh well, oh nowadays, Yeah, they could put me,
they could put me in the pope here for.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
I don't know, man, there'd been a lot of lightning
following that day, hot of thunder and lightning.

Speaker 6 (27:20):
I see what God, the pope shredding the guitar, you know,
Gibson guitar that ain't no way.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Alright, all right, Dave, I gotta right, thanks, buddy, Audio. Oh, Mercy, mercy, mercy.
Things do take weird turns around here. It's so fun
talking to all you guys. Feel free to jump in,
feel free to add something to the program. I'm always looking,
always looking for what I've missed about the outdoors. If

(27:50):
you are interested in getting your first and foremost taking
care of our coastal resources, okay. CEE CEE a coastal
Conservation Association been around fifty something years, hosting again the
umpteenth annual. I'm not sure exactly which one it is.
I know it's twenty five, twenty eight thirty CCA Texas

(28:11):
Star Tournament. The Star Tournament started here in Texas. By
the way, a lot of the other CCA chapters do
Star Tournament, it's their own versions of them around the
Gulf Coast and the East Coast and up the West coast.
But this is this is the one that started it all.
And this year's prize bundle, everything that's going to be

(28:32):
given away totals about one point nine million dollars, okay,
and that includes tagged red fish out there just swimming around,
and they release these fish in places where a lot
of people fish. They don't take them out in the
middle of nowhere. They don't take them twenty five miles
off shore and drop them off. These fish are in places.

(28:53):
They want those fish to be caught. Because it's good
for the tournament, and it's a self sustaining tournament. We
don't have to worry about losing anything for Cca with this.
All the sponsors, these good sponsors of this tournament, I'll
tell you who they are in a minute, are helping
provide these prizes. The tagged redfish I'm talking about first

(29:15):
five people I believe it is to catch one of
those a boat, a motor, a trailer, and a truck
to pull it all. That's a pretty good package for
the kids. We're talking about scholarships all the way up
to thirty thousand dollars, and then there are just second, third, fourth,
fifth placed prizes for a whole bunch of categories. Might

(29:36):
get you one thousand, two thousand dollars in academy. And
who couldn't go burn that quick as can be just
going to the fishing apartment, going to the hunting department. Man,
if you win one of those and by catching a fish.
Don't spend it on tennis shoes. I'd be so disappointed
if you did. The Star Tournament is made possible by
great sponsors up to end, including, of course, Texas for Dealers,

(29:59):
Progressive Insurance, It's Academy Sports and Outdoors. Like I mentioned, Mercury,
What a Burger, Mustang, kat Lone, Star, Coastline Trailers, Texas
Fishing Game Magazine, Hoffpower Transport Boats, McLean Trailers, Dargell and
Shoalwater and Chris's Marine, and who knows who else is
pitching in and helping out. I do what I can

(30:19):
to promote this tournament because I believe in it. I
worked over at CCA for ten years editing their magazine
while I was also doing my radio show here and
also still working at the newspaper. I was a pretty
busy man for about eight or ten years. It was fun.
I enjoyed going over there. Every time I went. I
learned a lot about coastal resources. I learned a lot

(30:42):
how to conserve them. And I'm happy to be part
of this. Do it for CCA. All of those sponsors
I just mentioned, they all support CCA, and so should you.
Just that simple sign up today Star Tournament dot orget
get started on a Memorial Day and it runs all
the way through Labor Day. That's a bunch of days

(31:02):
that you have a legitimate excuse to go fishing again.
Take the kids with you or don't, doesn't matter to me.
As long as you get out there. What does matter
to me? Really? But as long as you're out there
being a member of CCA and fishing for those prizes,
I'm all for you catching prize fish all Summer Long

(31:22):
Star Tournament. Dot org Hey, thirty nine on Sports Talk
seven to ninety the Dugpike Show, Thank you for listening.
Certainly do appreciate it. Trout Fishing Captain Mike brought it up.
It's been on everybody's minds for the last month, waiting
for everything to get right. It tries to get right,
and then the wind blows again and random little maybe

(31:46):
it'll be called maybe not days don't help it all.
Monday was pretty good, and then here we are at Sunday,
six days removed from Monday, and we're right back to
where the bad stuff was at Port O'Connor. Right now,
these are gonna be all southeast winds okay. Port O'Connor

(32:08):
twenty four. Where is this port O Ramses Pier sixteen
just a little ways off Galveston twenty four the north
Jetty and Rollover pass. What's well rollover used to be
passed both eighteen miles an hour? Another fourteen where's the fourteen?

(32:33):
I'm not sure where that is. Bottom line is uh,
I don't see any single digit winds along the coast. Now,
if you get inland a little ways, it does calm down.
There's Wharton's six miles an hour, Edna is six miles
an hour, port Levaka eight miles an hour. Maybe down
that far. All those windmills are slowing that wind down.

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I don't get me started on those iores that don't
really do what they're supposed to do very well. They
they cause more environmental damage, I believe than than they
then they help us with electricity generation. That could be wrong,
but it would take a long time to convince me.
There's a dead calm. Actually, here's a zero at Duke Ranch.

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At Duke Ranch, it's gonna heat up pretty good today.
I would imagine seven one three two one two five
seven ninety Email on me, Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.
There's a break in the weather. That's supposed to come
sometime midweek, maybe a little bit later, And I was
thinking about, uh, breaking off and running south, but then

(33:42):
I thought, again, that's gonna be Memorial Day weekend. And
if Memorial Day weekend turns out calm and beautiful and wonderful,
perfect weather along the coast, I might try to drive
down and fish the beach front at Surfside, But I'm
not gonna fight that crowd to do anything farther away
than that. That would be tough. And when I go,

(34:05):
I like to go on off days. It's kind of
like almost the same as waterfowl hunting. I'm sure it's
still the same fifty years after David Pruitt started Riceland
Waterfowl Club. The best days to duck hunt typically are
like weekdays, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. The birds aren't harassed, the

(34:27):
birds aren't being beat up, and I would almost say Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday before it builds back up for the weekend. There's
just less traffic out there. And it's the same for fishing.
Saturday and Sunday always busy, Fridays pretty busy, and now
with so many people living here, there's just so much

(34:48):
more traffic on the water, so many more boats, so
many more people who don't have boats but like to fish,
to serf, or like to fish to jetty, or like
to fish anywhere. It's difficult to feel alone with your
thoughts if you go fishing somewhere, because there's almost always
going to be somebody else there, and if there's nobody

(35:10):
else there, then you start scratching your head and thinking,
oh H, why am I here. The good news is that,
the very good news is that the Parks and Wildlife
Department and all of us who enjoy our coastal resources
and love to fish are seeing the results in just

(35:31):
one year of the most restrictive speculed trout limits we've
ever had. But with all these new people in the fishery,
they had to do something, and they got this one right.
I guarantee you they did. Unless you are somebody who
just thinks that you should be able to catch more
fish because you're you, If you're in it for the team,

(35:53):
and that the team meaning everybody who buys a fishing license,
then you should know by now that what they've done
is give all of us a chance to catch more
and bigger trout, more and bigger and it's just gonna
keep getting better, so long as the environment doesn't just
kick us right in the in the face. We got

(36:14):
I'm a little bit late. I apologize, Frankie. We're gonna
take a little break here. On the way out, I'll
tell you about black Horse Golf Club. This is the one.
Take two ninety to Fry Road generally, or you can
go out I ten and go up Fry Road. Either way,
at some point you're gonna come. You're gonna come across
it a lot sooner going out to ninety than iten.
But either way, we'll get you there. You're gonna find

(36:35):
that golf course. It's on Fry Road, just about maybe
a few miles south of two ninety. Very easy to
get to from almost anywhere in town. The North Course
still daily fees, still a beautiful track to go play.
It's pretty forgiving. You can you can miss the fairways
and still not feel like you're gonna be totally punished.
The South course was taken private this year early January,

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and it is now becoming one of the more desirable
places to play golf out there for the country club set.
If you want a private course, that's a really good one.
To look at if you're in if you're in that
shopping mode for a place to call your own, go
check out the benefits you get from becoming a member
of the South Course at black Horse, up to and
including in some of the packages, they have access to

(37:23):
not only black Horse South Course, but the North Course there.
That's two courses. You get also access to Blackhawk Country
Club that's three, and then both the courses at Golf
Club of Houston. So it's kind of a five for
one deal if you want to make that move, and
you'll be glad you did. You'll be glad you did
either way. Whether you're a daily fee guy, whether you're

(37:43):
a country club guy, private course guy, You're gonna love
black Horse. Everybody out there wants nothing more than for
you to have a good time. Black Horse Golf Club
dot com just a few miles south of two ninety
on Fry Road, black Horse Golf Club dot com pay
forty nine on fours Talk seven ninety. I was just
talking to Frankie about how much I admired great guitar players.

(38:07):
I owned a guitar when I was young and never
really learned to play it. I was too busy trying
to learn a mill and other things at the time
and didn't dedicate time to it to become any good
at it whatsoever. And I've had the opportunity to meet
and hang around with at least at least one pretty
well known guitar player. I had breakfast with him at

(38:32):
his hotel when he was in town for a big
political convention years ago. I had a chance to spend
about half an hour with him and his wife in
their hotel room when they were here for an NRA
event years ago, and actually did a deer hunt with
the guy. And after we finished eating dinner, he knew

(38:54):
what I did for a living, and I of course
knew who he was. That was why I was there.
And he just walked over and said, Hey, I understand
you want to talk to me. You want to get
some ice cream? Like, yeah, let's go. So he said,
have a seat, I'll go get us a couple of
Bulls ice cream, and Ted Nugent walked back into the
room and we sat down and talked for about a
half an hour that night. It was it was really

(39:15):
fun to get to know him. He is an interesting guy.
It was it was weird that he I don't know
how it happened. But about about four or five days
after my father passed away, I got an email from
him that just said, hey, man, I'm sorry to hear
about your dad. Like, holy cow, that's he didn't have

(39:36):
to do that, that's for sure, but it was. That's
just the kind of guy he is. And anybody who
doesn't like the way he doesn't like his politics, or
doesn't like the way he thinks about the outdoors, just
know this. I've been around him in settings where he's
been bombarded with questions by people who are trying to
trip him up, or people who are trying to think

(39:57):
they know more than he does, and I've never seeing
him get flustered by that. He'll get upset with him
if they if they get upset with him, and he'll
fight fire with fire. But always when I've seen him
debating people, he's able to source his information, where when
he asked them to source theirs, it's like, well that's

(40:19):
just what I heard, or I read that two days
ago where I can't remember, but Ted was always really
really good about that. He knew what he was talking about.
And maybe you like him, maybe you don't, but I
grew to know him well enough to trust him with

(40:40):
the information he was sharing on the out of doors.
I'm gonna talk to faux pro here. See what's up?
What up, faux pro, Sir? Good morning.

Speaker 8 (40:50):
I got a slider Burger still over here. I had
a boat coffee, I got two cakeups lifts, I made water,
and I'm waiting on Angie to wake up to get hers.
And then we got to go on a on a
caffee mission.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Oh my gosh, that's not an emergency.

Speaker 5 (41:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (41:05):
Get my agent.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
Yeah, you know what. Yesterday morning, I came in here
and Frank, you'll back me up on this. I said,
you know what, I'm going to try to go through
this morning without coffee, just for the first time in
a while, I'm going to try to go through a
whole show without coffee. And fifteen minutes later, I'm going
to be taking a coffee break up here right back.
Oh I couldn't do it four cups. So what's up? Man?

Speaker 8 (41:27):
Well, I'm actually enjoying watching the bass masters today are Sabine.
They're on the lower Sabine River, the top ten and
there's still a couple of guys trying to scope, you
know where the water's clear. But for the most part,
these guys are beating the bushes, beating the supes, flip
and spinner, right, So I'm actually enjoyed actually watching fishing
today irritating. So that's a nice, nice relief. Yeah, left

(41:50):
MLF song too. I flipped over there, but it was
scope scope scope. So I'm back here, and you know
they're fishing places. You know, you and I know a
bunch of people that are fishing lower sabine free. They're
catching red fish, bass, brintel, garb much catching everything they catch.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
It's a grab bag.

Speaker 8 (42:10):
Oh yeah, Oh Ted mus be governor if it wouldn't
cut into something times.

Speaker 6 (42:16):
Yeah, I don't keeping him from doing it.

Speaker 2 (42:18):
He's a very interesting guy, and I haven't talked to
him in years, maybe a decade or more, but I
still I still really remember and respect the stuff that
he and I talked about, and how he approached all
these people who thought they were right and and we
were wrong. So it was good man.

Speaker 8 (42:39):
I love I love hearing his interviews and them guys
trying to put him in the corner. He just, oh yeah,
gotta put them down their place pretty good, you know
what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
Well, if you're if you're backed, if your information is
backed by fact, and you can source the facts, then
what can they say that this is exactly Yeah, it's
so simple really, if you just tell the truth.

Speaker 8 (42:59):
Yeah, it's something on my mind this morning. I thought
you may be able to help with real quickly. Maybe
your listeners. As a kid I grew up, we don'tays
go down to Kema, Texas City, Dike. I don't even
know if that stuff exists anymore. Oh, yeah, to go crabbing,
But I've never heard anybody talk about crabbing anymore.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
Is go crabbing? Yeah, there are any place you used
to go crabbing, You can probably still go crabbing. But
the difference is there's a little bit more pressure on
that resource than there should be commercially. I believe now
that that I can't I can't verify, but it just
feels like that's it. Or just like fishing, there are
so many people trying to do it. Now, if there's

(43:36):
ten crabs out there and three people are fishing, three
of them are gonna get three and one. I'm gonna
maybe have a fourth one in there somewhere. But if
there's ten crabs out there and nine people are crabbing.
They're not gonna have as good as luck, and that
I think may be part of it. Yeah, I used
to love it as a kid.

Speaker 8 (43:54):
Yeah, I don't hear about it no more, Harriet, Is
it done?

Speaker 2 (43:57):
But oh well no, it's still it's still out there.
You got to have a fishing license to do it,
so don't just be wandering down there with your bucket
full of chicken necks and string and all those little nets.

Speaker 8 (44:08):
Oh yeah, all right man, all right, boss, I'll let
you get back to Yes, sir, flipping the reeds.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Yep, well, tell as you I said, Hello, yes, sir,
we'll do all right, audios folk bro all right, I
tell you what. Yeah, let me get David before we
go to the break. Hey, David, you need a minute
or you want to wait through the break?

Speaker 4 (44:28):
You I'll be quick. Oh wait, I'll wait.

Speaker 5 (44:31):
I'll wait through the break.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
Yeah, stand by, because I know what you want to
talk about and I want I want to give it
some time. Okay, all right, I'm gonna go ahead. Yeah,
I'm gonna go ahead and go to this break early
and that way, David, and now I'll have a little
bit of time when we get back because we're going
to talk about boats and accidents, and I'm always up
for talking about boating safety. Belleville Meat Market is on

(44:53):
Highway thirty six, about fifteen minutes north of Sily, fifteen
minutes south of Hempstead. Very easy to find us, right
in the middle of town, just driving Bellville. Roll down
your windows when you smell barbecue, just turn upwind and
you'll be there within a minute or two, right in
the middle of there. May through July. Of course, the
smoke sausage samples available always. You've got that full pecan

(45:14):
full menu of pecan smoke barbecue. That is, it's only
served seven days a week from ten to seven, and
so you don't need to miss that. They've got beautiful
pulled pork. They've got homemade hot dogs, and then all
the traditional beef, chicken and pork. They got the ribs
of brisket, all of that ready for you to come

(45:35):
in there and have a delicious lunch while they're preparing
your order that you want to take home with you.
And boys, there are all kinds of good stuff for that.
You've got homemade hot dogs, the originals and with cheddar
cheese infused into them. Hamburger patty's kind of the same
way you got stuffed pork tenders. You got stuff, pepper, stuff, mushrooms.
Let Bellville Meat Market be your backyard barbecue and summertime

(46:00):
party headquarters. Chuck Wagon patties. That's the big new thing,
the hip and cool thing now. So it's half pound
beef patties, seasoned and loaded with cheddar cheese. While game
processing of course year round. There's a new sausage recipe.
If you've got some wild game to drop off out there.
You got deer quarters in your freezer that you swore
you were gonna for this. This was gonna be the

(46:21):
year you started processing your own meat. And you got
quarters still sitting in the freezer. Take them out to Belleville.
They'll turn them into something you're gonna love. Belleville MeetMarket
dot Com is website. If you can't get out there,
go to the website, order a bunch of stuff and
they'll deliver it right to your door. Belleville MeetMarket dot
com is a website. Belleville MeetMarket dot com. Bie second hour,

(46:43):
second and final hour of a Sunday starts right now
and before I get to the PGA, because because boating
accidents are always important. I'm gonna bring up David. What's up, David?

Speaker 4 (46:56):
Yeah, Doug, real quickly. I know it was Memorial Day
weekend next week. I've been aware of the Texas as
a hunter education instructor, I've been aware of their hunting
accidents reports Texas Parks Wildlife Department for three years. But
I was just curious to see if they do anything
for boating and they actually do.

Speaker 2 (47:13):
Oh yeah, I never I never.

Speaker 4 (47:15):
Realized that voting is a heck of a lot more
dangerous than hunting. When you look at the numbers, they.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
Don't lie, No, they don't.

Speaker 4 (47:21):
The number of people that are killed on the water
in boating accidents every year far surpasses it could be
the numbers. There's maybe there's more a lot more people
that boat than that hunt. But still, I sent you
a link to the twenty twenty three report. I don't
know if the twenty twenty four reporters out yet.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
Not yet, No, I don't believe it is.

Speaker 4 (47:41):
If you scroll down to the to the end of that,
we'll just but there's a wealth of information in there
that that people. You know, when I teach the hunter
education class, I always point people to the to the
hunting accident report so they can, for lack of a
better way of putting it, they can see the stupid
things that people do on the water become killed, all right,
or I should say the woods that get them killed.

(48:01):
If you do that on the the boating accident report,
you'll get the same thing. And Doug, if you look
at the very end the number of people that were
killed simply because they didn't wear a lot of jacket.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
Yeah, pretty much pretty much out of the boat you go,
you bang your head on the way out, or you
you break a leg or an arm and you're in
the water, and if you don't have that PFD on,
it's going to be very difficult for you to just
maintain flotation of your own battered, broken body. And we'll

(48:34):
take that for granted.

Speaker 4 (48:36):
Yeah, on the surface, you would think a sport where
people are carrying guns would be more dangerous than where
people are just sitting around, you know, you know, riding boats.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
Well back up just a little bit, because a sport
where people are carrying guns, think about this, David. Okay,
you're you're you're a hunter safety instructor. People are carrying guns,
but there aren't five hundred people walking and running around
them who also have guns. These people are typically either

(49:07):
in a very small group or even by themselves in
the woods in a deer stand whatever. And mostly hunting
accidents are gonna involve either a very close friend if
you're in a duck blind or a dove field, or yourself.
That's the only people who can get hurt. When you're

(49:27):
on say Lake Conro on Memorial Day and there's five
hundred boats on the lake, and there's two hundred, well
probably one thousand personal watercraft, and there's kayaks, and there's canoes,
and there's little bitty sailboats and big sailboats. The odds
of two of them banging into each other are way
higher than somebody taking a shot they shouldn't take. Yeah,

(49:50):
the boaters are gonna always have the most accidents, and
the boaters now it's all gotten better for hunting and fishing,
but the boaters are more likely to have out hall
in them.

Speaker 4 (50:02):
Yeah, that's true. True. There's a good, good points well taken.

Speaker 3 (50:04):
Doug.

Speaker 4 (50:05):
Well, Anyway, I thought that we thought it was very
interesting it what it showed, and a good reminder with
Memorial Day weekend coming up.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
You know, yeah, the numbers go ahead, go ahead.

Speaker 4 (50:15):
Well, I hate to say that somebody's probably gonna get
killed next weekend.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
It's a possibility, it's a possibility. I'm looking at the
official Incident Statistics Report. Total number of incidents for twenty
twenty three, one hundred and seventy five. Here's and the
good news is going to follow every one of these numbers.
Down seventeen percent. Total number of fatal incidents for the
reporting period twenty eight Okay, down seventeen percent. Total number

(50:41):
of fatalities for the report period. Fatalities and fatal incidents.
I guess they do differently. There's twenty eight there, but
that's down twenty six percent. The fatality rate for the
report period is five deaths per one hundred thousand registered
recreational vessel, also down twenty five percent. And this is

(51:04):
among five hundred and sixty thousand, give or take a
couple of grand five hundred and sixty thousand registered boats,
and then another three hundred and fifty nine thousand kayaks, canoes, rafts,
all these other things that are floating around the water.
That's a lot of targets. And je what was it about,
maybe a month ago, we spent two weeks talking about

(51:27):
three or four nationally severe well fatal accidents with bass
boats flying across the water. So it's gonna happen with them, man,
it's gonna happen. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (51:40):
Well, good, thank you for taking my call. And I'm
glad the park some wildlife department you know, put those
numbers together.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
Yeah, I didn't realize it. Yeah, it's see. Yeah, there
is so much in those thirteen pages or fifteen pages,
whatever it is. I just peeled off the first couple
of pages and looking at them right now, it's just
every the good though, David, is every one of these
stats that I'm looking at compared to the previous year

(52:05):
is down, down, down, down, down down. So we're getting
it right.

Speaker 4 (52:10):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (52:10):
We've just got a lot longer way to go in
boating than we do in hunting. And one of the
here's another reason. If you're going to be a hunter
in this in this state, you got to have hunter education,
right Yeah.

Speaker 4 (52:23):
Yeah. What do you have to do for the boat?

Speaker 2 (52:24):
What do you have to do to drive a boat
at one hundred miles an hour?

Speaker 4 (52:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (52:28):
Your check has to clear, that's all.

Speaker 4 (52:31):
I've heard. You mentioned that before. Maybe it's time for that.
Maybe it's time for that.

Speaker 2 (52:35):
Well, you know who doesn't want that though, the boating industry.
They don't they because it will slow their boat sails.

Speaker 4 (52:42):
Yeah, it's ironic you mentioned that because the ATV industry
did just the opposite, they offered free Yeah. I guess
to look at boat the offers. Do they offer free
boat training for people when you buy boat?

Speaker 2 (52:52):
Yeah you can, Yeah, most most dealerships do offer something,
and and they'll be happy to help you get it,
but it's not mandatory yet like it is for hunting.
And when boats only did about thirty miles an hour,
it was a pretty easy thing to say, oh, yeah,
hunters need this because they're carrying guns, kind of like

(53:14):
you were thinking a minute ago, hunters need this because
they're carrying guns. But when you look at how many
other people are involved in trying to navigate. We've got
one point seven million surface acres of fresh water in
this state. This is also from the report. There's four
million acres of salt water and eighty thousand miles of
rivers and streams in this state. And you don't have

(53:38):
to have any kind of training to run a boat
fifty sixty seventy eighty miles an hour. You don't have
to know which side to pass on. You don't have
to realize that these buoys and markers have meaning in
the water. All you got to do is just get
in there and turn the key and go and have
somebody else thank you. Yeah, thank you, David. I didn't
mean to benja here that long, Yes, sir, any time, man,

(54:00):
All right, I'll say, boy, I just kind of lit off.
I'm sorry, But looking at boating and compared to hunting,
I've tried for the last thirty years. I'm still waiting
and I will continue to do so. On the first
hunting season we get through without a single statewide fatality

(54:21):
in a hunting accident or incident. They call them incidents
now they don't call them accidents. Hopefully that day will
come when I can look up in the springtime and
when hunting seasons have all stopped basically except for rabbits
and squirrels and stuff in some counties, but the bulk
of hunting season has stopped, the deer season, ducks, geese,
all of that, and no fatalities. I'm waiting for that,

(54:44):
and I'm praying for that to happen someday boating. It's
a lot longer, longer way to zero from twenty eight
than it is to one or two. And the twenty
eight issue is that there's just a lot of traffic,
a lot of traffic out there. There's so much distraction.
If you're sitting in a deer stand, you're probably not

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gonna shoot anybody. And if there isn't an incident, accident,
whatever you want to call it, it's probably because you
dropped your gun, or you tripped over your gun, or
you forgot to put the safety on, or you accidentally
brushed the trigger with a gloved hand, whatever, and hurt yourself.

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It's it's hard to hurt somebody else from a deer stand,
it really is. And now I actually know one person
that happened, to believe it or not, he was in
a deer stand, minding his own business, when somebody in
another deer stand really far away, actually touched off around
that went sailing through the air far enough all the
way to get to my friend's shoulder, and fortunately it

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was a pretty clean through and through and just the
meat of his shoulder or that, yeah, just right out
the outside of his arm there and it didn't. It
didn't cast any serious damage. But that's a tough thing
to take. But that's also a one in a billion shot.

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When you're on a boat in the water and there
are people flying all around you, people who don't know
what they're doing, people who are terribly distracted. There's so
many distractions when you're riding in a boat, when you're
driving a boat, when your boat is stopped, when you're fishing,
you're looking all around and all of a sudden, I

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don't know where, you hear some noise and you turn around,
and some boat just goes flying over or through yours.
It's very hard. You can't react to that either, at
least driving on the highway. If you see it in time,
you can react and steer around an accident like that.
It's much more difficult in the water, especially if you're

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just parked. If your boat is stopped and you're fishing,
the only choice you have is to bail out of
that boat if it's going to be hit by some
crazy person coming at you. Yeah, voting accidents are going
to be around for a while. Unfortunately, it's fun to
go voting. It really is, right up until it's not
right up until it's not good. Heavens, big old soapbox.

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I was on there. Thank you, David. I'm not upset
at all that you brought that up, because with Memorial
Day weekend coming up, it's a safe bet that there
are going to be incidents. I pray that none of
them is fatal. I pray that nobody gets seriously hurt,
but there will be some bumps and some bruises almost certainly,

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and unfortunately, all right, we gotta take a break. On
the way out. I'm going to tell you about Old
Coubino Cigars. This is my buddy Manni Lopez. I've visited
with him through email all week long, a couple of
times actually, and what he is doing now, he's kind
of in the summer fun period of the year for them,

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and what that means is they're going to a lot
of there's these Havanah Knights parties that are kind of
popular right now. He said he's had several of them
in the last few weeks and he's ready to come
to yours if you're having one. It's a very cool
party theme if you've never done it before, and of
course with him being from Cuba, it makes it pretty

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it's like old home. It's like going home for him.
He'll come to your party, he'll set up a table
and he will roll cigars personally for your guests, or
he'll do that at a golf tournament. He'll do that
pretty much at any event where you're gathering a bunch
of people. Sporting Clay's tournament. Those are always popular at
sporting plays tournaments. And they can either come out and

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roll cigars for the people there, or they can just
provide you with a big old box of cigars that
have the have on the band of it the recipient
of all your hard work, the charity that you're raising
money for, or your company logo, if you want to
give them to clients. Man, he's been at this or

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many many years since he and his dad came over
here from Cuba a long long time ago, and they
are one of only I think there's maybe four dozen
manufacturing cigar manufacturing places in the entire country, and right
down in Texas City at El Cubano Cigars is one
of them. There's a smoking lounge attached to that one,
and you can go down there. You can watch them

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roll cigars all day till you get bored. Watching them.
It's pretty fascinating really how efficient and fast that process is.
I had no idea how it worked, but I know
now and it's pretty pretty cool. They also have another
smoking lounge, which is really it's kind of an open air,
very cool place in League City, also almost to the beach.
How could you have anything with a Cuban theme and

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it not be close to Saltwater? Manny Lopez El Cubano
Cigars if you don't want to go. Most of these cigars,
well almost all of them are from Cuban seed that's
grown in Central America, and the tobacco comes up here
in bulk, it gets processed, it goes through a period.
There's all kinds of stuff that has to happen to

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it before they can roll it. But they're just doing
that every day. And even if you can't get down there,
go to the website. You can call Manny and he'll
ship you just about it. He ships hundreds thousands of
cigars every week out of that one little, very humble place.
It's a really cool business, a really cool place to
go meet your buddies and watch a game on TV

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or maybe next poker game that breaks out in one
of those places won't be the first. I'm sure elcubanocigars
dot com is the website. El cubanosigars dot com. Hi,
welcome back Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk seven to ninety.
We had a little detour trying to get ourselves to
the ongoing PGA Championship, which which Frankie was nice enough

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to come in here and put on the TV. I
kind of joke with he came in, he looked at
at the screen and Okay, I've got about two and
a half three minutes, and I figure, okay, he's gonna
need about forty five seconds of that to get into it.
And we found it and he put it up on
the screen, and then when he got back in there,
I told him I'd have probably done it myself. If
we'd have had like fifteen minutes, I could have handled that. Frankie,

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thank you for getting that up there. Man. So moving
to the leaderboard of the PGA Championship ongoing at Quail
Hollow over in North in Charlotte, North Carolina. And I
think the forecast is good as it is here for
them today to go through without any weather incidents. Scotty

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Scheffler put on a show yesterday afternoon and pretty much
just broke the will of Quail Hollow in those last
five holes his scorecard. Toward the end, he opened up,
let me get this thing to pop up for me
so I can speak intelligently. Oh it's round four. I

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don't need that. I need round three. Where is round three? Oh?
Click that, Let's try this. That's what I'm looking for.
So he opens up yesterday, well, a couple of pars.
He shoots three under on the front and then goes
out the back and shoots par bogeye Bertie Bogie. Not

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a happy guy, you know, he's not after that. That's
not what he wanted to do. He didn't want to
go backward. So on fourteen, all he does on this
par five hole is roll out a bomb drive and
then I want to say it was about a two
hundred and fifty or sixty yard three wood that rolls
up to about three feet, taps that in for eagle,

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Bertie's fifteen, par sixteen, Bertie's seventeen, Bertie's eighteen. To just
tell the whole field, hold my beer and watch this.
He is now in command, and there's just no other
way to say it. I mean, he's in command of
this leaderboard and he's in command of his own fate today,

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and I don't think anybody's gonna have a chance of
catching him. I just don't see it. I just don't
see it. He's eleven under par, alex Norin's closest, he's eight.
He's three shots a full sleeve off the lead, and
alex Norin's coming off of injury, which is not gonna
help his chances that much. He's he's got a lot

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of work to do. There's no question about it. Can
you do it? He possibly could. I don't know why
he possibly couldn't, But alex Norin to beat Scotty Scheffer
is going to have to do things almost on unhuman
because Scotty Scheffer. I watched most of his round yesterday
and he missed a lot of birdie putt opportunities. He

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wasn't having to scramble to make pars so much as
he was missing birdie's and tapping in. If he'd have
made half the birdie putts I saw him miss yesterday,
I wouldn't have been surprised if he shot sixty. He's
just playing that well. Davis Riley at seven JT posting
at seven, Hey, thanks for coming out. That's not gonna happen.

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John Rahm at six. If somehow Scotty trips over his
shoelaces and rom comes out and Birdie's four of the
first five holes, then yeah, maybe, but I don't see
that happening either. Sea Woo Kims at six. Johnny Vegas.
Johnny Vegas struggled. You could see it in his face
yesterday all day long. He struggles and ends up shooting

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two over. He's he's out of the conversation. Keig and
Bradley also looked a little bit dazed and confused. He's
at five along with Tony fen Now and Bryce and Deshamba,
none of whom, by the way, are gonna catch Scotty Shuffler.
I'm telling you, I don't see any other way that
this tournament ends. Then, with Scotty's standing there holding that cup,

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he's just he's playing golf like no nobody else is
playing right now. And he didn't get off to the
greatest start. He kept himself in contention and that's all
you really have to do. Two over and three over
through the first two rounds, five under par going into Saturday,
then shoot six under to find himself at eleven and yeah,

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I think he's gonna do this. Let's go talk to George.
Shall we stand by and George? What's up? Man?

Speaker 9 (01:05:26):
Yeah? It looks like he shifted back on his game
a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
Holy cow, he's.

Speaker 4 (01:05:31):
Unbeatable when he's on his game.

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
Yes, sir, opinion.

Speaker 9 (01:05:34):
I'm not a big coffer, but but hey, Ted Doushet,
can you tell me what was the first big recording
that he was on.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
Oh, good lord, I have no idea. The Mickey mouse
Claw had it.

Speaker 9 (01:05:47):
I had it on A Hey, I had it on
A forty five. It's called Journey to the Center of
Your Mind. No, Wow, the and Boy.

Speaker 2 (01:05:54):
Dukes, Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, Journey to the Senior
Mind he had. They had a big song with that.

Speaker 9 (01:06:02):
But anyway, and then Willie Nelson turned ninety two years
old recently and he put out an album all songs
written by Nashville Hall of Fame and Houston Soon Hodney
Crowd Wow. Yeah, all but anyway, Springtime, Oh, real quick,
I wanted to talk about Spring Times briefly, but real quick.

(01:06:24):
Did you follow up with that gentleman who had the receptacle?
I almost had a fire in his living room that night.

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, No, I haven't heard back from him,
but apparently he got it all put together. I'd like
to see a picture of that outlet. Oh yeah, yeah,
you might be able to help him with that. Huh, George,
I was a licenser. I'm no longer.

Speaker 9 (01:06:49):
I can't.

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
I can know. I'm not saying you can't go over there.

Speaker 9 (01:06:53):
Yeah, I mean I could have one time, but I
don't have a license now, I understand, but you could
talk let my lossse sure, yeah, and I got a
lot of and you know I warned you all about that.
He needs to have that meter checked out. I'm sure
he has a smart meter and you need to give
him checked out. Like I said, they go up to
six thousand degrees. They will melt your porcelain. Commote my word,

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that's yeah, that's what's going on. It'll melt, it melt
marble countertops. It's and you need people need to look
into that little But anyway, spring tides springtimees what is uh?
Spring tides are not associated with the season. Did you
know you're familiar with that?

Speaker 2 (01:07:35):
I haven't. I haven't dived that deeply into springtides.

Speaker 9 (01:07:39):
Well, I was associated it with spring and you've got
your neat tides in the ball. But actually it's called
a springtimee but they also call him king tides as
you you're aware of places and uh, actually it's just
the big ties that you get every month associated but
particular times of the season when you get a lot

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of wins and whatnot. Like now in the spring, we
do have big tides. And down there at San Luis Pass,
what will happen, man, is there you will get a
series of steps that can be created, like overnight on
Some of the best suss I ever had was six
years ago, uh or seven years ago. I was late

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getting down there that my buddy had already limited out
earlier that day on trout he had one over twenty
and uh when we got in, Uh, we only fished
for maybe an hour and everything all the bigger fish
that you could just walk up and then you'd come
up to like a one foot ledge and sometimes we

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stepped up on it and other times were And what
we were doing is throwing right in front of the
first the very first sand uh very first uh sand
dune out there right and just sandbar and throw your
lure just over that, and I had allure just like

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I was using that mirror lure. Uh uh uh its
silver anyway, It's not not the typical old mirror lures,
but it was. It's a little newer body mayor mirror.
I can't remember all the names. All that's mardime what
it is. Anyway, and he was he was throwing something

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a little smaller. He and I had two doubles, and
believe or not, I call it twenty four or twenty five,
twenty and I called him, and this is what's really
hard to believe. I called him chronologically in that order,
and all them fish went back, you know, because I've
been throwing everything twenty inches and over back since here.

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I'm ten years ahead of the curve.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
I'm more than that.

Speaker 4 (01:09:48):
But anyway, uh, that's all I got.

Speaker 2 (01:09:50):
Just that's gonna be.

Speaker 9 (01:09:51):
That's something to look for. It happens, and it'll change overnight.
That was a situation that, you know, it's just very rare.
And he caught I caught her twenty four and he
had a twenty. He caught a twenty four or twenty five,
and we both doubles, and my fish each time was
an inch inch longer and my lure was a little
bit bigger, very slightly bigger. But that's that big bait,

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big fish, you.

Speaker 2 (01:10:14):
Know, match the hatch baby.

Speaker 9 (01:10:17):
But yeah, and that's all. I'll leave you with that,
and just be careful out there.

Speaker 7 (01:10:21):
We got the rip tides.

Speaker 9 (01:10:22):
And a lot of the memorial days when the people
come out, we have fatality, so sadly, so yeah, put
that out there and be careful out there, and y'all
have a great weekend next weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:10:32):
Thank you, George, I appreciate it. Yeah, going back to
the the drop offs and what that's that's just standard
issue really anywhere you fish these when there's title movement,
these fish are going to be waiting on the underneath
that little drop off, that little ledge whatever it is

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that's created by the tide and and the sandbars off
the coast move all the time. They're they're base basic
stuff doesn't change that much. You know, when you walk
off the beach at Surfside, or you walk off the
beach at Galveston, you're gonna walk over the first bar
and you're gonna go into a little bit of a gut.
Walk over a second bar and you're gonna go into

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a deeper gut and if you if you can make
it out to the third bar. A lot of times
that's where the old salts made their hay, was getting
out there on that third bar and halfway tiptoeing through
it depending on what the tide was, and it was
just a little bit better fishing out there. Some days,

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that's not always the case. I'll get back into this
when we get back from the break here. We're getting
a little bit behind, and I don't want to do that.
On the way out, I'll tell you about Riceland Waterfowl
Club out of Eagle Lake. That's David prud I mentioned
him earlier. I'm gonna try and get him on maybe
next weekend to talk a little bit about what's going
on on the prairie right now while all of us

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are not thinking at all about duck season, but should be, probably,
especially if you want to get hooked up with somebody
as good and got longevity like nobody's business. This is
his fiftieth year as a waterfowl club operator. Fifty years
he's been outfitting people and putting them on good duck

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and goose hunting on the Eagle Lake Prairie, which is
still one of the top remaining duck and goose hunting
places in the country. Riceland Waterfowl Club's got a ton
of water, They've got plenty of blinds for all their
club members and the club members guests, and that's the
only people who hunt out there. Really. They don't do
guided hunting on Riceland Waterfowl Club property. They do hunting

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for the guy or not. God's hunting for the members
and their guests, and that's it. You get out there,
and He's got a good way of making it fair
all season long for everybody who's a member. There's no
priorities given to anybody. It's just you throw your hat
in the ring for a couple of places. I'm not
exactly sure. I'll get him to explain it when we

(01:13:04):
get back with him on a different time and a
little bit more time to talk about it, but it's
a very fair way that everybody gets a shot to
hunt wherever they want. Great for anybody who didn't do
well last year. And if I asked how many people
had a rough duck season last year, a lot of
hands would go in the air. Right now, I'm sure

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check out Ricelandwaterfowl Club dot com and see what it's
like to hunt with these guys. They've got a ton
of water, they got a ton of property, and tons
of blinds, and it's just you and your guests out there.
Riceland Waterfowl Club dot Com. Go there. You'll be glad
you did. Nine thirty seven on Sports Talk seven ninety
The Dougpike Show. Thank you for listening this Saturday. Nope,

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yesterday was Saturday. Today's Sunday morning. One week and scant
hours I guess from Memorial Day and less time than
that before the official start of Memorial Day weekend, which
is likely for a lot of people in this audience
is going to be maybe Thursday afternoon, and you got
someplace planned. You want to get there on Friday, and

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you want to stay all the way through Monday. That's
the plan. A long weekend at least maybe a little
bit more time than that. This is where the strategic
use of vacation days comes in, where you go ahead
and kind of roll it out there with Okay, I
can get this day off. I saw an entire Facebook
post about how to make the most of actual national

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holidays for vacations in the days of the week that
they fall on, where, for example, if the fourth of July,
and I don't know what it is this year, but
if the fourth of July falls on a Tuesday, there's
a pretty good chance a lot of businesses are going
to go ahead and close on Monday as well. So
all of a sudden, you take Friday off and you
get Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. You get a five

(01:14:54):
day little mini vacation. Actually, for me, that'd be a
major vacation. I told myself after December that I wasn't
gonna leave vacation days on the table this year, and
I'm already stacked up and haven't haven't taken EDNY so
far this year. I'm waiting for the weather to get right.

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I'm focused. I'm gonna leave some days for hunting, but
I'm also gonna take some more days this year for fishing.
And I'm not even sure exactly where I may run
over to Florida. I haven't been over there in a
couple of years. I'd certainly like to get back over there.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Doug pick at iHeartMedia dot Com. What did I
say I was gonna talk about when I got back Frankie,

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do you remember, I'm sure it was important. No, no, no,
it's not your fault. I'm the one who forgot, certainly not.
Don't apologize for that. No, no official testing here. It's
not a SAT or anything. I will tell you. Staying
on the golf bit for a little while, since I'm
watching what's going on, and well, I'm watching a replay

(01:15:58):
of yesterday now and watching Scottie Scheffer throw darts at pins,
and I'm telling you, if he'd have made half his
missed Birdie putts, there's a very good chance he would
have shot considerably lower. I want to mention Tommy O'Brien,
my buddy out at Blackhawk Country Club. He's been an

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instructor for I bet thirty years now. I'm not sure
how old Tommy is, but he's been out and about
and learned from Jim Murphy, who's one of the best
in the business. Still he's at Sugar Creek, but Tommy's
out there where I go play in practice. And he
came to me yesterday and said, Hey, if you're going
to be here for a little while, just let me know.

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I'll come over and see what's going on. And I
got with him about six o'clock and we worked on
some full swing stuff for a few minutes, and he
explained to me that I had misinterpreted one thing that
he had told me to do, and it made it
a lot easier for me to do, and it was
really awkward and hard for me to do what I
thought he'd told me to do. But we got that

(01:17:01):
sorted out, and he said, anything else bugging you? Said, yeah,
my short game is horrible. I can't. I'm scared to
hit pitch shots. I'm scared to hit chip shots because
I'm either gonna blade them or I'm gonna chunk them,
or I'm just somehow, some way I'm gonna pull them.
And he said, okay, here, let's go over here to
the short game area. So we go over there, and

(01:17:23):
in about ten minutes, I'm hitting three out of five
pretty good. I'm still maybe one or two stinkers in
that five. And then a few minutes later, I'm getting
better and better and more confident and more comfortable just
from knowing what I was doing wrong and importantly how

(01:17:46):
to do it right. And so now I've got these
little keys that I have to think about. I'm sitting
in here moving my shoulders right now, trying to make
sure that I do when I go over there this
afternoon to practice practice, practice. Man, if I could ever
get off all of this stuff dialed in, who knows
what scores I'll shoot. I might actually threaten some of

(01:18:07):
the lower scores I've had in my life. Maybe not.
I don't hit it as far as I used to,
but I'm still My confidence is coming back. And if
you're struggling with your golf game, there's really only two
ways to get it back, and that's to just sweat
it out and try to reteach yourself something that may
be making a small problem a big one. Or you

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can invest in lessons and you don't have to you
don't have to go to somebody who taught Tiger Woods
to get good golf instruction. I know good golf instructors
all over this city. I really do some very good ones.
And Tommy's right up there. Tommy's just so accessible for me.
It's easier for me to get to Tommy than anybody else.

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I haven't even visited with Jim in a while, although
I'm scheduling. I'm going to schedule a lunch with him
and me and then tom Byram, who I didn't even
know was back in until I ran into him in
the Hallmark store right before Mother's Day. That was kind
of a weird and crazy thing, but I was glad
to see him back in town, and I had a
lot of fun playing golf. We did some We actually

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did some video comedy, believe it or not, for a
guy who's trying to get a little comedy series started.
We did a few episodes of that together a long
long time ago. Holy Cow, break time again. All right,
let's do this. This is gonna be the final break
of the program. So I want to and I've got

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two people I need to talk about. First, Shooter's Corner
Palmer Higway at twenty ninth Street in Texas City. That
would be Jerry and JTK as I've mentioned so many
times over the years, and I'm glad to do it
every time I do, because they're an old school gun store.
That's what they operate and have for forty plus years,
their father and son team, and they've been at the

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corner of Palmer Highway in twenty ninth Street down there
in Texas City for all of that time. A great
old school gun store. If you don't know what a
gun store smells like. Walk into shooter's corner, you're gonna
be overwhelmed with Oh, that's what gunpowder, and what oils
and all kinds of solvents, all of these things smell like.

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And it's it's a if you're a if you're into
the shooting sports, you it'll be like, oh, this is
like flowers, this is like this is like perfume. For us. Oh,
it's an attractive it really is. Every time I go
in there, I'm thinking, Okay, I'm gonna pop in for
five minutes, and then I end up standing around for
an hour telling stories and hearing other people's stories. It's

(01:20:40):
a great place to go gather and actually it just
for any reason. You don't even have to have a
reason to go in there. Just go in there and
sit down for a few minutes to say, hey, how's
it going, and somebody's gonna come in, or maybe even
one of the people who works there. They're all excellent
what they do. Jerry and Jay two of the best
gunsmiths in the entire country and have solved major and

(01:21:04):
minor problems for my listeners regarding their guns for the
many years that I've had them on the air so far,
I've never had someone that I referred to Shooter's Corner
call me back and say they couldn't help me. What
else you got never happened? And that's the gospel truth.
It's amazing to me some of the things that I

(01:21:25):
send their way. I'm thinking this may be the one.
But I'll talk to him a week or two later
and oh, yeah, we solve that problem. There was one
guy who had a particularly bad issue with a rifle,
and he had been told that to fix that rifle
it was either going to cost him three or four
hundred dollars to replace a lot of stuff, or he'd

(01:21:47):
probably just be better off buying a new rifle. He
took it down to Shooter's Corner and I called Jerry
a couple of weeks later. He said, oh yeah, just
it was a little burr in there. I got in
there and just buffed it out, and I said, what'd
you charge him? It's nothing. Didn't take me but a
couple of minutes. You may not get that lucky, but
your gun when you get it back will be in

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tip top shape. The Shooters cornertx dot com is the
website family owned and operated, like I said, for forty
plus years, and if you wear a badge for a living,
you get a discount, which is very cool. The Shooters
cornertx dot com nine point fifty one. It is on
Sports Talk seven ninety. I can't believe we're already here.

(01:22:29):
I want to go back to that leaderboard at the
at Quail Hollow for the PGA Championship because I only
have talked about a couple of the players in here,
and when you get down the leaderboard a little bit more,
you realize how hard that golf course must be playing.
Because you got Bryson De'shamba at five, Matt Fitzpatrick at five,

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Adam Scott, who else? Lucas Glover well, he's a little
bit older now he's not playing like he used to.
But all of these guys who are very accomplished players,
very capable players, who have played the same golf course
all week that Scotty Shepherd has and they're not there.

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Let me go to the this this will be a
truth telling thing. Here's a couple of names who missed
the cut. That would be Jordan Speith, who'd been playing
really well up until this week, and it's not like
he played horribly, but he missed the cut. Justin Thomas
missed the cut, ludvig Oberg missed the cut. Heydecki Matsiyama

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missed the cut. Just on and on and on it goes.
Let's see who had the worst with Patrick Reid misses
the cut, Ricky Fowler seemas power, on and on and
on down to the Let's say, wait, I gotta go
back up to the cut line was a plus one?
Who who had the worst week actually played two rounds?

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A guy named Greg Cook, not the one who used
to play football and used to work here, another guy
named Greg Cook. He was after two rounds at the
PGA Championship. And I don't I'm not knocking his game.
He played in the PGA Championship, and for that he
gets high fives from me and anybody else. He should

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from anybody who plays a game, because he could walk
out on any given day and beat most of us
by twenty shots. Greg Cook shot twenty three over for
the two days eighty two eighty three. Rupe Taylor shot
twenty two over for Thursday and Friday. Andre Chi nineteen
over Lark and Gross nineteen over Nick Ishi sixteen over

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and it goes on and on and on. These are
guys you really haven't heard about, but who qualified for
the PGA Championship, which means they could win most state championships,
they could win a whole lot of almost every club
championship they went and played in, but it just wasn't
their week. Seems to be Scottie Sheffer's week more and

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more often now there are already people who are kind
of mentioning him in the same breath as Tiger Woods,
Jack Nicholas, Arnold, Palmer Player, any of these guys who
really really lit it up for a long time on
the PGA Tour. He's got a long ways to go

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to get himself into that company. He's on the right track,
he's on the right trajectory and only seems to be
getting stronger. It doesn't seem like anything is distracting him
when he's on the golf course. So five ten years
from now, if he's still doing the same thing he's

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doing right now, maybe so you can't forget that Tiger
Wood's in his prime his and he wasn't saying that
many events either in a year. He was very much
cherry picking the events he wanted because he didn't have
to play in a whole lot of them. There are
minimums that the PGA Tour requires, but he didn't have

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to just play in every single tournament. And of the
tournaments he was entering, his average finish for several years
was second place. That was his average finish. Ry McElroy
just teed off. He's three over par for the tournament
playing the fifth hole today. That's a guy who, as

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number two in the world, you would have thought would
have been right there tee in it off at two
forty today with Scottie Scheffler, but that's not happening. Scheffler
probably feels comfortable not seeing Rory up there chasing him,
not seeing Jordan Speed or Justin Thomas chasing him, or

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half a dozen other names. But the guys who are
chasing him, John Ram especially, he can't take any of
them for granted, because there they are. We'll see how
it works out. We'll see how it works out. Seven
one to an hour. Darned near out of time, aren't
we Gosh darn it, I'll do it now. Timber Creek

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Golf Club down on FM twenty three fifty one in
friends Wood been down there for the better part of
thirty years, now almost thirty years. I think it is
twenty seven holes. I know that open, fun, enjoyable, casual
golf is not going to beat you up. This is
a place to go where you want to have a
really good time playing golf. Even if you suck at golf,

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it doesn't matter. And if you want to get better
at golf. Right there next to the driving range is
jj Woods Golf Academy at Timber Creek. They've been up
and running now full force for the better part of
a year, year and a half maybe, and just helping
everybody who walks through the door walk out a better
golfer than they walked in. Great food, great people. Every

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one of them wants to make sure you have a
good time when you get down there. Fun place to
throw a tournament too, because everybody's going to be in
a good mood when they come in. Timber Creek Golf
Club dot Com. Timber Creek Golf Club dot Com. Anything
special in your world this week? Oh well, we don't
have enough time for that. Unfortunately. You're that busy, are you?
Oh my gosh, Oh, we have no time exactly. That's

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what you're trying to tell me, all right, oh there's
a Bezeeden hoot tea and off. Now he's also three
over par and a pretty dog on good golfer. It's
so fun to watch these guys play. It motivates me
to get up and go out and practice too, because
I know that I'll never be as good as they are.
That ship has sailed. But if I practice enough, I

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can make myself better tomorrow than I am today. And
it wouldn't take much to make that happen. But I'm
gonna try to get even double better. Get outside, have
some fun with your family. If you're doing stuff on
Memorial Day weekend, please do it safe. I don't want
to lose any listeners. I don't want anybody to get hurt.
So keep your eyes, your head on a swivel, stay

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safe outside, watch for snakes, watch for crazy people in boats,
and mind you're drinking. Okay, everybody, have fun, stay safe.
I'll see you next week. Audios