Drive for Show, Putt for Dough

On this episode, Doug talks about how weather conditions effect firearms, the Fedex Cup, and much more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's doug bike.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
I realized when I told Frankie I just had to
run over and get a cup of coffee. I had
to do two other things on the way back, and
I made it. That's the good news. I guess it's
gonna be a beautiful day. I think, I hope it'll
be a lot of fun to be had for the
next three hours. Anyway, talking about anything and everything we
can drum up around here. Let me get this paperwork
over here in front of me. I wanted to look

(00:23):
at this. That's something. I've got something set up for
a potential potential interview today. Maybe it'll have to wait
till tomorrow. We'll see. I'm kind of hoping I get
to him today. Kind of strike while the iron is hot.
I was thinking about it yesterday evening. I probably should
have bought a lottery ticket on Thursday, but I didn't,

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and instead of winning a few hundred million dollars, I
got something that well that I guess the fates, the
whatever it is, the good fortune gods thought I should
have instead. And for the first time, after a very
long dry spell, I finally caught a bass from that

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lake that I know has more than one bass in it.
I finally got him. I had to cheat. Okay, here's
the deal. In order to make it happen. I went
against all that is holy in me, all that I
hold dear to me as a bass fisherman, and has

(01:31):
a specific bass fisherman in my age category, having caught
as many bass as I have and wanting to do
it stubbornly my way, and having very little, well actually
no luck for the past I don't know, five six weeks.
It's been a long bad run over there, and I

(01:52):
was losing my enthusiasm again. And then I ran into
somebody in the parking lot who said, yeah, I've been
catching some fish. I said, you're throwing worms, aren't you. Yeah, yeah,
that's all I throw out here. My son and I, yeah,
we do pretty good. And I thought, okay, when in roam, Doug,

(02:13):
if you're going to catch these fish, it's been hot
as blazes. They're not super active, they're not going to
be moving far to eat, and they want some shade.
And I had to just kind of shift gears and
go back to when I was absolutely green around the
gills myself and learning from some of the best professional
bass fishermen in the country because most of them lived

(02:34):
right here in Texas. And I remember how to fish worms.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
I just don't.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
I don't enjoy it that much because my patience is
lacking at this age. I want to move and move
and move what I'm doing, and I think it'll still
work again come fall. But what I like to do
is just move and move and move until I find
a little concentration of fish and then I'll stand there

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and pick on them until I feel like I've gotten
the last bite. I can get out of that spot.
Right now, what I'm having to do is stand in
a spot where I know there's shade, where I know
there's cover, where I know there's probably food passing by
in front of this fish's mouth all day long. And
that's what I'm having to do. And I tied on

(03:25):
a worm, forgive me, tied on a worm and it
was working, and well, I only caught one fish. But
here and here's what I did. I put the worm on.
I decided, okay, if you're going to go, go all
the way. So I just I left the other rods
of the car. Had a little bag of stuff that

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I took with me just in case I lost that
worm and didn't take long. Maybe I don't know. Third cast.
I think it was called a nice three pounder out
of a place. Now, I did go back to one,
one reliable spot. I didn't just go rogue and go
to some random piece of shoreline somewhere with a blade
of grass sticking out of the water. I went to

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a place where I was very confident that there are fish,
but where I had not caught them lately, and I
flipped that worm out a grand total of maybe six
or eight feet off the rod tip. If you saw
the spot, you would know why. That's all I did.
I didn't have to make a long cast. I flipped
that worm out there and close the reel and turn

(04:32):
the handle maybe twice, and all of a sudden, the
line just starts ripping off to the left. Set the hook,
catch the fish. Nothing exciting about that, well, nothing unusual
about that, No drama involved in that. It didn't try
to put a hook in my hand. It didn't try
to go around and tangle up in the bushes and whatnot.

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I had a worm rod. Actually it was an old
all star worm rod. Is it classic? Still catches a
lot of fish for me, and not quite broomstick. But
it's it. It will move a fish if a fish
needs to be moved a bass anyway, And I actually
caught some king mackerel on that thing sidebar king mackerel

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on it. Put a little bit a little more real
with a little more capacity on it. And in the
fall would go down to the surf side jetty and
sling top waters out there when the water was super
clear and there was a ton of bait, and all
the people on the jetties who were standing around trying
to catch speckle trout, when one of those kings had
come up and hit that top water moving vertically at

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full speed and couple about six or eight feet into
the air, the whole jetty would just go woo oh.
That was exciting. That was good stuff. It really was.
In any event, So I catched my fish on this worm,
and maybe I don't know, six minutes and I'm thinking, man,

(05:57):
I got I gotta do this some more. And I'll
wait a minute. Let's just let's just be satisfied with catching.
Now we know they're fishing here. Now I can kind
of regroup and and think about maybe going out and
doing it again. And and what I ended up, the
goose egg was cracked. Okay, so after what maybe six months,

(06:18):
I'm thinking to myself, rather than risk going one fish
for an hour, I was very content to be one
fish for six minutes, which in my head tells me
that I I'd probably caught ten in an hour, since
every catching one every six minutes. That's how you work
that and if you don't fish, now you know how

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fishermen think. That's that's what we're thinking. That we're we're
doing calculations in our heads. We're doing okay. If there's
there's a joke all over Facebook, I've probably seen it
a hundred times about this this woman looking at her
why or at her husband as he walks through the
door after dark carrying his fishing stuff, and she says,

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I thought you said you were only gonna fish half
a day. And he said, well, twelve hours is half
a day, and so he was. He was technically correct,
but I suspect that's one of those times when when
he would be sleeping on the couch probably. I heard
also from a lot of guys this week that offshore
fishing has been great. We finally caught a decent weather pattern.

(07:20):
We can talk about that today. I would love to.
And if you're new to I'm working on an interview.
I'm working on an interview. I haven't heard back yet.
I haven't actually, I haven't looked at my phone yet
to see if I've gotten this guy's attention. Yeah, okay,
but uh, all right, I'm not gonna be able to
get him today. Maybe tomorrow, just maybe tomorrow, and we'll

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talk a little bit about offshore fishing and some of
the more contemporary techniques. Now that the now that the
electronics are so good, it's really not that hard to
find fish, and the fishing that can be done offshore,
it's so much more efficient because you don't have to

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just run around wondering what's down below you. You can
flip the switch on. What does he call it? What
does faux pro call that? I can't remember what he
calls his forward facing sonar. I'm so embarrassed. He and
I have talked about it one hundred times. But the
bottom line is it just shows you what's down there,
and in tremendous detail too. The offshore, the whole offshore

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game has kind of changed with the forward facing sonar,
but you still I'm still a big fan of what
I wrote about many many times in the paper, and
I mean a bunch and what I call the kind
of the near shore zone. You don't have to run
thirty miles, you don't have to run fifty miles. There's

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a nice little strip of water from about say three
or four miles to about ten miles out where a
lot of really big fish hang out. The countdown to
dove season also continues, only what is it? Twenty three?
Twenty four days now out? And everything looks pretty good

(09:13):
where wherever you're gonna hunt. Everything looks just great where
you're gonna be on September one, a Monday, by the way.
And I say it'll be great where you're gonna be hunting,
because anybody who's done this long enough knows that that's
gonna jinx your spot and send the birds my way.
I'm kidding, of course, Hey, the birds go where the

(09:33):
birds go. They got wings and they can fly, same
with fishes swimming. But it does seem to happen that way.
Sometimes it absolutely does seem to happen. And I don't
know why. This year though, I really think I think
there's so many doves in Texas that it's just not
gonna matter. You could probably limit out in a downtown
parking garage if you were able to sit there and

(09:53):
get away with it for a little while. I don't
recommend that, but I do.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
It's been a long time, many years, so probably a
statute limitations, if there was one, is one's run out
on these guys. But there were some guys I knew
who lived in Katie, and I mean lived in Katie,
not near Katie, who very quietly, with their little Benjamin
Pellet guns, would would have a pretty steady supply of doves.

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They love to eat them and never stopped eating them.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Maybe the phones
are gonna work, maybe they're not. We'll figure it out
during the break. Let's take it, shall we? Timber Creek
Golf Club down there on FM twenty three fifty one, uh,
just west of the golf Freeway and friends would have
been there forever. And I say forever, I mean probably

(10:45):
twenty four twenty six years somewhere in there. I believe
it opened. I want to say it opened in nineteen
ninety eight, but I can't be sure, but it's somewhere
around there. And every day since then that they been open,
every day since then that they've had golfers on the course,
everybody's had a good time, most of them. Anyway. The

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guys who aren't having a good time can just slide
over to JJ Woods's place over there next to the
driving range and get their game fixed so they can
start having a good time like everybody else. Have a
little better swing, it makes. It just puts a little
pep in your step. If you get a roll in
a long putt or it hit a beautiful iron shot
up to about two feet and make your first birdie

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of the day. That feels good. And that's what you're
gonna feel at Timber Creek twenty seven holes actually, on
which you could have that opportunity to feel good with
your swing and your putt and your birdie or your bogie. Hey,
if you're a double bogie guy and you make a bogy,
it feels good. You're gonna feel good the whole time
you're at Timber Creek. Great place for a tournament, great place.

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You just walk up and say, Hey, I'm all by myself.
I want to make three new friends. Send me out,
it'll work. Timber Creek Golf Club dot com is a
website you can make your own tea time right now
Creek Golf Club dot com. BYI welcome back Sports Talk
seven night at the Dugpike Show. Thank you for listening.
I had something happen to me the last this week,

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the last couple of days of this week, that was
like it was like living in the movie Groundhog Day.
On Wednesday. Wednesday, I go out and hit a few
golf balls out there in Richmond at Blackhawk, hit a
few balls, make a few putts, and boy, there's this
thunderstorm building. You can hear it rumbling, you can just

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blah blah blah blah. You can see the lightning bulbs,
and it's it's getting black to the east. I mean
it's dark. It's a big, old, nasty thunderstorm coming our way.
And I think, you know, I'm not a professional golfer.
I don't have to stay out here and keep working
on this game. Granted, I'd like to get better, but

(12:54):
I'll wait until the day when I'm not gonna get
struck by lightning. And by the way, if you don't
think lightning can mess up golf, clubs. Go take a look.
Just look up golf clubs struck by lightning, and ask
yourself if you'd want to be holding on to a
four iron just pulling a foreron out of your bag
when lightning struck it. So anyway, I'm looking at the

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sky and I'm looking around, and I'm thinking this is stupid.
I gotta get out of here. So I packed my
stuff and I head onto the house and on the
way home on Highway ninety between ninety nine and Highway six,
I'm going east and that big old storm's kind of
building up a little farther east than where I am

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at the point, and it's coming. Everybody knows it's coming.
Then I start having little rain drops on the windshield.
It's not pouring yet, but there are rain drops. And
so I look up and darned if there's not a rainbow,
and I mean a giant rainbow. It stretches from way
north of of ninety to way south of ninety and

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it starts It's one of those ones that looks like
it starts on the ground and it goes all the
way over and it finishes on the ground. Well, that's
really beautiful. And I turn onto Highway six going south,
and about a minute and a half later, it is
raining so hard that I can't even see the car
in front of me. It's just pouring, dumping, pouring, dumping

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for about I don't know, ten ten minutes, I mean that.
So it's dumping rains so fast that there's on Highway six,
which really doesn't flood. Knock on wood, I don't want
to mess anything up. Right in the middle of storm season.
It doesn't really flood, but there were there was standing
water that just it just couldn't. It's falling so fast

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it doesn't have any time to drain, and so all
the cars are splashing water all each other, over each other.
Fast forward to Thursday. That was on Wednesday, Thursday, I'm
out there again, no surprise to anybody who knows me,
I'm out there again. That's the day I catch my
fish on a worm. Happy me, whoo, And I hear

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go off in the distance. Uh oh, look over there.
Pretty much the same spot, pretty much the same sky,
pretty much thunder, little lightning, bolts, no rain yet, but
the wind shifts and it's doing the same thing it
did the other day. Huh isn't that interesting? So I
get back on the road. I'm headed home because I'm
gonna beat this one too, so help me. The exact

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same spot on Highway ninety going east, same rainbow, same spot,
same time of day. It had to have been within
two minutes of the prior day. And I'm thinking to myself,
are we real or is this just some game that's
stuck in a loop, some big giant computer game being

(15:56):
played by futuristic people with foot long fingers and heads
the size of watermelons. It's kind of weird, it really was.
It was really almost Twilight Zone stuff. I think that
was the right music for twilight Zone, And yeah it was.

Speaker 4 (16:13):
It was just curdy.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Oh oh, I hear somebody. Faux pro Dave stay there too.
I'll get to you too. What's up, faux pro?

Speaker 3 (16:23):
Oh man, we're out here spotlighting with the cheater box.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah, that's what I was trying to remember.

Speaker 5 (16:27):
The name of.

Speaker 6 (16:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
We uh, we worked him pretty good yesterday, right up
here where I took lane and I was giving his
wife there's going you're good luck, Doug.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
That's the first time I've heard that in a long time.

Speaker 6 (16:44):
I know, right, big White Mass. We got White Mass.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
We caught we caught white mass, squatted mass and black
mass schooling together.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Yeah, that's kind of cool.

Speaker 6 (16:53):
It was kind of like me and you. It was
every test for about an hour.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Wow, that's not on fun.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
I got my buddy rush all out here today. He
wanted to come get with me for for he done
ate all his fish and we've got to reach out
his tread.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
But hold on, let me ask you a question before
you tell me what there is. You can pretty much
target white bass now year round up there, can't you.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
Oh yeah, even up here in the creek. A lot
of people say they all go back back to the
main lake. There's probably seventy percent of them do. But
there's so much food up here, and you've seen it
on on on my sight. There's so much food that
you know, if if Stevie Wonder was a fish, he
could swim around with his mouth open and probably wouldn't
go hungry.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
You know, it's just that type of deal. But but
I need to I'm thinking about developing a support group
for people that have to throw soft plastics.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
God, I I you know, I just had to. I
looked at the guy had a rod on his cart.
This one guy a couple of days ago, you know.
And that's that's how that struck up. The conversation said,
you've been getting them out. I've been struggling a little bit.
You getting them? He said, yeah, I'm doing okay. So

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what are you throwing? And I kind of looked up
there he goes that worm right there, like God, they
don't make me do this, Please don't make me do this.
Please don't make me do this. And I did it
and it worked, So I'm back.

Speaker 6 (18:17):
It could have been working.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
Could you could have been down at the bait shop
by in minutes.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
No, I'm drawing the line there, man, I'll tell you
what there are. There's a million, well there used to be.
I don't know. I think the cormorant's got almost probably
ninety percent of the sunfish in those lakes. But I
bet you if I was to actually go try to
catch a sunfish, I could, And if I were to
put that on a hook and put it out in
that big lake, I might catch about a thirty or
forty pound catfish.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yeah, it'd be fun to go do that one day,
just to just to mess around, I know. But if
you the blue and tied to a tree.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
And then just God. But it's one thing to be
walking around out there in proper golf attire throwing lures
for bass. It's it's another to be sitting in a
lawn chair with a bucket full beer next to me.
You know, I don't know if I do that. All right,

(19:09):
just sit back and enjoy, you know, I am. My
next mission is going to be to really go just
go command on those carp those big carp These things
are twelve to fifteen pounds and they're all over that lake.

Speaker 6 (19:25):
Oh yeah, I don't want to out.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
I don't know what I'm gonna do with it. If
I catch you take a picture, that'd be about it.

Speaker 6 (19:32):
But they're just they've.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Been on my mind for a long time.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
We put him in a cooler and uh my, buddy,
what he does He scales them and then he slays
them and leaves the meat on it, cuts them up
into one exqus first trut line, great trout line, but like, uh.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
Yeah, I'm glad it didn't end with and then fries
them up and they're delicious because I wasn't gonna guy
off for that.

Speaker 6 (19:52):
No, I ain't got that yet, all right, buddy.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
I mean thanks, I'll see man, Yeah, audios, Okay, no, okay,
so that won't okay, Frankie, Yeah, there we go. Can
I get Dave real quick? He's just in limbo somewhere.
Oh it worked, Holy cow? What's up, Dave?

Speaker 7 (20:14):
Am I hearing a life?

Speaker 2 (20:16):
I know? No?

Speaker 6 (20:20):
Hey, listen, man, Patience is a virtue, you know.

Speaker 7 (20:23):
And no, I'm sitting here looking right now, and there's
just one boat over here on the on a point
and he's casting it on that point and they're just
they just diden't sitting there. I got my stuff out here.
I've got my uh no offense by anybody, but my
Mallard Cherokee duck tribe is here.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Now.

Speaker 7 (20:45):
I got about twenty ducks that come over here.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
Well, if you aren't feeding them, they wouldn't come back, Dave,
I know what's going on up there.

Speaker 5 (20:54):
Man.

Speaker 7 (20:55):
Oh, I'm trying to feed the finish, but they're sneaking
in them. Hey, I have cut I have taught acu.
I have taught a couple of small catfies here there,
but I let them back and yeah, sure, basically yeah,
you know, you know, and it's fun to get And
I have taught a couple more turtles but you know,

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you know, disappointing.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
You know when you when you set the hook and
you feel that heavy weight, you think, oh, here we go,
big catfish, big catfish. And then it's just like, okay,
it's either a big catfish or it's a boot. And
it's that's a turtle is a boot?

Speaker 7 (21:32):
Sadly, how you know? And now I'm going to tell
you I just I went by one of the stores
up here where they sell bait, and then they want
ten dollars and fifty cents for one perch, and I'm like, no, yes, yeah,
ten dollars for ten dollars.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
A dozen.

Speaker 6 (21:54):
No, they've lost her for one.

Speaker 7 (21:57):
Well that's what I'm saying. But they're big, they're pretty big.
But anyway, oh, wait a minute, wait a minute, hey,
I come over here. The other day, missus Doug and uh,
I was sitting over here and this young man pulled up.
This time it was three daughters, different daughters than the
other four daughters, and he started he started, uh hooking

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them up, and he had their kiddy poles and stuff,
and they were all sitting there and they could actually
they could cast, and he was hooking them up. And
I went over there, and gave I went and hang
him and gave him some rures here. I got more
more than enough sure here. When I was talking, when

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I was talking to them, I told him, you know,
I was telling them, hey, maen, y'all, just fish right
here and listen to what your dad says and pay attention.
And their ears were perked up and listening, and I
was like, man, and you know what, that's why I
think the Good Lord still got me here. But man,
I'm looking at oh right now, let me give.

Speaker 6 (23:01):
You the weather report.

Speaker 7 (23:01):
Yeah, quickly, it's it's a clear slick and then just
a little bit overtest, but the sun's coming up behind me.
That's a good thing.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yes, it is all right, Dave. Thanks man, it's always
a pleasure.

Speaker 6 (23:15):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yes, sir, sah, all right, let's click that one down.
He did it himself. We have to take a break.
When we get back, I'll tell you what's going on
in the tropics, and I'll get to some other stuff
I wanted to get to. Uh, it's going to be
a long morning, and I got plenty of stuff to
talk about. And I'm always always glad to hear from
you guys. Seven one three seven ninety. Email me Doug

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Pike at diheartmedia dot com. Manny Lopez hadn't been down
there to see him lately, but I have been talking
to him occasionally. He's so busy he's hard to pin down.
He really is. He's always got something going on, some
new some new idea. He posted a picture the other
day talking about Manny Lopez from Lcubino Cigars of a

(24:00):
giant delivery of tobacco that just showed up on the
doorstep down there in Texas City. And soon, well not soon.
There's a lot of aging that goes on with this stuff,
but once it's ready to be rolled up, that amount
of tobacco probably will make I don't know, a thousand cigars.
I'm guessing, man, he could tell me. I don't know.

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But the bottom line is Elcubano Cigars is one of
only I think like four dozen cigar manufacturing facilities in
the entire United States. He brings in his tobacco from
Central America, almost all of it grown from Cuban seed,
which means it's gonna be the good stuff. It's These

(24:44):
are fine quality cigars, everything from very mild to very
robust flavors makes about one hundred and fifty different ones,
and he will customize those cigars for you, for your company,
for an event, for a wedding, a golf tournament, whatever is.
He'll put custom bands on them. He can even do
different boxes, different styles of cigars within the boxes. Whatever

(25:07):
you want. He'll do it up to and including actually
coming to your event, setting up a little a little
awning and a little folding table, and he'll sit right
there and roll cigars for your guests personally right there,
brand new, fresh cigar. It's really kind of fun to
be around that stuff. And the cigars that he offers

(25:29):
up are are unmatched. They're outstanding. I know they are.
Everybody I've talked to who's ever smoked one of us
loved them. I love them. He will deliver them if
you're if you can't get to Texas City for some reason,
you like cigars and you kind of know what you like,
go to the website order some up. He'll mail them
to you. He ships thousands of cigars quite literally every week,

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all around the country, and your address can be next
if you want it. El Koubano Cigars dot com. That's
the website. Go check it out. El Kubonos Cigars dot
Com seven thirty eight on Sports Talk seven ninety break.
And now we're just talking about how the the where
low prices live guy and the guy who buys houses.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
They're very enthusiastic spokespersons for their own companies. And they
must be related because their their tone, their tempo all
seems they seem to kind of run together. Maybe they are.
Maybe their cousins. Hey, Jay, what's up?

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Ah?

Speaker 2 (26:33):
There we are Jay, what's up?

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Man?

Speaker 8 (26:35):
Hey, good morning. I was just finishing up the highlights
last not from the Astros game, but we're talking outdoors
and uh uh those scot the Colls screener said, uh,
well he likes to or you know, I'm a golfer. Okay,
oh yeah, well he said, yeah, Doug likes to talk
about golf.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yeah, we'll do that. Where do you play?

Speaker 8 (26:57):
Uh well here locally. He's still on staff that Babes
of Harris in a port offer. Ye, and I'm in
the county area. I was, and uh I had to
go back to work briefly, so I had to leave it.
But I love the free golf that was. It was
a fun experience. And I mentioned Mitch Duncan or golf pro.

(27:19):
He was fantastic because when we went out and did
a nine hole drill and the only two things you
really said of any criticism was he just said narrower
stance and he said turn turn, turn on the ball, okay,
and that's where you know, that's where you hit the slice,
you know, because you don't turn on it well coming

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through and yeah, off the face and well, yeah, you're
gonna probably hit a slice instead of it like uh,
well I like to hit a high cut fade. But anyway, Yeah,
that's that's got it.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
That's my go to. That's that's the one ball I
can that's my fairway finder. You know how that works.

Speaker 6 (27:57):
Yeah, Hey, I got a question for you.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
How many people are younger than forty, younger than forty
know who Babe Zaharis?

Speaker 9 (28:05):
Is?

Speaker 8 (28:08):
A very few?

Speaker 2 (28:09):
Yeah, I bet they should look her up, shouldn't they?

Speaker 8 (28:12):
Yeah, they should. Or go to the Babes of Harris
Museum in Beaumont, I mean that might help, or the
Museum of the Gulf Coast.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
And Port Ofthhur Yeah, good call.

Speaker 8 (28:22):
We have uh, I mean even a lot of people
that don't know this guy, but he played thirteen years
on the PGA. Terris from Port Offs from the Flegman
lumber family was Marty, and I think he still teaches
golf in Houston. The last I knew which Marty, Marty Fleckman, Marty, Yeah,
Marty Fleckman.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Yeah, and new or no. Yeah, guys, he's still around.

Speaker 8 (28:46):
I think he's as far as yeah he was the
last I heard he was teaching golf in Houston. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
Probably, Yeah, I don't. I'll tell you what if he's
still got a heartbeat, he's teaching golf. That's that was
his calling from a very early age, I know.

Speaker 8 (29:00):
Yeah, yeah, so that's what well if late was you know,
like Chris Stroud came from the same high school I did,
P and g UH and UH Andrew Landry UH of
local fame. And there's another guy you need to look
for is uh As Bailey. I'm trying to think of
his first name, Uh, Braiden, Braiden Bailey. He got he

(29:25):
got to play the Houston Open. Uh one year. It
was Giles Kidney that got him uh a spot in
the Houston Open. And he did pretty good. He finished
three under.

Speaker 6 (29:37):
He got a check.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
That's really good. A lot of people don't understand how
good you have to be to make a cut and
get a check at a PGA Tour event. That's awesome, man.

Speaker 8 (29:49):
Yeah, your first time out, you know. And uh he's
been and anyone on the Canadian Tour. He played up
there for a while, so uh he is Uh he's
the son of the former mayor of Groves. We this
was I think Brad Bailey. I think it was well.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
I look for Jay. I hate to do it to you,
but I got to bounce. Man, I gotta get this
break in on time. We're Uh, I get punished when
I'm not on time on my breaks, I get I
get egoied. Yeah, it's great talking to you too. Yeah,
I'm gonna I'm gonna say some stuff about Babes Harris
when we get back to sound. Yeah, thank you, thanks

(30:25):
for listening.

Speaker 6 (30:28):
All right, We.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Gotta take a little break here on the way out
American Shooting Centers out there on West Timber Parkway between
Katie and Highway six. That is where you and I
and everybody else ought to be this weekend, tuning up
for Dove season, which starts on September first. We are
rapidly approaching that and If you haven't done that yet,
you need to because if you if you don't practice,

(30:53):
you're not gonna shoot. Well, you know you're not, so
get after it. Get going and make sure that you
are ready to shoot. Whether you're getting ready for dub season,
duck season, you're getting ready for deer season, anything. Go
out there, burn some powder, have some fun. If you're
not breaking targets, if you're not punching bulls eyes like
you want, go ahead and get some instruction. They'll take
care of you. American Shootingcenters dot Com is a website.

(31:17):
They've got three sporting place courses, ten trap and skeep fields.
They've got five stands setups. They've got a beginner's wing
shooting area, rifle and pistols starting at five yards going
all the way out to six hundred yards, and even
a little pop up silhouette range for the rimfirefans. American
Shooting Centers dot com is a website. American Shootingcenters dot com.

(31:40):
All right, welcome back seven forty seven on Sports Talk
seven ninety The Dugpike Show. Thank you for listening. I
certainly do appreciate it. Going back to Jay's conversation with me,
a few minutes ago and his mention of well, her
formal name Mildred Ella, and then in quotes Babe Didrickson Zaharias,
that's a lot of name for one woman, but she's

(32:01):
worthy of them. I guarantee you listen to this. This
is just the quick overview from Wikipedia, and it's about
as in the fewest words you can say some really
cool things about somebody who is an incredible athlete, excelled
in golf, basketball, baseball, and track and field. She won

(32:22):
two gold medals and a silver in track and field
in the nineteen thirty two Summer Olympics before turning professional
in golf and winning ten LPGA Major championships. That's pretty strong.

(32:42):
That's beyond strong. Born in Port Arthur, Texas, back in
nineteen eleven and died in nineteen fifty six down in Galveston.
Amazing woman. If you're interested at all in women who
really excelled in their sports, there she is right there.
Pretty incredible. Seven one three two one two five seven

(33:04):
ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Sticking with
golf for just a minute. I've had the honor uh
in my lifetime as a newsperson a golf and whatever
to meet two of the other I would say, uh,
two in the certainly in the top ten and possibly

(33:25):
in the top five, depending on how you look at it,
of the other best women golfers of all time. I
got to interview Nancy Lopez here. There was a meeting
of some sorts. I don't remember why, over at river
Oaks Country Club.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
I don't know what the why she was in town,
but her people called me and said, hey, do you
want to come over here and interview her? Absolutely? I
want to come interview Nancy Lopez. Absolutely I do. And
we sat down in a quiet corner of a big
room I don't remember exactly where in that expansive building,

(34:00):
but had a very good conversation and I got a
wonderful story out of it. And then, if you've listened
long enough, you've probably heard me talk about Annica Sorenstam
and me being at a I was doing a remote
broadcast from a golf course in Florida and had had
just kind of gotten into town and had gone over

(34:21):
to the golf course. I guess I was over there,
maybe finishing up a Saturday show and preparing for a
Sunday show, or maybe he had gone over there on
a Friday to test the lines for Saturday. Anyway, I
find out Anica's in town and thought, what an opportunity.
She's in town doing a kid's clinic at that golf course,

(34:42):
and that's where I'm broadcasting. I'm broadcasting from just outside
the pro shop there the next morning, and I told
my producer was probably it was either Michael Connor or Alfharb,
I can't remember who was over there with me on
that trip. Said hey, man, check with her people and
see if she would give me a little bit of
time in the morning, just a quick interview or whatever.
And so I just crossed my fingers and left it

(35:04):
at that. Went in the next morning, I'm out there,
bright and early, got set up, and I'm doing the show.
I'm sitting there at my table, I got all paperwork
scattered out in front of me like I do now.
And I see her get out of the car in
the parking lot. I thought, well, that's kind of cool.
She's here early too. I guess she's got a lot
to do and start she started kind of walking in

(35:26):
a different direction, and then there was the sidewalk kind
of came to a t and I presumed that she
was just going to keep on walking and go prepare
for whatever she was doing. She takes a rite and
comes and sits down right next to me and goes, hey,
you got time for me? Like, yeah, always got time
for you, Anica. So we had a wonderful conversation. She

(35:49):
explained how passionate she is about helping kids and especially
girls get into golf, and she's kind of still that
way today. Amazing people that I've met in my journey,
a lot of them I really have. On the on
the men's side, brief conversation with Arnold Palmer before he passed,
and a pretty lengthy conversation with Jack Nicholas Bernhard Longer.

(36:15):
Who else just there's a there's a pretty good list
of guys that I met and and not just had
a handshake and walk away. Honest, you know, at least
a couple of minutes of casual conversation to where they'll
let down their guard because they know I'm not going
to ask them what's their favorite golf course or what's
the best shot you ever hit? They get tired of

(36:35):
all that stuff. The way to get a little extra
time with any of these people. I've learned is to
first of all, do your research, learn what they like
to do when they're not playing golf, and then throw
that question at him. That's how I got probably a
solid ten minutes with Jack Nicholas. He was on his
way back into a big event room and I was

(36:57):
just the last guy standing who hadn't asked him a question,
and he said, do you did you want to ask
me a question? And I just said, yeah, I understand
you like the fish, and he sat back down and yeah.
We talked about fishing, and that was not a bad conversation. Frankie,
am I late? Or are we on time? Right now?
You are on time? Oh? Thank goodness, so I've got

(37:18):
about five more minutes. This is awesome. Going back to
dub season, we've talked a good bit about preparing, getting
your gun ready, going and shooting and doing all these things,
but we haven't really emphasized enough. I don't think how
important it is. If you're going to take a dog
hunting on opening day September one in Southeast Texas, there's

(37:42):
a very good chance it's going to be really hot,
and if you have not had that dog out working
for at least two or three weeks now in the
heat and small increments to build up some stamina to
get to shake off that porch poodle little belly probably has.
That dog's not gonna be lean. That dog's not going

(38:04):
to be able to stay out in that heat very long.
And if you just insist on taking that dog because
you're too lazy to get up and walk out and
get your own doves, then just be prepared that you
may have some issues. Can't emphasize enough bringing a lot
of water, not just not just a half gallon of
water and just slop some in his mouth when he's

(38:26):
sitting there panting and just can't catch his breath. The
reason dogs pant when they get hot is they don't perspire.
They have no perspiration capability. That's how we get the
heat out of our bodies is by perspiration. The moisture
on our skin gets a little breeze over it, and
that cools our skin down, and that in turn kind

(38:47):
of cools us down. Dogs breathe in what hopefully is
a little bit cooler air than their body temperature. That's
how they cool from the inside out by breathing. And
I want to say that number is one hundred and
one hundred and two degrees. If docks listed this morning,

(39:08):
he could give me the exact dog internal temperature. But
the problem is on a summer day in southeast Texas,
it might be one hundred degrees and if you're trying
to cool your engine with oil, that's the same temperature
as the engine not happening, not happening, And that's when

(39:30):
dogs get get heat exhaustion, get heat strokes. And I've
seen dogs go down in the field. I've seen how
much it tore up the people who owned those dogs.
And I know more dogs that have ended up dying
when they got to that point in the field than

(39:50):
actually recovered, even when they were immediately taken to the
vet when they went down. So I don't want anybody's
dog to suffer that fate. And they're just they're so
dedicated to us as their owners. They're so dedicated to
us that they will keep going even though they know

(40:13):
they're in trouble. Their mission in life is to make
you happy, and you've got to reciprocate by making sure
that they can stay safe and make you happy. Or
you can just go get your own doves, which is
not a bad idea. When the temperature is one hundred
degrees and it's the humidity is about ninety percent, all

(40:33):
they're doing is they're like a convection of it. At
that point, all they're doing is breathing in hotter and
hotter air and never able to cool themselves. Get them
in the shade. The little kiddie pool idea, I think
is one of the best. You've got to bring probably
two five gallon jugs of water and maybe a couple
of bags of ice, and just at some point during

(40:55):
that hunt, go ahead and put three or four inches
of water in that pool and about a half a
bag of ice, and just just check the water with
your hand every now and then make sure it's not
it's not warm to the touch, and if it is,
add a little more ice and give that dog a
place to go when it gets hot. You don't want
to put too much water in there, because if it does,

(41:17):
if it were to go unconscious somehow and his head
drops underwater, that's that's a whole new problem. So just
just enough to get that belly in there and slash
around a little bit, maybe reach in there and splash
him water up on the dog's neck in his back
and make sure that dog lives to have another day
with you. Someone three two one two five seven ninety

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email me Doug pick at iHeartMedia dot com. The only
reason I keep going over that is because I've seen
it and it's it's it's horrible. It's absolutely horrible. That
and gun safety. We can always talk about gun safety.
Man oh man, this is here. Here comes our next
chance as Texans to get through an entire hunting season
with zero hunting fatality. Actually, let's let's just shoot for

(42:02):
no hunting accidents, no problems that even that that drew blood,
let's try that. Let's just swing for the fence. Why not?
It is so easy if you if you just follow
common sense rules when you're carrying a firearm, a loaded
firearm somewhere. First of all, you don't it doesn't need

(42:25):
to be loaded unless you're actually at the place where
you're going to be hunting. And secondly, if you're if
you're still hunting in the woods, for example, you're walking
through the woods trying to shoot a deer, I understand
the deer's the gun's got to be loaded. But just
the little simple rules always apply. Never point a gun
at anything you wouldn't intend to shoot, make sure that

(42:48):
gun's empty. If if you and I are standing in front,
face to face, in front of each other, and you
want to show me your new shotgun, and you open
it up in front of me and show me that
there's nothing inside that gun. You, or if it's a
pump gun, you rack it two or three times to
show me there's nothing in the gun. You leave it
open and you show it to me, and then you

(43:08):
hand it to me. What I'm gonna do is close it,
and then I'm gonna open it, and then I'm gonna
look in there and I'll stick my finger up in
there and make sure there's nothing in the chamber. I'm
gonna do all of that on my own. It's nothing
against you. It's not that I don't trust you. It's
just a habit that I've gotten in after a thousand
years of handling firearms. And I'm not gonna be the

(43:32):
one that makes a mistake. And I know you're not.
If you're a good friend of mine, I know you're
as safety conscious as I am. But we've got to
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(45:41):
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(46:24):
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Thank you for listening. Dunpike showing Sports Talk seven ninety.
I got two calls, need to take care of. Then
I'm going to take care of Danny and his email. Goodness,

(47:09):
gracious email requests, stand by everybody, longest Hold that's Aaron?
What's up?

Speaker 6 (47:15):
Aaron? Hey?

Speaker 9 (47:16):
Good morning?

Speaker 2 (47:17):
All right, good morning man.

Speaker 6 (47:19):
So I have a question.

Speaker 9 (47:20):
Now I might only get a week or two to
sign in my thirty out six for health season. Is
there a predictable outcome of shooting at my ninety to
one hundred degrees as to what's going to happen when
I shoot at ten or fifteen degrees? It's just short
up tournament thing in the freezer. Is there a consistent

(47:41):
thing that happens when when he signed a rifle at
that high temperature? Just taking that cold temperature, I'm just
not going to get an opportunity to shoot that cold weather.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
Yeah, my gut tells me that everything that I've learned
on the way to season, elk season, whatever elephant season,
if you're gonna go shoot, you need to be out
there early to shoot with a cool barrel. And if
you stay out there and just start running round after

(48:13):
round after round through it, that barrel is gonna overheat.
Then the the bullet flight is gonna be impacted. I
don't know. So the hard part right now is trying
to find a place to shoot a cool barrel. That's
you gotta be out there at the crack of dawn.
It's that's the only choice you have, and you got

(48:33):
and you have to wait. The old school way says,
wait till you can put your wrist on that barrel
and not just yank it away because it's too hot.
Then you're gonna be have some consistency. Now, if you
shoot with a cool barrel, we're gonna call it early morning.
You don't run ten rounds through it back to back

(48:55):
to back to back to back and really overheat it.
That's probably gonna be very close where you're going. I'm
wondering there. There's got to be some place where you're
going where you could run a few rounds down to
barrel or can you.

Speaker 9 (49:12):
Well, I might be able to be up in the
Santa Fe area, but yeah, you know, also also like
to it's you know, it's a little bit of a
game done to me. It's my father's rifle. But I
want to see what what kind of appetite it has
for you know, particular bullets. You know, you want to
run a three different you know, brands and brains are there. Oh, absolutely,

(49:33):
that's going to even complicate.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
Does it just add something to the equation. Yeah, I
see what you're I see where you're going. I'll tell
you what if you if you get a chance today,
call call and Jerry. Yeah, called Jerry t k oh, Yeah,
do that. Jerry will tell you the truth. He'll know
now he knows more about South texas well. Know Jerry
or Jay, either one, because Jay does a lot of

(49:56):
big game hunting, like all the way up through Alaska.
So yeah, call down the shooter's corner and talk to
either one of them and they'll know way more than
I do. I'm the first one to admit it.

Speaker 9 (50:08):
Yeah, I'll probably head down there tomorrow. Party actually get
a good call.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
Oh good for you, man, throw your rods in because
the surf's been pretty good lately.

Speaker 9 (50:16):
You got South Carolina. Yeah, that's what every want saying.
I'd like to go throw some top waters off. I
know it's no jetty down there and see if I can't.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
A couple might be kind of fun for sure. Yeah,
all right, pardon, I got a run, man, Thank you,
safe travels, you know man, you know all. I'll see
you audios. All right, let me get Mike up here.
What's up Mike, Mike, there you are. What's up, buddy.

Speaker 5 (50:43):
How are you doing, young man? I'm good, well, I
hope family and you were doing Hayleen Hardy.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
That's we're doing that. We're paddling fast as we can.

Speaker 5 (50:53):
I want to give you a little uh uh update.
Last year I retired my twelve to Tory and went
to a bread with the same stock and receiver for it.
Twenty twenty eight. I no longer shoot past birds in
the hot weather unless I've got a bird dog or

(51:14):
a bird boy, So I hunt in the cool weather.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
Now that's a nice plan. How about does that happen
around here? Never?

Speaker 5 (51:23):
Really? I found out something that I can do naturally,
and I wanted to pass it along. Okay, I have
had notoriously a left eye dominant and I shoot right handed.

Speaker 9 (51:38):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (51:40):
But I went and while I was shooting dub in
the cool weather last year in the wind, I thought, well,
let me try shooting left handed, since I have a
hard time shooting birds right to left. So I shot
left handed and I found out I was pretty good
at that left handed. So after dove season was over,

(52:00):
I went over to American Shooting Center and took a
couple of lessons shooting the left handed good. Got a
couple of pointers, and I'm anxious this year to put
it to practice.

Speaker 4 (52:14):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (52:14):
I don't know whether a lot of your shooters shoot
over an unders, but if they do, tell them to
have a little fun and shoot with the other shoulder.
It's a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
I'm sure it is. I'm sure it is.

Speaker 6 (52:25):
Yeah, and you shoot.

Speaker 5 (52:27):
I'm lift primarily left handed.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
Okay, I can't walk right handed, But.

Speaker 5 (52:31):
Have you ever tried shooting right handed?

Speaker 2 (52:33):
I've tried shooting right handed, and I'm not horrible at it.
I at one point, my friends and I, when I
was shooting competitively, we would shoot with the gun upside down.
And yeah, and that now that that is a challenge
because you essentially what you have is this imaginary barrel
that's about six or eight inches above the actual barrel,

(52:57):
and it's a it's a different thing. It's not Once
you figure out the line, once you figure out how
to straighten the barrel toward where you're going and not
have any vertical wobble in it or vertical variance in it,
it's not that hard to hit clay targets that way.

Speaker 5 (53:14):
One of the other things that they told me. When
I was taking the lesson for shooting left handed last year,
I put a bead mid mid barrel and that helped
me line up coming right to left.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
Also, yeah, one thing you just the bead on barrel
on a barrel is really not something I ever see
when I'm shooting. I'm not looking down the barrel anymore.
There's a it's kind of a different way of shooting.
But whatever you're doing, if it's work, and keep doing it.
Maybe if we can meet, might have to meet up
at a range sometime and I'll put you in front

(53:49):
of somebody who will change your change your ideas and
mess you up all over again.

Speaker 5 (53:55):
Well, I got plenty of time. I'm only eighty.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
Good for you, all right. I take that twenty gauge
out there and have some fun at twenty eight too.
That's really fun.

Speaker 5 (54:04):
Take up, take care, but see you later.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
I'll see you. Let me grab David. He's been there
for quite a while. I want to grab him before this,
breaking your team up for me? Thank you, David. What's
up man?

Speaker 4 (54:14):
Yeah, Doug, I just wanted to remind people you got
two saturdays before the open before Labor Day weekend and
the opening of the season on that following Monday to
get your hundred education in if your if your child
needs it.

Speaker 3 (54:29):
And we have people we.

Speaker 4 (54:32):
Always have people wait at the last minute and they
can't get in the class. And uh, all the registration
now is done online, which makes it easy, very easy
to find a place to take it and the times
and to register. And but let me add if something happens,
then you don't because the classes do fill up quite often,

(54:53):
no doubt, and you can't make it. If you can't
make it, go online or go back in and drop
your registration and open the seat up for somebody else,
because again, the classes this time of the year start filling
up pretty quickly. And uh, that'll you know, that'll leave
a seat open that somebody might otherwise not be able
to get.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
Yeah, that's a very good idea and a good point
you make about reopening a seat if you're not going
to end up going, because the last thing that any
father or or older relative would want to do is
have to tell somebody, Okay, look, I'm gonna go ahead
and take you on this hunt. But when we get back,
we've got to go ahead and get that hunter safety

(55:32):
that that starts a real that puts a plants of
bad seed in the kid's head to know that they're
going out there breaking the law. That's that's messed up.
So yeah, I agree with you. It's it has to
be done. We've had a year to get it done
for the kids who are turning that age now and
going out and there's no excuse for not getting it done.

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But yeah, and maybe there's there's a lesson in it. Said,
you know what, Dad messed up. We didn't get your
hunter safety. We got to wait until you get it
before we can go and just just take your lumps.

Speaker 9 (56:04):
You know.

Speaker 4 (56:05):
Yeah, well, keep in mind they can hunt next to you.

Speaker 2 (56:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (56:11):
Yeah, but you know, kids have enjoyed themselves more if
they're kind of by themselves. You know, you want to
say by them, you know what I'm saying one hundred
yards away. But uh, anyway, just real quick, they wanted
dovetail into the earlier caller. Yeah, that being able to
switch shoulders can come in handy. I've there have been
a number of times when I've been in deep woods

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hunting and a deer walk up on my I'm right handed, yeah,
and the deer walk up and the deer walk up
in my right and I'm sitting in the ladder stand
and I ain't gonna You're not going to turn around
on the deer and make a shot to be able
to switch shoulders and shoot from that left shoulder.

Speaker 7 (56:45):
Uh is uh can be?

Speaker 8 (56:47):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (56:47):
I'm mean to make the difference to getting the deer
and not getting deer.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
Absolutely, you're exactly right. Thanks for that. Appreciate it, all right,
appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (56:55):
Thank you for let me put that plug in.

Speaker 2 (56:56):
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twenty one on Sports Talk seven to ninety the Dugpike Shows.
Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. I got
some email stuff I want to go through real quickly.
Here Alan wondering if I serve goofyfoot or right foot forward.
Those are the same thing. I don't know why, I
don't know who it was, clearly some right handed person

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who first coined the term goofyfoot. My right foot leads
on the surfboard and a right handed person's left foot
leads on the surfboard. And there's really it doesn't matter.
I was in my prime. I was able to take

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waves that broke left and broke right and enjoy enjoy
them with equal enthusiasm and a moderate level of skill.
I was never going to win any surfing contest, but
I had a lot of fun. I can remember pretty
early on on a very short, very responsive board at

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the old surfside pier. The first kind of right of
passage was to be able to surf through the peer
and not actually run into one of the pilings. And
that might sound pretty easy, but it's not, and so
before you would be successful, most of us anyway, you'd

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bounce off a piling or two and that was just
great fun. Moving down the line. Here Danny weighs in
with this. Let me say, where did it go? Hold on? Oh,
I'm on this little, tiny, little screen and I don't
like it. Morning, Doug. I'm Danny. Used to fish the
Bob Hall pier down in Corpus my whole life, and

(01:00:31):
moved here and have it fished to surf in forever
twenty years plus. I'd like to know a spot you
would recommend that would replicate fishing off Bob Hall mainly
for bull reds, jetties or peers. And thanks, and I
appreciate the appreciate the email, Danny. So here's the deal.

(01:00:51):
When as we get closer to fall, closer and closer,
there's an email I just got that I've been looking
for for an hour and a half.

Speaker 5 (01:00:59):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
As we get closer to fall, and those bullreds get
closer to shore going into their spawning season, closer to
the passes and whatnot, the rock growings of Galveston are
all kind of like little miniature piers. Now you can
go out that ninetieth Street pier, you and a whole
lot of people when it's a good day to be

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chasing those bullreds. Or you can do what I'm talking
about and walk all the way to the end of
one of those little rock groins up and down the
Galveston beach front and just cast as far as you
can with your big old surf fraud, and you will
get your share of redfish bites, no question about it.
The jetty, the Galveston jetties, I don't think of when

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I think of trying to chase bull reds. I do, though,
think of the surf side jetty, because in the fall
there's actually a washout that I'm sure is still there.
The currents haven't changed that much towards the end of
the surfie, not Quintana, but toward the end of the
surf side side at about for the last fifty seventy

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five yards of those rocks, casting straight out as far
as you can throw something, there's a hole out there,
and I used to catch quite a few bull reds
out of that hole. Now, this is before the invasion
of everybody and anybody with a fishing rod who wanted
to go down there and just take up room and

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bring wagons and beach umbrellas or patio umbrellas and ice
chests and all of that stuff. But when it was
less crowded, I was actually going out to the very
end of that jetty and throwing giant rattle traps and
giant soft plastic jigs on a rig that would throw it.

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Throw either of those really really far, leave the real
open until that thing hit the bottom, and then just
kind of flick them, just bounce them off the bottom
a little bit. And I think that big rattle trap
was imitating a crab because I caught as many bull
reds on that as I did on the jigs, and
it was just it's crazy, but they're there. And now
you can throw bait if you want to chop a

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mullet in a half and sling that out there and
you'll get bit as well. But it was just more
fun with me with the lure. For me, with the lures, bait,
I think is your better bet for the little Galveston
rock groins. Those fish aren't going to concentrate, They'll just
be moving up and down the beach, and plenty of
them to be caught the sixty first Street pier even

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you're going to catch any place where you can go
and get a bait out past that third bar is
probably going to be at least okay. It may not
replicate what you could do from Bob Hall, just because
the coastlines are different and the bottom contours are different,
but you'll have a fighting chance. I guarantee you that
shoot me an email, Well you had shot me an email.

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If I get a chance after work today, I'll try
to send you a little bit more information on how
I was doing all that. But yeah, that's a fun,
fun plan, and you're if you go to the right
spots at the right time, you'll have every bit as
good a shot to catch a bull red as you
ever did down there at the Bob Hall. There was
another email I wanted to get to. Where did it go?

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Stand by there's Rudy. Rudy talking in or weighing in
on that big giant hammerhead that was caught down there
off South Padre and it was a big one. Let
me see if it's got there's an official there's any
official length on it. Very quickly a story by some
guy named Indy Johnson. Never heard of him. He's writing

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for the Port Isabel Press. That means he lives down
there and he knows his fish. I hope let's see
an enormous hammerhead shark, he writes, estimated at more than
a thousand pounds and measuring fourteen feet five inches. I
don't know about that thousand pound thing. I don't know
about that. In any event, though, it was caught and

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it was released this week. Down there Bocachica just shy.
It says, of a world record and larger than any
recorded catch in Texas waters. Pretty good guy named Joe
Gonzalez his team from the Bokachka Beach Legends documented Friday
after prolonged and physically grueling surf battle. I guarantee you

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it was that. That is a big shark. There's no
question about it. It's a monstrous hammerhead. Monstrous hammerhead. The fins,
the dorsal and tail fins of a hammerhead are easily
identifiable in shallow water. Hats off to them. See forty
five minutes into the fight, they saw the first glimpse
of the dorsal slice it to the surface. That's when

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we knew we had a giant hammer That's what Gonzales said.
It's good stuff. Beach fishing for sharks is an art
form and down south where the bottom drops off faster
and you get more big sharks closer to the beach.
There's a lot more finesse, a lot more skill involved

(01:06:02):
with most of what those guys do. Up here. We
do have some shark fishing, but you practically have to
dump the spool of a giant reel just to get
into enough water to catch one, except at night if
you want to, if you want to set up camp
down there from about Freeport south at night, you'll be

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probably surprised at the size of the sharks that come
in closer to the beach than you would ever dream
closer than that to feed. It's a little bit scary
to think about it, but that's what those big sharks
will do. They'll they'll move in pretty close farther south
to go, you go, the closer they get. I've seen
some surf fishing down in import in the corpus on

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North Padre Island. I've seen some pretty darn big sharks
rolling across the bars down there in broad daylight. Just
see the big shadows on the bottom. Every now and
then you'll see a dorsal or of tail come out
of the water.

Speaker 3 (01:07:01):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
But yeah, they're they're close, especially at first and last light.
Those fish have been up there close, trying to feed
and trying to keep that belly full. And I think
if people knew how many sharks there were in the
Gulf of Mexico, in water that we splash in and
surfing and fishing and playing, mostly the people who don't

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understand the water would be first to get out because
they'd be scared.

Speaker 9 (01:07:30):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
But the people who do understand and the people who
do respect sharks would just heighten their awareness and just
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That's a that's a wake up call that you're you're

(01:07:52):
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All right, welcome back Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug
Pike Show. Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. Email
me Doug Pike Adiheartmedia dot com. I'm trying to tune
up an interview tomorrow about offshore and what I want

(01:10:01):
to do is I'm gonna kind of I'm trying to
get somebody who does it for a living on the
phone and maybe and I'm not talking about marlin fishing.
That's if I wanted marlin fishing advice, I'd get Cameron
Plog on the phone. In a heartbeat. We talked to him,
actually just a few what last week, I guess it
was after he and his crew in pre fishing for

(01:10:25):
the Tiff tournament last week, went out and caught all
five golf species of billfish in one day. I don't
know that that's ever been done before, and I would
imagine it would be almost crazy if it happened again.

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They had to have so many things go right, so
many things fall into place, and the one thing that
we didn't talk about because it I I think that
the average offshore fishermen wouldn't really even understand how much
work goes into that being even a remote possibility. The

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equipment has to be in one hundred percent top shape.
The people on the boat have to all know what
they're doing and know what their job is going to
be from the time they leave the dock to the
time they get back home. Everybody on one of those
big offshore boats, the billfish boats, everybody's got a job,

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and even some smaller charter boats going out just with
the capability of going pretty far. Let's call it just
any boat that's longer than about say thirty two feet
or thirty feet. If you're going if you've got thirty
feet a boat under you, and you're headed out there
where you can't see land anymore, everybody needs a job.

(01:11:56):
Everybody has a job, especially if you're going to be
dragging big baits and trying to catch big fish. Now,
if you're just going out there to park over a
rock or next to a rig or something and catch
red snapper, sure, everybody grab a rod, everybody drop a bait,
and we'll see what happens. But when you start trolling,
or when you start setting out big live baits, then

(01:12:18):
each person's role has to be well defined and well
discussed before a bait hits the water, or you're just
setting yourself up for failure. I can assure you that
when Cameron and his crew got the first couple of
fish on board, somebody was already thinking, wow, man, who knows,

(01:12:41):
maybe we can get all five. And when that spearfish
came on board, then it was game on. They were
almost home. Got a blue marlin, got a white marlin,
got a sailfish, and holy mackerel, it's a spearfish. They thought. Originally,
Cameron told me, I think it was on the He
may have mentioned it when we were talking on the air.

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They thought originally it was a small blue marlin. Look
that's cute of baby blue marlin and the second glance
at no, no, no, none of that lines up. That's
not a baby blue marlin. That's a spearfish, and it
was indeed, And so that led them to kind of,
as fishermen do, if we can get four and we

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can figure out where to go, we can get five.
So they got on the radio, they had a little
chatter and one of the other guys who was out
in another boat, said, I got a place pretty close
to where you guys are where you might be able
to get one, and it ended up happening for him.
So hats off to them. What I want to do
with this conversation, I get that's a long ways around
to get back to where I am. Now, what I

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want to do, and I'm going to try to set
it up tomorrow, is get somebody on the line. And
I've got two or three guys I'm gonna call, but
somebody who who does this for a living and is
really good at it and can talk about rigging for
the different species that a lot of people like to
chase when they go offshore, because it's a whole different

(01:14:08):
ballgame to be fishing for red snapper than it is
to be fishing for king mackerel, whole different game than
fishing for kobea or fishing for amberjack, grouper, all these
awesome fish that are out there to be caught, and
they all require a little different skill set, a little
different rigging, a little different baiting. All of that has

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to be understood. And you can go out there and
just hang a sardine off a hook and see what happens.
But when you start getting serious about it and really
targeting certain species, then there's a whole lot more that
you that you can do. Now, the party boats go
out there and they'll dey'll drop double drip, double drop

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rigs with a chunk of squid hanging off of them.
It's nasty, it's it's effective. You're gonna catch fish, but
it's just not It doesn't target giant fish. I would
when I was doing a lot of party boat fishing
one hundred years ago, I would actually have a The
first thing I'd do when I get on the boat
is have a conversation with a deckhand or two of them.

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Usually they're standing around together as everybody's loading up. I
just go right to them and say, hey, man, I
wouldn't mind spending a little time on the bow of
this boat, slinging a live bait out there somewhere, just
to see if I could catch something big. Think you
guys could help me out, and they the whole trip,
they'd be bringing me little whatever, some little dinky fish

(01:15:34):
that somebody caught and was going to throw back. They'd
bring it up to me and I'd sling it out
there as live bait, and I'd catch some pretty big stuff.
You'd be surprised that what's out there, and we'll come
come running when the dinner bell rings, which is essentially
what those party boats must sound like to the fish.
Wherever there's little fish, there's gonna be big fish. You

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just have to be patient. I'd get them. They'll do
a lot of stuff for you, and it just increases
your odds, a better experience, a better catch. The one
thing I'm not going to do anymore is go fishing
for giant amberjack. If I'm going to be reeling them in,
I'll help you bait, I'll help you catch live baits.
I'll do whatever you want except reel in an amberjack

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that weighs more than about fifty pounds. Now I've had
that opportunity. It's fun and all when you're young and
strong and tough. But I'm not young anymore, not so
tough anymore, and I remember the punishment that a big
amberjack can put on you when you think otherwise. The

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last time I did all that, there were some young
guys on the boat, and there was me and a
couple of other guys about my age. And what I
would do is drop a live bait down there, and
if I felt the initial panic in the bait fish
that meant there was a big amberjack on its tail.
I would hand the rod to a young guy next

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to me and say, hey, man, I'm gonna run in
and grab something to drink. I'm gonna get a doctor
pepper or a diet coke or something. Sure, man, you
hold this rod for me. And I'd run and I'd
look back over my shoulder and the guy would be
he'd have his belly button pinned against the rail and
the rod bent double, and he'd looked at me, like,
what have you done? It's like, good luck, have fun,

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have fun. You're young, You'll be all right. I wouldn't
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totally different situation for rifle work. Well, Jerry and j
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him exactly what he needs, a lot better than I could.
I think I know the answers, but I know better

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He knows I'm already. I'm already setting up for a tournament.
I'm making a nice big presence at this tournament up
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two on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dugpike Show. Thank
you for listening. Certain to appreciate it. Give me a call.
Let's talk about something. You know what I want to
take a minute to talk about the Astros last night,
because they scared me once again. We've got this just
whole hot mess of a lineup. If you would have

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told me that half of these guys would be on
the major league team this far into the season and
having to carry it in a lot of case, a
lot of these guys probably would have had a really
good year in sure Land or maybe down at Corpus
or somewhere within the organization, probably would have had a

(01:22:13):
really good year. And then all of a sudden, one
guy gets hurt. Then a couple of pitchers go out,
and you blink at about what maybe the seventy eighty game, No,
not even that many, but fifty sixty games, and half
your lineup is hurt to varying degrees. And I still

(01:22:35):
I'm kind of some of these things. I got a cramp, well,
walk it off, got a hangnail, and now you can't
be off for six weeks for a hangnail. But I
grew up when baseball players if you didn't have if
you weren't bleeding, or had didn't have fresh stitches or
a cast, then you were expected to suit up and

(01:22:56):
get out there and play. Now I understand the investment
that's been made in all these professional players, and how
the teams don't want to just make it worse and
still have to pay them all that money, because that's
kind of how it works. But dog gone, we need
our guys back on the field. We've been with that,
just kind of like last year when Tucker went out.

(01:23:18):
Now we've got Alvarez, he's been out forever. It seems
like half our pitching staff, Arrogaty's coming back. We're doing well,
But last night I wanted to get more to the
present than the troubling past. Now, the good news is
all these guys they brought up have contributed and are
doing the best they can with the tools they have
at this point in their careers to keep us going.

(01:23:42):
And for the most part, they've done a good job
of it. I'm thrilled with what those guys have done,
these younger guys. Cam Smith's a great example. Cam Smith
works his tail off. He deserves what he's got. As
far as being a starting outfielder, he's unfine. And last
night they kind of scared me though out to nothing

(01:24:05):
early and then and I by the way, I'm not
watching the game on TV because I don't have I
don't want to invest money in a package that will
that will get me ten or twelve more games that
I can get on Space City Network. That's where I'm
watching my Astros games, and that's all I need. Every
now and then, there's one on Fox I think. Anyway,

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the long and the short of it is two oh
two oh. We're up two oh for half the game,
and then I get out of the car to walk
into the grocery store or something for two minutes. I
come back out. It's two to two. How'd that happen?
I get home, I put on the Little League World
Series on the TV, I mute it, and I go
to Alexa. Hey, Alexa, play Sports Talk seven to ninety

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on iHeartRadio. Bam. The Gum Game comes up live, so
I got the best of both worlds. I love watching
those little kids play because every now and then they'll
kind of surprise you and do something really cool. But
every now and then they'll also do something boneheaded, and
they remind you that they're just twelve years old. It's
still fun to watch and it's still fun to listen.

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I ended up walking away in the top of the
tenth inning, to do something around the house, and when
I came back up, it was three to two in
the top of the tenth, and I think we had
one out at that point, and then I had to
go do something else, and before I knew it, the

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game was over and I didn't recap it anywhere. I
was a little bit scared too, honestly, But the good
news is we ended up winning five to two, not
just three to two. I was scared with one if
they'd only gotten that one run that moved that that
Little league rule where they get a guy on second

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base starting to I don't know why they do that. Well,
they do it to shorten the games. People were losing
interest in baseball because it took two dog on long.
So I understand that. I don't like it, but I
understand it. But anyway, they win five to two last night,
and we needed that in ads. Once coach said walk,
oh yeah, oh yeah. Dan's weighing in that I took

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a hard hit ground ball to the privates once and
this is man. I know Dan's age, and I know
that he wasn't wearing a cup because none of us
were back then. We didn't even know anything about cups
and the coach just told him to walk it off.
Uh that's yeah, that's old school baseball right there. Uh
at Almost anybody who's ever played the game long enough

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has gotten hit there, and it it hurts, It does hurt.

Speaker 6 (01:26:47):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:26:47):
Seven one three seven ninety. Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia
dot com. Oh my word, I'm having flashbacks. We had
We had our shortstop in high school, my best friend,
my fishing buddy for many, many years. Jimmy got hit
in the eye during practice. Of course, we didn't practice
on fields that were as nice as what the big

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leaguers play on, or even what high schools play on now.
And we just had dirt, and the dirt had rocks
in it, and a ground ball was hit by the coach.
We were just running an infield drill. Ground ball hit
by the coach. It hits a rock instead of just
making a short hop, it hops up a little higher
and caught Jimmy square in the eye and for the

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better part of two weeks, maybe more, maybe three, who knows,
he had a black eye and it just so he
of course, in high school you can't just let that
go unnoticed and unrecognized, so we had to come up
with a nickname for him, and from some point for it.
I don't even remember who came up with it, but
his nickname was would Eye, and yeah, that's how he

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went through the rest of high school. Great guy. I
haven't talked to him in so long. Love to hear
from him, I really would if any of you know him.
And he had heavy Hecky had four little brothers. Three yeah,
four little brothers. He was the oldest boy in a
family of seven kids, two girls first, then Jimmy, then
four more behind him. So if one of you little

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Hammond's is listening, get a hold of your big brother
and tell him to give me a call. Uh. One
of the other brothers actually coaches baseball. I think he
still does. I'm sure he does. He's an excellent coach.
Excellent coach. So maybe Jerry's listing who knows someone? Three
two one two five seven ninety. We got to take
a little break here at the top of the hour.
We'll come back and and do a little golf talk,

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little FedEx cup stuff, the Saint FedEx, Saint Jude going
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That's all you need to know to get a look
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got kind of a sports bar as you walk into
the right, and more family dining tables and chairs and
booths to the left, and then there's outdoor dining as well.
But everybody in there, the common thread, no matter where
you're sitting in there is that you're gonna get good
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Mex food you'll ever eat. Outstanding fish, tacos, outstanding tresh letchez.
To kind of wrap it all up, I'm particular particularly
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so tough anymore. I like that cream sauce though it
is absolutely delicious. They have a full lineup of tacos

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and chilatas you name it, burritos, there's a seafood burrito.
But I warn you right now, if you aren't really
really hungry and have a big stomach to match your
big appetite, may not be able to finish that thing.
It's that big and that delicious. The one time I
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but I felt like my center of gravity had been
lowered for about I don't know a day. It was.
It was that much food, and I couldn't stop eating it.
That was That was my own fault. I just couldn't stop.
It was so good. Berryhillsugar Land dot com. The restaurant
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fifty nine on the inbound side, the northbound side. You
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They've come here and brought food at least twice, now
maybe three times, and it doesn't last long when it
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Speaker 1 (01:30:52):
Now here's Dougpike.

Speaker 2 (01:30:54):
Alright, let's tie up the nine o'clock hour, if we may.
I'm gonna that is okay. That's enough of that. That's
enough of this and let's go to let me pop
this web page up here tea at the FedEx Saint
Jude Champagne Ship. It was rain delayed yesterday. Let me

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see how far along they are with getting everybody done.
They should be about done with everybody now. Now there's
still a Patrick Rodgers and Davis Riley are playing eighteen.
Cam Davis and somebody are still on sixty. Eric van
Royan still on sixteen. But that's it. So there's only
a hole or a hole and a half to go
before they can tee it up for the final round

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of the event, and hopefully they'll get Yeah, they've got
plenty of time, I think, to squeeze everything in. I
didn't realize how little more they had to do. So
basically it's only ten o'clock over there. They'll probably be
back out on the golf course and going at it
in another thirty minutes at the worst, and should be
able to get everybody around today and everybody around tomorrow.

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Tommy Fleetwood thirteen under par through his two rounds. He
shot sixty three on Thursday sixty four yesterday to find
himself a full sleeve ahead of Justin Rose, who is well,
he's at ten obviously, if you know what a sleeve
of balls is. Colin Morikawa and Aksha Battia. I like

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that kid, mostly because he's left handed. Uh ok shehbt.
Colin Morrika at nine under par, Kirk Kadiyama, Andrew Novak
and Maverick McNeely at eight, and I'll give you the
three sevens as well. Bud Caley, Scotty Scheffler. Oh boy,
they better be watching over their shoulders, I'm telling you.

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And Jacob Bridgman at seven under par, A handful of
guys at six, a mini bus full of guys at
five probably got a big hill to climb. We'll see.
These guys all got a little extra time in the
rack this morning, except for the guys who had to
go out and finish everybody who was finished after yesterday's

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round when they finally had to turn it off because
of the rain, got a later alarm. And that helps
every one of those guys, don't. The schedules they keep
are just remarkable. They have to be in such better
physical shape than most of the players were twenty thirty
years ago or forty or fifty years ago. They weren't
in shape fifty years ago. That flat out true. It's

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gonna be a good tournament, no question, and in a
good place, and for a good cause. It fed you
the Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital. I'm actually gonna be
making a trip over there again. This is gonna be
a whirlwind tour. In fact, I have to. I'm gonna
make a note Saint Jude, and I know what it'll
mean when after the show I look at that note

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and see it. We're gonna there. I and several more
people from over here in one day are going to
fly to Memphis, get picked up at the airport, dash
over to the hospital, tour of the whole campus, which
includes housing, It includes the hospital, it includes the cafeteria,

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it includes It's a big place. But the people who
haven't been yet are going to get to see what
I saw about eight or nine years ago. Now, that
really locked me in on the good work that they
do over there. I saw a story yesterday about a
guy who became the first person to circumnavigate the world
by air, by land, and by sea. I don't know

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about the land part. I don't remember what that one was,
but the bottom line is he did all that and
he did it to raise money for Saint Jude, and
I want to say he raised something like eight or
ten million dollars over the course of that whole expedition
of his First of all, how do you get that
much time off to do that. I'm a little bit
jealous of someone who has that time. And if I

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had that kind of time, I would be doing things
just like that. But I'd probably be fishing and playing
a little golf too. Seven one three two one two
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I don't know about you, but there's always something in
my golf game that bothers me that I'm not doing well.

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And for years it was getting off the tee and
I used to just cringe. Everybody would say, yeah, you
drive for show, but you put for Doe because I
didn't want to show anybody my drivers. They were going
all over the place. Well, I got some help from
a lot of people along the line. Most recently, the
guy who's probably helped me the most in the last
several years is Tommy O'Brien out there at Blackhawk. Uh.

(01:35:37):
He and I have discussed how I swing, what I
can do with what I've got left at my age,
and I'm pretty happy with it. Actually, I'm still playing
from the blue teas. I haven't moved up from there
except on rare occasion when everybody else in the group
is going to play forward to that. I don't want
to be the loan. Oh wait, we have to wait

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for Doug to go back there and hit where he's
hitting from. I'll just kind of go along to get along.
But I'm still comfortable from back there, and that makes
me feel good about where I am right now. My
achilles heel of late has been chipping and pitching, and
I saw something this morning online. It's amazing how much

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information there is online and how many little tips there are.
And I don't take any of them as gospel because
I know that not all of those tips are going
to apply to everybody, and everybody's the way they swing.
But if it looks like something that I could try
and probably help my game by doing, I'm gonna try it.

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And I've got one now for that little chip shot
around the green. I'm scared to death. I'm mortified because
what I tend to do is let my hands get
a little bit in front of that club on the
way down, and that immediately throws the leading edge of
the club up into the ground first, and not the
bounce on those like on my sandwich. And so I

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ended up chunking, I ended up blading. I ended up
doing all those bad, bad things. I think if you
could shank a chip shot that I'd probably be doing
that as well. And I was almost there. This is so,
this is why I love golf so much and hated
At the same time, I was almost there, I was
chipping better, I was starting to get some confidence. And then,

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for whatever reason, I can't even remember what it was,
I didn't get to practice for about three days, four days,
maybe it was four days, probably maybe even five, I
don't know. But for whatever reasons, I was away from
there for five oh, I know what it was. There
was a whole week where there was some major renovation
going on at the golf course and I and it

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was also hot as blazes, so I just didn't do it.
I didn't touch a club for about four days. And
when I went back I came I found out that
that my short game had moved out, moved out of
the bag. I don't know where it went. I don't
know whose bag it's in now, but it's not in
mind anymore. And so today, maybe or tomorrow, almost certainly,

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I'm gonna go out there and practice a tip. I
saw it, and I'm not going to try to tell
you what it was over the radio. That makes no
sense at all. It would be so it involves. It
involves just making sure that you use the bounce of
your club to get it through, especially damp or wet turf,

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rather than have that leading edge have any way to
get there. Is if you get that leading edge touching
that ground, especially if it's damp, it's going to dig
in and it's gonna not do you any favors. Speaking
of leading edges digging in, I've always thought that it
wouldn't be a horrible idea, and I don't know what
the rules say about it. But as high and thick

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as the rough is getting where these guys are playing
a lot of their tournaments now, especially the pros, I
don't know why one of them doesn't, and I'm sure
they have. I mean, greape minds think alike, and even
my feeble mind, as golf goes, is probably being imitated
by some better players than myself, and contemplating the idea

(01:39:20):
of sharpening, not rounding, but sharpening the leading edge of
a wedge, so that that wedge could slice through all
that thick, wet rough and make some better contact with
more speed retained with the golf ball. I don't know

(01:39:42):
if there's a rule against it or not. Maybe one
of my pro buddies can tell me. But man, if
I was gonna start playing tournaments a lot and as
old as I am, and as much swing speed as
I've lost, as much strength as I've lost, where I
can't just run a seven or eight iron through thick
without it just bogging down might get the old, might

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get the old file out.

Speaker 9 (01:40:06):
And.

Speaker 2 (01:40:07):
I'd use my wedge in the morning to shave and
then during the round to hit out a heavy rouff.
Makes sense to me. I gotta take a break set
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good heavens on Sports Talk seven ninety. Thanks for listening.
I certain to appreciate it, Rick Biss. Rick Biss is
stepping out of his comfort zone, it seems here. Can
you hear me?

Speaker 9 (01:42:14):
Rick?

Speaker 2 (01:42:15):
Hold on? Let me put him back on hold, get
him Frey, there we go. I got you. Now we're
tag teaming. Come in, hear come in, you got me, man,
Let's go.

Speaker 10 (01:42:25):
Hey. I was gonna call you early this morning, but
I was hunting and for another day. I'm a little frustrated.

Speaker 2 (01:42:32):
Now all right?

Speaker 10 (01:42:34):
Uh you talking about golf and wages and and viiling all.

Speaker 1 (01:42:39):
That, Yeah all right.

Speaker 10 (01:42:41):
Uh my boys played junior golf from the time maker walking.

Speaker 2 (01:42:46):
Sure, yeah, mine too.

Speaker 10 (01:42:48):
And a pretty high level junior A J A R J.
Whatever it is all over, Yeah, sure yeah. And my
oldest son, I'll be first to admit I was guilty
of filing clubs, and I'll tell you why. All right,

(01:43:11):
they started coming out with these clubs and a lot
of bounce to them. Now you can't You couldn't. I
couldn't talk to him while he was in play okay,
and his club selections. Even though he was good, he
struggled a little bit by a club selection. And I
would sit there and watch him for a few years

(01:43:34):
with a mouncer which I called him a bouncer, and
I would say to myself, this shot right here is
gonna win or lose him the tournament or keep him
from getting in the top ten, because he's on hard
time and he's got a bounce club. I took him
away from him. Feel I'm all away from him. I

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even filed eight h five ours, you know, depending on
the course we were playing, Hey, high up, you know,
And so I took it away from him, and hey,
it hurt him in some cases. On the sand, you know,
you want to bounce. I just thought him, Hey, man,

(01:44:17):
just learned how to. You know, we always want to.
I wanted to pinch the ball anyway. I want to
do it in front of the ball and on the sand,
I want I want you, I constantly told him what
I want you to do is I want you to
open your stamps. I want you to hit about four
inches behind the ball and try to kill it. But

(01:44:40):
just do me a favor whether you try to kill
it or not follow through with the swing.

Speaker 6 (01:44:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:44:45):
I understand that he became.

Speaker 10 (01:44:47):
A really good, uh junior golfer, and he played college
and now he's a grown man. And uh, anybody that's
listed put on him on their team.

Speaker 6 (01:44:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:44:57):
A good guy to have on a scrabble team.

Speaker 10 (01:44:58):
Huh no bouncing his back.

Speaker 2 (01:45:01):
Yeah, the guy I want on my scramble teams these days,
it's just the guy who's got the biggest eracer in
his pocket. I swear man. That drives me crazy.

Speaker 6 (01:45:10):
Well, I broke.

Speaker 10 (01:45:11):
I used to be a golf coach for kids, for
junior at teams, off teams, and that first thing I
do is I gave them a club pencil, no racer,
and the ones that showed up with their custom pins
or their I powd him away. If they had a fence,
a little shark pistil with a racer, I just bit
it off.

Speaker 7 (01:45:30):
Yeah, And I said, don't let me catch you with
another one of those.

Speaker 2 (01:45:34):
Yeah, you don't need an racer if you're playing by
the rule of man.

Speaker 10 (01:45:38):
No, but we were playing tournament golf, that's right, It wasn't.
There were no there were no gibbies anyway. I thought
that's a yeah, because I think that goes on a
little more than people think probably.

Speaker 2 (01:45:51):
So yeah, I've never pulled somebody's club out of the
bag to see if it was sharpened, you know.

Speaker 10 (01:45:58):
Anyways, for me, I must tell you about what happened
another day.

Speaker 2 (01:46:03):
All right, Well, thank you, Rick, I appreciate it. Man,
great car. Yeah, thank you, audios. All right, Yeah, holy cow.
I didn't know it was that common, but I bet
it is. I the more I think about it, And
I'm not talking about bringing it down to a to
a phoenix knives edge, but just taking some of that

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dullness away where you're not having to rip through golf blades,
but you actually are kind of cutting through them a
little bit more. That's not if it's not against the rules,
I wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (01:46:38):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:46:38):
I might think about doing that with a club or
two in my bag. Yeah, I'm not gonna worry about
a four iron or a five iron or even a six, seven,
eight iron, But a nine iron. Sometimes when you're in
that really really rough stuff and you just gotta just
gotta advance the ball a little bit. You got to
get it out of there somehow. That wouldn't be a
bad thing to have. That's it's a great dream. But

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I'm probably gonna if I get home, I'll probably just
go take a nap. I'm not gonna go out in
the garage and put my clubs in a vice and
get that big old grinder out and ye for thirty minutes.
It is an interesting concept, though, And if anybody else
is willing to confess to having done so, I won't
even use your name if you don't want me to,

(01:47:22):
But just tell me you do it, and tell me
how it works, tell me if it works. It in theory,
it's it seems a very logical thing to do if
you you're trying to if you're trying to cut down
a crop of wheat, you don't want a dull sickle
in your hands. You spend hours honing and sharpening that

(01:47:43):
sickle so that you can get that wheat harvested and
tucked away for winter. Makes sense to me. Somethon one
three two, one two five seven ninety email me Dougpike
at iHeartMedia dot com. By the way, if anybody was
scrolling so social media and saw a story about an
aquarium collapse in California, all kinds of drama with this thing.

(01:48:09):
The video caption claimed, a whole bunch of people lost
their lives with this thing. All fake, just another AI fake.
Sorry to disappoint if anybody thought it would be cool
to have a whole aquarium collapse, but no, wasn't real
at all. End of story. There the other interesting kind

(01:48:32):
of on a good news story that I heard, And
this is actually the second story I've seen like this,
and so I'm gonna mention it and maybe it'll inspire
somebody to do something similar. Down in Florida, there is
a car wash that only hires autistic people to work
in its place. They have opened their fourth location now

(01:48:54):
and are giving these young men and women or older.
I don't know the age. I don't know if they
have any age limit. The only the only true criteria
that sets that's set forth. The only criterion that is
set forth is that some degree of autism perfectly capable
of doing the job that they're asked to do, and

(01:49:14):
they they seem to thrive in that environment, and who knows,
maybe somebody could do that around here. I think that's
pretty cool. Seven one three two seven ninety Email me
Doug Pike at iHeartMedia Dot come going back to fishing
for a little while, and specifically to the bass fishing.
As I mentioned at the onset of the program, I'm
just tickle pink that I managed somehow to catch a

(01:49:36):
bass this week after a drought of about I don't know,
six weeks. I quit counting, and I actually I rarely
do this, but I actually I think I made like
three trips in a row out there with ever without
ever even making a cast. It is a golf course primarily,
and first, uh, that's that's clear to me. I understand that.

(01:49:59):
But I can't imagine being that close to the quality
of water that's there and to the quality of fish
I know are in those lakes and just ignoring it.
I can't ignore good fishing water. It's very difficult. I
send an email, in fact, to somebody in town who

(01:50:22):
I don't want to say where it is or what
it is, but the bottom line is, I said, I said, hey, man,
do you know who owns the lake next to where
you work, because they just cut all the brush around
this big piece of water that's been there for at
least thirty or forty years. And I want access to

(01:50:44):
that water. I want to walk the banks. I just
want to walk around it one time and see what
I can catch. And if I don't catch at least
a dozen bass in one walk around that lake, I
will be surprised and equally disappointed. That place just looks
so fishy, and it always has. And the only thing

(01:51:05):
that was holding me back from even sending an email
was that the shoreline was so overgrown that there was
it would be impossible to access it. Well, now what
they've done is cut all that stuff down right down
to the water's edge. And I'm sure that bothered a
few snakes, and I don't mind stepping over them if
I have to, But I'm trying to find access to

(01:51:27):
that property. There is so much good fishing water. I
might talk about that when we get back. I actually
have a book on my desk that has like at
one hundred and something two hundred places where you can
fish legally public water that I would bet ninety five
percent of this audience has never heard of ninety five

(01:51:48):
percent of the places in that book. And you're not
going to go there and catch a record fish probably,
you're not going to go there and catch one hundred
fish probably, But they are legitimate spots where you have
a legitimate shot at having a fun fishing experience. Not
a bad thing to have. During the break, I'll go
get that book. As a matter of fact, I'll just

(01:52:09):
walk over to my desk and snatch it up on
the way out. A reminder, boy, TikTok. We are right
coming up on dub season, and right after that it's
going to be teal season, and then we'll come the
opening of the regular duck season. And if you haven't
talked to the guys at Riceland Waterfowl Club yet and
you don't know where you're gonna be hunting this year,

(01:52:30):
now's the time to make that phone call. These spots
are are kind of filling up now that people are Hey,
wait a minute, we're almost a dub season. That means
we're almost a teal season. That means we're almost a
duck season. That means we got to have a place
to go. And if you didn't have a great experience
last year, well you might want to consider Riceland Waterfowl Club,
where most of their hunters did have a great experience

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last year, did shoot a lot of ducks. David Pruitt
owns the place. He's been owning this place since it started.
It's his baby. Fifty years. This is his golden anniversary
as the proprietor of one of the premier duck hunting
places on the planet. Really, all you gotta do is

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join up. Only members in their guests get to hunt
the fields out there, get to hunt the water out there,
and he has plenty of water. I took a long,
long tour with him and his partner Jeff out there,
one of the guys who works with him, and they
showed me all kinds of stuff, all kinds of places
where the water was going to be, how much water

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they already have, how their levee systems work to be
able to move water when they need to. They've got
tons of blinds out there, all very easily accessible and
all a quarter mile or more apart. If you're looking
to have a better duck experience this year than you
had last year, and for lot of you, that won't

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take much. David Pruitt and Riceland Waterfowl club are going
to over deliver. It's gonna be a great season. I'm
pretty confident of that. And Rice Water Riceland Waterfowl Club
is gonna make it that way for everybody who's a member.
Great great way of picking the blinds you get to
hunt too. It's a it's a bulletproof system. He's had

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it for a long time where everybody, every club, every
club member, every group gets equal opportunity to get their
favorite spot every morning. You might not get your favorite
spot every morning, but you're gonna get over the course
of a season. You're gonna land in your a spot
wherever that is. Every time you get to you learn
where you're gonna hunt the night before too. Nobody you

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don't go out there and meet up and have one
hundred guys meeting up in one spot and then have
to go drive another hour to get where you're going.
You know, the night before, you know on Friday night
where you're hunting. On Saturday morning, leave the house, go
straight to the blind. Riceland Waterfowl Club dot Com is
a website Ricelandwaterfowl Club dot Com. On Sports seven ninety

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The Dug Pike Show. I hate seeing stories like this,
but I've been reminded, and I want to mention it
so they can catch his knuckleheads. There was a young guy,
autistic man down in Galveston, got beat up on his
way to go fishing down near the crash basin a
few days ago, according to Mike. Mike waived in with

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this email for me. He says a friend of the
family confirmed the incident. Mickey knows this guy. That's Mickey Eastman,
my buddy from down the dial. Two guys wait and
saw him pick up a rod, which they left on
the ground. They came out of the water and proceeded.
I guess these guys were wade fishing maybe, came out
of the water, proceeded to beat him up and just
left him there. Family came looking for him sometime later

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and he was still on the ground. We all hope
these guys get caught. Well, put me on that list too, Mike.
That's so disturbing, just so disturbing. And I don't know
where or why this evil exists in this world. It shouldn't.
There's absolutely no excuse for that, no excuse whatsoever, except

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for two cowards who had they picked on somebody else,
might have got their tails whipped. They had to go
beat up somebody who clearly wasn't able to defend himself.
That's I don't know how far much. I don't know
how much lower people could stoop, but that's certainly that's

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got to be close to the bottom. It just and
it reminds me of that situation up in Cincinnati where
a mob of people just suddenly turned on a couple
of people and that woman who got brutally punched right
in the face and just fell back and heard her
She hated up with a pretty significant brain injury and

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has has come out and become a spokesperson for I
guess the theme would be stop it. Just stop doing
this to each other. There is a clear evil in
this world right now that needs to go. And I
I would think that fishing would be neutral ground. I

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don't care what your politics are if we're fishing, I
really don't. I don't care how much money you make
or don't make. I really don't. People who fish should
be able to get along. And if these two guys
were wadefishing and came out of the water to beat
up a man who was going fishing, that's a problem.
That's a big problem. For me, what's wrong with people?

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Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot come. I wrote a long,
long time ago for the newspaper that anybody who's out
there fishing and playing by the rules, that we're all
basically the same. Whether you're on a seventy five foot

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sport fishing boat one hundred miles off shore, pulling just
slow trolling big live tuna for bait, twelve to fifteen
pound black fins for bait, or you're sitting on the
side of the road. You've parked your old pickup truck,
you got your lawn chair and your bucket full of

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chicken livers and you're just sitting there hoping to catch
a catfish. You're both fishermen. You're both fishermen, and as
long as you keep things in perspective, you both got
interesting stories to share with each other. I don't look
at anybody who's fishing and I think any ill for

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them unless they're breaking the law. That's where I draw
the line. If you and man. I've called Operation Game
Thief more than once over the years, and with good
reason every time. And one particular guy who was bragging
about being able to drag bull Reds off the surf
side jetty one fall, and what he was doing was

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taking him to the car and putting him in an
ice chest in the trunk. And he had I don't
know how many he had, but I watched him drag
another one illegally back to his car and then start
to drive away, and I got the license number and
I called Operation Game Thief and they ended up snatching
that guy in his front yard. They just went to

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his house and waited for him to get home and
busted him for I don't know how many he had.
I never really heard back. I knew. I got information
that they were at his house and had had started
a conversation, and that was the last I heard of it.
But yeah, he got caught. Bad guys need to be caught,

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especially these guys who beat up a fisherman. They picked
on him because he was different, and that's so messed up.
That's so messed up. Let's take this last break. I
don't want to get too fired up because things like
that really they take me to a different place. I'm
still I'm okay, but it really irks me that that happened.

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And the thing that irks me is that, well, I
don't know if anybody saw this incident. I know the
one in Cincinnati bothered me so much because there were
people all around. There were dozens and dozens of people
all around this violence that was happening toward innocent bystanders,
many of them who got punched and hit and kicked,
and they were just videoing it on their phones. That's

(02:00:45):
all they were doing. There was one call made to
nine one one, But enough of that. I'll get back
to the outdoors when we get back from here, which
is Champions Tree Preservation one more time to make sure
that you understand how important it is to get your
trees checked before we get a storm through here. The
National Hurricane Center map has another blob, get another blob

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rolling off the continent of Africa, and they're making these
blobs bigger and bigger now, so you really have no idea.
They're huge. A million square miles this one is probably
at least so who knows where it's gonna go. And
if it rolls into the Gulf of Mexico, we need
to be ready for that. It's a long ways out.
Don't worry about it today. Don't go hoard toilet paper.
Call Champions Tree Preservation. Get them out to your house

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early next week to make sure your trees can withstand
a storm. If we get one, hopefully not, they will
come to your house. Send it arborist gonna come to
your house and look at those trees. Say they need food,
they need pruning, They need just a little more water
or a lot less water, which you'll be surprised to

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find out is what many people do to their trees.
They overwater them and cause fungus to attack the root system,
and that's not good. Get them out there. They have
to take a tree out if a tree is truly gone.
They also own a tree farm where they grow native
Texas trees, and you can pick one out, just kind
of like I'm getting a new family member. Look at here,

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we're gonna we're gonna go and adopt a tree today.
How fun. We're gonna get a brand new tree. We
can watch it grow, we can watch it provide shade
and everything the old tree did. Only this one's gonna
be bigger and stronger. Two eight one three two zero
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eighty two oh one or go to that website. They'll

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take good care of you. I promise you they will.
They did for me. Championstree dot com Championstree dot com
nine nine on Sports Talk seven to ninety The Dougpike Show,
Thank you for listening here. Whining to Frankie about the
AC in the studio, which usually can be set nice
and cool, and it's fantastic when it's working. But somebody,

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somehow I looked at the thermostep because I knew it was.
It was off. It was not as cool as it
normally is when I pop in here, and somehow it
said cool and heat both words were on the screen,
and the temperature was set to seventy something degrees pretty

(02:03:13):
much up there. It was seventy four seventy five. I
think it was when I came into the studio originally
this morning, and it just didn't seem to be cooling,
and I didn't pay attention until just a minute ago.
I think I have it where it needs to be now,
which will benefit me greatly by tomorrow, because it usually
once once you hit it on cool, it doesn't take
long to get down from where it is. But it

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it certainly is not where it should be seven one three,
two one two five seven ninety. I've still got time
for a couple of more phone calls, and I'd love
to hear them. If you've got any kind of ideas
about anything you want to know about about the outdoors,
and if I don't know, I'll find the answer. That's
the first thing I'll tell you right now, and I've
said it a million times on this show. I don't

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know everything. I certainly don't, but I know who to call.
That was something I used to tell people when they'd say, man,
you know you write about the outdoors for the paper.
That's awesome. You must know a lot about all of
those things. I said, I know a little about all
those things, but I also know who to call. That's
why when I was talking to Aaron about sighting in

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rifles for his elkunt He's got coming up of which
I'm a little bit jealous I'd mentioned, or actually he
was the one who brought it up. He said, I'm
gonna call Jerry t K. And I quickly reminded him
that Jerry and Jay and pretty much anybody in that
whole store really very capable of answering any question you

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might have about rifles, but especially this one threw me
off a little bit when he talked about how cold
it was probably going to be where he's gonna hunt,
because around here most of Texas deer hunting is in
a cooler season, but it's not below freezing many more,

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so it's not really that big a deal. The one
thing I will tell you, though, is when you sit
in your rifle, do exactly what Aaron was talking about
number one, and that's bring at least three different boxes
of AMMO, and boxes that you can get more of
if you need them, to see which one your rifle

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really likes best, because rifles have preferences for certain ammos
after the other, and I've talked about it. When I
got my seven mag that was the first thing I did.
I took it to the range and I bought three
different boxes of AMMO, different bullet weights I think, and
different loads that were recommended to me by the guy
who handed me that rifle, and I went out and

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shot him, and luckily for me, that rifle was absolutely
ravenous and thrilled to accept the least expensive AMMO of
the three boxes I bought, So I immediately once I
determined that I went right back into the store and

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I bought I want to say, four boxes of that
AMMO from the same lot. That's something else that's important.
If you're gonna do that, try to it's good to
get the same load from the same manufacturer, And if
you can get it from the same lot number, that's
even better. Now you know that you're going to have

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a consistent load, as consistent as commercial loads get. If
you really want to get picky, you can go into
reloading and just use up all the rest of your
free time that you've ever had in your life, and
a lot of money. It's actually it's much more or
much less expensive really than buying commercial AMMO in most cases,

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depending on what you're shooting. But it's also time consuming
and it's also addictive. You'll be out there loading in
the middle of the night. I want to go try
this tomorrow morning, and I have to get it tonight
before I go to bed, And you get two hours
of sleep and go out there and you can barely
keep your eyes open looking through the scope at that
target at six hundred yards. It's a lot of fun.

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All of the outdoors is fun. Fishing is fun. There's
no limit to the number of lures you either can
have or need to have, and I throw that need
to have in there just in case somebody's listing who
doesn't think you need any more fishing tackle. There are
things that we as fishermen need to have. Things as hunters,

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we need to have to enjoy our experience more. If
you have somebody in your family who loves clothing and
likes to buy a lot of clothes, man or woman,
doesn't matter. They love having that stuff and it makes
them feel better, It makes them enjoy going wherever they're
going more. That's the same with everything we use in

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the outdoors. The only difference is you don't have to
buy a whole lot of safety equipment. As clothes go.
You don't have to buy a lot of safety equipment
to go with your new shoes. But you also get
to buy safety equipment. If you're an outdoors person, you're
going to need a first aid kit, a little one
that you can maybe put in your backpack, and a

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bigger one to carry in your vehicle in case whatever's
in that little one doesn't have what you need and
you can crawl back to your truck. That's something that
a lot of people don't carry, and it doesn't take
up a lot of room, and you probably should get
rid of it after about two years and buy a
new one. I don't know, there's probably expiration dates on them.
I don't think band aids go bad, but some of

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the stuff in some of those kids might I don't
carry a survival kit either. I don't carry a spool
of thread and a number six hook. Well, that's usually
because I've got rods and reels at about two hundred
lures in my car at any given time, and golf
clubs and golf balls and extra gloves. I need to

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order some new gloves, by the way, I'm down to
three and that's not good. Buy gloves by the dozen,
by the way. And this is no they don't give
me anything. This is just who I buy my gloves from.
It's a company called MG Golf. They're excellent quality gloves,
Cobretta leather, and they are also only like seven bucks

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apiece as compared to fifteen twenty depending on where you're
buying them and what you're buying. And so I've been
buying them probably for the better part of I don't know,
ten years. When I first started buying them, they were
five dollars. That's how long ago. I think it was
pretty sure there were five, might have been six, but

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I think there's seven, maybe eight dollars now and last
as long as any other glove I've ever had. And
it's nice to be able to go ahead and ditch one.
But when I was paying fifteen eighteen dollars for gloves,
back when I was doing that like an idiot because
I didn't know about this place it was, it would

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drive me crazy. I just want to squeeze a little
more life out of the glove before I replaced it,
because the money meant that much to me. Now I'm
getting them much less expensive, and they last a long time.
And when it looks like it's time to go, it's
time to go, you just toss it away and not
worry about it too much. Ah, here ends that lesson.

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I'm trying to look for one more thing I could
maybe tell you that's interesting about the outdoors. Oh well,
there you go, Frankie. Solve that problem. Whatever I can
think of between now and tomorrow morning, I'll do that.
I'm gonna try to arrange that interview with somebody who
can explain all this stuff to me that I want
to explain, and we will tee it up tomorrow at
eight o'clock. Figure out who's leading the FedEx, have a

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better idea, who's gonna win that? Uh, I'm gonna I
don't know. Well, I was gonna say, I'm gonna go
out and buy some more soft plastic worms, but I've
already got a garage full. I just need to go
rummage through the stack out there and see what looks
fishy and go throw it. Maybe this afternoon. Who knows.
That's it for today. I'll be back in here tomorrow
morning at eight o'clock. I hope to have you all
on board then as well. Thanks so much for listening.

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I genuinely appreciate it. Audios