Ever Lick a Gafftop Catfish?

On this episode, Doug talks about the 2025 Cognizant Classic, charity golf scrambles, and much more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right. Sunday edition of the program starts right now.
Welcome aboard the almost dove season surf fishing, picking up
no more rain for a little while. Day that we're
gonna have here, A good one ahead, I'm sure, and
several more to come. We're done with those little pop

(00:22):
up showers, I think from the storm that was in
the storm. And good riddance, of course, very good riddance.
I hold on, I gotta move something here real quick
so I can see it better. That's not the one
I want. Let me move this over here, shift that
geared to there, punch it up here, Thank you, sir.
All right. I had a special delivery from Brett, who

(00:47):
is filling in for Frankie while he's up north at
a concert celebrating the composer John Williams. John, there you go.
You got back right on time, because I was struggling
to come up with that name. I can assure you
I'm fast for a chunky boy. He the composer of

(01:07):
the Star Wars soundtracks. What else did he do? You
were telling me yesterday? Superman? Oh yeah, Jurassic Park as well,
so those are probably free. But oh and also a
little thing called Star wars. Yeah, if you've only got
those on your resume, you're still in pretty good shape,
I would think. I'm sure that's served him very very well.
Another decent day along the coast. Overall bayfishing holding steady

(01:31):
for the folks who don't mind standing in line to
buy live crokers at about I think they're the last
I heard somewhere between anywhere at like eight nine ten,
if you can find them for that. But most places
are gonna be closer to twelve dollars a dozen, almost
a dollar apiece for little bitty live crokers. And they're

(01:52):
not gonna let you just stand there and pick the
ones you want. They're gonna dip the net, they're gonna
grab them with their hands, throw them in your bucket,
count them as they go. Oh and you too, if
you have a big fat wallet, can go fish with
live crokers. I'm not I'm not opposed. I'm not opposed
to fishing with live crokers for bait. That it a

(02:14):
lot of people just aren't interested at all in actually
learning how to throw lures, and that's their prerogative, that's
their thing, and more power to them. They're so long
as somebody this is my contention. So long as somebody
is buying a fishing license and not taking home more
fish than the law allows that I don't really care.

(02:36):
And so long as it's an accepted means, accepted means
and methods for fishing from the parks of wallet department,
then that's fine with me. Throw what you want to throw.
I started with live bait when I was a kid.
When I was three years old, I was fishing with
live bait, little nightcrawlers under a cork called a lot
of fish on those worms too. My first experience with lures,

(02:59):
though it came possibly a little earlier than some kids,
because by the time I was I'm guessing it was
probably when I was five or six, maybe six or seven,
on vacations down at my grandparents' house on a little
canal system in southeast Florida that wound its way through
the neighborhood and out into the intracoastal and then right

(03:22):
out to the Atlantic Ocean. Four daily tide changes every
day over there, the water moved in two two and
a half feet and moved back out to two and
a half feet. I wasn't savvy enough to know much
more about tide cycles back then, But it was really
interesting to watch and learn about why and how the

(03:43):
fish bit better on an incoming tide than an out
going Even up in that canal, it was that way
moving water period, dead high, dead low, nothing going on.
And I started out using just fresh dead shrimp in there.
That's my grandparents would go. My grandma father would go
up and buy some dead shrimp for me, and then

(04:03):
I actually, on special occasions, if there was one, I
could get a couple of dozen live shrimp. I think
they were about maybe two three cents apiece back then
down there. If that it wasn't it wasn't expensive to
fish with live bait back then, but it's still it was.
It carried a premium over the little jigs that I

(04:23):
learned to throw in that eight ounce, eight thounced little
yellow bucktail jig. Simplest things you've ever you can imagine,
as far as artificial lures go, just a little basic.
Somebody was making them in their garage and spray painting
them yellow jigs. And I was buying them at the

(04:43):
tackle shop on Atlantic Boulevard right there in Pompino, and
I guess I paid fifteen cents maybe a quarter apiece
for him, and that would be about it. That's that
would have covered a quarter or a quarter or an
eight ounce g back then probably a quarter for the
or twenty five cents for a quarter ounce, and maybe

(05:04):
fifteen cents for an eighth ounce. Whatever it was, though,
I was happy to pay it and back in their
backyard again with my little Zepco two two combo I was.
I wasn't. I can't say I was wearing them out
because I didn't catch fish a lot on those jigs,
but there were enough bites and enough fish that I

(05:25):
fell in love with throwing lures. I was catching mostly
mostly little jacks that were maybe all eight to ten
or eleven inches long, and mangrove snappers, and both were Again,
they weren't plentiful, but there were enough of them to
hold my interest. Now, if I was just wanting to bite,

(05:47):
I would, and my grandparents had gone off and gotten
Kentucky fried chicken for dinner, I would peel the skin
off of those chicken pieces and use that greasing, nasty
chicken skin as bait. And that is just short of
just short of dynamite for producing catfish, hardhead catfish in

(06:11):
a tiny, little southeast Florida Canal. In my memory, I
saw that canal as being very wide, and I could
just almost, not quite almost cast my little jig all
the way across the canal if I really gave it
a sling, And man, I thought that thing was sailing
a mile out there. Years ago, as an adult, I

(06:33):
went down there and turned the corner and went around
a couple of places I used to walk to from
my grandparents house before it was completely built up, and
I looked at the width of that canal, and the
width of that canal wasn't nearly what I thought it was.
There was room to turn a significant sized boat around

(06:55):
in the canal, which is if you, hey, if you're
coming back, you've got to be able to get out.
They weren't. It wasn't like a neighborhood where there were
two or three ways in and two or three ways out.
If you got your boat back into the end of
the canal, you better be able to turn it around
in tight quarters. But it was just enough water and
just enough fish and just enough everything really to really

(07:17):
get me going on that stuff. And I have such
great memories from here. I'm a lower guy, and if
you're a croker guy, that's fine. That's fine too. By
the way, I thought of a great way, a great
way to add more rattle to your croker. When you
throw that live croker out there, you want to hear
all that noise, and croker's out there doing all it
can or it's making its noise to uh inadvertently attract

(07:41):
what's going to eat it. But here's what you do.
Here's what you need. You need a piece of duct
tape about oh, I don't know, a foot long. And
you need a pair of maroccas, and you duct tape
those maroccas about three feet above your croker, three freet
above three feet above that hook. And if you shake

(08:01):
that rod tip just right, you could probably catch three
trout in a day using that method on dead crokers.
All tongue in cheek, of course. And seriously, if if hey,
if you like live bait, go fish with live bait.
I don't have a problem with that, so long so
long as you're out there, like I said, you're out there,

(08:21):
you've got your fishing license, you're not breaking the law,
you're not breaking the limits, you're not doing anything you
shouldn't do. Then more power to you. I'm you're welcome
to come. Fish do. I think crokers are kind of
a they're the the remaining If there is a threat
to the trout population, live croaker fishing may be it.

(08:45):
If there's one remaining other than weather, that's probably it,
because it's it's you're some of these guides are able
to go out and take two three trips a day
with live bait this time of year now. Granted the
croaker season is being expanded to pretty much a year

(09:06):
round thing. To it started as only a summertime thing,
and then it became well, if we can catch them
in the summer on these, we can catch them in
the winter on these, and you can you can as
long as they're available. They do work quite well for
speckle trout, but I think that I think it needs
to be watched certainly. And with the limit down to

(09:27):
three now, I think that greatly reduced the number of
fish being taken, even by guides who are taking two
or three trips that they've got a Granted they only
have to get to three before they come get the
next crew, but it's going to be a smaller number overall.
If you do all the math on it, then if

(09:48):
they just had the five fish limit again, or having
forbid the ten that we used to have them going
out there and catching these guys could buy a bushel
basket full of live crokers for a hand full of
money and go out there and put four guys on
ten fish in two hours and come back and do
it again, and go back and do it again. That

(10:09):
was a real problem. I don't think it's nearly so
bad now, I really don't. And but again I think
it warrants watching, and that's about it. Surf fishing, by
the way, picked up pretty much here, there and everywhere,
meaning sporadically up and down the entire Texas coast this week.
And there were mixed bags in some spots. Some it

(10:29):
was solid trout on top waters. Some there there skip
jacks in there, Spanish mackerel in there. Even way down
south I heard several pretty good sized snook caught out
of the surf. That's all it really takes is for
the wind to settle down this time of year, those
fish are gonna come in. They're gonna come in close,

(10:50):
and it's just it's a modification of their hunting. If
a fish is out in deep water, and I've talked
about this add nauseum, but I'll do it one more
time for anybody who's fairly new to it. If I'm
a fish, a big fish, and I'm chasing little fish,
and I'm out in ten feet of water, if i

(11:11):
sneak up behind that fish and it senses my presence,
it can run in any direction to get away from me,
and I've got to be able to follow it and
catch it in any direction for however long it takes.
If they're up in a foot of water, maybe two
feet of water, then I've eliminated that vertical movement as

(11:32):
an escape route. There's really not much room for a
fish to go up or down in two feet of water.
So the big fish absolutely in their DNA, they know that,
and they will come in as shallow as they possibly
can to feed. It makes it easier on them. It's
all about conservation of energy. Every animal on the planet

(11:52):
except humans, relies on conservation of energy to get past
one meal into the next and still the energy to
go get that next meal seven one three, two, one
two five seven ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia
dot com. Uh, technically that doesn't apply to every animal
on the planet, just the just the carnivores, the predators.

(12:15):
Cows don't have to worry about it. They just wander
out in the field and chew grass. We're gonna take
a little break here. On the way out, I'll tell
you about Timber Creek Golf Club down there on FM
twenty three fifty one in Friendswoods. Been there for the
better part of thirty years now close to it anyway,
and I played there since it was built. I was
there for the official rating of the course and evaluation

(12:38):
of the course when I was back at the newspaper.
Went down there with Eddie Sefco, the guy who he
he was writing the golf then and he knew I
like to play, So that's kind of how I ended
up doing golf for the paper a long, long time ago.
Bottom line is, we played eighteen around mid morning, I
guess it was the day we went down there, and

(12:58):
realizing there were nine more holes to play and as
much fun as we'd had on the previous eighteen, we
went ahead and tackled the back or the last of
the third nine, if you will, and found all of
them very fun, very enjoyable to play. There's enough enough bunkering.
Enough water features out there to challenge you, but not

(13:18):
enough to frustrate you, if that makes any sense, And
that goes for pretty much any level of player. If
you're really good, you'll find just enough challenge from the
property to make you scratch your head every now and then.
And if you're just getting started in golf, you'll find
ways to navigate your way around that course and shoot
a respectable score. And if you're really struggling, you just

(13:41):
go over to jj Woods Golf Academy there next to
the practice range and get yourself some lessons. Great people,
great great golf course. I can't say enough good things
about timber Creek. I've known the people who run it
for many many years now and that the mission is
always the same, make sure he has a good time.

(14:01):
Timber Creek Golf Club dot com is website. You can
set your own tee tome there right now. Timber Creek
Golf Club dot com. If your duck hunting wasn't so
great last year, and a lot of hands probably go
up in the air when I talk about this, if
you had a rough duck season last year, you might
want to try something different, And that's something different is
Riceland Waterfowl Club out there in Eagle Lake, one of

(14:24):
the finest waterfowling operations in Texas, own and operated by
a guy who's been at the Helm since it started.
He started it. That's David Pruitt. He's been there fifty
years five zero fifty years of helping duck hunters get
access to more ducks. And the way to do that
is with plenty of water and plenty of ground to hunt,

(14:44):
and he's got both down there. I went and had
a very nice, good, solid afternoon tour down there a
couple of weeks ago now and really got to see
between him and his business partner, Jeff, how much work
goes into all this and how much time they spend
out there, and where all his properties are. I didn't

(15:04):
get anywhere near seeing all of them. Believe me, they've
got properties all over the place. But the way he's
set it up for the club members, and it's just
club members and their guests who get to hunt down there.
The way he's got it set up, you get, over
the course of a season, every club member is going
to have pretty much equal chance at getting their favorite

(15:25):
spot for whatever mornings they want to go out there
and hunt. You send in your top six picks, and
there's a lot of club members In a lot of places,
there's plenty of room and all the blinds out there,
even on some of the bigger pieces of water, if
there's two blinds on that water, they're going to be
at least a quarter mile apart, and that makes it
plenty doable. If anybody who's hunted on that prairie nose,

(15:46):
that's enough room for both parties to be able to
work their own ducks. I've been around a lot of places.
I've been to a lot of places and shot ducks
and geese. And what he's got set up down there
are Eagle Lake. There are properties all the way down
to the coast and then all the way back north
of Eagle Lake, across that entire prairie. And you don't

(16:08):
have to show up at the same place in the
morning either. All the decisions are made the day before
on who's gonna hunt. Decisions would be made today on
who's gonna hunt where tomorrow, so you and your crew
can just go straight to the spot, walk right into
the blind. Most of those blinds are very easy access to,
which at my age I kind of like Riceland Waterfowl

(16:28):
Club dot com. Go get online, check it out, see
what you see there, and then see if you can
get David to give you a little tour like he
gave me. I promise you you'll be impressed with what
he knows about ducks and geese and how to get
to him. Riceland Waterfowl Club dot Com. All right, welcome
back Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety. Brett

(16:50):
and I are doing some This is like playing chess man,
moving everything around to get it just in the right spot.
I know Rick's been waiting for a long time, though,
I'm gonna bring him right up. Rick, BID's what's up?

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Man, Doug? You may already know this. I'm going to
put it in the category of breaking fishing news. Okay,
also in the category of you can't make this up.
Oh okay. I heard this from the lips of what

(17:20):
I would consider a very reliable source that there is
something going on in the fishing world. And what that
is is people are getting caught licking the slime off
of GAF stops. Oh my word, have you heard that?

Speaker 3 (17:44):
You know?

Speaker 1 (17:46):
For some crazy reason, I want to say, that's not
the first time I've heard this, but I'm pretty sure
it's not advisable.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Well, according to the source, I'm somebody somebody, yes I
have fished with you, who's a professional gap people are licking.
I'm not even going to detail how they found out,

(18:20):
but they're licking the slime off of cat top because
it's an hallucinating.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Well, isn't that just the first thing you want to
have going on when you're operating a boat? Oh? My word.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
And they it's even advanced to the point that they
are scraping the slime off of gaptops onto a piece
of cordboard. They didn't get out in the sun, let
it dry, It kind of crystallizes, and they mix it

(18:55):
with their marijuana and smoke it for an additional high word. Listen,
I'm not making this up. I'm just telling you. I'm
just passing along what I was told by someone that
I have high regard for and it would not would
know he would. So my question for you or any

(19:18):
your misseners, is anybody ever really gonna get on the
radio and say they have licked the slime off of
a gafftop.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Well, I've never done that. I can tell you that
right off. So I'm I'm one in the non gaff
top liquor category. Brett, you ever licked a gafftop, I'll
be strapping down with you. I don't know what a
gaff top is. Okay, it's a catfish. That's fair enough,
all right. You wouldn't know if you had, then maybe
I haven't, just didn't even know it. Maybe I don't
even remember. Probably, yeah, could it could be because you

(19:49):
were so high. Yeah, I'll do some research on that, rick,
because that's kind of It's creepy as can be for starters.
It's just, holy cat.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
I have not I have not reached it. I heard
it this morning. Yeah, okay, I talked to him this morning.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Okay, and did this deliberately, just intentionally.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Just don't know the guy, but I've talked too, didn't.
He said it's in the news where he located. Oh, okay,
likely which is on the Texas coast. Yeah, okay, queen
here in Corpus, Chris, Oh my word, oh my word.
I mean, I don't know. I mean, I'm just I
thought it would be interesting.

Speaker 4 (20:28):
You look it up.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Hey, let me know. So, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
I'm already on it, man, I'm I'm at the I'm
using AI to find out and yeah, this is gonna
be interesting. I'm gonna I'm gonna dig around a little
bit licking the slime off a gaptop to get a
great high.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Uh, one, guy, I think I've used enough. I think
I've used enough of your time. But check it out.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
I will man, Thanks, Rick, I'll see you, buddy, see audios. Okay, yeah,
it's a thing. It's a thing. Hold on, let's let's
see if it's actually true though, because there's one from
some Now bear in mind, this website I just went
to is called Shroomery. Would so catfish licking a new high?

(21:16):
It could be the strangest thing anyone ever asked. Boat
based at Franklin County, waiting for a buddy, the kid
wanted to make a deal. He'd buy any catfish the
anglers caught that day, holding they weren't any good to eat,
he said, yeah, but we'd like to get some. We
found a way to get high off the slime. Okay,
anybody who anybody who has to resort to licking the

(21:41):
slime off of a GAF top. There's so many better options, right,
so many? Yeah, Yeah, it would take days to count
all the options better than licking a GAF top And boy,
just what's I don't know. I don't even know how
to respond to that, Brett. I don't know how to

(22:01):
react to that other than to just say, I just
pray that my audience is smart enough not to do that,
no matter what type of reaction your body may get.
That's and who was first? That's what I want to know.
Who was first? Kind of like, who was the first
person to eat a tomato? Who was the first person

(22:23):
to eat a raw oyster? I was just thinking that, yeah, oysters,
whoever that was? That guy was a freak brave, brave soul.
You know what's gonna happen if I eat this? I
wonder what it's gonna taste like? Oh, Rick Bisse. You
know that. That's one of the probably the top ten
things that I've been asked on this show that I

(22:44):
just I just don't have an answer for yet, but
I am gonna dig into it. Uh, And yeah, there's
there there were enough responses when I popped in that question,
uh that it's it's out there. And I mean this
was from all over US, from Florida to South Texas.
All these antswer will pop it up on these different websites,

(23:07):
and of course that one shrewmery kind of tells me
that they're asking the right people. Anyway. Yeah, this will
be this will be very very very different and very
very very weird. All right, that's some Let's get to
this bottom of the hour break a little earlier than usual,
just to make sure we've got time to take care

(23:28):
of everything we've got to do here. Tell you about
Shooter's Corner. You don't have to lick anything in Shooter's
Corner to feel really good about yourself. But what you
can do at Shooter's Corner down our palmerhaw we at
twenty ninth Street is find yourself a brand new shotgun,
a rifle, of handgun, something else with which you can
enjoy the shooting sports. And if you're brand new to shooting,

(23:49):
they can walk you through all of the things you
need to know to get started too, and we'll sell
you exactly what you need and nothing more. They're not
going to try to upsell you to the fans. That's
his most expensive gun in the place. If you're just
getting started, they're going to make sure that you get
what you want, something you can handle for whatever purpose.
You need it for, and then walk you through everything

(24:11):
you need to get started in the shooting sports, which
are very fun. By the way, I enjoy shooting tremendously,
I just don't get to do as much of it
as I would like. Shooter's Corner the old schooled gun store.
It's all it is. Jerry and JTK have owned it.
Jerry's owned it for forty something years. Jay when he
was a young boy, came to the store all the

(24:32):
time with his dad and learned from the master. JTK
and Jerry TK two of the best gunsmiths I've ever met.
They've solved a ton of problems for my listeners and
will do the same for you. If you've got a
problem with a gun, take it down to Texas City,
Palmer high Way at twenty ninth Street in business forty
plus years, family owned and operated just like I told you.

(24:52):
And if you wear a badge for a lifting for
a living, you get a discount, which is pretty cool.
D shooters Corner TX dot com. D shoot Corner t
X dot com. Here's thirty three on Sports Thout seven
ninety DUK Bike Show. Thank you for listening. Certainly do
appreciate it. This morning warm in this studio. I need
to go over there and turn the AC down. I
might do that in just a minute. Let's let me

(25:13):
move that up there and let's take them in in order.
I'll get to Allen first, and Larry hang on. I'll
be right to you, buddy, Allan. What's going on?

Speaker 2 (25:23):
You know what's gonna happen?

Speaker 1 (25:24):
What's that?

Speaker 5 (25:25):
There's gonna there's gonna be some cure found by licking
a gaff top. Before you know it, they're gonna put
a limit on gaf top. I promise you, you know something,
something's gonna be cured. Before you know it, it's gonna
be there'll be one laftop, one one gaf top a
week for everybody.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
No, there'll be gaff top farms. There'll be gaff top
exactly right. Yeah, commercial commercial fishing industry. Oh my god,
holy cow.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
You know what's gonna happen somewhere somewhere somehow.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Yeah, what's what's crazy? You know who who comes up
with this stuff? Who who is the first perone.

Speaker 5 (26:05):
To bred drunk or hide and said, hey, let me
lick this fish right here.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah, probably just kind of gave it a kiss.

Speaker 6 (26:12):
You know.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
It was one of those those uh yeah, Jimmy Houston moment,
gave a gaff top a kiss, got the little whiskers
maybe licked a whisker or something like that off that
gafftop and felt kind of woozy later on. Made him
feel good here or her whoever. That's nuts, Matt, that's
allan hey.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (26:33):
If I go by just a normal spool of line,
not the mega megaspool or whatever, I could usually get
two rills on one spool correct talking.

Speaker 7 (26:42):
About braid or mono or what mono mono braid either one?

Speaker 1 (26:46):
Yeah, well, what what you know? If you're gonna use braid,
you can you could put it. Maybe you could still
use mono underneath that to feel about half the spool
because braid's so expensive. A lot of people do that.
And just make sure you've got enough bread on there
to get to the very end of your longest cast.
You know, you can make and a little bit more
and learn a good not to to meld the two together.

(27:10):
But yeah, you can. You have to fill it up.
So what you need to do is if you don't
have it handy anymore, the old the instruction book that
came with your reels when you bought them out of
the box, go online, find out what the capacity is
of that reel, and then just buy your spool accordingly.
If you if two you got two reels, they each

(27:31):
hold one hundred and fifty yards a line, then you're
gonna need three hundred yards a line to fill them
both up, as simple as that.

Speaker 5 (27:37):
Exactly. Well, you know, I figure, you know, usually a
spin spinning reels, it seems to me they hold more
line than a bake caster. But yeah, maybe not, I
don't know what we know what, maybe.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
Their spools tend to bottom out a little bit farther
down than those on a bait caster, so they're probably
gonna hold a little bit more. And uh, and again
you don't have to fill the whole thing up with
premium line, just as long as the line is fresh
and new and there's no reason to go with any
heavier line down below or anything like that. Just kind
of just stay within, yeah, stay in your lane with

(28:10):
the pound test and whatnot.

Speaker 5 (28:12):
And I've only got two reels that have braid on
them because I only use braid for really certain situations, okay,
because it irritates me when you get hung up. You
can't just bite it in half or what you know,
you can't just break it like you can't mono. So
it's like I only use it a couple of situations.
Other than that, I just use mono.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
There's nothing wrong with that, all right, go get them.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
All right, sir?

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (28:37):
I see, Well, go go have a good gaftop day.

Speaker 4 (28:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, I'm gonna go buy some fresh. I can't remember
what I even use squid. I'll get some squid and
go get some gaftop. Thanks man later, Oh Larry, how
do you follow that?

Speaker 4 (28:52):
Man?

Speaker 6 (28:56):
I tell you what, I've always got a problem recently
months laying down in Sat Louisiana around the move mah.

Speaker 8 (29:06):
And they got a twenty six acre lake slash pond
on it, and they got a bunch of dadgum giants
Salvinia in it, and they don't know how to.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
Get rid of it.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
Who got any ideas?

Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, Salvinia. I would. I don't know what's legal to do.
It's if it's private property, you have an edge there
at least, but it's gonna be hard to get rid
of that stuff. It grows fast, as you well know.
I would, I would get in touch with a Louisiana
state biologist for whatever parish that that branch or farm

(29:43):
or whatever it is is in, and say I want
this stuff out of my lake? What can I use
and what can I not use? I mean that I
don't even know if grasscarpolite salvinia. I'm not sure they
probably would, but that's kind of another issue you'd have
to deal with, you know.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:01):
Uh I told I.

Speaker 6 (30:03):
Tell one of my sons to get in touch with
the wildlife.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, absolutely, and they might help them.

Speaker 8 (30:11):
And and they said they hadn't had any had had
any of what getting any.

Speaker 4 (30:18):
Response back from him?

Speaker 2 (30:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (30:21):
The Lucy Ann biologists, that's probably the next best answer.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
Will check. There's probably somebody a sort of equivalent to
that person at the parish level, like a kind of
like a county, you know, a county by right, So
I double checked there. But there's somebody there is going
to be able to talk to him about it and
get that stuff out of that lake.

Speaker 8 (30:46):
Hey, Doug, here's another thing for you.

Speaker 4 (30:49):
And I love you.

Speaker 6 (30:50):
I love your show every Saturday and Sunday.

Speaker 8 (30:54):
Uh, ain't nobody got to worry about me running around
licking the gafftop.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Okay, we'll put you on the good side of the ledger.

Speaker 8 (31:03):
I never have done that. And don't worry. You ain't
gonna have to worry about me.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
All right. It's good to know, thanks man. Yeah, I'll
see audios. Holy cow, Okay, that's good to know. What's up, Dave?

Speaker 7 (31:19):
Oh man, I'm laughing so hard.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
But this is some crazy stuff, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (31:24):
Though?

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Many?

Speaker 7 (31:26):
Now, I remember that time I told you that those
tours was out there on that uh ninety eighth Street
pier or whatever it was over there, and they were
all dressed up and and his daughter caught a card
head and I told him, no, don't grab it, and
uh man, he grabbed it, and boy he was. He
was eating in pain right there. And I said, well,

(31:48):
take the belly and put it on there you know
where it stuck to you, and take the take the
deal out.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
But I ain't.

Speaker 7 (31:57):
No, heck no, many, but no. You may hear the
weed eaters in the background, because I'm here in Houston
right now and they're cleaning up my hatefield over here.
So anyway, yeah, because you know how much I get
about six or seven inches of water in some places
over here, I can grow crawfish back here and that's

(32:18):
no joke, you know.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (32:20):
But well, you know, I see I've seen over the
years and that I've been here over fifteen years or whatever.
You got a lot of crawfish mounds and everything. And
I heard Captain Mike, I believe it was he was
talking about when you see them mounds coming up in
the ham beds coming up, you know, maybe a hurricane's coming.

(32:40):
I don't know, you know, but that's a part of history.
And my mama dog, Dynamite, she's over here. She can
kind of hear us on the own right now. Her
ears are perked up. They're ready to get out there
to Lake conrod Man and get to the new location.
But now, you know, and uh, I've been telling a

(33:01):
lot of people about being safe around here, and uh
and then safety on the water. I talked to some
people last night up there at Lake conrod you know,
I'd always tried to tell them that, you know, hey,
make sure you're wearing your live jacket.

Speaker 4 (33:16):
And we got a lot of good people out there.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
Well, there's a lot of good people every work. Sure.

Speaker 7 (33:21):
Sometimes you know, then sometimes you got some people that
mess up. And I heard something about what was it
here recently about oh that that sailboat that turned over?
Did you hear about that?

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Where No I missed that?

Speaker 7 (33:36):
Well, yeah, I saw it on It was a boat
that turned over. Luckily everybody had a live jacket on.
It was on the news, I think Channel thirteen. Everybody had.
Everybody had a live jacket on. Everybody came out okay.
But it then the boat it's smashed up against rock.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Yeah, I did see that. Yeah, that's yeah that you
know that you life jacket there you go. Everybody had
him on and everybody's okay, and it could have been
a very different story otherwise.

Speaker 7 (34:10):
Well, the other the other guy that uh Malcolm, that
was on the Cosby show that man, when you get
in the rip tide, man.

Speaker 4 (34:20):
Don't fight it, man, take you out?

Speaker 1 (34:23):
No, no, you know Withdrew, Yeah, I do. I appreciate it,
you know.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
Thanks man.

Speaker 7 (34:28):
Well, hey, let me let you go man. Yeah, I'm
gonna listen to these but weed eaters out here.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Good luck, I'll see you man audios. All right, real quick,
brend I'm gonna get brand and he's been waiting a minute. Brandon,
what's going on, Buddy?

Speaker 3 (34:41):
Good morning, mister Piker.

Speaker 4 (34:43):
I'm good, good good, good, No, I wanted that. What
was that guy? What was the weed or grassy? Do
you say that?

Speaker 1 (34:51):
It's called giant Salvinia, and left to its own device,
it's a it's an invasive species, and left to its
own devices, it will grow really really, really really fast
and take over like it's aquatic vegetation and it's from
not around here. And once it's in a lake, it

(35:11):
will take over and choke out everything else in there,
including the oxygen.

Speaker 4 (35:17):
So is it like a grass speces or is it
like a weed?

Speaker 1 (35:20):
See, it's I want to say it's more of a
weedy thing. But I haven't looked at it in a
long time. I haven't looked at a picture of giant celvidio.
There was a time when people were talking about how
it was just going to take over Texas and choke
every lake in the country eventually. But that didn't happen, fortunately,

(35:40):
But now it's still where it's unchecked, it can, it
can and will take over pretty quick.

Speaker 4 (35:47):
Well, that was the best advice that you could give him.
It's kind of like a county agent here and take exactly.
That's the best thing you can do. And the other
thing is they they have come a long ways. It's
far as aquatic herbicides, and they'll tell you what to do.
And the thing about it is, I think you have
to do certain portions because as that stuff decays, it'll

(36:09):
deplete the oxygen in whatever you're doing, So you've got
to do it in sections. I believe.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that. Yeah, that's probably smart because
if you if you suck out all the oxygen at once,
then you've got no fish too.

Speaker 4 (36:22):
Well, we call it the Pindal flip or turnover. That's
what I'm trying to say. Yeah, but they've they've come
a long ways as far as herbicide. As far as
that's concerned. I've been out of the business for a
pretty good while, but uh, they've come a long ways
in that aspect of it. If that helps the person
so he could google it or whatever. But the main

(36:44):
thing is it's just you know, just follow the label.
Please follow the.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
Please Thank you, Brandon. I appreciate it, man, Yes, sir,
I'll see audios. That's what I like about this audience.
I get good advice. I get a little little confirmation
that if I've done it right and if i'm doing
if I'm giving out something that doesn't sound right by
all me say hey, wait a minute, pump the breaks,
let's go look at this. I did find something interesting
on the gaftops. I'll tell you when we get back

(37:11):
from this break. Optima Iron Doors if we're right at
the end. Okay, we're right well toward the end anyway.
Out with July also goes the summer sale at Optima
Iron Doors, where you can get one of those big, beautiful,
heavyweight forged iron doors, or maybe one of those sleek
narrow steel doors that everybody's in love with right now.

(37:34):
Any and every door you pick from Optima Iron Doors
has a good chance of looking really gorgeous on your house.
Now there's gonna be what you need to. Just go
about the showroom over on North Post Oak and let
somebody sit down with you and talk to you about
what you're looking for, let them get to know you
and your family a little bit, a little bit more
about your personality and whatnot, and then they can go

(37:55):
from there to help you whittle down the number of choices,
because there are literally hundreds of choice in these things,
between the doors themselves and the handle sets and the
locking mechanisms, all of that they'll help you make those
choices same as they did for me a couple of
years ago, Competitively priced, all built right here in North
America and not coming across the ocean on a on
a steamship. If there's any of those anywhere anymore, go

(38:18):
see for yourself. Go over to that showroom, get there
tomorrow morning. Go over there and get the best price
you're gonna get during this summer sale at Optima iron Doors.
That's once this sale is over, the prices are probably well.
The prices will go back to their normal levels, which
are still very competitive, but you can't take advantage of

(38:38):
the sale at that point. Get a quote Optima iron
Doors dot Com steal Less Maintenance, more security, great looking doors,
Optima iron Doors dot Com Champions Tree Preservation. That company
up there, up there, close to where its name will
tell you, is kind of hidden away. You'd never know

(38:59):
it's if you didn't know what you were looking for.
But once you get in the gate, and once you
go inside and once you see what's well, you don't
even need to go up there. They're going to come
to your house. Let's just make it easy on everybody.
There's no reason for you to come to them with
a picture of your tree, when they will come to
you and knock on the trunk itself if they have to.
I had Irwin Erwin costelanos son. He and his son

(39:23):
Robin run the company and they have a crews that
will come to anywhere to do any work that needs doing.
But that all starts with that consultation so that they
can get your trees back on a nice, healthy track
and make sure they're going to make it all the
way through November and through this storm season that we're in. Now,
all you have to do is make that call, go online,

(39:43):
get somebody to the house, and start the procedure. When
Erwin got to my house, he looked around and I
honestly thought I was going to need some work done
on my trees, need some pruning, this, that and the other.
And he explained to me why no, they didn't need
pruning or trimming because that would exposed the bigger limbs
up toward the top to additional sunlight that had potential

(40:06):
to scorch those limbs. It's fascinating listening to somebody who
actually knows that much about trees explain why you don't
need to give him more money. He's telling me straight
up that no, it's okay, your trees are fine. And
he's looking around the neighbor's trees and he's looking here
and he's looking there, and he's telling me about, okay,
that neighbor's doing this, and this neighbor's doing that, and

(40:28):
that's hurting their trees. And if you don't know all
about trees, you really need to learn from an arborist
exactly what it's gonna take to get yours right. We
were thinking we need to take a tree out, and
he said, no, that's not really what you need to do.
This is what you need to do. We're gonna feed
your trees, but we're not gonna trim them at all
right now, and they're all just doing fine. Felt very

(40:50):
good to learn that he'll do the same for you.
Two eight one three two oh eighty two oh one
two eight one three two zero eighty two zero one,
or go to the web site championstree dot com championstree
dot com eight fifty three On Sports Talk seven ninety
the dugplit Hill, thank you for listening, certainly to appreciate it.
I found a little bit of information about this whole

(41:12):
slime thing. And this was from what I would consider
a solid source anyway, and what I will let's see, Yeah, okay,
there was some discussion between a bunch of people who
kind of know their stuff, Golf Marine Specimen Lab in

(41:34):
Florida and this, that and the other. Somebody said there's
real business there in licking catfish. The stories even on
the internet message boards all around the Gulf of Mexico,
even hearing these stories from all over the country, including
New England and the Pacific Northwest. According to a woman, well,

(42:00):
her credentials aren't she's not a biologist, she's not a
scientist anything. But basically it's just kind of hype. And
for instance, it says here that this person licked, gave
a little bit of a lick to some slime and

(42:21):
it made her tongue go kind of numb. But it
also says here it's possible that that slime, which is
a defense mechanism that helps protect these fish from injury
and disease, has some neuro toxic qualities, as most fish
with spines do. Whether that means the stuff can send
someone on a mind altering trip I'm reading still, he

(42:43):
couldn't say so. It's it's just a bad idea, okay.
And anything that anybody does just because somebody did it
on TikTok is whatever comes out, they got it coming
to them. That's just And the interesting part about TikTok,

(43:05):
if you'll read up on it, is the TikTok that
we get is entirely one hundred percent different, almost opposite
to what they get in China on TikTok, which is
virtually nothing. Uh, and certainly nothing is foolish as all
these weirdo challenges that we subject ourselves to, especially young

(43:27):
people who are very very influenced, easily influenced to do
dumb things. So hopefully nobody will fall for whatever foolishness
this has going on with it, and if you do,
God help you. Just that's it's a bad idea. It's

(43:50):
just a bad idea. Okay. Back to dove season, because
it's it's fast approaching here. We are counting down to
September first again, we're almost almost done with July will
be and then August that's when the floodgates really open
on chit chat about doves. Where are they all? The
good news is, as I said yesterday, parks and Widlife

(44:10):
Department predicts a banner season, and excellent is the word
they used, because there are just so many doves. I
think it's thirty something million white or excuse me, thirty
something million mourning doves in the state. And a bumper
crop also of white wings. And then of course you
got the the collared eurasing collared doves flying around here,

(44:31):
there and everywhere. They're big. They're about the size of
a pigeon. You might want to ramp up your shot
size if you're going to go chase them. Bottom line is,
we talked a little bit about it yesterday too, the
size of the shot to use and the size of
the choke tube to put in. Or if you've got
really old guns, you had used to have to buy

(44:52):
a different barrel to get a different choke. That's not
the case anymore. Almost every new shot gun made today
comes with tubes already in it. And if you don't
understand how they work, what they do is constrict the
shot load as it goes down and out the end
of the barrel. And oh boy, get you know what,
let me take him. I'm not tak him straight up

(45:13):
because I know who it is, I know what he
wants to talk about what's up? Doc? Are you there?

Speaker 4 (45:19):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (45:19):
Oh, pop him up for me. Here we go, Hey, Doc,
what's up?

Speaker 3 (45:24):
Well?

Speaker 9 (45:25):
You know, you look at these things like the catfish,
there's a huh particular you know, I'll get a call
over now and then from an owner. My dog ate
a toad or lict the toad they were poisonous. That's
the boofalest toad down in Florida. I don't think it's
made its way up here yet. And it is toxic. Yeah, okay,
I think plenty of these things that are referred to

(45:46):
as toxic are probably more irritating, yeah, than actually poisonous.
But it always gets back to me for this one
fundamental underlying question. Whose bright idea was it to lick
toad to get high?

Speaker 1 (46:01):
Exactly? Yeah, that's somebody who was already high and then
in their high state, thought they got higher by licking
a toad or a catfish.

Speaker 9 (46:11):
Or you know, and then you wonder where this prince?
What's the princess and the frog?

Speaker 5 (46:17):
You know a.

Speaker 9 (46:19):
Lot of these myths and fables have some foundation in
fact somewhere. Yeahs at Douglas.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
Get back to doug all right, Yeah, thank you, duck.
I appreciate it. Yeah, that's a little calmer mind right there. Yeah.
Frog told a guy, an old guy one time, said
he if you kiss me, I'll turn into a really
beautiful woman. And he said, uh, I'd just rather have
a talking frog at my age. All the way out
black Horse Golf Club, Fry Road to two ninety or

(46:53):
two ninety to Fry Road, Fry Road south a couple
of miles and there you will see golf course at
some point on boat sides of the road. When you
see it on both sides of the road, take a right,
go into black Horse Golf Club. The property is amazing,
it's beautiful. I've been playing up there since they open
it up. The north course still daily fee as it
always has been. The south course was taken private at

(47:14):
the beginning of the year, and that transition is going
extremely well from what I'm told. They're making a lot
of changes up there, all of which are going to
benefit really both sides of the of the property. And
if you are interested in membership kind of the sooner
the better. The rates have gone up since they started
because there's been so much interest in it, and once

(47:36):
you're in at the right level, you get it. Ultimately,
you get access to five golf courses by golf courses
for being a member at just the one you join
black Horse South, you also get black Horse North, which
kind of goes it's right there on the property, why
wouldn't you. But additionally you get Blackhawk Country Club, and

(47:56):
you get both courses at Golf Club of Houston. They're
all owned by the same management company, and they offer
that bundle to people who really really like to play
a lot of golf on different courses. And all five
of those choices are premium courses. They really are. Black
Horse Golf Club dot com is a website, big teaching
facility at the far end. Jenner's generous, big huge, got

(48:19):
two courses there to raise money for charity. If you
need a lot of room to expand and rub elbows
with what a two hundred people, you can get them
all out at once at black Horse Golf Club. Go
to the website, make your own tea time see for yourself.
Black Horse goolf Club dot com. That's black Horse Golf
Club dot com. All right, welcome back. Nine o'clock hour

(48:40):
starts right now. Let's we're right boy. I'd like to
talk about does I need to talk about golf and
I need to talk to my callers, and callers always
kind of come first around here, Bob, what's up man?

Speaker 3 (48:53):
Good money?

Speaker 10 (48:53):
Doug, how you doing?

Speaker 1 (48:55):
I'm pretty well? Thank you.

Speaker 10 (48:57):
Well, you know, I heard you telling about slive from
a gaff top and I had an experience about forty
five years ago, and I don't you might have heard
of Robert Crowley. Crowley's modlines down there. Yeah, sure, Trinity, Yeah,
he told Mabe, get stuck by a gaff, not a gap,
by a hard head. You rubbed the slime from my
herdhead or that was forty five years ago.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
I heard that.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
Maybe it's just probably just to distract you from your pain. Yeah,
you know, But here he may be onto something because,
just like like Doc was talking about a minute ago,
he's a veterinarian. He knows a lot about this stuff.
That neurotoxin in that slime might be just enough to
kind of be a deadening agent. That's where that would

(49:44):
come from. But there's no I don't know. I haven't
seen anything that definitively says, yeah, it's a hallucinogenic.

Speaker 10 (49:49):
Now I was sure it was a whether they call
a wive's tale. But I haven't answered to one of
your questions. Okay, who was the first person indeed in oyster?

Speaker 1 (50:01):
I have no idea. You tell me.

Speaker 10 (50:03):
I had to be a cage.

Speaker 4 (50:04):
It had to be a cake.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
Well yeah, And the only thing that would solidify it
is if that oyster somehow had been road killed.

Speaker 10 (50:16):
Yeah, that's my thought. It had to be an oyster.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
Oh yeah, well yeah, Hey, I'm half Cajun. I can
talk about him. Man. I know my dad was full
bread cage and he was born and raised in right
in the middle of New Orleans.

Speaker 10 (50:28):
Nothing wrong with that, No, no great brought to us.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
Yes, indeed, Man, thanks for the call.

Speaker 10 (50:36):
Well, I just hadn't talked to you for a while.
I've been under the weather, but I just wanted to
call you and feeling.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
Good one to say, well, I hope you get to
feeling better soon, Bob, I am.

Speaker 10 (50:46):
I am memorial. Herman does a great job.

Speaker 1 (50:50):
Yes, they do. Thanks man, All right, all right, yeah, YouTube,
they will alight. Let me go talk to Brandon. Hey, Brandon,
what's up.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
My friend.

Speaker 5 (51:02):
I'm doing good on getting better.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
I'm phwing better and I'm.

Speaker 4 (51:06):
Some better man.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
So many people in my audience under the weather lately.
I'm glad you're feeling better. I hope you can make
the Astros feel better. What's wrong with those guys? What
do you think we.

Speaker 6 (51:17):
Need to shore first?

Speaker 4 (51:19):
Not what Oakland speaking us.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
We need to do something to get these bats heated up.
I'm tired of watching these guys just just give it up.
And it's not their fault what we're doing. We kind
of There were people talking about how depleted the Astros
farm system was, the minor league teams were, and we're
seeing that firsthand. These are pretty good players, but they're

(51:44):
not doing what they have to do to win at
this level, especially against a team that's just They've been
knocked over by everybody in the league, and suddenly we've
lost three straight to these guys. It's ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (51:57):
Yeah, it's back, you're done?

Speaker 1 (52:01):
Oh is he?

Speaker 3 (52:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (52:03):
Back?

Speaker 2 (52:06):
Well?

Speaker 1 (52:06):
Back in the dugout doesn't do us a whole lot
of good. Unfortunately, we need him on that field, we
need him in that batter's box, and we need him
at full speed fast. This is it. If we do
end up doing well this season and at least getting
to the playoffs, it'll almost take a miracle. We've got
enough guys to create another team who have been injured

(52:29):
and out for us for a long time. And it's
just you can't. You can't just magically make equal equal
player equal level players appear. Yeah, and I was.

Speaker 4 (52:42):
Got a new got a smart TV out there.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
Oh yeah, you get your TV outside? Yeah, very cool, man.
I'm glad for you. I'm glad, buddy. Well, I got
to go check my golf tournaments. Okay. I'm glad to
hear you're feeling better too, I really am. Yeah, all right, partner,
have a good one, Yes, sir, you too, I am ye.

Speaker 7 (53:05):
Bye, tell them try some soup, okay, I will, And well,
Nike you better.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
Oh good, okay, Well, thank you, Brandon. I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (53:16):
Man.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
I hope you feel better too. I'm so good. All right, Well, audios,
I gotta run, okay, I'll see you. Yeah, all right,
by bye.

Speaker 4 (53:28):
All right.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
Let me go pop over here to an email real
quick before I get back my way. I got the
wrong little mouse here. I gotta go to this one,
and then got to go to that. Then gotta get
all the way up to the top of my emails
because I just saw one come in about licking fish
mojo ways in, I foresee a sudden rush to take
up fishing among those looking for any high. They'll try

(53:54):
licking everything they bring in that you know, if they
buy a fish and lizer and they don't, they don't
catch too many gafftop. I don't know if there's such
a thing as that. Uh yeah, I don't know, you
know that may that may be where I draw the
line on welcoming anybody and everybody to fishing. If your

(54:16):
intent as a fisherman is to get high by licking
the fish you catch, maybe fishing is not really the
right hobby for you. Maybe not the right hobby for you.
Oh my goodness. Um yeah, that Larry's weighing in. This
is where all these these things get started. And it's

(54:39):
kind of like for me, I'm old enough now that
I've heard most of the jokes that have been told
in the last forty or fifty years, and younger people
will come to me and tell me a joke and
it's it's it's got maybe a slight twist on the
original version, but that same joke has been it's just threadbear,
it just it's got no treadling on the tires. It's

(55:01):
been told so many times, and this is just some
of these weird things that came out of the sixties
and seventies coming full circle. Who is this? Larry Wade
ins has I also heard if you stick the dorsal
fin of a gafftop into your tongue or lips, why
would you do that? That it will send you on

(55:21):
a trip out of this world. And there's like dot
dot or to the er, most likely to the er
and most likely a really hard thing to explain to
medical people. Well, I guess they've kind of seen it
all and heard it all, but that's still I don't
know what the attending physician would think of you if

(55:43):
you told them that you deliberately stuck the dorsal fin
of a gaff top catfish into your tongue just to
see what it would feel like. People do weird things
every day, and it fears there's they've got a new
the the people who do the weird things have a
new hobby. We'll see how that works out for him.

(56:04):
And I don't think, well, I just cannot emphasize how
wrong it is to try to alter your state of
mind by licking a fish or a toad or anything
else from all the way over across the Atlantic Ocean,
the ISPs hand a women's Scottish open. What's her name?

(56:29):
Lottie Wode from England. There's sixteen holes seventeen. There's a
lot of players have already finished around. They're so far
ahead of they're four hours, five hours ahead of us.
Lottie is hanging on to a two shot lead now,
she was up three just ten minutes ago. She is
at twenty under par through sixteen holes to to play.

(56:50):
How's you Kim? At eighteen under par is second place,
all alone through seventeen playing eighteen now. The top woman
on the board from these United States is Nellie Corda,
who you probably would have guessed anyway. She's down all
the way, tied for six. She's alone in sixth place

(57:11):
now at twelve under par and playing eighteen, as well
as is Paula Rito. She's at ten and playing eighteen,
and most of the rest of the field is done. Yeah,
they're they're all pretty much finished up over there, except
for a few and not terribly good representation for the
United States. Let me let me get to Doc George

(57:32):
real quick before I got the wrong mouse here we go. Oh,
come on, which, come on, mouse, get up there, help
me out. Yeah, this, thank you, This thing's not working. Whatever.
What's up, doc? What do you got for me? So
talking about the dorsal fin fish.

Speaker 9 (57:49):
Years and years ago, thirty five forty years ago, I
got badly bitten right through the palm of my hand,
and it was toward the end of the day. And
my tech nation looked at at it and he said,
you need to go to the doctor.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
And I said I'd be all right.

Speaker 9 (58:04):
And so he called a friend of mine, an orthopedic
surgeon down here in sugar Land, down Calvo, and and
I got on the phone with David and she said,
you know, we need.

Speaker 1 (58:15):
To see to that.

Speaker 9 (58:16):
And I said, to be all right. I hung up
the phone and doctor Calvo was standing there in the office.
He said, get in. We went to the emergency clinic.
And on the way to the emergency clinic he told
me about a fella got stuck in the finger by
the dorsal fin of a catfish in the bay. Twelve
twelve hours later, they were doing a four quarter amputation,

(58:37):
not an arm amputation, but the shoulder.

Speaker 1 (58:40):
Vibriel that that it had to be.

Speaker 9 (58:44):
And so you get you get, you get a little
old bite in the salt water, you better pay attention
to it.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
Yeah, I've talked about vibria for a very long time.
That one one guy, a surgeon or yeah, a surgeon
over in on the east coast in the Carolina somewhere
when I was first writing about vibrio for the paper, said,
if you go to the er and tell them that
you got this wound that's starting to look kind of
nasty from salt water, and that you're feeling flu symptoms

(59:13):
and you know you've gotten the crosis actually starting, said,
if they don't rush you into a room and hook
you up to about a dozen ivs right away, just
leave and go somewhere else. Otherwise you're a goner. It's
that serious. That's a good point to make all these
people who want to mess around with catfish, because they
live with that stuff and it's in that water whether
you like it or not. Man, I hadn't thought about that.

(59:34):
Holy cow. Needless to say, he got my attention. I'll
bet I'll bet yeah. I'm glad he did too. Man,
couldn't pass it up, Thank you, Doug, Yes, sir, I'll
sell you Okay, It's the Doctor George Show with Doug

(59:54):
Man in the phones and Brett Man on the board.
American Shooting Centers out there on West tim Or Parkway
at Katie six. If you missed my conversation with Ed
or Riggy, the owner of that place, yesterday about dove
hunting and getting ready for the season and whatnot, go
back and listen to the podcast over at iHeartRadio. You
can find it very easily. Anyway. The bottom line is

(01:00:16):
American Shooting Centers is where you too can go out
and become a better shot. They've got plenty of instruction
out there, and Ed was explaining to you guys the
same thing that I got explained to me a long
time ago. Now about a different way of approaching shot
gunning than you may have learned if you're more than
about twenty five years old. And if you learned the

(01:00:39):
old way, everything kind of moves really fast, and you
got to be quick with everything. If you learn the
new way, the target seems to get bigger, seems to
be moving slower, and everything becomes a lot easier, which
will make dove hunting, duck hunting, quail hunting, goose hunting,
crane hunting, all of that bird hunting, all of your sporting,

(01:01:00):
all your trapping skeet make it all seem a lot
more fun and easy. They've got that going on. They've
got the rifle and pistol facility from five yards out
to six hundred yards and back to the wing shooting,
three full sporting place courses, ten trappings, keep fields and
five stands setups all over the property and a beginner's
wing shooting area. American Shootingcenters dot com is a website

(01:01:23):
West tim Or Parkway between Katie and Highway six. Get
out there and have some fun with the shooting sports.
American Shootingcenters dot com. If you are in the mood
to bring home some delicious meat and vegetable of not vegetables,
never mind, forget about vegetables. I'm talking about Belleville Meat Market.
They have vegetables technically as side dishes to the every

(01:01:46):
day availability of their barbecue meals. That would be ribs,
that would be sausage and brisket, and all the traditional
things you would find in a delicious barbecue meal. That's
ten to seven every day, seven days a week, So
technically there are vegetables there, it's just not something you're
going to see in the meat cases. They got pulled pork,

(01:02:06):
they got homemade hot dogs. Now they've got, oh gosh,
the hamburger patties, stuff, pork tenders, stuff, peppers, stuff, mushrooms,
backyard barbecue headquarters. Basically for anything and everything, block parties,
any any good reason and excuse you have to fire
up the grill, get outside and do some cooking. Bellville's
got what you want to put on that grill on

(01:02:27):
the way there to take the whole family out there,
make a day of it. On the way there, create
a list of all the things you want to bring home.
Then hand that list off when you get there. Go
over there, order yourself some lunch or dinner if it's
late enough, and go sit out on the patio and
enjoy that meal while game processing all twelve months of
the year. Just call them ahead of time if you're

(01:02:48):
going to bring in something this time of year, to
make sure they can accept it and take care of
it for you. If you've got quarters of deer in
your freezer at the house, you swore you were going
to start processing your own deer this year and it
hasn't happened yet, take them out to Belleville. They'll fall
him out and turn them into something you can eat
right away. Belleville Meatmarket dot Com is the website. Go

(01:03:09):
there and check it out. If you can't get there,
they'll send pretty much whatever you want right to your door.
Belleville MeetMarket dot Com. Nine twenty three on Sports Talk
seven to ninety The Dougpike Show. Thank you for listening us.
Certainly do appreciate that I heard some discussion this morning.
I want to shift over to golf again and go
back to I haven't talked about it yet. The three

(01:03:30):
M leaderboard up there in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
Saint Paul to be precise, Oksha Battia shoot sixty three
yesterday to find himself in a tie for today's final
round with Thor burn Olissen. They are both at eighteen
under par. Kurt Kinneyama and Takumi Kenaya and Sam Stevens

(01:03:56):
and Jake Napp all at seventeen under, just one shot
off the lead, so that's in the sixteens. You got
to put them in the conversation too, just two shots off.
That's Alex Norn, Chris gotter Up, who's been kind of
hottest epistol lately and Pierson Coody, all of those guys,
those nine guys, I think one of them is gonna

(01:04:19):
win this thing. I don't see anybody jumping over below them.
I'm looking at the names. I don't see one that
just tells me, yeah, they're gonna jump over nine guys
and win today. The interesting thing about Kurt Kittayama yesterday
was that he finished bogie birdie to shoot sixty on

(01:04:39):
the day. His scorecard is just littered with circles. His
scorecard has I don't know, probably more birdies than I've
ever seen. It would take me three months to make
that many birdies, probably, And what he did sparked a
conversation between a couple of guy on the PGA Tour

(01:05:01):
networks this morning. The guys I listened to on the
way in on Sundays about what's cooler, what's better than
shooting sixty fifty nine? Excuse me sixty. A lot of
guys have shot sixty, breaking sixty to shoot fifty nine
or what Jim Furick did. Furich shot fifty eight. He's

(01:05:22):
the only guy who's ever done that. But if you
go to if you go to the website and look
at go to the internet and look it up. You'll
find that there have been fourteen guys. Fourteen guys have
made it to fifty nine, and I would be willing
to bet that most of you, unless you are just

(01:05:44):
absolutely consumed by the game and statistics, couldn't name half
of the people who have shot fifty nine. You might
know that Furich shot fifty eight, because that's kind of
a big deal. But the question they were asking between
themselves is what's better shooting fifty nine or winning a tournament?

(01:06:04):
And if you have to, if you have to take
risky shots to get to fifty nine along the way
in is it worth it if a mistake will cost
you the tournament. I think that the far more valuable
thing between the two, a win or a fifty nine

(01:06:24):
is going to be the win, because not only does
it really fill up your bank account quickly, it also
gets you exemptions, It gets you a lot of things
that gets you favoritism from potential sponsors. They're going to
take another look at you if you've never won a tournament,
or if you just win another tournament, because every tournament

(01:06:46):
you win takes you into a higher echelon of the game.
Fifty nine is cool, but it doesn't pay anything, and
it puts your granted, it puts your name along side
more than a dozen other guys, but that's about it.
After the new wears off PGA Tour win, everything else

(01:07:07):
aside is gonna be worth at least a million in change.
And who can't use that except people, Well, there's a
handful of guys in golf who who Yeah, that million
dollars doesn't mean a whole lot to them. But for
the average player out there, the average tournament player who's
been in the leade or been in the PGA on

(01:07:27):
the tour for years and years and years and never
won a tournament, that first win would be really, really nice.
That first win would be worth way more than shooting
fifty nine. And if you're curious, because I've got a
minute here started in nineteen seventy seven when Al Geiberger
did it at the Memphis Classic, and Chip Beck did

(01:07:50):
it in ninety one, David Duval ninety nine, Paul Goidos
twenty ten, Stuart Appleby also twenty ten. F you're at
twenty thirteen, he's got one of each. Justin Thomas twenty seventeen.
Adam Hadwood had win the same year in seventeen, Brent
Snedecker in eighteen, Kevin Chappell in nineteen, Scotty Scheffler in

(01:08:11):
twenty twenty, Cam Young in twenty twenty four, Hayden's Springer
in twenty twenty four, and just this year, Jake Knapp
at the twenty twenty five Cognizant Classic. Great scores, every
one of them. Great scores. But I guarantee you every
one of those guys would give up the fifty nine

(01:08:32):
if they didn't get the win. To have that win,
They would rather shoot somehow, shoot sixty five, seventy, as
long as it comes with a trophy and a big
fat check at the end. Golf's a funny game. Golf's
a very funny game. And there are all kinds of

(01:08:52):
small rewards, short term rewards. Double eagle, somebody makes a
two on a par five, Oh my gosh, But that's
all it is. It's just one score of eighteen on
the card. And if you can't, if you can't follow
that up with a few more birdies and not a
whole lot of bogies, then you're not gonna be competitive.

(01:09:13):
No matter how lucky you were that time. There's probably
as much luck as there is in skilling golf, because
randomly there are sprinkler heads out in the middle of fairways.
There are all these trees that if you hit into
the trees and don't bounce out, you're sunk. You're probably
gonna lose it. At least one shot in maybe two

(01:09:33):
on that hole, if it hits the right limb at
the right angle, it may bounce forward into the golf
course back onto the fairway, even you Golf's handed you
of a favor. The best round I ever shot, the
very best round I ever shot, was a seventy two
under par at Golf Club of Houston on what's now

(01:09:55):
the Member Course, and I had a putt at the
end of it to shoot sixty done and uphill putt
like a dope. I left it about two feet short
because I was so scared of anything I would have
coming back downhill that it would take me over seventy
and that was a number that was. It still is
my personal best ever. But in that round I had

(01:10:15):
several very lucky bounces, one off a wrought iron fence.
One more that I can remember vividly off a tree,
and so it was just my day. And if it's
just your day and things you're going right for you,
don't get scared that you're gonna make bad scores. This
is something Jim Murphy taught me a very long time ago.
I think I actually called him during a round and said, Man,

(01:10:38):
I'm lighting it up. I'm like three under par already.
I don't even I'm kind of scared. He goes, scared
of what you're having the greatest time of your life. Man,
Just relax and keep swinging, keep doing exactly what you're doing.
Don't think about it. Just look at the card at
the end and see what you got. And it really
opened my eyes to how how much your mind can

(01:10:58):
play tricks on you in golf. If you don't think
you're good enough to shoot a certain score, then you
probably won't ever shoot that score because it will get
in your head if you get close, and the water
will seek its own level, and rather than get another birdie,
you might end up getting a double bogie and that
puts you back on your bogie train. Oh yeah, man,

(01:11:20):
I'm a bogie golfer. That's all I'll ever be. Well,
if you go into the game with that attitude. That's
probably correct, but it doesn't have to be correct if
you go in there thinking, you know, gosh, I've gotten
two birdies already, and I'm three pars and two birdies
after five holes, I'm two under par. Holy cow, this
is crazy. Let's see if I can make another one,

(01:11:41):
and if the stars align, you'll make it, and if
they don't, you won't. But you got to keep out
of your own head to really play free and easy.
Golf tour players they have to think a lot because
they have so many more options in their bags than
we have. There's so more capable than we are of

(01:12:01):
pulling off a really difficult shot that they don't mind
taking that chance. You and I, if you got a
choice between trying to squeeze it through two trees and
a gap the size of two golf balls, just punch
it out and minimize the damage. That's something a lot
of I think a lot of high scores come from
not trying to minimize the damage, trying to go just

(01:12:23):
going for broke every time you make a swing, and
nine times out of ten, that's not going to work
out for the average guy. What will work out is
it called a Champions Tree Preservation. How's that for, Slick Hubrett.
Champions Tree Preservation will come to your house. They'll send
it a certified arbors to your house. It'll either probably

(01:12:45):
be Erwin or Robin. Robin kind of works the south
side mostly. Erwin works the north side and the east
side and the west side. They're all over the place,
they really are. They drive the wheels off their trucks
to get to people's homes and analyze and assess their
trees to make sure they're ready for whatever nature throws
their way. If they need feeding, they'll recommend feeding. If
they need pruning, they'll recommend pruning. Whatever it takes that

(01:13:06):
the whole tree needs to come out because it's dead
as a post and about to fall on your house.
They'll tell you that. And they have all the equipment
they need that, have the crews they need to come
take care of that right away so that you don't
have to worry about it. If you want a new
tree to go back in the hole that's made after
that one goes away, not a problem. They own a

(01:13:27):
tree farm and they'll pick out a tree just for you,
bring it to your house and plant it and watch
it as it gets going. Championstree dot com. By the way,
the one thing that I've learned, one thing I learned
that I didn't know from Irwin, is that it's very
easy to overwater our trees, and overwatering can be as

(01:13:48):
dangerous to that tree as not watering it enough or
not pruning it or anything else. Too much water is
not good for trees. Championstree dot com is the website.
Go there or call them and get somebody to come
check your trees out while we're still here in the
middle of storm season and been lucky enough so far
to not get one two eight one three two zero

(01:14:11):
eighty two oh one two eight one three two zero
eighty two zero one. Phoenix Knives right there in the
middle of Bellville, right there on Main Street. If you've
never been there, go there. If you like knives, or
if you want to get somebody one of the coolest
custom gifts they'll ever get. Phoenix Knives has been around
a long time. They moved into a big new space

(01:14:31):
last year, and when they did that enabled Cowboys Lemanski,
the guy who owns the place, to bring in more
people to build more knives, to make it easier. If
you want to go out there and learn a little
something about knife building, he will. Well, here's somebody else
who's out there. Just on a first come, first serve basis.
We'll pause for a little while and help you build

(01:14:53):
your own knife from scratch, from just a piece of metal.
It's a fantastic, amazing thing to experience, and you can
do that. Take the whole family out there and see
what it's like.

Speaker 3 (01:15:05):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
If you want a truly custom knife made by Cowboy
himself for the holidays coming up later in the year,
you might want to get on his books right now,
because it takes months for him to get through the
orders and get exactly what you're looking for for whoever
is worthy of that gift. More than one thousand knives
on display ready for purchase at Phoenix Knives out there

(01:15:29):
in Belleville. A really cool thing. Any edged weapon you
can think about, any edged blade you can think of,
They'll make it for you if you want it at
Phoenix Knives. It's a fantastic, beautiful, beautiful facility. Go see
it yourself. Phoenix knive dot com. P H E n
I X Phoenix Knives dot Com nine point thirty nine

(01:15:50):
on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show. Thank
you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. BIS was wondering
what it was that was growing over there in that
lake in Louisiana. We talked about it earlier. It's a
giant Salvinia s A L V I N I A.
And it's actually illegal to own that stuff in Texas.
If you have some with you, you might want to
know if you got it in your pipe or I

(01:16:12):
don't know wherever it may be. And now if it's
in your lake and you didn't put it there, then
they'll help you get rid of it. They'll help tell
you how to do that. It's not the thing you
want in there. If you want a healthy fish population,
I can tell you that because it will take over.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. Email
me Doug Pike at Iheartmighty Media dot Com. Mike, what's

(01:16:33):
up man?

Speaker 3 (01:16:34):
Yeah, I I just want to talk a little bit,
just a couple of seconds. On golf. You know, I've
played golf all my life. I played with my father
in law every Saturday at Sinco played back nine nine nine,
and he's eighty five, and he will not let me
pay for the golf. So my son Law's paying for
my golf, right, okay. And yet, you know, golf is

(01:16:56):
such a mental game. I'm competitive. I want to win.
He's a better golfer than me, but he's gotten older
and he just doesn't have the distance. You can't got
to shake some putts, okay, and so but sometimes I
still worry about the scory gives me because I know
he's wrong. I know he's got a few more strokes
on on on the on the whole, Okay. But I
used to worry about it a lot, and I think cares.

(01:17:18):
Golf is about you and your game. Don't worry about other.

Speaker 1 (01:17:20):
People's score, That's exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:17:22):
And it took me a while. And finally I've told
my wife, I said, to frustrate me a little bit,
I'm not going to do that anymore. I Am going
to just not worry about a score and take it
and if he beats me right down, whatever story that
I feel. I enjoyed a lot more. Yes, I wanted
to make that observation to golf is a mental game.
There's all kinds of angles that your mind can get

(01:17:43):
you worrying.

Speaker 1 (01:17:44):
The guys I played with the guys I play with
on most Mondays out there at Black Hall. There's about
two dozen of us on the list, and it's about
half the team that shows up. Uh, they play, They
play all week long, so they don't care about Mondays.
But I do because that's my day off. And there
are there are gimmes on a lot of putts, and

(01:18:04):
each person in that group has a different link at
which they'll just sweep a putt back to y Oh,
that's good because we're all on the same team. And
these forsoms that go out and then there's discussion later
on these little little, tiny little exchange of money at
the end. It's nothing that would hurt anybody. But still
I don't ever say unless it's six inches away from

(01:18:27):
the hole, because we're trying to keep the round moving.
I don't give putts longer than a couple of feet
because I know that if I if I'm asked to
make one, I want to be able to make it myself.
But that's just the way they are, and everybody has
a good time. Nobody really cares, and they joke between
each other, Oh that would be good if so and
so was in our group, or that would be you'd
have to put that if so and so was in

(01:18:48):
our group, and it's like, so what, nobody cares, and
so we all have a much better time because it's
not we're not playing by the same rules that the
tour players play by. And you don't need to do
it with your father in law. Let him, you know, man,
especially if he's paying for your golf. I'm surprised he
hadn't shot a sixty one yet.

Speaker 3 (01:19:09):
Well we only played nine and he does.

Speaker 1 (01:19:12):
Yeah, that's a good way to put it. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
you figured out your own issue there.

Speaker 3 (01:19:19):
You know you did. Yeah, I did. It took me
a while, but I'm just kind of saying, it's like,
what are you doing? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:19:25):
Is he playing? He's playing from fo he's playing from
forward t's I hope.

Speaker 3 (01:19:30):
Yeah, And I'm playing with him.

Speaker 1 (01:19:33):
Back yourself up, man, back up mine.

Speaker 3 (01:19:36):
I'm sixty seven. I should. I should I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
Still still playing from the blues man, and I'm older
than you.

Speaker 3 (01:19:43):
Well, there you go, there you go. The other thing,
just a quick note, Yes, another by of mine. He
just joined Sugar Creek and they're redoing one of their
nine holes, the twenty seven holes. Anyway, he invited me
out at twelve thirty Wednesday, and I lived and I
always play at seven in the morning, you know, get
it done, sure, And but he invited me. And you know,

(01:20:07):
if you're gonna be playing someone else is done for golf,
do it. And it's worth it no matter what. And
it was tough, but we had a great time.

Speaker 1 (01:20:15):
Yeah, that's it. I like you my golf course, I
really do. Which nine are they?

Speaker 3 (01:20:18):
Of course, the the one right by the clubhouse, Okay,
I mean it's just right there to the left of
the uh snack bar as you walk out left. I
forget what's what it's called.

Speaker 1 (01:20:32):
Yeah, I don't remember the name. If you said it,
I believe you, but I don't remember it either. But
I know the nine you're talking about starts with.

Speaker 3 (01:20:38):
The redoing that and they're going to redo the others too.
They just up their initiation fee, so they're paying for
it that way. A little bit don't work. They're they're
putting some money into that course. The greens were magnificent.

Speaker 1 (01:20:51):
Great talking to you, Mike, all right, sir, thank you.
Yeah all. We have so many good golf courses in
this in this city of our so many good golf courses.
We really really do, and they're not as many as
there used to be golf courses, but they're the good ones,
the ones that have stood the test of time. We

(01:21:14):
have a lot of options, both daily fee and private
options in this city, and we're very fortunate to have
as much golf as we do. We were overbuilt for
a time, then under well, underbuilt first because golf when
Tiger Woods came along, suddenly it was six hour rounds
and tea times like six minutes apart, which bogged down

(01:21:36):
the courses, and all of a sudden there were too
many people, it seemed like. But the new kind of
wearoff and the balance came back, and you can still
find a lot of really good options. There's a few
courses have closed lately, but it's just and it's sad.
I hate to see a track that I've played a
lot of times close up, but sometimes that just has

(01:21:58):
to happen. To maintain the balance of the universe. I
have to maintain the balance by telling you about El
Cubano Cigars. This is many Lopez and his dad opened
the place in two thousand and six, and he's taken
the helm pretty much by himself. Now many has hand
rolled cigars right down there in Texas City. Manny and

(01:22:19):
his dad both raised in the Cuban cigar factories. The
people who roll for him now also Cubans who worked
in the cigar factories down there. The only tobacco he
uses is quality Cuban seed tobacco from Central America, not
grown in Cuba because then couldn't bring it in here.

(01:22:39):
It's a fascinating process, really what the tobacco is harvested
and then dried and then sent up this way. I
don't know all of the but it's a long time
between harvest and becoming a cigar. I got the full
tour and the full explanation the first time I went
down there, and it's fascinating. Actually, you can watch them
roll cigars at Texas City. They've got a smoking lounge

(01:23:02):
there too, and then there's another lounge in League City,
just about ten or fifteen minutes away from the first one.
They do incredible custom orders. By the way, if you
want to really wow a client, if you want to
really wow the people at your next golf tournament, whatever
it is, ask Manny to roll up a bunch of
cigars for you and then put a custom band on

(01:23:24):
every one of those cigars. He did that for us
over here at iHeart and it's really truly a work
of art in some ways. Beautiful cigars, beautiful bands. He
makes more than one hundred and fifty different kinds of
cigars they do over it at eld Cabano. So you're
gonna whether you want a big, robust, heavy cigar or

(01:23:44):
something a little lighter, he's gonna be able to make
them for you from the different blends of tobaccos. He's
got Eldcubano Cigars dot Com. If you really want to
go fancy, get him to come out and actually roll
cigars on site for your guests or your clients or
who your business meeting. Here's a little something to take
home with you with our company logo on it. Don't

(01:24:05):
forget us. Elcubinocigars dot com, Elcubanosigars dot Com. On Sports
Talk seven ninety The Duchpike Show. Thank you for listening.
Certainly do appreciate it. That's so much going on over here.
It's so much paperwork over here. I'm still just in
all that fourteen people have shot fifty eight or fifty
nine and here it shot fifty eight and these are

(01:24:27):
in competitive rounds. This wasn't in some charity scramble either. Uh,
you know, on the way to the end of the program,
I might do that. Let's talk about charity golf scrambles
and how they've evolved into something that frustrates anybody and
everybody who plays in them anymore because the scores that

(01:24:49):
are being posted now thanks to thanks to solicitations on
the golf course itself during the rounds where if your
whole team will pay for this or that or whatever,
then you get an automatic eagle on this hole. And
if you do this, you get to hit your very
first shot from Instead of being on six hundred yards

(01:25:11):
away on a big par five, you get to hit
from one hundred yards. That'll be your first shot, and
you can make a double eagle if you can put
all the way around the golf course. And then on
top of that, there's a lot of teams who are
comprised of players who are way better than they offer

(01:25:32):
up as their real handicap. And I'll wrap reeling quotes.
I've seen some just absolutely ridiculous scores as winning scores
and tournaments. And when people do that when it seems
almost impossible. It probably was impossible, but for you're either
getting crews that are willing and have the money to

(01:25:55):
just grab up to every advantage offered, and that's good
for the cause. I get that. We do a fantastic
tournament for Saint Jude Sat Jude Children's Research Hospital every year.
It's a fantastic cause. I'm happy to do it. I
love doing it for them. And we try to keep
the on course opportunities to a minimum as far as

(01:26:19):
scoring goes, because we want the guys to be able
to ben and women, and we've got a lot of
women playing in this tournament too, But we want all
the players to just enjoy the golf and to try
to shoot the best golf scores they can. Some teams,
most of the teams I'm playing on now, and I'm
as competitives, as competitive as as anyone else on any

(01:26:41):
golf course at any point that they're out there. Okay,
but I don't I'm not gonna take mulligans that we
don't have. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna just write down,
berdie if we all putted for it and missed it,
that no matter how short put it just that's just

(01:27:01):
not me. It's just not and you know, hey, i'll play,
I'll play along. But if I if I'm gonna win
a head cover, I want to earn that head cover.
And that's something else too. Most of these tournaments aren't
playing for I'm not playing for buckets of gold. I'm
just playing for fun, little things to take back to
the office or take back to the house, or maybe

(01:27:24):
the irony sometimes that the long drive prize is a
new driver and the longest putt made, or whatever putting
competition there might be, usually is the prize is a
new putter, which neither of those two players needs. The
guy who get hits the longest drive probably could use
a new putter, and the guy who puts best probably

(01:27:44):
wouldn't give it up for the one that's the prize
that that person would probably rather have a new driver.
But I digress. I just I've seen scores in the forties,
in the forties, for heaven's sakes, for eighteen holes of golf,
and I don't care how many guys you got out there.
It's there needs to be some return to the honor

(01:28:07):
system in golf, and the easiest way to do that
would be to start two foursomes on every hole, two
teams on every hole, and swap scorecards. You keep our score,
we keep your score, and that would eliminate a lot
of the stuff that goes on out there and probably
benefit everybody who's playing. I don't like when I talk

(01:28:32):
to people about coming to that tournament for us. And
by the way, if you're interested in being involved in
the tournament, just shoot me an email. I've got all
the information about all the sponsorship opportunities. I'm on the
board and happy to explain all of it to you.
And what I don't want to hear is, yeah, we'll play,
but we know we're not gonna win. And if you're

(01:28:55):
comfortable with that, I'm comfortable too. You're doing it for
the right reason. You're doing it for the and not
so you can hear your name called at the end
of it. Hall Sometimes when I've been on some pretty
good teams and we've won our share of stuff, and
I'm happy to do it because I know we did
it legitimately, but I'm just as happy when somebody else wins.

(01:29:16):
It doesn't bother me. The winner really should be the charity,
and that's what it comes down to good heavens. I've
already yapped my way to the end of the show today.
That's gonna wrap it up. I'll be back in here
Tuesday in a studio down the hall to do fifty
plus Live Tomorrow my day off, as I've mentioned, until
next Saturday. I hope all of you get a chance
to go fish, go play golf, go shoot some sporting

(01:29:38):
clays or whatever you want to do to get ready
for dub season, and just get outside and have some fun.
It's gonna be warm, okay. Hydrate yourself, put on a
little sun's screen, make sure you take care of yourself
so you can keep doing it at least as long
as I have, and maybe as long as people older
than me head. That's what I'm aiming for, is keep
playing and keep hunting and fishing or the rest of

(01:29:59):
my life, no matter or what time I got left.
Be safe, get outside, have some fun with your family. Idios.