Exploring, Cuz These Outdoors Ain't Boring

Originally aired on November 11th, 2025. On this episode, Doug interviews David Pruett from Riceland Waterfowl Club to figure out if birds from the north will travel down anytime soon, and speculate on why they're not here yet. Doug also speaks with golf instructor Tommy O'Brien to talk shop, and Tommy analyzes Doug's swing as an example of what to look out for in your technique. All this and much more, on the Doug Pike Show.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's Doug Pike. All right. Sunday edition of the
program starts.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Now, thank you all for joining us, whoever you are,
wherever you are, whatever you are doing, on this pretty
nice looking morning out there, actually, and we've.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Got more of that to come.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
A quick glance at the forecast, which I tend to
do more on fifty plus than I do here because
most of this audience I feel like is fairly tuned
into the weather, since we like to do so much
stuff outdoors and we have to be paying attention to
whether it's going to be rainy or cloudy, or sunny,
or cold or warm or hot or chili or whatever,

(00:40):
and the whatever we've got coming up. It's really not
a scary forecast at all, nothing to look at seriously
for the next few days.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
What we do have, though, is some twists.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
And then toward the end of where I'm going to
go with the weather, a significant change. If you haven't noticed,
if you haven't looked at a long term forecast. Now,
that doesn't mean that the long term forecast is gonna
absolutely positively wind up being true.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
It's still quite a ways out.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
But I've seen even as early as two days ago,
I saw some long term forecasts modeling some significant change
around here. So in the short term, tomorrow and what's tomorrow, Monday,
Tomorrow and Tuesday, including this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
It was supposed to be foggy this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
It wasn't from where I live to where I am now,
but that doesn't mean it wasn't foggy elsewhere. Tomorrow morning
and Tuesday morning again more fog and if it's like
it was this morning, it's not going to be a
big deal. If it's thick and ugly, it made delay
the start of my golf game, which I'm really not

(01:50):
interested in doing. Moving forward from there, I'm trying to
melt multitask, pardon me. Temperatures, by the way, are going
to be very mild through all of that. It's nothing
to talk about at all. And then toward the next week,
when Thanksgiving is around the corner, that's when we start

(02:12):
seeing some stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Chance for rain through.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Friday this week, maybe maybe not, and then also a
chance next week. A temperature is really pretty mild through
all of that, all the way through next week, then
scattered showers right up through Thanksgiving Day, and that's when
it gets kind of sporty because there's a significant coal
front that's expected to pass sometime on Thanksgiving Day, depending

(02:37):
on where you live north or south of Ien or
I twenty even. I mean, this thing's coming down, and
it's just a question of when the low after Thanksgiving,
once you've filled yourself with turkey and had to loosen
your belt and just flopped back into the easy chair.

(02:58):
Sometime between then and when you wake up the next morning,
I'm gonna go down to about forty two.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
And that's the Houston deal.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
And then after that highs for the next couple of
days in the mid fifties and lows back into the
high forties for a couple of more days, and then
it's December, so it'll probably be eighty degrees again. Uh
seven one three seven ninety. Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia
dot com. Let's talk to Brandon. Shall we want to
Sep Brandon?

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Good morning, mister PROI carry good man.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
I'm fine.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
I got to go make a pot of coffee at
first break though there's none in there.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Now, I understand. I gotta get me some eye opener too.
Here a minute, yes, sir, yes, sir, No, I want
her to touch on a base. Uh you know, and
I don't want. This has to do with outdoors, and
it also has to do with political We want to
keep the state of Texas the way it is. Let's
just look at New York. Let's just look at New

(03:58):
York as. It's an example. Everybody body in Texas says, well,
it's not going to happen here. If you don't step
up to the plate and swing the bat and vote,
then it's possible that that can happen. And then there's
a lot of people in the United States would like
to see the state of Texas fall.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
We are we are we.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
God has had our sovereign hand on us, even from
the Alamo. If we don't fight, then we're gonna lose.
And that's the only thing I can say. We have
great resources. I mean, we have been greatly blessed, and
there's a lot of people that died for this state.
And one thing I want to say, Okay.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Thank you, I appreciate that. One thing I will say
to kind of tie some of.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
This together is that I've I've interacted with a lot
of people who are.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Not who don't think the same way I do.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
I have and politically, I'm talking about and almost each
of them. I rarely run into somebody who says I'm
on the left and I love the outdoors.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
I just don't hear that.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
I don't hear that from that side, and I don't
see that side taking a stance in favor of taking
care of wildlife and fisheries.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
It hasn't been my experience.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Now, if there's somebody out there who is as completely
as left as left can be and absolutely loves hunting
and fishing and hiking and birding and doing all that stuff,
I'd love to talk to them, because we have common
ground we can start from to have a conversation.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
That would be great. But I just don't seem to
run into those folks much. So, Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
We've all got to pay close attention to not just
how somebody who's running for office wants to run that office,
but what they think about the outdoors, what they think
about our fisheries, and what they think about our wildlife,
whether that matters to them, because if they're not outdoors people.
And this is what's happened in a lot of the

(05:58):
North now. There are tons of deer hunters all the
way up through Canada. There are tons of bird hunters.
There's tons of fishermen, they're all up there, but they're
becoming outnumbered. And where they become out numbered, the resource
is available to people who take care of fisheries and
who take care of wildlife kind of diminished because those

(06:20):
people aren't buying hunting and fishing licenses. They don't have
a direct stake in the game, so they don't really
care whether a warehouse gets built on a place that
wants used to be a great waterfowl roost. They don't
care that a subdivision goes up where you and your
uncle used to hunt deer when you were a kid.

(06:40):
It just doesn't matter to them. And that's a frightening thing.
That's how we're going to lose wildlife and fisheries as
much as anything else.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
Well, not only that, I mean, we just need to
start raising a generation where it's not it's just hard
to explain, but I mean, I just don't want things
to watchin up. There's a sleeping giant out there, and
there's a lot of people that would love to see
the state of Texas fall, of course, and we are
we are, and if we don't, it's outdoors men, Texas ranchers,

(07:11):
what we know when you're born in the country that
I mean, it's there's certain morals and values that go
with all that, sure, and if we don't stand up
for it, we're going to lose.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
Well.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
The key component to being brought up what you and
I would call right is just is being respectful of
other people. It's being mindful that the world is not
revolving around you, that you are part of something. You're
a tiny little cog in a big, big wheel. And
that's what people who raise their kids in the outdoors.

(07:44):
There's been signed. There is a lot of science on this,
and I studied it for a while and read a
lot of a lot of papers.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
And whatnot on it.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Kids who get brought up in the outdoors tend to
be better grounded. They tend to be more successful in
life than they actually score higher on standardized tests than
kids who don't grow up in the outdoors. And that's
reason enough right there their educations, because if they're not
gonna be smart enough to run the world, they're not

(08:14):
going to be able to run.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
The world, no, sir, and I mean I totally agree.
I don't. I have no shame about where I was
born and raising house treated. I mean, it's just made
me the man I am today. And that's the way
we got to treat this. We need to raise men
to be men. That's what.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Think back to when you were growing up, and how
many times, probably if you were like me and my
little running buddies on the little street in Sharptown where
I grew up, how many times did somebody else's mother
get on you and your whole bunch of buddies for
doing something wrong and just really chew you out until
you understood that that doesn't happen anymore. You know, everybody's

(08:54):
scared to correct anybody else's child in a store or
anywhere else, and that's correct.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, and put their put their put their backsides on
the front end of a church to you.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah all right, Brandon, Well, hang in there. I think
we're gonna make it, man, I really do. I'm he's
I'm seeing very encouraging stuff. And as soon as I've
gotten something really concrete that I that I can back
up what I believe i'm seeing happening with kids in
the outdoors, I'll I'll let I'll share it with everybody,
But until I can really verify it, I don't want
to say anything.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
All right, appreciate it, yes, sir, thank you.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, he's he's climbed up on top of a big
old soap box that I hear more and more people
talking about. And the good news is that more and
more people are talking about it. There was quite a
time in this country where it was very hard to
share your views about what we think is right and
what we think is wrong as as opposed to what
other people might feel the same way about. Uh, because

(09:56):
we were scared to open our mouths. And I'm I'm
not so scared anymore.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
I'm really not. I was for a time.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Boy, I better think about this, and I'm I'm not
trying to offend anybody. And like I said, if there's
someone out there who I don't care who you vote for,
as long as you vote, I really really don't. Now,
if you're voting for somebody that I don't like, and
you'll listen to me for one minute, I'll tell you
why I think that other person's better. And if you

(10:24):
want to take that same minute to explain to me
why you like the person you're voting for, I'll listen
to you.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
I really will.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
I'll listen patiently and intently, because you may know something
I don't know's that's how I feel about that. It's
not who you vote for that matters as long as
you vote, because then we have representation of everybody. But
if you sit back on the fence and just say
I'm not even gonna bother voting and it doesn't matter,
well then you get what you get.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
So just keep an eye on everything. I really do think.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
I think things generally are going in a better direction,
especially for the outdoors. That's what I'm folks right now.
Not everything else in the world, but for the United
States and for Texas especially, outdoor traditions are making a comeback.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
I strongly believe that.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
And a lot of it is because there are so
many people moving here who are leaving where they came
from because they do like the shooting sports, they do
like fishing, they do like hunting, they do like all
the things in the outdoors that in some states you're
kind of.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Frowned upon for doing that.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
So and there are there are left leaning states that
have great hunting opportunity and and they take advantage of
it that nobody I don't know anywhere really where politics
has gotten in the way of being outdoors directly. Now
there's there's efforts being made, for example, the the taking

(11:57):
away of the use of lead shot and lead bullets.
Even in some cases out in California that was a
big deal for a while you had to change over
to copper. There was something else they were trying to
use to get lead out of everything out there. They
have some oddball rules from time to time that kind
of come and go.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
They go through the court systems, and I don't know
what's in place out there right now.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
I really don't want to find out. I'm perfectly happy
right here in the state of Texas where I can
shoot my favorite gun at my favorite animal because I've
got the license that lets me do that, Or i
can go to the coast and fish my favorite spot
and try to catch a big fish with whatever tackle
I want to use. You know, it's really to the

(12:41):
Parks and Wildlife Department's credit that we have the opportunity
that we do have, because in the past twenty twenty
five years, maybe a lot of people have moved into
this region who don't have the same respect for our
resources as we do as Native Texans. I've witnessed just

(13:01):
blatant violations, and I've called them in to Texas to
the Operation gametef Line more than once when I see
stuff going on that I know is wrong, and we've
all got to do that to keep it from happening.
If you see a bunch of people keeping undersized flounder
right now, every one of those flounder, they call it,
whether it's undersized or not, it's not supposed to be there.

(13:23):
We had a six month or a six week moratorium
on flounder retention. But I guarantee you there are still
people down there on that coast who when they catch
a flounder they look both ways and throw it in
the ice box that we have to manage because there
aren't enough wardens to watch all that stuff. They need
our help just as much as we need their help.

(13:45):
And I'll talk about game. I talked about game wardens
yesterday too. Oh my gosh, look at how late I am, Frankie,
I'm so sorry. All right, let's take a break. I'll
take a deep breath. I'm going to go make a
pot of coffee, and I'm going to be in much
better shape when we get back. Etarigi owns American shooting
centers and has for many years now, and from the
time he bought it right up until this morning, it's

(14:07):
just gotten better every time he opens the gate and
lets everybody in. It's been a very busy place for
the last few about the last couple of months, really
everybody getting ready for hunting seasons.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
But now that hunting season is open, if.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
You still haven't sighted in your rifles, if you still
haven't gone a few rounds of sporting plays, now that'd
be a good time to do it.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
It's not quite so crowded out there.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
It's just a fun, safe place to enjoy the shooting sports.
Three sporting plays courses, ten trap and skeep fields, five stands,
setups all over the place. There are there's a wing
shooting beginners area. There's a pop up silhouette range that's
kind of nestled into the the far right side of
the rifle and pistol range. Pistol starts at five yards,

(14:51):
rifle goes out to six hundred yards, and that little
rim fire pop up place is about I think it's
a between the maybe two hundred and three hundred something
like that. Anyway, it's a fantastic place. It's on West
Timber Parkway between Katie and Highway six. Also a very
nice line of higher end shotguns and rifles in the
pro shop there, along with Amo for pretty much anything

(15:13):
you want to bring out there and shoot. American Shootingcenters
dot Com is the website. Plenty of instruction available for
whatever you want to do and do better with your shooting.
American Shootingcenters dot Com. All right, welcome back, Dog black

(15:34):
Shaw On's four SAULX seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
We're going to ten this morning.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
Get a lot of stuff done and all kinds of
new things coming into this world of ours. All over
this country of ours, a lot of change is going on,
a lot of changes. Stay focused on the outdoors, Stay
focused on doing what you love to do outdoors, and
we'll all come out better.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
I think.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
For that, let's go talk to David Shall We let
me click that button I got em.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
Hey David, what's up?

Speaker 3 (16:01):
Man?

Speaker 5 (16:02):
Yeah, Doug, I heard your comments earlier and I wanted
to give you some words of encouragement here to based
on what I've seen teaching hunter education. I said, I
had the forty five people this fall and what surprised
me and I think I should preface this by saying,
if you think about when we first started hunting, Doug,
there was no internet, there was no inn you know,

(16:23):
and if you hunted, you probably did it because you
knew somebody who hunted.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
Absolutely. Oh you almost had to know somebody.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
There was no place to start unless you had somebody
you could talk to about it.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (16:35):
Well, what I'm seeing in these hunter education classes, I
would say half of the people that I certified were
first time hunters. Many of them were kids, and some
of them were so young. I thought, Man, that's kind
of young to get started. I mean talking about kids
maybe nine ten years old. Yeah, but they had their
parents with them. They were and many of these were not.

(16:58):
They were minorities, some were Asian, some were Asian. And
I have to think that I think you've kind of
touched on this before. Uh. Parents are now wanting their
kids to get outside more. And I think these parents
are also because of the resources or what's available online.

(17:18):
They're saying, yeah, let's let's try this. I really want
to get my kids outside and try this, you know, because,
as you would, we know it can provide a great
source of nutrition, I think, and I think I think
that's what's happening is there's a uh probably more in

(17:40):
the urban areas, but people are parents are saying, you know,
hunting and fishing offers a great opportunity to get my
kids outside and to uh catch a fish or shoot
an animal and bring something home and put it on
the table. I really was encouraged by it.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yeah, I would imagine you were.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
And it just makes me all the more confident that
this is all going to turn around, because it doesn't
matter whether somebody's from the herbs or the verbs or whatever.
If if somehow they have been I don't want to
say awakened, because it's always there. You just got to
kind of go knock on the door and open it.
But if they've seen on social media somebody out hunting

(18:23):
or fishing and thought, you know, that guy's bringing home
about a one hundred pounds of meat that in the
grocery store would cost me three hundred dollars or five
hundred dollars. And if I can just sign up for
one of these state park management hunts and go out
and shoot a dough or two, I can bring home
a lot of meat for the family. The kids can

(18:45):
get out and see all kinds of animals walking around
in the woods, and they can get involved in the
outdoors and one thing will lead to another and hopefully
where we're gonna have another generation where there are at
least as many, if not more kids in to the
outdoors than not, because we got to get them off
the phones, We got to get them off the video games,

(19:05):
all of that stuff, because that's just crushing them mentally
and emotionally, and it has no value really at all.

Speaker 5 (19:15):
Yeah, the price of beef isn't that freezing?

Speaker 1 (19:18):
No kidding, Amen to that. There are free hunts out there.
There really are.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
Almost all of the state parks have because our state
has so many deer.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
They're just they're kind of everywhere.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
And or you can use what faux pro has been
using and and get one of those public lands permits
and then find your find yourself a place to go
hunt deer on public land or ducks or go fish whatever.
But just get them outdoors and they'll they will like it.
I know they will.

Speaker 5 (19:47):
Yeah, thank you for taking my call.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
Thank you man, appreciate David. I tend to get very
long winded.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
I get I get up on this soapbox, Frankie, and
I just can't get down, man, because I would conservatively
say that in in my adult life, I've probably taught
or not necessarily taught, but I've probably enabled at least
one hundred kids and probably more really and about that

(20:16):
many adults, just grown up men and women. I've helped
them to catch their first fish. Now was their first fish,
some sort of record breaker, nothing significant other than it
was their first fish. And I can't really tell you
how many of them ever, if ever, went back and

(20:36):
went fishing again. Now I have heard from a lot
of them who did they they've become involved in it.
I had one guy jokingly get all upset with me
because he was now spending all this money I'd gotten
him into fly fishing, and he said, man, you told
me there was some inexpensive stuff. But as soon as
I started looking at that and the guy started telling
me what the difference was, I wound up spending like

(20:59):
a monthwery on fly fishing gear.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
He said, dude, that's on you, that's not on me.
I showed you how to do it, and I told
you you could. You could go find used gear to
get you started, that wouldn't cost you much. But he
just bit it hook line and sinker.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
He is so hooked on fly fishing to this day,
I think that guy's probably out there with the latest
and the greatest, and the money wasn't bothering him at all.
He's got enough to take care of anything and everything
he's ever wanted in life. But that fly fishing thing,
that's that's a different kind that's a new level of fishing,
and it's fantastic and I absolutely love it. I don't

(21:37):
go as much as I used to, honestly, and I wish.
I'm trying to find a way to make a little
bit more time to do all that I truly am,
and I'm gonna do that starting in twenty twenty six.
This is my new quarter century we're coming into and
I intend to use it.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
To its fullest. I'll tell you what.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Let's do this, Frankly, let me go ahead and go
to this break here. We're gonna get David Pruett on
the line in just a minute. See if that last
front we had brought any ducks down here. I've heard
I've heard both ways. I've heard some people say yeah,
we saw a lot of new birds come down with
that last front, and I've heard some say yeah, there's
still not a whole lot of them where we are.

(22:16):
We're gonna find out what's around Eagle Lake on the
back side of this break here, Belleville Meat Market is
the one, the only place where you It's basically a
one stop shop for outstanding wild game processing that's year round,
and also a one stop shop for pretty much anything
and everything you could possibly want in the way of barbecue,

(22:40):
in the way of beef chicken or pork cut the
way you want, in a way of two dozen plus
premium pecan smoke sausage flavors.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
They're just on and on the good oh man, those.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
Pork tenders, the stuff pork tenders that've got those, and
they are taking their orders right now for the smoke
turkeys for the holidays. These things average by eleven to
thirteen pounds and they will feed ten to twelve people,
mostly depending on who those ten to twelve people are.
I know four people who could eat a twelve pound
turkey by there by themselves pretty easily and still have

(23:13):
room for sides.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
Beef turkey or beef jerky turkey. Jerky dry stick.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
Dry Stick's one of my favorite snacks for on the
boat or in the deer stand or wherever I am outdoors,
even golf. I've taken drystick out before. The trouble with
that is that when you bring out one piece, the
other three guys in your foursome are gonna gobble up
everything but the bag. Fifty we'll see. Take yeah, I
ten to Seily, two ninety to Hempstead. Boy, my brain

(23:45):
just hicc up there, and then fifteen minutes south of Hempstead,
fifteen minutes north Ceily on Highway thirty six.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
Now I'm back in the groove. I'm right in the
middle of Bellville, and I'm looking at Bellville Meat Market
right now in my mind.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Or if you can't get there, just get online. That's
an easy way to get anything shipped right to your door.
Belleville MeetMarket dot com. That's the website, Belleville Meatmarket dot Com.
A thirty two on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dugpike Show,
Thank you for listening.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
I certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Wanted to see if that weather we had last week
helped out the prairie at all. And we'll look into
the crystal ball too with David Pruet from out there
at Riceland Waterfowl Club David, what's going on out.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
There this morning? Not a whole lot today?

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yeah, well yeah, bluebird calm.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
What else do you want for duck Hunton? Huh? A
little cold weather?

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yeah, a lot of cold weather and a little bit
more breeze. Everything that you don't have for the last
what the last four or five days?

Speaker 6 (24:50):
Yes, sir, Yeah, So what do you expect up for
the birds to be here when Pennsylvania's high at sixty
six today, Kansas is almost Oh lord, yeah, that's not
gonna help. No, that won't help at all. Well, that's okay.
We've we had some good shoots.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
That's that.

Speaker 6 (25:09):
One little blast of cold we got, the wind picked up,
we had people I know, four or five days was
anywhere for two guys to four guys, was tens.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
To twenty fours. That's not bad enough. Yeah, that's that's
solid stuff right there. That's what you're looking for.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
So so whatever birds came through though, have kind of
have already moved south again.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
Well it warmed up again, too, didn't it. Yeah, no,
kidds warmed up. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Well the good news is, I'm sure you've looked at
the forecast, but around I think it's Thanksgiving night. If
if it all works out right, we're going to dump
down into the low forties so and then have a
couple of more days of that.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
So something's got to give.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
We just got to get that cooler weather up north,
that's what's wrong. And that well, that and get them
to turn off the heaters in their little ducky spas and.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
Hot tubs. Good heavens well, that that would make a
big difference. I believe, I know it's.

Speaker 6 (26:11):
That was the main factor that pushes birds because they
when they cannot find food to eat.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Hey, David, you've got a big echo. You've got a
big echo on your end right now. You didn't before,
but it just changes. You change something or move or no.
Oh that's wow. Okay, I don't know what's causing that.
Let's see if it will go away, and if it doesn't,
we'll call you right back.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
But go ahead, okay, Yeah.

Speaker 6 (26:34):
The snowfolers aren't really the birds, but they can't find
any food.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
I got you.

Speaker 6 (26:40):
You let them get like, you know, six eight tnatures
of snow and get it covered up.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
They they've got to go south further. There we go.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
We found a snow line. Okay, yeah, yeah, that's a
good point. The snow line is really not far down yet,
is it not yet?

Speaker 4 (26:57):
Not yet?

Speaker 6 (26:58):
It's got a brand up in north to uh out
to code excuse me, And he's chasing pheasants this weekend
and he said, it ain't nothing up there.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
They're up there in short sleeve shirts. Still. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
Yeah, that's that answers a lot of questions, because I've
had a lot of people call me and say, look,
they're not telling us the truth. There's hardly any ducks left.
I'm not falling for that. It had to be something.
And I do think that you in your fifty years
and me and my twenty five thirty of kind of
semiamit semi professional watching this.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
If it's not cold, they're not coming.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
They don't waste energy just to get to a different
place when they've already got everything they need.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Do they. Oh, you get the nail on the head
with that one, Doug. I mean, you're absolutely right.

Speaker 6 (27:42):
They don't go to you know, travel this far to
go get something to eat when they've got everything they
want right there.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
They're sitting on a buffet that's almost endless. The way
that farmers practice up in the Midwest Now, they leave
so much food on the ground for these birds to
keep them there so that they can hunt them and
that they can guide for them and make a bunch
of money. And those birds, it's it's conservation of energy.
They're not gonna waste a wing beat moving down here

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until they.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
Have to, until they absolutely have to. Yep. I've been
preaching that for thirty years. Man.

Speaker 6 (28:18):
Oh, you're absolutely right again. I mean, that's that's the
way it goes. And I believe we're going to get
a lot of you know, weather change. We always shrew
and this year's probably just gonna come a little later,
about two or three weeks later, like this coming week,
we're gonna get rainfall for it five six days, yeah,
which will help out the prairie.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
We really need some more.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
Came into that. Your prairie in my yard. We both need.
We both need water. You need a little bit more
than I do, though. You can have mine. If it'll
bring ducks down here. You can have the water I
was gonna get on my lawn. If we can move
that cloud out there for you, that wouldn't be bad. No,
let me let me ask you this water. Well, yeah,
that's a good point.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Let me ask you this.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
So we've got this third pintail that can go on
the strap if you can find it. Have have you
seen any decent numbers of pentails down yet?

Speaker 6 (29:04):
We had a one major push and I guess they
went to the coast. Uh, But they just disappeared. But
guys were shooting, you know.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Two. I've heard some guys had up to their three
either limding. Uh. But it was just for four or
five days and then it just disappeared. Well, we got
we gotta sit back. I think a lot of people are.
They're so spontaneous and so right now, what's happening right now?

Speaker 2 (29:30):
You gotta realize we're only sixteen days into the season.
It's not like we only got two days left to
hunt these birds.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
It's not teal season. So I think once this, once this.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
Next front comes through here and dumps it at least
down into the forties here, that's gonna push that snow
lying down up in Kansas and Nebraska and every place
else up that way. It's gonna get cold, it's gonna
get below freezing, and that just may be enough to
get them nudged our direction.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
I hope. So we have them every year, Doug. You've
seen it time and time again.

Speaker 6 (30:02):
Over all these years, we've we've had struggle first part
of the season and a bang out in the end.
And we've had it where it was great in the
beginning and slower in the end. But I think this
year is going to be a bang out the later
we get into the season.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
We need to learn how to speak duck and tell
them what we need them to do. That's what we
need to do. David. I wish someone would tell me.

Speaker 6 (30:22):
I've got a lot of World championships in Styton region
and calling competitions and sometimes I still don't know the
difference between the.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
Come here and they get out of here.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
You know, Yeah, they're like teenagers. They just really don't
listen at all, do they?

Speaker 1 (30:36):
Hey, I got it all. One more quick question then
I'll cut you loose. So what's the.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
Story on geese? Are you seeing any geese at all?
Or what are you seeing?

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Last week?

Speaker 6 (30:45):
We've seen about a thousand around the Lusi Prairie, Okay
of snow geese, and probably three to four hundred specs
come through. You guys got a couple, but they've seemed
to kind of disappear too.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Yeah, you know, I just hate that the prairie has
become what it is, especially for the geese. The ducks
still have.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
We got good representation for duck hunting out there, as
you well know. But with the geese, I could when
I was guiding and we'd go scouting in the afternoon,
if you drove past a field that had a thousand
geese and it you wouldn't even slow down. Now that's
not what I'm looking for for my guys tomorrow morning.
I'm just gonna keep scouting and keep looking.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
And now it is a big deal.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
It's a legitimately big deal because if you're anywhere near
those birds, you got a chance, you know, you might
be able to pull a few over, because when they
get up in the air, they're not going to see
a whole lot of they're not going to see a
right or a rag spread in every field like they
used to. So it's a little easier to hunt the
birds that are here, I think, if you're in their path.

(31:49):
But the numbers are just sadly, I think we're done
with that. Oh yeah, with a big numbers. Yeah, yeah,
I agree with that. But you're right, the bird it
wouldn't they get here. Like last year, I had some.

Speaker 6 (32:02):
Guys just catching the traffic, you know, is what we
used to call it. And they were shooting, you know,
between half in full limits every day for about two weeks.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
If you're where they want to be, you've got a
really good show. When I did that hunt a couple
of years ago with Mitchell up there at El Campo.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
It was that way.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
There was a significant number of birds, but it wasn't
it wasn't old days numbers, but there were a lot
of them. And they, man, when they saw our stuff,
they came on and took a good look exactly exactly fun.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
It's gonna be okay. Let's just you and I both
tell them it's gonna be okay. Just be patient.

Speaker 6 (32:42):
Yeah, it will be okay. I mean, we've I know,
our club, We've got water. I've got three hundred and
something acres on one farm alone Fitch and put another
one hundred or so acres on it. And you know
they're cutting the rest of the rice right now. And
you know we got the stuff ready for them when
they arrived. Yeah, if you don't have the beds made
in the carpet, you know, vacuum though, Yeah, they're not

(33:04):
going to be here. That's a fact.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
That is a fact.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
And you're not going to keep them there either, all right, Dave, David,
I know you got plenty to do, as you do
every day, my friend.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Thanks for taking a little time with us. I appreciate it.
All right, y'all have a good one, Yes, sir, you too. Audios.
That's David Putt from Riceland Waterfowl Club. Good guy, he
really is, and I do agree with him. These birds
are coming.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
They're not gonna They're not gonna spend all winter up
there in the Dakotas, in the Midwest, anywhere.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
They'll get here.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
It's just a matter of getting the weather that it
takes to push them out of what has become a
very comfortable bed in the Midwest. They feed them, they
keep the water warm, for heaven's sakes.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
That's it's almost cheating. I think that should be. I
don't mind if they bubble it to keep it open.
But some of these stories I hear about farm and
outfitters putting warmers in these reservoirs, that's that's almost akin debating,
in my opinion, and I don't like it.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
Hey, Dave, what's up?

Speaker 7 (34:13):
Now what I was fixing to stay that, you know,
I worre slick than ice out here almost on the
lake Conro. I'm right here at eight thirty. Oh yeah,
And I was thinking, some of these ducks when they
come in, they almost slide in on this. But I
mean sliding in on the ice. You know, that's I heard.
That's not a good thing.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Kind of fun to watch them try to do it, though,
because when then when they hit that ice, they just
go slipping and sliding and ungracefully gliding and all over
the place. It's wings and feet and beaks and everything
just going in nineteen different directions.

Speaker 7 (34:48):
But they could never skate. I can never skate, all right, No, no, anyway, no.
On the on the growing up with your pears and
your grandfathers and your ancestors, man, you know, all me
and all my brothers and everybody, my nieces and nephew
and everybody, they've all ended up having successful careers doing something,

(35:13):
you know. And uh, and I think it's all in
the in the heart you know of uh. You know, Hey,
you're dedicated to do what you're gonna do. Teach you
how to do this and stay true to what you
need to do. Oh, and like, uh, I never was
this cowt, but always be prepared to meet the challenge.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
You know, we all face challenges every day. We just
got to you gotta rise up and take care of business.

Speaker 7 (35:38):
I tell my wife, hold on, I got a method
to my madness over Here's yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
Well, I mean she.

Speaker 7 (35:45):
Wants me to do this, do that and everything else.
And I'm like, oh, okay, all right, Dad, I appreciate
y'all right here, yes, sir, audios.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
Dan Wade in.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
Too many people speaking duck would make me quackers. Oh man,
I don't know, Dan.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
He did finish with I'll see myself out, Okay, I'll
hold the door seven one three two one two five
seven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
That was pretty spontaneous and quick. That was a good one, Dan,
I'll give you that.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
I will. Yeah, let's take a break here. Air ride bikes.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Up there in Tomball, right there in the middle of
Four Corners shopping center. You go up there and you
can find a variety of electric bikes, and you'll probably
find Wayne Errington, the guy who owns the store, and
the guy who treated me to a test drive of
one of the big Rambo bikes. That thing the way

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he describes it, it's got dual motors on it, a
motor for each wheel, and he said, if it could
get traction, it could climb a wall. That's basically what
he said. And that's one of these by that I
talk about that would be outstanding an electric bike for
moving around a deer lease without hardly making any noise
at all. And it's strong enough with a little trailer
you can get for it to haul out your deer

(37:11):
and you and whatever gear you hauled in there. It's
a really amazing, amazing piece of machinery that would work
equally well by the way, to put a little trailer
on it and put a big ice chest on there
and a couple of tackle boxes and some rod holders
and ride up and down the North Padre Island shoreline
or maybe some favorite beach shoreline you've got up here,

(37:32):
or a bay shoreline, just hunting fish without making any
noise and without getting stuck. They've got big old wide
tires on them. It's an amazing bike. He also has
several other brands up to an including well, let's call
it down to because there are a lot of entry
level bikes. And then there are also there's a trike,

(37:53):
an electric trike for those of you whose balance isn't
what it used to be.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
It's a fantastic way.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
The first time I got on that, the first and
only time I've been on an electric bike.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
Okay, I gotta have one of these.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
I don't know when I'm gonna get it, but I'm
gonna get one at some point because I think they're invaluable.
You can take them to the store, you can take
them down the street, to the neighbor's house, whatever, and
you're gonna get there without huffing and puffing and breaking
a sweat unless you want to. You can turn the
motor off and pedal it all you want. But boy,
when that thing kicks in, it sure is nice. Air

(38:26):
Ride Bikes. Four Corner Shopping Center up there in Tomball
off Tomball Parkway. Big sale already on, kind of a
Black Friday sale. It started last week. You can save
up to twelve hundred bucks off some of those e bikes.
Twelve hundred dollars off those things. They're in stock. They'll
put it together for you and you can or you

(38:47):
just ride at home if you want to. Air Ride
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Oh my goodness, timber Creek, I was busy reading about
golf as a matter of fact, checking on some stuff
for the nine o'clock hour.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
Timber Creek.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
Is that twenty three to fifty one in Friends with
is off twenty three to fifty one about three four
miles west of the golf freeway.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
Twenty seven holes. Fantastic play.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
It's a very playable golf course, very playable three nines.
And by that I don't mean it's easy. Golf's never easy, okay,
But if you just pay attention to what you're trying
to do and where you're trying to hit the ball
and where if you just stand there on the tea box,
you'll see where the designer wanted you to put the
ball off the tee and to.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
Set yourself up for the best approach shot.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
It's a kind of a thinking man's course, but it's
not gonna make you think so hard that you're gonna
have a bad time.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
You'll have fun.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
And if you're not having super fun because you're hitting
more bad shots than good ones, ease on over to
that ten building next door to the driving range, that
is the JJ Woods Golf Academy at Timber Creek Golf Club,
and he and his staff can make fast work of
fixing whatever's ailing your golf swing. Good teaching staff, good
people in the pro shop, great food at the cafe there.

(40:05):
And there's a little nine hole turn place that's got
a good selection of food and beverage right there, so
you don't have to go inside again.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
Timbercreekgolf Club dot com.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
You can make a tea time right there, right now,
Timbercreek Golf Club dot com. Eight fifty two on Sports
Talk seven ninety The Dugpike Show, thank you for listening.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
Weighing in, weighing in, weighing in. It was a good
email here from Mojo. Hang on, let me see if
I can scroll back up to it there. It is
right there, a very good point.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
Time spent outdoors requires common sense and problem solving. Else
you don't live very long out there. Yeah, that's very true.
The more you get into the outdoors.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
For me, anyway, it was kind of addictive. It's almost
like a drug.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
You find yourself walking into the woods, or maybe you
just go to a state park and you walk down
some trails and you think, Wow, that's really cool. But
I wonder what's over there because everybody's seeing what's along
this trail. Everybody know everybody who's ever walked this trail
already knows it.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
But what if I get off the trail? Can I
do that in the park?

Speaker 4 (41:18):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (41:18):
Yeah, you can probably do that in the park, or
you can just go to a bigger state park or
a bigger wildlife management area and just walk wherever you want.
You have access to a million acres of public ground
in Texas, more than a million acres, And the more
you get into the outdoors, the more enjoyable and exciting

(41:39):
and challenging it is to go a little farther and
do a little more. I've been walking on big ranches
sometimes and just told, okay, just as long as you
keep walking towards the sun where we're dropping you off.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
Just keep walking toward the sun all day long, and
you'll end up back here at the camp house. Yeah,
it's pretty scary. I'm not so sure I might make
it if I'm walking slowly, or to get off course
a little bit. Nah, it'll be fine.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
You'll be back, and so far, I've always made it
back to where I started. But it is it's a
little bit intimidating too, and you truly do realize when
somebody drops you off in the middle of nowhere that
you're part of something way bigger. I've never felt that

(42:27):
feeling as much so as when I did. I was
doing a photo shoot up in Colorado, and I don't
remember what resort we were at, but I was going
to get photographs of these guys coming to skiers.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
There were about a half a dozen skiers who.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Were going to be coming down a mountain side that
was probably a mile away from me, maybe a little
bit more, maybe a mile and a half something like that.
And I had the lenses and cameras and everything I
needed to get the shots, and so I said, how
are we getting up there? Helicopter?

Speaker 1 (42:57):
I said, Oh, that's very cool. I'm digging that's he said.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take you up
and I'm gonna drop you off, and then I'm gonna
come back and pick up the skiers and you'll see this.
We'll be back in about ten minutes or so. And then,
you know, get ready because that's when it's gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
So we pull up to the edge of the mountain
and he says, hold on, I gotta find you a
spot to get out. And all I can see is snow.
That's all it is.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
And in my head from down here, I'm thinking, okay, yeah,
I'll just step out and it'll be crunchy and then
I'll step on ground. He goes, I'm gonna punch a
skid in a couple of times to make sure that
I put you out on a rock, because otherwise this
snow up here can be six.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
Eight, ten feet deep.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
Like ooh, I don't want to step into six six
or eight or ten feet of powder. That's not safe, sounded.

Speaker 1 (43:43):
So we finally find a place where he's comfortable putting
me out, and before he puts me out, he puts
this big device around my neck.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
I said, what's that transponder? So so you can find
me if I'm lost or something like that and you have.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
To rescue me.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
He goes, no, it'll make it easier to find the body.
Oh huh, that's comforting as well. So any event, I
gathered my courage, I got out of that helicopter, I'm
standing on a rock, and I don't dare touch a
foot in any other direction because if I do, I
might fall off the mountain. And this guy flies up
and back over the top of that ridge, and it

(44:22):
was toomb quiet, no sound. I can't see anything, but
I'm above the tree line at this point.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
It's just snow, me and snow.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
And to get back to a tree, if I needed
one for any reason at all, would have been virtually impossible.
It's just probably a thousand vertical feet and no way
to get there. I have no idea what's under my
next step, and I just had to wait and trust
and wait and trust and wait and trust, and sure enough,

(44:55):
over that valley drop the skiers off. They come firing down,
and I got some really cool pictures of these little
sque curves being made as they came down that untouched
mountain side. And and then of course he picks them up
first and takes them back.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
It calls me on the radio.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
I had a radio, but I didn't use it because
I didn't want to use it. I wanted to experience this.
So he calls me on the radio, I'm gonna drop
these guys off first. I'm they're used to this. I'm
not what are my chances I'll be back, and he
picks up the skiers. They disappear again, and it was
probably another because they had to unload gear and stuff

(45:36):
when they got back, probably another twenty minutes that I
was absolutely alone on the side of that mountain, and
it really, boy, you talk about think about things, It'll
make your mind wander in all sorts of directions.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
Mostly good.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
In the end, you've you've become a better person for
this tiny little taste of solitude and forced solitude. There
was nothing I could do about being alone on that
mountain top, not one single thing. And in the end
I came out very comforted by it that I was
able to just stand there and not freak out. A

(46:11):
lot of people might have, but I'd been out there
enough that I trusted. I knew to trust the pilot,
and that's kind of what got me there. He's willing
to drop me off and come back and get me,
I'm willing to let him try, and he did so.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
Here I am Carter's country.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
Most of our deer hunting didn't done on snowy mountain sides,
thank goodness. But it's still fun to walk around in
the woods, and it's more fun if you're deer hunting
and you've got good gear like you get at Carter's
Country sixty plus years selling guns, ammo and hunting stuff
all over Houston. They have a big red tag sail
that goes on this time of year so they can

(46:49):
clear the shelves of last year's stuff. And last year's
stuff was great, no question about it. And if you
need something, now's a good time. You'll probably get a
better deal on it than you'll ever get again. At
Carter's Country up there on the north side, they've got
that big full service range. You can shoot any of
every gun you bring up there that's lawful to carry
out there. They got rifle and pistol, they got sporting clays,

(47:09):
trap and skeet, everything everything you need, including more good
instruction way up there on the north side of town.
More good gunsmithing way up there on the north side
of town. And just good smart people and all three
of their stores who know guns, who know how to
help you get better.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
And enjoy your shooting sports. That's what we're all in
this for.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
All these gun stores I talk for, they all have
a single common theme and that's that they want you
to enjoy shooting more tomorrow than you do today, and
they'll help you do that every time.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
If you can't get to the store. There's three of them.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
Actually, if you can't get to any one of those stores,
go online and check it out Carterscountry dot com, Carterscountry
dot Com.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
Now, here's Doug Fike.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
Nine O two on Sports Talk seven to ninety second
and final hour of today's program starts now, and I'm
gonna lead it off with a call to my good
friend Tommy O'Brien out there.

Speaker 1 (48:04):
At black Hawk Country Club, who was.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
Honored by Golf magazine and it's in the magazine. We
can really talk about it now as a teacher to
watch in this great country of ours.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
How does that feel, Tommy?

Speaker 8 (48:18):
Uh, it's it's pretty unbelievable, you know, to get recognized
by a lot of your peers and this and that
just just speaks volumes, you know. I mean, it's just humbling,
though very high believe to be on the left.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
You know, how long you've worked for this, I can
believe it. Probably believe in it at all.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
I'll do.

Speaker 1 (48:37):
I'll believe it twice. So you don't have to.

Speaker 8 (48:39):
Yeah, I'm trying to believe you being on top of
a mountain by yourself.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
Did I hear that correctly?

Speaker 7 (48:44):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Man, it was so fine. Dropped off of a helicopter,
you know, and.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
He had to punch a skit in twice to find
a rock to drop me off on it. I was
standing in waist deep snow. Yeah, so that was that
was pretty couldn't move.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
That's okay, let's talk about.

Speaker 9 (49:04):
Yeah, there's no excuse on number two. Then you should
not hear that hole anymore.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
If you can do that, that's a good point. I'm
just going to air it out and go for it.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
So where to talk about the earliest part of your
golf instruction? Not not your little kids swinging a plastic club,
but when did you first feel like, you know, I
want to teach this game?

Speaker 8 (49:26):
Honestly? In college, when I was a walk on over
at sam Houston State, my teammates were very good and
they would beat my brains out when they're playing golf together.
But for some reason, they would ask me for help
because they knew I was a student of the game
and I enjoyed that and whatnot. And one of my teammates,
Brandon Turner would work with me a little bit and

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brand Kishnick and Brandon and Brandt both won Division one
events and they said that I helped them, And I
don't know how much I believe that or not, but
definitely made suggestions and I I think it helped him.
As a kid growing up, I grew up watching Jim
Murphy teach at my home clubs and the country club,
and he always looked like he was just having a

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great time teaching, talking golf and literally, as he says,
making people stay. And that's just kind of the direction
I went. I didn't have the greatest of playing careers,
but I did seem to connect to good players on
the teaching level, and that's just kind of where it went.
And it's just been kind of a divine experience ever since.

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With who the Good Lord is put in front of me.
Teacher was to experience and to learn from. And that's
that's the big key with teaching, is you know, having
good people, good good guys that know way more than you, saying, hey,
come out and watch and come out and learn and
ask questions and so on and so forth.

Speaker 4 (50:51):
I started out.

Speaker 8 (50:52):
Working for Jim Murphy and the golf business and he
wouldn't let me teach for six months because you got
to watch me for six months, which you put out
a good product because you once your once you're out
and you've done something bad, then the words.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
Out on you.

Speaker 4 (51:04):
There.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
Yeah, that's a good point.

Speaker 9 (51:05):
It's kind of in a nutshell how it's started now.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
Yeah, bad teachers don't stay teachers very long, do they.

Speaker 10 (51:11):
They don't.

Speaker 8 (51:12):
Yeah, at the dogs and chase cars and pros and
chase cars, none of them last very long.

Speaker 7 (51:18):
Avido would say.

Speaker 2 (51:21):
Oh, my word, you know that's something struck me when
I when I saw the what you sent me this
morning where it says, uh, it says golf teachers to
watch twenty six and twenty you know, twenty twenty six,
twenty twenty seven. And I think that maybe you should
make a suggestion next time they run a chart like
that up put it head it golf teachers to hire.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
Maybe.

Speaker 9 (51:44):
No, it's just a thought, exactly correct.

Speaker 1 (51:46):
Just the thought.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
You know what, I'm standing at the other end of
the range watching you call me up.

Speaker 9 (51:52):
Makes exactly Holy cow, that's correct.

Speaker 4 (51:55):
Correct.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
What would you do you even have one piece of
information that anybody gave you that really resonates and is
still just stuck in your brain all the way today.

Speaker 9 (52:08):
Well, the huge thing with teaching is the correct diagnosis.

Speaker 8 (52:11):
I mean, Doug, there's so many theories and thoughts and
things to do, and I you know, I was I
was blessed to be around Jim Murphy and Jim Harty
who showed me how to properly diagnose a swing.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
They seem to have.

Speaker 8 (52:25):
Their own theories and their ways of thinking on how
to swing a club, but impact is kind of indisputable.

Speaker 9 (52:32):
So if I'm helping you, or helping anyone else in
the world, I feel like I've got a.

Speaker 8 (52:36):
Really good shot of really helping them because, you know,
let's say they went to the doctor and they have
a bum right elbow. You know, if I'm sitting there
looking at their left knee, the whole lesson, I'm off.
You know, I want to be able to help someone
help them quickly, and what's key to that is to
have the right diagnosis, whether it's.

Speaker 9 (52:54):
With your health or with your golf health. So at
any rate, it's huge to have that. You can argue.

Speaker 8 (53:01):
Theory and whatnot all day, but you can't argue what's
wrong with someone's golf swing from an impact perspective, that's
just that's just what's wrong. You know, if you have
the flu, you got the flu, you know, so you
need to take a tamil flu there. So that's been
the huge thing for me over the years is really
getting a good grasp of diagnosing and then understanding what

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elements that I show people how it applies to that
to that problem.

Speaker 9 (53:27):
You know, does it make it worse?

Speaker 1 (53:28):
Is it make it better? Right there?

Speaker 9 (53:29):
And there's a specific way to kind of do that.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
It's reverse engineering, really, isn't it. You have you already
know the goal, You already know where the finish line is.
You just have to figure out how to get them there.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
That makes sense.

Speaker 9 (53:41):
Well, you're you're a detective.

Speaker 8 (53:42):
Absolutely, You're going back from the ball flight from the
ground and then you look at the golf swing and
and you kind of figure out where to apply a
small change to create a different impact and go from there.
It's it's it's an amazing process. I've been blessed to
learn from a World Golf Hall of Famer. It's an
amazing process.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
What's interesting is how casually you talk about it and
how comfortable you are with talking about golf when a
lot of the people who are listening now are thinking, yeah,
but now I don't know how I have to how
do I do that? And the way you get better
I'll patch you guys collectively as instructors on the back.
The way you get better at golf is learning from

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somebody who understands the game and can actually teach the
game and not go into your.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
Scram or not. You were scrambled, but your.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
Little golf buddy on Saturday morning who's an eighteen handicap
and you're asking him about how to hit flop shots.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
That's just it's not going to pay off.

Speaker 10 (54:45):
Is.

Speaker 9 (54:46):
Exactly.

Speaker 8 (54:47):
And I feel so sorry in our industry today and
our business, they'll put assistant golf pro listings and tell
them they'll make five or ten extra thousand dollars teaching
in a year, and I'm like, they're not. If they
don't have any proper.

Speaker 9 (54:59):
Training, that's not going to happen.

Speaker 8 (55:01):
And so you have to have someone who's willing to
to mentor, and that's a lost art. Unfortunately in the
in the PGA of America for the most part, is
that a lot of corporate has taken over and pro's
times are just taken away from playing the game and
teaching the game. And so these young kids that want
to be golf pros and PGA pros end up quitting

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because they can't make enough to take care of themselves,
you know. And again that's that's where I was blessed,
was that I had people that were very willing to
mentor and share. I mean, I'm wasn't I see Chuck
Cook on Tuesday this week to help to help my
to help myself and to learn from him. He's eighty
plus years old, still learning and still willing to help

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other people.

Speaker 9 (55:42):
And I just that's how I want to be, you.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
Know, like me, I'm not eighty yet. I'm not eighty yet, Tommy,
but I'm still learning. Man, I'm trying trying squeeze another
five yards out of that driver, get those chip shots
a little bit closer.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
I might be somebody someday.

Speaker 8 (56:01):
You're well know, you're a love learn You give himself
credit if you just stay back, that's all you got
to Doug, Just stay back.

Speaker 4 (56:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
Yeah, And honestly, that one little thing every time you know,
here's here. I don't know whether you intended to plant
this seed in my head, but it's planted in my head. Okay,
you you got on me so hard about staying back,
staying back until impact, stay back to impact. And you
showed me on video and you showed me when I
freeze frame after a swing and whatnot that I was
pushing my whole body forward through the ball.

Speaker 1 (56:28):
So now, no matter.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Where the ball, if it doesn't go exactly where I
wanted to go, all I tell myself.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
Is stay back. I'm not linking, I'm not thinking about
anything else. Stay back and it works.

Speaker 8 (56:39):
It's well, and it does for you because the key
to hitting it really solid is to keep your arc
the same for the most part.

Speaker 9 (56:47):
When you narrow the arc.

Speaker 8 (56:48):
That's when people really start to miss hit. I mean
they might not hit it, you know awful, you know,
direction wise, but they'll miss it. And that's what most
people do. So that's something I need to know if
someone's doing that or not solid with compression. That's the
goal with every lasting Doug is solid with compression. And
that could be straight, that could be a five yard draw,

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that could be a five yard fade. The key is
solid with compression for me, every single lesson, and luckily
I've been shown that by some really cool instructors over
the years. How to really emphasize that as.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
A reminder before we run out of time here, you
can you can teach anybody out there at black Hawk.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
They don't have to be members to take lessons. Correct.

Speaker 8 (57:29):
I'm blessed they let me teach anyone as long as
they follow the code.

Speaker 9 (57:33):
The dress code out here.

Speaker 1 (57:34):
Yes, please, absolutely, that's it.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
Yeah, tucked in shirt, collar shirt.

Speaker 7 (57:39):
No, dim, there you go.

Speaker 9 (57:40):
We're good to go on that.

Speaker 1 (57:41):
Get up, let's go. How do they find you, Tommy?

Speaker 8 (57:46):
They can find me on my website at tommyo golf
dot com. My phone numbers on there as well. Just
shoot a text go from there. I'm also on Instagram
at at Tommy O Golf. So if you want to
kind of see what I'm about and go from there,
you and you can do that absolutely, all.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
Right, partner, have a good day out there, man. I
may try and get out a little later.

Speaker 3 (58:06):
I'll be here all right, man.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
Thanks Tommy. Yes, sir Ado, what a great guy.

Speaker 2 (58:12):
I've known him since he was in his twenties literally,
and he's not anymore, that's for sure. And I've seen
him teaching at a lot of different places around town,
and every place he's been, he's done a good job.
I'm sure they've they've kept him as long as as
a better offer didn't come along. And I'm comfortable saying

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that he's comfortable where he is right now, and I
see him out there giving lessons in one of the
things that I admire, and I'm sure it's something that
most great golf teachers do, but Jim Murphy was one
of the first to kind of show me or use
this technique on me. All of these guys are capable.

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They'll dig into your like you, what do you what
else do you do for fun? What do you do
you like to fish, you like to hunt, do you
like to go bowling? What else do you do physically
in your life other than golf? And once they find
out what you really like and what you can really
relate to other than trying to swing a golf club,
which none of us wake up born and start swinging clubs,

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they help transmit the information they're trying to get into
your head by using some sort of analogy that brings
in that. I've heard Tommy talk to me a lot
about different things like in fishing and in baseball, there
were baseball issues.

Speaker 1 (59:34):
In my swing for long, for long, long time. Same
with my.

Speaker 2 (59:37):
Sons, and he used analogies that incorporated baseball to tell
us what we needed to hear.

Speaker 1 (59:44):
Same thing with someone who likes something else.

Speaker 2 (59:47):
I've heard him out there talking about any and every
other sport you can imagine, and relating it then to
that person's golf swing so that they can understand better
how he wants them to swing the cl And in
the end, it's kind of just like he said, and
impact is impact.

Speaker 1 (01:00:04):
It's got to be right.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
And all he's trying to do is tell you and
me and everybody else who's getting a lesson from him.
All the great instructors do this. This is why he's
on that list of teachers to watch. They can make
it personal for you. And that's man. You'll you'll like
golf a lot more. I know I do. He's He's
helped me with a couple of things over the years.

(01:00:26):
He'll see me struggling and chopping up golf balls out
there and walk down to how's it going, Doug, Like
uh oh uh oh, he saw me, He saw me
hit that last one. Oh boy, I'm in trouble and
I say yeah, I didn't stay back on that one.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
He yep, every time, just every time. And it's it.
It's a process. It's not gonna happen overnight.

Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
But if you if you get in there and you
go through the process, you too can be a better golfer.
El Cubino's Cigars, that's my buddy, Manny Lopez. He has
been hand rolling cigars since he was a little kid
in Cuba. He and his dad came up here in
two thousand and six and opened up this manufacturing facility

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down there in Texas City, right there on Main Street,
where thousands of cigars are produced every week, many of
them shipped out by mail, a lot of them sold
there in the smoking lounge at that location, or in
the one at League City. People come down there and
pick up their own cigars, and the advantage is number one,
the quality and the freshness of these cigars. They don't

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sit in a big giant warehouse somewhere. And you also
get the advantage if you want it for a fundraiser,
if you want it for any other reason. You get
the advantage of being able to have many create custom
bands and custom boxes for your event's cigars. Whether it's
a wedding, a golf tournament, a sporting clay shoot, a

(01:01:48):
bowling whatever, whatever the event, you can memorialize it with
these fancy, privately banded cigars. He did that for us
at iHeart as a matter of fact, built a box
of cigars with our brand on it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
Very nice.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
A lot of clients got those, and every one of
them loved them. El Cubanosigars dot com. He'll ship them
anywhere in the country. He's been doing that for years,
and he'll do it for you too. Elcubanocigars dot Com,
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Speaker 1 (01:02:24):
Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:27):
Got an email from Mark over there in Georgia who
wrote this pretty interesting and we missed it unfortunately.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
Oh wait, scroll down, scroll down, scroll down. Here we go.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
Last weekend, our temperatures dropped to freezing for three days.
When it gets like this, I'll go into the woods
because when it's that cold, everything becomes vibrant but comfortingly silent.
Had very silence in the woods I have always enjoyed
since being a young boy. Yeah, I'm kind of the

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same way, it gets super quiet. Now if it's if
it's super dry and super quiet, you might step on
a twig and get a little snap sound, or the
crunching of dry leaves under your feet, things like that.
But when you get to a place where you're you know,
you're deep into the woods, and you can just pause

(01:03:22):
or maybe even sit down. I used to carry just
a little like a little dove stool on a little
folding dove stools over my shoulder, and if i'd my
my leg's got it at all tired walking through the woods,
I would just sit down. I did a lot of
still hunting that way.

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
I would.

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
I would walk maybe one hundred yards very quietly, and
then sit for ten or fifteen minutes and see if
anything happened by the get up and walk a little
bit more and sit down again. And just when you're
sitting in the woods and just you have nothing better
to do than just look around and listen and and

(01:04:00):
breathe and inhale the air, it really is for me anyway,
it's pretty pretty moving.

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
It makes me feel.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
Alive, it makes me feel aware, and it kind of
removes me from all the garbage that happens up here.

Speaker 1 (01:04:18):
In the Cities.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
I was just talking to Erica back in the KTRH
newsroom about some stories that are hot right now, and
I don't want to think about that when I'm in
the woods. I want to go ahead and check out
of that part of my world and check into the
part that's calm and serene.

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
And now on the flip side of that there, nature is.
Nature is pretty cruel.

Speaker 4 (01:04:44):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
Every animal has to eat, and for them to eat,
something has to die, and that happens out there. They're
small predators and big predators, and they're all watching out
for each other, just the same as happens in water
where I wrote probably thirty years ago. Now that the
only two fish, every other fish among the quadrillions of
quadrillions of fish, and the sea careabouts the one in

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front of it and the one behind it. The one
in front of it's lunch. The one behind it wants
to make that fish lunch. It's a really it's a fantastic,
beautiful system that's been going on for billions of years.
It's pretty fascinating. Thank you, Mark. You sent some pictures
with that too. That was really cool, really really cool.
I love fog pictures. I've got a picture. I may

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dig it out.

Speaker 1 (01:05:28):
I think it's in the I know it's in my
photo files at the house, my old I'm talking about
old print files from newspaper days. Well, I say it is.
It's certainly in there somewhere.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
A picture I took once we were my A friend
of mine and I were on our way to go
fish up at Fayette County Reservoir and it was that
ground fog that's so typical in that part of the
state in the cooler months. And we came across a
field where the hay had been bailed to big rounds
and they were partially obscured by the fog. And I

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told the guy, slam on the brakes right now. I
got to get out and take a picture of this.
And it just it really caught my mind. I stayed
out of that truck of his for probably ten minutes,
trying to get just the right light angle and the
right the right exposure and all of that, and just
hoping I was getting it right, making sure the lens
didn't fog up, because it was kind of foggy after all.

(01:06:28):
And I got one I liked pretty much. It ended
up winning an award for just a scenic photograph. I
don't recall whether it won for color or black and white,
but anyway it was.

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
It's a nice shot. If I can find it, I'll
put it up on my Facebook page.

Speaker 3 (01:06:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
I might share a few of those, because back in
the day we didn't have instant gratification on cameras.

Speaker 1 (01:06:49):
We just had to.

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
Keep shooting film and hope for the best and then
take it all back and process it and look at
a contact sheet and just cross your fingers it worked
out well.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
I might.

Speaker 2 (01:07:01):
I might post some of my better photographs. Be fun,
be fun for me, and I hope enjoyable for you
guys too. Hey, folk, pro, what's up?

Speaker 4 (01:07:10):
Well? So buddy, what's up?

Speaker 10 (01:07:11):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
Much out here out here.

Speaker 4 (01:07:14):
Getting ready for the daughter and the new grand baby
coming up today for crappy tacos.

Speaker 1 (01:07:19):
Yeah, I figured as much I did. My phone didn't ring.
That's fine, I get it.

Speaker 4 (01:07:23):
Hey, you you you me and and you talked about that.
Actually and the wife are always welcome to come up
here one Sunday after the show fish tacos. I mean
you could work on the swing in the back. They
can run the trade days and Livyson and go spend
our money.

Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
Oh lord, you know whatever that won't take.

Speaker 4 (01:07:37):
That ain't a lie. Not something you said this this
morning kind of struck a chord in me. And uh
and uh, you know, we live in a fast paced world.
It's all about instant gratification and uh, either with with
what you can buy to be satisfied or technology.

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:07:57):
And when you were talking about standing on that mountain
by yourself, you know I had. I had a similar
experience where I got to go stand on the Great
Wall of China on the other side of the planet,
and it it humbled me to a point that you know,
I was emotional about it. You know. Yeah, here, I
am the East Texas old guy. You know, my job,
my career, same as you afforded you the opportunity to

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do something very you know, handful of people will ever
get to do. Yeah, that's true, and it seems like
the world doesn't appreciate that. And what I want to
stress is, uh, say somebody, you know, younger generation whatever
usually right, say they get to go book this Boone
and Crocket deer hunt. Yeah, themar chimber Hunt or whatever

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it may be. Take a minute to appreciate not not
that you can buy your way in, but appreciate the
people that are providing that and probably what they did
over decades maybe to provide that service for you. Appreciate
what they had to do to get there.

Speaker 1 (01:08:59):
Yeah into that man.

Speaker 4 (01:09:01):
Yeah, I just don't think all world appreciates, you know,
appreciates the stuff that you know, you stand on that
mountain by yourself, like, man, this is scary, but it's
kind of cool. The same to me standing on that
on that wall, you know. Yeah, yeah, really you've got
to get that opportunity. So I just kind of struck
a core. I shall feel like, you know, the modern
the world today appreciate. Well, I can go buy me

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a hunt to.

Speaker 1 (01:09:25):
Go along the Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 4 (01:09:27):
Why it's about to go fishing in Canada.

Speaker 1 (01:09:29):
If you have enough money. Yeah, if you have enough money,
you can buy anything.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
And I've even heard in small circles, not in not
a lot, but every now and then I'll hear somebody say, yeah,
I'm going to get myself a two hundred and fifty
point deer or something like that, and I'll say, where
are you going hunting? I'm not gonna hunt it. I'm
just going to get the taxidermists to build me one,
because they have the ability now to pretty much build

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you anything you want. The antlers look replace ant and whatnot.

Speaker 1 (01:10:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
Fish, oh, a fish especially. There was a woman I
met down in Florida once, many many many many many
many many years ago, and uh, it was on like
a media trip or something, and we were talking about
fish mounts and she said, I have one fish mount
in my house and I said, really, what is it?
And she had gone to this taxidermist and gotten him

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to make her a four foot long all in shades
of pink and dark pink sailfish, a four foot pink
sailfish that she has over a fireplace, which she never
likes because she's in South Florida. That was kind of cool.
You know, that just shows you what if you want it,
you can have it now. And it's it's a little
bit scary almost.

Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
You're right there.

Speaker 4 (01:10:43):
It seems it seems the story and stories are missing,
Like you can come to my house. You've seen the
ducks and fish. There's a story behind each of those.
It's not like, well I paid a guy six hundred
dollars and I shot that duck. In the story, Yeah,
you know, that's that's a big part of the story,
the camaraderie. You know that you're making you're making memory,
not you know, buying memories.

Speaker 1 (01:11:01):
I guess I want to hear.

Speaker 3 (01:11:02):
The part about it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
I want to hear the part about when you tripped
over log and filled your waiters when it was twenty
nine degrees.

Speaker 4 (01:11:07):
That's what I've done that at the time that you.

Speaker 1 (01:11:10):
Had Who has it? If you've never filled your waiters
on a frozen morning, you're not trying hard enough. I mean,
it just happens.

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
You tumble, trip over a decoy string, or the dog
comes flying past you and knocks you off your feet,
like what on Earth?

Speaker 1 (01:11:27):
And then now you just got to sit there and shiver.

Speaker 4 (01:11:32):
My best waiter story, if there's time for it, Oh,
my best waiter story. We were going out to the blinder,
was already daylight. I said, we ain't got time to
get out there and get set up. But we were
close up to the blind and bird droverdy working. I said,
let's just sit down. I had two people from Halliburton
guide trip and I'm sitting down on a log and
we're all sitting here, and they're sitting on different things.
I'm the only one sitting on this log and it

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starts to get daylight, and something caught my eye below
my chin, and I looked down and probably two inches
from the top of my near waiters, I was covered
in fire ants because oh so I'm getting out of
these waiters and I'm out here guiding, and back in
the day the old white thermal underwear. Oh yeah, I'm
in the blind white underwear and I'm yeah, trying trying

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to hide. And that was We actually tied the boots
to the rope on the way back in the boat,
and I drugged that thing about two miles in the
lake of the boat. Man.

Speaker 1 (01:12:25):
I have a very similar one. I think you may
have heard it. When I was in high school.

Speaker 2 (01:12:29):
A friend of mine and I went to this We
were in Sharpstown and this place was all the way
up in Humble. So I'm just some old farmer had
a mailbox out by the gate where you drop off
five dollars a person and go in and hunt his reservoir,
you know, And there was a blind in the middle
of that reservoir. We'd always hunted it from the bank,
but that morning we wanted to go out to that
blind and it was it was a reservoir, just a

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rectangular thing, dug like every other rural reservoir with you know,
they dig out the ground around the perimeter to make
the little levees that hold the water in there. And
so it's and it's thirty degrees, man, it's bluebird thirty degrees.
And we're wading out there, and my buddy is he's
six four, okay, he's a big tall dude, and I'm

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whatever like five ten.

Speaker 1 (01:13:13):
In the football program.

Speaker 2 (01:13:15):
It said I was six foot one sixty and both
were lies. I wasn't close to either one. So we're
wading out there and I'm kind of halfway trying to
float on a couple of bags of decoys to get
through the deeper water. And he at six four, he's
in front of me, and he's still got like four
or six inches of clearance on the top of his waiters.
So I'm thinking, you know, I can probably make that,

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and I didn't, and I filled those waiters up in
that freezing cold, and we're seventy five, one hundred miles
from home.

Speaker 1 (01:13:43):
I don't know how far we are.

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
We end up going on out to the blind because
I'm no quitter, and sit down and I'm freezing, man,
but it's a bright, beautiful day, so the sun's starting
to kind of come into the blind. I stripped out
of my waiters, I stripped out of my shirt, my jacket,
all of that. I'm hair skinned. I slipped out of
my wet pants. I'm sitting there in my skivvies, just

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just waiting for the ducks to come around. And every
time they'd come around, they kind of flare. And he
looked at me and he said, man, you got to
put some clothes on. You're scaring these ducks. I'm not
scaring the ducks. I'm freezing. Leave me alone. And we
just we just we had a blast. That was one
of my best duck hunting memories ever.

Speaker 1 (01:14:21):
That was so fun.

Speaker 3 (01:14:22):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
Nobody died. That's good, you know that's good.

Speaker 4 (01:14:27):
Yeah, these young gun duck dusty guys ain't gonna do that.
They'd have been back at the house back of all.
You know, they've been gone back to the house.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
We're dying dugs, Not anytime soon, I hope, worst as.

Speaker 2 (01:14:43):
Yeah, I got a bounce. Great talking to you as always.
I'll see oh Mercy, Yeah, that brings back memories. It
was I just tumbled out. I don't know why, I
don't know what took me over the top, but that water,
that nearly freezing water just rushed into those waiters and
filled them all the way up to the top. To
barely get back upright, because I had to try to

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pour some of the water out the front just to
be able to walk in them.

Speaker 1 (01:15:07):
They got really heavy.

Speaker 2 (01:15:09):
And as soon as I got into that blind I
came out of all of that stuff and just put
my back to the sun. And it actually, it wasn't
It was surprisingly comfortable to be standing there with nothing
on but.

Speaker 1 (01:15:21):
Your underwear.

Speaker 2 (01:15:24):
On a bright, clear, cold day and not feel just
like I was going to die, Like Okay, this is
this is doable, and I'm standing there seriously, I'm standing
there with my shotgun.

Speaker 1 (01:15:35):
I'm ready.

Speaker 2 (01:15:36):
If the ducks come, I'm going to take a shot.
But I couldn't figure out where to hide in that
blood so that they couldn't see me. And I was
in the winter time a little anytime during the summer
I would have been very, very tanned and maybe able
to hide from them.

Speaker 1 (01:15:51):
But I was.

Speaker 2 (01:15:52):
I was pasty, I was I was looking like elementary
school glue and shining brightly in the morning sky.

Speaker 1 (01:16:02):
We do have to take a break.

Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
Shooter's Corner Alur Palmer High w at twenty nine Street
down there in Texas City.

Speaker 1 (01:16:06):
I was just down that way a couple of nights
ago for the deal at the Lone Star Flight Museum.
I should have stopped by.

Speaker 2 (01:16:13):
If I'd have gotten down there earlier, I would have
stopped by and said hi to Jerry and Ja. They
wouldn't have recognized me. I was in a suit, but nonetheless,
two of the best gunsmiths I have ever known, Jerry
and j TK. And Jerry's run that store since he
was a young, young, young young man. He's got probably
forty five years in there now. I guess Jay came
up right behind him in the store with his dad

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as soon as his dad would take him in there,
which was pretty early, to help him learn what Jerry
knows about guns and shooting sports and whatnot. Whether you're
a serious shooter or you're brand new to guns, completely,
Shooter's Corner and anybody who's in there gonna help you.
That's what they know, and that's all they know is
guns and shooting sports and hunting and how to match

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up everything you need to get the desired result. You
want great prices, good people. Palmer Highway at twenty ninth Street.
If you wear a badge for a living, you get
a discount shooter's quarter. That's a pretty good thing that
they do, and I wish more people would do that.
These shooters Corner TX dot com, the Shooters cornertx dot com.

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If you happen to be up on the northwest side
of town today and get the itch to go play
a little golf swing by black Horse Golf Club. They're
on Fry Road, a little way south of two ninety
as they have been for as long as I can remember.
I probably, I don't know, I've probably played fifty tournaments
up there. I probably played another forty to fifty rounds
on my own ball. And every time I'm up there,
I enjoy it. Every time you go up there, you're

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going to enjoy it. Now they changed it up a
little bit. It used to be two daily fee courses,
and back in January shifted gears took the South course private.

Speaker 1 (01:17:51):
That's as it is now, and that's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
They had a lot of people who wanted that, so
they took care of those people. The North course is
still a ton of fun to play. Are really in
enjoyable golf course. It's a little open that trees aren't
so thick as they are on the South course, so
you can pretty much air out that driver and still
figure out where it is and go hit it again.
Nice good greens most of the time, great staff to

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take care of you. Lessons available at the very far
end of that big range, or you can probably get
somebody to help you up at the close end where
you tee off on that North course. Just a wonderful
place to go play golf. Craig Hicks, the guy who's
the general manager out there, has been methodically taking care
of everything that needed to be taken care of on

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both courses now that he's taken that one private. And
if you do become a member of the South Course,
there's a very interesting benefits you get, which is part
of their ownership by the same company that owns Blackhawk
Country Club. You get to play there and Golf Club
of Houston you can get the option to also play
at both courses there, so you can really get five

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golf courses for the price of one. Or again the
daily pee guy, and that's what you like. Then by
all means, go tee it up at black Horse Golf Club.
You're gonna like the course. Uh, let me know if
you got any issues with it, I'll bring them up
with Craig and we'll see what happens. Black Horse Golf
Club dot com is a website. Black Horse Golf Club
dot com. All right, welcome back, thanks for listening Doug

(01:19:22):
Pike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety. And we've covered
all kinds of stuff today, haven't we. Frecky holy cav.
I need to look at this. Take that up there.

Speaker 1 (01:19:30):
That's okay, that's okay, that's okay, that's okay, that's okay,
that's okay, it's all good. What it is?

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me dougpikee at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 1 (01:19:40):
Let's go talk to Rick Bis. What is up? Rick?

Speaker 10 (01:19:43):
Good morning, Doug morning. I was left about three this
morning and I'm on my way home and I'm watching
this weather. When I left this morning in places I
had to go up the buck Hopes, Texas. You know
where buck Holes is?

Speaker 4 (01:20:02):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:20:02):
I don't, and uh don't don't make me lie where is?

Speaker 10 (01:20:06):
Everybody knows where buck Holes is now almost that's in
between Atlanto and Rogers.

Speaker 1 (01:20:13):
Okay, now I got it.

Speaker 9 (01:20:14):
Okay, Yeah, now you got it.

Speaker 10 (01:20:16):
Okay, Highway thirty six north, Okay to get to Temple,
you have too far.

Speaker 1 (01:20:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:20:23):
Anyways, fog. First of all, I'm want to scale one
to ten ten then zero visibility. I would have to
say at times it was a solid eight holy cow,
like fifty yards may yeah. Well yeah, I mean it
was almost pull over time.

Speaker 1 (01:20:42):
Yeah that's rough for driving.

Speaker 10 (01:20:46):
Yeah, thirty forty miles flashers. But anyway, really it wasn't
a lot of traffic on the way. This week is warm.
I thought, you know what, this weather is una settled.
The wind is starting to pick up. Now it's going

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I see flags out of the north somehow of the
south coming back.

Speaker 9 (01:21:09):
And it's just kind of swirling and it's a little.

Speaker 10 (01:21:11):
A little clear, a lot of you know, some some clouds,
and I thought, you know what, it's gonna get cold
sooner or later. And when it happens, firewood prices are
gonna double, ye are, And I guarantee you and you know,
I'm of course I'm kind of out in the country

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on the highway, but I'm seeing people, you know, got
firewood for sale here there, so I thought, you know what,
I'm gonna stop and get me some firewood. Just I
got some company coming in. I got a hostess coming
weekend and maybe next week. Yeah, and uh, I got
wood at the ranches, but I don't want.

Speaker 11 (01:21:47):
To have to go get it split it, because it's
just sure you had to cut off the roads too lazy.
So I'm thought, I'm gonna buy me some firewoods. Anyway,
I pulled over and I run into two things picking
up the firewood.

Speaker 3 (01:22:01):
One copperheads.

Speaker 7 (01:22:03):
Oh yeah, oh and be a scorpion, oh gosh, and uh, just.

Speaker 10 (01:22:09):
A good reminder with the season coming up. Copperheads love firewood.

Speaker 1 (01:22:14):
They nice and cozy at your.

Speaker 10 (01:22:16):
Dear lease and stuff and fire pit. I know it's
been kind of not really induced it to fire pits,
but uh, around the ranch house or even in your
back door where you live, they like, I mean, they
just they just like firewood.

Speaker 2 (01:22:32):
A week from yesterday, a week from yesterday, maybe a
week from two days ago, the lows here are going
to be in the low forties, so it's coming.

Speaker 1 (01:22:43):
You'll need that wood.

Speaker 9 (01:22:44):
Yeah, I mean, it's it's just a matter of time.

Speaker 1 (01:22:46):
Sure, And Uh.

Speaker 10 (01:22:49):
I finally, you know, stopped and found the guy that
had I could tell about looking at it. He had
way too much, he had two or three years worth.
And I thought, this guy's caudible get rid of from firewoods.
And sure enough, and then, of course, you know me,
I spent an hour talking to him.

Speaker 11 (01:23:06):
I'm sure, but he's just an old rancher guy.

Speaker 10 (01:23:09):
We kind of hit it off a little bit. But anyway,
watch the snakes, guys, be careful, al.

Speaker 2 (01:23:14):
Right, thank you, Rick, I'll see yeah, man, Audios, good
point copperheads. And if you're just looking at a bunch
of firewood, you may or may not be looking at
a copperhead and not even know it. We got to
get this break in right away, and I'll do it
right now. Kobe Stevens the golf apparel slash outdoors apparel
guy with whom I have been working now for quite

(01:23:37):
some time. He's been generous enough to give me several
of his shirts to wear, and I finally talked him
out of a pair of shorts at a golf tournament
we played back on Monday.

Speaker 1 (01:23:46):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:23:46):
And I'm loving this stuff, I really am. I'm happy
to speak for him. I truly do believe in the brand,
and I like what he's got out there, and I'll
continue to wear it as long as he'll have me.
Men's sizes, women's sizes, kid sizes. The men's stuff goes
up four X. I don't know about the women's. Uh,
you'll have to check with them on that. But I

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know that for the the bigger huskier fellas in the audience,
all the way up the four x keep you looking
good no matter how badly you swing a golf club.
He's a great return giver to the community too. Almost
every time I talk to him, he's going to be
at this tournament or that tournament, supporting this cause or
that cause. And this past Monday, actually it was his

(01:24:27):
own cause, which is a place called Mosaics that I'm
going to talk about this week on fifty plus Kobe
Stevens dot com. Co O B Y S T E
V E N S Kobe Stevens dot com before on

(01:24:50):
Sports Talk seven to ninety wrapping it up, got about
four and a half minutes left. I'll go to the
Butterfield Bermuda Championship where a lot of guys are trying
to get their cards for the upcoming PGA Tour season.
Not many big names at the butterfield Bermuda. Most of
those guys who are playing this week are over in

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Dubai as part of the dp World Tour, and I'm
pretty sure I think it's McElroy is poised to win,
or who knows, maybe by now already has one, depending
on what the time zone is over there, I can't
recall exactly. Staying a little closer and looking at the
Bermuda leaderboard, Adam shank is at thirteen under par. He

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is leading the field and eight holes through his final
round so far.

Speaker 1 (01:25:37):
Vince Whaley's at twelve. I think it might have been he.

Speaker 2 (01:25:40):
Who hold on, I'm looking for a specific score or
from one of these guys. Oh, I know how to
do it. Stand by, I'm gonna go here. Oh where
did my leaderboard go? Oh my word, don't do this
to me. Let's go back this way. Now we're cooking.
I'm gonna go to leaderboard. I hate it when this
thing does this. Now I'm scrolling down and I'm looking

(01:26:02):
at scores from yesterday because one of those guys there
it is. I think it was Alex Smalley. I think
that's who did this his third round. He shot See
that's around four three. That's where I'm going. He kind
of stunk it up on the way out and then
shot twenty nine on the back yesterday.

Speaker 1 (01:26:22):
I believe it was him.

Speaker 2 (01:26:24):
Twenty nine had nothing but circles and pars had two eagles,
I think. And anyway, bottom line is, yeah, he shot
seven under pragus and impressed the heck out of me.

Speaker 1 (01:26:36):
I'll tell you.

Speaker 2 (01:26:38):
Back to the leaderboard officially Adam Shank at thirteen, Vince
Whaley at twelve, Rikuya Hoshino at twelve as well, Chandler
Phillips also there, one shot off the lead, four guys
within either leading or one shot. Frankie Kappan the third
is in fifth place with Takumi Kenaya. Then comes they're

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both at eleven. Seem as power. Max McGreevy at ten,
and I'll read the nines and then we'll bail out.
Oh wait a minute, where did it go? Yeah, Braden
Thornberry and Alex Smalley and Zach Blair. So good tournament
over there. It's gonna finish up at a decent hour here.
So if you wanted to go run to the range
and get inspired to go hit some balls. You could

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watch that tournament for a little while on TV and
then head out and tee it up somewhere kind of
back to the We never really did talk much about
fishing this morning, and I hate that because there's a
lot going on.

Speaker 1 (01:27:32):
Looking at the beach.

Speaker 2 (01:27:33):
Cams this morning, by the way, I was kind of
reminded of how we get a lot of low water
days this time of year. And that's fine if you're
wade fishing or you're fishing off a jetty or something
like that, it really doesn't matter. But if you're running
boats in the bays this time of year, you better
kind of keep an eye open because a lot of
these places where you've run without issue at all for many,

(01:27:56):
many years, suddenly when they lose a foot of water
and you're not paying attention, there's a lot of stuff
on the bottom of that bay that's just high enough
to snap either dig a hole in a hole or
snap a lower unit off or whatever. And boy, if
you're out somewhere where there's not a whole lot of people,

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because that's where most of.

Speaker 1 (01:28:19):
Us like to fish.

Speaker 2 (01:28:19):
Anyway, if we can find such a place, as if
something like that existed, really maybe your cell signals not
all that good.

Speaker 1 (01:28:27):
You could be stuck. Awhile, this is not a bad
time of year.

Speaker 2 (01:28:30):
If you're going to keep fishing, to go ahead and
pack some sort of cool weather emergency kit. And I'm
talking about protein bars, a couple of gallons of water,
maybe even a blanket, and something to start a fire.
It's rare that something like that happens, but it does happen.
I guarantee a baff and bay on the bottom. If
they drain baff and bay, they'd probably find a thousand

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lower units out there, and any one of those things
on the right day, well, it would take it would
take a significant drop to exposed not only the rocks
but the lower units. But nonetheless, you kind of get
what I'm talking about. It's it's just something you need
to be taken care of and keeping an eye out
for the new Parks and Wildlife Department rainbow truck Rainbow

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trout stocking schedule is coming out soon.

Speaker 1 (01:29:18):
It's said on the website.

Speaker 2 (01:29:20):
I was kind of looking at that this morning, said
on the website, coming in mid November. Well, mid Novembers here,
Parks and Wildlife Department, show me those trout I want
to know where they're gonna because I'm gonna.

Speaker 1 (01:29:30):
Make a few trips this year. I didn't go after
them once last year. Not one time did I go
after those little rainbow trout. And I'm gonna do it
this year.

Speaker 2 (01:29:39):
And I might try to dig up a handful of
little kids to go with me, because I'll bait up
a spot. I'll use whatever it takes to get them
some bites, and there's a really good chance we could
catch some rainbow trout that are they're really good kid
sized fish. They're not gonna be any record breakers. Every
now and then you'll see a golden one swimming in

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the schools lakes where the water's really clear. But most
of these lakes, it's just it's a put and take fishery.
The Parks and Walafe Department puts those fish in there.
You get to keep if they didn't change anything. Five
a day, and that doesn't mean for a lot of
these old guys who take advantage, that doesn't mean catch five,
put them in your car and then go back and
catch five more. Just get your five for the day

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and get out of the way and let some kids
catch the Okay, I like that they're fun. Joe Doggett
and I used to chase them all the time. We
threw lures exclusively when it was just he and I going.
And I'm hoping that they put that big, big lake
over at tom Oh what is it, tom Bass Park?

Speaker 1 (01:30:38):
The big lake over there.

Speaker 2 (01:30:40):
They once at one time were putting four thousand of
those fish in their year, and it was really fun
because you could catch them all over that big lake
and they would eat lures and it was it was great.
I hope it's that good again this year. The funny
thing that now I'll hold these till next week. I
got some more for you that we talked about yesterday.
Right now, I'll just tell you thank you for listening.

(01:31:00):
I'll be back next Tuesday and Wednesday for fifty plus
and I'm gonna take a little bit of vacation time
here and there. I'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 1 (01:31:08):
Don't worry. Thanks for listening.

Speaker 2 (01:31:10):
Seriously, have fun, stay outside and have fun with your
family safely.

Speaker 1 (01:31:14):
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