Hunting Pranks and Hijinks

Originally aired on November 22, 2025. On this episode, Doug talks with Brendon Olson from the Houston Food Bank to discuss Hunters for the Hungry, and how you can help. In addition, Doug and producer Frankie play the Texas Temperature Game, where you can call in and guess the highest and lowest statewide temperatures to win prizes! All this and more, on The Doug Pike Show.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's Doug Bike. Oh man, how did it get
so late in the year already? Huh? Thanksgiving week is here,
and I'm gonna start not eating so that i can
eat like a pig come Thanksgiving Thursday. I don't know
what everybody else's plans are. I know there are a

(00:23):
lot of guys I know who I don't know how
they parlayed this. I guess it's just how you pick them.
But a lot of people I know are actually going
hunting this whole week. They either take hang on, let
me put that phone over there, Wait a minute, Okay,
that goes there, This goes here, and I'll leave feeling

(00:45):
my arms shortened up about three inches. Frankie, Oh not.
I think that's what happened is somebody moved this monitor
way back away from me. Hands on a second. Ah, Oh,
that's much better now if it actually does something, I
can see what happens all right, seated and ready to go.
So Facegiving week is here. As I was mentioning a

(01:08):
second ago, I do know some people, and have known
people over the years, whose entire families are just ate
up with hunting so much that they can't wait till
this week when the grown ups take vacation and the
whole family goes to the lease wherever that is and
either stays in the bunk house or the trailer or

(01:29):
whatever and just eats up the outdoors all week long.
I'm not in that boat right now. My work schedule
just doesn't allow that. But that's okay. It's not like
I've been cheated. Don't anybody feel sorry for me. I've
had I've had plenty of time to get my fixed

(01:49):
for the outdoors. I've had two or three lifetimes of outdoors,
and I'm very blessed in that regard. I got all
kinds of stories I can tell about what happened, what
didn't happen, how it happened, why it happen, where it happened,
some of which are some of where which are banned
from retelling by the people who were participants in those
hunts and had silly things go on. Uh, you know,

(02:14):
I'm trying to think of. I wanted to come up
with something different to talk about, something we'd rarely talk about,
like maybe annually, I guess it is honestly with this
topic I'm thinking of, and that's pranks that you can
play on other hunters, and I know that I'm not
going to even go into some of mine that I've
either seen or had had put on to me because

(02:36):
I don't want to. This isn't about me. I'm looking
for something fresh and new, something that the younger hunters,
the technology generation, does to each other just for fun.
I'm not talking about anything that could get anybody hurt
or anything that would really well in a hunting camp.

(02:57):
If you're thin skinned and you can't take a joke
on your you may not like hunting camp so much
because that's kind of where guys let loose and and
find ways to to single out something different about somebody else,
and it's all in good fun. And the best thing

(03:18):
you can do if you find yourself in that situation
is realize that if they're not messing with you, if
they're not having fun and not joking with you and
about you, and not then in turn taking whatever lumps
you throw their way, they don't care if you're there
or not. But if they do care, they're gonna if

(03:39):
especially if you're new, like Frank, have you ever been
in a hunting camp for say, three or four days?
You can't say I have, You're oh your camera's frozen
in here by the way. Oh there you go. Now
you're moving. So if you were to go, if you
were to get invited and you accepted the invitation, just
know that no going through the gate, that somebody's gonna

(03:59):
mess with you a little bit because they like you.
That's why they're going to do it. They If they
don't mess with you, if they don't poke fun at
you a little bit for being new, then they don't
care if you're there. And I suspect knowing you, that
everybody would be picking and poking for a little while
because you're a good guy, and I feel like you

(04:20):
could you can take a joke, you know. I boy,
I've had mine my hat handed to me more than once. Fishing, hunting,
all kinds of things. When I was growing up, as
I would immerse myself in anything and everything, and then
my my green my inexperience in some of those things
would come shining through to anyone in the group who

(04:44):
had been there a long time and been doing the
same thing a long time. I'd do something only a
greenhorn would do and get duly chastised for it. Seven
one three, two, one two five seven ninety email me,
Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. What are you going
to do this week? You want hunt? You go on fishing,
playing golf, watching football, all of the above. I hope

(05:07):
that well. I guess Thanksgiving Day certainly is wide open
for watching football if you want to. But I suspect
that the outbound traffic either Thursday afternoon or Friday morning,
the outbound traffic from Houston will be fairly heavy, as
it usually is, because this is an opportunity. A lot

(05:29):
of people get to get at least a solid three
days in the field, get out, leave Thursday, hunt Friday morning,
Friday afternoon, Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon, get in a morning
hunt on Sunday, and then come on home. Now that's different.
Water Fowlers typically don't do that, except unless they're traveling.

(05:52):
When I was guiding, a lot of people would come
in from far far away, fly in, rent a car,
that kind of stuff, and they would stay a few days.
But by and large, the the locals around here, it's
not so far that you have to camp out and
spend the night and get a motel room and all
that stuff when you go waterfowl hunting around here. In fact,

(06:14):
We're gonna be talking to Mitchell Holder at about eight
thirty this morning. He from Waterfowl Specialties down in El Campo.
I talked to him on the phone yesterday maybe I
think it was yesterday or day before, and I wanted
to get kind of his take, his pulse on what's
going on down that way. And there's a couple of
things he and I talked about on the phone that

(06:35):
I'll bring up with him as well, about what's changed
and what hasn't changed. And I think that a lot
of people in recent years, this instant gratification generation, are
kind of jumping the gun. We'll get to that a
little bit. Let me go talk to Mike here, see
what's up with him.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
What's up Mike, Well, I'd be remiss if I didn't
call him. Wish you a happy things giving right back at.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
You, sir, Happy Thanksgiving to you too. I hope everything
goes well with you and your family.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Oh, no problem there, I got a couple of pranks.
I'd like to tell you a round though. Let's go
beyond the normal short sheeting and the drip mugs in
the morning. You know, I decided to go electronic last
year with the group of old hunters. We've got at

(07:26):
a cabin, and this cabin has laid out so that
there are six single beds laid out in a big
room for you know, sleeping. Yeah. So when we all
finally you know, hit the rack, about thirty forty minutes
after the last guy got in his bunk, I turned
my phone onto a couple of recordings that I had made,

(07:48):
and it got everybody's attention pretty quick. I rattlesnaked them.
Oh no, I never saw so many old man get
up and run around and turn on lights and look
under beds and unless you under their mattress.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
That.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
After that, I went into the cricket mode, turned it
on real loud, and the cricket was so loud it
was bouncing off the walls. And then the old guys
started saying, man, if I hear another damn sound, I'm leaving.
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, you know that reminds me real quickly. My family
and I went down My wife and my son and
I went downstate in Lake Jackson, and golfers were down
there to do some golf and fishing and stuff like that.
One weekend, many many years ago, when he was very
young and there were so many tree frogs outside of
our room that we could not sleep. It was just

(08:49):
that noisy, and all night long it was just, oh,
it was unmerciful.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Wanted to command you on on your diet, and all
I got to say, if you picked a heck of
a time of year to make that happen, there's.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
A there's a pause button. There is a pause button.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
I understand. Well, I'll give you a little incentive here.
Get rid of your bathroom scale, keep on your regiment,
and you'll know that you're doing good when you go
into the next match on your belt.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, that's what I'm waiting on, is get back up
a notch on of them.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
It'll help you. It'll help your club at speed when
you don't have so much to turn.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
That's a good point. Thanks Mike Off, Audios, thanksgiving man.
All right, let me go see what's up with RJ RJ.
What's going on?

Speaker 4 (09:40):
Man?

Speaker 5 (09:41):
Good morning, sir.

Speaker 4 (09:42):
It's straining cats and dogs out here in the Taxaedo.

Speaker 5 (09:45):
Uh threw a.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
Funny story twenty twenty. I sold my house and Kobe
hit of course, and we've been living in an apartment.
And then fast forward. My sin says we need to
get a house, and yeah, we'll find wanting. We'll move
in it. Sure we get We get to your new
house the every day and I'm looking and we go to.

Speaker 5 (10:06):
The backyard and I said, where is the yard?

Speaker 4 (10:09):
And he goes, no, that's.

Speaker 5 (10:09):
A golf course.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Oh wow, I don't care.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
I have nothing to I don't know, nothing to off.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
You got a five gallon bucket full of golf balls
in your garage, though, don't you.

Speaker 5 (10:21):
I was like, of all faces, okay, here, here we are.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Wow, that's funny, man.

Speaker 5 (10:26):
I guess I'm I have to take up golf now.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
You know you're you're standing right at the doorstep. Why not?
Why not? Yeah, it's a good game.

Speaker 5 (10:35):
R J.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
It's a good game. Don't if you do decide to
take it up, don't take it too seriously, nobody. Uh,
I'm I'm really competitive. And even now as I've gotten
a little older, I've realized that nobody cares what score
I shoot but me, and nobody's gonna care. As long
as you're not slowing everybody down, You'll be just fine.
Everybody get along with you, just fine.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
And I told him, I said, you you could have
found a house on the bay.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
That would have been perfect.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, he couldn't find anything on the water. Huh okay,
I'll think this golf course, hey r J. Yeah, happy
Thanksgiving man audios. Well, good for them. They're back in
a house and it's on a golf course that's plus
two right there. That's a really good way to go
into the holiday season. I would think, I don't know

(11:24):
that I would want to live right on the golf
course because it would be too tempting to just go
out there and play almost every day. I don't think
I'd get much done, especially if I could walk and
maybe play two or three holes and then come on
to a nice little pond full of basso. That would
be the icing on the cake. And there are plenty

(11:46):
of those opportunities around Houston, golf courses that have lakes
on them and whatnot. And I've fished. I've probably fished
as many or more different golf course lakes as anybody
in I think I can say that with confidence, and
it's it's always been with permission. Well except back when

(12:06):
I was in high school and my buddy Jimmy and
I were slithering under the fence and fishing Bravern country
clubs pawds, and learned later on that the guy who
was being told by members to go run us off
was an avid fisherman, and he would drive that cart
as slowly as he could, right down the middle of
a fairway so we could see him coming. And we

(12:29):
literally had enough time to make two or three more
casts and if we hook something, catch it, release it,
and then run away. And we were pretty quick back then,
much quicker than I am now. I'd get caught in
a heartbeat. Now it would. It wouldn't take much. You could.
You could put the cart in reverse. Everybody knows what
reverse golf court speed, golf cart speed is, and if

(12:53):
it's more than one hundred yards, I'd probably just be
taking a knee and just letting you back up. Hear
that nasty noise of backing up golf courts. All right,
let's back on into this first break of the program.
This will be timber Creek Golf Club. The good news
for timber Creek is most of this rain looks like
it's gonna try to slide a little bit north of

(13:14):
the coast. It's moving generally eastward now, but hopefully it'll
get up and up and out of here before it
messes up anything down south. Timber Creek's been down there
for the probably twenty five ish years. Somewhere in there,
right around turn of the century is when a lot
of golf courses opened up around here. In the twenty
seven holes at Timber Creek were right within that schedule.

(13:36):
FM twenty three fifty one, just a few miles west
of the Golf Freeway. Great people, great food, great teaching
with JJ Woods and his crew over at the Timber
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anytime you want at timber Creek goolf Club dot com.
You'll be glad you did when you get there and
see how friendly everybody is, how playable the course that

(13:57):
all three nines are. Just pause at the tea box
and take a just take a look. If you if
you've played golf more than twice in your life, you'll
see how it's laid out and where you need to
hit the ball. If you can't hit the ball in
that spot ever, then slide on over and talk to
JJ Woods and his bunch. Timber Creek Golf Club dot com.
That's the website, Timbercreek goolf club dot Com seven nineteen

(14:26):
on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show. Thank you
for listening, seriously, do appreciate it. On a sad note,
I got to talk about this because it's hunting season
and I have tried for since I've been on the
air and even before then, to get all the way
through a Texas hunting season with zero fatalities, and we're

(14:50):
already on the board with one. Unfortunately, a man named
Jose Ramirez, forty five year old guy from Grapevine, up
at a his dear lease in Marion County somewhere, I
presume the dear lease, that's what it sounds like from
the story.

Speaker 5 (15:07):
And.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
Getting the rifle out of the vehicle and somehow some
way grabbed it barrel first, I suppose. I'm not speculating,
really I can't. I don't know exactly what the details were,
but the outcome was horrible.

Speaker 6 (15:25):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
They the emergency people showed up and tried to save him,
but he died there from his injuries. You just you
just can't be too careful. I don't know whether the
gun was still cased. I don't and it doesn't matter.
I don't know whether I don't know who left one
in the chamber. It doesn't matter. Whatever the circumstances that

(15:48):
got him to where he grabbed that gun and was
getting it out of the car barrel first aimed at him.
He lost his life. And that's just oh, it just
it just sickens me that we're not even out of
November yet and we've already got a hunting fatality. I

(16:09):
don't there may I want to. I want to say
there might have been a year where we didn't have one,
but I don't think that's the case, and I'm not
going to go back and look because it's really it's
not that important. We're not going to pat ourselves on
the back for twenty five years with only one year

(16:30):
with no fatalities. Even if that's true, it's better than
having none, But one out of twenty five is not
a very good batting average. And I'm not taking anything
away from the grief that family feels or the just
horrible circumstances that they're going to have to go through now.
But when I've looked at real data and real case

(16:56):
reviews from hunting accidents and hunting fatalities, nearly every single
one of them was preventable nearly everyone now was was
this one? I don't know, But again it's not. That's
not as important as the fact that we just talk
about it and I want to I'm not. I'm not

(17:16):
gonna belabor this story, but I'm also gonna talk about
it enough that maybe it sticks in your head and
before you reach for a gun to grab it out
of the out of the truck real fast, or out
of the car or wherever you are, you might just
pause and make sure you do it right, because that one,
that one split second is all it takes, just a

(17:39):
just a tiny little misstep or a tiny little grab it.
Come on, we got to get moving. No, just no,
nothing's more important than you and me getting out of
here safe and hold. Nothing is more important that. I
don't care how big the buck is. I don't care
how big whatever is. I don't care how many pintails

(18:00):
are all about to land on your head. Just give
it that extra half a second to be safe. And
that's really about all it takes to make sure that
you're doing it right.

Speaker 5 (18:09):
Now.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
There might be three or four half second operations to
perform before you pick that gun up and shoot it,
but just make sure you go through your checklist of
safety before you grab that gun and move too fast
and have something like this happen to you and your family.

Speaker 5 (18:28):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
It just kills me, It really does. It just eats
me up inside to have to talk about hunting fatalities.
I hate doing that, but I'm not going to stop
because not stopping means I've maybe not planted that seed
and watered it and made sure that everybody knows about it.

(18:49):
I want every one of you not thinking about it constantly,
but just in the back of your mind somewhere when
you're at the range, when you're at the deer camp
or duck camp or wherever. Everything you do with that
gun matters everything. All right, let me go talk to
Dave here. T him up, will you. Let's see what's
on his mind. I got a hunch we're gonna lighten

(19:10):
things up here. What's up, Dave?

Speaker 7 (19:14):
Well, yeah, my heart goes out. Yeah like that. We
got a truck. We got a truck pulling up out
of the boat launch over here. I'm just sitting here
right now, and I wanted to fish that I forgot.
We gotta go to Ballville and pick up our Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Well, I'll tell you what you better. You better go
pick that thing up, because I got a note from
them this week that they are out of pre orders
for turkeys. No more. They've they've sold every turkey. They're
gonna get about that.

Speaker 7 (19:46):
We have the we have a registered one.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah, oh yeah, no, I know, yeah, you're yeah, you're
on the list. Your bird is safe, Dave.

Speaker 7 (19:53):
Don't worry here that you know these do here here,
There won't be green here. I can't feed them right
now because I got to get back to the house.
But I am looking at the water and it looks
an eye.

Speaker 5 (20:09):
So we're here.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Oh yeah, I'll bet.

Speaker 7 (20:11):
And uh hey, and on on a happy note, I
was going to ask your producer to play Ridney Actions
watching you, and I was going to ask the question
and you about how many times you've got to hang
out with a game warden. I'm talking about you know.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
I actually have had that opportunity several times. I've known
a lot of good a lot of game wardens over
the years and and done little rides with them and
uh just to kind of see how they work and
what they do. It's very interesting.

Speaker 7 (20:40):
Was that to the paper?

Speaker 1 (20:42):
No, yeah, mostly when I was back at the paper, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (20:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (20:46):
What I'm asking is how many times you got pulled over?

Speaker 2 (20:49):
They?

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Oh, how many times have I been checked? When I
was When I was guiding, we would get checked on average,
maybe once or twice a season. And I think they
all knew that we kept up with everything and made
sure all our hunters had all their documentation. But it
was also and it wasn't so much that they were
looking at us. All they're doing is just show making

(21:12):
their presence known to the people we had in the field,
so that if they were ever out there again on
their own or something, they wouldn't they wouldn't maybe do
something wrong, or just to let them know that they
appreciated us being out there, because the best chance that
we have to keep poaching and things like that from happening. Really,

(21:33):
it's not it's not to have game wardens working twenty
four to seven. It's to have you and me and
anybody else who's out there serving as additional eyes and
ears through Operation Game Thief to alert them to something
we see that goes wrong.

Speaker 7 (21:48):
You know, well, Gay Moore and Price, you know, are
calling gaymore and Shortage. Yeah, I've got his personal phone
number so far. Yeah, yeah, no, you know he's personally
a good friend of mine and if I see something
going on then all of a sudden. But on another
kind of uh, defensive note, like when you're driving out

(22:11):
here around in Willis and Conro and all that and
dark and everything, the deer and everything we did, I
did see one dough that got hit over here, so
you know, and that ain't a good thing. As far
as like your vehicle or the or the animal.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
That is not a good thing. I can vouch for that.

Speaker 7 (22:30):
Holy yeah, man, for a hog boy, you don't want
to hit a hog. But anyway, No, I'm just sitting
out there. I was watching this one boat loss right
than everybody in here, and got one guy fishing on
the end of the pier over here. But it's pretty
much meat mile and calm.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, I'm looking at the weather shows some stuff kind
of trying to get your way. Let me see if
I can get.

Speaker 7 (22:56):
This, because we're gonna be hitting the half house now.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
So yeah, I'm looking right. Oh yeah, you're gonna go
out that way. Come on Weather Channel.

Speaker 7 (23:09):
In the meantime over here to the far right where
I'm at. When you when you back in, there's a
booy over there. And they say there's a deep hole
over there, and I saw some guy. Oh I caught
about a full time pass over.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
The good heavens. Yeah, when was that? What year was that?

Speaker 7 (23:28):
Right now? Not right now, but a couple of years.
Uh yeah. And it was on old, dead, crusty piece
of worm that was on a treble hook.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
And I just a joke in that line somewhere I
don't know where.

Speaker 7 (23:45):
Oh, but I'm serious. I'm not kidding.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
I believe you.

Speaker 7 (23:48):
I wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
With that.

Speaker 7 (23:52):
And when that bell with off of real, I was
sitting there reading the newspaper and then all of a sudden, man, luckily,
and the water is all the way down.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Yeah, everybody's down on the coast. The water's way down too.
I don't I don't know what they're doing with with
Lake Conra, but you are, you know, you guys are lucky,
because it looks like all this rain that is moving
through here with this front is sliding south of you. Now, Oh,
good for you. Yeah, it's it's all south of Conroe.
And by the by nine o'clock, you may not well,

(24:25):
you might get one little baby shower at nine o'clock
and then that's it. That's all you get.

Speaker 7 (24:31):
Hey, we got that that puff of clouds over here
coming through.

Speaker 5 (24:36):
Man, you know what I like.

Speaker 7 (24:37):
To just lay back and look at the clouds.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
We all do. Anybody who you know, anybody from our generation.
That was how we passed a lot afternoon. It'll be
four or five little kids laying out in the yard
looking up at the clouds. Oh, that looks like a dog.
That looks like a cat, that looks like a dragon
or whatever. Yeah, all right, dad, been a pleasure. Maun sir, happy,
thanksgivin audios. All right, we gotta take a little break here.

(25:03):
On the way out. I'll tell you about Carter's Country,
which is it's that's what I grew up with. When
I needed anything or everything related to the shooting sports,
I was going to Carter's Country. Still am sixty plus
years of selling guns, AMMO and hunting stuff all over Houston.
There's three stores. Not a one of them sells snorkels,

(25:24):
Not a one of them sells what tennis rackets, none
of that stuff. What they sell is anything and everything
you need to enjoy hunting and shooting in the great outdoors.
Full service range and gunsmithing up at the flagship store
on tresh week. Two more locations down here in town
to make sure everybody can get what they need before
hunting season drifts away on us. And if you can't

(25:48):
get to the store, go online. All the latest deals
are there. There's still big red tag sales stuff going
on in there too. There's something you've kind of been
thinking about getting and have waited. Now's the time to
treat yoursel off. Carterscountry dot com is the website Carterscountry
dot com. I want to be like you. We need

(26:09):
all my food seven thirty four on Sports Talk seven
ninety The Dougpike Show. Thank you for listening. Certainly do
appreciate it. I got a tickle when I came in
here this morning. I'm trying to get a cup of coffee,
and the only cups in the kitchen are They're the
same shape styrofoam cups that we always use, the same
ones everybody uses for little coffee cups in the office,

(26:30):
only they were smaller. There were these little miniature things.
It's like getting a standard poodle or getting a toy poodle,
and these are toy poodle cups. They hold maybe I
don't know, four or five, maybe four or five ounces
of coffee and that's about it. And I thought, now
I know how Kevin Durant and Shaquille O'Neill and all

(26:51):
these big giants of humans feel when they pick up
a coke can or something like that. It just disappears,
just disappears in their hand. That's what that little, any
tiny coffee cup was doing. And the only place I
could think to look where they probably still had some
big ones from stashing them away a while back. It's
in the KTRCH newsroom. And guess what, Frankie, there were

(27:13):
cups in the KTRCH newsroom. Got them the big ones.
Check it out there, I could. I could put this
in front of the camera and just block myself out.
You can't even see me, that little one I could
have put up there. You could probably probably see my
hair lying around it. That would be kind of weird.
Erck bies. What's up?

Speaker 5 (27:32):
Well, I've got a nice little cool breeze out on
the north up there on the hill under the windmill, Amen, brother,
Yeah cool. I decided earlier this week I was gonna
go kill me something I hadn't in a while. Over
to Minardon Ranch there up there, kin folks and everybody,

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but heck, I couldn't get there. The roads was flooded.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
Oh man, Yeah, how much rain did they get through there?

Speaker 5 (27:59):
Man? One day they got seven inches, and I know
the next day they got two.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (28:03):
And they may have had a little bit yesterday, but
I think it started clear enough yesterday. I know they're
in the deer stands now. Just sent you a picture.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
But anyway, this morning, I thought, well, over here where
I'm at on the high bank of the Brasses, I
got two deer feeders and I watch them almost every
morning for I leave and figure out where I'm going.
I get here three or four and I can they're

(28:33):
like pets. I can get through fifty yard, put my
headlights on them and watch them, you know, and they're
not scared of me. But here, in the last two
weeks a buck has shown up and he's he's not
a he'd be a trophy for lots of people, sure,
and interesting. He's he's maybe a little i'd say three

(28:57):
and a half, but uh, he's a purty little deer.
And I'm thinking there's enough hunting pressure in this part
of this country. I thought somebody's gonna kill him. Yeah, Okay,
And I've been thinking about it for a while, so
I thought this morning, heck, it's cool enough. He's gonna
be right up here by one of his barns. And

(29:18):
by seeing my shooting, I figured I would so the
same three or four my pet there come out. Six
of them actually doze in yours. So they went to
the first feeder. I heard it go off, and I
was at the other one. I'm not in a mind,
And here they come, just like they always do, the

(29:40):
two those in the two years, and they peter went
off and they ate around, and then they heard the
other one go off where I was at for this one.
And so here they come, and I mean it's like clockwork,
sure and sure enough, here comes here comes this duck.

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And I'm looking at him, and through my super high
powered the monoctors, I can see him really before sun
comes up. Okay, I mean I can make him out.
You know, we're talking forty to fifty yards. I mean
his feeders are. I'm right on top of him and
across the street from me eleven hundred and something akers

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and I had never seen a human being over there.
And this morning, when I was turning in the gate,
I saw headlights over there. Oh wow, in front of
my right from that front of the gate, and I thought, well,
that's got to be a hunter, and that's right where
my deer is gonna go when they leave. And so
I did. I cut the long story, shark. I didn't

(30:43):
shoot the buck, okay, and I let him go on
and I'm sitting there in about ten minutes later.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Boom yep.

Speaker 5 (30:53):
I just I just knowing my gut that.

Speaker 8 (30:55):
They shot that.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yeah, you may not see that buck again.

Speaker 5 (30:58):
That's too bad, man, I'm down in the morning because
he's gonna come.

Speaker 4 (31:03):
All right.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
That's uh.

Speaker 5 (31:05):
That sounded that shot across the sence when you just
walked watched him walk across.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yeah, I've experienced that myself, and it just I still
feel for me. It's okay. You know, if I let
one go and somebody else gets it and they're thrilled
to have it, then okay, let them have it. I'm
good with that.

Speaker 5 (31:25):
Well, my first thought was would durn And my second
thought was, you know what, did I really want to
go drag him up?

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (31:32):
Clean him. I could have shot him. My second thought
was to sum it up, I had my shot em,
and I didn't take that that's true.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
All it's great to hear from you.

Speaker 9 (31:41):
Man.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Happy Thanksgiving. Yeah, I'll be back here tomorrow. We can
we can tune it up officially. Then all right, man,
I'll see what happened. Okay, let me go get faux
pro on the line. Here, food Pro. What's up, man,
I'm already tired boss from what.

Speaker 6 (32:01):
Well?

Speaker 9 (32:01):
You know this lake is getting load. I watched the
lake level every day, drop drop drop drop year old
man fifty eight year old man pushing a twenty foot
skeeter off a trailer with no rollers on it.

Speaker 6 (32:14):
It was.

Speaker 9 (32:15):
It was a maximum effort today. But I'm out here.
I'm out here doing what I love.

Speaker 5 (32:18):
Man.

Speaker 9 (32:18):
I got me a big half found spinner bat on
throwing these lay downs in a foot of water, already
got a couple of decent fish one and still would say,
everybody happy, happy, half their silk.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
How big a spinner bat are you throwing.

Speaker 5 (32:33):
This time of year?

Speaker 1 (32:33):
Out?

Speaker 9 (32:33):
Throw a white half ounce. It's got big red Colorado
blades on it, and I wake it, Jimmy Houston, you
see it come back. That's one of my favorites, right
and big laid down that tucker come out of there
and torpedo.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
It Mmm, see that big old wake pushing out in
front of his nose.

Speaker 9 (32:49):
Yeah, oh man, it's like watching a watching a red
fish come out coming something with shallow water.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Good stuff.

Speaker 5 (32:57):
But I've heard I've heard.

Speaker 9 (32:59):
Four shots this morning from local local Larry here. I
know where they duck cut in and I'm pretty sure
there are wood ducks. But I could tell you probably
could do the same thing. I could tell there's four
shots that I could tell by the spacing in my
mind exactly what happened. Yeah, first shot he missed. Yeah,
second shot he crippled it and there was a pause.

(33:20):
Then you hear boom, So he missed it on the water,
and then boom boom he finally got it on the water.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
Yeah, that's about right. But that's just about all.

Speaker 9 (33:31):
I bet I's right at sunrise and you got a
you got your badged turkey on the table that you shot.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
No, I'm not bagging any turkey right now, man, I'm
letting my in laws take care of that. How about that.

Speaker 9 (33:45):
I guess they banned turkeys. I've never shot a band.
I shot a few turkeys, but I've never shot a
badge the band turkeys.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
I'm one hundred percent sure they do, even though I've
never seen one. Why would they not? Now turkey, they're
not migratory birds really, so why I guess maybe to
figure out where the distribution is when they released turkey.
There's so many turkey releases in Texas, then I'm sure
those birds were banded, at least some of them. There's

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no way they would have gone to all that work
to try to re establish a population and not want
to track its distribution, so it probably I'm sure there's
a turkey band somewhere.

Speaker 9 (34:25):
Well, last last Turkey I shot. All of a sudden,
I got the opportunity to hunt on one a high
fense management rants and shoot me. Shot me with the
best I don't know if you remember seeing it at
my house, was a big, big six point management folk.
I shot and uh I did a European mount off.
But we had a bunch of turkeys. Yeah, we had
a bunch of turkeys come out to the deer blind
and the guy said, man, you want to take a turkey?

(34:47):
And I'm sitting down looking at this room. Its some
thirty six one hundred and fifty five hold off and
uh I said, well, yeah, it's about one hundred yard polke,
he goes. He asked me one quick, He goes, how
good are you with that rifle?

Speaker 5 (34:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (34:59):
I said, I'm I can hit quarters out one hundred yards.
Because that's good enough. Because what I want you to
do is shoot the butt of that turkey. Okay, So
I lined, I saw a line of big gob up,
shot the butt of it. Of course it blew up
and everything. And he said, I'm gonna show you something.
We went over and picked that turkey up. And he
picked the turkey with light as a feather. He goes,
what you did? You basically gutted that turkey when you

(35:19):
shot it. Now, gounless work to do, and you didn't
tear up no meat.

Speaker 6 (35:22):
Curious to see the weather.

Speaker 9 (35:23):
The weather thing, if y'all do it today, I got
a feel it's gonna be a pretty wide range.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
So yeah, man, yeah, yeah, it's yeah, we're gonna we
might just play the game here in a minute. Sounds
good to me. All RIGHTO bro oh ohr, but go
get me.

Speaker 9 (35:39):
I just missed one, all right, all buddy.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
All right, thanks man, appreciate it. Uh, let's take them break?
Shall we air ride bikes? If you haven't If you're
anywhere interested in an electric bike. I got my first
experience on one about Oh gosh, it's been almost a
month ago now, and I'm really really it piqued my interest.

(36:08):
I casual. I've heard casual references to him from some
hunting friends of mine, and I still think that's almost
the ideal way to run up and down the beach
looking for fish in the right time in place. And
I don't have one yet, and I'm trying to figure

(36:30):
out how I'm gonna get one. And when I'm ready,
I'm gonna go all the way up to Tomball from Sugarland.
I promise you go all the way up to Wayne
Errington's place. Air ride bikes up there at where's that
little four corners there? It is four Corner shopping Center
and Tomball right there off the tom Ball Parkway. Can't
miss it. And what you can do there is see

(36:52):
all of the different bikes he has, all of the
different configurations. There are three wheel electric bikes. There are
andard issue commuter bikes for like maybe for the kids
to run around between their friend's houses, or maybe you
want to ride it up to the store to get
a couple of little things don't want to take the cars.
A whole lot cheaper than riding out gasoline. Just hop

(37:15):
on your electric bike, put a little basket on it,
put a bell on the handlebars if you want to.
I bet he'd do that. I don't think they probably
sell many with that, but it'd be cool if you
wanted it, and he'll do it for you. Those bikes
are fun and practical the working class, the really hardcore
bikes are the ones that will like tracks us in Rambow.

(37:37):
These things, according to Wayne, and just kind of joking.
He says, if they could gain traction, they could climb
a wall. That's how strong they are, how powerful they are.
That big Rambo bike has a motor for each wheel,
and so you can you can get through soft wet terrain,
you can get uphills, you can navigate with not just

(37:59):
you on the bike either. You can actually there's a
little trailer you can get where you could kill your buck.
Go get it, put it on the trailer and haul
it all the way back to camp. And a lot
of these things, especially those bigger ones, have a really
extended range. They'll run sixty seventy eighty miles. I don't
know of anybody who's hunting that deep in the woods.
But hey, if you if you got to go up

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in there, you can. And it'd be great to take
on a on a place, a place where you wanted
to go hiking, but you didn't want to walk the
whole way. Take that e bike and let that bike
take you around. Air ride Bikes air ride bikes dot Com,
a r r ide air ride Bikes dot Com. Shame Ali,

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Welcome back seven to fifty one on Sports Talk seven
ninety to other like Shure, thank you very much for
listening on this pre Thanksgiving weekend. I keep getting all
fired up and or never too early or too late
to say Happy Thanksgiving. But I am glad at least
that we're gonna get past this this awkward period of

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And it's only because there's not that much decoration for
Thanksgiving as there is for Christmas. But as soon as
we got past what was it basically Labor Day probably
out came the Christmas decorations and all of the hardware
stores and they started introducing it and here, there and everywhere,

(39:33):
and it was just I don't know. I was joking
with somebody the other day about how at some point
we're gonna go from there's gonna be two holiday decoration times,
and that's going to be fourth of July and Christmas,
and on the fifth of July you're gonna see Santa

(39:54):
in the hardware stores. It's just I don't know. That
seems a little bit awkward and odd for me, but
retailer is retail and that's how they want to do it.
Good Heavens. Rick By sent me a picture of a
feeder that has enough there's enough deer around that feeder
to feed a whole lot of people. And that's what

(40:14):
we're going to be talking about. By the way, at
the top of the hour, and I have a guy
named Brandon Olsen on the phone from the Houston Food
Bank talking about the Hunters for the Hungry program, which
I've supported that ever since I found out about it
many many years ago. It's a really, really fantastic way
to not only feed hungry people all over this state

(40:35):
of ours, but also to make sure that we maintain
the right number of deer in the statewide herd, which
is greatly important. If you've ever heard me talk about
carrying capacity, this is a good way that we can
kind of help some of that stay in line too,
because if we don't take enough deer out of this
giant herd of deer we have, Texas has millions of deer.

(40:59):
Some states only have a couple hundred thousand, maybe in
their whole state. I've been on ranches that it seemed
like had six or eight thousand deer on them. Some
pretty big places and well managed, mind you, but it
just they've got lots of deer. And as a state,
we have lots of deer, and many of them need
to be taken annually lest we wind up if there's

(41:22):
a severe freeze or some sort of outbreak of disease.
Nature only has two tools. And I feel like a
broken record, but I'm gonna say it, the only two
tools in nature's box to counter a sudden population overload
too many deer for the amount of food that the
land can produce, or disease or starvation. One of the

(41:47):
two is going to take out a bunch of deer.
And it's not pretty to see either. I've seen the
results of both. I've seen deer that are malnourished, and
i've seen deer that have chronic wasting disease. And none
of that's pretty none at all seven one three two
one two five seven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia
dot com. We haven't talked at all about fishing this morning,

(42:11):
but if you're waiting eagerly and almost with tremendous anticipation
for the reopening of flounder season, I think you're gonna
be quite pleasantly surprised when that happens.

Speaker 4 (42:24):
There.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
There have been I don't know how many flounder caught
recently by people who know what they're doing. I've seen
several reports, and I've seen a lot of pictures of
catch and release this, and catch and release that. And
what I think is going on really is that a
lot of people who who love to eat flounder. In
my hand goes in the air when I say that
I just haven't had a chance to go spotting, go

(42:47):
looking for them. They're they're kind of testing the waters
in the places they want to fish to see if
the flounder are indeed going to be there again this
year when it reopens in the middle of December, and
the answer overwhelmingly has been yes, this and flounder move.
It's I think it's almost coincidental that the cold fronts

(43:09):
come through here this time of year. But the photo period, really,
the amount of daylight, the length of the days. Somewhere
deep in the flounders, DNA is as much a cause
for them to move as the changing temperatures, at least
as much, if not more. And this fall, if you
want to call it that foe late summer, we'll call

(43:32):
it when we've had all these days in the eighties.
And I think on the road yesterday it wasn't the
actual temperature, but on the road where it tends to
be a little bit warmer, my car said it was
eighty eight degrees, and I think, if I'm not mistaken,
last night on the weather report somewhere I believe it
may have been at the intercottin of airport, we might

(43:54):
have tickled ninety briefly and set a record. In any event,
it can't be the cold fronts. It's moving them because
we really haven't had much and this one here that
we're about to get isn't going to be nearly as
severe as it was originally predicted to be. So if
the flounder waited for cold, they may be waiting a
long long time. But if they're just moving based on

(44:18):
photo period, Yeah, that's why I think so many of
them are being caught closer and closer to the open
Gulf of Mexico, which is where they winter and do
their their spawning thing. To make sure we got more
baby flounders next year. Let me go ahead and grab him, Frankie,
I can do this, I think you think. Maybe. Yes, No,

(44:40):
I'll leave it up to you. Yeah, here we go.
All right, Hey Brandon, what's up, buddy?

Speaker 5 (44:47):
Hey, mister Pike car I'm very well, thank you.

Speaker 8 (44:52):
Im good. I'm going to tell you one thing. I'll
tell you what. I watched the commercial fishermen and they
were in the locks at matter quarter and this guy
could bounce it. It had a barrel weight and he
could bounce it off the uh, the locks and let
it sit right there. And you want to talk about

(45:14):
catch some saddle blankets, Oh my gosh, and that it
was an art. I sat there and watched that guy
and I was like, and he did every time he
bounced it off one deal and let it sit, and
all of a sudden, yeah, wow, good deal.

Speaker 1 (45:31):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (45:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (45:32):
It was a lot of fun. It was a lot
of It was a lot of fun to watch. It
really was. They can do that anymore.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
But yeah, those those days. Hopefully we're going. We got
to get that flounder population back up to where it belongs.
There have been some very good fish caughts, but we
still got a long waist to go, and they're hard
to raise. They're very sensitive to where where they came from.
It's hard to them in captivity. All right, man, you

(46:03):
got any thanksgiving plans?

Speaker 8 (46:07):
No, sir, I sure don't kick back. I like to
say me, I take that. I like to take the
holidays and just like to sit and watch deer. That's
a great year, I mean truly.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
All right, Well watch something for me, will you?

Speaker 5 (46:27):
Oh? I sure will?

Speaker 1 (46:29):
All right, Always a pleasure, my friend. All right, yes, sir, thank.

Speaker 8 (46:33):
You, Yes, sir, thank you.

Speaker 5 (46:35):
All right.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
We got to take a little break here. On the
way out. I'll tell you about El Coubano cigars. Now,
that's something I don't know if Brandon is a cigar smoker,
but if he is sitting back and watching those deer
and and enjoying a nice stogy, that's not a bad
way to go. These El Cobano cigars are hand rolled
right there in Texas City by Cubans who have been

(46:56):
in this country since it's it's many Lopez Manypez and
his dad started this company in two thousand and six
and Manny's running the show now and they use only
the finest tobaccos and they make a I think it's
about one hundred and fifty different cigars, very very robust,
down to very mild, and you can get whichever whatever,

(47:19):
whatever length, whatever size, whatever, whatever, really whatever cigar you want. Hey,
I'm sure he'd custom blend something for you if you
wanted that too. He's very accommodating to all my listers
that I've talked to who have met him and know
him and bought cigars from him, all of them very happy.
Haven't had anybody call me yet to tell me it
didn't work out. He's got two smoking lounges, one at

(47:43):
the factory where it's only one of four dozen cigar
manufacturers in the entire country. And it's right there in
Texas City on main Street, very easy to find. Not
a big place, but it's just a lot of people
making those cigars for him that he ships out every day.
If you can't get down there, if you have a
special event coming up, great, they will take any they

(48:06):
take your company logo, they take your your best cause
for a fundraiser, logo, whatever, and put it on the
bands of the cigars. They can even do custom boxing
and you'll get an amazing experience for your friends and family, anybody.
You dole those out to. Many. You'll even come to
your place and hand roll cigars for your guests if
that's what you want. Amazing place, Amazing guy. Manny Lopez

(48:30):
one of the coolest guys I've known in a long
long time and really really embraces that cigar culture. Two
smoking lounges, one in Texas City at the factory and
then one in League City not that far away, Elcubano
Cigars dot com. Elcubano Cigars dot com. All right, welcome back,

(48:50):
thanks for listening on this Saturday before Thanksgiving. I guess
that's the only way we can really describe this day.
It makes sense anyway. In this segment, we're going to
talk about making sure everybody's got some nutritious meat on
the table this holiday season, and not just not just
on the last Thursday of November. Every year, the Houston
Food Bank provides food for thousands of families this time

(49:13):
of year and a lot of that meat they distribute
comes from hunters and processors who participate in the Hunters
for the Hungry program. With that, I will bring in
Brandon Olsen for our annual talk about Hunters for the Hungry.
Welcome to the show, Brandon.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
Hi dog, thanks for having me on you bet so?

Speaker 1 (49:33):
Did I read correctly that throughout its history, Hunters for
Hungry is doled out more than what ten million servings
of nison to Texans who need healthy, glean meat.

Speaker 3 (49:43):
Yes, so that's correct. So Houston Texan or Houston Food Bank,
we are having a Hunch for the Hungry program. But
the Hunch for the Hungry program is a statewide feeding
Texas program. So yes, across the state we've been able
to get, like you said, millions of pounds venison donated
that families in needs.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
And boy they sure need it too, don't they.

Speaker 3 (50:05):
Yes, their protein is a protein's expensive and lean protein,
healthy protein like venison, is a real treat to people.
So being able to get them, you know, these donated
pounds through the program, while also having hunters be able
to go out and you know, enjoyed sport more and
spend more time out in nature. It's it's truly a
win win for everyone.

Speaker 1 (50:24):
Can you provide a kind of a very brief history
of how Hunters FM Hunger got started?

Speaker 3 (50:31):
Sure, so, Houston Food Bank has been doing Hunters with
the Hungry for about seven years now. But as far
as the program itself, I think it started back in
the eighties, if id not mistaken, But it just came
about from the need of having a way to utilize
that venison that needs to go through the processors that

(50:52):
you know, you can't really find on the grocery store shelves,
and just getting it into the hands of people who
needs the most.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
Fast forward to now, how is this program going so
far this season?

Speaker 3 (51:03):
This season, so far, it's been good. We've already had
a couple of Hunters go and donate to some of
our partner processors. We have Chapel Hill Sausage and Chapel Hill.
We have Midway Meat Market out in Katie Bay area,
Deer Processing in Pasadena, and Junior Smokehouse out in Highland.
And I've been working with those guys and they're all
great partners and really awesome processors. So they've been communicating

(51:26):
with me. We've had some donations of people you know
already have to jump of the season. It's really eager
to put pete and come back and you know help
peach family.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
Sure, let's talk about how the process works. From the
time a hundred shoots it there, it's on the ground
they feel dress that they have to feel dress at first,
and then from there through the process of how it
finally gets to the food bank. Walk us down that path,
will you, yeah? Sure?

Speaker 3 (51:52):
Things so like you said, from the beginning, it starts off,
you know, out on the lease like you're hunting already
and say you have a for tags and or you
just have extra room in your heart to give. Hunters
will take those deer, like you said, that are tagged
and cleaned. They will bring them into those partner processors

(52:13):
the same as they would as any other deer they
were hunting. They will drop off those deer to the
processors and as zero charged to the hunters themselves. Those
processors will then take that meat, they'll process it, they'll
grind it down into two pound bags of ground meat
hamburger meat style. And then from there we have community partners,

(52:35):
food banks or food pantries that are going and picking
up those pounds from those processors. So each processor that
we have in the program is partnered with a specific
food pantry in their communities, so that way all of
those pounds that are getting donated are being able to
stay with them those local communities.

Speaker 6 (52:53):
You know.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
And from what you said there, Brandon, you kind of
you just roll it rolls right off your because you've
said it so many times. But there's no charge to
the hunter. That the processors absorb the cost of processing
that deer and then getting it two hundreds for the hungry.
So and I guarantee you there were people thinking, well, yeah,
that sounds fun, but what's it going to cost me
to do that? It doesn't cost him a dime?

Speaker 7 (53:14):
Does it.

Speaker 5 (53:16):
Not a dime?

Speaker 7 (53:17):
Exactly?

Speaker 8 (53:17):
Do I agree?

Speaker 3 (53:18):
And then Houston Food Bank, through Feeding Sexes, we then
reimbursed those processors for the time and the effort that
they put in to help make this program happen. You know,
I did notice though, that there's a process again reimbursed.
Go ahead.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
Oh, I was just gonna say, I didn't notice that
there's a specific list of what can and cannot be
well not what can't, but what can be donated. You
can't just roll up in there with any skinned, out
field dressed four legged animal. It's got to be. Where
is that list, I'll read them out for you. Access
deer yes, black buck yes, fallow deer yes, mule deer

(53:56):
yes nil, guy yes or x yes. Silken should be
psycho deer, not silk a deer that's funny. And then
whitetail deer as well. So it's gonna cover most of
the exotics even that a lot of people in Texas
would shoot. And if anybody's having trouble getting rid of
their access deer, they can call me too. I don't
know about you, but I wouldn't mind having some of
that on my shelf, No, for sure.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
I mean, like you said, that's that's the full list
that we have available. And any of those deer, bring
them into the processors and yeah, as long as they're
as long as they're dressed and tagged, you can we
can really help a lot of families in need right now.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
It's a fantastic program. And it's opened all the way
through the general season.

Speaker 3 (54:36):
Right yes, sir, So it's gonna be run through that
mid January.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
That's so fantastic, man. I just I've been talking about
this every chance I've gotten with Paula in now with you,
and I'm really happy to help you guys in any
way I can. If if you get to the end
of like the middle of December or somewhere around the
end of December, and you're not getting enough deer that
not as many as you guys want, call me. We'll
talk about it again.

Speaker 6 (55:00):
Okay, Thank you, Doug.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
I really appreciate it. And like you said, we've already
had people coming back this year to return, you know,
come back out of people who have donated previously. But
I'm really excited to really start growing this program. You know,
I want to see it take off, and I want
to see it all across our eighteen county service area.
If that keep the food bake services do you have,
if you have any landowners or any processors out there

(55:24):
that want to participate in the program, and also just
you know, to the regular hunters who have room in
their coolers and trucks and extra tags and they want
to participate and help out. You know, I really appreciate
you hoping to share the message.

Speaker 1 (55:36):
And there correct me if I'm wrong, But there's really
not a point during the season when you would would
call me and say, okay, tell them to stop now
we got plenty. You're not going to do that.

Speaker 3 (55:47):
I no, you know, that would be a great problem.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
I wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
I hope I can't call back, sorry to call back
to tell people that were full. But until that point though,
to bring.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
Them in keep it coming.

Speaker 5 (55:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
I've got a lot of friends who have access to
a lot of deer and if they can find one
of those processors within uh comfortable driving range and and
take them and drop them off there and get them
processed for nothing and then feed a bunch of people
all through the winter, that would be awesome. Brandon Olson,
thank you so much, my friend.

Speaker 3 (56:19):
Yeah, sir, thank you. And for any more information on
the program, you can go to Houston Foodbank dot org
slash Hunters for the Hungry or you can shoot me
an email at Hunters for the Hungry at Houstonfoodbank dot org.
And we appreciate everyone's going to go out and donate
this year my pleasure.

Speaker 1 (56:33):
Yeah, thank you, Brandon, see buddy all all right? Yeah,
holy caw that that's such a good program and I'm
so in favor of that. It doesn't doesn't cost you
or me a dying to drop a deer off there,
except except for maybe the gas it takes to get there.
And at pretty much any place you're going to take
one of those things, you'd find yourself a reason. Uh

(56:54):
as if providing food to people who really truly need it,
and especially the way we kind of hit that bump
for the people who most desperately needed food, We kind
of hit a bump when the government shut down for
as law as it did. So maybe help those people
refill their freezers with some really really nutritious meat, all
of those deer species. You can go to the website

(57:16):
and just look and see exactly what they can and
can't take. Go to Hunters for the Hungry at Houstonfoodbank
dot org and you'll see all about that program. All Right,
we're gonna take a little break here. When we get back,
I'm gonna have Mitchell Holder on the line. If you
don't know who Mitchell is, he's the guy who runs
waterfowl Specialties down in El Campo, and I'm gonna get

(57:37):
a waterfowl update from him, right from the horse's mouth
and probably either from a probably from a duck blind
maybe who knows. I haven't talked to him yet this
morning from a goosebread somewhere who knows. We're gonna find
out when we get back on the way out. Let
me tell you about Shooter's Corner Parmer Highway at twenty
nine Street down in Texas City. That is the place
that's run and has been forever since it started forty

(58:00):
something years ago by Jerry TK and now his son
Jay right there alongside him, and then a handful of
other employers or employees that they picked over the years
who genuinely know a lot about the shooting sports and
about getting whatever situation you have with a gun or
with Ammo, anything to do with the shooting sports. Almost

(58:23):
anybody who's in that store can help you. Jerry and Jay,
of course top of the ladder, no question, two of
the best gunsmiths I've ever known. They build amazing custom rifles.
You're gonna get exactly what you want, exactly what you need.
And then if you can hang out a little bit
and you can hear some amazing hunting and shooting sports stories,
or you can have if you listen to one, somebody

(58:44):
has to stay and listen to your story too. That's
kind of the way it's always worked. When I've gone
down there. There's a very comfortable, very well worn couch
in there, a big old chair in there. Those aren't
for decoration. Those are for sitting, storytelling, and there's all
kinds of storytelling goes on in that place every single day.

(59:05):
V Shooters CORNERTX dot com family owned and operated for
forty plus years. If you wear a badge for a living,
you get a discount, which I think is pretty cool.
V Shooters corner TX dot com. I got seven on
my mind, Hey twenty one on Sports Talk seven ninety

(59:26):
The Doug Pike Show. Thanks for listening.

Speaker 5 (59:28):
Well.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
We tried to get in touch with Mitchell Mitchell Holder
from Waterfowl Specialties because I was gonna talk to him
from the blind and I'm sure hunkered down and with
his head leaning over his phone. He texted me and said,
we're sitting out here in a downpour. Let's wait a
little bit, so we're gonna call him back at nine o'clock.

(59:49):
I'll give him time for these clouds to blow out
of there. Let me take a quick look by the way.
You know, while we're doing this and talking about weather
a little bit, I think this would not be a
bad day to tee up the the Texas Temperature Game,
and uh Frankie has has worked up his own intro
for it. So what I'm gonna do is try to
get somebody to call in here who would like to

(01:00:10):
go play golf up on the north side, either at
Oakhurst or River Plantation golf courses. I have gift certificates
to both of those that let's see what it gets
you here. It gets you golf for four Monday through
thursdays and then Friday, Saturday or Sunday weekends after noon,

(01:00:30):
no holidays. It's it's it's a pretty simple, straightforward gift certificate,
but it's good. What it's gonna get you is you
and three buddies chance to go play a couple of
nice courses up there on the on the north side
of town. Seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
If you don't know how the game is played, I
will explain it when you get on the phone. It's

(01:00:51):
very easy. All I'm gonna do basically is just ask
you to guess what the high temperature is and what
the low temperature is. And we're gonna take the second caller.
Uh you know, let's say you well, let's just go
with that one right there. Whoever it was first in,
first on, let's do that. And so I'm I'm glad
to have somebody to play. This is gonna be fun.

(01:01:11):
We haven't done it in a long time, but I
think today will be a good day to do it.
And it looks like I have some you know what,
We could do this right now, can't we, Frankie? We
have ton correct unless that unless that intro you did
is like five minutes long. No, no, okay, it can
just go on there. Yeah, the fun stuff. We'll get
to the fun stuff and then we'll get him on
the phone. Actually, let's just get him on the phone. Now,

(01:01:32):
go ahead and start your music up stand by, Matt.

Speaker 4 (01:01:39):
Is it hot?

Speaker 1 (01:01:40):
We'll hold up a speaker or is it cold? You
can see my own problems here? Well, butt you to
the test on the Texas Temperature game. I guess now, huh, Frankie,
all right, let's do this. Let me get this Texas
Temperature or map here up and running. Matt, do you

(01:02:03):
understand the game? Have you ever heard it before?

Speaker 8 (01:02:07):
I've listening to you for a long time.

Speaker 7 (01:02:09):
I don't think I've ever heard this game.

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
That's Okay, it's been a while since we played back
when Gosh, it's been a while. So here's the deal.
I'm gonna ask you, and I'm gonna ask Frankie what
you think the current high temperature in the state of
Texas is. Then I'm gonna ask you what you think
the current low temperature is. And whoever has the closest

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total differential to the actual numbers is the winner. Now, Frankie,
I don't know if Frankie even wants that. You don't
play golf, do you, Frankie, No, So I'll put the
I'll put the certificate back into rotation if he beats you.
This is his first time doing this and this is
your first time, so I think it could go pretty well.
So for starters, Matt, do you want to go first

(01:02:56):
or second?

Speaker 9 (01:02:58):
I'm good it with either.

Speaker 6 (01:03:00):
The point is the highest temperature any of the state
versus lowest temperatureity in the state.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
Yeah, and we're gonna add the Let's say if you
said it was one hundred and twenty degrees as a
high and it's actually one hundred and ten, then that's
a ten point difference, right, So that's that's the number
that's gonna matter for both of you, and then the
person who has the lowest differential between both of the
numbers totaled wins the big prize. There you go, so

(01:03:26):
I'll let you tee it up first. Matt. Put Frankie
on his heels. What do you think the current low
temperature or high temperature? Excuse me, I said high low?
What do you think the current high temperature in the
state is right now? Seventy eight seventy eight. Frankie, what
do you think is the high temperature in the state

(01:03:47):
right now? I'll go one lower, seventy seven seventy seven. Okay, Matt,
what do you think is the current low temperature in
this entire state of Texas of ours? Thirty seventy thirty seven. Okay?

(01:04:07):
And Frankie, what do you think is the lowest temperature
in the state. I'll go a little bit higher, maybe
thirty nine, thirty nine. That would make your difference one
of those. I'm going to add them all together, and
the actual current high temperature in the state happens to

(01:04:27):
be seventy nine degrees. You guys were both you guys
were both very very close on that. The actual low
all the way up in where is that at? At
Herford is thirty two on the nose, So Matt's difference
between the two is a grand total of six degrees. Frankie,

(01:04:49):
yours is nine. I'm sorry, you're oh for one and
Matt's one and oh oh yeah, so I hope you
liked it. Yeah you what?

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
Undefeated?

Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
Yeah? Really yeah, that's a good way to look at it.
All right, Well, Frankie's gonna get some information from you.
I will leave this certificate with the people who who
deal with the prizes and whatnot, and you can come
grab it. You got to come get it. We can't
mail it to you unfortunately, but it'll be worth it.
You can take three guys golfing and make them buy
your beer. You'll be all right, all right, man, thank you, Matt.

(01:05:24):
Oh yeah, yes, sir, I'm gonna put you on hold
and frank you'll get your info. Thanks man. How about
that one? And oh, undefeated Matt is congratulations? Man, that
was probably two of the best overall performances anytime it did.
The total differentiation is just single digits. That's pretty dog

(01:05:45):
on good. And that yeah, to just right out the shoot.
I like that, I really do. I like that a
lot seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. For those
of you who did not get to play, we might
just play it again tomorrow. I'm I'm gonna see what
this front does to the state of Texas. Now, this
is all done on an honor system, by the way,
because anybody who actually wanted to could just go look

(01:06:08):
it up and nail them both. But I appreciate it
when people respect the honor system in this game and
aren't just sitting there with somebody in the passenger seat
or looking at your pad at the house or whatever. Yeah,
just played by the rules. A lot more fun that way.
At some point when this thing just kind of think

(01:06:28):
about where the fronts are and when they've hit Texas
and whatnot. And ironically, let me see where that seventy
nine is. I think it's probably down in the valley. Yeah,
holy caw, you can't get any more down in the
valley than where this is. That would be at Brownsville
seventy nine. I thought it might be up around Galveston,
which typically has been the highest place highest temperature in

(01:06:52):
the state. Seventy five at Galveston. Right now, that's the
second highest reading I see anywhere. And there's a couple
of seventy five down here. Let's see where this is.
Got to move this thing up a little bit. Oh,
there's an ad that keeps popping in here and annoying me.
We've got a seventy seven at Rockport, seventy seven at Corpus,

(01:07:14):
and then a bunch of seventy sevens just north of
that seventy nine. As you might guess, I see it now,
there's a pair of just is just kind of breaking
news if you want to giggle a little bit. Oh gosh,
I gotta roll this thing all the way down. Scroll down,
scroll down. Where is that? Yeah, plain view? Also thirty
two degrees now, and interestingly enough, just a little not

(01:07:38):
that far north. I'm not pleased with the way this
thing is working right now. There are I need to
get a bigger screen on this thing. For some reason,
it won't let me do it. A couple of forty
six is yeah, right in the middle of the state.
There was another lower temperature. Oh well, I'm not gonna

(01:07:59):
waste my time with new or weather. The weather is
what it is. There's clearly some rain going through El
Campo right now. That would probably be more interesting than
me bemoaning the fact that this little tiny screen I
use for this particular segment of the show is not
giving me what I want to see. That rain, Yeah,

(01:08:19):
that rain that's hitting him down there in El Campo
is kind of making a bee line almost straight east.
The good news is the closer it gets to here,
the more it dissipates. And now that's gonna there's also
let's see when hold on, I'm gonna let this thing
run out again, because I want to see exactly when

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this stuff is gonna pass Houston and then hit the coast. More.
It's kind of a secondary line that's gonna hit the
coast ten eleven, twelve o'clock around the middle of the day.
You're gonna see some rain in Alvin or not Alvin, Angleton, Lake, Jackson, Galveston,
even Bay City, just the coast stuff. But this band
that's coming across now pretty much falls apart starting at

(01:09:06):
about ten o'clock and then just fizzles to nothing, while
that secondary band moves on to the coast. And there
you have. That's about all the weather I want to
do right now. Black Horse golf Club. You know, there's
there could be some issues up around black Horse for
the next maybe thirty forty five minutes. Then it looks
like it cleans out. Yeah, I got a hunter. There's

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going to be some sunshine up there long before noon.
It looks clear as a bell all the way through
the afternoon. So if you wanted to go play golf
on the northwest side, that'd be the place to go.
Black Horse is on Fry Road, just a little way
south of two ninety. Been there for like most of
these good courses around here that have stuck and maintain
their positions, been around for the better part of twenty

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twenty five years. Great place to hold a big tournament.
They've got two golf courses up there now. The south
course is private, but you can probably make arrangements on
specific days a few at least each year to hold
a two course tournament up there. And they've got a
great teaching facility at the far end of the range.
They've got a fantastic warm up area. You can get

(01:10:11):
fifty sixty golfers going all at one time, trying to
get ready for a tournament, get everybody out on time,
great grill, just all around, wonderful place to go play golf.
The North Course still daily fee as it always has been.
It's that South course that went private and many good
things have been happening there all year long. Black Horse
Golf Club dot com there is a membership option that

(01:10:34):
actually gets you access to Black Horses two courses, to
Golf Club of Houston's two courses, and to Blackhawk Country
Club out in Richmond, if you'd play your cards right
and that if you like to play golf on more
than just one course every time, that's a great option
for private membership. Black Horse Golf Club dot com is
the website. Go there and ask your questions or give

(01:10:56):
them a call. Black Horse goolf Club dot Com. A
thirty six on Sports Talk seven to ninety The Duck
Pike Show, Thank you for listening this morning. Well, I've
got all kinds of boxes to unwrap right now. I'll
get to this one in just one second, but before

(01:11:18):
I do, by the way, if you're if you're gonna
be on the Southwest Freeway coming inbound from out around
ninety nine or anywhere in southwest Houston, make note that
the entire freeway is shut down at I think at
bell Air, they force you off. No it's not. I
don't think they force you off at bel Air. I

(01:11:39):
think they force you off at Hillcroft. I got off
at bel Air and then cutting north all the way
up to the West Park Tollway and came in that
way to get to the Galleria area where we are.
But everybody else is forced off the freeway and onto

(01:11:59):
the the access road aka feeder if you're from Texas.
And I got a hunch that on a Saturday, with
potential for a little bit of rain and whatnot, it
could be a hot mess. There are a lot more
cars on the road today than there will be tomorrow,
but still having to shut down the entire freeway. And
it's all construction, that's all it is. There's some repairs

(01:12:22):
and stuff being done to the entire freeway and I
could see all of that from the West Park Tollway
and it looks like it wraps up and lets you
back on just a little ways after the right at
West Park there. So from bel Air all the way
to there on the access road, that's a long time

(01:12:44):
to be sitting in traffic. Just listen to our traffic reports.
I'm sure they've got it on there if they don't
you heard it here first. But yeah, the Southwest Freeway
coming inbound, and there was so much going on this morning,
so many trucks and cars and whatnot parked up there
for all the workmen who were working on that stuff.
I got a hunch it's gonna be there all weekend.

(01:13:04):
So just make your plans accordingly, pick your routes accordingly,
and try not to lose too much time getting from
point A to point b.

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:13:14):
That's taken care of. This is taken care of.

Speaker 8 (01:13:17):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:13:17):
By the way, I had yet another good meal from
Berry Hill just a couple of days ago, and the
boy was I glad I did. They're gonna be doing
some They're gonna be doing some more catering for us too,
and I cannot wait. Personally, I love that stuff, every
bit of it. I'm still I hesitated at first. When
I first started going in there twenty something thirty years ago,

(01:13:38):
I wasn't a big fish taco guy. I hadn't really,
I don't know that i'd had a fish taco. And
now that I had him from there, it's starting quite
a while ago. That's one of my favorites. Of course,
the seafood, enchiladas. I could go on and on, but
it's a great place.

Speaker 9 (01:13:52):
Shum.

Speaker 1 (01:13:53):
What is it, Sugar Creek Boulevard at fifty nine. Go
out there and check them out. I was talking to
Wendy yesterday, the woman who owns the play. She and
her two sons own and operate that place. And it's yeah,
if you go there and you got a family to
feed and you want a nice, reasonably priced, outstanding meal,
go to Berry Hill or get them to cater to

(01:14:14):
it somewhere anywhere in town. Really all right? So back
where I was. I got a story from Rudy a
minute ago. Rudy finds some some really unique stories that
I tend to miss.

Speaker 5 (01:14:27):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:14:28):
I guess he's got some. Well, this is not a
secret source. I actually know of this source. I do,
but I haven't looked at it and long. It's just
a New York post, that's all it is. The headline,
grizzly bear attacks students and hero teachers who tried to
fight it off, leaving eleven people injured. So here's the

(01:14:49):
scoop from the post. A grizzly bear attacked a group
of Native American school children and their teachers injuring eleven,
some critically, including a heroic school team who tried to
fight off the aggressive predator. Boy, that's you talk about
going above and beyond your pay grade as a teacher.
That's somebody who genuinely cared. It was a group of

(01:15:11):
fourth and fifth graders. Oh my god, how terrifying walking
a trail in Bellicula, British Columbia, about four hundred and
thirty miles northwest of Vancouver. There's got to have been
something wrong with that bear. Oh man, that's so sad.
See injured, including he wrote, teachers who tried to fight

(01:15:33):
off the bear to protect the kids in their care.
A mother of one of the students was also out there,
and of course that one unidentified male teacher who got
the whole brunt of it and was among those airlifted
to a nearby hospital. That's what that's according to one
of the moms. Good heavens. Wow, this man's and this

(01:15:57):
woman's ten year old son was so close to this
grizzly bear during all of that that he even felt
its fur. That's a direct quote from her. That's way
too close to a grizzly bear that's gone Bersert. Now,
we don't have grizzly bears here, but we got mountain lions,
we got coyotes, and if you're out there walking around

(01:16:22):
in the woods all by yourself, just be aware. We
got snakes. There's all kinds of things anywhere in the wild.
There are predators. There are apex predators. There are things
that aren't really predators but will bite or sting you
if they're pushed into a corner, and you just have
to be aware of them, and you have to be respectful.

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And man, thank God for that one teacher who went
in and just tried to fight a grizzly bear. That's wow.
That's a hard one to take. That's a hard one.
Very quickly, before we go to break two, I'll remind
you that we had a hunting fatality now in Marion County,

(01:17:04):
forty five year old guy. I can't remember his name offhand,
but that's forty five year old guy there. It is
right there, Jose Ramirez. I had it written down. This
man lost his life pulling a rifle out of his vehicle.
That that's the second time I've heard of that happening ever,
and I'm sure it's happened more often than that, but
that's only the second one that I actually really know

(01:17:26):
the details on, and it just serves as a reminder
every time you handle a firearm, you better make sure
you know what's going on with both ends of it,
because if it goes off, then there's no there's no
calling back. The bullet fishing accidents tend to be far
less severe boating accidents fatalities every year in this state.

(01:17:47):
I hate that, and it's the same with the hunting accidents.
I'm trying to live long enough to go through a
year where there's no where there's zero hunting fatalities, and
I was I talked earlier about this, and I don't
recall specifically any of those. There may have been one,
but I wouldn't know when it was, and I may
try to look during a break, but like I said earlier,
it doesn't really matter whether there's only been one or none,

(01:18:12):
because if there's one, that's still won too many. So
let's just start fresh right now and at least try
to get through the rest of this season. And that
means everybody who's going to be out hunting, everybody who's
going to the range to shoot, everybody who's handling firearms
has got to be really, really careful. All right, let's
tee up Belleville Meat Market talk about that for a minute.
By the way, I heard from them. So if you were,

(01:18:33):
if you were planning on running out there and ordering
up or calling today and ordering a turkey for the holidays, sorry,
too late. They're sold out of their turkeys for the season,
which is amazing. They there's only so many they can
run through that process to make them taste as good
as they do, And so no, you can't get one. Unfortunately,

(01:18:54):
you can still get the homemade stuff, pork tenders, you
can get halopenyo cream cheese, sweep a chipotle cream, dirty rice,
boot in stuff, pork chops, pans sausage or boot in
labuchery stuff, chickens. You can get all those delicious sausage
flavors out there, deer, Tomali's, venison, hot dogs, all the snacks,
the grabbing ghost snacks that you want. And of course

(01:19:18):
if you're out there physically there dropping off of deer,
maybe just pulling through to get something to eat for
the next couple of weeks, you always able to get
that delicious barbecue meal that's served seven days a week
from ten in the morning to seven pm. The con
smoke pulled pork, homemade hot dogs, all of that stuff
on the menu, plus the sides to go with them,

(01:19:38):
as you would expect at a good place that serves
delicious barbecue. Belleville Meat Markets is about fifteen minutes north
of Sely, fifteen minutes south of Hempstead. Very easy to
get to and a great place to drop off your deer,
a great place to go, grab something to eat, and
just sit around and talk to people who've been doing
the same thing you've been doing. Belleville Meatmarket dot com
is a website. Bellville meat Market eight fifty. It is,

(01:20:08):
in other words, about ten twelve minutes from talking to
Mitchell Holder out there in El Campo. I think the
rain is going through there. Let me run this little
weather channel lap up here real quick, and let's see
how El Campo looks right now. It's looking pretty good. Actually,
I think they're yeah. I think they're gonna be clear
even in the next few minutes, maybe the next thirty

(01:20:30):
minutes at worst. And I'll get Frankie to give him
a call right before we go to break, just to
see if he needs another twenty minutes to clear it out.
But once that happens, there's this little line of showers
that are gonna materialize along the coast and give everybody,
everybody down that way a sprinkle. Sugar Land's getting popped
pretty good right now. I could use it. I could

(01:20:50):
use all the rent I could get. I went through
this morning on the way here. It took these kind
of back roadway to get up to first to get
up to Richmond and or get onto the or up
to West Park and then get on the tollway there
and then come around and I went through one area
it had been dry concrete, dry concrete all the way,

(01:21:12):
and then going up where did not get off Fondring,
Going up Fondering just north of bell Air, I went
through about maybe a quarter to a third of a
mile of soaked, puddly concrete and then right back to
dry and that was it. That was all the moisture
I saw on the ground. You talk about an isolated shower,

(01:21:36):
but technically I guess kind of like yesterday when I
was playing golf with my buddies out at black Hawk,
we had on the first tea box, I want to
say a total of about four or five rain drops
fall on the guy who was playing from the same
teas I play on and me we had four or

(01:21:56):
five rain drops, and he looked at me. He goes, well,
the weather man was right. It rained, and indeed it had,
but that was it. That was the only drop we
got there. So this is all kind of scattered, weird stuff.
And bottom line is we're gonna get some cooler temperatures
out of this, thankfully, get off this late summer pattern
we've been on, which has helped fishing considerably. It really has,

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and I'm glad to see that. But as far as
ready for fall, if we're going to get a real fall,
we had that one front what was it two and
a half three weeks ago, Frankie, that took it down
in the forties overnight, and I think we've got one
of those coming. I haven't actually looked. Let me let
me take a real quick look at that. If I
can get to it without wasting too much time. I

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want where did it go? I have it up on
the top here there it is, Houston weather. I'll count
to five, then I'll move on. If it doesn't come up,
come on, uh yeah, still a high of eighty today,
then seventy six, and eighty two, then seventy nine, then
finally we get to where it cools off. The overnight
low on Tuesday fifty seven, the high on Wednesday sixty eight,

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then the high on Thursday sixty four, and those two
nights both have a low in the high forties, which
is actually up a couple of degrees from the last
time I looked. This is some I think if you
went back and looked for fifty or sixty years, you
could find a similar weather pattern. But it's just in

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the now when you're looking at it, and everybody else
in the country, or not everybody else, but most regions
well north of us have a true summer, winter, spring fall.
There are seasons where you can just carve them off
of the calendar, say, Okay, it's gonna be nice here,
it's gonna be hot here, it's gonna be nice again.

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Then it's gonna be cold and nice. We don't get
that these things come at us in little chunks of
about four or five days. Would you agree, Frankie, Oh, yeah,
we have probably six weeks of fall, but they might
come in who knows, it might start in August. It
might get a little baby cold front through here. It

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drops it down to about eighty five in the daytime
instead of one hundred, and then we might get a
hot day. I can remember as a little kid actually
going out and playing on Christmas Day and shorts and
a T shirt, which is not traditionally winter apparel in
many areas north of about I don't know, maybe Mobile Alabama. Uh,

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maybe north of Miami. Let's call it. Oh well seven
one three, two two five seven NINEY Email me does
Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. I want to go down
my little list over here that I was going to
talk about. Got that. Yeah, By the way, we we are,
I think we're gonna end up having a very good
deer season overall, despite all this warm weather on the

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front end, which really it's not a whole lot of
fun sitting in a fox blind that's got sun baking
on it and your your temperatures inside or probably it's
eighty five degrees outside and you're probably at ninety two
inside that thing, even with the windows open and the
little hot breeze. It's kind of like being in a
in an air fryer. But you still go because it's

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deer season and you got to go, but the animals
aren't moving much, and it's it's not what you wanted,
but it's what you get, so you go. Once this weather, really,
I think this next front, this front that's coming at
us now, it's not it's not gonna be super cold,
but I think finally behind this one will turn a
little more fall like for at least a couple of

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three weeks. Good grief, it's gonna be December, after all.
It's got to cool off at some point. And Thursday's
gonna be nice sunny for Thanksgiving. Sixty four degrees in
the daytime and forty eight at night. That's outstanding. If
you have plans to fish, plans to hunt, and you

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think they're a little bit out of the norm, and
you want to either brag or just say, Okay, yeah,
this is what we're gonna do. Or if you've been
if you've been told that there will be no hunting
over the Thanksgiving weekend and you've just said okay, then
we can all mourn for you. If you want to
just call up and confess that sad little piece of

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your calendar, I'm not gonna hunt this coming weekend. I
don't think a week from now one.

Speaker 4 (01:26:33):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (01:26:33):
You know what, I may change that. I am gonna
take a couple of days off coming up through this
week to just recharge and get out in the wild
somewhere and ride around and maybe see some deer, maybe
see some ducks or geese or whatever. But I'm gonna
and maybe go fishing too. I need to squeeze in.
I need to squeeze about from now through next weekend.

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I need to squeeze a whole lot into that sack.
I got to about thirty pounds of out doors into
a ten pound sack, and I'm not sure exactly how
I'm gonna do it, but I'm pretty sure I'm gonna
do it and feel better if we're not working a
couple of rounds of golf too. I got one guy
I want to call and play golf with who I
haven't played with in forever. Actually i've never played golf

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with him, I don't believe, and I've heard him talking
about it recently. I'm gonna see if I can see
him up see what we can do. All right, We're
gonna take this break right now so I can get
back and get Mitchell Holder on the line. If it's
stopped raining down there in l Campo. All the way out.
I'll tell you about American shooting centers. I don't know, well,
a little later today, it'll be fine. In fact, it
may be fine already. I think the worst of what

(01:27:37):
Katie's gonna get is already through there. So American shooting
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check your handgun proficiency, and get some rounds in, just
get some practice in. The more comfortable you are and
the more you shoot, the more comfortable you get, and
the more likely you are to not make them a

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stake with your gun under pressure, if you ever have
to do that, And by pressure I mean buck fever,
I mean a bunch of ducks just right there in
front of you, and there you want to try to
hit more than one for a change, if you're lucky,
or that maybe there's something going on at the house
that requires you to draw your to get your firearm.
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All right, Third hour starts right now. Thank you all
for listening. I certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (01:29:04):
You know that.

Speaker 1 (01:29:04):
I hope you know that at least anybody who's ever
sent me any kind words about what I do or
how I do it, I always respond and always say
thank you just for listening, and then thank you for
the kind words as well. We are trying to find
excuse me, Mitchell, Mitchell Holder from El Campo and Waterfowl Specialties,

(01:29:27):
And I don't know, it seems like the weather has
settled out down there a little bit. But I wonder
if his guys in the blind might have said, look,
let's just pick him up and get out of here
and try again another day or something like that, because
he's not picking up his phone right now. And as
a guide, I understand what that means. As a former guide,

(01:29:48):
I'm not guiding any more waterfowl hunts. I'll sit in
the blind and blow duck calls for you if you
want to, and probably do okay. Still, I'm a little
bit rusty, but I suspect it knowing when not to
call might give me an edge over a lot of
people I've hunted with over the past few years. That's
one of the things that everybody who who does this professionally,

(01:30:10):
I think would agree on is that overcalling is way
more damaging to your success than undercalling. And anybody who
is as a guide sat around on an afternoon next
to a big, giant flat somewhere with a thousand or
more ducks on it knows that you have to really

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sit there a while to hear much, if any calling.
If they're in a good, comfortable field place where they're happy,
they're not making a whole lot of noise. They're eating,
and even ducks know not to talk with their mouthsful,
so once they start quacking and making a bunch of noise,
there's a good chance they're about to bolt out of there.

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And the faster duck hunters learned that, the faster they're
going to start seeing more ducks and getting more ducks
to come close. The simplest rule. And I've said it
a million times, and I'm sure if you've duck on
it long enough, you've heard it almost as many from
other people. As long as the ducks are coming at you,
there's no reason to call at all unless you are
just one hundred percent confident in a little feed chuckle

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or something like that. But to start just yapping away
at him like you're screaming at him, like a Karen
coming up the sidewalk to tell you she doesn't like
your mailbox or something like that. Just keep your mouth shut,
Just keep that call in your pocket. That's where it
that's where it belongs most of the time. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety man, I haven't hm.

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We we talked about a little bit of deer earlier.
Here's a question. After all that went on in Central Texas,
that horrific flood we had a while back, it's all
almost certain that a lot of a lot of exotic
game found its way out of a lot of or

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at least some exotic game found its way out of
some high fenced ranches. That's how most of the exotics
that people see on their property and never put one
on there, but doggone. There's an axis deer, there's a
psycha deer, there's something a black buck. Whatever. Where'd that
come from? Well, it came from probably upstream and of

(01:32:34):
at least enough floodwater to have lifted that animal either
over the fence at a low crossing point, or maybe
it washed out a place under the fence for the
animal to get through. But either way, that animals on
their property. And I'm kind of curious to know if
anybody who hunts that area, that region of Texas has

(01:32:55):
either heard or seen anything that would lead them to
believe that some of that wildlife gotten mixed and moved
and moved around to the advantage of other people. Certainly,
Forrest sent me a picture. Foux Pro sent me a
picture just a second ago of a croppie. Now, if
you'll recall when he called in earlier, he was throwing

(01:33:18):
a half ounce spinner bait with the big old red
willow leaf blades and dogne if he's not got a
picture of this thing, and it's big and it is
hanging out of the mouth of a croppie that his
little line he put underneath the picture says, Wow, I
didn't expect a crappie to eat a big spinner bait. Well,

(01:33:40):
I just sent back big crappy it is. It had
no I don't think it had any hesitation at all
to grab whatever that was and just eat whatever he
could and then maybe come back later to finish it off.
It is a big croppy, though, and that is a
big spinner bait. One or the other. It's either a
little spinner bait and a little or knowing that it's

(01:34:02):
a half out spinner bait, that's a very big cruppy.
So hats off to him. That guy seems to always
be in the right place at the right time for
that stuff. Huh. I guess it's experience. That's what it
takes to fish pretty much anywhere in Texas. The good
news is we have so many good places where you

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and I and anybody else can go to hone our skills.
And I had the advantage many years ago of being
invited to jump in boats with some of the best
fishermen in the state of Texas, especially coastal fishermen. A
lot of the good lake guides as well. Though I fish,
I can't even say most of the lakes in Texas

(01:34:44):
because we have so many good lakes. But I fished
Lake Fork a few times. I fished where, just here, there,
and everywhere. So I covered East Texas very well, and
I covered Central Texas pretty well. I didn't get down
out much or farther out west. There wasn't really much
to draw me much farther west than the places I went.

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But everywhere I went and everybody I fished with when
I was really doing a lot of that, I learned
something from. And if you ever go fishing with somebody,
especially with a guide or somebody who's even a very
experienced amateur angler, you should learn something. If you don't,

(01:35:29):
you weren't paying attention, because no matter how good you are,
you can learn something from everybody you fish with. I
learned that fishing with people on the East Coast and
up through the Midwest and East coast all the way
up to Maine. Every time i'd go on one of
those trips up that way to do something, I went
in with these preconceived notions, a little bit about how

(01:35:50):
they did things, or an idea of how I would
fish if I were fishing there, as if I had
any idea really, And mostly I just kept my eyes
open and my ears open and listened and talked to them,
and they were turns out, most of them are doing
the same thing with me, and we end up exchanging
ideas and information that was absolutely one hundred percent beneficial

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to both of us. I'll never forget being told that, oh, no,
those big stripe baths they won't eat top waters, No,
they won't. We were in ten feet of water in
Chesapeake Bay and catching these things on jig heads with
big like ten inch sand deal ten and twelve inch
sand deals on them, and it was fun and we

(01:36:34):
were getting them. But I also kept seeing these fish
blow up on top every now and then, and I asked,
I said, will these fish eat top waters?

Speaker 4 (01:36:42):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:36:42):
Now we don't even throw top waters up here, they
won't eat them. And I asked, them, if you mind it,
if I tried, no, go ahead and knock yourself out.
And it took a bit, but I was really stubborn
back then, and I didn't want to throw anything butt
top waters, big grimes, and I had a lot of
trips on Mattagorda Bay where the other couple of people

(01:37:03):
in the boat were throwing jigs and he and I
were throwing top waters all day long. Didn't matter. And
I took that attitude to Chesapeake Bay and ended up
catching two or three really significant fish on top waters
right out from under the noses of a guy who'd
been guiding up there for twelve or fifteen years, and
just absolutely not. Now we don't even carry top waters.
They won't eat them. Yeah they will, but you have

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It just makes you look like you know what you're doing,
even if you don't. Just said, I go go on

(01:37:48):
to the Pudding Green and just to hang around for
a while and wear that gear and people will look
at you. I actually had a guy ask me one
time on the range at Blackhawk as I was walking
off if I was one of the pros there and
I said, clearly, you didn't see me make any swing,
but I appreciate the acknowledgment. I am dressed pretty sharply.
I was decked out pretty well and Kobe Stephen's shirt

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and cap and had my real golf pants on, and
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T E V E n S dot com. Hi, welcome
back Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:39:30):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:39:30):
There is some golf to talk about. I suppose we
could do that, and I don't mind doing that. I'm
a fan of golf. I might even watch some this
afternoon to put me to sleep, give me a little
nap golf. As much as I like watching now, I
wouldn't fall asleep and have it. I don't believe during
a major. When I'm watching a major like the Masters,

(01:39:54):
or the Open Championship, whatever, US Open, PGA Championship, any
any big event like that, I can. I can stay
awake unless somebody's running away with it, and then it's
kind of like, Okay, I don't really care who finishes second.
I just want to see I want to see good golf,
and I want to see six holes to play with

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four guys within one shot of the lead. That's what
I want to see, and really watch these guys sweat
and think and second guests themselves and just and then
just commit to a swing and make it and see
who makes the best one. But this time of year,
there is golf going on, and there are some pretty
good players over at Sea Island. There's well Saint Simon's Island,

(01:40:40):
the RSM Classic. Andrew Novak through two rounds is leading
at sixteen under par after shooting sixty one on Thursday.
That's pretty exceptional. And they back that up with a
sixty five. Only sixteen under par through two rounds. That's
pretty dog on good. Patrick Rogers and Michael Thorbornson both

(01:41:03):
at fifteen under par. Grayson Sigg, Sammy Volamacky and well
they're the only two at fourteen actually, and then let
me check thirteen's there's only one Johnny Keefer and then
I'll read the twelves. It's gonna take a minute, and
then we'll move on the twelve under pars, four shots
off the lead with two rounds to play. Seewoo, Kim

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Hayden Buckley, Eric Cole Quaid sut excuse me, Quaid Cummins,
Andrew Putnam, JT Posting, and Ricky Castillo. Everybody else is
probably gonna end up playing for a better position and
a little bit bigger check, but probably not the first
place check, even with two rounds to play. I'm looking

(01:41:46):
at the field that's underneath that mark, and I'm not
seeing I'm really not seeing a name that tells me,
all we better watch out for that guy. Yeah, there's
some older, more established, long term PGA guys still in
the running, but they're far enough down that a lot

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of those guys, I really do think. Number One, they
play these tournaments this time of year to just stay
on their game. Some of them do, and others among
them play this time of year to work on things
in their game. And if they get a good paycheck,
you know that probably typically finish maybe top twenty five,
top forty. They're going to get a pretty decent weekly

(01:42:30):
paycheck out of that and keep the lights on back
at the house and the other house and the other house.
So hats off to all of them who can grind
out a living playing golf. I've talked many times about
what I've learned from people who did that for a
living and still do how hard it really is, especially
nowadays when they're having to fund an entire entourage of

(01:42:53):
people who are in their camp and in their corner,
and there are so many different people involved in all that.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. I'm gonna do
one more reminder about that, about that hunting fatality, because
I wanted to stick. I really do, and I'm not

(01:43:14):
gonna dwell on it this time, and I'm not going
to go into all the details. But it was just
a couple of days ago, I think, or maybe even yesterday,
might have been two days ago. A guy going out
to hunt and up in Grapevine, well he's from grape Vine.
He was hunting somewhere in Marion County getting a rifle
out of vehicle, and for some reason the rifle was

(01:43:36):
pointed right toward him and it went off for some
reason undisclosed in the story I saw, and it ended
up killing the guy. There's a second incident, like I said,
I know of that that happened very similar circumstance. The
guys retrieving a rifle from the from the car, from

(01:43:58):
the back of the car like a hatchback kind of thing,
and reached in and was pulling it out, and for
whatever reason, somehow someway. The trigger. I don't think it
was cased that particular rifle, and the trigger was activated.
It was pulled somehow by something in that vehicle. I
guess that's the only way I can figure this happened.

(01:44:21):
But it took him out right then and there on
the spot. There wasn't much anybody could do. And I
know more details about that one that are pretty sad,
but I'll just leave it at that and make sure
that everybody who handles firearms in this audience just take
that one extra second to make sure you're safe no

(01:44:41):
matter what you're doing, and don't be offended. I've talked
about this before too, and I would hope that all
of you practice this. If you and someone else are
handling a firearm and there's going to be an exchange
of that firearm, and let's say it's Frankie and me,
and Frankie opens the gun up and shows me that
it's unloaded, and I say, yeah, that's cool, Frankie, Can

(01:45:03):
I hold it? And he says sure, and he hands
it to me. I hope he's not offended, but I'm
gonna check it again. I'm gonna check it myself. On
top of what. He just showed it to me. We're
standing two feet apart. He just showed it to me,
and it's open, and it's it's unloaded. Great, that's cute.
But I want to know for myself, and I'm gonna
check it the way I check it, and that way

(01:45:23):
we've got back up and assurance that that gun is
safe to handle and not still not gonna point it
at anything. You're still not gonna point it at anybody.
But it's just that one extra level of protection. And
it only takes what five, six, eight, ten seconds to
see if any firearm is loaded, and so take that time,

(01:45:45):
make sure, and let's just not have this happen again.
Fingers crossed. Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and take this
break early, and on the way, I'll tell you about
Phoenix Knives. I got word from Phoenix Knives this week,
by the way, that as much as any of you
might want to get something done by Cowboys Lemanski in
time to be a holiday gift for somebody you really

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care about. Oops, too late. I got an email from
his wife yesterday that said, by the way, we can't
take any orders for the holidays for anything for Cowboy
to build However, we do have a tremendous number of
knives from not only the people who work at Phoenix

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Knives out there in Belleville right there on Main Street,
nice bigger place that they have now so they can
produce more knives and show more knives. She said, they
have plenty of knives out there, not just from Cowboy
and the people who work there, but also from other major,
amazing knife builders all over the country. So if you're

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looking for anything, really, anything from a pocket knife to
fishing knives, hunting knives, steak knives, anything that's got a
blaze on it and then gets sharpened, there's probably something
in there at Phoenix Knives. And if there's not, they
can build it out for you whatever you want. They'll
be happy to do that. And if you go out

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there with the family, they'll even show you how to
build your own knife, which is kind of cool. That's
something when Show and Tell time. I don't know, some
schools might like it, some schools might not. But for
a kid to say I didn't bring it to school,
but I got to go build my own knife at
Phoenix Knives, that would be kind of neat, and then
check with the principle. I suppose some people are more

(01:47:33):
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two on Sports Talk seven ninety to Doug Pike Show.
I've got to get a little bit worried about Mitchell.
We can't find him anywhere. My gut says they're packing
up and bailing out. It might have just rained them
off the prairie. I don't know. He's pretty tough and
he's pretty young. Depends on his hunters, that's really what's
going on. So we'll figure that out at some point.

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I'm not too worried about it. I got a cool
email that I want to share from Travis about a
prank that was played on one of the hunters in
this guy's group. And this is bear in mind, this
is a bunch of guys who get together. They're twenty
five years old. It's back in nineteen eighty five. And

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to quote the email, as they were after dinner and
they're about to go hit the bunks and whatnot. Quote
there was a lot of spirits getting spirited. So just
take that to mean whatever you think it means. I
have a hunt. There were the guns were all put away,

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and maybe they had some adult beverages to help them
unwind from a busy, busy day in deer camp. In
any event, this one guy in the group up in
Colorado somewhere, one of the guys in the group took
a kind of just a snapshot at a mountain lion,
he says, and wasn't able to recover it. Wasn't sure

(01:49:28):
whether he'd even hit it. Probably well, his buddies found
it the next day. He had indeed hit it and
killed it. And that night, just as this guy was
kind of getting ready to go hit the bunk, they
slipped in there and they put some garbage bags down
because they're not heathens, and then they put that animal

(01:49:50):
head on his bunk with the teeth bared and the
ears pinned back somehow. And just I mean, this thing
just looked mean as could be, just mad as a
wet hen and then just sat and waited, and this
poor guy brushed his teeth, He put his glasses on

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the night stands, sat down and realized there was something,
what was what's going on here? And he flipped those
covers back and saw that mountain lion's head and he
Travis claims they all laugh for years about it and
still do. I'm sure there's one person in that group's
not laughing as loud as the rest of them. And

(01:50:35):
to Travis's credit, he says, I skinned it out for
him and had it to get it ready to mount,
and actually cooked some steaks off of it. He says,
nineteen and eighty five, I wrote back to him to paraphrases.
I don't remember exactly how I said it said, I'm
not really sure that men's brains ever fully mature, and

(01:50:59):
certainly at twenty five, I don't think they're all the
way done. Because a bunch of twenty five year olds
who've had a drink or two might think that it's
just super funny, but at my age, somebody could have
slipped and broke a hip seeing that thing. We don't
need that in dear camp no way. It is kind
of funny, though, I could see myself at twenty five

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doing something like that. I've seen all kinds of not
to that extreme, but fairly similar boo things, the things
that kind of make you have to look twice and
then realize there's four guys behind the door laughing at you. Yeah,
I wouldn't want to roll back the covers and see
a mountain lion's snarling face. Oh what fun? Am I

(01:51:45):
running late here? Or am I good? I can't remember
where I am. I think you're good. Yeah, we're good
for five or six more minutes. That's fantastic, fantastic. Let's
go back to trout fishing for a little bit. And
I heard a very good point made this morning down
the doll Listen to my buddies. We've got this slot
limit now where we're taking out the mid sized trout

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leaving the little ones in the big ones. And interestingly,
and there's got to be a reason for it, because
I'm sure this is not the only time it's come up,
but this is pretty much the opposite of how freshwater
bass fishing goes on. Some of the lakes that needed
help when they institute bass fishing slots. They usually allow

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you to keep a few fish under a certain lenk
limit and maybe one over, maybe one over to keep
the lake record book open, something like that. But it's
just the opposite with the trout. And it's a very
good point that I haven't even hadn't even thought about.
I recognize that that bass fishing has has elevated the

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status of a large mouth bass tremendously to where at
a lot of lakes and you bring one of the
cleaning table, they'll run you out of town. But I
also know well one of a quick sidebar. The more
I watch these bass fishing tournaments on TV, the less
impressed I am with the way that these younger professional

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anglers handle those fish. It's like they just don't care
at all. Most of them, and a couple of the
organizations have even set new rules on exactly how you
can and cannot handle bass, and that's with good reason,
because it just it gets kind of crazy. Sometimes they'll
pin these fish up against their chest with one hand

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with a jacket on it, and reach into that fish's
mouth with their fingers and wrestle hooks out of there.
It's just not conducive to good handling. A fish. But
back to the slot limit. I think that's one of
the reasons we've got some big fish in most of
our lakes right now is because of that way of

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man managing the slot under and over. And it seems
to me, and it seemed to the guys who I
was listening to this morning on the way into work,
that we're kind of doing the opposite with speckled trout.
And again, there's got to be a reason. I may
have to call somebody at Parks and Water's apartment and
kind of ask just why why what's good for the
goose isn't good for the gander. There's got to be

(01:54:19):
something there, and I'm really not sure what it's going
to be. I'm thinking there's going to be a I'm
thinking there's going to be an answer, and it's probably
gonna make sense, but I still want to hear it
before I go too much deeper. Oh Lord, what's John
got on his mind? Let's go see John. What's up?

Speaker 2 (01:54:36):
Man?

Speaker 6 (01:54:37):
Well, I usually listen to your podcast as I drive
back and forth with the jectory I have now to
my property. Okay, but and I've accumulation list of things
I want to throw at you. But since you just
brought up the Mountain lion item, I'm wondering if you're
still holding out that the Mountain lion video that came

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up stole the mule deer off the guy's back of
his truck or whatever is legit.

Speaker 1 (01:55:05):
No, it's not.

Speaker 6 (01:55:06):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:55:06):
I you know, when I found out, when I found
out what the no questions asked lockdown AI thing was,
which is the antlers, I went back and looked at
it again and just kind of wiped all the bright
eyed enthusiasm off my face and going, no, okay, I
get it.

Speaker 7 (01:55:27):
So yeah, I'm well I didn't even.

Speaker 6 (01:55:28):
Have to I didn't have to look at that. I said, Okay,
who's videoing this so calmly and not screaming?

Speaker 3 (01:55:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:55:36):
No, kid, Well that's a very good point as well.

Speaker 7 (01:55:38):
Yeah that's okay.

Speaker 8 (01:55:41):
Yes, it looks very realistic.

Speaker 6 (01:55:43):
But I don't think anybody who's sitting there holding a
camera was.

Speaker 8 (01:55:46):
Not even moving it.

Speaker 1 (01:55:47):
Yeah, that's a good point.

Speaker 5 (01:55:49):
Not even Jimmy, Jimmy look out. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:55:53):
They got me on that one for a little while.
And so now now, of course I'm skeptical of everything.
I am skeptical of everything. So yeah, it's so unfortunate.
Once again, technology, No matter what we invent, uh, some
people will use it for good and some people will
use it for bad. And I hate that part of it.

Speaker 6 (01:56:15):
Okay, well you want to you want to roll the
dice and and and choose another topic that I'll throw
at you. Yeah, come on, Well you got fire ants
rain on the leaves that you brought the other day
after we had a little rain, corner hopping and the
e bike?

Speaker 5 (01:56:33):
What about the e boch which one you want to do?

Speaker 6 (01:56:35):
The e bike?

Speaker 7 (01:56:36):
Okay, let me I'll take out.

Speaker 6 (01:56:38):
Speaker because I had to look at my list, so
I'm not sure how it came up. But you were
talking about these, Well, I bought I'm a bow hunter
and I bow hunt all season all, you know, throughout
the whole thing. And what I found after I saw
a video of it, I bought one. I bought a
pretty good one, big fat tires, lots of bus the power,

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got some raccent, strap my bow to it, strap my
pack to it, and I can get all around my
property as quiet.

Speaker 5 (01:57:07):
As a mouse.

Speaker 6 (01:57:08):
It's it's amazing. And the biggest thing is you don't
leave a cent trail.

Speaker 1 (01:57:13):
That's a good point too. I hadn't thought about that.

Speaker 5 (01:57:16):
That's that's.

Speaker 6 (01:57:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:57:18):
The only thing on the.

Speaker 6 (01:57:19):
Ground is rubbered exactly, and which you know in bow
hunting you sort of have to wear rubber, rubber boots
or something rubber or not. Can't be a piece of
leather because it leaves the cent trailer amazing what they
pick up. I mean, if you walk in without clean shoes,
you can watch them deer go walking by and just

(01:57:39):
hit on the brake, hit the brakes hard and just
put their nose down and turn around because they found
where you walked across the trailer.

Speaker 7 (01:57:48):
It's huge for that.

Speaker 6 (01:57:52):
Yeah, got to got to So it's really it's really.

Speaker 8 (01:57:55):
Cool for this.

Speaker 6 (01:57:56):
For the stealth, you're not making any noise pulling in
and you what you do is when you set up
your stands, brush up a big area so you can
drive all the way up to the to the to
the steps of your stand. Lay the thing down. Because
where I am the deer. You don't believe how spooky
they are. I mean they see anything that's not right.
I used to try to put a little go pro

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camera on the ground. Yeah, you know the GoPros outside
of a match bucket. Sure, but it's a little bit
shiny and man that I tried that twice and they
just blue at that thing and stomped and went to
the next zip code. That's how that's how spook. So
so one time I didn't lay the bike down covered.

Speaker 9 (01:58:35):
I thought it's just black.

Speaker 6 (01:58:36):
I got all black one laid it down in the brush,
and of course they picked there's something not right there.
They picked it up and blue and turned around.

Speaker 1 (01:58:44):
So it's like it's like a big area in duck hunting,
these these drive in blinds where you can pull your
little john boat right up into a cover and then
hop into the blind. Yeah, you got to cover the bike,
don't you.

Speaker 7 (01:58:57):
Man?

Speaker 6 (01:58:57):
Oh yeah, got Well what I don't cover it, but
I've made made a brush.

Speaker 1 (01:59:02):
Yeah yeah, yeah, that's why I can see you.

Speaker 6 (01:59:05):
Yeah, so kind of like a duck blind. It's brushed up.
I laid down in there and they don't see it.
But it's it's it's really slick for bow honey, Yeah,
because it does so many things.

Speaker 1 (01:59:17):
Yeah, I hadn't thought about the thing. And talking to
Wayne Arrington, he and I had never even said anything
about take it eliminating that set trail. But holy cow,
that's that's a game changer, man, I didn't thought about that.

Speaker 6 (01:59:28):
It is, it is well, it does so many things.
You know, it's quiet. You know, you're not running a
four wheeler or a or a mule or whatever across
the property, right you know. Oh yeah, and so here
comes John.

Speaker 1 (01:59:41):
Yeah, a little late this morning. Must have eaten some
extra breakfast. Yeah. Let me ask you a question. Since
you have one and you've you've taken it through the paces,
how do you think it would perform on loose sand?

Speaker 6 (01:59:54):
It does well. I have a very sandy soil here.

Speaker 1 (01:59:56):
Oh okay.

Speaker 6 (01:59:57):
Now I wouldn't go down to try to ride the
dune at the beach on it, but I have very
sandy soil here. And when it's dry like it's been,
it does fine. And it takes a little while you
used to riding it because with a little bit up
and it's like the cross between riding a mountain bike
and a dirt bike. Yeah yeah, because you know, but

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and you want to get full suspension because otherwise it's
rough and you've got boat bangs it around. So it's
it's it's it's you know, basically entry for a decent one.
Once you rig it out is about two grand, so
it's you know, but anyway, it's great, great item.

Speaker 1 (02:00:42):
Thank you so much. I appreciate that, John, No problem.

Speaker 6 (02:00:47):
I'll work on the rest of my list with you
next week.

Speaker 1 (02:00:49):
Okay, I'll see audios man take care. Holy cow. Yeah,
let me tee it up here with the berry Hill
on the way out one more time. And there's so
much fun. They're such great people down there. It's a
family run place and the people who cook in there
have been cooking forever for them. The two primary guys
are ten years plus each. So yeah, it's a good

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place to go. Sugar Creek Boulevard off the freeway. It's
right there next to the freeway. Indoor and outdoor dining
and just a very relaxed atmosphere. I don't want to
go into too much detail. I want you to go
down there and experience it for yourself. The fish tacos
are incredible. Everything on the menu really. My son used
to he's always been a cheese enchalada guy, and even

(02:01:34):
he saying the praises of just standard issue cheese enchaladas
with the little twist that the two guys back there
in the kitchen do to make it Burry Hill's own.
Go check them out down there. It's pretty easy to
get to them. Southwest Freeway at Sugar Creek Boulevard on
the inbound side. You can't miss it. Sugar Creek Boulevard
on the inbound side. Berryhillsugar Land dot Com is the

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website Berry Hillsugarland dot com if you are interested in
some golf down on the south side where there's gonna
be a little bit of rain, kind of in the
middle of the day to day, but that's okay. I
think I'm pretty sure that Timber Creek is gonna make
it through all that without any big hassle. If not,
if there's a little shower that pops up down there,

(02:02:17):
you can just go into the grill, get yourself something
to eat, maybe slide over to jj Woods Teaching Academy
at Timber Creek, and get some of the flaws at
least a couple of them knocked out while you wait
for the rain to stop. I think they're gonna be
pretty good today. Twenty seven holes, which helps them get
more people out at a time than a standard eighteen

(02:02:37):
hole layout, and all of those holes very fun, very enjoyable.
They're not easy no golf course is easy, but for
most of us, a little bit of kinder, gentler fairways
and bunkering and water features and all that, it's very
pleasant to play. I love playing down there. I've been
playing down there for the entire time they've been open.

(02:02:57):
Was down there when the course first opened and reviewed
by the paper. Went down there with a guy who
was doing those then before. I took him over and uh,
we both we played eighteen and thought, you know what,
we're still here and it looks like a nice day.
Let's go play the other nine. We played all twenty
seven that day and had a blast all the way around.
Timber Creek goolf Club dot com. If you need those lessons,

(02:03:19):
get them from JJ Woods and his staff at the
academy there near the range. Otherwise, grab yourself something in
the grill, maybe something set up a tea time right now.
You probably get it in today. Timber Creek Golf Club
dot com. Timber Creek Golf Club dot com. Welcome back,
nine fifty four already on sports Talk seven ninety. Good heavens,

(02:03:43):
how time flies? Huh seven one three two one two
five seven ninety. I've got time for maybe one more call.
If somebody wants to jump in and say hello or
Happy Thanksgiving or whatever, I would be happy to hear
from you. Certainly, Good heavens, that's this thing went pretty fast, Frankie,
it really did. Kind of it's kind of yes, kind
of know. There was a lot to talk about. I

(02:04:04):
covered I've covered safety as much as I want to
cover it today. But yeah, David, Well, let me go
to David's email because this is so it's it's simple,
but it really would, as he writes, eliminate the vast
majority of circumstances that can lead to an accidental discharge,

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and that is to just wait until you are up
in the stand before chambering around, and then empty the
empty the rifle before you climb down from a stand.
There's a lot of there's a lot of opportunity for
problems that goes away once you follow that rule.

Speaker 8 (02:04:45):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:04:45):
I know a lot of you, especially in the afternoon,
you want to walk all the way to your stand
with that rifle loaded, just in case Mouis Grande steps
out in front of you on the trail. But how
often does that happened? And if it did, maybe just
chalk it up to that deer got the best of

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you that day, and get on into your stand and
see if it'll come back around. I just can't think
of any circumstance that warrants any chance of something going
wrong going up into a stand or something like that.
And if you're still hunting and you're walking through the
woods and you've got the rifle over your shoulder, I
get it. If you're actively hunting while you're on the ground,

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that's one thing. But just if you're hustling trying to
get into that box at a certain time, go ahead
and leave it empty and take away that potential for error.

Speaker 5 (02:05:42):
There's just.

Speaker 1 (02:05:44):
Nothing that bothers me more than to have to read
these stories and talk about them, because that just means
somebody else has gotten hurt doing what all of us
love to do and have been doing for so many years.
I still contend that it's probably and I haven't ever
done any research on this, but I would be willing
to bet a dozen donuts or something that the majority

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of hunting accidents happen with people who haven't been hunting
all their lives, but they've been hunting just long enough
to feel comfortable. I witnessed that when I was a
waterfowl guide. The brand new guy is scared to death
to do anything, especially something wrong, so they come to
you for all the advice you can give them, all
the help and all the instruction you can give them.

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And the person who's been doing it all their lives
and is very comfortable is comfortable with safe gun handling.
The guy in the middle, the guy who feels like
he's kind of in the club but not quite completely
to graduate level, is the guy who and I think
it's mostly men who would be this way. They are

(02:06:52):
they tended to be anyway when I was guiding the
ones who would make us a minor mistake knock on wood.
I never had any mistakes in my spreads at all. No,
there were a couple of accidental discharges, but the guys
knew to have at least have their guns pointed out
of spread. And that was you know, you tell those
guys you know, don't look, I'll tell you when to shoot,

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and don't take it off safety until I call the shot.
And then on a calm day, as the geese got closer,
these people who weren't looking magically knew they were getting closer,
and you could hear the click click of the of
the safety is coming off. Ushould just run cold chills
up and down my spine. We got through it all though,
and we got through this show today. Thank you so much.

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Tomorrow we will we will give our official Happy Thanksgiving wishes.
I suppose that'll be the last one I'm gonna do
for a little while. I'm gonna take some time and
have a little fun. Frankie, you'll work up something for
you next weekend, and I know it'll be good. And
thank you Frankie for all that. In the meantime, get outside.
The rain's gonna stop here shortly, except along the coast

(02:07:55):
they'll have some a little later in the day. Get outside,
have some fun with your family, have a safe holiday.
If you can't listen tomorrow, I'll tell you right now.
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you, and thank you for listening.
I truly do appreciate it. That's it for now, Idios.