I Don't Think We Can Make a Hog Purse Look Good

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's Doug Fike. All right, Sunday Mornings starts right now,
and everything seems to be working. Did you have your
fingers crossed? Frankie, Yeah, kinda. I don't know what happens
around here. I turned this down a little bit, just
a little bit. Holy couchs blowing my head off. I
was in here turning the knob at first the wrong

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way and making it higher instead of flower. Everything went okay.
Yesterday we got off to a rocky start. Sorry about that.
If you were a part of that. Somebody had come
in and messed with the stuff. That's the technical explanation
I got when I asked somebody. Somebody messed with the stuff,
and so we had to fix it. Frankie did a

(00:43):
great job of handling it, and we are back to
normal there are. I had a couple of things that
were on the table yesterday and I never quite got
to him, and one of them I mentioned it briefly.
It's just things that we probably should take since we're
so close to hunting seasons kicking off. Things we should

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probably take into the blind, into the deer stand, into
the field. Basically on a hunting trip that a lot
of us probably just don't take. Now. The first thing
I'm gonna mention is for well, it's it's more for

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deer hunters, honestly, I think, than duck and goose hunters.
And the only reason I say that, well, I know,
I guess it applies on both ends. It's a flashlight.
And the reason I kind of cringe when I say
take a fresh flashlight with you is through fourteen years
of guiding waterfowl hunts, I was driven absolutely bonkers by

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hunters who showed up and I would tell them in
the restaurant in broad light as they ate breakfast. Now, look,
if you if you got a flashlight with you, that's
it's great, But just keep it in your bag when
we get to the field, because it's gonna be If
you'll just give it five minutes for your eyes to
adjust to what little bit of light is in that sky,

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but it's in there, then we won't have any problem
walking across this rice field, this beanfield, this peanut field, cornfield, whatever,
and getting to where we're gonna hunt. And the last
thing we do, because I'm taking you to a field
that's pretty close to the roost, the last thing we
want to do is shine a light onto those birds.
When we pull into the property, drop your headlights and

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just drive with your parking lights. That's all you need
to get down that muddy road. It'll be fine. And
so usually there would be no more than one guy
who makes the turn and swings his lights across the
roost and fingers crossed. The birds stay there half the time.
If I had three or four vehicles in line behind me,

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at least two of them. Oh well, the guy in
front of me left his head lights on. I guess
it's okay for me to leave my high beams on too,
And it would just drive me nuts because they'd spook
all the birds off the roost. And I would have
to explain that to the entire group. Remember when I
said that. Yeah, and remember when you turned and your
lights were on, and you remember that kind of roar
you heard you when you roll down your window or

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open your door. Yeah, that's the geese leaving. H It
didn't often totally ruin a hunt, but it just it
made a lot of hunts not as productive as they
could have been. So in anyway, back to the flashlight.
So we get to the field and I'm trying to
walk out and they're trying to walk out, and ultimately

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we get there after I've had flashlights shined in my
eyes about one hundred times when I'm looking back to
see how far back they are, and they're shining their lights,
got them on cubeam and shining them at me to
see where I am. And then even as we're putting
out decoys, Hey, man, if y'all turn those lights off,
it's okay. You're not gonna You're not gonna hurt yourself

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if you fall in uh a damp rice field. Nothing's
gonna it's not. This is not a wartime pungee stick risk.
So the bottom line is take the flashlight with you
because you may actually really need it close up, but
don't use it to try to illuminate the stars or

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look all the way back to your vehicle because you
heard something over there just or you, or shine it
over toward the geese because you thought you heard a kyo.
You probably did hear a coyote over by those geese
and it was probably trying to get its buddies around
it up and surround those birds and try to run
in there and catch one. You can tell I don't
like flashlights, can you tell Frankie, oh my gosh, man,

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they were just and if you're gonna carry one, because
you may need it, carry a real flashlight, not one
of those dollar store led things that like a big
chapstick they run on. Any flashlight that runs on a
single triple A battery is not a flashlight. It's just

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it's a Christmas tree ornament. That's what it should be.
They make them in all colors too, by all you want, red, green, purple, yellow,
doesn't matter, hang them on the tree. The two that
I have right now that I would even consider taking
on a hunting trip are both rechargeables, and I'm down
to one because I can't find the charger for the other.
But the first one was fantastic. It had kind of

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a barrel similar to what the Mini mag and mag
lights have where you just twist the end and it
either broadens or tightens the beam of light and when
you crank it down tight those things are very powerful
and great lights, no question about it. And those are
decent battery powered flashlights, by the way, quick sidebar the

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mag light and the Mini mag they're good. This other
one that I've got so it would it would like
it's police class. It's police level flashlight, and it has
it's a push button deal, and the first time you
push the button, you get all the light it's got
in a pretty broad sweep. That would be a good

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thing if you thought you had an animal in your
yard and you wanted to scare it off, just light
them up. The second time you push it, it gets a
little softer, and the third time a little softer still,
and then there's a drum roll. Not really, but it
should be, because you push it again and you get
that blind the intruder strobe light that's a million candlepower

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than dark, than a million candlepower than dark, and that
that'll ruin anybody's eyes. They won't know where you are,
they won't know who they are, uh, and they'll just
turn around and run into a wall and then find
the door and get out of your house. And then
there's one more setting that's just on off, on off,
a very stead the little flash that would be better

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for kind of signaling in an emergency. I'm over here,
I'm not I'm over here. Look you get it. Seven
one three two five seven ninety Email me Dougpike Atiheartmedia
dot com. I don't mind a flashlight out there, but
just keep it pointed at the ground. Don't wave it
around when you're we're trying to point over to the east.

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Don't swing that light all the way around it just
it blinds everybody who happens to be looking at you
when you do that. Get off my soapbox. First AD kit,
that's something else most of us have in the truck
or the car or the suv at least some sort
of first A kit, but we don't take anything medical
to the blind or to the deer stand or whatever

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wherever you're hunting. And if that place you're hunting is,
and it often is more than a quarter mile away
from the vehicle, you might as well not have that
AID kit into the in the vehicle because by the
time you can get yourself back, if you can, by
the time you can get yourself back to the vehicle,

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and now you're your kit has become like a third
aid kit or a fourth aid kit. You've got to
have something with you if you're gonna take care of
little stuff. And I'm not talking about a tourniquet and
a splint. I'm just talking about a little bitty simple
thing that can help you if you if you fall

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and scrape your knee, or if you cut yourself on
a screw that's protruding into the box blind, or even
if you just get a headache, it's kind of making
you miserable and not letting you have any fun. Just
a basic kit, not much bigger really than the size
of a juice box. You can get you cleaned up.
It can get you patched up and at least long

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enough to finish your hunt and get back to camp.
That's all I'm talking about. What's in it at quick sidebar.
By the way, one bottle of water should be allocated
to first aid until it's really close to time to
head back to because you might have to rinse something out.
And if all you've got left is a cold beer
that you brought out to your hunt on shame on you.

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If you did that, or anything other than pure water,
then you may just be make it a bad situation
work by pouring that into the wound. So you have
a bottle of water and then this really tiny little
first a kit, got a few band aids in there,
got some antibiotic ointment, got I don't know, two or
three of your preferred headache remedy pills, precautionary, maybe an

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anti diarrheal pill. You never know how badly you need
one of those until you really need one. Eye drops
not a bad idea. There's all kinds of dust and
pollen in the air, and who knows what could be
stirred up when you get into the blind and kind
of shake that carpet at the bottom of it. There's
all kinds of stuff that could come and stuff that

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could even drop off the ceiling. Dust on the ceiling
of your blind, or spider webs, whatever something gets in
your eye can mess you up, can mess you up.
And here's something else that I don't think I would
bet you not one in fifty deer hunters carries into
the stand with them, But it wouldn't be a bad
idea to have one hanging around your neck. And that
is a whistle. And you're thinking to yourself, Oh, I've

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got my gun. I got my gun. I can just
shoot off two or three shots. Well, shooting off two
or three shots might get somebody kind of sort aheaded
in your direction. But gunshots in the woods sound like
they came from everywhere. Just one shot sounds like it
came from everywhere around you. But if you're just over

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there tooting on that whistle, and or let's say you,
Heaven forbid, you kind of take a little tumble out
of the stand, your foot slips on the ladder, you
take a little tumble, you hit the ground, and your
barrel gets jammed into the mud. I'm not shooting that rifle.
I don't care how bad I'm hurt. I'm not gonna

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I'm not gonna compound my problem by having a broken
ankle and a gun barrel blowing up in my hands.
So yeah, it's not a big deal. And you're not
a sissy. If you're carrying a whistle, you're smart. Okay,
the older I get, the smarter I feel like I
become when it comes to my own safety and not

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caring what other people think about me. I really don't care.
I'm bringing some safety stuff, you know, and I'm gonna
have to go home and put one together now because
I don't have one in my bag at present. I'm
I'm not trying to be until I start doing it
right myself. I'm not gonna throw stones at anybody that

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doesn't have a little first aid kit with them because
my hand's in the air. Too, I haven't. I haven't
carried one in a few years. I used to carry
one religiously. In fact, a company that makes them sent
me I think it was four or five or maybe
a half a dozen of them, very small kits. They're
they're not bit at all. I would say, all the

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size of maybe a package of ballpark Francs something like that.
You can stuff a lot of first aid into something
about that size if you need it and you don't
have it. Getting back to the truck's going to be
a really rough road to ho And if you were
dropped off and it's eight o'clock in the morning and
you're getting picked up at nine thirty, that's gonna be

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a long way. Let me get Dave real quick and
then we'll go to that first break day.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
What's up, man, I only call to you blinded me
on the last tear and you're a light deal. Now,
where do where do I find? What light is that?

Speaker 1 (12:40):
I'm going to have to get the name of it. Now,
I'll post it. I'll post it on Facebook or something.
It was. It was a gift at a sporting clay
shoot event I went to, and I can't think of
the name of it. And it's killing me because it's
it's pretty hardcore. It really is.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
It's good for defense, it's, you know, a defensive deal. Yes,
the light up in somebody's face. My mom, God bless
her soul. She was walking around the house with a
flash light on the floor making sure she going on.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
A trip on the She's smart. She was smart.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Hey, I tell you what. Hey.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
And then the barbecue deal yesterday. I didn't get to
do notation nothing, but I did run by and say
hi to everybody. And there was a one place there
that they have a horse deal for the ventures to
go and pet a horse or ride a horse and
kind of calm down or whatever.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
You know.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
That was really cool. And then last night the Texas Longhorns.
Oh man, the college. Man, I don't know if you
saw it, but man, they got down to thirteen to thirteen.
They went in over time and the defense, the Longhorned
defense held the other team off at a half yard
to the goal line three times, man, and got the

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ball back and went back and kicked the field goal.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
One game.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Oh wow, oh yeah, it was amazing. One more thing, yeah,
ray on the on the tire deal. Uh yeah, we
got a new discount tire over here, and I went
in there and he quoted me half the prize that
somebody else did on those centers all around yours. Yep, yeah, yeah,
you know. And I was like, and he gave me

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his card and they just had a grand opened over here.
So man, I'm like, I'm in yeah right, all right, Hey,
I know you. I know you got to go to
a break going fishing.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
If you catch one, give me a call, all.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Right, sure, Hey, I'll give you a water report.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
All right, man, thanks Dave. All right, buddy, he's going fishing.
I'm a little bit jealous. It'd be a long ride
to get there. I'm still uh man. I'll tell you
about my fishing experience yesterday when we get back from
this break. On the way out, I'm gonna tell about
Kobe Stevens. I was not wearing Kobe Stevens gear when
I fished yesterday. I didn't think that that the experience

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was up to Kobe Stevens stuff. It just this was
just an old catfish trip, and I'll tell you about
it when I get back. In the end. In the interim,
I will tell you about Kobe Stevens and the golf
apparel he makes the fishing apparel he makes. It's really
cool stuff. It's mostly salt, it's got that saltwater look,

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but it's also he's got some really good stuff that
doesn't matter where you wear fishing gear, it really doesn't.
Got great looking shirts for that. He's got great shorts
for golf, great shirts for golf. He has kid sizes,
women's sizes, different different lineup for the ladies, obviously, and
even for the big guys. He's got shirts up to
four X. And that's that'll cover most everybody I know.

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I'm pretty sure. Great guy. Kobe Gallack's his name. I
bumped into him here at the office the other day.
We had a short conversation. He was working on something
else and I was working on something else, but we
stopped long enough to shake hands and say hi and
plan our next golf trip. He is wonderful guys. It's
hard to get him to play golf too, because he's

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always at some charity event trying to help people raise
money for good costes. I don't know that I've seen anybody.
I'm trying to think if I've seen any company as
consistently participating in charity events as Kobe Stevens, and that
just kind of gives you an idea of the man's
character and who he is and how he feels about

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helping people. He's just kind of that way. Kobe Stevens
dot com is the website. Co O B Y S
T E V E n S Gobe Stevens dot com.
All right, welcome back. Great choice of sound, great choice

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of music. That's the other song that people recognize with
the cow bell in the intro. H, well, let's go
talk to Rick bis. What's up?

Speaker 3 (16:57):
Rick in?

Speaker 4 (17:00):
Here on a hill and chapel chill ranch n the
windmail and the winds about to blow his most away?
My word, man, h knocking far from under an airplane
that was just coming straight at me. He was at
about a thirty degreek crab. That's how hard to win.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
And blow.

Speaker 4 (17:17):
Coming out of north northwest.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
The old little plane get blown around. Awful lot man.

Speaker 4 (17:23):
This was a low wing plane. It wouldn't right directly
over me. But anyway, I was calling, got duck season
coming up. Yesterday, I went and checked out a place
I my my son's kind of got some pressure on
me to go hunting with him, and uh, I wanted

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to go check it out. I've got to picky of
old agent and uh, it's it's it's something I could do.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
Is is that what you're checking out? The rickworthiness?

Speaker 4 (17:54):
It's it's Rickworthy. Used to it didn't have to be Rickworthys,
and now it passed. If I can't wear tennis shoes,
I ain't going anyway.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
If it doesn't have a drive through, you're not going.
Is that what you're saying.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
This one basically has a drive room, so all right.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
Anyway, it's got a kitchen in it too.

Speaker 4 (18:15):
I've been there anyway.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
Calling about duck season.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
I due to that, I started digging stuff out and
I got shotgun shells every door, on my pop, my trunks,
uh on, on my dresser, my shop, you name it,
my bags, everything, and I even have some in boxes.
And so I started gathering this stuff.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
Up and and I have kind of.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
A just shareff sheriff something with the listeners that they
might try it.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
And this is not April Fools, by the way.

Speaker 4 (18:49):
I have this kind of little bit of ritual when
I'm going bird hunting of any canastic duck hunting. Uh,
I like to take a damp cloth of w D
forty and white my brass on my shot sheilds. And
I do it for two reasons. One is it's w
D it's water displacement. If they get wet, it helps

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a little. And also I just think, just in my mind,
I'm not a gunsmith, but I think it helps on
me jut a little cleaner.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
You know, it makes good sense. I've not done that before.
Now I'll do it individually. Is if I look down
at one and it's got anything on that brass, but
hey to take five minutes and all the loose shells
that we dumped back into hunting bags, and all the
feathers and dust and dirt and grime that get into
those bags. When you shake that thing up, everything's gonna

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stick to everything. And that's not a bad idea, Rick,
I think that's pretty smart. Now I got something else
I have to do before I hunt.

Speaker 4 (19:49):
Well, let me add one other thing to like to
say you, this ain't This is not an April fool
of dope. I had a lot of shotgun shills in
and I was looking for a certain.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Shot long brass.

Speaker 4 (20:02):
I wanted some threes and in some three and I
have and some of them are quite old and they've
gotten wet, and they're just you know, they're just the
brass ain't shiny at all. It's just an old, dull,
tarnished brass. Well, I can't stand that because I think
that might cause a problem, ejection or ejecting whatever. Now

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it will not what I'm fishing to tell you. It's
not going to remove the old green blue corrosion. Okay, man,
But if it's just brass, you know what the best
thing I must save you a trip to buy something
to clean brass of any can what's that? You know
what it is to clean brass and make it shiny

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and brand new. And it's easy if any refrigerator.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Really let me catch you what ketchup ketchup? I was
thinking mayonnaise, but okay, I'll try ketchup. Wait, it's a
little from the tomato, right.

Speaker 4 (21:03):
Yeah, you clean it off with the rag, then you
put a light coat to ketchup on it, let it
sept for about fifteen to twenty minutes, and then just
get you a damn pope cloth and like it off
and lhi lai, you'll be shocked.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
Just be sure you don't put rim oil on your
French fries after that.

Speaker 4 (21:20):
Yeah, just don't get it. Don't make some money when
you're you're cooking them fries in the duck line.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah, yeah, you're right.

Speaker 4 (21:28):
That's seriously trying to ketchup on any kind of brass.
It's pretty dang good.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
Oh yeah, it makes sense, and you're.

Speaker 4 (21:34):
Right it is.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
It is the asicity and the ketchup that does it.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, that's good stuff, man, Thank you.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
Rick.

Speaker 4 (21:42):
All right, everybody go get them. Today's a cat lame day.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
Yeah it is. I see man, audios, see you later,
all right. Chapel Hill. He has probably spent more time
driving in and out of Chapel Hill than even some
of the people who live there. He passes through there
almost every morning. Like beautiful part of the state too.
If you've never been out that way, take a drive sometime.
I used to do that more than I do now

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because I'm kind of tired of driving. Honestly, I've been
driving forever and had some I did some long drives
for my son's baseball stuff. So when i'm driving now,
if I'm gonna go more than about two hours away
from home, it's gonna be to get somewhere to go
fishing or hunting or play golf. That's about what I
got left. My tours of the state were completed many

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years ago, and I boy, I got to tour this
whole state. I really did. I so enjoyed all the
work I did back at the paper and all the
places I got to go and things I got to
see and do. And now I'm just I'm good. I
get to be a little bit more choosy and picky
about where I go, and it pays off, it really does.

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I feel confident that I'm gonna be able to still
do things for a few more years. And I wanted
to things for many more years, and I want to
make sure I'm in good shape. I had a little
bit of a healthcare this week. It turned out to
be nothing, which was good, but it was just kind
of a wake up call that I'm not twenty anymore.
I'm not thirty anymore, and I'm having to I don't

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have to rein it in. I just have to make
some adjustments. And it's not like I'm not like I've
blown up like a balloon or totally out of shape.
I'd still be willing to go take off and make
a hard hunt somewhere, but I just need more time
to prepare for it than I used to used to be.
Back when I was guiding. Good Heavens, we were all
in probably the best shape we were in our lives.

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And that's including high school football, it's including college baseball.
I was in better shape towards the end of a
Goose season, marching through that mud and muck and yuck.
Better shape then probably than any time in my life.
Hardly ever got sick. And for most of us back then,

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this is pre any pandemic or all of that stuff.
For most of us, if we caught a cold or
even maybe a mild case of the flu, we just
kept going. You'd keep going and keep going, and whether
you were healthy or not, there would come one day
when you had to just call in that night and say,
I'm not gonna make it in the morning. There's no

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way I'm gonna be out there. And you'd probably sleep
till three or four in the afternoon that next day
and then wake up good to go again. Not that
tough anymore, Frankie. Not appreciate your bullet proofness. Why you've
got it, man, and just make the most of it.
If there's anything on your bucket list that's gonna require

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physical exertion on your part, like some climb a mountain
or something like that. Do it now, man, black Horse
Golf Club. I wouldn't mind doing that this morning. That's
a pretty good place to go play on a nice
looking morning like we've got now and more nice mornings
to come too. Aren't getting ready for it to be
a little bit more difficult to make tea times up

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at black Horse still the two courses, the North and
the South. The South is private now, the North is
daily fee as it always has been, and there's room.
There's plenty of room because there's so many of the
regulars at black Horse went ahead and opted for membership
in that South course. They were ready for that, and
so it did open up some tea times on the

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North course. Last time I went up there, had no
problem at all making a tea time, getting up there,
taking care of business getting around that really fun to
play North course. It's a little freer, a little more
open than the South course. Both of them very eminently playable.
And if you're opting, maybe kind of leaning toward membership
in that South course, go up there and get somebody

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to tell you all about it. There's one option that
includes not only just membership to that south course at
private club, but also access to Golf Club of Houston's
two courses access to Blackhawk Country Club, So you basically
get five golf courses for one and that that's a
big advantage over most other country club memberships. Black Horse

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Golf Club dot com. They're on Fry Road, just a
few miles south of the two ninety and go south
on two ninety and when you see golf course on
both sides of the road, put on your west blinker
and then take the next rite and you'll be right
there splitting two holes on black Horse Golf Club. Black
Horse Golf Club dot com is the website. Make your
tea time, go play. Black Horse goolf Club dot com.

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Eight thirty six on Sports Talk seven to ninety The
Dougpike Show. Thank you for listening, certainly do appreciate it.
Watching bass fishing on TV. I think there's a football
game on. Is somebody playing over in London, Frankie or
do you know there might be a game going on
over there? Now? I'm not sure and it doesn't matter.
Seven to one three we're talking about the outdoors seven

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one three two one two five seven ninety email me
Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot come. I made a lot
of notes on my little official sheet I brought in here.
I got a catalog yesterday, by the way, from bass
Pro Shops. I'll tell you who it is. And I'm
presuming I got this because they presume I'm a grandfather
by now, which I'm not. And they also, i guess,

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are presuming that whoever's getting these things aren't smart enough
to use the Internet. So it's Grandma and Grandpa's catalog
for the kids. It's in the title on the front page.
Is just on the front cover Kids Wish Book twenty
twenty five gift Guide, and to their credit, they took
a good swing at finding stuff for the kids for Christmas.

(27:44):
The first sixteen or eighteen pages are are I'm not
gonna knock them because they at least they did it.
But it's kind of fluff.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
It's just.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Yeah, it's fluffy games and little kid stuff, little bitty
kid stuff toddlers to maybe five or six year olds.
And I'm thinking, holy cow, I hope the whole catalog
is not like this, and it's not lo and behold, uh,
we get to some books about the outdoors. We get
to now we're gonna flip this page. This is where

(28:20):
it's gonna get good. Now we've got little rods and reels.
We have little plastic toy rifles that are are that
are fitted with everything they need to make sure everybody
knows it's a toy. You don't want to show up
with something like that in the wrong spot. There are ridiculous,

(28:42):
absolutely crazy other little dark guns as a little one
of those plastic darts with a little sponge behind them
called Franky. Do you remember Nerf? Yeah, NERF gun stuff. Uh,
there are now when you flip the next page, Now
you get to the good stuff. This is page twenty eight.
Now we got Daisy Red Rider BB guns. The first

(29:05):
one of those I ever owned. I probably cost about
seven or eight dollars. Now the Daisy Red Rider goes
for forty four to ninety nine. There's a buck air
rifle kit from Daisy. That thing I thing sixty dollars.
Holy cow. Then you get over to the Crossman fancy
s fancy stuff, also about sixty bucks. They've got some

(29:27):
bows in here. And then for some reason I flipped
the page and all of a sudden it's grown ups games.
It's some interesting stuff, and it it's not too I'm
not trying to top bast Pro Shops, although it's great store,
a lot of fun to go into. But it's just
a reminder that holiday season is coming up, and make

(29:47):
sure that if you are a grandma or grandpa and
don't know anything about the outdoors, be real careful where
you're buying your stuff. I'm not gonna go into the
story that I've told enough times about well, I can
do it very quickly. A woman went into a sporting
good store and was sold. He went in there and said, hey,

(30:08):
I've got a ten or eleven year old kid, and
he ended duve hunting with his dad. He loves it.
I want to get him a young man's shotgun, his
first shotgun, and she was shown I don't remember what
it was. It might have been, might have been a
Little Youth Model eleven hundred or something like that or

(30:29):
the equivalent. And in any event, on Christmas, the little
boy opens the box and is thrilled to death that
he's gotten his first shotgun from his grandma. And she said, well, wait,
open the other box. And he opened the other box,
and the other box was the scope that the part

(30:51):
time guy working in the gun department decided he'd sell
that woman. I don't know whether the guy made a
commission off of it or he was just that dumb
and didn't know, but in any event, it kind of
ruined the whole mood of everything. When this kid's old
enough to know that rifles get scopes, and unless you're

(31:11):
a turkey hunter, every now and then a turkey hunter
will have a scope on his gun to get those
pellets right where they belong. But this woman was sold
a rifle scope, specifically a rifle scope to put on
her grandson's shotgun. So be careful and may ask a
lot of questions of people you know are into hunting

(31:32):
before you go buying stuff for a hunter, especially a
young one. These these kind of memories stick with them forever,
and if it's done right and you get the right thing,
they'll love you ten million times more than ever before,
and be grateful to you and come over and mow
your lawn when you need them to, and remember you
on your birthday just like you've remembered them on theirs.

(31:55):
Make sure you get the right stuff, though, because there
are people in some of these stores around town who
are They're not going to be experienced around holiday time.
These stores bring in a lot of part time help
and sometimes that doesn't work out so well. Just be careful.
You can always email me. I'll be happy to give

(32:15):
you some suggestions on what might be age appropriate for
some of these kids. And that age appropriates a different
thing for everybody. I wasn't going to talk about this,
but I will recommend, and a lot of people are
going to say, no, I know better than you. I
will recommend, though, with youngsters, to not give them opportunities

(32:36):
to take game, a big game like bucks. A white
tail buck, a young person's first several white tail bucks
ought to be just something with antlers, and if you're
on a high falutin ranch, something with antlers that aren't
really showing any promise of becoming a big trophy buck.

(33:00):
And then let give them room to improve with each
year when they're little like that. I've seen pictures of
kids in there, maybe eight, nine, ten, eleven, maybe maybe
twelve years old with one hundred and eighty two hundred
class bucks that they shot, and that's great, But once
you've knocked over one of those, where are you gonna go?

(33:21):
From there. Where you're probably gonna go is the mall
with your friends, because you've already reached the pinnacle of
deer hunting. You got that big giant monster buck hanging
in the den next to dad's giant monster buck, or
maybe it's hanging in your bedroom or the kid's bedroom,
And okay, dad, where are we going? When are we
going to get an elephant? When are we gonna go

(33:42):
kill a line? When are we gonna go shoot a
rhinoceros or whatever. It's just it's hard to maintain their
excitement and enthusiasm if they've already done it, whatever the
pinnacle of that pursuit is. It's hard if they've already
done it, to get them to keep wanting to go

(34:05):
do it again and again. When they're so young and
they're learning so much about so many different things, they're
gonna move on to something else. And if they've got
a phone in their hands and a tablet in their bedroom,
it's not gonna be back out into the field with you, probably,
so be careful. Be careful. Oh, break time, break down,

(34:29):
Shooter's corner, Holy cow, speaking of hunting, Shooter's corner, Go
down and talk to Jerry and JTK about taking kids hunting.
They'll they'll set you straight and tell you what you
need to do and what you shouldn't do. They've got
plenty of guns in there, used and new by the way,
all well, not all of which, but many of which
are appropriate for younger hunters. If you want to start

(34:50):
them on a rifle, start them on a rim fire.
There's plenty of those at Shooter's Corner as well. Palmer
Highway to twenty ninth Street down there in Texas City.
Been there forty plus years. I think it's probably more
like forty three forty five now, I'm not sure. I
need to ask Jerry. He's probably one of the best
gunsmith Well, he is one of the best gun smiths.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
I know.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
He may be the best, depending on how you would
grade a gun smith builds custom rifles that are amazing.
I know that much. It's just an old school gun store,
these guys, everybody who works there, and there are only
a few select people who do but they are gun experts,
every single one of them. All you got to do

(35:28):
is walk in there and tell them what you're looking for,
tell them what you need, tell them what somebody else
told you about a gun that needs some repair and
let them take a shot at it. If the other
guys couldn't do it or wanted an arm and a
leg to get it done, that it might be a
little tough to get it out before hunting season at
this point. But if you race on down there tomorrow
morning or so and drop that rifle off, the one

(35:49):
that was giving you some grief last year, yeah, it'll
be fixed. I'm pretty sure they can fix it before
hunting season anyway. Palmer Highway to twenty ninth Street business
for forty plus years. And if you wear a badge
for a living, you get a discount at Shooter's Corner,
which I think is pretty cool. It's always been that way.
Almost every time I've been down there. There's always been
somebody from law enforcement just popped in to tell stories

(36:13):
and maybe get pick up something they forgot they needed
or wanted or whatever. And it's gonna be there. If
it's about shooting sports, it's gonna be in Shooter's Corner.
The Shooters Corner TX dot com is the website. If
you wear a badge for a living, you get a discount.
Like I said, The Shooters Corner TX dot Com if
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(36:34):
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Only four dozen in the country, and we've got one
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They make more than one hundred and fifty different kinds

(36:56):
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get shipped up here. They cure it, they do. I
don't know what they do with it in there. I've
seen the place. I know how it works. I've watched
them build cigars and it's fascinating. Actually, the smoking lounge
there in Texas City is it's kind of new school

(37:17):
because it's it's just it's a fun place to relax,
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And then he also has a second lounge over in
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(37:38):
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(38:02):
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and if you're really fancy spancy, he will come out.
He or there's another guy works with him, will come
out and they will set up a little canopy. They'll

(38:23):
sit underneath there in front of a whoever walks up
to them to their little table, and they will hand
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(38:43):
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Speaker 5 (39:11):
What is up, Master Doug?

Speaker 1 (39:12):
Oh man, I'm just living the dream, baby, feel pretty.

Speaker 5 (39:16):
Good, man. I missed an opportunity this morning. I was upset.
You know how your uh your windows in your house
and get kind of all do eat up and wet
you know in the morning.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
Oh yeah, I do. So.

Speaker 5 (39:29):
You know, first thing I do when I wake up,
I go out before I turning the lights. Aught, I
go out and check the deer feeder to see if
anything it substansions out there, just to check on my
check on my flash. I heard, I guess you'd say,
and uh, there was a Majestic eight baby ten at
the feeder. Nice and I tried to open the sliding
window and as soon as I unlocked it to get

(39:52):
a picture of it. That's the biggest one I've seen
this year's Wow. So I got to see him that
was kind of cool.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yeah, I'm out here on watching deer. It really is.
It's just it's almost it can be hypnotic, you know.
It's kind of like picking up the Internet or you know,
Facebook or or whatever, Instagram, only it's real. It's nature,
and it just it's it's addictive to me. I can
just sit and watch a feed or forever wait, even

(40:21):
if there's no deer around it yet, just waiting for
one to show up. I'm looking deep in the woods.
I'm looking everywhere for them.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
Oh yeah, I love it.

Speaker 5 (40:29):
I got I got big rabbits to come out here.
Worlds all kind of talking about the Red Rider. The
Red Riders. It's a super useful tool to have around
the house. It's a really good tool to keep anything
alive you don't want in your yard out without hurting.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
Yeah, that's a good point.

Speaker 5 (40:44):
Get about it. Definitely get him out of the yard.
Dogs can't crow.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
Just a little fump.

Speaker 5 (40:52):
Yeah, but I've doing something this morning. I ain't done
it in a long time, dude. Other other than scared, I know,
other than my lovely golf shops. If I tried to
call closer to golf, I had a quick question on that.
But uh, it's amazing how much stuff we accumulated our
vehicle eighteen and I got a twenty twenty six full

(41:13):
little rive sitting in my garage. Look at you, well,
will look like a more I don't want to look
a little bit more like a faux pro with that
black skinter and a red truck. I figure that hasn't
looked good.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
Oh yeah, that's good man, good for me?

Speaker 5 (41:26):
How much stuff I threw away?

Speaker 1 (41:28):
How much? How long did it take you to empty
out your old truck?

Speaker 5 (41:32):
Oh? Lord, good thing about it didn't take me no
time at all, because that was Angie's job. Well, I
was decided to do it. PaperWorks.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
Oh nice, nice.

Speaker 5 (41:40):
She was like. She was pretty much like, you have
too much blake in your truck?

Speaker 1 (41:44):
Oh my god, yeah, that's it sounds just like mine.
Right now I got right now, you'll be proud of me,
faux bro. And right now I have one, two, three,
seven rods and reels am I in the back of
my little Explorer seven? I am ready. I'm ready for anything. Well,
part of it was yesterday I went and I went

(42:07):
fishing with my dentist. Actually, I promised him I'd take
him try to catch some catfish in the lake in
his neighborhood, and it's a pretty big piece of water,
and we ended up technically being skunked, although I don't
know whether or not, because it was the only thing
that I actually had to deal with about. A dinner
plate sized turtle came along and grabbed up some corn

(42:29):
and was very embarrassed when he felt the pressure on
his lip. Good thing I had a barblous hook in him, though,
because he would have been more difficult to get off
the hook than I wanted. Yeah, it was some. We
had a good time. It was a nice, comfortable afternoon.
We were in a shaded gazebo on the water and

(42:50):
I'd thrown out two cans of corn almost and just nothing, man, nothing. Yeah.
He's been in that neighborhood for a very long time.
His name's Alan Emrick. Great guy, great Dennis. He's been
there as long as I have in sugar Land, thirty years.
He's been in practice, and I've been going to him
almost all of that. And he said the lakes, the

(43:13):
homeowners Association claims they get stocked with all kinds of
fish every year, and I'm calling boloney on that. I
want it. I told him, I said, you need to
go to those people and say, show me the records,
what exactly has been stocked in here in the last
couple of years. And I bet you nobody can find anything. Yeah,

(43:33):
it's a shame, man, because it's a beautiful lake.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
You love.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
I'm gonna have to take a picture of the shoreline.
You'd love it because it's just the big tall reeds
all the way around the shoreline on probably about forty
thirty five or forty acres of water. Beautiful.

Speaker 5 (43:50):
I got a new truck in here.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
Well, we may need to we may need to meet
up down on the beach again, man, because it's it's time.
Those redfish are up and down the coast right now
and they're just sneaking in closer and closer, getting around
the passes.

Speaker 6 (44:06):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
And they're they're going to be there for probably at
least another three four weeks getting that spawn taken care of.

Speaker 5 (44:13):
We'll go Stone the same two Stone say win. But uh,
last question before you get your So I think you
my I think I'll think you my five second Ben
Hogan video.

Speaker 1 (44:24):
Yeah, I saw that.

Speaker 5 (44:25):
What I found is you can talk. You can talk
about this maybe in the golf hour. But where I
got comfortable, for whatever reason, I spread out a little
bit more, and I put the ball way deeper in
my stands, and then I had a little bit more rapid.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
What do you mean deeper in? You mean back or forwards?

Speaker 5 (44:40):
Further back, further back in my stands, toward your back foot, Yes, sir,
and I spread out a little bit. I got a
little bit more consistency that.

Speaker 4 (44:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
I sent you a little to just kind of trying
to relate. You look pretty stiff. You look like you're
you're overthinking it a little bit. Just try to relax. Hey,
I'm gonna I'm gonna bounce so I can get back.
I got to get them some stuff. I don't know
what Brandon's got on his mind, but we're gonna find
out when we get back. Vaux Pro. It is always
a pleasure, my friend. Thanks appreciate it, Yes, sir, audios.
All right, let's bounce out here and we'll bounce back

(45:12):
in a little bit. Timber Creek Golf Club FM twenty
three fifty one in Friends with twenty seven holes of
really fun playable golf. It really is fun to play
timber Creek. It's right there in front of you. There's
not a ton of hazard out there, and everybody up
there is just really or down there. Really, they're down
in Friendswood about three four miles west of the Golf Freeway.

(45:35):
Everybody down there and wants to make sure you have
good time. All you got to do is show up
with a good attitude and not too worried about what
score you shoot, because that really doesn't matter in golf.
Golf's about having fun with your friends, about having somebody
drive by and make sure you got beverages and food
to get you around. Maybe go in the grill after
or before you play to get get a good full belly.

(45:57):
And if it's afterward, just recount every shot you made.
Tell tell your buddies every shot you took it. Just
talk to him about it. I'm sure they'll sit there
and listen. No they won't. JJ Woods Academy down there
at timber Creek is a good place to go. Fix
whatever's broken with your swing. Timber Creek Golf Club dot com.
Make yourself for tea time right now, timber Creek Golf

(46:18):
Club dot com. Now here's Doug Pike all right, second
hour starts down. Thank you all, for joining us. We
are man, We've we've covered a lot of ground already
and we're gonna cover some more here right now. Poor Brandon,
he stayed all the way through the break, so I'm
gonna get right to him here.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
What's up, man, Good morning, missus Fike, how are you?

Speaker 1 (46:39):
I'm good Brandon? How about you? Man?

Speaker 3 (46:42):
Good? Wow? They finally the north wind finally hit down
here in Wharton. Okay, it's blowing about fifteen to twenty
miles an hour.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
Can you actually feel.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
H No, they're just blew to him in it here.
That's about it.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
That's not a bad thing.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
That's a blessing. And that's as in disguise. Trust me,
trust me right. No, I was gonna I was going
to pass along a message. I ran across. I got
certain places I can go and look at wildlife, and
I don't uh, I don't hunt, I just look at
them through.

Speaker 6 (47:16):
But but I ran.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
Across a group of hogs. There was there was about
six grown hogs, and the one that was leading the
pack was the south And I was like, and all
of a sudden, all these dbs showed up behind her.
It was twelve of them, only piglets. Yes, and so,
I mean, we've been blessed with a lot of rain

(47:38):
and everything else. But people wonder why we can't control them.
That's why. Yeah, and you know the gestation period of
a wild hog or pigs in general. So yeah, yeah,
there was twelve of them. I had to I had
to let them scatter out. And I was like, oh, okay, yep, twelve.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
The old the old joke about how fast these pigs
breed and all that is the story of the soal
that gave birth to to five piglets and nine survived,
you know.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
Right right exactly. I was amazed. I couldn't believe that.
I sat there and watched them as they scattered out.
I had to double and triple check, and sure enough,
I checked out. I checked out twelve, and I was like, well,
won't be long. There'll be the manufacturing pop up less
than a year.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
Less than a year they get right after it, and there. Yeah,
if you there's nothing we're gonna be able to do
about getting rid of pigs. I just don't think it's
possible anymore without without poisoning everything in the woods and
then starting over. They have so established themselves, they're so
adaptable to any environment. And I mean you've seen it.

(48:53):
I've seen it. Everybody's seen it if you don't live
inside the Loop, and even inside the Loop on Buffalo
Bio there you can still find pig tracks every now
and then. There were people hired to go into the
arboretum over here close to me years ago to get
the pigs out. They were in there eating them out
of house at home at the arboretum. I've seen dead pig.

(49:15):
This is years ago, but I saw dead pigs along
Memorial Drive between the Loop and downtown coming off that
coming off that bio man. So yeah, they'll they'll go
anywhere they can find food and then they'll just make
more babies.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
And well not only that, they I mean they you
may know, and I would like to hear what you
have to say about it. They have a they have
a deadly attitude. I mean they I mean cabs, farms,
Oh yeah, name it. I mean I mean they're not yes, yes, sir, yes, sir,
especially on the phone. Crap. I would like to know

(49:51):
what they do on a farm.

Speaker 5 (49:53):
Crap.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
Yeah, it'd be interesting. Well, the thing now is how
rattlesnakes have have taught themselves not to rattle when hogs
come by, because the hogs will kill them. Hogs will
kill them and eat them. Yeah, and that's that's become
a problem for people walking through the woods because the
snakes aren't giving that warning because they don't know if

(50:14):
it's a person or a hog coming. Oh. The rattle
stakes have kind of gone a little quiet in some
parts of the state. I've heard. I haven't tripped over one,
and that didn't rattle. Uh, but that's certainly something to consider.
Better keep your eyes open and your ears when you're
in rattlesnake country, which is pretty much anywhere in Texas. Yeah, man, yes, sir,

(50:34):
all right, Brandon. Great to hear from you, all right, always.

Speaker 3 (50:38):
Yes, sir, God hear from mean you? All right. Thank
you for your actal show.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
That's pretty thin air. I'm in up there, I guess,
Thanks Brandon. I'll see buddy audios. Oh man, holy cow. Intellectual.
That's I hadn't heard that one in a while, but
I appreciate it. I try, Yeah, I try to sprinkle
in some intellect from time to time. I was mentioned

(51:06):
fishing with my my dentist yesterday, and although we didn't
catch anything, we talked a lot about sports, and his
sons are internationally ranked fencers at the college level and
have competed in worldwide competitions. And we were talking about, well,

(51:29):
he was talking anyway, about how few scholarship opportunities there
are for fencers, and so I got to talk to
him about it, and very quickly and then I'll get
back to where we belong here, But very quickly I
talked to him about how few fencing facilities there are
in almost any city. There's a lot of interest in

(51:51):
it amongst a very small group, but I'm not so
sure that fencing wouldn't be a better and more healthy
as far as orthopedics go, alternative for seniors, even to pickleball,
because right now pickleball is the number one injurer of seniors.

(52:12):
That's it the most. The most orthopedic injuries among seniors
occur from pickleball fencing. And Allen was telling me that
there are lots of people in all these well the
handful of places where fencing takes place, kind of like
a bad minton place or a pickleball place or whatever,

(52:33):
there are fencing places, and there are a lot of
seniors in there using that to get their exercise, to
maintain their flexibility to do all of these things, and
it probably wouldn't be a bad opportunity. I don't know
if I'm ready to go tackle that. I got enough,
I got enough hobbies. I don't need to be going

(52:53):
and buying an ePIE and the suit and the mask
and all of that stuff. It's interesting. At some point, sometime, somehow,
maybe in fifty plus, I'll share more of what he
talked about with fencing and how competitive it is and
how it works. Back to fishing that little lake that

(53:13):
he's on. If it were if I lived in that neighborhood,
I would I would have a little boat tied up
at the dock, and I would probably go out there
with my little trolley motor almost every afternoon. It just
looks so bassy. And I know that water actually because
at the far back of it is where a friend
of mine and I used to fish when we were

(53:37):
in our I guess our mid twenties, kind of mid twenties,
late twenties, somewhere in there. We fished back there. We
did a little duck hunting back there, long before there
was anything built around it. And so I know the
water and it's been there forever. I just wonder why
I'm not seeing any I didn't see any fish activity yesterday.

(53:59):
I've been told there's some pretty good bass in there.
But for a beautiful lake like that on a Saturday
afternoon to not have anybody fishing on that dock, that
kind of got my attention. To Mojo weighs in about
hogs and how to get rid of them. I don't
know if we could get rid of them but make
it fashionable to eat their meat and wear their hides.

(54:21):
It's fashionable to eat the meat already. There's a There
are tons and tons and tons of hog meat shipped
over to Europe every year, and it is how do
they call it? Wild boar? North American wild boar, and
it sells like hotcakes over there in Europe. And then

(54:44):
the kotour a bunch, she says, would put a dent
in their population. You know, I just don't think we
can make a hog purse look good.

Speaker 3 (54:58):
Now.

Speaker 1 (54:59):
It would It would take some time. Although if we
could get a few TikTok people telling people to get
a hog purse and a hog wallet and hog shoes
and boots wild hog boots, yeah, man, maybe we could
get rid of some of them, but I don't think
we'll ever get rid of all of them. I just
don't think so. Captain Scott Wade in when I was

(55:20):
talking about that lake and the fact that I didn't
really see any fish in that ticket activity, and he back,
he sent me an email real quick says they probably
stalk the heck out of those lakes so they can
feed your favorite birds that would be cormorants. No, no,
I oddly enough, and I wrote back to him, I

(55:42):
didn't see a single cormorant there yesterday. And Scott, like me,
fired back and one hundred percent agrees, because they already
ate everything. Once the cormorants get in there, they're gonna
stay until there's nothing left to eat. And I've got
a hunch that this well meaning property owners association where

(56:04):
this guy's lake is dump in little fingerlings and two
or three inch bass and all these little bitty things
that are less expensive than larger fish. You can buy
fewer and larger fish and stock your lake with fun
sized catchable fish. Big signs out there all of our

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fishing is catching release corner inch don't read okay, So
that I think is what's happening with their stocked fish.
They're putting all these little bitty fish in there, probably
stock a half a million little shiners, and some three
inch sunfish and some four inch bass. And every one

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of them is a target. Every one of them swims
every inch of its life with a target on its back.
If there's a corner in around three pounds of fish
a day, almost every day, Like holy cow, All right,
it's time for a break. Let me pause. I'll pause
and refresh here and I will tell you about American
shooting centers. This is Eedriigi's place. He bought this. He

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bought American Shooting Centers. I don't know how long ago
from the I think it was originally owned by the county.
And when he took it over the Sporting Clays Officionado
that he is decided we need another sporting places course
or two. So now there are three Sporting Clays courses
on the property. There are ten trap and skeep fields.

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There are five stands setups in several places on the property.
There's a beginner's wing shooting area. This is all just
for shotgunning, and it's all fantastically put together, all very
user friendly. With the remodeling. He did basically of the
trap and skeet fields and the sporting clay stuff. You're

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using coins to pick up targets, and once you drop
your coin in on the trap and skeep, for example,
you pull your own targets. You can pull them all
from the same station you want. You don't have to
wait on a teenager to come over and pull your
targets for you. Very safe, very fun place to go
shoot on the shotgun side and on the rifle and

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pistol side. There that starts at five yards goes out
to six hundred yards. That you do have to qualify
at three to shoot at six. Just know that walking in,
if you fancy yourself a long range shooter, you're gonna
have to prove that you're a long range shooter a
little bit out to three hundred yards. Then you can
go over there and try and whistle one down there

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where a washing machine looks like a postage stamp. They've
got a well, not a beginners it's a wings or
a pop up silhouette range that I believe goes out
to two fifty and just rim fire pop ups. You
get the kids out there with a twenty two and
let them shoot all day and not cost you an
arm and a leg in Emma. Great fun place to shoot,

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great instruction available for every shooting discipline. American Shooting Centers
is on West Timor Parkway between Katie and Highway six.
I promise you cannot miss it. Got a nice selection
of fine high end shotguns and rifles in the pro shop.
They have amo for every caliber you could bring out there,
pretty much and just can't wait to have you out there.

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I'm gonna, in fact, I'm gonna be making a trip
out there very very soon. I got some work I
gotta do. American Shooting Centers dot com. It's a website.
Go check it out. American Shooting Centers dot com nine
to nineteen. On Sports Talk seven ninety, I just asked
Frankie if that was Pat Benatar, and then right as

(59:43):
he was telling me it was Blondie, I was thinking,
I sure wish it was Pat Bennefar. I yeah, I
thought she was kind of cute when I was young.
Pat Benatar seven one three. I'll just walk away from
all that seven one three to two one two five
to seven ninety email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.

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I wanted to get to there was something else I
wanted to talk about. Actually, I kind of want to
swing back. Golf is golf's not being played right now. Really,
there are tournaments going on all over the world, but
the big guys, the real big guys in golf, aren't

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playing right now. By the way, Brad Schweiss from Houston
Gold Exchange sent me a text a little while ago,
jokingly referring to Owen Conflinty, the guy at Channel two,
the news anchor at Channel two who declared last week
that the hurricane season was over. The little yellow blob

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was the big yellow blob that popped up yesterday or
two days ago, is now an orange blob. Now it
is still expected to go crashing into Central America in
a few days, but it's also still not gone yet.
And Brad jokingly said that Hurricane Conflinty, these are thanks. Oh,

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and Hurricane Conflinty coming right at a category six into Galveston.
That's a joke. Of course, nothing's coming toward Galveston right now.
In fact, I'm going to go to my trusted source
when things start to look like hurricanes and let me
get to that. Click on this and see if they're
even recognizing this thing yet. Yeah, Okay, what do they

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have it doing? Yeah, that's very interesting. Yeah, the pattern
or the predicted path of this thing doesn't show it
coming into the Gulf of Mexico, and that's the best
news I can give you. It actually shows it getting
deep into the Caribbean and then kind of getting repelled

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and pushed back from whence it came. As long as
it and come into the Golf of Mexico, I'm fine
with wherever it goes, as long as it doesn't hurt
a whole lot of people. I'm fine with wherever it goes.
Right now, it's anybody's ball game, and we're still quite
a ways out on this thing. Unfortunately, it's got Yeah,

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the probability over seven days now is up from forty
yesterday to sixty that it will be named. Hopefully it won't.
Just hopefully it won't. I want to make sure that
I'm not missing anything in the world of golf. I
want to go check one website real quick. Got oh,
not there?

Speaker 3 (01:02:38):
What is that?

Speaker 1 (01:02:40):
Oh? I accidentally clicked on the iHeartMedia health plan for
no good reason. I don't need to look at that yet.

Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
Nothing, there's nothing going on in PGA Tour golf. I
haven't checked the women's schedule. I haven't checked the senior schedule.
But this is the time of year when I think
most golfers, well the amateur, the pros, especially the high
name pros, they're done for a while. They're gonna take
some time off, They're gonna travel with their families, go

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anywhere in the world they want to go, stay as
long as they want to. And the higher you are
in the rankings, I think the longer it's gonna be
before you get back out there into the grind of
every week playing four or five or six rounds of golf,
because you got to remember, and I'm not trying to
be the cheerleader for professional golfers, but they do have

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more than just those four rounds to play every week
unless they find some way to opt out of the
Wednesday pro am. And most of these tournaments now have
Tuesday and Wednesday pro ams just to raise more money
for charity. And I don't have a problem with that.
I've even seen some tournaments that had three pro ams

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prior to but some of the players who play in
those not going to be the big name guys they're
not going to be the big name guys unless you
unless you're laying down a lot of money to play
with them. And that's that's how those guys' names get picked.
I still any I played in probably I don't know,

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two dozen pro ams at PGA Tour events over my
career in what I do, and every one of those
guys with one exception. Actually there was one guy on
this on the Senior Tours, which what it was called then,
it wasn't PGA Tour Champions then, but one guy on
the senior side was just a pain in the behind.

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He was griping. He was telling us how to hit
our shots. We're amateurs, and he's telling us how bad
we are and why we ought to quit golf. I mean,
he was just having a bad day, man, he was.
He was He wanted to get those eighteen holes finished
and go back to where he was staying at and

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just stop. But anyway, these PGA Tour guys all almost
all all with that one guy, and he just had
a screw loose that day or something was bothering him.
But all of them, they're just so forthcoming with information
and so patient because you know that they don't like

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playing the level of golf that we play. You know,
they don't like that, but they do it because it
helps the game. And I think that I wonder how
much of that is done with live golf. I'm just
kind of spitballing here and shooting from the hip. But
I wonder how much of that is lost with live

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golf because those guys are already making their money. They
don't have to do anything special, they don't have to
do anything above and beyond getting out there and playing
three rounds in short pants and having fun. A lot
of music going on, a lot of this, a lot
of that, lot of everything. Go ahead and throw him up.
I know who that is. I want to catch him
before the break, Frank you okay, pop him in there,

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tell him I'm coming right to him. Here we go. Hey, Brian,
what's up, man, I've got.

Speaker 6 (01:06:04):
A golf question for you.

Speaker 3 (01:06:06):
No way, Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 (01:06:09):
Okay, to appreciate that, I'll try.

Speaker 6 (01:06:11):
So at what point do I need to move over
to graphite?

Speaker 3 (01:06:16):
Chafts? So I hit the big five?

Speaker 6 (01:06:18):
Oho, But a couple of years ago, I've had a
real big injury that really slowed down me just hitting
the ball. Yeah, and I'm just kind of curious to know.
I mean, I know you do your over fifty show.
Actually sure that more than that listened to your morning show.

Speaker 1 (01:06:29):
Oh you came in quick, didn't you.

Speaker 6 (01:06:33):
Well, I'm in the field most morning, yeah, Saturdays and Sundays.

Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
So but good.

Speaker 6 (01:06:39):
At what point do at what age do we start
looking at going to a graphie chaft to make the
game more enjoyable.

Speaker 1 (01:06:45):
It's not an age thing. It's a swing speed thing,
you know. It's it's if you're forty and you can't
swing the clubhead faster than fifty miles an hour, you
better go get a different chaft. If you're sixty five
and you've still got a hunderd mile an hour swing
speed somehow, then stay with whatever you want to, stay
with whatever you want to be in. Now your driver,

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the drivers need to be graphite, okay, And there are
a million different shafts. The best way if you want
to just drop a little bit of coin and find
out is get a get a club, evaluate get a
fitting for golf clubs, and they're they're gonna charge you
something for it wherever you go, but you're gonna find

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out exactly what clubs suit your game best, and I'll
tell you how how good these things can be. One
of the fitting I had last I walked into the
room knowing almost certain that it was gonna be a
specific brand of clubs that were gonna be best for me,

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that I was gonna get the tightest dispersion, the more
the greatest distance off driver, the greatest uh. I wanted
more height on my on my iron shots and all
of this stuff. And I had it in my head
that it was going to be one of two different manufacturers,
and I even had it down to the models that
I thought it was going to be. And I walked

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in there and I spent thirty forty minutes hitting six irons, okay,
And at the end of those thirty forty minutes with
and maybe more than that, maybe closer to an hour,
but with six irons, and then we did a little
stuff with the fairway metals and in the driver, and
in the end, my irons that I was certain were

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going to be XYZ were ABC. I ended up in
the set of Calaways that I would have if you'd
have told me ten different even just brands of clubs
that I was going to get to try out. Callaway
wouldn't have been in the top five probably. I thought,
no way that that's going to be. I don't even
need to swing those. But we swung different shaft and

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headc combinations on those clubs, different chafts and heads, different
schefts and heads, all the way through a bunch of
different setups, and all of a sudden and it was
all based on my old six iron. I hit eight
or ten of those once I got warmed up, and
so we That was our baseline, And in the end,
that Callaway set of Irons had me with tighter dispersion.

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I picked up almost a full club link hitting them,
and they were going twice as high as my old ones,
like okay, And I've had them ever since. I love them.
I absolutely love them. So get fit. It's not it's
not your age. Age has nothing to do with it.
Age has nothing to do with it, I promise you, Brian.
But get fitted for clubs that suit your swing speed

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and and tighten your tighten up your dispersion, and you're
gonna love golf a lot more than you do. Now,
where are you doing your golf and where are you playing?

Speaker 6 (01:09:52):
You know I haven't since I mean I had I
broke my neck.

Speaker 1 (01:09:56):
Oh that's right, yeah, years.

Speaker 6 (01:10:00):
So you know it's really just slinging. You know, it's
not slinging but using a fishing rod and shooting. But
it's like that left shoulder and a neck. You're sore, sore,
sore when I go out and use which I'm running
Calaway is right now, decent set. But I don't know
if it's the steel shaft. I don't know if I
need to look at doing a grabby shaft. Of course,
I still think I can grip it and rip it right.

Speaker 1 (01:10:22):
Yeah, let me ask you this, how far do you
hit seven irons? You might be able to pick some
stuff up with if you if you go to a
I hate to use the word because you're only fifty,
but in a senior shaft, okay, and it's just going
to take a fitting to see that's all you go

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into any go to other half a dozen places, a
dozen places around Houston. You can get a fitting and
they're all going to be good and they'll take care
of you, man, they really will. And then you'll know,
because you're a at fifty, you probably no. It's all
going to depend on your shoulder too. You got to
get that fixed don't go out and try to be

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a hero and swing really hard just because you've got new,
brand new golf clubs and then end up tearing the
shoulder up again. Yeah, I get somebody to take a look. Man.
I bet you got more. I bet you got at
least one point fifty in that seven iron. It's in there.
You just gotta yeah, get the right stick. Man.

Speaker 6 (01:11:23):
I appreciate your insight.

Speaker 1 (01:11:24):
Thank you. Yeah, we need to go play some golf
sometime when you're ready, But once again, make sure you're
not hurting, because the last thing you want is to
hurt after every time you swing a golf club. And
I've been there before. I know what that's like, and
it just I had to just stop for a while,
just had to just put them down and walk away
and go stretch them out and exercise and get back
to it. I'll get you out there as soon as

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you're ready. I promise you that you the man.

Speaker 6 (01:11:47):
I appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (01:11:48):
Yeah, well you've helped me so many times with flounder stuff. Yeah,
I oh, you at least a round of golf. I'll
take care of you. Brian, Thanks man. Good to hear
from you always. Yeah, Audio Brian Treudway talking about golf.
Oh my lord, that you could have knocked me over
with a feather when he said that. Frankie, he is
probably the best flounder guy I know. That's my go

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to guy for flounder and their future as far as
conservation goes. He knows how to catch him. He loves
to catch him and eat him. But he also has
devoted a lot of time and effort into learning about him.
So that's where I thought we were going, because the
season's going to close at the end or at the
end of October. All the way through the middle of December,

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I thought maybe he had something to say about that.
I didn't even know he played golf. Now I got
somebody else I'm gonna take out and play golf. I'm
gonna set up a little miniature tournament of some sort
where I can get some friends out and have a
lot of fun. Speaking of fun, I got the opportunity
for the first time in my life about a week
and a half ago now to get on an electric bicycle,

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an e bike.

Speaker 5 (01:12:54):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:12:54):
Wayne Errington brought him down from tom Ball all the
way to Stafford Center for that Seniors that I went
to over there. Well, two Wednesdays ago, and after the
show was done, after everybody was kind of starting to
pack up, and all the people who had come by
to learn about things of importance to them had walked

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away and driven away, that parking lot was pretty empty,
and Wayne and I got out there with one of
those big Rambo hell Cat both wheel drive bikes, and
he warned me, he said, I'm gonna put it on
setting number one. This is a five. And as soon
as I started to pedal that thing. When you start

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to pedal it, that's when the the motor kicks in
and it just it says, oh you want to go, Yeah,
here we go, and it just took off across the
parking lot. And then after a little while it'll kind
of stopped doing that, and you just hit those pedals
one more time and off you go for another pretty
long distance of acceleration and sustained speed. And he explained

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to me afterwards that if I had put it on five,
it would have snow at my neck back when I
hit those pedals. So one's a good speed for me.
I could live with one all day long. He has
a bunch of different bikes up there. He's on Tomball Parkway,
you can't. It's a very easy place to find once
you get around Tomball, and you can look it up
on the website and figure that out. But the bottom

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line is he's got plenty of different bikes in there,
including the big ones that you would consider taking on
a hunting trip and get you through the woods quiet
as a mouse, or maybe fishing up and down the
beach on North Padre Island. I could just see myself
on one of those down there, riding around till I
saw fish and then jump off and make a few casts.

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He's got three wheel bikes. For those of you who
are a little more senior and a little less steady
on your feet, a little less balanced, you can get
a three wheel electric bike and just use it to
run all your errands around town, well around your neighborhood. Anyway,
I wouldn't want to get on a road with that,
But nonetheless, you see what I'm telling you, He's got

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everything you could need for whatever bike you whatever purpose
you want to use that e bike for. I had
no idea e bikes were so easy to ride, no
idea how fun they were until I got on one.
And now I've been on one, I want to get
back on one. I'm already throwing nickels in the jar. It's
a pretty big jar, but it's gonna be fun. It's
gonna be absolutely fun. Ask him about the batteries, because

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there were concerns about batteries for a long time. Ask
him about the power level you might need to ride
your bike wherever you want to go riding it. Think
about going on hikes now that you could never go
on because you couldn't really walk that far for long
periods of time, or you had a hard time going uphills.
Use your bike, Get on an e bike and just

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ride up and then just coast back down. The fantastic
opportunity A ride bikes a r r ide a ride
bikes dot Com is the website. They'll put it together
for you. They'll let you test ride one. Just go
by the store. Tell him my sens you will you
Wayne's a cool guy. Air ride bikes dot com. If

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you are interested in buying a gun, buying some Ammo,
buying some Camo, buying some optics, buying anything to do
with these shooting and hunting sports all over town, I'd
strongly recommend thinking about Carter's country Carter's Country's been around
since the nineteen sixties, owned and operated and started by

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a man named Bill Carter, one of my dear friends
for a very long time. That man taught me more
about deer hunting than any than anybody I've ever been around.
Fantastic guy, and he was so passionate about the shooting sports,
so passionate about hunting. He ended up with The family
still runs the company and they're doing a fine job

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of it. And my job is to let you know
that if you go into Carter's Country, what you're gonna be,
what you're gonna deal with is everything you could possibly need,
everything you could possibly need for the shooting sports, and
people in there who can help you. They don't sell footballs,
they don't sell snorkels, they don't sell lawn chairs. They

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sell guns, ammo and hunting stuff period into story. Up
there on tresh Wig at the store north of the
Big Airport, they have a full service range everything. Any
kind of shooting you want to do up there, you
can do it. You can get instruction up there if
you need it, and they will literally sell you a gun,
some hearing and hearing, an eye protection if you don't

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have it little Ammo, and you can walk right out
and start test firing your brand new gun. At Carter's Country.
The other two stores have plenty of items everything you
could possibly need. New and pre owned guns plenty of
them too, and then all the ammo and flashlights and
anything you possibly could want. They've got it there at

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Carter's Country. It always have for sixty plus years. If
you can't get to the store, you can go online
and see all the latest deals, which includes right now
this time of year, the big red tag sale on
hundreds of items that they want to get moved so
they can bring in even more inventory. This is that
time of year, a lot of stuff's turning over. The

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good stuff's gonna be in there one way or the other.
They're just trying to make room for it by giving
you one heck of a deal on things that you've
probably been wanting, even if you didn't really need them.
Now's the time to go get them because you can
get them at a great price. Carterscountry dot Com is
a website. Go check them out. Carterscountry dot Com. On

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Sports Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show, thank you for
listening very much, Man, we've hit a lot of stuff.
I was kind of curious to know if I'd forgotten
something about first aid kits, and apparently I covered it
all because nobody wanted to add anything to what I
was talking about. It's really pretty simple stuff. You can
buy a ready made first aid kit. You don't have

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to just start with an empty shoe box and start
throwing stuff into it. And they're really there's something that
ought to be in your vehicle, something that ought to
be in your hunting bag, next to the shells, next
to the calls, next to whatever, your flashlight, all of
that stuff. A small compact little kit that and maybe

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one of those space blankets that roll up to the
size of a grape and expand to be a four
man tent. I don't know how they do that, but
those are good as well. Now this time of year,
not so much. Even if you got caught overnight right
now in southeast Texas, you probably wouldn't get chilled at
all if you had on enough closed when you started.

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But once we get a little bit maybe to mid
November or into December, certainly if you're gonna be making
a hunt out in the hill country or pretty much
anywhere north of Ita. It wouldn't be bad. It wouldn't
be a horrible idea to have one of those with
you just in case you needed it. And I know

(01:20:08):
that after four years, you'd probably look at your first
aid kit and your little space blanket and think, God,
I never used any of this, But thank goodness you didn't.
You just ought to thank your lucky stars that you
didn't use any of that stuff, because if you do
need it and you don't have it, that's when it's
going to be a problem. By the way, going back

(01:20:29):
to and really quickly, because we're gonna have to go
to another break here in just a minute. I got
kind of long winded. But going back to that catalog,
I got uh and thinking about Christmas items and holiday
items for little kids. When it's time, when you think
it's time to buy a child a rod and reel,

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it's probably time for most kids that they start with
a cane pole. That's first. That's my first recommendation. Start
them at three or four with a cane pole, and
go to a place where there's lots of little fish,
and not necessarily one big fish. Now, where there's lots
of little fish, there's probably a big one hanging out
that might eat some of them. But the bottom line

(01:21:12):
is what you want to do is use small hooks,
small bait, small cork, small everything on a cane pole
and just let them start catching fish when it comes
time for them to actually own a rod and reel,
which is probably going to be several years after they
start with the cane pole, because they don't quite have
the dexterity yet to use a rod and reel. Please

(01:21:34):
don't buy one of those little two and a half
three foot long, all plastic everything rods and reels with
some cartoon character on the blister pack that's hanging on
the wall and the store wherever you buy it, and
most stores that sell fishing tackle sell those things because
they appeal to grandparents and parents who think, oh, my

(01:21:58):
son or daughter loves Spider Man or loves my little
pony or whatever, and so all of this. Honestly, I
consider it kind of junk. Rods and reels. They're out there.
But if any fish whatsoever bigger than about a palm
sized bluegill grabs onto that line, chances are pretty good

(01:22:23):
something's gonna go wrong with that outfit, and then your
son or daughter is gonna lose that fish. They're not
going to be so happy. When you're ready to invest,
buy a little bit, invest a few bucks more and
get something from somebody like Zebko, somebody like Shakespeare. A
lot of the brand name manufacturers offer slightly upgraded gear

(01:22:49):
that will actually handle a pretty decent sized fish, and
go ahead and get that, because that will last them
a fairly long time. It won't fall apart the first
time a decent fish gets on it, and you'll have
much more a much greater shot at actually landing a
pretty good sized fish if your child happens to hook one,

(01:23:13):
and it's a lot easier to teach them to cast
with something that's actually designed to cast and not just
designed to look pretty hanging on a shelf. It just
frustrates me. I'm not a big fan of those. I
never have been and I never will be, because they're
they're designed to catch fishermen and they're not designed to
catch fish. And most most people in that business, if

(01:23:34):
you pull them aside and say, look, tell me the truth.
The cartoon stuff, it's just not it's not quality gear.
And if they if that's what they want and that's
for you, then fine, but just be prepared because at
some point it's gonna malfunction and the line's gonna break,
or the rod's gonna snap, or the reel is gonna
stop working, and then it's it just turns a great

(01:23:59):
experience with your kids into one that now you've got
to start explaining why that happened. So I want to
take a break. I don't want to beat up the
cartoon rods and reels too badly, but I guess you
can tell they're not a favorite of mine. Belleville meat Market,
now there's a favorite. Holy cow. Belleville Meat Mark's been

(01:24:20):
around forty something years. Out there in the middle of Belleville.
You can't miss it, really, right there on Highway thirty six,
about fifteen minutes north of Sealy, fifteen minutes south of Hempstead.
If you get into Belleville and you don't see it,
which is kind of hard, actually, it's right there. Roll
down the windows, drive around a little bit to your
smell smoke, and then turn up wind and that's going
to take you straight to Bellville Meat Market. They have

(01:24:43):
a full menu of pecan smoke barbecue. It served every
single day Monday through Sunday ten am to seven pm.
They have got pulled pork, They've got homemade hot dogs,
pecan smoked sausage, ribs, chicken, you name it, they've got
it for that lunch and all the sides to go
with it. They also do homemade stuffed pork tenders in

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jalapeno cream cheese, sweet chipotle cream cheese, dirty rice, boot
an stuff, pork chops, pans sausage, a labuchery stuff, chickens,
all these delicious things. Basically any and every meat product
and all the things you might need to make your
meat products that you're gonna cook up taste better. And
on top of that, they're taking orders right now for

(01:25:26):
pecan smoke turkeys for the holidays. You need to order
ahead and kind of reserve one of those things because
they don't just sell them every single day right up
to ten minutes before dinner time on Thanksgiving. Get your
order in early. These things average eleven to thirteen pounds
and they'll easily feed ten to twelve people. Beef, jerky, turkey, jerky,

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all your snacks for the duck blind or the deer stand.
That's where you need to get them too, is at
Bellville Meat Market Bellevillemeatmarket dot Com is the website. If
you can't get out there, just get online. They'll ship
almost anything in their store, kind of short of half
a cow, I guess, anything in their store or they'll
ship it right to your door. Belleville MeetMarket dot com,

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Belleville MeetMarket dot com, nine fifty three on Sports Talk
seven to ninety. I've only got about three or four
minutes left to wrap up everything that's going on. Holy cow,
we are fast approaching what is this the nineteenth ten day,
eleven days whatever? Two saturdays from now is we're gonna

(01:26:28):
kick off waterfowl season. We're gonna kick off deer season,
the regular deer season. The bowhunters have been at it
for quite some time now, and there have been quite
some bucks taken. From what I'm hearing, it's been pretty good.
We could have all appreciated cooler temperatures, but that's October
in Southeast Texas. That's October in Texas. Now that being said,

(01:26:51):
I was looking this morning. I've got some good, really
nice golf prize. I was up at Oakhurst Golf Club
a week and a half or so a week ad
week and a half. I can't remember I think it
was this past like a week and a half ago.
Let's just call it that and get it over with.
Pick it up. The golf balls for the Saint Jude
Children's Research Hospital golf tournament that we put on here

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at iHeart every year and half for eleven years now.
Holy cow, we've got one coming up, by the way,
and the sponsor filling up. If somebody's interested in getting
a team or getting a sponsorship, I would be happy
to help you with that. Just email me and I'll
set it all up. I'm on the board and I'm

(01:27:33):
very proud to be in that position and very happy
to help anybody who's looking to participate, help us help
these very, very sick children. It's just what that hospital
does is remarkable, and I don't have a problem talking
about it anytime anybody wants to hear it. I got
a full tour of the entire campus of Saint Jude's

(01:27:55):
over in Memphis years ago, probably five or six years
ago at least, and it was one of the most
life changing experiences I've ever had to see what that
hospital does for those kids. And these are kids who
have been pretty much told wherever they lived anywhere else
in the world that there's nothing the doctors could do

(01:28:18):
for them anymore, and they turned to Saint Jude, and
Saint Jude accept only those very, very sick children and
has a really good track record. There are several pediatric
cancers that when Saint Jude opened many many years ago,
were just death sentences to these kids. They were in

(01:28:40):
the almost uncurable and some of them just weren't curable
at the time. And now the cure rate on them,
the remission rate on them is in the eighty to
ninety percentile, And so all these kids are getting a
chance at life thanks to what goes on at Saint Jude.
So we raise a bunch of money for them the
past couple of years, between the golf tournament in one

(01:29:04):
day and the radio fond that we do across a
couple of days, at least we've topped a million dollars.
We've topped a million dollars, and we're hoping to do
that again. That's the plan. The plan is to do
more than we did last year. That's always been the
plan and we've always succeeded, and I hope we do
that again. So again, if anybody at all is interested

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in this Just email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com,
and I will be thrilled to let you know what
sponsorships are still available, what they cost, and the kind
of the good part is that our fearless leader here,
Eddie Martinez, several years ago, we worked it out so
that anybody who accepts and buys one of those bigger

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sponsorships with US gets that amount in a schedule, a
radio schedule. You can use it for the whole year.
Anytime in the next year. You can use that just
for making that generous donation to Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Good Heavens, the music means I gotta go. I'll be

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back Tuesday for fifty plus over on KPRC at noon.
I will be back in the saddle here God willing
on Saturday morning at seven o'clock as always. Thank you
also very much for listening. Get outside. It's wonderful weather
right now. Get outside, have some fun with your family,
Stay safe, and I'll see you next week. Ideas

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