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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Doug Pike Show, brought to you by
American Shooting Centers Guns Shooting at Instruction since nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now here's Doug Pike. All right, Saturday Morning starts right now.
Thanks for listening starting, you appreciate you joining us. That
would be Melvin and me on this very chilly but
not quite cold around here morning.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
He goes thirty four thirty four to thirty five.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
When I got in my automobile this morning and went
to pull back down the driveway turn the headlights on,
it realized that I had I had a frost delay
on my windshield, and it was enough frost that After
I sat there for a couple of minutes, thinking I
could just make it go away with the defroster, I

(00:50):
realized that the engine wasn't going to warm up enough
to make that happen. So I had to get out
of the car and grab a little credit card. Actually
I grabbed my old oh what was that? I don't
remember exactly what it was called, but back during COVID,
I was able to get my hands on one of
those emergency you get to drive around town when nobody

(01:13):
else does. Pieces of plastic and so whatever that was
called I had it handy, and I was able to
get here. Well, I was able to scrape all the
ice off. I guess that thing came in handy for something.
I don't know why. I was terribly worried about driving
around during COVID, coming back and forth down to here.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
There was nobody on the road that was in hindsight.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
That reminded me of the traffic levels back when I
started driving a million years ago. Do you remember how
how long you've been driving Melbourn A pretty long time,
pretty much. Yeah. Has Houston traffic always been horrible for you? Yes,
you know, back I've got a few years on you.
And before well, I go back all the way to

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before there was a Southwest Freeway. It's been a while,
been a hot minute now. I wasn't driving before the
Southwest Freeway. But nonetheless, it just Houston moved a little slower.
It was just a kind of a semi even as
a big city. When I was growing up, it was
still relative to what it is now. It was still

(02:18):
a very sleepy little region of southeast Texas. It was
still pretty big, although the incorporated area wasn't nearly what
it is now, and people who lived in Conroe. Houston
might as well have been on the other end of
the earth. You didn't run into anybody from Conro unless

(02:40):
you were driving through Conroe a long time ago. All
for naught. The city grew despite its attempts not to it.
I would I'd be curious to know what the forefathers
of Houston, Texas would say if they could see Houston. Now.

(03:02):
Do you think they would like how it's turned out
or not? They would say, Holy moly, I might sum
it up pretty good. I tell you what would happen.
I think that they would realize that they put their
city when they planted this, planted the flag for Houston, Texas.

(03:24):
They put it in the right spot for anybody who
really really enjoys the outdoors. And I didn't have any
intention of going there until I asked that question, But
I thought, you know what, there's a reason they stopped here.
And part of it was because there was access to
deep water access to the Gulf of Mexico by Buffalo

(03:47):
Bio back then. But nonetheless there was access and if
they looked around, you couldn't throw a rock without hitting
a dove or a duck or a goose or a
bear back when Houston was in its infancy, all kinds
of wildlife around here, not to mention geographically located South America,

(04:08):
North America, and both East Coast and West coast. Yeah,
we're right kind of in the middle of it all.
We have it. We got the best of it. I
had the opportunity many years ago to pitch Houston as
the location for a National Outdoor Writers Association ow AA,

(04:30):
the Outdoor Writers Association of America bitch Houston for an
annual awards and just gathering event one year and the
other how there was some place in Maine wanted it
held there, someplace in Florida wanted it held there. And

(04:51):
I think someplace maybe in Colorado or Utah was in
the running in the final four. And I made a pitch,
a very legitimate one, for holding it in Houston, because
not only did we have access for all these people
who were coming from all over the country to go
catch a redfish, to go catch a giant largemouth bass.

(05:12):
Shooting facilities were available, American Shooting Centers was up and
running at the time. There were just so many reasons
to come here and so much for not only the
attendees but their families to do, could go down to NASA.
There were so many things they could do. Go to

(05:33):
the Galleria, for heaven's sakes, if they wanted to go shopping.
Not that many of the people who are OWAA members
would have been in the Galleria, but nonetheless, the bottom
line is they chose po dunk somewhere else. After part
of our presentation, held up a map of the United
States and folded it in half, and then when you

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opened it up, Houston's on the crease. It's equally easy
to get to from just about anywhere in the country,
and the West coast people wouldn't have to fly all
the way to the East coast, and the East coast
people wouldn't have to fly all the way to the
West coast. And they said, no, you know why, Honestly,
I believe this to my core. That organization tended to

(06:20):
go to very small towns, and they bringing a big
gathering of outdoor riders from many other small towns around
the country. And when you pull into let's say they
held one in I'll pick a town El Campo. Okay,
they're gonna hold one of these things in Campo. And

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that's kind of the size of cities. It wouldn't even
have been a Woodlands or a sugar Land or a
Kingwood or something like that.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
It would have been just small town other state.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
And when you go in there and the old WAA
is coming to town, everybody in town knows about it.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Everybody in town's talking about it.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
There's a welcome sign at the dairy queen, and boy,
these people feel really really important. And that's what they
were looking for. They were looking for an ego stroke,
and they were not really worrying so much about what
else they could do while they were there. Honestly, it

(07:20):
was frustrating, it really was it. So anyway, there was
enough of that shame on them. Yeah, you know, there
was a committee assigned to go visit all these cities.
And I got word back a couple of times from
other people in the in the towns. I was wanted
to go off and start asking weird questions, not just

(07:41):
you know, how long has your town been here? Stuff
like that, But how was that committee when they came
through where they take good care of you guys?

Speaker 3 (07:47):
Were they nice to you guys?

Speaker 2 (07:49):
And more than once I heard, you know, they just
had their hands out. They they just wanted to see
what we would give them, and so I don't know.
I got soured on that a little bit and opted
out of membership for a while.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
It doesn't mean I can't write anymore. I still do.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
In fact, I've finished up two deadlines just this week.
Got two magazine pieces that I knocked out, and I'm
glad I did, and I got good information for both
of them. And they're both ones about corner ants. I
can't stand those birchs, and you know that, and everybody
on the planet knows that. And I wrote a column
for Texas Fishing Game about them because I've witnessed firsthand

(08:30):
now not just short term damage they can do, but
long term damage to what was once one of the
premiere little tucked away private bass lakes in the state,
and because there was nothing done about the cormorants there
that lake has I don't know it. I don't know
that it has any bass left in it. I fish

(08:52):
it pretty hard. I used to, and the last five
or six times I've been there, I haven't gotten even
a bite. I used to catch thirty forty fish in
an afternoon. Haven't gotten a bite. Didn't matter what I
threw hadn't gotten a bite, so that's pretty telling. And
the only change that's occurred on that lake. There's been

(09:12):
no giant chemical spill or no dead fish washing up
on the shore.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
There no.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Apocalyptic freeze that would have killed them, because I've fished winter, spring, summer,
and fall straight through every one of them for the
last ten years on this water, and the only thing
that changed was the cormorant showed up. So I wrote
that one. Then I wrote a big Trout column for
saltwater sportsmen that I want to say is going to
run in April, which will be behind the big trout season,

(09:43):
and if anything changes before publication, if there's really good
or really bad news before then, I'm gonna beg the editors,
if they haven't already gone to press, I'm gonna beg
the editors to let me go in and at least
in sort of sidebar somewhere about what happened. And I
think that if that does occur, it's going to be
good news and not bad about the current state of

(10:08):
speckled trout in this state. I'm really enthusiastic. I got
a call from I've gotten a couple of calls after
I mentioned it last week that I was working on
that column still, and everybody's pretty excited about it. Everybody
I've talked to is excited and seeing improvement long before
they thought they would, which I find really comforting. And

(10:31):
these are people who are on the water, not like
me occasionally, but on the water every day. That's what
they do for a living, and they would recognize subtle
changes much faster than you or I would. And they're
all fired up. Chilly mornings on the prairie, woo chilli chili.

(10:52):
I remember them. I remember those mornings, some of them
more finally than others. Truth about waterfowl season down here
is this, What matters more than anything else is location.
And that's been the case for ever. That's been the
case since shotguns were invented and people started using them
to hunt birds and hunt animals that ran and moved

(11:16):
before you could try to knock them down, or as
you try to knock them down. Anything other than location
is just it's just window dressing. Really. If you're where
the birds want to be, you're gonna have a hard
time messing it up. If they want into the field
you're in, you have to go out of your way

(11:37):
to make a mess of things and not have a
good hunt. And conversely, if you're not where they want
to be, I don't care how many decoys you put out.
I don't care how much you call or how little
you call, or how many calls you have hanging around
your neck, and how many bands are on that lanyard.
You're not going to make them magically appear. And that's

(12:00):
something I kind of liked about waterfowl hunting as a guide.
I had a really good idea walking out the door
with my hunters three four, five, whatever. It was about
how many birds we were going to get that day
in a good spot. The ability of hunters to actually

(12:20):
hit birds in range dictates measurable outcome, sometimes in birds,
sometimes in piles of empty holes, But one way or
the other, I had an idea how many opportunities at
least we would probably get that morning, based on the
prior days scouting and based on just kind of sizing

(12:41):
these guys up at breakfast. Yeah, how long all been hunting? All?
We're just kind of getting into it. How many of
you have hunted geese before? None? Okay, Well, that brings
the potential total down little ways. How many of you
have hunted from a rag spread before I have. Some
guy raises his hand. It's pretty cool. It's a little

(13:03):
bit different, and I'm thinking, Okay, he's gonna be the
guy who's gonna explain it to the guys in front
of him or with him while we're getting settled in,
and then I'll go in and give him the safety
speech and I'll give them a little bit of briefing
about how to shoot lying down. And that's something I wish.
I wish some shooting range somewhere. What of if I

(13:26):
may have to talk to EDARRIGGI about this, Just get
one of the trap in skeep fields maybe and set
it aside because there is some barrier at least a
little bit between theres where if there was any accidental
discharge it wouldn't go anywhere. But somewhere out there, find
a way to set up a mock rag spread against

(13:49):
a rice levee and teach people how to shoot from
that position, because it's not easy to roll over now.
The way it's being done a lot more now is
where you're just kind of leaning with your back against something.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
Holy cow, I'm running late, huh.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
I'll just look up and close my eyes and open
them again. And I'm running late, and I'm sorry, sorry, Melvin,
and I'm missing pieces of paper. Hold on, let me
find what i'm looking for. There's what I'm looking for
right there. I tell you what. We're gonna flip the
script a little bit, Melvin.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety Houston, sports online at
sports seven ninety dot com.

Speaker 5 (14:33):
Back to the Doug Fike Show.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
All right, welcome back Doug Bikes Show on Sports Talk
seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Thank you kindly for listening.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
When you're talking to Adam and Adam Melvin in the afternoons,
they can they hear in the studio the rejoin coming
on when you count them down to five four three
two one. Because I noticed they don't wear headphones. No,
you wear headphones. Oh, but they have the earp That's
what I thought. I had the custom earpieces right because

(15:03):
get me out there in the control room where I am. Yeah,
but they can hear uh Dan in here, I got you.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
H oh okay, I figured it out.

Speaker 6 (15:12):
All right.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Let me go talk to Rick Bis. He'll be able
to hear me as soon as I can get this
mouse to work over here. Godly, come on, this thing's
you're sliding around. Uh, there it is. It's got to
get back on the screen.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
And finally I got you Rick, what's going on?

Speaker 7 (15:28):
Man? Oh what a beautiful morning?

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Oh isn't it?

Speaker 8 (15:32):
Though?

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Nice and Chris? It is as they say.

Speaker 7 (15:36):
I was gonna try to cover a couple of things,
but I'm gonna try to just do one for time's sake.
I'm might new the other one tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
If I'm available, whichever.

Speaker 7 (15:46):
The Uh what I'd like to talk to about this morning?
Just a little experience I had, I think it was
it was that night. It was so bad, umb windy cold.
Oh my god, I think m hm anyway, can't can't fire,
believe it or not. A bunch of guys and I
swung in there check on things, and we got in
this discussion of crazy things in the deer sting that

(16:11):
happened sure, And I brought up the subject first. I said,
how many of people in here, if any, have had
a gun to go off in.

Speaker 9 (16:20):
Their deer.

Speaker 7 (16:22):
I was surprised how.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Many really said?

Speaker 10 (16:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (16:27):
I was, Oh, my guns.

Speaker 7 (16:28):
Guys aren't amateurs either. Yeah, now I have. Now at
this point I have to admit I had one to
go off on me.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Okay, well, explain the circumstances so everybody can avoid them.

Speaker 7 (16:41):
It was just a dumb thing. It was just a
dumb thing. I had thick gloves on, it was cold.
I had the gun pointed straight up, checking and see
if it was loaded. And I have my guns that
I hunt with. You don't pull the trick or you
breathe on them.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Okay, okay, nobody.

Speaker 7 (16:58):
Uses my guns because of that. Nobody touches them. That's
not but I like them that way. If I touch it,
it's fire, so I gotta be ready to make it happen.
But anyways, the and I told them the truth. You
know that that is. But some of the dumbest excuses

(17:19):
they had for why it happened, there's no excuse for
it to happen. I would My gun was not loaded
when I got in the deer stand. Most of the
gun accidents, the guns were loaded trying to get in
the deer stand.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
Because you never know when you're just gonna have to
hang off that ladder take a shot, right, I said sorry.

Speaker 7 (17:40):
When I was guiding a lot, a lot, and I
still do some when I usually try to walk them
to the deer stand unless I really know who they are.
I try to walk them to the deer stand. And
when we get up to the deer stand and the
ladder or the stairs, I said, hey man, let me
help you out. Let me hold your gun for you,

(18:04):
and when you get set down in there right behind you,
and then I'll hand it to you. Now I've already
checked to make sure it's not loaded. I just want
to make sure they ain't slipped one in there. Only
you know. And the same thing, I go pick them up,
don't get out of the deer stand. I will come
make sure your gun's unloaded. When when you get.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Out, open the bolt.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
That's easy enough for anybody to do.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Just open the bolt and then we know.

Speaker 7 (18:32):
But anyway, yeah, I was just for timesake. I was
just shocked the stories that I heard, and I thought,
you've got to be kidding me. Now, one last thing.
I got a call last night at ten thirty. Didn't
recognize the number. Now, both of my boys are in town, okay,
And when I say in town, they're in the state
of Texas. He you, and I get a call from

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this number I don't recognize, and it's this girl. She says, Hey,
do you know pac Man? And I thought this is
some kind of joke. I said, yeah, I know a
pac Man. But you gotta remember.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
My son.

Speaker 7 (19:12):
Yeah, my big time bird dog is named pac Man.
We call it, we call him pact. I said, yeah,
I know a pac Man. She said what color is?
He thought, we're in trouble. He's a red lab almost yellow.
She says, well, he's at my house. And I said, uh, okay.

(19:38):
I said, I'm gonna call Clayton because he was with Clayton.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
Oh boy, you know how cut the.

Speaker 7 (19:43):
Long story short. He that dog does not leave his
side ever. He lives with him and he sleeps with him.
I asked Clayton. I called Clayton. I said, you know
that dog, you know, pack's gone. He's said, yeah, he said,
I just talked to the lady. How did she find me?

(20:04):
I had made I made sure my phone numbers was
on them tags.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Absolutely, yeah.

Speaker 10 (20:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (20:10):
And my boys, you know, they say, ah, that's somebody else.
I don't know. I'm not gonna call him back, blah blah.
She said, well he's really sweet dog blah blah blah. Anyway,
he goes and gets this dog and he he gps
is it or something and it was a little over
two miles.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (20:31):
And I said, let me take a guess. He carried
his nose in the wind. The wind was out of
the north.

Speaker 11 (20:37):
He said, yep.

Speaker 7 (20:39):
Now, why would a dog that was, you know, super
duper trained and then a lot of money spent on
the be trained would run two miles into the wind.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
You know, something scared him, something caught his attention. It's
still a dog, you know. You gotta remember dogs. They've
got instincts. And he might have smelled a rabbit and
just took off running chasing that rabbit and lost a
rabbit and figured he'd keep it up wind.

Speaker 7 (21:10):
He knows better, and chasing rabbit he knows better, and
chasing deer.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yeah, but there was nobody yelling at him when he
took off.

Speaker 7 (21:17):
Well, let me tell you what took over over.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
I got a minute.

Speaker 7 (21:23):
She had a dog in heat.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Oh well, Melvin's in there, see.

Speaker 7 (21:31):
The window, so everything and that was a two miles
rail hard winds.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
That incredible that.

Speaker 7 (21:40):
We got him back. Yeah. Man, he's kind of far
as the family. But anyway, I thought that's gonna he
went and picked him up.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
My old lad. When the when the dog next door
went into heat. Years and years and years and years ago,
when I was living in a little house out in Katie,
my dog wanted out the back door so bad because
he had already chewed through chew through fence boards, not
ripped them off, just chewed through them.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
And we got him back in the house.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
I replaced the boards, and this dog still in heat
next door, and he chewed up the many blinds on
the window to the point where his gums were bleeding
all over the window sill, and I had to take
him to the vet. And it was just a teetotal mess.
For that very same reason, not entirely unlike disco clubs

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back in the.

Speaker 12 (22:29):
Day, I would say, hey, and real quick, yeah, back then,
before Highway fifty nine South, it was Highway ninety.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
It was yeah, old ninety, Old ninety buddy, you got
on nine if.

Speaker 10 (22:45):
You wanted to go.

Speaker 7 (22:45):
Well, the Sugar Pentany Tower.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
That's my stopping grounds now, man.

Speaker 7 (22:54):
Rights there to railroad tracks, if I remember.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
All right, Ricky, it's a great to hear from you. Man,
Stay warming, stay safe out there, will you? I see
and watch that north wind. You never know what's on it. Man,
How do you there.

Speaker 7 (23:06):
Ain't no win. I'm looking at flagging a windmill AEO.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
Good for you man. All right, we'll see audios. Okay,
we gotta take a little break here on the way out.
I'm gonna remind you that bad we are Sports Talk
seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
Ready listen online. That's Sports seven ninety dot com. Now
more Doug fie A.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Welcome back to Doug Plied Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Appreciate you listening. Trying to get hold of Mitchell Holder.
And I'm sure he's in a duck blind or a
goose spread somewhere this morning. Kind of chilly toes, maybe
just a teasy bid, numb fingertips. Maybe if they're having
to blow the calls h more often than not. It's

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so hard to blow a duck call with with gloves on.
It's so difficult to make that work. It just never
sounds right. And that's that's why, as I've talked about before,
and I won't go into it length, I rely on
those little pocket hand warmers and I used to put
them in that in that little handwarming muff that that

(24:10):
so many people were wearing back when I started doing that.
After I started doing that, really I was the first
person on the prairie that I know of who had one.
But it just made perfect sense, kind of like quarterbacks
were and really cold games. And after that the jacket
technology changed where the positioning of the pockets on jackets

(24:32):
wasn't dropped straight down, it was bring your hands in
from the side, and then I could get rid of
that muff and just drop those things into those left
and right side pockets. That worked out very well. Let's
go talk to David, see what's on his mind.

Speaker 13 (24:46):
What's up, David, Yeah, Doug, I've got one of the
craziest lost hunting dog stories you'll ever hear. Bring it
on these years ago, when the area was pretty undeveloped.
I used to take a little bigle out and that
it chase rabbits. One day that sucker hit of the
deer and he left the county and I didn't hear

(25:06):
anything until about dark. I got a call from a
guy said he was living in a warehouse and that
he had said he had my dog, real nice guy
and everything, and told me where he was and it
was kind of in a remote area, and I've drive
back there and sure enough, there's my little beagle tied
to a uh to a post and I couldn't. It

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was one of these smaller warehouses and it was kind
of a little office area up in the front, and
I had to knock on the door quite a while
to get somebody to come out. And nicest guy you
ever met came out, and uh, I wanted to pay.

Speaker 7 (25:43):
He even gave the dog water and food.

Speaker 13 (25:45):
And I wanted to pay. He wouldn't take anything but
the thing that kind of he said he was living
in a warehouse. But I looked at and he was
dribbing a four door bmw wow. Because I'm thinking, you know,
I thought, maybe this guy's kind of down on his luck.
He's living in the warehout.

Speaker 7 (26:01):
Well, come to find out, about.

Speaker 13 (26:02):
A month or two later, they made a big drug
bust up in Oklahoma and they rated them out. Those
guys were growing from marijuana in that well.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 13 (26:15):
And I thought later, I said, now that kind of
shows you about a little bit about how universal.

Speaker 7 (26:21):
People are in loving dogs. You know, you don't have
to call me. You didn't have to call me, but
he did. Wow, just as nice.

Speaker 13 (26:31):
And yeah, they had the you know, the big irrigation
and sun lamps and all that set up in there
and it was a pretty big deal. But yeah, but
went out of his way to call the dog owner.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Uh, that's a different kind of a scent to be following. Huh. Ok,
maybe you could have rented that dog out to the police,
take us back to a warehouse. All right, that's a
great story, man, holy cow. All right, see man, thank you.

(27:06):
I appreciate the call. Yeah, bring the dog stories on.
They got to be happy ending stories.

Speaker 5 (27:12):
Though.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
I don't want to hear about somebody's dog getting hit
by a bus, I really don't. I just but when
the dog is okay and the people are okay and
everything's okay, I like that kind of stuff. I see
videos kind of routinely, and these things happen. The beauty
of the Internet. There's all kinds of ugly to the Internet,

(27:34):
but the beauty of the Internet is that when good
things happen, everybody's going to get an opportunity to see
them at some point, because these things get shared and
shared and shared and shared until they're If you want
to look at that video, you can see it. And
there's all kinds of good, good dog stories and protective

(27:55):
dog stories. I'll try briefly to tell my favorite protective
dog story about a couple my parents knew. And once again,
forgive me if you've heard this story. I've been doing
this show for twenty five years, and when dogs come up,
I kind of go back to this story. But what
happened was these people had been in the guard dog

(28:19):
business for many, many years and had a pair of
Doberman's that had been fully trained to protect whatever they
figured they were supposed to protect. And they also had
a little daughter who was I think about my age
at the time, which would have been four or five
or six maybe, And the mom would leave the front windows,

(28:43):
crack the screens on them. This is over an old
Sharpstown area. And the mom would leave the screens or
the windows open. The screens are so the fresh air
could blow through the house, and she would let her
little girl play in the front yard and the dogs
would rest in the shade of the lagustrin bushes against
the house, and the little girl was playing out in

(29:06):
the front yard. Once and a car pulled up in
front of the house. This is just right out of
something John Stossel would be going. After car pulls up
in front of the house, Hey, little girl, guy rolls
down his window, wants some candy, and she got up,
and the mom is looking through the window and sees

(29:26):
what's going on now and is not gonna let anything
bad happen. The little girl goes over close to the
sidewalk and keeps distance between herself and the car and
stops and says, show me the candy, And the guy
tosses a bag of candy out onto the sidewalk in
front of her, where she would have to get pretty

(29:49):
close to him for anything to happen. Little girl goes
whistles like that, and those two Dobermans come out and
sit right beside her after we say, after which she says,
go away, you're a bad man. And this guy just
just just went totally pale and drove off as fast

(30:11):
as he could. I love that story. That's a happy
ending story for sure.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
All right, your rockets and astros live here. We are
Sports Talk seven ninety. The conversation continues this as the
Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
King, all right, four not four seventy four, seven forty seven,
almost forty eight now on Sports Talk seven ninety. Thanks
for joining us here, wrapping up the first hour with
this segment, and then plodding through a couple more. I'm
still hoping and trying to catch up with Mitchell and
see if he can't give us a little visit. This morning,

(30:49):
he's I know, he's out in the duck line and
probably having a pretty good morning. This last front should
have delivered a lot of birds. It really should have,
and whatever was left up north they probably packed up
whatever they had to carry and got in the air
and rode that north wind down. I know there are

(31:11):
there are more birds being short stopped and held up
north of us than ever before, and there also are
more birds skipping over us, especially the geese, because our
prairie just doesn't have nearly as much agriculture as that
you used to have, but we still get we still

(31:33):
get enough birds that being in Houston kind of like
I was talking about earlier, with all the fishing opportunities
being in Houston, is that's a pretty good home base
for somebody who likes the outdoors and especially waterfowl hunting.
You're not gonna get nearly the geese that you got
thirty years ago or even twenty years ago, but you're
gonna have enough duck action to keep you busy. Now

(31:55):
the South side and southeast side so far earl at
least in the season. I haven't caught up with a
couple of my better sources in the last few days.
But they didn't get off to a terribly good start.
They just really didn't. The birds weren't there, everything all
dressed up, no place to go. These guys were in

(32:15):
their camo, they had their shotguns and their non toxic
shot loads and all these good things. Had the decoys out,
had the dogs sitting there wagging its tail, no ducks
in the air. That should have changed in the past
week or so, and I hope it did. We don't
have that much time left in duck season or goose season,

(32:36):
and then we'll just have to start finding something else
to do again. Maybe go chase big trout. Who knows?
Why not? Why not.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
Back to the goose huting for just a minute.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
I talked about earlier when we came on about the
the direct correlation between the shooting ability of your hunters
and the if you count success as birds on the strap,
which I didn't really and you shouldn't. You shouldn't never

(33:09):
count dead things in the boat or in the in
the bag or whatever as success. They're just they're just
bonuses to being out there and having a good time.
And and honestly, guides work harder when it's slow than
when it's easy.

Speaker 9 (33:27):
There.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
If they're having to scratch and scramble and really be
precise with their calling and all that, for every bird
you get, they're working really, really hard. If you're in
one of those fields where you just flat couldn't keep
them out of there without air cannons and flare guns,
then it should you just sit back and let the
dog work, and it's go pick up those Go pick

(33:48):
up those five, Go pick up those four, and you
just sit there and look like a hero. The truth
is you just got the good spot. There's a there's
a really good formula that most outfitters use on making
sure their hunters when they come in from out of state,
especially for three or four days, making sure.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
They get at least one or two good hunts.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
I think there's a consensus that you don't want to
show them the best spot you've got on the very
first day they're there, because then they kind of might
get unsustainable expectations on you.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
And that's fair. Those guys have to put out.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
I have a tremendous amount of respect for outfitters in
the waterfowl business because they've got to they've got to
produce to the best level they can with a resource
that just the same as fish can swim away, those
birds can pack up and fly away and often do
no matter how good your plan was.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
Well.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
I used to hate hearing coyotes howl in the morning,
right before shooting time, because then and if you were
close enough to a roost pond and you heard a coyote,
it was like double danger, Like okay, we made it
in here without the head the guy who forgot to
turn his headlights off when we turned the corner. That
didn't spook him off. The two dogs got into a

(35:16):
fight because somebody wanted to bring their dog and mine
and his didn't get along. That didn't spook the geese off.
And then you hear a coyote and you're go, oh, please,
please know. And then the kiss of death was when
you heard splash, splash, plash, splash, splish, splash, splish, splash,
and it's a dog a coyote running across the roost,

(35:37):
or somebody else's even worse, one of the hunter's dogs
that you said okay, yeah, we're gonna be hunting pretty
close to a roost. You sure that dog is gonna
be calm around all those birds? Oh yeah, he'll just
he'll if I if I call him, he'll come and
just sit down right next to my knee. And as
soon as they let him out of the truck. As
soon as they let him out of the truck, all

(35:59):
that we would be hunting very close to roost ponds,
sometimes not close enough that.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Our shooting would spook them off.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
And we kind of made sure to set up where
we'd be shooting away from the roost if we could,
to keep it all down. But dog gone, man, those
city dogs for lack of a better term, would get
out of the truck, car, whatever, and just make a
beeline for those geese. And now the guy can't call
the dog back. It's not coming back. So he gets

(36:30):
out his whistle and starts blowing the whistle. And that's
even worse. It was just chaos. Sometimes it was fun, though.
Every one of those hunts, the ones that went great,
the ones that weren't so great, the ones that were mediocre,
they were all fun in hindsight. And so long as

(36:51):
everybody gets out of there safe, that's a good hunt.
That's the the ultimate measure of a hunt, whether it's ducks, geese,
quailed deer or whatever is everybody got back safe, nobody
got hurt, and everything else is just just frosting on
the cake. Man, see a big deer step out, You
get a good shot at it and you miss it.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
Good story to tell later on.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
Oh my gosh, already you're breaking me at fifty four.
Now you're breaking my bones. Man, break it fifty four?
Really okay? Now you're in charge. Man, I have to
do this because Melbourn could just push a button and
I'm gone. That's it. He'll sit there. Oh, we have
a technical difficulty, Doug. But if you'll behave I'll fix it.

(37:40):
That's how it works around here. Brass's River Provisions company
down there in Rosenberg, owned by a man named Mike Mercato.
Great guy. He's already talking to me about it, he said, Man,
I'm having fun doing this.

Speaker 3 (37:53):
I like what you're doing for me.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
I'm thinking about thinking about sponsoring another game if you
got one coming, and I do, and I'm going to
talk to him about that. I've got two sponsors coming
in potentially, each of which might be might be one
to sponsor a game, and I'd be happy to have
him do that, but they don't really have prizes that

(38:15):
would be appropriate. So I think I might call on
Mike for some more of those Brass River provisions, jellies
and jams that he's offered up. We've got gift packs
around here, and in fact, we'll play the Texas Temperature
game in the eight o'clock hour. I want to do
that today. The only promise I ask all of you
to make is that you don't go snoop around on
the internet to see what the temperatures are around the state.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
It's got to be a fair and square deal.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
Melbourne pinky squares every day when we start to show
that he's not going to go check them out, he's
flying blind, and I want you to do so as well,
and we'll see if we can't make you a winner.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
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Now Here's Doug Pike eight oh one on Sports Talk
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Speaker 2 (39:06):
Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. I
need to go take a quick look at the mail bag.
We have a new a new mail system or yeah,
a new email system, and I'm not really a fan
of it, to be perfectly honest, because it just I
see there's another issue right there. It doesn't want to

(39:27):
it doesn't want to open up. I'm just gonna have
to close the whole dog on thing and start over.
That's what I'm gonna do. Oh wow, it went kind
of haywire on me. I know I've got a couple
of emails in here because I've seen my phone just
kind of light up and then go dark and light
up and go dark a couple of times. Let me see, Ah,
this is alw something else I don't like about this thing.
It doesn't automatically load a preview paint. Oh my gosh,

(39:50):
Captam Scott, where did that deer come from? Holy Cow?
The line just says had to work for this one
a bit. I'll bet I'll bet a deer that looks
that good and gets that old is going to be
hard to find. But holy cow, a big mainframe ten

(40:13):
with a few kickers. Yeah, that's quite the animal right there.
Well done, Scott, Well done, Dan Weighing in, Dan weighing
in when we were talking about Rick's call uh and
how his dog, his little dog, ran off two miles

(40:34):
chasing a dog in heat. Dan, That'd be the only
reason I'd run two months. Okay, we get it, we
get it. Oh my word, oh this audience of mind.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. Email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I've got to type

(40:58):
a brief message to someone here. There we go. It's
in all caps when you get it. Sorry about that.
I just do that when I'm prepping for shows, and
I'm in a little bit of a hurry because I
want to make sure you know what we should do. Melvin.
Let's see if we can find somebody who wants to
play the Texas Temperature game. And I think I can

(41:19):
talk Mike into offering up one of his gift baskets
for that. Seven one three Yeah, I think it'd be good.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. First up,
first in, and you're to be playing for a four
pack of jams and jellies from Brazos River Provisions Company.
And I tell you what, well the album I might

(41:41):
be able to squeeze out golf for two at black
Horse Golf Club too. By the way, we're gonna be
talking to Craig Hicks, the general manager from black Horse,
at nine o'clock, because they've got some news that he
and I want to share with all of you about
something new that's going on up at that facility. What
else did I want to say? I have so many
things on these lists of mine. I'm gonna swing back

(42:03):
because I got distracted when I started talking about waterfowl
hunting again. I go off on all these tangents because
it was so It was just such a fantastic experience
for me to be able to guide that long and
still be out there hunting these birds every chance I get.
I used to love it when I did a lot
of competitive pigeon shooting years ago. And I loved it

(42:26):
when pigeon hunting or pigeon shooting buddies came out and
you put four of them in front of a guide,
especially in front of me, because I was a competitive
shooter back then as well, and if we had fewer
than maybe eight geese come in, it was pretty likely
that none of them was gonna get out, Not a

(42:46):
one of them was gonna get out. Average average in
the average stand does he want to play?

Speaker 14 (42:54):
You?

Speaker 3 (42:54):
Got it teed up?

Speaker 10 (42:55):
And on?

Speaker 2 (42:56):
Okay? Hold on?

Speaker 3 (42:57):
The average was about six or eight shell.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
Fired per bird on the ground, maybe more on some hunts. Uh,
but no, these guys were These guys were sharpshooters, every
one of them. And when when geese came in, the
only thing that got out of there on the wind
was maybe a feather or two.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
All right, let's hey, we lost him.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
He'll be back. He'll undrop in just a second. What
would that what would undrop be called? I guess reconnect? Huh,
that's about probably solid reconnect. Mike, Come on, man, and
I want to I want to do this, I really do.
I'm getting up my part of it over here. That
the part that I I deal with, and I'm going
to refresh it. So we're dealing with fresh numbers. There

(43:44):
he is right there. Okay, okay, I'm on. You can
fire up the music anytime you're ready. You got to
fire up the music first. Do you have the music?
That's the end of it?

Speaker 4 (44:01):
Is it hot? Is it? There?

Speaker 2 (44:02):
We go?

Speaker 5 (44:02):
We'll find out on the Texas Temperature game.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
There's old trade is because you're hot, yours cold. We
need to oil this machine. I think all right, we're in.
We're in too deep to turn back now, Mike, welcome
forard man.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
You want to go first or second?

Speaker 9 (44:29):
I'll go first.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
All right, Mike, What do you think is the low
temperature in the state of Texas right now?

Speaker 9 (44:36):
About twenty six?

Speaker 3 (44:38):
Twenty six?

Speaker 2 (44:39):
Melbourne?

Speaker 3 (44:39):
What do you think is the low temperature in the
state right now?

Speaker 2 (44:42):
I would say twenty twenty okay, Mike.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
What do you think is the high temperature in the
state right now?

Speaker 4 (44:53):
Forty one?

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Forty one? Melbourne? What do you think is the high
temperature in the state of Texas right now?

Speaker 3 (45:00):
Thirty six thirty six?

Speaker 2 (45:02):
I'm thinking of I'm thinking handled think of the valleys.
Oh my, what's the high the valley?

Speaker 6 (45:07):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (45:08):
Thirty six? I'm just rolling? Well, thank you. You might
have tripped over your own foot. Hold on, let me
see what the variables are. Ooh, it's a one degree
and within one degree, We're gonna give it to you, Mike,
Melbourne actually beat you the low. The current low in
the state of Texas is ten degrees wo ten degrees.

(45:29):
The current high is forty eight thirty six Melbourn.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
Wait, we don't live on in Canada.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
A holy cow?

Speaker 3 (45:38):
So close enough? So close?

Speaker 4 (45:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (45:42):
Hand?

Speaker 5 (45:43):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (45:43):
Horseshoes and hand grenades?

Speaker 2 (45:45):
Yeah, you're a winner either way. Man, I'm gonna get
I'm gonna get one of those gift packs for you, Mike.

Speaker 7 (45:51):
How's that.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
Sound good?

Speaker 9 (45:54):
Appreciating you got.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
To promise to me you will go to that website
and check it out. Burprovisions dot Com?

Speaker 7 (45:58):
Okay, I will.

Speaker 9 (46:00):
Can I tell you a quick story?

Speaker 2 (46:02):
Of course you can.

Speaker 9 (46:05):
I had to go to Belleville. I had a friend
pass away. I'm sorry, I had a funeral there last Saturday.
But so we figured as long as we were there,
we might his wife and I stopped by the Belleville
meat Market.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
Absolutely so.

Speaker 9 (46:22):
I had a good sandwich and it was reasonably priced,
and for two dollars and fifty cents, I got to
add two sides and a drink. Then I yeah, then
I got I said, so it was very reasonably priced.
Know anyway, it was good. And I went back and
I said, what doun'ks the one that I've been listening

(46:43):
to telling me to go here for years that I've
been there before, It's been a while so I asked
the girl behind the counter for the Dug Pike special
and she had this blank look. So then I went
over to the meat counter and I asked the girl
there for the Doug Pike special and she got a

(47:03):
blank look. But there was a fellow behind her butcher
and meat and he started laughing. So I asked him
his name and he said it was Ben Okay, so said,
I think he's one of the owners. Might be, but
he says, we don't have a Dug Pike special, but

(47:24):
we need to fix that. That's a good call you
and tell you.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
Yeah, I'll start that conversation. Yeah, we'll have some little
secret passwords special if you drop my name.

Speaker 9 (47:35):
Yes, mad I did all whatever. Whatever your favorite meal
is down there, like a three meat plate or something.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
Holy cow, Yeah, let me see what I can do.
I'll make up a Doug Pike special. We'll do that.

Speaker 9 (47:49):
Anyway, we had we had a good laugh. We had
a good laugh there.

Speaker 3 (47:53):
Thanks for thanks for shopping, Darlin.

Speaker 9 (47:55):
I appreciate that, all right, Well, thanks for this gift.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna put you on hold. No, I'll
let Melboyn do that so I don't mess it up
and he'll get all your information. I'll get you set up.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
Thanks, Mike, appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
By all right, audios. Okay, Melvin's got him. I'm not
touching that button. I'll knock people off the air more
than once. That just doesn't work, doesn't work at all. Okay,
seven one three two seven ninety Email me Dougpike at
iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
Ah gosh, here's kind of a heads up if you
will that.

Speaker 10 (48:31):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
I hate having to talk about this stuff because it's
not favorable for deer hunters.

Speaker 3 (48:38):
But it's happened again.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
Second case recently, really a chronic wasting disease popped up
earlier this week, uh, in a report from Parks and
Waldlife Department. This one came from a high fence release
site in Brown County. And if you don't know where
Brown County is, it's a couple of hours. It's a
couple of hours northwest of Austin, in southwest of Fort Worth,

(49:04):
and it's really it's closer to Abilene than either of
those two places, but it's it's kind of on the
line between Abilene and Austin somewhere in there. If you
drew a straight line to'd be there, but there are
no straight ways to get there. David, hang on while
you're ringing there and when Melbourn's finished, you'll pick up
for you. That's a public service announcement from my guy

(49:24):
calling in. Whoever there we go, we're good. I am.
I hate seeing chronic wasting disease come up in these deer,
especially in the high fence places, because there's a there's
a chance it's not a great one, but there's a
chance that they may have to go in and take
all the deer off that high fence place, just wipe

(49:46):
them out to prevent the spread of this stuff, because
it takes a long time. It's got an incubation period
that can just last for years, and the first indication
of disease in a herd is is more often found
through testing than any kind of observed clinical signs. That
says here in the press release. And that's why it's

(50:09):
so important that a lot of deer get checked every
year to make sure that we're just not we're not
letting chronic wasting disease get in, because if it gets
if it becomes more common, it's gonna be a real problem.
Hey David, what's up?

Speaker 10 (50:24):
Many?

Speaker 7 (50:26):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (50:26):
My gosh, I wish that fellow would have called about
forty five minutes ago. Oh, I got up and lost
the house this morning when my dog drove a little
over an hour to Belleville Meat Market. Got there when
they open and got me some sweet pot they breakfast
sausage and linked.

Speaker 6 (50:45):
Or.

Speaker 15 (50:45):
I wish i'd a known about that Doug Pike special.
Sure enough, got it.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
We're gonna we're gonna cook some no pun intended.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
I'll talk to him about that.

Speaker 15 (50:56):
Yeah, I just left there about forty five minutes to
go ahead.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
And well, you didn't miss anything yet, So I'm gonna
make sure. But I'm gonna talk to those guys this week,
and we're gonna get a special.

Speaker 15 (51:08):
Man to it.

Speaker 5 (51:09):
I'll beget it, all right.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
Well, I appreciate that make from you, Yes, sir, thank you. Audios.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
David's driving back to Dallas.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
I got a Dallas guy.

Speaker 10 (51:20):
Listen.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
That's great, man, that's great. Seven one three two five
seven ninety. Email me Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Uh, oh,
it's kind of like time to take a break in
a moment. What I still like that Dug Pike Special?

Speaker 3 (51:34):
Do I do too?

Speaker 2 (51:35):
I do too? I don't know what it's gonna be,
but yeah, I do want something so that they'll uh,
so that my listeners will have even further.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
Motivation to slide on out.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
And I don't know if I'm gonna make it any
kind of a plate or a platter or anything like that.
I'm just gonna make it, uh, probably something that you
can bring home and enjoy at your leisure. Nice, just
leave it that way. Yeah, something family wise to oh,
a family special. Yeah, see what I can do, you
know what, I'll throw that, Throw that out in front

(52:09):
of them today and see what we can come up with.
All my way out to this break in American shooting
centers mentioned them earlier. As a matter of fact, I
need to talk to Ed Riggy and see if he
can come up with some sort of a goose hunting
simulator field, a trapper skeet field. I guess it would
probably be better actually on one of the five stands set

(52:30):
ups to where you could actually shoot from a prone
starting from a prone position, either up against a low
levee like in a rice field, or maybe with one
of those backboards that are really I wish we'd have
had those when I was guiding Mitchell Holder out there
at Waterfowl Specialties uses those things on goose hunts and

(52:53):
they're really really good. It made it much easier than
any other way we possible. We could have tried to
shoot out there, and I like that a lot.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
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Speaker 5 (53:11):
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Speaker 2 (53:14):
Ey twenty on Sports Talk seven ninety Melvin and I
having a good laugh here on the way back in
Pardon me, I had to make some notes during the
break and go get a pot of or not a
pot of coffee. If only you know, we could do that, Melviourn.
We could just put the pot right there in your
little cubicle with all that, all those buttons and levers.

(53:37):
Although the I guess our tech guys would not They
would kind of frown upon that. What do you think
Bob's troop and Tom Klein would say if they walked
in and saw you eating a hamburger and he had
a pot of coffee next to that board, Oh, they
would have a heart attack. I think they might. Yeah,
I think they just just pass out on the floor.
That's like against the code. Yeah, that's why I keep staying,

(54:01):
removing stuff handy all the time, just in case, in
case somebody spills something in here. It wouldn't certainly, it
wouldn't be me. How am I supposed to do this
show without drinking coffee? That would be virtually impossible?

Speaker 4 (54:14):
All right?

Speaker 2 (54:14):
I got phone calls to get to and I'm gonna
get to him right now. I'm just yeah, but the way, Dave,
you're up then? And then Brandon, hang on, boys, Dave,
what's up? My friend?

Speaker 7 (54:23):
I'll take kenadm uh Dug Pike specials and we're having
a birthday I mean a football kickoff party over here
all the time.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
I'm gonna hurry this up. I'm gonna expedite this. We're
gonna get something out there. If you had to vote
on what I should try to parley into some kind
of a special? Would it be? Would it be sausage?
Would it be steaks? Would it be tomaly's? What would
it be?

Speaker 7 (54:47):
I'd do it with the one of each, a big
giant We'll do a variety pack man. Did everybody at
the party be happy?

Speaker 2 (54:55):
There you go? Just a Dug Pike bucket of meat?
What's on your mind?

Speaker 7 (55:02):
I finally, well, I came over here and I had
one of these little spinner base with that kind of
like a lead little peal shape of white with the
black spots on it, and I catched it out there
with it for perch. I felt something hooked up, and
finally I caught something. When I pulled it up, it
was about six feet of line with the leader on

(55:25):
it and a big old giant circle hook like we
would fish for giant sharks. What were they fishing for
out here?

Speaker 2 (55:32):
Somebody probably thought they needed something like that to catch
a big gar.

Speaker 7 (55:35):
That's my yeah, that's yeah, that was a circle ofok
that's kind of the wrong way to go for that, really, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (55:43):
And uh.

Speaker 7 (55:44):
And then on the dog, Okay, the one dog I
found out in the National Forest, so well, it was
right in our at our farm, and he was all
skin and bones and everything. So I took him back
to Houston with me. Yeah, didn't have no tag into
my bed, and I had a kind of like a

(56:05):
lonely gun to the veteranary. And so because I didn't
have the money at the time to get him fixed,
me with all the shots and all that. Well, then
all of a sudden, about two weeks later, I couldn't
find him, and then I get a phone call from
this lady about three miles down the airline Drive over there,
and so I went and picked him up, and I'm like, man,
I don't know, And so I got him back home

(56:26):
and everything, and all of a sudden, a month or
so later, he was gone. I guess you remember airline
drive was the only way at the new way he
texted back in the day, so maybe he was catching
us going back home here, found their way back home
all the.

Speaker 3 (56:39):
Yeah, that's crazy, man, great to hear from you.

Speaker 7 (56:42):
Yeah, Hey, I appreciate you's going. Look, it's good. I
got to go to the doctor's appointment and she's been
going into the doctor's appointment with me. So make sure
I'm on queue. Yeah, I know, so I can remember everything. Hey,
one more thing, One more thing, man, I've been going
through all this stuff because it's gonna be about till June,
July or August before I can officially move out here.

(57:03):
But anyway, Uh, I was going through a bunch of
my CDs and I found this one. I popped it
in there. Back I think it was two thousand and
eight when Gary Tbek was the head coach for the Texans. Wow,
I called in on his show, and uh, I just went,
let's go to David on the north side. Hey, coach,
I liked that rollout right and chunk left? He got

(57:24):
anything else up your sleeves and I'm gonna hang up
and listen. And he got quiet and he goes, wait
a minute, I know that voice. That's guitar day By.
Hear himant a fishing show every morning. All of a
sudden he's like, yeah, Dave, I liked that one too.

Speaker 3 (57:40):
When it works, that's good for you.

Speaker 7 (57:43):
That's good friends, man, good friends. Man. I'm glad I
found it because it was given to me by the
radio station.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
You know.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
It's all right man, catch brand, Thanks buddy.

Speaker 7 (57:54):
Get on with Brandon.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
Let's see audios. Getitar day. Hey Brandon, what's up man?

Speaker 7 (58:00):
Good morning, mister Pike.

Speaker 6 (58:01):
Are you this morning?

Speaker 2 (58:03):
I've got a cup and a half of coffee in
me right now, so I'm humming along pretty good.

Speaker 3 (58:08):
What can I do for you? Where'd it go?

Speaker 7 (58:12):
Brandon?

Speaker 2 (58:12):
Where'd you go?

Speaker 3 (58:13):
I can't hear you anymore?

Speaker 2 (58:14):
Well, there you are? Can you hear me?

Speaker 16 (58:18):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (58:18):
Now I can hear you. Yeah, we go all right
there we go. I don't know what happened. No, I
have a question like this, what do you what do
you call it chronic?

Speaker 3 (58:28):
What's chronic wasting disease?

Speaker 6 (58:30):
It's a new code. Okay. Do you think it's because
we've had like people bringing in deer from high fences
and stuff like that. No, that's what brought this disease on.

Speaker 2 (58:44):
I don't know that's been around. The first case in
Texas was actually in a wild mule deer out in
West Texas. I can't remember exactly when it was. It's
been a lot here. It is in the press release.
In Texas. The disease was first discovered in twenty twelve
in free ranging mule deer along a remote air area
of the Waco Mountains near the Texas New Mexico border.

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It has since been detected in captive and free ranging
servids including white tailed deer, mule deer, red deer, and elk.
So it's it's something that's been around. It's in a
lot of states, and if it gets into a herd.

Speaker 3 (59:21):
It's very difficult to stop.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
And that's why they tend when they find it, especially
in a place like that, someplace that's got a fence
around it. They just end up going in and killing
all the deer in the place, and just to make
sure it doesn't spread, because it takes years to manifest itself.

Speaker 6 (59:41):
Right, doesn't it attract a neurological system? I like it
goes into. Don't they have to examine the brain or something?

Speaker 3 (59:48):
I don't Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah they do.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
It's a post mortem exam, it's a post mortem test,
and they but they have to. That's the only way
they can find it until these deer start exhibiting SLMPT,
and like I said earlier, that can take years. That
can take years, so by that time that deer could
have infected who knows how many others. It's kind of

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us it's.

Speaker 6 (01:00:12):
Just sure, yes, sir well, I appreciate your intellectual show
and go Texans. But on the other notes, pray for
the people in California and pray for the men and
women that are that are standing in the line of
fire trying to prevent for its spreading.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
So boy, is that that's all we.

Speaker 6 (01:00:29):
Can do is pray for those, yes, men and women
that are trying to prevent I couldn't agree with that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:34):
That's a tragic fash loss thank you, bra.

Speaker 6 (01:00:37):
Yes, sir, I see buddy, yes, sir, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Yeah. I hadn't mentioned those wildfires yet, and there's no
reason not to, and I don't mind taking a minute
or two on the way out to this break to
talk about that those fires have been fueled by wind
that's been gusting anywhere from fifty to sixty to nine,
even too close to one hundred miles an hour and

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just blowing up hillsides where I think it was a year,
maybe a year and a half ago or so, I
had a lot of just a flooding event basically in
that region, and that flooding event caused a lot of
new brush to come around, and all that underbrush then

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asps as they moved back into an extended drought, became
brittle and dry and just waiting for a spark. And
I don't know what sparked those fires, but the sad
part is that they have now. I think. I think
the death tolls up to ten, and I know that

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the losses are going to be measured in the billions
of dollars because those fires are sweeping through some of
the most expensive real estate in the entire country. There
was one I saw a headline yesterday. I don't know
if it's one hundred percent accurate, but some lottery winners
billion dollar estate just went up in smoke. And one

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of the problems that they have out there is that
their property insurance had gone up so much. Well, some
of the former homeowners insurance carriers just bailed. They just
wouldn't even write in that region for whatever their reasons were,
perhaps because of the potential for fire. And the ones

(01:02:32):
who did write were writing those policies that just insane amounts.
So a whole lot more people than you might expect
are looking at a pile of ashes and saying, Okay,
nobody's going to give us a dime to get back
on our feet, and that really saddens me.

Speaker 3 (01:02:51):
And there's some government stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
I think it's too early to place too much of
a blame game, but they've been shaving their budget for
fire prevention and fire fighting and prescribe burns and a
lot of things that might have mitigated this damage a
little bit. And unfortunately, the people who live there are
paying a dear price, and I do I feel sorry

(01:03:18):
for them. I pray for all of those people out there.
They're going to need a lot of help. And by
the way, I would also like to see the people
of North Carolina helped since they got absolutely hammered by
a hurricane. What was it five six months ago? Now
it's been quite a while and there's still a whole
lot of them not getting any kind of remedy for

(01:03:41):
their problems. So one at a time, federal government, let's
take care of the hurricane victims and set about figuring
out exactly what can be done for those people in California.
Most of them they didn't sign up for that indirectly
through voting. For some of the people in office out there,
they did. But by and large, nobody signs up to
go through a disaster like that and then and need

(01:04:03):
all this help so fast that they're gonna need seven
one three two one two five seven ninety. Email me
Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. On the way out, I
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All right, well Man, thirty thirty seven on Sports Talk
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Speaker 3 (01:04:25):
The Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
Thank you for listening. Be paying attention please to Melvin's
jams today, because towards the end of the nine o'clock hour, somebody, well,
somebody's gonna win it. Somebody's gonna win one of these
brasses River Provisions gift packs, and hopefully it could be you.

Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
You don't even have to guess what the temperature is.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
You just have to know what Melvin's rejoin music, the
songs he's played so far and throughout the rest of
the program, what they all have in common. Is it
an easy one today or a harm when Melvin? I
don't want any other hint than that very easy. Okay, okay,
so far I don't have it so not that easy.

(01:05:10):
But then again, I don't pay close attention, and I'm
not expecting anybody to to rewind the tape and listen
to all of them. Whatever. What do you you'd call
it these days? But hey, if it comes to you,
take a swing. And if it doesn't and you are
the person who gets to play, no going in that
the I usually can find some way to make that

(01:05:33):
person a winner. In fact, so far I think I'm
batting a thousand, am I not Melvin? We haven't had
a loser on the on the on the gems and
jellies game. Have we No, we had a way, We
never We're never gonna have a loser so long as
Mike's in business, and and so long as I don't
make it mad or something, which I don't think I'm

(01:05:54):
gonna do. Uh, We're gonna have some gems and jellies
to talk about, for sure. Son on three two one
two five seven ninety. Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
I don't want to dwell on the chronic wasting disease thing,
but I'll go back to it for just a second,
because there are guidelines this year that have to be
followed if you're doing your deer hunting in one of

(01:06:15):
about I think it's about two dozen, two dozen counties.
I'm not going to name them all. They're very easy
to find in the Texas Parks and Wildlife Departments Annual,
which is online now they quit printing it, and quick Sidebar.
When they decided not to print those anymore, I thought, well,
goy Leah, it's got to be a money issue.

Speaker 3 (01:06:36):
But how much could it cost to print.

Speaker 2 (01:06:39):
The little booklets that we've all enjoyed for so many years? Well,
it turned out it's about three hundred grand. They print
that many of those things to accommodate at least one
to maybe two per every license sold, every hunting and
fishing license sold in the state. And so it really

(01:06:59):
it was a little bit more prohibitively expensive than I thought.

Speaker 3 (01:07:04):
It would be, and so that's why they stopped doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
In any event, when you go there online, you'll find
out which counties require that and how to do that,
which it's electronic. You don't have to haul your dead
deer all over the countryside trying to find a check
in station anymore. That was actually a thing years ago.
But you have to report within twenty four hours of harvest,

(01:07:28):
either online or via the mobile app. And again you
can just get that through the Texas Parks and Wildlife
Departments online site TPWD dot State dot US. Don't even
try to memorize all that. Just type in TPWD hunting

(01:07:49):
regulations and everything you need will come up with there,
including even the chachaalaka season. You know what a chacha
laka is, Melboyne is a chacha You ever heard of
one of those? A chocolata? It is a Texas game bird.

Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
Really well, I think we talked about that earlier.

Speaker 2 (01:08:07):
Yeah, I don't talk about them often because I wouldn't
know one if it crawled through the door in here.
Sound like a candy bar, doesn't it?

Speaker 4 (01:08:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
You know it does. Like if they just changed the
last seed to a pair of tees and it was
choc a lotta then yeah, oh yeah, that's definitely a
candy bar.

Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
A lot of choka chak alatta.

Speaker 2 (01:08:27):
Oh boy, oh speaking of Oh wow, how does this
thing go? Hold on?

Speaker 3 (01:08:34):
Oh what do you? Let's see it was something about
a dog.

Speaker 5 (01:08:41):
Um.

Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
Oh no, if you can't sleep because you eat too
many rich foods late at night. If you can't sleep
because you eat too many foods late, too many rich
foods late at night, what do you have many rich foods?
You'll ever get there? Because it's just a corny joke.
Oh boy, you know what you got? What you got

(01:09:08):
in some num numb nomnia. Okay, a little oh yeah,
a little bit, a little bit all right, good heavens,
let's take a break on time. Let's just just celebrate that.
Why not cornball humor with a little tad of a break.

(01:09:28):
Uh you know what, let me see where we are here?
We're here we're there. Yeah, we'll we'll do this later.
We'll do that later. What I'm gonna do right here,
you know what, let's just take just a cold break.
We're gonna take a little break here. We'll be right
back to Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:09:48):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety online at Sports seven
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Speaker 5 (01:09:53):
Now more Doug Bike.

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
Art's Talk seven ninety. Let me turn the volume back
up here, the commercial volume. I don't know if it
does it on your radios, but it certainly does it
in the studio, and I think I've noticed it a
little bit in my car. I tend to play the
radio a little bit loud anyway, because my hearing's not
what it was BG before gunfire Man, I did a
lot of competitive shooting. I did a lot of guiding,
and I heard a lot of guns go off. And

(01:10:22):
this is back in the days when when I really,
well a lot of us didn't really know how important
it was to protect our hearing. There weren't great ways
to do that, and it was important to me to
be able to hear birds coming and all that stuff.
And in hindsight now kind of I wish i'd have
had electronic headphones back then, because I wouldn't have to

(01:10:45):
turn the TV up so loud either.

Speaker 3 (01:10:47):
All right, let's start with LJ and then we'll get
to Brandon LJ.

Speaker 17 (01:10:49):
What's up man, LJ said, duck hunting, sir?

Speaker 10 (01:10:55):
This year?

Speaker 9 (01:10:55):
This year?

Speaker 8 (01:10:56):
Yeah, this year, to the southwest of here, that Garwood
and l Campo and down there, we don't have the
ducks that we usually had. Team season was pretty good, okay,
but sir, there's just a dearth of birds out there
right now. This is this not my opinion. This is
guides talking. This is folks at the farmers, at the

(01:11:20):
feed and the seed store, people like that that you
know are out there every day. They said, they're just
not here. And last year was really really good and
this year not so. Of course, you know habitat loss
when you remember back in the day, everything.

Speaker 17 (01:11:37):
West and north and south it.

Speaker 8 (01:11:39):
Was like Attics Reservoir and Barker Revore was rice land.

Speaker 17 (01:11:43):
That's one thing, and that's why the geese aren't here.
But the ducks used to be everywhere out on the Prairiem.
They're just not here this year.

Speaker 8 (01:11:53):
So I'm wondering where are the ducks I'd like to
know if Parks and Wildlife can go ahead locate those things,
because they say there it's thirty five million birds supposedly
that were coming north, that coming south this year, and.

Speaker 3 (01:12:10):
You and I can't hardly count thirty four of.

Speaker 2 (01:12:12):
Them, can we?

Speaker 10 (01:12:14):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (01:12:15):
Boy, I don't know anyway.

Speaker 8 (01:12:18):
Uh, what's your thoughts on? And where would you go to?
I guess Parks of is Life is where I should
go to ask that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:24):
Well, you can ask the question, they're not. I don't
think they're gonna have the way they work, I don't
think they would have a definitive answer until the whole
season's done. Then they'll come back and do a post
mortem on it and say it was good or bad
or horrible. I have had some some reports that it's
in fact the one The duck hunt that I made
down toward El Campo outside of El Campo with with

(01:12:47):
Mitchell and his guys, was actually we saw a lot
of ducks.

Speaker 3 (01:12:50):
There was no question about it. It was a pretty
good morning.

Speaker 2 (01:12:53):
And the last goose hunt I did down that way
we saw a lot of pintails. Oh my god, there
were pintails.

Speaker 8 (01:13:01):
So it was in pintails up high and you know
that you don't usually when you go out and said,
even if it's a bluebird day, you'll see ducks traversing everywhere.

Speaker 17 (01:13:14):
Not so this year.

Speaker 8 (01:13:15):
So uh, I guess, I guess maybe I just have
to wait till the end of the year. And that
it seems like they I read here a few years
back where they parks in a while. I said, well,
there was like, you know, so many hundred thousand up
around Chaveoline, and so many in the parenthandled so many
in the piny woods. So I'm just wondering if you

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had anything. And of course now El Campo and South
had some rain earlier this year, so that was one
of the things that might help.

Speaker 17 (01:13:45):
But Garwood, Garwood Prairie is hurting. Is an eagle ach.

Speaker 8 (01:13:50):
Of course didn't have any price because they'll see already
cut off their water.

Speaker 2 (01:13:53):
Yeah, that's another issue. Boy, I wish we could dress somehow.
Don't get me started on that.

Speaker 17 (01:13:58):
Well, you can't because they'll see r settling water.

Speaker 8 (01:14:01):
They run it to you know, they run it through
the rice fields and then they run it into the
Levaka River and then they down to Lake Texas and
they sell it to Corpus Christian they do, and that
the poor people are out Lakeway are going crazy because
they're surrounded by Lake Travis and they can't they can't access.

Speaker 17 (01:14:19):
A lot of that water. So home anyway, that's neither
here nor there. That's that's problitic.

Speaker 2 (01:14:23):
Well, back to back to the ducks. I think here,
here's the bottom line for me. If this latest front
that we had, not the one that's coming next week,
but the one that we just had, if that doesn't
dump a bunch of new ducks on us, then they're
not coming. And then we got to start asking ourselves
how many of them are getting held up north of
here by?

Speaker 3 (01:14:42):
And it goes back to the geese too.

Speaker 2 (01:14:44):
All the rice farms and stuff up north of here,
and all the habitat north of here, flooded timber, all
of that stuff. If if those ducks don't get frozen
out of there, they're not gonna leave.

Speaker 3 (01:14:56):
Neither will the geese. They don't have to.

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
They're not gonna waste one calorie more than they have
to to survive winter. That's their only mission right now
is to survive winter and then get back up to
the nesting grounds where they can start making baby ducks.

Speaker 17 (01:15:08):
Again, well, exactly right.

Speaker 8 (01:15:11):
And you know, years ago when it was colder, I
mean it was colder, years ago, we had more freezes
than we do now. That's just I mean, it's documented.
I do believe, you know, the mallards don't seem to
come down this way as much anymore because their cold
weather ducks.

Speaker 2 (01:15:28):
And yeah, we didn't when I was gotten. We didn't
see many mallards until January. We know, we never did.
And it was later the better. And then after the season,
of course, you couldn't throw a rock without hitting a mallard.
That god man.

Speaker 17 (01:15:42):
But I appreciate your time show. I'll let you go
back there.

Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
Thank you, Yes, sir, it is yeah anytime. Way, all right,
let me go catch up with Brandon here. What's up, Brando?
Good morning, Good morning, I'm good, thank you. I got
a couple of minutes. That's what you got.

Speaker 5 (01:16:01):
It's Saturday, it is.

Speaker 3 (01:16:02):
Indeed, we got a little football today.

Speaker 2 (01:16:05):
Don't we Yes, we do college and you know NFL. Yeah,
correct me if I'm wrong with don't the Texas play
today's Yeah? Here we go. Man, what do you think
they're gonna do? Are they gonna win? Texan's gonna win?

(01:16:26):
I think they can win. It kind of depends on
how much protection they can give CJ. Stroud. It depends
on who's healthy and who's not. And by this time
of the season, they're all beat up. Frankly, not on
one of those guys is Bruis Free. I would think,
even the quarterbacks. And it's just gonna be a gut check.

(01:16:47):
Everybody's go out got to go out there and play
one hundred percent in a body that's probably firing at
about eighty five or ninety percent. Yeah, it'll be fun
to watch.

Speaker 5 (01:16:57):
Are you a for baseball season?

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
I can't wait. I love baseball season, I really do.
And I think we'll be I think we'll be surprisingly good.
I'm gonna be optimistic about it. We've made enough changes
if we can get if we make sure we've got
our pitching settled in uh. I think we've made enough
defensive position changes that we're not going to be greatly

(01:17:22):
affected by any gain or loss. So fingers crossed. I
think we'll come in pretty strong and maybe pick up
some maybe pick up a few more hits and a
few more home runs along the way too. I watch
a lot of a lot of sports on TV, but
I tend to flip around. Uh, Like, last night, I

(01:17:44):
watched the UT game UT Ohio State game, and the
end it was not good for UT. I got a
couple of friends of mine right now are not in
a good mood, I can guarantee you. But they got
out played. They just flat got out played. They were
did and it was pretty obvious going in the strategy

(01:18:04):
that Ohio State took on and the coach, his head
coach there, I don't know his name, but he outlined
it before the game started, and they stuck exactly to
that plan. And they executed that plan, and with a
couple of hiccups along the way for both sides, they
ended up scoring a lot more points. It was a
little lopsided at the end because that last touchdown was

(01:18:27):
an anomaly. It was a sack. I knock the ball
out of the Texas quarterback's hands and some big, old
lumbering lineman or whatever picked it up and had a
couple of blockers with him when he did and ran
it all the way back to the other end of
the field for a touchdown for Ohio State. And that
that's seven points probably shouldn't have been there, but I

(01:18:50):
don't think it would affect It would have affected the
outcome either way.

Speaker 1 (01:18:54):
Yeah, they almost charged with the offense that outside.

Speaker 3 (01:19:00):
Yeah, yep, I gotta believe it or not.

Speaker 2 (01:19:03):
I gotta go take a break, Brandon. It's great to
hear from you, though, Man, I'll talk to you. Yeah,
let's talk about the Texas game tomorrow. I'm gonna try
and watch all right, Audios, all right, we gotta take
a little break here.

Speaker 1 (01:19:17):
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Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
Now here's Doug Pike. We go. We're having a little
bit of trouble getting hold of Craig Hicks. He's semi
under the weather, but he is gonna call us, and
as soon as I get him on the line, we're
gonna share a little bit of news out of Black
Horse and Golf Club that I think will will make
a lot of you think about doing something up that way.

Speaker 3 (01:19:47):
It's it's a it's a project that he's.

Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
Had kind of under his under his hat and quietly
been working on for quite some time. And it'll be good.
And so that's why I want to talk to him.
As soon as he calls in. I hope he heard
the number right and wrote it down. Come on, Craig,
you can do it. There he is, ha ha. If
that's him, load him up. I'm ready for him. I
am so ready. There we go. Yeah, perfect, all right,

(01:20:15):
let me get him on the phone.

Speaker 3 (01:20:18):
Craig hecks.

Speaker 2 (01:20:18):
How are you, man? You feeling any better?

Speaker 7 (01:20:21):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:20:21):
Yeah, man, I'm back in the saddle.

Speaker 3 (01:20:24):
Oh good for you. You at work today even?

Speaker 4 (01:20:27):
Oh yeah, okay, all right, little frost delay action.

Speaker 2 (01:20:30):
But I was going to ask you about I had
a frost delay on my windshield this morning when I
tried to leave for work. I had a credit card
at off of there, and gosh, I heard that card
make just the tiniest little cracking noise. But I was
just using my emergency credential that's still in my wallet
all the way back from COVID when you had to
have a secret pass to drive around the town. Man,

(01:20:51):
it was a nice no traffic thing. But in any event,
here we go. So how you tell him what you're
doing up at black Horse Golf Club and then I'll
I'll ask you some questions about it.

Speaker 9 (01:21:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:21:05):
Really exciting. We're entering our first phase of taking our
South course private, and what that means is a lot
of exciting changes coming to the club and for our members.
We're going to be going through two million dollar bunker
renovation redesign this year on that South course and really neat.
We're going to have Trip Davis and his architect team

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come in and these guys, I got to walk the
golf course with them. These guys are professionals and what
they do. They're designing golf courses all over the place,
but specifically they've done some bunker project work for our
company at other clubs then have done some really really
solid work and just to hear what those guys see.
If you've never had a chance to walk around a
golf course with architects, what a neat experience. But guys,

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it's cool and how they envision the look and feel,
and so we're excited about that for the bunkers. And
you know, a lot of people don't realize, but for
our club, thirty five to forty percent of my annual
golf course maintenance labor is going into maintaining bunkers, and.

Speaker 2 (01:22:07):
Oh my gosh, you and me both.

Speaker 4 (01:22:10):
It doesn't matter if the bunkers are perfect or not perfect.
It would neither of us stand on the tee or
in the fairway and say, man, I really hope I
hit it in that bunker, right, So really for us
to spend that much of our resources there is crazy.
And so you know, with this company coming in and
what they're going to do, it's kind of really improved
overall maintenance. And I'm excited because that means we get

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to go and deploy those resources back into the golf
course to the areas that you and I do want
to hit, the park right, the fairways, degreens, so we're
really going to go elevate that golf course. We're excited
because our members have the option now to join the
Houston Passport Program as part of this phase.

Speaker 2 (01:22:49):
Yeah that's right.

Speaker 4 (01:22:51):
That gets some access to go play at our sister
clubs at Black Golf Club of Houston. So excited about that.
So really an exciting, exciting change. And as we move
through the year, more and more member only access and
availability makes its way into that member course on the South.
So you know, some really positive changes. And look, this

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is one of the big kickers. Our initiation for you
is about to go from two grand to ten grand
on the thirteenth, So holy, there's anybody that wants to
be a part of it, And there's a lot of
people that have joined here just in the last five
or six days that are taking advantage of that. Now
is the time, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:23:31):
It really is.

Speaker 3 (01:23:32):
That's that's too good a deal to kind of pass up.

Speaker 2 (01:23:34):
If you live anywhere up near that side of town
and you're especially if you're a regular there already, you're
not going to get a better deal anywhere. So as
a GM you mentioned the bunkers, one of the that's
a renovation of them is a great big plus. The
just the overall golf course is going to look better
a lot of things on the plus side. Are there

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any downsides to taking a public course private?

Speaker 4 (01:24:01):
Well, certainly when you think about just an overall model,
change is just different, right, change and things that are different,
And you've got longtime customers that have always experienced that way,
and you know, just about anything that happens in life
when something changes, one of the first things you hear, well,
we've always done it. Oh yeah, I understand that. But

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when we talk about trying to make the progress, and
especially with what we want to do with allocating additional
resources over to that member golf course, there's going to
be some different changes and whatnot, and so to go
through that process, certainly the downside is having to get
everybody else charged up and is excited about it. But
I would also say in the same breath that that's exciting,

(01:24:44):
that's fun to go through that process and have those conversations.
And is it time consuming, sure, But as I've told everybody,
I want to have a conversation with anybody, and everybody's
got questions that I can help clarify and give right
by the information to understand where we're going long term vision,
I really anticipate having member only dining spaces, locker rooms,

(01:25:05):
all that stuff here at the club. So, like I
said first page here, and this is an exciting start.

Speaker 2 (01:25:09):
It's very important also to point out that you're not
exactly abandoning the North Course. It's still going to be
held up to a good high standard for anybody and
everybody who's still a member there, right.

Speaker 4 (01:25:21):
Yeah, yeah, you know, I look at that South course
will cooming my member course, and we still serve the
facets of the public and tournaments that will certainly take
care of On our North course. Our members will still
have access to play the North course. We have no
intentions to that course getting any worse. But when we
talk about allocating the additional resources, you know, the additional

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capital afusement that we're putting into that South course, and
then some additional dollars being input a large amount of
dollars being input into our operating expen's budget just in
golf course maintenance. Those additional funds we're going to really
go and allocate to that member course to help elevate
that overall membership experience.

Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
And the flip goes on Monday.

Speaker 4 (01:26:02):
Right, Monday, the Monday, the twenty seventh is really when
everybody starting to notice the big changes.

Speaker 2 (01:26:09):
Now I mean for no, I mean for getting in
on the price. Now that's right in business Monday. Is
that what they've gotten.

Speaker 4 (01:26:17):
To Yeah, they've got uh that much the initiation The
initiation fee will go up on the thirteenth, so they
need to get in in the day, end of day, Sunday,
end of the day Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:26:29):
Okay, well it's not a bad day to be out
playing golf anyway.

Speaker 4 (01:26:33):
So yeah, it looks like with some of the weather
we've had, these Uh, this fortunate to have the weekend
day to be the nice ones this week.

Speaker 2 (01:26:39):
So you mentioned a little frost to lay talk about
what fraud just as an aside to any golf course,
talk about what frost, the danger that frost poses if
people are out there playing on it.

Speaker 4 (01:26:51):
Yeah, I think a lot of folks, you know, with myself,
I always back up to the days when I was
a kid back in Virginia, and you know, we go
out to hunt or whatever, and we're walking across the
yard to go into the woods to the stand and whatnot,
and we didn't pay much mind to it because we
really didn't care. Right, But when you're talking about a
golf course, if you've ever been on a course in
the wintertime and you see footprints in the middle of

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the fairway or on the screens, more than likely that
happened because people went on there when the frost had
the blades of grass so stiff that you were doing
some actual damage to the turfs. So just giving that
time to thaw and clean out. And even today, right
there's still a little bit of frost out there and
we're letting them go right now as we speak. But

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once you get enough warmth and that frost starts to
go through that melting process. You know, the weight and
the amount of actual traffic that you put on there
makes a difference. So everybody always starts generally walking and
then you can come off the path a little bit
later if those conditions weren't. But it's really important to
stay off any of those grassy surfaces early. And it's

(01:27:57):
not because we don't want you to get out there
and practice, not because we don't want you to get
out there and play, but we just want to make
sure you keep a golf course in the best shape,
especially this time of the year, because any damage you
do not coming back to at least April.

Speaker 3 (01:28:08):
Yeah, it's brittle.

Speaker 2 (01:28:09):
When there's frost there and it's been it will break
if you step on it, as opposed to just bending
and then rebounding, which is what it does when it's
not when it's normal Houston weather only cow.

Speaker 4 (01:28:22):
So yeah, that rebound where it is critical. That rebound
is important to understand. Hey, is that grass ready to
take the traffic. If it's not rebound, then it's a
way too early to be on it.

Speaker 3 (01:28:32):
So I got one more question then I'll let you go.

Speaker 2 (01:28:34):
I know, you've got a lot of stuff to do
this morning, hopefully to get a bunch of new members
signed up the South the North Course still option to
have that semi private option.

Speaker 4 (01:28:46):
So the South Course, if you're a member, there's only
one one type of membership that gets you through. The
South Course gets your fourteen day access. Your North Course,
you still get two day access, booking access to play
on the North Course. Still going to be plenty of
availability to get out and play that golf courses you want. Specifically,
if you're asking if there's an option to only join
the North Course, No, sir, that's still the package deal

(01:29:09):
where you get both courses and the big the biggest
value piece in the whole thing. Join the Houston Passport program,
you get five golf courses.

Speaker 2 (01:29:16):
Yeah, that's pretty good stuff, isn't it. That's really good thing.

Speaker 4 (01:29:20):
So I know, no better, no better time than this
weekend to become a part of it. But even after
if you join and you come in at ten k
when the bunker project's finished and all these additional things
that we're talking about doing down the pipeline here to
keep improving that membership experience, show up that ip is
only going to be increasing.

Speaker 3 (01:29:38):
Yeah, the golf course itself is just gorgeous.

Speaker 2 (01:29:41):
If nobody anybody who hadn't played that South course yet,
you owe it to yourself. Grab your sticks and go
play it today and you'll see why Craig is so excited.
I am too for you guys. I think that's going
to be a really uh it's going to be a
big project and it's going to take a long time
to get everything flashed out.

Speaker 4 (01:29:57):
But I got one question. I got one question for
you before we roll off. How did hunting season roll
for you this year?

Speaker 3 (01:30:05):
So it's been sporadic.

Speaker 2 (01:30:06):
I haven't gotten to go as I've come to do
what I'm doing now, and I've been trying to raise
the sun for a long time. I haven't been going
as often as I would like. But so far, so good.
I had a good duck hunt. I've got some other
stuff planned here in the short term, and I've had
a few more trips that were kind of so so.
But every time you get out, it's fun. And how

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about you then, since you brought it up, Yeah, I sent.

Speaker 4 (01:30:32):
You that picture of that night. Oh my god, going
back in Virginia over Christmas. My dad just sent me
a picture this morning. Actually they got a little snow
up there, and one of the eight pointers he'd been
watching all year about seventeen eighteen inches wide.

Speaker 6 (01:30:44):
He saw it.

Speaker 4 (01:30:45):
Again yesterday, so it was exciting to know that guy
made it through through hunting season. He should be a
nice one next year. And I got a buddy buddy
of mine from my Eagle Point days that always invites
me up mid February ish to go pig hunting in Tennaha,
So I'm looking forward to getting back up and doing that.
I've never I've never gotten to pull the trigger on

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a pig, so looking.

Speaker 11 (01:31:07):
Forward to that.

Speaker 2 (01:31:08):
Okay, well, I've made up for lost time for you
for the last few years.

Speaker 3 (01:31:12):
I'll let you carry the banner for a while.

Speaker 4 (01:31:15):
That sounds like a winner, man.

Speaker 2 (01:31:17):
Craig Hicks, Black Horse Golf Club. It looks like about
what thirty six hours to get in there and get
lined up while you still can at a very reasonable
introductory rate, and then once once Sunday, once it gets
dark tomorrow, that's it.

Speaker 4 (01:31:32):
Huh. That's that's the end of it, man. That's uh,
as far as getting in at that introductory rate, but uh,
you know, anytime throughout the year, whatever time's best for
folks to want to become a part of it, certainly
give us a shout. You can reach us two eight
one three oh four seven.

Speaker 2 (01:31:49):
Three four one seven four seven Fry Road, just a
little way south to two ninety Craig. Thanks man, Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:31:56):
Sir, have a great rest of your day.

Speaker 2 (01:31:58):
Appreciate you having me on my pleasure. Audios.

Speaker 3 (01:32:01):
All right, we're gonna take a little break here on the.

Speaker 2 (01:32:03):
Way out of.

Speaker 1 (01:32:05):
This is Sportstock seven ninety, Facebook dot Com, Slash sports
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Speaker 5 (01:32:11):
Back to the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (01:32:12):
Welcome back dog.

Speaker 3 (01:32:13):
Bike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:32:15):
Thanks for listening. What Melbourne were you giving me a
clue while I was talking to you? Dang time. Okay,
let me think back to some of those other songs. Okay,
I think I'm getting there. I think I'm getting there.
I hope somebody is, because if they do. I can't
win these brasses, River Provisions Company, jams and jellies. But

(01:32:37):
you can when we play the game a little later.
And all you gotta do is slide by here and
pick them up, and then maybe swing by the grocery
store and buy some chips, buy some meat, buy some whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:32:53):
These things are gonna pair well with.

Speaker 2 (01:32:54):
You could go to the website actually and see what
they pair best with. And I'm still thinking we need
to get one. I gotta get Mic on the phone
and find out what would pair best with being a
sausage for my for my professional bass fishermen who are
just getting started because they hate a lot of that
they do. Bob, what's up, my friend?

Speaker 10 (01:33:15):
The weather's not up.

Speaker 3 (01:33:17):
And that's the temperature is not up, not at all.

Speaker 10 (01:33:20):
Oh, it's at least the wind clip blow.

Speaker 18 (01:33:23):
And I am my cousin of Lake Conra and the
last couple of days been miserable. Couldn't do anything. But
I have a question. I'm getting ready to do some
coffee fishing up here. I was wondering if any of
your listeners my I don't need to report where the
fisher biting. I got a couple of spots, but how's
the coffee fish have been so far? Any of your

(01:33:44):
listeners I have an idea?

Speaker 7 (01:33:45):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:33:46):
Yeah, I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to defer
to the audience because I am men crappie fishing on
Lake Conrad. In a very long time, I.

Speaker 10 (01:33:55):
Man, I'm sure some of your listeners.

Speaker 2 (01:33:57):
I'm sure.

Speaker 18 (01:33:58):
Oh yeah, the waters really good, lake youshai. You know
I lived down there and CS been. It's gonna be
another month before that.

Speaker 2 (01:34:08):
Up right, so muddy, So I know it typically is really.

Speaker 18 (01:34:14):
Yeah, you know, I hate I don't know if you
knew it.

Speaker 10 (01:34:17):
I'm a Buckeye fan.

Speaker 18 (01:34:19):
I went to school there and played football for him
and stuff. But good for you, that was one of
the best football games I've seen a long time. I
knew Texas is gonna be tough. That's probably gonna be
the best game of the whole series.

Speaker 4 (01:34:32):
But I was.

Speaker 18 (01:34:34):
Impressed with both teams. They both played really good. I think, Ohio,
they just got the breaks.

Speaker 3 (01:34:39):
Yeah, they did get breaks, There's no doubt about it.

Speaker 2 (01:34:42):
And that's that's kind of the way when you got
two really good teams on the field, that that ball's
oblong for a reason, and depending on which way it
bounces once or twice, that probably determined the game.

Speaker 5 (01:34:54):
You know, let me ask you down.

Speaker 10 (01:34:57):
This is related this sport.

Speaker 18 (01:34:59):
First, what's it called fort each or something where the
kids can change schools?

Speaker 2 (01:35:04):
Oh yeah, the portal portal?

Speaker 10 (01:35:07):
Do they pay these kids to come to their school.

Speaker 2 (01:35:11):
It's it's all about money now. It's that that name
image and like likeness nil money. And these kids are
just bouncing all over the place they put them. So
I don't know how it operates, but I do hear
it constantly. This kid came from the portal. This pid
kid's going to the portal.

Speaker 7 (01:35:29):
Yea.

Speaker 2 (01:35:29):
And they're all chasing money now instead of anything else.

Speaker 19 (01:35:34):
Yeah, I hate you know, I'm glad the kids get
their money. Don't sure you're wrong there, but it's hard
to get rooting for someone and then whom they're gone.

Speaker 7 (01:35:46):
And o'kay.

Speaker 10 (01:35:47):
One thing, I would love.

Speaker 18 (01:35:48):
To see this maning kid, a lot of state come
up with a couple of mission dollars to get him
as their quarterback.

Speaker 2 (01:35:55):
Well, you see, now, you're just you're just fueling the fire,
you know.

Speaker 10 (01:36:00):
Know, I don't want it, but I would love.

Speaker 4 (01:36:02):
To, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:36:03):
Yeah, it's like if that's the rules of the game, though,
you want somebody to open a wallet and have this
kid enough money and it's you know, you wouldn't have
to look back very many years in professional football to
find players at each position earning as professional players. In

(01:36:23):
the NFL for a few years, the same money that
some of these kids are getting just barely out of
high school.

Speaker 4 (01:36:31):
It's I know.

Speaker 18 (01:36:33):
When I was in Ohio state, what they would do
in the summer. Mister John Galberth, he owned Churchill down
to a big, big money man and stuff.

Speaker 20 (01:36:43):
Yeah, and what he did he had a forty.

Speaker 18 (01:36:45):
Eight hundred acre farm there on the west side of Columbus. Yeah,
and every summer the players we got paid to go
out and paid defense and your maintenance. Sure it wasn't much,
but Ji, that's about all they could do, you know,
weren't allowed to get the money.

Speaker 6 (01:37:00):
Right.

Speaker 10 (01:37:00):
But none of the starters ever showed up.

Speaker 2 (01:37:03):
You imagine that?

Speaker 18 (01:37:04):
Oh god, yeah, not just if many of your listeners
have any kind of report on croppy on conra that's
one of my favorite counts for crop.

Speaker 3 (01:37:15):
We'll see what we can find.

Speaker 10 (01:37:17):
Bob. I appreciate it night. Thank you for your showing.

Speaker 18 (01:37:21):
I'm you know, I really appreciate listening to well. And
Melvin does a great job.

Speaker 2 (01:37:27):
He does, doesn't he he does?

Speaker 3 (01:37:29):
Thank you guy? All right, man, thank you Bob. Yeah,
I'll see.

Speaker 2 (01:37:32):
Yeah, well he really buttered me up trying to find
those cop crappy on conro isn't he. Yeah, sure, he's
a nice guy. I love his calls, I really do, Chris,
what's up, my friend?

Speaker 11 (01:37:44):
Maybe you could put a little topping on this. Again,
I'm not a hunter or whatsoever, but my son is
a big hunter and a friend of mine is as well.
We go down the utility every year. We went down
there two weeks ago and unfortunately my son shot a

(01:38:06):
couple of deer, but they didn't go down and we
couldn't find them. That we're gonna go back down probably
in a week. But he told me that my son
told me that whitetail is still season goes way into February.
By my other buddy says it's over.

Speaker 5 (01:38:21):
Well there, do you know?

Speaker 3 (01:38:22):
Yeah, I can, I can give it to you.

Speaker 2 (01:38:24):
There's there are extensions to the general The general season
starts and stops, but before that and after that there
are these little other options the youth only. There's muzzle
loading season, there's archery season. There's the MLD permit program

(01:38:44):
that allows hunting later than the end of the regular
deer season. And this year was one of the oddball
calendar years, Chris, in which our official deer hunting seasons
at least touched for like a weekend maybe six different
calendar months. Technically, our season was six months long the

(01:39:09):
way it sets up so and that's a weekend here
on the front end and a weekend on the back end.
The bulk of it is the BO season in October,
general season, November, December, a little bit of January, and
then the MLD stuff starts and it just continues after that.
It's easy to see if you kind of go to

(01:39:30):
the Parks and Wildlife Department's website I was talking about
earlier and look at it. But the whole reason for
all of those days of available deer hunting is that
we have a giant population of white tailed deer in
this state, and if we don't send that herd every
year by a certain number of animals, we run a

(01:39:51):
risk of them either There's only two ways that nature
can take care of an overpopulation problem, and those are
disease and starvation, and other than that, nature doesn't care
what we do. As long as we don't take out
too many deer, which that's regulated by the number of
tags we have on our licenses. And as long as

(01:40:12):
we don't take too many that deer herd is gonna
stay healthy as it can. It's gonna stay fat as
it can, and we'll be able to end up to
keep taking three hundred and fifty four hundred thousand deer
a year to balance that population and keep it in
line with the carrying capacity what the land can provide

(01:40:33):
for them food wise. That makes sense.

Speaker 11 (01:40:37):
Yeah, so I guess I'll go on their website. But
my son assists that he can still shoot into February.

Speaker 2 (01:40:45):
And yeah, he's probably going to some MLD permitted place.
I'll take a look at the regulations during the break
here and when we come back. Hold on, I think
I've got it up right here. Oh no, I've just
got something on the spread. Let me see if I
can get to it. Yeah, here we go. Okay. Archery
only see season started September twenty eighth. Gin, I've got
a minute here. Archery season starts September twenty eighth, goes

(01:41:07):
to November one. This is all for white tailed deer.
The general season was November two to January five in
the North zone, and it was November two and still
is through January nineteen in the South zone. Then there
is youth only hunting that there's a couple of one
weekend in October or no, it was. It was three

(01:41:32):
days in October, and then thirteen or fourteen days couple
of weeks in January, also running through the nineteenth in
the North zone. Same in the South Zone muzzle loader
season January six to nineteen, the North Zone Special Late
season also six to nineteen of January, then the South

(01:41:52):
Zone Special Late season January twenty to February two. And
that doesn't even include the Managed Lands Deer Permit stuff.
It goes longer. It's just it's all over the place,
and there's a lot of opportunity to hunt deer in
this in this state because we need to take that
many deer out we do, otherwise we risk having the

(01:42:14):
some horrible disease wipe them out or having bunches of
deer starving to death. Because if you if you got
a hunt. Yeah, that's that's a long answer to a
short question. I'm sorry, that makes sense.

Speaker 11 (01:42:30):
Yeah, So so it sounds like he's right. He can,
he can shoot it into early February, and.

Speaker 2 (01:42:37):
Yeah, to February even even without MLD opportunity, even without that,
there is still and I'm trying to I'm trying to
scramble up the MLD deer season season Managed Lands Deer
Permits MLD permit a Managed Land Deer permit. It gives

(01:42:59):
hunters or gives landowners the opportunity to have the Texas
Parks and Waldife Department come in assess their deer herd
and recommend that they take a certain number of deer
off the program or off their property each year to
maintain a perfect balance, a perfect buck to dough ratio,

(01:43:22):
a perfect balance. There's an AI overview. I can read
this in one minute or less. The Managed Lands Deer
Permit program in Texas allows landowners to have an extended
deer hunting season and more liberal bag limits. The MLDP
season typically runs from around October one to the end
of February.

Speaker 3 (01:43:41):
So yeah, he'll still be out there.

Speaker 2 (01:43:44):
If he's on an MLD ranch, he could still be
going through February.

Speaker 3 (01:43:49):
Well he's not on a well, so even then, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:43:52):
Even then, he's got till February two. Under a lot
of different circumstances.

Speaker 11 (01:43:58):
That's what he says.

Speaker 8 (01:43:59):
He does.

Speaker 4 (01:44:00):
White tail Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:44:01):
Yeah, yeah, yes, stick with the white tails.

Speaker 11 (01:44:04):
A buck with one set of antlers.

Speaker 2 (01:44:06):
Well, yeah, there's yeah, there's all different kinds of bucks
you can take in different counties and whatnot, and that
that really gets in the weeds. A deer hunting, it's
a county to county regulation that typically it's it's and
it's always going to be more than one county. It
might be northern counties or southern counties or special like
East Texas had problems for a long time and still

(01:44:27):
does with different kinds of antlers coming up and and
lots of things. It's some when you get into it.
They're the the every page you turn takes you to
two more pages. But it's it's it's well managed, I
think overall, and if we could ever get rid of
poaching in this state, we'd probably be able to add
a deer tag or two everybody's license. All right, Thank

(01:44:52):
you was my pleasure.

Speaker 6 (01:44:54):
Chris.

Speaker 2 (01:44:55):
Always welcome, hunter or no hunter, You're always welcome, and
questions are always welcome as well. Thank you, Hi sir,
uh huh, Bobby Man. It took me a long time
to answer his question. I hope it helped. I was
just trying to give up as much information as I could.
And now we got to take a break or Melbourne's
just gonna climb out of that room he's in and
come down here and punch me in the nose. Oh

(01:45:16):
I'm good, good, okay, And you know what I noticed?
His sign is very knowledgeable. Well, yeah, you have to
be to be out there hunting. You can't just go
buy a license and go hunt. You can, but there
are all kinds of things that you better know walking
into that field before you pull the trigger, because there
are rules on how many where, when, how what?

Speaker 3 (01:45:35):
All of these things you have to know.

Speaker 2 (01:45:37):
And now to get a hunting license as a young
person coming up, you also have to have that hunter
safety education, which I think everybody should have to have it.
It may be a requirement now I'm not sure. Right
kudos should be father and son combo. Yeah, absolutely, And
he's perfectly fine with his son hunting. I like that
because I do know some dads who don't like hunting

(01:46:00):
and have discouraged their kids from being outdoors. Which is,
if they'll do some research or read what I could
send them in two seconds.

Speaker 3 (01:46:10):
If they'll do some research, they're sort research.

Speaker 2 (01:46:14):
They'll realize that being outdoors teaches kids a lot of lessons,
and kids who grow up outdoors actually score hire on
standardized tests and kids who just grow up cooped up
in video games. And I'm way late now.

Speaker 1 (01:46:31):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety, a Houston sports fan
on air and on Facebook at contact.

Speaker 5 (01:46:38):
Back to the Doug Fike Show.

Speaker 2 (01:46:40):
All right, welcome back, seven, no, not seven anything anymore.
It is in California, but not here. It's nine forty
one here and it's time to get somebody on on
tap if you will to play the the Melvin's Jams
and Jelly's game and win yourself some delicious and Jellys

(01:47:01):
and Salses, by the way, which are delish also. So
all you gotta do is call seven one three two
one two five seven ninety while we I haven't even
mentioned the golf tournament that's going on. These poor, poor
PGA tour players are having to endure a.

Speaker 3 (01:47:21):
Whole week in Hawaii.

Speaker 2 (01:47:23):
I don't know how they can stand it, honestly. Uh
let me get to that. I've got this teed up
here for the Sony and when we're done with the game,
I'm gonna talk about duck hunting again and something far
more serious than just duck hunting. At the Sony Open.
Through two rounds, Patrick Fishburn leading the way at ten

(01:47:43):
under par.

Speaker 3 (01:47:45):
And that's that's a reasonable eat.

Speaker 2 (01:47:47):
That's a reasonable score to be leading after two rounds,
not fifteen or eighteen like happened last week. Jenny McCarthy
also at ten under par. The nine under pars include
Kensai Hida, Eric Cole Paul Peterson at eight under par.
And then we're gonna go play the game. If you're
still calling to play the game, sorry, we got somebody

(01:48:10):
on the line. Zach Johnson, Scepstrack of Lee Hodges, Alex
Smalley and JJ spawn there are there's a a an
airport van full of sevens and then it just goes
on from there. So those poor fellas are enduring the
whole week in Hawaii playing golf. And more power to him.

(01:48:31):
So is Ken playing the game? Is that correct? All right?
Let's see him up Ken, Good morning man, start the music. Hey, Hey,
how are you?

Speaker 16 (01:48:42):
We'll be We'll be right back to you now.

Speaker 14 (01:48:53):
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Speaker 2 (01:49:09):
All Right, here we go, h Ken, here's your chance
to win a nice four pack of brasses, River Provisions, jams,
jellies and sauces. And then they're random, but we just
pick one for you and you're gonna like them all.
And then you can go to the website or go
down to the store and just pick out some more.
What do you think was Melvin's theme for today's jams?

Speaker 5 (01:49:32):
I believe it's time.

Speaker 2 (01:49:34):
Well, we have a real winner. That's so refreshing, isn't it.
I don't I don't even have to help him at all.
He actually listened. Yes, it's good time is indeed? Yeah,
so are Melvin's jams and jellies. Okay, that's that was
so easy there. There needs to be some sort of
we need to have some extra part of this because

(01:49:54):
it's it's done so quickly. It's not like the it's
not like the Temperature game. But Ken's the winter and
he's tired of hearing me talk. I'm gonna put him
back on hold. I'll put you on hold. Ken. Congratulations, Yeah,
and me, oh, thank you man, I appreciate it. I'm
gonna put him on hold.

Speaker 3 (01:50:11):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (01:50:12):
That's done, and I can go talk to Brian if
he wants to talk.

Speaker 3 (01:50:16):
Brian, what's up?

Speaker 10 (01:50:16):
Man?

Speaker 7 (01:50:18):
Hey, good morning, how.

Speaker 10 (01:50:19):
You doing that?

Speaker 2 (01:50:19):
Good? Thanks?

Speaker 20 (01:50:21):
Awesome. I'm a truck driver just I'm from Sageine. I'm
driving a Laredo right now. I talk to you in
the past. Let you know, I don't hunt or fish,
but I just enjoyed listening to you on the weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:50:32):
Thank you, man.

Speaker 20 (01:50:32):
I get a kick out of it.

Speaker 3 (01:50:33):
So I'm glad to hear that.

Speaker 2 (01:50:36):
Yeah, you're not the only truck driver ever to listen
to this program. And I'm I'm glad you're doing it.
What are you hauling too, Sat or two to Laredo.

Speaker 20 (01:50:44):
I've got a I'm doing some like I'm sorry. It's
harder to explain because no, only I'm just carrying food.
I'm either doing chicken or sodas or stuff going to
HV or Walmart. But I've got this load coming out
of Uh it's great. It's called like sealed air stuff.
It's like bags like medical supplys and stuff like that.

(01:51:10):
Not the actual supplies, but just the containers and the
packaging and stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:51:13):
Okay, yeah, that's interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:51:17):
You know, everybody, I think there's a perception that truck
drivers are hauling food or perishables or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:51:26):
But it's anything and everything.

Speaker 2 (01:51:28):
At some point before it gets from where it's made
to where it's used, it's probably been on a truck,
hadn't it.

Speaker 20 (01:51:35):
Oh yeah, most definitely. Yeah, some of the stuff I carry,
it's like, oh, it's surprised of me when I got
on my tirt, like, wow, I'm turning this. I bring
a lot of stuff in Mexico too, so you know
it's whatever they want to Pumary, I don't even know.
It's surprised.

Speaker 3 (01:51:50):
Well, thank you very much for doing what you do.

Speaker 4 (01:51:53):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:51:53):
You guys are the lifeline of this whole country. You're
the blood supply man, you really are.

Speaker 20 (01:52:00):
Thank you too for doing what you guys do.

Speaker 3 (01:52:01):
Oh my pleasure. Man, I'm glad you're listening.

Speaker 10 (01:52:03):
God bless you, brother.

Speaker 2 (01:52:05):
I bless you as well. I see you. Brian. I
bet he's one of those one hundred thousand mile a
year guys. That's a hard job. That really is a
hard job. It's probably a very lonely job. And like
I said, more power to him. I appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (01:52:21):
Oh I got to take a little break here.

Speaker 2 (01:52:22):
When we come back, I've got some duck hunting news
to share, and it's just a I'm not even gonna
I just want to get back with as much time
as I cancel.

Speaker 1 (01:52:32):
Right, this is Sports Talk seven ninety breaking sports news
on Facebook twenty four or seven. We'll get that information
to them.

Speaker 5 (01:52:41):
This is the Doug Pipe.

Speaker 2 (01:52:42):
Show, all right, welcome back. Only a few minutes left,
and I have a couple of things I want to
talk about on the way out very quickly. I watched
the first round of the GGO Golf Deal from down
in West Palm Beach, Florida. Earlier in the week.

Speaker 3 (01:52:57):
It was Tuesday. They have four man tis.

Speaker 2 (01:53:00):
But the oddball thing about it is that the first
three holes are three on three of alternate shot, and
I don't know how the teams decide which guy sits
out that part. That's kind of weird.

Speaker 17 (01:53:12):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:53:13):
After that, and I gathered this information from the website,
just trying to figure it all out. After that, then
it's six holes of head to head play among all
four guys, six teams in the league, and they're all
they've all got solid names on their rosters. It's it's
fun to watch them. They're good players, and that technology

(01:53:34):
they're using to hit their t shots at bunker shots,
fairway shots. All of that is really really fascinating. And
the putting greens setup. I hope they explain it again
this coming Tuesday when Tiger Woods makes his debut on
the on the I think he's on the What team
is at the Jupiter Club, I hope they explain it again,

(01:53:57):
because it's just this giant area if you will, inside
this what is it called the Sofi something I don't know,
palace or so No, it's not a stadium, it's Sofi
something center maybe I don't know. Anyway, the long and
the short of it is there are all these cylinders
underneath that surface that can change the undulation in almost

(01:54:21):
infinite numbers of ways to match what is on the
big screen as these guys are hitting their approach us
and then of course they either have to get over
there and chip or putt to get in.

Speaker 3 (01:54:33):
And it's pretty cool. It really is the thing that.

Speaker 2 (01:54:36):
I really wanted to talk about, and I'll probably I'll
come back to it tomorrow in detail. But down Galveston Way,
there has been more than one issue in recent well
this year and in a few years past, of duck
hunters very close to navigable waterways either and to neighborhoods,

(01:55:01):
even actually spraying the sides of houses with pellets intended
for ducks. This past week, there was an incident where
a boat, a pretty big boat with a lot of
people on it, was moving through the only way it
could move to get from point A to point B
on navigable deeper water, and somebody in a duck blind

(01:55:24):
jumped up and took a couple of shots. Well, I
guess they figured it was far enough away. I don't
think it was intentional. I hope it wasn't, but ended
up hitting something like twelve of the sixteen people or
ten of the fourteen people on board with pellets, no
skin broke and no blood drawn. But there was actually

(01:55:45):
a kid on that boat who took a pellet within
a couple of inches of an eye, And that just
can't happen. If you're in a duck blind, you have
to pay attention to what's around you. That's one of
the most egregious mistakes I can ever imagine making as
a duck hunter, is touching off any round when there

(01:56:10):
if there's a boat that big that has more than
a dozen people on it moving within five hundred yards
of You don't shoot it's a duck. It's a duck.
For Heaven's sakes, there will be more ducks. And even
if there aren't more ducks today, there will be some
more tomorrow. That's going on long enough. The people who

(01:56:32):
live down that way are just sick and tired of it,
and rightfully so. One guy said, he's just got paint
knocked off his wall. I think it's of his garage
or maybe the back of the house. Another woman went
to a city meeting or a county meeting down that
way and produced a little a container full of pellets

(01:56:54):
that she'd fished out of her swimming pool. And so
keep it safe, will you'n I'm gonna get back into
this tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (01:57:03):
I know.

Speaker 2 (01:57:03):
He just walked in the door. Dan Matthews basically walking
in and saying, Hey, you need to get your stuff
together and get out of here. I get it, Dan,
I get it. Man, take your time now. I'm panicking.
Look at me. I'm making mistakes. I'm panicking. We'll be
all right. I'll get out of here. He's coming up
next on Sports Talk seven ninety. Thank you allso very
much for listening. I will be back here tomorrow morning

(01:57:25):
at eight. Dan, we'll take it from here as soon
as I can get out of his way. Thanks for listening.
I'll see then. Audios

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