Is Golf Course Etiquette Out the Window?

On this episode, Doug discusses the best parts to save and cook for red snappers, the 100 men vs one man debate, and many more exciting topics.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
How many fish on our stringer, how many points on
our buck, how many feathers in our bag.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
That's how we keep score around here.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
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(00:33):
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
Now here's Doug Pike. All right. Saturday edition of the
program starts right now.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Thank you all for listening. I certainly do appreciate it,
you know I do. I always have, always will have
been God. I've been doing this a long time.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Holy caw.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
It seems like well, no, I can't say it seems
like yesterday. Maybe it seems like last week. And that's
even kind of stretchy and weird. I've been sitting in
this chair. It's almost I hate to confess how long
I've been sitting here, because that's a that just shows.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
How old I am. I've got twenty five years doing
this show, and you know there should be at some
point a mark.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
I'll have to go back and check to see just
when the twenty five started, what month it started in,
and maybe even what week, and see if we could
have an anniversary celebration of some sort. Maybe we could
all meet somewhere and I don't know, do something fun.
I'll figure that out later.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
The wind is finally backing off. That's good news, certainly.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
I looked at the wind surf i windsurf dot com
website this morning and it was very favorable.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Actually, let me see here, I've got it up in
front of me. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
The only place really well, it's it's kind of ugly
down at Port O'Connor right now. It's blowing dead offshore
from the northwest at twenty six.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
I think that.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
May be an anomaly somewhere though, because everything else is
in the mid teens around there. It gets a little
bit more as you go farther and farther down the coast.
But up here where we are, the big number is thirteen,
and that's at the Galveston jetties.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
And then it just kind of eases back.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
There's a ten let's see ten at Morgan's Point, eight
miles an hour out of the north at Bressouri National
Wildlife Refuge. Well, yeah, there's Port O'Connor again, still twenty six,
only thirteen though, just half of that. What station is that,
I'm not sure what station that is. It doesn't come

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up on its own. I don't know what that is.
Fourteen at Port So way better than yesterday, when from
what I gathered and watched, I was actually kind of
toggling back and forth watching as the storms approached.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Me in Sureland and the wind.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
I was going back and forth between the weather radar
and then just the wind velocities on the coast to
try and find some great big connection to them.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
And it just it's typical weather.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
You just it's gonna blow forever, and then when it
stops blowing this time of year, it's probably gonna rain,
and then it'll keep raining and blowing together for a
while and you may or may not get hail. I'm
I'm losing confidence almost daily in the ability of the
television forecasters to just tell it like it is and

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not be not be running around like chicken little screaming that.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
The sky's falling. I if I heard it once. I
heard it a dozen times yesterday about potentially large hale,
and I watched as one one of these networks I
was looking at showed somebody with a piece of hail
in their hand that was about the size of oh,

(04:16):
maybe half a golf ball, a big grape, okay, quarter
size maybe somewhere in there, and talked about how this
size hall could be common around half of Texas or whatever.
But there was potential she said potential or how.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Did she phrase it, Oh, but we've seen Hale as
big as tennis balls.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Those were her words. We've seen hale a's biggest tennis balls.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
And I'm not one hundred percent sure that's one hundred
percent accurate, but that was I bet that's either spot
on or within one word, we've seen Hale's biggest TESTI ball.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
And I got to.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Thinking, Okay, she's trying to catch us on a technicality here,
because I can go online at any time and I
can type in tennis ball sized hail, and I can
see in a picture, I can see tennis ball sized hail.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Is it going to fall here? No?

Speaker 3 (05:15):
I got pretty concerned and left the office to go
ahead and get home because I let myself get fooled
into thinking that Sugarland was going to get hammered. And
for a while it looked like we would get a
pretty good rain and maybe a little bit of thunderstorm stuff.
But honestly, we were spared down there, and had I

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believed the whole thing, I went to the trouble to
get both cars into the garage. Well, my son was
at baseball. He's coaching a twelve year old team now
alongside his grown man coach who coaches his own seventeen
year old team. Seventeen or eighteens, I don't know what
they are. But the long and the short of it
is where he was practicing, there's a covered garage next

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to the field, so if it, if it had hailed there,
his car would have been fine, as were mine, because
well we didn't get.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
But a smattering of rain, just a tiny little bit
of rain.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
After I thought it was gonna be all over and
then lo and behold, here we wake up this morning
to partly cloudy and gonna be okay. So take advantage
of that. Take advantage poor faux Pro. It was all
the whole time it's flowing. I know that faux Pro's
coming down this way. We have these two big waves
of thunderstorms that came rolling through here, and Faux Pro

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was in town yesterday.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
I went over and met him at the office.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
He had to visit in part because he bribed me
with venison sausage. I wasn't gonna turn that down, uh,
And he told me he said it rained almost all
the way down here. So he he ended up driving
down here in that kind of first line of thunderstorms.
And then just about the time, God bless him, just

(07:05):
about the time he had to drive back up to Livingston,
here came round two. And I got a text from
him last night said it dumped on him almost all
the way back to Livingston. This is the same stuff,
thunder and lightning and traffic. And I think he ended
up leaving Houston, leaving the Galleria area. I want to

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say it probably about five o'clock, trying to get to
Livingston and in the rain and in the muck and
yuck and all that good stuff. But it's behind us now,
and today's supposed to be pretty nice and a little cooler. Actually,
next four or five days looking really good. Next four
or five days looking really good. They're going to be

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lows in the low sixties. I think a low tonight
is either sixty or sixty one that'll be awfully pleasant,
and then highs only in the low eighties and not
a whole lot of rain in the forecast, which is
really really good. Two one two five seven ninety Email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Trout fishing is getting

(08:12):
really close, really close to just going off the charts.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
I keep hearing about more and more and more and
more good fish, quality fish.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
I'm not hearing that much talk about dinks about undersized fish,
but I know they're out there. I think it's that
we just have enough quality fish now. And bear in
mind we are one year removed from initiation of the
limits that made it not okay to keep fish keep

(08:47):
speckle trout longer than twenty inches. You supposed to throw
them back unless you get one. The record book is
still open. You still get to keep one per year.
If just in case you catch some monstrous speckled trout
and you were sure that you'll never catch another bigger one,
you could keep it. Otherwise throw it back and then

(09:10):
let you let yourself become the next person. You certainly
won't be the first who reaps the benefit of letting
all those twenty one.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Twenty two, twenty four, twenty six, twenty eight fish go.
I'm talking about hearing routine stories that, well, yeah, we
had we had a bunch of fish in the twenty
four to twenty eight inch class. When was the last
time you heard that?

Speaker 3 (09:35):
And that last time you heard it, didn't you kind
of in the back of your mind think, God, this
may be the last time I hear about this. I
was when it was going on, when I was coming
through the ranks and getting to fish a lot, like
two three times a week, I felt like it could
never end.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
It just it was just good.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Every time you turned around you got out there. A
bad day, you would catch twenty thirty tro out and
I'm talking about I was blessed to be able to
fish with a lot of really good fishing guides, and
an afternoon where we only caught twenty twenty five fish
was kind of Yeah, it was just whole hum.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
That wasn't bad.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Or a morning we'd go out and make a weight
and catch four of us might catch fifteen eighteen twenty fish. Yeah,
let's go to another spot where it's better probably, and
we never thought it would end, but then it did.
Freezes come along. The population changes here as in triples
since I was first doing all this stuff.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
It's at least tripled. It might be more than that now.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
And anybody who comes here as a non fisherman, you
put them on a boat two or three times and
put them into trout that we're going to be able
to show them next year they're going to become fishermen.
They better buy a license too. But as long as
they're license fishermen and they're staying within the limits, I
think we're finally hit a point with regulation.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Hey, can y'all open up those phone lines please? I
think we finally hit a point with regulation where we're
gonna be able to maintain what we have. The only
the major factor now will become in the you know,
there will there be two or three more.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
The major factor is going to be weather. If we
can avoid problems in winter, I'm not going to say
the word. If we can avoid those problems in winter,
then we should watch it continue to recover even more
now if there's a major chemical spill or oil. There's
all kinds of weird o, crazy things that we might cause.

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But as long as we can avoid that freeze, man,
it's gonna be good stuff. It's gonna be very very
good stuff. Seven one three, two one two five seven
nine email on medugpick at iHeartMedia dot com. Uh, just
a quick reminder all of us here at iHeart on
those of us who are on the air, been showcasing
our great clients recently and just kind of letting you
know how much we appreciate them. And this week, this

(12:01):
week I got a two for one. How about that
two great clients in the same little town. The little
town would be Belleville, and the two great clients would
be Belleville Meet Market and Phoenix Knives. They have been
integral parts of that town and it's charmed for decades
and the folks who run them both are first class people.
Belleville Meet Market owned and operated by the Poffenberger family,

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and they're more than the name says they are because
in addition to meat they go, they carry all sorts
of delicious compliments to the beef, chicken, and pork.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
You've heard me talk about that a million times. Just
really really good people.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
And by the way, I think it's Marcus who's the
super crazy tarp and fisherman. I think Jared's right behind him,
but Marcus is number one in the tarpin addiction strategy.
Phoenix Knives also in Belleville, owned by Cowboys and Maaski,
who moved to bigger space on Main Street in Belleville

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last year so he and his crew of knife makers
could produce just more product and introduce more people to
the amazing art of knife making. Cowboys been handcraft and
knive hand crafting knives since nineteen seventy nine, still going strong,
So hats.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Off to both of them. Big thanks to each of
them as well for supporting my show. Next time you're
anywhere near Bellville, just roll up Main Street and look
for both places. Go buy Cowboys place, make a knife,
then swing down the street and use it to cut
cut your lunch at Belleville Meat Market. How's that for
a plan? Huh uh?

Speaker 3 (13:36):
I tell you what, Rick, hang on, Will you'll be
first When I get back. I'm gonna go ahead and
take this first break of the program. Tell you about
black Horse Golf Club up on Fry Road, just a
little ways south of two ninety.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Very easy to find.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
You drive south on Fry road from two ninety and
what you're gonna see first is golf course on the right,
and then when you see golf course on both sides
of the road, put your right blinker on and make
a into the gate. And from that point forward, pretty
much anybody you run into who's got a name tag
on is going to be willing and able and happy

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to help you enjoy your time. At black Horse. They
have got two courses there, the North Course, which has
always been daily fee and still is, and the South Course,
which this year was flipped to private so that people
who wanted that private course experience and a little more
privacy on the golf course. I guess they made that

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course private. And the memberships are going well. There's an
option in membership to black Horse South Course, an option
that offers you the opportunity not only to play up there,
but also to play at Blackhawk Country Club and at
both courses at Golf Club in Houston. If you're really
into golf and you like the names of those tracks

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I just told you about, I love them all, you
might want to look into that membership option. Either way,
you're gonna have a great time, great place to throw
big tournaments, great place to just go play on your
own great place.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Just show up.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
That's what I've done more than once on a Monday
when I felt like making a little road trip from Shoveland.
Get up there in about thirty forty minutes, zippity up
the Beltware or the.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
Grand Parkway and there I am. Hey, can you get
me out? How many of you are there?

Speaker 4 (15:21):
Well?

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Just me, that's it. Oh yeah, can you warm up
in fifteen minutes? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (15:25):
Sure, well we'll get you out then. Black Horse Golf
Club dot com. That's their website. You can make tea
time for yourself right now, black Horse Golf Club dot com.
Excellent musical selections from Frankie not avalon right, you can
talk Wes Moreland. Yeah, thank you, Frank. It's a good

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song man.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
All right.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
I am gonna go back to the phone line and
see what we got cooking here with Captain Rick here.
Hey Rick, weisce what's up.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
The rodan? Doug? Good morning?

Speaker 4 (16:04):
Uh hey man. I think it is very well deserved
that there's a twenty fifth Doug Pike Dug Pike show
in a Versary get together rendezvous. That'd be fun, man,
uh man, that would be great and I'm just gonna
go ahead and do it right now if I can help,
I'm willing, and I want to be the first one
to offer up, offer up to you know, if we

(16:26):
can all you know, ship in and bring our own food,
I'm gonna I'm gonna go ahead and put it on
the table right now. Once we get a head count,
I will I will commit to bringing all the being
of sausages and trackers.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
We could.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
We could do it on a professional uh an aspiring
professional bass guide budget.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
That would be it'd be beanie weenies, it'd be being
a sausage pop tarts.

Speaker 4 (16:54):
Man, we're all out, we're all talking about that. Nor
so I mean once more appropriate than.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
That, absolutely nothing.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
He might bring a little venison, maybe a futile leg
there you go, a little uh, you know, a little
hot you know, a little this and that little figure.
So I think that'd be a great idea. I really,
I think that's something we really need to not just
talk about, but work of hate. We might even get
get our days to come get time.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah, he could he be the entertainment. That'd be awesome.

Speaker 5 (17:27):
Man.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
He might bring them, he might run them off. You
never know. I can say that because men get their day.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Were good friend, I know he doesn't.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
Everybody's a friend ofdays. Every time I turn around, somebody says, yeah,
you know guitar day.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah, man, that's cool, Yes, sir, So what you got I.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
Think it is a really good idea like that. I
just want to chime in on that. Maybe we'll get
something going.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
Thanks man, I appreciate it all right, Oh yeah, okay,
I'll see later audios.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
Rick has been he's been working on his photography and
he's getting better.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
He really is. He He keeps.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
Sending me shots of wildlife that he's in. Some of
its semi wild, some of it's birds at the house,
but that's still I got an award winning shot of
a dove sitting on her nest with a baby right
under her wing, and it.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Was it was the coolest shot.

Speaker 6 (18:25):
It took me.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
It took me weeks actually to get close enough and
set the camera up the way I wanted to to
get that shot with this dove on the nest and
and her baby. But I got it finally, and it
ended up winning a I don't remember. I know it
was first place. I don't remember what contest it was
in I'm sure it was. It was probably just a
state stayed outdoor writers contest, but it was. It was

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a beautiful photograph. I was really happy with that one.
I printed it up pretty big too. That was back
in the film days, and I had to I had
to shoot really good quality film to get the image
clarity I want. In fact, I should that might have
been on a slide. It may have been a slide shot.
I'm not one hundred percent sure. Anyway, it was a
beautiful picture, and I'd probably have a hard time putting

(19:11):
hands on the slide, but I do think I know
where the print is. The big one that I got done,
I sold a few of them as well.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
But that was so fun.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
I do miss having to go take pictures because when
you're forced to go do something that you love, it's
kind of like, oh gee, I have to go do
that again.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
And it's kind of like Captain Scott. I know, he
spends a lot of time just sitting out there twiddling
his thumbs waiting for an animal to come by. But
once it happens and it's the right thing at the
right time, it's it's so rewarding, and.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
So I just feel blessed. That I had the opportunity
to do that for as long as I did. Let
me go catch old day here. What's up, Dave? Do
you hear where your ears burning?

Speaker 4 (19:59):
Man?

Speaker 5 (20:00):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (20:00):
Yes, uh, rat trap cheese and some Bellville summer saucing.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
Oh okay, that sounds good.

Speaker 6 (20:09):
Put you in.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Charge of that, man. Oh man, what's going on, David?

Speaker 6 (20:14):
Well?

Speaker 4 (20:14):
Hey? Uh?

Speaker 7 (20:15):
First off, Hey, when I was over there in Houston,
down that dark alley way, it's a little area over
there on the.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
Side of that, uh where I cleaned up at. Yeah. Man,
I'm looking down in here and I put it.

Speaker 7 (20:28):
I put it on my Facebook page. Uh, I'm looking
and I'm seeing something down there. And then I started
filming it.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
It was a cottontail rabbit. Oh wow. And right behind
gallery Fernture Oder, I'll be gone urban wildlife man. Hey.

Speaker 7 (20:44):
And then I remember that possum that was sold up
in my backyard over there closer, you know, over there
forty five Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
But uh yeah, hay.

Speaker 7 (20:53):
And then uh oh and uh I got sea shure
you know, the last Sunday Finally, Yeah, we got hugs
and everything. Everything went very well. I did not place,
but I had a head of a time that's all right, man, Yeah, yeah, hey,
and then uh oh, and then I'm sitting here right
here to take eight thirty boat launch here if here

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May thirty on Lake Conrod. The water's rippling a little bit.
There's Gertrude and Wilboro over there, my dugs. And then yeah,
everybody's running out of here right now. But it's looking
beautifully good. Looks like out of the north, uh northeast.
I believe on the on the windas because I'm looking

(21:36):
at the clouds.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
But everything else is looking good.

Speaker 7 (21:39):
Oh and then over here behind me, remember when the
guys run through Miss Linda's place over there the fence. Okay,
now I talked to game Boarding Price because I've come
back over here. Now there's a whole Another section took
out said that some person, let's keep the names out
of it, protect the innocent. Come down you're on a

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four wheeler, hit two Yeah, I hit two mailboxes in
the subdivision and come down here and run all the
way in into her yards.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
Man.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah, people just aren't raised right, you know, you know what, respect,
You got to have.

Speaker 7 (22:19):
Respect and hey, safety, you know, and hey, I'm messed
up and I'm not Nobody's perfect. But I mean, you know,
we all have accidents and everything, but don't do nothing
crazy like that.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
You know that's so unnecessary.

Speaker 7 (22:37):
Boxes and yeah, I know, but I mean it's it's
part of life and good things that we got our
game wardens and our police officers and Sheriff's department and
our firefighters. God bless and God keeping, God bless.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
Maran got it. Thank you, Dave, Hey, thank you very much.

Speaker 7 (22:53):
And I'm gonna get out of here because I only
do one aeron and I'm gonna come back here and
sit and fish.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
Dawn boy.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
I want I want an update. If you catch a catfish,
I want an update.

Speaker 7 (23:03):
Okay, Oh I did catch one the other day over here.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
Uh he was about nineteen twenty inches. It was, it
was and it was a it was a channel cat.

Speaker 7 (23:16):
I'll be doing but yeah, but uh, you know, I
just I let it go back because it looked like
the belly was fat and everything.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Maybe it was gonna have some babies so.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
Or maybe just had a belly full of food that
I'm throwing out here was I look, but I'm not.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
I just been eating. I've been eating all the shed. Hey,
these guys are casting.

Speaker 6 (23:37):
Ah.

Speaker 7 (23:37):
The shads over here, they'll come. I mean, I've got
so many people. Oh and then everybody that I talked
to over here, I'll start talking and they kind of
recognized my voice and then I'll mentioned your name in
the show and everything.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
They're like, man, yeah, man, we listened at that. And
so there's a lot of things. Man, how you superman? Hey?

Speaker 7 (23:57):
Uh, if we don't go and we don't throw you
just don't know, let me kill.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
You think about it. That's what's that.

Speaker 7 (24:06):
There's a there's a program. I mean there's some kind
of parade or something coming up.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
A parade. Fourth of July maybe no, no sinking to
Mario parade.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
Well, yeah, that's tomorrow, isn't it. You know y'all leave
some four days Monday. Yeah, today's just tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (24:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
I was way down the calendar, missed that one by
I just jumped right over it. Shouldn't have done that. Yeah,
that's a big deal, it really is. This canna be fun.
I like singing to Mario day.

Speaker 7 (24:36):
Yeah, and you know what, there will be a lot
of fireworks going off and I don't know if they're
doing shots or not, but well hopefully fireworks. Yeah, I
got you all right, hey, because I appreciate you and
thank you.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
And sheriff said to tell y'all, how well good, Yeah,
we miss her around here.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
We sure to. And Stuart and Stuart too. Wait, Stuart,
you know what he told me?

Speaker 7 (24:55):
What he said, Man Dave does a outdoor reports with
this Doug Pike on seven ninety. And then he said
he also does traveler reports as a hobby with the
sky mike.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
All right, that's as I was walking off the stadia.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
Yeah, thank you, that's funny. Yeah, audios. Oh, he's going
to go back and go fishing. I wish I could
go fishing this afternoon. I went out this morning, I
left the house and taped to the back door was
a note that said, at about eye level said powerwash

(25:36):
the patio.

Speaker 5 (25:37):
Now.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
I've already gotten a start on it, so I may
be able to get out there and just get it
knocked out pretty quickly. Certainly, I think I can get
it done in time to make it out this afternoon.
If it stays cloudy, I'm gonna go bass fishing this afternoon.
If it doesn't, I'm not sure what I'm gonna do,
but I'm not just gonna keep power washing. I can

(25:58):
promise you that once that patio I follow instructions real well,
it didn't say and the driveway. Thank goodness. I can
handle that. And if my son's around the house, he's
gonna have to start doing some chores. My wife lets
him off everything, it's amazing, So I'll just get him
to do it.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
No, you know he's been tired lately. Huh Have you
looked at me? Have you taken a look at me?
I'm tired too, But I'm plodding on because I know
that every time I every time I walk out the door,
there's a good chance that I might meet somebody new
and get to make a new friend to go fishing with,

(26:38):
or hunting with, or golfing with or whatever. I don't
usually say golfing, I usually say play golf. That was
the first time. That may be the first time I've
used that term. I'm not quite sure.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
I do know that we have to go take a
break right now, and so let's go do that.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
Speaking of Belleville meet Market, which I was a minute ago,
I will give you the full information on Belleville right now.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
And by the.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
Way, they have got some new patties out there. They
call them chuck Wagon patties. These are a half pound
ground beef patties that are seasoned up just Belleville's secret
recipe whatever that is, and loaded with cheddar cheese, so
you've got a built in cheeseburger before you even put

(27:21):
it on the grill. You don't have to worry about
doing that. You don't have to worry about the cheese
melting and sliding off into your charcoal and all that
weird stuff that can happen. You just put these patties
on the grill, cook them up to the way you
like them, and take them off and slap them on
a bun and then just watch your eyes cross while
game processing year round, of course. And there's a new

(27:43):
sausage recipe available that you really need to try this
next time you're out there. If you've got quarters in
the freezer that you told yourself you know, I can
process this myself. I don't need to drop it off somewhere.
And those quarters are still sitting in the freezer, take
them out to Belleville and ask them to do that
work for you. They'll do a great job, which they

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always do. You can get deer Tomali's. You can get
venison hot dogs. All that good stuff is available at
Belleville Meat Market, along with the two dozen plus flavors
of premium pecan smoke sausage, along with the beef chicken
and pork cut the way you want them, along with
stuff mushrooms and stuff peppers, stuffed pork tenders, oh my gosh,

(28:28):
everything you can possibly imagine as an omnivore who leans
heavily onto the meat part of all of that. No salads,
they don't do salads rightfully not. I'm kind of glad
to know that. Yeah, it's Belleville Meat Market. Go out there,
see what they have. They're on Highway thirty six, about
fifteen minutes north to Sealy, fifteen minutes south of Hempstead.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Very easy to find.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
And if you can't get out there, if you just
can't force yourself to go to Bellville, get online. They'll
ship pretty much anything shy of a half a calf
right to your front door. Belleville MeetMarket dot com. Seven
thirty six on Sports Talk seven ninety to Doug Pike Show,
thanks for listening, sertin to do appreciate it. Oh what
a much better looking day this is than was the

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evening yesterday.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
What a train wreck that was?

Speaker 6 (29:17):
It just it.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
I kept watching.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
And what's interesting about watching the Weather Channel radar is
it updates pretty pretty frequently, I think, more so than
than many of the other weather apps do. And because
of that, I was watching it pretty closely. And one
minute I'd think, Okay, I got to put everything in
the garage and batting down all the loose stuff, and

(29:43):
then the next minute it's like, oh, that's going to
go around me, and it, for the most part it did.
I didn't really have any issues with the weather last
night at all.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
My buddy Dan did.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
He sent me an email a minute ago and said,
I had a pretty interesting night last night.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Check your messenger.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
I'll I'll take the bait on that anytime. So I
go there and there's a photograph of apparently a plug
shorted out somehow, and it looks like there might have
been just a bit of fire.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Going up the wall at the old Dan house like
a holy cow.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
Fortunately he is experienced enough and calm enough to handle
something like that without having to call the authorities and
have nine trucks show up in the front front yard. Man,
that that would have been real close for me to
calling just to be sure. But it looks like the

(30:41):
problem was averted and now there'll be a little there's
gonna be a little repaint on the wall. There's gonna
be a plug or two replaced, I'm sure around the house.
I'm just I'm just glad. Everybody's okay. Man, Just glad
everybody's okay.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Let's go talk to Kevin. See what's up. What's up? Kevin?

Speaker 3 (31:02):
Good morning, Doug, Good morning, Manuddy, I'm good. What are
you down there already prepping for for next Saturday?

Speaker 4 (31:08):
What?

Speaker 8 (31:08):
No, Actually, I'm just finishing running Anson Park outside of
West Columbia.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
They got a five k running event.

Speaker 8 (31:16):
Oh wow, okay going on here today, and just finished
getting everything ready for them, and sitting here looking at
the Bernard River and it looks like a mirror.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
Oh well, I'm about done with running. I'm about done
with running unless it's like to the boat before it takes.

Speaker 8 (31:31):
Off, that's about unless I'm being chased by something, some
kind of wild creditors.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah, that might. That might motivate me a little bit too. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (31:39):
I just wanted to talk to you about the Port
Freeport Taking Job fishing tournament.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Yeah, come on next Saturday.

Speaker 5 (31:46):
Up.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Hold on you breaking up on me, Kevin, you break
it up, turn your head somewhere. Okay, that's better. Better, Yeah,
that's way better.

Speaker 6 (31:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (31:55):
About this time next Saturday, the kids will start to
be lining up to register for the event at eight
o'clock at the pavilion at Municipal Park there in Freeport.
Sure it costs two can good items for them to
get in the can good items are donated to the
local food pantry, so that's a good thing there. It
is of course each kid. Each kid that enters gets

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a T shirt with this year's logo on it that
they have an art contest, and a kid gets awarded
for winning the logo contest. Nice they also get They
also get a backpack that's got all kind of goodies
in it, like fishing towels and tape measures and sometimes cups, hats,

(32:38):
different things like that. And then at nine o'clock they
sound the horn and all the kids get around the
horseshoe there at the dead end of the Old Brad's
River and Freeport at Municipal Park and they fish from
nine to eleven and eleven o'clock a horn sounds and
everybody marches back around over to the pavilion, gets in line,
and I'll be weighing the fish for him again this year.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
I've been involved twenty four of the twenty five years
that they've had it. That's awesome.

Speaker 8 (33:06):
And they give away door prizes to all to about
probably at least two to two hundred and fifty of
the kids usually.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
Oh that's great.

Speaker 8 (33:15):
Each kid gets a lanyard when they register, has a
number on it. While they're standing in line, and then
call out the numbers of the different either yellow fin
or blue fen category and they go up and win
everything from a riding reel, to tackle boxes, to landing nets,
fishing hats. One year they even had snow cone machines

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and ice cream.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
Makers'd be awesome. If you want to make the parents happy,
you know what you need to tuck in that little
goodie bag, well, a little the smallest packet you can get.
You don't need to put a bunch of them, but
just those little hand wipes, disposable hand that would be good.
Oh yeah, sticky fingers back in the car after a
fishing trip, smelly sticky fingers, wipe them off.

Speaker 6 (33:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Well, they provide dead shrimp for the kids to use.

Speaker 6 (33:59):
Oh, boy.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (34:00):
Usually usually the secret to being in the top winters
category is get the smallest look you can find and
just a small split shot. Yeah, and just put a
tiny little piece of shrimp on the end of that
little tiny hook and that.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
Cast it out there. Nine times out of ten they
hook themselves.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
I'd be willing to bet one thousand dollars Kevin that
in the course of the event, at least one little
kid has gotten home and his mother has told him
to change clothes, and when she went to do the
laundry found a piece of dead shrimp in that kid's pocket.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
I wouldn't doubt it. That's funny.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
Not gonna bet against me. Nah, you know it happened, man. Yeah,
oh my word.

Speaker 8 (34:43):
Looking forward to it at something that it's a great
event every year. A lot of times it's the first
first time kids get to experience fishing, and sometimes it
actually launches a lifetime passion of fishing for the rest
of their lives.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
Yeah, And it's good because they're close enough that they
can get back to it. Some of these events in
the city, unfortunately, they'll they'll draw a hundred two hundred kids,
but a lot of those kids don't get to go
again because it's it's not convenient the family, the parents
didn't fish and for whatever reasons. And I hate hearing
stories like that, but I hear them all the time.

(35:19):
But down there, those kids are probably gonna be back.
You point any direction and there's a spot to go fishing.

Speaker 8 (35:25):
Oh yes, that's the good thing about living down here
on the beaches.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Boy, isn't that the truth? You never know what you're
gonna catch in saltwater either. That's right?

Speaker 6 (35:33):
All right?

Speaker 2 (35:34):
Pardon well, thank you man.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
Next Saturday, kick it off at eight and you're gonna
fish from nine to eleven. Then prizes it, yes, sir, Yeah, okay,
thank you, Kevin. Yes, call me next week, man, I
wonder how it's going. All right, Then we'll do audios.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
All right, we gotta take a little break here, Dan,
hang on. I want to hear the story, man, I
really do, but I gotta take a break. On the
way out, I'll.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
Tell you about Shooter's Corner Palm. I went twenty nine
Street down there in Texas City. The owners, Jerry and JT.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
K are a father and son team whom I've known
for a very very long time.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
Jerry much longer than Jay. Jay's pretty young fella compared
to Jerry and me. Jerry probably the best gunsmith. I
know his son right in his shadow, right in his footsteps,
and well he's not in his dad's shadow anymore. He's
credentialed fully on his own as one of the best
gunsmiths in this state of Texas. I guarantee you it's

(36:26):
an old school gun store. It's not big, it's not fancy.
They don't sell anything else but guns, AMMO and hunting
supplies and shooting supplies. That's basically it optics Camo reloading stuff,
new and pre owned firearms. Whether you're brand new to
shooting or you've been doing it all your life, Shooter's

(36:47):
Corner is going to have what you're looking for, even
some of that really out of the way unique boutique Ammo.
For your unique boutique caliber that you like to shoot,
they'll probably have a case of it or two back
in the back somewhere and go get that for you.
If you wear a badge for a living, this is
my favorite part about Shooter's Corner. Jerry made this commitment

(37:08):
a long time ago, and he stood by it every
time he opens the doors. If you wear a badge
for a living, you get a discount on anything and
everything you buy at Shooter's Corner.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
I think it's only right. The Shooters Cornertx dot com
family owned and operated for forty plus years the Shooters
Cornertx dot Com.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
Bye, welcome back, thanks to listening Doug Pike Show Sports
Talk seven ninety on this Saturday morning. By the way,
in case you like, I had to go to bed
last night around halftime of the Rockets game. They won,
and they are coming back here to Houston to finish
off this series tied three to.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Three with Golden State, and I for one.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
Am pretty much tired of step whatever Curry's name is,
I don't even like to say it.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
This can hardly roll it off my tongue. He's just
he's so. He just got an attitude. He's good.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
I'm not gonna take any anything away from his ability,
but when somebody that good, you could just tell he
he just feels like the spotlight's always on him, and
he's he just got to tolerate those other nine people
on the court with him. I know he gets good
assists and that's as a good player should. And he

(38:24):
does a lot for his team but I'm just not
a big fan of his, and that's just the way
it goes. I guess, let's go talk to Dan. Dan, So,
what the heck happened?

Speaker 5 (38:36):
Well, Wow, it was actually Thursday night, Okay, my wife,
my wife was still at work. It's about about nine
thirty Thursday night. I got up, filled my dog bucket
full of water, and because it was the Hogan's Heroes
was going off and coming on, and I went to bed.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
I love, and.

Speaker 5 (39:01):
So I went to bed. You know, I had to
get up.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
I didn't go to work, sure, and long, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (39:06):
It was about ten fifteen, I guess my German shepherd
started raising all kinds of cane and I got up,
went out, and my living room was on fire. Well,
and luckily I had just filled by the dog bucket.
I've got four dogs, yeah, you know, one German shepherd

(39:29):
and in three mini wings, and I've got like a
two gallon bucket for dog water in the house. And
five minutes later and it would have been a whole
different Yeah, buddy, So I just throwed that whole bucket
of water on there and then started stirring it up,

(39:50):
and finally.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
I got it out oh my man.

Speaker 5 (39:54):
Yeah, just uh, well, there was a trash can full
of clean next there. You know that I hadn't so
that was.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
I mean, drop a candle in there or something.

Speaker 5 (40:09):
Dude.

Speaker 8 (40:10):
I don't have no idea what happened, market man, I
really really don't know.

Speaker 5 (40:17):
And it just and you know, I said, five minutes
five minutes later, and it would have been a little
different story because I caught it just I got it
just right before it got to the ceiling, as you
can see from the black mart.

Speaker 3 (40:30):
Well, man, you you better go pat that dog on
top of the head and hug him up.

Speaker 5 (40:36):
She gets extra treats.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (40:39):
Her name is Gritch and she she's a she's a
good girl when she's asleep.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
All right, Well okay, man, yeah, well it's it's yeah.

Speaker 5 (40:56):
She gets all the credit, that's for sure. She gets
extra treats.

Speaker 4 (41:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (41:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
Teach the little ones too, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (41:04):
Yeah, well they were all sweet. See when I when
my wife ain't there, I take them all to bed
with me.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
Oh yeah, pile of men, why not, you know?

Speaker 5 (41:11):
And and the doctions are in bed with me and
Gretchen lays on the floor by the door waiting for
Mama to get home.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
Wow, And I thought that's what it was. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (41:20):
Sure, when she that didn't sound like a mama's home.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
Yeah yeah, that sounds like get out of bed, get
over here now because there's something wrong. Oh my god,
I'm so glad you guys are okay, Dan, Thanks man,
We'll see you doing.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
Yes, sir Audios. Oh my word, what a story that.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
That's one of my greatest fears is to wake up
either to somebody telling me to wake up that they
smell smoke, or to wake up and I smell smoke.
That's That's one of the scariest things that can happen
in your house.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
If a pipe.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
Breaks and you got water leaking all over the house,
that's one thing, but that can be mopped up. It
can be the walls and the rugs and all that
can be replaced. But man, if it burns. There was
a house and it was kind of eerie because it
was the same model as ours in this neighborhood. We're
in the model the house that I'm in and this

(42:23):
one were the same as that, the model home of
the neighborhood. And we came home one day and I
don't remember whether the fire trucks were still around or
whether we just heard about it or what. But a
home about two blocks away, the same exact floor plan
had almost burned to the ground. Pretty much everything from

(42:47):
the top of the windows up had been just collapsed
and all of that. There wasn't much left of that home.
And I just can't imagine going through that. I can't imagine.
Once I get my wife, my son out of there,
it's like, okay whatever at that point. Honestly, there's nothing
in that There are a lot of things that are
of great personal value to me, but once I get

(43:12):
everybody out safe, then I'm kind of gonna forget about
all that stuff. I'm not going to run back into
the house to save much of anything that's in there,
and the things that the things that really need to
be saved, they're probably gonna be okay because they're in
a safe that's got some long fire time on it,
so hopefully that'll be all right.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
But yeah, I'm not gonna play hero. It's most of
it is.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
It might be irreplaceable, but it's not worth losing my
life over, if that makes any sense. And I know
to anybody who's ever been through that, I can't imagine
how hard it would be to stand there and watch
that happen to your home, the place you've was my
wife and I've lived in that house for thirty two years.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
I think, yeah, right at thirty two years.

Speaker 3 (43:58):
So there's a lot there. As long as the garage
doesn't burn, I can still go fishing. As long as
my vehicle doesn't burn, I.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
Can still go play golf. So I've got that going
for me.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
Seven one three two kind of shallow things there, huh
seven one three two seven ninety Email me Dougpike at
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Speaker 5 (44:19):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
Captain Scott emailed me a little bit ago or actually
it's a text message, pretty long. One woke up this
morning very cool down there at his place. He said,
got some rain, oopsie Daisy, and to borrow a turn
from golf on his There's a lot of good Calichi

(44:40):
road roads down there on that ranch, but there's also
places where he typically would drive under better conditions to
get into that photo blind he's in right now and
couldn't get there, And in his words, it was cart
path only on the ranch, and I knew exactly what
what that meant. There are muddy roads everywhere you can't

(45:03):
get on those. You're gonna ruin the ranch roads if
you do. And he said he think, he said he
had to walk half a mile or so to get
into that photo blind that he's he's just sitting in
there right now, got his earbuds in listening, and hopefully
he'll send a couple of photographs that I can look
at and describe for you. He got a really really
good one of an indigo snake last week. I was

(45:25):
kind of jealous of that one. Speaking of snakes, by
the way, Tomorrow at eight point thirty, I am going
to interview a woman who lives down near where I live.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
Actually who's Who's It's not her.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
Job, but it's a sideline of hers at least to
take messages and phone calls from people, I guess mostly
messages from people who have snakes in their yard or
snakes in their house, or snakes.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
In the garage or wherever, and they don't know what
to do.

Speaker 3 (45:56):
And she'll go out there and get that snake and
relocate it for you, no matter what kind it is.
She's still young and quick and knows enough and is
comfortable enough handling venomous snakes, even I think, to get
them out of your yard. We'll talk about that tomorrow,
but it's gonna be a good interview.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
And what I'm gonna try to do.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
I talked to her last night on the phone, and
what we're gonna try to do is get everybody to
just kind of calm down about snakes. Who isn't calm
about them and understand their place in nature and how
they They do very valuable jobs for us, keeping the
roadents down, keeping all just taking care of business so

(46:35):
that we don't get overrun with rats and mice.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
That's one of their first jobs. And there's a lot
of snakes out there who can't wait to catch their
next venomous snake and eat it.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
So snakes are not bad guys. And I get frustrated
when I hear people say the only good snake is
a dead snake. That is so not true. All right,
we gotta take a little break here. Want to get
out of here for a couple of minutes, tell you
a lot about good play, just a shop and go
do things. And then when I come back, we're going
to continue this conversation. I'm gonna talk a little bit

(47:06):
about redfish, I'm gonna talk about speckled trout, I'm going
to talk about hunting tools, but nothing like your thinking
right now. I'll start with that when we get back.
It's a pretty good story. More Doug Pike Show coming up.

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Speaker 2 (47:39):
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Speaker 3 (47:44):
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Speaker 2 (47:47):
Thank you all for listening.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
I greatly appreciate it, so as promise, I want to
get to this. By the way, Steve sent me an
email a little while ago when I said, I said
something about going golfing, and I just almost choked on
the words, because I always go I always talk about
going to play golf.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
I don't go golf ing. I don't go to fish.
I go fishing.

Speaker 3 (48:09):
But I don't go golfing. I go to play golf.
I don't play fish. I just go fishing. Anyway, I
got to thinking about that, and the other thing he
brought up was and to me, it's fingernails on a blackboard.
If you know what a if you know what a
chalkboard is, and you've ever dragged your fingernails down one,

(48:32):
you'll know what I'm talking about because it just it's
in this in modern day vernacular, it's cringe, okay, and
that is the term fishing pole. I'm sorry, but it's
a fishing rod. You could have a cane pole. The
cane pole is is That's exactly what it is. You
could have a croppie pole.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
But I think that once you put a reel on it,
then it becomes a fishing rod magically, of course, there's
no there's no other way to describe the transformation. But
if you if you duct tape a zebco two O
two to a cane pole, it becomes a fishing rod.
And that's just me messing around.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
So the fun stuff here, this is the really cool
thing that I saw.

Speaker 7 (49:17):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
And this is historic stuff.

Speaker 3 (49:20):
I'm a sucker for history and archaeology and all that stuff.

Speaker 7 (49:27):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
There was a stash of hunting tools and other artifacts,
including some animal skin and a couple of more things. Anyway,
this stuff dates way way back and it was discovered
in a cave near Marfa, right here in Texas, way
back in this cave, and what they found is the

(49:50):
the aftermath, the aftermath of a hunter from They estimate
the age on these things at about sixty five hundred
years ago. Okay, it wasn't like it happened last week.
Sixty five hundred years ago. Some guy getting out of
the weather probably goes into this cave with all his

(50:13):
stuff that he carries around as a hunter and decides
he's gonna sit down and just go through his gear.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
Be kind of like going through.

Speaker 3 (50:21):
Your tackle box if you got run off the water
by a lightning storm.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
Okay, And what they.

Speaker 3 (50:26):
Ended up finding in there were things that were discarded,
probably because they weren't in good shape. Their stone stuff there.
It really puts in perspective in their arrowheads. There were
spear and parts of an addle addle if you know
what that is, atl atl a throwing device that what

(50:47):
it did is enabled them to throw spears farther and
faster than they could, just as though they.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Were throwing a jaddlin or something.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
Anyway, the bottom line is this guy had to make
his arrows, he had to make his arts, he had
to make his arrowheads, his bows, the quiver to carry
the arrows. Everything he had to make for himself. And
he couldn't just pop over to the sporting good store,
get on Amazon and have what he needed delivered to
the cave. Had to do all this and this find,

(51:18):
this stash of stuff is just a snapshot into that.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
And any one of us who's.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
Ever sat out in the garage at a workbench and
gone and taking a rifle apart and cleaned it and
put it back together, or cleaned fishing reels or sharpened
hooks or made leaders or whatever. That's kind of the
contemporary parallel. And when you stop and think of what

(51:47):
this person had to go through to get all that done,
and even to get the things he had to discard, man,
it just puts it in perspective how soft we are
these days, how easy it is. Really all you gotta do,
all you gotta do is get online. You don't have
to put on pants, You just get online, get your phone,
get your.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
Pade type type type type, type, type type.

Speaker 3 (52:09):
And probably today if you have Amazon Prime, you can
get a whole box of spinner baits, you can get
five miles of fishing line, you can get rods and
reels and and ammo and everything. You want to enjoy
the outdoors without having to work for it, and that
I think maybe some of the disconnect that some people

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are getting with the outdoors now to where we don't
have to we don't have to work for it. We
really don't.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
We can.

Speaker 3 (52:40):
You want to find fish, you don't have to be experienced.
You just have to turn on a screen and just
watch the screen for a few minutes. And when you
see one drop a lure down in front of their
face faces, it's it's just I don't know. Maybe maybe
that's good because it makes it easier for people to

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get out there and catch fish. But they don't have
they don't have the skin, elbows in the skin knees,
they don't have the the ankst over whether to stay
on the water or get off the water because the
weather's getting kind of wonky on the horizon and they
don't know which way that storm's going. All we have

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to do is you just got to grab your phone,
look at it. Oh that storm's going.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
The other way.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
We don't have to worry about it. Boom, you relax
and you go back. Or oh, that thing's gonna be here.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
It looks to be. It's gonna be about thirty minutes.
This thing's going to be on top of our heads.
We got to run for cover.

Speaker 3 (53:39):
We really are kind of soft and I wasn't even
gonna go there with that, but it's just that's where
it took me.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
It's amazing.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
It's amazing how easy it is to catch enough fish
to call yourself a good fisherman, to shoot enough doves
or deer or turkeys to call yourself a good hunter.
When compared to that poor guy who had to dash

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in out of a thunderstorm or get away from a
blizzard that just blew in because he didn't know what
was coming. He sat down and went through his hunting
gear and put himself in better shape to survive once
he got back out of that cave, not better shape

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to go earn a trophy or a certificate or something
like that for shooting the biggest buck.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
He just needed food and he had his tools in there.

Speaker 3 (54:37):
It was fascinating when you there's pictures of this stuff,
and it's fascinating when you stop and think of what
that walking in that cave and then walking back out
of it with a little bit lighter, He trimmed, He
trimmed the fat that was in his bags, got rid
of stuff he didn't need or didn't want because it
was chipped or broken or whatever.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
Well, all of his arrow heads are chipped, technically fascinating
to me.

Speaker 3 (55:01):
It was all right moving on from there unless somebody
else has found something. Every bit is cool. I've been
fortunate to find some arrowheads, not an intact spearhead, but
I found one that was about two thirds at least.
That was pretty cool. All kinds of scrapers and things
like that. They're they're pretty easy to find if you

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know what you're looking for. It really is fascinating to
think back to that time in history when there wasn't
There wasn't Amazon or stores. You couldn't go to one
place and get arrowheads. Now you can get them out
a thousand places. I find that fascinating.

Speaker 2 (55:43):
Anyway, moving on to.

Speaker 3 (55:44):
An interesting story in fishery restoration. Okay, and I've drawn
a parallel here, and it'll be easy to figure out
as soon as I almost as soon as I start reading.

Speaker 2 (55:54):
For most of you, so.

Speaker 3 (55:56):
It took them a while, but like fifty okay, but
the population of Lake Trout has been restored to self
sustaining on Lake Champlain up in northern Vermont. They've used
invasive species controls, they've used heavy stocking with hatchery raised fish,

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and after fifty years of work, they did it.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
Now, let me read that same sentence with two distinct differences.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
It took a while, like fifty years, but the population
of redfish has been restored to self sustaining levels along
the Texas coast. That's exactly what happened from the time
CCA was founded to now, the way Texas managed to
restore its redfish along the coastline of the entire state. Here,
there was a time when redfish are really scarce, and

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if you watch Astro's games, you'll you'll hear my voice
telling you that over pictures of beautiful fish being caught
up and down this coast getting ready for the Star Tournament.
They were scarce, largely because of overfishing. And now it's
almost like you can't hardly throw a rock in the
bay without hitting a red fish. Not quite that good,

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but the one hundred times better than at the worst
it was for that great game fish.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
I can't help believe somebody up.

Speaker 3 (57:16):
There in Vermont sitting at a conference room table, talking
to eight or ten more Vermonters who are interested were
interested at that time in preserving and saving Lake Champlains
lake trout. Somebody at that table said, you know what,
maybe we could do what Texas is doing with redfish.
It took a while up there, same as it did

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down here, but the results down south and up north
were pretty much the same. A very patient, but predictably
good outcome for a threatened fishery. So good for them
with their lake trout, good for us with our red fish.
Didn't happen overnight, obviously, half a century to get it
really done. Things that big and important seldom do happen overnight,

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but it is done. Speaking to Cca, don't forget that
Star tournament. If you haven't entered already, and you catch
a tagged redfish this summer during the tournament and you
haven't entered it by then, you're gonna feel pretty silly.
It's already happened to a few people and they are
messed up. I'll tell you a story about that in
just a second. David, what's up? I want to grab

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you for the break, my friend.

Speaker 9 (58:22):
Yeah, I'll be brief, but to give you a ball
to run with dove tailing. You were talking to earlier
friends since that article to me about the hunting tools
found the cave.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
Yeah, yeah, very It.

Speaker 9 (58:32):
Got me to thinking, you know, there's one thing I
think people who don't enjoy hunting and fishing can't recognize
with us, and that is how we come to appreciate
our tools very greatly, even to the extent and I
was thinking, I wonder if that that guy who had
those tools, if he had a son, that he passed
some of that stuff down to. You know, you've got

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Speaker 2 (58:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (58:56):
We cherished, We cherish our tools to the to the
extent that we want our kids and grandkids to be
able to use them as well. Yeah, fish and rid moors,
but we really do, we really do. We love to
have our kids pick up what we use to the
outdoors and enjoy it themselves. And that's all I got

(59:17):
to get your Breakdoup.

Speaker 3 (59:18):
That's plenty. Yeah, thank you so much, David. I appreciate it, man.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
Yeah. Let me Yeah, We'll sit on that and I'll
come back to it.

Speaker 3 (59:27):
The knives, especially knives, can last a couple of generations,
at least a fishing rod, a fish and reel. There's
so much technology and evolve so quickly that if I
were to hand my son one of the rods and
reels I used back when I was his age, he
would just he would probably just drive it.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
To a museum somewhere and hand it off.

Speaker 3 (59:48):
Here you go, here's something from the distant past that
we thought somebody might like to look at someday in
the future. But I'm not using it to catch fish.

Speaker 2 (59:58):
Yeah, that would be hard.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
But rifles, the hunting tools that we have are are
definitely reusable from generation to generation.

Speaker 6 (01:00:09):
They are.

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
That's something interesting. Thank you, David, I will I'll get
back to that for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:00:15):
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that person's company logo on the band. Get to make

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up a box of those for that person and see
if it doesn't help your business. That's a pretty cool deal,
it really is. He did that for me. There's a
box of cigars. There are only a couple left, actually,
and they've been carefully preserved, and they have a band
on them that has the iHeartRadio logo on it, and
they're really they're a handsome cigar too. They kind of

(01:01:22):
wrap like a barber pole actually, with two different colors
of tobaccos in the wrapper. It's very amazing down in
Texas City where the location there is not only a
smoking lounge, but it's also a manufacturing facility, one of
only two dozen or so or maybe four dozen.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
In the entire country.

Speaker 3 (01:01:41):
That's all there are places that make cigars, and it's
the closest one to hear for about two hundred miles.
They make cigars down there every day. They make more
than one hundred and fifty different types and styles of cigars,
different sizes, different tobaccos, almost all the tobacco that use
is you been seed that's grown in Central America. Manny

(01:02:03):
came from a cigar family. His dad worked in cigar
factories in Cuba. He worked in cigar factories in Cuba,
and when they came to America, they stayed in that business.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
And man, are they doing a good job of it too.

Speaker 6 (01:02:16):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:02:17):
Manny took it over from his dad, and boy is
he good at what he does. I've watched. I've watched
the process of rolling cigars. It's pretty fascinating. He'll even
come to a big event. You got a big wedding
or something like that, or a big golf tournament where
it's gonna be a lot of cigar smokers. He will
come out there, set up a little canopy, sit under
it and wrap cigars personally for your guests. Pretty Much

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anything you can want in the cigar area arena, he'll
do for you. And he'll do a bang up job
of it too. Elcoubano Cigars dot Com. That's the website.
Elcubano Cigars dot Com. Eight twenty on Sports Talk seven
to ninety The Doug Pike Show. Thank you for listening. Certainly,
do appreciate it. That's another one I could have sung

(01:03:01):
if I would if I was in the car and
that song came on, I would have kept it there
and sung the whole thing. That's another good song.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
It's fun.

Speaker 3 (01:03:07):
A little bit of harmony in there in a couple
of places, and that's also fun.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
Okay, back to.

Speaker 3 (01:03:14):
I mentioned briefly the Star Tournament and how distraught you
might be if you don't enter and you do catch
one of those tagged redfish, especially the one that's worth
a truck, a boat, a motor, and a trailer. There
are five of those that have been given away annually
for the last umpteen years, when five at least have
been caught, and then there's still a price for and

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I mean a really good one like a truck if
you catch the next five.

Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
I believe it is the bottom line.

Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
Bill Kenny, the guy who's been running that tournament forever,
told me years ago about a woman who I think
she either sued CCA or threatened to do so, or
was just upset, or maybe she just wanted CCA to
pay for something for her husband because he had caught
a tagged redfish, one of the ones that would have

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been worth a truck, boat, motor and trailer. He'd caught one,
but he wasn't enter the tournament and he needed professional
help to get over that, she said, and she wanted
CCA to pay for it. M something like that lots
cheaper to just sign up with CCA, enter the tournament,
and be there to accept your prize at the distribution

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of them, they'll hand you a set of keys, and that
set of keys will start that truck, the one.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
That you'll be driving away.

Speaker 3 (01:04:35):
That'll be towing a trailer with a boat and a
motor on it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:40):
That truck doesn't take much.

Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
You got to be a member then, and that membership
by the way, that this is a great recruitment tool
for CCA, and I don't blame them for I think
it's genius. And I don't know who exactly came up
with this idea, but it has grown into one of
the most incredible, doable opportunities to raise money with a

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good chance for the people who play the game to
get tremendous benefit.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
Even if they don't catch a prize fish, it's still
a it's an excuse to go fishing more often, especially
to take the kids fishing more often, because they can
win scholarships up to.

Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
About thirty grand. It's simple, join Cca, join the star,
and then fish all summer long, every shot you get,
because every cast you make in salt water, you know it.
I know it, everybody knows it could be the next
prize winning fish.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
Who knows.

Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
But I can tell you one thing I know. If
you don't enter, whether you go fishing or not, you're
not going to win a price. And if you do
enter but you don't go fishing, you still will be
doing a tremendous service for the coastal resources of this state.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
So that's that's that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:01):
I want to go back to what David said about
appreciating the tools we have to enjoy the outdoors because
I've thought about that. I've got a couple of things
that will be passed down to my son, but I
want to make sure that he's interested in having them
as well, and so I'm kind of biting my time

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before I say anything to him. I want to see
if he asks me to go out and do the
things we need to do. That would show me that
he's interested in that kind of thing. And at that
point then I will do it now. And I talked
about fishing rods and reels, not really being good stuff
to pass down, but some of the fly reels.

Speaker 2 (01:06:43):
I have a couple of the fly rods I have.

Speaker 3 (01:06:46):
While they may be a little bit older, they're still
incredible fishing tools, and they have incredible stories in them
from when and where I've gotten to use them, and
that's something I wouldn't mind passing on to him. And
he's he's enough of a fisherman I think that he
would appreciate that, and hopefully once he gets through these

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teenage years, maybe he'll be a little bit more interested
in going places and doing things with me. I'm not
going to tell him what I intend to leave to
him and not just give away or throw away, because
that might influence the way he acts and talks about him.
But I'll I think I know he's going to come round.

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There's no question in my mind. I know he's going
to keep wanting to play golf. He just he's chosen
to chase baseball the hardest because that's that's his true passion.
He's a good golfer when he puts a little practice in.
He he's very rusty right now, but his game has

(01:07:52):
good bones. As they say, he had some really good
instruction coming up from a couple of people, and that's
helped him all the way through.

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
There was a man named.

Speaker 3 (01:08:01):
Richard, I can't remember his last name over it at
Quyll Valley who did little group things with kids and
set him on a really good path to a really
good swing. And then Ryan Brandt over at Riverbend Country
Club gave him his first personal lessons and got him

(01:08:22):
even closer to being could And more recently, Tommy O'Brien
out at Blackhawk. And it's been a while since he's
seen Tommy because he has been focused on baseball. But
Tommy put him on a really, really good path, and
so he opted to step away from his school's team
to focus on baseball. And I'm really happy to know

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that he still goes and plays golf with his buddies.
But he's his Baseball's his passion right now, as it
was mine growing up. I didn't get into golf until
I was almost a grown man. Where I played baseball
in college, the team got to play free at Little
Communi course across the street, and I would do that.
The left handed rental clubs they had over there, as

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you might imagine, left a lot to be desired, but
I didn't know any better. They were just golf clubs
to me, and boy, I fell in love with this game.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
Who Baseball's done for me? I blew out my throwing arm.

Speaker 3 (01:09:23):
I went to school on that arm in my legs.
My hitting was I was a singles hitter, and every
now and then I'd sneak something to the gap. But
I could, I could run like the wind, and I
could throw a ball from here to tomorrow. And so
I played in the outfield and absolutely loved it. But
I blew my arm out throwing a softball.

Speaker 2 (01:09:44):
And that's all. I'm not gonna bother you with any
more of that. So I can still play golf.

Speaker 3 (01:09:49):
Though, I can still play golf, and I can still
I swing hard, and so I'm a happy little clam.

Speaker 2 (01:09:58):
I can hold my own seven one three two one
two five seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:10:02):
Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com when we
get back. I'm gonna go ahead and take this break.
When we get back. Let me see what page I
want to go to next. They have so many things
over here. I'm gonna do kind of a little preamble,
I think on tomorrow's snake discussion that I'm gonna have
and I'll tell you more about that when we get back.

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So I want to kind of set the stage and
hope that you'll you'll come back tomorrow at least about
eight thirty to hear my, uh my conversation about them
with somebody who knows far more than I about snakes.
I fancy myself reasonably decent at it, but not an expert.

Speaker 2 (01:10:40):
She's an expert. I'll tell you more about that when
we get back.

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
All the way out, I'll tell you about Timber Creek
Golf Club down there in Friendswood, off FM twenty three
to one, about twenty three point fifty one, about four
miles west of the golf freeway. Very easy to find.
We got twenty seven holes down there. They have got
a fantastic teaching staff at the far end of the range. Easy, well,
not the far end of the range, just the side

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of the range. JJ Woods and his bunch in that
big ten building over there. I'm visioning, envisioning myself in
the clubhouse and looking out over there, and it seems
like a fairly far walk, but it's not.

Speaker 2 (01:11:13):
Actually just a little bit of a little.

Speaker 3 (01:11:15):
Bit across that giant putting green and then down to
the driving range, and then a few more steps over
there to JJ and his staff, who can knock the
rust off any golf swing. Twenty seven holes gives him
the opportunity to get more people out in a particular
morning like today than a standard eighteen hole course. An
nothing wrong with eighteen hole golf courses. I've played a

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lot of them around here, more than a hundred, believe
it or not. And I keep going back to timber
Creek because they keep taking care of me. Good people,
great food, that great teaching staff run by JJ Woods.
He knows his stuff. When I heard when when I
heard from the GM down there that they were getting
JJ Woods, you would have thought he was he'd been

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given the key.

Speaker 2 (01:12:00):
He's to a castle full of gold.

Speaker 3 (01:12:04):
And that's kind of what it's been for the people
who take advantage of getting instruction from JJ and his bunch.
Make a tea time right now. Timbercreekgolf Club dot com.
That's all you getta do. Just go to Timbercreekgolf Club
dot com. You'll find your way to great golf, great food,
and a whole lot of people who want you to
have a good time. Timbercreekgolf Club dot com. Hey thirty

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four on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (01:12:28):
Thanks for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. I keep
waiting and hoping.

Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
I keep waiting and hoping that Dan Matthews is gonna
call and tell me all about how the Rockets did
what they did last night.

Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
I didn't get to see the second half of the game.

Speaker 3 (01:12:45):
Maybe if you did, maybe you can sub for Dan
Dan Matthews from over on Sean Salisbury Show Monday through
Friday at the crack of dawn because I just couldn't
stay up that late.

Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
I knew better. I need my sleep.

Speaker 3 (01:12:58):
I need my sleep, and I got it, and I
feel pretty awake this morning. The coffee's not hurting either.

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
So back to snakes.

Speaker 3 (01:13:05):
I was going to talk about that with you and
kind and kind of set the stage for what I'm
going to talk with tomorrow or about tomorrow with just
Jericha Markle.

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
I found her at a site that I'm using. I
enjoy watching this.

Speaker 3 (01:13:20):
I don't remember exactly what it's called, but it is
a snake identification just page, I guess.

Speaker 2 (01:13:29):
And I yeah, I want to join that.

Speaker 3 (01:13:31):
I want to see all of this stuff, and anytime
anybody sends a picture of a snake to this site,
it immediately gets responses from people who know snakes way
better than you, and I do even way better than
most of the people I know who know a lot

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of snakes. There are immediate reactions, Oh, that is a
non venomous broadbanded water snake, and the ones who really
know the most will go ahead and throw the Latin
name in there, the genus and species of that snake,
just to let you know that they know. I don't

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need that part. If it's a if it's an Eastern
cotton mouth, that's good enough for me, and I know
to stay away from it. But it's really it's really interesting,
and I've been fooled a couple of times by some
of the water snakes because they'd look a whole lot
like a cotton mouth in the now. And part of
it's the pictures I'm seeing too, They're not a ton.

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
Of detail in them.

Speaker 3 (01:14:37):
And I don't think that any if I had come
across any of the snakes I've seen on there, I
don't know that I would have just instantly wanted to
hurt it. I would have just kind of eased away
from it. And that's the best thing you can do
around snakes is just just if you don't want them
in your backyard, hurt them out of there now, if

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you If you can learn the handful of venomous snakes
in Texas and learn to recognize them in two or
three different ways where you could use that as a checklist.

Speaker 2 (01:15:10):
Does it have this are the eyes? Like? This is
the tail like? This is the pattern on their skin
like this.

Speaker 3 (01:15:17):
If you can learn the venomous snakes in your area,
and you only have to learn enough to put on
one hand, then the rest of them you can pretty
safely assume are not going to be venomous and you
don't have to worry about them, and you don't have
to go run to the garage and get a shovel
or a hoe to kill it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:36):
Just let it go.

Speaker 3 (01:15:37):
If there's no Unless your yard is full of rats
and mice, you're probably not gonna have many snakes around there.

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
You really aren't, so don't worry too much about it. Anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:15:47):
We're going to talk about that and about how the
role that snakes play in the animal kingdom, and it's
a very positive role too. There's no reason to get
worked up over it.

Speaker 5 (01:16:03):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:16:03):
I had to remove so many snakes from the neighborhood,
so many when it was very young, and it was
just because people didn't know any better. I saw a
beautiful picture at that site, by the way, and I'll
get it all dialed in before we do the interview tomorrow.
But it was a big king snake, and it was
I can't remember the exact genus of that kings or

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the species of that king snake, but it was a
beautiful one. I had a speckled kingsnake that I kept
for a pet when I was in middle well now
middle school, I think it was the seventh grade. I
had that thing, caught it myself, very proud of it,
and took it to school in a paper sack. I
told the story more than once. I got in a
little trouble. I'll I'll just break it off there for

(01:16:47):
the people who have endured that story more than once.
But Jessica and I are going to or Jericha excuse me,
I keep messing that up. Her name is Jericha Markle,
and we had a great conversation last night, and we're
gonna have a better one tomorrow. If you snake questions,
by all means, have them ready and I'll try to
work in a few of those while we're talking about them.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety email

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me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:17:13):
Got that taken care of?

Speaker 3 (01:17:15):
This is I found this very interesting this week, and
only somebody who appreciates big cats and medium sized cats
and wildcats, uh, all of you who fall into those categories,
any one or all of them, will appreciate this. In
a place where bobcats are downright scarce, and I'll tell

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you where it was in a minute, a trail cam
there captured an image of a bona fide bobcat crossed
the trail.

Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
And I've seen dozens of bobcats over the years, maybe
more than that. Even they're beautiful animals, they really.

Speaker 3 (01:17:51):
Are, but they have a bad reputation among a lot
of people because of what they sometimes due to well
to quail and doves, and they can catch just darn
near anything. They're faster and more agile than a lot
of their animal the animals they chase. So anyway, the

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bottom line is where this image was captured was all
the way up in New York, way in upstate New York.
Actually that's where I caught my first brook trout and
set the hook on it like it was a redfish,
and it came flying past my face, and the guide
turned to me and said, you don't have to set
the hook that hard, mister Pike. Well, thank you Captain

(01:18:38):
Obvious for that. Yeah, as I could threw it into
another state, I think when it finally hit the back
end of that line. Interestingly enough, Illinois bobcat population kind
of I would think, without looking at the map, that
they're kind of on the same parallel and the same
basic climate, which is way more wintry than here. But

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ill Noise got a significant bobcat population. Not that anybody
in this audience really cares about that. I just I
did some research I felt and could just compelled to
share that with you.

Speaker 2 (01:19:14):
For some reason.

Speaker 3 (01:19:15):
I want to go back. Captain Scott sent me a
couple of images. Let me go see what he sent
and we'll discuss as we Okay, it's gonna be here.
I gotta go here, get back to Scott. Oh here's here,
Rudy break it in. Oh oh yeah, I do remember this?
What a great what a great story, and I'll tell

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it now. There was found a while back, in by
a while, I mean years, a one hundred and thirty
two year old Winchester Model seventy three leaning against a tree,
just out And it was November of November six, twenty fourteen.
This woman, Ava Jensen, a cultural resource program manager at

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Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada's Snake Mountain Range.
She's walking around, see something leaning against a tree. Turns
out to be a rifle, perfectly camouflaged because of the
stock and everything in the tree just kind of all
blended in one. That stock at that point was one
hundred and something years old, and I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:20:27):
If they ever came up.

Speaker 3 (01:20:29):
I'm just brushing through the story very quickly about how
she found it and whatnot. But the bottom line was
it was one of seven hundred and twenty thousand, six
hundred and ten that the company manufactured during that run
of Model seventy three.

Speaker 2 (01:20:45):
A beautiful rifle, absolutely beautiful rifle and the crown jewel
of rifles in its day.

Speaker 3 (01:20:54):
That's why they made so many of them, because they
could sell that many of them, because it was reliable,
it was durable, and it was just a cool looking firearm,
absolutely beautiful. I had forgotten about that. Thank you, Rudy.
I appreciate that. Man seven one three two one two
five seven ninety email on me, Doug pick At, iHeartMedia
dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:21:14):
Let me get over real quickly, you know, no, you
know what.

Speaker 3 (01:21:17):
I have to take a pause here and take a
break here, and I'll go back to Scott's images in
just a minute. I'll go back to them when we
get back. I know they're gonna be good. I want
to see what they look like. And I'll tell him
if I think one or any of them might be contests.
He's out there shooting for a contest. That's a very
elite bunch of photographers. And he's won a lot of

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stuff during this contest in years past, and I got
a hunch he's gonna win some more this year. He's
he's really good, Scott. I think it's Scotten old photography
dot com. Maybe you might find some of his images
there anyway. American Shooting Centers America Shooting Centers out there
on Westtermber Parkway between Katie and Highway sixth is where

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you will find not one but ten trap and skeet
fields where you will find not one but three sporting
clays courses, where you will find not one but two
hundred and twenty something places around that property where you
and your friends or your family can go out there
and enjoy the shooting sports. The pistol range starts at

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five yards and very quickly goes out farther into transforms
into long gun range. From starting at that five yards
all the way out to six hundred yards.

Speaker 2 (01:22:33):
There's five stands setups out there.

Speaker 3 (01:22:35):
There's a beginner's wing shooting area, a twenty two little
twenty two rim fire pop up silhouette range. That's a
lot of fun, all owned and operated by a man
named Eda Riggy, who has been out there for quite
a few years now enough that he has turned that
place into something even better, a lot better than it

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was originally.

Speaker 2 (01:22:58):
It's an amazing facility.

Speaker 3 (01:22:59):
It's very safe, there's professional instruction available in every discipline,
and you I can assure you if you like the
shooting sports or you want to get into the shooting sports,
this is a great place to do it. It's very
well run, it's very user friendly. You don't have to
wait around for some teenager to come out and pull
targets for you on the clay ranges. They've got a

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coin system basically where you're just buying targets and you
pull your own with the same type of a mechanism
that that teenager would if he was out.

Speaker 2 (01:23:30):
There or she.

Speaker 3 (01:23:31):
American Shooting Centers dot Com is the website West Timer
Parkway between Katie and Highway six. American Shooting Centers dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:23:40):
Hi, welcome back.

Speaker 3 (01:23:42):
Dougpike Show on Sports Talk seven to ninety. Thank you
all so very much for listening. Thank you for making
yourselves available wherever you are to listen on the radio,
to listen on the streaming side wherever. However, Captain Scott's
down there in that blind listening on iHeartRadio, know that
you sent me three really cool images from this morning,

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one of which I was looking at and I was
looking at it and maybe thinking about cropping it a
little bit. Scott up forgive me, but you know how
that works. That's how my brain works. And I like
the shot I was looking at for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
I do.

Speaker 3 (01:24:19):
Seven one, three, two, five seven ninety. Let's go talk
to Jeff hey Man.

Speaker 10 (01:24:24):
What's up morning, coral snakes Other than referencing their colors
and to avoid them. We don't seem to have many
encounters with them. The gardeners run into them by a
mistake and regret it, or do they just stay away
from us.

Speaker 3 (01:24:38):
I think the coral snake is so reclusive it doesn't
want to be seen. And I got a hunch that
when they the places you're gonna find them if you do,
are gonna be flower beds and places like that where
they can they can burrow a little bit under the surface.
They're not gonna they're not gonna just dig up on
go digging underground like an earthworm. But if they can

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get under bart Moltz or something like that, they will.
And first of all, around here, I don't think there
are that many of them to begin with.

Speaker 2 (01:25:08):
But the ones that are there.

Speaker 3 (01:25:10):
Like I say, they're they're gonna they're gonna scoot out
of there and be very hard to find. And thank
goodness too, it's hard for them to bite us too.
They don't have big, old, long fangs like a rattlesnake,
so they they have to work a little harder at
it to bust you. But boy, if they do get you,
you're gonna remember it.

Speaker 10 (01:25:28):
I'd love to see one, but I don't want to
see it just in a zoo because it looks like
another beautiful snake.

Speaker 2 (01:25:33):
They are, they're gorgeous snakes.

Speaker 3 (01:25:35):
There are a lot of milk snakes get killed because
they look like it. But you just got red on
yellow kill a fellow, red on black friend of Jack.
That's how it goes. And if it's red on yellow,
you got problems.

Speaker 10 (01:25:50):
Think bringing this up as much as you can. I
appreciate it very much.

Speaker 2 (01:25:53):
I'm gonna I'm gonna go into it pretty deep with
Jericho tomorrow. Yeah. I hope you can listen. Thank you.
Good to hear from thank you? Yes, certain Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:26:02):
Coral snakes, that's a nasty, nasty bite if you get one,
and if they do inject you with their venom.

Speaker 2 (01:26:11):
They don't have a they don't carry a ton. They're
very small snakes. Really about putting a half two feet
would be a good one. But you don't want to
pick that one up now, milksnake.

Speaker 3 (01:26:21):
I saw a picture at that website I was talking
about or app or whatever it is. Texas Snake Identification
I think is what it's called. Maybe there are several
sites out there like it. The one I'm using gives
me more than enough to work with. And like I said,
I do get fooled by some of the some of
the water snakes, but and some of the coloration differences

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in the rat snakes too. There are a lot of
different rat snakes out there. But that coral snake going
to be pretty easy. There was a picture yesterday, actually
just yesterday of a milk snake which is red on
yellow or no red on black. The red meats the black,
not the yellow, and that red on black is that

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indicates that it's a non venomous snake.

Speaker 2 (01:27:10):
And again you have to learn coral snake.

Speaker 3 (01:27:12):
You have to learn copperhead water moocksin and the rattlesnakes,
And am I missing one? I don't think so there
might be one more that I'm I might be just
slipping my mind somewhere, but that's about it, and the
rest of them you can pretty safely assume or non venomous,
and if you're even remotely unsure, then just don't touch it,

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don't step on it, don't throw a rock at it,
don't swing a shovel at it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:41):
It's just a snake and it's.

Speaker 3 (01:27:43):
Out there doing a really good job for your neighborhood
or whatever. Go ahead and put him up and I'll
grab him before the break. That'll be perfect. That'll get
us out. Let me see what Aaron's looking for this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
You got him for me?

Speaker 3 (01:28:04):
Hang on, there's way He's got to be one more
button to push. That's it, Hey, Aaron, what's up?

Speaker 5 (01:28:10):
Man?

Speaker 11 (01:28:12):
Oh man, I'm just sitting here doing a bid for
a job.

Speaker 10 (01:28:14):
And I was I was listening.

Speaker 5 (01:28:16):
I heard coral snakes and jump. I was down the tam.

Speaker 11 (01:28:21):
Bernard years ago doing a job and I was walking
through the yard and something caught my eye, you know,
and I looked about a two foot coral snakes away
and I jumped up there.

Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
Yeah, up, up and away, man, Holy cow.

Speaker 5 (01:28:42):
One one up to him.

Speaker 11 (01:28:43):
In Lake Jackson, I opened the side door on the
driveway and there was a little step and it had
rained real hard, and there was a sitting on that step, man.
And I jumped from one foot trying to dunk a basketball.

Speaker 2 (01:29:01):
You know, if you it's hard, and I understand why
you jump, but it's very hard to remain calm when
you're that close to a venomous snake. But if you
can the odds are overwhelming in your overwhelmingly.

Speaker 3 (01:29:15):
In your favor, that it's not going to bite you.
They really are. It's hard though, Manly agreed.

Speaker 4 (01:29:22):
With one other one.

Speaker 11 (01:29:24):
I was at the Refuge over there by, not by Beaumont,
but on the east anniwhak Or walking down that eight
foot by the eight foot wide asphalt trail. And there
was when I was with a friend of mine and
she was walking in front of me, and she was
walking the middle of the trail, and then I was

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behind her and I walked by, and out of the
corn my eye I saw a copperhead just coiled up.

Speaker 2 (01:29:51):
Just keep your mouth shut and keep walking.

Speaker 11 (01:29:53):
When we came back, it wasn't on the trail. It
was right about a foot off the trail. And I'm
kicking my head in there.

Speaker 5 (01:30:00):
Where to go?

Speaker 4 (01:30:01):
Where to go?

Speaker 5 (01:30:02):
And I kid you from it?

Speaker 11 (01:30:05):
And I didn't see it.

Speaker 5 (01:30:07):
And it didn't do anything.

Speaker 2 (01:30:09):
Yep, just didn't. It was aware.

Speaker 3 (01:30:12):
It was aware, but it didn't want to waste its
time with you. It was waiting for a frog to
come by or something.

Speaker 2 (01:30:19):
Man. Yeah, I don't know if I want to go
walking in the woods with you. Thanks Aaron, I appreciate it.
Man for the show. Yes, sir, a great story. Audios.

Speaker 3 (01:30:34):
Holy cow, we got to take a little break here
in a second. Yeah, I've I've tripped over snakes. I've
come really close to being bitten so many times.

Speaker 2 (01:30:44):
And knock on.

Speaker 3 (01:30:46):
Wood, if you just stay home and you haven't already
really agitated the snake into fight or flight mode, overwhelmingly,
odds are in your favor that it's not gonna do anything.
It's just gonna want to just be left alone. I

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haven't seen many many moccasins, many cotton mouse at the
golf course lately.

Speaker 2 (01:31:13):
I did see a.

Speaker 3 (01:31:16):
Copperhead. I did see a copperhead about two weeks ago.
And then I've seen several water snakes.

Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
They're all out.

Speaker 3 (01:31:23):
It's summertime for them. They've come out of hibernation. They're
not they're hungry, they're active, and just be aware. Yeah,
I've mentioned enough times now that that young man I
was fishing with a couple of weeks ago kept me from.

Speaker 2 (01:31:40):
He did me a favor.

Speaker 3 (01:31:42):
I certainly wouldn't have wanted to step on this little
water snake, and I didn't. It was a water snak
or a little rat snake. I can't remember, Oh it
was a little rat. Snakes is what it was about
three feet wasn't a big one.

Speaker 2 (01:31:53):
But I saw it. And when he just said snake,
and I just stopped. I just stopped dead in my tracks.
That's what I do.

Speaker 3 (01:31:59):
That's what I do when my sun says it. What
I do when anybody says snake, I just stop. I
don't start dancing and hopping around, because if I do,
there's a chance I might step.

Speaker 2 (01:32:08):
On the darn thing. And that would be bad.

Speaker 3 (01:32:10):
If your feet are both on the ground and nothing's
biting you and somebody says snake, then just freeze. And
I'm hoping Jericho will agree with me tomorrow when we
talk about that.

Speaker 2 (01:32:20):
I think she will. I think she will.

Speaker 3 (01:32:23):
All right, let's tiptoe out of here without scaring the
snake and get ready for the nine o'clock hour. And
on the way out, I'm gonna tell you about Riceland
Waterfowl Club out of Eagle Lake, Okay, one of the
finest waterfowl operations in Texas, and has been so for
the better part of well exactly fifty years. Fifty years

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right about the time when Cca was being born, right
about the time when Lake Champlain decided to do something
about a lake trout shortage. David Pruitt was forming and
starting Riceland Waterfowl Club, and he's been at it ever since.
In his spare time, as if he had any as
a waterfowl operator.

Speaker 2 (01:33:05):
In his spare.

Speaker 3 (01:33:06):
Time, he's become a well known and world renowned waterfowl caller.

Speaker 2 (01:33:13):
Ducks and geese pretty good. If you need tips on it,
go out there and just shoot the breeze with him
for a little while and say, hey, man, help me out.

Speaker 3 (01:33:19):
With my feed chuckle, And he's the guy to do it.
He works all year round. In fact, I got an
imitation to go out there and ride around with him
and his crew to kind of see what they're doing
this time of year. To make sure that all the
hunters who sign up for membership in his club, all
the groups and their guests, when they come out this
year for waterfowl hunting, they're going to have the finest

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experience available. Club members and their guests are the only
people who hunt those properties. He has made that his mission.
He does no guided hunting on any of his blinds,
any of his properties, any of his water If your
hunting wasn't great, this past season, and for a lot
of people, your your hand's probably in the air. If

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you didn't like how many ducks you saw last year,
how many ducks you got shots at?

Speaker 2 (01:34:07):
Check out Riceland Waterfowl Club. As somebody who guided.

Speaker 3 (01:34:11):
Fourteen years on that prairie out there, I know what
it's capable of when the conditions are right and when
the properties are managed correctly.

Speaker 2 (01:34:20):
And that's what David Prue has been doing for fifty years.

Speaker 3 (01:34:23):
Riceland Waterfowl Club dot com, Ricelandwaterfowl Club dot com. What
about Oh I can hear myself now, this jack's kind
of wonky again.

Speaker 2 (01:34:33):
We're all good. So can I go back to my
normal spot?

Speaker 6 (01:34:36):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:34:38):
And oh yeah, and just like that. That's all right, Franky,
it's all right. It's probably cows fault. Whatever you guys did,
Thank you for doing it. We're all. We're all good. Now,
back to the golf.

Speaker 3 (01:34:52):
The inspirity ongoing up at the Woodlands Country Club.

Speaker 2 (01:34:56):
Mike Weir, this is I'm starting close to home.

Speaker 3 (01:35:00):
Mike Whears at six under par Thong Jai Jai Thong
Cha Ji d He's been around a long time. All
these guys are I mean, this is the Tour Champions.
These guys have so much golf experience. They're so relaxed
and approachable too, which is what I really like about
going to the the the Tour Champions events versus PGA

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Tour events. Those guys, the younger guys are pretty much
all business. They don't want to talk to anybody. They
don't mix it up with the audience or with the
spectators much. But these older guys do. Even even the leaders,
they they've been there before. They have so Mike Wars
leading at six, long Jay j id Is at five,
Billy Andre at four, along with Dicky Pride and Thomas

(01:35:43):
Bjorn and Wayi Yang and Ricardo Gonzalez and Ratief Goosen.
That's eight guys within three shots of a one shot lead. Really,
I think your winner is gonna come out of there
between today and tomorrow. Who else let me see, I

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want to go a little bit more. They've only gotten
through one round of the tournament. It's their three round tournaments.
In case you don't realize it, they only played fifty
four holes in the Champion Tour Champions still got lots
of guys to get it. There's still a little bit
of golf to play for these guys they must have
got Yeah, they got rained out, no doubt.

Speaker 2 (01:36:22):
Yesterday I didn't think about that. That weather that came.

Speaker 3 (01:36:27):
Rolling across southeast Texas slammed into the woodlands and kept
a lot of those guys off. They've still got there's
some Ernie Els has still got Wow, he's still got
seven holes to play. Let me see if anybody else
is farther from the finish line than that. No, it
doesn't look like. It looks like Els and Dunlap are
going to start today with seven holes still to play

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and him in is and Longer and Gallagher holy cow. Yeah,
a lot of guys. That's half the field, it looks
like now that I'm scrolling down. So hats off to
that's off to Mike Weir for getting in the house
at Actually, no, he's got one.

Speaker 2 (01:37:05):
He's got to play eighteen. Man.

Speaker 3 (01:37:08):
They are a long ways from finished start times today.
Pretty soon they'll get this thing in. They Well, the
leader in the clubhouse is Thong j Yeah, he's yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:37:18):
Five.

Speaker 3 (01:37:18):
Jade is five under part and in the house Billy
Andre and Dicky probably both in the house at four,
and then everybody else. It looks like Oh my gosh,
they got rained out earlier than I thought a lot.
That's two hours of golf still to play. Probably, all right,
let's move over to the CJ Cup, the Byron Nelson
that ongoing up there in just outside of Dallas at

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TPC Craig Ranch and McKinney. Technically, Scotty Scheffer said, you
know what, to those of you who said I'm having
a little trouble, I'm not off to a good start,
let me just hold my beer for a second. Scotty Scheffler,
through two two rounds is eighteen under par.

Speaker 2 (01:38:05):
Let me repeat that. Just let it sink in for
a minute. Scotti Scheffler shoots sixty one on Thursday sixty
three yesterday and currently is eighteen under par. Way down
the street and around the corner is your second place

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all alone guy. That would be Sam Stevens, who is
a half a dozen shots off the lead. If you
take Scotti Scheffer's name off here, it looks like a
pretty interesting tournament wrapp you know, coming together. But no
Scheffer's at eighteen, Stevens at twelve, Ricky Castillo at eleven,

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Johnny Vegas at ten, Eric Cole, Andrew Putnam Chandler Phillips,
Eric Vinroyan Adam Shank.

Speaker 3 (01:38:57):
Let me see if there's anybody else, Oh oh yeah,
excuse me. Also, Nicholas Norgard, Rasmus Hooy guard all at
nine under par. You've got that, what is that? Six
or seven maybe eight guys at nine but at nine
under par through two rounds, which sounds really good, and

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it would be if you weren't nine shots off.

Speaker 2 (01:39:23):
The lead going into the weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:39:29):
I was gonna, jokingly even say I was gonna go
out on a limb and pick Scheffler to win it.
I got a hunch he's gonna he's gonna swing for
the fences and try to set some sort of record.
And why wouldn't you at that point when you're eighteen
under through two rounds.

Speaker 2 (01:39:45):
Even if he shoots.

Speaker 3 (01:39:48):
Just journeyman four under for each of the next two rounds,
he finishes at twenty six under par. If he can
squeeze out a couple of five under par rounds well
at twenty eight under par, that's surely that's a record
in a real and I'll wrap real in quotes air
quotes real tournament. Eighteen under par through two rounds, that

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has to be some sort of record. I don't see
any notes.

Speaker 2 (01:40:14):
I haven't checked the notes to see if it is,
but I would not be surprised if it were, and
everybody else is just playing for giggles.

Speaker 3 (01:40:22):
There's no I don't think anybody but Scotty Scheffler can
win that trophy.

Speaker 2 (01:40:28):
How could you and another there?

Speaker 3 (01:40:31):
I could probably find a way that somebody could lose
with a six shot lead over the nearest guy, and
everybody else's farther back, if it weren't Scotty Scheffler, but
not with him. Yeah, hats off, Hats off to Scotti Scheffler.

Speaker 2 (01:40:51):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (01:40:54):
I wanted to talk today a little bit about golf
and its growth. Okay, on the plus side, a sport
that was once considered pretty pretty stodgy and a bit
upity even has turned a page. Is welcomed one and
all to buy some clubs, hit a few balls, go
straight to the golf course, be your hat pointing forward

(01:41:17):
or backward, whether you're whether or not you have a
bluetooth speaker magnetically attached to your cart, all all kinds
of things have changed in golf. There's even been There's
a lot of facilities there's been a very dramatic loosening

(01:41:38):
of wardrobe requirements of what you can and cannot wear
on the golf course, and I've pretty much seen it
all in recent years. But the one thing that really
bugs me a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:41:54):
Is the the the distance that some younger golfers are
putting between themselves.

Speaker 3 (01:42:03):
And the just common rules of about the about golf's
history and the rules of etiquette, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:42:12):
And some people don't mind that.

Speaker 3 (01:42:16):
Some people recognize it as part of the game and
what makes golf great, and others just think, no, that.

Speaker 2 (01:42:23):
Doesn't apply to me. I'm not going to bother with
that rule. It doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (01:42:28):
As was the case, I suppose when a twenty four
year old guy, some twenty four year old jackass thought
it was okay at a facility where he was playing.
It wasn't around here, Thank goodness, I'd have been mortified. Huh,
he thought it was okay. But there's a guy out there,
a senior, just an old man. He's riding around and

(01:42:51):
he's he's been asked to go talk to this group
of players because they're slow playing everybody, and they got
a couple of holes open in front of them. Probably
I don't know all the details, but anyway, the starter
gets asked to go out there and move them along,
and he pulls up on him and asks him to
do that. And this twenty four year old, in response
to being asked to play a little faster and kind

(01:43:14):
of catch up with the people in front of him,
he punches the guy in the face. He punches an
old man in the face. Rather than say, oh yeah,
oh my goodness, yeah, we didn't realize we were holding
everything up. We'll take care of that, don't you worry.
So hopefully that twenty four year old spent at least

(01:43:35):
a little time in jail until he could post bond,
and I hope he spends a little bit more time
in there. Honestly, this old dude, probably around my age.
All he did was go up there.

Speaker 2 (01:43:46):
And say, hey, y'all need to speed it up, okay,
And he got punched in the face for that. So
the question I have is this one. Golf needs to grow.

Speaker 3 (01:43:56):
All sports do, okay, But does it need to reinvent
itself so much that it has to accommodate jerks like that,
or does it insist that people who want to play
golf learn and adhere to historic golf etiquette. I don't
care what you wear really so much, I'm okay with that.
I don't care if you hit a mulligan off the

(01:44:17):
first t I don't care if you kick the ball
out of the rough onto the fairway. I don't even
care if you play music so long as I can't
hear it two fairways away. But punching somebody in the
face over being asked to move it. Go away and
don't come back, Okay, just take up some other sport, dude,
don't go back to golf.

Speaker 2 (01:44:37):
We don't want you, we don't need you.

Speaker 3 (01:44:39):
Barry Hill Restaurant out there on fifty nine at Sugar
Creek Boulevard, out where I live. Been there about as
long as I have, and my wife and I fell
in love with the place from the time we first
ate there. We would go in there with our son.
We bring it home now more often than eat in.
But it's a fun, very family friend, very casual place.

(01:45:02):
Not up at it at all. You're not gonna find
linen tablecloths anywhere. Just go in there, order up some
of the best Mexican food you'll ever eat, especially if
you like fish tacos, If you like fish tacos and
you don't order them at berry Hill and you've never
had them from berry Hill, you're doing your palette a
tremendous disservice. I'm partial to the seafood enchiladas. I tried

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one of the seafood burritos once. I'm not tough enough
to eat that much food anymore. If you are, by
all means, get after it. The they it's huge, Okay,
it is huge, and it will fill you up.

Speaker 2 (01:45:37):
You won't have to order.

Speaker 3 (01:45:38):
You won't even have to eat so much as a
single chip with salsa on it to fill yourself up.
If you can eat that whole burrito, if you're anywhere
near my size, at least, absolutely delicious. For thirty something
years out there, right there in the same place, it's
aid Sugar Creek and fifty nine. It's right there on
the freeway. You can't miss it. Family owned and operated

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for that whole time. The woman who's running it now,
that would be Wendy Brooks and her two sons are
taking care of that place and keeping it going. The
people in the kitchen, the two guys who have done
most of the cooking have done the cooking that they're
doing now for decades. They've been in there that long,
so you know you're gonna get a consistent, delicious product,

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including oh god, the trace letches. You've got to have
some of that. You've got to have some of that.
And they offer it in vanilla and chocolate, and if
you've never had chocolate trays letches, well then you're missing
out on something else entirely.

Speaker 2 (01:46:36):
Berryhill dot com. That's all you got to do. Just
go to Berryhill dot com, find it, go there, enjoy it.

Speaker 3 (01:46:43):
It's very friendly, very loosey, goosey. Just go have a
good time inside or outside Berryhill dot com. I saw
Billy Joel and Elton John in Rice Stadium kind of
a dueling pianos concert a million years ago, and it
was interesting. It was great to hear the music. However,

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the sound system in Rice Stadium for two guys playing
pianos and singing not so good. It was they did
the best they could with the technology they had at
the time. But in hindsight, that's something that needed to
be done indoors. It needed to be done with a

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different sound system, something more digital than electronic.

Speaker 2 (01:47:33):
If that's not redundant and weird. By the way, Berry Hill.

Speaker 3 (01:47:38):
If you go to Berryhill dot com, your machine will
probably just circle the drain for a while. It's Berryhillgrill
dot com. No excuse me, I messed that up. Even
it's berry Hill sugar Land. God, I hope Wendy's not
listening this morning. Berry Hill sugar Land dot com. I've
scratched out all the mistakes and fixed it here on

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my piece of paper. So there, Berryhillsugarland dot com. That's
where you go to find where to go. And once
you get there, just pause, look at that menu, and
then when you can stop drooling, order something you like.
There's plenty on that menu. Believe me, I've tried much
of it. I'm I'm gonna make it my mission this

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year to try more different things. I just fell so
in love with those seafood enchiladas that I've had a
hard time walking away from them. But I'm going to
try to try to pee up a few different dishes
and see if I can't find something else that I
can highly, highly highly recommend personally.

Speaker 2 (01:48:43):
Oh mercy.

Speaker 3 (01:48:45):
This is the page that I'm looking at is called
Texas Snake Identification. That's where I found Jericha, and that's
who I'm gonna be talking to tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:48:55):
It's going to be interested.

Speaker 3 (01:48:56):
It looks like the for some reason, the admin keeps
turning off comment for some of these posts, and I'm
not sure why. Maybe I can ask Jericha about that.
Maybe some people, maybe there's some haters out there and
they're just stirring up the pot and making messes of things.
But whatever it is, we can probably get to the
bottom of it a little bit tomorrow, or I'll check

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with her by a messenger this afternoon and see if
I need to even ask that tomorrow seven one three
two one two five seven ninety Email me Doug Pike
at iHeartMedia dot com. I'm pretty sure I know who
that is, Frankie. If you want to just punch him up,
I can handle that one team up.

Speaker 2 (01:49:35):
I know who that is. Okay, let me get Oh
is this my goods?

Speaker 6 (01:49:40):
Was that you?

Speaker 2 (01:49:40):
We talked to you a little while ago erin I
thought it was a different.

Speaker 11 (01:49:43):
Errand no, no, no surf dog serf surf.

Speaker 2 (01:49:48):
What's up?

Speaker 1 (01:49:50):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:49:50):
Nothing?

Speaker 11 (01:49:50):
I was just saying I love Berry Hill too.

Speaker 2 (01:49:52):
Oh do you really? What's your favorite thing in there?

Speaker 6 (01:49:57):
Everything?

Speaker 11 (01:49:57):
You're talking about I just clicked on us.

Speaker 2 (01:50:04):
Great, it really is. They're good people too, aren't they.

Speaker 11 (01:50:07):
I go to Sugarland, I come out of the owner
vaguely and her son. I think her son's pretty running
it now, But yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:50:15):
They're really Wendy's usually there, well, I say usually a
lot of times she's there. In fact, I was in
there picking up some stuff for my wife once and
I asked if she was around. She was just out
on a patio hanging out and talking to some friends.

Speaker 5 (01:50:28):
Cool.

Speaker 2 (01:50:28):
Yeah, thanks man, appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:50:31):
Audios all right, Yeah, I thought that was gonna be
my buddy Aaron, who who builds warehouses for a living.

Speaker 2 (01:50:38):
He and his crew all over the country. Uh, that's
who I thought that was.

Speaker 5 (01:50:43):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:50:43):
In any event, I want to go back to where
do I want to go? Here?

Speaker 3 (01:50:49):
I'll do some seafood news, okay, because I do love
me some seafood. I found this story and found it
pretty interesting from kind of the game warden desk, if
you will. Uh, this past week, game wardens out of
Freeport boarded a fishing boat out in federal water. And
you can already by me designating that a lot of

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people in this audience already know where I'm going. Probably,
so they board this boat routine boarding. They're just they're
just out there getting practice.

Speaker 2 (01:51:19):
Figure they'll check fishing licenses, what do you got in
the box, what do you you know?

Speaker 3 (01:51:23):
What have you caught today? And just have a nice
conversation and go on their way. Well, Oosie Daisy, this
crew had illegally caught red snapper, mostly because they're in
federal water and there is no snapper season open in
federal water that starts on June one, with a daily
limit of two per person. By the way, in state

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water the limits four, but that's irrelevant to this story.

Speaker 2 (01:51:49):
So these guys had.

Speaker 3 (01:51:51):
Twenty seven illegally caught red snapper on board, and there
was a picture of all the fish laid out, and
they were all except for one, look to be really
big red snapper, like ten pounds in up, probably really
nice fish. And since they happened to be fresh and
they happened to be iced, the game wardens did the

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community of Surfside a big favor and distributed all those
ill gotten fish to locals who I don't know how
they spread the word, but a whole lot of people
in that little bitty community of surfside got treated to
some really tasty fish.

Speaker 2 (01:52:30):
By the way, I was talking to somebody the other day.

Speaker 3 (01:52:33):
I've watched a lot of people clean a lot of
red snapper at cleaning tables, and some of them, not
all of them, and fewer and fewer don't know this,
but the filet is not the only really delicious tasty
part of a big red snapper. You want to cut
out the cheeks and you want to cut out the throats.

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They both have really really good, sweet tasting meat on them.
And if you're throwing the rest of that fish away
after you peel off those two two file.

Speaker 2 (01:53:03):
Ats and you're you're you're not doing that fish justice.
You got to take a.

Speaker 3 (01:53:10):
Little bit more because there's a little bit more to
offer from that red snapper.

Speaker 2 (01:53:13):
And that's the same with a lot of fish.

Speaker 3 (01:53:15):
Those throats are pretty good, actually, and the in the
cheeks and a fish that big that they're gonna have
a nice chunk of meat in there, and it's gonna
be some of the sweetest stuff you ever you ever
put in your mouth.

Speaker 2 (01:53:27):
I'll promise you that. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:53:31):
Let me run check email before I get to the break,
just to make sure that I'm not missing something really important.
Got that, got that taken care of. Brent wade In,
Thank you Brent for doing the work. Second lowest thirty
six hole total in history, he heard this morning. I
worked the range at the Inspirity on Wednesday, good for you,

(01:53:53):
and Thursday, and have it again today and tomorrow, very
good for you. If I can bust loose, Brent, I'm
gonna come up there. I'm gonna hunt you down and
shake your hand. I don't know that I can get
up there today because, as I mentioned at the onset
of the program, my wife left me a note on
the back door that says powerwashed the patio, So that
may be that may be what I'm doing. Billy ways

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In he said, we got quite an array of snakes
here in Garwood.

Speaker 2 (01:54:20):
Oh, yes you do. I can guarantee you.

Speaker 3 (01:54:22):
Rice is everywhere, and with that comes the cotton mouse,
the water mooxins and higher numbers. They're there for the Yeah,
quite a few non venomous snakes. Banded water snakes are cool,
grass snakes, cool, chicken snakes.

Speaker 6 (01:54:35):
Cool.

Speaker 3 (01:54:37):
They're all pretty snakes and you don't have to be
scared about grabbing one. You have to learn how to
hold on to them to keep them from nipping at you.
They're not gonna they're not gonna make you sick. If
a non venomous snake bite you, you just clean it
up like you would any other little scrape or puncture wound,
little neo sporn, maybe a little soaping water to start with,
and then maybe a little neo on top of that,

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and then just watch it.

Speaker 2 (01:55:00):
Okay, Will do me a favor? Oh yeah, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:55:04):
I'll talk to you about this, but you've got to
wait through the break. We've got this one break to
take here. It's a short one. We'll be back in
just a few minutes. On the way out, I say you, well,
let's go to this one dry so I can get
back and talk to Will faster. We'll take a little
break here, The Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Be back in a minute nine thirty three on Sports
Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (01:55:23):
Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. Let's go.

Speaker 6 (01:55:27):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:55:27):
First of all, Captain Scott said something about the admin
shutting down the comments on that snake id page.

Speaker 2 (01:55:34):
To let me know that they shut it down once
the idea is confirmed, so that people needing immediate IDs
don't get lost in overcrowded comments. However, the one I'm
looking at doesn't say what it is, so even though
it had been confirmed, somehow it doesn't. It doesn't say

(01:55:55):
what that snake was. And the one I was looking
at least and a couple of them. Why did they
shut it down? But that's a good explanation.

Speaker 3 (01:56:02):
But they should And if they're gonna shut down the comments,
at least put the name of the snake in there somewhere.

Speaker 2 (01:56:09):
Maybe Jericha can help me with that. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:56:11):
Well, let's go talk to Will. I promised him we'd
get there when we got back.

Speaker 2 (01:56:15):
Will. What's up man? Hey, Good morning, Doug, Good morning.

Speaker 5 (01:56:20):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (01:56:21):
So, I'm I'm a big fan.

Speaker 12 (01:56:22):
If I'm driving around for work or something on the weekends,
I've called in and talked to you a couple of
times about like a trout fishing resort called Gaston's in Arkansas. Yeah, yeah,
but uh, it's just it just it just popped in
my head. I know you're a big outdoors guy, a
big animal guy, and you're pretty logical. So I'd like
to get your take on this viral I guess conversation

(01:56:47):
going around, and I want your opinion on who had
went out of a fight as the one gorilla versus
one hundred men, And I want to I want to
know your aunt, I want to know why.

Speaker 2 (01:57:02):
Here's my answer to that. I've just I've just put
lots and lots and lots of thought to this. Not
really will, but here's my answer.

Speaker 3 (01:57:12):
If anybody wants to find out they need for the
first thing that's going to be impossible to find is
ninety nine guys to go into the ring with you
against that gorilla, because I'm not doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:57:25):
You're not doing it.

Speaker 3 (01:57:26):
I honestly think I think the gorilla would have a
pretty good chance.

Speaker 12 (01:57:32):
I I agree with you. So most people's argument is
saying you need ninety or one hundred willing men because
as soon as like as soon as the first person
goes in and gets their head ripped off, like.

Speaker 2 (01:57:47):
The other nine are going to turn.

Speaker 12 (01:57:50):
And you need one hundred people that are that are committed,
that are gonna go into it. And then you have
people saying like, oh, go for the eyes, go for
the throat, But I'm just you know, like that gorilla
is gonna use one person as a club and everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:58:05):
Else until it breaks apart. It's gonna make it even
more mad. Like it's just it's so funny. If you
want to go for something, you need to go for
the door. That's your only chance.

Speaker 12 (01:58:16):
I love the argument though, like now they're putting like
picking out the best UFC fighters box and it's but
I just I I think you're just gonna really piss
off a gorilla and he's just gonna tear apart every
single person.

Speaker 3 (01:58:33):
Yeah, even if they all just kind of gang rushed
him at one time. That gorilla, with the length of
its arms and the strength and its chest and arms,
he could just stand there and turn around in circles
and just knock every one of them out.

Speaker 6 (01:58:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:58:48):
It's got it's got four limbs that can destroy you
and a bite that will just too.

Speaker 2 (01:58:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:58:54):
So I just I think it is a It is
a great conversation to hear other people's parts and then
if you hear if you hear someone's opinion on oh,
this is why the men will win that. I love
listening to it because it's just outrageous to me. Conversation
to have.

Speaker 2 (01:59:08):
It is a funny conversation to have, but it's just so.

Speaker 3 (01:59:12):
It just how far detached from reality are people that
they would have to go to the links of finding
the right UFC fighters to go up and and find
a hundred Navy seals or whatever and go fight one gorilla.

Speaker 12 (01:59:28):
That just come on, man, it's it would be an
interesting episode of fear Factor.

Speaker 2 (01:59:33):
I'll tell you them. Yeah, well, it would be an
empty screen.

Speaker 3 (01:59:37):
As soon as they said go there did just be
an empty screen with a gorilla standing in the middle.
That's all I agree. I'm not going in there. You're
not going in there, pretty sure. Frankie and Cal aren't
getting in there.

Speaker 12 (01:59:49):
Uh yeah, I'm hiding in the bushes with a camera.

Speaker 3 (01:59:52):
Oh my god, I don't. I'm not even gonna stay
that close. I'm running, I'm telling you. And the only
way you're gonna survive is if you out run.

Speaker 12 (02:00:00):
Because true, I don't have the fastest I.

Speaker 2 (02:00:03):
Have to Yeah, that's exactly right, man, All right, thank
you much. Thanks will. Oh that was fun man. Yeah,
I've seen that one gorilla versus one hundred men. Uh
And if you're if you want to weigh in just
feel free. Just feel free seven one three two one

(02:00:24):
two five seven ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia.
I'd come first. Of all, that would be for at
least most.

Speaker 3 (02:00:33):
There's only one place you could probably grab that gorilla
where you might get any advantage at all.

Speaker 2 (02:00:39):
And anybody who was brave enough to do that, more
power to them. But it won't be me.

Speaker 3 (02:00:46):
I'll be on the sidelines cheering you on if I'm
forced to be at the event. But no, don't don't
be Look up the strength of even a chimpanzee. Look
up the actual strength that the average chimp has, and
then magnify that by I don't know how many times
look it up. You know what, I've got a break

(02:01:08):
coming up here in a few minutes. I might just
do a little research on this and just see just
how strong the average gorilla is, and then we might
go from there. Oh my goodness, oh my goodness, gracious
will you you've You've opened a can of worms here,
as it were, And now I'm I feel somehow compelled

(02:01:30):
to do some to do some digging. By the way,
in case you didn't stay up late enough to watch
it last.

Speaker 2 (02:01:37):
Night, In case you didn't.

Speaker 3 (02:01:40):
The Rockets took care of the of the Warriors, the
Golden State Warriors out there in San Francisco, and earned
themselves a chance at home to win.

Speaker 2 (02:01:54):
This playoff series.

Speaker 3 (02:01:57):
I was a little concerned, honestly, when they were down
and with their backs against the wall going into last
night's game on hostile.

Speaker 2 (02:02:10):
Ground, if you will.

Speaker 3 (02:02:12):
The fans are pretty pretty normal there, like they are
anywhere else.

Speaker 2 (02:02:16):
It's just cheering.

Speaker 3 (02:02:17):
Their cheering for the other team when you're standing out
there fighting as hard as you can.

Speaker 2 (02:02:22):
But darned if they didn't make it through.

Speaker 3 (02:02:24):
I'm I'm gonna call Dan Matthews after the break and
wake him up if he's not awake already, and see
if he'll give us a couple of minutes when we
get back from the break to kind of recap the
second half for me, because that's what I missed when
I went to sleep. I don't recall, I think the
I don't recall the Rockets being down at any time

(02:02:44):
in the first half, and I may be wrong on that,
but I picked up the game really early and I
saw them.

Speaker 2 (02:02:51):
I saw Golden State tie it up once or twice.

Speaker 3 (02:02:54):
But then they had I want to maybe a five
or six point lead at halftime, and I found out
this morning that they won. But I'd like a little
bit more on that. I've got to find out something
from John. I don't know what that story is. I'll
have to go looking for that. Yeah, I got a
little work to do. Let's go on and take this
break a little bit early so I can do a

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little research and we will resume on the way back.
On the way there, I'm going to tell you about
Phoenix Knives out there in Belleville. I mentioned them earlier
in the program. I'm going to go into a little
bit more detail now Cowboys. Zamanski started this company. He
is a custom knife maker, and he started in nineteen
seventy nine and he's been out there in Belleville for

(02:03:35):
most of that time, right there on Main Street. He
moved into a bigger space this past year so that
he and the journeyman who work with him to learn
that trade can produce more and better knives than ever before.
Typical inventory number in there is about one thousand knives,

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all kinds, folding knives, filet knives, state knivesknives, hunting knives,
skin and knives, you name it. They make that kind
of knife out there at Phoenix Knives, And the difference
is that they make really beautiful ones, one of a
kind offerings of any kind of knife you possibly want,
maybe for somebody who deserves a cool priy or a

(02:04:19):
gift from you, maybe for yourself, maybe for a family member,
whatever it is, they'll make something absolutely gorgeous for you.
If they don't have it sitting there right in front
of you, you might walk in. If you get lucky,
you'll say, Oh, that's the one I want, I'll take it.
That's the one I want.

Speaker 2 (02:04:35):
I'll take it.

Speaker 3 (02:04:36):
But the bottom line is you can go out there
and even make your own knife too. You go out there,
it's kind of a first come, first served deal, and
they have enough journeyman working in there who are skilled
at doing this that they will walk you through the steps.
You and your family, you and a birthday party with
a bunch of teenagers, whatever it is. You go out
there and you get to actually hammer and forge your

(02:04:59):
own knife right then and there. You can take it
home with you when you're done. In that big news space,
they have seminars, they have an opportunity to go out
there and walk along beside Cowboys, Emanski through a couple
of hours of his day, or a half a day,
or a whole day, a really amazing facility doing amazing

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things right there in the middle of Belleville. Phoenix Knives
dot Com forged and fire since nineteen seventy nine.

Speaker 2 (02:05:26):
P H E. N I X Phoenix Knives dot Com.
Do not be alarmed. It's not over yet.

Speaker 3 (02:05:35):
Good oh mercy, Okay, see see this is this?

Speaker 2 (02:05:43):
Yeah? Way better? Okay.

Speaker 3 (02:05:46):
Now I get to stick around a little while other
people would yell at you for that I considered.

Speaker 2 (02:05:53):
A learning experience. That's all, all right.

Speaker 3 (02:05:56):
Cal's gonna try to get hold of Dan Matthews. I
want to hear about the rocket second half, really do.

Speaker 2 (02:06:00):
I'll find that out from him more importantly, actually, though,
I got an email from let me give credit where
it's due from? Where to go from? Billy?

Speaker 7 (02:06:12):
Rudy?

Speaker 2 (02:06:13):
Dang it? Where'd it go from? Alan? Maybe? No Scott?
No John? From John? He said, what about John Elway?

Speaker 3 (02:06:21):
Well I didn't know what about John Elway, but I
looked it up and apparently a couple of days ago
John Elway and it's been it's been eerily quiet. This
is the first I've seen of this or heard of it,
and I listened to a pretty good amount of sports radio.
But John Elway apparently was involved in an accident, a
golfing accident where he was driving the cart and his

(02:06:45):
There was some terrible tragic accident in which is his
either his former agent, I guess it was his player
when he was a player, might have been his agent,
a good friend of his, though, guy named Jeff Spurbeck
actually died in that accident. That's the first I've heard
of it. I don't know anything else. I can't speculate
on how it happened or why it happened. It just

(02:07:05):
I know it just happened on a golf course, and
that's all I know. Oh good, bring him up, Dan, Matthew,
Where is he?

Speaker 2 (02:07:15):
I'm at home. There you are?

Speaker 3 (02:07:17):
Oh man, you're on some secret bat phone. You're not
even on You don't even show up on the board.

Speaker 6 (02:07:21):
Man. Well, I mean, it's just like I'm in studio
there with you.

Speaker 2 (02:07:25):
It is, it actually is. Oh you were on the ComRes.

Speaker 6 (02:07:28):
Yeah, I've got pre in posts today.

Speaker 2 (02:07:30):
Oh yeah, okay, you got work, So.

Speaker 6 (02:07:33):
Tell me the Jillie Idol on Jones Jet tonight so.

Speaker 3 (02:07:37):
For you, I had to go to bed last night
because you've seen me. You know I need beauty rest.
So I had to go to bed at halftime of
the Rockets last night. What did I miss in the
second half?

Speaker 13 (02:07:48):
You missed Brett Van Vliet and Steven Adams taking over
a game. And you also missed them holding Steph Curry
to just three points in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 6 (02:07:55):
Oh my god, it's pretty much.

Speaker 13 (02:07:57):
I know that this might not necessarily fit with the
demographic of the show, but there's a line in a
Beastie Boys song that says that we did it with this,
we did it with that, we did it with wiffleball bat.
I would say that the whiffleball bat was pretty much
Steven Adams last night fourth quarter, and I mean he
pretty much did it with everything. He got put backs,
he got rebounds, he blocked the key shots. I think

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missed eight straight shots, and the Rockets went on a
run during that time. I mean, it just it felt
completely different from the first two times they played out
in San Francisco, where it was the third and fourth
quarter that got away from the Rockets. It just felt like,
you know, the third quarter the Warriors did outscore them.

(02:08:40):
But you never really felt like the Rockets were completely
letting this thing unravel away from them.

Speaker 6 (02:08:45):
And then the fourth quarter it was done.

Speaker 13 (02:08:47):
I mean, Golden State couldn't make shots. The Rockets were
making shots when they needed to.

Speaker 6 (02:08:52):
It was awesome. It was a really fun night.

Speaker 2 (02:08:55):
Did Golden State ever take the lead?

Speaker 13 (02:08:59):
The only time I heard you mentioned that in the
last segment, The only time that I can remember is
I think they had like a what was.

Speaker 6 (02:09:06):
It like, a twenty to eighteen lead.

Speaker 13 (02:09:08):
In the first quarter, but then after that and then
they tied it up at forty six right before the half.
Remember the Rockets went on Yeah, and then the Rockets
went on a run. But I think after that, I
don't think that they ever relinquished it. Now.

Speaker 2 (02:09:21):
They're such a good little team.

Speaker 5 (02:09:23):
Man.

Speaker 2 (02:09:23):
They're so young too.

Speaker 3 (02:09:25):
I think I think the reason they have a really
really good shot at home first is home, and secondly,
they don't know that they're not supposed to beat the Warriors.

Speaker 6 (02:09:34):
I agree with that.

Speaker 13 (02:09:35):
I think there is power in the ignorance, but it's
also too I mean, you know, somebody brought this up
on social media last night, and I can't remember exactly
who it is to give the proper credit.

Speaker 6 (02:09:44):
But they were, like, you got to think about it.

Speaker 13 (02:09:47):
These are basically like three back to back to backs
for the Golden State Warriors of you know, when you've
got an older team like they do, where I think
Steph is thirty seven, Draamond and Jimmy Butler are both
thirty five.

Speaker 6 (02:10:00):
Oh yeah, and you're doing.

Speaker 13 (02:10:01):
This yo yo of going out to the West coast,
which that's not a cheapy flight, man, that's that's three
and a half o solid hours in the air. I mean,
I understand they're flying charter, but still, I mean, you
do all that travel, it starts to rack up on
you and Doug. I almost wonder if that's what the
issue is right now for Golden State.

Speaker 2 (02:10:18):
If they're just tired, they they've got to be tired.

Speaker 3 (02:10:20):
There's certainly more tired than a bunch of twenty year
olds they would have to and beat up. I don't
I don't even know if it's just exhaustion, but just
physical the bruising and the beating that their bodies take
at thirty something versus twenty something, that that's a legitimate difference.

Speaker 13 (02:10:37):
Yeah, I mean, look, and like I said, I mean
they went through that that stretch in the fourth quarter
last night where they couldn't make a shot. Yeah, I
mean again, fatigue, some tired legs and those jump shots.

Speaker 3 (02:10:48):
That's very that's a very good point. And Steven Adams
is a whiffleball bat. No, man, they got an oak tree.

Speaker 10 (02:10:55):
How would you like that?

Speaker 6 (02:10:55):
You need to you need to listen to Jimmy.

Speaker 13 (02:10:58):
Butler talked about running into a screen put on him
by Jimmy, by Steven Adams, and oh, he said that
he thought that his life came out of him.

Speaker 6 (02:11:08):
He thought after he ran into him.

Speaker 2 (02:11:11):
Oh my gosh, I believe that. I do. So you're
gonna be taken over right after me.

Speaker 13 (02:11:16):
No, take over at h Yeah, we're gonna We're gonna
go to Fox and at noon I will be coming
your way. It's a hundred brown day. Oh my goodness.

Speaker 2 (02:11:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:11:26):
Poor Valdez is pitching very well and we're just not
supporting him. I I'm terribly disappointed in the bats so far.

Speaker 13 (02:11:35):
Two for thirteen last night with runners in scoring position.
That ain't gonna get that. That ain't gonna get it done.
It's not gonna cut the mustards.

Speaker 2 (02:11:40):
You know what state if you have somebody who has
access to all the stats. I want to find out
if any team other than the Astros has has lost
more games but left the most men stranded in scoring position.
Right then they ask because they man, they just chunking it.

Speaker 13 (02:12:03):
I was gonna say, I think probably you could find
that somewhere. If not, uh, you know, that could be
a job for Rossville real, you could get that done. Yeah,
I'll stud about.

Speaker 3 (02:12:13):
That, because they even they they leave so many people
in scoring position, and.

Speaker 2 (02:12:17):
It's just like, how do you why do you do that?

Speaker 3 (02:12:20):
And they and actually yeah, probably they may have the
most wins for any team that that is left have
left so many men on base too, just left them there.

Speaker 13 (02:12:29):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's definitely been frustrating. Mean, I mean
I mentioned two for thirteen last night and then also
leaving eight runners on It was just like.

Speaker 6 (02:12:37):
God, gosh, guys, come on, help yourself. Help yourself.

Speaker 3 (02:12:41):
Well, I think the only remedy, honestly, Dan, is for
me to go back to the suite more often, because
right now I'm two for two on wins.

Speaker 6 (02:12:47):
There you go.

Speaker 13 (02:12:48):
You know, we all need a good luck charm and
you know, if if that if if that's the duty
that you have to fulfill. Then Doug, I'm fully behind you, buddy.

Speaker 2 (02:12:56):
Thanks, I'll bring you along.

Speaker 13 (02:12:58):
Hey, let's go anytime anytime you call him there.

Speaker 2 (02:13:01):
Okay, real quick, I'm gonna ask you one more thing.

Speaker 3 (02:13:03):
I had somebody bring up that one gorilla versus one
hundred men thing.

Speaker 2 (02:13:09):
What do you think about that?

Speaker 6 (02:13:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (02:13:11):
Yeah, I you know, we talked about this earlier this
week on the Shawn Salisbury Show, and I mean I
said that venue and also strategy were key, because I mean,
if you just go one hundred at one, you know,
just bum rushing, you're going to lose. You have to
kind of have like waved attacks to kind of you know,

(02:13:31):
have one group that's the sacrificial group, the other group
maybe you'll have some survivors, and then the third group
is when you start to kind of get your momentum.
But Doug, let me give you a new scenario. What
about one hundred gorillas against one Chuck Norris?

Speaker 3 (02:13:47):
I don know at my tip to scale, I had
a guy even better, one of my guys, Alan waded in,
how about we change that to one hundred cowboys. Okay,
I think now that you pulled twenty guys from inside
or one hundred guys from inside the Loop.

Speaker 2 (02:14:05):
Not a chance. Yeah, I'm not I'm not picking on
Inside the Loop, but I'm just saying they're gonna be
a little softer than people up in Wyoming or Colorado
or even right here in Texas who make a living
roping steers and wrestling riding bulls.

Speaker 6 (02:14:23):
They're pretty tough thing.

Speaker 13 (02:14:24):
Yeah, I was gonna say, you go to San Saba,
maybe find somebody. Well, I'll tell you what. You haven't
lived until you've shaken hands with a bull rider. I
wondered if my right hand was still there.

Speaker 6 (02:14:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:14:37):
They kind of have a good grip, don't.

Speaker 6 (02:14:39):
They on them.

Speaker 2 (02:14:42):
We'll have a great day, Dan, thank you for the update.
I'm glad to hear from you. Buddy.

Speaker 6 (02:14:46):
Well do buddy, catch up with you.

Speaker 3 (02:14:48):
Sean Salisbury show listed Dan, Mashew, Matthews, and Shawn Monday
through Friday, starting at six o'clock right here on Sports
Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (02:14:56):
All right, I'm gonna have to wrap it up here.

Speaker 3 (02:14:58):
Holy cow, Steven Adams a whiffleball bat, not even close,
not even close to a whiffleball bat.

Speaker 2 (02:15:05):
That guy.

Speaker 3 (02:15:06):
I heard somebody talking about how it could a lot
of people were saying he is the strongest person in
the NBA, not just on the rockets, but the strongest
person in the NBA.

Speaker 2 (02:15:17):
And if you look at him, you'd have a hard time.

Speaker 3 (02:15:21):
You could line up one hundred guys from the NBA,
and I don't think you'd find one who looked any stronger.

Speaker 2 (02:15:26):
Certainly.

Speaker 3 (02:15:28):
Alan also went in on golf carts, by the way,
after that John Elway story. Very simply says, I hate
golf carts.

Speaker 6 (02:15:34):
I kind of like.

Speaker 2 (02:15:35):
Him, especially when it gets to be about ninety five degrees.
I'm gonna hang up my walking shoes at that point.
And I got to figure out who's putting more putting weights.
I think people are dropping like bowling balls into my
golf bag. It seems to be getting heavier the older
I get. Not enough to keep me out, mind you,
but a little heavy. All Right, We're gonna come back
tomorrow tomorrow at eight thirty. We're gonna talk about snakes

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between then, between eight o'clock and ten, Additionally, we'll go
over everything else that's going on in the outdoors world
that I can cover in those two hours.

Speaker 3 (02:16:06):
I'm so glad you joined us today. I hope you'll
join us again tomorrow. That's it for me. More of
the Dugpipe show tomorrow at day join us.

Speaker 2 (02:16:14):
If you can stay safe outside, please get out there
and have some fun. I'll see tomorrow. Audios.