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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, here we go. Saturday edition of the program
starts right now. Hello, Hello, Hello, testing one too. Oh,
I got to plug these in. I guess it'll help
a lot. Hold on, let's plug my headphones in. Then
I've got a question for Frankie. Damn by there that
wh whoa. That's a little hot there. I kept turning
it up expecting to hear something and got nothing and
realizes that was just an exercise in futility. But now
(00:23):
I've got it fixed. So Frankie, you played hooky this
past weekend to go do something that I'm presuming that
you tremendously enjoyed. Fill us in?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, no, good morning, Doug. I went to Massachusetts over
the weekend. I have some family about an hour away, Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I went to go see John Williams.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
And he's a composer that he wrote the film music
for things like Star Wars and Jurassic Park.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
And you've heard of those movies. Yeah, he's a pretty
talented man, isn't he. It's incredible? So are you? Are
you fascinated by composing? Fascinated by movie scores? What is
it that draws you to fly all the way to
Massachusetts to see.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
That well, you know, he in particular, he's just had
such an impact, not only on film, but he's also
done a lot of classical work. And that was in particular,
he wrote a new piece and he's, you know, ninety.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Three years old. Oh, holy gown.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Okay, And I had seen him before, But another reason
to go was because he has a biography coming out,
and the biographer was there and signing books, and it
was about a month before it came out. Yeah, so
it was really good to meet him. And it was
(01:50):
just a really nice concert too.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Well yeah, I would imagine so, especially with you being
so familiar with his work. Now, this new piece that
he wrote, could you tell it had been it was
something he did? Is there something distinctive about his style?
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yes, there were things in it that recalled different stuff
of his that I've heard, but it was fresh, you know,
it wasn't just recycling.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I would think that somebody with that much talent, after
a career that long would include one or two lines
here and there in the score that will if somebody's
really paying attention to, somebody who knows the work as
well as you do, would go wow, that sounds exactly
like something that came out.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Of whatever, certainly, and to hear it's cool, yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Not in my car speakers. It's different when it's live.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I fancied myself an audio file for many, many years
back in the day and learned that when you're putting
together a sound system, the most important thing in that
sound system is the speakers. They have to be top notching.
The guy who explained it to me years ago said,
(03:07):
if you've got a dollar one hundred dollars, one thousand
dollars or ten thousand dollars, spend half of it on
your speakers. Maybe maybe a quarter of it on the
receiver and a little bit more on a turntable or whatever.
But about half your budget needs to go to speakers
if you really want a decent experience. Absolutely agree with that.
(03:29):
And I had some good ones. I wish I could
remember the name of them. Golly, and it wasn't it was.
It was a very It was kind of it's like
going to Bugatti as opposed to Ford or Chrysler or Chevrolet.
I don't remember what they were, but they were the best.
And man, you could just close your eyes and expect
for the guy who was playing that music to come
over and tap you on the shoulder. It was that good.
(03:51):
That's awesome. Yeah, and I appreciated that too. Unfortunately, we
have to shut down the music hour here. We've got
less than a month, holy less than a month to
dove season. We have good conditions off shore this morning,
and there are a lot of people going I know that,
and good fishing inshore generally up and down the Texas coast.
(04:15):
We're in it. We're in the time where it can
it can become with the spinning up of anything crazy
in the Gulf or even over in the Atlantic, we
all start watching it and see it if it's going
to come in here. But it also can be a
time when there's nothing on that National Hurricane Center map
when we can get into some really, really good fishing.
(04:37):
I haven't even had a time yet this morning. Hey,
I gotta get this mouse cooking. I came sliding in
sideways a little bit this morning, and I want to
pull up the current. I've got the wind surf here.
Let me see what it looks like, and I'll have
a pretty good idea what the surf's going to look like. Yeah,
we're looking at along the coast from starting in Galveston
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and heading southwest. Still on the coast, these are the
wind values three, five, five, ten, zero, seven, eleven, thirteen, fifteen.
Guess where I am now, Corpus Christy and then even
beyond that back down to A three, a six and
a ten. And if I pull this map up just
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to hair More, I can get a couple of more
all the way down. Everything, all the way down to
Madam Morris is single digit wins until you get all
the way back up to baff And Bay. That's a
beautiful day to be on the beach front. I haven't
looked at the surf yet. I'll do that probably during
the first break, just to get an idea. But yeah, yeah, man,
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Dan wade in he likes Moran's and Bow speakers. I
could give thumbs ups for both of those on there,
especially their higher end ones. I didn't know Dan was
an audio file. Yeah. That takes me a little bit
by surprise, Dan, it does. Frankie, what kind of speakers
do you have in your home system? I don't recall offhand.
(06:09):
You didn't buy them out of somebody's trunk at a
convenience store, did you? No? No, I'm just making sure
I know the rockets are pretty good though. R O
K I t mm hm. You can get you can
get some pretty good deals in the backs of people's cars.
I hear I might be might be warm to the touch,
as they say, Oh Mercy seven to one three two
(06:31):
one two five seven ninety. Email me Doug Pike at
iHeartMedia dot com. I heard this morning, and I've already
exchanged email or text messages with the guy because I'm
gonna get him on the phone tomorrow morning.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
James Flogg's son, Cameron and his crew, whilst pre fishing
for the Tiff tournament. UH managed a call it. There's
people calling it a Grand Slam. There's people calling it
a golf Slam. There's people calling it a super Slam.
I haven't yet heard anybody call it what I'm gonna
call it henceforth, and that is the Cam Slam Cameron
(07:08):
Plug and his crew. I believe it was yesterday. In fact,
I'm almost positive it was because they're going out fishing today.
That's what he told me. He said I'd do it today,
but I got a fish today, and that's far more important,
especially in this tournament. But I'm gonna have him on
probably around eight thirty nine o'clock tomorrow morning, somewhere in there.
Bottom line is, they go out, they get a they
(07:29):
get a blue marlin, they get a white marlin, they
get a handful of sailfish, I think four or five
something like that. I mean, they're on the spot, they
know it. And then out of nowhere, out of absolutely nowhere,
comes a spearfish, which is that's that's the unicorn of
the ocean kind of. It's one of the billfish. It's
(07:51):
a member of the billfish family, but it's dead rare.
Now down in Hawaii. Out there in the middle of
Pacific Ocean, they're a little more common, but up here
it really is. It's a it's a unicorn on a unicycle.
You're not gonna get You can stay out there a
million hours and not catch one of those fish. But
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they did, and they kind of all looked at each
other and got you know, we're one short of the
miracle slam. We're one short. We need a swordfish. And
one of the guys on the boat said, you know,
actually we're pretty close to some numbers of a spot
that I like to go swordfish. You want to go
try it, and then well, yeah, and they went over there,
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and on the second drop I heard this down the
dial this morning. That's how I didn't have I didn't
want to waste Cameron's time this morning on the phone
because they're they're in a serious, no kidd in fishing tournament,
big offshore tournament with a whole lot of money on
the on the line, and I didn't want to interrupt
any of that. But I listened on the way in
as I always do. Those guys are my friends, and
(08:57):
I know them. I've known them for a long time
anyway along, and the short of it is, second drop
they catch their swordfish. Second drop they catch their swordfish,
and probably with just about berserk swordfish. I think they're
not They don't get the biggest of the billfish. They're
(09:17):
a little bit harder to catch. You're not going to
catch as many of them as you are sailfish, certainly,
or even maybe blue marlin. But the thing that's cool
about them is how long that bill of theirs is.
It just looks a blue marlin's bill. Let's call that
a baseball bat. A swordfish's bill is more like a
telephone pole. They're just big and broad and mean, and
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their eyeballs because they live so deep and are trying
to get some kind of light in to figure out
what's going on in their world. One hundred and fifty
pounds swordfish has got an eyeball close to the size
of a baseball. Hey, they're pulling in all the light
they can through those It's amazing. They're fascinating fish. And
not too bad on the plate either, I might add,
(10:05):
that's that's some of the best eat and you'll ever
get out of the Gulf of America or the Atlantic
Ocean or the Pacific Ocean. Golf sail fishing not bad
or not excuse me, golf sword fishing not bad really,
if you've got the boat and the crew and the
effort and kind of know halfway what you're doing. There
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have been a lot of guys who have really dialed in.
It used to be that ninety percent of the swordfish
were caught at night, and just there was this presumption
that you couldn't catch them during the day, and that
I don't remember. I wish I could remember who to
credit with this, but there were a couple of guys
I know. One of them was Brett Holding in his
crew from out at Holding Roofing in Rosenberg, passionate offshore fishermen,
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and Brett actually decided that he was going to become
one of the top sword fishermen, daytime sword fishermen in
all of the Gulf of America. And what he did
was got in touch with a guy down in Florida
who was who kind of he had that reputation. He
was the swordfish guy, the daytime swordfish guy in Florida,
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and Brett wanted to see if he could apply all
that stuff to what he knew about sword fishing here,
and those guys collabed for I don't know, a couple
of years or maybe more. Maybe there's still buddies. I
don't know. The bottom line is you can catch them
during the daytime. A lot of people didn't think you could.
But you can want me to take him before or
(11:32):
after Frankie, I'm happy to jump on him with him
now if you want. He's filtering through Doctor George. There
he is right there, Okay, click click click click, let
me find my little mouse. Hey doc, what's going on?
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Well?
Speaker 7 (11:45):
I was going to attest to and substantiate on the
palatability of swordfish in Hawaii and on MAUI took a
drive up to Hannah Highway and we're going up out
in the middle of nowhere, and I look over and
there's a little chick h cooking shish kabobs are a
(12:08):
fifty five allon drum that have been cut in half.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
So pulling over. So what you got there? You said,
fresh swordfish.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Oh my gosh, and of all the lovely fruit coffee,
And that was the best meal I had that whole trip.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
Hole.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
He gets on the side of the road with a
charcoal and a fifty five gallon drum.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Little road dust, a little rust on the top from
sitting out.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
In the rain, and.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
A little bit of good clean dirt.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Never heard of about, absolutely not. That's what's wrong with
half the kids in America right now. They've been they've
been sanitized every day of their lives since they've been born,
and they're not allergic to it or not immune to anything.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah, it sure was.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Oh that's so good. Yeah, thanks dogs, all right, audios
that yeah that finding something like that on the side
of the road and it's so unexpected and fresh swordfish.
Anytime somebody says that to you, and there's there's a
fire somewhere, Just get some of that and put it
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on that fire and then go eat it. And if
you can find some stuff to put with it, maybe
a little bit of fruit juice, maybe just squeeze a
lemon over it. Maybe whatever you want. Go ahead or not.
It's gonna be great no matter what you do with it.
Speaking of great, no matter what you do, if you're
teeing up and getting ready for dove season, you might
want to swing by a shooter's corner down there at
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Palmer Highway in twenty nine. Shoot. We're actually gonna talk
to Jerry TK about eight o'clock this morning. I need
to give Frankie his number when we get into one
of these breaks so that he can tee up Jerry.
Jerry's at his ranch this weekend, but he said he'd
talk to us about I want. What I want him
to do is hopefully confirm what I like to preach
about dove hunting, and what I like to preach about
(13:54):
shot size and powder charge and the quality of the
shot shells you're buying in how all of that works
into and plays into your success in the field. And
I don't want to dive too deeply into it right now,
because I want to make sure we've got plenty to
talk about at eight o'clock. That won't sound like we're
(14:14):
trotting old ground, but yeah, we'll dive in. And I
think that if, maybe, if there's a question you want
me to ask Jerry, just go ahead and send it
to me by email and I'll print them out and
I'll write them down or whatever I have to do
to make sure that we can get his answers to
a lot of questions that I bet half of you
(14:35):
are kind of scratching your heads and still wondering why
it's so hard to hit doves? Why am I missing
so many doves? What should I be doing? What shouldn't
I be doing to get them closer to me? Maybe
short of bait. You can't bait doves. That's against the law.
Don't do that. Don't do that. I had a good friend,
Holy Cow or late Frankie. You should have told me.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I'm sorry. I just get lost in my thoughts, and
mostly outdoor thoughts, so it makes them even harder to
rain back inside this tiny little room. I'm in Shooters Corner,
Palmer Highway at twenty nine Street in Texas City. That's
Jerry TK who's at the ranch, and JT, who knows
where he is. He might be in the shop, he
might be out working on something at an a lease
(15:19):
he's on. He might be helping somebody with a big
game hunt way up in Alaska or something. But the
people who are in that store are plenty knowledgeable and
can help you with just about anything short of some
of the real intricate gunsmithing that Jerry and Jay do.
It's an old school gun store. They know their stuff.
Everybody in there knows their stuff, and they're going to
take the time whatever it takes to make sure you
(15:41):
get exactly what you want, exactly what you need to
enjoy the shooting sports more today than you did yesterday.
A lot of great hardware in there, shotguns, rifles, handguns,
all of them. Great prices on new and pre owned guns.
Forty plus years in business. Can't do anything wrong in
stay in business for forty plus years. Jerry and g
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JTK are literally, honestly as good as I've ever known
in this business. They know their stuff, They're gonna help
you out. Everybody who works for them is gonna do
the same thing. And if you wear a badge for
a living, you get a discount. That's why almost every
time you go in there, if you PLoP down on
the sofa or maybe in one of the chairs and
start hearing shooting sports stories and telling shooting sports stories,
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chances are somebody who wears a badge is gonna come
in there while you're there. The Shooters Corner TX dot
com v. Shooters Corner TX dot com seven twenty on
Sports Talk seven ninety. I was listening to a little
bit of that to get motivated, to get fired up
and hopefully get some cool air circulating through this studio.
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I was telling them Frankie over by the window where
I said, it's cute and all having a window to
look out. I've got a great view of downtown once
I get past the condominium project and the town homes
that are brand new. Used to be a nice open
lot there. Uh. And occasionally you would see wildlife in
the form of a mouse or a rat skidder across
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the street down there, because we are in Houston, after all,
and you gotta take the wildlife you can get. But
I could see downtown and it was not an unpleasant view.
It really wasn't and now I've got all that, and
on top of that, it's hot as blazes in summer.
Over there, it's hot as blazes on the weekends. Now
(17:30):
inside here we are on the on the weekdays, uh,
the ac is just blowing strong and everybody's happy and comfy.
But on the weekends they don't turn it on. So
that's okay. I'm used to being outside, and like I've
talked about before, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna quit
doing all my outside stuff. And you know what, I've
got a great new way to to feel like I'm
(17:51):
benefiting from the heat over there. It's acclamation, Frankie, is
what it is. It's to keep me acclimated to being
unco comfortably warm. I bet it's eighty degrees over there.
But that'll help me next time I go out and
try to play golf in the summer heat.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
I did.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I went and hit balls yesterday for maybe fifteen minutes,
and then went and played four holes. And then I
ran into some other people. And I'm out there by
myself late in the afternoon, and I kind of traffic
jammed behind a foursome that had a threesome in front
of them, and the foresome was keeping up with the threesome,
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so I kind of knew it was an exercise in futility.
And I got back to the car just in time
to hear the Astros lose to the Red Sox yesterday.
That was disappointing the whole time. I'm listening for most
of the afternoon. And by the way, that was one
of those games that aren't on television here, and I
don't like that. I don't know why in the world
we should have blackout games. Do you understand that at all?
(18:54):
I think it's like some rights thing.
Speaker 8 (18:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Sure, Well, of course it is. It doesn't have anything
to do with the viewers, right, so the fans rights,
that's for sure, right right, Yeah, it's somebody's doing something
right up to the point that it becomes comfortable for us,
and then they stop. Seven one three, two, one two
five seven nine to email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia
dot com. Uh, I got that checked. I'll check this
(19:19):
box with the stroke of about six or eight keys,
stand by one second while I uh indulged. Oh, come on,
here we go.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Oops.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Okay, I had to add a couple of keystrokes because
I hit a wrong one. Then I had to erase
that one then move this thing out. Uh, email me
Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. That's why I was
just responding to an email right then, and uh, we'll
plod forward. I've got all kinds of stuff on my page,
like I was talking about when I mentioned Cameron Plog
and our conversation we're gonna have tomorrow. Today looks like
(19:53):
a really good day to be off short I don't
think it's gonna be terribly bumpy at all, and especially
not for those really big boats that are out there
taking care of business in the Tiff tournament. I'm pretty
sure that's what's going on this weekend. I'm not even
one hundred percent. I'll check cameras text during the next break.
But even the smaller fleet, if you will. Well, that
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used to be man when I was going offshore as
a young guy, as a teenager and a young adult
with guys who could get their hands on their dad's
boats or whatever. We were running not super far, but
we would run thirty forty fifty miles off shore, no GPS,
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nothing but a whole lot of gas and a whole
lot of hope and we'd get bounced around pretty good
sometimes and just rely on the compass to get us
back to shore. And then once you got back within
sight of land, you had to use landmarks to figure
out exactly where the jetty was. It was that hit
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or miss. It's remarkable that people sailed around the world
as long ago as they did and learned how to
follow the stars at night and navigate that way. Because
as bold and brave as we were, there were a
lot of times when you're sitting out there twenty thirty
miles off shore, he can't see land anywhere, and you're
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in eighteen nineteen feet a boat with three other guys,
all of whom thought this was a great idea, and
then you see a big squall blowing up on the horizon.
He kind of rethinking some of your decisions at that point.
We all made it back, though, We all made it back,
and I saw crazier people than us was. We always
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knew we were crazy, and it was kind of kind
of funny because, you know, we jump in up seven,
like I said, seventeen eighteen maybe nineteen feet a boat
and feel like we were pretty stupid for being out there,
and then on the way out at one of the
short rigs. You'd see some guy in a sixteen foot
john boat with five or six red gas cans on
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the deck stopping. He would tell you, we'd kind of
pull in. You're doing any good? He tell you, I'm
catching my bait before I go offshore. Like, holy cow, dude,
you're already miles offshore and you're in a you're in
a teacup man, you might want to rethink your decision.
Oh no, I'm good. He'd open the ice chest. It'd
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be like forty beers and three cubes of ice, and
somewhere in that boat, you know, there was a boloney sandwich.
So he was good.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
He was good.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Let me go talk to Dave. See what's up? Stand
by click, Hey, Hey, what's up man?
Speaker 8 (22:39):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
What was that song?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
She's crazy crazier than.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah? Yeah, some of these man offshore. Offshore fishermen by
nature are crazy, And then it just depends on the
degree of crazy. The size of your boat is relative
to your crazy.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Hey, and you're always supposed to name your boat a
lady's name.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
That's what they say.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Yeah, you know, that's for good luck, you know. But uh, hey,
I was talking. I heard you talking about Cameron and
plugging and Mickey Ray and Kevin and Mickey Ray at
the Fishing show all the time.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Speak up behind me and get tart.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Man?
Speaker 3 (23:19):
You know what they're they're good kids, They are really good.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Well there's no kid left it either one of them
young me.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Well, well that's why I was saying them. And uh
and Stephanie Shawn the Dolphins. Yeah, he's really nice young
man to hey.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
But uh.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Then oh and and so yesterday or Thursday, I met
with the owners, which they were graduated in seventy five
at the same fast I graduated seventy nine. But they
come over there and met with my next door neighbors
who have a big shed old. I mean it's a
big warehouse that they do.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Roof and stuff out of.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Well, they weren't even negotiating for ten minutes. Sold, so
at rent house and property is sold, they're just going
to tear the house down, probably, I don't know what
they're gonna do with it, yeah, probably or some apartments
or something.
Speaker 8 (24:19):
Way.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Self storage is a money pit man. You can you
a money maker. You can make a lot of money
with self storage, which you just got.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Out the build it up.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Yeah, I'm using one right now. But luckily it's a
pretty big room, ten by ten. But it's only fifty
bucks a month. But I mean I think that yeah,
not bad. Hey, But anyway, I'm here, I'm here at
the double boat.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Looking looking today, it's nice.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Well, we got some low, kind of slowly drifting clouds
looking like coming out of the east.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Okay, yeah that maybe, yeah, hey, I trust you.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Well, let's see that's the south, no, north, southeast, No,
it looks like coming out of the west, you know. Oh,
and there's something there's something big float going maybe funny
hit with their boat.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I only wish. No, I don't have my binoculars.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Either somebody hit it with their boat or somebody's about
to hit it with their boat.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Yeah, well, at least it's drifting this way. Okay, over here,
you know it's drifting east. Yeah, because the sunrise of
the east. That's in the west. And then oh, I
got all my ducks are over here.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
There's Gertrude and Wilburgh and there's about two friends.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
They're waiting for me with the corn.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
I got corn in her form here in a minute.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Do you know everything's going good? Uh, Scott Mike.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
He said yesterday that he's gonna change my name from
doing traffic reports.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
He calls me Ghetto Day because I lived in the ghetto.
Now it's you know, he said, I'm gonna go back.
I known him for twenty five years. It's guitar day.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Up town Day. What's this?
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Just twist?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
It all meant? Up Town Dave? How's that?
Speaker 3 (26:01):
I thought, Dave?
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Because I'm living I'm living in this car down.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
You remember you're old enough to, I think to remember
saying about trying to remember which where the sun comes
up and where it goes down, and why the sun
is like a loaf of bread? Have you ever heard that?
What's it rises in the yeast and sets in the vest?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (26:33):
And don't don't carry the football like a loaf of bread.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Yeah you got cover?
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Hey, you got to cover it up with both hands. Yeah,
all right, thank you man?
Speaker 1 (26:44):
You bet ideas? All right? Holy cow?
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
When we get back, I want to talk about just
being appreciative for fishing trips, because I had a couple
of guys this week call me, well, well, one guy
about a fresh water trip, actually one about a saltwater trip,
and they were all upset because they didn't catch any
fish and they're whining and moaning and what we do wrong.
And I tried to kind of pull them back off
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the ledge because they went fishing. They went fishing, and
if you can go fishing and spend a quarter of
a day, a half a day, by the way, a
day on the water is that's therapeutic for me. I
don't care what we catch, but the bottom line is
I kind of want to go into kind of stepping
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back away from yourself when you're all upset because you
didn't catch any fish, and I'm gonna I'm gonna bring
some of you back to reality. All well, not all
of you. Never mind, this audience is so good. I'll
still talk about it, though. I'll tell you about one
trip I had a long time ago in Florida where
this guy just really didn't get it professional guid and
he flat didn't get it. Riceland Waterfowl Club down there
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in Eagle Lake, one of the finest waterfowling operations in Texas.
I found out from a good friend of mine this
week that David Pruitt is going to be involved in
something that my friend's trying to put together and Ultimately,
we're going to have a big old time after this
coming duck season. Right now, David and Jeff down there
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are working their tails off every day in this heat
to make sure that all the water's going to be
where it needs to be come duck season, to make
sure that all the blinds are going to be all
dressed up in pretty come duck season, so that every
member of Riceland Waterfowl Club has a fantastic season. Again,
David's been doing this for fifty years. This is his
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golden anniversary of Riceland Waterfowl Club and he's quite proud
of that, and he should be. He started that. He
started that business with nothing, just a hope and a
dream and probably a couple of bucks he barred from
his dad, who knows. But he has turned it into
one of the premium waterfowl hunting operations on the continent,
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and all his members have equal access to all the spots.
He's got a great system he uses to make sure
that everybody gets their favorite spot as many times as
possible during the year. No preferential treatment for anybody. Only
members and their guests hunt in these blinds and hunt
on his properties. And now him every now and then
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he'll go out there and knock a duck down every
now and then too. Nothing wrong with that. If you're
hunting wasn't great. You're duck hunting last year, and there
are going to be a few goose hunting opportunities out
there this year the way I from what I saw
on a tour I took recently. So if you're duck hunting,
your goose hunting, your crane hunting, whatever it was, wasn't
quite what you wanted last year, called David, talk to him,
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Go to the website, look at what he's got to offer,
and I think you'll find a very, very exciting opportunity
if you're a real hardcore waterfowl or if you're just
somebody who's getting into duck hunting and would like to
make some new friends and learn about it from people
who know what they're doing. Ricelandwaterfowl Club dot Com is
a website. Go there, check it out. You'll be glad
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you did, right Stand Waterfowl Club dot Com. All right,
Welcome back, Doug Pike Shaw on Sports Talk seven ninety
seven thirty seven. Just like the Airport on Sports Talk
seven ninety uh Man, I want to talk about some
of these trips I've made, and some that somewhere the
fishing was outstanding, somewhere it was a struggle for days.
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But every one of them, when I look back, every
one of them either taught me something or generated a
good story, whether it was written or just something I've
got in the back of my head. And I just
I don't see any fishing trip where everybody comes back
healthy and safe and not broken or bleeding. Any Any
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trip that ends up that way is a pretty dog
on good one. And I've had a lot of people,
and I guess it's it's just a change in the
way people look at outdoor recreation, uh, and the instant
gratification thing that so many many people are tied up with.
I've let a really blessed life as a fisherman. I've
gotten a fishing some I don't know, something like two
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dozen states around the country and six or seven countries,
maybe more, i'd have to count. It's at least that many,
and for lots of different species too, And I honestly
can't remember, but maybe maybe one trip that a year
or two later I couldn't look back on and say
it was either good or great or excellent. That one
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involved a guide down in Florida. Doesn't matter who I
from the From the minute I shook his hands and
said goodbye, I knew I'd never see that guy again,
and that I can't say that about any other fishing
guy I've ever fished with. There were some kind of
goofy ones, there were some kind of stubborn ones, and
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on and on and on. It's just personalities go. But
every one of those guys I'd still go back and
fish with. We might have to have a convert station
before we go, but I'd still go. But this guy,
he couldn't pay me to get in his boat, and
what he did. He had an ego of the size
of Texas. But he lived in Florida, and he'd been
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trying to well, not he, but a PR firm. There
was some company involved, and we were trying to get
this trip done forever and ever and ever, and I
mean it took a couple of months to put this
thing together. It was supposed to be, Hey, just fly
over this weekend, we'll take care of it. We'll fish
for a day and a half or so and then
pop you right back home. Sounded good, But then things
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got in the way on both ends a couple of times.
And it's like six or eight weeks later, when I'm
finally getting on the airplane and going over there, getting
a hotel call. The guy tell him I'll see him
in the morning. He's going to meet me in front
of the hotel. And the day finally comes, I meet
the guy in front of the hotel. We sit down
for breakfast really really early, and we're talking and he's
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kind of dodging some of my questions and I'm trying
to figure out what it is. And within five minutes
he said, look, man, we're not going today. And like,
what now We're not going? I said, why it say
it's too windy, and I said, I'm just I'm working
on a story about fishing over here for a kind
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of a major magazine, and I just all I need,
really is a couple of pictures to show where we are.
I don't care if we don't catch a fish. We
just need to go fishing now, not putting my boat
in the water. It's a little bit windy for the
places I wanted to fish. I said, let me try
this one more way. How about we just put the
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boat in the water. Idle away from the dock one
hundred yards, turned the boat so that the skyline of
whatever city we were in would be in it, and
then I'll snap a few shots and you casting off
the bai and we'll call it today. No, no, I'm
just leaving my boat on the trailer. I'm going to
go take it home and work on it today. And
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he was adamant about that. There was no way I
was going to get him to get his boat wet,
and I think that he had pretty much figured that
out like three or four days before. He just didn't
want to go. He was I don't know whether he
was scared that I would come back and write to
everybody who reads the newspaper, and there were a lot
of people reading the newspaper back when it had an
outdoor section, and if he was gonna he didn't want
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to be shamed by me. I guess is what he
was scared of. His ego couldn't take it. And I've
never come back even from some bad trip. I had
a bad trip all the way down to Honduras. One time.
We get down there and there was nothing on the
map when we left, and then all of a sudden,
like halfway down there, apparently something spun up right off shore,
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a low pressure system, and it became a tropical storm
that just didn't last all the whole actual tropical storm
didn't last that long, but it affected right where we
were fishing the whole time we were there until the
very last day. And the last day, on the last morning,
when we had about maybe two two and a half hours,
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the sun came out and we jumped in boats and
we ran out there and we fished our hearts out
for about maybe two two and a half hours. Like
I said, it's all we had. And there's a picture
that's on the little one sheet information sheet about what
I do with this show that I send to potential advertisers.
By the way, if you want some of this, just
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shoot me an email and I'll talk to you about it.
But there's a picture on that thing of me holding
a bonefish, and I got a big smile on my face.
And it's not because of the bonefish, because that bone
fish in fourteen inches long. It wouldn't make a keeper
trout if it was a trout, But it was the
fact that we had worked for days trying to fish
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in near tropical storm conditions and had just worked our
fingers to the bone, and we finally succeeded in getting
a fish to hand, and that was all I needed.
I could have been a whiner and stayed at the
lodge and not wanted to go back out that last day.
I could have just said, I just chalked this one up, right,
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it off. No, No, I just can't imagine being disappointed
after going fishing when everybody's okay at the end of
the day. The fishing itself might have been disappointing. The
lure selection. Who knows. You may have picked the wrong lure,
you may have picked the wrong tide, you may have
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picked the wrong inlet to go out of, or whatever.
But that's called education. You're getting an education that will
help you become a better fisherman, and that in itself
is invaluable if you really care about fishing. Now, if
all you want to do is go out there and
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catch a bunch of fish, I'm telling you right now,
it's a whole lot cheaper to just go. Oh the
grocery store, they give me one of those, two of
those those are cute? What's that guy? I'll tell you
give me two of those too. Let me try them.
You can get anything, you can get any kind of
seafood at the grocery store, but you can't get the
experience you'll have if you go catch it yourself. Fish
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tastes better when you catch them yourself, too. I don't
care what anybody tells you. All Right, I'm late for
a break already. Good heavens I get Oh. It's very
frustrating when young people tell me, you know, yeah, I
didn't have any fun fishing today. We didn't catch but
like four fish. Hey man, I've spent hours, I've spent
days catching zero fish and then left just as happy
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as I was when I got there because I'd gotten
to fish a cool new place. I'd met a cool
bunch of people. We all had a good time talking
about and then laughing and teasing each other about not
catching any fish. When you look around the room and
nobody's caught anything, that's part of that's part of the experience.
And I'm not real happy with this instant gratification stuff
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and the way it's changing the outlook the perspective of
incoming fishermen forward facing sonar man. That's not the best
thing that could have happened. To fishing, it's just not
best thing that happened to cigars smoking around here. That
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would be el Cabano's Cigars and Manny Lopez who owns
the place. He and his dad started that business back
in two thousand and six, two thousand and six, almost
twenty years ago now, and he uses only the finest
Cuban seed tobaccos that are all grown in Central America.
It's all legal stuff coming in here. They age it
for a long time and then they there's a lot
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to it. If you ever go down there and actually
get to meet Manny ask him about just to say, hey,
man can I have a peek behind the curtain back there.
Doug said, maybe you'd let me do that, and he'll
give you a little tour probably, and he'll show you
how it works. They do roughly one hundred and fifty
different kinds of cigars with different blends of the tobaccos
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to make them either very mild or very robust, and
pretty much everything in between. There's even different colored leaves
that they can incorporate into a cigar to make them
look like an old fashioned barber pole or something like that.
And then if you really want to go all out
and you know exactly what you want to impress the
people you hang out with. Get many to create custom
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banding for each of your cigars so that it shows
off your company name or maybe their company name, or
if it's for a wedding party, you can get people's
names put on them or whatever. It's all custom, all
available from actually what's only one of about two dozen
actual cigar manufacturing places in the whole country. And we've
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got El Kubano Cigars right down in Texas City. And
if you don't think that's cool, go down there and
hang out there for half an hour. It's just a
fun place to go. There's also there's another lounge in Leaks.
It he just kind of fifteen minutes away or so,
and that's more of a kind of an outdoorsy, a
true Havana street corner experience. It's really really cool. L
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Cubanos Cigars. He'll even come to your event, big golf
tournament somewhere. He'll come to the event, put up one
of those little pop ups and then sit behind a
six foot folding table and roll cigars for your guests.
That's a very cool thing too. Elcoubano Cigars dot com.
This is I've gotten to know Manny pretty good. This
is one of the nicest guys I've ever met, and
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he has one of the coolest businesses I've ever been around.
Elcoubanosigars dot com seven point fifty on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Let me turn the volume back up a little bit
when we go to break the commercial volume. And it's
the same with television when commercials come on, the volume
goes up. And I'm not sure whether it's that way
in the car, on the radio, I can't remember, but
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and in this studio at least, Holy cow, it just
it ramps up. Like if normal volume what I have
it at now is on a one to ten, if
it's a five, it ramps up to about an eight
when we go to commercial in my ears at least,
so I have to scramble to turn them back down.
I want to get a little bit started on talking
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about Dove season, because in about ten minutes, once we
get back from the break at the top of the hour,
I'm gonna get Jerry TK from Shooter's Corner on the
phone and we'll dive a little bit into some of
the specifics of Dove hunting and dove hunting loads, the
powder charges, the shot, the size of the shot that
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he and I like for dove hunting, and just what
antimony is and if you don't, it's not alimony, it's antimony.
And it's a hardening agent that goes into the lead
that choosed for the pellets that helps them resist being
flattened out like footballs, as the as the pressure of
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that powder charge jams all those pellets together, as they
when the when the shot is first fired, that little
plastic wad cup going out and pushing all that shot
with it. If those pellets don't have enough animony in them,
or any at all, a whole lot of them are
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gonna get squished, and that makes them unround. And uh,
just imagine throwing throwing baseballs. If you throw a bunch
of baseballs, they're all gonna go pretty straight. If you
take those baseballs and mash them down on one side
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and throw them, they're gonna move. They're gonna go in
all And that's what happens to those pellets. And not
all of them deform on a with cheap shot shells,
but enough of them do that they can create holes
in the pattern even though you've got several hundred pellets,
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like eights or seven and a half. There's hundreds of
pellets in that little ounce of shot. But if there
are holes in the pattern, because some of those pellets
instead of being within the thirty inch circle at thirty
yards or wherever it is you're trying to hit, half
of them might be two three, four five feet out
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of the out of the off the paper. So we're
gonna talk about that a good bit. Leaning back into
the fishing for just a little bit, I'm let me
go to the hang on, let me go back to
the weather channel here real quick, and just see what's
happening with all that. Ah, keep grabbing the wrong mouse.
Here we go. It wants me to refresh because the
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page expired while I was yapping. In the last segment,
there was a huge blob of stuff off South Louisiana
in southeast Texas. I want to see where it is
now and if anything has really changed. Holy cow, there's
a bigger blob all the way up in northern Louisian
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well not even northern Louisiana and East Texas. There's a
big old bunch of stuff. Let's see which way that's moving.
That's kind of yeah, it's gonna slide east of us.
It's all going toward Beaumont and Lake Charles and the
stuff that's out in the Gulf of Mexico, I am
Gulf of America, I am happy to report, is fizzling
and sputtering and pretty much not doing anything. It's already
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a good I would say, a good one hundred miles
off shore most of it. Now. There are a couple
of little, tiny pop ups pretty much straight off the
Galveston Jetties at about maybe thirty forty miles, And there's
actually a little bit of stuff bubbling up south of
sugar Land, a little here, a little there. But they
are all tiny, little isolated cells that if you're outside
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when it happens, it might not even get really wet
before it's gone. So not much to see there. Let
me confirm that the wind hasn't been affected by any
of that either. That would be a concern if it has.
And the wind values for the Upper Texas Coast now
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there's still mostly the fact there's more single digits now
than there were when we started the show. I'm looking
from Sabine Pass all the way down to good heavens,
all the way down to Matta Gorda. Yeah, all the
way down to sea drift before I see anything in
double digits. So now the wind is looks like to
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be pretty much southwest along the beach front up off
of Galveston, which is gonna it might booger it up
a little. I'll check saltwater recoon during the break and
where if I can get it popped up here really quickly,
I'll tell you what I see, but that sideshore wind
is not gonna help a whole lot, although if the
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water is already in pretty good shape. Yeah, it's darn
near dead flat at surfside. It's darn near dead flat
at surfside. Let me see if I can get one
more camera real quick before I have to go to break.
I might have to change my afternoon plans. I've been
meaning to get down there and take a look around,
and this might be a day to go look around.
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I got a couple of spot Oh yeah, it's flat
as a pancake. Man, it's flat all that. They had
a lot of north in it overnight, I think, and
with single digit wind which is on it right now.
I'm talking about virtual zero, nothing, nothing to see here
unless you want it. This opens up opportunity. Even if
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the water I can't because of the light on the water,
I can't tell whether it's green or brown or whatever.
I suspect it might be even at least halfway fishable,
and if it is, even if it's a little off
color on the top. I learned this as a diver
down in Florida years ago. It looks kind of ugly
and sandy on top, but then you go down three
or four feet and it clears up, and that sediment
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is not stirred all the way from bottom to top.
Under conditions like this, that stuff will settle out and
drop to the bottom, and there's good visibility. So you
could probably go to the end of one of those
rock joints or rock roins maybe and catch yourself a
speckled trout. Anything's possible when you're in saltwater. That's one
of the things that fascinates me about it and continues
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to draw me to it, even as I get older
and older and older, I'm still if it's time to
go fishing, I want to hear something about salt water.
I'll go bass fishing. I'll go crappie fishing. I'll go
catch catfish, I'll go catch gars, whatever. I don't care.
First I want to go fishing. If I have a choice,
I'm gonna go saltwater fishing. And again it's not to
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knock bass fishing. There's nothing wrong with that. The next
bass I catch certainly won't be my first, but my
passion is salt water because you really do not know
what you're gonna catch. It might be something a little bitty,
it might be something giant, and it might be something
in between. But you can rest as shirt it's gonna
pull hard because every fish in the ocean is I
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wrote this forty years ago, now maybe more, there's only
two fish. All the gazillions of fish in the ocean
and in the bays and everywhere in saltwater, each fish
is only worried about two different two more the one
in front and the one behind. And if you've heard
that a million times, I'm sorry, but there's bound to
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be somebody new to this audience who'd never heard me
say that before. And it makes so much sense because
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the energy to run away from something chasing you then
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All right, welcome back, thanks for listening. Doug Pike Show
on Sports Talk seven ninety. As promised, I've got one
of the coolest people I've ever met in my whole
life on the phone right now, and that's Jerry TK.
I'm gonna get him on the phone. Jerry TK. What's
going on?
Speaker 5 (50:44):
Man? So nothing much, Doug sitting down here in South
Texas watching these birds fly over.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
Oh as you get kind of get your trigger finger
a little bit itchy.
Speaker 8 (50:56):
Oh yeah it.
Speaker 1 (50:59):
Yeah. So what county are you? What counties you're wrenching.
Speaker 5 (51:03):
Do all?
Speaker 1 (51:04):
Oh? Okay, yeah, yeah, that's a nice country right there, man,
holy cow, right in the middle of it all, far
enough away from the river to not have to have
too many worries, I guess, huh no.
Speaker 5 (51:15):
No, the new aces is a little bit north of
us here, but we got we're about ten miles north
of Freer.
Speaker 8 (51:23):
Yeah, okay, fifty nine.
Speaker 1 (51:25):
Oh, I know exactly where you are. Man. Sounds like
a pretty place. So here's what I want to do.
By the way, did you get enough rain down there
to grin everything up? Like I've been hearing?
Speaker 8 (51:36):
You know it?
Speaker 5 (51:37):
We had some real good spring range in some early
summer rains. But she's drying off now, and which is
normal to the South.
Speaker 1 (51:46):
Yet pop some seeds out there for a year. So
let's talk about dove hunting. Okay, we're four weeks out
and people finally realizing how little time that is store
getting a little busier now.
Speaker 5 (51:58):
Yeah, the people are starting to get the uh, you know,
they're starting to think about it. But you know, in
a way they kind of they also got fishing on
their mind, which that's a good thing. But I would
you know, if you're going to be planning some dove hunts,
you know, especially if you're coming out of the Houston
area going south or north or which direction you're going
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to go. Dublin, and I see it time and time again.
People take off, they go spend a bunch of money,
They go off dub hunt and then their gun get
out there in the field and their old trusty shotgun
doesn't work. Yeah, they're out there. And my advice to people,
you got four weeks away, get that gun, get it
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cleaned up, you know, either take it to your gun
smith or something. Get it checked out, especially on those
old Remitton eleven hundreds where those old rings go go bad.
But you need to be prepared because it's uh if
you you know, if you have a trip plan and
you spend a bunch of money getting to the place
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you're going and your firearm doesn't work, and it's it's
all for not and just get that thing checked out.
And you know another thing is shoot good good shells.
Speaker 1 (53:20):
Amen, that's on my list. Here go ahead, preach preacher.
Speaker 8 (53:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (53:25):
Too many times people they you know, they shot you know,
and I know it's shotgun shells have gone up and
since COVID and everything, but buy good shells. Yeah, you
know good. The best brand that I find is Reels. Yeah,
they they were popular and they are one of the
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best shotgun shells you can you can find.
Speaker 1 (53:50):
Jerry talk a little bit about antimony, because I bet
seven out of ten people listening right now. Don't even
know what that is and what it does for lead pellets.
Speaker 5 (53:59):
It's animony is a is a metal, it's a it's
a metal that's used to put into the lead to
harden it. You know, if if you buy a shotgun shell,
some are just nothing but pure lead. Okay, good shotgun
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shells have between three and five percent animony. Now your
target loads more have they carry more of the five
percent animony because they don't want less deformation and most hunting,
good hunting loads, they got three percent And that's keep
the shot from deformation and gives you a good pattern,
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you know, and take that old shotgun out and pattern it.
Speaker 1 (54:45):
You know talking about that.
Speaker 5 (54:48):
You take your deer right out inside it in but
take that old smoke wagon out and try that pattern
that shotgun.
Speaker 3 (54:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (54:56):
I talked to Edna Rige last week about that and
found out that they have I think at twenty five
yards down like from five yards out to six hundred,
but at twenty five there's a place where you can
just go up there and strap up a piece of
butcher paper and see how many holes you can put
in it. And I can't impress, And I know you'll
agree with me how smart that is to just go
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see what your shotgun shoots like with the different choke
tubes in it. And you can't really check different ranges there,
but you can see at twenty twenty five I think
it is. You can see the difference very clearly, see
the difference in patterns.
Speaker 5 (55:34):
Right, and be prepared sometimes when you go to hunting,
like right now we're seeing large flocks of white wings
coming over high. Yeah, pretty high.
Speaker 1 (55:43):
I like that.
Speaker 5 (55:45):
And it's pass shooting, yeah, and you need to have
you need to be choked to handle that, either modified
or improve modified, you know. And and then of course
if you're hunting over a water source like a pond
late and eating it early in the morning, you know,
you lead a little more open, you know, go with
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either an improved solder or a.
Speaker 1 (56:08):
Solder and spraam out everywhere.
Speaker 5 (56:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (56:14):
Here, there was a place when I was when I
was waterfowl guiding in dove guiding in September obviously out
there in Katie there was a place that we found.
It was really close to town too, had those giant
highlines where the you know, the main transmission lines of
the big tall towers, and they were these birds were
flying to and from roost and feed about ten yards
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even higher than those and old Eric Hilton and I
got out there full choked and leading these birds about
in the length of a school bus and knocking them down.
It was hilarious. Man, we had so much fun. That's
some tough shooting, man.
Speaker 5 (56:53):
Yeah, that's uh, that's to me, you know, that's the lot.
That's the best part of devlint. I like, is that
pass shooting at those flocks like that? Oh yeah, man,
And so to I think it's going to be a
banner year this year on dove. So that's what parts
a good year.
Speaker 1 (57:09):
Yeah, PARTI and Wallefe department. So we've got like a
record number of white wings and something like I don't know,
the thirty million mourning doves. And they their word was
excellent as far as predicting what the season would be,
so uh yeah. And now that that being said, you
can still be one fence line from where excellent meets nothing.
(57:30):
It just happens. That's way. That's kind of like fishing
that way, but overall pretty good looking. What what is
your when when you dove hunt anymore? What gun do
you pull? What gauge do you pull and what what
shot load do you put in there?
Speaker 5 (57:47):
Well, I shoot an over under, I shoot a browning
over unders, okay, uh and uh, generally I'll just shoot
the you know, improved cylinder or are right and until
if I see them flying high and then I'll change
out to the modified.
Speaker 1 (58:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (58:05):
And I like I like those real super Game seven
and a half arson and eight shots and they're running
twelve eighty twelve hundred and eighty feet a second. If
you get much over that you get you'll start getting
your shoulder beat up pretty good.
Speaker 8 (58:21):
You know.
Speaker 1 (58:22):
That's a good point.
Speaker 5 (58:23):
For over under, for shooting over night. If you're shooting
a semi auto, Yeah, in a Burretta or a Bonelli,
you know, it's not as bad. You can you can
get by that. But and that's another thing. Some of
these semi autos on these uh low powered double low
powered shotgun shells.
Speaker 1 (58:42):
Oh wow, Nope, Yeah, there's nothing and there's nothing you
can do in the field about that. If you've got
you've got shells that won't kick that kick that houle out,
then you're just stuck. You might as well just bring
a sling shot.
Speaker 3 (58:54):
You know.
Speaker 5 (58:55):
Yeah, I mean we see this time again, man might
come in there, my shotgun won't cycle. What load you shoot?
Speaker 9 (59:02):
Well, they're you know, one ounce these seven?
Speaker 5 (59:08):
Yeah, and uh, well you've gotten shoot a little heavier load,
a little better shotguns. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And it makes
sense because you don't you know, you don't want to
come out here and burn up a box for two birds.
Speaker 1 (59:22):
Yeah, you know, isn't that the truth? Hey, I got
a question off of shotguns for a second, just because
I know you got more experience than I do. Even
hunting doves. Camo? How important is camo? And is is
camo more important than just being still when doves are fun?
Speaker 5 (59:41):
It's both you need to be camos and being still,
you know, uh too many times to see people just
standing out, you know, but you know, standing out in
the middle of the field. Yeah, and you know that
may work on early seasons, but when you add just
he goes in, those birds get smart.
Speaker 8 (01:00:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:00:02):
But day two they figured it out. After day one. Uh,
we watched that every year that the birds. The first morning,
the birds are flying three feet off the ground, just
right over the goat weeds, just just high enough not
to bump their bottoms on it, you know. And then
by the second day, they're they're up twenty five thirty
yards they.
Speaker 5 (01:00:20):
Know, right, you know, and that's something too. You know,
you get food sources that they that's what. Instead of planning,
I went through it all planning, all kind of exotic,
uh seas, I just went and bought bought w weed
seeds from a place up in brown Wood.
Speaker 9 (01:00:41):
Crowton that wow, goat yeah, and only came up. Yeah,
that's incredible, man, you only cow.
Speaker 5 (01:00:52):
It's a natural you know, it's just natural feed.
Speaker 1 (01:00:54):
Yeah, that's that they're they're looking for that anyway, and
you just handed to them on a silver platter. What Hey,
I want to do this again before Rifle season two
to talk a little bit about calibers and some of
the boutique calibers and whether you like that and whatnot.
So I'm going to tee you up again in a
week or two. Okay, all right, Yeah, I know you
(01:01:15):
want to get out on that ground of yours and
get off that front porch. Huh yeah, all right, Jerry, And.
Speaker 5 (01:01:25):
Well talking to you, yes, sir, man sir, and good
luck to all these hunters out there, and I hope
they can fill their bags for how many boxes?
Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
How many cases of Rio seven and a half. You
got in the store right now, I've got.
Speaker 5 (01:01:43):
A truckload any other day, a couple of palelettes.
Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
Oh lord, it's so yeah. I've probably shot a few
palelets of shells in my time, but to to think
about truckloads of shells, that's pretty impressive.
Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:01:57):
That's good though, because everybody who wants them is going
to get them and always do. From you, Jerry, thank
you so much for your team.
Speaker 5 (01:02:02):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
Yes, sir, videos, that's Jerry TK from down there at
Shooter's Corner. One of the nicest guys, one of the
most patient guys, and he just if you ever want
to have a good conversation about any kind of hunting,
about any kind of gun related issue, just get him
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on the phone or get down there to the store
and you'll learn as much or more in two minutes
as you knew when you got there. Phoenix Knives out
there in Belleville, right there on Main Street, been in
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to come out. This is a really cool family thing
to do if you're into the outdoors. Okay, take the
whole family out there and ask them to show you
how to build a knife, and kind of a first come,
(01:03:09):
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dot com A twenty three on Sports Talk seven ninety
and the Oscar goes to Best Music Score, Best Movie Score?
Did he win for this one? He did?
Speaker 5 (01:04:50):
Not?
Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
Oh? Why not? What beat him? Do you know? I forget?
Speaker 8 (01:04:54):
All right?
Speaker 1 (01:04:54):
Some Mickey Mouse movie or some rum com. Probably not.
It had to have been it had to have been real,
really good to be to beat this. This is a
cool score. It really is saying, I presume you heard
this at the concert. They didn't play that.
Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
No, they played the new piece and then they did
a symphony afterward.
Speaker 1 (01:05:13):
Okay, all right, well did you get your money's worth?
Speaker 10 (01:05:15):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
Yes, that's awesome. Congratulations, man, I have got in the
to kick off this segment. I want to tell you
about a golf tournament that's coming up, a charity event.
And by the way, if you have a charity event
coming up for a really good cause. Now I'm trying
to stop short of high school band or smaller, more
(01:05:42):
smaller tournaments, but this one caught my attention. And when
you hear what we're playing for. I don't know if
I'm going to be able to go over there or not.
It depends on well it starts it. I may have
to think about this one. I might take a day off.
I'm not leaving any vacation on the table this year
if I can help it. I did last year, left
ten days on the table. Felt like an idiot on
(01:06:02):
January first when all of those went away. Don't get
paid for them, don't they They just don't roll over,
and that's my own fault. I'm not blaming the company.
So anyway, on Tuesday, August the nineteenth, at Highland Pines,
which is a very cool course up there on the
north side of town. It's pretty far from where I live,
but I love going up there. I've played there probably
(01:06:23):
half a dozen times. Now I guess it is and
it's gonna cost you two hundred and fifty bucks a
player one thousand dollars a team. There are some sponsorships available,
all of that good stuff. It's tease off at eight o'clock,
so good lord, I'd have to be up before the
chickens to get up there. But that's okay because they're
(01:06:44):
playing for a group called Unbound Now and this is
an organization that is fighting the very good and very
difficult fight against human trafficking. And I don't know how
much any of you know about that, but I've done
a little reading and I know that, actually, I know
(01:07:06):
that Houston was kind of a hotspot for a lot
of that for a long time. I don't know if
it still is. I really hope not. But anyway, that's
the last four years. UH just go and look up
how many how many kids came through here in the
last four years that the prior administration has no idea
where they are. These were kids who came in here
(01:07:28):
and were supposed to be picked up by family members
or or or somebody that they knew and could trust.
And as it turns out, I saw a story just
recently that there was a hotline set up for people
to call.
Speaker 5 (01:07:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:07:42):
And kids to call if they didn't like the situation
they're in with their person. That there was that was
supposed to be taken care of them. And there were
I don't know, some thousands of calls that went unanswered
to that hotline. And nobody knows where those kids are.
So if you want to help them, it's called a SCO,
the ASCO Foundation, and they are playing for Unbound now.
(01:08:09):
And well, there's a QR code you can't scan because
I I couldn't even tell you how to do all that.
Here's the phone number two eight one six two seven
five one four eight two eight one six two seven
five one four eight. You may see me out there.
Who knows wouldn't hurt me to take.
Speaker 8 (01:08:29):
A day off? I might.
Speaker 1 (01:08:30):
I might be a fair weather guy and kind of
look at the weather forecast as we get a little
closer to the twenty ninth. If it's going to be raining,
sideways and and whatever in ninety degrees, maybe not. If
it's going to be just ninety degrees and a nice
blue sky, I might just scrabble myself out of bed
about five thirty like I did this morning, and go
(01:08:50):
on up there. It'd be a lot of fun seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Email me
Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. I want to go
back a little bit to what Jerry and I were
talking about Jerry TK and I from Shooter's Corner about
shot shells. When I was shooting pigeons competitively, we were
very very picky about what we shot because hitting or
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missing a target could cost a lot of money, cost
me a lot of money to lose them, and cost
somebody else a lot of money if I was hitting them,
and so we were very picky and very uh and well,
we weren't really protective of what loads we were shooting
because everybody we were all we were all friends and
we would all kind of share the same notes, and
(01:09:35):
depending on what gun you shot, depending on where you
were in the day's race or whatever, you might change
stuff up. First shot versus second shot was even a
different a different load and a different choke for me
and almost I don't remember anybody shooting single barrel shotguns
and competitive pigeon shooting, but that's just the way it was.
Speaker 3 (01:09:58):
And so.
Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
The reason we did that is because we over time
learned how our specific shotguns worked with each different load
and how best to take advantage of that first very
close shot. A lot of these guys, they were almost
quick draw artists with their shotguns. They would have that
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gun up and ready, and as soon as that bird appeared,
they're pulling the trigger for that first shot and patiently
waiting if they missed, to let that bird settle and
get the second shot off on like a more traditional
dove shot. The first shot was more like a quail shot,
(01:10:44):
and it's just all the birds out and boom, there
you go. And then that second shot was more patient
to make sure that you got that bird down according
to the rules of the game. Bottom line was it
does matter, There's no question about it. And the same
it applies to a hunting situation. If you're hunting and
you've got cheap shot shells and you have no idea
(01:11:05):
where they go, you've never put your gun on paper,
then you can plan on missing quite a few birds
that you wouldn't had you done that. The magic formula
is going to be, it's going to be put the
gun on paper, because some shot gun barrels, believe it
or not, with chokes and all down the barrel pointing
(01:11:25):
straight at the middle of the paper, put a little
dot in the middle of the paper, or something about
the size of a dime. Okay, use your sharp you
put a dime dot in the middle, and then draw
a line about, say a thirty inch diameter circle, and
make sure that most of your pellets are landing in
that circle. And what a lot of guys found when
they would do this is that the bulk of the
(01:11:48):
pattern is not actually centered on that bullseye. If you will,
The bulk of the center of the pattern, and I'm
wrapping center in quotes, might be six inches left, it
might be six inches high, it might be four inches
down to the right a little bit. And once you
figure that out, then you can make adjustments either to
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the gun the way it fits you or maybe your
shot loads and kind of center everything up. And that's
going to pick you up some more birds as well.
Good heavens, I'm running late again, Sorry, Frankie on the
way out. Speaking of shooting American shooting centers. Good this
is perfect timing for this. America Shooting Centers out there
on West Timber Parkway between Katie and Highway six has
(01:12:34):
three sporting place courses. It has ten trap and skeep fields.
It has five stands setups here there and everywhere out there.
It seems like a beginner's wing shooting area. And then
as I was mentioning that twenty five yard spot where
you can hang a sheet of butcher paper and see
where your shot gun is shooting, and then it starts
(01:12:56):
at five yards. That's kind of home defense stuff. And
then it goes all the way out to six hundred yards.
That's holy mackroll. That target looks like a pinhead out there.
Beautiful place, very safe, very easy, user friendly. When Edriigi
bought the place, he vowed that he was going to
(01:13:17):
make it more user friendly than ever, and he has.
Instead of having to wait for some teenager to come
out there and pull your targets, you just uose coins
like at Chuck E Cheese or like at an arcade somewhere.
You drop that into the machinery and that buys you
fifty targets. I think it's actually fifty two on a
in case a couple of them come out crooked or broken.
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Bottom line is it's just you and your friends can
shoot at your leisure shoot, however long it takes you,
or however short a time it takes you to go
through those targets and then go through a bunch more
great opportunity to get instruction out there from professional instructors
that in itself two good hours have been strung auction
and then good practice shortly thereafter is gonna make you
(01:14:05):
a better shot than going out there and just pulling
the trigger and hoping. I guarantee you it will save
you some money and AMMO too, because you're not gonna
end up with a five gallon bucket full of empty
holes and two doves. After a dove hunt, you start
getting start breaking more than half of them, start knocking
more than half the doves you shoot at down, you're
gonna feel pretty confident. American Shooting Centers dot com is
(01:14:29):
a website. American Shootingcenters dot com forty one on Sports
Talk seven ninety at the Dougpike Show. Thank you all
for joining us this morning. I truly do appreciate it.
And uh, thanks to Jerry too, because I know when
he's down there at that ranch he's trying to kind
of get away from all this. But I knew also
that that Jerry is passionate enough about shooting and the
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shooting sports and hunting and all of that stuff that
he would he would be happy to talk about that.
That's what that's happy place is talking about guns and
AMMO and hunting and shooting sports. My happy place is outdoors.
I don't care what we're talking about. I don't care
what we're doing. By the way, speaking a dub season
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opening up, Holy count, I'm already that late. Are we
already that close to another break? Yes, sir, Oh my word,
this isn't gonna take long. Actually, I had one one
thing I did want to talk about before we got
to the forty three break, which is about to come
up in forty five seconds. The Texas Dove Hunters Association.
I don't know if all of you are familiar with it,
(01:15:37):
but best I can tell from the experiences I've had
and the emails I get from them, it's a it's
a good solid group, the good solid group worthy of
membership money. A guy named Tim Garcia from Federal Maintenance
Services led that bunch for several years I think it was.
(01:15:57):
And this back when he was he was working with
me and sponsoring one of these US Military Appreciation History deals,
a feature that I do, and that's how I got
to know more about the Texas Dove Hunters Association. So
maybe go online sometime today and give it a look
if you really like dove hunting and you want to
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learn more and just kind of be involved a little
bit more and have the inside scoop. Basically, it's not
a bad bunch to be around. That military piece. By
the way, I started this probably six seven, eight years ago,
and I'm always looking for anybody who genuinely appreciates our
(01:16:39):
military and the work that they've done to keep us
free so we can go dove hunting, so we can
own guns, so we can just do whatever we want
on a sunny Saturday afternoon. And what I do is
I had our imaging department create this amazing intro for
the thing that that using audio clips from actual historical
(01:17:03):
events in military history, kind of sets the stage. And
then I come in and mention at least two and
usually three little snippets of history from that particular week.
It's called this week in US Military History, and then
I finish after reading those three little tidbits, I finish
(01:17:25):
with the names of two or three, depending on time. Again,
two or three people who have earned our nation's Medal
of Honor and were awarded it in that particular week
throughout history and the stories of those people that I've
come across are just amazing. And I think this thing
ought to run every hour on every station in America.
(01:17:48):
But it takes sponsorship to run it. Unfortunately, I can't
just they won't do it for free, and I understand that,
but I'm looking for people who would kind of get
behind our military alongside me and make this happen as
often as possible. And it really is not it's a
it's not a bank breaking proposal, and it is every
(01:18:11):
time I've run these things and had people sponsoring them,
they get they're so well received and people like them
so much. Anyway, that's a pitch for that, And again,
this is all you have to do is talk to me.
I'm the only guy in this building who hosts shows
and carries a kind of a personal list of clients.
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I want to help, and so I can. I'm a
one stop shop man, and I'll take care of you.
I promise I will seven one three two one two
five seven ninety email on me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia
dot com. If I hadn't been so late with the
last segment, I wouldn't be so late getting into this one.
Black Horse Golf Club, Fry Road. Go take two ninety
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to Fry Road, hang US south and go down about
two three miles and you're gonna start seeing golf course.
Then you're gonna see golf course on both sides of
the road. When that happens, put on your west blinker.
That'll be all right for those of you who are
compass challenged, and go through the gates. And from that
point forward, anybody's wearing a name tag is there to
help you, Help you with some instruction, help you with
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food and beverage on or off the course. They got
a cool grill out there at black Horse. They really
do help you put together a tournament, help you grab
a couple of golf balls and a cap, and maybe
a towel or something. In the pro shop. Everybody out
there great people have been forever run now by a
guy named Craig Hicks. He's the gym out there. If
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you see him, tell him I said hello, and ask
him tell you a fishing store. He loves the outdoors
as much as I do and as much as most.
Speaker 8 (01:19:42):
Of you do.
Speaker 1 (01:19:43):
The South Course went private in January. If you're still
not aware. And if you love that course and you
used to play it all the time, you still can.
You just have to sign up and become a member,
and then the North courses as it always has been.
It's a nice, beautiful daily fee facility where you can
go host a big tournament or just show up like
I do sometimes and try to make three new friends
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by joining a foursome great place. That membership option, by
the way, on the South course, there's one level of
that that gets you not only access to both the
courses there at black Horse, but it also gets you
both courses at Golf Club of Houston and Blackhawk Golf
Club out in Richmond Blackhawk Country Club out in Richmond.
(01:20:25):
It gets you access to five courses just for that
price of one, and the membership and dues are quite reasonable.
Believe me. Black Horse Golf Club dot com is a
website you can set your own tea time right there,
right now, black Horsegolf Club dot com. And I want
to remind you again how important it is to get
your trees looked at by an arboris not by just
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some guy who's got a ladder and a chainsaw and
a pickup truck driving around the yard or driving around
the neighborhood. An arborius is gonna come to your house.
You call Champions Tree Preservation, okay, and you're gonna I'm
not sure exactly who you might talk to, but whoever
it is, it's going to help you set up an
appointment for one of the arborists to come down and
look at your trees and walk them, look at them,
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look them top to bottom, and tell you exactly what's
right or wrong with them. One of the things I
learned when Irwin Costellanos came down to my house. He's
the guy who owns the company and has for thirty
something years. I learned that you can overwater these oak trees.
I thought, hey, it's a thirty year old oak tree.
It can suck up as much water as we can
put in the ground. That's not true. And if you're
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overwatering your trees, what you're doing is creating problems for
yourself that you really don't want. Problems that are going
to potentially damage at least that tree and potentially make
it susceptible to tip it over in a big rainstorm,
or one of those things that we don't want they'll
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come to your house. They'll look at your trees. If
they need pruning, they'll prune them. If they need feeding,
they'll feed them. If they need to be taken out
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that too. And they just happen to own all the
equipment that's necessary to take care of that for you
and a tree farm, so that once they're finished taking
the old one out, they can put a new one
back in there and you can watch it grow up
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in your yard. Championstree dot com is the website. Give
them a call, set up that consultation. Two eight one
three two zero eighty two zero one two eight one
three two zero eighty two zero one Hey fifty two.
On Sports Talk seven ninety The Dugpike Show, Welcome back,
Thank you for listening. I startin to do appreciate that.
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Let's me let's stee up a phone call, go down,
talk to jump hold on. Let me get the right mouse?
Where did it go?
Speaker 5 (01:22:41):
There?
Speaker 1 (01:22:41):
It is right there? I got it, I got it, Freddy.
Uh and oh you're on Hey John? What's up man?
Speaker 8 (01:22:49):
It's happening man? How you doing today?
Speaker 1 (01:22:51):
I'm doing all right, Frankie beat me to the punch.
What can I do for you?
Speaker 8 (01:22:56):
So a couple of things you brought up. First, let
me ask you a question. How far back would.
Speaker 6 (01:23:02):
You recommend them standing on that barrel when you're checking
your pattern?
Speaker 8 (01:23:06):
Because this is something I want to show my couple
of great nephews.
Speaker 4 (01:23:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:23:10):
Are you talking about how far to shoot to check
a pattern?
Speaker 8 (01:23:14):
Yeah? When you're checking.
Speaker 1 (01:23:16):
Yeah, it sounds like.
Speaker 8 (01:23:17):
They were talking.
Speaker 1 (01:23:19):
Yeah, twenty twenty five yards. Okay yards, that's about your
every shot at a dove right in there, right right.
Speaker 8 (01:23:27):
Right, okay.
Speaker 5 (01:23:28):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (01:23:29):
Now, speaking of the doves, the t d h A,
it's very good. It's it's it's a cool little organization,
you know.
Speaker 6 (01:23:36):
And they've got also another little thing that's called the
Little dB Challenge for uh uh banded doves.
Speaker 11 (01:23:46):
Okay, but uh, you know, we were sitting out yesterday
and we finally started seeing the first, uh.
Speaker 6 (01:23:58):
First of all good flocks of white wings coming. We've
got a tone, we've got a ton a ton of
ton of ton of morning dove in need out in
my place right now. They're cutting and they're harvesting and everything.
But partly when they start, I don't know what it is.
I don't know if it's the smell of the dust
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or what. But when they start cutting corn, and they've
already been cutting maize, but it's still wet in there
to where they can't bush all but the stalks down
on the maine, still in the rows from all.
Speaker 8 (01:24:32):
The rain we got in between.
Speaker 6 (01:24:34):
But they're cutting corn right now and pat they're white wings.
I mean they are coming from the city limits of
Rosenberg and now they're getting on their fly patterns.
Speaker 1 (01:24:44):
It's remarkable how they how they just.
Speaker 6 (01:24:47):
Know, you know, yeah, here, you know, here's something I
don't know if people realize, and to have it at
the regular dove hunter wheel, do you realize this is
the second year in a row white wings season will
not open up on Labor Day weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:25:06):
Yeah, that's right, it is, isn't it. I didn't think
about that.
Speaker 8 (01:25:08):
Yeah, yeah, it's not gonna this this year. White wing
is I think.
Speaker 6 (01:25:14):
Uh, fourth, fifth, sixth or fifth, sixth, seventh, whatever it is. Yeah,
Labor day is at the Labor day is August thirty first,
I believe.
Speaker 1 (01:25:24):
M hm, that's crazy, that's weird.
Speaker 8 (01:25:27):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 6 (01:25:28):
Some of my some of my cousins aren't able to
come over again this year because of work and the
Labor Day weekend, so they're having They're not going to
be here for opening White Wing, but they'll be back
to following week end.
Speaker 1 (01:25:43):
For people who don't know you, also, in addition to
being apparently a very learned and very expert dove hunter,
also know a little bit about roush, don't you.
Speaker 8 (01:25:54):
Yeah, a little bit. I'm on way to one right now.
Speaker 6 (01:25:57):
Just want to go check on the job, check on
the job site and stuff for uh, for one of
my guys that have has the weekend also good.
Speaker 1 (01:26:05):
Yeah, this is John Aitman from Country Boys Roofing in
case anybody wondered. And yeah, you're you're a good man, John,
you are.
Speaker 8 (01:26:14):
I'm for sure about y'all. Have a good weekend, am
I okay?
Speaker 1 (01:26:16):
All right?
Speaker 8 (01:26:17):
Man?
Speaker 6 (01:26:17):
Yeah, Hey, Doug, Doug, I got your emails and all that.
Speaker 8 (01:26:21):
I'll be in touch with.
Speaker 1 (01:26:21):
Oh yeah, no worry, don't worry about that right now.
I just want to talk about dub hunting. I love it.
Speaker 6 (01:26:26):
Oh yeah, yeah, I may tell I mean that deer hunting.
You know, used to be an avid fisherman. But I mean,
you give me a you give me a pasture and
a bucket. Oh man, O a uh chair and my
cooler and my bird dogs.
Speaker 8 (01:26:44):
I'm I'm tinkle ting man.
Speaker 6 (01:26:46):
I could sit out in the field every day, all day,
from four o'clock to seven o'clock.
Speaker 1 (01:26:51):
I used to be able to do that all day
on a bucket. Now I need that chair with something
to support my back.
Speaker 5 (01:26:56):
Man.
Speaker 8 (01:26:57):
That chair. That chair, man, let me tell you something.
That chair works.
Speaker 1 (01:27:00):
Oh yeah, that chair though.
Speaker 8 (01:27:01):
Those are those what are they?
Speaker 6 (01:27:03):
The ones I'm not going to advertise them, but you
know the ones that pop out and you can go
back and forth on.
Speaker 1 (01:27:09):
Oh yeah, the little rocking chairs. Oh baby, I've got
one of those. I'm gonna I didn't think about that
for dove hunting. Oh man, what I know? I did.
What it's always been. It's been the baseball chair, you know.
Speaker 6 (01:27:22):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, all
of us.
Speaker 8 (01:27:27):
I mean even I'm twenty year older out there in them. Now.
Speaker 1 (01:27:30):
Does anybody you're the so now you're the chair expert.
Does anybody make a camouflage version of those academy they
got him in? Oh I didn't know they had him
in camo.
Speaker 6 (01:27:42):
Nods got them to where they have a little They
have a little table that will fold up with the chair.
I swear to God, I've got two of them. I've
got two of them. I've had them for three four years.
They got a little table that pops up. One has
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an insulated little cooler in it.
Speaker 8 (01:28:08):
Two for your beer.
Speaker 6 (01:28:09):
Holder, coat, colder water bottle, whatever. Three you stick your
phone in one. Oh, man, stak my phone in.
Speaker 8 (01:28:17):
I stick my phone in one. I got my air
pod on.
Speaker 6 (01:28:20):
And then if people are calling or we're texting, and
I just want to know what's going on in this deal?
Speaker 8 (01:28:25):
That feel blah blah blah.
Speaker 6 (01:28:26):
I'm not sitting there trying to grab my phone all
the time out of my bag.
Speaker 1 (01:28:29):
That's a good call.
Speaker 8 (01:28:31):
Yeah, got them.
Speaker 1 (01:28:34):
I'm so far behind. I'm way behind you man. Yeah yeah,
stay safe driving around, Yes, stay safe out there, John,
We'll see man audios. Holy cow, that's pretty cool. Another
break and this is a good one here. I like
this one. Barry Hill makes me hungry. I didn't get
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the breakfast I wanted this morning, so I might treat
myself to a really good lunch on the way home.
Swing by Berry Hill, pick something up, like maybe some
seafood enchiladas, or maybe some fish tacos. That's their fish
tacos are to die for, as is that enchilada. I
don't know why they they don't put it on the
top of the marquee too, because that's one of my
favorite things. I tried to eat one of their seafood
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burritos once, but I'm not that tough. That was an
amazing tasting thing, but it was just too much food
for me, and I was really surprised. I had meant
to order enchiladas and somehow seafood burrito came out of
my mouth, and when I picked up the bag to
take it home, it's like somebody had an anvil in it.
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It just like, holy cow, what is this? And I
took it home because I didn't care what it was
at that point, I just want to go eat it.
I knew it was from Berry Hill and that was
gonna be good enough. And it turned out to be
that seafood burrito, and yeah, I plowed through it. It
just took a little extra time. The people who are
cooking in the kitchen at this location down there in
sugar Land at Sugar Creek Boulevard in fifty nine very
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easy to find. The two primary people in that kitchen
have been in that same kitchen for more than ten
years apiece. They turn out a delicious, delicious text Mechs product.
Everything on the menu is outstanding, and they also do
catering all over town. You walk in, it's very family friendly.
You don't have to get dressed up, you don't have
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to make reservations. Just walk in, tell them what you want,
go sit down somewhere. They'll bring it to you, or
you can call them and they'll have it ready when
you get there. Berryhillsugarland dot com is the website. These
are good people. It's a family run place. They really
are good people. Go in there, introduce yourself, tell them.
I said hello, will you Burryhillsugarland dot com nine oh
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three on Sports Talk seven to ninety. Before we get
to a quick look at the golf tournament, the PGA Tour,
I want to go back to what John was talking
about with those chairs and whatnot, because I bought a
couple of those rocking chairs. I bought all kinds of
chairs out of academy, but I didn't know that that
Camo one existed, and probably because when I was in
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there buying chairs, it was always because either I needed
a new one to go watch baseball tournaments, or I
was in a strange town at a tournament and I
had forgotten to pack one of the ones I had
for the tournament. I got to hunch those Camo ones
maybe over in the hunting department is where they belong,
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and that's why I've missed them so far. But I'm
I'm probably gonna have one before September. First. I think
that's a good idea along those lines again before just
before I go ahead and get to the Windom Championship
up there in where are they? They're in Greensboro. If
there's anything else relative to dove hunting that you think
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that you carry, but a lot of people don't and
probably should, let's run that list, okay, And first and
foremost for me would be something where I usually carry
a little quarter outs dal rods with either some surveyors ribbon
or something like that put on top of them. And
what I'll do is use two or three of them
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in sequence. When I'm walking out to a dove that
went down pretty far away, I'll start walking with two
or three of those sticks with the little colored ribbon
on them. And when I get where I think I'm
about halfway there, I'll put one in the ground, and
then I'll keep walking to where exactly where I think
that bird is, and without even looking down, because you
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don't want to take your eyes off where that bird's
supposed to be, you put another one in the ground,
and between that and where you started, which you should
be able to see where you started. You ought to
be able to really get a straight line idea where
that bird's supposed to be. Then when you get to
exactly where it's supposed to be, and drop your cap
on the ground, maybe carry a third stick whatever, or
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just used two going out, one halfway and one at
your spot where you think it is, and then start
making little ovals around that stick, because now you know
you're on a pretty good line, and the bird's not
gonna be ten yards left or right of where you are.
It's it might be ten yards farther, or you may
have tripped over it on the way out there ten
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yards closer, but it's not gonna be way out, And
it just limits the time you spend out of your
little Heidie place and gives you a better chance to
get that bird in the bag and get back to
where you belong and get back to hunting. What else
you need all the water you can drink. September is
never a cold month in Texas, that's for sure. Southeast Texas.
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Maybe up on the Panhandle somewhere it might get down
to forty, but it's not gonna do that around any place.
I'm gonna be dove hunting, that's for sure. Some one
three two one two five seven ninety Email me Dougpike
at iHeartMedia dot com. I'm trying to think of anything
else that's really uh you got to bring if you're
taking your dog out. First of all, if your dog's
not acclimated to the heat right now, you better start now,
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and you better start patiently but consistently with giving that
dog a little time to run around in the heat
and then training it to come back to you for water.
And by water, I mean go to wal Mart or
someplace or academy and by the littlest kiddie pool that
you can find, and then bring two or three five
gallon jugs of water and make sure there's water in
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that thing all the time, and even throw a few
ice cubes in it to kind of cool it down
a little bit. If your dog gets overheated, you're gonna
be really glad you got that big old tuble water
out there. It's otherwise you may lose your dog, and
I don't want that to happen to anybody. The Windom
Championship is see, yeah, they finished up the first round.
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They had a rain delay yester, or the second round
they had a rain delay yesterday, and they've already got
I'm looking you at everybody's done through that first round,
and let me see if there's anybody out for this
second or the third round. It still says projected, so
they've still got people playing. They've still got Yeah, here
we go. There's a couple of guys, Takumi Kanaya and
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Steven Fisk are playing eighteen right now, and they looked
at it. No, there's two more, Frankie Kappan and Scottie
Kennon also somewhere on eighteen and almost done. Oh no,
they started on ten yesterday. So there are a couple
of guys with a hole to play. But that's about all.
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And once they finished that up, they'll be able to
establish their cut line and get on down the road
and then we'll see what's gonna happen at present, and
I don't think this is gonna change much in the
next two or three hours. President cam Young is at
fifteen under par for his first two rounds. That's a
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sixty three and a sixty two. These guys are either
these guys are getting better or they're using bigger cups.
I don't know what it is, but these guys just
continue at that pace. I don't know that he can
keep up that pace, but he's certainly gonna be twenty
somebody under par when it's all over. He's almost got
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to be unless he just has a real problem. Mac
Meisner is second, along with Sun jam and Joel Doman,
all at twelve under par. One sleeve off the lead
if you will, Mark Hubbard Aaron Rye at eleven under par,
and then I'll give you the nines and walk away
from this because it's a pretty good chunk of nine
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under par players. Matt McCarty, Gary Woodland, Nico At Chavaria,
Davis Thompson, and Chris Kirk. Not gonna see the biggest
names in golf really on this leaderboard. I'm trying to
find some not happening, but nonetheless, these guys are card
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carrying members of the PGA Tour. And if anybody thinks
less of these guys than of the guys who were
on the leader board at the Open Championship, at the
US Open, at the Masters, at any of the biggest tournaments,
they're all within probably a shot or two around over
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their careers of being level. These guys can play, as
witnessed by what Cam Young's doing to that golf course
up there, He's fifteen under pars through two rounds. That
I can guarantee you without even looking that there have
been Masters tournaments one at less than fifteen under par.
There have been Majors won a lot less than fifteen
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under par, and then there are probably there probably aren't
that many PGA Tour events where the thirty six hole
lead has been fifteen under par. These guys are getting better.
They're using analytics, they're using algorithms, they're using all kinds
of stuff and slowly, slowly taking away from the game
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the feel that made some of the early players as
good as they were. Lee Trevino is a great example.
He I don't know that he ever hit a shot
straight in his life, but he could he could make
it crooked left, crooked right, crooked high, crooked low. He
could move. He could move the golf ball in such
a way, and better than most, he could move that
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golf ball to suit the shot he had to hit.
The guys today, the best, are still very capable of
doing that, but when you watch some of the the
shots that are trying, and part of it, part of
the inability to really curve a golf ball a lot
anymore is from the balls themselves. The covers don't take
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that side spin as readily, and it's harder to generate
a big, loopy curve than it used to be. I'm
still capable of moving the ball some left to right,
some right to left, but not nearly like I could
When I was younger and swinging harder and hitting a
lot of covered balls. You could well, you could turn
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them around a corner if you put enough side spin
on them. These guys are still good, though, every last
one of them, and that's why they're ripping up these
golf courses. I would have expected when I opened up
the site this morning, I would have expected to see
somebody maybe at ten, maybe eleven under par for two rounds,
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but to be fifteen under through two with a sixty
two and a sixty three. That just proves how special
these guys are. And I've talked about it a little bit,
but very briefly before I go to break. I've had
the amazing opportunity throughout my life to play golf with
some of the best players who ever played the game,
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and to watch them when they're just out having fun.
This was no competition. This is just goof off short
pants whatever rounds of golf in charity tournaments or just
for fun a few times to see what they can
do with a golf ball When their job isn't on
the line, when a paycheck isn't on the line, they
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they tone it down a lot. When one shot might
mean the difference between a championship and a runner up finish,
or a top ten and a nott A top ten,
stuff like that. They're very careful and calculating on what
risk they'll take. But man, when they're having fun, they
can do stuff with a golf ball that I would
have never even dreamed to try to do. Se one three, two,
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one two five seven ninety email when we Dougpike at
iHeartMedia dot com speaking of golfer, Yet another guy arrested
down in Florida. And this this made one of the
little sites I checked for interesting little bits and pieces,
as though it was some sort of an anomaly. But
if you go looking for him, you'll find that this happens.
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I don't want to say increasingly, but I guess maybe
just because it's easier to show it on social media
than it used to be to have to go looking
for these stories. But this guy got arrested after he
assaulted somebody for playing too slow. He punched the slow guy,
it says here, multiple times in the face, breaking a
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bone beneath his eye socket. If you're that amped up
and can get that angry on the golf course, that's
like getting mad at somebody on a fishing trip. Just
chill out, man, take up a different sport. Don't go
punching people in the face and breaking their bones over
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slow play. Call the pro shop or just go back
and have an adult beverage and chill out a little bit.
Speaker 9 (01:41:57):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (01:41:58):
I've never Fortunately, I don't play that. That's and I
don't really know a whole lot of people who do.
We have a few people in our group who play
slower than others, but we all kind of get along,
and we all know who the slow guy is and
we just tolerate him because we know him so well.
It's frustrating to be behind somebody like that, but it's
not worth getting arrested over, truly not. It's a game
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of golf, for goodness sakes. What that guy was probably
mad at is some of the shots that he had
hit behind the slow player, and he's blaming the slow
player for his bad shots, taking it out on the
guy who he blames for his bad game. In any event,
it's time to take a little break. And speaking of golf,
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I'll tell you about Timber Creek Golf Club down there
in Friendswood off FM twenty three point fifty one about
I don't know, three four miles west of the golf freeway,
twenty seven holes down there too. So in the mornings
when they're getting everybody started, they can be starting people
off of two different t boxes and then kind of
blend the ball in together for the rest of the
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day and more. People get to have a whole lot
of fun and not punch anybody in the face. Down
there at timber Creek, great food, great teaching staff, led
by a guy named JJ Woods, he's over in the
Big ten building next to the practice range. It's a
fantastic place to hold events. They've got a nice, big
area where you can sit everybody down and make sure
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everybody has a good time, great food in the grill,
and just anybody and everybody in there wants you to
have a good time. You know they do. You'll know
it from the time you walk in there. You'll get greeted,
you'll be asked what they can do for you, and
from that point forward, you just sit back and relax
and hit some good shots, make a couple of holes
in one, and your day will go really well. Timber
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Creek Golf Club dot com. Maybe not those holes in one, okay,
timber Creek Golf Club dot com, nineteen twenty one. On
Sports Talk seven to ninety Frankie and I were just
having a little chuckle. I was looking at emails during
the break and I came across one from that neighborhood
app whatever it's called, I don't know, but anyway, this
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guy writes, and at first I thought he was somebody
kind of ranting and mad. It says, hey, guys, it's
me again. In all caps. It says that I have
some news for you guys, and I'm gonna do it
in kind of what the the sentiment I thought it was,
I have some news for you guys. I will no
longer be your guy after August thirtieth. I thought, Wow,
this guy's kind of mad. Somebody's been hit, knocking him
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around or saying bad thing whatever. I will be gone
due to the fact that I have decided to join
the Air Force. Like, oh, this is a good kid,
good young man, says So if you need me this
month until the thirtieth, I'm your guy, and thank you
to everyone who has needed me these past couple of months.
So I got to laughing with Frankie. I said, you
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know what, maybe this guy is letting some of the
people in the neighborhood know that maybe he won't be
able to be there cabana boy or be available for
maybe romantic interaction. Maybe that's kind of secret coded message.
And so I was looking through the comments at Frankie's suggestion,
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and I see a couple, you know, best of luck,
thank for your service, congratulations navy vet here. Probably one
of the best decisions, early adult decisions you could make.
And it goes on and on and then there's somebody
that says, we learn what he does, says he's a
very hard working young man, helped us with a task,
on and on and on, and then I come across
(01:45:29):
this one. It's from a woman and it says, what
is it that you do? I may need your service
before you join the service. We just started laughing out loud,
like holy cow, oh okay, oh okay, back to the
outdoors as fast as I can get us there. I
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couldn't help but share that. I hope it made some
of you smile and laugh and whatnot. Alan ways in
about the slow playing golfer who got his face beat in.
Alan bear in mind has a second sport that he
dearly loves and still plays even as a grown man,
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and he just simply says, hopefully you won't see news
reports of sixteen golfers getting beat up by sixteen hockey players. Yeah,
he's got a pretty good group of those guys. There
is adult hockey played in Houston, in case you didn't
know it, And this is just guys who grew up
with the game and can't give it up. And I
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don't blame them for that's that's Yankee softball. That's what
that is. That makes sense, Franky sounds about right. So yeah,
good game too. And the closest I ever came to
being anything like a hockey player was when when I
was very young, I dated a woman who was aimed
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figure skater and taught figure skating at the Galleria and hey,
I you know, went in Rome. I learned how to skate.
I didn't learn how to do axles and all that,
but I could. I could skate backwards and that was
enough for me. That's all. That's that was as far
as I wanted. And I never left the ice intentionally,
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either like to jump or anything like that. I just
I couldn't imagine the horrible result that would happen if
I actually hit the ground after that, because I wasn't
very stable on the skates anyway. But I was out
there giving it a good old fashioned try, because well,
you know, seven one three two one two five seven
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ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I'm getting
fired up about TL season two and if any of
you are are going maybe to check your your duck
leaves or I'm staying in touch with David Pruitt from
Riceland Waterfowl club, and I uh, I think I have
the message for Mitchell Holder down there in El Campo too,
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because what I'm trying to do is get reports of
the first flights of teal coming through here. And it
should not be long if it's not already happening. And
so if you're out there riding around on the prairie,
maybe you're running in a boat up and down the
coast somewhere, and you see some teal, for heaven's sakes,
let me know I am legitimately interested. Now, if you
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see a bunch of doves flying around, you're just like
everybody else. I remember many years ago, when I was
at the paper one of the biggest concentrations of mourning doves.
This was long before the white wings came in here
and took over the neighborhood. This is long before collared
doves found their way all the way from the Bahamas
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to here, which they have now. They still haven't really
taken over anything. Their numbers are still very much fewer,
like minuscule numbers relative to white wings and mourning doves.
But long before all of that, one of the biggest
concentrations of mourning doves I had ever seen was when
I had to go over to the University of Houston
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campus one day for something, to pick something up or
to interview somebody. I don't remember, but it was like
being in South Texas or Mexico. There were that many
mourning doves just fly South Texas white wings, Mexico white wings.
There were that many morning doves flying around the U
of h campus. And as a dove hunter, I was like,
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it's like being a quail dog and being walked through
a pen full of quail. It just was antsy. I was, Yeah,
it was crazy. Absolutely was crazy. I had doves nesting
in my backyard out in Sugarland within a couple of
years of when we moved in. It actually got one
of my favorite photographs that I've ever taken in my
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backyard after very patiently gaining the confidence and the comfort
with the the nesting dove sitting on the eggs to
get up close enough to her to get a really
good photograph what I consider a good photograph, and it
actually won me a nice award. It was first place
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in Color Wildlife that year, and I was very proud
to earn that award. I'm pretty sure it was first
and in an interview event. It was that the bird
sitting on the nest after the chicks had hatched, but
before any kind of fledging or anything like that. They
were still very young. And if you don't realize that
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that little baby bird is right under mama's chin, it's
hard to even recognize that there's a second bird in
the frame. It was really pretty cool. I was happy
to get that shot. I really was seven one three
two five, seven ninety. I took some pictures of a bird.
I can't remember what bird it was.
Speaker 8 (01:50:54):
The other day.
Speaker 1 (01:50:54):
I thought I was gonna get a snake picture yesterday.
By the way, And if if, uh, if you're if
you're gonna be out this is just a quick This
is kind of like preaching to the choir, I know.
But if you're gonna be out there messing around when
you're with your duck blinds or with your dub fields,
or doing stuff around the deer least, whatever you're doing
outdoors this time of year, just remember snakes all over
the place in Texas. Most of them aren't there to
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hurt you. Most of them can't hurt you other than
to scare the pants off of you and maybe give
you a little cut that you need to wash out
with some hydrogen peroxide or good old soap and water.
But there are some bad ones out there too, And
if you learn the half a dozen or so bad
ones in the state, then you don't have to worry
about the rest of them. You eliminate the fact you
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look at a snake and you say, Okay, that is
not a cotton mouth because of this, that's not a
copperhead because of that. It's not a rattlesnake because of that,
and it's not a coral snake because of that. Then
you can kind of relax a little bit and just
admire the thing. Most of the snakes in Texas are
absolutely gorgeous as far as I'm concerned. They're beautiful animals.
I thought I saw one on the golf course yesterday.
(01:51:59):
I swear I'm driving down the cart path trying to
get down the number two fairway out at black Hawk,
and I see something in the fairway over toward the
lake a little bit that I would have sworn was
a snake with its head up and maybe about a
two and a half about two two and a half
foot snake with its head up a little bit and
(01:52:21):
moving across the fairway slowly, and I did what anybody
else who thinks like I do did. I slammed on
the brakes of the cart, I made a U turn,
took off across the fairway. And it turned out to
be a very big pair of magnolia tree leaves that
were all dried up. They'd fallen off the tree long before,
(01:52:44):
and just the limb coming off looked like the head.
And then the rest of those leaves the way they
were positioned and in the fairway were catching a little breeze,
so they were wobbling back and forth. And I convinced
myself off until I got within fifteen feet of that
thing that it was a snake. I was about to
go catch it, and yeah, and kind of felt a
(01:53:08):
little bit foolish. I got up on it a little bit,
not a lot. If it had been a snake, it
had been cool, and I would have caught it, and
I would have had a picture to show you today.
But I don't take pictures of sticks and leaves one
more time. Speaking of sticks and leaves for Champions Tree
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remake a little different version than the original hunt something
like that. Is this the smooth jazz version? It might be,
(01:54:35):
it's just kind of a soft one. This is something
you'd hear out of a bad America's Got Talent act.
Speaker 5 (01:54:42):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:54:44):
It kind of reminds me that Janitor, I remember the
man's name who became instantly famous the very first time
he's saying don't stop believing on that stage. You've seen
that performance, I'm sure.
Speaker 8 (01:54:57):
Just know.
Speaker 1 (01:54:59):
You have or have not. I don't think so you haven't. No,
go look it up. Go look up Janitor agt winner.
He ended up winning the whole thing. This is a
guy who just you You could have lined up a
thousand people in a room and asked, who is the
guy who can really belt out don't Stop Believing? And
(01:55:19):
he would have been. You would have picked through that
thousand people until he might have been the last one
or two or three, and it would have been him.
And yeah, it's it's it's worth hearing. And this guy,
very humble, guy, very very you know, just nobody never
(01:55:39):
got in anybody's way, very quiet. All the kids at
school liked him, and the people in the administration liked him.
He'd been the custodian at that school for I don't know,
a couple of decades or something, and somebody talked him
into going on that stage. And I don't think anybody,
any of those judges had any confidence in the world
this guy was going to be any good. And he
(01:56:01):
killed it. He absolutely killed it, all right. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety Email me Dougpike
at iHeartMedia dot com. I looked at a little while
ago at the Gulf of Gulf of America. Excuse me,
I'm gonna take another quick, quick look before I open
my big mouth. I can figure out where this mouse
(01:56:22):
is on here. This little thing just has a mind
of its own. I swear I want to go to that.
I need to see this weather channel radar again real
quick before I tell you what's going on, because uh
fouk pro just sent me an email that included a
weather map from up where he is in East Texas,
and I guarantee in East Texas they're not looking at
(01:56:44):
happy times. There is a giant blob of rain up there.
The stuff that's offshore appears to be kind of staying
that way and moving out. There's there's something just going
off the east end of East Bay out into the
Gulf and later this afternoon and it's going to disappear.
Speaker 5 (01:57:01):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:57:02):
The good news for East Texas is so is the
stuff that's up there. There are all kinds of it
looks instead of looking like they're just blankets of heavy,
heavy stuff everywhere, kind of like East Texas has right
now and did an hour ago. As the day wears on,
they're gonna be very isolated things, very isolated things. Let
(01:57:24):
me go, I'll shut up and I'll go talk to
Mark here. Let me pop this button, stand by, Hey, Mark,
what's going on?
Speaker 5 (01:57:31):
Man?
Speaker 8 (01:57:32):
Hey, good morning, Doug.
Speaker 3 (01:57:33):
It has been a while.
Speaker 8 (01:57:34):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (01:57:35):
I'll say, which Mark is this?
Speaker 8 (01:57:38):
This?
Speaker 10 (01:57:39):
This is Duck Connor Fish or Mark on the water outstanding?
Speaker 1 (01:57:43):
Are you on the water now?
Speaker 10 (01:57:45):
No?
Speaker 8 (01:57:45):
I know, I was.
Speaker 10 (01:57:46):
It's been a great week and uh but I was
just talking to my farmers up down around Blessing and
Bonus and Mark them and down an Eagle Lake and
nothing nothing yet for flights of tea. But I do
you know what I don't think a lot of folks
realize is these birds they move, They really move on
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a couple of things. Obviously weather, right, they move on
on cold weather, but they also move on the on
the length of day.
Speaker 1 (01:58:13):
Absolutely they do. Yeah, they don't care if it's cold
or hot.
Speaker 10 (01:58:16):
Yeah, they And so when the days start getting shorter,
which they are, they'll start migrating. I've talked to my
friends in Kansas and Oklahoma and they're not even seeing
them yet, so they'll we'll start seeing them here in
the next yeah, next couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (01:58:28):
This is no different than any other year. We all
get out there. It's like Christmas coming every all the
little kids are out there looking for Santa Claus. Ay
not coming until the twenty fifth, you.
Speaker 8 (01:58:37):
Know, No, No, that's right. It's funny. We always do
the We always do the We'll.
Speaker 10 (01:58:44):
Go in South Texas to a dove unt will always
do the hunt until in the morning at Eagle Lake.
Take all our gear, throw our waiters in the back
when we leave, and.
Speaker 8 (01:58:53):
Head straight over.
Speaker 10 (01:58:54):
You know.
Speaker 8 (01:58:54):
We hunt down around Corezo.
Speaker 10 (01:58:56):
And in those areas down there, But no peal around yet.
Speaker 1 (01:59:01):
From what I'm Okay, well, I'm glad to hear from you.
You have I'm sure you have heard how good the
dove season is supposed to be. By now, I think
we're gonna have a great dunk.
Speaker 8 (01:59:12):
Yeah, all the folks.
Speaker 10 (01:59:14):
I mean, we're going up north to a dove on
up the north zone and hunting sunflower, and they just
they said, it's like it's like swatting flies.
Speaker 1 (01:59:22):
Oh, that's one of my favorites.
Speaker 5 (01:59:24):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:59:24):
I was years one hundred years ago. I was doing
some land work for an oil company for my dad actually,
and it was down in South Texas somewhere, and it
was dove season. I'm driving around. I finally get to
this guy's ranch house and we're out standing in his
front yard talking about getting the least signed or some
some sort of document I had to get signed from
him anyway. And there's doves flying all over the place,
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you know, and I'm kind of I'm looking at them,
and he can just see in my eyes and in
my demeanor that I'm a dove hunter, you know, and
he goes, you like to hunt dove son? Oh, yes, sir,
I love it. Did you got your shotgun with you? Yes, sir,
this time of year, the season's open, of course I do.
He said, Okay, after you know, I'm gonna finish up
here with you real quick and go down this road
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right here and then take a left and then down
another little ways. Whatever said, there's about forty acres of
sunflowers and you're welcome to go hunt doves in those sunflowers. Like, oh,
oh my, you know what I walked up on. You
know what I drove up to. Holy cow. Oh I
got out. You know there were there were some in
the air when I got there, and I got out
(02:00:30):
of the truck and I closed the door and when
that door like that, it just they just lifted out
of those sunflowers.
Speaker 10 (02:00:38):
Man, I could have Yeah, it's yeah, it's been a
good it's been a really good three years for doub.
Speaker 4 (02:00:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (02:00:43):
We hunted over and lacost A couple of years ago,
and I thought I'd seen dove and and and I've
never seen I've never seen white wing.
Speaker 1 (02:00:53):
Like this, and uh, it's fantastic, I told us.
Speaker 10 (02:00:55):
And he said, look, they're gonna fly over seven thirty
in the morning a mile.
Speaker 3 (02:01:00):
I don't shoot them.
Speaker 10 (02:01:01):
Yeah, And then forty five minutes later, the same birds
you saw flying one way are gonna fly head high
back at you in waves of twenty to fifty birds
in a group.
Speaker 8 (02:01:12):
And that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 10 (02:01:13):
They flew over those mesquite trees at head high.
Speaker 3 (02:01:16):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 10 (02:01:19):
I to this day, other than being in South America
being an Argentine, I've never been doug like that in
my life.
Speaker 3 (02:01:25):
So we're gonna have another good season.
Speaker 1 (02:01:27):
Yeah. Everything that birds do, everything that fish do, is
all about is all about conservation of energy. And if
they don't have to fly fifty yards off the ground,
they're not going to if they if they can safely travel,
they got out high to be safe and realized there
was no problem there, and then on the way back
out where you hahaed you got them, but then they
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felt safe coming out. It just over the mesquites, like
you said, and then you just whack them all.
Speaker 10 (02:01:52):
It was crazy. It's gonna be a good season. But yeah,
it's good. Good I've been doing. I had a good
fishing week. It's the first time in a while I've
been out and had a couple of six pound trout
this week. So nice to nice to be out on
the water and uh and you know, it's it's good
talking to you. It's been a couple of years, but
unfortunately been dealing with my my good friends over a
to the MD Anderson a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:02:12):
Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that.
Speaker 8 (02:02:14):
That's all right.
Speaker 10 (02:02:15):
We're we're still in it. We're still fighting, and we're
going to keep fighting. So that's what you do.
Speaker 1 (02:02:20):
You caught two more good trout than I did this week?
Speaker 10 (02:02:23):
Well, it's it. This week has been crazy. I've never
seen a shad hatch like we've had. And I changed.
I changed baits two weeks ago, and that's what they want.
And uh, I think I caught twenty six inch trout
and about uh in about three casts and realize I
don't need to be here anymore, the fisher here, and
I'm not going to catch any more of these and
give them sore mouths.
Speaker 3 (02:02:44):
So uh, yeah, it was a really good week.
Speaker 1 (02:02:46):
Don't don't tell me where, but tell me kind of where.
Speaker 3 (02:02:48):
I'm just curious.
Speaker 10 (02:02:50):
Upper Upper Galveston Bay, really Upper Galston Bay. I live
right where Trinity and Galveston Bay meet, okay, uh, and
that's and the I mean it's we fished three days
last week and two days a week before.
Speaker 3 (02:03:06):
And nice, it's.
Speaker 10 (02:03:07):
Thirty minute, you know, thirty minute two man limits and
colin trout. You know, good for you making sure that
we're keeping seventeen eighteens and nineteens.
Speaker 8 (02:03:15):
But colin trout.
Speaker 10 (02:03:16):
But I think we caught I had a twenty three
and a half, a twenty six and a half, and
twenty five and a half and.
Speaker 1 (02:03:21):
Three Lord, good for you, man, good for you.
Speaker 10 (02:03:25):
Just just and they want they want again. I've never
seen a shad hats like we've had ever.
Speaker 1 (02:03:31):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (02:03:31):
And I've been living on these waters for you know,
for my entire life, and that's what they're eating. And
so if you find a bait that looks like a shad,
that they might eat.
Speaker 1 (02:03:40):
It, and that that kind of convinces me that that
we've got a good trout population too, that this three
limit thing is working because nature's taking care of those
fish by giving them more to eat.
Speaker 10 (02:03:53):
I think it's helped. I didn't like it initially. You know,
you can go out and catch them. But to me,
I've caught as as many big nineteen twenty last year
I did, But this year probably in the in May
and right now I've caught probably as many fish over
twenty five inches as I've caught.
Speaker 3 (02:04:14):
So something, something's helping.
Speaker 10 (02:04:16):
Yeah, those breeders are out there, those are they're females,
A couple of both. Two of these fish were females.
So you know, big big trout. So yeah, it's been
a good week. I've been on the water that much,
and it's been a good couple of weeks for me.
Speaker 1 (02:04:28):
So well, I am really glad to hear from you.
Don't be a stranger, Mark.
Speaker 8 (02:04:32):
No, it's great to talk to you all.
Speaker 3 (02:04:34):
And it's good to hear your voice.
Speaker 10 (02:04:35):
I like you said, I haven't been I've been in
as much. I start shooting a little bit more and uh.
Speaker 8 (02:04:40):
And uh it it'd be good.
Speaker 10 (02:04:41):
Good to talk to you guys when I get back
out in the outdoors a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (02:04:45):
Hold on to the number. Call anytime, man, Thank you,
all right, man, take care, Yes, sir, audios. That's a
guy who's making the most, making the most of the
cards he's been dealt, and hats off to him for that.
Hats off to him. Boy. The gods are smiling down,
you know, the fishing gods, the hunting gods. Now, when
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you're out there catching twenty five twenty six inch trout,
that's pretty good stuff. And he's I think he's being
kind of rewarded for being a trooper and keeping himself
as able as possible to go do that stuff. I'm
happy for him. I really am Belleville meat Market out
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there on Highway thirty six, about fifteen minutes north of Sealy,
fifteen minutes south of Hempstead. You kind of know where
it is. If you can find Bellville, you can find
the meat market. It's right in the middle of town.
Just get into town. When you pat go into Bellville,
row your windows down a little bit, not enough to
let all the heat in, but just a little bit,
let some air in, and drive around to you smell barbecue,
and then stop and figure out which way the wind's
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blowing and drive up wind. That's the easiest way to find. Well,
that's not the easiest way navigation system, I guess. Once
you get the store, what you're gonna see is a
delicious selection of meat products, and you're going to see
a line probably of people waiting to get their barbecue
lunch or dinner, which is served every single day from
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ten am to seven pm. They've also got pulled pork
sandwiches in there. They got homemade hot dogs for the
kids or for you or whoever wants it over there
available every day. Bulk pricing on fresh ground beef, bulk
pricing on their smoke sausage. Then they've got stuffed pork tenders.
They've got hamburger patties, these big giant chuck wagon patties
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that are a half a pound of beef with seasoning
and cheddar cheese loaded into them. There's year round game processing,
if processing. If you've got access to some exotic animal
that you want to get processed, call them, let them
know you're coming, and they'll let you know if they
can process what you're bringing, so you don't make an
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empty trip. But mostly they can go ahead and handle
all that, and it's not going to be too long
before they turned that whole second building they built a
few years ago shifted into hunting season gear and then
it's wide open katie bar the door all the way
into the early spring. Beef jerky, turkey, jerky dry stick
one of my favorites. If you're looking for something to
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drop off here anytime you're around grabbing got snacks at
Belleville Meat Market make it even more worth to drive.
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pretty Saturday after well, no, not Saturday afternoon. That's the
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fifty plus side to be coming out half the time
when I lead, I go into fifty plus. I go
into the studio at noon, and up until that very time,
it's been morning, Hi, good morning, good morning. What's happening
this morning? What did you do this morning? What'd you
have for breakfast this morning? And then I come in
there and it's like going through a TimewARP, and I'll
(02:07:55):
roll out onto the show and say and hope your
morning's going well or the this morning, and I have
to check myself because it's an afternoon. By the way,
I had an idea, and Frankie, you can help me
with these. What I want to do is come up
most of we're talking about hunting season and and and
that brings up images of sitting around the campfire and
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talking and everybody's trying to say smart things and start
good conversations. So what I'm going to try to come
up with, and you can help me with them, Frankie,
is things that people in my audience can just kind
of tuck into their pocket and hold on to until
it's just the right time to say them. And when
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the conversations gets kind of slow and everybody's just sitting
back and taking a deep breath and the talking is
kind of laid down, but you're still you're still an
hour away from bedtime. Somebody needs to say something to
start a conversation. So I'm gonna be looking for conversation
starters that I'm gonna call camp fire wisdom. Campfire words
(02:09:02):
of wisdom. You can say, you know, in this situation
you ought to be thinking about that, something like that.
Or maybe jokes, if there are some good, clean, emphasis
more on clean than good jokes that you might be
able to tell at around a campfire to make it
kind of cool. Then and I've got an example of
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one of those, and I'll let you be the judge
of whether it's a good joker a boat one. Are
you ready? Yeah. So there's this big line to get
into heaven, and there's man, there's people, and there's pets
and and a lot of there's a lot of a
long line. And this one Labrador Retriever looks behind him
to see who's behind him, and there's there's a German
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shepherd and a cat standing there and they're waiting. They wait,
and they get up finally to the gates, and Peter says, oh,
I see that. You guys are pets from being down
on earth. You you get to go straight to God
and just tell him why you need to be in heaven.
So great, that's good. We've been waiting a long time.
We're happy to do that. So they go in and
(02:10:10):
there they are, right right before God in his throne,
and he looks and he says, now you, what kind
of dog are you? Exactly again, I see so many
Forgive me my memory is a little off, he said.
I'm a Labrador retriever. He said, and what did you
do around the house? He said, well, I was kind
of the happy, gold lucky type. I did. I dug
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a few holes in the yard, and I chewed a
few pieces of furniture. I'm sorry about that, but by
and large, I just I made sure everybody had a
good time, and we played catch and we did all
this stuff. And he said, that's cool. You're in. Come
sit here by on my right side, here right up
by me. And he turns to the second dog and
he said, now what are you? He said, I'm a
German shepherd said, what did you do? I was kind
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of security for my family. I made sure that nobody
got into the yard, nobody got near my family. I
was safety and security for my whole entire life. He said,
that's cool. Come up here and sit on my left side,
and he turned to the cat. Before he could even speak.
The cat goes, you're in my chair. You like that?
(02:11:16):
That's good, that's pretty good. It's a very clean joke.
You could a lot of people tomorrow will be on
their way to church, and when they get to church,
they can tell that joke. That's pretty good. I kind
of liked it back, kind of summarizing where we've been today.
Because I'm almost out of time. I can't encourage anybody
who plans on dove hunting on September first. I cannot
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encourage you strongly enough to do what we've been talking about.
To practice this stuff. I've done a lot of this
stuff all my life. Get out somewhere where you can
put that shotgun of yours on paper and all you
gotta do. You can go to a restaurant supply store.
You could probably even go to Walmart, and even if
you can't get butcher paper that's three feet wide, and
(02:12:01):
you can probably get it that's eighteen inches wide or whatever,
and just take a couple of pieces together, put a
dot in the middle, something to aim at when you're
standing back from it. Twenty twenty five thirty yards. That's
what I was sharing with John Aiman, the guy from
Country Boys Roofing, in a text message afterward. Put a
dot in the middle, a thirty inch diameter circle around that,
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and make a bunch of those and set them up
somewhere and shoot at them and see where your gun
shoots here. Turkey hunters do that a lot, because even
through the same gun, different loads will roll out of
there differently. Just like rifles. Shotguns will find loads they like.
It's gonna be kind of hot today, but if you
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can stay at it's a good day to be out.
They're all good days to be outdoors. Get outside for
heaven's sakes, have some fun with your family, Start thinking
about dove season, start thinking about teal season, and keep
thinking about fishing and hiking and all the other things
we love to do outdoors, even a little golf. I
might go tee it up this afternoon. Feling pretty froggy
right now, that's it for today. We'll be back here
(02:13:03):
tomorrow morning at eight. Thank you all for listening. I'll
see you then.
Speaker 8 (02:13:05):
Ideos