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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Holy cow, the minute I had to get back in
this studio before the lights came on went really quickly
bought me a little bit by surprise. Let me just
get these headphones on here, settle into matchair, and we'll
see what we can come up with for the day.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
On the the plus.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Side, for I think all of us, really, let me
get this come over here microphone. On the plus side,
that yellow blob that's been on the National Hurricane Center
map all week is no more. It never really was
supposed to become something. It never it never really got
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hold and looked like it was ever going to do anything.
And the other the other places I look for this
type of information never really showed it becoming much of
a thing, And so I wasn't terribly.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Worn worried about it. But boy to hear the news
people talk.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Huh anyway, nothing but a rainy day remains of that
system now never never really was a system except in
the eyes of local.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
TV weather forecasters. And they drive me crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
They absolutely drive me crazy with their their chicken a
little approach.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
To anything and everything. Anytime a cloud forms out there, oh.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Storm storm brewing in the golf, trouble in the golf, tropics,
posed threat storm headed our way. I heard all of
that all week long. They're they're selling sizzle without the steak,
and their job try to remember, and I don't. I
don't fault them. They've got to They've got to gain ratings,
just like anything any medium does. Okay, but I don't
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condone doing it by striking fear into people. Say something
something clever, say something funny, say something newsworthy, Say something
impactful that you know is true and going to happen.
But don't just don't just guess. Don't just throw a
bunch of stuff at the wall and see what sticks.
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That's been television's role that their job isn't to be
entirely honest. Their job is to capture and hold ratings.
That's been TV's role now for more than twenty years.
It doesn't have to be true, it just has to
be something that will make you want to watch, make
you lean into your seat through the commercial break, stick
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around because you want to hear every word they say
when they come back, so they'll tell you something. They'll
tease with that sentence that compels you to lean into
the TV until they get back, so they can tell
you exactly when the world is going to end. Only
for all the times they've told me that it hadn't
happened yet. I've lived here a very long time, many
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many years more than most all but one, two, three, four,
about six or seven years of my life. I've lived
right here in and around Houston, and I've heard them all,
and I've been here for all the storms that they
predicted we're going to wipe us off the map. Some
have been worse than others, but a lot of them
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haven't really done the damage that they were that we
were told they would do, not that they were predicted
to do, but that we were told they would do.
And so it lends this this false sense of security.
All the times they've told me that it was over,
it wasn't over. No hurricanes wiped humanity off the earth yet.
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And the problem I have with these predictions, with their approach,
is that people who are fairly new here, people who
don't have access to any really good sites. And I'll
tell you, I've thought about for a long time about
not sharing the these sources of mine, but they're not secrets.
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And the one I really I really watch as soon
as something boils up is called Cyclocane cyclo c An,
and at Cyclocane you can get spaghetti models, and it's
a full bowl of spaghetti. I think it's twelve fourteen,
maybe sixteen different models from around the world that are
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predicting where storms are gonna go.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
And I talked about this yesterday on fifty plus.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
When that one in the Atlantic, that's now it's a
hurricane now and it's gonna probably become a major hurricane.
When it formed out there and became a tropical storm.
All all that I was seeing on TV was that,
and at the National Hurricane Center's site for a while too,
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mostly they were saying it was headed west northwest, which
put it on a B line for Atlanta, Georgia, or
maybe the CA Carolinas.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So as soon as I saw.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
That it was being tracked a little more, a little
more diligently.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I went to Cyclicane. I punched it up.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Every model that they use showed that thing getting about
two hundred miles maybe one hundred and fifty miles off
the US coastline, the east coast, and then hanging a
right and just going north forever and eventually to disappear
in the Atlantic Ocean and guess what it's gonna do.
It's gonna go take a rite and it's gonna go
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on up the Eastern Seaboard way offshore and make happy
days for the surfers over there. But other than that,
it shouldn't be two. I don't believe it poses any threat,
not in major threats, certainly. And just look at cyclicane,
and then look at where the National Hurricane Center is,
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and then look at where the local news tells you
something is, and way all of that together before you
go out and buy thirty loaves of bread in forty
cases of water.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
That's all I'm saying. It's very frustrating.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
It really is, too And most of the people in
my age who have lived here a long time understand
all that.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I would be the same way.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
And I'm certainly I don't know more than whether people do.
I'll guarantee you that they know a lot more than
I do. But I don't think they sometimes give us everything,
or maybe they sometimes are instructed to give us a
little more.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Than we're supposed to get.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
But the bottom line is I'd be the same way
if I moved into her or tornado alley. I don't
know anything about tornadoes. I don't know anything about how
they well, I kind of have an idea how they form.
But if I lived in a place where giant tornadoes
roll through in Kansas or Oklahoma or Arkansas, wherever Nebraska,
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I'd be a little bit hesitant, I'd be a little
bit scared. I'd be leaning into the TV to find
out what's going on. And then I'd come to realize
after a long time there, that there are ways to
defend yourself from these things, and you can't defend from
all of them. But I think more with tornadoes, the
people who live in those areas are just playing the
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odds because the odds say that most of the homes,
most of the places is gonna be okay. A tornado
is a very precise, precise natural disaster.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
It doesn't cut nearly the swath.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Even a giant tornado doesn't cut nearly the swath that
a hurricane does. So you just learned to go to
the basement, go into your tornado shelter, wherever that is.
I wouldn't even know, I wouldn't begin to know if somebody,
if I was visiting somebody who lived up there and
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we heard the sirens go off, and they said, go
to the shelter.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Now I I wouldn't know where to go. I know
what to do when a hurricane's coming.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Now. That one of the reasons I'd rather live on
the Gulf coast than up in the Midwest. Other aside
from the fact that the Midwest is way too far
from the coast, I'd rather live down here because you
can see a hurricane coming from a long ways out.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You got days to prep. It's interesting around here.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
The day before we're supposed to really start getting the
impact of a tropical storm or a hurricane out in
the Gulf of Mexico. The day before, golf courses are crowded,
public pools are crowded. Nobody's really doing a lot because
there's not a lot you can do unless you plan
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to leave. Though in any event, that thing that was
going to be a thing. The good stuff is. The
good stuff is it's gonna bring a little bit more
water to South Texas and maybe we'll get we might
get some of that rain, but it's not gonna be
a lot.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
It's just not gonna be a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
There's a I think a forty to fifty percent chance
for the next five days, six days.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
But that's just summertime. That's all that is. That's all
that is.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Someday there's going to come a day when we really
are facing another Ike, or another Harvey, or another Allison.
I don't know how many of you in this audience
remember Allison. It was a tropical storm and nobody really
worried about it until it had been sitting on top
of us for about three days and delivered I don't
know what it was, twenty thirty inches of rain and
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about an hour and a half something crazy like that.
It was enough to fill up the Southwest Freeway from
the Loop to downtown, that little low area there where
all the there's no overpasses that the ground level streets
go over the freeway, but there's no overpass because the
street goes down and the road crossing it goes up.
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And that was I don't know, six eight ten feet
of water down in there for days.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
It's crazy. That's the problem with that.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Things like that is that when it does come along again,
and it will, a lot of people are not going
to believe that they really need to get out, and
that's when you have problems. We are two weeks in
a day until dove season, which means you've got two
weeks in a day to get your license, and I
hope you will get that license, and I want to
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talk about that when I come back here. I'm gonna
go ahead and take this break a little early, Frankie,
so that we can have a little more time in
that second segment, so that I can talk about the
licenses and how important they are and what I think
most of us should go ahead and buy when we
get them. Champions Tree Preservation, speaking of stuff in the Gulf,
if there ever is something, well, there will be something.
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The odds say we're going to get something this year
somewhere in the Gulf, and if we beat the odds, hooray.
If we don't just keep an eye on it and
listen to people who have lived here a long time
and use cyclocane, I'm handing that one to you. I've
trusted that site for a very long time because it
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doesn't trust any one single source. And if you compare
all the models, it'll tell you there's a there's an
intensity graph, and there's a path tracker, and that's most
of what you need to know.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
But back to the trees.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Champions Tree Preservation Irwin and Robin Castellano up there in
Champions where they where they start every day, big beautiful place.
And if it's beautiful, if you understand treework and whatnot,
because they've got tons of equipment up there. They even
own a tree farm where they grow native to EXAs trees.
So if you have to take one out because it's
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just that sick, if you have to take it out,
they can find a perfect tree to replace it with
for you and take care of you there. Mostly what
you're gonna hear from them is that your trees may
need a little food, they may need a little pruning,
and surprisingly they may need less water than you're giving them.
For the longest time, I didn't think you could water
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a thirty year old oak tree enough. I'm just envisioning
those things being a giant sponge. And that's not the case. Otherwise,
in this harsh climate that we have here through a drought,
there wouldn't be an oak tree left. But their oak
trees everywhere, and the reason is because they just need
just enough water. Too much water starts to grow fungus
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in the root system, and that's not good. They may
have to take some limbs off, they may have to
do some deep root feeding, but whatever it is they
need to do, they have the crews and equipment to
get it done up to and including, like I said,
removing a giant tree and then getting something to replace it.
Two eight one three two zero eighty two oh one.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Call that number.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Get them to come to your house and take a
look at all your trees and make sure they're ready
for hurricane season. Two eight one three two zero eighty
two zero one. Or go to the website championstree dot com.
That's championstree dot com.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Boy, I'm so tempted to sing that out loud, I'm
not gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Thing.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Welcome back, Welcome back to Dugpike Show on this Saturday morning.
Chance of rain, always a chance of rain this time
of year. Who knows.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I got one of the cleverest things I've seen in
a long time from Captain Scott Scott and Oll just
a minute ago, a simple description of a hurricane. And
I don't know if he's.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Taking credit for it or not, but he sent it,
so he gets credit here at least. It's like being
stalked by a killer turtle. That is so true.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
It's coming there.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
It is it's right there and it's coming, and you
can either stay and fight the turtle or you can
run from the turtle. And if you do choose to
run from the turtle, if you leave early enough, you
can get away from the turtle. Now, we have to
come up with one for a tornado, and I'm not sure.
It's gonna take a little creativity. It's gonna take me
a while, but I'll get to it two ways. If
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if you think you've got the ultimate description of a tornado,
then you can either call us seven one three two
one two five seven ninety or you can email me
Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Or if you're listening by
way of by way of iHeart Radio, there is a
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talkback button. If you'll look at your phone screen or
your pad screen or whatever it is you're looking at
to where you have the the iHeartRadio app, then by
all means, look for the talkback button, and when you
push that, you'll have about twenty seconds I believe it
is to leave whatever message you want to leave.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
A first name is great. If you want to tell
me your whole name, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I still won't use your whole name on the air
when I when I give you credit for saying the
clever thing that you say in there.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Let's go talk to Dave.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Speaking of clever things, He's always got something, Dave, what's
up man?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Well, I'm out of dodge start used to oh man
officially because I went and picked up my last chick
there around in the gallery of Stephanie. I got a
lot of hugs. There was tears gone. And you know,
I mean twenty years on the side job over there.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
That's a long time on any job, Dave, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
You know.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
But it was good exercise. I didn't have to pay
to go to the gym, so good anyway. No, no,
my wife, she she actually took off work and drove
me in there and we made it through the weather.
But while we were there, the doorbell camera came on
at the house here in Willison. Kelly from Conrod the Croppie,
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the croppie fisherman dude was looking for me. Just remember,
I think I'll tell you his daughter was at a
party around the corner and he was coming looking for me.
So if Kelly, if you here's right now, saw me,
he can catch from croppy, let me tell you. And
then I got a homemade fishing ruder that there were
three uh three young guys here that are they had
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kayaks and one of them he built a top water
bass fishing out of a out of a table leg
all the way down and see it. I'm going to
send you the picture now. Now listen, let me get
on here, okay, and then on the on the safety
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stuff for a hurricane or something. I always try to
keep a lot of wood for cooking.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
And then you know you want to.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Kick a lot of water.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
It isn't a lot of King goods and.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Ram you gonna you're gonna be cooking over wood? Is
little house on the prairie or.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
What no if if you ain't got no power?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Okay, yeah, urane there in the neighborhood. Yeah yeah, I'm
just kind of joking about it.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I used the whole I used a six food high
stack of wood to cook from.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
The whole neighborhood. Want to hurt I remember I told
you I got that uh my uncle Anton's of wooden
suitcases filled with using chronicle papers. Medically. Wow, I'm gonna
methodically go through there and find all your and and
this is the bucket list. Go through there and I'm
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gonna get a book and I wanna get them all
in there.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Oh man, that's awesome, thank you, that's kind of cool.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
Well, I no, no, no, it's it's an honor for me.
Speaker 8 (17:59):
And because I remember.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
Opening up the newspaper looking at your articles all the time.
Speaker 8 (18:05):
You know, out here we got a bunch of fishermen.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
Out everybody is coming out of the woodwork. It's like termites.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Beautiful day.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Man, it's nice. It's very very nice in the Let
me paint a picture. So anyway, all right, all.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Right, thank you, Dave. I'll see about the audio. That's
an enthusiastic man right there. I guarantee you.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I wish I had the bubble he's got. I don't
know what it is in his bubble. I don't know
what he's putting in his coffee. He can come drop
some in mind anytime he wants to. That first lure
thing reminded me that the first lure I ever made,
I was probably fewer than ten years old. It was
down in Florida at my grandparents' house, and my grandfather
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and I got in trouble for building that lure. Because
it's primary component a top water lure. It was just
like that other kid that Dave knows built one out
of a table leg, presumably an old table that nobody
wanted or at least could lean up against a wall.
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We cut a couple of pieces off the top of
my grandmother's broomstick, and that didn't go over well. So
I ended up with a lure and my grandfather ended
up going to the hardware store to buy a new
broom Stuff happens when you're in the middle of a
creative a creative moment, you just have to grab and go.
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You have to finished a job, find something that looks
like what you want the end product to look like
with a little extra work, and get after it. And
if that means cutting three or four or five or
six inches off of broomstick to make a top water lure,
it's a lot easier to get forgiveness than it is permission.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Right, what's that old saying? I believe that's it?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety email
on me dougpick at iHeartMedia dot com. I mentioned licenses
in fishing and hunting and all the seasons coming up.
The traditional way of buying the license, where it was
all done at the turn of the calendar year or
the hunting season year. Basically, you do have to have
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that new license, probably on September one. Your old one
probably goes through August thirty one. I think they made
it where you can buy a year long license now
I just do. I always do mine as hunting season
gets really close. What it's doing now and what I'm
hoping is that all of you will find a way
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to justify. Even if you only fish but don't hunt,
Even if you only hunt but don't fish, consider buying
a combo license.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Do that, will you?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
It's it's gonna make such a difference. Think of it
as a little bit of an extra money that it's
a it's a donation to the natural resources of Texas.
And if you want to be selfishing and think of
finding some way that it benefits you, then think of this.
Let's say you love to hunt, but you don't care
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about fishing. Well, if our fishery managers don't have the
funding they need to protect those resources, then fishing productivity
is gonna go down. And if fishing goes bad, all
those fishermen you don't really care about are gonna do
what to fuel their outdoors passion. They're gonna take up hunting.
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Oh yeah, man, yeah, I heard you like to dove hunt. Well,
fishing's gone to gone. You nowhere in a handbasket now
and no fish to catch anymore, So I'm gonna start hunting. Well,
there's not enough room out there for you. Really, hunting
fields are pretty full now. Oh well, too bad, man,
I'm coming over. And the same thing could go. It
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goes the other way, too, goes the other way if
there's nobody. If there's nobody out there chasing down poachers
or people who bait fields for ducks, or people who
hunt deer at night, all of that game populations are
going to go down quick, and all those hunters are
going to take up fishing.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I'm joking, of course, sort of.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
But to lose any of this state's natural resources to
any cost, I don't care what it is, posing, pollution, whatever,
that's a risk this state can't really afford to take,
because that's one of the biggest draws we have to Texas.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Tremendous outdoor recreation.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Speaking of our fishing has been really dog on good,
really dog on good, and the fish are doing exactly
what you'd expect them to do in super warm water,
where are they going. They're going deep, and that's it's
kind of a lot of people don't think saltwater fish
care about that, but they do. They would much prefer
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a comfortable environment to an uncomfortable one. Shallow water's getting
hammered by the sun all day. Think about that. Even
the redfish are wearing sunglasses.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Fish only have one.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Choice when the shallow, calm water really really superheats up,
and that's to go deep. And they may not stay
there all day, but they'll go. They'll find they'll go
find a place to cool off at least for a
little while, least till they get hungry enough to go
back out and all let boiling stuff fresh water. Mostly
bass do that bass go down and part of that,
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part of their movement to deep water is because their
eyes are sensitive to the bright light too, So that's
it's a double whammy for them when it's super hot
and it's super bright, fresh and salt. Though, if they
can find a deep spot to hang out, that's that
water's going to be a little cooler and they may
not stay deep all day, but you can count on
them getting out of the heat at least long enough
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to tolerate a little more of it when they have
to move. Oh, I'm gonna you know what, Frankie, We're
gonna be two for two on early breaks if I
can hurry up and shut up.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
So here's what's going Hold on, let me look at
this real quick.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, JTK, just let me know from down there at
Shooter's Corner.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
The new licenses went on sale yesterday. And if you
don't want to have to stand in line behind somebody
who's buying tennis shoes and maybe some back to school
clothes and all of that stuff, go ahead and get
somewhere and get that license this weekend or maybe on Monday.
Be even better. If you can do it, then all right,
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we're gonna take a break here on the way out.
Kobe Stevens.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
They call it golf apparel, but I am thrilled to
let you know that Kobe and I are talking about
something that could be really, really good for all of us, and.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
If it's not gonna be great, I can promise you that,
and that's one of the reasons I'm talking to Kobe
about doing this.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Kobe Stevens Golf apparel.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I've been wearing it now for better part of two
and a half, maybe three years now. Somewhere in there.
Everything I've gotten from Kobe Stevens has been fantastic. Everything
I've gotten has lasted. It doesn't get all worn out
looking at it doesn't get all faded looking. And in
addition to all the golf apparel, there's now a line
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of outdoors apparel that's about to start growing. And I
can't tell you, I can't emphasize enough how important it
was to me to be working with somebody like Kobe
Stevens rather than just somebody who bought shirts overseas and
threw a logo on him or whatever.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Kobe.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Kobe does the best he can to find the best
products he can, and that's why he's been successful.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
He's also a good commune, and this is something I
like about the company.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
He Every time I turn around, he's at another tournament,
supporting whatever cause that tournament is supporting, and donating a
bunch of stuff to him because he really does care.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
He doesn't have to do that. He absolutely does not have.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
To be involved in the community he serves at all
to still sell a lot of stuff, but he does
it because it's the right thing to do, and that's
the kind of people I like to hang out with.
On the bright side, if you're not a really good golfer,
you can look like a professional golfer wearing this gear
right up until you swing the club just right to
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that very moment. So if you just kind of make
sure nobody's looking when you swing, and then if nobody
saw where your ball went, and you just go down
and drop one on the edge of the fair, well,
here it is right here.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Didn't see it when I walked by the first time.
Must have fallen out of my pocket. Kobe Stevens dot com.
I'm cob Y ste v NS. Go look at what
he makes. Is awesome stuff. Kobe Stevens dot com. Palmer
Palmer Highway, no Shooter's Corner. That's what I want to
tell you about. It is on Palmer Highway at twenty
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ninth Street. But I didn't want to lead with the
address that was kind of messed up. Just like I said,
I just heard from JTK. The licenses are out now.
They are on sale, and I strongly recommend going ahead
and knocking that out before it gets too late and
you end up in a crowd somewhere. Palmer Highway at
twenty ninth Street in Texas City almost never crowded, although
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it does get a little does get a little elbow
to elbow sometimes in there this time of year. That's
Jerry TK, the Dad and JTK the grown man's son.
Probably two of the best gunsmith's I know, certainly two
of the best North American big game guides I know,
each with their own expertise, by the way, and they
build amazing custom rifles, Absolutely amazing these guys and everybody
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who works in that store. Number One, they genuinely know
what they're talking about. Number two, they genuinely want to
help you enjoy the shooting sports more tomorrow than you
do today. And they've got everything in that store. It's
not huge, it's just a gun store. It's an old
school gun store. And if you don't know what one
of those smells like, walk through the door and just
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go just do that, and then just let your brain
imprint on that. And the next time you walk into
a place that claims to be a gun store but
you smell other things, you'll know that you need to
go back to Shooter's Corner. If you wear a badge
for a living, you get a discount at Shooter's Corner,
which I think is really cool.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
D Shooters CORNERTX dot com. D Shooters Corner TX dot com. Right,
welcome back a little bit. At a lengthy break. We
were trying to take care of some stuff in here,
but I think the TV guys messed it all up.
I'm not gonna name them, but yeah, somebody.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
They would have been last in unless somebody. Yeah, no,
post game last night? Who did post last night?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Frankie? I am not sure? Actually, okay, it doesn't matter anyway.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Well, it's nothing that's going to mess up the show,
so don't worry about that. Look at Dave bouncing back
for a second time. By the way, faux pro call
back if you need to.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
What's up, Dave?
Speaker 9 (29:22):
Yeah, real quickly, Doug, I'm up here in East text
Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Never mind, I thought it was I thought it was
Guitar Days signing back in now I.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
Know, all right?
Speaker 9 (29:32):
Am I still alive?
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah? Absolutely?
Speaker 9 (29:36):
Okay, Doug. Uh getting ready to deliver a hundred education
course up here in East Texas and out a couple
of real quick Uh, don't wait to the last minute.
This class had six openings yesterday at five pm and
it's full now, so people don't wait. And I'm in
a very small town, so don't wait till the last minute.
The other thing, Doug, you mentioned the licenses, A couple
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of things. You know, so much is going digital. Now
You've got two parks of wallete apartment apps out there.
Right now, you've got the Outdoor app, which they called
the Red app, and then you've also got the Hunting
Fish app, which they call the Green App. And I
don't think a lot of people know how these two
work one kind of there are no well, the only
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way you can get a paper copy of the annual
is to go to a hunter Education class.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Yeah, and it's all digital.
Speaker 9 (30:28):
And now you've got the Hunting Fish app that you
I know you're not a fan of all this digital stuff,
like come left.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
It's a money savor. I understand that, David.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I do because I was thinking years ago that I
could find somebody to cover the cost to printing those
things when they first started to ditch them, And when
I found out how much it costs to print them all,
I think that narrowed the list really quickly.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Let's just leave it.
Speaker 9 (30:51):
At that, all right, Well, but there's so much like
I'm not getting the game wardans to come to the
class today that laying how to use this hunt and
fish app to do your reporting. But you know, Wendy
have to report your harvest and all of that. But
uh yeah, get learn those apps. But also what I
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wanted to real quickly you you kind of hit on
something earlier changing gears here. You talked about your homemade
fishing lewers.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah, it made me.
Speaker 9 (31:22):
Think about how many times we've been in the outdoors
and we didn't have something that we needed. And here's
a good example. Uh you forgot to put the plug
in your shotgun and you're getting ready to go duck hunting.
Oh boy, yeah, I bet you've seen more different things
used as plugs and shotguns. But there's all types of
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examples where we've had to improvise in the woods at
the deer least, when we left something at home and
we had to find something else that worked.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
And uh that that might make a good topic.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
That absolutely it is like that.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Yeah, I've seen guys use all kinds of stuff to
plug a shotgun, pencils, tree limbs, just whatever, whatever, it takes. Really,
if it's somebody had had an old, stale hot dog,
they probably would have shoved one of those in there.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
All right, thank you, d.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
That's great, Thank you Davide. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Man.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
All right, let me, faux Pro do me a favor
and hang on so I don't get behind. I was
doing so well the first two breaks, and then we
had this little issue come up in here, and poor
Frankie had to come in and work. Stand by, faux Pro.
I know where you are. I know where you are, man,
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Speaker 1 (34:18):
Okay, Wow, that's going back away, didn't it?
Speaker 6 (34:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yeah, request from Uh, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Oh Dave, you started this. Let's get the faux pro,
shall we? Hey, faux pro? What's up?
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Man?
Speaker 6 (34:32):
That's a good old too. Yeah, yeah, go back a minute.
So no, man, I decided to leave. I decided to
give the fish and break this weekend and kind of
kinda do my prep work. I guess you'd say, the
season coming up. We've got a little place to hunt
just north over Shurrenburg, my Nes. Gotta you gotta fall
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him out there again. Gottain's got one hundred and thirty eight.
If we can off and all hunts that.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Yeah, you spread a few people out.
Speaker 6 (35:02):
Yeah, they say fly. They got a couple of pounds,
we can go.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
We can go.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
Pest to the bass a little bit too, so it.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Pass.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Finally I finally found some bass at the club this
week and and I went to kind of check on them,
to babysit them, and darned if there weren't three teenagers
fishing in the same spot, man, then just wearing them out,
you know. So I'm gonna give them a few days
to kind of chill out, and hopefully those kids will
have I don't know, hopefully they're in school during the
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week and don't get out there.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
But yeah, it was boy. I just I just knew.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Had they got a buddy of mine, I want to
take over there too, And I went to kind of
scout it, and there they were like okay. I just
didn't say much. Actually what I did was I got
in there in school them a little bit, y'all getting them. Yeah,
we've caught a few. I said, you mind if I
make a few casts. And I just kind of hammered
out like four real quick.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
And this is fun. I just left.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
They're scratching their heads and changing the lures and doing
all kinds of stuff. You'll appreciate this as a guy
who knows bass and knows structure. I looked down at
my feet and I'm standing there, and I look down
and there's a big drain, like a main drain line
poured into that lake. It's not really flowing, but what
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it's probably about an eighteen inch covert.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
And what it.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Does though for those fishes, provides a little shade. And
I had a worm on God forbid, I was throwing
so off plastics a little bit, but I.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Had a worm on it.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
And I literally just lowered my rod tip and let
that worm fall into the mouth of that of that pipe,
and there was one of those kids standing right next
to me, and I just jiggled my rod tip once
and it just boomed and nailed it. About a four
and a half came out of that pipe and ate it. It
was hilarious.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
I'm a sucker for a covert. You give me a
covert running or not running there something different. Yeah, in
front of a covert, depth or anything. Walk them up
the little cost saving my faux pro tip of the week.
So my nephews want to go patter the shot guns,
and I said, well, make sure we pattered them. Well,
we're not hunting, because I don't want to make anything
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of that. We're out there shooting. But he said, well,
I'll get some patterning targets and we'll do something. I said, no, no, no,
I said, I'm just gonna print out a life sized
picture of a dove fly and make about fifty copies
and we'll bring that up there and shoot it. Shoot
it my own my own pattern target of the real does.
But we're don't. We're gonna tell you that. I got
to get out there and get all my my my
dove tree and my mojo batteries, all charge duf and
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all that good stuff. And where he sits at it's
kind of wide open. So we just we just put
that tree out there and get a long chair under
an overhanging, you know, the low oak seep right out
there in that part of the country, and you just
kick packing a big old bottle of iced tea and
a Uncle Sia green cup and shoot him as a
as it come to that tree.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
So trees work pretty good, one at a time, that's
all it takes.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Man.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
You can stack them up pretty quick. Out there in
the right field. Good tree ain't catching fish lightly.
Speaker 6 (38:00):
Yeah, But I don't know what's been going on with
the crappie here, lady, but we've been My buddy went
out and not I would have consider I'm a crappie fishermen.
But they went out here, you know, right down the
street from my house. You know, they caught twenty three wow.
And in the last two weeks stout there was Wayne
and I had a party up there last weekend and
U we were up there catching them, like I said,
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above that thermofline and you know, three to six foot
of water and just catch them at will bass white
bass were up there, and then yeah, ladies kind of
turned on to your lady. I don't know what's going on,
but I'll take it.
Speaker 8 (38:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Before I let you go, I got a question for you.
David was talking about it. Things you've had to improv,
whether it's for fishing tackle or hunting gear or whatever.
What can you think of anything where you've had Oh man,
I forgot whatever, And I'll have to use this that
you can say on the air.
Speaker 6 (38:50):
Oh okay, that I can say out there, thanks you
pray that uh I can say on the air improv
Oh man, let me think real quick.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
M have ever gotten caught without flyers?
Speaker 3 (39:06):
No?
Speaker 6 (39:06):
But luckily I've never been caught without flyers yet.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
I always carry them.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
And those those three kids who showed up at that
little spot, I was gonna take my friend. Not one
of them had a just a crank bait berry in
a fish's mouth. That man, you got flyers and help
you out with that? And he said, no, I don't
have any flyers. And his friends didn't have flyers none.
All they have is rodging reels.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
And like four lures. And I'm I'm wanting. I don't care.
I told a guy yesterday.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
I don't care if they're in there catching fish because
they're young and they're still super excited.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
I've caught a lot of fish in my life. Well,
what I'm gonna try.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
To do is teach these kids to mash their barbs down.
Teach them to invest three dollars at five below in
a pair of needle nosed flyers, and is that way
even if they rush shut in an hour and a half,
you've still got your money for it. And just be prepared,
you know, be prepared to take care of those fish
you're throwing back anyway, and you're not gonna eat any
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of them, So kind of that's.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
How I am.
Speaker 6 (40:05):
Oh, yeah, I guess I don't think I've Probably they
make a wedge for your troll motor when you're in
an extremely shallow water, like I do when I'm in
Houston County. Yeah, yeah, but I'm old. Course I use
a piece of two by four and I didn't have that.
I got my big worm bag and I stuck it
up under the troll motor on that worm bag.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
You know.
Speaker 6 (40:24):
Yeah, prosa, I've done so.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Didn't have a shoe box, didn't have a two by
four couldn't find a fence post, so the worm bag.
And I suspect that worm bag is full enough that
it it didn't even bend when you put that on there.
Speaker 6 (40:38):
Oh yeah, I get a ten last night out of
my boat if I took all the soft plass my boat.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
All right, folk, bro, It's been a pleasure man as
always stay in touch. But you bet Audios, that's a
good dude right there. I guarantee you he knows his
way around Livingston. He knows his way around probably at
least a half a dozen of the best lakes in Texas.
If you ever get a chance to get in the
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boat with that guy, do it good man. I'm trying
to think of other things that I've improved.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
There was an old school way to stay warm in
the deer.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Stand years ago, and it had to do with it
was soaking a toilet paper roll in some sort of
flammable liquid. I can't even remember how it all worked,
and it's probably best that I don't go into it anymore,
because I'm sure more than one deer stand is burned
down because people did it wrong. So I'm just not
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even gonna I'll let that one go. I'll just let
that one go. See what we can do is go
to break here at the top of the hour, and
I can.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Almost I can go. Is this four for four, Frankie?
This will be four for four? Want? I don't know.
I don't know. I think I got the last one
on Tom. It really doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
What I want to do now is just tell you
about Timber Creek because it's going to turn out to
be a pretty good day.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
I feel confident about that.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
And if you're thinking about playing golf down on the
south side of town, timber Creek Golf Club's a great
place to go. Twenty seven holes off FM twenty three
fifty one and friends would about three four miles west
of the golf Freeway, very easy to find.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
And because there has been some.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Question about the weather this week, I would bet you
that they have some open tea times this morning, even
if you want to grab three buddies and just make
for a Hey, why not golf round. Great teaching staff
if you need the work, and we all do. Run
by a guy named J. J.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Woods.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
He's been there for about a year and a half
maybe two years now at Timber Creek and doing a
fine job. Of helping people iron out the hiccups in
their swings, good people from start to finish down there,
make your own tea time right now. Go to the website,
take a look around.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Know that anybody and everybody there who's wearing a name
tag is going to be happy to help you find
whatever you're looking for, unless it's the perfect Timbercreekgolf Club
dot com is a website, timber Creek Golf Club dot com. No,
here's Doug Pike all right, second out of the program
starts right now. Let me get this back in here,
turn it up a little bit, and then you get
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that volume just right, just right. It doesn't really matter that.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Much really, seven one three two one two five seven
ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
I wanted to where do I want to go? Gosh,
there's so much going on.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Oh, by the way, this this rain that we're gonna
get down in South Texas is gonna make it just
even even better than it is right now as far
as the habitat goes. I had a good conversation with
Travis Carter this week about what it looks like down south,
and he's excited as can be. They've actually got on
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the som Burrito, he said, some amazing, magnificent bucks. And
these are all Native Texas Jeanpool bucks that were when
when Bill Carter put the fence up around the som Burrito.
It's it's a five figure ranch in acreage wise, five
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figures of acres and behind a protective fence, and big
enough that a lot of those deer live their entire
lives and never see a fence. They just they can't
run far enough to get to the fence. But what
he was telling me is that the habitat is in
such good shape down.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
There and pretty much all around where he is.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
That's it's gonna be just incredible. The antlers are pretty
much grown out now and they're looking at quite a
few deer that are going to be absolutely spectacular. And
then as usual, everything you can imagine in between all
of which, all of those deer, because that place has
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been managed so well for so long, they are not
a lot of oddball and bucks in there, just a
lot of beautiful, amazing trophy animals that people will appreciate,
and they're going to make you hunt for them a
little bit. In most cases, I've been on ranches before,
and it concerns me a little bit when I'm around
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this type of a hunt when it goes down.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
What it is is that these people will.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
Come in for two, three day four day hunts whatever
and treat it like a like a party almost, and
they're they'll celebrate well into the night and then get
dragged out of bed grab a little bit of breakfast.
And I've had some guides on some of these ranches
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tell me that they've had hunters in there to shoot
really big deer that should mean a really a lot
to them, and they're so hungover or so tired from
staying up to that they fall asleep in the deer stand.
I can't I can't imagine being in a place where
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I could have an opportunity to take a magnificent animal
and not off I just I wouldn't stay up that
late to begin with, because I would want to be fresh.
I would want to be one hundred percent on my game.
But some people are like that. I've also I've heard
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stories of guys who will We'll call and say, hey,
look I want to and it doesn't matter which ranches
they're on, but they're there. They're high quality high return ranches,
and they'll call and say, look, I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (46:47):
Fly in.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
Early, early, early on Monday morning, and I got to
be back in the office Monday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (46:56):
Can you put me on a giant buck?
Speaker 1 (46:59):
And a lot of these ranches will accommodate those guys.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
And I don't blame them.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
It's a business, and I don't blame them, But I
think that that just I don't know if that's the
story behind your giant deer on the wall. I'm not
so sure. That wouldn't be my story. If it's yours,
more power to you. I'm not going to knock anybody
for hunting the way they hunt. And most of the
guys I know who are serious hunters, starting with bow
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hunters into rifle hunters, they've been at it long enough
that they're starting to set these unique and kind of
fun goals to chase the tallest rack they can find,
the biggest eight they can find. That was one of
my quests that I got that one taken care of,
actually a long time ago. I've got a big eight
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under my belt now and I'm glad to have gotten
that deer. When and where and how I did and
with the people I was with at the time. It
was a really funny experience. If you like wide deer,
go hunt a wide deer somewhere and let the rest
of them walk by.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
Resist.
Speaker 1 (48:08):
That's another thing that becomes increasingly less difficult as you
go through the progression of being a hunter of any kind.
First it's just I want to get one of those.
Speaker 2 (48:21):
Deer.
Speaker 1 (48:21):
The prime example in Texas, that's a big game. That's
the big game, most popular big game animal in Texas
far and away. So your first objective is to get
a deer. And I didn't start deer hunting until I
was in my twenties. I didn't have any idea about
deer hunting. I had no opportunity to go. My father
was not a hunter at all, and I could count
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on one hand the times he actually went hunting. One
was with me, and one was with some guys down
in South Louisiana on a duck hunt that I've told
the story of a million times and won't bother you
again with it. But the bottom line is that just
wasn't his way. He was born and raised in midtown
downtown Louisiana or New Orleans basically, and his father was
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not a hunter. His mother had nothing to do with
the outdoors except to be able to cook some of
the most amazing gumbo I ever ate in my life,
and red beans and rice. Her red beans and rice
incomparable anywhere period in the story. I wish I had
the recipe, as I could open a restaurant and make
a fortune every day delicious.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
The bottom line is he didn't hunt anything.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
So I started bird hunting in high school with friends,
and then graduated to duck and goose hunting, and then
ultimately finally got into deer hunting and.
Speaker 2 (49:43):
I fell in love with it. I absolutely did.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
So I haven't shot as many deer as most people
who call themselves avid deer hunters. I'm avid about going,
but I don't have to shoot a deer to feel
like it's been a successful hunt. And I think lot
of you probably understand that. I'm thinking of four or
five guys who are regular callers to this program, and
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in my mind, I'm one hundred percent sure that they
like me. If there's a group of people on a
deer lease, they're just as happy to see somebody else.
Speaker 2 (50:20):
Take a deer.
Speaker 1 (50:21):
I would be inclined at this stage of my life
if I were told, Okay, you've got the green light
to go out and hunt blind number fifty four or
old whiskey barrel blind or whatever they call it. And
just if you see one you like, you take him,
as long as it's a mature deer. That's what Bill
Carter used to tell Joe, Doggit and me when he
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would kind of hold his breath and cut us loose
on two or three thousand acres. If you see one
you like and it's a mature buck, you can take it.
And I would sit in that stand today if somebody
gave me that same opportunity, and there were some younger
people in camp. If I sat out there in the
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morning and saw a really really good buck, I would
probably come in in the after that hunt and tell
my host that there is a really really good buck
coming to that stand, coming to that feeder, coming through
that pasture, whatever.
Speaker 2 (51:20):
Who do you want to take it? Who would it
mean the.
Speaker 1 (51:23):
Most to to be able to get a shot at
that deer? And then I'll go sit with him in
the afternoon and see if we can find it.
Speaker 2 (51:31):
Pretty good chances maybe the next morning too. Why not
bring the person you want.
Speaker 1 (51:36):
To bring the person who'll be most excited to shoot
that deer. And that's that's kind of what I'm looking for.
Bring the person you most want to have a good
duck hunt and put me in there with him, and
I'll tell them what I know about duck and goose hunting.
There's a there's something I'm working on, by the way,
with an old friend, a guy named James Prince. We
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used to guy together out in Katie and he's still
in the outdoors business. I'm still in the outdoors business
in totally different arenas, but we're there and he and
a couple other guys came up with a really good
idea that we're working on. It's not going to come
to fruition probably until March, but as it develops and
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once it's carved into stone, I'll start sharing what we're
going to do. And I think it'll be a really
really good time. And I mean it'll it'll it'll bring
together a lot of people who haven't been together in
a long time, and I think there's going to be
some interest from I don't want to give away too much.
Speaker 2 (52:40):
It's just going to be really really good.
Speaker 1 (52:42):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety email
on me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Let's take
a little break here and start. I think we're going
to be four for five Frankie so far, and that's
probably the best batting average I've ever had on getting
a break on time American shooting centers.
Speaker 2 (52:58):
As I mentioned, we have got what is this the
sixteenth We've got fifteen days, two weeks in a day
before dove season starts.
Speaker 1 (53:07):
And if you haven't shot yet, you better get out there.
You better get somewhere in American shooting centers is probably
going to be the best shot you've got. No pun
intended at finding a place on a sporting places course.
Speaker 2 (53:21):
They have three of those.
Speaker 1 (53:23):
Finding some place on a trap in skeep field, they
have ten of those. Finding a beginner's wing shooting area,
they have one of those. They've got five stands setups
around the property, a whole lot of opportunities for you
to shoot your shotguns, shoot your handgun, shoot your rifle,
handgun and rifle.
Speaker 2 (53:42):
Start at five yards and go to six.
Speaker 1 (53:44):
Hundred yards and nestled in the middle of all that,
well downward toward the handgun area. At twenty five yards,
you can set up paper to pattern your shotgun, and
then out between the two hundred I think and longer
there's a little pop up silhouette range where you can
take that rim fire rifle in the kids and let
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welcome back, Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate
it as always. Cat'm Scott weighed in, Rick Mice, I'll
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get to you in just one second. Cap'm Scott waged
in when I was asking, he is the one who
sent me the email that said you can go ahead and.
Speaker 2 (54:58):
Bring that down, Frankie. If you there, we go. Thank you, Liz.
Speaker 1 (55:02):
I'm tapping my foot to the song and losing my
train of thought. So it was Captain Scott who let
us know that the expression about a hurricane is that
it's like you're being chased by a killer turtle.
Speaker 2 (55:17):
And when I.
Speaker 1 (55:18):
Asked what would the equivalent be for a tornado, there
was Captain Scott who jumped in first, and I think
he gave a very good description. A hurricane is more
like a six month old lab puppy or no, a tornado.
Excuse me, the tornado, not the hurricane. That's the turtle.
The tornado is like a six month old lab. You
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know it's gonna tear something up, you just don't know
what or when.
Speaker 2 (55:43):
So there you go. I like both of those. Rick Bis.
What's up, Hey, Doug, good morning.
Speaker 9 (55:53):
I had something happened to me this morning. I've never
had happened before.
Speaker 5 (55:58):
I M.
Speaker 2 (55:58):
I have a hard time believing that, but go for it.
Speaker 8 (56:03):
Well, I'm on the road.
Speaker 9 (56:04):
In fact, i'm pulling over. I'm gonna find this happened.
Speaker 3 (56:07):
About an hour ago. For your show. Come on.
Speaker 8 (56:11):
I was on a two lane FBM.
Speaker 9 (56:13):
I'm going about sixty five miles an hour. I came
through a curve, not a sharp curve. I come around
a curve and the road was full of some white
winged dust.
Speaker 2 (56:24):
Oh wow.
Speaker 9 (56:26):
And I still have feathers going up my grill over
top of my truck. I'm afraid to look at what
they did. I mean, twenty thirty of them.
Speaker 2 (56:35):
I'm on this yeah, and it just nowhere.
Speaker 3 (56:39):
I hit quail.
Speaker 8 (56:40):
Yeah, I hit mozards and quail and all that.
Speaker 3 (56:43):
But I have never hid up before.
Speaker 2 (56:45):
You know, it almost sounds like somebody spilled some grain or.
Speaker 1 (56:49):
Something out of the back of a pickup truck. Wouldn't
you think that that would make sense this time of year.
Speaker 2 (56:56):
Somebody's out going to fill their feeders up and they
hit a bar ump and they're one of the bags
in the back broke and it dumped a bunch of
corn in the road. That's crazy, though, No, I haven't
ever seen that many of them in the road.
Speaker 3 (57:10):
That's all.
Speaker 9 (57:10):
That's very possible. Are does were kind of like pigeons.
They have to have grip, yeah, their or their guzzet
and maybe.
Speaker 8 (57:21):
Rid on that asphalt. I'm going to email you.
Speaker 9 (57:24):
The meet it a picture of something dear related, since
you were talking about it a lot this morning, and
I'll give you an explanation. I got it in the.
Speaker 8 (57:34):
Back of my truck, something that I found just though.
Speaker 2 (57:38):
I'm interested now I.
Speaker 9 (57:40):
Had but here here's here's the interesting party I have.
I had seen it before.
Speaker 2 (57:47):
Hmm. Okay, okay, so you don't have to.
Speaker 1 (57:52):
Yeah, before you go, I want you to to tell
this audience about the video you sent me about the
two little kids.
Speaker 2 (57:59):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 8 (58:01):
Oh I'm the son.
Speaker 9 (58:04):
He's he's an outfit of and Wholman. And they in
places they have these groundhogs and they did these holes
in around you know brown Anyway, these two kids got
one and they're I guess it's like peanuts.
Speaker 3 (58:19):
I'm guessing.
Speaker 2 (58:20):
Yeah, that's what I was saying.
Speaker 9 (58:21):
Uh, he's right in his hole. He's just barely sticking
his head out, and he wants that teanut. And they're
holding in their hands. These are little kids, yeah years old. Yeah, anyway,
I cut them a story short. Finally, the ground squirrel
comes up and he takes off running in what had happened.
Their mother had laid the sack full of the teanuts
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on the ground, and that that that the brown hog
grabbed that bag and he never slowed down. He kept
and went over to the next hole and went down in.
Speaker 2 (58:57):
It's hilarious that that is kind of like whack them hole.
Speaker 1 (59:00):
He stick his head out and they're trying to lure
him out of the hole holding these little peanuts and
he's itting in not coming out. No, I'm scared of you.
I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this.
And the thing finally comes out of the hole and
darts over just like Rick said, and grabs the entire
bag of peanuts and runs about what six or eight
yards and then dumps into another.
Speaker 2 (59:20):
Hole, just screaming. You know, as soon as he gets
in the hole, he's going, I got dinner for everybody.
That's great. It's hilarious.
Speaker 9 (59:30):
Thank you. I said, I'm gonna shoot your text an
email here to me.
Speaker 3 (59:35):
I'm gonna tell you some pictures.
Speaker 2 (59:37):
You got it? Thank you man Audios.
Speaker 1 (59:39):
Yeah, that email that he sent me, that video he
sent me of those two little kids sitting out and
it looks like some sort of a public park up there,
some sort of a public park, uh.
Speaker 2 (59:49):
And it's just a cool.
Speaker 1 (59:51):
Place to take little kids where they can see these
little ground hogs or prairie dogs or whatever they.
Speaker 2 (59:56):
Are up there, and out they come.
Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
They're very they're very comfortable around people, kind of like
squirrels in a way. They're they're not totally they're not
just gonna come eat out of your hand, but they'll
they got a hunch that you might have something they want,
and then sure enough that one figured it out. It's
kind of like some of the monkeys in some of
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these tourist traps where it's all cute to go feed
the monkeys and whatnot, but then they steal your purse
or they or they grab your cell phone and run
off into the woods with it.
Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
Pretty interesting stuff. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
Let's go talk to Rick and sugar Land here Sugarland Hunt,
that's where I live.
Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
Man. What's going on?
Speaker 3 (01:00:42):
Rick? Hey?
Speaker 5 (01:00:44):
Man?
Speaker 7 (01:00:44):
A couple of things. You know, Uh, this year is
my son's senior year of high school, okay, and so
one of the things we've been thinking about doing is,
you know, I want to kind of get them into
a little more hunting before you know, kind of leave
the nest.
Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
So buddy, I'm happy.
Speaker 7 (01:01:01):
So we were thinking about, you know, doing like dove hunt,
you know, deer hunting, a duck hunt. Am I just
kind of thought that somebody doesn't have a lease or anything.
Or had it on for a while, right, kind of
what's your thoughts on what we should kind of pay
about for those things, because you know, you got to
go with an outfitter, and of course it ain't free, right,
but just kind of if we have to put a
budget together for that for this coming season, you know,
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what's your kind of thoughts on that and what does
she look like?
Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
Well, what what I would do is what part you're
in sugar Land? There are some there's some good dove
hunting down toward El Campo and a coming up people
tall Mitchell Holder with wildlife or waterfowl specialties, and hold on,
I can give you his numbers. Damn by one second.
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I was kind of laughing. When I went out and
met with David Pruett and Eagle Lake. I said, do
y'all do any dove hunting out here? I said, we
don't have any doves. I was riding around on the
prairie with him like two weeks ago, and he said,
we just don't have the doves. And I started looking
and well, I saw one back there. He said, yeah,
but you won't see another one for thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
And it was true.
Speaker 1 (01:02:04):
The just no doves but the El Campo area has them.
Let me find Mitchell's number.
Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
Stand by one second, Hey try JK element O P Mitchell, Mitchell, Mitchell,
Come on, where are you? He's here somewhere there he is.
You got a penhandy, yes, sir? Or a good memory?
Two eight one seven four four one eight eight eight.
Speaker 3 (01:02:29):
Seven easy enough?
Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
Yeah, easy enough. He's a great guy, good young man.
If he doesn't have the doves, he can probably lead
you to somebody who can and tell him.
Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
I saying hello, mm.
Speaker 3 (01:02:43):
Hmm, I will.
Speaker 7 (01:02:44):
And then what's your thoughts on I say deer hunting,
because you know we're not after a big trophy or nothing,
but just to get him on, you know, on.
Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
A few right, Yeah, what you know.
Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
The word in the in the trade is call okay
that you you want to get him a pretty good deer,
but not a great deer. It depends on how far
you want to drive, how long you want to stay.
But that's the dove hunt's going to be about a hundred,
maybe one hundred and twenty five dollars a man somewhere
in there. The deer hunt is gonna jack up to
probably close to a thousand before you can blink. So
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take all that into account, and you know you might
have better luck making two dove hunts for half as
much money as a deer hunt. If he's not really
into deer hunting, you know you gotta because if you're
doing it because you love the deer hunt and you
want him to experience it with you, maybe sit down
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and talk to him, say, look, what.
Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
Would what would you rather do?
Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
Because if this is his present, maybe ask him first,
because I know what I'd like to I'd like to
get my son to go with me on a couple
of things before he leaves the nest.
Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
And it's not going to be that long. But he
doesn't like the same things I do.
Speaker 7 (01:03:54):
You know, well, my son doesn't either, But there's just
some things I think, you know, I want him to experience.
Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
Right well, yeah, then the best in the experience and
he'll have that. He'll have it forever. That's the good thing.
You can't.
Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
You know, nobody's gonna be able to If you buy
him a car, he's not gonna have that car forever.
If you buy him a new watch or clothes or whatever,
he's not gonna have that stuff. But a hunt that
you guys go on a fishing trip. You guys go on.
That's gonna stick forever and yeah, whether yeah, I like
both of them. Really if you can figure out how
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to do it.
Speaker 7 (01:04:29):
Yeah, well we're gonna, you know, we just want to.
I just want to kind of get him experienced to
some things that you know. It's one of those things
when he's the freshman.
Speaker 9 (01:04:35):
He said, yeah, we're gonna, We're gonna, We're gonna.
Speaker 7 (01:04:37):
Yeah, now here it is. He's a senior until we
got it.
Speaker 2 (01:04:40):
I got one of those.
Speaker 1 (01:04:41):
I got a senior in high school right same in
my house man. And there's a lot of stuff I
want to do with him quick. A good A good
guy to start with. For that deer hunt might be
blamed friar mood down there. He hunts out of Freer
I think somewhere down close to there. And I've known
Blame for thirty years and I might have a number
for him if.
Speaker 2 (01:05:02):
You want it.
Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
Hold on, boy, I've got back. I've got a minute
left to get this right, and I can do it.
I promise, Frankie. Don't you wear if you were, I
got you covered.
Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
Rick Blame Blaine there he is okay now, Sometimes if
he's down south and he's gonna bear more starting pretty soon.
Uh the reception spab, but leave him a message. Uh
blame for our mood is seven one three seven zero
three six six five.
Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
Six big sir.
Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
All right, Yeah, I think he comes out of that are.
He's got a lot of ranches he hunts, but he's
got a nice lodge set up down there, and uh
it's really Yeah, that's a good father son atmosphere.
Speaker 7 (01:05:42):
Okay, we'll get we'll definitely try to do that, and
then we'll check back with you with anything.
Speaker 1 (01:05:47):
Yeah, if you let if you run in any trouble
or something, just shoot me an email or call me
back and I'll take care of you.
Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
All right, thank you. See all right, let me do that, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:05:58):
Yeah that anybody who's trying to get their children out
into the woods on the water, I'll help and I'll
make as many phone calls as we need to make.
I'll give you as many ideas as I can give you,
because that's important, no question about it. Also important right
now is to tell you about Belleville Meat Market. Belleville
Meat Market has been in business for forty plus years,
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right in the middle of a little town of Belleville.
Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
Just drive into Bellville.
Speaker 1 (01:06:24):
If you don't know where it is, roll down your windows,
and when you smell barbecue smoke, drive up wind. It's
that simple. Really, it's easier than that. You'll see it.
It's a pretty big place. They got bulk pricing available
on fresh ground beef and all their pecan smoked sausage
all the time. They've got stuffed pork tenders, stuffed pepper,
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stuffed mushrooms. You eat lunch there. You can eat lunch
or dinner from ten to seven every day, and you'll
be stuffed after you do that too. Backyard barbecue headquarters,
block party headquarters. A little bit hot for some of
those right now as the weather starts to change. You'll
want to know the route. At least drive out there
with the whole family. They're on Highway thirty six, about
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fifteen minutes north of Sealy, fifteen minutes south of Hampstead.
Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
Pretty easy to find.
Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
Drive out there with the family, make a list on
the way out of all the things you want to
bring home and eat for the next couple of weeks
from Belleville.
Speaker 2 (01:07:19):
And then go out there enjoy lunch on the patio.
Speaker 1 (01:07:22):
It's always about ten or fifteen degrees to the good
side of where the temperature should be. When it's super
hot outside, it's ten or fifteen degrees cooler, and when
it's super cold outside, it's ten degrees warmer. I don't
have that. I don't know how they do it, but
they do while game processing year round. And got some
new sausage recipes you can try out while you're out there.
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Beef turkey, beef turkey, turkey jerky, my favorite dry stick.
Oh that's good stuff. Everything for the grab and go,
snacks for the boat or the weekend at the lake.
Whatever they've got them at Bellville Meat Market. Belleville MeetMarket
dot com is a website Bellville MeetMarket dot com. If
your duck season this past year wasn't all that great,
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and I bet you there's a lot of hands in
the air right now because it was kind of spotty
from what I recall, and you want a better experience,
get in touch with David Pruett down at Riceland Waterfowl Club.
Speaker 2 (01:08:16):
No fooling.
Speaker 1 (01:08:17):
I took a full prairie tour, well not a full
tour actually we only went to a few spots that
they have, but every one of them just look ducky.
Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
Some of them had their water on them already, some didn't.
Speaker 1 (01:08:31):
And when he explained to me just how much water
he's gonna have, just how many blinds he's gonna have,
and the system he uses to make sure all that
the all of the groups that are signed up to
hunt with Riceland Waterfowl Club have pretty much equal access
over the course of a season to their first.
Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
Spot for the day.
Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
He makes all of his blind assignments the night before,
so you don't all have to meet in the middle
of anywhere to figure out where you're gonna go hunt.
From there, you can go to bed knowing exactly where
you and your friends need to meet that next morning
to get out there early, get your decoy set up,
and be ready to go.
Speaker 2 (01:09:13):
At first light.
Speaker 1 (01:09:15):
Riceland Waterfowl Club's been out there fifty years five zero.
This is the golden anniversary of Riceland Waterfowl Club. And
anybody who knows anything about waterfowl hunting knows that if
he's not he's not getting results for his people. They're
not coming back Riceland Waterfowl Club. There's still room for
a few more groups, and by the way, there is
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no guided hunting on any of their property, members and guests.
Speaker 2 (01:09:43):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (01:09:44):
Ricelandwaterfowl Club dot com. Give David a call, get out there,
take a look, or take the tour I took, and
you'll be convinced within the first fifteen minutes really that
they know what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (01:09:58):
They're gonna put you on birds.
Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
They're gonna have birds all year, They're gonna rest spots
when they need to be rested, and you're gonna have
a good duck season. Ricelandwaterfowl Club dot com, Riceland Waterfowl
Club dot com.
Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
Nika, all right, welcome back.
Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk seven to ninety. Had
just sent Captain Scott a note. He was letting me
know that he likes Mike's weather page, which I just
looked at and something some dust bunny just flew into
my mouth in here.
Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
I don't know what that is. That's weird in any event, whatever.
Speaker 1 (01:10:38):
Uh, I think Mike's page pulls some stuff from cyclocaine
or the reverse. But I think it's Mike's page adding
in a layer of cyclocane because Mike's page has a
bunch of different stuff on it to look at and
to me it almost is it's a little too much.
(01:10:59):
Maybe I want to see that that cyclocane graph that
shows the predicted track of the storms and based on
about a dozen or more models, and then it also
has an intensity expectation based on that same number of
models that goes out for about a week or so.
Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
And so anyway, if you.
Speaker 1 (01:11:25):
Add, if I add mics to my stuff, and Captain
Scott adds cyclocane to his stuff, and we'll be in
pretty good shape.
Speaker 2 (01:11:34):
He is, he's a little more he's a little more.
Speaker 1 (01:11:38):
Enthusiastic about the National Hurricane Center stuff. I think this year,
for some reason, they decided that as soon as something
warrants a yellow checkerboard or whatever you want to call it, gona,
they're gonna put it. This is the conversation. Okay, here's
what we're gonna do this year, guys. As soon as
something as soon as.
Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
There's any organization whatever whatsoever, shown by this system, we're
gonna put a big giant.
Speaker 1 (01:12:06):
Yellow checkerboard around it. And if it has to cover
half of the Atlantic Ocean, we'll use that. The first
two that came up this year, one of them, there
was one out in the in the mid Atlantic that
covered an area the size of the Eastern Seaboard, and
it can't be that messed up over that much ocean.
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I just refused to believe that, and so why they
chose to change what they typically would do.
Speaker 2 (01:12:35):
The little small yellow blobs.
Speaker 1 (01:12:37):
I don't mind seeing it. Sometimes you see three or four,
five of them on the page at the same time.
But if they're going to make them all that big,
then why do we even have anybody who lives within
a thousand miles of the coast.
Speaker 2 (01:12:50):
It seems so doom and gloomy to me.
Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
I just I'm not a big fan of overdoing it,
as you might have guessed by now. Mike waded in
and asked me if Shooters Corner sells hunting licenses, and
I said absolutely, yes they do.
Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
And he said, well, you don't have to tell me
on there if.
Speaker 1 (01:13:08):
You don't want to. I don't want them to be overwhelmed.
They'd be happy to be overwhelmed this time of year.
I can assure you if there's a line outside the
door when you get there, and it's my fault, then
I don't think anybody inside's going to turn anybody away.
These are shooters, These are hunters. They know how important
it is to get that license. They know how important
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it is to get the right AMMO and the right
gun for whatever you're going to go shoot. That's important
to them. That's what they do every day. And it
doesn't take long to generate a hunting license. Now, Captain
Scott wade in he's.
Speaker 2 (01:13:44):
Been using for how long was it, Scott? Three years?
Speaker 1 (01:13:49):
Three years He's used the app to buy his hunting
license with zero issues. He says, I probably never have
a paper license again.
Speaker 2 (01:14:00):
Ah, if only I were that brave.
Speaker 1 (01:14:03):
I'll be in line somewhere this week buying a license
and getting it so I can fold it up and
put it in my wallet, take out the old one,
put it in the drawer where I put all my
old licenses and duck stamps.
Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
Not a bad idea to hang on to that stamp.
Speaker 1 (01:14:19):
That's the that bothered me all last year or two
during waterfowl season, to know that I didn't have my
stamp yet. I bought it, and I had proof of
purchase and all that stuff, but I didn't have the
physical stamp.
Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
And I'm so old school.
Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
I was born a long time before Capscott was, and
I'm so old school that It just made me Antsy like,
oh my gosh, how am I going to prove I
have the stamp? I don't have the stamp all my license?
You got it on your phone? Which what do you
do if your phone dies? How are you You're gonna
get a ticket and you're gonna have to prove that
you had it.
Speaker 2 (01:14:52):
And it just becomes an issue.
Speaker 1 (01:14:56):
I guess the same issue could be said if I
lost my wallet in the field, which is highly unlikely.
By the way, anytime you're hunting and fishing, if you're
carrying your wallet in a pocket that doesn't have a
button on it or a zipper, you're making a big mistake,
making a big old mistake. Holy cow, that was a
fast segment. Let me see what Rudy wants. Oh, it
(01:15:18):
just says this buck was killed at Questhan Lodge in
Pennsylvania this year. They start their season early up there.
I guess I'll take a look at that during the
break and we will critique it positive or negative. I
still haven't looked at the picture yet. On the way,
we're gonna talk about Champions Tree preservation. This is the
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crew that came to my house about I don't know
a month ago now, and fortunately for me, said your
trees look just fine. And one of the things I
learned from Robin, or actually it was Irwin Castellana who
came out the dad, father and son team who owned
the company. And if you call up there, the woman
who answers is Robin's mom and Erwin's wife. It's a
(01:16:03):
very family run business, obviously. And what I learned from
Irwin is that the little sprouts that come up on
top of the limbs of oak trees, and they just
line up like little tin soldiers all the way out
those main limbs, those are actually beneficial to some degree
because they provide shade for the bark on that main limb,
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and that shade keeps that limb healthy. Whereas if those
are taken off to end up looking like a lion's tail,
that's what he was talking about. We get that long,
skinny stalk with nothing on it, and then this big
burst of leaves at the end.
Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
They call that lion's tail. In his business, that's not
so good for the tree because the bark all the
way out is getting scorched by summer sun, and that's
unhealthy for it. Just all of that and all of
that and all of that.
Speaker 1 (01:17:00):
Up to They know a lot about trees, and you
don't get them to come talk to you, get them
to come diagnose every tree in your yard.
Speaker 2 (01:17:08):
And maybe it needs feeding, maybe it needs a little pruning.
Worst case scenario, it needs to come out. And if
it does, they have a tree farm where they grow
native Texas trees and can pick one out for you
to put in the.
Speaker 1 (01:17:20):
Hole that's left by the one that's had to go away.
You get to watch that new tree grow up while
you're still in your home.
Speaker 5 (01:17:26):
There.
Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
Championstree dot com is the website. Get a consultation, make
a phone call out there. Two eight one three two
zero eighty two zero one two eight one three two
zero eighty two zero one. All right, welcome back Doug
Pike Show on Sports Talk seven to ninety.
Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (01:17:49):
Frankie is so your your camera is the one that yeah,
it's still out right, that's okay, all right, So we're
we got this.
Speaker 2 (01:17:57):
We got this.
Speaker 1 (01:17:59):
So Judy sent me a picture and I promised to
look at it during the break, which I did after
responding also to Lonnie and Lonnie's in the same situation
as Gosh, who was it? I can't remember the man's name.
I apologize so oh sorry. Things just kind of run
(01:18:19):
into my head and run back out of my head.
Were talking about taking his son, high school senior Lonnie
also has one of those and wants to get him
out there, but didn't catch the contact info. So I
sent him Blaine's number, and I send him Mitchell's number.
In between the two of those guys, somehow, some way,
I guarantee you they'll put you and anybody else you
(01:18:41):
want on good hunts, good people, and close to town too.
The dove hunting in El Campo can be really really
really good, and the deer hunting down in Freer can
be really really really good. And then once waterfowl season
comes along, Mitchell does great guide it hunts. I got
to hunt with him a couple of year years ago
now on a project that was that I got invited
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to participate in, and we had an absolute blast. Nice
short drive from town to really is seven one three
two one two five seven ninety. Email me Dougpike at
iHeartMedia dot com. So that deer the picture Rudy sent
me this deer it it It just boggles the mind.
Speaker 2 (01:19:29):
And now I'm I know.
Speaker 1 (01:19:31):
There's a market for people who want bigger and bigger
and bigger antlers. I get it, But this white tailed
deer was officially scored.
Speaker 2 (01:19:45):
You know what, take a guess. I want.
Speaker 1 (01:19:46):
I want to see two or three guesses come in
what you think a really crazy big deer would score
before I tell you what it is. And I might
even milk the rest of this segment and wait till
the top of the nine o'clock hour just to see
what kind of numbers. Captain Scott, if you're still listening,
(01:20:07):
I know you'll you'll be able to weigh in on
what you think would be just crazy, big and booming
crocket scoring system. And anybody else who does a lot
of deer hunting, what do you think? Where's the line drawn?
Where's the line drawing it? Well, that's just too much.
That's what we're looking for. And once I get in
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a few guesses, maybe I'll slide back to that and
tell you I'm really surprised that this audience, with all
the mcgivers I know who listen, hasn't come up with
some impromptu things they've had to do and to improvise
and solve an issue in the outdoors where you forgot something,
(01:20:51):
but you were able to cobble something together out of
the the old gum wrappers in the truck and maybe
the potato ship bags and a water bottle and a roll.
Speaker 2 (01:21:02):
Of duct tape.
Speaker 1 (01:21:04):
Who knows, who knows what that might be, but whatever
it is, I want to hear about it. I think
a lot of that goes on, and a lot more
of that has to go on in hunting than in fishing,
because in fishing, if you've got a hook, you're pretty
much set. You don't have to improv a whole lot
in fishing that I can think of offhand. It's not
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like you have to modify your fishing rod.
Speaker 3 (01:21:29):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:21:29):
I have seen guys try to create makeshift rod tips
when they've snapped a tip in a car window or
a door or a ceiling fan or whatever, but those
never really turn out well.
Speaker 2 (01:21:46):
The alternative is going to be.
Speaker 1 (01:21:52):
Just take some take some wirecutters and clip the rod right.
If you have extra to rods, you can go ahead
and just take it home and get a new tip
put on it if the tip broke off cleanly, or
you can just snip it off at the next guy,
the first actual guide on the rod and make that
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your tip. It's gonna change the action of the rod,
but not so much that the average person would notice.
It'll still function. Faux pro wants a piece of this
deer hunting thing.
Speaker 2 (01:22:23):
Faux pro. What's a big number?
Speaker 6 (01:22:26):
Well, vivid. I'm not a fan of non typical at all.
I'm a old school I like typical, but I will
I will say. I'm gonna say five hundred.
Speaker 2 (01:22:36):
Okay, I'll just I'll make that note.
Speaker 1 (01:22:38):
You're the first faux fa u x p r oh,
faux process five hundred points.
Speaker 2 (01:22:45):
Okay, there, that's all. I'm gonna just write that down.
Thank you, all right, all right, man By, I'm not
gonna give.
Speaker 1 (01:22:52):
Indian any any indication whether that's high or low from
what this deer scored. I'm just gonna say, okay, thank you,
and see if I can get in a couple of
more by email.
Speaker 2 (01:23:01):
Let me see if anybody popped in. Um dum ummmmm
that hmmm, one fifty six. That's a good deer, no
question about it.
Speaker 1 (01:23:19):
UM not going to give into indication whether this deer
was higher or lower than that. But I suspect most
of you would be guessing higher. Um, David Wade in
just order the license from my phone. It took five
minutes and should be here in seven to ten days,
So you don't if you ordered it on the phone, though,
(01:23:40):
you don't have to have it on the phone, right,
you don't have to have it on the phone. Steven
weighed in steven six hundred and ten inches, six one zero.
Speaker 2 (01:23:57):
Okay, we recorded.
Speaker 1 (01:24:00):
Vote your guess another one. Four seventy nine. What's that's
a very specific number. I'm not sure if four seventy
nine that that just sounds like somebody's personal personal score
that they want to hit. I already got a four
to seventy eight. I'm looking for a four to seventy nine. Now,
(01:24:23):
you know that's that's about enough, I think. To give
you an idea where people, where people are when I was,
when I was early into my deer hunting, to give
you an idea where we are now when I was
early into deer hunting. The Los Cazadori's turt Or Contest
down in South Texas awarded a jacket to anybody who
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was entered in the contest and brought in a deer
that scored more than one fifty one was a boone.
Speaker 2 (01:24:54):
And crocket mark if I remember correctly. But a one
fifty would get you a jacket, a proud thing to wear.
Not many jackets giving out back then either that's changed
a lot. Let me get Alan real quick before we
have to go to the break. What's up, Allen?
Speaker 5 (01:25:10):
Hey, deg how are you doing? I'm Cousin's got one
of them jackets.
Speaker 2 (01:25:13):
Oh man, how nice?
Speaker 5 (01:25:16):
Yeah, he showed it to me. Really nice, really nice
jacket as far as jacket goes. You know, So you
ever been to Alaska?
Speaker 2 (01:25:22):
I have not.
Speaker 1 (01:25:23):
That's one place I have not been. I opted when
I was at the paper. I had imitations, but Doggett
had kind of cornered the market on Alaska and we
didn't need a bunch of Alaska stories. So I opted
for the Caribbean. And I'm not I'm not disappointed that
I did that.
Speaker 5 (01:25:38):
They both they both best of the two worlds, right
or as I'm gonna do so. Uh So, I'm I'm fortunately,
by God's grace, going it next week. So I'm just wondering.
I know I need to layer up just like hunting yep,
because I know it rains a lot in September.
Speaker 3 (01:25:56):
But I'm but.
Speaker 5 (01:25:57):
I'm wondering, uh, you know, like like if you're duck
hunting in a in a in a decent cloud of
misty morning, the them them what they call them, a
sweat wicking.
Speaker 2 (01:26:11):
T shirts?
Speaker 5 (01:26:12):
Are they necessary?
Speaker 1 (01:26:14):
I would if you're gonna be bundled up because of rain,
you're gonna end up sweating, man, I would. I would
have something on that's gonna keep that moisture away from you.
Speaker 2 (01:26:25):
That's not a bad idea at all, because you don't
you don't want to get sweaty when it's cool.
Speaker 9 (01:26:29):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (01:26:30):
And I'm going no, no, I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (01:26:32):
Yeah, I'm using the prairie when I was a waterfowl
guide for fourteen years out there. Oh yeah yeah yeah,
So think about dressing for that, and you should be okay,
yeah yeah man, it's because I'm gonna.
Speaker 5 (01:26:45):
Wear I'm gonna wear Uh, I'm gonna wear that T
shirt and I've got some long sleeve flannel shirts I'm
not gonna get it ain't gonna be forty blows. And
then I'm gonna wear a decent uh decent long rain
sect and that should be should and I should be.
Speaker 1 (01:27:03):
Yeah, you are b you just remember, you know, it's
It's a whole lot easier to take a layer off
than to try to create a layer short of knocking
down a reindeer and skinning it out and waiting for
the hide to dry and then draping that over you.
Speaker 2 (01:27:19):
You don't have time for.
Speaker 1 (01:27:20):
All that, man, all right, okay, I appreciate it, Yes, sir,
good luck, send pictures.
Speaker 3 (01:27:26):
Thanks, all right, all right, yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (01:27:29):
On the way out, I will tell you all about
El Cubano cigars hand rolled in Texas City by a
man named Manny Lopez and two or three more Cubans
who work for him.
Speaker 2 (01:27:40):
El Caubano started by his dad.
Speaker 1 (01:27:42):
His dad and many came over in two thousand and
six and opened up one of only about I think
there's only about two dozen, about two dozen cigar manufacturing
facilities in the whole country. They make all of their
cigars out of fine Cuban seed tobacco grown in Central America,
so it can bring it in here. I saw a big,
(01:28:04):
several big bundles of tobacco that had arrived on their
doorstep just a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (01:28:09):
They aren't being rolled yet. It takes a while.
Speaker 1 (01:28:12):
They have to sit here in age and cure and
do all that stuff before they get unfurled and rolled
into fine cigars.
Speaker 2 (01:28:20):
You can watch them roll. You can watch them roll
those cigars down at Texas City.
Speaker 1 (01:28:23):
They also have another smoking lounge in League City, right
up the street a little ways. El Cubano does custom
warders too, even branded bands that really make your cigars
stand out. If you're buying them for a client, maybe
a special event, a golf tournament, whatever it is, you
can get those banded cigars and send your guests home
(01:28:44):
either well they can smoke them right there on the spot,
or you can send them home with them. Buy a
whole box for a client you like a lot. They'll
appreciate that, they really will. El Cubanosigars dot com. If
you're having a big party and you really want to
wanna gussy it up, get Manny to come out there
a little pop up tent and the six foot folding
table in the chair, and he will roll cigars right then,
(01:29:07):
right there for your guests. Elcoubino Cigars dot com. That's
the website.
Speaker 2 (01:29:11):
Elcoubinocigars dot com.
Speaker 1 (01:29:14):
Hi, welcome back, thanks for listening. I'm not gonna waste
any time. I got all kinds of stuff going on here,
juggling a lot, and I'm gonna start it off with Robbie,
who's been on the phone for a little bit a while.
Speaker 2 (01:29:25):
Robbie was up, man, Oh.
Speaker 9 (01:29:27):
Not much you mentioned earlier, improvising at the last minute
when you forgot or didn't have what you wanted or
needed in the field. I remember, Oh gosh, it was
so long ago, hunting down around Victoria on a place
that didn't have geese. We showed up and suddenly there
were geese all over this place. Of course, we had
no doing a duck called goose call in sight, of course,
(01:29:51):
but I did have some. But I did have a
couple of turkey reads in my backpack, okay, that I
used and I started playing around with that thing, and
my friends were like, Hey, that looks pretty good.
Speaker 5 (01:30:04):
Let's try it out.
Speaker 7 (01:30:05):
And we went out.
Speaker 9 (01:30:06):
And did my best to mimic the uros and the
spects that were out there. I heard anything quite like
that before, and they just wanted to come investigate. But uh, anyway,
it worked, and you know, and after that, I used them,
I kept using them. It was It worked, and if
you threw a little small tube in front of it.
Speaker 3 (01:30:28):
It worked pretty well.
Speaker 6 (01:30:29):
Fantastic anyway.
Speaker 9 (01:30:32):
Well, just on a side note, I will be on
the silver Bird tonight. You know where I'm going.
Speaker 2 (01:30:37):
Boy, I do good for you, man, good for you.
Send some pictures, will you?
Speaker 6 (01:30:43):
I will, I will.
Speaker 8 (01:30:44):
I will definitely send some.
Speaker 1 (01:30:45):
Have a good one, all right, Yeah, watch your emails too,
because we got to get tuned up for for October.
Speaker 2 (01:30:50):
What is it, September one?
Speaker 6 (01:30:53):
Yeah, I'll be ready.
Speaker 1 (01:30:54):
All right, good U good enough, thank you, Robbie. Yeah,
safe travels, audios. All right, let me get that taken
care of. Yeah, he's I know where he's going. He's
going to Argentina. That's where he's going. He's taking some
guy's dove hunting. He better send me some pictures too,
for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:31:11):
He's sure better. Okay, drumm roll. Please the deer.
Speaker 1 (01:31:19):
That the photograph that Rudy sent to me, and the
deer that we were all trying to guess. Hold on,
I gotta get this off my screen so I can
go back to where I was, so I can Why
will this?
Speaker 2 (01:31:33):
Oh that's okay, that's got a goal. Away, go away,
bye bye, go a way.
Speaker 1 (01:31:38):
Back to my emails, that's what I'm looking for right there.
It was Steven whose number was six and ten inches,
and he earns the prize for being closed because in
the in the information that Rudy sent, it just said
(01:32:00):
is north of basically north of six hundred. Rudy went looking,
and I sent a follow up email that says I
looked at their website and they killed a seven hundred
plus last year. So how much you think whoever shot
(01:32:22):
that deer paid for it? I'd guess based on what
I know about big deer now and based on what
the current definition of a big deer is, that might
be a that might be a six figure deer. Why,
and looking at the photographs of those I've seen some.
Speaker 2 (01:32:44):
I've seen some atypicals that are interesting, and I, once again,
if that's your thing, I'm all for it. That's fine.
Speaker 1 (01:32:52):
I don't have a problem as long as you're not
breaking any laws and hunting, as long as you're buying
a hunting license and your your hunting ethically and honestly,
I don't have a problem with how you hunt, same
as I don't have a problem with using live croakers
for trout, as long as the parks and Wallech just
says department says that's okay.
Speaker 2 (01:33:13):
Then that's okay. But dog gone, Where are we going
to go with all this? Where are we going to
go with all this? By the way, Captain Scott also,
let's see he jumps in on the outdoor improvisation so
(01:33:33):
that I had Carrie Marcus on the skiff for the
Gordian Sons fly fishing tournament. He's just name dropping.
Speaker 1 (01:33:39):
Now, Carrie's pretty good, pretty good dog on good stick.
As I geared Gord up the motor, I noticed a
large stream of water coming out. These new motors have
an inlet port for the water hose instead of having
to use the old muffs for flushing. I'd failed to
replace the plug, left carry with the boat, ran up
(01:34:02):
the road to a mom and pop store that has
plumbing supplies, grabbed a piece of PVC all thread and
threaded cap. All good, Well done, Captain, well done, said Apparently,
I left it sitting on the deck and it has disappeared,
so the white PVC cap is still in place.
Speaker 2 (01:34:25):
Hey, you do what you gotta do with what you got.
I've seen so many I wish I could remember more
of them. Right now, I really do. I wish I
could remember more of them right now, the things that
I've seen done. And I'll ponder that over the afternoon
until I take my nap and then maybe come up
with a couple more. Tomorrow we'll see seven one three, two,
(01:34:47):
one two five seven ninety Email me Doug Pike at
iHeartMedia Dot. Come.
Speaker 1 (01:34:51):
Yes, Scott went in on that big deer. He only
had to walk back and forth between the feed trough
and the water bucket. That's about right. I don't think
that deer could have run anywhere. I'm surprised it was
able to hold its head up.
Speaker 2 (01:35:03):
I really am.
Speaker 1 (01:35:04):
And I'm not a big fan of that stuff when
it just gets grotesque looking and all you're trying to
do is grow more and more points instead of something
magnificent and beautiful to look at, like a good typical rack.
I love just a big five by five or anything
that's symmetrical. I like that, I really do. And then,
(01:35:26):
just like I said earlier, big eights those are cool too.
Let's get to the golf or the golf tournament quickly
before I have to go to break the BMW champion ship.
Let me get the full leaderboard up here McIntyre, Robert
mctrfe nineteen under par and no, excuse me, not nineteen fourteen.
Speaker 2 (01:35:43):
I'm sorry, that would have been a big difference.
Speaker 3 (01:35:45):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (01:35:46):
Two rounds.
Speaker 1 (01:35:46):
He shot sixty two on Thursday, sixty four on yesterday
to find himself five shots clear of Scottie Scheffler. You know,
if you got to be five shots clear of anybody,
I would rather not be Scotty scheffer I would rather
he be a lot farther back than that with thirty
six holes to play. And poor McIntire's got to play
(01:36:09):
with Scotty at least today and maybe tomorrow. And that's
just like hot breath on the back of your neck. Man,
Holy cow, he's gonna be. I don't care how cool
and calm he looks on the outside today. Robert McIntyre
has got some pucker factor going into this, and he's
(01:36:31):
a little farther down the list.
Speaker 2 (01:36:32):
Is not any slouches. Typically in these things.
Speaker 1 (01:36:35):
The third day, if somebody's out front by more than
three or four, which is McIntire now at he's five
clear of the next clearest guy and next guy, they
tend to come back to the field a little bit.
And if he trips over a shoelace or or has
a little mind hiccup. At any point in this round
(01:36:56):
he might lose two shots. And if he loses two
and Scotty does what Scott he does, it might end.
Speaker 2 (01:37:04):
Up being him at Ludwig Aberg or Oberg who is
at eight under Park might be them in the final
group tomorrow. Who knows Deckie Matsiyama's at seven, He's no slouch.
Tommy Fleetwood at Fleetwood at six, along with Michael Kim
and Maverick McNeely. Uh yeah, there's some pretty dog one
good players within. Let's call it eight shots of the
(01:37:26):
lead to get to get Tommy Fleetwood in there. Eight
seems like a long ways to go.
Speaker 1 (01:37:32):
But once again, if McIntyre stumbles at all, if he
I don't know, I don't want to wish you, I
don't want to jinx the guy. I hope he goes
out there and shoots another sixty two and runs away
with it with Scotty Scheffer on your heels and knowing
the way Scotty plays, he's got no breathing room whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (01:37:52):
Seb one, three, two, two.
Speaker 1 (01:37:53):
Five seven ninety Email on me, Doug Pike at iHeartMedia
dot Com. On the way out here, speaking of golf,
black Horse Golf Club, there go two ninety to Fry Road. However,
you want to get two ninety to Fry Road and
then hang a south, go south for about three miles
and then start looking for golf course, you'll see it.
Speaker 2 (01:38:11):
And when you do, go ahead and.
Speaker 1 (01:38:12):
Put on your right blinker and turn into the gate
at black Horse Golf Club, like I've done probably one
hundred times, at least. I played in so many tournaments
out there. I played it so many rounds on my
own when I couldn't get on somewhere else, and just
I still wanted to play golf. And since they had
the two courses up there, I knew I could get
out and just say, put me out there with three
(01:38:34):
new friends and we'll see what happens. And it's always
gone very well for me up there, just walking in.
They change the configuration up there this year, in case
you didn't know it, most of you do by now.
The North course remains daily fee, make a tea time,
go play anytime you want. South course was taken private,
(01:38:55):
and by private, I mean the different membership options start
with that course and the North course for you to
play the South course as a member's course only. But
then there is an option also to where you get
access not only to those two courses, but also to
both courses at Golf Club of Houston and to Blackhawk
(01:39:18):
Country Club, where I play most of my golf because
it's the closest to my house. Black Horse Golf Club
dot Com. Fantastic place to throw a big tournament too.
You've got the two courses right there, you can use
them both on specific days. And then of course a
great teaching staff at the far end of the range.
All that room on the practice range should get sixty
(01:39:40):
seventy players warming up at the same time. I've seen
it happen, played a lot of big tournaments out there,
really fun, really good people. Strongly recommend that you test
it out. If you never have, you'll be glad you did.
They got great food and that little grill there too.
Black Horse Golf Club dot Com. Go make yourself a
tea time. See, I don't see if I'm not telling
(01:40:01):
the truth, I guarantee you I am. They're good people.
Black Horse Golf Club dot Com, ninety twenty on Sports
Talk seven ninety Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2 (01:40:10):
Thanks for hanging around. I am not gonna waste any
more time because Lj's been holding on a long time.
What's up, LJ?
Speaker 3 (01:40:18):
Hey, Doug, thanks for taking the call. Sure talking about
innovation in the field, Yeah, I was lucky enough to
have a friend of forty plus years who grew up
in Orange. And this guy was should have been something
other than what he was, because he could come up
with all kinds of inventions, if you will. But any
(01:40:41):
we were. He took me fishing down to Sabine Lake
and we were back in one of the bios you know,
tributaries back there and here at the pin. Oh, this
is unlike a tin horse motor. We didn't have one.
So we were paddling around and he comes to a
barbar wire fence and he says, oh on, he hops out,
(01:41:01):
clips out about an inch and a half of barbed
wire off an old strand.
Speaker 8 (01:41:07):
That wasn't holding up the fence, put it.
Speaker 3 (01:41:09):
In there, and back four or five miles to the
launching pad. We went another time with this same motor.
Some little gasket somewhere in the line goes out, Well,
he didn't we didn't have a replacement gasket. The engine
would run for about like ten seconds and quit his
seconds and Quip goes ahead and he has on a
(01:41:29):
pair of old leather shoes. He takes off, he cuts
off the tongue, he cuts out a circle and makes
himself a gasket. Half hours would have been out there.
They would have found the skeleton and the boat if
they come looking that. I'm an airhead anyway, I just
wanted to share how some people, Yeah, some people could
(01:41:52):
just see the solution to simple problems. That's that's not me. Also,
also maybe good news for duck hunters next year, hunt
around Eagle Lake Lake Travis is full.
Speaker 2 (01:42:09):
It's my.
Speaker 3 (01:42:11):
Opinion is they will allow the canal system on the
east side of the Colorado to function, and that takes
it a lot of land. Now around East Bernard, Yeah,
East Bernard towards the Bernard River they've been on wells
and Frother down towards Hungerford they've been on wells. But
(01:42:32):
everything from a little bit north of Eagle Lake and
all the way towards Lissi and Bonus down towards Egypt
should be some right next year. It should be good
for duck hunters.
Speaker 2 (01:42:46):
There's more rice than you think down there. Now I
took that.
Speaker 1 (01:42:49):
I took that tour with David prut from Riceland Waterfowl
Club about three four weeks ago, now whatever it was
three weeks ago, and I was surprised at what he's
gonna have water on. He's having to pump a lot
of his own water, and he's got deals cut and whatnot.
But to have that river water available again, that's you're right.
It's just gonna double everything up down there. That's awesome,
(01:43:12):
it really will.
Speaker 3 (01:43:13):
It's sad that the LCRA kind of cut off everything
south of the Horton years back in a city. But anyway,
people have gone to wells, and a man that has
enough land can make money off of well But if
it's electric, well that's a lot cheaper than having a
diesel pump.
Speaker 2 (01:43:33):
Well.
Speaker 3 (01:43:33):
So anyway on the Garwood side, now, when when the
guy that owned that system laired was his name, everything
to the west side of the Colorado through Garwood and
there they have big canals. And he put in his
contract when he sold the LCRA that he would have
a period of time some people say fifty years. I
(01:43:55):
don't know if it's that long to where the LCRA
had to provide so many thousand acre feet of water
for his friends. He wasn't gonna cut his friends off.
So that's been going okay. Any of the excess water
goes into like Sandy Creek and uh the Navidad River
and runs into Lake Texana, and of course those folks
(01:44:17):
sell water to Corpus Christi for the industry. And yeah,
a lot of times there's water going down those canals
when there's no rice, and I'm wondering if LCRI is
somehow some way sending water down there. But that's that's
another story anyway. So some of these people are very
innovative as what they can do with you know, uh,
(01:44:39):
with the used toothtick. So anyway, I enjoy your show.
Speaker 2 (01:44:43):
Thank you man. I appreciate it all.
Speaker 3 (01:44:45):
Jay oh Man.
Speaker 1 (01:44:48):
Yeah, that's interesting. I have My greatest moment of innovation
occurred a long time ago. I was driving an MGB,
one of the I think it may have been the
first car that I actually paid for with my own
money and nobody ever bought me a car. That was
just the first car that I actually bought because I
thought it was really really.
Speaker 2 (01:45:09):
Cool and it was. It was a little bit older
model than I would have liked, but that's okay. It
was still a cool car, and it had a roll bar,
and it was red, and it was quick, and it
was a lot of fun. And on a date one night,
long long and long, long and long.
Speaker 1 (01:45:27):
Ago, the old fan belt in that old car gave
out and stuck. I don't know how I'm gonna get back,
but my date said, would this work?
Speaker 2 (01:45:43):
And she rolled down. She was wearing hoes, traditional nylon.
Speaker 1 (01:45:49):
Stockings, And you think you could jerry rig this and
make it work?
Speaker 2 (01:45:55):
And I said, we're.
Speaker 1 (01:45:56):
Gonna find out. And I got out and lifted the hood. Well,
we had already who was already up. We'd already figured
out what had happened. The fan belt had just given out.
It was done, and it blew off of there, and
wrapped it around the pulleys, snugged it as tight as
I could, started the car. It didn't fly off, it
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didn't break off, and we drove very slowly and very
carefully all the way back to where we were going.
And at that point I left it there till I
could get a belt the next morning. But in emergency,
of course, that wouldn't work at all these days, now,
would it. I bet there I don't know that you
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could even find Nihlon stockings in the average department store
when they used to have hundreds of different kinds. I
can remember being set to the store by my wife
to go buy certain colors of this and that and
whatever in those little stockings. There's more than one use
for pretty much anything on this planet, more than one.
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I love cutting that shoe tongue out and making a.
Speaker 2 (01:47:03):
Gasket out of the leather that I would have not
thought of that in a hundred million years.
Speaker 1 (01:47:09):
That's genius. That's genius. That would make mcguiver envious. I've
got a guy in my neighborhood, Jeff Cooper. Guys most
he can sit there and look at something and figure
out how to make it work, figure out how to
make it turn, how to make it stop turning, how
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to stop a leak, how to open up something. He
can just look at it and figure it out.
Speaker 2 (01:47:36):
Bright guy. Love hanging out with him, always learning something.
Speaker 1 (01:47:39):
Oh my goodness, we're gonna take another break on time, Frankie.
We're in record break breaking territory. This is like going
five for five in the World Series. Well, no, this
is a regular season game. I don't know what I
don't know what our playoffs would be, but we're five
for four. No, we're four for five today because I
think the third break we took in that first hour
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was a little bit close to not being on time.
Doesn't matter, I'm gonna tell you about Berry Hill. I
was there last night, as a matter of fact. I
went in to pick up something for my wife and
me to take home. And while I was getting my order,
which was two seafood enchiladas, two chicken tacos with rice
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and beans, and one fish taco because my wife wanted
to try them she hadn't eaten one yet, said oh,
are you in for a treat? And when I got
in there, I asked the woman who was taking care
of me if she'd seem Wendy that night, because Wendy's
the woman who owns the place.
Speaker 2 (01:48:36):
She and her sons owned the place they have since
it opened. And she said she.
Speaker 1 (01:48:42):
Was here a minute ago, and she kind of looked
around and over in the family dining side there was
Wendy sitting at a table talking to what turned out
to be five strangers. She didn't know, but she was
making a habit of going from table to table, introducing herself,
letting people know that if they needed anything, she'd take
care of him, doing what she does. And I went
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over there, and I felt awkward a little bit walking
up and interrupting her conversation because at that point I
didn't know who she was talking to. But anyway, I
just said, hey, I can't come in here and have
you here and not say hello, because the last thing
I would want is for you to see me walking
out the door without saying anything to you.
Speaker 2 (01:49:23):
And she was happy to see me, and I was
happy to see her.
Speaker 1 (01:49:26):
And she let me know that many of you are
coming in there to let her know that they heard
about her place for me, and I'm thrilled that you're
doing that for This is an amazing place to go
buy Text mex Food. The same two people in the kitchen,
the same primary people in the kitchen for more than
a decade each. Now you're going to get a tremendous
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consistent product. There's a sports bar side, there's the family
dining side where she was, there's outdoor dining, and they'll
do some catering. I'm talking to her about a catering
job that's going to come up late much later than now.
Speaker 2 (01:50:02):
And she said, oh yeah, just tell us the details.
Speaker 1 (01:50:04):
We'll handle it for you. Thirty years they've been out
there doing this thirty years. That's how long I've been
eating there anyway, family style dining, very casual, very fun.
If you're new to Sugarland, walk in there and just
announce that over on that sports bar side.
Speaker 2 (01:50:21):
And somebody will invite you to come hang out with them.
Guarantee it. I've seen it happen.
Speaker 1 (01:50:26):
Berryhillsugar Land dot com Southwest Freeway at the Sugar Creek
exit on the northbound side.
Speaker 2 (01:50:33):
You cannot miss it if you can find your way
to there.
Speaker 1 (01:50:35):
Berryhillsugarland dot com nine eight on Sports Talk seven to nine.
IM trying to find a place on the website where
I am where I can I can submit what I'm
trying to submit here so that they'll know I'm not
some kind of a creep. Just let me out of here.
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I'll go back and do it again some other time.
It's a snake website, is what it is. Oh, look
at Wendy tuning in or just this must be coincidental.
I didn't know she was Wendy from from berry Hill
just chimed in.
Speaker 2 (01:51:14):
They got a fairly new special on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (01:51:16):
She said, Uh, National Faheata Day is Monday, the eighteenth
of August. She's gonna send me more details on all that.
So anyway, there's always something going on. I think yesterday
was actually fish Taco Day, hence Friday for the Catholics
and the crew.
Speaker 2 (01:51:33):
And boy, what better way to take care of business
than to jump on some delicious fish tacos.
Speaker 1 (01:51:40):
Seven one three two five seven ninety Email me Dougpike
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Speaker 2 (01:51:46):
There was something I was gonna mention when we got
back by the way, just as a quick aside. I
was talking to Frankie about this, and this is something
to keep in mind if you're ever in a situation
maybe you've stepped on a stingray, maybe you think you
might have vibrio, maybe you have some sort of medical
issue and you're in a rural area. There is a trend.
Speaker 1 (01:52:10):
I saw this in a story that I trust this week,
a trend in rural areas where emergency facilities not necessarily
big hospitals that wouldn't really apply, but some of these
pop up emergency locations don't even have a doctor, let
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alone any kind of a specialist on staff. They just
have nurses and physicians assistants, which is better than better
than nothing, but not someone who is really qualified to
assess and treat a serious medical emergency. And my concern
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would be that anybody in that city situation where there
really is a serious issue, god forbid, something heart related,
maybe something like that, you would drive thirty minutes from
the ranch or thirty minutes from the boat ramp or
wherever to get to this place, only to be told, yeah,
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we don't have anybody here who knows anything about that.
You're going to have to drive on into town to
the hospital, and you've wasted all that time. So if
there's a place that you frequent as a fisherman or
a hunter or whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:53:35):
Find out this is something that I don't think.
Speaker 1 (01:53:38):
We've ever talked about on this show, but find out
where the nearest legitimate medical help is. I can remember
one time in surfside, not a major emergency, but my
surfboard came up and slapped me right over the left eye.
I believe it was if I remember correctly, might have
been right eye, think it was left eye, and it
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opened up about an inch long dash that clearly needed stitches, and.
Speaker 2 (01:54:08):
My boys and I packed up.
Speaker 1 (01:54:10):
I pressed a towel against my head and we ended
up having to walk into a convenience store and asked
for directions to the hospital. Now I got there and
we got our stitched up and went on about our day.
But if the circumstances had been more dire and more serious,
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it would have been hard. It's not hard to find
a hospital these days with GPS and navigation systems.
Speaker 2 (01:54:41):
That's a big plus.
Speaker 1 (01:54:43):
And if again, if there's a place where you hu Oh,
by the way, I was reminded by Bras Swiss from
Houston Gold Exchange that Blaine's place is in Hebronville.
Speaker 2 (01:54:54):
That's where the lodge is in Hebronville.
Speaker 1 (01:54:56):
I think of Freer when I think of down there,
because I think he has some proper easy hunts near
Freer that are a little ways from the lodge. But nonetheless,
if you can find Blaine, he can tell you how
to get where he is. I don't know where the
nearest emergency room is, but it.
Speaker 2 (01:55:11):
Really struck me that that's something that needs to be
on your checklist, is punching in if you're going to
a place to hunt, for example, punching in the nearest
hospital to that and saving it into your GPS system,
because that way, no matter where you are, no matter where.
Speaker 1 (01:55:30):
You jump in the truck with somebody who's seriously hurt
or seriously ill, you can just click on hospital and
it'll take you there. It'll help you get there without
having to guess, without making wrong turns, and in a
situation like that, time is of the essence. Really, I
hadn't even thought about putting in using taking advantage of
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navigation systems to get you to the nearest hospital.
Speaker 2 (01:55:57):
But it makes perfect sense, it really does. Think about that,
and I'll move on.
Speaker 1 (01:56:04):
It's time, Kyle Lee, Dad Gummt. Final break of the
program and we're running late. Sorry, Frankie. One more time
for Champions Tree Preservation.
Speaker 3 (01:56:12):
This is the.
Speaker 1 (01:56:13):
Company up there in Champions, hence the name, that will
send an arborist to your house to diagnose all your trees,
hopefully before we get a storm through here. I don't
they're not gonna want to come out and diagnose all
the trees that fell over in the yard because they
weren't healthy when the storm came.
Speaker 2 (01:56:32):
Get them out there.
Speaker 1 (01:56:33):
They'll let you know which ones can handle a storm
which ones can't and why, and then you can go
about the business of making sure that those trees get
fixed and get healthy again, which isn't probably gonna take much.
Most of our trees around here are pretty healthy. I
got that from Irwin Castellanos himself. But he also told
me that he can drive through a neighborhood and see
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trouble in trees that the owners, their homeowners have no
ideas there. That's why he needs to come to your house.
He or his son, Robin, they're both arborius, come to
your house, diagnose your trees, and then if you want
them to, they'll fix it for you. They have crews
that will come back behind them with all the equipment
they need to do anything from deep root feeding to
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taking a whole tree out of your yard from top
to bottom where you never even knew it was there before.
And what they'll do for you at that point is
go ahead and go to their tree farm and select
a native Texas tree that can replace the one you
had to take out because it was a threat to
your house, a threat to your cars, the fence. Whatever
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champions tree preservation, good people, family run business. I like
that Championstree dot com is the website that's easy enough,
Championstree dot com.
Speaker 2 (01:57:47):
Or give them a call.
Speaker 1 (01:57:49):
I'm pretty sure they'll answer the phone today. Two eight
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Speaker 2 (01:57:58):
One by welcome back.
Speaker 1 (01:58:03):
I just averted a catastrophe in here, Frankie. I got
this nice tall cup of water in here, and had
a nice taller roll of paper towels next to it,
and when I pulled this microphone back in front of me,
it knocked the paper towels over directly onto the top
of the little styrofoam cupful of water. However, there's enough
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water in the cup, and the angle was just so
that it did not topple the cup of water, Thank goodness,
because you know how the engineers get when water is
spilled on anything around here. I shudder to think what
it would have been like if if Tom had been
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watching or Tom listening this morning and I had, I
would have had just said that I'd spilled You know what,
I never would have said that. I would have just
rolled those paper towels right into the water and sopped
it all up before it got anywhere it on three
two one two five seven ninety Email me Doug Pike
at iHeartMedia dot com. Took a run down the hall
to get a fresh cup of coffee during the break.
So I'm gonna see what I got here, Dan Wade
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in Oh, this is interesting. Holy cow, this is old
school improvisation of the mechanical kind.
Speaker 2 (01:59:24):
I'm gonna start with Dan. Years ago, Dan writes, I
had to use the bottom of a KFC bucket to
make a gasket for a transfer case in an old
Ford four by four.
Speaker 1 (01:59:40):
That's pretty dog one innovative right there. That's that's that's
next level stuff. And yeah, Kevin also weighed in on
that giant six hundred plus point buck Uh. The higher
the fence, Kevin writes, the higher the school. I'll give
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no credit to anyone's proud of those massive deer shot
on a high fence. I don't have a problem with
high fence ranches at all, because I understand their place,
I understand their purpose. But dog gone, when when the
deer are being so genetically altered that they grow things
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that never never would have grown in real life. They're
doing things to those deer that I think alters them genetically,
and I'm just.
Speaker 2 (02:00:39):
Not a big old fan of that. I guess I'm
just not a big old fan of that.
Speaker 1 (02:00:45):
I love big Bucks, I love beautifully managed ranches.
Speaker 2 (02:00:51):
I don't have a problem with that fence.
Speaker 1 (02:00:53):
Now, if it's one hundred acres and it's got a
fence on it, I got a big problem with that.
Those deer need, they need room to run, they need
room to live out their lives potentially if there's enough acreage,
never even seeing the fence, kind of like what happens
on the Somburrito. I. I've been on really big, high
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fence ranches, even bigger than that, and I've been on
some very small ones, and the very small ones I
typically won't return to.
Speaker 2 (02:01:22):
And if that's what you like, and that's what you do.
Speaker 1 (02:01:25):
Once again, if it's if the Parks and Wildlife Department
of the State of Texas is okay with your game
management process, I got no problem with that, and.
Speaker 2 (02:01:34):
I have no problem with it. The more deer we
can grow, the better. The more deer we have, the
better we have so many that we allow feeding and
baiting deer right through the hunting seasons.
Speaker 1 (02:01:47):
Most states don't do that. Most states don't give you
that option. If you get caught baiting deer, you've you've
got big trouble. In most states around here, if you
don't have a pickup truck bed full of corn sacks
in the next couple of weeks, they're gonna wonder whether
you're even a deer hunter. I know, man, everybody I
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know who hunts deer very successfully in Texas has been
complaining about the high cost of corn since the corn
got more than about a buck and a half a
bag for fifty pounds. When I started buying deer corn,
it was two bucks a bag.
Speaker 2 (02:02:27):
That was about it. And then it went up, and
it went up, and it went up, and I'd be
scared to even go look at it right now. Now,
If if somebody's gonna offer me a hunt somewhere and says, hey, man,
can you bring ten bags of corn down, I don't
care what it costs. I'm bringing those ten bags of
corn down because that's It's like bringing an apple pie
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to the wife of a farmer up in Canada who's
letting you hunt. There.
Speaker 1 (02:02:54):
They don't have to let you hunt, but they do.
In fact that I take that back in Canada, well,
they don't have to allow just anybody to hunt, but
they have to have it open.
Speaker 2 (02:03:04):
If you're a jerk.
Speaker 1 (02:03:05):
They don't have to let you on their property. But
if you're a conscientious hunter. In Canada, at least the
rules were this when I was up there. Latest Uh,
you can't accept money for hunters to be on your property,
and as a hunter, you can't offer the land owner money.
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So it's all public land basically in Canada. And if
you're lucky enough to know the guy who knows the
guy who knows the guy, you didn't hunt wherever the
geese are, wherever the ducks are.
Speaker 2 (02:03:39):
It's pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:03:40):
It really is seven one three to Well, now we're
just about out of time, huh, Frankie, or you're about
to start the music, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (02:03:47):
You got about a minute? I can take a minute.
Let's go back to.
Speaker 1 (02:03:53):
Let's go back to boy where I've been all over
the place today. Let's go back to hunting licenses, because
that's important. You have to have your hunting license, you
have to have your fishing license. And I'm going to
ask all of you who only dabble in one side
or the other of that equation. I'm gonna ask all
of you this year to buy a combo license so
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that you're supporting all of the state's wonderful wildlife and
fisheries resources and the safe keeping of all of them,
because if we ever let one side go and enough
people aren't contributing to make sure that we have enough
God not guides, we have enough game wardens, that we
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have enough biologists, that we have enough people to do
all the infrastructure work, the little administrative work that goes
along with managing so many millions and millions and millions
upon millions of animals and fish and birds and ducks
and geese and quail and all of them. They all
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deserve the same level of care, and that should be
the best care of any animals in the United States.
Speaker 2 (02:05:08):
We have it.
Speaker 1 (02:05:08):
We have it all in this state, and it's nothing
to sneer a snicker about invest in the future of
our resources.
Speaker 2 (02:05:17):
In that way, many generations to come are going to
be able to have as.
Speaker 1 (02:05:22):
Much fun as we've had. I don't know about you,
but I'm not finished having fun either.
Speaker 2 (02:05:26):
I'll be back tomorrow morning. Today, thank you all so
much for listening. I truly do appreciate it. Audios