Something Stinks of Mackerel

On this episode, Doug talks about the Genesis Scottish Open, the state of trout fishing, and much more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, Sunday edition year. The program starts right now,
and I've already lost something in here. That happens. Not
a big deal, I can It was just the little
reminder sheet on one of my longtime sponsors. So I
don't even need it. I'm not gonna worry about it.
I'll just leave it, leave it be, as they say, Sunday,

(00:27):
I think the topics for today are gonna be very
close to what they were yesterday. We still have a
lot going on up in the hill country. And Jim
Level from down in Port or excuse me, a Corpus
sent me a text message this morning showing a radar
overview from up in the hill country this morning and

(00:49):
they it looked like they had more rain coming their way.
I hope that's not the case. I'm gonna I'm gonna
do a little digging into that. Actually, in fact, i'll
do that right now. I've got it. Well, it's gonna
take a little bit longer in any event, just slowly
but surely, as I keep reading the stories about this,
there is finally closure for more and more, almost every

(01:15):
day of those families who just don't know yet, they
just don't know, and that situation. It just has to
override anything that you and I are talking about. Yeah, gosh,
there is just a very ugly blob of rain hanging

(01:35):
over that region right now. They open up this map
and I'll give you a better idea. From San Angelo
to the west to Colleen, down south to Bernie and
headed for Austin. I think, let me see which way
this stuff's going. It's yeah, you know what the good

(01:56):
news is. The good news is it is going to
dissipate according to this Now there's a leading edge of
this thing that may dump some significant rain back into
that region that got hit so hard. But it looks
like it's going to fall apart before it could become
anything even remotely like what happened there. What is this

(02:22):
the fifteenth or the excuse? This is the thirteenth what
happened nine days ago. So we'll get that done. I
saw a post from Captain Scott this morning, if you
missed it. By the way, Captain Scott no very good
friend of mine and a man I greatly admire, who
took it upon himself a day or so after that
flood to go up there and start helping. He just

(02:47):
hitched up the trailer with the skid steer, went up there,
and fast forward to yesterday. He went up there knowing nobody,
having no specific task in mind, just was going to
go up there and say, how can I help? And
now he's running a crew or actually I think four
crews of more than one hundred people total, one hundred

(03:07):
and twenty something like that. I don't know, but they're
doing They're doing very hard, very tedious work under extreme circumstances.
And he sent I think it was a Facebook post
this morning. I bet, I'm pretty sure it was a
photograph that had been found in the gunch, just in

(03:29):
the hot mess, and it appears to be a little
girl who was playing on a girl's basketball team. Just
the team. You know how the kids have to sign
up for the team picture and the parents get to
pay for a bunch of pictures that they don't use
half of but they feel like they have to get them. Well,
this was her individual shot kneeling with the basketball, and

(03:52):
somebody somewhere would really like to have that photograph. And
what Scott shared in that post is that there is
a room quickly filling with I don't know, I can't
really call it memorabilia that's just so, that doesn't do
it justice. But these mementos of these lost souls, lives

(04:17):
that I'm sure family members would like to have, and
they're being bagged, and there's the person who's doing this
and bagging these things all at one collection point. They're
all going into one room, put them in bags, put
a description in sharpie on the bag of where it
was found. But somehow, some way, all of that stuff
has to be made to where people can see it.

(04:40):
And I don't know if there's legality involved, I'm not sure,
but wouldn't it be nice, Just wouldn't it be nice
if somebody who lost a family member in that flood
had something that meant so much to them, and maybe
a web page? I don't There's got to be some

(05:02):
privacy issue there, and that makes it more difficult because
a lot of the families of people who lost these
these children and other and young adults and older adults
whoever it is who has lost may not be able
to get up there and go through that room looking
for stuff. If it's possible at all, I think those
things should be shared. If it's not, that's just it's

(05:25):
gonna be sad. Because if they're not shared and nobody
really gets a look at what's there to see if
there's anything that would be of relevance to their family
as sooner or later, they're just gonna be boxed up.
They're going to be pushed into a corner with a
little note on top Curville Flood twenty twenty five, July

(05:46):
four and down the road somewhere, just tossed out by
a future generation for whom those items just have no
value whatsoever. So right now they are priceless remembrances and
they should be treated as Somebody's got to find a
way to get them to the right people. Let's go
to the phone, shall we talked to Rick?

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (06:06):
Rick?

Speaker 1 (06:06):
What's up?

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Man?

Speaker 4 (06:08):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (06:08):
First of all, yeah, I'm watching the weather at Curveville
Mason Lenard all that. I got three different groups of
people not actually working out there, but they just got
places out there, and they all have damage, I'm sure,
and now they're getting hammered again. And I've got one
of them that he's going to spend another two days

(06:31):
trying to get out. He can't get across the low
Water bridge already.

Speaker 5 (06:36):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Anyway, what I want to do real quick? This morning.
I need a nine one one is less question. Maybe
you or somebody listening can help me with I'm sure
the somebody can. My wife, bless her heart, she went
to a TV yesterday and she bought a bag of

(06:59):
what I'm gonna call whole orchsters shells, not half shell.
Whole Yeah, okay, dealing everything modern erathact. And she asked
the guy behind the counter, can I freeze these? He
said no, because he said you can refrigerate them, but
because they're still alive and that will keep them. And

(07:24):
so she brings them home and she says, I need
you to shuck these things for me. And I said, well,
wait a minute. I don't know nothing about orschers. The
only thing I know is I've always been told that
you don't eat orschers in months with no r June July, August, right,

(07:49):
I'm listening, okay. Then my wife says, well, then I'll
just smoke them. I'll smoke them on the grill, steal
in all, eat them up and smoke them. And I'm like,
this don't sound right.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Shure, yeah, why don't.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
I wait? What what do I do with them? To
cook them?

Speaker 4 (08:16):
Are?

Speaker 2 (08:16):
When she ain't looking, I accidentally by mistake throw them away.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah, that that's gonna be hard to make her believe
it would be an accent. So let me, let me,
let me just go to AI. Okay, I just typed
in oysters, okay to eat year round, and according to
the AI overview says here, yes, it's generally safety eat
oysters year round, even during the summer months. The adage
about only eating oysters in months with an R September

(08:44):
through April is outdated due to advancements in farming, refrigeration,
and food safety regulations. Gobble them up. Get the shucking man.
Call me when you're done.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Well, I've got the last comment. This wasn't my first
question call of the morning.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
I did call some guys that you know, yeah, and
I told them just what I told you. They said
they wouldn't touch them with a ten.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Foot told okay.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
So now I'm thinking, why is HGB selling them? Maybe
somebody can give me an answer.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
All right, buddy, all right, thanks Rick.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
That's the mystery question of the day.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yeah, okay, thank you. Maybe we should have a mystery
question of the day. Uh, I'm gonna die. My gut
says that the people who Rick called to ask about
this are about the same age as Rick and me
and or somewhere in between. And artificial intelligence, while it's

(09:49):
not for everyone and not appropriate for everything, AI has
some pretty good answers to stuff if you give it
a chance. And and there are actually when I pop
that up, there are three one two, three four four
places here just right at the top that say gobble

(10:11):
them up, just gobble them up. So I'm I'm not
gonna tell you to eat them, but I'm I have
a higher confidence now than I did before that it
would be okay to do that. It makes sense. So
there you have it from Oyster AI Oyster Central, and

(10:35):
you know that if we're gonna have a question today,
that's how we're gonna get to the answers. I'm gonna
go to the internet first. I don't know what's going
on in that control room over there. Seven one three
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iHeartMedia dot com if you were on the phone a
minute ago. Dial back. Actually, we're gonna go ahead and
get to a break here pretty quick. So let's get

(10:57):
through the break and then come back and we'll see
what's up black Horse Golf Club. Black Horse Golf Club's
been around a long long time now, and I've been
playing it since it opened, gosh, the better part almost
thirty years ago now, I think somewhere in that range.
I went out there and helped with the review of

(11:18):
black Horse thirty six holes. By the way, Now one
of the courses, the North course, has been taken or
is actually still daily feed. The South course was taken
private at the beginning of the year. Still plenty of
room out there for anybody who wants to tee it
up and go out there and have a good time.
Still plenty of instruction available at the far end of
the range. Still a great place to hold a big tournament,

(11:40):
as it always has been. I bet I've played fifty
tournaments up there. That would be a conservative guess over
twenty five years. That's only that's only two a year,
and that's about right. Black Horse has a great history.
It's a great place. Northside north excuse me, northwest side
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(12:01):
gole Lee straighten up Doug take two ninety to Fry Road,
goes south and then a couple of miles down you'll
start seeing golf course, then you'll see the gate turn west,
and you'll end up at the clubhouse where everybody and
anybody you see from that point forward who's wearing a
name tag has nothing better to do than make sure
you have a good time. Black Horse Golf Club dot

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(14:37):
certainly do appreciate it. Let me go tee it up
with Brandon here. See what's going on, Brandon? What's going on?

Speaker 5 (14:43):
Man?

Speaker 6 (14:43):
Good morning, mister Pike.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Thun.

Speaker 6 (14:45):
Their heads are already building.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
I know it. Don't even talk like that.

Speaker 6 (14:48):
Uh, I know, I know, I know. No, I was
gonna i miss rick Biss. Did he say the oysters
were already shelled or they weren't?

Speaker 1 (14:58):
No, they were still a hiding in their shells.

Speaker 6 (15:02):
Okay, then I'm gonna tell him right now, listen to
his wife and say throw him on the grill and
when they crack open, that's when they're done, and you
can eat him right out of the shell and there
should be no problem.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
We've had so many scares over the years about vibrio
and other bacteria inside these things, or viruses and bacterias.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
I used to eat them just as fasts. I just
ate roysters like cotton candy. I just gobble them down
a little cracker lit hot sauce, and down they went.
And now it's been a while and I'm not really scared.
But then again, I don't. I'm too old to be
taking crazy chances.

Speaker 6 (15:45):
Yeah, I understand, But I mean, like I say, if
you throw them on a pit and once they crack
up and they're cooked and you're good.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
To go, it sounds good to me. I hope he'd
hope he follows his wife's advice letter. Let me grill
them all up, sit out there, sit out there and supervise.
Well she cooks him up. Man, that's I don't know
how well that would go. All right, man, Well, thank you, Brandon.
I appreciate the little tip there.

Speaker 6 (16:14):
Yes, sir, all right, partner A right, well see you.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yeah, okay, there there's one opinion rick right there. For
you put them on the grill. When they crack open,
they're good to go. Throw it on a cracker or
whatever you want, or just just pop the shell open
and slurp her down. I've eaten oysters every way they
can be eaten, and so far haven't found a bad

(16:39):
way to eat them. I'm not I'm not uppity at all.
I think most people would agree with me on that.
I don't. I'm not pretentious or upity, but I do
like oysters Rockefeller too, Hey Dave, what's up?

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Man?

Speaker 6 (16:51):
Oh man?

Speaker 7 (16:52):
I think first off, kind of on the somber note. Yeah,
you know the old saying when it rains, Yeah, my
heart goes out to the over there. And you know,
when you you know, like let's say your refrigerator breaks
down or your glomer or your truck or your boat
or whatever. You can get all that fished, but you
can't replace life, you know, And that's works hard. Yeah,

(17:15):
that's wor it's hard, you know, and uh you know,
and thanks again to everybody that's over there helping. But
uh on the on the oysters, Yeah, I when I
worked at the Seashell, uh for for they were almost
like my mom and dad, you know, the managers that restaurant.
He taught me out, he taught me on the oysters.

(17:35):
I did two years part time, and I had a
steel mesh glove and you tap them and then pop up.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
You have to find that little sweet spot.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
And open man.

Speaker 7 (17:46):
I pour a draft beer and I do a Baker's
does in thirteen you know. You know, boy, I've got
a lot of tipsy. But like, hey, yeah, on your
she's rockefill. Yes, I've had that before, but I can't
remember what's all in there.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
You know, I think it's an oyster, it's spinach. And
then from there, I don't know what the other ingredients are.
IMNA have to look them up during the break when
we got there.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah, I have to do that.

Speaker 7 (18:14):
And then what I was going to ask you about
is because I remember back in the day when I
was young, I rented a couple of times.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
I rented a.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
Surfboard, but I just used it as a paddle board.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
I sure, because I never I never could get up
on it.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
You know too good.

Speaker 7 (18:28):
But my question is, with as much surfing as you
ever served, have you ever served close by a shark?

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Uh? I have been.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah, I've been in proximity to sharks. Nothing.

Speaker 8 (18:38):
The only thing.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
The only time I was really spooked was at surfside
on a on a big day, and as is always
a case, on a big day in surfside, at surfside.
The water was just muddy as can be. Well, not muddy,
but it's sandy. It's it's got all kinds of stuff
in it, and you can't see two inches, okay, I
and I'm sitting on my board and literally had something

(19:00):
swim but I got my knees on either side of
the board. I'm sitting there just waiting for a wave,
and something swam between my legs under that board and
was touching both legs as it went through. And in hindsight,
it couldn't have been anything super big, because a bigger

(19:20):
shark would have had a dorsal fin that would have
bumped me off my board probably, But what I think
it was was maybe a little something moving slowly that
just you know, had room down there and grazed, probably
grazed both ankles. I don't know, but it just hmm,
possibly yeah, possibly, But whatever it was, I immediately just

(19:44):
got all four limbs up on top of that board
and paddled with my with my fingernails back to the
beach and just sat there for about an hour. I
was like, holy cow, I don't know what that was,
but I don't ever want to feel that feeling again.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
Oh.

Speaker 7 (19:57):
My God, and you don't want to try to serve.
They're saying Louki passed, you know, the Devil's pass. Oh
my gosh.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
Hey, and then one other things.

Speaker 7 (20:05):
Yeah, I'm out here just kind of just contemplating and
saying a few prayers and looking at the water here
on that conro. It is, man, it is beautiful, slick,
real nice.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
Not too many people out here right now.

Speaker 7 (20:18):
And then, uh, the movers got all the boxes in there.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
Now.

Speaker 7 (20:22):
As soon as I get through calming down over here,
I gotta go over there and then load everything.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
That's fun, I know.

Speaker 7 (20:31):
But anyway, hew, you know what, and then you find
stuff that like, man, I forgot, I forgot I even
had this, you know, some stuff.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
But anyway, all.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
Right, Dave, Well look it's good to hear from you,
as always.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
My friend.

Speaker 7 (20:46):
Yeah, I hate not a problem. And you know, like
I say, God, bless all the people that are over
there helping. Yeah, because that you can't that's that's priceless
right there. You can't put a price tag on.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yeah, No, it is really hard work. If they were
getting paid what they're worth, uh, we would have money
left in this country. That's truly good work. They're doing.
Thank you, David. How about it yet my pleasure? All right?
I did look around and I just went found items
from flood. That was my Google search, and there are
quite a few, quite a few sites at which you

(21:19):
can see and learn more about where and how personal
items are being stored as as this tragedy unfolds, so
that families might be able to find something that gathered
or something that belonged to them that's been picked up

(21:40):
along the river. It's just crazy, all the evidence and
all the stuff that's happening still up there. And hopefully
the forecast I looked at the future radar I looked
at for the Hill Country this morning is correct, because
that shows that this storm system that's trying to build

(22:03):
up there is going to dissipate going into the afternoon,
and so hopefully it won't dump too much water back
into that same watershed. That would just be to be
crazy for anything like that to happen. I think at
worst it's going to postpone some of the work, but
I don't think. I just pray that it's not anything
even remotely similar to what was going on up there.

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Seven one three two one two five seven ninety email
me Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I don't have any
real new news on what's going on down there around
baff And Bay with that plan to dump millions upon
millions of gallons of brine into the bay system from upstream,
where once it gets into that base system, it has

(22:49):
nowhere to go because there really is no title flow
in there. I'm not sure that that's enough water what
they're planning to dump. I'm not sure it's enough that
it would impact more than a small area at first.
But when you think about all that water just sitting
there for so long, it eventually is going to become

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part of the entire baff And Bay complex because it's
not going to be moved out with fidal flow. And
that's where I think it could really get ugly really quickly,
is when those the components of that brine, whatever they
end up being, get stacked on top of each other,

(23:36):
and on top of each other and on top of
each other kind of in perpetuity. If they if they
get the green light to just dump all that stuff
in there every day, well every day is every day,
and millions of gallons every day. It won't take long.
I thought yesterday. Maybe it would take years to see
the outcome of this, but if it goes off as

(23:59):
I'm seeing you in my head, it might not take
two seasons to see some pretty widespread devastation to Baffin Bay.
I don't want to see that. I'm glad Cca is involved.
I'm glad people are being made aware of what's going
on down there. At least the fishing community is fully
on board and aware. Everybody's looking, everybody in fishing is looking.

(24:21):
The problem is not everybody cares about fishing as much
as we do, and clearly from that project's onset, there
are a whole lot of people thinking, you know, we'd
rather make money than have a good place to fish.
Maybe if we get this project done, we'll have so
much money we can go fish somewhere else it's not
messed up. Hop in your private jet and go over

(24:42):
to the Seashelles or something like that. Go to Christmas Island,
get away from Baffin Bay because you're ruined it. I
hope that's not ever going to be the outcome. And
I think we've got the right people on board to
monitor this and to challenge it as it needs to
be challenged. For its purpose and for its efficiency, and

(25:04):
for its lack of damage to that base system. That's
gonna be a hard thing to prove. That's the problem
with this. The hardest thing to do is prove something
that you think might happen is gonna happen. And if
that's the burden placed on people who care about the bay,
and if we can't get past that and just say, look,

(25:25):
this is a bad idea. What we need to find
is someplace where it's happened before. We need we need
a precedent somewhere, and if that's out there, I got
a hunt. You'd be just as ugly as BAF and
Bay would be if if this thing goes through. I'm
not a fan of that project in case you couldn't tell,
and I'm open to discussion. If somebody from that project

(25:45):
wanted to call me and do an interview, I would
be happy to listen. I would be happy to listen,
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at iHeartMedia dot com. Let's go talk to Brandon shall
we what's up, Brandon?

Speaker 5 (28:33):
That was good.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
You brought the boys some walk last night?

Speaker 5 (28:37):
Did je What happened to Cooperhomo? To who Cooperhomo? No?

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Oh the walk off?

Speaker 5 (28:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Yeah, I watched it happen.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
I was up.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
I'll watch that whole game, man. That was great. I
was like, uh hey, oh my gosh, I can see
that happening in celebration. Those guys just they they lose
their minds and they start jumping around and falling on
each other and piling on. Yeah, but they were pretty excited,

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and rightfully so they just dropped what four in a row?
So glad to be back on the right side of
the of the bracket.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
Yep, more probably one today.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Oh okay, good, I did not know that. I didn't look.
I'll have to make I'll have to adjust my plans.
Where I sit out here when I'm outside of the
studio doesn't allow me to see any of the TVs
that have the game on it, So I might have
to just sit here in the studio. Nobody else is
coming in here, I don't think as long as I have.

Speaker 5 (29:41):
A do you have a workd TV in the office.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
We have a lot of different TVs in the here
as you can well imagine just in the room I'm
sitting in now, there are four big monitors, I mean
giant screens. So yeah, we got lots of TVs.

Speaker 5 (29:57):
Do you have to try to drag TV?

Speaker 1 (29:59):
Okay, I'll say, I don't know if we have direct
in here. That's what I have at home. But I'll see.
We've got all kinds of stuff. Frank that's Frankie's. We
have it on the app. Okay, try it on the app.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Okay, I'll try that on the app.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
How about from how'd you like to go ahead?

Speaker 5 (30:17):
Thanks to it?

Speaker 1 (30:19):
All right, I'll try that, Brandon, Thanks for the call.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
Man.

Speaker 5 (30:23):
It's Space City Home Network. Oh I know that with
Todd and Blommer and Julia.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Yeah, oh yeah, watch them all the time here.

Speaker 5 (30:35):
It's so funny. Yeah, he is weird.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
I like the way the players mess with Julia too.
Let's talk about it on the screen, all right, Hey, Brandon,
I got a I got a bounce man and a
couple of things I want to catch before I get
to the break.

Speaker 5 (30:52):
Okay, all right, I'm getting a uh smart TV for outside?

Speaker 1 (30:58):
Oh nice?

Speaker 5 (30:59):
Nice?

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Yeah, a little warm, get a ceiling fan, or take
take something out there, take a cool drink with you.
That'll help. Yeah, that's what I'm doing perfect, all right, buddy,
have a good weekend, and I welcome the call man
and thank you man. All right, let's have a good day.
Yeah you too, Bubby. All right. Yeah, the Astros turned

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it around last night. It took them eleven innings to
do it. Unfortunately, Josh Hater, for some reason, is is
coughing up long balls. He's still one of the most
efficient closers in in baseball and has been for quite
some time now. But dang, I just I hated to
see that game get tied up that way and have

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to go into extra innings. I did not feel good
about starting the top of the tenth, and fortunately it
turned out turned out good for us in the end,
and that's all it matters. Really. I don't like the Rangers.
I don't think anybody in this city likes the Rangers
unless they're just visiting and cheering for him. Drove down

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here from Dallas, and they've got double incentive. They can
come down here and watch their team lose and get
to not be in Dallas for a couple of days.
Fishing's been a little iffy. I might talk about that
some and I'm gonna go pick up a piece of
paper off the printer. Hopefully it printed this time. It
didn't last time, but I'm gonna go down there during

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the break and see if it's there, and then I
can tell you more about that. Friends of NRA Bank
with that, Jerry asked me. Jerry TK from Shooter's Corner
asked me to talk about a little bit, which I'm
glad to do. By the way, if you've got some
sort of a fundraiser for something outdoors related, or even
if you've got a little now, I don't want to

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go all the way down to high school band golf tournaments.
I want something for a little broader causes than that.
And I'm not being picked. I just don't want the
entire show to be to turn into a calendar of events.
But if it's shoot it to me, and if there's

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time and if I can get to it, I'll absolutely
mention your event and see if we can't toss a
couple more people into the mix for you, especially golf
tournaments by the way, I'm off Mondays, and if you
need somebody who's not a horrible player, to fill out
a forsome. I'll probably show up. I'll probably show up.

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I play golf most Mondays anyway, with a bunch of
old retired guys. That's not redundant. There are some young
retirees these days. I don't know what they do with
their time, but yeah, I play almost every Monday out
at black Hawk with that group. That great guys too.
That's one thing that I've always liked about golf is
how welcoming most golfers are to anybody else in their

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group who is not slow and who does not pitch
hissy fits when they shoot when they hit bad shots.
That's the only two things I care about. And somebody
else who wants to join a group, do you play slowly?
I don't like that.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Do you.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
Whine and moan and cursed and throw things when you
hit a bad shot? Nobody likes that, nobody. It doesn't
prove anything except that you just can't handle adversity. We'll
take a little break here on the way out. I'm
going to tell you about Riceland Waterfowl Club. This is
David Pruett, and he's got a guy working with him,
guy named Jeff. And we couldn't do our meeting last

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week because the weather got wonky out there on I
think it was Tuesday. I was going to try to go.
I'm gonna get with them again and try to get back.
Will I get back? Well, yeah, I can't say get
back out to the Eagle Lake Prairie because I've been
on it a thousand times, back in the waterfowl guiding days.
Riceland and David have been together. It's actually it was

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his baby. It was his company from day one. Fifty years.
This is their golden anniversary, and he is in some
ways celebrating, I guess you could say, by adding more property,
by adding more water, and adding more blinds. He wants
to grow the business a little bit bigger. He's been
very careful to be incrementally cautious in his growth, not

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to overdo it. But what he's got now is tons
of water, tons of blinds, and some of the best
duck hunting still on that giant prairie west of town.
Now the prairie is much smaller. Everybody knows that the
goose hunting out there is marginal at best, unless you
happen to be right where the little bunch of geese
in your area is and wants to be that day.

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But the duck hunting has been quite steady for people
who have altered their property acquisitions and altered their water
to accommodate those ducks. If they've got food, they've got water,
and they've got a little bit of places to go
to to kind of relax and chill out after they eat,
they'll stick around and they do out on that Eagle

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Lake Prairie. And that's why most of the people who
hunt with with David over the years keep going back.
He doesn't have to do a whole lot of recruiting
to fill it up and sponsorship. They're filling up fast.
We're not that far from teal season. We're really not
like five six weeks something like that. That's it. Two four, yes,
six seven weeks. I'll call it from teal season. Believe

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it or not. It's crazy. Get in touch with them.
You'll be glad you did. If your duck hunting wasn't
super good last year, and get in touch with David
Pruitt at Riceland Waterfowl Club. He'll he'll turn that around
for you. Only people who hunt out there are members
in their guests. That's it. Ricelandwaterfowl Club dot com. Riceland
Waterfowl Club dot com. Champions Tree Preservation. This is the

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company I want you to call to come to your house.
They'll send an arborist out there to take a good
look at all your trees and make sure they are
ready for storm season. Think back to all the hurricanes
we've had and how many trees go down. Lots of
them do, unfortunately, and if they end up on your
house or on your car, or your fence, or somewhere

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else in the yard or on the block, that's not good.
The arborists will come out there and make sure that
those trees are solid top to bottom. Might recommend some pruning,
maybe just some big limbs that need to be lopped
off to get them away from the house. Whatever the
issue is, may be a real problem underground, where with
a weakened root system from all these temperature extremes we've had,

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and that tree might have to go. Well, if it
does have to go, Champions Tree Preservation owns all the
equipment they're going to need to remove that tree, grind
that stump down as low as it needs to go
to not come popping back up in the yard, and
then they actually own a tree farm as well, right
next to their shop, so they can bring in a

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new tree to replace the one that you had to
take out. Give them a call, get a consultation. They'll
come out there pronto. Two eight one three two oh
eighty two oh one two eight one three two zero
eighty two zero one, or go to the website Championstree
dot com Championstree dot com. All right, welcome back Dugpike

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Show on Sports Talk seven ninety Frank, you been in
the kitchen lately?

Speaker 3 (38:23):
Got it?

Speaker 5 (38:25):
My bad?

Speaker 4 (38:26):
No?

Speaker 1 (38:26):
Why have not? Well? Twice now, I've been in there
to grab cups of coffee twice I have returned, shaking
my head in disbelief. I walk in there the first
time earlier this morning, and it smells like a bait
stand somewhere, a bait shop on the coast, and I

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why why would it smell? What is that smell?

Speaker 3 (38:50):
Man?

Speaker 1 (38:50):
I can't believe it. And somebody thought it was a
great idea to bring in some prepackaged mackerell, open that package,
eat the mackerel, and then leave all the juicy stuff
in the package and just dump it into the trash
can in there. So if you're gonna go in the kitchen, Frankie,

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and you're gonna have to throw something away. Just carry
it out there and throw it away somewhere else, because
if you open the left hand the left hand trash can,
you're gonna get overwhelmed. And just if you close your eyes,
you'll you'll just feel like you're in line to get
to buy live crokers. Wow, that's so nasty. Yeah, So

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just if you walk in there, you'll you'll know. I
want you to do that during the next break, and
then just come back and report on it. Go in there,
open the left hand side, stand there for ten seconds,
breathing through your nose, and then come back after the
break and tell me we'll do Yeah. Go grab Aaron, Actually, yeah,
I can get you. Just pop him up. I'll figure
out what he wants. That's easy enough. Just tee him

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up and I'll grab him. What's up, Aaron? Aaron? Yes, sir,
I hear you now. Yeah, man, okay, this is like
having that that that pre boarding pass from the TSA,
I said, said my frequent flyers just get brought right up.
What's going on?

Speaker 4 (40:14):
Well, I have a question in scenario. Okay, so you're
fishing a spot waiting, and you don't you know, it's
not hot, but it's fair. And you see a couple
of dolphins, let's say within forty or fifty yards, do
you move or do you stay there? You know, I wouldn't.

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I wouldn't let.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
Them run me off. And I understand that they're gonna
they're gonna spook some fish, There's no question about it.
If they're cruising through there now, if they're just minding
their own business and passing through, I wouldn't be too
terribly worried about it. But what they're doing is kind
of sizing you up to see to see if you're
gonna be releasing fish that are weakened by fighting, and

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maybe they can eat them now. So yeah, if they
got really close to you, and if you saw one
of them physically chasing a fish, you'd just let go
probably then maybe move.

Speaker 4 (41:10):
Yeah, yeah, Okay, Well that's all I've got this morning.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
I have a great weekend. Are you what you're calling
from the water? Well, my buddy, know, my buddy who
goes with me. First of all, he's afraid of them.
Oh lord, what do you do?

Speaker 4 (41:29):
How are you afraid of them? But you know, he
got all upset that they were chasing all the fish off,
and you know, we're catching them here and there. But
I just wanted to balance, you know what.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
Yeah, it's it's a valid point to consider, obviously, because
they are they are predators of pretty much anything and
everything in a bas system. They can they can catch
and eat pretty much anything they want. I actually watched
off the surfside jetty one morning a hundred years ago.
I watched about a half a bottle nosed dolphins come

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into the surf line there about maybe third bar to
fifth bar. I was on the jetties and they weren't
in as close as where the wade fishermen were, but
these things were taking speckled trout that were like two
to four pounds and just flipping them up in the
air and just messing with them. They were just having
it all, you know. And it's so yeah that yeah,

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they definitely like to play with their food. Really, no
table matters at all.

Speaker 4 (42:31):
All, right, man, enough to salt Lake next weekend. Good
for you, Yeah finally, yeah, man, that's that's Oh and
I got my my cow Elk tag.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
Oh nice, good for you. Yeah, So I'm gonna have
to get a bigger freezer.

Speaker 4 (42:49):
Yeah, well after the last one, got a lot of
new friends.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
Yeah, I'll bet I had no idea how much elk
how much meat is on an elk until I actually
shot one and went to the ross or to pick
up the meat. It's like, you're gonna need a trailer, dude,
Absolutely absolutely, all right, man, save travels. Yes day in touch.
I'm happy for you. I'm glad you got that Salt
Lake City deal. Salt Lake deal. Yeah, I appreciate it.
You bet we'll talk to ideos all right. Yeah, do

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you move or do you stay? I think if you're
if you're wadefishing, uh, if you if you just walked
in and you have another place you could go nearby,
ye maybe maybe move, Maybe not, but I would. I
would kind of ride it out for a little bit
because it's those it's those trout in there. They're in
there because there's food for them, and those dolphins aren't

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gonna hang around all day. Now if they become nuisances,
if they if you look over over your shoulder and
see one of them sitting in a lawn chair sipping
on a pina colada right behind you, then yeah, move
for sure, but I think if you give them a
few minutes, if you're in a good spot, and maybe
just quit fishing for ten minutes and see if they
lose interest in you, then you got a pretty good chance.

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I know a lot of the guys down south in
their boats, those things will follow them around. They've come
to know the sounds of boat engines as kind of
like a dinner bell, and so they follow. And when
these fishermen get out or when they start catching them
out of the boat, dolphins come in and it's easy food.
It's a free meal for them. They don't have to

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waste a whole lot of energy getting it. So, yeah,
it's interesting. We have to take a break and on
the way there, I'm want to tell you about Ballville
Meat Market. This is there on Highway thirty six, about
fifteen minutes north of Sea Leap that I'm actually going
to try to work in a trip out of there
out there on my run through Eagle Lake to go
see that prairie out there with David jeff from Riceland.

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Bellville Meat Market has pretty much anything and everything you'd
want to eat as a Texan, as an omnivore Texan
throughout the summer. They can take care of all your
backyard barbecue stuff for sure, anything from brisket and saucy
to ground beef and Big Old got those big chuck
wagon patties a half a pound of ground beef with

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seasoning and loaded with cheddar cheese. The wild game processing
is year round, as we've talked about before, and then
full menu of barbecue, dinner, and lunch and all the
fixings seven days a week from ten am to seven pm.
So you don't have to leave there hungry, and there's
no excuse if you do. They've got homemade hot dogs,

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They've got hamburger patties, stuffed pork tenders, stuffed pepper, stuffed mushrooms.
Those are delicious. Bellville Meat Market hook you up pretty
much anything and everything you'd like. And if you can't
get to the store, if you can't get to Belleville,
just go online. They'll ship pretty much anything short of
a whole cow right to your house. It'll be ready

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to eat. I've had stuff sent everywhere from close in
here in Houston area all the way to Salt Lake. Actually,
once years ago I sent some stuff up there to
some people who had helped me out on a ski
trip with my son, and I called back up there.
I called up there and to find out how they
liked it, and found out that the entire packaging, or

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the entire box of stuff I sent up there, was
devoured by the office in the lunch hour. I thought, man,
they'll knowall on all this stuff for days, and it
was just gone. It was that good beat, jerky turkey, jerky,
dry sausage, dry stick, everything for grabbing, go snacking, everything
for backyard barbecues. Belleville meatmarket dot com, Belleville Meet market

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dot com. All right, second final hour, today's program starts
right now. I am watching live a playoff amongst the women,
the best women golfers in the world over there in France,
the Amundi Avion Championship. That are Cool and Kim in
their second playoff hole. And oh, there's all kinds of

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drama now about the lie that this I can't remember.
I'm not sure which what it is is. All they're
showing is the golf ball in the wedge and the
vegetation it's sitting in, and there are appears to be
all kinds of Oh there's ants all over the ball.
That's the issue. The ball is in an active ant bed,
and boy, this is high drama. Frankie, you know that

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Port Colley. They've been standing over this ball since you
walked out of the studio.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
I can't even deal with that. Let me get to
the I've got on my own little laptop.

Speaker 7 (47:35):
Here.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
The leaderboard of the Genesis Scottish Open, ongoing over in
advance of next week's Open Championship. Marco Penge and Chris
Gottarup are tied for the lead through three rounds at
eleven under par. Sept Straka, Matt Fitzpatrick, They're gonna be more,

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I think, talk yeah one more. Jake napp All at
ten under par, just one shot off the lead. Victor
Hoblind Wyndham Clark at nine under par. Xander Schaffley probably
should be better than he is. He shot seventy one yesterday,
did himself absolutely no favors and may have walked himself

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out of the tournament. Scotty Scheffler, playing his warm up
round or warm up tournament before the Open Championship, in contention,
still at eight under par, He's only a sleeve off
the lead, as are Nikolai Holgar Hayguard Tom Kim and
who else is at eight Harris English. Once you get

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past the eights, that's thirteen guys at eight or better.
I think you're just playing for a little bit more
in your paycheck. And there are more than a half
a dozen sevens and so on to the bottom of
the list. A good tournament, a good golf course. I'll
watched some of it yesterday and I like the way
it's I like the way these guys use this kind

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of as a springboard, not entirely unlike what happened when
the Houston Open was the lead in to the Masters.
There were a lot of guys. We got some really
good fields here because of that. We were the tournament
just before the Masters, and a whole lot of people
were a whole lot of players were coming in to

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kind of get a feel for what they were going
to be facing the next week. Because the Golf Club
of Houston at the time did a fantastic job, a
fantastic job of there's a putt fallin'. Did she win?

Speaker 7 (49:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (49:39):
Maybe so, looks like it. Okay, we have a winner
in the Monday, and I believe it's Kim. I'm not sure. Yeah,
I think it is so congratulations to her and you
can see more about it, probably live on television right now. Yeah,
it's on NBC. A great, great finish for her and

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great tournament over there in France. Back to the Scottish
Open and what happened years ago with us with the
the Houston Opened followed by the Masters. It really was
fun to go out and watch those guys because the
people at Golf Club of Houston did a fantastic job
of preparing the course so that it greatly simulated the

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conditions these guys would see the next week. Everything but
the azalea bushes and the cuts around the greens, the
fairway cuts, the rough cuts, all of that was designed
to be a legitimate test based on what the Masters

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was going to do at Augusta. And it was fun
for many, many years, and that's changed. We lost that spot.
I think we might have gotten it back for a
year or two and then lost it again. I can't
exactly sure. I think San Antonio is going to hold
on to it for a while now. Seven one three
two seven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
Frankie and I were just talking about that. Did you

(51:02):
smell that stuff in that trash can. Frankie, Oh, I
did see what was it? King something king whatever? Salmon
or no, it's not salmon. It was mackerel, which is
nastier smelling than salmon. For sure, you can't. I was
surprised when you stuck your nose down there so close
to it. I didn't have any trouble smelling it from
about five or six feet away. Like I said, it

(51:23):
just sounds. It smelled like a bake camp, like a
bake camp on a really hot day, and there's it's
just an open air bake camp. There's no breeze. There's well,
there's breeze, but there's no air conditioning and no filtration
of the air. It's just it just smells like rotting
fish in our kitchen now and by tomorrow, because there's
no air conditioning in there, that's gonna be pretty rough.

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I think, yep, that's gonna be pretty rough.

Speaker 3 (51:50):
All right.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
Moving forward, looking at trout fishing generally up and down
the coast, it was a little bit rougher than normal week.
I think for mid July I would have expected a
few more fish, but with the semi wonky weather we've
had and so much wind and so much just unusual circumstances.

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I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised this two shell pass.
There's gonna be great fishing to come. We're still and
you know the irony, the good irony about a slow
period like this. If everybody was catching lots of fish,
more and more people would be going and catching lots
more fish. And even though the limit is three, that's

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still three more fish coming out of the bay per
angler on a decent boat that knows what they're doing.
So we're protecting in some ways the bad weather. It
hadn't been terribly bad weather along the coast. Pop up showers, yes,
but that potentially even for bad weather, keeps a lot
of people off the water. And those people who aren't

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on the water aren't catching fish. They're not feed them
to bottle nosed dolphins. They're just all those fishes keep
to get to stay out there and keep growing bigger
and bigger. And I really do genuinely feel that we're
on the way to recovery the likes of which a
lot of us didn't think would be even possible. All
we got to do is dodge the weather, got dodge

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the winter, weather. Speckled trout don't care how hot it gets, really,
I don't think they can find places to cool off.
But in the winter time, when the water gets cold
enough to shut down their metabolism, that's when we lose
a bunch of them. And that's happened a lot of
times in my lifetime, all the way back into the
eighties were the first ones I was really acknowledging and
understanding eighty one, eighty three and four, I think it was,

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and then on and on up to now, where we've
had anywhere from light fish kills to really bad fish kills,
depending on what part of the coast you're on it
and and what survey or what statistic you believe. But
back in eighty three, I think it was, or eighty nine,

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maybe it was, bayfishing got so bad. Speckled trout fishing
got so bad that a lot of guys turned to tarpain,
And that's how we kind of found out there were
a few guys already fishing for them. But that's how
we found out how many tarpain we actually had off
our coast and how much fun they were to catch.
And suddenly these guys who were just scraping and not

(54:35):
making any money because nobody wanted to go trout fishing
had a way to get through that rough patch. Those
tarpa are still out there when the conditions are right,
and they're still fun to chase, and they're still big,
and they're still bad. But more and more people now
are focused again on speckled trout still the number one
sport fishing in saltwater off Texas. I don't know what

(54:56):
it is off well, I would guess that Florida's number
one saltwater game fish. I don't think it's trout, I
just don't. I want to say snook, and maybe even
tarpin snook or tarping. That's what most of the guys
I know who fish down there at Chase. But they
can also go catch a redfish too, So maybe redfish

(55:17):
have that haunt, that mark. I'll look that up during
the break. We're gonna take it right now. Let's go
ahead and take that break. American Shooting Centers opened earlier
early this morning and welcoming anybody and everybody who wants
to come out there in the heat and pop a
few clay targets. Maybe if you're getting ready for dove season,
or maybe you just bought a new rifle for deer

(55:38):
season and you want to go tee it up with
that thing. Five yards to six hundred yards on the
handgun and rifle range, ten trapping skeet fields, three sporting
clays fields courses handgun like, I said, what am I missing?

Speaker 4 (55:57):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (55:57):
The five stands setups all over the property, the pop
ups illow wet range for remfire shooting. That's an excellent
way to get kids into it. A really good way
to get kids into shooting, because they're not going to
burn up one hundred dollars worth of AMMO out there.
I think early on my son could have done that.
If I'd have challenged him to shoot one hundred dollars
worth of twenty two rounds on that pop up range early,

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he probably would have done it and I'd have been
out one hundred bucks. I didn't ever let it get
that crazy. America's Shooting Centers is on West Timber Parkway
between Katie and Highway six. A nice selection of higher
end rifles and shotguns in the pro shop. There enough
AMO to keep everybody out there shooting for weeks to come.
In a very safe enjoyable place to learn about or

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Talk seven to ninety an instrumental rejoin, as it were,
the conclusion of the Avion brought to the television the

(58:09):
continuation of the Scottish Open, where there's a five way
tie right now for first place eleven under Par McElroy, Fitzpatrick,
Pengy nap and got her up. Roy McElroy had a
putt for eagle just a minute ago and ran it
about six feet past the cup. It did catch a

(58:31):
little piece of the pardon me, catch a little piece
of the hole, but it also kept going. So he's
away on the fifth green right now and waiting for
his turn, which I think he's probably lining up down there.
I know that, Yeah, there's got her up. He Chris
got her up, is putting now for Birdie and I

(58:53):
don't see McElroy's coin there, but I think it should
be there somewhere and got her up, missed his putt, Yeah,
stepping around McElroy's line. Uh, he'll tap in. We'll see
what happens with that. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety. Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
I've been I don't know how your golf game is,
but I've been struggling with a couple of aspects of

(59:15):
mine lately, and it just seems like I can't get
everything together at once. It's very frustrating to have to
feel like you you finally conquer one of the club
sets in there that the woods, the long irons, the
mid irons, the short irons, and then putting or in
wedge game around the greens and putting of course, and

(59:37):
then just when you feel like things are turning around,
one of those groups of clubs gets together in the
middle of the night and says, Okay, we're gonna mess
with him starting tomorrow. We're we're not gonna cooperate. And
that's what I've got right now. I've got some wedges
that are that are driving me crazy. I'm not I
don't have the short game I used to have. I'm

(59:58):
not really sure why McElroy just took the lead. How
about that about a ten foot putt to put him
at twelve under par clear of the other four guys.
Now one going by yim, other four guys at eleven.
I had another email yesterday after the show from somebody

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wanting to get better at golf, still shooting about mid
nineties or so close to one hundred and wanting to
get better. And I can't emphasize it up now. I'm
not saying everybody has to go out and get private
lessons from the best instructors in town, but at least
some legitimate, reliable instruction. Even if you immerse yourself in

(01:00:45):
YouTube videos, you can find a lot of stuff. There's
one guy I can't remember who he is who does
these little two minute drills, and I can't remember that.
Like I said, I can't remember his name, but there
are these two minute tips on improving your off game,
and I found most of them to be fairly simple
to practice and actually beneficial. So the helps out there,

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starting with free stuff online and moving all the way
up to the best instructors in the world, But none
of that instruction is going to help you unless you
get out there and practice that there's a difference between
practice and good practice. And I, for a long time,
when I was much younger, thought I could figure it

(01:01:32):
out on my own, and my solution to problems in
my swing was just to go out and buy a
bigger bucket of balls and hit them all. Just keep
hitting them and hope that if one of them went right,
I could remember what I did differently, and that that
probably is most of you know would not turn out well.
It just would not turn out well, and it didn't

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for me. But I've had I've had the good fortune
and in some cases slight miss fortune of being watched
and critiqued and instructed by some of the best in
the game. And when I was writing golf at the
paper I had, i'd have head pros come out any

(01:02:14):
any charity event I went to, the pro would normally
one of the pros at the club would come out
and say, hey, let me see you hit a couple,
and then they'd watch me hit a few balls, and
all of a sudden I would have this just this
barrage of information about what I should change in my hands,
in my feet, and my takeaway and my follow through,

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and it was it was overwhelming, it was too much.
So now I just kind of and if somebody does that,
I'll I'll flip the script that ask them how things
are going at the club? Are they making any improvements
that I could well back then I could write about,
or now I could talk about because I've only got
a couple of people who I want teekering with my swing,

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and if they're listening, they probably know who they are,
and I trust them and it's nothing against any of
the others. And if I'm really struggling in somebody I know,
a different instructor happens to walk by and say, how's
it going, I'll tell them, man, I'm I'm about ready
to snap my gap wedge over my knee. And usually

(01:03:17):
they can walk me off the ledge at least and
give me something else to think about. Uh, that's that's
just golf and somebody else in the office. Just this
past week, somebody else again asked, hey, man, what do
I need to do to start playing golf a little
bit better? I'm really embarrassed when I get out there
on the course with my friends, I said, do you
slow anybody down?

Speaker 5 (01:03:35):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
But I just I just hit a lot of shots. Well,
so does everybody else. So does everybody else only two percent.
I think of golfers worldwide ever break ninety only two percent,
something like some crazy little number like that. And it's
it's very easy to get caught up watching the av On,

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watching the Scottish Open, watching the u U Open, well,
the US Opens. An anomaly watching a normal PGA Golf
Tour event where these guys shoot five, six, seven under
par every day for four days and the winner is
twenty something under par. That's not that's not normal golf.

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These people are exceptional. It'd be just the same as
trying to play basketball like Michael Jordan or Hakeem Elijahwan
or Scottie Pippin, any of these guys. What's his name,
Steph Curry. Not too many people can do that. The
average basketball player would be probably at a middle school

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level at best. The average person who tried to take
up basketball. Good thing. Well, never mind, all right, let's
take this break at the bottom here, get it done
so we can get back and I'll refocus on outdoor
stuff and maybe a little bit more about Baff and
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But I've got some ideas about how we can get
in people's ears, the right people's ears, and get a
little bit closer look at this also, I'll i'll take
a look at let me get into this break. I've
got a couple of things i want to check on,
and then we'll turn back. Always your calls welcome, always

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Speaker 3 (01:05:25):
To call me.

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(01:07:15):
Doug Pike Shaw on Sports Talk seven ninety Thank you
for listening. I've been in a slump fishing wise. By
the way, my bass at the golf course have just
abandoned me and I them after a couple of You
don't have to hit me in the face with a
wet mop more than a couple of times for me
to realize I'm being hit in the face with a

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wet mop. And that's how these fish are treating me.
They are they are driving me crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:07:41):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:07:41):
Part of it, in big part one of the reasons,
and it's it's kind of my own fault for not
not going off the grid. I'm a creature of habit
and I tend to throw the same things out there
a lot, and right now, the algae and other vegetation

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in that lake, or just the greenery that's popped up,
makes it difficult to throw what I really am comfortable
throwing in there. It might be this afternoon, it might
be tomorrow afternoon. But at some point I'm gonna regroup,
and I'm gonna put different things on two or three rods,

(01:08:24):
and I'm gonna go out and try again. Because I
refuse to believe that the fish have all just totally
abandoned to me. I don't think that's the case. They're
in there. They are just in spots other than where
I can get a lure. Right now, what I'm gonna
have to go to is some very weedless stuff, and
I've got plenty of options. I'm not worried about that,

(01:08:46):
but once once, I just make myself do it. And
another problem is because it gets dark so late now,
I end up getting home at nine or nine point
fifteen after fishing until sundown at the golf club, and
I don't want to get home that late. I would
much prefer to be home in time for first pitch
of Astros games. And that's happening, actually happening more frequently

(01:09:08):
lately because fishing's been so bad. I haven't even been trying.
Let's go talk to David. What's up, David?

Speaker 8 (01:09:15):
Yeah, Doug, I know we like to rag each other
on our age. I have something hit me the other
I had something hit me the other day. I was
kind of looking at Facebook like we do. And you know, Doug,
I'm old enough and I bet you are too to
remember when you played youth baseball. Everybody on the team
used to bat that came out of the same bag.

Speaker 1 (01:09:33):
Oh yeah. The coach was by the league, the little
league and pee wee league, and all of that was
issued a bat bag, a half a dozen maybe a
dozen baseball for practices and whatever. And yeah, there was
the specific bag of bats that were for the whole team.
And now, if you got ten guys on the team

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in their personal bag, the ten guys probably have eighteen bats,
each of which cost their parents two to four hundred dollars. Yeah,
oh yeah, yeah, every one of those bats. There's probably
ten thousand dollars worth of bats on the on the
sidelines over there, man, custom gloves. Holy cow. I mean,

(01:10:19):
and I'm speaking from personal experience. I have a five
gallon bucket full of not cheap bats that the start
at about like twenty seven or eight inches long and
go to about thirty three or thirty four. Oh yeah,
that bat's no good anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:10:35):
Dad.

Speaker 1 (01:10:36):
Why well, you know, we're all hitting something else now,
like really, oh my god, yeah, picked a scab there, man,
Holy cow, day, I'll see you good golly baseball. Another one.

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We have a neighbor, a friend whose daughter has been
in competitive dance for years and years and years. And
if you think baseball and well baseball, probably baseball like golf,
two of the most expensive things, although the golf clubs
don't get changed that often when kids are little until

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they hit gross spurts. But once that starts, then you're
gonna be if you're really competitive in golf, you're gonna
need more clubs. But this baseball bat thing is nuts.
The glove thing is nuts.

Speaker 3 (01:11:27):
And it's just.

Speaker 1 (01:11:29):
It's a competition more among the parents than it is
among the kids, much more among the parents and the
kids to have the latest and greatest for every Season's
David's right, we had this bat. I can vividly remember
seeing these things in the dugout, the bat bag, and

(01:11:52):
two or three of the bats we had at pee
wee level on every team we might have had maybe
five or six bats in the bag. Okay, two or
three of them had been clamped. They'd been broken by bigger,
older players somehow, and they had been clamped. They had
had finishing nails driven into them and a bunch of

(01:12:15):
glue would glue, and then after that they were wrapped
in electrical tape because there wasn't duct tape then, and
that was just what we hit with. We didn't swing
hard enough to be breaking bats at pee wee level,
for sure, but we had We were big enough to
swing the same size bats as some of the little

(01:12:35):
league players who could break a bat. I don't know,
looking back, I don't know how those bats got broken,
but yeah, there would be bats that were cut off.
You'd have an inch or two of the barrel cut
off of them to make them shorter and swingable for
the little kids we started. We started baseball at eight
and nine, pee wee league eight to nine, Little League

(01:12:57):
ten to twelve, and then it went up from their
pony league. There are all kinds of leagues from that
point forward, precursors to travel ball now, where grown men
will get in fistfights with umpires over the call of
safer out at second base of a six year old
who stopped on the way to the base to tie
his shoe. It's just remarkable how out of control youth

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sports has become. And making no mistakes, it is a
money making machine. Stop and look at the cost of tournaments.
If you're in it, you know what I'm talking about,
and you're probably in hindsight going to look back and think,
why did we do this? The thing that bothers me
more than the money, bothers me more than anything in

(01:13:43):
youth sports is the parent who has convinced himself for
herself that just a few more private lessons at eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen,
fifteen years old is going to give that kid a
g eight shot at a full ride in a college scholarship.

(01:14:04):
The odds of any baseball player even getting a sniff
on a college field are pretty rare. They're pretty the
odds against are pretty high. And it is so much
more enjoyable for me to be in an atmosphere where

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the kids are having fun, they're not being pushed. I've
talked about it on this show before. Man, there's a kid.
I'm looking right at him. He was a great kid.
It doesn't matter what his name is. But one of
his parents, and I'm not even gonna say whether it
was his mom or's dad, one of his parents just
pushed him and pushed him and pushed him so hard.
More lessons more, get on a better team. Here's the

(01:14:50):
latest equipment. You get all this stuff, get all this stuff,
and when he finally got to high school and his parent,
the one in particular that was pushing him so hard,
we could just couldn't wait for him to get on
the high school baseball team. And he came to that

(01:15:11):
parent and said, I don't want to play baseball anymore.
That is that's the saddest thing. That's so that's that
kid was so so hard pushed that they drove the excitement,
They drove the fun of baseball right out of him,

(01:15:32):
just drove it right out of him. And that that's
a shame on any level. That's a shame. Seven on
three two one two five seven ninety Email me dougpick
at iHeartMedia dot com. Sorry I went off on that tangent,
but yeah, I've watched it. I've watched it happen all
over the place. Now, if you're not at the game,
by the way, there's an app. You get that app,
you get a play by play, pitch by pitch description

(01:15:56):
provided by a parent, by the way, who sometimes sometimes
it's perfectly in tune with the game. Sometimes there's delays,
but hey, they're all volunteering to do this, and you
too can virtually see the game at least pitch by pitch,
know who's at what position, know what the count is,
no how many outs there are, no the score, all

(01:16:17):
of that stuff. But the premium level, now, that premium
level will get you play by play audio or even
video as it's set up that a lot of you'll
see cameras set up right behind the backstop of some
of these games, and that's live feed video that you

(01:16:38):
get for the premium subscription to the app. It's it's crazy,
it really is, and I enjoy just watching kids be kids.
The first home run I ever hit was in pee
wee baseball. I was probably might have been nine that year.
Maybe I was one of the older players. I'm not sure,

(01:16:59):
but the bottom line was I hit a I was
late on the pitch. There was no by the way,
there was no dad pitch, there was no t ball,
none of that. I pitched a little bit back then,
and my moms told me years later that every time
I had a very strong arm, and every time I pitched,
she was scared I was going to hit them. And

(01:17:21):
I hit pretty many kids. I was threw really hard,
but I didn't have any control. That's why I didn't
pitch after much After Little League. I could throw a
ball through a wall from right field, but not so
much from sixty feet anyway. That's enough. Baseball. Little league
baseball is awesome. Make sure if you have a kid
playing little league sports, so you know, use sports. Make

(01:17:44):
sure they're having fun first and foremost. Don't say anything
about the game. If they had a bad game, don't
say one word about it on the way home, don't
say one word about it. Don't say get them next time.
Just tell them you enjoy watching them play the game.
Enjoy watching if they ask you for advice, give them
a little just just make it just easy though, keep

(01:18:06):
them having fun with it. That's kind of what I'm doing.
That's how I enjoyed fishing so much. I'll bring it
back full circle that way. That's why I enjoy fishing
so much. My dad and I went a lot. In hindsight,
he would take me almost every weekend. He'd take me
to go fishing some little fresh water spot around here,
and rare trips to the beach whatever. But he always
made it fun and we never if we had a

(01:18:28):
bad day and we didn't catch anything, we just talked
about what we would do next time, and to make
it better and to give ourselves a better chance. Maybe
go to a different spot, maybe go use a different bait, whatever.
But it was never about It was never about the
result as much as it was about just spending time
together and enjoying watching each other have fun. So keep

(01:18:51):
that in mind. All right, we got to take a
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last segment of the second hour teeing up right now.
Roy McElroy leading at the Scottish Open. He's only got
two guys one shot back now, Pengy and got her up. Stroka,
Fitzpatrick and Nap all at ten under part two shots

(01:21:52):
off the lead. Now they're still on the front nine.
Every one of those guys still on the front nine.
Still got a lot of golf place. Scheffler just missed
a putt. I'm not sure whether that was for birdie
or par or maybe eagle somewhere. He's on the on eleven.
I'm not sure what hole that is or what the
par of that hole is. I'm not following it that closely.

(01:22:17):
I have gotten Thank you for all of you who
have sent me stuff about the lost and found. With
all these items that are turning up along the Guadalupe
River now that the waters are down, it's fascinating. There's
one woman who owned the thrift shop up there somewhere
and has has taken it upon herself too. There's a

(01:22:42):
picture of it. I didn't read the entire story, but
from what I grabbed from the captions, the cut lines
on the photographs, she's taking a lot of the clothing
there that's been found, washing it, cleaning it up, and
just spreading it out and seeing if people recognize something
from loved one, something they would like to have to

(01:23:04):
To anybody who's not involved, to anybody who has no
connection whatsoever to that tragedy, all of that stuff has
really little or no value. But to someone who lost
a loved one up there, holy cow, oh goodness. Yeah,
I gotta get this right here. Capin Scott. What's going
on up there?

Speaker 4 (01:23:24):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:23:24):
It's rain and dune. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:23:27):
I just called the coat red on the river and
we had to pull everybody out of the river bobbles.

Speaker 3 (01:23:31):
I had some young guns in there, and they were
like we were working the rain all the time.

Speaker 9 (01:23:35):
We're construction workers. We don't care. And they went down
there with chainsaws. They're cutting, and now DPS is making
me pull them out. Yeah, they're all just disappointed. They're
all twenty some year olds.

Speaker 3 (01:23:45):
We drove all the way over here to work.

Speaker 9 (01:23:47):
But I just wanted to kind of update you. Yeah,
the river's coming up, it's flooding in Curve Hill, flooding
and hunt what what's rained?

Speaker 3 (01:23:54):
Pretty good? Here?

Speaker 1 (01:23:55):
Are we talking about more of what happened a week ago?
Or are we just talking about light rises? Because I
looked the future cast shows it all kind of falling
apart soon, So I hope that's what happens.

Speaker 3 (01:24:07):
I'm hoping.

Speaker 9 (01:24:09):
Nobody really seems to know. You know there of course
is going with an abundance of cautions.

Speaker 1 (01:24:13):
Oh absolutely, but yeah, one.

Speaker 9 (01:24:16):
Of my cruiser was working right below the dam there
at Kurveville, at Curvevill's flood and so I had to
pull them out quick.

Speaker 1 (01:24:22):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:24:23):
We're moving equipment.

Speaker 9 (01:24:24):
Until three thirty four o'clock this morning, trying to make
sure everybody was out of the flood plate because this
was not predicted. So I had my young guys out
there moving equipment around and we got it all up
out of the bottoms and they went to bed about
four and wow.

Speaker 3 (01:24:42):
So hey, I having.

Speaker 9 (01:24:44):
Chainsaw guys out there doing their thing and we're working
at it. But this is going to be a rain
delay and probably a flooding lay.

Speaker 3 (01:24:52):
They're saying it. River may come up there four feet,
five feet, six feet, two.

Speaker 1 (01:24:56):
Doos all those numbers, all those numbers you just mentioned three, four,
five six that that you know that that's doable up there.
They're used to that, right, Yeah, so god Lee, Yeah,
and that's.

Speaker 3 (01:25:12):
Paper all things.

Speaker 9 (01:25:13):
Because I had a lot, a lot of volunteers for today,
knowing being what it is.

Speaker 3 (01:25:19):
Yeah, I had lots of volunteers. We were gonna get
a lot time. I had a fifty. Anyway, I just.

Speaker 1 (01:25:30):
Want to give you I'm so glad you did, man,
I'm so glad you did. I don't know if I'm
sure you know you're you're up there. But when when
you were talking about that where you showed that picture
this morning, a little girl in a baseball or a
basketball uniform. Yeah, team picture kind of a thing.

Speaker 4 (01:25:48):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:25:49):
I I found out by going to the internet. I
talked about that and I had some listeners email me
that there are sites popping up all over the internet
and social media. Uh, things that have been collected and
are just there for someone who could say, yeah, that
belonged to my dad or my mom, or my daughter
or my son or whoever. So I'm glad that's there, man.

Speaker 9 (01:26:12):
Yeah, that's the old point of it. The fire department.
There's a sad little room in the back corner of
the fire department.

Speaker 3 (01:26:19):
I went in there last night. It's got teddy bears
and all kinds of stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:26:22):
Oh god, you know, there's just hundreds of them in there.

Speaker 3 (01:26:26):
Yeah, it is a tough little room to walk into,
even for me.

Speaker 1 (01:26:29):
Oh yeah, I know, I understand, I do. Scott, thank
you so much again for what you're doing. I hope
you guys can get back out there soon. And if
you need anything that I can do for you down here,
you know, all you gotta do is call yep. I
figured that all right.

Speaker 9 (01:26:45):
I've I got one little crew that's way down the river.
I'm trying to find them right now. They're out of
cell service and I gotta drive around figure out where
the heck they went.

Speaker 3 (01:26:54):
Yeah, right, so, because I know they're all the way
down in the bottle of the river.

Speaker 1 (01:27:00):
Find them, all right, Well, go find them, get them
out of there. Man, hope that rain stops really soon.
I'll keep it eye on the radar for you. I
might text you you're you've seen it. Never I don't
know why, I'm kinda know about yeah, never mind, all right, man,
thank you, Scott, all right, all right, but I'll see man, audios,
Captain Scott, and no volunteering for now. A week up

(01:27:24):
there in the flood zone and overseeing more than one
hundred people, and boy, there's nobody i'd want overseeing me
if there was something to do, or if there was
somebody who would be watching out for my safety. That's
a that's a good guy to have up there. He's
trained to do what they're doing, and he's got experience

(01:27:48):
and doing what they're doing, and and he's obviously got
a lot of willing and able volunteers. Those young people, Uh,
hopefully they'll get found and get out of there. I
in my twenties would have been the same way. Yeah,
I can do this, don't worry. I've worked in the
rain before. I worked in the rain as a hunting

(01:28:10):
god for fourteen fifteen years. But man, oh man, that's
just a special breed of cat that's willing to go
up there and just give up everything he was going
to do. Good to have people like him around, and
I know there are hundreds more like him up there,
and close to two thousand volunteers probably today, all ready
to do whatever they're asked to do to hopefully, at

(01:28:32):
some point in time, be able to bring an in
to the questions that so many families have. Get outside,
have some fun with your family. I'll be back Tuesday
for fifty plus over at KPRC high noon, and I'll
be back in this seat next Saturday, seven o'clock in
the morning as usual. Thank you all so much. Be

(01:28:52):
safe outdoors. Ideos