Speedo Endorsements in Men's Golf? Thankfully, No

Originally aired on November 23, 2025. On this episode, Doug talks with Mitchell Holder, Manager of Waterfowl Specialties Inc. to see how birds are starting to appear in Texas. Doug also recounts a great hunting prank submitted by a listener, breaks down the reasoning behind the flounder and speckled trout limits, and much more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now Here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Eight o'clock means it's time to get started. Here. Welcome,
Thank you for listening to the Dug Pike Show. I
do appreciate it. On this, I guess, the last weekend
day before Thanksgiving. Huh, we are there. This is Thanksgiving
week now officially, and I know a good portion of
this audience is in a duck, blind and a deerstand
on a boat, wading flat in the bay somewhere, just

(00:27):
out enjoying the outdoors on this absolutely drop dead gorgeous
day Thanksgiving. I guess the main message of Thanksgiving is
in the name of it. You just got to find
something to be thankful for in your life, no matter
where you are right now. This has been kind of
a crazy, I don't know, a crazy time for the

(00:49):
last several years, but I truly do feel optimistic and
that it's getting better and gonna get even better. Maybe
it's just because fish has been pretty good, hunting seasons
are open, finally seeing some payoff from the short game tips.
Tommy O'Brien showed me in my golf game. That's that's

(01:10):
the one that's been haunting me for quite a long time,
and I'll talk a little bit more about that in
the nine o'clock hour. By the way, at eight thirty,
we'll we'll get in touch with We'll get in touch
with Mitchell Holder. God, I couldn't spit his name out
to save my soul. I'm looking right at the piece
of paper Mitchell. Yesterday. If you listened, you know that

(01:32):
we kind of couldn't get hold of him, and I
didn't know why. Frankie couldn't get him. I couldn't get him.
And it wasn't until about one o'clock, well not one,
but about noon yesterday. I finally got him on the phone.
He said, man, it's every time I tried to call
you guys back, it started raining harder and harder, and
I couldn't. I just couldn't get the phone to work.

(01:52):
And my guys were getting a little chilled, even though
it wasn't super cold. They got wet because two of them,
there were four guys in the blind with him, and
them didn't have any rain gear at all, so that
did not help. And they ended up just throwing in
the towel a little bit early got out of there,
and I guess Mitchell went on and took care of
his business long after the show ended. In any event,

(02:15):
no rain this morning down there in El Campo, so
we're gonna get a pretty good what I think is
going to be a pretty good report. Anyway, we'll be
talking about that in a little while. Back to that
little golf mention I made, and speaking of a quick
reminder that now our gosh, slow down, Doug, I haven't
even had to drop a coffee yet. Our annual golf

(02:36):
tournament for Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital is set for
December eighth, another Monday, bright and early on the second
Monday in December for the first time, and if you
want to play, there is still room for a few
more teams and maybe a couple more sponsorships. Even We're
gonna be taking over Golf Club of Houston as usual

(02:57):
for breakfast, a little warm up period, and a late
lunch afterward, with a lot of good golf and well
and probably a lot of bad golf in between two.
It's always a good event for us. We work really
hard to raise a bunch of money for that hospital.
I've told you before. I got to go over there
and actually visit it years ago, and it was just

(03:20):
stunning how amazing and awesome and helpful. This hospital is
to some of the sickest kids in the world, quite literally.
They come from all around the world, children whose doctors
have told them and their well told their parents anyway,
we can't do anything else for your child. And to

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hear that as a parent, it would just it would
floor you, you know it would. And Saint Jude takes
on those cases. And not only do they tackle the
most difficult illnesses among children, they don't charge a dime
for what they do. Everything they do is done thanks
to you and me and people who donate to that cause.

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And it takes a lot of money to run that place.
Believe me, I've seen the numbers. I know what it
costs to treat a sick child over there. But still,
the thing that really stuck out for me when I
made that visit was that there is no patient billing
department in that entire hospital. The patients come in, the

(04:25):
families come in, they get transportation paid for, they get
housing paid for, they get their food paid for. If
a child who's in the hospital and as a patient
needs a cavity filled, Saint Jude arranges for a local
dentist over there in Memphis to take care of that

(04:46):
child's teeth. And once you're a patient of Saint Jude,
if that illness that got you in there ever pokes
up its little head again and says, hey, I'm back,
and they just take you back in there and get
back to work on you. It's amazing what they do.
The childhood cancer ratio or rate for survival was very

(05:08):
low when that hospital opened in the late sixties, and
now in many many of the pediatric cancers, it's very high,
and we're going to help them out. For the last
two years, maybe three, I think it is, between the
golf tournament and the radio fon that we do, we've
topped a million dollars and I'm very proud of that,

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and we're going to try to do it again this year.
So if you want some of that, just shoot me
an email. Oh Mercy, it gets me, It really moves
me because to be over there and actually see these
kids and see the way they're treated and how they're
treated and little things that mean so much. It doesn't
smell like a hospital, by the way, and there's a
reason for that. This whole entire giant hospital doesn't smell

(05:52):
like a hospital. Because a lot of patients from the
early years were coming back and wanting to go to
work in the hospital, and they'd ask them, well, what
did you like about it? What do you not like
about it? And enough former patients told them that they
didn't like that smell. They just it was a bad
association for them because it was a very hard time
in their lives. And so now they've added these air

(06:16):
scrubbers and air purifiers throughout the entire facility so it
doesn't smell like a hospital. It's amazing little bitty things
like that that help these kids get better, and they do,
most of them, most of them do. It's amazing. I'm
calling a team for Carter's Country. They've been or been
nice enough to offer me their team because this time

(06:37):
of year, as you might suspect at a guns at
AMMO and hunting stuff store, they're kind of busy and
it's all hands on deck. So I'm gonna I'm gonna
make three phone calls here in the next week or
so and see if I can't find some people who
want to come over there and put on a good show.
My team never wins for a lot of reasons, but

(06:58):
we're darns, you're gonna have a good time. We are
darns you're gonna have a good time as well. Everybody
else leading off with duck hunting because we never got
to talk about it yesterday, and I really wanted to already.
Ducks from this front have made people kind of turn
around and say, you know what it's gonna be. Okay,

(07:18):
there are a lot of ducks in some places. There
are enough ducks in the rest of the places and
only a handful still where you might you might not
have a really good hunt. And by a really good hunt,
I mean putting some birds on the strap and and
well there's a lot of ways to measure that. Back
when I was a guide, you'd come in after the

(07:39):
hunt and you might have six seven birds and everybody
go ah, Now, not in front of hunters. That's the
worst thing in the world that some of these younger
guides would do is come in bragging about their big
hunt they had in front of all the people who
all went out to the same area that morning. And
if your group didn't have a terribly good hunt, they
would think that didn't work out for us, even though

(08:02):
they had quite a few birds. But I digress. So
the deal now is that these ducks are here and
they're going to stay here for a good while where
there's still plenty more to come. Don't don't misunderstand me.
We're not We're not full yet, but we will be
pretty soon. And I'm liking the numbers of birds that

(08:24):
I'm hearing about from emails and text messages and whatnot,
and I also like the their reception to decoys and stuff.
They're actually working pretty good so far. Still a lot
of fresh young birds down here, and as long as
we've got a lot of them and and not so
many big, old, fat, wise adults leading the way, we

(08:46):
should get in some really good hunts, even in weather
like this. Now there is pretty good wind down. Let
me let me jump down here and check this wind
situation because it is pumping. Uh there it is. I've
got it up on the screen right now. Good along
the coast, clearly blowing more than inland, but still some
pretty good blows. Twenty two in Galveston. Let's see where

(09:07):
is this ten? This ten is at East Matagorda, eighteen
miles an hour anniwak, No, that's not that. Where is
that place?

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Right? Just a little well, a little south of where
I was before. We got an eighteen, another eighteen and
sixteen and fourteen's and all these ten to twenties let's
call it twenty two up our way, and the Galveston
North Jetty is the strongest we've got. And those are
all northeast winds, just blowing straight down the coast. If
you were planning on driving to Galveston and seeing pretty

(09:42):
water today, change your plans because it's just going to
be kind of blown out and sandy and nasty from
that constant heavy sideshore wind up inland A little ways
it settles out, not entirely. I mean, right here in
the middle of Houston at Rice University, we're at thirteen
out of almost due east, actually eights, nine, tens, thirteen.

(10:06):
I'm just kind of moving all the way down the coast,
so you get it. Let's call it ten to fifteen
miles an hour with occasional higher wind. And that's what
you got on the coast, almost all of it northeast.
It actually had a little bit farther east. Let me
see if it's still that way over here, it was
more northerly. Yeah, you got to go all the way
into Louisiana and now to find more of a north

(10:28):
wind than a northeast. But it's just gonna do that
all day long, and it's gonna bring in cooler, nice
cool area. I don't know if you've been outside yet,
but if you haven't, you're in for a really pleasant surprise.
It's quite sunny. The forecast said something about partly cloudy.
I don't know how cloudy it's gonna get, but I
doubt that it's gonna be of significance. And we're supposed

(10:50):
to have a very similar forecast just right all the
way through Thanksgiving, which would be nice for a change.
It's gonna be good. There's that. Oh gosh, Dan, my buddy, Dan,
I'm just sitting here in my fat man chair. Good golly, Yeah, yeah,

(11:13):
you know I have one of those. I'm trying for
it to become some other kind of chair than that,
but at present, that would be a pretty good description
of it. Uh, there's a phone or an email I'll
I'll respond to when we go to break and when
we get back. Actually, I mentioned we're going to talk
to Mitchell Holder at eight thirty. But there's a fellow

(11:36):
named Michael sent Michael, if you're listening this morning and
you sent me the email about your brother buddy, I
need the story again because I thought I had had
printed out everything, but I'm not seeing the rest of
that everything. And I can paraphrase it if I have to,
But if you're out there, I would love to hear

(11:57):
you tell the story. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety. Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com
Shooters Corner. That's down there at Palmer High Wind twenty
nine Street in Texas City. It's just it's one turn
basically off I forty five, off the Golf Freeway, and
you go in a little farther, a little farther, a
little farther. It's not just right there at I forty five.

(12:19):
It's it's worth driving too though, no matter how far
it is, because it's an old school gun store where
the people inside know about guns, they know how to
fix them, They know which gun will be best suited
for whatever part of the shooting sports or hunting you
want it for. Maybe a self defense gun, they can
help you with that as well. They have used guns

(12:40):
and new guns, plenty of AMMO, plenty of optics, Camo
Reloading supplies everything you would expect in a gun store.
And then behind the counter and behind the wall there's
the gunsmithing department where Jerry and JTK turn out some amazing,
amazing rifles, amazing custom rifles, and on top of that

(13:00):
can fix just about anything wrong with any gun you
can bring them. I can't tell you how many times
this is honest truth. I can't tell you how many
times I've had listeners call me and say, you know what,
I got this problem with the gun, and I've been
to two gunsmiths and they tell me it's going to
cost a ton of money to fix it, or they
tell me I have to completely replace my barrel or whatever.

(13:22):
And I said, take it down to Jerry and JC.
What happens. And to this day, I have never had
anybody call me back and say that didn't work. I
need somebody else. Every time. There are good gunsmiths in
this city. There are tons of them, well not tons,
there's I could count them on one hand, the really, really,
really good ones. But I'm still I'm still stuck on

(13:44):
Jerry and Jay as that's my go to. I'll send
somebody up north side. I'll send them somewhere else east Side,
west Side. I got a good west Side guy. I
got all guys in all these places. But if something
goes wrong and knowe of those, nobody else can fix
your gun. Take it to Shooter's Corner. Family owned and
operated for forty some odd years, I'm not sure how many.

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And if you wear a badge for a living, you
get a discount at Shooter's Corner, which I think is
pretty cool. D Shooters Corner TX dot com. D Shooters Corner,
TX dot com eight nineteen on Sports Talk seven to ninety,
The Dougpike Chill, thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
It's got a text message during a break from Mitchell

(14:29):
Holder and too, so we don't have to risk anything
interrupting us this time. I'm gonna go ahead and bring
him up right now. Give me my mouse over here, Mitchell.
We're finally huh no rain today.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
No no beautiful morning out here. Doug, how are y'all doing?

Speaker 2 (14:45):
You know, we're doing just fine. I was driving in
and thinking about you from yesterday. I couldn't I talked
about it when I started the show this morning. I
couldn't find you anywhere. I thought you'd rolled off in
a ditch somewhere.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
Man, No, I just had to get the time to
dry out dry Some of these customers out that I
didn't listen to the forecast, you know.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
You know, it's so easy now that the rain gear
is so lightweight. It there's no reason to just leave
it at home. Just stuff it in the bag and
if you need it. And it's kind of like a
for me, it's same in my golf bag. I've got
rain gear, and boy, if it starts raining, I'm really
glad I got it.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah, And it's not like we're hoofing it out there anymore.
You throw it on the buggy, you know, you're not
strapping it to your back and walking three hundred miles
three hundred yards down all way.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of lightweight time, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Back when men were men, we had to just all
everything out on our backs. Oh my lord, I'm so
glad you got that buggy, man.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
I don't miss it, No, don't miss it, man.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah, it was rough. So talk about let's let's come
into the present here, get out of the past for
a minute. Talk about how the season started, and bear
in mind We're twenty days into it. That's about it.
So it's not like it's the end of the world.
Three weeks in. It started off pretty slow for everybody, though,
didn't it.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
N it was pretty good, Okay, yeah, we were. We're
really fortunate. We still had quite a few blue wings
hanging around and uh blue wing teal hanging around that
kind of Yeah, that definitely helps. Yeah, but mostly mostly
teal and teal and gadwalls. Some pintail you know, even

(16:26):
even when they're unren't want to come in. But yeah, no,
it's it's really been a great guard for the season.
I have no complaints. I have heard other reports of
it being kind of tough around the prairie. But but
fortunately for us, we got good farmers that that you know,

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know how to get water.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
You and you work with them. Huh.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
I had a guy. I had a guy. I love
getting pictures. I really do a deer hunt, fishing, duck hunt, whatever.
And one guy, after opening weekend, I think was on
Monday or maybe Tuesday, he sent me a picture from
the blind of an empty strap and a full box
of shells, and I get it.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, well I'll have to send you a
picture after this. Oh yeah, this one that we're on
right now. We uh, these pentail have been mean to
us lately, and so we just we we have a
good crew that was down to get in some layouts
on a big permanent levee and nice. We took about
thirty thirty. There's a decent wind this morning, so we

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put about thirty rags back behind us, and sure enough,
I think we're sitting on fifteen twenty ducks and ten
snow geese.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
Are you kidding?

Speaker 1 (17:44):
They're following right now? Oh yeah, well what they shot into?

Speaker 2 (17:47):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (17:49):
Oh man, I'm sitting inside of a tractor right now
to get good service. Yeah, highest point.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
So how many gee you got down there right now?

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Not very many, but uh but I was surprised to
see this many this morning. You know, we really just
put them out for confidence, yeah, for the dogs else.
Yeah right, So yeah, it's a few more fronts and
and more rice getting cut. But it is later than

(18:26):
it's ever been for me thrown, not throwing a goosebread.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
So you know it's I don't know how many you've got,
but you got ten less than you had yesterday.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Now, no doubt, no doubt.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Man, So you told me, you told me the other
day you had a bunch of cranes down there too.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
Right, Oh yeah, yeah, they're starting to show up pretty
thick down here, and so we just have to kind
of sit around and watch them for another a little
less than a month. It opens that thirteenth of December,
when Ducks reopened. It's a second year in a row
that trains, and the reopener after the split or the

(19:03):
same weekend. So that's nice. I got my hand I
got my hands full of that weekend.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
But you do, man, good gosh, Uh, what about let's
talk about decoy spreads for a couple of minutes, because
a lot of people are just giddy over putting out
a bajillion decoys on a half acre or of water
a lot. And you and I were talking the other
day about how if you have that many decoys out,
too many decoys out, and they're too close together, that's

(19:30):
almost it gives the appearance that the ducks are worried
about something and they're all kind of gathering the troops
instead of being nice and relaxed and spread out. But
it's harder to set that big spread out spread of decoys.
You just got to do the work if you want
the ducks right.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah, I think that uh, I mean got lee. The
bald eagle population of exploded. So when you when you're
scouting and you kind of see them bunch stuff like that,
there's probably one in a tree close by. Yah. As
much as it's kind of a pain to pick them
up when they're all real loose and spread out, yeah,

(20:06):
it's easy to throw them loose. It's just yeah, and
you got to go get a lot more walking.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Is there any way? Can you could? You could? Have
you ever tried stringing decoys kind of like they do
in the bays up north, where you just have thirty
decoys on one line and you just kind of set
them out off on the wind and let them go. Really,
I don't know if that'll work so much in some
of the water we hunt. It's just too shallow though,
isn't it.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
It's it's shallow, you know. Well, on super calm days,
I'll put a jerk rig out there kind of moves
them in a straight line. But yeah, it's just like
with anything, right, straight lines aren't really natural feature in anything,
So I try not to throw do anything in straight
lines really.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Well, these guys up north, they'll put out like they
put them close enough together and stagger them a little
bit where it really doesn't look so much like a
straight line. I'll give them credit for that. They figured
that out. But I'm just trying to find out some
way that without taking the buggy out in the water,
you can just drop off five hundred decoys.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, not any efficient way of doing it, really,
but it is. Uh, it's a lot easier than it
used to be. At least we don't have to wrap
those old old brokes around the neck. Well, oh weight
wrap it around the neck, you know. Yeah, gentlem in
a big mess decoy bag. These need Yeah, the new

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those Texas rigs are they make things go back.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Let's go back to geese for a minute too. You
know you talked about what you have, like two or
three dozen rags behind you in the stubble. That's it.
Sometimes it doesn't take any more than that, and you
almost gotta kind of let the birds tell you. I
saw it on Facebook this morning. If I can find
it again, I'll send it to you. These guys have,
I swear to you, remember that spread we put out

(22:04):
for the du deal. They five for everyone we had out,
and it's just staggering looking. And I don't know how
long it takes them to do that, but I promise
you they're not picking them up every day. And I'm
a strong advocate you. If you put it out today,
you pick it up today and get it out of
the field so the birds don't know it.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
You agree with that, Yeah, absolutely, well, yeah, you just
I mean, these things, even the even the socks that
we're throwing out, I mean, they're not They're not like
the old Texas Texas rags that were what sixty cents
a piece. I mean even even the Tievek you know,
these Tievek rags we run are just too expensive for

(22:45):
just leaving out.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
And I'm like, you know, I didn't thought about it,
but somebody might come through and just wipe out your
spread the middle of the night.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yeah, that's whole.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Roll up for four guys behind you. Yeah, we got
nine hundred decoys out in this field. The sun comes up,
there is gone, Oh my lord.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yeah. Usually if I if I got to throw more
than a thousand whites and two hundred speckle bellies, it's
if they don't.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
Do it with that and you're throw you're putting out
a thousand piece spreads.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
It just depends on how many how big the group is,
you know, it's if it's four people, I kind of think,
you know, roughly one hundred, one hundred and fifty decoys
someone can stick in the ground, depending on the field conditions.
You know, if it's super sloppy and you've got older guys,
you might be better off maybe just doing a combo

(23:40):
hunt with on the edge, just some water, with some
speckle belly, full bodies or a little easier than.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
Them, you know, your work crew.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. Still sometimes where I want to
throw a big spread and then it's fifteen minutes still
shooting time, and it's like, that's that's what's there. That's
what we're gonna have to work with right there.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yeah, that's all you're gonna have. I can what do
you still get guys coming in who've been who show
up still kind of half tanked and been at the
ladies clubs all night long and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Not so much as much.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
A campo probably, I guess though too that's pretty fure I.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Mean, ol campo. If you got if there's maybe a
concert at Greek Brothers or something. You know, it's really
he did. People that are staying at our lodge that
you know, there's times where they definitely have late nights
and you got to rally the troops. But I sure
to get there, and you know, Paul, Paul's making coffee

(24:46):
an hour and a half before it's time to even
get them to leave.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
You know, we had guys coming out back to the
old Katy Prairie stuff. It was so close to Houston.
They would stay up like around where belt Wait eighty
is right now, and they'd be in the gentlemen's clubs
till they closed, and then yeah, go straight back to
the hotel and grab their camo and come on out
to the prairie. Like you guys aren't gonna be any

(25:15):
good putting out of spread this morning.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yeah, there's been a handful of times where where we've
had to just y'll just especially out at the lodge.
You know, you can tell they went to bed about
thirty minutes the fire before the coffee pot Yeah, started, y'all.
Just we're good, y'all. Just stay yeah, stay there. We'll
take the rest of the crew.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
We'll do an afternoon teal.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
Oh yeah. It's fun being a guy, though, isn't it
when you're young. I'd tell you right now I couldn't
do what you do. There's no way. I don't have
it left in me. But I enjoyed every minute of
it when I did it.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
It's fun. I'm on year nineteen. Oh yeah, you still
gotta still enjoy gotta enjoy it. Well, it's still around,
you know.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yeah, that's true. You know you're you're at a point
when the prey could go either way, aren't you.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yeah, you see the development creeping down fifty nine and
it you know, start thinking, you start thinking about the future,
and it's like, we'll see, we'll.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
Ride this pony where our smart financial center is now
off there. In fifty nine there were two or three
straight winners. When late late when everything off the prey
was eating up, geese were piling into that field that
close to sugar Land, just right there.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Man. Well golly, you know I live right there. Yeah,
great area, and back at the George Ranch. You go
back that way towards towards the park and I'm still
rice fields. You be able to see, you know, slug
a specklebellies here sure and there, and I think that

(26:56):
whole George Ranch complex, I imagine it'll be a subdivision pretty soon.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
I don't even say that. So what's what's your forecast
for this this season that we're in right now, when
we look back on it in February or March, what
do you think we're going to say?

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Start strong? Which is good? First split's been solid. I
haven't been crazy busy. A lot of my customers still
chasing chasing their deer. Sure you know this part of November,
but but it's it started strong and we've still got
plenty of food for them. So if you, uh, we
just manage this thing, right, I think it'll turn out

(27:35):
to be a really good season. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
Well, with all the with all the technology that you have,
and and when when we did that du hunt, I
really saw what a modern good spread is supposed to
look like. And I know you've got a ton of
investment in there, a lot more than we did for
Rags on Sticks, I guarantee it. But but it does
make a difference. I'll concede that. You know, I used
to kind of go I don't need those full bodies,

(27:59):
But look at the difference from a distance when you
walk away from it and look back at it like
the birds seit. It's yeah, it's worth every dime you're
putting into them. Mitchell. I really appreciate your time this
morning too.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
Oh yeah, yeah. It's all about concealment too. If if
you're if you're, whether you're you're in a duckline or
or in a goose spread with a white park. If
you got someone shining at that shining.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
Mirror, sunglasses, yeah those are good.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah, neon neon hat, Oh my gosh, yeah it all yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
Yeah, if you got for about two seasons, you've seen
most of it. Holy cow. All right man, Well look Mitchell,
Older Waterfowl Specialties dot Com is your website.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
I hope that's right, Yes, sir, that's good man.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
I'll come look you up.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Thank you, Mitchell, Thank you so much, Doug, the good
rest of y'alls weekend.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
Yeah, get back to you guys. They shoot anything while
we were talking.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
They've allied twice. So I walk down this levee and
see if i'm out. I think I saw a couple
more fall, but looking out a muddy tractor when.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, you're sitting in a nice warm tractor too, aren't
you all right, Hey, thank you Mitchell, Thanks good sir,
see man audios. All right, let's do that. We got
to take this break when we get back. Dave, hang on,
I want to hear what you got to say. Timbercreek
Golf Club, it's gonna be a pretty good day to
go down there. They got some rain yesterday afternoon. I'm guessing,

(29:23):
but it's a pretty educated guess. You go down FM
twenty three to fifty one, a few miles west of
the freeway, like I said, and you will find the entrance.
It'll be on your right hand side, the north side
of twenty three fifty one, across the street from the
high school. That'll be your biggest landmark to find. Twenty
seven holes behind that gate and a great crew just

(29:45):
waiting to help you have a good time and relax
and enjoy a nice round of golf. Teaching staff is fantastic.
JJ Woods moved in there with his crew probably three
years ago now, I think it was maybe two, and
he's been helping people. He and his whole who have
been helping people fix their games for that long. Great crew,
great people, great place to throw a nice sized tournament

(30:07):
because they got those twenty seven holes. You can use
them all if you have to. Timber Creek Golf Club
dot com you can go there right now, start your
own tea, time up and lock in and go play
timber Creek Golf Club dot com. If you are a
cigar officionado or would like to become one, need to
learn about Manny Lopez and El Cubano Cigars, which is

(30:30):
a it's a manufacturing facility right here in Texas, right
here in Texas City on Main Street, one of only
four dozen in the whole country. El Cubano was founded
by Many Lopez and his dad back in two thousand
and six. They use the finest tobaccos grown in the
best places you can get them from. They bring all
that tobacco up here at cures. They showed, or Manny

(30:53):
showed me the whole process of talked about how long
it takes and all of that. It would take too
long to tell you about it, but he can tell
you about it if you go visit with him over
at that store on Main Street in Texas City. They
make one hundred and fifty different varieties of cigars there
and ship them out every day all over the country.
Now right here locally, you can get them at his

(31:15):
place on Texas City or his other smoking lounge over
in League City, and they have a great selection there
of fine fresh cigars, no middleman, so you get a
better price than you typically would for that quality of cigar.
And then you can also have him come out to
your special event, maybe a wedding or maybe a golf tournament,

(31:36):
a shooting event, something like that where most of the
people there might appreciate a fine cigar, and he will
come out and hand roll those cigars for you. Or
he can just make an entire batch with your company logo,
your charity logo, whatever, right on the bands of each
and every cigar he makes for you. Elcubanosigars dot com

(31:59):
you'll never meet a nice guy the Manny Lopez. Every
time I talk to him, there's something great going on
for him. He's out helping somebody with an event somewhere.
Elcubanocigars dot com check him out. He's a great guy. Really,
look no fooling elcubanosigars dot com. Alrighty, welcome back. Or

(32:19):
Frankie had him running down to hal of grab something
for me. Now he's got to run back in there
and lower this music. Eight forty two The Duck Pike Show.
Thank you for listening to KB and me this morning
as promised. Since Dave's been holding very patiently for a
very long time. Hey, Dave, what's up?

Speaker 3 (32:37):
I had a problem. Hey, I've been sitting here watching
the slow water over here, just happy Thanksgiving to everybody.
And then man, then I was just watching a boat
over here that picked up one guy with an empty
ice tifts, so they must be going out, you know,
to fill it up.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
Here.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
The thing, my heart feels good because there's a dad
and his son over here, and his son taught like
about a two pound bass and they went and took
pictures of it and let it go back.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
That's good, you know, absolutely, that's great.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
Man.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
I'm looking for what did you send me on Facebook?
Did you send it as a messager just a post
or what?

Speaker 3 (33:23):
Trying to find it was on a post on Facebook
with me and uh wait, uh uh what's his name? Uh?

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Oh yeah, Turkey.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
We went and got.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Okay, now I get it.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
There was Bellville gear Market, so brought me by over
there and he's got a uh, he's got a knife
over there that I put some money on the customer
knife him. And I'm talking about and uh, you know,
when I got my name only head, like, I don't

(34:00):
have seven hundred fifty tickets, but I got three hunt,
I got the three hundred and won one.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
Good fingers crossed. Huh. I hope it's lucky for you
that wow. I bet it's pretty much, you know.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
And he is. He's such cool dude.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Where he was.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
Down there, down in that stairwell, down there where the
wheels are grinding and all that kind of Oh.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Yeah, man, he's right center the rotten center every day.
I know what he does good for you, man, I
hope you win.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
Well, you know, it's only uh, God only knows. And
that's what I wanted to talk about. Hey, uh God,
bless America and happy Thanksgiving everybody.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
Yeah you two days.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
I want to I want to thank everybody, okay, you know,
because I got so many, so many people to just
hear my voice or you know, they come up and
help me her they do something for me, or you know,
or I'll help them, you know. Likewise, you know, so.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
Most people are that way, Dave. I've come to that conclusion.
A lot of people think the opposite that most people
are bad. I'm never gonna believe that about humanity. I
just can't. It's just not. That's not the way I
was raised, not the way you were raised, and not
the way most of the people I know were raised.
We're all pretty good to each other. And I do that.
I do experiments in the grocery store. I try to

(35:28):
figure out who's gonna be nice, who's not gonna be nice,
and and all of that stuff. And nine times out
of ten, most of them are nice. You know, that's right. Yeah,
but most people are are pretty kind and generous. And
you know I hold doors for people, they hold them
for me now that I'm the dog on hold and

(35:49):
I just I just look at.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
You when I when I opened up the door for
a lady, or I'm from Texas.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
That's us. That's who we are, man. All right, Thanks David,
always a pleasure in my front.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
Yeah, Hey, happy happy Thanksgiving?

Speaker 2 (36:10):
Yeah, my heart, I understand, thank you, I see you
all right, Good Heavens, we gotta tell you another break.
Holy cow, let's do that when we get back. I'm
gonna read this. I'm gonna read you know, looking at
it now, and it's it's entire this This would take
like a long time to read. I'm gonna have to

(36:30):
paraphrase and and condense a little bit. But it's about
a deer camp prank. We talked about some of those
yesterday and this one's pretty good. And I promise you, Michael,
I'll do it justice. But I'm gonna have to cut
a little bit of it just for time on the
way out to the break. Kobe Stevens Golf Apparel outdoors apparel.

(36:51):
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They have men's clothes, women close, kids close, and really
good looking stuff. The men stuff, by the way, although
up to four x if that's what you need, he's
got it for you. Good guy too, he's constantly working
at golf tournaments. He just had his own golf tournament

(37:14):
two weekends ago or two mondays ago, I guess it was.
And I got the opportunity to play in that tournament
and had a really good time and hopefully helped raise
a bunch of money for a charity called Mosaics, which
is up in I believe it's in Montgomery County. Look
it up. It's a really wonderful organization. Kobe Stevens also wonderful.

(37:35):
Got that store up on the North Side affair in spring.
If you want to go touchy feely all his products
and see a little bit bigger selection and and really
get to look at it firsthand rather than scrolling on
your web page. Either way though, you'll see the quality
in this, you'll see the value in it, and hopingy
you'll pick some up. Kobe Stevens dot com is a

(37:57):
website cob y S T E V e NS Kobe
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(38:19):
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(38:39):
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It takes repetition to hammer in those safety skills, and
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(39:24):
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dot Com Height fifty two on Sports Talk seven ninety
The Dugpike Show. Thank you for listening. I really do
appreciate it. Let me take this down, look at this
real quickly, and then I'm gonna get to Michael's story

(39:44):
because it's pretty funny. Okay, I'm good. This is very good.
So Michael sends me this story yesterday about deer hunting
with his brother Buddy, who has passed several years ago unfortunately,
but as Buddy's little brother, both of them loving to hunt,

(40:06):
both of them loving the outdoors, and like brothers will do,
they'll prank each other from time to time. Well, they
started off pretty young, hunting a small piece of property
and having fun and doing all that. And then somewhere
along the way, see this is during the eighties. Buddy

(40:28):
lived in Sea Lee. So some night during the eighties,
Buddy ended up watching the movie It, which I'm reading
from the story here, which it left him especially spooked.
He'd always been a leery of clowns. Next morning, he
went out to cat Spring by himself, and coincidentally, our
neighbors at the property had thrown a big birthday party

(40:49):
the night before, and as Buddy made his way to stand,
he noticed a balloon on the trail, which kind of
spooked him. Now I'm gonna keep this thing moving in
the moon. The balloon always appears right before the clown,
so it rattled him enough. Anyway, his brother Buddy that
he just turned around and said, I'm going home. I

(41:09):
can't deal with this. According to Michael, Buddy's biggest mistake
was telling Michael about it, and and Michael just stored
it away for the future opportunity to prank his big brother.
That following hunting season, they were fortunate enough, he writes,
to secure spots on a deer lease in Round Mountain,
and with opening weekend coming up, he figured, he added,

(41:32):
this was gonna be it. Halloween had just finished Toys Rs.
Running a big sale on costumes and for three bucks.
For three bucks, Michael gets a very remarkably realistic It says,
here Bozo the clown mask, and then it's at a
completely different kind of shop in a different part of town.
He was able to procure a seventy inch inflatable man

(41:57):
and to complete the look. He says, he found a
small pair of camera flo overalls. With all those pieces
in place, the prank was ready. With the help of
his buddies at deer camp, they went up, but he
had a ladder stand set up. He would have to
climb up that little ladder that was anchored to the tree.
And what they did was they went out. They dressed

(42:17):
this inflatable dude in camouflage and put the clown mask
on its head and then positioned it right behind the
ladder stand between the ladder and the tree, and taped
the hands to the ladder. Okay, you can see what
this is looking like. Okay, you can see what it's

(42:38):
looking like. Storm rolls in that night. They all had
to walk to their stands the following morning because it
was so muddy and they couldn't get the vehicles in there.
And as they were leaving the camp, one of the
guys in camp said, beat beat, Buddy, have a good hunt,
which is a reference to the movie Frankie's nod in
his head, where every time that dog on clown had

(42:59):
come around he beat beat Ritchie.

Speaker 5 (43:01):
Though.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
In any event, out they go, and they finally get
where they're going, and uh, Michael even he laid it
up for him. He said, Bubby, you know I love you.
Just promise me when things go bad, try to stay calm.
And he said Buddy looked back at him with a
very puzzled expression, but just kept going. Any event, In

(43:23):
any event, there there's enough activity around there and enough
people walking within shouting distance apparently, and it was very calm.
I'm secure or I'm pretty confident. Long in the short, yeah,
here Buddy or Michael mentions, you could hear a squirrel
eating an acorn. It was so quiet out there. A
few minutes later, the silence is broken. Hey, hey, you

(43:44):
blankety blank, don't you move. I swear, don't you move.
I'll blow your head off. It's not funny. He's staring
at this inflatable dude, and then there's a pause and
then comes you little blankety blank, think, Michael J. I'm
gonna And but he told Michael J what he was

(44:05):
gonna do to him if he caught him. Uh, Michael
said he was laughing so hard he nearly fell out
of his stand. You could hear other hunters on their
lease in the woods laughing because Buddy had yelled so loudly.
And that's the story. And that's pretty good. That's a
good prank, it really is. It's a very good prank.

(44:26):
Even better now, I don't I'm may be wrong on
him on the inflatable thing being stood up. He may
have been up at the top of the ladder looking down,
which would have been just as horrifying and maybe even
more so. You get up, get up to your stand,
you start to climb the ladder, and you hang the
flashlight up just to make sure nothing's up there, and

(44:47):
you see both of the clowns staring back at you.
That's well done, Michael, that's well done. And not I'd
never heard of doing that, but now I'm ready. I
got a guy that yeah, I just might do that.
Air ride bikes. That's Wayne Errington's place up there on

(45:08):
tom Ball Parkway in four Corner shopping Center. You go
up there. They've got their big Black Friday stuff going
on right now, all kinds of bikes on sale, and
you're gonna get a great deal on them. He will
if you. If you want professional put together, if you
want the assembly done by him, he'll do it for you.

(45:29):
If you want to test ride the bike before you
buy it, he'll do that. He can do that in
that parking lot. I'm pretty sure that's where he's gonna
do it. And you can save up to twelve hundred
dollars off select e bikes, including their top brands, which
are Lexus or Electric excuse me, Troxus, and Rambow. Now
some of these are just kind of commuter bikes. Then

(45:50):
you drive to the drug store to pick up a
few things, maybe to the grocery store in back if
you didn't want to take the car. And they're also
that trox Us and Rambo line. Those are the those
are hunting bikes. And one of the main things that
I heard yesterday from that fellow who called in talking
about electric bikes is that you don't leave a scent

(46:10):
trail when you ride one of those to your deer stand.
If you're walking in, you're leaving scent all over everything.
If you're riding in on an e bike, the only
thing that might be out of place, if it leaves
any sent at all, would be rubber tires, and that's
something that's not going to scare a deer. I love
the idea of hunting with these things. I love the
idea of fishing the coast with these things, up and
down the beach and just just getting around. I'm gonna

(46:34):
have one of these at some point. I must save
Nichols and dimes until I can get one, and I'm
gonna have one. I've really once I got to ride
that thing when I met Wayne over at Stafford Center
when he came down for that expo. As soon as
I got on it and figured out how it works
and what it does. I okay, I'm gonna have one
of these air ride bikes a r r ide. Air

(46:56):
ride Bikes go in till Wayne, I said, hello, air
ride Bikes dot Com. Air ride Bikes dot Com.

Speaker 1 (47:03):
Now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
All right, second out of the program starts right now.
I hope you enjoyed that story from Michael. I hope
I did it justice. I think it. Uh, you get
the gist and the component parts of that thing would
not be hard to find, really, and it wouldn't cost
a lot of money either, especially if you buy your
mask right after Halloween. I think that's hilarious. That's a

(47:27):
very very frugal, very frugal prank. And yeah, a little
bit of duct tape, clown mask and something you could
stuff it. Would stuff the clothing with newspaper if you
had to. If you couldn't go buy an inflatable doll,
you certainly wouldn't want to have one of those ship
to your front door. I guess seven seven ninety email

(47:51):
on me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Let me go back,
uh to Flounder. Let's talk about them for a minute.
Then I'm gonna tell you something about speckle trout that
I learned, and it makes something. It makes sense of
what some people are saying doesn't make sense. But I'll
go with the flounder first, because we've only got what
is this the twenty third got a week two weeks,

(48:12):
three weeks total between now and when flounder season is
going to reopen finally on the fifteenth, and without without
giving away any places that are nearly always productive during
the migration, not giving them away by name anyway, just understand,
if you're fairly new to this, that those fish are
exiting the bay, not all of the flounder. You can

(48:34):
still catch a flounder than dead of winter in some
parts of this base system of ours, but most of
them are going to exit the bays, and there are
only a few places they can do that. So if
you understand that, you can get yourself closer to where
the flounder are going to be first, and then you
can find it kind of hone it in a little

(48:54):
bit by just looking at studying maps and looking at
where the turns are where these fish might be turning
the head more out to open Gulf of Mexico. They
spend the winter in as much as one hundred feet
of water offshore, and there's only one way to get there.
They don't have wings, they can't fly, so they have
to exit through the passes, and that would be not

(49:16):
roll over anymore because they dammed it up. Unfortunately, that
was a horrible mistake. And I don't want to get
into that. But you've got the Galveston Ship Channel, You've
got San Luis Pass, and you've got surf side and
those are the three exits that we have for these
fish to get out to get to them. To get
to there, a lot of places down especially a little

(49:37):
farther down south, they're gonna have to use the ship
or the intracoastal to get there as well. And so
just start thinking about that. Look at your access points.
And if you're faux pro asked me whether he ought
to throw finger mullet or lures. He wants to go
down there and get some flounder filets for the freezer
in the next few weeks, and I reck if you're

(50:00):
meat fishing, if you truly want to grab those flounder
and make sure you get some and can put them
in the freezer, go ahead and use the live bait.
If you're sportier than that and you don't want to
buy live bait for whatever reason, then by all means,
throw your lures and be patient, just kind of bounce
them off the bottom nice and slow. I used to

(50:21):
use kind of a dropper rig when I was fishing
the base for him. There was a particular cove in
West Bay that I used to wade coming into this
time of year where these fish were kind of staging
on their way to San Luis Pass, and man I
had this like a I think there was about a
quarter out spoon, and then off the split ring at

(50:44):
the back of that spoon, I would put about fourteen
to eighteen inches a line with either just a tiny
little croppy jig on there, or even sometimes I would
just use a dressed treble hook that would just kind
of flutter off the bottom as I bounced that that
spoon in front, it would kick up puffs of sand

(51:06):
a little bit and make a little noise underwater, and
then the flounder would either see it off in their
peripheral vision or maybe come up behind it and see
that little tasty morsel dangling out behind that spoon and
pow every time did really well. That was gosh, I
bet that was Mmm. That was a lot of years ago.

(51:27):
I'll just leave it at that. With that little cove
for about five or six straight winters or falls, let's
call it, and produced a lot of good flounder for
me over there, and some good trout as well. Seven
one three, two, one two five seven ninety. Email me
Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com. By the way, I really
do appreciate all the pictures you guys sent me. I
was talking about that a little with Mitchell when I

(51:47):
got that empty that picture of the empty duck strap
and a full box of shells that I just said, yeah, okay,
message understood. Tough day in the blind. That one was
huh uh. By the way, Faux pro So forwarded this
to me from the Parks and Wildlife Department. He found
the explanation that the Parks and Wildlife Department gives for

(52:08):
setting the trout limits the way they did when looking
at those trout limits as opposed to what the fresh
water bass Fishery does with slot limits, they kind of
contradict each other and it doesn't seem to make sense.
But here's the way, and I'm paraphrasing all of this,
but here's the way that the Parks and Wildlife Department

(52:28):
explains it. It says in the little sheet that it
comes on, says why trout limits are what they are.
Here's why fifteen to twenty inches on trout is the limit.
Number one, specs don't produce a lot of eggs until
they're big enough to spawn multiple times per season, which
is not when they're a foot long. A single twenty

(52:51):
inch trout can produce ten times as many eggs per
season as a twelve inch trout, So that that's good
motivation to get those slot fish up to twenty inches
as fast as we can, which means protecting them in that.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
Well.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
Once they get to twenty inches, then we got to
keep them in there as much as we can. Also,
it says they're releasing the big females gives them a
better chance to reproduce and boost the population, which makes sense.
Anything we re release gives it a chance to do better.
But it started to make a little bit more sense
when I realized that there it's okay to keep a

(53:33):
few of those fifteen or three of those fifteen to twenties,
because until they hit twenty they're not really fully spawning
to their maximum potential. We let them get through there,
and we have a lot of little trout according to
everybody I'm talking to anyway, if you hadn't found them,

(53:55):
maybe somebody else can help you find them. But I'm
really it starts to make a little bit more sense
when you realize that a twenty inch trout, a twenty
inch malk or female can produce ten times as many
eggs as one of those smaller trout. That's pretty good
indication that we need to let them. We need to

(54:16):
get a bunch of them up into that range, and
once they hit there, they need protection. That's where you
want to keep them, is where they're maximum maximum output.
So that's what we got, and I'm still convinced. The
math is very simple. They're x number of fishermen out there,
and if they're only keeping three when they catch them

(54:38):
instead of five, then that's two more fish that got
away every time. If you're catching more than five then
and only keeping your three, then that's more that got
away from past limits. The more you leave in the water,
the better chance they're going to have to recover. That's
kind of a bottom line. I think we're going to
see a really good big trout season coming up this
year too. This winter is going to be good and sadly,

(55:01):
I heard from very good friend that he's gonna have
to have shoulder surgery, maybe replacement, even I think a
guy who fishes an awful lot. I don't know if
he wants his personal business. I don't know if he's
talked about it too much. I presume he has, because
he's not a he's not a private person really, but
I'm not gonna tell you who it is. If you
don't know, you could email me and maybe I would

(55:23):
share that.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
But anyway, I hope he gets well soon, because he's
gonna be gnawing at the bit to absolutely no on
at the bit. He's gonna find a way to fish
with one arm when his other arms been operated on.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if he tries to
do that. His doctors might disagree strongly with what he's planning,
but my gut says that's what he's got planned. Seven

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one three two one two five seven ninety Email we
Dug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Let's go take a look.
Let me see if I can get this up here.
I'm gonna shift gears to golf and talk about what's
going on over at the RSM Classic. You see, if
I can get this leaderboard up here, it's got a
new way of showing. Yeah, there's what I'm looking for

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right there. I've got to get the whole leader board ups.
I hate them only showing down that right hand side
of the PGA Tour website, just five or six guys.
I want to see the whole leaderboard. Let you know
what's going on at Sea Island Golf Club. Sammy Volamacky,
man he held on Titan, kept going yesterday, nineteen under
pars through three rounds, finds himself two shots clear of

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Michael Thorbornson and Patrick Rogers. Both of them shot sixty
eighth yesterday, so they kind of they gained a little ground,
but not a lot. I think the sixteens are gonna
have a chance. That's Zach Blair, Johnny Keefer, and Andrew Novak.
The way the way Volamacky's playing, though, anybody who's gonna

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catch him is probably gonna have to go pretty low.
There are five guys, six guys at fifteen Seawoo, Kim
Siema's Power, John Pass, Lee Hodges, Max McGreevy and Eric Cole.
The fourteen's are just playing for a little bit. Better check.
They'll be fine over there. Low round yesterday, by the way,

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was a sixty four. That's interesting, there were three of
those and four sixty Five's. Low round on Friday, however,
was sixty two, and that was Sammy Volamonkey along with
by the way, Holy cow, I didn't realize this. Oh well,
hold on a minute. Wow. They must have set that

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thing up like a muni course. Two four six six guys.
Six guys shot sixty two on Friday, and that probably
explains why it went a little higher on Saturday. They'll
be finishing up this afternoon. I watched a little bit
yesterday until it knocked me out and put me to sleep,

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and I got a brief nap and I'm back in
the saddle.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
Go.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
Let's take a break. Speaking a golf. Black Horse Golf
Club out there off two ninety at Fry Road, been
there for the better part of twenty five years now.
I don't remember exactly when black Horse opened up. I'm
pretty sure I was out there within a month of
that though. That's how intent I was with my golf
coverage for the paper many years ago. Black Horse has

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two courses, actually thirty six holes, eighteen private that's the
South Course, and eighteen still daily fee as always that
would be the North Course, which is a little more open,
a little more accommodating to those of us who can't
hit it straight off the tee. I've seen a lot
of guys lately who hit it three hundred and twenty yards,
but it's about sixty seventy yards at that velocity off

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off center most of the time, and I'm I'm glad
I'm out of that phase of my golf game that
was really frustrating. Black Horse, if you have frustration in
your golf game, has a great teaching facility at the
far end of the range. You're going to have to
drive around the corner and down the block and then
come back in from the other side of that. It's
so far down there, but once you get there, you'll
be glad you did because they got first class instructors

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from end to end in that building. Also got room,
as you might think with two courses for huge tournaments
if you need to put on a big show and
raise a bunch of money for a good charity. They
can make arrangements to have both courses available to you
and still have a great grill in the clubhouse at
the main entrance, still have great people there in the

(59:27):
pro shop to help you get out, and still you
can make your own tea time at the website. Fry
Road just a little way south of two ninety. Very
easy to get to, very fun to play up. Played
out there dozens of times. I can't remember how many really,
and lately going out there and just going by myself
and making three new friends along the way. It's happened

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every time. I haven't had a call yet when I've
just jumped in with three people. It's always been fun.
Black Horse Golf Club always will be fun too. Black
Horse goolf Club dot com. Make your tea time right now,
black Horse Golf Club dot com. On Sports Talk seven

(01:00:09):
ninety The Dougpike Show, Thank you for listening. I've got
two calls to take care of, and I will take
care of them in order of receipt. That would be
Mark first and Brandon hangol, I get right to you.
What's that?

Speaker 5 (01:00:19):
Mark?

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
Hey, Doug, how are you I'm good, Thank you good. Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:00:27):
I wanted to talk a little bit about the LPGA
and I had one of them things after that. Okay,
you know Charlie Charlie Hole and uh, what's the Nellie Corra. Yeah,
they've they've been getting some abuse on some of these
their scantily clad photos. Yeah, and I know they do
they want endorsements, but I'm not even sure it's really them,

(01:00:51):
you know, like in swimsuits and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
Yeah, maybe or something, who knows.

Speaker 4 (01:00:57):
Yeah, Well, anyway, I do just wonder how that's gonna,
you know, affect their play or they're just gonna go
on with and not worry about it or what you know.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
It's it's so long as they're not doing anything really wrong. Uh,
who's who's to tell them what's right and wrong for them?
I don't. I don't want to mess in anybody's business.
If they're if they want to model that type of stuff,
then I guess they can do it, but I don't
I don't know that it's gonna help them a lot

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or I don't know. I don't know if it helps
or hurts, because clearly they're gonna be paid significantly for that,
and uh, it's just, you know, it's something that you
and I aren't accustomed to seeing in professional sports, and
and but it's it's kind of creeping in more and more,
and they're certainly not the first to do that. Yeah,

(01:01:54):
I I would rather watch them play golf and know
them for their golf. I don't I don't need to
see that. It doesn't it doesn't. It doesn't enhance my
opinion of them. But I can't fault them for doing
what they got to do to make a living either.
If that's the way they think they have to do
what they do to make a living, then that's kind

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of for them, but it's not for me.

Speaker 4 (01:02:17):
Yes, I agree with you. You know, endorsements, endorsements. You know,
if you go to the UH the Regular Tour and
the Champions Tour and DP whatever, you know, they all
do it. Now.

Speaker 3 (01:02:32):
I don't want to see men and.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
I don't want to see the PGA Tour guys in speedos.
Let's just no, thank you. I'm not ready for that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:40):
One other.

Speaker 4 (01:02:41):
Yeah, one other quick question, for instance, can still make
us since since he's been on the DP Tour or
whatever it's called, can they those guys come back to
the PG eight tour if they want, I think, can
they go back and forth?

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
It's well, I don't know if I just bounce back
and forth from from week to week, except maybe for majors.
The majors have kind of opened the door. But I
think it's kind of a one or the other as
that's going now because the commitment they have to make
to get the money they get paid to play outside,
especially like live Golf, that's that's a significant investment on

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the people who have brought them over, and they're not
going to let them just bounce around.

Speaker 3 (01:03:27):
I don't think, Yeah, I wouldn't think so.

Speaker 4 (01:03:32):
Here again, I saw something of the Facebook, and I
don't believe three quarters of what I see over this sure,
but like, for instance, Phil Nicholson, they said he was
thinking about coming back to the PGA, and then they
ask Tiger Woods if he would play on the champions
churt because you know, he's what fifty, Yeah, he's right there.

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
I think you for what is it?

Speaker 4 (01:03:57):
Championshire is fifty and over correct?

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
If so? Yeah, yeah, it is fifty.

Speaker 4 (01:04:02):
Okay, anyway, you know Phil and Tiger and those guys, Uh,
we'll just see what happens.

Speaker 3 (01:04:07):
But I wanted to run it by you.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
But yeah, it'll be interesting. I think the two of
them could both be competitive. Well, Tiger, I don't think
will be as competitive as as as Phil honestly on
the senior tour because he's he's so banged up now
and he's had so many surgeries. He he can't seem
to put two or three weeks together. I don't know
how competitive he would be unless he just plays maybe
one event every couple of months. And yeah, I don't

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he doesn't need to do that, and he probably shouldn't.
He should start taking just she just just watched Charlie
play and enjoy that.

Speaker 4 (01:04:39):
You know exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:04:42):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
Yeah, thank you, Ma, good, thanks for the call, buddy,
Happy Thanksgiving. All right, let me go get Brandon. Brandon,
what's going on man?

Speaker 6 (01:04:51):
Hey, good morning, mister pipe bull. The how the weather
changes every five minutes in the state of Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:04:57):
They can change You're very Jenner's giving it five minutes to.

Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
Change every minute?

Speaker 2 (01:05:04):
Yeah, yeah, there, what's up?

Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
Man? You messed me up.

Speaker 6 (01:05:07):
You messed me up when you talked about PGA and
Spito's I don't I don't know if you don't screw
my questions up for you, but no, I mean, on
a serious note, I've got a question, what is it
with crows and pecans? I know pecan farmers do not

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like crows.

Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
Do they.

Speaker 6 (01:05:32):
Do they crunch them and then eat the meat out
of them, or they just swallow you know.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
I don't have the answer. A pecan shell is so hard.
I don't know that a crow's beak could penetrate that shell.
I just you know, it's not like an otter clacking
a clamshell on a rock man. I don't know that
they could actually break one open. So I'm not sure

(01:06:03):
why farmers wouldn't like the crows being in there in
their pecana orchards. I know that out there at Blackhawk
we have a ton of pecan trees and the squirrels
are bearing them as fast as they can. But yeah,
I don't know. I don't know what the relationship is
between crows and pecans.

Speaker 6 (01:06:23):
But I mean, that's I've had a number of farmers
tell me that, and they can't stand them. So I
don't know if they just and I've seen it for myself,
they just pack them off, and I don't know what
they do with them.

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
All right, Well, we'll find out. I'll leave you with this, Brandon,
you ready lives from the PGA Tour Championship. We're gonna
take a little break here. We'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (01:06:47):
Hi.

Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
It's John Daly for Speedo.

Speaker 1 (01:06:52):
Oh my gosh, I'll go all right, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
He'll never get that out of his head. Apro. What's
on your mind?

Speaker 1 (01:07:03):
Man?

Speaker 5 (01:07:05):
Well, unfortunately now what you just.

Speaker 2 (01:07:06):
Said, mercy, what's on your mind? Buddy?

Speaker 5 (01:07:16):
Another homework for you or for us for the listeners.
So keep in mind we have a lot of listeners
that probably don't have a boat, or they got kids
they want to take fishing, sure, or they just need
something to do after they get out of the deadline
of the duck line. So starting next week through it

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looks like what I saw through March. We got the
rainbow traveling yes, starting yep, and a five fish limit.
You do have to have a license unless you're in
the state park. And looking at this, I did a
little more numbers crunching. There's sixteen locations alone in Harris County.

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
Oh yeah, there's plenty, plenty of places anywhere in Texas.
If you want to go catch those little rainbow trailt
you probably can different stocking times, different stocking numbers and
all of that.

Speaker 5 (01:08:04):
But yeah, yeah, I think I looked at US. I
wrote down Mary Joe Peckman Park, Peckham. Yeah, oh yeah,
they're put Peckham. Yeah, they're putting thirty one hundred and
sixty and that in that pond alone, over five over
five different dates and state total three hundred and thirty
five thousand and twenty almost twenty five thousand of those
are just in Dannis County.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
So yeah, there's a lot of fish. Marry Joe Peckham
Park Lake is pretty water. It's clear water, and Joe
Dogget and I used to go over there religiously during
that season because you can catch them on lures in there.
You don't have to just throw bait at them, and
it's it's a lot of fun, it really is. We
fly fished them a couple of times. You had to
wade out to where you could fly fish them, but

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there's a pier there you can fish off of. And
and when they put they used to put as many
as four thousand in that lake, and then for a
couple of years they didn't even half that many. And
there's a second lake at Mary Joe Peckham Park that's
much smaller, and they started stalking that one, and it
was it was kind of a joke, honestly, because the

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only they would they would stalk this lake. And they're
at the end of a little kind of a shoot
of water if you will, that opened onto it. Maybe
maybe two acres of water. I don't even think it's that,
maybe one acre of water. And when I went over
there after the day after they'd stalked it, I pulled
it into the parking lot and just sat there and

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then turned around and went somewhere else because there were
people lined up like they line up for the opening
day of trout season up north on the big Rivers.
It's just shoulder to shoulder people basically wrestling over six
to eight inch ten inch trout.

Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
Whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
It was, just it was sad they shouldn't have done that.

Speaker 5 (01:09:48):
Yeah, yeah, me and my daughter used I'd give her
kind of kind of your taking God to give her
a ultralized spitter rod to split shot the bread hook
and the kernel of cord, and I'd be throwing the
little inline shysters.

Speaker 2 (01:09:58):
You know, you could do that a little out nibbles
that I think it's whoever in a jar. They come
in a jar. And the white ones that float actually
work pretty well because they'll float up off the bottom
for you, and so those will work my ways.

Speaker 5 (01:10:11):
They get a ten or twelve inch trout occasionally say
that most of the six to eight age variety. But yeah,
they occasionally throw a few big ones in there, right.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
Yeah, there are some better ones. There was one thing
you got to think about before you put an ultra
light rod, like a real little whippy just a noodle
rod kind of a thing for those trout is you
can't cast far enough. Everybody else is going to be
casting a little farther and a little deeper. And with
those little ultra light rigs, one of the spots that
we used to love to fish down there, you had

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to be able to throw twenty yards to even get
a bite. If you could throw it twenty to twenty
five yards, you could clobber them. But if you couldn't
move it that far, you couldn't get anything. And those
little wimpy little things, a little tiny piece of split shot,
it just it couldn't get the bait out far enough.

Speaker 5 (01:10:58):
Oh yeah, for the course, my idea of ultra of
l it's a six foot falcon, you know, pretty high ultra.

Speaker 1 (01:11:05):
So it's getting out there.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
Yeah, yeah, you never mind. I know who I'm talking
to now.

Speaker 5 (01:11:10):
Yeah, definitely leave the Mickey mouse combos that hold your honest.

Speaker 2 (01:11:13):
To goodness man, I've never been so disappointed in the
tackled industry as when they started coming out with all
these cartoon character beat up cheap, just cheap, cheap, plastic,
rodden real combos. I don't like that. I never have.
The last thing you want to do when you take
a kid fishing is disappoint them. And if they hook
anything bigger than about a guppy, it's gonna it's gonna

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either break the line or melt a gear on the drag.
Whatever it just invest and I'm wrapping invest in quotes,
at least in a good solid Zebco two O two
combo that that'll get you through a lot of stuff
and catch a lot of fish way faster than what
are some of the cartoon characters. I don't know. My

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little pony whatever, my little rod and reel.

Speaker 5 (01:12:04):
And my daughter's first rod reel was a was a
five and a half foot distal grit Berkeley light and
rod with the zip thirty three classes.

Speaker 2 (01:12:11):
Yeah, you're all over that I best. She did catch
a lot of fish. I bought my sister when when
when I was ten and my sister was eight and
we were vacationing down in Florida with my grandparents. I
bought her for her birthday a Zepco two O two
combo and she never used it. She gave it to me.
I didn't see that coming at all. Right, pretty pretty

(01:12:35):
clever little kid anyway. All right, man, I got to
bounce into this break folk.

Speaker 1 (01:12:40):
Pro all right, buddy, get yeah, yeah, yeah, let me know.

Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
If you come down, officials flounder, I might join you.

Speaker 5 (01:12:47):
Oh yeah, I'll definitely give you a rake for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:12:49):
Yeah, all right, man, talk to you soon. Okay, click that,
Thank you, Frankie. Let's take a break, shall we, because
we're already a little bit late. Oh good, carters come.
You hadn't talked about them this morning. Sixty plus years
in business selling guns, ammo and hunting stuff all over Houston,
Always have, always will. That's what they sell. If you

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go in there looking for a gallon of milk, you're
in the wrong store. You go in there looking for
roller skates, you're in the wrong store. This is a
shooting and hunting store, that's what it is. And they
have everything you could need to enjoy that anywhere anytime.
Up on the north side actually the tresh Week store
that was the original Carter's Country and they have a

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full service range right out the back door where and
you'll know it when you pull into the parking lot,
because unless they're in a ceasefire, you'll hear the occasional
boom back there or maybe some shot gunning from down
the way a little ways. They've got trap and skei,
they have sporting clays, they've got rifle and pistol. All
the shooting disciplines are right there on property. Go in

(01:13:53):
there by yourself a nice new gun, get yourself some ammos,
some hearing and eye protection, and get out there and
tune it up. They'll boor site it for you right
there in the store before you go outside, and if
you really want it dialed in, get Billy Carter to
take it out there and cite it in for you.
It won't take him long. And once it's done by him,
you know you're gonna start hitting smaller groups. Carterscountry dot

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Com is the website. If you can't get to one
of the three stores around town. Carter's Country dot com,
go look them up. They've got big sales going on
on a lot of items right now, Carterscountry dot Com.
Belleville Meat Market is your one stop shop for pretty
much anything you like. If you're an omnivore leaning more

(01:14:39):
toward carnivore, you're gonna love Belleville Meat Market. They've got
two dozen plus flavors of premium pecon smoke sausage. They've
got homemade stuffed pork tenders in about a half a
dozen different varieties, and get your pants sausage, your boot
in labouchery, stuffed chickens. Now, they're out of turkeys for
the holiday season. They went like hotcakes basically, so that's

(01:14:59):
not gonna work for you, But everything else in there
can certainly make up for whatever room that turkey was
gonna take on the table. Surprise your guests for Thanksgiving.
Get them something different, Get them something different that they're
gonna love because it's from Belleville Meat Market. It's just
that simple wild game processing year round. This time of year.
They've got three lanes in front of a building that's

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dedicated exclusively to wild game processing throughout deer season, so
you're not gonna have to wait around long to get
your deer taken out of your vehicle brought into the
coolers at Belleville, and then you get to look at
that big giant menu of what they can do with
that meat for you, and you'll get it back very shortly.
Belleville Meat Market is on Highway thirty six, about fifteen

(01:15:44):
minutes north of Seily, fifteen minutes south of Hempstead. While
you're out there dropping that deer off. Once you get
that taken care of, walk right across, right across the
way into the meat market and get yourself a delicious
barbecue lunch with all the trimmings, all the sides, every
thing you can imagine. It goes with a good barbecue
lunch or dinner served seven or ten am to seven

(01:16:07):
pm every day. Got all the good stuff out there,
take the whole family, make it an experience, and on
the way out, grab yourself some beef jerky or turkey jerky,
some dry sausage, maybe some dry stick, some of that snacking.
Go grabbing, go snacking. That's the good stuff right there.
I've got some myself. Belleville meatmarket dot Com is a

(01:16:27):
website you can get anything in the store, well short
of a half a cow, maybe shipped right to your door.
Bellville meatmarket dot Com. I just took a look to
my right and saw an empty coffee cup and realized
I'd made a mistake. That's okay, I don't need any
more coffee this morning. I'm rolling right along right now.

(01:16:50):
I'm trying to reduce my intake of caffeine, and I
only drink coffee here. I don't drink coffee at home
at all. We don't. I don't think we even own
a coffee pot at this point. But once I get
in here, it's just like a Pavlovian response to walking
through the door. I see that iHeart logo and go
to the kitchen, fire up a pot of coffee if

(01:17:12):
Erica hasn't done it. Erica is over in the KTRH
newsroom on weekends now, and she and I both make
coffee regularly for each other. I got an email from
David yesterday about yesterday evening, let's call it, and he
did the research that I didn't have time to do
yesterday into fit hunting fatalities by year in Texas and

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The reason it came up is because we've already had
one this year. A man was grabbing a rifle out
of his vehicle and somehow, some way that rifle went off,
and when it did, it ended up killing him. If
you go back and David's information goes all the way
back to the year two thousand, so we've got twenty

(01:18:03):
four years, actually twenty five years of information, and in
the year two thousand, that's the highest number of fatalities
we've had at eight, a couple of threes, then a
two of four, one two, three, three, four's a couple
of fives. In two thousand and eight there were six.

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The encouraging news, though, is that since since twenty nineteen,
each of these seasons, the nineteen twenty, twenty one, twenty two,
twenty three, and twenty four, we've gotten close but no cigar.
There has only been one fatality in all of those years,
and I'm hoping that the one we have now is

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the last. Now it's still very early in hunting season,
but nonetheless, the trend here is that we are getting safer.
There have been several years with just two seventeen was
two fifteen, fourteen, eleven, two thousand and five, two thousand
and three, only two. I'm still holding out for a zero.

(01:19:11):
And since we can't get it this year, I'm probably
gonna be talking about it by maybe, I don't know,
July of next year, to make sure next season I'm
not calling it years. They're actually doing it by year
probably you know it is probably hunting hunting season years.

(01:19:32):
So in any event, I don't want one. I don't
want any more this year, this season, whatever you want
to call it. And for twenty twenty six, in twenty
twenty well, for yeah, for twenty twenty six, when that
number finally goes up a year from now, I want
to see a zero and I want to see it stick.
Twenty twenty five, we're gonna have one, unfortunately at least,

(01:19:53):
and hopefully no more. And then from that point forward,
once we roll over, I want zero. And if it
takes me hammering points home over and over, if it
takes me being repetitive with my pleas for everybody to
make sure their guns are empty, their guns are unloaded
when they're walking around with them, not intended to shoot anything,

(01:20:16):
when they're traveling with their guns, for heaven's sakes, it
only takes a couple of seconds to make sure that
firearm is empty, and that relieves all the pressure on
everybody with you. If you hand a gun to somebody,
show them that it's unloaded, and then when you hand
it to them, insist that they check it themselves. That's

(01:20:36):
something that I haven't really talked about, but it's a
good way to make sure that. If I'm gonna hand
Frankie a gun, I'm gonna open it up and say,
look here, Frankie, it's empty.

Speaker 1 (01:20:47):
See it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:47):
You can see all the way down to barrow. You
can see into the chamber. There's nothing there. I don't
have a magazine in the gun, if it's a handgun, whatever.
And then I'll hand it to him and I'm I'm
gonna start saying, now you check it, You check it yourself,
and that'll put that other person in the habit of
doing what I do. Anyway, if somebody shows me a
gun's unloaded and they hand it to me to handle

(01:21:09):
it and admire their new piece or whatever, I'm still
gonna check it, even though they showed me. We're gonna
get to zero. We're gonna get to zero one of
these years, and I'm gonna be I'll throw a party.
I'll throw a party somehow, Someway Mercy. We gotta take
a break, don't we. Frankie, Sorry about that timber Creek
Golf Club down there on FM twenty three, p. Fifty

(01:21:30):
one and friends. What about four miles west of the
golf freeway, twenty seven holes, each of which is eminently playable.
There's no such thing really as an easy golf course,
especially for the average golfer. It can be very frustrating
from time to time. But at timber Creek, if you're
playing from the right tea boxes, you're not trying to
stretch your distance anymore than you have to and trying
to leave yourself some nice, comfortable, but challenging shots into

(01:21:53):
the greens and find that tea box. Go there, and
when you stand on that tea box, you'll be able
to see exactly where you're supposed to hit it. There's
not really anything tricky, not anything scary about timber Creek.
It's challenging, there's no question about it. All golf courses are,
but it's eminently playable and relaxing, and it's just a
fun loop, just a fun loop around a good golf course,

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if you're still struggling with your scores, walk over to
jj Wood's place next to the range. It can get
them to help you out with that big tournament or
just you playing on your own ball and you got
four four and a half hours to kill this afternoon
on an absolutely drop dead gorgeous Sunday, go down to
Timber Creek. You'll be glad you did. Timber Creek Golf
Club dot com. The food's pretty dog one good too,

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Timbercreek goolf Club dot com. A lot of disappointed turkeys
some thanksgiven day when they realize that they're on the
menu and not just invited to the party because they
look good in feathers. Yeah, old birds. They do taste good,

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though dog gone. They're good. I don't wild turkey or
store bought turkey. Wild turkey are domesticated turkeys, and I
know people who like both. The wild turkeys, as you
might imagine, a little bit leaner. They've got to be
able to fly, they don't have to just strut around
a yard and eat, so they're a little different taste.

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They really are, even if you cook them exactly the same,
but it still tastes like turkey, not going to change
that part of it. Very delicious bird when served correctly,
and there's a lot of ways to do it. I've
never fried a turkey. I've eaten fried turkey more than
once and genuinely enjoyed it, but I just haven't done

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it myself. And there's a little tiny piece of me
that doesn't want to do that because I read stories
about how the friars blow up and everybody gets hurt,
and that's not cool. But the people who know how
to do it and do it right certainly can make
some I think, delicious out of a turkey when they
got that fryer going just for the right amount of

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time with the right amount of stuff. Nothing wrong with that.
Speaking of right amount of time and stuff, Uh, I
think I'm gonta may go. I'm swing by Berry Hills
tonight and grab some fish tacos. That sounds pretty good
to me right now, it really does. Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety Email me dougpick At,
iHeartMedia dot com bat or I'll lean back into my
seafood enchaladese. I'm not sure I know. My wife will

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get chicken tacos. She likes those, and it's just a
fun place to go. I've been going there, like I
talked to you about for a long time, for thirty
something years now, I think. And it's not far from home.
It's about seven minutes from home, maybe eight, depending on
whether I catch a light or two, right up there
at Sugar Creek Boulevard and fifty nine inbound side. So good,

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so tasty, so so tasty. Recapping uh, from yesterday and
today as we go into the Thanksgiving week. Yesterday I
talked to Brandon Olsen from the Hunters for the Hungary
from Houston Food Bank, and that program is up and
running right now. And there are several places where you
can drop off a field dressed deer. You can't just

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take the whole animal over there. Drop off a field
dressed deer, light tagged and all that. You gotta go.
You got to use your tag. You can't just hand
it to them and to run away. If they're dressed
and tagged, who will. Let's see it's Bay Area Deer Processing,
Chapel Hill Sausage Company, Junior's Smokehouse and Deer and Midway

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Food Market participating this year. So if you've got deer
that you don't mind donating to people who really really
need some healthy, lean red meat. By all means, drop
those deer off. It doesn't cost you a dime that
all of the costs that's related to processing that deer
and bagging it up are absorbed by Houston Food Bank
from generous donations they will accept. What they do is

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they put it, they grind it into like hamburger meat,
put it in two pound bag and then bring them
to Houston Food Bank for distribution to other partner agencies.
And over the many, many years of this program over
the state of Texas, they provided more than ten million
servings of venison to people in this state who really

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really need the help. What they will accept is axis deer,
black buck, vallader, mule deer, nilghai, org psychadeer, and whitetail deer.
Don't take loggerhead turtles. What else might be kind of crazy?
No possums, no raccoons, no rabbits, no squirrels, big four

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legged animals. That room that doesn't say anything about an elk,
but you might want to call them. I bet you
one of those processing houses might take an elk if
you've got one on a private ranch somewhere that needs
to come off of that ranch. Didn't even think about that.
That'd be a boy. You talk about make some meals,
other are big animals. I've had the opportunity to shoot
one and got one, and I was very glad to

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get it. And when I went to pick up the meat,
I wished I'd had a bigger vehicle because I could
barely get it all in there between the ice chests
it took to package it all up and the interior
of my vehicle at the time, it was it was
a tight fit. To say the least, someone three. Then

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we really don't have that much time. Let's move on.
By the way, we almost played almost, i'll say, played
the Texas temperature game. And I told Frankie that earlier
the low was I want to say, what did I say?

Speaker 3 (01:27:36):
Thirty?

Speaker 2 (01:27:37):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, The low was thirty and the high
at that point was seventy three something like that. And
currently good old Texas still hanging on to a low
of thirty seven degree. I'm gonna roll this thing around
one more time to see if it's changed. Bing No,
thirty seven degrees for the low that's up in the

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Panhandle in Come on, show me where we are at Pampa.
I think it just changed actually a little bit higher,
and then down in South Texas it is eighty two degrees,
so we're thirty seven to eighty two as of a
couple of minutes ago. That's a pretty big switcher room. Man,
that's a lot. What just tells you how big Texas is.

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That's all most states. The high on the north side
of the state is ats in. The high at the
other end of the state or the low in that
state is maybe three degrees difference. They're just not big
enough to have that much weather change. But from east
to west and north to south, we gobble up a
pretty good chunk of the continental United States of America.

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I'm proud to say that I like being a Texan,
I really do. I told you about the food bank.
That's important. I'm not gonna hammer safety again, just this one.
I'm gonna let it go for now, but I'll be
back to it next week. I can guarantee you that
taken care of. We explained how the Parks and Waldlife
Department explained the speckled trout limits and why they were

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set the way they were because the twenty inch trout
are the ones that are the major spawners. They wanted
to protect as many of those as they could by
capping it there those younger trout, that's that's where the
bigger numbers are going to be for a very long
time to come. And I think once we establish more

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of these twelve inch trout that are all over the
place and fourteen and a half fourteen and three quarter
inch trout, boy, it seems like a lot of times
when you go trout fishing, you can't catch anything but
fourteen and a half's and that's very frustrating for somebody
looking for a fifteen inch one to put on the
on the skillet later in the today. Good heavens, there's
got to be some way. Oh lordy, there's that music.

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All right. We had a good Thursday with the Texans.
We'll hopefully have some more good games with the Rockets.
They certainly look like they're going to be doing good,
so I'm glad to have them on our stay. I'm
loving watching the Rockets now. With the maturity of Kevin
Durant and the skills of him, combined with the lightning

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speed and never ending endurance of the young people playing
around him, they're fun to watch and it's been a while.
It's been a little bit of a hot mess for
a few seasons. I kind of like where they are now,
all right. Happy Thanksgiving to each and every single one
of you who listened today, yesterday, or both. I greatly
appreciate that, as you will know, have a fun weekend,

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fun have a fun Thanksgiving week, and then next weekend.
I'll see you back here in a little while. I'm
gonna take a couple of days off. Thanks for listening. Seriously,
Happy Thanksgiving. Audios.