The Doug Pike Show 11-23-24

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Doug Pike Show, brought to you by
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
All right, here we go. Let me get my chair
up here, stand by. Okay, that's better.

Speaker 4 (00:18):
Been running around printing stuff and realizing that because I
used my laptop away from here yesterday and had to
get on the vp N, I wasn't connected to our
the particular Wi Fi we use here that would get me,

(00:39):
that would enable me to print stuff around here.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
So anyway, it's been.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
Kind of a fire drill for the last fifteen to
twenty minutes. Came in earlier than that, much earlier, thinking
everything was smooth and cool, and.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Turned out it wasn't. Why is this guy's text message
on here? I have no idea. My phone is starting
to act up. I don't know what's wrong with it.
I really don't.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Bottom line is I'm gonna have to get a new
one soon and hopefully won't lose it. I've only lost
one phone in my entire life. Melbourne, have you ever
lost a phone? No, don't plan on it. You better
knock on wood when you said, Holy cal Now if
you're talking about I lost it as far as went
dead for an hour back on again. Yes, No, I'm

(01:24):
talking about.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
One minute you have a phone and the next minute
you don't have a phone, and you don't know where
it went, and you never find it.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Again, never got there yet. I did it once, and
the only time it happened. I was coming out of
a place, one of the indoor golf places where you
just you stand there and beat balls into a screen
and there's a video, or not a video, but just
a computer simulation of a golf course and that's what

(01:54):
you're hitting at. And there's a lot of those around town,
and they can be fun sometimes with the.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Long and the short of it.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
I was walking back out to my car and it
had started to drizzle, and I've got my phone, I
got my keys, i got my golf bag over my shoulder,
and I'm trying to kind of halfway jog, and if
you've ever tried to jog with a full golf bag,
you know it's not easy. And I get in the
car and I take off for home, and I reached
down to call my wife to let her know them

(02:21):
on my way, and I got no phone, and I
know I had it in that place. So I go
back and I ask them if anybody's turned in the phone.
I go back and look in the Oh, look all
over that bay that I was in where I was
hitting balls, Look back, trace my steps out in the
parking lot. There is a drain in the parking lot

(02:44):
between the door of that place and where my car
was parked, one of those big heavy metal grates. But
there was just enough water trickling down into it where
I really couldn't see what was on the bottom of
it anymore. And that's the only I can figure that
phone might have gone to. That's the only place, and

(03:05):
I never I just never did find it. I had
to go buy a new phone, had to go buy
one the next day, because, after all, can't live a
day without a phone, not anymore anyway.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
I don't know why we can't do that. There's no
reason for it.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
And in many cases I think a phone is a
handy thing to have as an emergency device in a
in a deerstand, in a dug blind. It's great to
have it with you, but do your level best not
to look at it. Just to be looking at it.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Let the world turn for what is it?

Speaker 4 (03:40):
Four, five, six hours, maybe that you're going to be
out in a situation like that, just let the world
turn without you knowing what's going on.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
It's not gonna hurt you, it's not gonna certainly not
gonna kill you.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
And the odds of missing critical, vital, life changing news
in the six hours if you've done your homework beforehand,
if everybody was fine before you got in that stand
or in that blind chances are pretty good they'll all
still be.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
In the same condition when you get out.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
And that's what I think that having access to instant
information has kind of done to us. It makes us
dependent on knowing something right away, moments after it happens.
If somebody well, it doesn't matter. Bottom line is to
try not to do that. Leave the electronics. You don't

(04:36):
have to leave them at home, because, like I said,
they are a tremendously tremendously valuable asset if you get
into trouble somewhere well, and now a lot of places.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
I've just had a couple of emails come through a
lot of people, and it may be on purpose. Actually
I would do this if I could.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
I'd go hunt someplace where I get no signal doesn't
scare me at all to be out of reach of
a cell phone signal, because I grew up hunting and
fishing beyond the reach of cell phone signals, because there
were no cell phones, and you just you left home.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
You told people where you were going, You told them
when to.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
Expect you back, which you still should be doing even
with the electronics. You got to make sure somebody knows
where you're headed and when your do back, and when
to call the authorities to have them start.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
Looking for you.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Drop your phone, it breaks in the middle of the woods,
that phone you've been counting on for to get you
out of a jam, because it has a compass and
it has You've dropped a pin where you parked your
truck and whatever that means.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
I still don't know what that means, Melvin, do you
I have no idea.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
Yeah, that's something that younger, more advanced technologically people do
with their phones. Somebody asked me the other day, I said,
how do I get to your play? She said, why
don't I just drop you a pin? Said, why don't
you just mail me a map? That's about the both
got about the same chances are happening. You know, No, no,

(06:12):
just tell me where you are. Just at least now
I'm comfortable enough to just ask for an address.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Just give me the address and I'll find you. That's
what I'm talking about.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
I had to make a lot of I drove almost
all day yesterday. I drove all over town. I had
to drive. I drove first. And by the way, there
was a horrific accident, if you didn't hear about it yesterday,
that had a big chunk of I ten completely shut down.
Everybody knows what that means. But it was a double
one of those, and they had it shut down for

(06:44):
I want to say, the better part of eight or
nine hours. And so as I was trying to drive
from sugar Land all the way up to the Treshwig
location of Carter's Country on business, I had, I knew
better then to go anywhere near I tend, so I
just stayed on fifty nine. And even as I got

(07:05):
through town on fifty nine, when I got just to
the other side of town where people would have been
coming in from Livingstone and Cleveland and all that way,
all of a sudden it's jacked up on that side.
And fifty nine was a train wreck mess just because
of that accident that from where I was probably was

(07:28):
twelve or fifteen miles away as the crow flies at
least ten, I would think it was.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
It was a bumpy road, let's just call it that.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
So anyway, I went from there up to Oakhurst Golf
Club to pick up the well part of the goodie
bags for the Saint Jude Golf tournament that's coming up
December ninth. And I talked about it yesterday or not yesterday,
but on Thursday on fifty plus. As long as I well,
now that I've broached the subject, I might as well
ask and see if I can see if I can

(08:01):
hit a goal. I was asked about a month ago
to lead this tournament, to chair this tournament by my boss,
Eddie Martini, one of the best bosses in Houston. I
can assure you you do the work you're supposed to do,
He and the whole team will stay.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Out of your way. You just keep doing your work.
So the bottom line is.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
He got a and because he's so efficient and so good,
he got a big, big promotion with iHeart and I'm
thrilled for him. And he asked me if I would
take the reins on this tournament. I said, yeah, I'm
gonna raise more money, more money than we did last year.
So I opened my big mouth. And we're very close

(08:41):
to the tournament. Clearly, December ninth is not that far away,
and we're only I don't think we have but about
six or maybe seven teams left at all, and I'm
I'm looking for somebody to grab a couple of them
because to hit, to hit the number that I want
to hit, we just need to sell two more teams.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
That's it. Is it an inexpensive tournament, Absolutely not. Is
it one of the finest that you'll ever attend and
have one of the coolest goodie bags you'll ever get?
Absolutely yes. And oh, by the way, the one thing
that Eddie did years ago, and I think it's fantastic.

(09:25):
Is any anybody who is if you've got a business,
or you can get on the phone this morning with
the person you work for and they own the business,
think about this. Any sponsorship that we sell that's ten
thousand dollars or more. Eddie has offered up a matching
broadcast schedule on our stations, good for a whole year.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
So I just need to sell two more teams.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
The teams are five thousand dollars a piece, okay, and
we are at Golf Club of Houston. We're going to
fill both courses. We're already almost there. A couple of
more teams is gonna do it. We'll have to We'll
have to just cap it after just a couple of
more teams. And I would love to get this filled
up before Monday afternoon, I really would.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
I would love to get it filled up. So all
you got to do is get in touch with me.
I will put you in touch with Rebecca Levine. She
will take it from there. She's with with Saint Jude here.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
And if you're unfamiliar with that hospital, make yourself that
way come to the tournament because in my opening remarks,
there's a good story that I tell about that hospital,
and it's been around since sixty For sixty something years
back in the nineteen sixties, Danny Thomas opened it up
and created it and ever since then, that hospital has

(10:46):
done nothing but increase the odds that children born with horrible,
horrible pediatric cancers. That hospital has just made it given
them a much better shot at life. The cancer rate survival,
cancer survival right now among kids.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Is up.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
I want to say three times something like that from
when they started, and all of the research they do
at Saint Jude is shared openly and freely around the world.
Doctors in every corner of this world have benefited from
the research done at Saint Jude. And the coolest thing

(11:26):
about it is all these families who have just some
of the sickest kids on the planet. Every one of
those families comes here, well not here. They go to
go to Memphis.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
They get flown to Memphis, they get housed, they get food,
they get everything they need is completely covered by donations
from folks like us. There's not even a patient billing department.
Did you know this, Melbourne, there's not even a patient
billing department at Saint Jude Hospital. Get out of here.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
There's nowhere you can go. So where do I go
to pay my bill? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
I don't know that. That's yeah, there's there's there is.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
No There is no door behind which you can pay
your bill at Saint Jude because you don't pay a bill.
That's pretty remarkable, it really is. I just saw this,
I saw these little kids getting I got to tour
the place a few years ago and just saw these
little kids getting hauled around in wagons and all those
wagons that they all do it all the most of

(12:27):
the patients they're a little bit older, a little bit
too big to be sitting in a wagon, they don't
do it, okay, But nonetheless they're there and everybody in there.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
Is just you can just feel, you can feel the
optimism knowing that they're in the best place in the world,
on the whole planet to get their children cured of
these horrible diseases. And it's it's fascinating, it really is. Man.
So anyway, if there's anybody out there who is willing
to help me hit my mark and prove Eddie wrong,

(12:59):
he said, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
That's a pretty big number, Doug. I think we can
do it. And we're this closed now. Just we're just
two teams out.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
So anyway, Okay, I'll get back to fishing because there
is a lot of fishing news going when we get back,
I'll do that. We've got to take a little break.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
Here.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
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Speaker 2 (13:26):
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Speaker 3 (13:28):
Talk seven ninety the Doug Pike Show. Thanks for listening.

Speaker 4 (13:31):
I got the cool I got the parks and walleafe departments,
Rainbow trout stocking schedule here.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
Listen closely. Could you hear that? Could you hear that? Melbourne?
I'll do it this one time. Look how thick this
thing is? Look at that? That's about. That's about and.

Speaker 4 (13:52):
Honestly it's it's probably. Oh no, it's more than that.
I bet it's forty.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
And the irony is that.

Speaker 4 (13:58):
You could you could condemn all of this into about
six pages. But that's I don't know. That's just not
how it worked. Let me go talk to Rick by
see what's up? Uh oh yeah, I got him Rick.

Speaker 5 (14:10):
What's up, man, Doug Pike? Rick Bis on this end?

Speaker 3 (14:14):
Yes, sir, what's up?

Speaker 5 (14:16):
I want to talk to you about what we started
last week, and then I want to talk to you
about the golf tournament. Before we do this, I need
to do a sound check test with you. And it's
going to be A A and B which you can
hear me better? All right? Ready? This is A can
you hear me better here?

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Or B?

Speaker 5 (14:36):
Can you hear me better at B? I got two
microphones in here.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Oh, thank you Melvin. Yeah, the second one. I'm sorry. Okay,
we're back. I had pushed my you.

Speaker 5 (14:57):
Can hear me better on the second one.

Speaker 4 (14:59):
The second one is the best one. Ready, Ango, Okay,
let's go first.

Speaker 5 (15:04):
I want to update you on my deer I was
chasing me was talking about last week and now I
was talking about the golf tournament. I hunted that dear.
Remember now, it's twenty two hundred acre farmland, plenty of cover,
and I didn't see any deer. I know they're there.
There's no deer stands. I mean, it's not been hunting
to twenty years. I've taken care of it.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (15:25):
So about tuesday, I thought, okay, I know he's gonna
pop out about from here to far Gold, North Dakota.
So I took Peyton had sent up one of his
mountain trucks home and he put that six forty five
cretmore in there nice and anyway, I didn't I didn't

(15:45):
see the one I'm hunting, all right, Okay, So I'm
packed up. I mean I was standing back then on
the roof of my truck and everything. I was ready
to shoot a long way. Sure, I'm driving out of
there right at the gate and guess what run across
the road in front of me.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
Well, of course, the dear I've been hunting. You could
have thrown a rock and knock him down.

Speaker 5 (16:13):
I could have hit him with a with a putter. Uh,
it was kind of funny. That is kind of funny.
Hate golf tournament, real quick, Okay, I'm gonna help you out,
but listen, listen, I'm gonna add another dimension to it.
If if it works, it works. If it don't work.

(16:36):
I used to golf and golf a lot, to the
point it costs me a lot of money in my
real estate business, so I had to really go back
to work, so I quit golfing st five thousand dollars
a team for a foursome. Yes, sir, all right, I'm
gonna ask somebody listening out there to split that with me.

(17:00):
I'm good through twenty five hundred, but I don't want
I don't have any players. You can give them away
or the next guy with the other twenty five hundred.
Just consider it. Rick j Bie real Estate has paid
for their other to house that.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
That's fantastic, Rick, I'm not going to turn that down. No,
I'll get Melvin. If somebody calls. I'll get Melvin to
get their information. Then i'll call him right after the
show and we'll get it all hooked up.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
But thank you, man, I need it.

Speaker 5 (17:31):
All I need to know is how to pay you.
You know, that's the only thing I need to know. Anyway,
I want to help you out. Hey, I want you
to put a whipman on Martini. I know I've met
him and he is a super guy. Yes, I've met
him through through your guy that you know that's a
buggy of them seventy forty in the morning. But anyways,

(17:55):
I'm good for half of a half of a team
twenty five hundred bucks. Let me know what I need
to do, Melvin. Thank you for all your help.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
Rick, Thank you.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
Okay, now I'm gonna ask you a question because there's
a little poll I want to do today and you
can start it off.

Speaker 5 (18:09):
Okay, let's kick it.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
It's your dear least, wherever it is, it's your dear least.
What are the rules? What are the rules on that
dear lease about shooting bucks?

Speaker 4 (18:19):
Are there different rules for kids or guests and and
so you don't have to divulge whatever acres you're you're
on this fantasy. Dear, lease on, just tell me how
many stands, how many acres per stand are you?

Speaker 3 (18:33):
Are you?

Speaker 4 (18:33):
If you got let's just take it to a hypothetical.
You got one thousand acres? How many stands on that
thousand acres again? Okay, yeah, I like that one hundred acres.

Speaker 5 (18:46):
Keep keep in mind, now it depends if it's East
Xes or west.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
Yeah, yeah, I understand sexes.

Speaker 5 (18:53):
I do can West Texes. Depending on the terrain and
the cover, it might be less, it wouldn't be more.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
It might be three.

Speaker 5 (19:01):
I mean, yeah, you'd be able to see see Like
my places, I managed, I'm not half ten the deer stands,
but I only have three people hunting on it. Yeah, yeah,
that way they're moving around, we're you know, right, we've
got you know, what's the wind doing? You know? Where
are they? Where are they concentrated? So anyway, yeah, I

(19:25):
don't know that.

Speaker 4 (19:26):
Yeah, I may take that question out because there are
so many variables. When you start talking, you bring up
a good point. You got ten stands, but you never
hunt more than three of them. So yeah, I like that.

Speaker 5 (19:36):
Yeah, probably probably about fifty percent. If I got ten,
we're gonna hunt five and you know, we mind them
hunting the next five next week or what.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah, that's but that's max.

Speaker 4 (19:45):
You're not gonna and even if it's somebody's birthday, you
don't hunt all ten stands.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
So I'm with no, I'm with you, all right. Well
that's good. That helps. What about so Eric, let's say that, Well,
I don't know what would what would the rules be
on Bucks? You got four.

Speaker 4 (20:01):
Guys on you and four guys on a thousand acres
and it's your thousand acre.

Speaker 3 (20:06):
Least to make up the rules on what are the rules?

Speaker 5 (20:09):
I would do. I would do my own survey of
deer and see what I have first. Yeah, and I
may not shoot. We may not shoot anything the first year.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
Yeah, that's a very And then the next.

Speaker 5 (20:20):
Year we may take all of the all of the
sevens out and the five points in the sevens and
that's it. Don't shoot nothing else.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (20:27):
And then the next year, hey, we need to take
some eighth because we're starting to see some kins and
some twelve yep. And then the third fourth year, hey,
it's ten point year, let's go.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
It's it's just nothing but booning Crockett Bucks. That fifth year,
that's it well, wouldn't realize. Yeah, and no pigs, of course.

Speaker 5 (20:46):
And I'll tell you what, Doug, I'm not breaking. I've
done that all my life, and I have turned some
places that have no deer into real deer.

Speaker 4 (20:54):
You know, I don't doubt you at all, because that's
that's how you have to do it. You have to
have a play and it has to be more than Okay,
we just got this brand new deer.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
Lease, let's go whack him.

Speaker 4 (21:06):
And that's just not gonna that's not gonna get you
the result that most people want.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
I don't think.

Speaker 5 (21:12):
Here's one last comment. Okay, for time sake, spikes, Oh okay,
everybody thinks a spike is a cult.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
It's not true, not necessarily.

Speaker 5 (21:22):
If that spike is small and they're six inches long,
leave him alone. If that spike it looks a little
heavy and his spikes are twelve inches long, killing Yeah, if.

Speaker 4 (21:34):
It looks like old rabbit ear antenna is off of
TV you and I grew up with, might be time
to go.

Speaker 5 (21:41):
Yeah, but don't go out here and start shooting little spikes,
because that could be a really good deer. Yeah, they
have a little Give him a few years, give him.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
A few years, that's not.

Speaker 5 (21:50):
If he's a spike the next year killing.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
Yeah yeah, that's yeah. Get the meat then it becomes
delicious Finnish meat.

Speaker 5 (22:00):
Hunt.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
And think about how.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
Many conversations you've had with people about deer hunting where
the the word venicson never even came into the con conversation.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
They're all focused on antlers so much.

Speaker 5 (22:11):
You know, I deal with that every day in my business.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
I'm sure, Oh yeah, you know what.

Speaker 5 (22:19):
You know what kind of business I'm meant. So, I'm
out there and I'm a pretty good barometer on what
people are thinking. And I just have to shake my
head sometimes. But then sometimes I can't keep my mouth
shut either. So anyway, let me let you go and
put somebody in contact with me with Alph Herman for
twenty five hundred.

Speaker 4 (22:39):
I absolutely will, Rick, and thank you so much. Join
us for lunch and dinner if you can, Man, come on,
come on out.

Speaker 5 (22:45):
You never know, I might show up.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
Show up, dude.

Speaker 4 (22:48):
I'll be there from the crack of dawn until until
we wrap it up and hand out the trophies.

Speaker 5 (22:56):
Go get them, dord. I'm on. I'm on your team, buddy.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
Let's go, man. Thank you, Rick, I really appreciate this man,
Thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (23:03):
Prom all Right, Budy, everybody listening out there, come on,
step up, somebody step up.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
Somebody get a half. Rick's buying a half a team.
He can set it up with some ringers and maybe
have a chance at winning. All Right, Buddy, I'll thank
you Rick Idios. That's a good man right there.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
I'm telling you, that's the guy who understands. You know,
he understands. All Right, I have got to make a
little trip.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety on the go with
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Speaker 3 (23:33):
You've got to try.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
The conversation continues this as The Doug Pike Show, seven.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
Thirty five on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
Melvin says he's got a theme with his music again
this morning. I wasn't even paying attention on the first break.
I don't know why. Well, yeah I do, because I'm scatterbrained.
But so there it is. And we don't have an
official prize for that. We need to find I'm gonna
find one, one sponsor, one sponsor who could do prizes.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
Boy, there's one of them.

Speaker 4 (24:08):
I really missed because it was fun using those. But
never mind, it doesn't matter. I got a couple of
people I can call on. I think I know what
we could do to make a music themed prize out
of something. In the meantime, I'm gonna go talk to Kevin.
See what's up, Kevin. Good morning, Doug, Good morning, my friend.
Beautiful sunshiny down there.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
Oh man, it's nice.

Speaker 6 (24:30):
I know, nice cool Chris morning and a walm up
since this afternoon, but it's beautiful bluebird day.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
What's on your mind?

Speaker 6 (24:39):
Well, you were talking earlier about losing phones. Oh yeah,
I've got a couple of good ones that are fishing related.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
Bring it.

Speaker 6 (24:47):
Every year, they have a fishing tournament in Galveston for
the physically and menually handicapped. Okay, And years ago I
was going to volunteer to help out on it and
went up there Friday and they set me up with
a guy, Ray Simpson, who has a nice spirtrum.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
Patters type of bode. Well, you pulled a pretty good
straw on that one, then, didn't you.

Speaker 7 (25:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (25:11):
And the two boys that actually fished with us are
people that were two kids from Berzeria County down here.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (25:16):
Colton Chapman and Reagan Fontineo both have spine of biffida
and both are confined to wheelchairs. So we were at
the dock the next morning getting ready to load up,
and we're picking up these wheelchairs and lifting them onto
the back deck of the boat. Well, I had one
of the old next tail black and yellow phones that

(25:36):
had the walkie talkie feature in it.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
Oh lord, how long ago was this? Fifteen years or so?

Speaker 8 (25:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (25:45):
Yeah, not longer, but yeah, And all I could hear
was blue Oh yeah, yeah. Many a fisherman that's heard bluop.
They know that. Man. I get you sitting chills down
about one hundred people's spines just then, man.

Speaker 6 (26:00):
And it went down to the bottom of the galaxy
yont faced again never and I'm not let somebody caught
it in the cast.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
Met Oh my gosh, man. Oh yeah.

Speaker 6 (26:11):
And then another time I was fishing at the coast
Guard station in Surfside and I was what I had
a friend that was supposed to be meeting me over there,
and I got there before he did and caught some
bait and was still waiting on him to get there.
And I looked down the jetti channel, and all of
a sudden, I see something white floating down the Jetti
channel and it was a volleyball. I waited out there

(26:36):
to go get. I was going to rescue Wilson, is
what it was.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Oh yeah, I know.

Speaker 6 (26:41):
So I get out there to get the volleyball and
realize that's back when they had blackberries.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah, that's even farther back. I had that clipped on
my waist and it was toasted blue.

Speaker 5 (26:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
Oh my gosh, man.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
You know.

Speaker 6 (27:00):
Other than that, I'm joint listening to the show is
all at you. I spend a lot of time, even
though I don't call all the time.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
That's all right, man.

Speaker 4 (27:09):
Whatever floats your boat, dude, whatever sinks your phone, you know,
I'll tell you real quick. I do a lot of
driving on the City Highway or the highways around Houston,
and there's a lot of traffic, and I for years
would just play this little game. When the traffic was
bumper to bumper, I'd get all the way on the
inside lane and just look to see what had fallen

(27:32):
off the tops of cars or somebody thrown out or whatever.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
And I'm not kidding you. If you're going.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
Slow enough and you're creeping along on that inside lane
if you have, if you're there thirty forty minutes, you're
gonna see a phone, somebody's phone. And I mean I
used to see two and three a day sometimes, it's crazy.

Speaker 7 (27:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (27:53):
I'm always driving the roads at Bresooria County, going in
between the parks that I take care of. Yeah, and
I'm always spotting roadside fines.

Speaker 4 (28:02):
Well for me, it's a lot easier doing it at
about two miles an hour than it is at sixty.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (28:08):
Yeah, every now and then I'll notice and recognize what
it is and have to whip around and go pick
it up.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
Oh my, I had a friend. I'll tell you this
real quick. It's pretty funny. A friend of mine years ago,
he worked for a box company, okay, and they just
big cardboard boxes. That was his job was buying or
not buying, but selling boxes to companies.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
And he had a rule.

Speaker 4 (28:28):
He and his buddies, who were on the road all
day making sales calls and whatnot, had a rule that
if they drove, if they saw a box on the
side of the highway, they would drive by it at
like sixty miles an hour and if it didn't move,
six feet or more. They would turn around and go
see what was in it because they know that they
knew it was that had something in it if it

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didn't move.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
And he said, every now and then, if you'd be
surprised what you find, you know.

Speaker 6 (28:54):
Oh, I would almost be afraid to see what's Oh
my goodness some of them.

Speaker 4 (28:58):
The most tizar side of the road story ever that
I have is from a hunt I did up in
North Texas and we were scouting actually in the afternoon,
and one of the guys in this camp was named
Barefoot Bob. And if you've heard the story before, forgive me,
but Barefoot Bob literally did not wear shoes.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
He didn't wear shoes.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
The last time he had worn shoes, he said he
was a big a hog guide up there, a deer guide, Burt,
you know, he was just he was an outdoorsman's outdoorsman.
And the last time he had worn shoes was when
he had been in a bar and two women asked him.
He didn't have shoes on at the time, but they

(29:42):
asked if he would show back up because they wanted
to dance with him, and he said, now, I don't
think so, and they asked him if he was not
the same guy who was doing all the guiding and
had the dog, the hog dogs, And he said, yes,
I am.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
And they said, well, we are er nurses and we have.

Speaker 4 (30:01):
Access to all kinds of staplers that can only be
used once, but we'll close up wounds in skin. And
he's thinking of his dogs right away, and he said
that was the last time he put on shoes was
to go dancing with those two. So they'd give him staple.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
Guns for his hog dogs. So that's who he is now.

Speaker 4 (30:22):
Picture us driving back to camp at night, and or
not quite at night, but at dusk, and he's in
his truck in front of us. Nobody wanted to ride
in his truck because it was kind of nasty. So
he's in his truck. We're behind him, coming off of
our scouting mission and we're doing sixty five seventy miles
an hour and not its.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
Just to open road.

Speaker 4 (30:42):
And he slams on the brakes and skids to a
stop on the side of the road, jumps out, runs back.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
We pull in behind him.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
He jumps out, runs back about thirty yards, grabs a
dead skunk by the tail, and comes running by and says,
five bucks is five bucks man. It throws it at
the back of his truck.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
You know, his teat his feet had to be just
oh they were. They were like leather, they really were.
I mean he it was something like twenty five degrees
up there that night. He's just walking around camp and
just like he can't he can't feel a thing, and
it's feed basically no, Oh my gosh. Yeah, there's all
kinds of stories about him. I won't waste your time

(31:25):
with now.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
Maybe maybe when I get back from the break, Kevin,
it's always a pleasure.

Speaker 3 (31:29):
Man's talking, Derek. Have a good weekend, sir audios.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
All right, Dave, do me a favor and hang on.
I want to talk to you as soon as we
get back.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
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Speaker 2 (31:46):
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Speaker 3 (31:49):
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Speaker 4 (31:52):
Gosh, I'm trying to get to the hook on this thing,
so just that can confirm something I'm thinking might be
part of your deal today, Melvine. Okay, I'll sort that out.
Let me go talk to Dave. He's been sitting there
holding for a while. Hey, Dave, thanks for hanging on. Man,
what's up?

Speaker 5 (32:08):
Hey? How you doing? Hey?

Speaker 9 (32:09):
I think we were the original head bangers. You know. Well,
I mean I went to concerts and everything. I mean,
but I like, yeah, well yeah, and I was at
sixteen seventeen eighteen. We were out there hollering and screaming
and all that.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
Oh yeah, what were you listening to? Hold on? No,
Who's whose head banger music? Were you hearing?

Speaker 5 (32:30):
That was? That was? Who was it?

Speaker 9 (32:33):
Ozzy Osbourne?

Speaker 4 (32:34):
Oh my gosh, yeah, see he's behind me. I the
only real rock and roll concert that I went. I
didn't go to a lot of them, but I did
go see Jethro Tall once and that.

Speaker 5 (32:45):
Was kind of total.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (32:47):
I got to see Black Savage. Oh, I got to
see the Eagles on the Hotel California.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
I would have done that. Yeah, I would have done that.

Speaker 9 (32:54):
Jimmy Buffett, Jimmy Buffett open, Jimmy Buffett opened. But it
was it was it yet the stadium here in Houston, man,
oh my god, I had I had four seats and
when Joe Walsh come out with that hard hat with
a light going around in the rough.

Speaker 5 (33:10):
Like what yeah?

Speaker 10 (33:12):
Man?

Speaker 11 (33:13):
What?

Speaker 5 (33:13):
No?

Speaker 3 (33:14):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (33:14):
Back to the SOUD.

Speaker 9 (33:15):
I was coming out of Cooge Cemetery Road over there.
And then I went down and looked at eight thirty.

Speaker 5 (33:20):
Man, it's packed. There's who who left the gate open?

Speaker 9 (33:23):
Man, everybody's down there. So uh But anyway, there was
like I'm not kidding you, twenty five or more buzzards
around something in the field to my left.

Speaker 5 (33:32):
Uh huh.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (33:33):
And then I'm sitting here. I'm gonna see if I
can kind of sneak up on him and take a
picture and I'll send it to you on your Facebook page.
But there's a buzzard sitting on top of the light
over here, just looking around. Yeah, I told. I told
Melvin real quick. I told Melvin. When I was down
there at the boat launch, there was a lady there
and there was a dog running around a car, a

(33:53):
little short dog, but he was a good looking dog.
And all of a sudden she she was standing on
the other side. They didn't see her. And it was
a young lady that had a Santa Claus, Santa Claus,
what do you call it, like bath robebo oh, my gosh,
working their dog bar Old cause Melvin started laughing. Lord,

(34:13):
but I, uh yeah, and then wait a minute, oh
and then you know. Oh, as far as I was
talking about I was going to take an that. What
I meant was, I was gonna go lay down the
rest and maybe watch some kind of sports.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
Stuff on TV.

Speaker 9 (34:24):
But you know, I get up around two thirty in
the morning, and when I hit the hold.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
On, back up, back up, Dave, two thirty is not
in the morning.

Speaker 9 (34:33):
Well okay, but I mean I got to be at
I got when I go to when I have to
go to work, I need to be there about four
thirty eight.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
I understand, I understand. I'm just joking with you.

Speaker 5 (34:44):
Man.

Speaker 9 (34:44):
Hey yeah, yeah, but hey, but and my official position
is I'm not a guide, official guide. I'm a like
Larry Boska. Back when the war broke out. He gave
me the nickname an embedded field Reporter.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
Oh I like that. Yeah, Larry was a great friend
of mine. Man, really good.

Speaker 12 (35:03):
Yeah, he was good, dude.

Speaker 5 (35:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (35:05):
I got up there with him and Tom Dickerson, and
sure boy, there are a couple of characters to be around. Yeah,
those two.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
Those two just a quick story.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
They and I and a couple of other writers did
a goose hunting one time together. And I don't know
that I've ever had more fun on a goose something
we had that day. It was and a million things
went wrong, you know, if we'd have been all full
of ourselves and worried about it, but we all knew
each other well, we all had a good time, and
all kinds of goofy stuff happened, and.

Speaker 3 (35:34):
It was it was just great.

Speaker 5 (35:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (35:38):
And then I told Melvin that I'm actually I went
and looked over here at eight thirty and then I'm
gonna I'm gonna go ahead and go up my brother's
house and wait with you, and then I want to
head to Stubfield Lake. I got my perch trapp and
roding reel, and I got some real good lures. I
can just walk and dob around.

Speaker 5 (35:55):
The bridge and it's gonna be perfect with this. But oh,
what else was going to tell you about Tom Dickerson.
I was over at Rice University.

Speaker 9 (36:01):
Doing the clean room, you know, like where they do
experiments and everything, and so we're building it and you
had to put your body suit on and everything and
all that. Well, Anyway, at lunch time, I went to
the sandwich place over there, and I'm walking over there
and then here comes Tom Diggerson with a cart with
a bunch of video equipment and everything because he worked
for the Houston Independent School District or something like that.

(36:23):
And so then the next time that he was on radio,
he's like, Wow, you ain't.

Speaker 5 (36:30):
Gonna believe this.

Speaker 12 (36:31):
Getitar Davis everywhere.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
Oh, I believe me.

Speaker 9 (36:36):
You wouldn't believe. You wouldn't believe the places that I
show up. And now there abody somebody, somebody grabs me.
But like Rowdy Yates, I was there and they had
the k I L. T booth there at the barbecue cookoff,
and I was walking one way with my black hat
with thousands of people around us in a black duster,
and he had he was the same black hat, black

(36:58):
dustard and he comes straight up to we grabbed me
by the scrip of that duster. Turns around, you're with me.
So we're walking in the back with all these HPD
people in the blue shirts. Then he's whipped me. He's
whipped me, and then we get in there and then
we would come in. We're right there by the bar
uh but uh, Kevin Fowler's playing slide guitar on stage

(37:19):
and then all of a sudden, cool man, here I
am standing there with Pat Green and Corey Morrow good
for years.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (37:25):
Hey, it was a great deal and they became great
experience after that. All right, when I go to Stubblefield.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Yeah, let me know what you catch talk call me tomorrow.
All right, audios, right as what it's Doubblefield gonna catch something.
We don't know what. We don't know what.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
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Speaker 3 (37:48):
I'm gonna take this little this little snippet.

Speaker 4 (37:50):
Of time to remind you or tell you, depending on
whether you've been listening or just started listening.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
The Rick Bisch jumped up.

Speaker 4 (37:59):
I shared that I'm chairing our Saint Jude Tournament this year,
and I set a very lofty goal for this tournament
because I was just sure now that the elections behind us,
now that we see see light at the end of
the tunnel, so to speak, for a lot of us.
Got to remember, half the country's upset, half the country's happy.

(38:21):
I'm a happy guy right now and hoping some of
you are as well and will help me help those
kids from Saint Jude's. And Rick By stepped up a
little while ago. The teams for this tournament are not inexpensive.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
They really aren't. But it's a fantastic experience.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
And as a matter of fact, I'm gonna make sure
that I get kind of a goodie bag for Rick Biss.
It gets something, some way to show my appreciation because
what he offered to do. He doesn't play golf. Okay,
he's not gonna play golf. He might come out and
eat breakfast or dinner with us or something. But the
bottom line is he offered up half the price of

(39:02):
a team. So if one of you, one of you
guys who says there's no way I could do twenty
or no way I could do five grand, if you
can scrape up twenty five hundred, it'll be the team
of you and Rick Bise, and you get to pick
the players, you get to do all of that stuff.
You get to come out and have all the fun
playing golf. Rick's just making a donation to a good cause.

(39:23):
And I can't thank him enough for that. I really can't.
That's a good dude right there, and he understands what's
going on for those kids.

Speaker 3 (39:32):
Were already done. Okay, Well, I'll talk to you off
the air.

Speaker 4 (39:37):
I'm kind of confused as to where he is now
with that, because I don't want to offer up something
he can't he can't cover. If his brother and somebody
else has come in, they're gonna put the whole team
together and put a team together.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
Let's go.

Speaker 4 (39:48):
They're gonna play, or they're gonna contribute. Yes, we're anyway.
The bottom line is all I need to do is
knock out maybe one two more teams this weekend and
then I hit my number and I look like a hero.
It would be wonderful if we can do that. And
I mentioned earlier, and I'll do this very quickly and
then we'll get on back to what we're doing here.

(40:09):
Have a question done? What is that one tax donation deductible?

Speaker 3 (40:14):
I believe it is, Yeah, tax donation that we're a
charitable donation. Yeah, we go check with your check with
your accountant always. But yeah, I don't know why it
wouldn't be.

Speaker 4 (40:24):
Maybe because you get some golf balls or something you have.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (40:28):
I don't know the tax ramifications of that, but i'd
probably find out at some point. At some point in
the show, I'll tell you the story that really that
really solidified my admiration for what they do at that hospital,
and it got my attention.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
I'll maybe it'll get yours. We're gonna take a little
break here on the way out.

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Speaker 3 (41:04):
Hour starts now. And I still haven't because I've.

Speaker 4 (41:07):
Been Man, I've been swamped with some of these emails
and stuff. That's good, that's a good thing. I still
haven't gone through the rainbow trout stocking schedule, but I
can tell you that they they pretty much stock rainbow trout.
The state does all over the state at several hundred
locations I believe it is now, and they let you

(41:31):
know exactly when they're going to stock them, presuming that
the weather's nice and all. They let you know exactly
how many fish they're putting in and how often, and
they just make it really simple so that parents trying
to plan something for their kids can get it done.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
And nothing.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
Nothing, but honestly, this is kind of a The rainbow
trout stocking is kind of the start of winter because
those trout can't be stocked until the war is cold enough.
And if you look at the stocking schedule, a lot
of the lakes that get stocked early are farther north
in the state.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
It only makes sense.

Speaker 4 (42:07):
But by the time it's all over come February or so,
there will have been rainbow trout stocked hundreds of thousands
of these fish all over the state. And there's one
lake I want to look up hold on. I'm going
to try to well, I don't want to waste too
much time, but I am going to try to get it.
It's a Houston lake here, and this just kind of

(42:29):
this is the barometer. Joe Dogget and I used to
chase these fish all over town. Tom Bass won whereas
tom Bass two. They're not even going to stop.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
Tom Bass two.

Speaker 4 (42:40):
Unfortunately, that was the most That was a wonderful stocking
of a big lake over in tom Bass Park and
they stocked as many as four thousand fish in there.
Now I don't know where Ki Carrillo, Missire is. This
is going to be a good one. December fifth, kikrillah

(43:00):
Mischer Lake and I'll.

Speaker 3 (43:01):
Have to look it up online.

Speaker 4 (43:04):
Gonna get forty two hundred fish that's well, it actually
will be twenty one hundred then and twenty one hundred
on January the second.

Speaker 3 (43:14):
That's a lot.

Speaker 4 (43:15):
That one probably replaces the old tom Bass two for
some reason.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
And I don't know why.

Speaker 4 (43:21):
Eisenhower Park Pond's gonna get fourteen hundred. Those are all
Houston parks. Yeah, this list is too big. It's just
way too long. I am disappointed though that I just
earth Vane Park is gonna get eight hundred. I fished
that one Joe and I have, and that's about it
for Houston. There's only I think, what is it three
that I counted one, two, three, four five five Eisenhower

(43:46):
Park Pond. I think I talked about that. It's fourteen
hundred in total in two stockings. Sheldon Sheldon State Park
Children's Lake number one gets eight hundred on well in
four two four hundred fish doses. Bottom line is most
of these fish are kind of little, most of them are.

(44:08):
There is plenty edible. I personally found that the taste
of those fish, because they're raised on food pellets and
not on grasshoppers and crickets and worms, it's a little
different and it wasn't terribly to my liking, but I
guess maybe I'm just a bad rainbow trout cooker. I
don't know, but they are fun and I could spend

(44:31):
an entire hour talking about the different ways I've caught
those fish.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
When it was when I was fishing with my son
when he was very young.

Speaker 4 (44:40):
I would take bait most of the time until he
got a little older and more comfortable throwing lures, but
we would use my standard issue kernels of corn soaked
in vanilla extract that always seems to work. There are
trout nibbles if you want to be fancy and go
get some of those prepared artificial, stinky, nasty floating in oil.

(45:07):
They don't smell good. You don't want to spill that
stuff in your car or your truck. I'm telling you
right now, it's pretty nasty. And the irony to that
is the one of the companies that originated some of
these scented baits. I had a good interview with somebody
who worked in the lab where they tested different sins,
and what they came to determine was that the sense

(45:30):
that were most attractive to fish, and that just included
pretty much all fish, were so disgusting in smell to us,
to our noses. That they couldn't They couldn't justify trying
to package and sell it, because as soon as you
open the jar, you'd gag. So what they've come upon

(45:50):
is a balance where it still works to attract fish, certainly,
but it doesn't make you want to hurl the little
I liked the there's little there's all kinds of different
colored trout nuggets and all that. There's one that looks
kind of like a little spongy ball, and they were
white and they floated. And the reason I like that

(46:13):
is because I could put a weight in a lake
that had a little.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
Bit of vegetation on the bottom. Rather than have that
thing just get dragged all the way to the bottom,
somehow I could put a little piece of split shot
about maybe a foot or foot and a half in
front of that bait, and then when the split shot
hit the bottom, that little hook, so that little or
bait ball, if you will, if you use the small

(46:37):
enough hook. You have to be careful about that too.

Speaker 4 (46:39):
It doesn't take much to sink one of these things,
because they're already saturated with fluid. With along and the
short of it, if you keep that thing suspended just
over the bottom. A lot of times those trout would
find it there. Sometimes they're up toward the top, sometimes
they're down toward the bottom. My suggestion there, if you're
fishing with bait, is to have one or two baits

(47:01):
up high in the water column, suspend it under a cork,
and then have maybe one or two down on the
bottom somewhere, and just let the fish tell you where
they're hanging out most that day. It's pretty easy to
catch those little guys. If you can get night crawlers.
They work really well, as also the lures. There's half
a dozen different little lures that we used to use.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
I think the spoon I think it was called.

Speaker 4 (47:24):
A super duper. I'm pretty sure I don't. I have
a bunch of them in the garage. I'm gonna have
to go looking for them now they're all The problem
with my rainbow trout box is I only use it
for about a month and a half out of the
whole year, and then it just disappears back into the
fishing tackle. I don't have a special place for it.
I'm working on that, I swear I am. Now that

(47:46):
the weather's nice too, I'm gonna get out and just
do little little chunks of the garage one at a time.
Seven one three, two one two five seven ninety Email
on me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. I'm waiting
on confirmation from Rick Bise because he has two peas
in his family who are are golfers, and he may
for his twenty five hundred dollars, which gets half a team,

(48:07):
and I'm, like I said, I'm looking to get two
teams done for Saint Jude before the end of the
weekend and then we'll hit our goal.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
Oh what do you got? Oh?

Speaker 4 (48:19):
Okay, yeah, well, I you know, I wonder that son
of his, Yeah, that son of his is really a
busy guy. So whoever comes up with twenty five hundred
to match to Rick's money is going to get to
select the four people they play with. And that's that's
quite the deal. And I'm not going to do too
much of that on air. We're not going to do
the negotiating on air. I'll just try to make sure

(48:40):
I've got phone numbers and emails and we'll get it
all dialed in. There's somebody else calling us now, man,
who knows what that's about. I hope it's about fishing.
And speaking of trout, well, I'll stay on rainbow trout
real quickly again. If you the limit is five per day, okay,
no matter how you catch them, no matter what size
they are, they're all stocked fish and they're not going

(49:02):
to last through the summer like they might in the
Guadaloupe River.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
The limit is five a day, and for you.

Speaker 4 (49:09):
Old guys, not five per trip to the car, okay.
I honestly I hate that people take advantage like that
with a resource that's put out there mostly for children
and families to enjoy. And if you want to go
catch and release, like Joe Dogget and I used to
do a lot of times. We get out there sometimes

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catch twenty thirty of those little things when they were
really eating, and just throw them all back. Joe would
take a few home. He liked to eat them more
than I did. And he didn't have anybody to say
you can't bring that in the house either, and I
have that.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
I've got to take this break, Matthew.

Speaker 4 (49:45):
I promise you I will come straight to you when
we get back from the break.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
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Speaker 3 (49:56):
Ninety Back to the Doug Fike Show.

Speaker 13 (50:01):
All right, Melvin, I'm officially messed up to the punk music.

Speaker 3 (50:04):
I've been so preoccupied. Yeah, I have no idea. I'll
have to pay attention to or three times and maybe
I'll have a snowballs chance, as promised, and I don't.
I don't like to break promises around here. Let's go
to Matthew. What's up, Matthew?

Speaker 5 (50:21):
Hey, Doug, how you doing better?

Speaker 3 (50:22):
I'm great? Thank you.

Speaker 5 (50:24):
Hey, good luck on your hunt next week, and bring
your golf clubs, because I hear everybody's gonna be limiting
me out by nine am.

Speaker 3 (50:32):
Oh my gosh, that's gonna make a pretty full day
for me. I got well, I got it.

Speaker 4 (50:37):
I'm picking up stuff holiday food on the way home
from that by the way, and if I boy, if
I forget, I won't even get halfway up the driveway
to cold chill to go down my spine. I'll just
have to back up and go back. And I'm picking
up picking up what am I getting?

Speaker 3 (50:53):
Sweet potatoes and twenty fifteen miles from home.

Speaker 5 (50:57):
That should be simple enough. That should be simple. Yeah,
But I was worrying a settle of debate that's been
raging here up in the woodlands for a while, and
that is overall best hunting dog.

Speaker 4 (51:12):
Oh my gosh, you talk about opening up a can
of worms? Were talking, waterfowl were talking, quail were talking, rabbits.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
What are we talking?

Speaker 5 (51:21):
Well, we do all different types of honting. Okay, you
can just pick one dog. Now, I have a lab,
and I love my lab to death. Of course, drive
can do just about anything. I don't know how good
at shield work you'd be doing. So I was gonna
have a dog, you'd be a German short air, but

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they're not good family dogs.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
Yeah, that's a good point too, that lab. Go back
to your lab for a minute, because if you put
a little work into a lab, you can also train
them to point. And I've seen it done. I've seen
it more than once done.

Speaker 5 (51:58):
But as efficiently as a pointer.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
Well it's it's not one hundred percent. But I don't
I don't want to send.

Speaker 4 (52:05):
A short hair out two hundred yards across a pond
to pick up a goose.

Speaker 5 (52:10):
Either, So but the race dog go do it.

Speaker 4 (52:14):
Yeah, Well that that dog, for me would be a lab.
And I'm sure we're going to open a big giant
can of worms here.

Speaker 5 (52:21):
Well, I mean, you know, just because I have night
kids and you know.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
They're great with kids.

Speaker 5 (52:28):
You know they are, and the short hair might not be.
I've always been told that, you know, you can't have
short hairs around kids, Okay, but then you can't have
a black lab with Kyle floors.

Speaker 3 (52:42):
Other than that, because I'm strong, like a tap dancing
recital of a bunch of two year olds.

Speaker 5 (52:51):
That's sort of like the question me and my buddies
would have in San Diego, what's better toy pines? No
worth for toy pines out?

Speaker 3 (52:57):
Yeah? Yeah, holy cow dollars around.

Speaker 5 (53:01):
I mean, you can't comparty, No.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
Can't complain. I still planing Tory fines.

Speaker 5 (53:10):
I appreciate your your Yeah, happy faiving and good gosh,
don't forget them sweepstaters you Oh, I.

Speaker 3 (53:17):
Won't, man. I thank you, Matthew, I appreciate buddy audios.

Speaker 5 (53:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
I don't know if we're going.

Speaker 4 (53:22):
To find the best dog of all. I just don't know.
Let me hang on, let me check with Matt, and
then I'll get the Brandon. Matt, what's up, buddy?

Speaker 12 (53:32):
Hey dog?

Speaker 3 (53:33):
Are you? I'm good? Thank you?

Speaker 5 (53:36):
Hey?

Speaker 12 (53:36):
I called you a couple of weeks ago about I
used to live.

Speaker 3 (53:39):
In the Katy Prairie. Yeah, I remember.

Speaker 12 (53:40):
And uh and when you when you are guided out there,
I'm sure you ate at a lot of breakfast at
at uh Snappy's.

Speaker 3 (53:53):
I was on Country Kitchen. Now we met at Country Kitchen.

Speaker 12 (53:57):
Well anyway, anyway, yeah, down the road from from Snappy's
on Robert Street, I think it's called was a place called.

Speaker 3 (54:07):
Blaze Wildfall Processing Cleaning. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 12 (54:13):
Are they still I used to go there. Oh god,
they did a bang up job.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
No doubt. I don't know if there's still.

Speaker 4 (54:20):
There's got to be some place in Katie that that
processes birds still, But I don't know what it would be.

Speaker 3 (54:25):
I hadn't had I mean, we.

Speaker 12 (54:27):
Charged like a dollar twenty five or bird they bag Victoria.

Speaker 4 (54:30):
Yeah, oh yeah, come out in nice little individual bags.

Speaker 3 (54:33):
It was great, man.

Speaker 5 (54:34):
Yeah, yeah, they're good.

Speaker 12 (54:36):
I used to I used to see guys coming in
there with where those forty gallon trash bags or trash
cans full of east.

Speaker 5 (54:44):
Oh sure they have three or four of them, yep.

Speaker 12 (54:47):
And I have to sit there and wait.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (54:50):
I was just I was just I was just curious
if that if that place is still open, because I've
driven down that street many times, but I've never seen it.

Speaker 3 (54:57):
Man, that brings back a lot of memories.

Speaker 4 (54:59):
I spent a of time out in front of that place, too,
and there was always it was funny to me, how,
you know, I thought, guy, these people are are cleaning
these geese for a living, and boy, and it's just
a little bitty old house.

Speaker 3 (55:11):
They were in and all that.

Speaker 4 (55:12):
But if you didn't never notice it, it seemed like
they were always driving brand new cars.

Speaker 7 (55:17):
You know.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
Yeah, and that's what they started. They started selling.

Speaker 4 (55:21):
They processed the bird for a price, and then they
started said they used to not save the feathers. And
then all of a sudden there were these giant bags
and yeah, and they were they sold every part of
the were goose.

Speaker 12 (55:34):
But the Haunk man, yeah, they would they would sell
it for for down jackets.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I asked.

Speaker 12 (55:41):
I asked the old man.

Speaker 3 (55:42):
It was.

Speaker 9 (55:43):
It was.

Speaker 12 (55:44):
It was the old man and all his kids. It
was usually daughters that were in there. They yeah, they
had those those that that finger that finger ring that
spun and.

Speaker 3 (55:54):
Pulls all the feathers.

Speaker 12 (55:55):
They would would it would, it would come out with
with her. I mean, even the tim tutherers would come out.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (56:02):
All right, man, Well yeah, maybe somebody's been out there
lately and knows better than I do. But which with
so few or goose hunters out there anymore, and it's
a lot easier to come.

Speaker 12 (56:12):
I haven't heard a goose over me.

Speaker 14 (56:14):
I live.

Speaker 12 (56:15):
I live in uh, I live in Okay. Yeah, I
haven't heard a goose fly over once. That's it's sad.
All right, Well, okay, Doug.

Speaker 4 (56:27):
Yeah, thank you. I appreciate Matt. Good to hear from you.
All Right, we got to take it to see where.
Oh no, I'm in good shape here. Uh, Brandon, what's up?
Hold on, Brandon, what's up, buddy? I got a couple
of minutes.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
Brandon, all right, I.

Speaker 5 (56:44):
Got you there.

Speaker 3 (56:44):
I am. How you doing?

Speaker 11 (56:46):
Okay? I was making I was making the pot.

Speaker 3 (56:50):
Oh good. What kind of coffee you drink?

Speaker 11 (56:55):
Mister coffee, mister.

Speaker 3 (56:57):
Coffee, that's mister coffee to us. Huh, that's all right. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (57:04):
We just have all kinds of coffees around here. Some
of them are pretty fancy schmancy, and some of them
are just coffee. I just kind of like coffee. That's
all I need. I'm not drinking it for the taste.
I need to wake up, that's what I know.

Speaker 11 (57:20):
How about what how about best you and me at
next time I come, I will drink coffee with you.

Speaker 3 (57:31):
That sounds good. I just sit and have a cup
of coffee with you. We'll have to figure out where
and win could do that. I'd be happy to man.

Speaker 11 (57:42):
Fair enough Rockets one, yes, I know.

Speaker 3 (57:46):
Boy, those rockets. They're doing well this year, aren't they.

Speaker 11 (57:51):
Yep, we do.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
I'm going to keep an eye on them.

Speaker 4 (57:55):
I may have to go to a game here soon
just to see it at full speed right in front
of me.

Speaker 3 (57:59):
It's so amazing. Those guys are so talented. Yep. All right, well,
I got one more.

Speaker 4 (58:06):
I gotta get Brandon before the break. Okay, so let
me pop off and we'll talk again tomorrow. Okay, all right, man,
thank you.

Speaker 5 (58:15):
You and me.

Speaker 4 (58:18):
Let me look at my schedule, because I am this
is a kind of time of year when we're just
swamped and I'm off all next week, so I've got
to kind of do double my work. But call me
tomorrow and maybe right after the show or something, I
could pop out for a little bit.

Speaker 11 (58:33):
All right, I meant, I meant you're in the studio
with me here.

Speaker 4 (58:38):
Oh okay, yeah, we do that. We'll figure something out.
I'm man, I'm almost always drinking coffee if I'm here. Okay,
I gotta go now. But we talked tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (58:49):
See all right, buddy, bye? All right, let me catch
Mike before we go to break. He'd been sitting there
a little while. Mike, what's up, buddy, Good morning.

Speaker 14 (59:00):
I got a quickie for the guy in the woodland's
looking for an all round dog. And I have had pointers,
and I've had labs. I've had all kinds of hunting dogs,
but the best all round dog around the family, around kids,
out in the fields. On the water.

Speaker 3 (59:17):
Oh, don't on the water too. Okay.

Speaker 4 (59:19):
I was gonna write something down and then show it
to Melvin if I was right. But I'm gonna let
you go ahead now, because when you sat on the
water it took out my thought.

Speaker 14 (59:27):
Go ahead and retries like a fish. It's a Hungarian
hunting dog called a beesla.

Speaker 3 (59:33):
A beesla, man, Where am I going to get one
of those? They don't have those? That toys are.

Speaker 14 (59:37):
A pet co No, no, you got to look for them.
And when you tell you you find, you find a
good breeder. And I guarantee you if you had like
four or five of those dogs, you wouldn't buy another
dog for the rest of your life.

Speaker 3 (59:51):
Holy cow. So how many of them have you had?

Speaker 14 (59:55):
I've had six, and four of them are house dogs
and the other two or outside dog.

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
Wow. Man, Well, how big a dog is this?

Speaker 9 (01:00:03):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (01:00:03):
I'd say probably forty fifty maybe sixty pounds coast.

Speaker 4 (01:00:10):
Yeah, that's about right for an all around dog too.
You gotta they can't be too big.

Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
Or they're not going to be able to do a
lot of groundwork.

Speaker 14 (01:00:17):
And they're short haired.

Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
Oh I like that too, Holy cow. Man. That never
a long haired dog again. I had one Golden Retriever
once and it was just, oh man, you just had
to rake the carpet every now and then to come fis.

Speaker 14 (01:00:30):
These dogs are very, very clean and healthy, my lord.
I took them to the bit once a year, and
my bet told me, why do you keep bringing this
dog in here?

Speaker 3 (01:00:42):
Wow? Okay, spell that for me.

Speaker 14 (01:00:45):
It starts with the B is in victory yep, and
then what and then the rest is just like it
sounds beesla b e.

Speaker 3 (01:00:54):
E s la. That's how it sounds to me.

Speaker 14 (01:00:57):
Look it up in the computer when you have time.
Guarantee you won't go wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:01:02):
All right, we'll try one out. Thanks, Mike.

Speaker 14 (01:01:05):
As far as coffee is concerned, whatever is on sale?

Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
Yeah, boy, isn't that the truth these days? Holy cow?

Speaker 6 (01:01:13):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:01:15):
All right, we'll see audios. Yeah, it just says coffee
on the can. All right, Alan, if you'll hold.

Speaker 4 (01:01:22):
On, I gotta go to this break. No, I don't
watch this Melbourne. Alan, what's up?

Speaker 5 (01:01:27):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
Hey?

Speaker 5 (01:01:30):
You did?

Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
I'm good. I don't have as much time.

Speaker 5 (01:01:34):
I got.

Speaker 12 (01:01:35):
You had to go to break kind.

Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
Of, but I'm gonna go ahead and take your call first.

Speaker 5 (01:01:40):
Hey, ask your questions, Broke, you know, all right? You
and Rick this one we're talking about, dear Controy.

Speaker 15 (01:01:47):
Whatever, And I ask your questions, how do you know?
To me, it's like if you see a four porter
or a three pointer, how do you know this shoot
that there ain't gonna be a better deer and then
a better deer after that?

Speaker 12 (01:02:02):
Talk to me?

Speaker 15 (01:02:03):
Is that what I want to shoot?

Speaker 5 (01:02:05):
Because I'm not for sure.

Speaker 12 (01:02:07):
I mean, if there's gonna be the next.

Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
Year, Yeah, I'm with you, it's it is hard to tell.
And if a deer, you can tell that a deer
is four years old and it's not anything yet, then
maybe if you're looking to raise better antlers on your place,
you take that deer out. But if they're young, and
if they're young and they got four horns or antlers,
then I'm gonna let them walk.

Speaker 4 (01:02:29):
I want to see what they're gonna be next year.
And the only way you can find out is to
let them walk. And it's hard on a lot of leases.
It's hard on a lot of ranches, especially low fence places,
because you know, I've heard conversations since I've been reporting
on all this stuff and talking about it, where if
a deer jumps over the fence during the rut, your
neighbor probably gonna shoot it. And so every if everybody

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has that attitude, then they're all gonna start shooting the deer.
And it becomes this self fulfilling prophecy. If you think
that the neighbors are gonna shoot young deer and the
neighbors think you're gonna shoot young deer, you're both gonna
shoot them. You're not both, yeah, exactly, and you'll you'll never.

Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
See the potential.

Speaker 15 (01:03:13):
So you got go another question?

Speaker 5 (01:03:16):
You want to call you back?

Speaker 3 (01:03:17):
I tell you what, Yeah, let me put you on
hold and I'll.

Speaker 4 (01:03:20):
Jump in with you when I get back. Okay, I
don't want to get too far behind stand by. All right,
all right, hopefully we'll get a little bit better connection
to on that. It's kind of breaking up. I got
I got enough of that one though. If if both
of you on the same on the same low fence perimeters,
think the other is gonna do it wrong, then then
you're both gonna do it wrong. But if you have

(01:03:42):
a good conversation, say look, let's try to see what
we can do here, and you both agree just a
gentleman's handshake. You don't have to write up a contract.
Then you can maybe grow some bigger bucks if you
want bigger bucks.

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
And that's always fun.

Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety Houston sports Fan on
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Fike Show.

Speaker 4 (01:04:07):
All right, welcome back, thanks for listening. I certainly do
appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:11):
Buddy Allen just weighed in by email.

Speaker 4 (01:04:15):
He and Rick Bie are going to co sponsor that team,
and Rick, you'll be well represented.

Speaker 3 (01:04:19):
I hope you're still listening.

Speaker 4 (01:04:20):
Because Alan can play, and I know that some of
his golf buddies can play. And I got a hunch
I know one of the people he's gonna ask to
go into this thing with him, and if he if
they do, I'm not gonna bet against him, that's for sure.
Melbourne and I were kind of laughing a little bit
about talking about dogs and said, once you start talking

(01:04:41):
about dogs, it gets started. And my emails are filling up,
And okay, anyway, I'm gonna go back to Alan here
and then I'll get to Bob.

Speaker 3 (01:04:49):
Hang on, Alan, what's up?

Speaker 10 (01:04:51):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:04:52):
What's your other question you had?

Speaker 5 (01:04:54):
Hey, Doug quick day.

Speaker 3 (01:04:56):
Do you know.

Speaker 5 (01:04:58):
I heard this.

Speaker 9 (01:05:01):
From a former friend.

Speaker 15 (01:05:02):
Of mine that now that you can now that we
get a.

Speaker 5 (01:05:06):
License on our phones.

Speaker 4 (01:05:08):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:05:09):
He was saying something about have I that you can
tag your dear through your phone?

Speaker 5 (01:05:14):
Do you know anything about that?

Speaker 3 (01:05:15):
I've heard about that.

Speaker 4 (01:05:16):
I've heard about it, and I think it's a good idea,
but I don't know the process.

Speaker 5 (01:05:22):
I know.

Speaker 4 (01:05:23):
I'm still I mean, I'm so old school. I'm still
looking at those paper tags on my license. But I
think it can all win electronically.

Speaker 15 (01:05:32):
I ran off and left my paper tags at the house.

Speaker 8 (01:05:36):
Well, I mean I've gotten my I bought the super
Combo and I ran off, and I thought maybe I
just did watch this weekend and not shooting one because
I left my tags at the house.

Speaker 15 (01:05:47):
And then he'll say, he said, no, now you can
you can tag your you know, after you shoot your there,
you take a picture of it and you send it
to I guess maybe they are parts a widlife website and.

Speaker 9 (01:05:58):
Just looked at it.

Speaker 4 (01:06:00):
I've got, you know, I've got an email into him
or a text message into one of my game warden buddies,
And as soon as I hear back from him, I'll
I'll add to what I asked him about and.

Speaker 8 (01:06:13):
See what I'll be listening, sir, I'll take a swing.

Speaker 12 (01:06:17):
Thanks Ellen, appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:19):
Thank you boy.

Speaker 4 (01:06:21):
I got a hunch that I don't even have to
wait for Derek to text me back. And I got
a couple of people out there I know who are
listening right now, who probably know that answer about electronically
tagging deer.

Speaker 3 (01:06:33):
Let's go get Bob, he's up next. What's up, Bob?

Speaker 7 (01:06:38):
What a beautiful morning? Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:06:39):
I know, Holy cow man, here I sit too. I'll
get out soon enough fishing up. Why not?

Speaker 7 (01:06:48):
I have to defend the Germans short hair.

Speaker 3 (01:06:51):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (01:06:52):
I can remember when I was a kid, Dad had
two of them, Elvis Presley.

Speaker 3 (01:06:57):
Oh my gosh, that's pretty cool.

Speaker 7 (01:07:00):
But two of the friend of his dogs, and I
now I got one from my daughter when she was five.
Tremendous dog with kids. Yeah, okay, But the one thing.
They are great pointers and retrievers, but they will not
venture far from you. We used to use them for
grouse hunting up in the thick woods. And another thing,

(01:07:24):
they do not like water to I don't think they're
good for cool water to retrieve.

Speaker 9 (01:07:29):
I don't know how.

Speaker 3 (01:07:30):
Yeah, that may be an issue for them, don't I
don't look at those dogs as being much in forty
degrees in chili water.

Speaker 7 (01:07:39):
You know, I think you need a good lab for
duck hunting. That's just me, and I'm sure there's a
lot of people agree and disagree with everything.

Speaker 3 (01:07:51):
They're going to defend their dogs to the death. You
know they are yep.

Speaker 7 (01:07:55):
And you know another great dog for pointing and retrieving
is a wife.

Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
Yeah, yeah, they're not bad.

Speaker 7 (01:08:03):
I got to tell you a little story we had
one when I was a kid in fifth grade, and
every morning I had to take it out and take
it for a walk and you know, do his business. Well,
I was so lazy, I just let it go and
I'd sit in the garage. When he come back with
the milk or eggs and stuff, we'd go in the
house and I take it in. I come to find
out we didn't have a milk man, but she would

(01:08:27):
bring back whatever. She's all on a porch.

Speaker 3 (01:08:30):
Oh my gosh, that's funny.

Speaker 12 (01:08:32):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:08:33):
All right, I got a run, Bob. It's great to
hear from you.

Speaker 5 (01:08:35):
Man.

Speaker 7 (01:08:36):
I wanted to defend the Germany short every.

Speaker 4 (01:08:38):
Okay, fair enough, thanks, all right man, Audios Dr George,
if you please. What's going on?

Speaker 3 (01:08:46):
Man?

Speaker 9 (01:08:47):
Well, well you've heard small the rest.

Speaker 5 (01:08:49):
Now you can get an expert.

Speaker 3 (01:08:50):
Oh, here we go. The dogs.

Speaker 9 (01:08:52):
Okay, I will tell you this before I get started. Well,
b I s l a peace and for a highbred dog,
not bad at all. I am a fan of some
of these specially bred dogs or you know, they kind
of got a narrow, narrow use. But I'll tell you this,
if it wasn't for the animal kingdom, the human person
would still be living under a rock and eating mudd

(01:09:15):
a lot to the animals we do. I want to
ask you, what was your opinion of the best all
around dog before he mentioned water.

Speaker 4 (01:09:25):
I was going to lean toward a beagle. I really was,
because I've known people who had them and they love them.

Speaker 3 (01:09:32):
And now they can make a lot of noise if
they're bored or lonely or ticked off at you.

Speaker 9 (01:09:37):
But they just I make a lot of noise under
them same circumstances.

Speaker 3 (01:09:44):
That's a very good point. Yeah, not the bagels.

Speaker 9 (01:09:48):
Well, I was going to say Catahoua, Okay, Yeah, that's
a good dog. The stock working the stock working dog.
There was a kid down in Florida. I was in
between deciding what to do. And there's a had down
in Florida that we worked cows with him during the
day and hunted hogs with him at night.

Speaker 3 (01:10:05):
Wow.

Speaker 9 (01:10:05):
And then when I moved back to Alabama, there was
a kid had a Catahula that used They used dogs
for deer in Alabama and and birds. But the darnedest
breed of dog I ever saw was a malin law.
And I took care of Missouri City Police malinloaw and

(01:10:25):
then I met one of the guys from ben Ghazi, Oz,
the guy that got shot.

Speaker 5 (01:10:31):
In the arm.

Speaker 9 (01:10:33):
He's working in Denver with the MALANWOI trainers.

Speaker 3 (01:10:36):
Wow.

Speaker 9 (01:10:36):
There something else. Yeah, but that for for for a
high bred dog that Visla was was Yeah, I turned
out to be a fan.

Speaker 3 (01:10:46):
It's a good looking dog too, very short hair.

Speaker 4 (01:10:50):
It reminds me guess what it is is the combination
of a couple of breeds from way way, way, way
way back when whatever. But it's a sharp and strong looking,
all business dog.

Speaker 9 (01:11:02):
Yeah, and fairly good health. I will pick a breed
of dog based on what kind of health concerns can Yeah,
what are.

Speaker 3 (01:11:09):
Real quickly because I'm a little bit late, but real quickly,
what are a couple that are high maintenance?

Speaker 9 (01:11:16):
Well, I think any of the terrier breeds West West, East,
Scottie or tern tend to have their fair share of
allergies and skin allergies and dogs this is by far
most common health complaint. And that's one of the things
about the Katahoua. They was raised over in that come
up in that swamp over Louisiana, so they're kind of

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temperate to this part of the country.

Speaker 3 (01:11:40):
Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 9 (01:11:41):
You know you don't want a Saint Bernard or Great
Pyrenees south of the Mason Dixon line because of the heat. Yeah,
once again, enjoy the show.

Speaker 3 (01:11:52):
All right, Doc, thank you so much for your input. Man,
appreciate it. Thanks you, sir. It's a good man right there.
It's good to have on the team.

Speaker 4 (01:12:01):
Believe me, every time something comes up that has to
do with with animals and their health and whatnot.

Speaker 3 (01:12:07):
I just watched that call screen. Come on, Doc, come on, doc,
all right, we do have to take a little break.

Speaker 1 (01:12:14):
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Speaker 3 (01:12:20):
We'll get that information to them. This is the Doug
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Speaker 13 (01:12:24):
I'm so confused, buddy my musical interludes this morning, mostly
because I've been really, really busy, but also because I can't.

Speaker 4 (01:12:37):
I've had trouble remembering the titles to some of these
songs too. I'm not gonna lie to you, Okay, don't
even tell me. I'm just gonna have to figure it
out for myself or ask you. At nine fifty five,
I could give you a recap of the songs. Oh really,
So that's not even gonna help me, is it. No,
that's why you're telling me that, because you still don't
think I can handle it. Well, don't do it yet,

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because I do want to say Alan jumped up. So Rick,
Bie and Alan are gonna are gonna tag team this
golf team for the Saint Jude tournament, and after the
after the show, I'm gonna email both of you together
so that you can each know, and I'm gonna put

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Rebecca from over at, not Sunnybrook Farm, but Rebecca from
Saint Jude. I will put her on that email and
she can arrange to concoct the tournament. And Rick, I
will tell you that even even since it's not possible
for your ringer son to be out there playing Alan,
Alan knows some guys who knows some guys, and they

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will put together a team that will do you proud
and quite possibly wind up on the wind up on
the podium.

Speaker 3 (01:13:50):
So thank you both for doing that.

Speaker 4 (01:13:52):
If you're still interested in helping me hit this lofty
goal that I set. In hindsight, I have no regret
rests oversetting this goal because I told them from the
very beginning that we could do this, and now I'm
only down to needing one team to hit the goal
that I set, and maybe I don't think there are
four or five left to sell. Overall, there are a

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couple of sponsorships, and like I said before, those sponsorships,
once again, it's not inexpensive because it takes a lot
of money to cure a kid with cancer more than
to support a high school volleyball team. Nothing wrong with
high school sports teams having fundraising golf tournaments.

Speaker 3 (01:14:34):
I love all of them, and I'll help you promote
them all.

Speaker 4 (01:14:37):
But when we're talking about curing children who have cancer,
it takes some coin to get that done. So the
teams that I could still use one more this weekend.
That's five thousand dollars, and you get a lot of
cool stuff, and it's a lot of fun tournament, it
really is. You're not going to get a koozy and
a pencil in a paper sack.

Speaker 3 (01:14:58):
I mean, we got some good stuff for you. And
then there.

Speaker 4 (01:15:02):
Are sponsorships that, like I mentioned before, if you buy
one of those sponsorships that start at ten thousand dollars,
in addition to that and all that comes with it,
you and a team, of course, will you also get
a matching broadcast schedule?

Speaker 3 (01:15:18):
Over here?

Speaker 4 (01:15:19):
From us, and I think that's one of the most
amazing things that our market president did when he did it.
That really encourages people to support this great cause of ours.
So that's what we're doing there all the way back
to the great out of Doors. Oh, there was a
couple of emails I want to Oh, this was kind

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of funny when we were asking about which is the
best dog? Dennis wade in is that's kind of like
asking you which one of your kids you like the best,
your son or your daughter. Yeah, and Melvine actually hit
it earlier with me, said, boy, you start talking about dogs,
that's where we're going to be for a long time.

Speaker 3 (01:16:00):
So anyway we've got that going on.

Speaker 4 (01:16:03):
I want to get back to that little kind of
a curiosity on your dear least question that I had earlier.

Speaker 3 (01:16:10):
What are the rules on your deer lease? Where can
you shoot anything that you like? Can you must they
be three and a half or four and a half
or five and a half years old? I've hunted.

Speaker 4 (01:16:21):
Are you looking for specific antlers that you want off
the ranch?

Speaker 3 (01:16:26):
And everybody has to shoot though?

Speaker 4 (01:16:28):
There's all kinds of rules that I've heard when I've
been invited to deer leases before. Mostly what I'm out
there doing is scouting. I don't shoot that many deer anymore.
I'm not terribly I'm not angry at deer. If somebody
needs a person to sit in a stand with somebody
else and make sure that they get the right deer,

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I'm happy to volunteer for that duty. I do love
being out there, and I could sit in a deer
stand all day with not even with a gun in
my hands, and still be just as giddy and happy
to be out there as if I had a full whatever,
I had a bow, a rifle, a shot gun, a pistol.

Speaker 3 (01:17:08):
Doesn't matter. No gun at all doesn't matter, No bow
at all doesn't matter. I just like being out in
the woods because the only way you're gonna know what
really cool things happen in the woods is to be there.
And even your cameras.

Speaker 4 (01:17:24):
You got to think about all these cameras that all
these people put put out, and I love them.

Speaker 3 (01:17:27):
I like game cameras, I really do. I'm not knocking
them at.

Speaker 4 (01:17:30):
All, but they only capture what happens right in front
of them. If you're out there, you can turn your
head three hundred and sixty degrees. Well, not unless you're possessed.
You got to move your shoulders too to get that
head to turn around. But if you can, if you
can just sit there long enough, you'll see something that

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there's no way you've seen before.

Speaker 3 (01:17:57):
I almost guarantee it.

Speaker 4 (01:17:59):
You'll see something thing if you're looking closely enough and
sit there long enough that on any day you go
out into the woods, it'll be something you've never seen
specifically before. Make that bet you can sit in the
same stand six days in a row and see something
different every day. That's just that's how nature works. Everything

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keeps moving, Everything is fluid in nature. Nothing really gets stagnant.
If it gets stagnant, it gets killed and eaten. Typically,
So the animals are moving, the everything's moving. It really is,
and it's it's a fact. In case you can't tell,
I'm pretty fascinated by sitting in deer stands and whatnot.

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Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Bucks down South starting
to move, Yes, they are coming up in this next hour.
By the way, I'm gonna talk a little bit about
a little bit about golf. I had a good meeting
yesterday with Tommy O'Brien out at black He's got some
new technology he's working with and trying to get familiar with.

Speaker 3 (01:19:07):
That is boy.

Speaker 4 (01:19:09):
It's going to make his job as an instructor a
lot easier, and it's going to make it easier for
you and me to see exactly what we're doing when
we swing a golf club and then understand what he's
trying to tell us we need to do better with
a golf club, and it's instant feedback. It's using artificial

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intelligence in a good way, in a teaching way, rather
than some of the weird things that are going on
with artificial intelligence, and that'll be fun. I do want
to talk about speckled trout at some point too, because
everywhere I turn, every time I read something about trout
right now, every time I hear somebody talking about trout

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right now, it's all positive, and two years ago I
wouldn't have said that.

Speaker 3 (01:19:57):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:19:57):
There are some things going on, especially where people are
catching bigger trout, that I wish weren't going on right now,
Like there's still a lot of people fishing with croakers.

Speaker 3 (01:20:08):
I heard that from two different people.

Speaker 4 (01:20:10):
Earlier in the week and then again earlier this morning
with my friends down a dial, And that concerns me
that the people who fish with croakers won't give the
fish a break, even though we're all we're all in
this together to try and improve that fishery overall, and

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not only just in quantity but in quality.

Speaker 3 (01:20:35):
Throw a big, a big November croaker out there. You're
not going to catch a two pounder. You're going to
catch whatever the biggest trout out there is.

Speaker 4 (01:20:45):
These fish are these little bait. Fish aren't little anymore.
They're the length of your hand. And it takes a
pretty significant.

Speaker 3 (01:20:52):
Fish to eat one of those. And I hate that
we're targeting them. The only thing that's saving them is
that you can't keep them, and that I hope is
being that. I hope it's being adhered to.

Speaker 4 (01:21:03):
More and more people I know are doing this right,
so that encourages me.

Speaker 3 (01:21:08):
All Right, I got to take a break. Holy cow, I'm.

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Speaker 4 (01:21:24):
Holy cow, Elvin, this one went quick we've learned about
how to annoy people with choosing one dog over another.
We've already learned that that was an easy I knew
that was coming people who people defend their animals, They
really do. You know, people defend their animals, And I

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don't blame them. That dog of mine, he had his shortcomings,
and I would be it would be easy to point
them out, but I'm not going to because mostly I
just want to remember the good stuff that dog, which
was keep me from having to run through a bunch
of flooded bean fields and rice fields and corn fields

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and soybean fields and slash across ponds and water that
was too deep to wait out if I was only
in my hip boots that day. That dog saved me
a lot of time and trouble and and frankly, he
made a lot of money he did. That dog would
make retrieves that nobody believed he was gonna make. And

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I just bet with him when when he took off
and we saw the bird go down, like more than
six hundred yards away, they would just try.

Speaker 3 (01:22:39):
There's no way that dog's gonna find that bird. There's
no way he's gonna find that bird. Like you won't
put a little money on it, and they pull, yeah,
we'll take your tip money and we'll either double it
or leave it where it is whatever it was gonna be.
And I say, okay, I'm on it's it's double or nothing.
And might be five minutes, might be ten minutes later.

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But that dog dog would not come back without that
bird if he saw it go down.

Speaker 4 (01:23:03):
And you got to remember he's standing at dog ground
level too. He's not standing up five six feet watching
something sail over five rice levees. He just had a
direction and he would go out to that direction and
keep running until he crossed that scent trail. And then
that dog would run in a straight line forever, and

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then once he turned.

Speaker 3 (01:23:26):
It was over. They might as well just get their
wallets out. It was fun, man, it was fun.

Speaker 4 (01:23:31):
I had one disappear out of a flooded beanfield, or
not flooded but rain soaked beanfield where we couldn't walk
two feet without sinking up to our shins in mud.
And there was just one little spot out there where
I could set us up to really hunt it. And
that poor dog took off after a pintail that disappeared
not only out of the field, which was the edge

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of the field was about a quarter of a mile away,
and then it became like ten foot high brush, and
bo watched a pintail just kind of burn oil and
just sputter and flutter and got all the way out
into that high brush, and that dog disappeared. In long
story short, he was gone for a good ten or

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twelve minutes. And this one guy finally just said, Amen,
I think your dog's lost. And forgive me for repeating
this story, but he said, yeah, I think your dog's lost. Man,
Oh no, he's not lost.

Speaker 3 (01:24:24):
He's just trying to find that bird you didn't knock
down cleanly.

Speaker 4 (01:24:28):
And another couple of minutes past that, I was getting
kind of worried, honestly. And then out on the horizon
at the edge of that brush, right where he went
back into it, pops my dog and there's just this
little tiny black dot on the horizon. Then as you
got a little bit closer to look at you, Yeah,
I think he's carrying something.

Speaker 3 (01:24:49):
Yeah, there's a little white strip. Look at that. What
do you know? What do you know?

Speaker 4 (01:24:53):
It's the breast of a pintail. Drake way to go,
And he came back and that was the bird too.
It wasn't some wasn't something that was shot two days ago.
It was still warm when he brought it back. Pretty
amazing what they can do.

Speaker 3 (01:25:05):
And I'm not bragging just on my dog, just I
saw so many Labrador Retrievers make so many amazing retrieves
that you just never believed they were going to do it.
So that's my favorite dog overall. I've had a few.

Speaker 4 (01:25:17):
We had a beagle actually when I was very young,
and then a lot of our neighbors had beagles.

Speaker 3 (01:25:23):
I've had.

Speaker 4 (01:25:25):
Irish Setter, Golden Retriever, a couple of others. But that
dog Bow was He was my best, no question about it.
And he was a gift to me from a veterinarian
over in Friendswood many many years ago. The guy showed
up for a goose hunt and he had this It

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was at a time when I didn't have a dog,
and he had this jack rabbit on a leash just
a little just about a one year I think the
I think bo was about maybe fourteen months old when
when Doc brought him out and at the end of
the hunt, I said, what are you going to do
with that dog?

Speaker 3 (01:26:02):
Man? He said, I'm giving him to you, like, uh, oh,
so I got a dog.

Speaker 4 (01:26:08):
Now he goes yeah, and you might want to start
training him because he was a train wreck. He was
all puppy for probably the first well the rest of
that season. He would go retree birds, but he wanted
to show him to everybody in the spread. He didn't
want to just bring him back to me. And we
got over that, and over time he.

Speaker 3 (01:26:27):
Got really really good at going after the longest birds
first and then working his way back to the closer
ones instead of forgetting where the long ones were. He
learned a lot of that stuff just from experience because
we were popping and there were so many geese on
that prairie and those dogs had so much work to
do every day. Pretty fascinating. It really was. Oh, I

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want to get to golf. I do.

Speaker 4 (01:26:51):
I got out yesterday afternoon. I talked to Tommy O'Brien
at about noon. I was driving all over town picking
up these golf balls for the tournament, and and visiting
with Lori Carter at Carter's Country, and visiting with my
buddy David Preysler up at Oakhurst, and just making a
north side loop. I stopped in at Hyland Pines, hoping

(01:27:12):
to run into John or Baron, but neither of them
was there, and so that was still like going over
to that place. It's a pretty cool golf course as well,
but I didn't stay long, unfortunately, because neither of the
people I wanted to really visit with was there. The
bottom line is I did a lot of driving, and
in the meantime Tommy was doing he had some business

(01:27:33):
he had to take care of it. About two and
then I said, and he asked me if I would
meet him over there to test out some new technology
he's working with.

Speaker 3 (01:27:42):
And it's pretty cool, I got to tell you.

Speaker 4 (01:27:46):
It is a three dimensional program AI generated that allows
him to video a golf swing from just straight, just
head on. Basically, if he's just right across the T
box from you, and he videos that golf swing and

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then artificial intelligence turns it into a three D image
that can be viewed. It makes you look like a
little robot, really like a storm trooper. But what it
does is it gives him the opportunity to show you
from any angle what that swing look like. You know,

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typically you have to stand on the side to get
the side view.

Speaker 3 (01:28:31):
On the front to get the front view, put a little.

Speaker 4 (01:28:33):
Camera out there on a stick or whatever, and then
from behind if you want to see that view. But
this stuff, you can turn the little AI generated golfer,
which was you just a minute ago. You can turn
it to any angle you want and see shoulder rotation,
see hip rotation.

Speaker 3 (01:28:53):
It's it's pretty dog one cool. I gotta tell you.

Speaker 5 (01:28:57):
So.

Speaker 4 (01:28:58):
I'm working with him on his gain on that stuff.
And then he goes, oh, by the way, I know
why you're not making as many putts anymore. I said,
good lord, I'm thinking to myself, Okay, Tommy, you're gonna
do it to me again. Man, You're gonna just when
I think I'm doing something right and I just need
to practice it more. He said, what you're doing, you're

(01:29:18):
always gonna end up opening up your putter face. It's
always gonna want to open instead of just going straight
through the ball and thinking, oh no, Tommy, I don't
have time to learn something new before this tournament.

Speaker 3 (01:29:28):
Man, I really don't. But I'm gonna try because I
trust him and hopefully, actually we already tested it right
before dark yesterday. He kept me out there a long
time and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna turn down
advice from a guy I know he's really good at
what he does.

Speaker 4 (01:29:46):
So I've changed my entire putter grip. Wish me luck
at the tournament. We got to take a little break.

Speaker 3 (01:29:53):
Ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:29:54):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety, Houston's Sports Online at
Sports seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:30:00):
Back to the Doug Pike Show ninety twenty.

Speaker 4 (01:30:03):
On Sports Talk seven ninety, I was emailing my game
warden friend or texting my game warden friend because I
got news from him. I was concerned earlier, if you
missed it, I was concerned about my waterfowl stamp that
I hadn't seen yet, and I was thinking, oh gosh, man,

(01:30:25):
I've got a duck hunt on Tuesday, and I never
got my duck stamp. And rather than me try to
remember what he wrote, I'm just going to read you
what he wrote.

Speaker 3 (01:30:35):
And this makes it so so simple to understand. It's
a little bit longer than you might think, but I
want to in case you're wondering if you're ever going
to get your stamp and you don't know yet, if
you just went and bought your license and we're waiting
around for it, here's what he wrote.

Speaker 4 (01:30:51):
Good morning, Doug, Hope you're well. Here's a brief summary
on this year's federal duck stamp. The Duck Stamp Modernization
Act became law a couple of months ago, which would
have been when a lot of us were buying our licenses. Basically,
this will allow your electronic Federal duck Stamp Validation E
stamp on your Texas hunting license to be valid during

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the entire hunting season, and you will no longer need
to possess a federal duck stamp and signed while waterfowl hunting.
We're hopeful that this will occur for the twenty twenty
four to twenty twenty five season, but waiting for US
Federal Fishing Wildlife Service guidance on that matter. As planned now,
your physical federal duck stamp would be mailed to you

(01:31:38):
after hunting seasons are concluded.

Speaker 3 (01:31:42):
Hope this helps.

Speaker 4 (01:31:44):
So you still get your what is it thirty one
dollars stamp, but you don't get it till afterward. And
on the license where it says endorsements, down the row
there it says migratory birds, and then down the row farther.

Speaker 3 (01:31:58):
Is federal duck stamp. I think that's how it was worded.
I'm going to tell you exactly and that those endorsements
are right beside.

Speaker 4 (01:32:08):
Let's see where they are exactly, shows where I bought it.
Then it shows my name and address and all of that,
where your name and address are in big bowl letters
right adjacent to that. I'm hip certified, I've got chi.
I'm not sure what CH two four to three five,
whatever that means. And then the endorsements it says upland,

(01:32:30):
game bird, migratory, game bird archery, saltwater, freshwater, Federal duck
Stamp quantity one and then the expiration date, which.

Speaker 3 (01:32:40):
Is way you know, it's next year.

Speaker 4 (01:32:42):
So anyway, I hope that clears up some of that
concern that maybe one of you might have had, just
like I had, worrying about going hunting and not having
that dog on stamp that we've had to have for
what thirty forty fifty years now. The original duck stamp,
I want to say, costs either one dollar or two.

Speaker 3 (01:33:00):
I can't even remember. It's been so long now, but
it's sure as heck, wasn't thirty one dollars, which I
think it is now a man, this has been a
fun day. I want to go back to. I don't
know where to go back to. I'm trying to get
by the way. I'm gonna get a guy on the phone.
I'm not gonna be next weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:33:20):
I'm gonna take a couple of days for myself, a
couple of mornings next weekend and just kind of chillax
and maybe even sleep late. I'm taking all of next week,
the bulk of the Monday through Friday off for the
or the Thanksgiving holiday, and I'll probably do the same
around thanks or around Christmas time as well.

Speaker 3 (01:33:39):
But speckl trout. You want some of that speckl trout,
I'll talk about that some more, for sure. I have.

Speaker 4 (01:33:47):
I'm so, I'm just I'm not quite giddy with optimism
just yet, but I'm getting that way about what I
think is gonna be a better than expected winter of
trout fishing for big trout, and then on top of that,
a tremendous improvement in next year's springtime fishing and summertime fishing,

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followed if the weather cooperates all the way through, followed
by yet another really really good and even better big
trout season.

Speaker 3 (01:34:26):
I would like to see. I would like to see
a little less live bait pressure put on those big
trout by people who just insist on throwing crokers that
just keep getting bigger and bigger. I don't know if
they're having to pay more for six and eight inch croakers,
but that's not the summertime fish. The summertime bait fish

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are usually about four inches long, maybe five a big one.
That'd be a big one, a five inch croker, and some.

Speaker 4 (01:34:55):
Of them I've seen come out of buckets in boats
I've been on, are maybe three inches long, and that.

Speaker 3 (01:35:03):
That's just I don't know, that's just nothing me.

Speaker 4 (01:35:06):
If it's you, and if it's legal, which it is,
it's perfectly legal to throw crokers as baits live bait,
then I'm not gonna beat.

Speaker 3 (01:35:13):
You up over it.

Speaker 4 (01:35:14):
But I would would ask that maybe a little bit
less pressure be put.

Speaker 3 (01:35:19):
On on fish that you can't keep anyway, And so
why would you, well, you know, never mind, I can't.
It's it's tough because if I'm out there throwing lures,
first of all, my lures are going to have all
the barbs mashed down on the hooks so I can
get a big trout off easier, more easily then with barbs,

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and especially in wintertime when these really big trout are
eating plugs that have a couple of treble hooks on
them and opening their mouths widely enough to get that
plug way down in their throats. Those barblous hooks save
a lot of trout's lives. If you want to go
fish for them with crokers, that's fine, but just use
a circle hook or a kale hook or some sort

(01:36:07):
of hook with the barb mashed down. You're not going
to lose that many fish. You're really not. You're really not.
I can and I base that on probably a good
twenty years.

Speaker 4 (01:36:23):
Of almost never and I mean almost never throwing a
barbed hook. The only way right now or of late
of the past three years, that I'll throw a barbed
hook is if I have hastily grabbed a llure out
of a package and wanted to throw it, and then

(01:36:44):
halfway out on the first cast, I think, dang it,
I didn't mash the barbs on that thing, And as
soon as I get that cast back, I'll mash them down.

Speaker 3 (01:36:53):
But I don't play around on that.

Speaker 4 (01:36:54):
I really don't, and it's it's saved me a couple
of times from having to stop a trip, and I've
gotten email else forever from people who have said, thank
you for encouraging.

Speaker 3 (01:37:05):
Us to mash down the barbs on these hooks.

Speaker 4 (01:37:08):
I got a hook stuck in my fill in the
blank on a fishing trip to fill in the blank
wherever they were, and I didn't have to bail out
on the trip and go to the er for it,
or go to some emergency one of those twenty four
hour emergency centers for it. You just back the hook

(01:37:32):
out of there because there's nothing to keep it in there.
You back it out, and when you.

Speaker 3 (01:37:36):
Mash those bars, make sure they're mashed really flat too,
because if you've got a hook in you passed where
the barb used to be, you don't want any resistance
coming out of there. But even if you've mashed it
halfway down, it still gives you an opportunity to get
that thing out without having to shut the day down
and go back to the dock and get in your
car and drive to someplace it's got a big old

(01:37:58):
red cross on the sun, get your wallet out and
just tell them to charge you whatever they want, because
that's what they're going to do anyway, mash the barbs. Okay,
it's not gonna it's not gonna hurt.

Speaker 4 (01:38:09):
You, and it may save you or one of your kids,
or a family member or a friend from having to
shut her down, shut down an otherwise really fun day.

Speaker 3 (01:38:20):
All right, Uh, here's an email. I haven't gotten to
you yet, but I kind of want to because I
want to open it up and see what's going on.
It's going to be interesting. I'm sure one of my
neighborhood deer in San Antonio may not even be one
of the top five. Here, holy cal where do you live?
Who is this? Oh? My word, one of the top five?

Speaker 5 (01:38:47):
Not?

Speaker 4 (01:38:49):
This is a mainframe ten Okay, he's probably sixteen inches wide,
maybe seven nine, not seventeen. Maybe the g ones not spectacular,
maybe six inches, and there's a kicker off the right one.
The G twos are every bit of a foot, and

(01:39:11):
the one on the left side might be fourteen easily.
The G threes are about a foot a piece and
maybe a.

Speaker 3 (01:39:20):
Little bit more.

Speaker 4 (01:39:21):
And then beamlink is pretty darn good too, probably twenty six,
twenty seven.

Speaker 3 (01:39:29):
Yeah, that.

Speaker 4 (01:39:31):
Holy cow, wasn't expecting that big old bullneck on that
deer too. He's all rutted up, No wonder he's in
your backyard.

Speaker 3 (01:39:41):
What Bob want?

Speaker 4 (01:39:44):
Bob wanted to know if you knew of any manufacturers
that made a barblous hook. There are some fly fishing
manufacturers that make barbleous hooks, and they are popular in
some parts of the world, not not just neighborhoods and whatnot,
but some parts of the world, especially for fly fishermen

(01:40:06):
who are who are trying to catch bigger fish like
tarpin that have really hard mouths, and for bass fishing
this would would apply as well. Really got that big
hard mouth on that fish, and with a barb when
you try to set that hook into the bony part
of a fish's mouth, that barb keeps it from penetrating

(01:40:27):
very deeply.

Speaker 3 (01:40:29):
If you have a barbous.

Speaker 4 (01:40:30):
Hook and it's it's just a point like a needle
when you strip set that hook really hard into a
bony mouth of a tarpain or any other fish. I'm
just the one that comes to mind, the harder part
of that mouth. That thing wedges itself in a little
deeper and will hold in many cases actually better than

(01:40:53):
a barbed hook.

Speaker 3 (01:40:55):
That's something for that's something for the head scratcher.

Speaker 4 (01:40:58):
Some of these top water plug now that come with
circle hooks also not a problem at all. To go
ahead and mash the barb on a circle hook. That'll
snug it right into the jaw that fish a lot,
a lot better in many cases, even than a barbed hook,
where it just kind of gets halfway there and then
just stops and the fish shakes its head a couple

(01:41:19):
of times and it kind of gets loose. Circle hook's
really good, though. I got no problem with circle hooks,
but that they are harder to get out of the
fish's mouth, even if it's in the corner. And if
it's in that corner and that barb is in there
really good, and you're rooting around and digging it and
twisting it and all, you may jeopardize that fish's jaw

(01:41:41):
and make it and render it incapable of feeding properly.
So I'm one hundred percent for barbous hooks, and I
do everything.

Speaker 3 (01:41:50):
I carry plyers everywhere.

Speaker 4 (01:41:52):
If I've got a fishing rod, I've got plyers, and
I'm gonna mash those barbs down.

Speaker 3 (01:41:57):
I gave a guy some one of the kids in
one of the young guys who works out at Blackhawk.

Speaker 4 (01:42:02):
The other day, I gave him a pair of flyers
out of my bag because I had two.

Speaker 3 (01:42:05):
And when I go to home depot or if you
every now and then, you can find them at five below.
Are you? Are you?

Speaker 4 (01:42:11):
Especially if you're just for fresh water, just get a
bunch of them so if you lose them, you don't care.
And if somebody needs some and you have extras like
I do almost all the time, I got to I
gotta restock my spare plyers now for my little bass
lake bag I carry around. But anyway that just just
do that. I gotta take a break here, Holy Ca,

(01:42:32):
I'm running kind of late. Back to hunting for a second.
We are Sports Talk seven ninety. Are ready listen online
at sports seven ninety dot com. Now more Doug Fight
nine thirty eight on Sports Talk seven ninety. It's got
a text message for Matt's kat and that that technology
Matt's over at pair Land and that technology.

Speaker 3 (01:42:54):
Is called sports box AI. He has it as well.

Speaker 4 (01:42:58):
Matt's one of the best teachers and best players too.
Don't ever, don't ever let him get in your wallet
on that first tea box. You'll never get it back.
But yeah, and I was laughing. Send him back a
texta that Tommy keeps telling me that I need to
turn more at the top and I.

Speaker 3 (01:43:16):
Don't know if my bones will do that. I'm getting
like eighty five degrees. I mean, how much does he want?
I'm almost ninety. But I you know, that's gonna be
my next goal after I incorporate his whatever. That is?

Speaker 4 (01:43:30):
All right, let me go talk to faux Pro. See
what's going on with his golf game? What's shaking faux Pro?

Speaker 10 (01:43:36):
Hey, my golf game's about to get started off. My
buddy got picked up. I'll go pick him up next weekend.
Old baby got to learn where to put the batteries in,
how to get him sited in, and how do.

Speaker 4 (01:43:48):
Yeah, Matt, Yeah, I got news for you. You laugh
all you want, but golf is gonna humble you. I
don't care how humble you are. And you're a pretty
humble guy. You're a really really good fisherman. But golf
is gonna put you on your knee.

Speaker 3 (01:44:00):
Man.

Speaker 14 (01:44:01):
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:44:03):
I like challenge, so I do too, you know, and
go ahead.

Speaker 10 (01:44:09):
If I said, if I get you out there with
me this, I can ad some Hubert here to day at.

Speaker 4 (01:44:12):
Least, well, you know what, but you have the right
attitude about learning golf. There are a lot of people
who think, oh my gosh, I gotta get really good,
really faster. Nobody's gonna want to play with me. No,
as long as we're out there having fun, and you're not.
You're not making me wait fifteen minutes while you take.

Speaker 3 (01:44:28):
Fourteen practice shots and then line up, you know, line.

Speaker 4 (01:44:32):
Up three foot putts from all four sides of the hole. No, man,
we're gonna have a great time. We're just gonna bump
it around and see what happens. Because neither one of us,
in case you haven't looked lately, neither one of our
business cards says professional golfer on it.

Speaker 10 (01:44:46):
I ain't know, lie and the danger of me being
Sergio out there on a skeea box sometimes, Yeah, I'm
gonna be I'm more happy, deal more size, kim.

Speaker 3 (01:44:55):
Man, get out there and have fun and you know what,
yell else you need to do. It's one point find
somebody who can just find you just a bushel basket
full of old golf balls, because it's not gonna matter
what ball you're hitting for a long time.

Speaker 10 (01:45:09):
Oh yeah, I was gonna put fp on my ball
with the sharpie and I'll be I'll be dropping a lot,
but real quick on your guy that had called in
about uh, barbarous souks bass pro shops.

Speaker 3 (01:45:21):
I remember seeing them.

Speaker 10 (01:45:22):
They have a coma kotsu barbleous octopus hook, oh wow,
to escape barblous sook. And they have the old the
old eagle call barblous bait hoolder hook.

Speaker 3 (01:45:30):
Oh yeah. Everybody has them in their box. They actually
have those in barblous too at basketball. Wow. Man, that's good.
I did not know that. I knew they.

Speaker 4 (01:45:38):
I knew they had some little ones over in the
fly time area, but I'm glad to hear those bigger one.
And that's pretty good sizes on those hooks that they
have over there.

Speaker 10 (01:45:46):
The barbless Yeah, they got them up to like six
or seven hotline snapper fishing or something.

Speaker 3 (01:45:52):
So they go get some of those, man, I really am.
I'm like kidding you.

Speaker 10 (01:45:55):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:45:55):
I'm gonna put them on my my plugs, a lot
of my plugs, man, because it's just do you agree
with me on barbarous sooks. I know you man, you
got to yank those bass out of the brush and
all that stuff.

Speaker 10 (01:46:07):
Now on bass, you know, I'm still going to have
a hard time throwing that way, but I might and
do it, you know, on on certain bates, like it's
like a single hook base, like spinner based stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (01:46:19):
For sure.

Speaker 10 (01:46:20):
I've even went to two circle hooks on a crank bait,
which is something I learned from my buddy Mindy.

Speaker 3 (01:46:25):
I'm throw that crank bait and brush.

Speaker 10 (01:46:27):
But with my big flipping jig and deep hy drill,
I'm probably gonna stick with that bar. But you do
have me go into barbarous on my white bass. So
you did get me there, the boy. Yeah, let me
just ask you a question real quick, faux pro.

Speaker 4 (01:46:39):
When when I caught the biggest bass when we went fishing. Oh,
I'm sorry, I guess it doesn't matter what size it was.
I'm sure you've caught one bigger sometime. That was all
the pass of the day for sure. Well, I was
just bringing that up. It really didn't matter about the hook.
I just want to make sure everybody knew I caught
a bass bigger in yours that day.

Speaker 3 (01:47:00):
Oh definitely did that. Well, you know, but you know
why I caught that fish because you let me have
that have the cast into that spot. See, I know you,
I know how you work.

Speaker 9 (01:47:10):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:47:10):
You knew that I'm a generous guy. You know I know,
not a problem man. Anything else there? What about your ducks?

Speaker 10 (01:47:17):
Well, I went out yesterday and uh had some I
posted some pretty pictures.

Speaker 3 (01:47:21):
I never had a shot at a duck.

Speaker 10 (01:47:24):
But but but the thing about I went and sat
out at a big area for hoping to shoot a duck,
but really wanting to see where the flyways were, what
was there?

Speaker 3 (01:47:33):
What was flying?

Speaker 10 (01:47:35):
So I heard a big area yesterday had a several
groups of wood ducks and all went to the same spot,
the spot I'm going to go build the blind. Today
had two groups of mallards go in there. No big groups,
but you'll hear a big group is five or six ducks.
You know mallards. You know enough good a good shoot
for two people. But when I got up these ducks
with the lake clothes, these mallards like to get these big,

(01:47:56):
old long flats that you'd have to be out there
with the layout blind to shoot them. I'm too old
to walk that far and work that hard. So but
just see a few mallards, A couple of gad had
to gadwall that roosted one hundred yards from you, but
he got up and flew with him mallards instead of
coming to me.

Speaker 3 (01:48:11):
But wow, huldable ducks. But I wouldn't. I got a spot.

Speaker 10 (01:48:14):
I think I can go out and put me a
little bitch blind out there, and I think I've had
pretty good shoot, especially next stuff that comes in.

Speaker 4 (01:48:20):
So yeah, I'm going to be you know, I'm going
to have some time off here over the next couple
of months, so keep an eye on it. And if
you got a fun little spot up in the woods,
I might drive up for that.

Speaker 3 (01:48:30):
Man. That'd be kind of cool. That'd be great. My
good thing, my new job.

Speaker 10 (01:48:34):
I'm off from Christmas Eve through the new year, so
I'm only a bunch of time.

Speaker 3 (01:48:37):
I got a big slot right there.

Speaker 10 (01:48:38):
We're probably gonna go to South Texas and do some
shooting down there too, So good for you. But I'll
definitely if I fight a good hold as a burden,
I'll give you a call.

Speaker 3 (01:48:46):
Well, that doesn't matter.

Speaker 4 (01:48:47):
If laws, there's more than no birds is laws, there's
more than zero flying around I whatever. You know, we
just get out there and get in a place that
looks like a cool place to hunt ducks.

Speaker 3 (01:48:57):
And I'm happy as a little kid in the sand box,
you know. Oh yeah, we got there to shoot six
wood ducks. I'm a happy camper. Yeah they are. They're
pretty good looking to you. They're beautiful birds, man, damn.
And I think a widgeons every bit is pretty as
a as a wood duck. I really do. They're just
cool looking birds. Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:49:14):
The first duck we shot this year, full ottle, full plume, widgeon.

Speaker 3 (01:49:17):
They're pretty. I got I got one on the walls
from out of Golders.

Speaker 4 (01:49:20):
Yeah, I got, man, I got one standing up, and
they're they're just really pretty pretty. Big old male just
standing there, all right, I got a bounce, man.

Speaker 10 (01:49:31):
All right, buddy, you have a good one, and we'll
talk to you saying that.

Speaker 3 (01:49:33):
Yes, sir, tell tell your chef hello for me, will you. Yeah,
she's she's cooking.

Speaker 10 (01:49:37):
She's got breakfast coming out right now, taking an egg
and baking a ham and egg tacos.

Speaker 4 (01:49:42):
Man, come on, don't do that to me. You don't
even want to know what garbage I ate for breakfast
this morning. You brought it up, so I did, didn't
I Where you go? All right man, thank you everybuddy
audio all right, I'll see you.

Speaker 3 (01:49:56):
I mean, click that and we'll head to this last break.
Holy hell, man, how is this happening?

Speaker 1 (01:50:01):
Oh my gosh, your rockets and astros live here.

Speaker 3 (01:50:06):
We are Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:50:09):
The conversation continues this as the Doug Pipe Show.

Speaker 3 (01:50:14):
Four Talk seven ninety, and Melbourne reminded me that.

Speaker 4 (01:50:17):
This is the final musical rejoin we have here in
honest to god.

Speaker 3 (01:50:23):
Melbourne, I have no idea. So what songs have you
played today?

Speaker 4 (01:50:26):
Okay, we've played the Beatles, Come Together, Yeah, Tears for Fears,
Everyone wants to Rule the world, Okay, led Zeppelin, Good Times,
Bad Times, Eric Clapton, Lay Down, Sally Yeah, Roundabout the
Clash Rock the cast Bar, Eric Clapton, I shot the

(01:50:48):
cher die Straits, celtan A Swing and Die Straits Walk
of Life. Oh my word, drum roll. They're all songs.
I got nothing.

Speaker 3 (01:51:01):
What is that?

Speaker 4 (01:51:02):
They're all groups? Are artists from London, England? Oh come on, man,
what do I look like? Casey caseymar I had to
make it a little bit more than.

Speaker 3 (01:51:17):
The little one? Are they all born on the same street?
Oh my word, all from London. You know, there's only
one man who possibly could have gotten that, and he's
more of a golfer than an outdoorsman and may not
be listening this morning. And that's my friend John Paulis.
John is from London. I believe London. He's from England.

(01:51:38):
I know that.

Speaker 4 (01:51:40):
And yeah, that's the guy who right after Hurricane Beryl,
when I had nowhere to stay that wasn't one hundred degrees,
he said, man, just come stay at my house, Just
come on over. He and his wife and welcomed me
and their dog, Milly, welcomed me into their home even
after they had already taken in a younger couple who

(01:52:03):
they've known for a long time and their dog.

Speaker 3 (01:52:06):
So, man, yeah, I was camped out there.

Speaker 4 (01:52:09):
I want to say, God, I just I got in
his way and his family's way, four or five nights
in a row, I think it was. I don't remember
exactly before we got our power restored. It was eight
days before we got power restored, and I think I managed.

Speaker 3 (01:52:24):
We managed one night in the house. The first night
in the house. The second night it got.

Speaker 4 (01:52:29):
Unbearable and I was driving all over town trying to
find a hotel room By the third night I had,
I had made contact with another very good friend who
I don't see often enough, and I need to make
it a point.

Speaker 3 (01:52:46):
But who just he having to manage a hotel. I'm
not gonna forget the podcast by the way. Yeah, yeah,
you got three of them up Melman. And have we
changed the name of it yet? Believe Callum got it done.

Speaker 4 (01:53:02):
The name of these things is Things that Go Bang
and it's as you might suspect, it's gonna be about
guns and hunting. And we've already got nine episodes done.
Melbourne has put three of them up on Spreaker. Now,
So if I were to go to Spreaker and just
hit Things that Go Bang in the search bar, would.

Speaker 3 (01:53:22):
It come up? That's how you do it, Yes, because
I don't know much about pod, I.

Speaker 4 (01:53:26):
Believe, so don't quote me. Okay, Well, somebody can try it.
Somebody can test it out for us. And the ones
that we have in there so far, all nine we're
done with Billy and Arry, Billy Carter and Larry Holiday
from Carter's Country and they're all totally different and I
hope you'll listen to them.

Speaker 3 (01:53:44):
See what you think. If you've got a topic.

Speaker 4 (01:53:46):
You want us to cover, not just with them, but
anything having to do with guns in the shooting sports.
Let me know and I'll make it happen, because I'm
running running point on these things, and we're gonna start
doing some more. I've gotten more in the can. We'll
release one or two a week and see where she goes.
I think it'll be well received, I really do. I

(01:54:06):
like what we've done. That's it for now. I'll be
back tomorrow morning, bright and early, well not that early
at eight o'clock gentlemen's hours.

Speaker 3 (01:54:14):
I like to call him for more. We'll talk about golf, hunting, fishing,
all that good stuff. Ah Man, get.

Speaker 4 (01:54:20):
Outside, stay safe, enjoy this absolutely gorgeous day.

Speaker 3 (01:54:24):
Thank you so much for listening. Audios

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