The Doug Pike Show 11-24-24

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Doug Pike Show, brought to you by
American Shooting Centers Guns Shooting at Instruction since nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
I made it back into the room. I think, Melvin,
were you just standing up and go looking for me?
I was about I was so frustrated, man's. First of all,
there's no coffee. Second of all, there were about ten
things that went on. Then it almost made me late,
almost not quite, but almost made me late getting back

(00:34):
in here. We've got a busy day today. There's a
lot going on. I want to a couple of things.
I want to thank Rick Bison Alan yesterday for stepping
up and buying one of the teams for the Saint
Jude Tournament.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
That means a ton to me, it really does.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
And I greatly appreciate that we have maybe maybe six
or seven tops available right now, but portly. When I
took the reins of this tournament from a man who's
been heading it for ten years now, I told him
I would do that. When he asked, said of course,

(01:11):
of course, I'll do that. And I went in and
changed the goal and bumped it up a little higher.
I bumped it up a little higher and said, yeah,
we can do this, don't worry about it. And I've
seen that entire Saint Jude campus. That's why I'm so
passionate about those those little very sick kids, so so sick,

(01:32):
but with smiles on their faces, every one of them.
And I'm not going to go on too long right here.
I'll talk about it once or twice more. I want
to sell one more team, just one more. And I
know it's not inexpensive. I mentioned this to some friends
of mine the other day out at the golf course.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
And they said, oh, my gosh, that's a lot of money.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Well, how much do you think it takes to cure
a little kid who has cancer. You can't do that
with a snow and a TUTSI role you got to.
You've got to raise a lot of money to help
these kids.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
I do. That's what I'm trying to do now.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
So a team is five thousand dollars and there are
some sponsorships left that for ten thousand dollars. Not only
get you the team and the cool stuff that goes
with being a sponsor, this thing a lot of name
recognition and pats on the back and good things for you. Your corporation,
I believe can write all or most of it off.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
I don't know how the accounting works on these things.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
But additionally, our market president, the man who was the
prior head of this tournament, the man who passed the
range to me, offers a matching broadcast schedule. If your
company does any marketing and you want to help the
kids of Saint Jude and get whatever you put up

(02:55):
back in marketing to be used through the next entire
year on any of our six stations, well then get
in touch with me and I'll work it out for you.
I promise I will, and I'll be thrilled, and I'll
be forever in your debt, forever in your It might
even take you to go play golf. Maybe that would
be an incentive somebody wants to go ahead and buy
this other team. I'll add in a round of golf

(03:18):
for you and two friends back at either Golf Club
of Houston or or Blackhawk, either one. I'll personally come
out and play golf with you and two of your buddies.
If you want to get a team and do something.
Speaking of good guys, let me go get Rick Biss
on the phone.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Man it's early for you. No crows in the air.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
What hey, man, I'm a little out of breath. I
ran back up here in the truck so I could
call you early.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
I understand.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
I want to go back to the I want to
go back. I got to talking for it.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
All right, let's go.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Make them quick. The first one to go back to
yesterday when you were asking me about managing the deer
herd on a thousand and eighty.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, how would you what would the world be?

Speaker 4 (04:12):
Well, we talked about that, you know, maybe the first
year we don't shoot done by right? Well, okay, all right,
that's what I would do to what I said yesterday
is what I would do today. Yeah, okay, However, my
sons are grown. They have their own places to go

(04:33):
shoot boon and crucket butts.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, that's a good point.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
And I forgot yesterday. And my dear management plan to
remember all the dads that might be listening younger than me,
that have a son or a daughter eight or that,
and this is going to be their first deer hunt. Yeah,
every buddy, they've been looking forward to this. They can't wait,

(04:58):
they can't sleep. And now you're an deer stand and
my experience for what it's worth looking back for a lot,
I would tell those guys let them shoot anything they want.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeap that first one, that first one.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
First deer, when they turn it, look in your eye
and you look back and say, Daddy, can I shoot
that one? Give them the good combs up and let
them go for it. You know they'll never forget. No,
you can't shoot that one, or or Julie that I mean,

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that's just that's not that I don't like that, you
know what.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
I think The worst thing to say at that point
would be rick if so, if a kid looks up
and says, Dad, can I shoot that deer? The worst
thing I think you could say to a child at
that point, a young kid just getting into deer hunting. No, son,
that one's not big enough, because that kid wouldn't ask
if he didn't think it was big enough, if it

(06:06):
wasn't making impression on him or her?

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Is that right? And you feel like I'm close on it?

Speaker 4 (06:10):
I agree with you. Yeah, I remember that little young
spike we were talking about yesterday. Might be a trophy
in that little boy's.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Eyes exactly exactly, whether it's a trophy six or seven
years from Now, I don't care if that kid wants
to shoot that deer.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Tee it up, man, let's go.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
Here's here's the here's here's my suggestion for what it's worth.
And I'm not the smartest guy on brick in the
wallet and promise you. But here's what I would do
today if I was dealing with my kids back then.
And you know my two boys, they are rabid uh
Under and Fisherman. Oh no doubt, just no doubt about it. Anyway,

(06:53):
I would explain to them, Hey, if you see something
you want to shoot, you shoot it.

Speaker 5 (06:58):
Yeah, but remember.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
Now that you shot your first year, you are now
part of the big boy management.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yeah, congratulations, you just graduated.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
That's a very good way.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
To put it, and it makes it Honestly, I think
that would make them feel pretty special too, now that
you've got And I wouldn't say it, and just I
wouldn't tell them that before the deer hits the ground,
but very at some point, maybe the next day or
something like that, if they can we go hunting again.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Well yeah we can.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
But but now that you've gotten your first year, that
that wonderful little buck you took yesterday, Man, you're part
of the management team.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Now, so let's go out and look at that.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Well.

Speaker 4 (07:40):
I went in factor in yesterday thinking about younger dads
that were excited about their kids and their kids excited.
I wanted to clarify that let them, let them do it,
because I made a mistake on at least I had
with some guys that we had a bunch of boys,
and I screwed it up. In an older wiser man,
he came to me, put his hand on my shoulder

(08:02):
and says, you screwed that up, and I ain't never
forgot it.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Okay, Yeah, what's the other thing? Because I'm running.

Speaker 6 (08:10):
Fast out of time fast. I was setting around a
fire last night with a bunch of guys that I've
hunted with on and off ever since I've been honey,
and somebody asked me yesterday or last night, I.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
Said, what what? What's the What was the hardest thing
for you, uh, with your two sons raising them to
be great outdoorsmen and ethical hunters, et cetera. Cutter and
I had a quick answer, and I'm gonna I just
would like to share it. The hardest thing for me
was when I had the first time I had to

(08:47):
watch them ride off or walk in the dark to
a to their stand.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
I hadn't even thought about that yet.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
That's that one of them. When they walked out of
the dark. You know, you get on your news and
you just pray that they get their safe. They climb
up a safe and a cougar don't get them. But anyway,
I just wanted to share that.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yeah, who whoaah.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Thank you again for stepping up yesterday and getting that started,
because we got that team sold. And I know Alan's
gonna set up some sort of Ringer team.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
I know him.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
He's he's a pretty good player. He told me he
wasn't any good, and then we went and played golf.
He's pretty good. He comes from a family of golf
instructors and he's one too.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
Well, you tell Alan, and I really appreciated him stepping
up to it. I'm glad that we're partners, even though
we've never met and we probably never will. But at
the same time, I really appreciate what Alan did to
help help out. He helped you in the deal, He
helped me out, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
He sure did. He's helped us all man. Thank you, Rick,
Thank you for stepping.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Up, buddy. All right, Idios good man right there. He started,
He started the snowball.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Down the hill yesterday and it didn't take long, and
I just kind of felt like it wouldn't and I
was pleasantly surprised a little bit when it didn't take
nearly as long as I thought it might to get
somebody to jump in.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
And I'm so glad, I really am. I appreciate that,
both of you guys.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
And Alan, Yeah, Alan, just from the conversations we had
before we went and played golf together a couple of
weeks ago, just from those conversations, I thought, well, he's,
you know, he hadn't played in a very long time,
and he's just maybe he's gonna be pretty rusty, but
not a lot of rust on that swing of his.
And I got a hunch if he pulls a couple

(10:42):
of the ringers he was talking about pulling, I'm gonna
I'm gonna have a hard team time, my team and
I catching up to him.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
We'll have that.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
I'm pretty sure we're gonna have that same big giant
electronic scoreboard out there and iPads on which all of
the scores are kept in real time, so I guess
I'll be able to watch his red number get bigger
and bigger all the way around, while my pals and
I just get out there and we're gonna have fun.
And that's code for we're gonna do our best, but

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don't expect us in the winter circle. We're gonna I
feel like we'll finish respectably, but not in top contention.
And if we get lucky a couple of holes, maybe
we do, maybe we don't. If you want to join
us for that fund that's December nine, We're gonna take
up both courses up at Golf Clube Houston, both courses,

(11:34):
probably fill them both up.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
That's where we are. We're only a few teams from
doing that. Now.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
We've got a course and about seventeen sixteen holes all
taken care of now. And I would love to have
any of you out there who want to come on out.
And like I said, in addition to all the other
stuff that you're gonna get to, you and your team
will get to come play. I'll take you and two
other buddies, I'll take a threesome back out to go
play golf with me, either at Golf Club of Houston

(11:59):
or and don't try to get in my pocket either.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
I'm not.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
I'm not a rich man, and y'all will probably beat
me at golf, okay, so just take it easy on me.
We'll go ahead and have a good time. Seven one
three seven ninety. Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 7 (12:17):
Are sportstock seven nineties Houston Sports Where you go with
an iHeartRadio Now now get more, Doug.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Don't see that's all very good song.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
I used to listen to that a lot, with the
whole album on which that was originally produced, back when
there was vinyl and everything.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Whoa way back, vinyls made a comeback.

Speaker 8 (12:42):
Boy.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
If you got old albums out in.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
The out in the garage or the barn or wherever,
they may be worth something, who knows, depending on what
you have, of course, if you've got cow sils and
I don't know if you got bubblegum albums, I don't
think they're gonna be worth much.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
But some of the.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
True rock classics I would suspect would fetch a hefty,
hefty price. So thanks for listening through this really good
stretch of weather Boy. How hard has it been to
be outside the last few days?

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Huh? Pretty again today and tomorrow too? So just be ready.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
And if you're hoping, by the way, well the high
is it going to be back up in the eighties,
maybe eighty today, eighty three I think maybe tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
So it's not unbearable, but it's not freezing either.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
And if you're hoping for cooler weather over the holiday week,
and your wish is about to come true, another good
northern rolling through late Wednesday, maybe early Thursday. High Thursday,
sixty seven high Friday. The high Friday is expected to
be fifty six degrees high Saturday only sixties. And now

(13:54):
we're talking deer hunting weather right now. We're talking big
trout weather and goose weather and ducks. I got that
duck hunt coming up, man, I'm looking forward to it too.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
And the big trout weather thing.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
By the way, in about what time is at eight
twenty almost in about twelve or thirteen minutes after the
break at the bottom, we're going to talk to a
guy named Joe Proto. He guides down there. Captain Joe
Proto guides down around Port Mansfield. I saw a picture
a little kid with a giant trout and a giant smile,

(14:27):
and it was taken in Joe's boat and I got in.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Touch with him and got the story on the kid.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
And I'm actually going to try to get the dad
on there and maybe get his son on at some point,
probably not today, but I'll get that little boy on
here and let him tell his story. I suspect he'll
still be enthusiastic about it. When you hear the size
of the trout, I would have been too, Holy cow,
fantastic deal there. We'll get that done at eight thirty

(14:55):
and then I haven't checked hold on, let me check
my text messages. Trying to get Tom O'Brien to bounce
in now. I still haven't heard back from him. He
may be in church right now. We'll try to get
him to bounce in about maybe nine o'clock or so
and do something on this new gizmo that he showed me,
this new golf teaching gizmo. There's so much technology out

(15:17):
there in golf and in fishing everywhere, really in our lives,
I guess. Honestly, let's go talk to David for a
minute here.

Speaker 9 (15:25):
What's the up, David, Yeah, yeah, Doug, did you have
a chance yesterday to talk about that fatality hunting accident
then in South Texas?

Speaker 2 (15:33):
I did not, and I apologize for that. But let's
do it now.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
You got the background in front of you or do
you know it offhand?

Speaker 9 (15:40):
Yeah? The details won't be available until they come out
with him.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
Well yeah, yeah, I understand.

Speaker 9 (15:48):
But all that I've read was that it was a
dad that ended up shooting his twenty three year old
daughter and they were walking back to camp.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
Oh my, damn.

Speaker 9 (16:00):
It brings up the and this is a kind of
a you get different opinions on this, and uh, when
do you need to have your gunloaded?

Speaker 4 (16:12):
Uh?

Speaker 9 (16:13):
Do you need to have your gunloaded when you're welcoming
back to camp?

Speaker 10 (16:16):
Uh?

Speaker 9 (16:16):
Do you need to have it loaded? I mean, Doug.
As we get older, there's three little words that come
to mind mean a lot to you. And it's called
peace of mind.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (16:25):
And I've always followed the I wait until I'm in
my stand to load, my load my rifle, and then
before I before I start to climb out.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yeah, you just empty everything before you climb out of
a stand.

Speaker 9 (16:40):
I leave something, you know, leave some rounds in the magazine,
but the chamber is empty. Because but I was wondering,
didn't you say the one time when you were guiding
duck hunting. Did you say that you you told your
hunters to keep their guns unloaded until they were in
the blind, and then they unloaded them before they left.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Yeah, that was routine. Yeah, there was no reason to
be walking across a field with a loaded gun. The
hunt's over, either the hunt hasn't started yet, or the
hunts over if you're walking through the field in a
muddy rice field and there's no way you need one
and chambered up. I mean again, now, when when we
as guides would go out every now and then, we
would leave a couple of them in the magazine, is

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we weren't gonna if we were gonna shoot on the
way back, if there were a lot of birds trading
around low or something, or it was foggy, whatever, we
might want to shoot, but there was never anything in
the chamber.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
No way.

Speaker 9 (17:30):
Yeah. Well, I'm kind of a bad opinion too. I mean,
the peace of mind that I'm not going to injure
myself for anyone else means more, means more to me
than having a missed opportunity at a deer that I
really don't need. I mean, I don't need the meat.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
You're not gonna yeah, you're not gonna skip a meal,
you're not gonna win a prize.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Whatever.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
It just it's just a deer, and we Texas has
I don't know, six eight, ten, twelve million of them
running around.

Speaker 9 (17:59):
We're okay, yeah, yeah, it's anyway, it's a chat twenty
three year old. Oh man nurse, intensive care nurse.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Oh my god.

Speaker 9 (18:10):
But anyway, the details will be out in the Hunting
Accent more when it comes out earlier next year, and
I'll call you back about that time and give Yeah,
let's do that.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
You know, all you have to all you have to
do to understand whether or not you're you ought to
have a round chamber walking to or from the stand
when you're walking with somebody else, especially, is ask yourself,
what's worth more that deer that I might shoot might
not or the person who's walking with me. And if
you say it's the deer, you got bigger problems than

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we're talking about. But it's just that it's so simple
when you break it down that way, there's no reason
I got. I feel sorry for that guy, I really do,
but you know how also I feel how how I
feel about almost every possible hunting accident scenario is preventable,
and that one certainly was.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Darn.

Speaker 9 (19:02):
I always enjoy your show, Doug.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
Thank you, David, Yeah, I appreciate it. Man.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
Oh oh, what a sad note to start on. That
man's life just got changed forever. And I'm going into
a duck blind this week. I'm probably going to be
back in a goose field and not much longer after that.
And any of every one of these scenarios where we're
out there in the field with guns has to be

(19:28):
taken with one hundred percent sobriety and serious.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Forethought.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
Every step you take carrying a gun, it should be
taken with an unloaded gun.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
First. The only time I ever loaded a rifle was
when I was walking to a deerstand.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
Was when I got surrounded by coyotes down on the
som Burrito actually Bill Carter's place down there and the
Carter family's place down there now, And I literally was
concerned for my safety because these animals, they were closer
than I've ever been to coyotes and on three sides

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of me, and I didn't I didn't know whether they
were really that hungry or that stupid or what. But
I wasn't willing to find out without without getting in
a fight with him.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
There was no way I was gonna let them get it.
Get me.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
Let me go talk to Brandon before we get to
this break here. Brandon, what's up this morning.

Speaker 11 (20:26):
Buddy tonight?

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Thank you?

Speaker 4 (20:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (20:31):
You too, man, you too? What's on your mind? I'm good,
I'm glad. Did you hear the good news up? R Field?

Speaker 12 (20:43):
No?

Speaker 2 (20:43):
What about it?

Speaker 11 (20:45):
The name to Dyke and.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
I know it's a it's a Japanese air conditioning company
and they are on board I think until like twenty
thirty nine or something like that.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
Big deal, big deal. Man may.

Speaker 12 (21:06):
Actually this Rugos on the on the Temperatron.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
Is it up already? No, it's not. Okay, Yeah, I
was gonna say that would be pretty quick.

Speaker 9 (21:18):
The screen change.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, oh wow, wow, it'll be different.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
It'll be hard to say dike in Park or dyking
Field whatever it is park, I guess yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, now with the old in with the news.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
If there's there's nothing like change, and nothing's ever going
to not change.

Speaker 11 (21:41):
Yeah, but they're not going to do it this year.
They're going to do it this year.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
Well, I hope that the team I'm I'm I don't
care what they I don't care if they call it whatever,
call it Brandon and Doug Park, I don't care. Just
as long as they win, it'll be fine with me.
They'll still be the Astros and they'll still be winning.
You think they'll get back on a deeper run into
the playoffs this year?

Speaker 2 (22:09):
I think I do too. I do too.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
I was really worried last year with the start they
got off too, and I really don't think I can
take another start like they got off to this past season.
That was just that they left themselves too big a
hill to climb. And even though they got back into
the playoffs, they they were just beat up and torn
up and just didn't have it.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
This didn't have anything left in the tank.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
Man.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yep, it's too bad. Did you watch the Dodger game?
I did not. I did not.

Speaker 11 (22:42):
Dodger won the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (22:45):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm way back then. Yes, I'm sorry.
I was thinking about something recent. I didn't I didn't
know what it was. I thought i'd missed something. Brandon,
I thought I'd miss something.

Speaker 11 (22:56):
Yeah, all right, Porter hit above and why.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Into it up for day? Oh yeah, I saw that one. Actually,
I did. I remember seeing that. Hey, I got to run.
I got a guy.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
I gotta get on the phone from down in Port Mansfield.
All right, buddy, thank you. It's good to hear from.

Speaker 11 (23:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family too, Brandon Audios.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Buddy, all right, we got to.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Take a little break here on the way back, or
when we get back, I will well, Actually, Melvin's gonna
get Joe Pratdo on the line. By the way, I
have some news about our about our musical interludes, and
we're gonna make it fun to listen and pay attention.

Speaker 7 (23:39):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety on the go with iHeartRadio.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Friends. You've got to try. The conversation continues. This as
the Doug Pipe Show.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
Good song, all right, welcome back, thanks for listening. Starting
to do appreciate it. A song we're working up of
really good, a really good intro for what is going
to be a game that we're gonna play revolving around
these themed musical rejoins that Melvin's putting together. And we
got a sponsor for it. Boy, it's gonna be big time.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Melvin. This is gonna just shoot us straight to the top.
I just know it is.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
Can't wait all right now, Yeah, I'll smell a grammy.
We're probably gonna have to wait. Let me go talk
to Joe Proudo. I'll get him on the phone. Welcome board, Joe.

Speaker 11 (24:27):
How you doing, man, I'm doing all right.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
Yeah, a beautiful Sunday morning up here. Whatever plans you
got for today, I hope they include some time outside.
You probably spend as much or more time outside than
anybody I guess.

Speaker 12 (24:38):
Right, yes, sir, I think this year I'm on track
to do about two hundred and fifty days on the water.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
Holy cow, man, Good for you. Good for you.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
If I counted all the little bass fishing trips I
take on the golf course, I might have about I
might have about two hundred days, but they're not near
as exciting as yours.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
I can tell you that I have fish down your
way Port Mansfield.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
Guy.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
I fished down your way from from there all the
way back up toward Corpus a lot over the years,
mostly with my old friend Cliff Well. But then I
see this picture of a little kid on your boat
with this giant trout, and that's what spark sparked me
to call you. And I'm really glad. I did I am.
I'm kind of hoping you can share some tips on fishing.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Down that way.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
But before that, briefly tell the story of that little
boy in his big trout.

Speaker 12 (25:25):
Yes, I took Nick Terry and his son fishing. Yeah,
and his son is every bit of four feet tall,
maybe a little you know, a little little guy, eight
years old, sure, and went fishing.

Speaker 11 (25:41):
I took him out in the afternoon.

Speaker 12 (25:42):
They showed up, they drove down from Houston, and we
went fishing in the afternoon the first day. And this
is the day he caught these two fish, I mean,
giant fish. I'm standing next to him and I'm I'm
standing in knee deep water and he looks like he's
standing in almost chest deep.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Oh yeah, he's about topped out.

Speaker 12 (26:01):
Oh yeah, man, But he's a little guy, but he
fished really hard that day. And so yeah, we're throwing
mirrleure little Johnson about knee deep water for me.

Speaker 11 (26:11):
Yeah yeah, sure, he sticks his first fish.

Speaker 12 (26:15):
It comes flying out of the water and I'm freaking
out because I mean, eight years old, yeah, catching six
you know, twenty seven to twenty you know, a little
twenty seven inch trout that's like half his size, you know,
so that.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
That's a good point.

Speaker 11 (26:27):
Yeah, and then he does it again.

Speaker 12 (26:29):
He catches another fish that breaks that that fish's length.
Oh my, just not even an hour or two after that,
it was just incredible.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
What a day that he'll never forget that day. You know,
he's old enough that he will remember. They had no
doubt about it. Man, and you just you just made
that kid's whole fishing career. He'll he'll tell that story
in college sitting around drinking beers.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
He'll tell that as an old.

Speaker 11 (26:53):
Man to his groom and look like a raisin. I'm
gonna look like a raisin both.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
So I did want to pick your brain a little
bit on.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
Let's just start with kind of overall fishing this past
year and how optimistic or not you feel kind of
going into winter.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
How was twenty twenty four for you?

Speaker 12 (27:11):
Twenty twenty four has been great. Everything's been a little
late as far as weather. Okay, our water levels. Our
water levels this year have been extremely high. And I
don't know exactly what it is. I guess it's just
this time of the year. I mean, it's just a
different year, yes, But normally by this time it's a
little it's way colder than what it normally is. So

(27:32):
this year has been a warmer year and our our
water levels are still pretty dang high.

Speaker 11 (27:37):
So it's changed that it's changed. But twenty twenty four
was great.

Speaker 12 (27:40):
I did a lot of fishing out of the island
south padre Way South and you know a lot of
clients down there. But as far as being optimistic for
this next, you know, for this you know through twenty
twenty five, we're going to catch some giant crowd and
we've already been catching big fish, yes, sir.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
Looking back, looking back at the whole calendar, Joe, was
it was there a season or a month when something
really good or really bad stands out from all your
two hundred and something days on the water.

Speaker 12 (28:10):
I mean, this summer was great, you know, fishing on
the island, you know, coming into uh, coming into fall
and and and now coming straight into winter.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
Man.

Speaker 12 (28:19):
As far as something good happening, I mean, are bad happening?

Speaker 11 (28:22):
Nothing really?

Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (28:23):
Nothing really.

Speaker 12 (28:24):
The best thing that happened to to our bass system
is that three fish limit change.

Speaker 11 (28:28):
I mean, yeah, it had made a big difference.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah, there's no and.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
It's it's already you're you guys are already, the guys
that are all the water all the time are already
kind of seeing the benefit of that.

Speaker 11 (28:38):
Aren't you, Yes, sir.

Speaker 12 (28:41):
I mean there was a little bit of pushback when
it first happened, you know, from from some of the
guys that throw live bait, and and that's and you know,
that's understandable because a lot of a lot of the
clients want to catch, you know, their limited trout. And
that's important, you know, for that's important for fishing guys.
And I and I stand, I stand right there with everybody,
you know. I know everyone you know kind of against

(29:01):
live bait and stuff. But when you have little kids
and stuff, and and maybe people that have, you know, disabilities,
and live bait is is an excellent form of fishing
for people. Everybody knows how to throw a lure, sure,
or wants to throw a lure, you know. But uh no, this,
this next, this next twenty twenty five is gonna be
one for the books. I'm already catching big fish and
it's not even that cold.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
I know.

Speaker 11 (29:23):
I'm ready for them.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
Boy, you want cold, wait till next week, Joe, You're
gonna get some. We've got ready for man, we got
a couple of days up here. I think it's next
Friday or Saturday. That the high is only like fifty
six something silly like that.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
So you're gonna get so.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
Captain Joe Prado on the Doug Pike Show, let's dial
down a little bit when you get away from the
dock and back to more or less where the area
you want to fish this time of year?

Speaker 2 (29:47):
What are you looking for?

Speaker 12 (29:50):
I'm I'm looking for bait, and of a certain size
is important if you're fishing, and I mean if you're
if you're driving around, you stop and the water's dirty
or whatever, it's windy day, and you stop and you're
seeing big old horse mullet and stuff like that, you're
not really looking.

Speaker 11 (30:08):
I'm not really looking for that.

Speaker 12 (30:09):
I'm looking for bait jump in that's maybe about finger
finger to a little bit bigger than finger. You find
that smaller bit, you know you'll find them because those
fish want to eat something easy, you know, and and
they want to eat something. I mean, yeah, you know
you'll have the big trout eat giant horse mullet or
whatever and kill themselves and choke out. But it's rare.
Those fish are smart and they don't want It's like

(30:30):
taking a bite of food. You know, you don't want
to take the biggest bite of food. You can choke,
you know. So these fish they hang out with those
finger sized to you know, a little bigger than that
size mullet and uh and they And I'm also looking
for grass and fishing on over grass this same year
and spotted grass, you know, lots of little areas with

(30:53):
spotted grass and the hang and ambush points.

Speaker 11 (30:55):
Sure, I'm looking for.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
Can you do me a favor and sit through a
quick commercial break so I can come back because I
got another half a page of questions.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
I want to ask you. Man. Definitely you got that.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
Thanks you Okay, I'm gonna put you on hold, and
when we get back, we're gonna continue with Joe Prado
from down there in Port Mansfield.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Why would he meant you?

Speaker 3 (31:15):
I'm glad he doesn't have something to do, something more
important to do, like maybe go fishing.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
Boy.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
If I was a fishing gud, I'd be itching to
get out there this morning.

Speaker 7 (31:23):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety online at Sports seven
ninety dot com.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
Now more Doug Fight.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
All right, Welcome back to Doug Pike show on Sports
Talk seven ninety got Joe Prodo on the line. He's
been patiently waiting miss sharpening hooks or tying knots.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
Or what Joe.

Speaker 12 (31:42):
Ah, No, I'm actually I'm already ready to go. I
gassed up and everything. I actually have an afternoon fishing
trip to such.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Oh good for you?

Speaker 12 (31:50):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Are you seeing more of that?

Speaker 3 (31:52):
Do you see more of that down your way, especially
since it's a little bit farther drive maybe from Houston, Or.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
Are you just half a day in the afternoon? Is
that something you book a lot?

Speaker 11 (32:03):
Well? I actually have clients that have houses on the island.

Speaker 12 (32:06):
Oh this afternoon, I'm taking Fabiana and her and her
husband and they they actually actually live on the island,
So yeah, no, they're local people. A lot of my
clients that are coming down to wadefish are from Houston,
San Antonio, Corpus do other different spots up north. But
I do take some people that are out of state,

(32:27):
but it's generally in the summertime.

Speaker 11 (32:29):
But I see the people that are from out of state.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's a vacation fishermen there, Yes, sir, I
gotta hunt. Your winter sticks are a lot better than
your summer sticks.

Speaker 12 (32:38):
I'm just saying, oh, yeah, that's that's a definite fact there.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
So let's let's get back to where we were. When
it comes to finding fish.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
What's the biggest mistake recreational fishermen make down in your
neck of the woods.

Speaker 12 (32:54):
The biggest mistake probably probably fishing.

Speaker 11 (32:59):
Where there's a lot of people.

Speaker 12 (33:01):
Oh god, yeah, Well there's a lot of pressure. So
a lot of people when they go fishing, they take
their boat out.

Speaker 11 (33:07):
They don't use it often.

Speaker 12 (33:09):
They use it, you know, maybe once once a month,
if you know, if they're lucky. You know, a lot
of people buy boats and they shouldn't even they don't
even really use them.

Speaker 11 (33:17):
But yeah, what a lot of mistakes that.

Speaker 12 (33:19):
I see, you know, weekend warriors or people that fish once,
you know, once in a while.

Speaker 11 (33:23):
Fishing is they follow other boats.

Speaker 12 (33:26):
And when you do this, all you're doing is fishing
at a high pressure area. Sure, you want you want
to you want to fish on your own terms, away
from people.

Speaker 11 (33:35):
I myself like to go away from everyone.

Speaker 12 (33:38):
I'll see where everyone's at and I'll find some other area.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
And I'm with you on that pressure.

Speaker 12 (33:43):
Pressure equals more bites, and that's and that's one hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
True, no question about it.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
Yeah, these are people a lot in a lot of cases.
I'm kind of tongue in cheek on this, but they
never catch any fish. So they're going to follow a
bunch of other boats and make sure nobody catches any fish.

Speaker 11 (33:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (33:58):
And then and then once you have boats all in
one area, a lot of people don't Most people don't know.

Speaker 11 (34:04):
The etiquette, so they'll run right.

Speaker 12 (34:06):
That's on you too, And and and that comes with
time and and and learning and and fishing.

Speaker 11 (34:13):
For you know, a bunch of times and understanding and
getting yelled at obviously.

Speaker 12 (34:17):
I mean, we've all been yelled at further boater and
that's just that's just the way it is.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
God it it didn't have to be that way.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
But fishermen they are kind of protective now that everybody's
got every spot on every map. Uh, Yeah, they can
be pretty protective if they find something they really like.
And as long as we're on that, what about I
want to ask, what's the biggest mistake they make? And
I hope I know the answer to this. With the
gear they bring onto your boat to go catch trout and.

Speaker 12 (34:45):
Redfish, oh man number one number one mistake is bringing
a damn.

Speaker 11 (34:51):
Lure that looks like it has ebola or rusty. You know, rusty.
You know rusty.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
You don't like rusty hooks?

Speaker 11 (34:57):
Do yours? Doesn't work?

Speaker 10 (35:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (35:00):
I mean they you know, they they put all their
gear away. You know, some of my clients will put
all their gearaway in their damn box.

Speaker 12 (35:06):
And I'm looking at their box and it looks like
it's rough city, And oh yeah, you guys can wash
your wash your lures and let them dry out and
then put them back in the box after you're done,
and that that keeps from that.

Speaker 11 (35:18):
Rust from coming.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
Especially.

Speaker 11 (35:20):
I'm actually sponsored by a company and custom.

Speaker 12 (35:22):
Quirky, and they and they switched all their hooks out
on their lures to the red hooks. With the heat
they're they're way less likely to rust because they're covered.

Speaker 11 (35:31):
In that that red paint.

Speaker 12 (35:33):
The buying lures that have painted hooks.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
Not a bad idea at all. What about the roger
and reels I had?

Speaker 8 (35:40):
I have.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
I've got one of my son's baseball friends and his
dad and body us to go fishing. And I went
with them. Actually I haven't been my son has with them.
And then I jumped them into one of my guide
friends up Here's boats, Mike Catchiatti and Mike flat out
and told them she, y'all, stuff is too heavy. You
can't feel bikes, you can't feel the law, you can't
field anything. And they they took his they took his

(36:03):
advice and have changed it dropped down. I'm guessing because
a lot of people, especially the tourists in the summertime,
when they think they're going fish in saltwater okay, and
they may catch a monster, they may catch a hundred
pound fish, so they're geared up for one hundred pound fish.
But it makes it almost impossible to fish for two
and three and five pound trout, doesn't it.

Speaker 12 (36:23):
Yeah, well do Generally when my clients show up, I
have the I have gear that I can provide for
the Yeah, probably good idea and I recommend.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (36:32):
Well, there's a good company that sells rods, you know,
in various price range.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Sure it's water Water, Yeah, water Lake.

Speaker 11 (36:39):
Sure they have.

Speaker 12 (36:40):
They have rods from anywhere for one hundred dollars to
up to five hundred dollars.

Speaker 11 (36:44):
It just depending on your price range. And the one
hundred dollars rods are the ones that I use for
my clients.

Speaker 12 (36:49):
They're spinning rods of phantom rods. They're fine, Yeah, they're fine,
They're just fine. You don't need the most expensive rod
to fish for for you know these fish down here.
But I will say the more expensive the rod, the
more sensitive your rod will be. Yeah, and you know
as as to feeling the bite and stuff like that.

Speaker 11 (37:07):
So I use a rod raining in like the four
hundred dollars range for.

Speaker 12 (37:10):
Myself personally, But I honestly fish in my clients spinning
rod sometimes and I really don't notice all that much
of it did not except for maybe just a little
bit heavier, a little less sensitive.

Speaker 11 (37:22):
But man, all around, water rods probably, Yeah.

Speaker 12 (37:26):
They sell the most the best range of rods as
far as price goes, and good and feel.

Speaker 11 (37:32):
I love water. That's what I use.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
One of the things that I tell people who ask
me about what golf clubs to buy, or what fishing
rods to buy, or something like that, should I buy
that that nine hundred dollars fishing rod, Well, until you
can tell me what benefit you're gonna get out of
changing from what you're throwing out of that rod, you're
not ready for that rod.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
That makes sense exactly.

Speaker 12 (37:53):
It all comes with time and your skill level change.
And the reason why I use an expensive rod is
because I'm on the water every day.

Speaker 11 (38:00):
I'm fishing for the fish. You know, job, I'm fishing. Yeah,
it's my job.

Speaker 12 (38:04):
And I wouldn't own half the crap I own if
I wasn't a fishing.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Yeah you would, Yeah, you would. You like fishing too much.
You can't fool me, Joe Brodo. All right, let's let's talk.

Speaker 3 (38:19):
About the trout this this winter coming up, and I
want you to put on get out the crystal ball,
and we're gonna go forward three winters with no major
winter weather. I'm not gonna say the word that triggers
it all, but three winters. We have three winners with
no problems. What's that? What's that trout fishery look like?

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Now?

Speaker 10 (38:46):
Dude?

Speaker 11 (38:46):
We will have Magala? Don will.

Speaker 12 (38:51):
She already lives in our base system. I promise you
she's still she's here. But we're gonna have a lot
more abundance of of of of longer fish for class fish.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (39:02):
The limit changed from fifteen to twenty inches with that
tag over twenty eight I believe the tag is for
over twenty Yeah, that's right, but I think three years.

Speaker 11 (39:13):
Of nope, you know, you know, say the word. I
know that's a big word. None of that.

Speaker 12 (39:18):
Happened, and we have some stellar, a stellar fishery that
that probably will be rivaled, can't be rivaled down here.

Speaker 11 (39:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 12 (39:28):
If they've changed the limit of the limit changes as
extended past the land cut or whatever, but if they
should really think about doing that up there too.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
Do you think there's a three footer out there somewhere?

Speaker 12 (39:41):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, definitely. She lives in a lot.
She probably lives in Padre. I think the biggest spectral
trout lives either in South Padre Island or somewhere.

Speaker 11 (39:51):
In the land cut. There's there's a big one.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
Yeah, there's some hogs in the land cut. Man, holy cam.

Speaker 11 (39:56):
Yeah, I'll the South Padre Island, but I'm not going
to say where. But I know that there's a giant.

Speaker 12 (40:01):
No, I understand a little bit that's across in the line,
but I know that there's a trout that's.

Speaker 11 (40:06):
A monster lives in southoder Island.

Speaker 12 (40:10):
Just one no, no, no, there's multiple fish didn't live
I'm just kind of d one lives in South Podra Island.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
Oh my gosh, I'm I'm really excited with this, this
lure or this rule change. I am as well. I'm
right alongside you on that. We got to get together
at some point. Man, If you ever come up this way,
let me know, I'll buy you lunch. If not, if
I'm down that way, I'll call you and I'll buy
you lunch down there somewhere.

Speaker 12 (40:36):
No, I just appreciate the opportunity. Man, Thank you so
much for letting me coming.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
We stay in touch, Joe, seriously, stay in touch, and
let's try to do this more often than once ever. Okay,
give me some contact info so people can call you
if they want.

Speaker 11 (40:51):
To a So my number is nine five six three
five seven thirteen oh one.

Speaker 12 (40:57):
And if you ever want to get down here and
fish anywhere from port Man to South Auder Island, I'll
be happy to take you fishing.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
Thanks man.

Speaker 3 (41:04):
All right, Joe, it's good to make the acquaintance and
we'll definitely be talking again.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
Thank you man, Thank you, sir, Yes, sir, my pleasure. Audios.
All right, I gotta take a little break here.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
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Speaker 2 (41:25):
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Speaker 3 (41:31):
On this beautiful Sunday morning, I need to get out
there this afternoon at least, and.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
I gotta work on my game. I'm getting ready for
the same Jude tournament. It's coming up.

Speaker 3 (41:41):
It's coming up fast, and I'm not going to get
to play golf tomorrow. But I think I am going
to get to work on my game some. And the
guy I've been working with a little bit or a
lot lately, he pulled me under his wing, is trying
to help me out. He's driving me crazy too, because
I thought I could play golf, and now he's teaching
me to play better.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
Tommy, Oh, what's up, my friend?

Speaker 10 (42:00):
How are you?

Speaker 4 (42:00):
Doug?

Speaker 10 (42:00):
You play golf a lot.

Speaker 5 (42:02):
Better than you. Ellude?

Speaker 2 (42:03):
So doing Lord?

Speaker 10 (42:04):
I hopeful listeners don't believe that because he's trying to
shark you.

Speaker 5 (42:07):
Guys. Don't let him pull that crap on you.

Speaker 3 (42:09):
Thar right, Tommy, Oh, Brian, So tell me about this
AI generated gadget that you showed me the other day.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
Tell the audience about it. I've seen it. It's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
And you know who, Matt Skadden jumped in when we
were when I mentioned it, I think it was yesterday
and he said that he has that stuff too and
he loves it.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
So talk about what that is.

Speaker 8 (42:29):
Well.

Speaker 10 (42:29):
Over the last few years, I've been hooked up with
a guy named John Sinclair. He was actually a beta
tester for AMM and it's advanced motion measurement.

Speaker 5 (42:40):
It's three D measuring of a golf swing essentially.

Speaker 10 (42:43):
And the machine you've got is what people have seen
where you put this suit on, it's got the sensors
all over you looks like you're trying to shoot a
video game or something that measures every matric you can
think of in regards to your body, hands, arms, leg
so on and so farth Right there.

Speaker 5 (43:00):
That obviously isn't going to happen.

Speaker 10 (43:01):
I'm not going to put that machine into my teaching
studio right there. But Sportsbox AI has come out with
an app that literally I can take a slow motion
video of your swing and it can turn it into
one of those robotics stick figures and give you all
the metrics that you need. Really you kind of simplify
it in relation to your chest and your pelvist measurements.

Speaker 5 (43:24):
And the nice thing is.

Speaker 10 (43:25):
It takes all the research that AMM did and it
integrates it.

Speaker 5 (43:29):
Into the system so you can look at it.

Speaker 10 (43:31):
And compare where your student's motion is in comparison to
the PGA tour. For the most part, they've got a
standard deviation for each level measurement right there, and you're
within a range, it'll highlight green, and if you're not
in a range, it'll highlight red, or if you're close
to the range, it'll highlight yellow.

Speaker 5 (43:47):
Things of that nature.

Speaker 10 (43:48):
That really phenomenal stuff for a teaching pro to have
and to work on.

Speaker 5 (43:54):
I mean, I know that surgeons.

Speaker 10 (43:57):
Today use all kinds of guidance systems. I mean they're smart,
smart men and women that do these surgeries, but they
have guidance systems all the time to kind of supplement
what they're doing in a case and help them do
it faster, get results quicker.

Speaker 5 (44:10):
So that's kind of what this is to the to
the to the golf world, is that it's a system
of really helping you to pinpoint what's really wrong. Sometimes
you can't quite see it.

Speaker 10 (44:19):
In two D and then you have it in three
D and it's it's phenomenal right there. Plus it's quantitative
and it gives the student an actual physical number and
you can see yourself.

Speaker 5 (44:28):
Improving throughout a lesson right there.

Speaker 10 (44:31):
And with sports box, I can even give them drills
and whatnot and email it to the mean, really fascinating
information right there.

Speaker 3 (44:38):
Yeah, you know what I like about that stormtrooper looking
a little figure that shows how I'm swinging the most?
You want to know, I don't, I don't please, I
don't have a belly on me on that storm trooper.
If that's a rendition of me, I'm looking pretty good.
I gotta tell you, man, it.

Speaker 5 (44:57):
Looks really really good.

Speaker 10 (44:58):
It'll make you feel good about yourself, will, That's for sure.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
So now I'm gonna have that. I gotta come.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
Let's get off of that for a minute, and let's
talk about putter grips, because I thought I had a
pretty good putter grip and you got me.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
Now I feel like a press on my poor.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
Hands that they hurt from having to use this new
grip you taught me.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
But talk about why that was important for me.

Speaker 10 (45:24):
Okay, if we talk about just golf, shots in general
of entistraight shot because you've got draws and you've got fades.

Speaker 5 (45:31):
Okay, in your mind and the listener's minds, what would
roll the ball better? A hook or a slice? A
hook would Okay, you had a slice grip on your putter,
your right hand, because your left he was turned completely
underneath the putter right there. And again that.

Speaker 10 (45:48):
Promotes the face opening up as you go through hitting
up on the ball too much.

Speaker 5 (45:52):
So one and so forth. And when I was watching
you putt the other day, your ball was hopping off
the face.

Speaker 10 (45:57):
And so we want that ball to roll as smoothly
as possible off the face. So by getting your hands
turned around more to you know your you're.

Speaker 5 (46:05):
Left, okay, my right, you're left, All.

Speaker 10 (46:08):
Of a sudden, it made that ball roll so much better,
kind of like a hooking it on the ground, if
you will, made it roll so much better. So now
you're your feel is better. And importantly, the ninety percent
of putting.

Speaker 5 (46:20):
Is the face of impact. So if you don't have
a square face and impact.

Speaker 10 (46:24):
You're you can make a figure eight for a stroke path,
but if you don't have a square face of impact,
you're in trouble. You know, that's the most important piece there,
and that's what that grip was designed to do, not
to mention in your case, give you better, feel much
better feel.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
A reverse overlap.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
This sounds like something a cowboy would do on a
bucking bronco or something.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
You sit you down?

Speaker 3 (46:47):
No, I mean, yeah, what how much more complicated could
it be called?

Speaker 2 (46:51):
But once I got.

Speaker 3 (46:52):
My hands on there, and once I understood why we
were doing that there, there is a different feel of
the ball coming off the putter face.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
There's no question about it. It feels smooth.

Speaker 10 (47:03):
I may have to yes, yes it does, and probably
over ninety percent of the tour, both tours men's and
women's tours, will use that grip. I do encounter people
that kind of have a version of their full swing
grip on their putters, and really the greatest putters of all.

Speaker 5 (47:18):
Time have had a different grip. They've had a putting grip.

Speaker 10 (47:20):
It's important to do that if you want to get
the most out of your putting stroke. The objective, you know,
is a little bit different with.

Speaker 5 (47:25):
Putting versus a full swing, So we should have a
grip that's gonna kind of cater to that.

Speaker 3 (47:31):
You spend a lot of time watching people practice on
their own. What is the biggest mistake people who make,
who are putting, who are practicing their putting, What is
the biggest mistake they can they make?

Speaker 2 (47:43):
And how could that be fixed?

Speaker 10 (47:47):
I think the biggest thing with practices in general, Doug,
is you know my.

Speaker 5 (47:51):
Good friend Jim Hardy, Yeah, hit me.

Speaker 10 (47:53):
Over the head one day and said, hey, dummy, you know,
practice like you play.

Speaker 5 (47:57):
People don't practice like they play. Meaning, take a.

Speaker 4 (48:00):
Pot, hit a putt, Read the pot hit it.

Speaker 5 (48:02):
Read the pott hit it, Read the butt hit it.

Speaker 10 (48:04):
I mean, people wonder why they can't perform when they're
actually playing golf, because they don't actually work on playing
golf while they're practicing. Great Van Hogan back in the
day when he would hit balls for eight hours a day,
You tell people he would play.

Speaker 5 (48:18):
Golf courses in his mind.

Speaker 10 (48:19):
So he was obviously going through his routine, hitting shots,
imagining pen placements.

Speaker 5 (48:24):
So on and so Forthworth, There's the.

Speaker 4 (48:25):
Same thing with putting.

Speaker 5 (48:26):
All you have to do is set the ball.

Speaker 10 (48:27):
Up or eat it like you like you live when
you're on the on the golf course, and putt it
and then importantly move on to another pot because you
don't get that same putt twice right, right, that's a
very golf and to see really yeah, to simulate golf
and to see how you really are putting, you need
to you need to to actually hit different potts on
a regular basis. So sometimes you do want block putting

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where you just sit there and you work on your
stroke for ten, fifteen, twenty pots.

Speaker 5 (48:52):
From a from a straight location.

Speaker 10 (48:53):
But again, the biggest thing with practice in general, just
not just putting it with all of it, is is
to actually practice like you play. Like when I hit
golf balls and we're out there together on the range,
I'm hitting balls. If you notice I don't have my
bag with me on the range, I leave it on
the golf cart a good twenty steps away. I'll sit
there and I'll hit a club, look through my routine

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each time, and then when I change clubs, I walk
over to the cart, I come back so on.

Speaker 5 (49:18):
So I'm trying to create and simulate golf as much
as I can because as a golf professional at a club,
as a golf version.

Speaker 10 (49:27):
At the club, you know, we get called to play
with our members on a regular basis. On a whim,
like no time to go warm up, no time to
go do this or that or whatever. So my routine
has to be set so that I'm comfortable even when
I haven't hit one golf side with a member before
I've gone out.

Speaker 3 (49:41):
I wonder why you were doing it. I thought you
were practicing cart path only golf. That's what I figured.

Speaker 10 (49:45):
Yeah, that's what it looks like, right, you know, years
ago to do that.

Speaker 5 (49:52):
I'm like, it made sense.

Speaker 3 (49:53):
Yeah, it does the thing I do, and I don't
do it often enough, and I'm going to incorporate it again.
I I used to do it a lot more than
I do now. When I'm practicing on the range, I'll
pull drive. Once I get up to full swings with driver,
I'll pull the driver and I'll look down there and
find two flags that are about thirty yards apart or
so and hit the driver to try to get it

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right between them.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
That's my fairway.

Speaker 3 (50:16):
And if I hit it well, I'll choose a flag
that's maybe one forty to one sixty away from me
and try to hit it with something else. If I
don't hit the ball well, or if I push it
off into the woods. If I push it off left
or right of one of those markers. I might envision
chipping back out and moving something around a tree.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
I do that a lot, so I'm pretty good at it.

Speaker 3 (50:40):
But yeah, I'm going to go back to playing holes
on the range, and I think it accomplishes two things.
One it's more like golf, and two it actually takes
a little time between shots where you don't look like
a machine gun out there just blowing them down.

Speaker 5 (50:55):
Hey, that is the exact word.

Speaker 10 (50:57):
I mean, we don't want a Tommy Gun out there
practice and whatnot, because.

Speaker 4 (51:00):
We don't need a name.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
That's your new nickname right now. Yeah, you did it,
you started it. I like that though.

Speaker 10 (51:11):
Yeah, I was my I was blessed my dad with
the team din from Houston Rocket until about two years
ago we got to play.

Speaker 5 (51:17):
Some golf with coach McHale about nice. He used to
call me Tommy Gun, and I'm like, I loved it.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
It was great.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
Yeah, well it's coming back, man, and the farther farther
away I am. When I'm walking up and I see
you the louder, I'm gonna holler it all right.

Speaker 10 (51:31):
Okay, so that's great what you do with your practice
scene that's good stuff.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
Yeah, what's the takeaway?

Speaker 3 (51:37):
What's the takeaway that anybody who's kind of just getting
into golf for maybe is a halfway into it. What
can you give them to make them a little more
optimistic about becoming a little bit better?

Speaker 5 (51:50):
Uh, well, you mean like a like a beginner, like someone.

Speaker 3 (51:53):
Who's yeah, he's he's anywhere from dead raw to maybe
been playing for a year or so and gets to
hit balls a couple times a month.

Speaker 10 (52:05):
Well, that fella or lady actually wants to focus on
three things in order to break a hundred. Okay, Number one,
hitting the ball, hitting the ball far enough. We've got
to hit it at least two hundred yards for them
to get on the golf course and actually enjoy themselves,
not feel embarrassed. And it doesn't have to be straight Doug,
but just they have to hit it within the realm

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of about two hundred yards. If they can reach the
holes in regulation, that's the whole key with the beginner.
It's getting to the point where you can reach the
hole in regulation. Now what does that mean? That means
we've got three types of holes. We've got par fives,
par fours, and par threes. That means reaching the par
five in three shots, three bull shots, even if you're
on the green, just somewhere around the green, reaching in
two shots.

Speaker 5 (52:45):
On a par four, and then one shot on a
par three.

Speaker 10 (52:48):
After that, you have to be able to pitch the
ball onto the green in one shot. Don't have to
be close to the ten, just somewhere on the green,
and one shot, and then lastly two putting. See if
you can hit the ball far enough, pitch it on
the green in one try.

Speaker 5 (53:03):
And then take no more than two punts once you're
on the green.

Speaker 10 (53:06):
That will typically average out to a score of about bogie.
And if we bogey dug every single.

Speaker 5 (53:11):
Hole on a golf course.

Speaker 10 (53:12):
Golf courses are what eighteen holes, And if I am
one over par on a par seventy two of eighteen
holes right there, I'm gonna shoot ninety Until then, Hell.

Speaker 5 (53:22):
You throw in one par, you throw in one par,
you shoot eighty nine and are so much better.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
You're ready average golfer in the country, so much better.

Speaker 10 (53:31):
Yes, incredibly, you could make nine doubles in nine bogies
and still break one hundred doing that if you focus
on hitting it far enough, pitching it on one try
and then no more than two punts that would make
golf seem achievable. Which that's what we need to do.
I mean, when someone first comes out and see a
four hundred and thirty yard hole.

Speaker 5 (53:49):
They go, there's no way I'm not going to get.

Speaker 10 (53:51):
The ball all the way down to that green and
two shots. But you get to the point where they're
doing that, then all of.

Speaker 5 (53:56):
A sudden, golf's a lot more fun and we and portantly.

Speaker 10 (53:59):
We retained people for golf. We don't lose people because
they're frustrated with it.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
Yeah, and turn down the music. There's that. That's something.
That's it for another day.

Speaker 13 (54:08):
That's exactly God.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
I just had to throw that.

Speaker 5 (54:12):
Sounds that's it.

Speaker 4 (54:15):
Constant.

Speaker 5 (54:15):
I'm good with it. Just uns a constant.

Speaker 13 (54:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
Okay man, Hey, Tommy O'Brien, thanks a lot man. How
can people get ahold of you?

Speaker 13 (54:23):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (54:23):
Pretty simple.

Speaker 10 (54:24):
I've got a website, tommyo goolf dot com, my phone.

Speaker 5 (54:27):
Numbers, let's sit there. You can shoot me a text.
I've got an email there as well, but tex is
the best way.

Speaker 10 (54:32):
I'm over At Blackhawk Country Club, they're kind enough to
let me teach non members as well. So would would
love to see anyone that needs a little help with
their game.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
Yeah, you probably see me out there.

Speaker 3 (54:42):
If you come out and get in front of Tommy too,
there's a good chance.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
Huh.

Speaker 5 (54:45):
That's exactly buddy.

Speaker 3 (54:46):
Hey, Tommy O'Brien, thank you so much, thanks for your
time this morning.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
By how do you.

Speaker 10 (54:50):
Man, Yes, sir, thank you all right?

Speaker 5 (54:52):
Byebyee.

Speaker 2 (54:53):
What a great guy, What a great guy. Man. I've
known him since he was mee high to a grasshopper
kind he was.

Speaker 3 (55:00):
He was a brand new aspiring golf instructor with tom
byronm and Jim Murphy out at the Training Station, a
place that they those two owned years ago, I mean
many years ago. And Tommy has moved up through the
ranks and every every time I turn around, he's getting
opportunities to help people, and he truly is passionate about

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helping people with golf. He's not trying to make the
most money in the world. He's not trying to do
anything but just make sure that everybody out there trying
to play the game plays it a little better. Once
he's had a chance to spend some time with him,
he's the real deal. He is, man, He's a good guy.

Speaker 7 (55:43):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety, Facebook dot com, slash
sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
Back to the Doug Pike show man, all right.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
Welcome back the Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Holy cow, my battery is running low. Hang on, This
shouldn't happen in a two hour show, Melvin. It usually
doesn't happen unless I'm doing the.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
Full Saturday show.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
But I don't want this thing to die on me
because I don't I don't know enough about computers to
know if that really matters.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
Why is that over there again? I'll be right back. Yeah,
that doesn't matter.

Speaker 13 (56:18):
But when your computer dies mine, I don't want my
computer to what did you say that is my computer
gonna die?

Speaker 2 (56:24):
No, it doesn't matter if it does die. Yeah, that's
what I figured.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
If it just goes totally empty, it takes a while
to recalc Yeah. That's something I really don't understand is
how this inanimate object here, this thing has got all
this information in it, and if it totally goes down
and I just go ahead and plug it back in,

(56:50):
all that information is still there. How is that possible?

Speaker 2 (56:54):
Melbourne?

Speaker 13 (56:55):
I do believe there's a backup battery to the backup battery.
I think there's a battery for the memory.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
How long does that last?

Speaker 13 (57:03):
I have no idea, but that's what I heard. I
don't don't quote me on that. That's what I heard.

Speaker 3 (57:08):
Well, it makes perfect sense that it would have to
have some backup power of some sort to maintain that memory.
But it's just it's just there's nothing in there. It's
not like there's a roll of Dex inside this thing.
Somewhere an encyclopedia went in doubt, get the clout. You know,
I have no idea what all that is. I really don't.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
I mean, I get it. There's big giant banks of.

Speaker 3 (57:34):
Servers all over the world that back up everybody's everything,
which is kind of frightening. Why why they can't Why
all this information in the world, And I'm struggling with
putting the you know, that's that's a real that's a
real first world problem.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
That's funny.

Speaker 3 (57:56):
I mean, really, there's the technology abound.

Speaker 2 (57:58):
It just abounds.

Speaker 3 (57:59):
I've got access to a fantastic I've got access to
a lot of fantastic teachers. I see Tommy the most
because he's right there in front of me every time
I'm out there. He's helping somebody, and I can't putt,
And all of a sudden he walks over and he says, well, look,
here's what's wrong.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
You need to change your grip, Tommy.

Speaker 3 (58:17):
I won bicycles when I was a little kid with
my putting man. I won bicycles, not just little trophies.
I won bicycles. I could putt, dude. I could play
putt putt. I could play eighteen rounds, eighteen holes of
putt putt and score like twenty seven oh for eighteen holes,
be nine under par.

Speaker 2 (58:38):
But now I can't make a six footer? What's what
the heck? Man?

Speaker 3 (58:43):
So anyway, maybe I think it is. He explained it
so well, and I'm one hundred percent sure he's right.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
What is my computer acting up? Now? Huh?

Speaker 11 (58:53):
It's not.

Speaker 3 (58:54):
There's no way it's dead. Where did it go? I've
got power to it. This really creepy. Now control all delete?
Does that ever do anything anymore? Yeah, this thing's just
I'm gonna close it and just see what happens. I'll
open it back up in a minute seven one three
two seven ninety. Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.

(59:16):
I can check email right here. I can do that
on my phone, which is almost fully charged. This little
phone of mine just has a it's like the ever
energizer bunny. That little phone or that little battery in
there works great. Captain Scott weigd in earlier, I'm glad
to hear this. He's got a young man in a
blind who had had a rough go, rough go in

(59:40):
his family. He lost his father to cancer. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
And it's nobody's business who he is, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (59:47):
But the grandpa wanted to get him out on a
first deer and first deer hunt and it worked out
really well. That kid got a really cool, different looking deer,
and there he is with his grandpa, and more power
to him.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
More power to him.

Speaker 11 (01:00:06):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
I'm so happy for that kid.

Speaker 3 (01:00:10):
There's a lot of people I know who have been
through a lot of tragedy in their lives, and I
think it's wonderful that these kids are in.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
Anybody who's had.

Speaker 3 (01:00:21):
Stuff like that go on in their life, get outside,
get out some smell some fresh air, feel some sunshine. Yeah,
I'm looking right at it. I'm about to push the button.
Stand by, Here we go. Where'd he go, click, Hey,
Skeeter Braun, what's up, man, You're on somebody's roof for
in the deer stand.

Speaker 8 (01:00:38):
No, man, I'm trying to kill a turkey for a
mom and a Cooper Thanksgiving. These turkeys are too expensive
these days.

Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (01:00:45):
Yeah, it's cheaper to drive halfway across the street and
stay and sit in the bushes for an hour or two.

Speaker 4 (01:00:50):
Yeah, I'm getting bat some with you.

Speaker 8 (01:00:53):
No, I'm I'm you're right. We had a good rain
on Monday, and of course everybody's calling in and you
know their mother in law's coming into town. They need
the roof fixed. Oh my gosh, I'm going like you know,
my mother in law was coming into town, I wouldn't
be worried about fixing the roof. So anyway, fish to Fry,

(01:01:17):
going hunting up Friday with Mitchell out there in El Campo.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
He killed me.

Speaker 8 (01:01:22):
He killed fifty speckle.

Speaker 4 (01:01:23):
Bellies last weekend.

Speaker 11 (01:01:25):
He wow.

Speaker 8 (01:01:26):
I couldn't believe it. So load up on Friday and
going out there and for you.

Speaker 4 (01:01:34):
You're right.

Speaker 8 (01:01:34):
I heard, you know, I heard it heard. It's supposed
to be pretty chilly. I think come Thursday or Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 3 (01:01:39):
It is man, Hi is in the highs in the fifties. Man,
it's gonna be brisk. I'm going I'll be out there
before you. As a matter of fact, I'm going back
down there to waterfowl specialties myself. Yeah yeah, I got
an invite to get down there, and then I think
I may try and make another one next week too.
In fact, it might be I might be out there
Friday too, if I am all for sure, we'll we'll

(01:02:00):
bump into each other somehow.

Speaker 5 (01:02:01):
Give me a call.

Speaker 8 (01:02:02):
We're gonna sit in there a little watch there. It's
there nice and uh Lisa, I think that's Mitchell's wife.
I don't know for sure yet, but Lisa, she's very
nice and very hospitable and nice people. And yeah, yeah,
I've been, uh been, been very impressed with it. And
so we're gonna mosey on out there and see what
we can do. And uh, you know, I said, it's more.

(01:02:23):
They have a little campfire out there.

Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
And oh I know advance.

Speaker 8 (01:02:26):
Yeah, they have big screen TV and watch aggy people
from horns. So yeah, yeah, not last night they didn't
Daggs Auburn.

Speaker 4 (01:02:37):
Yeah, So.

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
It's always good to hear from you, man, So.

Speaker 10 (01:02:42):
What let me as any time.

Speaker 8 (01:02:44):
Man, you give me a holler, and uh, I want
my I said, my labs out peasant and quill hunting
out there in Columbus two weeks ago. It's really interesting.
My labs are real good. They're not gun shy, and
they'll flush the birds out of the bushes.

Speaker 3 (01:03:00):
Yeah yeah, and they're good and doug.

Speaker 8 (01:03:06):
If the bird lands on the ground, they won't retrieve them.
But if the bird lands in the water and the ponds, man,
there ain't no sta ain't nothing left when they bring
the bird.

Speaker 4 (01:03:15):
Back to me.

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
I want to soften their mouths a little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:03:19):
Holy, I don't know what it's.

Speaker 8 (01:03:20):
The damned this thing it comes to water, they're all
about it. It ain't come they they ain't no interest
in retrieving something on the land.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
They don't like to taste the dirt.

Speaker 8 (01:03:30):
They're gonna You're right, I have to straighten their attitude
out a little bit, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
All right?

Speaker 3 (01:03:36):
Man, are you talking about the dogs or your mother
in law? Huh, you're talking about that attitude. The dogs
are your mother in law.

Speaker 8 (01:03:46):
You don't like her dogs either, But I'm gonna buy
a couple more of them. So she won't come at all.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
God, alright, you you better stop while you're a head.

Speaker 5 (01:03:55):
Skeeter alright, Daddy, great to.

Speaker 3 (01:03:58):
Hear from youbody. That's Skeeter Brown from Brown's Roofing. If
you've listened to fifty plus, you've heard me talk about him. Yeah,
he's a good guy. I've known him for a long time.
I got to get him back out to the house.
I got something I needed to look at seven one
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at iHeartMedia dot com all the way out.

Speaker 7 (01:04:20):
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Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
They contact back to The Doug Pike Show nine eight
on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show. Is
that is that part of the theme? Melvin is that?
Does that song qualified?

Speaker 5 (01:04:39):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
It qualified? Oh okay, yeah yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:04:43):
And by the way, Alan, I don't know if I
told you, but yes, you are correct. And right before
we go off the air, I'll let everybody know what
Melvin's been cooking up all day long.

Speaker 2 (01:04:53):
Only had one person guess.

Speaker 3 (01:04:55):
Just informally, I'm gonna get an intro created for for
this what we're gonna call I don't know, the Melvin's jams.
Maybe no Jelly just Jam. We could call it that. Hey,
that sounds good. No Jelly just Jam might be able
to do that like that. By the way, I've got

(01:05:16):
I found out yesterday Melbourne. Let me get Dave on
the phone. Then I'll go back to what I was
gonna tell you, Dave.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
What's up, buddy?

Speaker 14 (01:05:25):
Well I didn't. I didn't make it up here. But
I am standing on Stubblefield Lake looking north and the
damage to the south behind me now due it is
so pretty.

Speaker 4 (01:05:34):
You just got that.

Speaker 14 (01:05:35):
Turn and all the tree Well, you can go crazy
on taking.

Speaker 4 (01:05:38):
Pictures over here.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
I'm sure.

Speaker 14 (01:05:40):
No, I've been. I've been messing with them a little
bit over here. I've had a couple of takedowns on
my court, but I couldn't set the hook. So what
I think I'm gonna do right now is go back
over there, take the cork off, and go all the
way to the bottom, and then just see if I
can't catch catf.

Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
Let her drop. Get your catfish.

Speaker 14 (01:05:56):
Yeah, but there's a dad, dad and his son that
come over here and there. They're over there to my
left where I'm set up at and he caught a
perch already.

Speaker 4 (01:06:05):
You know, he's like, hey, look at this.

Speaker 14 (01:06:07):
You know what I said, many, Hey.

Speaker 5 (01:06:09):
What I was thinking? Yeah, man, at any extent he
would tell me.

Speaker 14 (01:06:12):
About that, he doesn't catch that bigger cat fish maybe
twelve thirteen inches there. And I said, well, take that
perch right there and put it on the thrower line
and let him swim around up there, and you may
get a fifty pounder, you know. Yeah, no, but it's
so pretty out here, and and you know, and I
was thinking too, you know, going on sixty three years old.

(01:06:35):
Can you believe my mom and dad had been taking
this here since I was probably three years old, but
for over years. Man, that's crazy stuff he.

Speaker 2 (01:06:46):
Is, isn't it? Stopped thinking about that.

Speaker 4 (01:06:48):
Hey, we had we had a lot of boats out here.

Speaker 14 (01:06:50):
I don't think he just queens another boat trailer, I
mean a truck and trailer around here.

Speaker 4 (01:06:56):
And then you know.

Speaker 14 (01:06:57):
Stubblefield late that it's an island around there where you
can Actually it was a Kenner boat I believe, coming through.

Speaker 10 (01:07:04):
So we rolled up.

Speaker 14 (01:07:04):
Our lines and then they went out and I think
they started heading towards the main lake up there. But
you got to be careful with all the stumps and
everything else. It's really cautious. Yeah, a lot of cautious,
you know. But no other than that, I'm doing good
in a wow.

Speaker 5 (01:07:21):
It's just it's perfect out here.

Speaker 14 (01:07:23):
But I tell you what, I'm going to be here
about maybe another twenty minutes. How many times if somebody
says that will make a.

Speaker 4 (01:07:29):
Few more casts, I got to get back to.

Speaker 14 (01:07:32):
Watch the game, you know, at twelve? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
this is gonna be my last cast.

Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
Yeah right, all right, yeah no, I've told myself that
so many times, and even even when it didn't matter,
it just didn't matter.

Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
Okay, it didn't. I wasn't in a hurry. I could stay.
I didn't have to leave. There was no rush to
get out, no rush to stay. Whatever. I'll say, okay,
I'm tired of this.

Speaker 3 (01:07:58):
One more cast that I'm out of here, and I'll
make that cast, and about halfway back, I'm going, man,
maybe one more and they're on the fire one I know.

Speaker 4 (01:08:08):
Look really good?

Speaker 14 (01:08:09):
You is when you say, well, this is my last cast.

Speaker 4 (01:08:11):
In Boom you got one on oh yeah yeah, then
you have to know it now.

Speaker 3 (01:08:16):
So if you if you catch a fish on what
you say is going to be your last cast?

Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
Do you make another one? Or you just quit while
you're a head? I think quit wi my head? Oh no, man,
I was trying to get two in a row.

Speaker 14 (01:08:29):
Well no, no, but I'll I may I may be
h the war department may be calling and I need
to go home.

Speaker 5 (01:08:36):
Oh god.

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
All right, man, that's great to hear from me, Dad,
it really is.

Speaker 5 (01:08:40):
But you too, appreciate appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
Yeah, happy Thanksgiving?

Speaker 5 (01:08:44):
Yeah you too?

Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
All right? Audios? Yeah, man stubble Field, he's a bit boy.

Speaker 3 (01:08:50):
He knows that place like the back of his hand
since he was three, going up there with mom and dad.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (01:08:55):
I have a picture here, but I can't open it
from Rick, and Rick is showing off his granddaughter, Piper's
first buck that was taken this morning. I don't know
why I can't open it, but the fact that you
got Piper out there and God or her first buck
this morning, that tells me all I need to know
that the picture would have it would have a grandfather,

(01:09:16):
it would have a granddaughter, it would have a buck,
and it would have two people smiling from ear to ear.
That's how that works pretty simple stuff. Thank you for
sharing that with me. Rick, there was something else I wanted.
Oh there's I got word from somebody yesterday, and I'm
gonna try to track this guy down. And there may
be somebody out there who knows who I'm talking about.

(01:09:38):
A man who is known for something far different than
his DJing capabilities, but who is actually just kind of
for giggles, sometimes finds himself doing some of that and
maybe singing some karaoke, and he goes by the name
DJ No Requests, and he might be listening.

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
He's a deer hunter. He's a deer hunter.

Speaker 3 (01:10:04):
And uh, I'm gonna get him on the phone at
some point and just talk about how life after retirement
has treated him in his family, and how much deer
hunting he's got to do, whether every really got into fishing.
I used to talk to him about that. Not all
the time, but every time we bumped into each other.
We had certainly had hunting in common, and we would

(01:10:25):
share stories. Yeah, I had no idea this guy had
this alter ego DJ no.

Speaker 2 (01:10:32):
Requests kind of like that. That's pretty pretty.

Speaker 3 (01:10:36):
Catchy, all right, Moving on, and uh, let's see where
there were a lot of things I wanted to do. Oh,
by the way, if you I've got this waterfowl hunt
coming up with my son, God, I'm late.

Speaker 5 (01:10:48):
Let me do that.

Speaker 3 (01:10:49):
I'll tell you when I get back about your waterfowl stamp. Uh.
There's there's news that I got straight from my good
game warden friend Derek Spitzer yesterday. That put my mind
at ease about my missing stamp. And it also made
it easy to get my son taken care of because
when he went and bought his license, he didn't get

(01:11:09):
one on the way out.

Speaker 7 (01:11:12):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety breaking sports news on
Facebook twenty four or seven.

Speaker 11 (01:11:18):
We'll get that information to them.

Speaker 2 (01:11:20):
This is the Doug Pike Show. All right, welcome back,
Doug Pike Show. Wrap it up?

Speaker 3 (01:11:27):
Way last segment, Holy cow, who was it that gave
me the wrong answer?

Speaker 2 (01:11:32):
By the way on the music, I can't remember. I
don't want to call him out on it.

Speaker 11 (01:11:37):
Dang it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:37):
Where did it go? Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:11:40):
Where did it go? I think we should give him
the right answer. Yet that might have given it away.

Speaker 2 (01:11:45):
Right there if that wasn't a dead ring here. I
don't know. Yeah, good point, Yeah, good point. That's why
I left that one for last the theme, the musical theme.

Speaker 3 (01:11:55):
Well, you go ahead and tell them, Melvin, because as
we when we play the game for real, I'm gonna
have have you come on and say exactly what it is,
just in case it's so obscure that they want to
react negatively to how hard you made it on them.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
I don't want it falling on me, right, no problem.

Speaker 13 (01:12:12):
I'm looking in order that with Crosby, Steal and Nash.
Teach your children a little help, yep. Jefferson Airplane, Somebody
to Love, Santana. Oh yeah, come iv, I'm butchering now.
Oh yeah, yeah, that's okay. Number five was Blood, Sweat
and Tears, yep, yeah, and then number six was of

(01:12:35):
course Jimmy Jimmy Hendrix.

Speaker 2 (01:12:38):
And they are all performers who.

Speaker 13 (01:12:42):
Performed at Woodstock, Yes, indeed they are, Yes, well.

Speaker 2 (01:12:48):
Or as or and or were whoever you're looking at.

Speaker 3 (01:12:52):
Bottom line is that that's a that's a good that's
a good measuring stick right there. Okay, something like that.
It's not so obscure as you did yesterday. Like everybody
who the second letter in their names start as an
O or something like that, and you know that'd be
kind of hard to get but the lineup at Woodstock,

(01:13:14):
I don't know some of these other things.

Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
There's gotta be plenty. God as endless and themes that
you can go yeah, yeah, yeah. You're sitting around the
house watching a football game.

Speaker 3 (01:13:24):
If you think of a good thing, just jot it down,
because man, if you're like me, I think of a
lot of really cool things when I'm watching TV or
just sitting there about trying to fall asleep, and I think,
there's no way I'm gonna forget this because it's just
so good.

Speaker 2 (01:13:39):
I'll never forget this line.

Speaker 3 (01:13:41):
And then a commercial comes on and my little scatterbrain
just jumps on the commercial.

Speaker 2 (01:13:47):
Oh well, that's interesting. I might want to.

Speaker 3 (01:13:48):
Get one of those, And out goes the idea and out.
I just might as well just throw it in the
middle of the freeway and watch it get run over.
I'll never get it back.

Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
Oh my word, you got any others in mind? Have
you been thinking about it a little bit? Oh yeah,
I got one?

Speaker 3 (01:14:04):
Rady Okay, Well, next week I'm taking the weekend off,
so maybe the weekend I get.

Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
Back, we'll do it. Well, we'll launch that.

Speaker 3 (01:14:12):
I'll get Mike Bobi in on it. Today our imaging guy.
He's the one who came up with the intro for
this week in US Military History. He's the one who
came up with the podcast intro for Things that Go Bang?

Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
That should Those are up right now at spreaker.

Speaker 3 (01:14:30):
Yes, so you just go to speaker and then there's
a little search engine or something on there that is
cracked a little bar. Okay, good things that go bang?
Three of them are up. I'm gonna have to get
old Billy Carter back down here. I'm trying to get
hold of Travis and see if we can't record some
while he's down at the som Burrito or up at
Cotton Mesa in Colorado. I think with good, solid connections,

(01:14:56):
maybe on a zoom call with that audio beat good enough, Melvin,
you say, oh of course, yeah, okay, Yeah, a lot
of people do analogy, I know. Holy cow, man, no
more ten cam with strings between them.

Speaker 2 (01:15:09):
It's and did you ever do that when you were little?
You and your buddy we did do that. Yeah, I
did too.

Speaker 5 (01:15:13):
Man.

Speaker 13 (01:15:13):
It had a styrofoam cup and uh those Dixie cups
back in the day, oh man, Dixie cups, Holy cow,
those were.

Speaker 2 (01:15:20):
Yeah, they were all over the house all over the yard.
Not the can adult beverage, No, no, no, no, not
Dixie Beer. That was a beer brand. It was.

Speaker 3 (01:15:29):
Yeah, man, got an old, old old beer's Dixie Falstaff.

Speaker 2 (01:15:34):
You ever heard of that?

Speaker 3 (01:15:35):
Yes, I can remember seeing those that when I was
a little kid. I wasn't clearly wasn't drinking beer. But
the backyard barbecues and all that. You'd see a Dixie
over here, a fall staff over there, a Schlitz over here.

Speaker 2 (01:15:47):
They were littered with man. Well, I wouldn't say the
yard was littered with him. We didn't have those kind
of parties. Melvine.

Speaker 3 (01:15:55):
Maybe I'll live well for New Orleans, so we oh
well say no more that.

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
Yeah, that explains the Dixie reference too.

Speaker 3 (01:16:03):
They had that was wasn't Dixie Beer from over there?

Speaker 2 (01:16:06):
Yes? It was on Twu Lane Avenue, I thought so. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:16:10):
I actually remember we used to go over there because
my grandmother lived there, and I actually remember seeing that.
I can envision that Dixie sign up on that building.

Speaker 13 (01:16:20):
It was huge. Oh man, down the street was crystal
hot sauce. Yeah, yeah, I remember all that, man, I
really do.

Speaker 3 (01:16:28):
As an older boy, and my dad got transferred over
there for a couple of years when I was very young,
and then when.

Speaker 2 (01:16:34):
I was ten, I think it was.

Speaker 3 (01:16:36):
Yeah, we got transferred over there, and Buddy I did
some fishing in Lake Ponta train Man.

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
We lived.

Speaker 3 (01:16:42):
We lived within bicycle distance from Pontcha Train out in Metori,
and I found two or three other little kids who
absolutely loved it. Hold on, Alan just wayed in about spreaker.
Let's see what it says here. Spreaker says tye In
says things that go boom. Oh yeah, we need to
check on that.

Speaker 5 (01:17:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:17:01):
I talked to my supervisor. He said he was going
to change that for all right. How was that? Cal?

Speaker 3 (01:17:06):
Yeah, Cal, Cal's gonna change it. It's the same thing.
I change it from things that go boom to things
that go bang, just because I think it probably is
a little bit better and a little softer.

Speaker 2 (01:17:17):
All right, Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I'll be
out all week, so don't look for me on fifty plus,
but I know Will's got some good stuff lined up there.

Speaker 3 (01:17:26):
I will be back a week from tomorrow on fifty
plus and then well, actually i'll be a week from
Tuesday on fifty plus because Monday's my off day again.
And I don't get to play golf tomorrow. I'm crushed.
It's going to be a beautiful day.

Speaker 2 (01:17:40):
Get outside, have some phone in your family.

Speaker 3 (01:17:42):
Please stay safe, Please keep everything safe. Just think about
that all the way through. Safety first, and have all
the fun you want. And I'll catch you when I
get back. Thanks for listening. I really do appreciate it. Audios.

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