The Doug Pike Show 12-14-24

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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, all right, Saturday Morning initiat of
the program starts right now, trying to get a couple
of things buttoned up, as they say.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yeah, we'll get them all buttoned up before too long?

Speaker 2 (00:25):
God, what are we like?

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Ten nine to eleven something days?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Not very long? What is this the fourteenth? Eleven days
from Christmas? And I don't know about you, but I'm
not finished doing what I've got to do before we
before we hit that holiday. Not much in the yard.
We've got a little bit of stuff out there, but
not a full yard full of lights and having for
a while. It's very clear to look at my yard

(00:52):
that I'm celebrating Christmas along with my family. But we're
we're not taxing the grid as we go into it. Melbourne,
do you have a lot of lights out for Christmas?

Speaker 4 (01:03):
Or no?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Not too many?

Speaker 3 (01:04):
What I didn't mean to interrupt your oatmeal, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Not too many. Do you have anybody in the neighborhood
who has too many? Yes? Yes? And it's like a
light show visible from Mars. Yes, of one of those things.
What's a little dud on earth? What is that?

Speaker 5 (01:25):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:25):
That's Melbourn's neighbors y'ard. Yeah, I don't know how that.
I don't know what language the Martians speak, but they
all the trees are wrapped in everything. Oh man. Yeah,
there are a couple of houses in my neighborhood where
people paid somebody to wrap the trees, kind of like
the ones you see in the Galleria area where they
just wrap the whole dang trunk and about halfway up
the limbs the biggest four or five limbs in the tree.

(01:49):
And it's pretty. I'll give you that, it really is, But.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
That's just not me. I used to put out lights
on all the bushes and creations here and there, and
I enjoy driving through the neighborhood and seeing it. But
it's just not something that we're doing now. My son's
a little older too. He's he's more concerned with getting
over to hang out with his friends than he is
with putting anything in the yard. He just if he

(02:16):
recognizes home, he comes on in. If the key fits
of the door, he'll go in it. He's just pretty
casual about it this time of year. He's having a
good time. Though he did manage, like most teenagers are
doing this year or in in recent years. He managed
to give us a list of things that he wanted
for Christmas, and all were available on Amazon. So it

(02:40):
made made shopping a little bit easier, and it makes
it easier for everybody. I guess it's so it's just
so so simple now. It's so simple to just open
up the screen. You don't even he just crawl, just
roll over in bed and grab your little iPad or
whatever you're using, and just poo poop, push few buttons,

(03:01):
spend a bazillion dollars just like that. That about where
you are, Yeah, you're nodding your head and there huh
oh my gosh. So so here's something I'm thinking about
doing this morning for all of us who are hardcore
outdoors people. We love being outdoors, but maybe our families
aren't into it as much as we are. I think.

(03:22):
Didn't I mention the guy Martin Melvin, who had gone
into a tackle store and was looking for fishing rods
and told the person who was helping them a woman
was trying to help him find just the right rod
because he'd wanted to buy a bunch of rods. Did
we talk about that? Yes we did. Yeah, I'm gonna
repeat it in case somebody missed it last week. So

(03:43):
this guy walks in and the woman walks over to
help him, said, you know, I wanted to buy a
bunch of fishing rods, but my girlfriend told me that
I could only buy one. Can you help me? And
she said, well, sure, I can help you. And then
it cuts to a scene where she's got an iPad
in her hands and she's going, well, now, this is Becky,
she's twenty five and she likes to hike it. Yeah,

(04:08):
you get it. So here's what I'm wondering. Here's what
I'm wondering. Okay, if you want to have a little
fun this morning, I'm gonna ask you this question and
I'll ask it a few times during the show and
see if we can get some good responses. As an
outdoors person, a hunter, a fisherman, whatever you like in
the outdoors, what's the one thing you would really like
to get and open on Christmas morning? And what are

(04:33):
you probably gonna get instead? Because I'm gonna get a
lot of the instead stuff. I would love. I would
love a new shotgun. I'd love a new rifle. I'd
love all kinds of new stuff in the fishing rods.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
I'd love some more fishing rods. Some of my stuff.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
I think I got a Christmas card from the Smithsonian says, Hey,
when you're ready to give up some of that stuff,
we got a place for it. Yeah, it's just that's how,
that's how our role. I got stuff that I like.
I would love to update my my quiver of rods
and reels. Uh, but I'm doing that judiciously of late.

(05:12):
I've still got a kid I got to get out
out of college. He's not even out of high school yet.
I got another year and a half of that coming
at me. And he's in a private school. And I
gotta tell you, if you don't know, that's not cheap
seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. What do you really
want for Christmas? What are you probably gonna get? And

(05:34):
I man that I think at my age and even
little ten fifteen twenty down to Melvin's age, there a
lot of us are gonna get stuff that we would
have had to get anyway. It's not gonna be it's
not gonna be outdoor stuff. It's gonna be socks and underwear. Yeah, yes,

(05:55):
Melvin dim I right, you absolutely right? Yeah. I long
what a tie? Oh yeah, you can't have enough ties
because after all, like around here, everybody wears a tie
every day, don't they. I haven't seen the tie in
this all. I take that back, uh, some of our
I take that back. It depends on what side of
the office you're on. If you're on the studio side,

(06:18):
never see it. There's not a tie and you couldn't
throw a rock and hit a tie. If you're on
the other side, there are there are occasions when you'll
see ties in here. And that's as it should be.
That's the business side of this business, not the fun side,
which is what I get to do.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
I get to do a lot of that.

Speaker 6 (06:35):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
By the way, you're gonna want to pay attention this
morning as we come back from breaks, because I have
met and visited with Mike Mercado from Brazis River Provisions
and Melvin, You'll be happy to know this. We are.
We are fully loaded with prize packages that include four
I think it's four in all of them. He gave

(06:57):
me four little baskets, each of which and there're shrink wraps,
so nothing's gonna fall out and break. But four little
baskets decorated for the holidays that each have four I'm
pretty sure jars of jams and or sauces and or jellies,
and each of those baskets is a little bit different. Now,

(07:20):
you're not going to get to stand there and choose
between them. But if you win one of these, you
can come pick it up, and whichever one Sophia grabs
out of the closet, you'll be glad to have. Believe me,
because I looked at all of them, and I'm starting
to sample some things too. He gave me to bring
home and test out, and so far, so good. Let

(07:40):
me go talk to Rick, see what's on his mind.
Let's take a running start on this, and it worked. Rick, bis,
what's up, man?

Speaker 4 (07:49):
I wanted to answer your question before we move off
into something else, and I want to reserve you wrap to.

Speaker 7 (07:55):
Call back on something else later.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
I gotta get out and.

Speaker 7 (08:00):
Get to work in the rain.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
It's raining anyway on the Christmas thing. Great question, you
know for me? Uh, I don't need.

Speaker 7 (08:12):
Nothing for Christmas.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
It's just I'm gonna say that up front, but I
want to bring up the point that what I'm gonna
give my wife for Christmas?

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Oh okay, I'm gonna give her a porous.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
Thing of steel, double action eight round cylinder, twenty two
mag pistol. Okay, And when she opens it up on
Christmas morning, she's gonna open it and look at it,
and she's gonna say, what am I gonna do with that?

Speaker 2 (08:50):
I said, give it to me regifted.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
I'm a blessed guy. You can reck his man in.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
The order I'll put my boys.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
And my wife. Hey, hey, breaking news. I'm a new grandpa.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, didn't you send me?

Speaker 5 (09:09):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (09:10):
You send me a picture of a baby. I got
a picture of a baby a day or two ago.
That was him, wasn't it?

Speaker 4 (09:14):
That's probably That's one reason I didn't make the golf
tournament because he was born while you were on the horse.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
That's right. Yeah. And also, if if I'm not mistaken,
your son had a bit bite on his hand.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
Wasn't that him?

Speaker 4 (09:32):
Yeah? The oh yeah, the knuckles. He had three broke knuckles.
You know, he's a hunting, fishing guy of the mark
and he was packing a pack mule, and the pack
mule turned around and bit him in the side, picked
him up two hundred pounds and slammed him.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
On the ground.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
And my son got up and gave back mule a
Mike Tyson knockout punch in the mouth, but the mule one,
so he broke three knuckles.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Oh my gosh. It's kind of like that scene from
what was it? Was it in what was the movie?
That where the guy just just sucker punched that horse
and knocked it down.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
Oh, I can't remember. I know which one you're talking to,
no one.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
I know you do, and I do too.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
But it's the Bloody Wilder.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Somebody else send it to me
and I couldn't get it at all appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
That was Alex Carreras, that lived, that former football player.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, well now your son has done it too, and boy, yeah,
his knuckles did not look good. Man.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
Well that's been a year he went. I had him
go to a I insisted he go to orthopedice surgery
and they were going to do surgery, and and he
Clayton down here places. How long is the therapy and
all of that and he said, probably about six to
eight weeks late, says I'm out.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah, got no time for that. He ain't go for
that tough du he HITEDA. You know, people who can
take pack trips up into the mountains with a bunch
of strangers who probably aren't ten percent as qualified to
be there as he is.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
That that takes a special kind of tough. It really does.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Man. He didn't care about those knuckles. His hands still
work and that's all he needed to know.

Speaker 4 (11:23):
Well, he'll pay for it later and yew.

Speaker 5 (11:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
But anyway, man, he showed up pretty good in the picture.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
I didn't.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
I wouldn't do that for him. I was after the
baby picture.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
I know you were. I know you were.

Speaker 8 (11:35):
Man.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
Anyway, have a good time. Might call you back when
I get three pulling some guys out of the woods, okay.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Man, I'll see real audios. Oh boy, that's a busy
guy right there. He really is. By the way, if
you're thinking, if you need something to do this morning,
or at least sometime today, and have some kids involved,
and you got people coming into town and you want
to find something to do, you could take them down

(12:03):
to where I had some notes.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
About it here, da da da dada. Where did it go?

Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah, the Lone Star Flight Museum. I got a couple
of emails from them this week. At ten o'clock this
morning at lone Star Flight Museums down there at Ellington Field.
You can't miss it, big beautiful place, definitely worth a tour.
I almost went by there yesterday. I was very close
to there, but it was raining and nasty, and I
didn't want to be driving home in the wet rain

(12:29):
or the wet, nasty weather all the way from down
where I was in the dark because and even driving
back as I did, I was getting passed by people
doing seventy five eighty miles an hour on slick freeway,
and it just it boggles the mind that people are
that ignorant about how dangerous that is.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
But that's a story for another time.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
So anyway, Santa will be making an appearance today. He's
going to show up at Ellington Field in the Lone
Star Flight Museum at about ten o'clock. I know that's
at scramble time if you're at the house and you
want to take the kids over there to use up
some of this day, But there you have it. It's
a good opportunity, especially if you've got grandkids. Uh maybe

(13:13):
if well, if your parents are in town and your
kids need something to do, call those parents of yours,
the grandparents, and get them to haul the kids over
to Ellington Field and Lone Star Flight Museum.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
You can have something to do with them. It'd be
pretty fun.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
Someone three two one two five seven ninety email me
Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Good, we are Sports Talk seven ninety Houston Sports where
you go with iHeartRadio.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Now now get more Doug, all right, welcome back, thanks
for listening, starting to appreciate it. Doug Pike showing Sports
Talk seven ninety. So I mentioned earlier at the end
of the program in the nine and this would be
the last time I really give hints I think as
to what we're doing. We're gonna be playing Melbourne's Gems
and Jellies and at the end, if you can, if

(13:59):
you get through to Melvin and then get through to
me and can tell us the correct theme of today's
rejoined songs, and you're gonna win one of those packages
from Brassis River Provisions down in Rosenbird. Let me get
to the phones here. I got a couple of big
I don't know where this guy is ski.

Speaker 9 (14:20):
Are you there, man, I'm here, Douglas. What's going on,
big Daddy?

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Not much? Are you in a Doug blind?

Speaker 9 (14:26):
Well, I'm close to it. You know, it's down here
in o camp. Let's started raining about midnight last night,
got pretty good rain.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
But Doug, there are.

Speaker 9 (14:34):
More ducks out, geese out here. The speckle bellies are everywhere. Man,
I just glad to hear you know, about a billion
of them just crossed over me. And it's been pretty wet,
and everything looks good, and the.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Rice is coming up and nice.

Speaker 9 (14:45):
Man. I just couldn't ask for anything better. And I'm ascually.
I'm kind of down here. I want of Mitchell's friends
place in the wooded area, and they got deer and
hogs down here.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
I'm down here with my dogs.

Speaker 9 (14:56):
Good for you, and so what a what a you know,
a little hunter's paradise down here, really, But my son
and them are actually hunting out there with Mitchell for
sandhill cranes and speckle bellies this morning.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Oh good.

Speaker 9 (15:08):
And so yeah, the sand hill crane season open back up,
and so.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
Did the duck season.

Speaker 9 (15:15):
Yeah, and the ducks have been great. You know, the
ducks have been great every time I come out. But anyway,
the deer and the hogs are out here in this
witted area. So just a good little give Mitchell a
call if anybody wants to go hunting. Man, what a
first class organization.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
I turned you onto a pretty good guy, didn't I.

Speaker 4 (15:31):
I'm gonna sell my roofing and the bus business.

Speaker 9 (15:34):
And come on down here going to the goose hunting business.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Dude, I've been a goose guy. You don't want to
be a gooseguy.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
At our age. Man, Holy kay, buddy, good for you.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
All right, Well listen, y'all stay dry.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
Okay, man, all right, but okay, yeah, you keep a
good tight lid on.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
Everybody's house is down there.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
All right?

Speaker 9 (15:51):
Well I know that, but everybody's everybody, you know, like
I said, all their all their friends and relatives are
coming into town for the holidays.

Speaker 4 (15:57):
They went for the roof fixed and stuff.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
So I didn't think about that, you know, I was.
I'll tell you where you I can give you a
hint on where to go. How was that l tempo
down there in League City yesterday? And they had two
big buckets on the floor catching a pretty good roof leak.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
That's just inside.

Speaker 9 (16:14):
Really yeah, okay, just say there.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
You know, I said.

Speaker 9 (16:20):
Timing and somebody nobody ever calls me if it's not raining,
but I guarantee it's raining.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Everybody's calling me. You know the sunshine, and I'm gonna
think of you and call you and just say hi.
All right, you.

Speaker 9 (16:30):
Get Christmas final talk to you a Skeeter.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Bron see you man, that's Skeeter Braun from Skeeter Broun's
root what just bronze roofing. You've heard me talk If
you listened to fifty plus, you've heard me talk about him.
Great guy, great business. He's been doing it for thirty
something years. You'll see what old Dave's been doing. Dave,
what's up, newlywed?

Speaker 10 (16:52):
Well, I hadn't been thrown out of the house, dude,
that's a real.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
Accomplishment.

Speaker 10 (17:01):
Hold on a minute.

Speaker 4 (17:02):
Hey, look, I'm right here at the eight thirty.

Speaker 5 (17:04):
At the boat launch.

Speaker 10 (17:05):
There's one boat that went out and he's over here
fishing on a point right now.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Okay, but I'm.

Speaker 4 (17:10):
Looking at fifteen.

Speaker 10 (17:12):
To twenty green head ducks over.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
Here mountain just swimming.

Speaker 9 (17:18):
Yeah, you know, oh, it's beautiful.

Speaker 10 (17:20):
They look like boats in the view.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
Oh yeah, okay, parade.

Speaker 4 (17:25):
Yeah yeah, yeah. And how you know the other the.

Speaker 10 (17:28):
Other evening and I was over here and they come
out of this canal over here, and then they started
get getting air height and then they fly right on
the water and all of a sudden they pop down
and they must be hitting something. But sure, you know,
birds on the water, you know, But no, okay, no, no,
And I'm on my Facebook page. I don't know if

(17:50):
I put it on there. But there was one coop
duck and I threw out like a subway sandwich or
something out there, and it was flowing and he was
he was little. He was protecting it and he six seagulls.
It reminded me of a scene in a war movie.
And they were just kept going around and and and
then and then.

Speaker 11 (18:08):
They tried to pick it up with their beak. They
tried to pick it up with their feet, trying to
pick up it was like a subway sandwich kind of sword.

Speaker 10 (18:21):
No I did, so I just do it out there
just for grins. And then all of a sudden and
then another little coot duck come out to help hold
down the forest.

Speaker 5 (18:31):
But they kept hitting it.

Speaker 10 (18:33):
No, I'm serious, I got it on the I'll if
I can get it to you. Hey, and okay if
I for Christmas? Yeah, I ask my wife a lifetime.

Speaker 7 (18:44):
Ticket to fish with any fishing guide of my choice.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
If you get me, I'll take half of that. Let's go.

Speaker 10 (18:54):
You know what, I'll probably get soft and over the work,
I know.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Man, Oh my gosh and die.

Speaker 10 (19:02):
Oh yeah, well no, a bobo.

Speaker 7 (19:04):
Yeah, I'll take a bow.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, you're not you know, do you even know how
to tie a normal tie? Fast?

Speaker 8 (19:11):
Up?

Speaker 10 (19:11):
I mean it's it's a long I was in second,
third or fourth grade and we had to figure out
how to do it. And then it's better when they
come behind you and teach you. So yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm doing Yeah. When I look in the mirror and
try to do a tie, I'm totally backwards.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Man.

Speaker 7 (19:28):
I mean, you know, because everything's turned around.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Who is that guy? Why can't he tie the tie?
That's what you're wanting? Yeah, that man, don't worry about that.
You don't need to know about that.

Speaker 7 (19:38):
What about the clip bones?

Speaker 2 (19:39):
That's what I'm.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
Thinking, That's what That's what I'm going next.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, makes it easy and hang out in the back
of your collar.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
Either that drove me crazy.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 4 (19:49):
Go ahead right now, real quick.

Speaker 10 (19:51):
Yeah, I see the sun a little bit up here
in one peak of these low clouds here. But I'm
thinking I might I might just run, so feel late, Bridge,
I don't know yet. Let me just calculate, reclculating and
see what if.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
You do and you see a seagulls dive bombing like
Pearl Harbor on a duck with a piece of bread,
you let me know I did.

Speaker 7 (20:13):
I mean, I'll send you that.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
I'm I want to see it. I want to see it, man,
Thanks Dave, thank audio. Yeah. Man, Wow, that's a busy guy,
a newlywed busy guy. That's just that's double the work
right there. Man. I think for the first at our age,
David and I are probably close in age a little
bit at our age to be a newlywed, you're gonna

(20:38):
spend the first a little while making sure you don't
slip up that, right, Melvin, sound about right? Because I
would agree. Yeah, you gotta.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
You gotta get off to a good start.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
And when you're young, when you're in your twenties or
maybe even your early thirties, it's all so fresh and
brand new to everybody. You don't have that many relationships
under your belt, hopefully, and all of a sudden when
you're married, and you've probably been hanging out pretty much
all the time anyway, so it doesn't change that much.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
But when you've been when you've been single.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
For a long time, and you start up a fresh one,
you got to start thinking, Okay, when am I going
to tell her how many times I like to go
fishing every week? When am I gonna talk about deer season?
When am I gonna break all that? And you gotta
be real careful, And if you're lucky, what you're gonna
hear back is oh that's fine, or oh hey, can

(21:33):
I come along now?

Speaker 6 (21:35):
That?

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Well, that can be different too. Sometimes that works out,
sometimes it doesn't. Most of the people I know whose
spouse is hunting fish with them are thrilled to have
them along. And I'm saying that because I don't want
to get any of them in trouble.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
We got to take a little break. We'll do it
on time.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
We're gonna do a break on time, Melvin, get it
back up off the floor.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
It's okay, Yeah, I know said, well, it's the holidays,
it's a giving season.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
I'm gonna I'm gonna give iHeart a chance to pat
me on the back. If anybody's listening and realizes I've
done this.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety on the Go with iHeartRadio.

Speaker 5 (22:15):
Friends, You've got to try.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
The conversation continues. This as the Doug Fike Show. I
gotta start paying attention to this song.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
I want to know at the end of the show.
I want to know what it is.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
But if I don't, it doesn't matter because I'm not
playing the game for that. Brasses River Provisions Company, Bundle
of Deliciousness, those guys, I'm gonna I'm gonna talk more
about them a little later in the show. But the
bottom line is he's been at this for a long time.
He's been at it a long time, and he's really,
really good at what he does. And I had a

(22:51):
real good conversation with with Mike the other day when
I picked up those goodies, and uh yeah, I think
this is gonna be fun. It really is gonna be fun.
And whoever wins it will definitely want to drive. Well,
it'll be worth driving over here to pick up your prize.
Believe me, by the way, I wanted to mention that
on Monday under beautiful weather. Actually it was cloudy early

(23:15):
and then the clouds broke up and it was wonderful.
We played our annual, the eleventh Annual Tournament golf tournament
for Saint Jude out there at Golf clubbe Houston. Filled
up both courses as we always do, and when the
dust settled at the end of the day, that one
day tournament between sponsorships and folks buying teams and thanks

(23:39):
to Rick and Allen who even split a team.

Speaker 8 (23:44):
Man.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
His team didn't win. They didn't finish any better than
my team, I don't think, but he had a good team.
They had a good time, just like pretty much everybody
else out there Golf Club. I can't thank Golf Clube
Houston enough. They did a fantastic job hosting us. We
had everything almost everything ran smoothly. It's kind of there's
an inside joke now about how the early early stuff

(24:09):
went down, but they handled it like the pros they are,
and everybody left there happy and smiling, not only because
they had a good time playing golf, but also because
we raised with just that one day tournament four hundred
and eighty thousand dollars for the kids at Saint Jude,
and I couldn't be happier with that I've got I've

(24:31):
got a number in mind for next year, and you
can probably figure out what it is. I like round numbers,
and it's going to be a big, old fat round number.
I'm going to try to I'm going to try to
do as chairman of this thing. I'd uh yeah, I've
been to the hospital. I know what's going on over there,
and I like what they're doing. I really do.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
I got an email from Keith.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
Thanks, by the way, to every one of you who
might be listing this morning and who participated on Money Day.
If you won something great, if you didn't win something,
rest easy knowing that you contributed to the health and
well being of a child who is desperately sick. They
don't take running noses at Saint Jude. They take the

(25:17):
sickest of the sick kids in the world, and in
most cases either cure them or make them a whole
lot better than they were. They do a great job
over there. It costs a ton of money to keep
that hospital going. Nobody gets a bill by the way.
I don't know if you know that about Saint Jude.
I hope you do. But there's not even a patient

(25:37):
billing department in the hospital. All of it, everything, the
research that's done to come up with these cures, the
work that's done individually with each patient, is all taken
care of by donations from people like us. So jump
in deck if you want to, If you want to
get involved for next year, all you got to do
is let me know. Believe me, I'll lay out all

(25:58):
the options tomorrow today, I'll tell you all about it.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
And then you can jump into and help us out.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety email
on me dougpick at iHeartMedia dot com. Keith Wade in
when I asked what you would really like to get
for Christmas and what you're probably going to get, and
Keith Man he leaves right out. I had my surfboard
stolen this year. Who are these surfboard thieves? And why

(26:27):
are they doing that? And how can we fix that?
What can we put on surfboards? I guess you if
you're getting something custom, you could have it glassed in.

Speaker 3 (26:36):
But if not, there's got to be a way.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
I guess the only the the the term I'm thinking
of it'd be to tattoo your surfboard somehow with a
very obvious mark that says it belongs to you. I
don't know how we do it, but there's got to
be a way. So anyway, he would love that, and
he's actually getting one made by the same shaper who

(27:00):
made the one that was stolen, so that'll that sting
will go away a little bit. Said that'd be my
dream Christmas gift, but I'm guessing it'll be more like
a year more.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
Weight, unfortunately, so he's gonna have to wait on that.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
Instead. He says, I'll probably get a hoodie since my
current hoodie is ragged and everybody in my family tells
me I need a new hoodie. They're telling you that, Keith,
because they already bought it for you. They're they're creating
a need. They're telling you you're ratty, old, comfortable, just
fits like a glove hoodie, the one you've put on

(27:37):
and taken off a thousand times. Yeah, no, you're you're
gonna get a hoodie for sure for Christmas, and you're
gonna have to break it in.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
It's kind of like a surfboard.

Speaker 12 (27:47):
Though.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
You don't have to break in a hoodie and you
don't have to break in a surfboard. Well, yeah you do.
I take that back every time you get a new board.
It's surfboards really are individual things, even they even if
they're share by the same guy and he's making the
same shape that he's made a hundred times, there are
little subtle nuances to these boards that make them perform

(28:07):
a little bit differently than the one you rode yesterday
or the one you might ride tomorrow, And that's that's
part of what makes it fun. I started out on
a really really short board. I was skinny as a rail,
I was very athletic, and I was riding a five
eight I think it was twin fin, just a little

(28:29):
potato chip of a surfboard, and it floated me because
I hardly weighed anything. And then as time wore on
and my waistline grew a little bit and pudged up,
got that dad bod thing working. Yeah. I went to
longer boards. It was just easier to maneuver, it was

(28:49):
easier to catch waves, and ended up I've got a
I think it's I think the board I have out
there now it's a fry surfboard, a Henry frye is eight.
I want to say it's just just a straight eight
feet it's it's a long board, uh, certainly compared to
five eight. And still though it if I can get
back on it, if I can get myself talked into

(29:12):
going back.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
And paddling out again.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
It's been a while, but the board is there, just waiting,
just patiently waiting. Seven one three two one two five
seven nine Email me, Doug Pikey. iHeartMedia coming. No, I
don't want to bar of surf wax for Christmas. I'm
I don't think. I'm it may be a while and
I'll celebrate it. I'll spring for wax if I ever

(29:34):
get down there again. I was hoping my son would
really take a shine to it, and I took him
down there once and got him going and.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
He could stand up on the board.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
He's very athletic and has great balance and a little
kid when I took him down there and pushed him
into waves on that board of mine, that eight footer,
so for him it was just like standing on the
sidewalk practically. He didn't have any trouble staying up. It
was fun. I enjoyed all that, and then then we
got into baseball and we got into golf. That he

(30:02):
was in tennis for a couple of years. He just
he loves all the sports. He's very competitive, he really is.
He loves it all. He cares how he performs in
those sports. And it's been fun to watch that. At
least seven one three. How Hardy told you that? And
you know what it is, Doug pikett Ieartmedia dot com too,
send me some emails.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
We're gonna hit another one on time. How about that?

Speaker 1 (30:26):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety online at sports seven
ninety dot com.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Now more Doug Fight seven one three two one two
five seven ninety Email me Doug Packett iHeartMedia dot com.
Peter Emails. Hey, my name's Peter. I'm from Memphis, so
I know Saint Jude very well. I would like some
information about the golf tournament and how I could volunteer
during the year. You know what, I'm gonna hook him

(30:53):
up after the show. I'm gonna send him a little
more detailed email. I just sent a reply a minute ago,
but I'm gonna I'm gonna get with him and make
sure that.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
He is he finds a way, and they'll welcome him.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
They're always looking for help at some of these events
they do from time to time, and that's gonna be
a good partnership. This guy, he's sincere about it, and
I appreciate that. Dan Wade in sunshine in all caps
peeking through down here in Paarland. Good get this rain
out of here for a little while. Now there's more

(31:27):
of it to come. We're in kind of a sloppy
period here, if you will, and so we're gonna have
to deal with it. But hey, every time you can
feel some sunshine peeking through the clouds and down onto
your neck, there's nothing wrong with that. At least the
temperature aren't gonna be super cold, not even chilly for
the next few days at sixties and maybe even up

(31:47):
into the seventies. That won't be horrible. Travis Wade in
what's he got going on? This is gonna be a picture,
I think. Let me see way up. Oh. I hate
being in here because I've only got the one little
tiny screen to look at as opposed to having two
big screens over on my desk. Oh. Yeah, they knocked

(32:10):
out wood ducks and what is some I looking at
I think it's all wood ducks. Yeah, nice little trap there.
Good job this morning. I'm presuming that was this morning.
Got a little timber in the background, timber, and it
looks like the top of a tree knocked off. That
tells me there's some little ox bow or a slew
somewhere where the wood ducks are screaming through there right

(32:33):
at first light and even before that.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
Boy, wood ducks are.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
They're early, and they get up early, and they go
to bed late, they really do. That's it's frustrating trying
to do afternoon wood duck hunts because by the time
they really get going, the sun's already down, and if
you shoot, you're breaking the law.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
So you just you're walking out.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
You've maybe knocked off one or two while the sun's
still up and while it's all still legal. And then
you're as you're packing up and walking out, you can
hear them just whistling through the trees and chattering with
each other, and you know that the good stuff was
happening when you couldn't even enjoy it. A lot of

(33:16):
fun wood ducks are. There are a bunch of them
actually that winter at Golf Club of Houston, as a
matter of fact, if you're familiar with the place, when
you go from whole number one to number two, you
cross a bridge and well, there are actually two bridges.
There's kind of the main pedestrian bridge, and then there's
the secret cut through the through the timber that. Well,

(33:39):
there's a couple of places where it crosses over a
little creek up in there, and that's if you know
what to look for when you're going through there in
your golf cart. Even because they're pretty accustomed to it,
you probably see some wood ducks up in there if
you go play. Good place to go play golf, it
is all right. So back to what's going on hunting
season wise. We've got the cranes reopened, Askeeter was talking about,

(34:02):
we got ducks reopened. We got more geese coming down,
a lot of keys showed up behind this last coal
snap we had too, and then we've got another one
coming early next week. So by the end of next
week when I've got and I said, what is it, Well, no,
I've got two weeks before this hunt I'm doing next

(34:23):
week is gonna be good. All of this is it's
very helpful for the waterfowl hunters. Very helpful. Now, there
is one issue that we're gonna have to keep an
eye out for down here that's happening in the Midwest
right now and up in Kansas and Missouri already said
to be about twelve or fifteen thousand geese mostly dead.

(34:46):
The stories I'm seeing say avian flu. I got a
hunch based on my experience in nineteen eighty eight. I
got a hunch it's avery and cholera, and that they're
just misnaming this kind of like kind of like people
call Bibrio vonnificus the flesh eating bacteria. That's not it

(35:07):
the they're different things. Huh say that again? What does
it call again? Vibrio vulnificus is a that's a water born,
a coastal thing that can kill you in three or
four day, well a week for sure, if you don't
address it really fast and just get antibiotics pumped into
you day and night forever. And what was the other

(35:30):
two with the the bird stuff, Yeah, avian flu bird
flu and then avian cholera avian And that's what we
had in nineteen eighty eight. And it spreads really quickly.
It spreads like wildfire through these roosts because the water
gets infected with the with the bacteria, and then the

(35:52):
birds roost in that water and they become infected and
it kills them quick. I'm talking about a couple of
three few days, if I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
It eats them up.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
And we as hunting guides, as conservationists, as bird lovers,
we were out there with our shirt sleeves rolled up
and rubber boots on and rubber gloves on and just
picking up dead geese day after day after day for
a long time. Had to drain all those roost ponds,

(36:23):
had to spend the money to refill them, which wasn't cheap.
That's acres and acres and acres of water that had
to be completely drained and allowed to dry out and
then completely refilled so that those geese could get back
on it. And all of that was it was backbreaking work,
it really was. Everybody who cared about those birds was

(36:46):
out there, though, and eventually we got it done and
cleaned up, and they're coming close to kind of herd
immunity on this stuff. But this outbreak up there in
the Midwest just let you know it's not done yet. Unfortunately,
you know who wasn't out there in nineteen eighty eight
to help clean all this stuff up. Animal rights people,

(37:10):
the animal rights people, and the anti hunters. Not a
one of them showed up. Not a one of them
spent a single dime to refill those roots. They didn't
care about saving birds at all. They cared about shutting
down recreational hunting. And those are two entirely different things
they really are. And just like just as slimy as politicians,

(37:32):
they showed their true colors when they had a chance
as animal rights people to really step up and help animals.
They just said, we're not gonna roll up our sleeves,
We're not going to open up our wallets. No, we're
just gonna let y'all do all that. Hadn't heard anything
so far this year from this far down the flyway,

(37:53):
and I really hope it doesn't pop up down here.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
I don't think it will.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
I don't think they could make it from the Midwest
all the way down here without dying. Back when that
was going on, there'd be just geese show up in
people's yards and parking lots whatever that had just fallen
out of the sky. There were that many geese flying
around to begin with, we had a million waterfowl on
the Katie Prairie, and now maybe maybe a couple one

(38:20):
hundred thousand, maybe if you count all the ducks and
all the geese, that might be a lot, maybe more
than that, with all the ducks we've got, but the
goose numbers are significantly down. And back then there were
so many of them flying around that they just randomly
die trying to fly. The symptoms if you see a
bunch of birds on the water, they just get really

(38:40):
little farged and they almost look like they're just super drunk.
They just kind of wobble, they're unsteady, their necks will
roll kind of back on their bodies, and their flight
is if they can fly still, it's quite a erratic.
And there's all kinds of things that just don't look
right with those birds. If they've got it, and if

(39:02):
you happen to see something like that, call a game
wardens and let them know where exactly where you saw it,
and let them go out and take a look. It's
a real mess. It was just so sad to see
how many geese died back then, just roost pond after
roost pond. They'd all the bunch of them would die

(39:22):
in one pond, and we'd kind of get that one
cleaned out, and then you'd wake up the next day
and go to a place that had been pretty healthy
looking the day before. The birds get up and fly away,
and there's still six seven hundred of them just dead
in that infected, nasty water. We'd have to go out
and drain those as quick as we could so the
geese didn't come back to them. Big old fat mess

(39:44):
it was, but we got it done. We got it done.
There's good people out there. Autumn Society jumped in. Everybody
who was a birder and truly appreciated all those birds
jumped in.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
The hunting guys jumped in. That was that's how we
made our money.

Speaker 2 (40:01):
Then it was a recreational hunting, and we weren't hurting
the population, certainly, not nearly as so badly and so
quickly as a b and cholera did. All right, So
back to my question that I asked earlier, and I'm
gonna ask it again and we'll try to get a
couple of more answers.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
The first couple were pretty good.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
Actually, what would you really really want to see with
your name on it as a gift for Christmas As
an outdoorsman, what outdoors thing are you really hoping, just
hoping against all odds, that you might get for Christmas?
And what do you think you're really going to get
when you open that box? When you open that box,

(40:40):
what's going to be inside? On the way out?

Speaker 1 (40:44):
American Shooting Centers Guns Shooting at Instruction since nineteen eighty nine.
Now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
All right, second hour of the program starts right now. God,
I think we can already kind of feel Melbourne. There's
there's so much other stuff going on around town and
in the calls are a little bit lighter now, the emails.

Speaker 3 (41:09):
Are doing well. Here's something from Mike.

Speaker 9 (41:12):
Let me.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
Uh, Mike ways in, Senna, Oh, I got the wrong
mouse in my pocket. Let me put this down, let
me put that over there. Yeah, let's see what's on
Mike's mind. Senna has known I have all of the
top shelf fishing and honey equipment. The final, oh gosh,
the final handguns on my wish list is a three

(41:38):
fifty seven Magnum and a nineteen eleven interesting Mike, because
I actually have a three fifty seven magnum and there's
a guy here at work trying to buy it off
of me. It's an old uh, it's a Smith and
Wesson Highwayman and if you if you're familiar with the guns,
six inch.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
Barrel, beautiful gun.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
I used to have a nineteen eleven, but I just
I just couldn't shoot that thing.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
I couldn't get comfortable with it.

Speaker 2 (42:05):
And I don't know, I don't know why, just the
way it felt in my hands. I just never really,
I never really had fun shooting that gun.

Speaker 3 (42:12):
I was always trying to. I was working.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
I had to work to shoot it, and that shouldn't
be how you know, how you enjoy the shootings forards.
That wasn't enjoyable to shoot that thing. It just bounced
all over the place in my hands, and I don't
know why. It never could get comfortable. So I sold
that gun pretty shortly after I bought it. That old
That Smith and Wesson that I've got is a pretty gun.

(42:39):
I changed the grips out on it. I put a
little oversized would grip on it, then the the original
It's just so small. I don't understand why a gun
in that caliber would be would be would have such
a small hand grip. It just made no sense to me.
So I got something that I could steady in my hands. Now,
it would if I were thinking, I would have to

(43:02):
pull it and use it really quickly out of a
holster back. I bought this gun back in the late seventies,
maybe the early eighties, somewhere in there, And if that
were the case, I probably would have been more comfortable
with that smaller grip. But for just just target shooting
and the little bit of deer.

Speaker 3 (43:21):
Hunting I did with that gun.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
Yeah, I just I wanted something that I could really
get my hands, get my hands solid on. No, it's
not a dirty hair well that the caliber is. Yeah,
this guy he knows I'm on the air. He knows
I'm on the air. Why is he calling me? I
know he's not listening to or he'd know better. Swipe down.

(43:44):
I can't do it. I'm gonna man, I gotta Yeah,
I'll let you listen to what I'm about to send him.
I am on the air, period. That's all he gets.
Then they'll figure it out.

Speaker 12 (43:59):
All right.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
I'll call him after the show. That's not a big deal.
It happens, it happens. We missed each other last night.
I was trying to call him yesterday evening. Actually it's
a guy I'm doing some business with and they've known
for gosh. I've known that guy thirty something years. I
don't know a long long time. And I missed him
last night. He was at dinner with some buddies. Yeah,

(44:20):
I'll call him later. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety email me, dougpick At iHeartMedia dot com. So, Mike,
if you're looking for that that pistol, you just let
me know. Maybe able to work out a deal. It's
in good shape, it really is. It didn't have that
many rounds put through it, and I didn't beat it up,
you know, just just sitting there waiting for waiting for

(44:42):
a new owner to find it and come shoot it.
I'm shooting some different guns now I've got I don't
I'll never say I have enough guns, because it would
always be fun to have more, you know, But I'm
comfortable with my my quiver. If if you will now
let me go talk to John. What's up?

Speaker 8 (45:03):
John Well self Professor deer nerd here and hope you'll tolerate.
I've been listening. I mostly listened to your podcast, traveling
back and forth to my pot.

Speaker 5 (45:15):
I've got a place about an.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
Hour, thank you.

Speaker 5 (45:17):
Sure.

Speaker 8 (45:18):
And I've been hearing a lot of discussion about the
deer management, the spikes, Bucky Doe, ratio, and I want
to chime in on my both personal feelings.

Speaker 5 (45:28):
And like I said, I'm a nerd.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
I read a lot.

Speaker 5 (45:32):
I read a lot from the NDA.

Speaker 8 (45:35):
You learn biologists. It is, it is. They have a
lot of great stuff. But the first one was the
spike thing. There was a discussion about you know, if
it's a little spike, let him go.

Speaker 5 (45:47):
If it's a big spike, the.

Speaker 8 (45:49):
Bigger issue is, if you believe the science and the biologists,
ninety seven percent of the spikes are yearlings one and
a half year olds.

Speaker 5 (45:57):
Okay, I agree.

Speaker 8 (45:59):
So if you see a tiny little spike, you know,
there was discussion a boy letting the little ones go,
that that's the one you gotta you gotta whack, right,
because if at a year and a half, the most
that can do with a little stub or a little
two or three inch thing versus a spike that's already
showing six or eight inches, one's got a one's got

(46:19):
the ability to put on more. Uh Antler mass Or
is suggesting that it's it's hard to tell, but but
the biologists will say, take the little little nubby.

Speaker 5 (46:30):
Don't say nub, right because people think.

Speaker 3 (46:32):
Like half a pencil.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
Yeah, yeah, okay, get it.

Speaker 8 (46:37):
Let the let the as long as you But you
first got to be able to say is that a
yearly or is that a two and a half year old?

Speaker 5 (46:43):
Because you see a two and a half year.

Speaker 8 (46:45):
Old spike, he's got to go absolutely, you know, but
that's that's a very small percentage of of bucks. Okay,
so you know, I'm sort of opposite of what I think.
The discussion was, oh, if you weeks back. So that's
just that's my two style. And then on the buck

(47:06):
to dough ratio, the reason they want to strive for
one to one or one to one and a half,
maybe maybe one to.

Speaker 5 (47:13):
Two is long term.

Speaker 8 (47:15):
If you want good, strong, big beefy bucks, you've got
to have big, strong doze.

Speaker 5 (47:23):
And if you've got.

Speaker 8 (47:26):
Dos that have to go through two or three extra
cycles in order to get bread, and that's what will
happen when you have a one to four they're gonna
be weak going into that. They're going to not have
a strong fawn when they get you know, and it
takes a couple of generations. There was a really good
article in NBA two weeks ago about what they call epigenetics,

(47:49):
that all these deer around here have the ability to
be big, beastly bucks.

Speaker 5 (47:54):
But they're smart. Their geenes know that Hey, I don't
get enough to eat.

Speaker 8 (47:58):
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna grow big because I
can't support that. But after a couple of generations of
being able to grow big, the jeens kick in and say, okay,
I can do this. There's long term lots of food here.
I'm going to grow bigger because I can support that.
So you need not a high dough to buck ratio.
You don't need one to four, one to five, all

(48:19):
that totally yeah, because the bucks, it runs the bucks
down that it makes them weaker going into the next season,
and they're not you know, andler growth is from excess
nutrition and excess strength.

Speaker 5 (48:32):
The first thing they're.

Speaker 8 (48:32):
Going to do is got to build their body back up.
If they've spent three months chasing doughs instead of one month,
they're going to be weak going into the next season
and when that antler growth has already get started. But
I go on forever. Like I said, I'm a nerd.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
Don't ever apologize for being a nerd, because that means
you've you've invested time and effort into learning more about something.
They're way too many any people out there who call
themselves experts who read one AI article on the Internet
decided they knew it all. You know, Yeah, well.

Speaker 8 (49:12):
There's an awful lot of well my grandpa always told me,
oh yeah, and there's there's so much misinformation there. But anyway,
well that's insulting. Well yeah, but at risk of insulting people,
and you don't want to. You know, anybody that's hunting,
that's a good thing for regardless of what they're thinking,
of what they're doing and how they're doing.

Speaker 5 (49:31):
If they're hunting legally.

Speaker 8 (49:33):
Yeah, they yeah, in in bold underscores, all caps.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
Oh, that's the same thing I said about fish and John.
It really is. As long as you're out there, I
don't care whether you use croakers or night crawlers or
lures or whatever you use for bait. If it's legal
by the Texas Parks and Wildlife department, then welcome aboard.

Speaker 3 (49:56):
If you got your license, we get.

Speaker 5 (49:57):
Me out here.

Speaker 8 (49:58):
If that's what it takes you gets out there, you know,
just you.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
Know, just well, you're invested at that point. You're invested
in the resource, and you're going to be more likely
to understand what carrying capacity is for deer, or what
it means to leave some fish in the bay because
they need to rebuild a population or whatever. You'll understand
that better than some guys sitting on a couch playing
video games.

Speaker 8 (50:24):
But the thing is, not everybody has the why they
like to fish once or twice a year.

Speaker 5 (50:29):
They're not going to spend a lot. I mean, I
understand that.

Speaker 8 (50:31):
And if and if they never understand the biology of it,
that's okay, you know, all the more reason they need
to know the rules because the rules are generally there
for a reason.

Speaker 5 (50:41):
They're not perfect.

Speaker 8 (50:42):
Sure, you know, uh, just just go out there and
hunt and fish and do all those things and get
some kids out there doing it and all those all
those things were beating out there.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
There's a return. I'm seeing a legitimate return to the
outdoors because people netically there's just this need for it
that hasn't been met for a couple of generations, and
younger people are saying, you know, hey, man, I kind
of want to get into duck hunt. I kind of
want to get into fishing. And I'm seeing that and
I'm hearing it, and I'm glad for it.

Speaker 8 (51:13):
I'm seeing less and you know, too much of the
well we didn't see seventy five years.

Speaker 5 (51:21):
So this wasn't a good hunt.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Yeah, that's got it. That's unrealistic and that there are
places where you can see that, and that makes it
that sets these unattainable standards that people got to sober
up and realize aren't out there for everybody anyway.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
Again, John, Yeah, that's a great call.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
Audios.

Speaker 3 (51:42):
What a good call from a good guy.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
Never apologize if you've done research and you've come up,
if you've come to a conclusion about something and you
want to share that conclusion or opinion or whatever you
want to call it, I'm going to listen. I may
or may not agree with you in the end, but
I'm still going to listen because you have you've done
your homework, you've read stuff about it, and if I've
read something that agrees with that, I'll tell you. If

(52:06):
I've read something that doesn't fall in line with what
you're saying. I'll tell you that too. That's called open discussion.
It's a it's a kind of a novel concept these days. Really,
hardly anybody does it anymore. They just they tell you
their opinion and as soon as you open your mouth,
they pull out their bullhorn and tell you to shut
up and drop a lot of bombs on you. Usually.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety, Facebook dot com, slash
sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (52:35):
Back to the Doug Pike Show. Right, Welcome back, Melvin.
You've just outdone yourself. Nobody will ever nobody will ever get.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
This right, Yeah, they will.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
I tell if somebody misses this one, we should I
don't know. There should be a there should be a
special prize. We actually, we actually offered a prize for
if the Saint Jude Golf Tournament up at Golf Clube
Houston on Monday. There was a prize for the worst
score the worst going. Now, bogey was your friend, So

(53:10):
the worst score you could shoot would be ninety as
a four person scramble team. And one of those teams
managed to shoot eighty eight. I think it was sixteen
over par and turned it in.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
Yeah, well that's all we got, you know, okay.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
Is that like a participation ribbon, No, this would be
a participation trophy or ribbon doesn't actually say what you
did and how badly you did it to win last place.
Everybody gets to know how poorly you performed as golfers.

(53:51):
But the deal was it's all in fun because the
bottom line was what we were all out there to do.

Speaker 3 (53:59):
Is raise money for St.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
Jude.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
And we did.

Speaker 3 (54:01):
We raised a boat load.

Speaker 2 (54:02):
Of course, as they say, four hundred and eighty thousand
dollars in one golf tournament.

Speaker 3 (54:08):
That doesn't happen very often.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
That is awesome. And I'm telling you next year, I'm
I'm ramping it up. I'm I'm gonna swing for a
little higher fence and I'm confident we can get there.
The core group of investors in this and they are investing.
They're investing their money in the future of these little
kids who otherwise quite probably would die if they weren't

(54:34):
being treated by Saint Jude. Quite probably. The survival rates
for pediatric cancers have I think just about tripled since
that hospital opened.

Speaker 3 (54:46):
For the patients that are coming through there and.

Speaker 2 (54:50):
When they started, most of the kids who came there
didn't get out of there. Now most of the kids
who come in do get out, do go on to
lead productive life. We have one of the a former
Saint Jude patient speak at the at the tournament, at
the dinner afterward, and it was impressive that young man
when he was four years old, he gets diagnosed with

(55:13):
the cancer of his eye and he qualified to get
into Saint Jude. And what they did to prevent him
from having to go through exhaustive and painful and horrific
chemotherapies and radiation therapies and all that. They and the
family opted to just remove one the cancered eye, the

(55:38):
cancer's eye, and in so doing that kid was given
a full clean bill of health because the cancer had
been confined just to that eye. They made sure of that.
They checked every other square inch of his body and
there were no other cancer cells. So with removal of
that eye. Now I talked to him afterward. He plays

(55:59):
foot ball for his high school. He's about seventeen, eighteen
years old. Now he's playing football. He runs track. I said,
are you fast, and he's just ear gear and he goes, oh, yeah,
he's having a ball. He's having a ball, and he
wouldn't be here if it weren't for Saint Jude. So anyway, I'll,
like I said earlier, if you want to get involved

(56:20):
with this tournament in any way, shape or form or
with Saint Jude, just shoot me an email Doug Pike
at iHeartMedia dot common. I'll help you. I'm sorry. It's
just a very passionate cause of mind, and when I
get started talking about it, it's hard for me to stop. Sometimes.
I looked at the forecast during the break just to
make sure that things hadn't changed, and lo and behold,

(56:41):
they have, and for the better. As of yesterday, the
rain chances for tomorrow and Monday and Tuesday we're pretty high,
around fifty forty. I think there was a seventy in
there somewhere today. It's a fifty to fifty shot today
and Dan's already weighed in. Hairland's got peekaboo sunshine going

(57:02):
on down there. And then tomorrow and Monday and Tuesday
the chances are only twenty percent. Wednesday it's a forty again.
That's when that front's gonna really come slamming through here.
And that's when the temperatures are gonna fall too. We
got highs in the mid seventies, upper seventies tomorrow and Monday.

(57:23):
Today's seventy four, and then grab your coat again on
Wednesday afternoon because it's gonna go down to forty six overnight.
And then the high on Thursday because it is a
norther after all, and it is late December, mid December.
High on Thursdays fifty five degrees. That's that's gonna be.

(57:45):
That's the we'd last week or was it last week
or week before last Melbourne when it got chili Chili Chili,
and there was a high somewhere in the fifties, But
I think it was a little higher than that, wasn't it. Yeah,
it's like fifty five. Well, yeah, that's yeah, that's what
we're looking at for next Thursdays. So if you like
that a couple of weeks ago, you're gonna love Thursday.

Speaker 3 (58:04):
You have the heater's turned on yet at the house.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
Not quite you know, it's it's right there in the middle. Yeah,
it's tough. I think this is the longest hour air
conditioner and heater have gone without being turned on in
a long time. You know, Like the commercial says it's
Texas god man. Yeah, oh you're listening to those? Which
one is that? Is that the Morrow thing? Yeah? Yeah, amazing,

(58:28):
Laura listen to them. Yeah, you know, they're in that business.
They've got to keep you hot in the winter and
cool in the summer. And without them, I don't know how.
I don't know how the whole state of Texas, well,
at least the coast. I don't know how the Texas
coast got settled without two things. Air conditioning which comes
with heating ACN heat And what's the other one?

Speaker 3 (58:50):
Insect repellent.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
Oh yeah, can you imagine living, yeah, living in Galveston
in nineteen hundred when I don't know, I guess you
just had to wear more clothes and just keep him
from just biting through it. Just however long a mosquito's
nose is, that's how your how thick your clothing had
to be, or you're just gonna get ate up and
carried away. I've seen area fly swide of which is something. Now,

(59:14):
what are you gonna do with that? You're just gonna
make them mad? Right of flies? Water? Have you seen
some of those coastal mosquitoes? Yes, they're like birds, they
like eagles. Yeah, they just grab that flyss water and
yank it out of your hands. Man, Holy cow. There
was a shot I saw years ago, and I wish
I could find it on the internet.

Speaker 3 (59:33):
It's there somewhere everything is of.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
A guy down on on High Island and he'd been
he was parked and I think it was either before
I guess it was after a duck hunt maybe, and
he was parked there and trying to get back in
his vehicle. And that guy was covered, just literally covered
in mosquitoes that there wasn't any There wasn't a full

(59:59):
square inch of skin on his body. I don't think
that didn't have a mosquito on it. It was just amazing.
And that's how that's how people had to live back then.
Maybe there were fewer mosquitos. I don't know. I don't know,
but whatever it was, it had you just been miserable
someone three two one two five seven ninety email me
dougpick At iHeartMedia dot com. And more people kept coming

(01:00:22):
to the coast and they said, you know, this is
an awesome place. Wintertime is not as nearly as bad
as it is up north. Let's settle here and then
spring and summer came and then yeah, it just it
did what it did. All right, We're gonna take a
little break here on the way out.

Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety a Houston sports fan
on air and on Facebook at contact.

Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
Back to the Doug Fike Show thirty six on Sports
Talk seven to ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
What oh what could it be?

Speaker 8 (01:00:52):
Huh?

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
Just can't figure out Melvis gems and jail this morning.

Speaker 3 (01:00:56):
Come on, man, you're killing me.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
That's okay, though, somebody's gonna get a night little gift
they can have.

Speaker 3 (01:01:01):
This would be a good mother in law gift, It
really would.

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
Or anybody who now with some of the jams and
jealous he does. Mike stood there and just gave me
a rapid fire tutorial on the pairings and whatnot and
what goes with what and I've already forgotten half of it,
but I bet it's at the website.

Speaker 3 (01:01:21):
And if you called out there and.

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
Told him you wanted something to go with lamb chops
or you wanted something to go with brisket or anything
else pretty much scrambled eggs, He's got something there that's
gonna taste delicious on that. Let's go talk to Brandon.
Shall we what's going on? Brandon? Good morning, Doug?

Speaker 13 (01:01:41):
Are you I'm good?

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
How are you?

Speaker 13 (01:01:43):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
I'm all right?

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (01:01:45):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (01:01:45):
Are you in mourning for Kyle Tucker?

Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
Uh no, but we trade him away?

Speaker 12 (01:01:54):
But yeah, right, sorry, we could get we got.

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
Somebody from the Chicago Cubs.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
Yeah, we did. We got three guys from the Cubs.
I think, didn't we I thought I saw that. Maybe
I'm wrong. Anyway, you know, it's just changed, and.

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
The team's gonna change.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
But I have a hunch.

Speaker 3 (01:02:14):
They'll be pretty dog gone good again.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
Everybody was upset when we got Jeremy Pinya, and Jeremy
turned out okay, yep. Brangmin's were even Yeah, probably, So
it's gonna be a whole new look next year. I
hope they can. I hope they can rise to the occasion.
I don't want to go into full blown rebuilding, that's

(01:02:37):
for sure, yep. But the spin will be for next year,
it'll be, Yeah, it'll be really different. They're gonna be
a you know what. It opens up some jobs for
some younger guys and maybe less experienced guys to really
strut their stuff. And who knows, we may find a
diamond in a rough couple of them. We're gonna need
a couple of them probably.

Speaker 5 (01:02:58):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
Did you hear they're changing their name.

Speaker 9 (01:03:01):
To the ball park?

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
Yes? I did, I did. And that's that's more change
coming for us next year all at once. Just got
this big pile of change coming. But they're the Astros.
I think they'll be okay. I think they'll be okay.
But not the Orange Seas Park. It's the breathing Yeah, it's.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
The ice box now.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Yeah. Well, and as I pointed out, if if we
if we do manage to play late into the season
and it does get cold outside, hey they're hey, they're
air conditioning people. We'll call it the hot box. Then
we'll do that. If the roost would be going to
be shut, Oh yeah, I would imagine they got to

(01:03:45):
show off there.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
They got to show off their ac skills for sure.

Speaker 12 (01:03:50):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
Hey, look, man, I got one more hanging on. I
got to get to Brandon. But thanks for calling. I'm
glad to hear from you.

Speaker 12 (01:03:55):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
You got holiday plans coming up?

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
Uh going to the I'm sure you were.

Speaker 4 (01:04:03):
Right now?

Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
Oh good, that's right. Yeah, Well I hope you have
a very Merry Christmas, my friend call again. All right too,
I'll see buddy. And I got a different number for okay, yeah,
there is a different one, all right, all right, Well
thanks Brandon, I'll see you later, Buddy. I'll call you
a persident.

Speaker 7 (01:04:24):
I will call seven r age.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
Okay, all right, audios. Bye, alright, let me go get
airon before we have to take a break here.

Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
What's up, Aaron?

Speaker 12 (01:04:34):
Hey, good morning, Let's go fishing.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
Let's go. If you're waiting on me, you're backing up
as they say.

Speaker 12 (01:04:42):
I'm not sure what's the target out here in North Carolina?
But are you close to the coast or no, I'm
in the Raleigh Drum area.

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
Okay, okay, not sure.

Speaker 4 (01:04:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:04:56):
Plus my girlfriend Fillip, so I'm not sure she's gonna.

Speaker 2 (01:04:59):
Be Yeah, I saw that picture you posted. Yes, that
was you outkicked your coverage, that's for sure.

Speaker 14 (01:05:06):
That was the exact term I used with her.

Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
Yeah, you better stay on your toes man. Hey, good
for you.

Speaker 12 (01:05:13):
You know it, you know it.

Speaker 14 (01:05:15):
I was gonna ask you maybe some general suggestions for
coastal fish and when it gets a little bit cold out,
but try to try to hit Rockport, maybe Downport a
about the seventeenth when I get back, But I don't know,
maybe just some some things that I might overlook or
something to try.

Speaker 13 (01:05:34):
One's a little bit colder out.

Speaker 2 (01:05:35):
You know, any time of year you're looking for bait,
you gotta go where what they eat goes, because that's
where they're going to go. And if there's bright sunshine
and you can find some mud bottom, you can find
some shell bottom that's going to warm that water in
the wintertime, and those fish are going to gravitate toward there.
If it gets bomb shelter cold, they're gonna go deep.

(01:05:57):
They've got that's they're really their only escape out for
really really cold weather.

Speaker 3 (01:06:02):
But other than that, they're still going to be where
the food is.

Speaker 2 (01:06:06):
And the best trout trip I ever had one hundred
years ago now with Cliff Webb down there at baff
And Bay. We were only in about two and a
half feet of water, but the bait was on top
of that shelf and that little flat and as a result,
there were, god, there were more big trout than I'll
ever see again in my entire lifetime. If I added

(01:06:28):
all up, I mean we had we had two dozen
more than two dozen fish over eight pounds, all on
top waters in about two and a half hours.

Speaker 12 (01:06:35):
It was stupid.

Speaker 2 (01:06:39):
We had We had five over thirty inches in that
little trip. It was just stupid. They were so big
and so fat. It was just unbelievable. Man. I've told
that story so many times, and I'll keep telling it
till the day. The first fish, the first fish I
actually got back to the boat, it was so foggy.
Sometimes you throw your lure out there at the end
of a long cash you couldn't even see it. You

(01:07:00):
could just hear this little tic tick. There was no wind.
It was dead comb tic tick, and then you'd hear
this blush and then about a second later, the line
would come tight, and it was like, oh, here we go.
And the first fish that I got back to the
boat cliffs up up. Cliffs. Got pretty big hands, and
when that fish came back to the boat, he could
not get his hand to cross its back to pick
it up out of the water.

Speaker 15 (01:07:22):
I had a buddy catch a twenty eight inch er,
but like that, oh man, prety good size hands too,
And just laughing.

Speaker 12 (01:07:28):
When he gets that big, you literally can't get your
hand around it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:31):
Yeah, he's gonna have to get a winch.

Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
Yeah. Yeah, he had been catching those fish for about
two weeks when and he was trying to get me
down there, trying to get me down and I finally
got a window and went. And he'd been taking allowing
customers to keep one fish out of this area.

Speaker 3 (01:07:46):
Nobody was fishing down there, There was nothing going on.
It was quite as just quiet as could be.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
And and he was keeping his stuff to himself, obviously
for obvious reasons. And he was allowing these guys to
take one fish back to a taxidermist each if they
wanted one to mount. And a biologist went by that
taxidermist and opened up some of those fish, and one
of them had it was a fourteen inch fourteen and

(01:08:12):
three quarter inch trout, And another one had a fourteen
inch mullet in its belly and it's still eating that
top one.

Speaker 12 (01:08:18):
That counts as two against alimited if it was fifteen.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
What's the heck? Yeah, really, I brought him a ticket
keeping an undersized fish. That's a good point. I never
thought of that.

Speaker 3 (01:08:29):
Holy caw, it was coral real quick.

Speaker 2 (01:08:32):
Yeah, I'd heard that.

Speaker 15 (01:08:33):
I've been debating what to tell the story on air
or not it's it's it's kind of a dirty, rotten trick.
But the amount of people are down that I don't
think you'd be pulled off anymore. I heard a story
from a from an old guy that uh, they'd catch
a or come up to a school of redfish that
catch one tie balloon. Oh and watch it, watch that

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thing go up and down and follow the school all day.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
Yeah, that's that's that is something that used to get
done a long time. It's not legal, and that's so
you don't want to do that. But yeah, they would
do that with popping corks and speckled trout too. You
just catch a little twelve inchure or something like that
and just put a hook through his back and put
a popping cork up there about ten twelve feet off
and just follow the whole school around. Yeah that's kind

(01:09:18):
of messed up. Yeah, yeah, just fall to the bag.
But on lures, real quick soft plastics. Don't be scared
to throw a soft plastic. That bigger trout, especially eat
a lot of sand deals they do, and if you're
imitating one of those, you got everybody's good a chances.

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With a big top water it's just way more fun
to fish with top waters. But oh yeah, the jigs
work too, man, go get them.

Speaker 12 (01:09:47):
You have a Yeah, you have the Merry Christmas and
we have to talk all for everybody. But hopefully it's
a little bit advertising to you next year.

Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
So yeah, I would be happy to talk to you
about that.

Speaker 3 (01:09:57):
I'll give you a holler later on.

Speaker 5 (01:09:59):
We'll do that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
Yeah, thanks, Harry, You bet Ado. What a good guy.
Holy cow. I don't know what he did to deserve
that girlfriend of his either, but he better he better
watch his six as they say in law enforcement, and as.

Speaker 3 (01:10:12):
It been uh good for them.

Speaker 2 (01:10:15):
He's that guy works probably harder than I don't know
if driving constitutes work, but he has to drive all
over the country. I looked at a map once he
sent me where he dropped pins in every place he's
worked and every place he's kind of been going around
the country, and you can't see the land for the pins.
He's pretty much been everywhere he and Rick Bye drive.

(01:10:38):
Rick Busch drives a lot of miles in a small area.
I think Aaron probably earns the medal, the gold medal
for straight line driving all over the country. You want
to go from Washington to Fort Lauderdale, Aaron's a guy.
He could probably tell you what roads it'll take to
get there too. Seven one three two one two five

(01:11:00):
seven ninety. Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot Com.
Am I that late?

Speaker 7 (01:11:03):
Really?

Speaker 2 (01:11:04):
Oh my gosh, holy cow, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
Melvin Well conversation with Aaron. I just I just rolled
up those two on time breaks and threw them out
the window, didn't I balance in the universe?

Speaker 14 (01:11:17):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:11:18):
Yeah, of course.

Speaker 1 (01:11:19):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety breaking sports News on
Facebook twenty four to seven.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
We'll get that information to them. This is the Dogpike Show.

Speaker 3 (01:11:29):
Okay, I'm gonna give you a challenge.

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
Pentatonics. They got them the song for today in the
next Break.

Speaker 3 (01:11:41):
Challenge.

Speaker 2 (01:11:42):
Accepted challenge tonight, Pentatonics. Pentatonics, they have a whole album
of those songs. I'm not gonna give it away, as
if nobody knows what it is. But I'm not gonna
give it away. But you find any one of them
you like. I just really had. I so admire their

(01:12:04):
ability to harmonize. That's just something I've always had a
passion for in music. And so there you have it.
So and you'll see there's a. There's probably at least
twenty songs in that theme. That's the thingle Well, don't
play it yet. It's okay, all right, So back to it.

(01:12:26):
Back to it? Where do I want to be? Let
me see? Oh, by the way, this is something because
a lot of people have friends or family coming to
town maybe this time of year, and they're bringing their kids.
Or maybe you're a grandparent who is coming going to

(01:12:46):
your children's house and to hang out with their kids,
and you're looking for something to kill a few hours.
Don't forget about this rainbow trout stocking program that the
Parks and Wildlife Department has. There are little lakes and
ponds in parks all around town that already have been
stocked with rainbow trout, and there are continued stockings throughout

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the winter season at some of these parks. All you
have to do is drag the kids over there and
set yourself up with the right gear and the right bait,
and you'll have as good a chance as anybody else
at that place to go catch some of those fish.
They're not big. You don't have to you don't have
to bring a landing net, you don't have to bring

(01:13:33):
a stringer, now you can, and you're encouraged to keep
those fish and take them home and eat them if
you want to.

Speaker 3 (01:13:39):
But it's just as fun it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:41):
Would be for me anyway to catch them and release
them as if you got to you're gonna take them
home and eat them.

Speaker 3 (01:13:46):
You gotta clean them up and do all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:13:47):
And they are fairly small fish, uh, some of them
smaller than I think they should have counted as released
rainbow trout. They're more like fingerlings. But you'll also have
a shot at catch them one eight ten twelve inches long.
Joe Doggett and I used to go do a lot
of that fishing years ago. We would fish two or

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three different lakes that typically produced pretty well, and you
can see little schools of them in the clearer lakes.

Speaker 3 (01:14:15):
You can see the schools of fish just.

Speaker 2 (01:14:18):
Wandering aimlessly as they acclimate to all these new surroundings,
having been raised in rearing ponds.

Speaker 3 (01:14:27):
And they were anywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:14:29):
From gosh, some of them as short as six inches long,
and some of them, like I said, better than a foot.

Speaker 3 (01:14:35):
The foot longs are much rarer.

Speaker 2 (01:14:38):
For obvious reasons, but nonetheless they're all out there and
they're all fun. You want to use some pretty lightweight gear,
but I would caution against going down to one of
those ultra light little spinning rods you see in store
sometimes something that looks like almost like an ice fishing rig,
because you just can't cast them far enough with the

(01:14:59):
tack you're going to be using sometimes to get to
where the fish are, especially if you're trying to throw
lures at them. Those little rods and reels don't help
at all. I would strongly recommend something in the two
O two class if you're familiar with Zebco and its offerings.
Those little two O two setups are almost ideal for

(01:15:21):
rod and reel fishing for those rainbow trout, and you
really do want to go ahead and go after them
with a rod and reel because the cane poles I
talk about using for catching little sunfish and stuff like
that as first fish for kids, they just don't allow
you to get where those rainbow trout are probably going
to be.

Speaker 3 (01:15:41):
You're gonna have to throw.

Speaker 2 (01:15:42):
It out their little ways. I would encourage you when
you start, first of all, to chum the area pretty
heavily with corn soaked in vanilla extract. It's a simple recipe.
It's no secrets. You drain the water off a can
of corn dumping in a zip lock bag, put in
about a tablespoon or two of vanilla extract, close the bag,

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and then just let it marinate until you get to
the fishing spot wherever that is. And whenever you get there,
no secret time. You're not basting it to put it
in the oven, to maor or anything like that. Just
corn that smells like vanilla period into story. Throw a
big handful out in front of where you're going to fish,
and then while you're rigging your rods, that will start

(01:16:25):
to pull fish into that chum line in that chum area,
and what you're gonna end up with is some of
the rainbow trout, some of the catfish that are there.

Speaker 3 (01:16:36):
If there are a carp.

Speaker 2 (01:16:37):
In the lake you're gonna fish, there'll be some of
those there, So be prepared to deal with a big
tug if you get one of those. That surprised me
one time out in Missouri City, there's a little lake
out there that gets stocked with rainbow trout. And I
have my son in one of his buddies out there
one day and little tiny cork about the size of
my thumbnail goes down, and my son's friend picked up

(01:17:02):
the rod and reel and set the hook, and just
about guy yanked in the water. We were expecting a
little tiny rainbow trout, and at the end of that
line ended up being about a twelve pound carp the
biggest fish that ever came out of that lake. I'd
almost bet and boy, they thought it was a sea monster.

Speaker 3 (01:17:22):
Had never seen something that big could have eaten if
it was.

Speaker 2 (01:17:26):
If it had been a carnivore fish, it would have
been able to eat pretty much anything and everything we
had caught up until that time.

Speaker 3 (01:17:33):
It was a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (01:17:34):
It really was. Good happens it's late. I got to go,
oh my gosh, who okay, all right, coming back.

Speaker 1 (01:17:43):
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Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
Now here's dog Pike, all right, third and final hour
already starts right now. Thank you all so much for
greatly appreciate it. Good Heavens. Rick Byke sent me a
picture of his od dometer, the one that says, I
think it's three hundred and thirty one thousand miles he's
got on that truck, probably driven in like two counties.

Speaker 4 (01:18:13):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:18:16):
Every time I turn around, he's in one of two
or three places, and he just he just likes being
out there, you know. And I would too if I
were in that position, I would be doing exactly the
same thing he's doing. Getting a chance to get out doors,
to see what's out there, to try to coax some
things a little closer to me than maybe they are
when I walk.

Speaker 3 (01:18:36):
Out the door.

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
All of that. That's like an oil change every day,
week and a half. Probably it maybe, holy God, I
need speaking of Yeah, it's time for me to get
one in my car. I might go ahead and get
that knocked out today. Maybe I don't know. I might
take a nap when I get home too. I woke

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up three times in the middle of the night last night.
Hell getting old. I'm telling you, man, it really is.
I saw something. I got a before we get to
the Grant Thornton Invitational, which is a kind of a
it's a it's a gimmick tournament. Okay, it's something for
these guys to do, men and women, and it's.

Speaker 3 (01:19:19):
A man and woman team rolling around there and.

Speaker 2 (01:19:25):
Best ball, right, now Taba Tonkit, I think that's how
you pronounce her name. And Nap at fourteen Underpar are
leading the way cup showing Batilla at thirteen along with
Henderson and Connors, and then it just kind of goes
on down from there. There's only sixteen teams in there.
It's it's not like a thirteen, you know, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen.

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It's not like there's a huge field involved in this.
It's just a fun thing for them to go do.
It raises money for a good cause and more power
to them. Looks like the weather pretty nice too, seventy
two degrees I think in Naples, Florida at Tiburon Golf Club.
I haven't been to that one. I've played a lot
of golf courses in Florida. I really had probably I

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would say at least two dozen, if not more, when
I was making a lot of golf trips back many
years ago, and I can't remember a bad one. I
really can't. I take that back. I take that back.
There was one course that I ended up playing on
a trip I made as a primarily a fishing trip.

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Slash radio live radio broadcast from down there, and the
weather turned wonky where we were supposed to go fishing,
but it was good. A little farther up the road
and this guy said, well, we got a golf course
up there. If you want to go play some golf, Yeah,
sign me up. Can they rent me some clubs? Oh? Sure, man,
they got rental clubs. I'm left handed. Oh and there's

(01:20:55):
this pause, I'll see. So he calls me back. He said, yeah, man,
I'm gonna come you up. They they're gonna hook you up,
get you and your producer out there to go play
some golf. It'll be fun, give you something to do
till we can go fishing tomorrow. Fine, so get there
about noon. Got plenty of daylight left. It's daylight saving time,
I'm sure. And the clubs that they brought out in

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the left handed model were they looked like something from
the Civil War man and that the driver head looked
like it had been through a horrible hailstorm. There was
no seven iron, there was no wedge, and just like

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okay and oh in the to cap it all off,
the three wood in the bag actually was a wood
and they hadn't been out That thing was probably twenty
five years old. But we played. We played the round
of golf, and it was it was sporty. I'll just
tell you that, I just couldn't get a feel for

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anything on those clubs were like like dry and practically
half cracked off on a couple of clubs. It was
they didn't they didn't really care much about left handed fishermen.
I can tell you that. I can tell you that
seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me dougpick At, iHeartMedia dot com. Good heavens. I thought

(01:22:20):
I had a lot of miles Aaron. Aaron couldn't. Couldn't
let Rick Bise show him up. His truck is a
twenty twenty one model and it has more than two
hundred thousand miles on it. Mine's a twenty one. It's
got eighty three, and I thought that was a lot.
So tip of the cap to these guys who spend

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windshield time unparalleled by many others. I guess you'd almost
have to be a professional driver to do that. Dan,
if you're still listening, tell me how many miles you
average in a year when you were when you were
driving semis all over the state delivering bananas from the
beach to the grocery stores up North.

Speaker 3 (01:23:03):
I'd be kind of curious what.

Speaker 2 (01:23:04):
An average what an average long haul trucker does in
a year of driving.

Speaker 3 (01:23:09):
How many miles.

Speaker 2 (01:23:10):
It's got it. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:23:12):
It's got to be a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:23:13):
That's all they do, eight hours a day and sometimes
a little bit more. I guess if they've got a
team working or something like that. Melvin, I got a
question for you. Do you do you think they're really
aliens trying to invade Earth? Do I think there's really
aliens trying to invade Earth?

Speaker 5 (01:23:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:23:31):
You know, I used to do the show a long
time ago. It was the Art Bells Show. I remember
Art Belt, Yeah, absolutely, I remember. That's when I first
got my start in radio, and nights nobody was in
the building. He used to talk about aliens and spirits,
some kind of crazy stuff and yeah, you summed it

(01:23:53):
up right there. Oh man. The the ap press machine
would go off and come back on late at night
and I would hit a building creek. Do I believe
that as aliens? Based upon that show, I would have
to say, Yes, there's something out there, don't I can't.
There's things I can't explain. Well, there's a lot of

(01:24:14):
people are wondering now because the people in New Jersey've
been freaking out over these drones that have been flying
around New Jersey. You may have seen that if you've
been watching, Yes, I have some news, okay, And then
four pilots out in Oregon reported UFOs the other night
that could or could not have been drones. Here's a deal.
I do think there's other life way out there somewhere.

(01:24:34):
There almost has to be. The other thing is any
being that could travel all the way here isn't gonna
be doing it in a drone. That would be just
like the uber of space travel a drone. You know,
you don't fly from forty light years away to Earth

(01:24:58):
in a drone. You don't even drones. You have other
propulsion systems. What are you going to do? You got
to stop and recharge your battery for your drone. Those
aren't If those are drones, they're not from outer space.
Is there outer space life around somewhere? Probably? Probably?

Speaker 3 (01:25:17):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (01:25:19):
You know? The interesting thing is if they've been coming
here for as long as everybody says, and they haven't
taken over this planet yet, we're way farther behind than
we think we are. The thing is, do they want
us I don't know. Hey, Will, it's what's up man?

Speaker 7 (01:25:33):
How you doing this morning, Doug? I'm doing good, brother.

Speaker 2 (01:25:36):
I am as well. So what you got for me? H?

Speaker 7 (01:25:40):
Heard you? Soup make a comment a minute ago wanting
to know what a long haul throat driver may makes
mileage in a year on the average. Yeah, Well, I
just happened to be one. I run coast to coast,
holy tort out from border to border. I don't leave
the country, but I got a twenty twenty four Peterborough
well right now, one hundred miles on it. Yes, sir.

(01:26:04):
It had five hundred miles on it when I got
it thirteen months ago, and I'm sitting at one hundred
and ninety six thousand miles right now and just over weird.

Speaker 3 (01:26:15):
So you've already changed tires.

Speaker 7 (01:26:18):
Yes, sir, I've already changed my front stair tires and
my drive tires, all eight drive tires on the back
of my semi.

Speaker 2 (01:26:25):
Now are you paying for those tires or is somebody
else paying for those.

Speaker 7 (01:26:28):
T Yes, sir, Oh no, sir, I pay for them.
One of those tires stear tires. Just your your stair tires.
Your two front tires are right at fourteen hundred dollars
a peace, holy man. We can only run what they
call virgin rubber on the front steers. They can't be
recapped on the back. Yeah, when your life's in in

(01:26:54):
the hands basically of two front tires, you want the
best drubber you can buy.

Speaker 2 (01:26:58):
Absolutely.

Speaker 7 (01:27:00):
And my back tires, my eight back tires on my tractor,
average about six hundred dollars apiece.

Speaker 3 (01:27:06):
Good Lord, So you're out?

Speaker 2 (01:27:08):
And those are.

Speaker 7 (01:27:10):
Those are? Those are? Those are recaps? So how many
miles I couldn't imagine putting?

Speaker 9 (01:27:16):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:27:17):
Yeah, brand new is no way.

Speaker 2 (01:27:18):
How many miles do you expect to get out of
that truck before you have to turn it over for
something else.

Speaker 7 (01:27:27):
As long as I keep my maintenance up and my
truck gets an old change every thirty thousand miles, we
can go a little bit. For we can go further
than a car can. Yeah, but my truck gets an
old change every thirty thousand miles. Greased and looped. Everything
gone through dot inspection about once every three months, ok, wow,

(01:27:47):
to make sure everything's up to part. And as long
as I stay up on my maintenance, I can get
a million miles out of us before I have to
do basically a rebuild on the engine. So you're looking
at about eight to nine years.

Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
That's yeah, that's pretty decent investment. What's a what's a
brand new truck costs these days? Ballpark?

Speaker 7 (01:28:07):
Two hundred and sixty two thousand dollars?

Speaker 3 (01:28:09):
Holy cow, man, holy can.

Speaker 2 (01:28:12):
And you you don't sound like you're losing money. That's good.
I'm glad to hear you're making money.

Speaker 13 (01:28:17):
And every time you.

Speaker 2 (01:28:18):
Make, I'm glad you make.

Speaker 7 (01:28:20):
My wife and uh, I have a My wife and
I have five daughters. Oh wow, my oldest one is
twenty one.

Speaker 6 (01:28:27):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (01:28:27):
But you know, just because they're grown and got their
whole place, don't mean they're actually gone.

Speaker 2 (01:28:32):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 4 (01:28:33):
Oh man, I got I've got a.

Speaker 7 (01:28:36):
Senior in high school, a junior in high school, one
in junior high school, and one in middle school. And
my wife is afforded the luxury of inga stay at
home mom. Not that she don't work her butt off,
cose sure, oh, actually works harder than I did.

Speaker 5 (01:28:51):
Yeah, I got one of I was at home Eastern.

Speaker 2 (01:28:55):
Yeah, I'll be home soon, honey. You take care of
the fort. You keep holding down. So where are you now?
Are you're not driving this morning, are you?

Speaker 8 (01:29:04):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:29:05):
Yes, sir, right now, I am in Birmingham, Alabama, heading
over to North Carolina and i'll deliver Monday morning pick
up and I'm going to Kentucky and from there I'm
going to Fargo, North Dakota.

Speaker 2 (01:29:20):
All right, I think Aaron's out there going. Yeah, I've
been there, been there been there been there been there, Willis,
thank you, man, I really appreciate the call. Dude, this
is I'm hoping anytime, I'd love to hear from you again.

Speaker 7 (01:29:34):
I look forward to your show every weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:29:37):
Thank you.

Speaker 7 (01:29:37):
The only time I don't listen is if I happen
to be at home for a weekend, which I under
about four days a month.

Speaker 2 (01:29:44):
Well, you don't have to explain that, Willis.

Speaker 7 (01:29:48):
I think last year I figured it up, me and
the wife, and I think I was home a total
of about seventy two days last year.

Speaker 2 (01:29:55):
You know, I know, and I hope my audience. I
bet my audience knows that without truckers, this country would
just come to a grinding hall.

Speaker 16 (01:30:03):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:30:04):
Thank you for being out there doing what you're doing.

Speaker 7 (01:30:08):
Well, thank you for the appreciation. We don't we don't
see as much and we thanks. Sure, don't hear it
very often, but it is nice to know that some
people do, uh do appreciate it, you know, uh kind
of like police officers. Nobody ever tells them thank you
for doing their job just because they wrote you a ticket,
but you know they're still just doing their job.

Speaker 2 (01:30:31):
Well, that's a lot tougher sell than delivering groceries that
we got to have it is it is.

Speaker 7 (01:30:37):
I give you that.

Speaker 2 (01:30:39):
Hey, I gotta run, Willis, thank you so much, man, serious,
don't be a stranger. Call back, man, I'll do it.

Speaker 7 (01:30:45):
You'll have a wonderful day and a happy Holidays and
the merry Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:30:49):
Merry Christmas to you and your five daughters and your
wife as well. Man.

Speaker 3 (01:30:52):
Thanks Willis.

Speaker 2 (01:30:53):
Audios. All right, I get there ideos you bet I
got a run.

Speaker 1 (01:30:59):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety Houston Sports Online at
sports seven ninety dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:31:05):
Back back to the Doug Pike Show four on Sports
Talk seven ninety to Doug Pike Show. That is Pentatonics,
right there, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (01:31:15):
That is?

Speaker 3 (01:31:15):
What's the name of that one? No, no, no, no, no,
don't tell.

Speaker 2 (01:31:18):
Maybe they might give it away, all right, because nobody
could possibly know what all these songs have in common,
just be almost impossible to figure this out. At around
nine thirty, we're gonna talk about that and we're gonna
get somebody involved and see if they can can. Boy,
if you can't get this one right, just don't. Even
if you're if you're hesitant to call, just don't, because
it's anyway, I promise David. And I'm gonna go to

(01:31:41):
David right now.

Speaker 9 (01:31:41):
What's up, David, Hey, Doug, how you doing.

Speaker 2 (01:31:44):
I'm good man, thank you.

Speaker 16 (01:31:47):
Well, we got a place in Gonzales County exactly exactually
at Leasville, and it's a low fan okay. So we've
taken a few deer to the local process or out there,
and I get a call from out from the time
to time from the biologist wanting, you know, authorization to

(01:32:07):
do samples sure Jack for the disease. So right, and
so I go by to pick my meat up in
my and my deers they were fine, and I said,
where are you seeing this disease? And they said, well,
it's it's very close knit. Mostly they're finding this this
deer wasting disease.

Speaker 2 (01:32:27):
Chronic waste disease, yes CWD.

Speaker 16 (01:32:29):
Yeah, in high fenced areas. You have you heard that
or is that well my fence?

Speaker 2 (01:32:37):
I think that it when it appears somewhere in a
low fence scenario, the deer typically would be more spread out.
In a high fence in an enclosure, they're going to
be interacting more often and it would spread faster. I
could see that happening depending on the size of the place. Now,

(01:32:58):
if you're talking about ten thousands behind a fence, probably
going to take a while for that stuff to cook.
But in a smaller place, there's I think a little
bit higher risk. And most of the places that are
getting checked are going to be these breeding farms, the
deer farms, where they have a lot of deer in

(01:33:19):
a small area and they have to be very careful
in there, and the results tend to be that the
whole herd has to be taken out from one of
those places unless they risk those any of those deer
going anywhere else and then potentially infect another deer. I
think it's it's just I don't know that it's the
fault of the fence so much. Is just the fault

(01:33:42):
of the crowded A little bit more crowded conditions. Does
that make sense.

Speaker 16 (01:33:47):
Yeah, you know, and that makes seem that's kind of
what's biologist said as well. Another thing that we've been noticing,
and we've had our place out there since nineteen eighty six.

Speaker 2 (01:33:58):
Good for you, but but.

Speaker 16 (01:34:02):
You know it's opening morning and you're in your stand
and you hear shots, oh yeah, all round. Do you
know in the last five years, it's very rare to
hear the shots. I'm thinking there's not as many hunters.
And I'm just wondering if the State of Texas, I'm

(01:34:24):
sure they got the numbers on purchases of hunting life.
Oh yeah, it just doesn't seem as.

Speaker 2 (01:34:30):
Much that One of the reasons I do believe the
problem is that there aren't as many hunters. And one
of the reasons there aren't as many hunters, I agree
with you on that part of it's just the cost
of a lease these days. It's it's outrageous to try
to buy buy into one of these leases. And if

(01:34:50):
you if you're looking at okay, what do I get?
What's the juice I get from the squeeze? And if
it's just if all you get is right right to
go on that property starting maybe in September and you
got to be out of there by the end of January,
and they want a bajillion.

Speaker 3 (01:35:08):
Dollars to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:35:09):
And there's not a whole lot of acres and there's
not a whole lot of deer on the place. It's
hard to justify that, it really is and that's hurting,
especially deer honey.

Speaker 3 (01:35:21):
And I don't know what we can do about that.

Speaker 2 (01:35:23):
Texas is ninety something percent privately owned, and if you
own a piece of property, you have the right to
charge whatever you want for somebody to go hunt on it.
But it does make it more difficult for people to
get out there. I'm like, I'm with you men. Years ago,
when I would go on deer hunts, you hear shots
right at the crack of the first light, you'd start

(01:35:44):
hearing shots, and you heard them all morning. And now
it is it's pretty quiet in the woods. And that
I don't know what exactly is causing it, because I
do think people are coming back to it. I just
think we're kind of at the bottom now and just
starting to work back. That's why you don't hear many shots.
I think in years to come, probably especially with the

(01:36:05):
economy turning the way it's probably gonna now. I think
it'll get better.

Speaker 16 (01:36:10):
I do, I hope so, because you had them. The
deer hunters are putting a lot of money into these
small towns out there, and they rely on it. They
rely on this money from the.

Speaker 2 (01:36:22):
Deer hunters that coming in.

Speaker 3 (01:36:23):
Sure, well twelve hours a bag for corn.

Speaker 9 (01:36:27):
Yeah, the convenience stores are killing it exactly.

Speaker 14 (01:36:32):
Hey.

Speaker 16 (01:36:32):
And one last thing, I know you don't remember this,
but I called to you about ten years ago and
I said, Doug, our deer are nocturnal, and what do
we do about it? And that's fokteen years ago now.
And you said, David, you need to go and get
you a bike.

Speaker 7 (01:36:49):
And instead of being dropped off with the mule or
your truck.

Speaker 16 (01:36:53):
Or whatever, you need to get a bike and ride.
And I hung the phone up and I said, that's
about the greatnest thing I ever heard of. Now look today,
all these bikes.

Speaker 2 (01:37:01):
Yeah, especially with electric bikes years ago. Man, that electric
bike thing is that's a great hunting tool. It really is.
All right, partner, I got a run.

Speaker 16 (01:37:11):
Man, okay, man, appreciate the infoke.

Speaker 3 (01:37:14):
Sure, David, thank you man, thanks for the call.

Speaker 2 (01:37:16):
All right, I'm gonna get to Longhorns Gott, and I'm
gonna get to Robbie as soon as we get back
from his break. And while I'm talking to the two
of them, I'm gonna get Melvin to find somebody to
play Melvin's gems and jellies and let us know what
the theme was for all these rejoins on the way out.

Speaker 1 (01:37:32):
Of We are Sports Talk seven ninety. Listen online at
sports seven ninety dot com. Now more Doug Bike.

Speaker 2 (01:37:42):
Nine thirty six on Sports Talk seven ninety. While I'm
talking to Longhorn Scott first and then Robbie, I need
to get somebody to play Melvin's jams and jellies and
let Melvin and me know if they can.

Speaker 3 (01:37:55):
How can they miss Melvin?

Speaker 2 (01:37:57):
You may, it's okay, but we need somebody to play
to in one of those Brasis River Provisions company assortments
of jellies and jams and maybe his solses. Let's get
to long Horns Scott first and I'll get to you, Robbie.
Hang on, buddy, long Horn Scott, what's up?

Speaker 12 (01:38:14):
Doug?

Speaker 17 (01:38:15):
I gotta tell you again, just love the show and
treating my favorite thing about weekend morning. So for what
you do, not why I call it, by the way,
but no hawk sightings in my backyard recently, and all
wounds healed up night.

Speaker 3 (01:38:28):
Well that's good to know.

Speaker 2 (01:38:30):
I remember that only cow man that hog did a
number on you. That was a deal.

Speaker 17 (01:38:35):
But hey, just a quick update. I know I've called
in him before to tell you about this. I mean
I mentioned that my dad and I My dad has
been entering us into these Texas Park and Wildlife draw
hunts for many years, probably fifteen years or so, and
he's eighty years old.

Speaker 2 (01:38:48):
Now this might be the last one.

Speaker 7 (01:38:49):
We get to do together because yeah, he's using a.

Speaker 5 (01:38:52):
Cane and it's a whole thing.

Speaker 2 (01:38:53):
But true things.

Speaker 17 (01:38:54):
We usually get drawing about every other year. Sometimes it's
back to back years for like one hunt, and then
this year we got drawn for three hunts. Man, it's ridiculous, right, Well,
and if you do it every year, the thing is
for your listeners. Hey, it's a three dollars entry fee
per hunt, so it's not a big buy in obviously, right,

(01:39:17):
So enter every year and you know, the more times
you enter than the greater your likelihood of getting drawn is.

Speaker 4 (01:39:24):
But we got drawn for.

Speaker 17 (01:39:26):
The first one was at the Nature Conservancy outside of Austin.
I say, outside of it's like a right smack dab
in the middle of the West Lake area forty acres.
I took a dough there and my dad kept seeing bucks,
but we could only take dose or spikes at that one.

Speaker 5 (01:39:42):
But the knee one and that was fun.

Speaker 13 (01:39:44):
But the knee one was we got drawn.

Speaker 17 (01:39:45):
We'd never been drawn for this, uh out of Enchanted
Rock State Natural Area. That was last week Tuesday through Thursday.
And so my thought was this your your last caller
made the comment about not here and I was shooting.
It kind of struck and remind me. So we get
out there on Tuesday, Tuesday evening is the first hunt,
and man, we come back in. I see dough, but

(01:40:06):
it's not a great shot. And by the way, every
hunter and there were ten of us could take.

Speaker 13 (01:40:10):
Five deer pull account.

Speaker 17 (01:40:12):
Well, when you hear that, you start getting a little
wound up, thinking, man, we're coming back with a flaw
of meat, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:40:17):
Yeah blah.

Speaker 17 (01:40:19):
I saw the first dough that night, didn't have a
good shot, and a kid who had never been hunting before,
and I say kiddies probably into high school, came back
with a twelve point hill country buck.

Speaker 4 (01:40:31):
Right, So it's fat South Texas buck, but a.

Speaker 13 (01:40:35):
Great looking rack, no doubt.

Speaker 17 (01:40:37):
Other people took dose and we're just like, man, we're
in a honey hole.

Speaker 7 (01:40:40):
This is so great, which for those of anyone.

Speaker 17 (01:40:42):
Who doesn't know, right, you're talking South Atlanto Fredericksburg. But
the report is this after the Tuesday night hunt. Were
there Wednesday night or Wednesday morning, Wednesday night, Thursday morning,
Thursday night, Friday morning. I saw zero deer the entire
rest of the time, nor did anybody else. And it
was a I mean, I think one guy saw one

(01:41:04):
little spike, but I was shocked by the leg and
I was thinking I didn't hear a lot of hammer either,
because there was nothing to shoot at it. And I
believe it for that area of the state. Uh, I
don't know what the deal is. And then the park
rangers were like, yeah, by the way, most of these
year have gone completely nocturnal. I put out in corn
next morning, it'd be gone and they're eating good.

Speaker 2 (01:41:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:41:27):
And I was just shocked by it.

Speaker 2 (01:41:29):
I guess, yeah, I appreciate it. Scott. I'm gonna have
to bounce. I gotta get Robbie here real quick. Yeah,
but yeah, that's that's good information to have. I'm gonna
tuck that away and hold on to it. Yeah, nocturn.
It seems to be a theme. Thanks man, I'll see you, audios.

Speaker 3 (01:41:45):
Uh, get him done.

Speaker 2 (01:41:46):
Let's get to Robbie. Get somebody on the line. Somebody
wants to.

Speaker 3 (01:41:49):
Win those jellies and gems.

Speaker 2 (01:41:50):
I'm telling you, it is the ultimate party thank you gift.
It is the ultimate mother in law gift. It's gonna
be something really nice that you can give to somebody
who appreciates these these products.

Speaker 3 (01:42:01):
Believe me, Robbie, what's up?

Speaker 13 (01:42:05):
Not too much enjoying a little rain out here in
the country.

Speaker 6 (01:42:07):
Finally on these one hundred numbers or uh.

Speaker 13 (01:42:13):
Yeah, shots.

Speaker 6 (01:42:15):
You know, our experience has been the same, and I
think it's regional. We don't hear shooting like we used
to at all, and I think a lot of that
is just because.

Speaker 13 (01:42:24):
Of land use changes.

Speaker 2 (01:42:25):
Uh.

Speaker 13 (01:42:26):
You know, the people out in our area.

Speaker 6 (01:42:28):
You know, for years, I mean forever, it was local
farmers and ranchers and they hunted as a part of
their lifestyle, maybe to put some food on the table.
And as the land use changed to more urban people
moving out, and they just didn't grow up hunting, so
not nescessipily they don't.

Speaker 13 (01:42:45):
They might not be opposed to it, they just don't
do it, right.

Speaker 2 (01:42:48):
Yeah, that's a that's a good point.

Speaker 6 (01:42:50):
That that you know, growing up out here, you know,
the first couple of weekends of the season on a
Saturday morning, it was like a war zone and we
don't hear anything. And that from a management standpoint, I mean,
we we receive a lot of dough permits, it is
we can't possibly fill them because we're low fence.

Speaker 13 (01:43:13):
So it's you know, the deer.

Speaker 6 (01:43:15):
That little fence doesn't anything to the deer, and deer
numbers are just floating where we are because I think
of general lack of shooting, a lot of these people
just don't do it or they have other places to go.

Speaker 2 (01:43:26):
Are your places out there getting broken up into the
little formats and ranchets, Well they are, and I see
that's another issue. But that doesn't I mean, we do that,
we participate in some of that undersaying it, and it
doesn't affect the deer numbers. I mean that if it's
a five acre track or a hundred acre or however
large track, that low fence doesn't mean anything. Now you

(01:43:48):
just have deer that used to wander around in dictastors.
They're just wandering to people's yawn.

Speaker 12 (01:43:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:43:52):
But the problem is though, that you can't you can't
walk out on a five acre place and start shooting deer,
you know, And so all of that land, that five
hundred acres that gets cut into fifty ten acre pieces.
Now you've got fifty landowners who don't have enough land
to shoot a rifle.

Speaker 6 (01:44:11):
That's that's completely true, but it's I mean, our neighbors
are large neighbors around us, and they they hunt elsewhere
because they just can't, and so their dear numbers are exploding,
which means basically the entire area is exploding. And it's
it's frustrating because you know, you can have a crash

(01:44:31):
if we get a big drout and I'd rather not
see that. But yeah, real, it's just it's it's the
numbers are overwhelming. I mean, you know, I don't have
enough friends to shoot dough and they don't want them,
you know, they don't.

Speaker 13 (01:44:44):
Everybody wants to go hunt.

Speaker 6 (01:44:46):
A buck, and I understand there, and my kids are
the same, they want to shoot a buck.

Speaker 2 (01:44:50):
I'm like, hey, guys, please qute and shoot if you do.

Speaker 13 (01:44:52):
I don't want to mess with it.

Speaker 6 (01:44:54):
It's just a and and again I admit I'm spoiled.
I mean, I can have venison whatever I want it.
And people who only are able to hunt sporadically there
they want to buck and it's natural and I don't.

Speaker 13 (01:45:08):
It's just the way it works.

Speaker 6 (01:45:09):
But it's it is interesting that, you know, my one
of my kids came in, you know, from hunting and
the you know, in the early part of the season
and said, Kylie, that is I didn't hear any shooting
like as in zero wow.

Speaker 13 (01:45:23):
And and uh. And it's true.

Speaker 6 (01:45:26):
And I think it's it's regional, I believe, you know,
depending on if you're close urban or Lance been lit up.
That's kind of one of the perhaps unintended consequences got you.

Speaker 2 (01:45:38):
Well, I gotta take a break, believe it or not.
I hate to do it to you, Robbie. It's good
to hear from you.

Speaker 9 (01:45:43):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:45:43):
I'm going to see you down there at Waterfowl Specialties
for sure for that first hunt, and possibly if I
can stay awake for the second one.

Speaker 13 (01:45:51):
Well we hope you can make both of them.

Speaker 2 (01:45:54):
You know it. What I'm going to be jealous of
is when you all leave to go on at quill
Hunt without me. Little tears all the way back to Sugarland. Man,
Thanks Robbie, I'll see you soon. Man. Audios, all right,
last call seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
I'm gonna get somebody. It's gonna be a no brainer.

(01:46:17):
You don't have to have listened to all show. Have
you caught two of these? You know what the theme is.
And I want to give that to somebody who who
really wants it. I do. All these little gems and
jellies are gonna be fun. They're gonna be a great boy.
If you're cooking at home, you need these in your
in your repertoire, as it is on the way out.

Speaker 1 (01:46:39):
Your Rockets and Astros live. Here we are Sports Talk
seven ninety. The conversation continues this as the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (01:46:48):
Welcome back nine fifty on Sports Talk seven ninety Doug
Pike Show. This audience of mind drives me crazy sometimes,
and when I think's going on here here we are
trying to give away a really really legitimate gift basket
full of delicious gems and jellies and soulss And I
don't think anybody, really, I don't think my people understand

(01:47:11):
exactly what they're getting. This isn't something you're just gonna
go find on the on the bargain isle of the
grocery store. Okay, these are these are artisan, these are
special recipe things.

Speaker 3 (01:47:22):
That you're not gonna find anywhere else.

Speaker 2 (01:47:24):
And so I'm gonna shut it down for today, and
I'm going to do this tomorrow. And I want you
to go take a look at that website so you
understand what you just so casually dismissed. Oh, I don't
have time to make a phone call. It's okay, you
will if you go look go to b Rprovisions dot

(01:47:45):
com and take a look at exactly what they're doing,
exactly what Mike and his company at making over there.
And I've already I've already sampled some of it, and
I can I can tell you right now that when
you when you see what you're walking away from, you're
gonna think twice about it. All you gotta do to
get the basket has come down here to the studio,

(01:48:06):
and it's right at the galleria. It's not far from anywhere,
not far from anywhere. So somebody tomorrow is gonna be
very happy that I couldn't. I couldn't coax somebody into
playing today. And I don't know why that is. This
is a season for for fine foods, a season for
gourmet stuff, and that's exactly what Mike and his his

(01:48:27):
company is making down there in Rosenbird. I got the
jars at the house to prove it. The gift baskets
are here. That's all you gotta do is make it
over here. So we're gonna shut it down for today
and not worry about it. Mike, I don't want you
to worry about it. They just don't know what they're missing.
They just don't know what they're missing yet. But I do,
and I'm gonna keep telling them until they figure it out.

Speaker 3 (01:48:50):
It's not a problem.

Speaker 2 (01:48:51):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. We got a
few minutes. I could take another call or two if oh,
look at Forrest jump an end. See if Forest wants
to play. I bet he'll do it. See if he'll play.
He's a smart guy and he is what well. He
can't cook his wife? Can that?

Speaker 8 (01:49:12):
You?

Speaker 2 (01:49:12):
Folk?

Speaker 8 (01:49:12):
Pro.

Speaker 18 (01:49:13):
Yes, sir, I just pulled into last Pro shops in Spring,
did you now, Befre, I get early before the crowd
gets here?

Speaker 2 (01:49:21):
Well, you may be too late for that. Then it's
almost ten o'clock. Man, Yeah, that's pretty pretty pretty full
parking lot. I too. You see, you want to be
the first person to play for one of these Jellies
and Jams, And I'll figure out a way to I
can probably get it mailed to you. I bet I
can from here that just I think I can. I
think I can't a lot.

Speaker 18 (01:49:38):
I'll do a lot for Jelly and Jams, A Jillian
Jam kind of guy.

Speaker 3 (01:49:41):
Well, have you been listening to the show or are
you asking me that question?

Speaker 2 (01:49:46):
Come on, so you have a pretty good okay, okay,
then in your first forest and trust me, man if
I can get that gift box up to you or
whenever you come down, what we'll do is get Lane
to come pick it up and take it to you.
Do that too, all right, Melvin, let's tell this is
You're gonna be my my first ever with this game.
So here we go.

Speaker 19 (01:50:12):
Morning now, A taste of Melvin's Chams and Jelly's on
the Dunk Bike Show deliciously spread for you by Bross
River Provisions. Locally meet Gormet Jams, jellies and sauces for
all occasions.

Speaker 2 (01:50:30):
All right, that done for this beautiful gifts basket of
jams and jelly's from Bress River Provisions Company. What was
the theme of today's music.

Speaker 18 (01:50:42):
Forest, Well, not to be keptain obvious on saying it
was a Christmas theme, but I was gonna go a
little bit farther to say, being I heard Jose Feliciano
Felis Agudac came out in nineteen seventy. I was gonna
go as far as to say, nineteen seventy ish Christmas
theme songs.

Speaker 3 (01:50:58):
That'll have to do.

Speaker 2 (01:51:00):
And you're the judge, is correct, you are correcting. We
I'm done, man, Okay. So that's how easy that was.
And now you are the proud owner of one of
these gift baskets, and I'll figure out a way to
get it to you, you know, I will. Melvion's gonna
get your information and we'll we'll officially lock it in
from there in this first official edition of the game.

Speaker 3 (01:51:21):
And thanks for you, man, You and your wife are
going to love this stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:51:24):
Dude.

Speaker 3 (01:51:25):
I promise you.

Speaker 2 (01:51:26):
I promise.

Speaker 18 (01:51:27):
Yeah, if I had time, I'd do my little Christmas
thing too.

Speaker 13 (01:51:30):
You were talking about earlier.

Speaker 2 (01:51:31):
If you got time go ready to go?

Speaker 18 (01:51:34):
Well what I well, I'll go first of what I
think I may get, because she said you needed help
getting out of the trunk, and I've been talking a
lot about the late being low deed and a new
layout blind, so I'm thinking there may be a layout line.

Speaker 2 (01:51:45):
So I'm not going to complain about that, No, not
at all.

Speaker 18 (01:51:48):
But my top three gifts what I want in order
of how I want them. Three day flooded timber Hunt
and Stuttgart.

Speaker 2 (01:51:55):
Oh Man yep.

Speaker 18 (01:51:57):
Or a three day fishing trip in the Amazon for
top water or peacock oh okay, our number three thanks
to you and Laye. A week golf training by Anica.

Speaker 2 (01:52:08):
Sorison oh Man Honka. I actually interviewed her for thirty
minutes once, just a random thing. She happened to be
at a golf course where I was playing, or well,
it was a Florida town. I can't remember what town
it was even, but anyway, she was doing a kid's
clinic at the place where I was going to do
my live broadcast and I saw her there, and I

(01:52:31):
sent my producer over to ask her and her producers
or her handlers whoever, if she could do an interview
in the morning, and that we didn't hear anything back
from them that entire day. The next morning, I'm sitting
there doing my show and up walks Onnica Sorenstam and
sits down and talks to me for thirty minutes.

Speaker 3 (01:52:49):
I'm jealous.

Speaker 2 (01:52:51):
I don't know what's what a fine ambassador for the game.
It's just unbelievable. Yeah, a lot for golf and just
continues to do so too. She and Bernard Long are
probably two of the most well known names in golf,
behind Tiger Woods, of course, But nonetheless they're good people.

Speaker 3 (01:53:12):
Man, They're just good people.

Speaker 12 (01:53:13):
Yes, for sure, for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:53:15):
All right, partner, it's good to hear from you.

Speaker 8 (01:53:17):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:53:17):
How's the crappie fishing.

Speaker 18 (01:53:20):
I'll tell you what. I'm gonna go find out tomorrow.
Mother nature won't let me get either boat out. Just
been one of them damp everything in your everything in
your house is saturated.

Speaker 2 (01:53:28):
So I'm gonna find out on the crappy tomorrow. I'll
touch base with you. Oh yeah, do that, will you?
All right, I'm gonna get you hooked up Melbourne to
get your information. I'm gonna put you back on hold
and he'll get all your stuff and we'll make sure
you get that prize. Man sounds good man, Audios. Oh yeah.
Anybody who knows who knows Forrest and finds out what
he got from him when and finds out what he

(01:53:49):
put it on, is gonna be jealous and is not
gonna miss that opportunity again. I promise you I'll be
back here tomorrow morning at eight o'clock. Come on and
join us. Only gonna do that game on Saturday, so
you're gonna have to wait a whole week now to
do it again, and it'll be worth the wait if
you can call in and get We're gonna make it
harder next week too. That was that was pretty soft.

(01:54:09):
Stay outside having fun with your family, do it safely, please.

Speaker 3 (01:54:13):
And then come back tomorrow morning.

Speaker 2 (01:54:15):
Today we'll do it all over again. Thanks to all
of you for listening all over the country. Holy cow,
that's pretty special. Audios

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