The Doug Pike Show 8-10-2024

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

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Get started, all right, Saturday morning starts right now. We've
got a long ways to go, three hours of coverage. Actually,
the women are finishing up there. Well, they're in their
third round of golf over in Paris. There are fish
snapping in the bays along the coast, in the lakes
for lots going on dove season barely three weeks out now,

(00:35):
so we're gonna tap on that a little later. Let
me make a little note here about something. Okay, I'll
take care of that. If you like heating humidity, you've
probably been just I don't know, positively you fork for
the last well the last straight week, and boy, I
don't know how you'll hold back your enthusiastic if you

(00:57):
love heating humidity, but you got about another week of
that stuff still coming. Still just positively giddy days. For
those of you who love one hundred degrees Melbourne? Are
you a fan of hot weather, like really hot one
hundred degree plus?

Speaker 4 (01:11):
You know, the only time I appreciated hot weather was
when I was up state in Connecticut. Okay, yeah, but
you know, but that wasn't hot hot. No, But I'm
gonna be honest with you. That coal made me miss
that hot. But you know, I'm not a fan of
hot weather, but I appreciated when I was up there

(01:33):
in Connecticut.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, I don't blame you. That's a long ways up
there too. I made a couple of trips to Maine
years ago to go fish for stripe baths in the
kennebeca river, and well, one was to fish the Kennebec,
the other was to do some other stuff, didn't matter.
It was an outdoor riders conference and a quick sidebar.
A team of us from Houston had pitched Houston as

(01:57):
the site for that me where writers and broadcasters from
all over the country meet annually to share awards and
to talk about their craft. And it's just a big conference,
a big convention, if you will, of outdoor writers and broadcasters.

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And we pitched Houston based on the proximity to places
where outdoor activities can take place, such as fishing and shooting,
just the other things in the city you're going to
the host city that make it fun and interesting. And

(02:43):
for the family members who are in attendance, and on
and on and on, and convenience. Convenience is supposed to
weigh into the presentation as well. And if you take
a map of the United States and you fold it
in half, Houston is on the crease. Basically, we're in
the middle of everything, and they chose Maine. They chose

(03:06):
Maine because, after all, it's way easier to get to
Maine than it is to get to Texas from oh,
I don't know, California, out half the country. It's just amazing,
just amazingly short sighted. But what it came down to
was the fix was in. It's kind of well, yeah,

(03:29):
it's kind of like other things get fixed in this country,
and it's coming more and more to light really and
it's gonna get harder and harder for the people who
are doing the fix and to to excuse it away.
But the bottom line was, we went to I think
it was Orno that we went to in Maine, and

(03:49):
hats off to them. They did their best. Every fast
food joint had welcome O WAA on its little outside
that usually says milkshakes two for a dollar or something
like that, And yeah, no, it was not. It was

(04:10):
not the best outdoor writers convention of those I attended.

Speaker 5 (04:14):
We do it.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
There's a similar event. I haven't been in a while.
I really haven't confessing, but there's a similar Texas Outdoor
Writers Association does the same thing every year, and those
guys I know most of them still, and they put
on such a good annual convention. I wish I could
still go back to them, but working six days a
week down here and doing what I do kind of

(04:39):
prevents me from doing that. I suppose I could broadcast
live from there, but it's just between that and raising
the sun. For the last sixteen years, it's been a
little difficult to make them. It's fun, it's always good
to go. Every time i've gone, I've really enjoyed being
there and really enjoyed seeing the people that you hardly

(05:00):
ever see outside of those conventions and gatherings. But they
are what they are anyway. Thinking back to summers, I
was sitting at my desk a little while ago thinking
about how.

Speaker 6 (05:13):
That we have.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
You could wake up and it can be almost any season,
almost any day of the You can wake up with
your eyes closed, not knowing what day, week, month it is,
and you can walk outside and just about guess the season,
except in well, the only time you can guess it.
I'm going the wrong way with this. The only time
you can guess it accurately is dead a summer. August,

(05:40):
it's gonna be ninety something, and if it's not ninety something,
it's gonna be one hundred in the afternoon and overnight.
It's probably gonna be in the low to mid eighties.
The rest of the year, in spring, fall and winter,
you could get food Houston. There's no anywhere in Southeast Texas. Really,

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there have been dead a winter days January, December, February,
pardon me, where the temperature has gotten into the low eighties.
That's not wintertime, but it feels like it feels like
summertime in the winter, same with spring, with spring and fall,
it's a it's a roll of the dice. It could

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get cold, it could well he hardly ever does. But
it could be warm, or it could be hot. But
in August, there's no question what month, it is, no
question about it. We got on that boat yesterday, Well,
I I've jumped ahead of myself. I was gonna tell
you about what happened yesterday. I finally got to get
on a boat and get in the bay after being

(06:49):
off at too long. And I was making my mind
up whether or not we're gonna meet that little that ramp,
that public ramp at sixty first Street really easy to
get to. You don't have to you don't have to
do anything crazy. There's plenty of parking there, usually on
a weekday anyway. And I'm toying on Thursday night whether

(07:11):
or not to take Highway six or take belt Way
eight over to forty five Highway six belt Way eight,
and I thought, you know what, I'm not going to
be in a big hurry in the morning. I'm just
gonna cool and casual it down there. So I'll just
take I'll just take Highway six because it's gonna be

(07:32):
a little easier drive, or not as much stressed. Not
a bunch of guys, young guys in imported sedan's doing
a hundred going by you. And so I get on
Highway six and within the first five miles between sugar
Land and Galveston, I'm thinking, there sure are a lot
of lights here and I'm catching every one of them. Ooh,

(07:54):
this isn't nih I'm still good though. I got plenty
of time, plenty of time we're meeting. It's six fifteen,
six point thirty somewhere in there, and no big deal.
I got plenty of time. And then I get a
little farther down the road and I've still got plenty
of time, so much so I'm thinking I feel good
about the time. I'm making. Whip into a convenience store,
get a little something to eat and drink. So I

(08:16):
get back on the road, and less than four miles,
less than four miles from the Gulf Freeway, there's train tracks,
and far ahead I can see those red lights back
and forth, left, right, left, right, red lights. Oh man,

(08:37):
there's a train, I guess, but I don't see any
cars stacked up, so it can't be bad. Or maybe
there's just no train yet. And a couple of cars
are just slowly moving across the tracks taking a look. Well,
I get up closer and closer. Turns out in the
in the center lane of the two on each side,
and the lane one, as law enforcement calls it, one guy,

(09:01):
lane two, one car. I'm second behind him in lane two.
And there's a train on the tracks and it's not moving.
It's not moving. Left it's not moving, right, it's just
not moving. And I thought, well, how long could that take?

(09:21):
Maybe they're just switching a little something out. It can't
take that long. So I sit and I sit, and
I'm thinking, you know, I probably ought to let them
know that I'm gonna be a little bit late because
there's this train stopped on the tracks. And then I
checked myself and said, no, no, I don't be so pessimistic.
They'll get this thing out of here any second now.

(09:42):
Well five ten minutes later, I'm still playing games on
my phone, wondering when this thing's gonna move. And I
hear this, and the whole train just shutters and shakes
and moves about ten feet left and then stops. Okay,
that's all right, eh, Maybe they're just they're getting it

(10:05):
all buttoned up. They're ready to go. They're gonna get
a running start at it. And then I sit for about,
honest to god, i'd like another two or three minutes.
And then and it goes the other way about fifteen
or twenty feet, not a whole car length, mind you,
just just enough to get your hopes up. And then
just and then bam, all the cars bammed together again.

(10:29):
Just as they got them all strung out, and and
they stopped and so helped me. This went on for
thirty minutes, thirty solid minutes. I sat at those tracks,
and about every other thirty seconds I was either I
was either contemplating whether or not to let them.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
Know where what?

Speaker 7 (10:49):
Well?

Speaker 3 (10:49):
I finally did I toward the end there, about twenty
five minutes into it, stuck behind a train. You guys,
go on out, go fish some place closed for a
few minutes and see what what you do, and then
I'll call you when I'm loose. No, no, no, we're
gonna wait for you. No, the sun's almost up. Go
get out of here, Get get away from the dock.

(11:09):
They'd all been there for David and Henry got down
there early, my son's baseball friend and his dad, David
Branch and Henry Branch, and we were fishing with Mike Catchiatti,
by the way, and what he's good about doing stuff
like this with me and getting some people out there
and teaching them a little bit about fishing who could

(11:30):
use a little bit more help. And so we had
this great day planned. They were gonna fish with crokers.
Mike and I were throwing lures, And the bottom line
is we didn't get away from the dock until right
at seven o'clock, right at seven, and it was it was.
We still had a good time. They didn't want to

(11:50):
leave me. And just if I had not stopped for
that convenience store stop, if I had not gotten so
fired up about being a little bit ahead of time,
it would have been fun. Are you familiar with this
statement and where it comes from? Melvin here? It is
missed it by that much? Oh yeah, remember get smart,

(12:12):
do you? Yeah, that's what happened to me. I was
the number two, the number two sucker that got caught
behind that train. And oh, it was just agonizing, just agonizing.

Speaker 5 (12:23):
Man.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
My son couldn't make it, by the way. He was
supposed to join us, but he was feeling bad and
being on a boat in ninety eight degree air isn't
the best place to heal up from anything. So we
left him behind and we did okay, we didn't do great.
And it turns out we got out there according to
the phone chatter amongst the guys used to be radio chatter.

(12:46):
Now it's just phones. And most of his guide buddies
out there had caught fish they'd caught fish early and
then the bite had slowed down right about the time
we got there. But everybody, in the end we all
had we had had some fish. We all caught fish.
That's a good thing. And and David and Henry wanted
to take some home to their family to eat last night,

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so they did to. I think they took three fish,
and all three of the ones that they took home
were just right at twenty inches. They were just under
and legit fish. But they were fatt as toads too.
I'm sure they tasted really, really good. Seven seven ninety.
Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia Dot Tom Captain day
or not, Captain Dave, guitar Dave, stick around, man. I'll

(13:31):
get you as soon as we get back, I promise,
But I got to get on into this break.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety the Houston sports Fan
on air and on Facebook.

Speaker 6 (13:42):
They contact back to the Doug Fike Show.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
That's a guitar Dave requestion? Did he request that?

Speaker 5 (13:52):
Get third? All right?

Speaker 3 (13:54):
I kind of had a hunch, and I bet you
he's probably playing along at home. Let me go get
him on the phone here. I got it. I think
what's up, Dave?

Speaker 8 (14:04):
Well, actually, hey, hey, uh I'm actually I'm up here
at work and uh you know, because I got I
gotta clean some stuff.

Speaker 9 (14:14):
But your son coming up.

Speaker 8 (14:15):
Right now, it'll blind you, you know. I think you
don't have a wind out there. Do you have a
what a window?

Speaker 7 (14:24):
How do your window?

Speaker 3 (14:25):
I don't have a window. No, I'm deeper.

Speaker 8 (14:29):
It's it's nice. It's coming over here to my left,
which is in the east. And then it says in
the west. Hey, but yeah, no, uh oh. And then
when you have uh, color problems on the road, call
Scott Mike because I know you've probably got his personal phone.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Absolutely I do, and I send him stuff all the time. Man,
you know, speaking of coming up in the east and all,
do you are you old enough or did your your
mom will ever tell you about how the you can
remember whether the sun comes up in the east of
the US with a little just a little thing to remember.
It's like a loaf of bread, Dave. Do you know that?

Speaker 5 (15:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (15:06):
Yeah, yeah, Well, hey, they gave ascomplices.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
Well no, hold on, I'm talking about sunrise and sunset,
and the summer.

Speaker 8 (15:14):
Rises in the east in the east and sets in
the that's in the well.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
Sets in the vest said, that's it's a baking. So
you can remember.

Speaker 8 (15:26):
Don't carry hey, and thank God for our Houston Texas.
Don't carry your football like a loaf of bread. You
got to put your other hand over the top.

Speaker 5 (15:34):
Boat.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Boy, isn't that the truth?

Speaker 10 (15:39):
No?

Speaker 8 (15:39):
But now what do they call it?

Speaker 5 (15:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (15:45):
Where are we going to coaching?

Speaker 8 (15:48):
You're coaching stuff and coaching fishing. You're coaching sports, you know, football, basketball?

Speaker 5 (15:55):
What is I mean?

Speaker 8 (15:57):
That's very important. And like my mom and dad and
all the times that I played seven years in football
and everything, they never interfered with my coaches. They just
they were right there and because they knew our coaches
cherished through chairs to us very much.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
That was the hardest thing for me to do with
my son in baseball was when I stopped coaching him
and let you know, and turned it over to somebody else,
because at one point he finally he thought, you know,
Dad doesn't know anything about baseball. I don't know why
I'm learning from him. And so yeah, boy, it just
just hardheaded teenagers all and anyway, I just I have

(16:39):
to just sit out there in my little chair and
just watch the game.

Speaker 8 (16:42):
You know, they real quick on it. A couple of things.
When the red bud trees bloomed, the crappie are bloomy
bloom you know.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
Yeah, I remember that one. There's some good ones out there.

Speaker 8 (16:55):
But hey, hey, but no, but I mean right now,
I got red bud tree blooms laying in my yard
and they're so beautiful. One more thing, Oh, next Thursday,
I got to go back to the doctor again.

Speaker 5 (17:08):
Over there in Paarland.

Speaker 8 (17:09):
Then I'm going back to Vanderbilt. No, that's okay, it's
just to make sure everything's checked.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
Still.

Speaker 8 (17:16):
We're going to point blank.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
Oh lord, no, they're just yeah.

Speaker 8 (17:19):
Then we're going to point blank and take the beach
chairs out there, and I hope hopefully we'll find a
beach umbrella or something like that and then pull up
there to the beach and then I'm gonna chunk something
out with the I got my white pole of plastic
pole that I'll just drive in with a hammer and

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then put my put my Roden rill on there and
just sit there, just kick back and watch be patient.

Speaker 5 (17:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
If you if you nod off and you wake up
and the rod's going, you got a good story to tell.

Speaker 8 (17:51):
You know hey, well they no, no, I'll tie it off.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
To the pole, tied to the bumper. Fish wants that ride, real, Boddy,
you gonna have to work for it. You got to
drag the whole truck into into the Gulf of Mexico.

Speaker 8 (18:08):
All right, man, Well, hey, I appreciate y'all, buddy, And
you know what, I always enjoy y'all. Oh, and last night,
real quick at the American Legion, we had that dance
up there. You wouldn't believe how many people come up
to me. And they're probably listening right now that are
listening to this show, sure man, Yeah, because they like fishing,
they like hunting, They love the outdoors. Some of them

(18:31):
don't even fish or hunt. They just like to give
into the woods over the water.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
That yeah, that's that's the best compliment I ever get
is I don't fish or hunt, but I like your show.
That means I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing.
It really doesn't feel like.

Speaker 8 (18:45):
And there's a lot of people they're very much older,
and they're living vicariously meaning sure lives. Believe me, they're
they're living their lives through us talking right now. And
they're like and that you wouldn't believe how many guys
that are veterans up there, and and God bless God

(19:06):
bless some of their mothers that's passed away. Yeah, they
would tell me. The son would tell me. And my
mom's listening for you all on the radio, you know,
every morning, the patiently listening.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
I just came up. I just came up with a
line that you can use, and I know you will.

Speaker 5 (19:22):
You ready.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
I used to live precariously. Now I live vicariously.

Speaker 6 (19:28):
There you go, you like that?

Speaker 8 (19:29):
Okay, I'll write it down real quick. Yeah, yeah, right,
all right, yeah, yeah, that was that's.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
Being nutshell too. Holy cow man.

Speaker 8 (19:37):
But hey, but you're you're you're a writer.

Speaker 7 (19:40):
And I can't even spell that.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Phonics. Just spell it out how sounds man? All right, David,
see you buddy, audios. Yeah, my wife and I were
talking about something, uh to do with my youth and
my being a teenager and all the crazy stuff that
my friends and I used to do, and she just
she kind of paused, and she goes, I don't know

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how your mom did it. I said, well, half of
the tough you know that I did. She never even
knew that we did. We used to hitchhike to the beach.
Think about that in this day and age now. Back then,
there were only two kinds of people who were gonna
pick you up. They were surfers or they were well, yeah,

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it was mostly surfers. And every now and then an
old farmer he said, just throw your board in the back.
So h But they were trying to help us get
to the beach, and there weren't that many bad people
out there, and the people who could pick you and
your surfboard up tended to be, like I said, either
surfers that just strap it on top with the rest

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of them, or you know, just put it in the
bed of the truck and sit up here. No, I'll
sit back there with my if you don't mind, that's okay.
And god, I can't I can't imagine even thinking about
riding all the way to the beach in the back
of an open pickup truck, sitting on that metal. This
is before bedliners and before all that stuff. But we

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did it. Got like five dollars bill in your pocket,
bar wax, you put on some sunscreen if you remembered
before you left, and a towel and that's all. Basically,
you had just to close on your back. You're surfing bags,
the trunks you wore, the shorts you wore, and that

(21:37):
was it, man, surf till about till about two three o'clock,
and then you had to start getting back up on
the road and starting to hitch hike home because the
place would empty out pretty quick. And knock on wood
if anybody else still does that. Never never failed to
find a ride home, never failed to get a ride home,

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make a new friend, and just keep doing it. It was fun, man,
Those those were different times. Some one three, two, one,
two five seven ninety email Medugpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
Let me take a quick peek at these emails. I
haven't looked yet, and I've got one two three four,
I got five to go. This past weekend, by the way,
I sat down here after the Sunday show, Melvin and

(22:19):
I purged more than one thousand emails, and throughout the
week I kept it close. I missed yesterday because I
was on the bay as much as I was on
the bay, and lo and behold, the number is already
back up by and I've been purging all week. I
did the best I could to make sure the numbers

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stayed down and I picked up one hundred and forty yesterday.

Speaker 6 (22:44):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
So now I got to go figure out which of
those I can get rid of. Oh, it's just it's
a never ending deal, and I'm off I've unsubscribed probably well,
just last Sunday, I unsubscribed probably from fifteen or twenty
of just these weirdo emails else that I get. It's
just crazy. I used to get a lot of emails
on women's fashion. I was on some I don't know

(23:06):
some mailing list that was being sold to anybody and
everybody who wanted to contact anybody in the media. And
it scrubs me as somebody who's in the media though
they all want their products hawked and talked about. No,
I'm not going to talk about women's blouses, and no
I'm gonna spare everybody who's listening to me right now

(23:28):
any of that seven one three, two one two five
seven ninety email on me, Doug Pocket, iHeartMedia dot com.
Let's see what Alan's got. Dum Oh yeah, talking about uh,
the parents not knowing anything. I know, I know, I know,
he says, that's the refrain from the common American teenager.

(23:49):
In the wild, observe them in the wild. And that's
all you'll hear. I know, I know, yeah, Or well
my son's got another one too. Yeah I'll get that done. Yeah, yeah,
I'll do it. But then thirty minutes later, I'll do
it now, Sure I will, Yeah, I will, really, I'll

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do it now. And like the son's gone down and
come back up, son's still not done. Better get it done.
All right, let's take that break all the ways.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety, breaking sports news on
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Speaker 6 (24:26):
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Speaker 3 (24:30):
All right, Welcome back to Doug Flike Show on Sports
Talk seven ninety. Mean time, pause for a sip of coffee.
I needed that, Oh I needed that.

Speaker 11 (24:40):
Well.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
I came home yesterday, Melvin. It was so hot yesterday.
I came home and I we only fished until about
twelve thirty twelve forty somewhere in there, and we had
that early break from the time I spent leaned back
in my seat playing games, watching a true ain't not move.

(25:01):
That's that's like watching paint dry or grass grower. That's
that's something I'm gonna add to those lists of dumb
things you don't want to do for a long time.
Just watch a train not move, because that's what I did.
So anyway, and I'm standing up almost probably ninety percent
of the time that we're out there, I'm standing up fishing.

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And I hadn't put in that many straight hours in
that position for a while, and I was tired when
I got home. The heat was just unmerciful. It just
beat me down. If it had been cooler, i'd have
been fine, probably, but I got I just I'm sore,
sore all over, and just from making these muscles do

(25:45):
things they're not accustomed to doing. I was laughing about
casting in the boat with three other people fishing, and
I'm so accustomed to the only the closest thing to
me recently when I've been fishing has been some dude
in a golf cart one hundred yards away, and so

(26:05):
it's not really that hard. But yeah, when you got
other people around you, you got to remember where that lures
going behind you. And we didn't have any close calls
at all. I've done this sixty years almost so well
fifty something anyway, certainly, and I'm still a case like
riding a bicycle. Once you're out there and you're fishing,

(26:25):
I just can't stand the thought of not fishing. I
had to sit down a couple of times just to
grab something to drink and just recharge for maybe three
four minutes. But after that it was right back at it,
because I cannot stand the thought of drifting over a
big trout that was looking for something to eat and
me not having a lure in the water. That just

(26:48):
drives me crazy. I had a plug that faux Pro
Forest sent me or brought me. Actually I threw for
a little while out there too, and I'll throw it again.
It's a bass lure. It's a bass lure. But I
guarantee you if I get it in front of some
I would say three pound plus trout, they are gonna

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absolutely eat it up, absolutely eat it up. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety Email on me
Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I've heard I've heard good
things from farther down. Let me check real quickly on
my computator here and see if I can get a

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first I want to look at the wind. Where did
it go? Come on, come back, come back there it is.
I want to check the wind, and I also want
to check the the saltwater recon snapshot or video from
down there at Surfside Beach. I'm playing a hunch and
I don't know if it's going to pan out. Yeah,

(27:53):
the wind is out of the northeast and still now
around Galveston it's up to fourteen. It's fourteen in Galveson Bay.
It's twelve at Crab Lake. That's the way kind of
down the beach toward in the far east end of
East Bay. But everything else now there's a ten at

(28:17):
Port O'Connor, and that's an anomaly because it's the arrow
at Port O'Connor is pointing in a different direction than
all the little slash lines are going. So I don't
know what's going on there. But everything else, once again,
all the way down to corpus corpus OsO Bay is
ten miles an hour and South Bird Islands eleven. But

(28:42):
everything's still pretty calm and clean and hopefully, hopefully I
need to hurry up and get this website to load,
get to Surfside. I like looking at the Jetti parks.
Let me see if that cameras up. That's kind of
my that's my go to because that's the I feel
like is gonna give me the most information. And of

(29:03):
course it's not working. So we're going to go to
a wow. That one's missing as well. Holy cow, the
surfside beach camera is down. Let's go to ninety first Street. Everywhere,
sixty first Street. Everybody knows where that is. Sixty first
Tree to Galveson. That's just right where when you're coming
into Galveson. If you just kept driving, you drive right

(29:25):
into the water, which you wouldn't want to do. You know,
there's something, there's a lot something going on. I know,
maybe I'm not logged in yet. Hang on, I want
to get this done. By the way, rick By sent
me something that really intrigued me. As a history type person,
I do love history. My dad was a history major

(29:46):
in college, which is kay who's over at Tulane University.
And that's where I get this honest and sincere. Oh yeah,
now I got everything back up, this honest and sincere
passion for history that I have. And rick By sent
me a picture. Hang on, I want you to I

(30:08):
want you to guess on this Melbourne. There's a pop
quiz here stand by where'd it go? Where did it go?
I know I didn't. There's no way there. It is
right there. Okay, I'm gonna I'm going to read you
the inscription on the tombstone that he took a picture of,
and I want you to tell me who it is. Okay,

(30:29):
you ready? There's the name and then it says Private Co.
C two Regiment Texas. I in looks like an oh yeah,
Texas Infantry Confederate States Army born in born May twenty fifth,

(30:51):
eighteen forty three, died May third, eighteen ninety four. Who
is that? And I know it's an unfair question at
seven forty two in the morning, take a guess who
would that be? H ttok TikTok Okay, dang, time's up. Yeah,

(31:13):
you're ready for Samuel Houston Junior. Wow. I don't know
where he's buried, but that's that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool.
They found him, you know that. Well, that's yeah, Rick
found his tombstone and that's wherever that is. I'm not
sure exactly where Sam Houston is buried. And don't say underground.

(31:37):
That's just that's an old joke, right, hired old joke.
I remember that one. But that's pretty cool. Sam Houston Jr.
That's the kind of things you'll find it when you
go riding around Texas and you see historical marker one
quarter mile and you drive by it, You'll you'll never
trip over cool stuff like that. We have signs all
over this entire state of ours telling you that you

(32:00):
can learn a piece of Texas history if you'll just
slow the heck down for two minutes and pull off
to the side of the road and read what's on
the plaque. Because something really important in Texas history happened there,
or they wouldn't put up a plaque. It's not like
you're not like you're gonna see one of those signs

(32:22):
and pull over and have somebody just scribbled in sharpie
on a poster board. I threw a beer can out
here in nineteen sixty six. No, that's not how it
works Man seven one three two one two five seven
ninety Kyle Lim late again. How does this happen? Melvin?
I get wrapped up in stuff and get excited. You

(32:44):
know when I start seeing stuff like the tombstone of
Sam Houston. That's that's pretty impressive. You know, you stop
and think of how long those bones have been in
the ground since eighteen ninety four. That's one long thirty
years almost, yeah, one hundred and thirty years. Yeah, holy cow,
I just resting. Just that's his final resting place.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety Houston, sports online at
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Speaker 6 (33:16):
Back to the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
You I can hear that out there that looks scratchy
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Sports Talk seven ninety where the astros by the way
as tired as I was. It's a good thing I
took a nap when I came home too, because if
I hadn't taken that nap, man's I stayed down Melver

(33:38):
for like two hours. I was just I came in
the house and I had I had a task that
needed to be accomplished. But I got home in time
to take my is it probably an hour and a
half really not two hours, I don't think. But I
got my nap and got back up, dusted myself off,
and went out and did a little power washing where

(33:59):
the bundle of leaves and branches and all that stuff
had been sitting on a sidewalk piece for about well
since the day barrel hit, because once that thing rolled
through here, it was just like swarm's bees coming out there,
everybody picking up stuff and raking stuff out of their yards.
And finally, yesterday, more than a month I think it is,

(34:24):
after barrel hit. Now more than a month later, they
finally the City of sugar Land finally got into our
neighborhood to pick up all that stuff. And they did.
What they did was just brought in a little scoop
that they just used from the side of the road
and just tear up the concrete on the sidewalk and
that little piece of the sidewalk that connects your walkway

(34:47):
to the street. That's where we mostly all put it.
I don't know the people who had it sitting on
the grass for a month, just dead grass now just
mud where that there's gonna be a big rush for
sod out there. In fact, I'm gonna be talking about
a guy I've got on the team now, a guy
named Preston Vaughan who runs rafter v Services as a

(35:09):
yard company, and they do. I mean, Preston started out
with a lawnmower and a golf cart and he would
just ride around looking for people's lawns to mow, and
he is built and built and built that business to
now he's not driving around in a golf cart anymore.
He's in a big, beautiful truck. And uh, he's come
to my house and bid fences, and I'm working on
the deal with the neighbors and we're gonna we're gonna

(35:32):
get some shiny new fence put up by him. But
he does all that kind of stuff. I'm sure he
could put put sod in people's yards and do it
the right way. There's a right and the wrong way
to do that too. By the way, if somebody tells
you they'll just they'll just rake up kind of that
little spot where the grass used to be and just
put the soide right on top of that. They're they're
not doing you right. You got to you gotta scrape

(35:53):
all that garbage out from under there. I learned that
a long time ago when I tried to do it
that way. Just mow it down close and throw sod
on it and hope for the best. That's not going
to help. I'll tell you'll hear more. I'm gonna talk
about him in a little bit. The bottom line is
all that stuff's gone now and again there's there's animals

(36:15):
got displaced by a lot of those piles out front.
I'm glad we didn't have to pick that stuff up again,
because I would have been sincerely worried about spiders, brown
recluse spiders specifically. Somebody sent me a picture of a
spider by the way the other day. It said that
is this thing deadly? Well, it's in Texas, so probably not.

(36:39):
I don't know too many spiders in Texas that would
be considered deadly. And we've got black widows, we got
brown recluse, We've got I don't know how many venomous
spiders we have. But I can't remember the last time
I read or heard about somebody dying of a spider bite.
Have you, Melbourne? Is that just that seems a little

(37:00):
hysterical to me? Maybe I haven't heard anything either about that.
I can see I understand people being scared of spiders
because they're just creepy looking, and in film and in literature,
spider's never the hero, really, is it? Little Miss Muffett?

(37:22):
Think about her sat down beside her, Little Miss Muffett
sat on a toughet. No, I, first of all, I
can't remember the whole thing right off the top of
my head. So I don't want to make a fool
of myself, even more so than I've already done already
by bringing up little Miss Muffett on My Outdoors show.
But spiders, all of those things that we've talked about

(37:44):
them for the past few weeks, and it's it's always
a good idea to do that in the debt of summer,
because these animals are looking for shade, they're looking for cool.
And when I went, when I went in forty eight hours,
nearly stepping on two snakes, I learned my lesson about
paying attention to where I was walking around, Absolutely learned

(38:05):
a lesson when you're out there, enjoy. Don't be scared
to get outdoors. Don't be scared to go out any
day that you feel like you can get out there
and get back comfortably and safely, because the odds are
overwhelmingly in the favor of you doing just that. You're
going to get out, you're going to have a good time,
and you're going to see something that you couldn't possibly

(38:25):
have seen if you were just sitting on the couch.
A lot of a lot of birds of prey flying
around my neighborhood right now. And I don't know why
necessarily they would be more active in the heat of summer.
I really I don't get it. But there's a lot
of hawks, just in two or three different species, and

(38:47):
they're all beautiful, every one of them. I love watching
those birds. They fascinate me. They really do the most.
The coolest two raptor experiences I had. One was on
the Katie Prairie and well, actually actually both of the
well one was on the Eagle Lake Prairie. Let's put
it that way. They were both on the prairie. One

(39:09):
was a late fall situation, the other was dead of winter.
The late fall, I watched a falcon absolutely annihilate a
dove and just hit it at full speed coming down.
This bird was coming down, And my suspicion is that
the there were doves in a tree with no leaves,

(39:31):
so it would have had to have been late fall.
Remember about eight or ten doves. I'm on what is
it twenty thirteen that goes from Seeley to Eagle Lake.
I can't recall right now. I think that's it, and
I'm driving that road coming in from a scouting trip.
The suns at my back, and I see this tree
up about two fifty three hundred yards or whatever, and

(39:55):
I can see that the doves in the tree very
they're very clear silhouettes, especially when you're out there as
a professional hunter that time of year. I know what
eight or ten doves in a bear tree look like.
And all of a sudden, the doves just break, They
just break and scatter. And one of those doves that
came out of there just exploded into a puff of feathers.

(40:19):
I thought, holy cow, what was that. So I slam
on my brakes and slow down a little bit and
look over and there's this little falcon on top of
that dove on the ground. Absolutely smoked him. The other
was a bald eagle, a young bald eagle still missing
its its beautiful white signature head. A young eagle learning

(40:41):
the hard way that it's really hard to catch healthy ducks.
This eagle was diving on a roost up around five
point twenty nine around Katie Hockley cutoff. We had a
least one of the properties we leased to hunt was
up there. And I will out there scouting and watching

(41:02):
and scouting and watching, and this young eagle goes zooming
into all the there's probably three thousand ducks on this flat,
and it goes just die bombing down there and shooting across,
and all the ducks just part just like it's a
boat going through water, and it's throwing wakes of ducks
out to either side of it, looking for something that

(41:23):
can catch, and it's not catching any of those ducks.
At full speed. It did that three times, I think
maybe four, and then finally just stood up and got
to the ground and just I could see through my
binoculars this thing was. He was just panting. He'd flown
his behind off and not done any good whatsoever. He's

(41:45):
still hungry now. He's just tired and hungry. And what
they learn, at some point either learn or die of starvation.
What they learn is that if they will just find
a big concentration of birds like that. And I witness
this so many times, it's so cool. Bald eagles are
the only birds that geese really fear. They know that

(42:08):
a goose, your goose is cooked. Man, if you're a
goose and there's a bald eagle around and you don't
get out of the way. And so what the eagles
would do, and they burned me on a lot of
good hunting spots. I was on early in the morning,
an eagle fly over, and every bird on the ground
just jumps up and flies out of there. Accept the

(42:28):
ones that are hurt, except the ones that are hurt,
every one of them. Holy cow, just yapped right on through.
I gotta get going. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cut me off
right in the middle of my dur An Eagles story.
I'm not just might finish it after that, just to
go ahead and completely put you to sleep.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
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Speaker 2 (42:56):
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Speaker 3 (42:58):
All right, second out of ram starts right now. Man,
I can't believe you shut me right down in my
goose story, my eagle story. Oh that coffee's gone cold,
that's nasty. Yeah, So very quickly back to the eagles,
because I know we're not exactly a goose season just yet.
But it was really so just amazing to watch that

(43:20):
bird go back and forth, and what it learned is
that they are as good a flyers as they are
and good of hunters as they are. They can't catch
healthy geese. What the mature eagles do, having learned the
same way that one did, I'm sure, is they will
find a big concentration of birds and then just hubbed,

(43:43):
not to hover, but just soar a few times over
that roost or that feeding field, and when all the
birds have scattered that are capable of scattering, that leaves
only the either old or sick or injured on the ground,

(44:04):
and it's not hard to catch one of them. They
can just go down there and do what they got
to do to fill their bellies with those injured birds,
with those sick birds. Whatever the reason that that bird
couldn't leave, it becomes it becomes nutrition for the big
predator with a big, old bald eagle. Saw a story

(44:25):
the other day about a Russian eagle. I can't remember
the name of it offhand, but this Russian eagle had
been seen somewhere, I think up in Alaska. Maybe a
really big big bird, a huge wingspan. I want to
say seven feet maybe maybe a little more. I can't
remember exactly the number they put on it, but it

(44:48):
was impressive. Oh, I got to get some of these
emails attended. That's no, that's no, I got to get
rid of that. This happens every time I turn around.
And these are the good ones. I don't mind these.
It's the ones that say, hey, do you want to
do this interview? Those are the ones that kind of
drive me crazy. A little bit from David. Oh, David,

(45:11):
A good reminder. This is something to This is something
that'll let you know it's almost hunting season. The new
hunting and fishing licenses go on sale Thursday, the fifteenth
of August. How did it become a fifteenth of August? Almost?
Holy cow? Uh, this is a rudy. I'll tell you
what I'll read. I'll read Brian's email very quickly because

(45:32):
this is very cool and it pertains to the birds.
Brian writes, I've lived in this area of Texas all
my life. He's in Galveston County. He says, I was
sitting on the porch a day ago and saw a
swallow tailed kite hunting squirrels around the house. First one
I've ever seen in this area. Boy, just let them
expand their rings. If you've got if you've got food,

(45:55):
If no other birds are getting those fat squirrels, the
fat slow ones, that's kind of how the eagles would
approach it and look for the one that can't run
quite as fast. It's kind of like getting away from
a bear. I don't have to outrun the bear. I
just have to outrun Melvin. That's all I need to
get out of there.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
And well, I'll tell you what before I get to
what Rudy's into, because Rudy's into something totally different here
with his email, let me go click on Eric here, Eric,
what's up?

Speaker 5 (46:22):
Buddy? Hey, buddy, how you doing?

Speaker 9 (46:25):
I'm good man, great, yeah, hey, look, I'm chasing the
break seventy out here on the golf course. But last
time I called, I think I told you about my
eagles story, and so I wanted to tell it again
for your listeners. I was sitting on my kitchen table
and my neighbor's got about a three acre little pond
behind my house. It's probably about two three hundred yards away,

(46:47):
about three hundred ards away, and uh, two hundred yards
I could see it.

Speaker 5 (46:52):
Anyways.

Speaker 9 (46:53):
I see this big uh, this big bird taking off
and he's struggling to get up, like what is he doing?
And I look and he's got something down his talent.
Right it gets close to the fence and gets up
and gets up in the air, and I'm in my mind,
I'm thinking, what the heck is that? And then I
see a bunch of deer go chasing after this bird.

(47:15):
And it was springtime a couple of years ago, about,
you know, a little bit older than this years ago,
and oh man, he snagged himself a baby fawn. And
over here in high meadow there right now, I mean there,
there's about a hundred fund that you could you could
see the shout out.

Speaker 5 (47:30):
To the neighborhood.

Speaker 9 (47:31):
But yeah, it's pretty incredible sight. And I've seen him
operating Alaska, but see anyone carrying off a baby fawn was.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
Just that's a hell of that. You're gonna have a
hard time player in the runway.

Speaker 12 (47:44):
You know.

Speaker 9 (47:46):
So it took him, it took him a minute to
get up, and that's, of course that's what draw my attention.
If he had hit it and taken off, I wouldn't
have really really really noticed it.

Speaker 11 (47:56):
Like what is that?

Speaker 9 (47:57):
What is that bird doing? And oh man, he's got
a pretty well.

Speaker 3 (48:01):
Thank you for sharing that story again. I appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (48:03):
Man.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
Thanks Erica. All righty, holy cow, I've forgotten about that.
Just pick up a fawn that looks good or or,
depending on how smart they are, Melvin, either wow, that
looks good or oh my god, that's the biggest squirrel
ever saw in my life. Biggest squirrel ever. All right,

(48:24):
let me get to oh yeah, this is a public
service amount announcement courtesy of and I've heard about this.
I haven't talked about it, didn't talk about it this
past weekend. This is from Let me see the where
it's from and then we'll analyze the legitimacy of the headline. Okay, yeah,

(48:48):
this is out of Austin kV u E Television, out
of Austin. Vibrio is kind of back and affecting quite
a few people. I want to say, there's been twelve
fifteen people who have been stricken with vibrio. Not all
of them died, but this one man did apparently. Yeah, okay,

(49:15):
two months ago her, this is the daughter of the
man who died, being interviewed and well, the story goes
frankly between me and you. The story goes way too
deep before it gets to what's going on? Is it
just it tells there's too much unimportant information. You need

(49:40):
to get to the I don't even have to. I
can't even figure it out never mind. So here's the deal.
If you are anywhere in or near saltwater, especially places
where the water doesn't move a lot, places where the
water is kind of kind of stagnant, if you will,
and warm st water all around the world holds Vibrio vulnificus,

(50:05):
which is a potentially fatal virus. And I've known personally
one man for sure. I've been trying to think if
there's any others that went down with that stuff. One
who died from it and died very quickly after all,
but did have an underlying condition. That's one of the
things you have to remember about this stuff. If you're

(50:27):
a heavy drinker and you have liver problems, if you
contract vibrio vibrio infection, that is not going to work
in your favor. And there are other underlying conditions that
can exacerbate into a vibrio infection, you should look them up.
You should know what makes it worse. It's very similar

(50:48):
in a way to COVID in that if you are
already a little bit compromised, your chances of either getting
seriously ill or dying are are amplified. But the bottom
line is there are typically about three dozen cases, maybe
a few more now because all of a sudden, there's

(51:08):
more of them around here around the Gulf coast every year.
But when you stop and think of how many people
are splashing in the water and surfing and running out
there to pee and then wade fishing in the bays
and doing all these things, the opportunity for infection is there,
what a billion times around the Gulf coast at least,

(51:31):
I would think if you count up every time somebody
exposes themselves to salt water in and around warm salt
water around the world, around the Gulf of Mexico, up
and down the Texas coast. It's a very rare thing.
But if it happens to you, it can hurt you
very badly, very quickly. And that's the emphasis in this

(51:54):
story ought to be. You need to know about this stuff,
you need to watch it. She does say in here
in reference to the wound that her dad suffered before
he started feeling bad, and I quote it was a
little tiny nick on the top of his foot, I
mean not even an inch, it was tiny. So he

(52:16):
had scratched himself somehow, and then shortly thereafter the vibrio
gets into that wound somehow, and one thing leads to another.
The symptoms, she said, reminded her of heart attack symptoms.
The symptoms that I've read and researched are more flu

(52:40):
like symptoms that come on very quickly. You'll see some
necrosis at the sight that had entered. It'll already be
killing flesh pretty quickly. You'll have all kinds of reasons
to race to a hospital. And I saw a TV
report here just a couple of days ago about vibrio.

(53:01):
If your symptoms don't go away after a couple of days,
call your doctor.

Speaker 11 (53:06):
No.

Speaker 3 (53:07):
If you have been exposed to salt water, you're running
a fever, you just have no energy, and there is
a specific spot you can look at and say, wow,
that looks really red, or that looks like a big
dark black spot building around there. You get to a
hospital as fast as you can. You explain to them
you were exposed to salt water and with an open

(53:28):
little cut or nick on your skin, and you think
it may be vibrio. And the way a surgeon described
it to me once, he said, if you tell them
that and they don't grab you up, take you to
a room and start antibiotics right away. Then leave and
go somewhere else because you're clocksticking. This is a guy

(53:52):
who is gonna know something about this. What's up, Bryan
treud We.

Speaker 13 (53:55):
Hey, Doug, I've got some personal experience with this. I
really got it, okay, and so I did a lot
of research. Ebryo its existed probably than before man was
yeah coast, and so it's really only found on the
Gulf coast. It really only affects men that are older, really, ok.

Speaker 3 (54:14):
Yeah, Well that's peachy for you and me.

Speaker 5 (54:17):
Huh right.

Speaker 13 (54:18):
It affects men that might have an immune deficiency absolutely,
which could be caused from heavy drinking.

Speaker 14 (54:26):
How many guys go out and put all these beers back?

Speaker 3 (54:28):
Yep?

Speaker 13 (54:28):
So your kidney's your liver. You can catch vibrio two
different ways. You can catch it through the bloodstream. You
can catch it through ingesting bad oysters.

Speaker 14 (54:39):
Bad trimp. Why we don't eat oyster?

Speaker 5 (54:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (54:41):
The bad oyster thing doesn't typically kill though from what
I've read.

Speaker 14 (54:47):
It's having an immune deficiency.

Speaker 3 (54:48):
Well, it will get you, it can, absolutely, it can.
I would rather eat a bad oyster than cut myself.
Wade fish and barefooted.

Speaker 14 (54:56):
That's right.

Speaker 13 (54:57):
So my family member got it through what we think
was either a prick through his finger, either unhooking you
know how you unhooked the fish when your way fishing,
either a trial or might have even he does not,
he's not a live.

Speaker 14 (55:10):
Bait fisherman, but he may have been pricked by a shrimp.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
Yep, there's at least one confirmed case where that happened,
by the way I know, right.

Speaker 13 (55:18):
He was misdiagnosed for a couple of days on a
local hospital.

Speaker 14 (55:22):
Good and they he thought.

Speaker 13 (55:23):
He was a bit by a rattlesnake and they were
going to amputate his hand or his arm.

Speaker 14 (55:28):
Yeah, he did end up losing his finger.

Speaker 5 (55:32):
He it was.

Speaker 13 (55:34):
It was it was a trigger finger. He still shoots great,
he throws a better curveball.

Speaker 3 (55:42):
Just long after the fact. You can laugh about it.
But it wasn't funny then.

Speaker 5 (55:46):
Was it.

Speaker 13 (55:47):
It was very, very, very scary they were because they
went from he you know, potentially almost lost his finger.
It it's a very very scary thing and we all
have to be faced with it. But women, kids, you
hardly I've never heard of a case.

Speaker 14 (56:01):
All right.

Speaker 2 (56:02):
Yeah, that's a good point.

Speaker 13 (56:04):
And so biting flies on the beach will get you
in and then you go on the water think about it.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
Yeah yeah, horse fly Boy, horsefly got me on top
of the foot in the Bahamas, and I guarantee you
if i'd have been within one hundred yards of vibrio,
it could have done a double back twisting flip and
dove right into my body through that hole.

Speaker 14 (56:20):
It.

Speaker 3 (56:21):
Oh my god.

Speaker 13 (56:21):
It takes two to three days to culture to confirm
its vibrio. So when they start here on the antibiotics,
they have to be pretty serious.

Speaker 14 (56:28):
And if you're in Houston, go to the med center, yeah,
on what's going on.

Speaker 3 (56:31):
Yeah, Well, honestly, I think I think if you're in
Galveston and you show up down at the hospital down there,
I think they've seen it and know enough about it.
I would I would trust them to treat down there.
I really would.

Speaker 14 (56:44):
Sure.

Speaker 3 (56:44):
But I wouldn't go to some emergency center, that's for sure. Right, Yeah,
I'm with it.

Speaker 13 (56:50):
Just got to be careful out there. I mean, you know,
we all enjoy the outdoors. It's just understanding what's out there.
And as men get older, we were there's a reason
we all die.

Speaker 14 (57:00):
First we have you know, weaker immune systems.

Speaker 13 (57:02):
And you know we're Cissy's never done ourselves favors that.

Speaker 3 (57:05):
We're Cissy's well, not our not our generation.

Speaker 13 (57:12):
I'm literally I'm driving to a first aid class right
now to go go get so we can.

Speaker 5 (57:18):
Good for good to hear all this.

Speaker 3 (57:19):
So all right man, Yeah, thanks, Bryan, appreciate it. Man,
a great talking to you, buddy. Yeah, there's a guy
he knows what he's talking about. That's there's a lot
of guys in my audience who who understand and know
a lot about this. And collectively, I think we've kind
of been there, done that as an audience, and with
me kind of sitting in this chair, if we if

(57:41):
it didn't happen to us, we know somebody had happened
to Does that makes sense? That makes sense? Movin He's
nod in his head. We're good, all right, buddy, all right, Yes,
And I know why you're getting nantsy sitting there. You
just don't pins and needles trying to tell me I'm late.
That's why I'm making you sweat a little bit. All
right here, it's the deal. I I've been talking now,
I've had a chance to we are.

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Hey twenty five on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug
Fight Show. Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. I'm
looking up a phone number real quick. I see if
I can find it real quick. And if I can't,
I'll move alone. So that and about there, and if
this doesn't give me what I want, I'm gonna move alone.

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That's what I'm gonna do. Seven one three two one
two five is seven ninety. Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia
dot com. Certainly do appreciate you listening this morning. Uh,
going back to where I was earlier, A hold on them?
You got e Melvin? Who is at? I want to
talk to him whoever he is or she every now

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and then. I don't get that many women callers anymore,
and I don't know why, but I would certainly welcome
the calls. Oh that's Steve. I gotta go talk to
Steve O. What's up? What's up? Steve O?

Speaker 5 (59:07):
Good morning, Sara? How are you?

Speaker 3 (59:08):
I'm good? Thank you wonderful. I shoot I shot you
a picture.

Speaker 10 (59:13):
Last weekend my son Cash killed his first hog.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
Did you get to see this all that?

Speaker 3 (59:17):
Heck, yeah, man, I was going to bring it up
a little later. What you got tell me about the story,
give me some backstory.

Speaker 6 (59:23):
Well, I wasn't with him.

Speaker 10 (59:24):
He was with my cousin, my gallon the police off.

Speaker 3 (59:26):
Yeah, you know, Melbourne and I were trying to figure
out what GPD stood for and we couldn't get Yeah apartment.

Speaker 5 (59:34):
Yes, sir, yes, sir.

Speaker 3 (59:36):
So yeah, they went over.

Speaker 10 (59:38):
I believe it was a town called Reagan, near Waco
or something like that. But a buddy of his has
like fifty acres up there, a real good friend, and
ghats kills hogs and stuff like that. Hopefully we'll get
to go shoot some gear if the time gets right,
you know.

Speaker 15 (59:53):
But I wanted to talk to you.

Speaker 10 (59:55):
You were talking about eagles and stuff like that.

Speaker 14 (59:57):
Man.

Speaker 10 (59:58):
I see an osprey every morning.

Speaker 5 (01:00:00):
I think I've even.

Speaker 10 (01:00:01):
Named them Jeff, Like right on sixty first Street in Galveston,
and they are.

Speaker 5 (01:00:06):
The coolest birds in the world.

Speaker 9 (01:00:07):
But I did want to shoot you a little story.

Speaker 10 (01:00:10):
So in twenty seventeen, right around April, my buddy actually
owns the Gallaston bat and Cage right on the sea
wall by the ninety first Street here all right, and
we were just happening to casually talk. My kids were
bat and balls and all that stuff, and seven inch
maybe even eight inch long live shrimp from the beach

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got dropped right next to us.

Speaker 3 (01:00:33):
Oh wow.

Speaker 10 (01:00:33):
And we found out where there was an osprey actually
flying around that pond, but it might have been a seagull,
who knows, but that instantly clicked the light bulb ballf
in our head to go get a cast net, because
I believe you're legally allowed to catch like ten pounds
a day of shrimp.

Speaker 11 (01:00:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:00:49):
Man, we went and we caught a lot, like three
days in a row.

Speaker 14 (01:00:52):
Then they disappeared. But big big shrimp, man, big cool.

Speaker 3 (01:00:57):
We used to catch them. Years ago. There was a
it was down in Florida. Yeah, it was in Florida
East coast of Florida. When the shrimp were migrating, threw
along the beach front like that at night. There were
people who had who had built dip nets with super
long handles, I mean like all the way to the
water from the top of the pier handles, and they
would just scoop those shrimp until they had about maybe

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fifteen or twenty in the net and then pick them
up and dump them in the ice chests and go
back and do it again. And boy, you talk about
get some big old shrimp man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they
do that.

Speaker 14 (01:01:29):
They do that for salmon and Alaska.

Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
Heck big man, it's a bigger net, dude.

Speaker 10 (01:01:34):
But anyway, anyway, man, I just wanted to call in
and kind of get all that stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:01:39):
Man, have a great week.

Speaker 7 (01:01:41):
We'll talk to you again.

Speaker 3 (01:01:42):
Yeah, thanks for listening, See you, buddy, oh Man. Yeah,
all these stories. I love hearing stories like that. Ospreys
are such cool birds, and they are so big, and
they're among the biggest of these birds of prey. And
you see them. It's amazing how many times I saw
them far far offshore on fishing trips, just out in

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the middle of nowhere. He'd be twenty thirty forty miles
out in the Gulf of Mexico and well look he
there as an osprey and there's another one. Oh my gosh.
It's fascinating. They are. They are to the sea what
or they are to saltwater what eagles are to fresh water.
I would I would say for sure seven three two

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two five seven ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia
dot com. Pardon me, there was an email that I
wanted to get to here. I may not have time
right now. I want to talk about what Kevin sent
me when we get back, and I think it'll it's
It's an eye opener, it really is. And I've heard
so many people talk about what exactly what he's saying,

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and I'm gonna set the record straight as as where
did it go. Yes, Kevin did, and anybody who's from
here can kind of talk about the same things that
we're going to talk about, and I think you'll all
nod your heads and a great I hope you not
your heads in agreement, and if you disagree with me,
then you can tell me about that too. Your rockets

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and astros live here.

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We are Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:03:10):
The conversation continues this as the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 3 (01:03:15):
Very distinguishable voice. You know that that's one of those
voices where as soon as you hear him sing, you
know exactly who it is. And there are a lot
of artists who just are not that way. That could
be this guy or this guy or this guy or
this guy. But yeah, Michael, he's good, all right? Moving

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on seven three two five seven ninety email me Dougpike
at iHeartMedia dot com. Let's go to Kevin's email, shall we,
which says, you know, Doug Gallison always gets a hard
time about its water. Yeah, I asked Charles Barkley. First
of all, Charles Barkley is no expert on water. He
just he just knows when water's pretty and when water

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is not pretty. And I'm already off of Kevin's email.
I'm talking now. Gallus's water isn't pretty every day, It
isn't even pretty every week, even for a few hours.
But at the right time and in the right season,
and in the right wind and tide, it's as pretty

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as anywhere I've seen, almost just ink blue water on
the beach. I was on the ninety first Street pier
one morning when as a big group of guys who
had surf rods and fancied ourselves big fish fishermen and
all of that, we were catching king mackerel off the pier,

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which wasn't that. That happens more often than you'd think,
but it just has to be the right conditions. And
two guys caught Benito off the pier that morning. That
was an anomal It doesn't happen that way all the time,
but nonetheless the water was that pretty. Same with surfing

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around here. Our waves aren't beautiful every day. A lot
of time it's just somebody riding around out there and
waist high, sloppy, mushy, not that pretty water, not that
pretty waves. But on the right situation, you get a
ground swell, you get a light offshore wind. And it

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happens more in winter than summer because we're getting northers
that blow wind offshore that holds waves up, stacks them
and lines them up a little bit better. But even
in summer, you get a decent storm swell with the
right wind conditions on it, and you can have some
really pretty stuff. Doesn't have to be pretty to be fun.

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And just because there have been a few extra vibrio
cases and the news media has snatched on it, just
latched onto it like a bull and are reporting how
deadly this is and dangerous this is, except for the
one who downplayed it, underplayed it by saying, if you

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experience these symptoms and they don't go away right away,
call your doctor. No, you better get in the car. Okay,
you better get in the car, and by the way,
there's always something going on at the beach that can
keep people out of the water if they choose to
be scared. Look at the sharks, and sharks have been

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snapping at people over in Florida this summer, and I
suspect that there are still as many people on the
beaches over there as there would be with or without
the sharks, insae with vibrio. These are natural hazards, if
you will, things for which we need to show respect,
things we need to be aware of and need to

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be capable of counter measures should we ever need them.
Vibrio and shark bites aren't something that you want to
think about after it just happened. You want to have
a plan in place. It's just like a hurricane. If
you live on the coast, you're going to experience hurricanes,

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and you can either choose to ignore them and not
be ready for one, or you can choose to be
proactive and care enough to do some research, do a
little thinking, do a little reading, and be ready when
a hurricane comes. Or you can just let nature do
what it does to you. I've never experienced I've never

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even been in the presence of anyone who was actually
bitten by a shark. I feel like I would be
calm enough and cool enough to get the bleeding stopped
or slowed with a tourniquet if it was severe, to
get that person well away from the water and up
close enough that an ambulance can get to them real quick,

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and try to do my part. But I hope I
never need the knowledge and the confidence and the experiences,
not specifically with that, but just with other things around
the water. My boy, you talk about a bad one.
I'll tell you this real quick, Melvin. Then we'll get
out of here. I'll try to get out on time.
When I was a kid, my grandparents I've talked about

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and many times had a at a house on the
water on a canal, and the tide rose and fell
a good two to three feet with every change. They're
two highs and two lows a day. It's an East
Coast ocean tide moving in and out of that water,
and along the walls of the along the vertical walls

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of the sea wall, all kinds of oyster shell growing there.
And one year when my cousins and I and my
sister were all there at one time, full house guaranteed
one of my cousins slipped off that sea wall, Melvin,
and just above the ankle took an oyster shell that

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was exposed and sticking out, and it sliced him almost
to the bone, up to his knee. And when we
got him out of it, well we, I say, my grandfather,
his father and my father got him out of the water.
He was laid open like a fish about to be
filleyed on from the calf down to his ankle. And they,

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to their credit, they got him rolled up, packed up,
bottled up and off of the hospital. And they kept
him there overnight, even to make sure that nothing showed up.
But he ended up taking I want to say it
was like sixty or seventy internal stitches and then another
fifty or sixty. He had more than one hundred stitches

(01:09:46):
in his leg. Wow. Yeah, and just it was nasty, man,
it was nasty bit. But because the three grown men
and the moms, I'm sure the moms were right neck
deep in it too. The fire I have one too. Well,
my grandmother was still alive too. Yeah. So two for
six adults in the room, and every one of them

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used to well they had four boys, and mom was
raising me and that was probably like raising three boys.
So all together they got that kid patched up and
he never missed a step after that. It was amazing.
But that was boy, you talk about scary. Holy I'll
never forget that day. Time for a break. But yeah,

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the bottom line I think is Kevin's pointing out is
that all of these places anywhere around the coast is
a fun place to go if you respect what it
has to offer, and if you don't get hung up
on pretty. You can't judge a book by its cover.
And just because Galveson's water is a little brown from
now and then down again, doesn't mean it doesn't have

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fish in It doesn't mean it's not a fun place
to serve or swim or whatever. It's just different. We'll
take a little break.

Speaker 1 (01:11:03):
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Now now get more Doug.

Speaker 3 (01:11:11):
All right, welcome back here, Doug Pike Show on Sports
Talk seven to ninety. Already eight to fifty, almost nine o'clock.
Holy cow, this was going kind of fast, maybe because
I'm not tired. Really, I got some pretty good slip.
I'm well, I'm about twenty years sleep deprived, but I'm
feeling better, I really am. I'm forcing myself to go
to bed, and especially last night, when the Astros are

(01:11:33):
playing in the Eastern time zone, I get that extra
hour because it's hard for me to watch an Astros
game in the central daylight time zone and then get
to bed at a reasonable hour to get up as
early as I need to get up for the shows.
But last night I got to bed an hour earlier.
I heard about one, by the way, one game recently

(01:11:58):
that only lasted Melvin, a nine inning game only lasted something.
I think it was an hour and forty nine minutes.
That was it. At the end of the game, you'd
be thinking, aim, get my money's worth, you know, a
lot of guys swinging at first pitches and grounding out,
a lot of guys probably hitting little pop ups to
the short outfield and whatnot. And just all of a

(01:12:20):
sudden you blink and it's the bottom of the ninth
and nuts the ball game. And I don't even remember
which two teams it was. Doesn't make it any difference. Yeah,
holy cow, walk outside. The sun's still up, you know,
Holy mackerel. Most games this time of year, you arrive
in broad daylight, and then you leave in the dark.

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But if you had a seven o'clock start, for example,
at the peak of summer, a seven o'clock start, you
get out before nine o'clock, there might be still some
light in the western sky. I would think I can
remember fishing that long. I know that on the golf
course for sure, be out there and just thinking, oh God,
I don't want to be the last person back with

(01:13:00):
a golf cart and have the whole the whole group
of young young people over there who worked that cart
barn just tapping their foot. Oh hey, mister fisherman. Yeah,
thanks for coming back on time. Appreciate it all right?
Moving on, where am I tick to two? I got that?
I got that. Let me get back to emails real quick,
because there was another one I wanted to deal with. Bump,

(01:13:25):
that one's okay, That one's good. That one's good. What's
on forrest Mine here? This is faux pro waying in
amazing how the heavy range this year reshaped many creeks
on Livingston. This picture shows boat path before. It says,

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this has got to be a typo. I hadn't even
looked at the picture yet, but it shows boat bath
before and after the floods. I never really I've rinsed
a boat, but I've never bathed the boat. Forrest. Is
that something unique to you? Anyway? New Pass shows me
going over what was dry land. Holy cow. People really
need to only idle until they relearn the new channel.

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You know what, Folk pro That's a good that you
brought that up, because a lot of times people don't
realize that that moving water in fresh water really does
move channels just like it does. Sand Lewis Pass is
the best example ever of how quickly the navigable channels

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in an area can change. It doesn't take long, and
it doesn't take much. But if enough water flow, especially
after a heavy rain, the heavier the rain, the faster
the flow, the more sediment underneath is going to be
moved and shifted. And I don't care if you went
out of San Luis Pass two weeks ago and you

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have that same chart on your GPS, you run that
same path and just just trace it, and there's a
fair to good chance you're gonna run aground if the
tide's not up. Same with the creeks on the on
the lakes, the far and the farther up you go
where the water's moving, the fastest, the greater the chance

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that that whole channel may have moved a little bit.
Who knows what got locked onto the bottom when the
water was moving super fast through there. Who knows what
sediment built up as it slowed down and the and
the sediments began to fall out of the water and
to the bottom. But stuff moves, and if you don't
go slowly, you're gonna end up coming to a very

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short stop before you get where you want to go.
That's a good, good point to bring up, forest. I
appreciate that, man, I threw that plug of yours. I
don't know if you were listening earlier, but I threw
that that really good looking plug and didn't get bit yesterday.
But it wasn't your fault, my fault, or the lure's fault.

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It was just that the fish just weren't snapped. And
I think if I'd stayed with it, the fish that
I ended up catching on jigs, I probably would have
caught on that.

Speaker 16 (01:16:06):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:16:06):
There was one trout that wasn't but maybe maybe two
and a half times the size of that lure and
still barely yeah, barely ten inches long. That was that
was probably the smallest trout I've caught in a couple
of years, actually, like only count I think I got one.
I'm not really sure, but I still think I got one.
I think there's a faint wiggle down there. And sure

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enough I picked that thing up. And and Mike, poor
Mike CATCHIOTTI uh, he just looked at me. Well, well,
at least it's got spots. Yeah, there's that Trout's a trout.
It counts. It counts. Everybody on the on the boat
caught fish, so they all count. They weren't all pretty,

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they weren't all keepers, but the three that David and
Henry took home definitely were keepers. And right on the
they were almost too long. And that that's something that
I hope a lot of people will get over with
or just be done with saying, oh man, that fish
is too big. I can't keep him. I want keepers.
I want what you're saying is I want a lower

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quality fishery. I want a bunch of keepers. You know,
get get these, get some big fish, enjoy it, enjoy
it while you can. It's gonna get better too. I'm
telling you the next couple of years, if if we
don't have anything really bad happening around here. It's gonna
be Kadie bar the door for trout fishing, and don't
worry about their food supplies. And nature has a great

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way of managing food supplies to to accommodate whatever bigger
fish are in the fishery. And we're gonna have some
really big trout in this fishery. If nothing goes wrong,
no spills, no weather anomalies, nothing to mess it up,
it's gonna be it's it's gonna be better than it

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is now. I don't want to say it's going to
be as good as it was twenty thirty years ago
when there weren't that many people around here, but it's
gonna be good. Quick, quick, move on the way out
of here.

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O'clock hours starts right now. Holy cow, how did it
get to nine o'clock all day? I really do, melvioyn.
I feel like this This morning's going pretty fast. But
there's a lot to talk about and a lot to
talk about as well. Man, We're gonna start this final
hour talking to a young man, a golf instructor who's

(01:18:47):
making quite a name for himself. Actually in habits call
timber Creek is instruction Home. And with that I will
welcome to this program. JJ Wood, how are you?

Speaker 11 (01:18:57):
Jj Im Goodenwell are you?

Speaker 7 (01:19:01):
You know?

Speaker 3 (01:19:02):
Because I got a nap yesterday after I got off
the boat, I feel a whole lot better. And it
didn't fall asleep on the way home. I was tired. Man,
Being out in that heat for five six hours just
just knocks a snot out of you. It's it's kind
of like being on a golf course, you know what
I'm talking about.

Speaker 5 (01:19:19):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 3 (01:19:20):
I saw people by holy Cow, I saw in your
signature line by the way, that you had been named
one of the top young instructors for a couple of
years in a row. That had to feel good. Huh.

Speaker 11 (01:19:33):
Yeah, it was surprising to get Yeah, it's surprising to
get recognized for that. But I've been pretty lucky to
learn from some of some of the best instructors I
feel like in the country. So just learning from them
and applying it, you know, I guess people started to notice,
which is good.

Speaker 3 (01:19:51):
Yeah, where where did you come from? And who were
your mentors growing up? Who are the people you admired
as instructors?

Speaker 11 (01:20:00):
So growing up I was actually self taught. We moved
from San Diego, California to you Arizona when I was young,
and about eight years old, I started playing golf in
Yuma and there's a head pro theres I played at
Arizona State. He was a young guy at the time.
He was a really good player, played with Phil Nicholson
and he knew how to play the game. So he
just kind of taught me the fundamentals and said go

(01:20:21):
take the old guy's money. So I learned how to play.
And then when I got to college, al Geiberger, mister
fifty nine, his son was my coach, and he kind
of started to teach me course more course management. And
I met a performance coach by the name of Neil
Smith and his coaching. He played on tour and he

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also had a master's degree in sports psychology and he
was working with Jason Day and Hunter Mayhon at the time.
But he really taught me to like understand my game
and why I had a hard cut but I tended
a slice and why I did that. And so I
guess with my coaching, I you know, I try to
make students their own best coach so they can kind

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of fixture it when they're out there playing hardly ever,
do we, you know, have our best games?

Speaker 3 (01:21:08):
So boyd, And that's the truth. Golf instructions changed a
ton since I got interested in it. I can remember
Jim Murphy and Charlie Ups years ago talking to me
in terms that relied on actually seeing swings made and
seeing ball flight and all that. Nowadays, you guys are
using a lot of really high level technology to dissect
golf swings and just peel them back to their very souls,

(01:21:31):
aren't you.

Speaker 11 (01:21:33):
Hey, Yeah, it's funny. You know, people look at me
like I'm a rocket scientist or something when I'm using
TrackMan and swing catalysts. Sure, I'm not the smartest I'm
not the smartest guy, but I understand swing positions and
I believe you need to use that technology to get
the facts of what's going on. When I was growing up,

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there's a lot of opinions and philosophies that have been disproven,
like the ballfly laws.

Speaker 5 (01:22:00):
Change since track Men came out.

Speaker 11 (01:22:01):
So I try to, you know, establish a baseline to
what people naturally do and then kind of tweak it
to create the ball flight you know they want to
do in the full swing. So it's really good to
put feel to reality. We think we're doing one thing,
and the camera can't. You know, it's two dimensional, so
you need the technology to see if your clubface is

(01:22:22):
pointing right or you know you're swinging right. But yes,
you can dumb it down, make it pretty simple. A
lot of people are intimidated of it, but it's it's
really helpful.

Speaker 3 (01:22:32):
Did the introduction JJ of all this algorithms and high
tech and track man and everything else you have available
to you know, did it make it easier or harder
to become a really good instructor?

Speaker 11 (01:22:48):
For me, have made it a lot easier, and it
actually helped me with my game to kind of every
not every day, but you know a few times a week,
I'll hit some balls and just watch the club paths
and the club face and sometimes like I can hit
too far down on the ball, so it makes it.

Speaker 5 (01:23:03):
Go more right. So I'm just putting.

Speaker 11 (01:23:06):
A field of reality and I can use those numbers.
You know, most people slice the ball, so I can
show them those numbers and just say, hey, this is
have them do a slow motion, you know, change their
over the top to swinging right, and you know, then
have them to start to speed it up and they
can see that number change, so they you know, they
know they're making the progress. We're not guessing anymore. So

(01:23:29):
I think it. You know, I have to just know
how to read the numbers and communicate it correctly. And
the track man pretty much, you know, it does a
lot of the work for me.

Speaker 3 (01:23:37):
Well, it's it's almost like you're talking about me because
I I have been trying to shift everything to just
a little draw and have been my natural stuff goes
a little I'm left handed, my natural stuff, coach, what
my body wants to do is make the ball go
a little bit left. And I keep trying to put
a square peg in a round hole and I don't

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know how to fix it. So I just I just
waste a hundred swings on the range and go out
and play my game. It's crazy.

Speaker 11 (01:24:05):
Well that's what Yeah, I taught out or I coached
at Ohio stay with.

Speaker 5 (01:24:09):
A guy by the name of Donny Gharr.

Speaker 11 (01:24:11):
He's an Oklahoma state coach and they have those, you know,
they're always they're modern day of the best program in
the country. But he would yell at the guys to
own your game, and so I kind of.

Speaker 5 (01:24:21):
Took that to heart.

Speaker 11 (01:24:22):
I you know, I have a headcover that says natural
Slice on it because it like it reminds me just so. Yeah,
it just reminds me of play my game. And if
I'm nervous, like when I've gotten into big events and
I'm nervous, I'll just you know, I just line it
up left. I know it's gonna cur right. I just
don't when you have that two way miss, that's when
it's really hard to play golf. So I just want

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to ride to the right.

Speaker 3 (01:24:46):
JJ Wood here with me from Timber Creek Golf Club
the JJ Woods Golf Performance Center. Is it true that
most amateurs who don't get real instruction tend to be
overly obsessed with their drivers. That's what I see on
the on the range anyway, They'll make three swings with
a seven iron and then go to the big stick.

Speaker 6 (01:25:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:25:05):
Yes, I think everybody won't say it's the driver, especially beginners,
you know, I think want to gives them comfort seeing
the big clubhead but everyone wants to see how far
they can hit it. But unfortunately, I think that's where
most of their swing flaws start to develop.

Speaker 5 (01:25:21):
Yeah, the most important part of the golf.

Speaker 11 (01:25:23):
Swing is you know, impact when you're hitting the golf ball.
So you know, back in you know, there's a lot
of still a lot of good old school stuff like
starting smaller on the putting green, but hitting the ball.
You know, start with little pitch shots and learn how
to just hit the center of the face, you know, consistently,
and then link send it out. And when you go
long and you don't know what you're doing, you're going

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to you know, manipulate stuff. And I thought some professional
athletes and the more athletic you are, the more twisted
up you get, you know. I mean you've probably seen
Charles Barkley, right, oh god, Yeah, it's amazing how athletic
someone can be. But watching them swing a golf club
and they they don't look like they have any coordination.

Speaker 3 (01:26:02):
Yeah, And I feel kind of like starting with driver
for someone who's not getting instructioned, if they're trying to
teach themselves, or if they've got a twenty five handicapped
neighbor teaching them, they're starting at the wrong end of
the bag. Isn't there a little more benefits going to
come faster if they'd work on their putting first?

Speaker 11 (01:26:20):
Absolutely? Yeah, so putting, but you know, putting's boring, so
people don't want to do that. But but yeah, so
if you grab a sandwiche, it's a lot shorter, you know,
a lot more control of it, and just you know,
trying to I notice people, you know, move their body
around there trying to hit it real hard, and they
have a lot of tension, and so if they can
just relax all their tension and keep their body pretty

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still and centered, Uh, they're going to make a lot more.

Speaker 5 (01:26:46):
They're going to learn how to hit.

Speaker 11 (01:26:47):
They airborne and forward a lot sooner than going straight.

Speaker 5 (01:26:50):
To that driver.

Speaker 3 (01:26:51):
Yeah, golf's not a sprint. It's just it's a lifelong marathon.
And I would you agree that there's nobody who knows
everything about golf, and nobody ever will know everything about golf.
So you just got to keep learning what you can, right.

Speaker 11 (01:27:05):
Well, yeah, that's why I tell students I still learn
every day because it's amazing.

Speaker 5 (01:27:10):
There's no one way to play this game.

Speaker 11 (01:27:12):
I mean, Tiger Woods is you know, the perfect example
of one of my old coaches was Chris Como. When
I transferred Oklahoma, I went to him for lessons and
he was amazing, and but Tiger hired him because he
had all he had more knowledge than Tiger about the
swing mechanics and how it works with the body and
all that. So, I mean, Tiger is the best player

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I'll ever see.

Speaker 5 (01:27:36):
So you know, it's hard. It's hard you.

Speaker 11 (01:27:38):
Can argue who's better him or Jack. But Tiger was
pretty dang good, and he's pretty smart, and he you know,
he still is looking for, you know, education in certain areas.

Speaker 3 (01:27:49):
So talk about wedges for a couple of minutes, because
I've got friends of mine and we're all in the
same kind of anywhere from say five to a fifteen
group that I played with for long time. But a
lot of those guys are carrying really really lofted wedge
of sixties and even a little bit more sometimes. Who
really needs to carry a sixty degree wedge?

Speaker 5 (01:28:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:28:11):
I tell people, if you can't hit your sixty degree
sixty yards, you don't.

Speaker 5 (01:28:14):
Need to be carrying it.

Speaker 11 (01:28:15):
Yeah. I like my sixty degree just because I felt
like when I saw playing golf every day. I would
get a little tentative, but if I have more lost,
I'm going to, you know, accelerate through impacts around the greens.
So I like it for around the greens. But you know,
a lot of ambers are really scared of it, you know,

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beginner type golfers. But yeah, you don't really need I mean,
if you have a fifty six, you know that's typically fine,
and most most ambers have an easier.

Speaker 5 (01:28:45):
Time hitting that.

Speaker 11 (01:28:46):
So I don't think you really need it unless you
notice you decelerate because you're gonna hit it over the
green when you're hit in the pitch shot. Like me,
you don't really need it.

Speaker 3 (01:28:55):
Here's another question I hear all the time, or just
a statement. It's more a statement I hear all the time.
Somebody will hit a pretty good drive and it'll be
at a certain place in a fair way, and they'll say, oh, great,
I get to hit my six that's my favorite club.
Or I get to hit my eight iron, that's my
favorite club. How dangerous is it to have a favorite
club because that makes the rest of them kind of
not your favorite?

Speaker 11 (01:29:15):
Huh? You know, yeah, I've never really thought about that,
but right now I don't have a favorite club.

Speaker 5 (01:29:21):
But I remember in college my nine.

Speaker 11 (01:29:24):
Iron, this was my favorite club. And I had a
friend caddy for me at the Arizona Amateur and I
hit a nine iron close one all and then we
saw a rules official like all the thirteenth hole and
he's like, watch JJ's hitting a nine iron here.

Speaker 5 (01:29:39):
And I actually hold it.

Speaker 11 (01:29:40):
He was like real, was like, are you kidding me?
And I was like, yeah, I mean I do that
most of the time. But yeah, I mean I had
a lot of confidence in that nine iron.

Speaker 5 (01:29:49):
But you're right.

Speaker 11 (01:29:50):
I mean, then your other clubs, you know, your thirteen
other clubs aren't like having.

Speaker 3 (01:29:55):
A favorite child. You can't say that out loud without
offending somebody or something in your by Huh, All right,
j J. We're almost time here. So what other than
just racing over to your place and signing up for
two years of lessons, what's one really good tip for
an average golfer who truly wants to improve and not
just put band out on stuff.

Speaker 11 (01:30:17):
Well, I would go back to square one. It's all
chain of a you know, a chain of effect. Seguess
you say, but uh, you know, starting from the ground up.
So the fundamentals. Uh, the golf instructor late Brussels, and
I started teaching with he he he. We would talk about.

Speaker 5 (01:30:35):
If people learn the fundamentals and learn.

Speaker 11 (01:30:38):
How to smooth transition, good tempo and balance, they wouldn't
need golf lessons.

Speaker 5 (01:30:43):
So I think if you just.

Speaker 11 (01:30:44):
If you find it, and if you've been playing and
you've probably developed certain habits, find somebody you trust, but
stay off YouTube and all those little tips. Go back
to the basics and learn how to you know, group,
you know, find the right stance, wall position alignment, and
then pay attention to the club pace because that's eighty
percent of your direction. We were always so consumed with

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our club paths and the plane line on video. But
the easiest fix is change the club past, so you know,
try to keep it more shut going back if you
have a slice or you know, so that's most people slices.
So that's the best tip.

Speaker 3 (01:31:21):
Yeah them Funny you talk about YouTube because years ago
I spent a lot of time over around Jim Murphy
over at Sugar Creek, and and he could He told
me that he could tell the people who read certain
golf magazines on the tea line, on the practice tea.
But by the what the drill they were doing. He
got a towel under their arm, or headband wrapped side

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what he's over their neck or something. They were always
just doing something that was out of the magazine and
that's just not the way to learn. I agree with
you on that.

Speaker 11 (01:31:53):
Yeah, look out the window and the golf academy building
out on the range. Like right now, I'm actually watching
a husband trying to teach his you know, they're working
on swing positions, but she can't make contact with the
golf ball, so you know, she's got to drive her
out actually, So yeah, it's funny. Everybody's an expert when
it comes to golf too, it seems like, so you

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got to kind of figure out what works for you
and give it simple.

Speaker 3 (01:32:20):
Well, and that's what That's been the mark of every
good instructor I've talked to over thirty years of doing
what I'm doing. They they can analyze somebody and not
only help them with specifically what they need to do
get a little better, but tell it to them in
terms they're going to understand. For me, a lot of
baseball terminology, a lot of phishing terminology can be used

(01:32:42):
and I can relate to that, but for somebody else
it might not work that way. And a guy like you,
I gotta hunch you could. You could find some way
to use anything from ballet ants into French fries.

Speaker 12 (01:32:53):
I don't know, man, JJ, Yeah, I tell you.

Speaker 3 (01:32:57):
So where do you want them to go? You want
to go to the website you want to call you?
What do you want?

Speaker 12 (01:33:02):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (01:33:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:33:03):
I think you go to GPG Houston. So that's g
IS in golf and then PAS in Performance and Gas
and Group. So GPG Houston dot com. They can find
all the information.

Speaker 3 (01:33:15):
Fantastic.

Speaker 16 (01:33:15):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:33:15):
I'm gonna get down there. I guarantee you. I really
want to come down there now that you now that
you're all settled in the space, you know that's good.

Speaker 11 (01:33:23):
It only talk about six months. Yeah, we're all settled
in now.

Speaker 3 (01:33:26):
So you need you need to go outside and stand
behind that guy trying to teach his wife and just
just just stand. Oh you won't have to do anything
but stand there. I think. All right, man, hey, y,
great talking to you. Thank you, yes, sir audios.

Speaker 5 (01:33:40):
All right, I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:42):
Great young man there, JJ Wood, He's he's doing it
right down there at timber Creek speaking of by the way.

Speaker 1 (01:33:49):
We are Sports Talk seven ninety. The conversation continues this
as the Doug Pipe Show.

Speaker 3 (01:33:55):
All right, welcome back, thanks for listening The Doug Pipe
Show on Sports Talk at seven to ninety. Home to
the Houston Rockets and the Houston Astros first place. Who
would have fought two months ago that they would be
in first place right now? Probably nobody in this audience,

(01:34:15):
even as good as they've been, when you start looking
at how many people they've lost, When you start looking
at taking Kyle Tucker's bat out of the lineup for
as long as it has been, I still don't understand this.
I don't know what kind of bone brews he had
that would keep somebody out for months. That's that's beyond me.

(01:34:38):
It's not my baby to rock either, so it is
what it is. But still that's just kind of cray cray,
as they say, let me get this leader board up
for the Windham Championship on going now at Sedgefield Country
Club in Greensboro, North Carolina. Little rain delays they've had

(01:34:58):
imagine that so far though, and they're they're just they've
still got people to get out today. We're just trying
to get into the second round of the tournament, get
that storm through there and get it going again. Bo
Hostler went out on Thursday and shot sixty. No other
round has been completed yet. They didn't get Friday in

(01:35:20):
and they're trying to get them out for today, but
it looks like they're gonna be pausing until this afternoon.
Looking at the tea No, here's a nine thirty tea time.
Oh yeah, we got some guys out there playing and going,
oh no, that's still finishing up first round. Oh my gosh.
Thor Bourne Olison tied for eighteenth at four under par.

(01:35:43):
He is playing his seventeenth pole of the first round.
Still he said he's on eighteen. He's played through seventeen,
so they'll they'll get that done. The bottom line is
it's a it's going to be a scramble to get
in as much golf as they can over the next
couple of days. And this this is the kind of
time when professional golfers it's not even worth going over

(01:36:05):
the leaderboard now because there's really not enough happened to
have anything to base any kind of an idea on.
There's no reason to read the leaderboard But what this
does is reminds me just how dedicated to their craft
and just how good these guys have to be to
know that they're going to be going out and playing

(01:36:26):
as many holes as can be played and squeezed into
the daylight hours today to try to get back on
track to even maybe have a good, solid fifty four
hole tournament. I don't think they're gonna make it through
seventy two holes. I just don't. I can't see that happening.
But who knows. They'll get them out there, and as
long as it's safe to play, they'll have them playing.

(01:36:49):
But it's gonna be muddy, it's gonna be nasty, it's
going to be really hard. It's gonna be really hard
for those guys to get anything done. But they do
it for a living. And the ones who can man
to dismiss the the difficulty of playing, I'm horrible playing
in the mud. I don't like playing in muddy conditions.
I hate those three words, those three ugly words that

(01:37:14):
you hear either from the starter or maybe when you
call to make your tea time, you hear it from
them if you're doing it the same day, and those
three words say I'm along with me. If you're a golfer,
you know exactly where I'm going cart path only. Oh great,
there's another hour tacked on to the round. That's all

(01:37:36):
we need, is another hour tacked on to a round.
But it's there. And you get halfway across the fairway
and realize that you're farther out than you thought you were,
and so you have an option to either hit what
you're carrying or go back all the way to the
cart to pick up a different club than the one
you're carrying. That's just I'm too old for that. Not really.

(01:38:00):
I'll do it if I have to, but I'm kind of,
kind of, sort of a little bit beyond that. I'm
becoming a fair weather golfer. I'm not there yet. For
the heat. I don't mind the heat. I'll still if
it's one hundred hundred and two, I'll go play. I'll
be I'll be whipped. I'll feel like I've been in
a fight with ten guys afterward. I don't know what

(01:38:22):
that would feel like. I badge it would be pretty bad.
But I'll play, and I'll just pay a little price.

Speaker 11 (01:38:28):
Later.

Speaker 3 (01:38:29):
Let me go talk to Calvi and see what's on
his mind. What's up Calvin?

Speaker 7 (01:38:32):
Hey, Doug Hey, I'm with you there.

Speaker 17 (01:38:36):
I'll take the heat, but when during the winter, if
it's rainy and nasty, I don't.

Speaker 7 (01:38:41):
I don't even think about going out there.

Speaker 17 (01:38:46):
Yeah, I mean i'd have thermold thermo sure overcoats and
stuff on.

Speaker 7 (01:38:54):
But I uh, I listening to that guy that has
the lessons.

Speaker 3 (01:38:59):
That yeah, JJ Wood And yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:39:03):
And you know, last year, I've been playing since I
was twelve and never had a lesson.

Speaker 7 (01:39:10):
And then I got Now that I'm older, I'm you know,
in my late sixties.

Speaker 17 (01:39:15):
And uh, and I just wanted to get lessons to
see if I could hit it a little bit farther
and just get a little bit better.

Speaker 5 (01:39:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:39:25):
And you're a prime candidate actually for somebody like JJ
and his staff down there, because you've got a solid swing.
If you've been playing since you were that young, you've
got a solid swing. What kind of scores do you shoot?

Speaker 17 (01:39:39):
Well, it was pretty bad for a while, so I
went and got Yeah, when I went, I went and
got got some lessons, and she broke me down. She
didn't really change my grip or anything, but she's changed
my stance and my approach over the ball, and it
was uncomfortable, but I worked at it, and uh and

(01:40:04):
I took about three or four lessons and I stopped
just and I just worked on that all winter long,
and uh and and then finally this spring, it clicked.
It just clicked, and and I'm more comfortable standing over
the ball and hitting it.

Speaker 7 (01:40:23):
But the lessons were too far away.

Speaker 17 (01:40:25):
So I got my wife playing and got her lessons
with this guy and humble, and he's a lot closer,
and he's helped me so much good. I mean, it's
just I mean, I'm hitting the ball so much better,
so much easier, and and uh he he kind of
explains things. He's more my age and explains things to

(01:40:49):
me a little easier than she did.

Speaker 7 (01:40:51):
Yes, she was she was great.

Speaker 5 (01:40:54):
She was great.

Speaker 3 (01:40:54):
Whoever you use for an instructor, you have to be
able to relate to him and that and that's the
big key right there, is that they're going to talk
to you in terms that you understand. Like I was
talking about, for me, it's if you can relate this
to fishing or to baseball, I'm gonna be able to
do exactly what you're asking me to do. But if
you're doing it to ballroom dancing. I don't have a chance.

(01:41:17):
So yeah, but I think JJ and his staff are
gonna be if you wanted to go to him, they'd
certainly be good to go to.

Speaker 7 (01:41:24):
And what that sounded like a good deal that, you know,
that two year deal?

Speaker 17 (01:41:28):
That sound like if I was if I hadn't already
had somebody, that's something that I would seriously look at.

Speaker 7 (01:41:34):
And I and I did think about them.

Speaker 17 (01:41:36):
But my wife she just up and called somebody because
she wanted and got this guy and he's worked out great,
so well that yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:41:45):
But I got somebody. You like that, there's nothing wrong
with that either. I'm not gonna tell you the chance.
One thing. Let me ask you this, Calvin. Do you
take notes after your lessons?

Speaker 17 (01:41:56):
I should, because there's there's things that I wondered that
I missed. But you know there's things that after the
practice is done. Where he was telling me when I
was swinging, I was coming and I was taking you
ever see Gary player do that where he swings he
takes a step forward like he's gonna just keep on walking. Well,

(01:42:18):
I was kind of doing that just to help me
keep my balance and get and make sure. I got
my waist shitting forward. He told me, don't do that,
he said, don't do that, he says, swing.

Speaker 7 (01:42:31):
He said, I want your swing to where you can
stand there.

Speaker 3 (01:42:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:42:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:42:35):
So I was out pounding balls and and.

Speaker 7 (01:42:39):
Man, as much as I tried, I could not, could
not keep my balance. And then it just clicked in
my head that hey, slow your swing down.

Speaker 3 (01:42:47):
There you go.

Speaker 7 (01:42:48):
Now I slowed it down. And man, I tell you what,
you do. Not have to swing hard to hit the
ball far.

Speaker 3 (01:42:54):
No, you just have to swing. You have to hit
it right in the sweet spot and on out there.
I got a run. I'm a little bit late for
a break, but it's great talking to you. Man.

Speaker 7 (01:43:03):
Yeah you too, Doug.

Speaker 3 (01:43:04):
Good luck. Bye bye, Yes, sir bye. Got his wife
out there playing. That's half the battle right there. That's
half the battle. It's a lot of fun. It's a
family game. You can play until you're forever old, doesn't matter.
I met a guy years ago, a Sugar Creek who
was he was in his eighties then and played three
or four times a week. That's all he did, just

(01:43:26):
played golf every day, and he had shot his age.
I think when I did the story for him that
ran in the paper here he had shot his age
that year something like forty or fifty times age or better.
I'm gonna have to live a long time to get
good enough to shoot my age. I'm still not there.

(01:43:46):
I'd have to. Yeah, I might have to live to
be a hundred. I'm not playing badly right now, and
in fairness to me, I'm working on my short game,
and my short game is improving because of it. But
it's still different. Man se one, three, two, two, five,
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Speaker 3 (01:44:14):
Doug, all right, welcome back night, nineteen forty one. Already
were Does that mean we're almost at time for the
next break? Were we that later? We did we get
out on time?

Speaker 7 (01:44:25):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:44:25):
My gosh? All right, Well, in that case, we're gonna
go straight to James, get on with him. What's up, James, James?
He there we are.

Speaker 15 (01:44:36):
That's it man, all right, Well it's change, but that's okay. Doug,
you first time a long time.

Speaker 16 (01:44:41):
Just wanted to call in and make a couple of
comments about golf.

Speaker 3 (01:44:44):
And do it.

Speaker 16 (01:44:45):
I'm a sixty seven year old retired guys.

Speaker 15 (01:44:47):
So if I'm either on the golf course early.

Speaker 5 (01:44:49):
In the morning or fishing, Okay, you gotta stop.

Speaker 3 (01:44:53):
You's got to stop bragging or I'm gonna cut you all.

Speaker 11 (01:44:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:44:58):
I love you.

Speaker 2 (01:44:58):
Yeah, you're loving the dream I am.

Speaker 15 (01:45:01):
I'm blessed.

Speaker 9 (01:45:02):
But I was going to tell you, you know, but I
can't be.

Speaker 16 (01:45:04):
Only went I get out and started walking back in
the early spring eighteen Hold, and it's a little over
six miles, so good exercise for me. And I'm not
a good golfers anny either one. But one of the
comments I was, you know, talking about listening to you
talking about it to the instructor.

Speaker 3 (01:45:23):
A great interview by the wife, Thank you.

Speaker 12 (01:45:27):
Quick short story.

Speaker 16 (01:45:27):
I was living in Tennessee, transferred up there years ago,
back in eighty seven and living in Murphysboro, and there
was a driving range right down this mountain from my
house and I went over there and take some lessons
and older gentlemen I had to be in his probably

(01:45:48):
mid to late eighties, but just a phenomenal guy. But
I went at my first lesson this fifteen minutes he
had me hitting a perfect draw, took.

Speaker 12 (01:45:58):
My sex iron and he could go cover.

Speaker 5 (01:46:00):
Every ball with a blanket. Wow.

Speaker 16 (01:46:02):
It was the most uncomfortable stands grip everything, and it's
so hard to duplicate, but you know, I was just amazed.

Speaker 12 (01:46:12):
So after my thirty minute lesson.

Speaker 16 (01:46:14):
I got a bucket of balls, and I mean I
was hitting everything just like I never had.

Speaker 5 (01:46:18):
Before in my life.

Speaker 16 (01:46:19):
That time, I was playing every Saturday with a group
of guys, little Nassau game, and.

Speaker 5 (01:46:29):
I was so excited.

Speaker 12 (01:46:30):
I was teeing off and I was telling them I
went and took a lesson.

Speaker 5 (01:46:32):
Man, you guys, get.

Speaker 16 (01:46:33):
Your wallets out and just get it to me right now.
And of course I could not duplicate it.

Speaker 5 (01:46:37):
When I got to.

Speaker 16 (01:46:38):
The golf course and I was telling them about my
lesson that yeah, and one of the guys I was
talking I was playing with, said, yeah, I went and
took a lesson, and the guys told me sell my
gloves and take up all.

Speaker 5 (01:46:49):
So we all laughed about that.

Speaker 16 (01:46:52):
Anyway, I go back for my next lesson, and I'm
taking my second lesson in the next Tuesday night. Within minutes,
I'm hitting the same perfect draw with you go cover
every foll o the blanket.

Speaker 15 (01:47:06):
And I was talking to the gentlemen, you know, I.

Speaker 16 (01:47:09):
Said, I don't know what it is, but I can't
get this to the golf course, you know. And he said, well, games,
have you ever been boldly? And I just died laugh
And he said, well, what's so funny about that? But
and he would you know, and I was telling the
story about the guy play with he said, well, and
he was telling me he said, no, it's just that

(01:47:30):
the release is the same, you know. But after my
second lesson two days.

Speaker 3 (01:47:38):
Later, we got a hurry, man, I'm tight on time,
all right.

Speaker 16 (01:47:43):
Well, two days later I pick up the Nashville Times
and there he is on the front page of the
sports station with all the pros. This guys never I
can't remember his name for the life of me, but
enjoy the show, Doug.

Speaker 3 (01:47:58):
Yeah, thanks a bunch. I appreciate it, all right. Yeah,
you gotta learn, man. I got an idea about that.
Let me get Morgan in before we get to break here.
What's up? Morgan?

Speaker 9 (01:48:08):
Hey, hey man, long long time listening.

Speaker 17 (01:48:10):
Man.

Speaker 9 (01:48:11):
Its first time I ever called you, man.

Speaker 7 (01:48:12):
I will come on, yeah first, you know, first.

Speaker 9 (01:48:16):
Time, you know.

Speaker 18 (01:48:17):
And I was just look, man, I ain't gonna hold
you what I want. What I just want you to do.
Treat me like a baby, man, baby ships Man. I've
never been fishing in.

Speaker 5 (01:48:27):
My whole life.

Speaker 7 (01:48:28):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:48:29):
We gotta fix that, Moe seriously.

Speaker 18 (01:48:31):
And I'm sixty four years old, man, I'm old school.

Speaker 3 (01:48:34):
But check it out.

Speaker 18 (01:48:35):
Man, just just starting from the beginning, and you know
in the way you know how to do.

Speaker 3 (01:48:42):
What step one, step two, step three.

Speaker 9 (01:48:45):
And then you know.

Speaker 18 (01:48:46):
And then I'm gonna I'm gonna take some notes here
and I'm gonna just listen to you.

Speaker 7 (01:48:51):
Do me a.

Speaker 3 (01:48:52):
Favor if you would, Can you send me an email?
I sure will do me a favorite. Send me an
emails where you live and and then I'm gonna start
you from square one, Morgan. Okay, I'm gonna work you
up and we'll we'll get you. You'll have a fish
if you if you follow my my deal, you'll have
a fish caught back as soon as you can get

(01:49:12):
to the water. Okay, we'll get that and care of it. Man,
all right, end me an emails. Just Dug Pike at
iHeartMedia dot com. Yes, sir, I got you covid okay,
and I got you covered and thanks buddy. All right, Oh,
I love that. I love that Sunnyside. That's like south
side of town.

Speaker 5 (01:49:30):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (01:49:32):
Okay? So yeah, there's some places down there. Yeah, I
got him hooked up. He's gonna have a fish just
as soon as he wants to go catch one. Gonna
I'm gonna take a look around. I'm gonna make a
couple of phone calls and we'll find someplace where he
can go at least catch that first fish, and then
we'll build up from there. All right, we got to
take this last little break in the program. On the

(01:49:53):
way out, I'm gonna tell you one more time.

Speaker 1 (01:49:57):
This is Sports Talk seven on the Goal with iHeartRadio Friends.
You've got to try The conversation continues this as the
Doug Pipe Show.

Speaker 3 (01:50:07):
Heavens, we don't have much time left, do we. Oh
how time flies when you're having fun. I can't wait
to get an email from Morgan so I can, so
I can get him started on the right fishing path.
I think at sick and I don't know how old
a fellow he is. How old do you think he is?
Just take a guess, Melvin, he's a grown man.

Speaker 5 (01:50:27):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:50:28):
We can safely say he's a grown man, I would think, Oh,
my battery's running low on my laptop. Yeah, I get it, man,
I get it. Okay, I've been running on no extra power.
I just don't feel like plugging it in right now.
I only have to make it through about another five minutes. Oh,
it's flashing red in my battery. Thing, I'm gonna get

(01:50:49):
the cord out anyway, might sit around here. Yeah. So
I'm presuming Morgan is a grown man, and I'm presuming
that Morgan has a vehicle, so we know we can
get him to where I'm gonna be plugging in while
I'm talking. We know we can get him to where
he has to be. Who moved this thing over here?

(01:51:09):
Hold on a second, do what what did I do?
It's just get confused and frustrated by the plug that's
always over here within arm's length of me. Was a

(01:51:31):
step and a half away, and I almost said a
pack of lunch to go plug in my laptop. Man.
Oh so, anyway, I'm presuming he's grown man. I'm presuming
he has got some idea of what he needs to do,
and all I'm gonna do is facilitate. I'm gonna find
him a spot fairly close to home. I'm gonna find

(01:51:51):
some Oh, I've already got a kind of spot in mind,
I think too, where he can go, and just we're
gonna start him. We're gonna start him on perch, percher catfish,
and once he gets a few of those under his wings,
then we're gonna get him something bigger and maybe put
him on some baths somewhere. But first things first, you

(01:52:13):
gotta catch a fish before you could catch the fish.
And I'm I know I can do that for him.
It's not gonna be that hard. It's really not. You're
gonna let me take this. Callers at too late. I
ain't gonna stand by tell me Melbyn, Oh there you are,
Joe Briscoe. I can make this easy. What's up?

Speaker 5 (01:52:33):
Man?

Speaker 15 (01:52:34):
Oh God, you pay me to call in, and I'm
calling in.

Speaker 3 (01:52:38):
Pay you. If you're waiting for a check in the mail,
you're gonna be waiting a long time.

Speaker 12 (01:52:44):
Bristoe, take checks moment.

Speaker 3 (01:52:48):
What's up, buddy?

Speaker 15 (01:52:50):
Wait? I spent the afternoon yesterday Gordy's. I delivered some
teal calls. Nice that that's really the first time I
ever just hung out.

Speaker 3 (01:53:05):
I love it.

Speaker 15 (01:53:08):
I told him I'm ready to go back to work
and this more I wanted to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:53:15):
Wow, good for you.

Speaker 15 (01:53:16):
Said, yeah, I'm just done with ol and gas. Yeah,
I hear you just aggrevating. You get to that.

Speaker 3 (01:53:26):
Were you talking to Andy?

Speaker 12 (01:53:29):
I was?

Speaker 3 (01:53:29):
Were you talking to.

Speaker 11 (01:53:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (01:53:33):
Okay, yes, matter of fact I was. And then he said,
he said, you know what I've heard you on Doug Show,
He said the first he said, do you know Doug Pink?
I said, very well, Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:53:50):
That's what I was worried about.

Speaker 3 (01:53:56):
And he's a good guy man. He runs a good ship.

Speaker 9 (01:53:58):
Out and.

Speaker 15 (01:54:03):
A bot who does all the like the antique gun
shows for him and things like that.

Speaker 9 (01:54:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:54:10):
I had told me a couple of years ago to
go to go up there. He said out it's a
pretty tight knick group, and I said, no, I don't want.
I was in the middle of he don't with dad
and all that.

Speaker 3 (01:54:26):
So you hear this music, We're in trouble. Melvine says
we've overstayed our welcome. You're gonna have to tell me
about this tomorrow morning. Call me back. Okay, I'll get
you up and up and on this all right.

Speaker 15 (01:54:40):
Man, trying to hit golf balls.

Speaker 3 (01:54:43):
All right, man, I'll see Joe. Audios.

Speaker 7 (01:54:47):
I'll wrap it up for today.

Speaker 3 (01:54:48):
Boys and girls, we gotta take it out of here
and we'll see you back tomorrow morning, bright and early.
Eight o'clock. That's not told terribly early. This is civilized
outdoors conversation right here. Man, Let me just sleep a
little later eight o'clock tomorrow. Be outside today sometime. Have
some fun with your family. Stay really, really safe so
I can hear from you tomorrow. Okay, that's it. We'll

(01:55:10):
wrap it up now. Stay safe, have some fun outdoors.
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