This Bright Moon Is Bringing the Ducks Down Here

Originally aired on October 5th, 2025. On this episode, Doug answers a listener's call about what a first time outdoors experience should look like for a beginner. He also talks about hunting pranks, the Sanderson Farms Championship, and much more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's Doug Pike. All right, Sunday edition of the
program starts right now. Thank you all so very very much.
Let me push this button here so that I can
send an email. One two three, boom. Done. Takes care
of that, and off we go looking at this this. Okay,

(00:21):
everything's fine. Weather's fine too, Weather's not bad at all.
If you like dry and slightly less humid. Again, there's
a just the We've got a shot tomorrow, a forty
shot at some free water out of the sky in
case you're watching your lawn start to brown up from
being parched for the last week or so, but dryer

(00:45):
overall again. After that forty percent chance tomorrow, then it
goes down to twenty and ten the rest of the
week on. On the good side of all of that,
the highest high temperature for the coming week is set
at ninety two by my most reliable source, and the

(01:06):
rest are still in the nineties. So the good news
is there's we're not gonna have to I don't think
we're gonna have to deal if at all, once we
get through this week anything beyond about ninety four to
ninety five, and hopefully we won't even get any more
of that, there's a little bit of high pressure kind
of working its way here. And also good news on

(01:29):
that there's that's going to help move something out of
the move something that's headed toward the United States. I'll
get to that in just a minute. The low's gonna
be in the seventies. So just make your outdoors plans
now and hold your nose tomorrow and see if you
can get through wherever you are doing whatever you want

(01:49):
to do outside. Still windy along the coast. I was
looking just a few minutes ago at the wind values,
if you will, and they're pretty dog up there. As
wind goes. It was in the like fifteen well, i'll
call it ten to twenty miles an hour, ten to

(02:10):
twenty miles an hour if you're looking from the middle
of the coast all the way down to the bottom
of the Texas Coast, and most of that those higher
velocities are up here. It's twenty two right now at
Galveston's North Jetty. Actually it's well, no, there's another one
a little bit farther down down there at Port O'Connor.

(02:30):
It's seventeen miles an hour. Uh, there's a fourteen a ten.
There are a few lighter values. And that's I think
it's just because where our coastline is is kind of
converging with a more northerly flow coming down our way,
and then this east to maybe east northeast flow that's

(02:53):
right along the coast, and then as you get down farther,
that's where those two differing wind directions kind of come together.
And it's it's pumping pretty good from the northeast once
you get down past Port O'Connor and toward Corpus and whatnot.
So anyway, enough of the weather, it's gonna be nice

(03:13):
for several days. Now, make plans. Go do whatever you
want to do, Go fishing, go dove hunting somewhere, and
get ready for deer season, get ready for the regular
duck season, get ready for the bright moons. The last
few nights too, are helping ducks find their way here.
I promise you, I wish it were I wish it
were cooler, and I wish it were a more northerly wind,

(03:35):
But that bright moon's gonna kick a few of them
down here. No matter what. This time of year, days
getting a little bit shorter. They know that they don't
go by daylight savings time like we do for half
the year, but they sure know when it's time to move.
It's amazing if you stop and think about it, how
nature takes care of these over I don't know how

(03:58):
many years ducks and geese have been around in their
current form, but deep in their DNA is a knowledge
that I don't think humans well, I think we've lost
the ability. I think we would if we had never
developed anything to do with navigation, anything to do with electronics,

(04:22):
all of the tools we use today to predict the weather,
to predict this predict that. I think we had that
in US. I think I'm pretty confident that Native Americans
on this continent knew when to move south and when
to move north to avoid being hammered by extreme weather. Now,
there wasn't much they could do about it, and they

(04:42):
didn't know exactly when it was coming. But there's something
pretty deep rooted in ambulatory animals on land that lets
them know when it's time to move and when it's
time to stick around. It's fascinating, really, if you stop
and think about how much knowledge is all already built in.
It's like buying a car that has all the accessories already,

(05:06):
and then there are a few add ons you can
do if you want to, but you already have everything
on that car when it's built. It's a bit of
a stretch anyway, bright Moon. Like I said, it's gonna
bring these ducks our way, I wish it was gonna
bring us more geese, honestly, but our great migrations of

(05:28):
geese to the Texas coastal Prairie are just done, still
enough in a few areas once we hit the dead
of winter about mid November or so for some people
in some areas to squeeze out a real goose hunt.
But there's little justification really anymore, unless you're in one

(05:49):
of those hot spots and you know it's been hot
for a couple of days. There's really no motivation, no
justification to go out there and put out a thousand
pieces or even half that many, five hundred pieces let's
call it, of stuff that's white and meant to attract
snow geese. It's just it's an exercise in futility. Now,

(06:11):
there is something very beneficial to be said for adding
some goose decoys to a duck spread on the dry side.
If you like pintails and we've got a third pintail
on the list of eligibility, the eligible players list. The
third pintail can be on your strap this year, and

(06:33):
that's up one from a while. I personally love hunting pintails.
That's probably my favorite duck to hunt. Wigeons I like
because they're good looking. The drakes are really cool looking,
and they're kind of dumb in the duck world, a
little bit easier to decoy. Those were the ducks that
if I saw wigeons coming and I had somebody with

(06:55):
me who was trying to learn how to call ducks,
I'd let them work those wigeons every time. Look that
in this law, I tell them every time, if that
duck is coming toward you, if those ducks are coming
toward you, just just sit tight. Because you're not an
expert caller yet, just sit tight and see what they do,
and stay calm and stay quiet, and keep your face

(07:17):
out of the sun and all of that good stuff.
And then if they turn away from you, just hit it.
You got nothing to lose. Once they turn away from you,
you have nothing to lose. I've talked about that a
million times. Every really good water fowler on this coast
has told that to somebody. I didn't make that up.
I didn't. I wasn't the first one to say, don't

(07:38):
call at ducks that are coming to you. I haven't
been duck hunting long enough for me to have been
the first person to say that. But I've said it
over and over in duck blinds and conversations anywhere and
everywhere that somebody needed to know that, because that's one
of the biggest mistakes I ever saw in that prairie
hunting with people who who don't really get it. If you,

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if you people who have time to go out and
just sit on the edge of a flat that's full
of ducks, thousands of ducks on a big, giant roost pond,
and just get out of the car, bring a lawn chair,
bring an umbrella, whatever you need to bring to be
comfortable out there, and put a little cooler next to
it of non alcoholic beverages, of course, because you've got

(08:22):
to drive back home. But just sit there and listen.
And what you will notice after sitting there and listening
to all these ducks on that roost and all the
feeding they're doing, and all the the whatever I guess
duck conversations they're having. The very little noise coming off
that flat. Very few times will you hear that, right,

(08:47):
it's just if it's anything, it's just a murmur, just
a very deliberate murmur, because they're busy either eating or
trying to get to sleep or whatever they're doing. And
it's not loud. It's not constant barrages of noise like
you'll hear coming out of duck blind. So many times

(09:08):
they're trying. The people who are not getting results from
their duck calling probably are trying too hard and not
letting the ducks just analyze the situation from above and think, well,
there's some ducks down there that must be just stuffing
their mouths because they're not talking at all. They must

(09:30):
be on the biggest pile of food that they've ever
seen because they're not talking. So let's go down there
and take a look. Geese kind of the same way.
As long as I hunted geese, as long as they're
coming toward you and losing altitude, there's no reason really
to start calling at them, and they'll start from a

(09:51):
long ways off too. I hope this year, on whatever
duck hunts I do, we get some shots at some
geese too, And that's so typical out there. Back when
I was guiding, even some of the people who were
deliberately going to spots that hadn't had a goose near
them in a long time but had lots of ducks.

(10:13):
Those guys come in with a nice strap of ducks
and two geese, three geese, maybe four or five, depending
on where they were and what they were doing. Just
those duck calls, waterfowl calls, ducks, geese, crane cranes are
a little bit different animal, but for ducks and geese,
there should be a silent button on those calls, especially

(10:37):
if you're trying to teach somebody and just or just
if they're young and and really gullible, you could just
tell them to put it. Just put your call on
silent mode, put it on silent mode. Then blow it
because you and I can't hear it, but the ducks can.
Just put it on silent mode and take the read
out here. Blow this duck call. It's it's on silent

(10:57):
mode for humans, but ducks can hear it. And then
and look the ducks are coming. Oh, that silent mode
works perfectly. Thanks. You take a break, man, I really
went off the rails with that, but it's a good idea.
It really is. For little kids. Give them a duck
call that doesn't have a read in it and tell
them it's pitched to a note that only the birds

(11:19):
can hear. That's actually pretty smart y as me, all right.
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(11:40):
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I just told Brett something that I'm going to work
into the conversation around here at some point when you know,
I'll do it right now. I was telling Aaron yesterday
and Aarin in Heather other was in the car and

(13:50):
I was trying to help her. I mentioned this a
minute ago help her get comfortable with going wade fishing
for the first time. And I told them. I told
her her because Aaron already knew anytime you're going into
salt water these days, you got to give yourself kind
of a self examination, and if you've got cuts or

(14:10):
scrapes or anything, really, it's a very good idea to
go ahead and put liquid bandage on that stuff. And
the way I do it, just to be sure, kind
of a belt and suspenders approach, is I'll put it
on the night before, after shower up and do whatever
you're going to do. Put it on the night before
and then in the morning reapply. So you've kind of

(14:31):
got a second layer of that stuff there to keep
Vibrio magnificus from finding a way into your body, because
if you don't, it could really escalate quickly into something terrible.
Their amputations happened routinely within a daze of a vibrio infection,

(14:53):
and you just don't want that. And as I kind
of jokingly told Brett, when when the guy got back
from his vacation and he contracted vibrio, somebody asked him,
said what that vacation cost you? He said, an arm
and a leg. But dumb dish. That's just so dark,
isn't it. It's funny, though, you know the funny laws

(15:16):
is not you or anybody you know I've known now,
So now that vibrial magnificence has come into the four,
if you will, it turns out I've known a lot
of people who got that. And years ago I found
this an interesting take. Years ago, Shannon Tompkins and I

(15:37):
were having a conversation. Shan used to work the Chronicle
with me, and we were talking about vibrio and he
he brought up a very good point because it's more,
it does its nasty work more quickly and more efficiently,
and people who are somehow immino compromised, compromised. There's people

(15:59):
who get it and don't have much problem with it,
and people who get it and have big problems with it,
especially if you let it go unattended for more than
about forty eight hours. And he thought back to when
he and I were much younger and much tougher and
in the water all the time, just constantly fishing, surfing,

(16:21):
whatever we were doing. We loved salt water and we
couldn't be in it enough. And there were days sometimes
after we fished, especially maybe if you'd been using live
shrimp like we all started with, and one of them
that little horn got you and kind of stuck you,
and ah, dog gone. That hurts man. Well the next

(16:42):
morning after a session like that, or you're you're grabbing
big trout and the dorsal fins get you, or a
tooth scrapes your hand, or something like that. Maybe you're
trying to get a bait out of a flounder and
stick your finger a little too far in its mouth. Whatever,
there would be days you'd wake up the next day
in your hand would just be so stiff and just

(17:03):
so kind of achy, and he wondered, what if maybe
that was just a minor, minor intrusion of vibrio that
our bodies were able to fight off. And I don't know.
I have no idea whether that's even possible. It may
have been some other little problem or whatever. I would

(17:27):
like to think that I was tough enough when I
was that young and strong and had a one hundred
percent operational immune system that that's a possibility. But I
guess we'll never know unless there's somebody out there who
studies that we can talk to about it. I haven't
done an official story or written anything about vibrio in
many years, but I do remember that warning that I

(17:49):
was given, and I'll give it to anybody who hadn't
heard it Right now. I was working on a story
with a surgeon over in the Carolina somewhere who had
he was kind of on the front end of all
of this, and really was he was. He was the
cutting edge. I asked many sources, who's the a one
guy to talk to. I was working on a magazine

(18:10):
story for a national magazine on this stuff, and they
gave me this guy's name, almost every one of them said,
this is the guy we look up to to figure
out what the latest with vibria. So I called him
and I did a nice long interview with him, and
I said, how much time do you really have if
you get this infection and we're talking about the symptoms
and what to look for when you get out of

(18:31):
the water, and to what you might feel the next
morning or the next afternoon. And he said, if you
have any of those symptoms, which are the kind of
flu like symptoms, along with some redness and swelling and pain,
or even if it's starting to builds, it's fortress in
your body, some blackenings of necrosis of the flesh out there. Said,

(18:55):
you go straight to the emergency room. You tell them
you got this infection, probably from exposure to salt water.
And he said, if they don't admit you and start
a bunch of IVS into you right then and there,
get up and leave, because every minute you sit there,
you're in greater danger of losing an arm and a leg,

(19:18):
losing your life. I know one man, for sure, I
have one friend had one friend who died from that,
who absolutely died from it within like two weeks of
the infection starting. They kept cutting off pieces of his
body trying to stop it from going farther, and they
weren't successful. And I know another guy who had like

(19:39):
three months in the hospital and then another two or
three months afterward at home with daily like IV saline
or IV antibiotics just pouring through his veins to stop
that stuff from killing him, and that worked for him.
He made it through. A Couple of other guys I've
known have had it, and they've gotten it from all

(20:01):
sorts of different sources as well, which is a couple
of guys got them from shrimp grabbing shrimp out of
a bucket, live shrimp out of a bucket where the
water had had that nasty stuff in it. Guys have
gotten it from wade fishing. Guys have gotten it from

(20:21):
stepping on something while they're wade fishing or wading out
just on a base shoreline somewhere warm salt water. That's
where it lives. Now, before you start canceling plans to
go to the beach, know that if you're healthy, you're
in good shape. If you have if you've been an

(20:42):
alcoholic or have had a lot of drinking in your past,
that compromise. Liver kind of helps that stuff along. There
are all kinds of issues. You need to just look
it up. I don't want to waste the whole show
talking about vibrio because everything right now we're coming into
hunting season and all that. But I just can't. I

(21:02):
can't let that subject come up and not just give
another caution. It's not a scare tactic. I'm telling you.
There's billions upon billions of people going into salt water
daily on this planet. Almost somewhere on this planet every day,
let's call it tens of millions every day. Because if

(21:25):
it's wintertime up here, it's summertime down in the Southern Hemisphere,
and somewhere on this planet there's somebody in the water, splashing,
playing surfing, whatever they're doing. Nothing's going to happen to them.
Very few cases every year, but they're just so severe
that I just want to make everybody aware and know
how that you can keep yourself off that list. Holy cow,

(21:46):
that's enough of that. This bright moon, Like I said,
bringing the ducks down here, I do miss the days
when you could go out and hear the geese migrating
down here. I missed that tremendously. I really do. I
wish that we could have more of that. I don't ever,
I don't see it happening, even with as much rice

(22:07):
as there is actually out on that prairie to the west.
I haven't driven east in a while. I don't know
how much rice they've got there this year. But there's
more rice out there on that western prairie now, not
anything like it used to be. But if there were
geese headed this way, they'd find it and they'd stick around.
Most of them now are getting stopped halfway down Arkansas, Oklahoma,

(22:31):
a little bit of North Texas, and they're just yeah,
they're just they have no reason to come down here.
It's all about conservation of energy. That's how animals survive.
You have to expend enough energy to eat, but if
you expend more than that, then you start depleting your body.

(22:53):
And animals are way better at that than us. We
tend to look like hibernating bears a lot. We we
just eat and eat and eat, Like tomorrow we got
to go into hibernation. What's up, Dave, H.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
Well, they're calling the surfers. They're having a surf. There's
a surfing contest that we're having out there yesterday and today.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Fantastic, fantastically. It's all the old guys or is there
an actual contest going on?

Speaker 2 (23:20):
Oh, it's a contest. And all these young guys are
out there. And they got people with the photography cavers
up there like two three feet long, and you know,
and they're up here on the pier taking all the
pictures and and uh they got video film going on
over them.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
And where are you.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
I mean, I mean a uh yesterday, it's at that
Pierre Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, I'm standing almost
underneath it right now.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
Cool.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
Now, they got one on the left hand side. They
got the tent up there for the judges on the
left hand side, and they got a tin here on the
beach for the right hand side. And here they're all, man,
they're all coming out. And then uh, yesterday the bottom
fell out about thirty minutes after we talked, man, so
I got broken with Luckily, like I said, I had

(24:10):
the bag.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, I saw that storm on the radar. I really did. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
They Well, anyway, these guys, there's one guy waxing his.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
Board over there right now.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
And then another thing I noticed is they got these
uh blanket things that they dripped their board up into
you when they put it in the back of their truck. Man,
they treated like I treat my guitar. Yeah, man, they said,
lock it up, yes, sir you Yeah, this is really cool.
The waves not too bad. They were doing some green

(24:45):
waves yesterday. And and they're especially on the left hand side. Yeah,
it's better smaller. Yeah, and they're they're over there. They're
getting up on their boards already over there, but they're
kind of falling off.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
But they had some you know, they had some really
good ways they got the flags and then it's kind
of like they watch these lifeguard girls over here. I'm
dead serious, man, I told them I was going to
talk about them, I said, I called my wife and said, hey, lord,
you didn't come put me up. I was just too
much of it anyway anyway, No, but they would.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
They would.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Then they have the young ladies that are over there
that put the the red flag, the yellow flag, and
the green flag, and then they honk a horn to
tell them how much time they got left. And I
learned the rightness. I never knew that much about it,
but yeah, later on, well, you know, the only thing,

(25:43):
Like I told them, I have trouble just back paddling.
But anyway, yeah, they're they're going out here right now,
and you know, paddling forward, and you know, I don't.
I don't think i'd get too close to the front
of that underneath that pier here.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
But we used to surf right through the pier when
I was a teenager, just right through the polly from
one side to the other. And every now and then
you'd hear this crunch somebody almost almost make it. Hey, man,
I gotta go catch Bob, okay before I go to break.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yeah, yeah, hey, god, listen, thanks a lot. Yeah, we're
gonna be hit. We're just gonna go ahead and hit home.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
Send me a snapshot real quick, if you don't mind, Dave,
not not of the bay Watch, but of the waves.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Okay, Oh yeah, I got you. And hey, uh yeah,
I sent you a picture of me inside of a shark.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Oh god, all right, man, I'll go check it out. Thanks,
I'll see you, all right. Let me go catch Bob
here before we have to go to break. What's up, Bob, Hey.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
Good morning, Doug. I just want to make a quick
comment about it. Yeah, listen, it's about to be afraid of.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
That's what I'm saying. One.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
Yeah, the one solution I found because I wave fish
for years, never fished out of my boat, and anytime
I ever had a little nick or anything, I always
had bleach in my boat.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
Okay, And I'm I'm going to tell you something, and
you hit.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
It with bleach and you're good.

Speaker 4 (27:03):
You just got to hit it right away.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
I'll tell you, Okay, I'll see your bleach. But I
will caution you about that because I talked to that
surgeon and a lot of doctors and they they recommend
not bleach because that can burn your skin, but they
recommend soap and water. And what, Mike, what I'm talking
about is taking a gallon jug of water, not for drinking,

(27:26):
a gallon jug of water, a big piece of duct
tape and one of those pump bottles of soap, and
just duct tape that soap to the to the jug
of water and you have an instant quick kick that'll
do it without tearing up your skin. Oh okay, Yeah,
you don't need bleach, you don't need hydrogen peroxide, none
of that stuff. Man, Just soaping water and Man.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
The reason I did that was because I always heard
the shrimp need the guys the shrimping, Oh yeah, no
their hands man, or nothing but cut up. And I
would always heard that they would always wash their hands
with bleach for the left.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
You know, And that's that's gonna do it. But bleach
all over your hands every time you turn around. It's
gonna mess you up. Yes, soaping water magic on bacteria
like that.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
Yeah, with water, you know.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
And I learned another thing I learned about that bleach
is that you know, you can put it in.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
A bottle half of water, half of bleach.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
Yeah, And I cleaned my counters with it.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
All. That's not bad either. What do you think what
do you think is on a Clorox wipe.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
And clean your boat with it too, So anyway.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
For Clorox wipes. All right, man, hey, great, thank you boy,
appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
Man, Hey, man, I love you show see thank you.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
Bye. All right, We're gonna take a little break here
on lane. Yeah, okay, you're gonna have to hold on lane.
I'll get back to you in a minute. On the
way out, Timber Creek Golf Club, Timber down there on
the south side. FM twenty three fifty one in Friends
with about three miles west of the Gold Freeway, very
easy to find, got twenty seven good holes. You don't

(29:00):
have to be great to have fun at timber Creek.
You're gonna actually the shot values down there are. There's
no easy golf course. But if you'll just play from
the teas you need to play from, you'll have a
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(30:05):
got it. Welcome Back, Hit thirty eight on Sports Talk
seven ninety I'm not sure I want to push this button.
I don't know, Brett, what do you think? Let's see
what happens, Layne Ricks, what's up?

Speaker 4 (30:17):
Man?

Speaker 5 (30:19):
You got me laughing this morning, Pike. I was thinking
about my dad. He would talking about migrating birds. Yeah,
I mean I think I I think I was about
fourteen and we were I think we were fishing and
here comes the flock of geese flying over and they're
flying in there, you know, their v formation.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
And my dad looks up and he says, yeah.

Speaker 5 (30:37):
He says, you know what one of tho he says,
those geese flying in a triangular motion like it you
don't want one line is longer than the other, right,
And I was like expecting something profound, you know, like
and I hang on one.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Sid don't say the punchline. Just shit, Brett, how fast
can you find a rim shot? Let me find out.
Hold on one second, hold that US line because I
know what's coming and we're gonna need something really emphasize.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
I had used that joke playing golf a thousand birds, Yeah,
I mean, and ducks all of them, any any anything
you can get, and I never did. I laughed so
hard when you started talking about migrating birds. I laughed,
wreck my truck.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Oh my god. I just I could.

Speaker 5 (31:27):
Because my dad we'd always have a novice fisherman or
a novice hunter or something with us every fall, and
he'd use that on them, and I could. I knew
it was coming, and that made it even funnier.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, you're just sitting back and sitting
back in the in the cheap seats, watching just watching
the game. I just I was just ready to laugh,
all right, So you can you can't hold on? He
can't find the rip?

Speaker 4 (31:51):
Do you have it?

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Brett?

Speaker 6 (31:52):
I don't I have a gavel for some reason, A gabble,
you know that might be a this.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
We'll use the gable. Okay, start over and tell the joke.

Speaker 5 (32:01):
Okay, So looking out migrating birds flying you know south,
but you know my raine and look up and say, hey,
they're flying in a V formation.

Speaker 4 (32:10):
You know why one line is longer than the other,
don't you know? You look up?

Speaker 5 (32:14):
No, I don't now because there's more birds in the
longer line, you dummy.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Where's my gabbl Oh did I hear it already? Good lord,
Oh my gosh, you know.

Speaker 5 (32:27):
I was, you know, I'm expecting some I was expecting
some thing about aero dynamics. Explanation about aero dynamics, and
I mean.

Speaker 4 (32:37):
Just I just laughed at it.

Speaker 5 (32:38):
So thanks for making me laugh.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yeah, I got the leading edge. You have to have
just so many birds on one side and so many
on the other to get to the most efficient aerodynamics.
It could have gone into something really profound, and it's just.

Speaker 5 (32:52):
Not absolutely could now they're just more birds.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
In the long line, you dummy. Some jokes are very
very well worth saying again and again and again. They'll
live generationally, and that's one of them. Thanks Lane, I'd
forgotten about it. Oh man, Well it's fun.

Speaker 4 (33:08):
Do you do it? Okay?

Speaker 1 (33:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (33:10):
Fun?

Speaker 1 (33:10):
How's Meadowrook Farms?

Speaker 4 (33:13):
We're good.

Speaker 5 (33:13):
Did you talk to faux Pro this weekend?

Speaker 1 (33:15):
And uh, yeah, he's well. He's texted me a couple
of times. I'll talked to him. Yesterday evening he called
me to tell me he was real tired and he
had to go to bed. Like, whatever, dude, man, you
caught me.

Speaker 5 (33:24):
I was up at the lake last week and he
bought me. It brought me a plate full of uh
I think they were dove or quail all poppers.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Yeah, that's a good friend right there. He is a friend.
He's a nice man. All right, pardon.

Speaker 4 (33:41):
Allright, have a good week.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
I'll talk to you. Thank you, Lane, I'll see you. Yeah,
that's Lane Rix. He runs the show out at Meadowbrook Farms.
I've known him forever, forever. Golf guys, hunting guys, fishing guys.
They're all good guys in my book. Anyway, people who
and even among kids. There's research that shows that kids

(34:05):
who grow up around the outdoors and I've mentioned this before,
so just indulge me, please, because there's new people come
to the audience. But kids who grow up really in
the outdoors and understanding it are they tend to be
better and more rounded emotionally and psychologically. They understand that

(34:25):
they're part of a much bigger world around them. Whereas
kids who tend to grow up isolated from the outdoors
and mostly in urban areas, they they tend to be
a little more self centric. They tend to be a
little more uninterested in how they interact with other people.

(34:49):
And there's even evidence that they don't score as well
on standardized tests as kids who grow up in the outdoors.
That's one of the reasons I've been talking to the
people over at the Wild School. This is a fantastic organization.
I need to get back in contact with them and
try to get them on the air with me so
that I can officially really really talk about what they're

(35:11):
doing for little kids and for big kids. They even
what they do, and I'll tell you very briefly because
I got to go to break but what the Wild
School does is gather up kids in the two or
three years in age. Age difference in per group might
be like three to six, six to nine, ten to twelve, whatever.

(35:32):
And they even do stuff for adults where they meet
in relatively small groups on parks around town and just
get out there and walk through the woods, or splash
in a mud puddle, or build a tepee with sticks
or what. Not a full grown tepee, but just something

(35:52):
a foot and a half tall, as though you were
going to try to build a fire. Just little things
that teach them number one, not to be afraid of
the woods and wild places, and also to just trigger
these deep in our DNA things that will make them better,

(36:13):
that will make them more capable of handling tasks. Life
throws a lot of tasks at us, and kids who
learn to deal with weird situations, maybe a little scary
situations out in nature early, tend to do better with
all those things they truly do. That's not me making
this up, man, don't make me go look up all
the evidence of that. Either go to AI and see

(36:35):
you'll figure it out. All right, I gotta go. That's
I figured that out about a minute and a half ago.
And I didn't want to stop. Belleville Meet Market Highway
thirty six, fifteen minutes north Sssily or so depending on
how you drive, fifteen minutes south of Hempstead or so,
depending on how you drive. But once you get to Belleville,
you can't hardly go through Belleville without passing Belleville Meet Market.

(36:58):
I don't know that there's a way to do. It's
kind of right in the middle of town. All the
roads in, all the roads out are gonna be within
eight iron of Belleville Meat Market. What you're gonna find
out there is two dozen plus flavors of pecan smoke sausage.
You're gonna find beef, chicken and pork cut the way
you want whatever. If you want two inchriba's, you'll get

(37:19):
two inchribas. They have hamburger patties done several different ways,
stuffed pork, tender stuff, peppers, stuff, mushrooms. They do chuck
wagon patties that are half pound beef patties that have
got just just the right amount of seasoning and are
loaded with cheddar cheese. That's something you might want to

(37:39):
bring home a box of. And of course while game
processing year round, they added a flavor to the sausages
available for deer when you bring those in, and I
strongly recommend if you can get a sample of that
stuff getting it. Belleville Meatmarket dot com is the website.
Oh they got the snacks to holy Cow beef jerky,
turkey jerky, the dry stick, dry sausage. Everything you need

(38:02):
to drop into your your gear bag for your hunting trips,
or maybe into that that cooler you take on your
fishing boat. Anytime you need something to eat to get
your energy level back up real quick, you just grab
some of that stuff and smile while you eat it
because it tastes delicious. Belleville Meatmarket dot Com is a website.
If you can't get out there, I understand it's a

(38:22):
pretty good driver for somebody who doesn't live on the
west side of town. It's worth it. I guarantee you
it'll be worth it. But if you can't, that's okay.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
Just go to the.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
Website Belleville Meatmarket dot com. That's Belleville meat Market dot com.
Eight fifty on Sports Off seven ninety The Duckpike Show.
Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (38:44):
Well.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
I guess guess folk Pro's ears were burning enough that
he he needed to call in. He heard laying and
me talking about him. What's up Forrest?

Speaker 4 (38:53):
What's up, buddy? I'm doing all right man out here
spraying the weeds in the driveway. I did a control
burn last week. It actually worked pretty good.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Of the whee's in your driveway.

Speaker 4 (39:05):
Yeah, I spray the driveway and gasoling. I'll get ahead
start on this. So neighbors looking at me like I'm crazy,
but they were.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
Yeah, it doesn't it. What's up? Man?

Speaker 5 (39:14):
Now?

Speaker 4 (39:14):
Before I get to my topic? On a chime in
on Lane story and you'll appreciate this as a radio guy.
So he told his version and now the rest of
the story. So anyway, I'm messaging his wife on Facebook.
I've had able to bring these dove poppers up there.
She goes, Okay, I said, what time y'all gonna be
at the boat ramp. We'll be back to the boat

(39:36):
ramp by six okay. So I drive up there. I
get to the boat ramp. Truck's still there. So I said,
they got a nice place to sit. I'm sitting out
there talking to the squirrels. Sure I see this. I
call them dumb dumb boats. The boat without a troll motor.
So I see one of them out there playing. But
I'm looking for Lane's pontoon boat. Yeah, I don't see

(39:59):
it it. So I didn't know I was looking at
him the whole time. After on Goat Island. I'm sitting
up there on this table with all these dove wraps.
To finally look at my watch. Just later and later,
I said, okay, I'm just gonna go to the house.
I'm pillaging around his house. I find this tool tool
closet and I stick him in there and take a
picture text. I said, here's where your dove wraps are.

(40:21):
I gotta go. That's the that's the that's long.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
Yeah, he didn't mention any of that. What time he
told you to be there about six? What time? What
time was it when you finally got the picture taken?
I'm gonna guest six forty five.

Speaker 4 (40:39):
Yeah, I was about to start taking pictures of the sunset,
so in the boat. But I should have parked on
the boat. Rap that he had seen my trucks.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
Oh yeah, that would have been up on a gazebo.
That's all right.

Speaker 4 (40:52):
But I was looking away up the creek for upon
doom boat.

Speaker 5 (40:55):
Sure.

Speaker 4 (40:55):
Oh well, but he got he got a dove wrap.
So that's that's a true friend there to set there
on a boat for half an hour.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
So yeah, man, but yeah, he owes you one, doesn't he?

Speaker 4 (41:03):
Oh yeah?

Speaker 1 (41:04):
How's your backyard driving range working out? Are you still
practicing golf or you've focused on tis and hunting again?

Speaker 4 (41:11):
I'm kind of getting more. I'm trying to spend at
least one morning once the dude gets off, and get
out there and do some chipping at my have my
broken bash rod? I got it stuck out there for
a flag, but hey, it works the time to use
for a broken rod.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Yeah, so many pretty good tomato sticks.

Speaker 4 (41:28):
Man, such a I got such a good you know,
elevation terrain back here in the back out about a
third of an acre back here, he's got all kind
of elevation from zero about twenty feet. So it's good.
Different chipping spots, sure. But but on the safety thing
before I let you go, h you're talking safety a

(41:50):
little bit yesterday, and I would say, before I get
to that real quick, just talking about the stuff out
there in salt water. Make sure I learned this in
madigor to Bay the hard way, almost got hit in
Matdi Gorda Bay. Make sure you walk around like the
old man from Carabernet shu feet.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
Oh yeah, yes, I mentioned that yesterday to Heather and
when she would in the truck with Aaron heading down
to the coast and they're out there on their first
or her first wade fishing trip ever this morning, and
I've cautioned him straight up on the phone before I

(42:26):
even talked to her that don't take her out more
than about thigh deep. Maybe she doesn't need to have
to worry about getting intimidated by a fish right in
her face, you know, don't take her out there just
armpit deep. I've been there. You've probably been there wadefishing,
and it's just that's not for beginners, you know, make
it fun. It's like going to the shooting range and

(42:49):
handing somebody who's never shot a gun before a three
fifty seven magnum handgun or a big high caliber rifle
that's gonna knock them off their feet. That's I see
too many videos I used to. I don't see him anymore,
which makes me feel a little bit better, like we're
we're learning. But that used to be considered funny when

(43:10):
somebody just got rocked and instantly hated the shooting sports
because it hurt him. There's no reason for that.

Speaker 4 (43:17):
Oh yeah, no, I'm talking about shooting you know, back
when when I was duck guiding up here a little
bit more than I do now, But we had I
had a tripper, you know, we were getting out there.
It was getting it was almost shooting time. We got
out there late because the fog was bad and this
be foar I had to ans electronics. I have now
to get us to our spot, and we're walking out
to the spots, probably about five minutes for shooting time.

(43:38):
And it's me, two guys from Halliburton, and one of
the guys brought their sons and we're walking out there
and all of a sudden all of us jumped out
of her skin because the sun's shot. Doune went off.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
Oh lord.

Speaker 4 (43:49):
Now we stopped and he was kind of trailing behind
it as which as he was a carrier, and I talked,
so what what what?

Speaker 1 (43:56):
What was that?

Speaker 4 (43:56):
Ye? And not only did I say, no guns loaded
till we get to the car, But what he was
doing was checking to see if his safety was on
by pulling the trigger.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
Yeah, that's a good way to check it.

Speaker 4 (44:11):
That's a good way to come leave him and leave
him at the house. But well, just the other he
can't bring a gun exactly, he can come observe, he
can blow the pintail. He can blow the pintail with
no did you.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
You may have missed it. But I come up with
a great way to keep kids from from messing up
your duck on. Give them a call, oh yeah, with
no read in it. Tell him if your only ducks
can hear this, and just let him go to toe.

Speaker 4 (44:35):
Yeah. Yeah, Like most of your listeners. I got alarm.
It goes off five minutes for your show Saturday and Sunday, So.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (44:42):
No problem, man, all right, but the last one is far.
Let you go if you got to, if you've got time.
But I had a buddy of mine, a long time
guy that gut it with me, was an inspector at
a company I worked at. He fell asleep in the
duck line. I went out. I'm out there waiting for mallards.
I told me, I'll get a break, wake up when
they come. So all of a sudden, out of nowhere,

(45:03):
here come about ten canvas backs. They were just you know,
here we come exactly. So I hit him on this,
I said, I said, dude, ducks, that's it. If you
reached down grabbed for his gun by the trigger.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
Oh dude, they walk among us, you know, they walk
among us. Fou pro Oh my gosh.

Speaker 4 (45:26):
All right, buddy stagger among us.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
I don't know, man, I'll see you all right. We
gotta take a little break here, David.

Speaker 4 (45:34):
Hang on.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
I'll get you very first when we get back, even
before I go to the the Sanderson Farms Championship over
there in Mississippi. We are, man, we're so close to
hunting season for deer and ducks both and if you
haven't teed up your shot gun or your rifle yet,
you kind of need to get that done. And American

(45:55):
Shooting Centers is the place to go do it. They
have got two hundred plus shoe shoting stations out there.
There are three complete sporting clays courses, because that's what
Eda Riggy, the owner of the place now likes. He's
excellent at that and he's made sure that he's got
a setup that can be used for just fun, casual

(46:17):
sporting clay shooting, getting ready for hunting shooting, and also
for big championships with They host some pretty big shoots
out there every month. They really do. On the rifle
and pistol side. You start at five yards, goes all
the way out to six hundred yards and out there
a little past the two hundred I believe it is,
is where the rim fire silhouette range is where you

(46:40):
can shoot at these metal targets out there. You plink
and knock them down and they just sit right back
up and thank you, sir. Can I have another. It's
so fun with kids out there on that twenty two
ranger or even anybody new to shooting really, because they
can do a lot of shooting with virtually no recoil
and instant gratification when you hear that little sound, and

(47:01):
it doesn't cost a lot of money to shoot twenty two's.
That's another important thing. Sporting Clays five stand a beginner's
wing shooting area as well, and instruction in all the
shooting disciplines, which is nice to have. If you're not
hitting bull's eyes, if you're not breaking targets, get a
professional out there to help knock the rust off whatever

(47:22):
is keeping you from doing what you want to do
with your with your guns. It's so much more efficient
than trying to learn it on your own or learn
from a friend who's not a very good shot and
not an even worse teacher. American Shootingcenters dot Com is
a website. That place is going to be really really
busy for the next forty five or sixty days. American

(47:43):
Shooting Centers West tim Or Parkway between Katie and Highway six.
American Shooting Centers dot Com nine oh three on Sports
Talk seven ninety The Dugpike Show, Thank you for listening
so much. I just got a picture from Aaron. He
and Heather are down there on the coast. A little
farther down there we are. And guess what it's doing
where they are. It's raining. The good news, let me

(48:05):
see which way this stuff's going. The good news is
it's about to disappear. Eron. If you can hear me,
it should be gone for you. Well, I don't know,
never mind, Yeah, just watch the weather and see what happens. Uh,
fingers crossed for you, buddy, David. What's up my friend?

Speaker 7 (48:23):
All right, Doug, I got a question for you to
run with, and I want to hang up and listen
to ask it. My wife recently came back from a
cruise to Alaska with her sister, and she told me
about all these guys that were lined up out in
the bay almost shoulder to shoulder fishing, and come to
find out that they were the salmon are running.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Yeah so much.

Speaker 7 (48:45):
My question is this, what would be at the top
of your bucket list for someone to experience more important
as a novice. In other words, you could have no
experience and still go and have a great time at
the top at the top of your bucket list. And
I'm gonna hang up and listen.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
Okay, all right, let me take a shot at that.
H Let me take a shot at bucket list for
a novice to go have a good time fishing. First
and foremost, it's absolutely got to include a guide, a
professional guide who comes highly recommended by somebody, maybe in

(49:27):
a local tackle store wherever you're going. I don't trust
chambers of commerce for that kind of recommendation. You want
to you want to get a fisherman's name from another fisherman.
You want to get a professional guides name from somebody
who works with those people all day long, and not

(49:50):
just somebody who got somebody to be a member of
the Better Business Bureau. I would for excitement, if you've
got the patience and you don't want to catch a
lot of fish somewhere. For tarp and fishing is great
because you've got a big fish that jumps and pulls hard.
And the downside of that is it's going to take

(50:13):
a long time for a novice to get even a
forty or fifty pound tarp into the boat, probably, And
if you hook up a one fifty like you might
do off this coast, it's going to take even longer.
My wife's uncle. He passed away a long time ago,
but I got him out with Jim Levell for a
tarpin trip years and years ago, and that was on

(50:36):
his bucket list, and Jim took us out. We were
off Galveston and we hadn't had a bite, We hadn't
had a tarpain bite in a long time, and it
was almost time to go. It was close to three o'clock,
and we caught sharks till our arms bled. But all
of a sudden, a line rolls over, and the rod
rolls over, and the line comes tight, and here John

(50:58):
take this man handed in the rod, and about I
don't know more than an hour later, with him having
to really get back because he had to fly out
that night, he caught one that was probably close to
one twenty five one, somewhere between twenty five and fifty
one hundred plus one hundred and bucket list for him

(51:19):
for sure. He caught a giant tarpin, bigger than any
friend of his probably had ever caught. Certainly, so that's
a good one. A snook is a good fish. I
love snook fishing because they jump, they pull like a
red fish, they jump like a bass. And they eat
like dorado, like Mahi mahi, the delicious fish. I don't

(51:39):
know that there's a lot of people who look at
big bass as a bucket list fish. Get a double
digit bass, that's a good accomplishment, but the difficulty, the
level of difficulty is lower now because of the forward
facing sonar and that that would be the best way

(52:01):
to handle that to get it done. But it's also, honestly,
it's a little bit like cheating. It's kind of like
going to a place, a high fenced, one hundred acre
place where you can shoot a three hundred point deer.
It's just like shooting fish in a barrel almost, because
you see the fish, you watch your lure or your

(52:23):
live bait go right down in front of that fish's nose,
you watch the fish eat it. You lift up and
you reel in and congratulations, you've got a twelve pound bass.
But you didn't really work for it. And that's what
that's got to be part of it for me. If
it's going to be a bucket list thing, I want
to have a little skin in the game. I want

(52:44):
it to be a little bit harder and so that
I can have something to talk about now I know
a lot of I've been on a lot of well managed,
big ranches for deer hunting, and I've heard the guides
tell me that more not a lot. But sometimes they
get hunters in there who are down there because they

(53:07):
got invited and they liked to party, and they stay
up late and have a few drinks and sit around
the campfire talking about how fun it's going to be
the next day, and then they go to bed at
after midnight, wake up half hung over still and maybe
probably could blow legally drunk some of them, but they

(53:29):
get them out into the stand with a guide. And
I've had several of those guides tell me that they
had to wake up their hunter to shoot the deer
that they wanted to shoot. That's not my idea of
a bucket list. Put me in a stand somewhere that
you haven't hunted. This is my idea of a bucket
list deer hunting. I'm on a nice ranch, it's got
some big deer, but you know, there's this area of

(53:51):
the ranch that they haven't hardly ever hunted, and they
have no idea what's back there. I want to be there.
I want to go there. I want to use my
powers of observation. I want to use all the skills
I have to find that deer that they don't even
know is back there, and I want to knock it
down with one clean shot. And I want them to

(54:12):
come pick me up and ask me if I got anything,
and I'm gonna walk them over to where that deer's laying.
That's what I think of when I think a bucket
list when I'm going fishing with somebody. If I'm going
for permit somewhere, if I'm looking for giant travalli, that
would be a bucket list trip of mine. I'd love
to do that before I get too weak to whip one.

(54:32):
That's a strong fish. That's kind of like the amber
jack of shallow water. They're tough. I would love to
get one of those on a fly, I really would.
I don't know if I'm gonna get that chance, but
I would love to do that peacock bass I never did,
and I'd love to go catch them in Florida. It'd
be kind of fun just to have a picture of

(54:53):
me with one. Haven't done that yet, and I'd like
to do it before I get too too far down
the line to do it. So far I've got plenty
of energy. I'm just kind of working out the timing part.
But those would be some of my bucket lists. Fish,
the waterfowl hunting. I've kind of been there, done that,
and I still love going. But I don't know that

(55:13):
there's anything left on the list on a bucket list.
I've done timber hunting, I've done prairie hunting, I've done
marsh hunting. I've done all of that for all the
waterfowl basically, and there's not a species of duck that
I'm just so giddy over. I don't want to go
travel all the way to Alaska to shoot whatever odd

(55:34):
duck eiders up there. Maybe I'm not in Alaska. I'm
not sure there's one really pretty duck up there. I
can't remember the name of it offhand, but that's just
kind of I've been to the mountain and that was
the Katy Prairie, and it's prime when Katy Prairie and
the Aniwhack Prairie both were just loaded with birds all summer,
I mean all winter, and everybody who was out there

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had really really good hunts most of the time. I'll
think I'll think during the break real quickly I want
to get to the Sanderson Farms and kind of figure
out where that is. Right now, TikTok, he shouldn't take
along with this new laptop. Yeah, they're just jumped right up.
How about that? At the Sander Farms Championship over there
in Jackson, Garrick Higgo continues to lead the way. He

(56:21):
has extended his lead going into today's final round to
two shots. He's at eighteen under par. Three rounds in
the sixties. Steven fisk and Danny Walker both at sixteen
under par, two shots off the lead. Fisk I guess
gets extra credit for having a seventy on Thursday and
then backing that up with two sixty fives. That's pretty

(56:44):
dog gone good. Taylor Montgomery at fifteen under par, Matt Coocher,
Frankie Kapp in the third, and Vince Walley all at
fourteen under par, and I'll give you the three thirteens.
Max Homer, Tom Kim Rrick Cole. I don't think anybody
under there is gonna win the tournament, but I think

(57:05):
they could all make better paychecks because that course has
given up a lot of birdies. Let me see how
many people are ten under or better very quickly. Yeah,
if you're not ten under, you are in thirtieth place.
So you got twenty nine guys at ten under or better.
These guys are really really good as a matter of fact,

(57:28):
as if you didn't know that. If you're not good,
but you want to look good on the golf course,
get yourself some Kobe Stevens apparel. It comes in. Hey,
you can outfit the whole family with Kobe Stevens. There
are stuff for little kids, there are items for little kids,
for women, for men including the grown men up to
four x. If that's what you need, that's what they've

(57:50):
got for you. Big stuff, little bitty stuff, and it's
all very very sharp. You'll look like you're way better
than you are when you're walking around the golf club,
walking out to that driving range. Don't hit too many
balls so they'll expose you for what you really are
as a golfer. That's what I've got to be careful of.
A walk out there in Kobe Stevens gear and look

(58:11):
pretty good. Put that bag down, stretch a little bit,
swing that orange stick and then pick up the clubs
and they go, oh, oh yeah, okay, we get it.
But I look good doing it. I look good shaking.
Let's just look at that. You're gonna look good doing that.
They've got outdoors gear. If you're a fisherman, you're gonna
like the shirts they've got, and there's just everything to

(58:33):
make you feel better, to make you play better, to
help you fish better. Kobe Stevens dot com is a website.
You ought to go there take a look. Very community
oriented guy too. He's been around a long time in
this business and he's genuine in his willingness to support
pretty much any in every cause that comes his way.

(58:54):
I've seen him him at so many tournaments, and I've
tried to get him to go play golf with me
so many times, but he can't because he's got a
tournament he's got to do to help somebody raise some money.
Kobe Gallack's the guy's name. If you see him. There's
a store up in Champions. You ought to go by
there and take a look. And if he's in the
store that day, that's like finding a unicorn on a unicycle.

(59:15):
He might be there, he might not. If he is,
by all means, shake his hand and tell him thanks
for everything he does, and then buy some of his
stuff Kobe Stevens dot com Co, b Y S T
E V E n S Kobe Stevens dot Com. I
hope you got to hear the interview I did yesterday,
conversation I had with Wayne Errington from air Ride Bikes
up in Tomball. He sells electric bikes. They've got folding bikes,

(59:38):
they've got cruising bikes. He has this new line that's
really cool from a company called Rambo, and that there's
one particular bike in there that has separate motors, big
powerful motors for each wheel. It's all wheel drive, which
and you don't have to you can selectively just use
one wheel or the other, save a little power that way.

(01:00:00):
But the bottom line is, he said, this thing's pretty
much big enough to put me and bread on there
and a trailer pulling two big bucks. It's a it's
a beast, he said. He's got that, he's got all
kinds of pardon me, help with a little kind of
ride and test it out around there. You can come
up there and learn so much about electric bikes that

(01:00:22):
I didn't know. For example, yesterday in that conversation I
learned that the batteries that used to cause problems with
e bikes aren't underwriters laboratory rated. If you get a
UL battery, it's all He sells his bikes that come
with those, you don't have to worry about the overheating
stuff that was a problem was very problematic with earlier bikes.
Tell Wayne, I said, hello, if you get up there,

(01:00:44):
he's got the hunting bikes, which are great for the
beach too. You put those big old wide tires on
there and just ride up and down the beach when
we get back. Actually, I'm going to talk about some
of the accessories that Brett and I and a couple
of other people thought might belong on an electric bike
if you were going to use it in the outdoors.
And I think they all make sense. Electric bikes are
starting to make a lot of sense too. They're more

(01:01:05):
of them. You see them all the time now, little kids,
older people on them, most of us who are seniors.
You better be wearing a helmet when you're riding those things.
That just makes sense anytime we're out there on a bike.
Air ride bikes dot Com is the website a R
R I D E two rs. Air ride bikes dot Com.

(01:01:30):
That's too much confusers, too much confusion that sounds like
getting on my week. Usually managed to make it through
every one of them so far, and I hope I
make it through a whole lot more. It saw a
very interesting By the way, if you have kids, especially
teenage kids, there's a video I saw yesterday that talks

(01:01:51):
about let's you know. He just expands everything to if
you if you live ninety years, okay, which is that's
a good that's a good would run for anybody. I
think ninety years. I hope I make it longer than that.
I don't know. I don't know how long I've got
on this earth. But if you live ninety years, you
have twelve one thousand and eighty months, whatever that is.

(01:02:12):
And this, this chart that was done probably by AI somewhere,
checks off the average amount of time people spend driving,
the average amount of time they spend sleeping, the average
amount of time they spend working, and all of these
things get taken off of that big giant board of dots,

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each of which represents a month. And when you get
down to it, you have the biggest time suck on
your whole life is looking at screens. That's the biggest
one on there. You don't sleep more. You don't, you

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don't eat more, You don't do anything more than we
do now looking at screens, and the amount of screen
time that teenagers are getting now leaves them with only
something like six or eight or maybe ten years of
time that they're not doing something for them or ten

(01:03:16):
years of time that they are doing something just for
themselves without any electronics. And that's not a whole lot
of time to invest in friendships, to invest in just
dreaming about cool things you might want to do, taking
bucket list trips. It's amazing. It's almost like one third,
I believe of your time is spent on screens. And

(01:03:38):
that's scary because it's not going to get any better.
Everything we're doing now, we're becoming so dependent on AI.
And AI has done some great things for the world,
there's no question about it, but it's also making us
more and more and more dependent on AI and there
are AI boy. I didn't mean to go down this

(01:03:58):
rabbit hole, but it was very interesting. I saw a
story a couple of weeks ago, and I mentioned it.
I think once here, so I'll pop it again and
then I'll go away from it. There was a company
up north somewhere, and there was internal discussion through exchanges
of emails on whether or not they were really kind
of getting their money's worth out of the AI they
had invested a lot of money in, and whether or

(01:04:19):
not to just just cancel the whole program and get
rid of it. And guess what popped in and said,
don't you dare or I'll crash your system. The AI
that they had installed. The AI said leave me alone
or I will take you down. Okay, that is literally
the plot of Terminator, I'm telling you, man, and it's

(01:04:40):
already happening. Fun. Yeah, and there there are other examples
of where AI has kind of taken over smaller things
than a giant corporation. But yeah, so there you go.
Seven one three, two, one two five seven nine to
email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Back to

(01:05:00):
those bikes, back to bikes, electric bikes. If I had one,
there would be things I would want on it, and
I would want I'd like to have that small trailer
I would need. Brett was smart enough. I didn't even
think of it early on to add gun rack to
the idea, because if you're gonna go hunting with the

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thing and one of the callers yesterday after the I
believe it was after the interview with Wayne, one of
them talked about just throwing his rifle over his shoulder
and heading out on his e bike. But the rifle
over the shoulder isn't as safe or secure as the
rifle in a gun rack. And that's easy. It would

(01:05:42):
just be a racking identical except for the mounting system
that you would put on a four wheeler of some
sort or any any kind of a utility vehicle like that.
Most of them have gun racks on them, So you
just take one of those and retro fit it until
somebody comes up with one, specifically four e bikes put

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that on there so you can take care of your guns.
It's gonna have to somehow be tinkered with to flip
over to a rod rack for running up and down
the beach, and it's gonna have to. If I'm gonna
use a knee bike to run up and down the
beach fishing, I'm gonna need space for at least four

(01:06:23):
rods just for myself, because I'm gonna have two basic
rods and just trout stuff trout size tackle, and I'm
gonna have two that are a little bit bigger, because
if I'm running up and down that beach and getting
to see a lot of beach on a perfect morning,
there's a chance I might trip over a really big

(01:06:44):
tarpa and sitting up on one of the bars. I'm
flashing down to North Padre in South Padre, specifically North Padre,
got my big, old, knobby, tired, fat tired bike running
up and down that beach looking for fish. And if
I see a little bit mullet getting hammered by little
or well relatively smaller fish trout, maybe small tarpin, maybe

(01:07:09):
some snook, I'm cool with the trout tackle, But if
I see a thirty forty pound tarping wallowing up in
there eating a little bit bigger mullet, I'm reaching for
the big stuff. And to have four rods right in
front of me within arm's reach as I get off
my bike, that'd be pretty cool. Saddle bags for tackle,

(01:07:32):
that's a no brainer. You don't want to try to
make a specific bag for that gear. I would just
have I would just like to have the open compartments
where I can put whatever I want in there. That
would also include a first aid kit. I put that
on the list. For sure, you got to have your tools.
I think I talked about that a little bit yesterday.
And for Brett his cushier seat, I'm still shaking my

(01:07:55):
head and scratching my head about that one. I'm not sure.
Why why do you want a cushier brut My buns
are sensitive? Gosh, why don't we just get you a
bag of marshmallows and tape it, just duct tape it
to the original seat. I need more support. Two bags?
Are you a two bag girl?

Speaker 4 (01:08:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:08:13):
Bag for each cheek? Is that what we need?

Speaker 6 (01:08:14):
One for each cheek? A bag of granola crackers underneath that,
just for extra support.

Speaker 1 (01:08:20):
Oh my word, Now what are we making? Some'mores? I'm
scared to ask what kind of swores we make? No, man,
let's move the pressure and the heat and I gotta
find something else really quick on my list. Uh there
was something to oh where would it go? Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:08:38):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
You know what else would be handy? Very handy and man,
I hate to even go this way, but a phone
holder that you could mount to the handlebars, so that
you could so that you could look at your phone
and look at your navigation to find out kind of
where you are relative to where you're supposed to be. Now,

(01:09:03):
that's that's fine and dandy if you've got if you've
got service way out in the middle of nowhere in
the woods. But that would be it would also give
you the peace of mind of knowing that your phone
hadn't fallen out of your pocket or anything else like that.
It would have to be a very reliable, very sturdy
case and holder. But that wouldn't That's that's a small thing. No,

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that's not a big deal. Bred like a marshmallows, really,
marshmallows and crackers. What can we get you some little
tassels for your handlebars? Heck yeah, bring them on, yeah,
bring them. Bring them man, you know the fuzzy dice.
That would be. That's a that would be a good,
a good hunting camp prank if one guy is telling

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everybody and this this goes back to a prank that
was pulled on a friend of mine from Field and
Stream years ago when GPS navigation came in. But this one,
this contemporary prank, would be just something kind of funny.
If there's one guy who's all hyped up about having
his e bike and everybody else is used to walking

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from camp to their stands, or maybe riding a little
ways and then walking in. Just get some of those
little get some of those little tassels that go in
kids handlebars, little kids track bars and stuff, and put
them on his e bike. See how over and takes
something to notice? Yeah, we notice, all right. So with
everybody else, that'd be kind of funny. There's all kinds

(01:10:32):
of great hunting camp pranks, and I've told all about
most of them for many many years now. I've been
on the air twenty five years and I've been sharing
some of these and I'm not gonna do it right now.
I'm looking actually for something new that might be a
fun topic to tackle in the next week or two
before deer season starts. And I know there have to
be new ones, because when you're sitting around deer camp,

(01:10:54):
around the campfire and everybody's talking about stories and this,
that and the other, somebody mind is wondering how they
can mess with somebody else. Brett, you want to hear
one quick one. Absolutely, So there's one guy that nobody
I don't know, you just he's the guy somebody needs
to pick on and have a little fun with. So

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everybody's talking about where they're gonna hunt and the seed
gets planted on an early time when hey man, there's
this blind back in the back of the ranch where
I drove down there the other afternoon and or the
cameras are showing this giant big buck, and you really
ought to pick that blind if you want to hunt
back there and see if you can get him. I
sat there two days and I couldn't get him, or what,

(01:11:38):
or somebody sat there two days last week and couldn't
get him. But it'd be a good shot for you.
Then we're gonna have to leave a little bit early
to get you back there, and then I'll come back
a little closer or go over yonder to hunt. Anyway,
the bottom line is everybody in camp's got to be
in on this too. And at some point after that
guy goes to bed, every other camp or every other clock,
every other watch anything that he could pick up and

(01:12:00):
see what time it was. You move it forward two
hours because you know you've got to go to your
deer stand in the dark. So there's one guy. There's
one guy who's got a volunteer to take him back there.
So he goes in and tiptoes say, hey man, Hey, Brett,
wake up. Man. Let's go grab a grab a snack,
and I'm gonna get you back to that blind and
then I'm gonna go over to my stand. But we're
gonna get on out of here because it takes a

(01:12:22):
little longer to get back there, so I don't want
to wake everybody up. They can probably sleep another fifteen
to twenty minutes. Leave him alone. So this guy gets up,
he puts on all his gear, and you take him
back there because he needs he needs to be in
that stand by about five forty five, so that he's
got a good forty five minutes or maybe even an
hour before first light. Only what you're really doing is
putting him in that stand at three forty five am.

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And when you drop him, if you just go back
to camp, go back to sleep. And he says, Therety,
he's waiting for daylight, waiting for daylight. And he he
sits there for two years, two hours. Oh the things
that the things that men do to get a laugh
at someone else's expense. And man, I've had great pranks

(01:13:07):
pulled on me. I have pulled off some pretty good
pranks on people, but they're all in good fun. And
I think in the camaraderie in hunting camps, whatever you're hunting,
it's mostly in deer camps because after the meals and
after the campfire stuff and on, and when you really
go out and hunt, you're pretty much by yourself. You're

(01:13:29):
alone with your thoughts. You can kind of just collect
yourself and and it makes for a very very good
atmosphere for people of all ages. The youngsters learn that
they're sitting around the campfire listening to all these stories
that are being told, some of them more colorfully than others.
But it's just really, I find with hunting and fishing,

(01:13:53):
it's just so nice to be away from city life,
away from everyday life, for little chunks of time, big
chunks of time whatever you can manage to squeeze into
your schedule and just reset, just reset it really is
it just it soothes my soul to have a fishing
ride in my hand, a lower tide on the end

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of the line and just be throwing it and pulling
it back and throwing it and pulling it back and
acting like I'm surprised every time I get a bite.
Oh wow, I caught another fish. That's awesome. I've caught
a bazillion fish in my life, and I'm pretty happy
to be able to catch some more. I'm looking forward
to it too. Maybe today, who knows. Oh know, I

(01:14:36):
have to go to my mother in law's house today,
and there's nothing wrong with that. We're going up to
celebrate her birthday. Black Horse Golf Club out two ninety
to Fry Road. Hang a south, go about three miles
maybe or so. See golf course on the right side,
then a little bit longer, golf course on both sides
of the road. Put on your west blinker, hang a

(01:14:57):
west and go through the gate, and about a quarter
mile down that road you are gonna find the clubhouse,
where there's a grill inside, where the food is delicious,
the pro shops in there. Somebody in there is gonna
help you. Make sure you make your tea time. Maybe
get yourself some range balls to go, get yourself loosened up.
Everybody riding around there on the golf course. Somebody's gonna

(01:15:19):
ride up every few minutes, Hey, how you doing. Do
you need anything to eat or drink? Every now and
then you'll see Craig Hicks driving around, just talking to
players who are out there and enjoying that North course
daily fee play and enjoin the South Course, which is
taking private now and for almost a year. Gosh, it
just seems like yesterday they flipped it over. But almost
a year now the South Course has been private, kind

(01:15:41):
of like Golf Club of Houston and Blackhawk Country Club.
And there's a membership option out there at black Horse
where you can gain access to all five of the
courses in the family. It's kind of the the that's
a really really good way to see some different tracks
every now and then to make new friends every time
you go somewhere. Just sit around the locker room, sit

(01:16:02):
around the grill, and just go introduce yourself to somebody.
I'm a big fan of that, actually, just walking in
and saying Hi, I'm who I am, and who are you?
And I'm kind of new up here. If I go
into a new place, try and find somebody looks like
a local, looks like somebody who's been going there all
their life, and just learn something about the place. It's

(01:16:23):
amazing how many friends I've made doing that over the years.
Black Horse Golf Club dot com is a website. Go there,
take a look around, consider these membership options, and you're
gonna have a good time either way. Big tournaments too.
You can host big tournaments there. They've got great instruction
down at the other end of the range and just
a bunch of people who want you to have a

(01:16:43):
fun time. Black Horse Golf Club dot com. Make a
tea time for yourself right now, black Horse Golf Club
dot com. What I know about Shooter's Corner is that
it was opened forty something years ago by Jerry TK
and as his son got old enough, he was in
the store all the time, hanging out with his dad,
and between the two of them now they are two
of the best gunsmiths, probably in the region, not just

(01:17:06):
in Houston, not just not just around here, but in
the region. I've sent so many, so many listeners down
there to Shooter's Corner who had problems with guns that
other gunsmith's had told them, we're gonna either cost a
ton of money or couldn't be fixed, and knock on wood.
I do this every time, knock on Wood. Nobody's ever
called me back and said, hey, they couldn't help me

(01:17:27):
at all. Never heard that Shooters Corner's got tons of AMMO,
all the boutique calibers. Whatever you're shooting they've probably got
Ammo for it. They've got pre owned guns, they've got
brand new guns, they've got optics and camo and reloading supplies,
and it's it's an old school gun store, that's what
it is. And it's run it's owned and operated by

(01:17:49):
old school gun guys. Everybody who works in there is
just obsessed with guns and the fun you can have shooting.
Whether you're a hunter, a target shooter, a competitive shooter,
or just brand new to firearms, go down there. Talk
to them. They'll help you get exactly what you need
to enjoy the shooting sports a little more tomorrow than

(01:18:10):
you did yesterday. The Shooters cornertx dot com. If you
wear a badge for a living, you get a discount,
which I think is fantastic of them to do. I
wish more businesses did that. The Shooters cornertx dot com
nine on Sports Talk seven nineties Doug Pike Show, Thank
you for listening, I said, I'm going to do. Appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (01:18:33):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:18:33):
Oh man, where do I want to go from here?
We've wanted to got here we are with just a
few Oh, I've got to do a man. Yeah, I've
got time to get into all kinds stuff. Let's get
back to my notes here. There was that, there was
that got that taken care of. I carry so much paper.
That's I'm gonna talk about this when I do when
I do shows remotely, which I'm actually doing one Wednesday,

(01:18:56):
for those of you who might be interested. It's not
outdoors related. It is senior related. Be out there at
the Stafford Center in Stafford for something called the fifty
plus Expo, and that the two entities my show and
that that show, that consumer show didn't even know about

(01:19:18):
each other until recently, I say, within the last six
months or so, John Sasmun and I have been talking
and trying to put together something pretty fun. Like I said,
I'm gonna do my show from live out there and
that will be really really fun. I'm gonna meet some
pretty good people too. Let me check these emails here
and see what I need to do. Oh, by the way,

(01:19:39):
Captain Scott sent me one. Captain Scott sent me a
picture of some hogs he dispatched, I'm presuming off someplace
other than his own. I doubt that there's a hog
on earth that's got the guts to walk through Scott
and Ole's place day or night. That would be a
bad idea. Billy wade In on accessories for the e bikes,

(01:20:08):
and his number one, he said, would be either those
no flat or maybe twelve ply airplane airplane tires and
if not, then fix a flat a can of that stuff,
which is not really good for your tires. From everything
I've ever heard, I like the idea of just a
no flat tire on there because you're not trying to

(01:20:29):
there's no red really no reason to have an inflatable
tire on some on on an e bike that's going
to be used in the outdoors because there's just so
much risk of running over something. Uh lord know, everything
you run over in South Texas has got thorns on
it at least an inch long, and they'll puncture tires.
Porl got the tires on some of the ranch trucks
I've seen, they have so much fix a flat in

(01:20:51):
them that nothing could get in far enough to create
an air leak. But they just look like prickly pair
of cactus that of them. So yeah, a good heavy,
heavy tire is probably a really good idea. Kevin wade In,
He says, see let's discuss outdoor inventions that need to

(01:21:13):
see need to be inventions, but haven't been it. Oh yeah,
but haven't been invented yet, like one great big wish list.
Uh Brett was just asking. He's talking about maybe doing
something with crossbows that I don't know that I've seen done.
There's there have been close close things to what he's

(01:21:35):
talking about. I don't even want to I don't want
to give it up because I'm not no I man.
I've had an idea in my head. I need to
find somebody who's who's a programmer. I need a legitimate
somebody who knows how to program Oh I don't know,
like a golf simulator something like that. And if there's

(01:21:57):
anybody out there who can, I'd kind of like to
have a converse with them.

Speaker 6 (01:22:00):
I always thought it'd be interesting if you had some
sort of technology in an actual golf ball that would
be able to like tell you, you know, how hard
you're striking, where it's going, when resistance, things like that.

Speaker 1 (01:22:11):
Have you never been to Top golf? I have not,
actually Top golf has though every ball has a chip
in it. Oh really that's so cool. It tells you.
And now with a weekend, a nod is not PGA
tour level practice, but with a weekend and nod. It
tells you how far you hit it, and I think
it gives a little bit of like speed off the

(01:22:34):
clubhead stuff like that. I'm not sure exactly all that
it gives up, but it does show you where it
goes and how fast it was going and whatnot.

Speaker 6 (01:22:43):
Yeah, for a normal person that's probably not gonna be
super helpful, but for a professional that would be a
really good data I'd imagine.

Speaker 1 (01:22:49):
Well they have the data is available not through the ball,
but through technology that actually tracks the ball and it
gives you clubhead speed. It gives you ball speed, which
are two different things, very different things depending on the
golf ball. It gives you side spin, it gives you

(01:23:09):
back spin. It gives you the exact trajectory of the
ball all the way through its flight, kind of like
what you see a little bit like what you see
on TV when they have that camera set up from
behind the t box and you watch that little red
stripe go all the way down there. Hopefully what you're
talking about, Yeah, that those things measure two dozen different points.

(01:23:33):
That's fact. That's why, that is why how Sutton got
out of the youth instruction business that he was in,
he told me, because he and I and most of
us in our age group grew up learning how to
play golf by watching the golf ball. You see just

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if you can hit. You hit a shot, and you
watch and see what the ball does, and then a
good instructor could tell you how to change your swing
to change it from going way too far left to right,
or way too far right to left, or too high
or too low or too far too short. You worked
with the club and you worked with the swing to

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change the flight of the golf ball. He said. Most
of the kids who were coming into his facility where
they could have learned from a guy who's he's kind
of got some credentials. This guy's a major player in golf.
And he said every time they would hit a ball,
because he did have the technology in there, but he
likes more of kind of a hands on approach and

(01:24:36):
watch the ball approach. They're hitting onto an open range
where they could see it. But as soon as they
would hit the golf ball, they turn and look at
the machine to see the stats. See that. We want
the analytics of it all and try to improve upon it.
That way where you just don't learn touch or feel
or the subtleties the nuances of golf. And to be

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a good golfer you have to understand that nuance. And
to be a good radio show host. I have to
go to a break now, don't I?

Speaker 4 (01:25:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:25:06):
Maybe, yeah, for sure. El Kubino Cigars. I'm happy to
talk about Manny Lopez, always have been. I am so
glad he's on this show, and I love to talk
about it because what he does, he's like a pied
piper of cigars. Okay, He's got two smoking lounges, one
in Texas City, one in League City. The Texas City
place doubles as his manufacturing facility where Cubans come in, including himself,

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and roll cigars every day that get shipped all over
the country every day. The one in League City is
kind of more Havana style, if you will. He's of
Cuban descent, so why not. He born and raised there,
and he knows what all those places were like because
his father, who also helped him open the business here,
which is one of only four dozen manufacturing places in

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our whole country. His father came over here and they
got this company going, and they set that range up
to remind them of home, and it's really it's a cool, warm,
fun atmosphere in which to go. It's open air. There's
like big garage doors and whatever breeze comes through there,
it comes through there. And you sit around and you talk,

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or maybe you watch a game on TV. Maybe a
card game breaks out. That wouldn't be the first time,
but anyway. You also get the option to call you
just call Manny anytime. Go to the website Elkubano Cigars
dot com and look at all the selections they have
from very mild to very robust flavors, all made from
different tobaccos that come in from Central America, most of

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them Cuban seed origination. Excellent cigars rolled by someone who's
been rolling cigars all his life, and that's everybody who
works there and does that has that credential going for him.
And he also does custom orders. And because you're dealing
with the manufacturer, there's no middleman who has to make
a profit off it either. So you order your cigars

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and say, you know what, these would be great for
my client XYZ Corporation. All of those guys love golf,
they love cigars. I'm gonna get them a box for
Christmas that has their company logo on the bands. That's
pretty cool stuff. I'm gonna get a box of these
for my son's wedding because him and all his buddy
he and all his buddies loved to play golf, they

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love to smoke cigars. There's a current kind of a
theme developing here, and so you get them with a
whatever on it to celebrate maybe the bachelor party, I
don't know what you put on that band. And anyway,
he also will come to your function, whatever that function
may be a charity golf tournament. The last picture he
showed me was from the inside of some very elaborate

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private home here in town somewhere where the host was
having a big get together and ordered up custom cigars
for all his guests. He'll even come out there and
roll cigars for you, You and your guests, you and
your golf tournament, whatever. He'll come right to your place
and roll cigars for anybody and everybody who walks up
for one. Elcubano Cigars dot com. It's really a fascinating business.

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I hope you get in touch with him and talk
to him about it. Elcubano Cigars dot Com three on
Sports Talk seven ninety I got time for one more call,
maybe two, before we have to bail out of here.
What's after today? Is there a game today that we need?

Speaker 4 (01:28:22):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:28:22):
Well? God, so I'm so just so interrupt with the
Astros making the playoffs and so disappointed that they didn't.
I just don't know how to act.

Speaker 4 (01:28:32):
Man.

Speaker 6 (01:28:32):
Yeah, it's the whole sports scene in Houston has a
little low energy these days.

Speaker 1 (01:28:36):
Well, at least the least they're Texans finally won a game.
Good lord, three Owen. Three's a big hole to dig
out of. You know, in the NFL, even with seventeen games,
they're not gonna go fourteen and three. We can pretty
much establish that without blinking. And you know, I don't
know what. CJ just doesn't seem himself right now. And

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I don't know why. He still shows glimpses of being
really really good, but some of the mistakes he makes
are pretty bad. And I can't wait till tomorrow because
I'm gonna be playing golf with my buddies out at
black Hawk. Oh no, actually, no, tomorrow's off. Darn it.
I'll have to miss this whole week. They've got some
big event out there tomorrow, I think, so I'm probably

(01:29:21):
run up a black horse, actually, I think, and just
get up there pretty early and get in eighteen holes
and then come back and do some stuff around the
house that I promised my wife I would do. Yeah,
We've got one guy who is just I mean, he'll
he's been I don't know what year he got out
of the University of Texas, but it was it was
way before I even went to college. And so he

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is among the several in the group who are ut alums,
and not a one of them is really especially happy
with the manning boy behind the behind the center. Have
you been following that at all?

Speaker 6 (01:30:00):
Bruh, I have to be honest.

Speaker 1 (01:30:04):
That's fine. Yeah, I watched a bunch of the Texas
game yesterday, and first of all, he's not getting a
whole lot of help from his line. Second of all,
he seems to just he holds onto the ball too long.
And I'm not I'm know Sean Salisbury. I don't know
anything about quarterbacking compared to Sean, but it seems to

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me like he just that the ball's just stuck to
his hand. He can't find anybody to throw it to.
And I can't believe that every defense they've played against
has been that good in their secondary that they could
just cover all those guys for all that time. And
who knows, maybe they need to work with their receivers

(01:30:45):
on getting open a little quicker somehow. But that poor
kid's just taking a beating. I watched him, didn't watch
the whole game. I just watched the little pieces of it.
Saw him get sacked four or five times, just in
a little bit. I watched, he tried, and he's got
He's got a good pedigree, there's no question about it.
And hopefully dad and uncle and grandpa and all can

(01:31:08):
can get him settled out. I think he's got potential,
but I don't know how far that's gonna get him.
Seven one three two one two, fight nine. Never mind,
we've only got about a minute and a half, so
wrapping up. Haven't heard from Aaron yet. That means they're
out fishing. It was raining a little while ago. He
sent a picture through the windshield, a pretty good shower falling,

(01:31:28):
And then I got a follow up, a text message
that said it's cleared up. Oh look at this, just
in time. They're out there and she's already caught a
sheep's head. No, it's a little drum, actually a little
drum outstanding waiting right where I told him. Man thidy
a little bit over the kneecaps and a big old

(01:31:49):
smile on Heather's face. Congratulations. Other I don't know if
you're hearing this, but way to go. Got a seventeen
inch drum. I notably, there's no picture here at all
of Aaron holding up any fish except hers, so maybe
it'll be his turn next. I think he's throwing a
top water or maybe a he might be throwing. I
told him to throw a soft plastic cause there's got

(01:32:11):
to be red fish up in there where they're fishing. Oh,
man music, I'm so glad I checked my phone for this.
I'm so I'm thrilled for her. That was her very
first time ever weighe fishing, and she's already one up
on the guy who's out there teaching her. Eh quick study.
All right, that's gonna wrap it up. Thank you all
for listening this weekend. I really do appreciate it. I'll
be back Tuesday for fifty plus over on KPRC at

(01:32:35):
noon on Wednesday over there at Stafford Center broadcasting live
and I'll be in there most of the morning and
a little bit of the afternoon. Just glad hand and
if you see me, just say hi. I'd appreciate that. Yeah,
get outside, have some fund, stay safe, please, and enjoy
the outdoors with your family. That's what it's there for.
We live in the greatest state of all to enjoy

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the outdoors, and I hope you take advantage of that.
See you next week. Thanks for listening to ideos.