20 years since the last 20 pound bass

Today on the Doug Pike Show, Doug looks at the latest bass fishing stats and talks with listeners about younger generations being unfamiliar with the outdoors. Later, VP of Astros Marketing, Jason Wooden, calls in to discuss baseball, golf, and other sports topics.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right now. Got a busy agenda today as well. I'm
going over some paperwork over here. I need to take
this out and move it over here. That should be here,
but it's not. Yeah, there are a couple of things
we're gonna have to look for. Evan. Evan Ray back
in here helping out today. I'm kind of hoping, man.

(00:20):
I don't want to jinx it, but I'm kind of
hoping you stick, Evan, And I know you don't want
to do this. I do. I understand for the show.
I need you now. Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna remind
I'm gonna remind the bosses of that. Hey he volunteered. Yeah,
you're you're a welcome edition. I appreciate you coming in
and fill it in until we can figure out what

(00:41):
we're gonna do with that slot. Man, appreciate it so
so much. Going on, let's start with the bass Masters Classic.
Day two of the bass Master's Classic in the books. Now,
this is day three, final day of the three day
tournament up there at Lake Ray Roberts just north of
Fort and the same guy who was leading yesterday is

(01:03):
leading today. Easton Fathergill. I'm pretty sure he was leading yesterday,
he's got for ten fish. Now they get to weigh
five fish per day. They weigh their five best fish
per day, and there are penalties, by the way, if
you bring a dead fish to the way in, which
is good, but it's still it's not a perfect world yet.

(01:24):
I may talk about that later, how they could make
some of these tournaments a little bit, a little bit
more fish friendly, but it would certainly make them a
little less dramatic during way in. Well, I guess you
could do it. No, I've got a I'm leaning toward
catching release tournaments, which would basically eliminate the line a

(01:47):
way in and the photo ops with these guys holding
these big fish high up in the air, which is
not good for them terribly, but they're excited, not the fish,
the people who catch them. Anyway, Father Gil is with
ten fish. His weight is fifty four pounds five ounces

(02:08):
five pounds, a little bit better than a five pound
average for his ten fish. He's clearly on good bass
wherever he's catching him, and at a little more than
eight pounds clear at this point of Corey Johnston. He
starts today in second place with forty five pounds and
thirteen ounces so he's he's looking at it almost eight

(02:32):
and a half pounds, let's call it. I think that's
about right. Yeah, eight and a half pounds behind an
eight pound lead in this tournament is sort of like
a well, I I was gonna make some sort of
golf reference if I could come up with one, but
it didn't come cleanly and quickly. To me. It's and
bass fish is not that much like golf, I guess

(02:54):
because any of those guys, any of those guys up
at Lake Gray Roberts, could kind of catch lightning in
a bottle if you will, and land a pair of
double digitfish, then drop in three more fives or six
is maybe, and the holy cow, you look up and
they're at thirty something pounds for the day, drop in,

(03:16):
drop that on the way table, and ease right past fothergill,
even if he has another pretty solid day and golf,
there's just really nothing equivalent to that, unless you maybe
could post a couple of double eagles somewhere on top
of a dozen birdies and shoot what fifty four eighteen

(03:37):
hunder par not happening, And neither do I think that
anybody's gonna easily It's possible it's more possible, I think,
in bass fishing to hit that super deluxe double Grand
Slam and get two lucky bites and like I said,
catch two ten eleven twelve pounders and boost yourself up

(04:02):
really quickly than it is to do that on a
golf course. The golf courses and the people who play
them in professional events are are those guys would have
a hard time doing what Father Gill's doings. He's gonna
win this tournament, He's got to be. I'll be shocked

(04:23):
a little more than just a bit. Actually, if somebody
comes racing up from behind and passes him going into
the going up to the leaderboard or the way station
this afternoon, I don't see how they're going to surmount
that because the math just doesn't add up. It really doesn't.
So back to the leaderboard, rounding out the top five,

(04:44):
Hunter Shyrock at forty four thirteen and just kind of sitting, gosh,
he solid ten pounds back, semi local Lee Livessay forty
four to nine, and John Cox breathing down live Assay's
neck at forty four eight. So there there could be
some shuffling. It's kind of like a tournament where somebody

(05:06):
a golf tournament where somebody's out six, seven, eight shots clear.
And I know that that's happened in the past on
the PGA Tour, and people have have been beaten when
they walked up onto the first tee of the last
day and had that kind of lead. But I don't
see it happening up there at Lake Ray Roberts. Day's

(05:29):
the final day. If I'm if I was a betting man,
i'd have to go with Father Gil. This guy's the
guy's on his heels. Yeah, they'd have to weigh in
thirty I don't know, thirty maybe thirty five pounds. He's
gonna you know, he's gonna bring in eighteen to twenty
two somewhere in there, probably unless he's just totally emptied

(05:49):
the well where he fishes. We'll see seven one three, two,
one two five seven ninety. Email me Doug Pike at
iHeartMedia dot com. Tell me if I'm crazy, tell me
if I'm spot on with this, ah man, I have.
I had seven bash yesterday, by the way, and I
was kind of comparing myself as to where I would

(06:11):
be on the leader board. I caught pretty good sack
yesterday or a day before yesterday, and then yesterday I
added probably, I don't know, maybe fourteen pounds would have
been right on the cut line. Now that that is
something that golf and fishing have in common, the cut line,

(06:32):
an early exit opportunity. You know, I think I'll start
calling that when you go to the when I'm when
I'm telling you about a PGA Tour event, and I'm
gonna tell you what the cut line is. I'm gonna
call it the EEO early exit opportunity Because for a
lot of those guys, if they had a really rotten
first round and they don't birdy three out of the

(06:54):
first four holes starting their second round, some of those guys,
if they were on a lot of toctor would tell
you they're looking for an EEO. And if you want
to see how quick those guys want to get out
of town, go to Well, we've got the Texas Children's
Houston Open. I'm gonna be interviewing Jason. Wouldn't, by the way,
at nine o'clock. If all goes well, I'll give you

(07:17):
that number in just a bit, heavan. But yeah, I
guarantee you if you're out there Friday afternoon and or
Saturday morning, No Friday afternoon. What am I thinking? Excuse me?
I got off my leaderboard for a minute there, and
I kept going back and forth. My brain was toggling
between bass and golf. What you're looking for on Saturday

(07:39):
and Sunday mornings early are these guys who barely made
the cut but want to get out of town, and
they're gonna the first group out on Sunday morning. They'll
play in probably two and a half hours. They're they're ready,
they've got they've got a flight booked out of town,
get on home, prop their feet up, lick their wounds. Briefly.

(07:59):
Those don't really spend much time thinking about what happened yesterday,
or even what happened off the tea box. If they're
already walking down the fairway. That's that's an ability that
they have that a lot of amateur golfers, even some
very good amateur golfers, don't have. And I don't want to.
I don't want to dive too deeply into golf in
this hour. I'm gonna stay on my outdoor stuff. Uh,

(08:25):
I'll leave that alone. I'm checking mine. I am going
to talk. Yeah, we're gonna get into bat well let's
laws we're on bass fishing. Let's talk about this. Here's
the question for those of you who are interested in
trying to answer, why is it that with all the

(08:45):
quality bass fishing we have, and with all the lakes
in the state that have given up not just one
or two, but numerous share lunker legacy class entries a
thirteen plus pounders, why is it that Barry Saint Clair
continues to sit on top of the heap of bass

(09:07):
catchers in this state with the eighteen eighteen he put up. Now,
it's starting to seem like it was that far back
but might have caught his eighteen pound, eighteen ounce bass.
It's point eighteen. It's not eighteen ounce. It's kind of
like they're weighing in the bass masters eighteen zero point
one eight pounds on a digital scale, and that fish

(09:30):
has held up for it seems like since the Civil War.
I don't know why it is. We have this fantastic
program that matches up deliberately the top quality female bass
with some of the top quality male bass. Boy they
just they put them in a dark room, they turn

(09:50):
on berry white, and they those fish churn out eggs.
And we still haven't gotten one to grow into a
twenty pounder in this state. For the life of me,
I don't know why. There's got to be a good reason,
but I don't know what it could possibly be. We're
doing everything right now. If there is one out there,

(10:12):
the good news for Texas because Georgia and Florida and
California already have those fish, and it's almost embarrassing as
top quality of top notch as are bass fishing is
in this state. We don't have a twenty pounder. I
don't know why, but we'll get one. I hope I
live long enough to see it too, I really do,

(10:32):
and with lives gope out there now. As much as
I'm not terribly a big fan of that, especially in competition,
and by the way, I'm still leaning with faux pro
on there being at least a couple of people in
the top five maybe who haven't even bothered to flip
on their forward facing sonar. I would like to see

(10:56):
that those fish, A lot of those fish that are
being caught at that tournament, especially some of bigger fish
or up shallow. That's where I caught everything I've caught
in the past two days up shallow, within five yards
of the bank. And that's from a lake that routinely
for many years concentrated its fish in the middle of

(11:18):
the lake, away from the shorelines because there was foot
traffic on the shorelines. There were golf balls bombing into
the lakes on the shorelines. Those fish didn't like that,
and my son and I figured that out very early.
Well I figured it out and then I kind of
short sort of showed him how to figure it out himself.
But those fish were well off the bank, well out
of harm's way. They were outside the ropes, not inside

(11:41):
the ropes. They knew better. Hopefully, hopefully we'll get a
twenty pounder. That's what I'm looking for, and if anybody's
got an idea on how we can produce it. I
still think life scope is gonna it's gonna be caught
by somebody using that because we're learning more and more
about how many really big bag just hang out in
the middle of nowhere on the bottom of the lake.

(12:04):
It's fascinating how far they can swim too to get
back to a place. There was that sheer lunker we
talked about about a month ago, caught twice twice by
the same guy under the same boat dock and the
first time he caught it was two years ago. And
when they finally finished letting that letting that big giant

(12:25):
female do her thing up at the Athens Hatchery Center
Freshwater Fishery Center in Athens, they released that fish. I
want to say it was three or four miles from
where it was caught. And lo and behold that guy
just on a lark and I'll go back and fish
that place again. He's trying to fish. I think he

(12:46):
was originally fishing for crappie in there. But the long
and the short of it is that very same bass, they
have genetic markings on all those fish. That very same
bass right back in the same place gets caught again,
and I think she was about a pound and a
half heavier. She'd let herself go Timber Creek Golf Club
down there on FM twenty three fifty one in friends

(13:06):
would twenty seven great holes. Everybody there who's got a
little name tag on is there with the exclusive task
assigned to them of making sure you have a good
time when you play down there. Starts at the top.
Mike Griswold, he's the GM I've known him for the
better part of I don't know, twenty years, maybe more.

(13:27):
And every time I've talked to him, I can just
hear in his voice when he talks about what they're
doing down there, that they are focused exclusively on making
sure you have fun playing golf. That includes keeping the
golf course up. That includes having good beverages and good
food available before and after you play and during the round. Actually,

(13:47):
that halfway house has a lot of good stuff in it.
And then there are people driving around out there to
make sure you're doing well. And then, of course the
teaching staff right there in that little ten building next
to the driving range, run by a guy named JJ Woods,
and he and his staff are just taking care of
golfers day by day down there. If you've got problems

(14:07):
with your swing, swing into that door and ask somebody.
I said, please help me. Please help me not lose
eight balls around, Please help me not shank about three
shots around. Please help my yips and putting my hand
goes in thear for that when I'm struggling desperately. Timbercreek
goolf Club dot com is the website timber Creek Golf

(14:28):
Club dot com. So all right, let's get back to it.
Doug Pack Show on Sports Talk seven ninety and let's
see if the phones are gonna work today. This is
not ever your fault. Hold on, let me get Rick
Mike's what's.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Up man, Hey, Doug, sir, I've got a little bit
of a light misty rain going on me right here.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
You know, I had a little bit of moisture on
my windshield this morning when I walked out the house.
It wasn't I couldn't even call it misty rain. What's
going on with that? Man? Why are we getting that today?

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Well? They it's in the forecat.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
It was supposed to be a little bit later. I thought,
I guess here it comes right too.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, yeah, hey, two quick things.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
One is.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
That video and I sent you the cat slash Mountain
Lion some TV and w A verified if you got
to watch it all the way to the very end
in the way that he did it. But they verified
that that was a line and it was just a
small line, but it was it was a mountain line.

(15:34):
So anyway, not his camera. He caught it on his phone.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yeah, that's crazy, man.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
You can hear you can hear the engine behind him.
He's actually was rolling down the road. I asked him.
I said, why are you rolling down the road. Why
didn't he stay on the video the cat? He's because
my dog was behind me and I felt like the
cat was kind of looking at the dog.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
I want that.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
I got a question for your audience so they can
help me, all right. Most mornings I go feed some
horses and the feed is a it's a drain. I
call it a drain. It's a pellet. It's got a
little corn in in this case, it's a pellet. Yeah,

(16:23):
And I'll get through feeding them before I When I
get through feeding with them, I always rake down this
one area and real smooth, and I sprinkle water on
it so it's just a little bit moist. And then
I go out there and I throw a whole big
scoop out there on that area because that way I

(16:47):
can see the footprints that come and eat this stuff.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Very well done. I like that.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
And you know birds, stumps, blossoms, raccoon, occasional cayo. And
by the way, the way you tell them a cayo
track different from a dog track is a dog a
kyo has four toes and the two middle one two

(17:19):
middle toes are much longer than the two outside.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
Okay, the paths you're talking about. Yeah yeah, Look at.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Two middle ones are longer than the one on the
left and one on the right.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
Speak.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
So here's the thing, here's my question. I'm very perplexed
with this. In this grain, there's a little bit of
you know, crushed corn and some oats stuff. They eat everything,
I mean, they annihilated every night, okay, except they don't.

(17:56):
Will not touch those oats.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
Really, that's interesting.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
They will not nothing will eat the moats. And I cannot,
for the life of me figure that one out. I
just saw somebody having this explanation. I sure would like
to know it.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yeah, now I'm kind of scratching my head. Why would
they leave that and eat the rest of that stuff
that's made everything.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
But the oats every morning?

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Man, when I get there in the morning, there ain't
nothing left there the oats.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
What you need?

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Anybody knows the answer? I'd appreciated, you know, a call in.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
Put a camera on do I put a camera on
the fence post.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Doug, I told you, wait or two ago, I threw
all my cameras in the trash. I was protesting technology.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
That was a little premature. It turns out.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Now at their footprints, I know what it is. I
know what they look like. Come on, give me.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah, I know, I know. Yeah, I don't know why though.
That's interesting man.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, maybe somebody knows and then we'll find out.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
We'll find out.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Thank you, Riy.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
Yeah, good luck with that. Holy cow, I don't know
what that is. Seven one three two one two five
seven niney. Can you solve Rick's mystery? What is leaving
the oats and eating everything else and his horse pellets? Yeah,
that's I like that idea too. By the way, anybody
who's if you've got access to land that is wild,

(19:36):
and I'll wrap wild in quotes because we live in
the fourth largest city in the country, it's it's not
all ways easy. But let's say you've got access to
a little strip down around Buffalo Bio or something like that,
and you can take some food, and you can take
a rake in there, and you've got kids who are
interested in the outdoors, take that little rake in there,

(19:59):
take the food in there, rake the ground smooth, just
like Rick's talking about. And you know, we're not talking
about raking an acre, but just something along a waterway,
a little creek or if there's a big giant puddle
that's got a sandy shoreline somewhere or a mud shoreline,
rake it all smooth, pour some food in there, and

(20:22):
then come back the next morning or maybe two mornings later,
and just see what kind of footprints have been around it.
It'll really open the kid's eyes to exactly how much
activity there is in the woods, just in the wild
while they're sleeping in their warm bed. So give them

(20:45):
that chance. Let them learn from visual observation and not
just from a book. Books are great, don't get me wrong.
I highly recommend books about the outdoors. It's way much
better time spent than staring at Instagram or snap or
whatever social media that the kids are doing these days.

(21:07):
Get them outside and let them just realize that they're
part of something bigger. There have been so many studies
done on how how much better adjusted and better students,
even kids who grow up around the outdoors are than
kids who just grew up in the inner city and
never get to never get to smell fresh air. They

(21:29):
don't know what fresh air smells like because they've never
experienced it. It's and it it. It bothers me that
there are kids who who go through that, who are
raised that way, they're just they're just city kids. My
my sister and one of my sisters in law dated
a man up in New York. She was up there.

(21:50):
She was an actress. He was an attorney, and he
had never been off Long Island, literally, never been off
Long Island in his life. He just that's just where
he lived. That's who he was, that's what he was.
And he was all jacked up about that. And I
took him out onto the Katie Prairie once when the
two of them came down here for Thanksgiving, and his

(22:11):
eyes never got smaller than silver dollars. He was just
he was seeing something he'd never seen before. He was
doing things he'd never done before. He told me at
one point, and I can this is not a it
just it just happens. So we're riding around, and we've
been riding around the prairie looking at ducks and geese
back in the heyday for about an hour or so,

(22:32):
I guess, and I'm just having the time of my life.
I'm kind of scouting because I'm still doing a lot
of hunting out there. And he said we got to
go back to town. I said, why I got to
go to the bathroom. I said, well, we don't have
to go all the way back to town for that, really,
unless it's something. He goes, no, No, just you know,
just a normal number one, and I said, okay, fine,

(22:52):
And we had access to dozens of properties out there,
and the next accessible gate that we got to, I
just drove up in that place to a little oil
field pump station and said go ahead, and he goes, what,
take care of business so we can get back to
scouting around here. There's this big, long pause. He goes here.

(23:16):
I said, well, yeah. And it turned out that was
the first time he had ever done that in public
and in ever in his life. He never just had
to go and was out in the woods, out and
on the prairie, and it was kind of shocking to me.
But it was interesting as well, and he was invigorated.
This is the most free feeling I've ever felt. Okay,

(23:40):
get tar, Dave, what's up?

Speaker 4 (23:41):
Man?

Speaker 1 (23:42):
It didn't work again? Try me again, help me out out.
Oh wait, I gotta put him on hold, don't I Okay,
there you go, all right, Dave? What you got man?

Speaker 2 (23:51):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Hey? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (23:53):
Yeah. They kind of taught us up back when we
was kidding. You know, when you was out in the woods,
you go around the other side of a tree. H yeah, hey,
and uh and and and Rick what he was talking about,
the old the Quaker oat man that's on that Quaker
oats box. He's probably not smiling right now, but uh yeah. Anyway, now, Hey,

(24:17):
I'm still well. I'm here in Houston right now. They've
been knocking up all this concrete and this is not
an animal but they got some bobcasts out here picking
the concrete up and put them in dumpsters and I
mean in dump trucks. So finally we're getting that take
the Yeah, but I mean, uh, but on the good note, Uh,

(24:37):
I'm gonna be heading.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Out back to Wheels over there.

Speaker 5 (24:40):
And oh, I tagged you on the film that I
did of the house that's we're having built.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
Oh good man, I'll take a look at that. Yeah, yeah,
take a look at it. And uh man, it may
may not look that be.

Speaker 5 (24:51):
But once they get all the sheet rocking there and everything,
you know, it's it's gonna be.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
Big enough for us. I mean yeah.

Speaker 5 (24:57):
And then get to go right down the street to
eight thirty boat Launch over there and hang out you know,
and it's kind of it's a dream of mine, I mean,
and my wife too, you know. And I'm like, hey, man,
you know, grew up between Euston and New Waverley, watched
Lake Conrod built, had cattle and everything, and you know,

(25:20):
I can't ride rope and shoot anymore, but I'm still
going to try to hang there.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
The best I can, all right, man, Yeah, yeah, you know.

Speaker 6 (25:29):
And hey, and on the bass fish and stuff look
for well, okay, one thing I want to say about
that is I really want to contest a tournament.

Speaker 5 (25:42):
Or whatever where you have no electronics. You just maybe
a compass in map, that's it.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (25:49):
And then I go out there, and then you go
on your instincts, like where do you think that's that?
There's a patch of how I grew over there. Pop
right into that middle hole over there, and see if
you or put a top water there, and if something
hits and doesn't catch it, then drop a worm down,

(26:09):
you know. And then and then around the stumps and
trees and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
You got to look for stick cooks, yep. You and
I got to run, Dave. I hate to do it
to you, man, but I'm late. I mean, you. No, no, no,
go get on there because I don't want to get
in trouble. No, You're not gonna get in trouble. It'd
be me. I'll take our heat. Don't you worry? Man nine,
email me, Doug pick at iHeartMedia Dot.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
Come.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Let's start with David. We'll get to Kevin in this
shorter segment. David, what's up? Man?

Speaker 4 (26:35):
Yeah, Doug, I want to commented on make a comment
about what you said about kids and birds.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
My wife.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
My wife is a substitute school teacher. She certified talk
for many years.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Wonderful.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
She substitutes because it's more convenient for her. But she
is amazed. She said, at the kids today who don't
have a good vocabulary. She's been tutoring, getting ready for
the Stars test and doing and reading. And she asked her,
what would you mean? She said, example, she said, they're
too many. She said, the other day, these are fourth graders.

(27:07):
Fourth graders did not know what a drought was.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Wow, okay, wow.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
Did not know what scorched means?

Speaker 1 (27:16):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (27:16):
And the kids are not reading like they used too.
I would challenge every parent out there who has children
that are in the you know, the fourth fifth grade,
or below. When you can get your kids to the
point where they are as eager to go to the
library to get a new book as they are to

(27:37):
go to the store to get a new toy. A
video game. Yeah, a video game. You know you have
done something and it's lost.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
You're exactly right that kids do not read many books anymore.

Speaker 4 (27:53):
If you don't have a vocabulary, I mean, apply to
anything in the world, outdoors, honey, fishing, anything. If you
don't have a good vocabulary, you are stunted, right, You're.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
Stunned, Amen, brother, keep preaching. Man, I'm with you on
that one hundred percent. And I have actually seen a
few good books and book series come out, uh in
the last ten years or so for young people and
having to do with the outdoors and fishing and hunting
and camping and all of that stuffy they even kind

(28:26):
of they kind of gloss over hunting and fishing, but
just to talk about the beauty of nature and outdoors.
And that's still fine too if they don't want to
deal with consumptive outdoors. But yeah, they they need to
know about that stuff, and they need to understand that
there's a whole that they're part of something much bigger
than themselves. It just works out so much better.

Speaker 4 (28:48):
When I was a kid, Doug, and you probably probably
did too. One of the most one of the books
that I are magazines, really, and I enjoyed the most.
And I was not a boy scout, but I love
the heck out of reading boys like you.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
Remember that?

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Oh yeah, sure I do, Yeah yeah, And.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
Heck heck today, I guess you probably they may have
even changed the name of that because it's no longer
politically correct to call it boys.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Life young people. All right, man, there you go. I
got our punt man. I'm gonna take that and run
with it, though, thank you, I appreciate it. We'll see,
all right, let me hit Kevin up here. Tee him up.
What's up, Kevin? What's up, Doug? How are you this morning?
I'm doing all right well.

Speaker 7 (29:27):
I finished up to work in that fishing tournament yesterday.
He had a pretty good little turn out there. Second
annual harvest for the Hungary Spring tournament there in wester Crete, Yep.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
Had a biggest catfish.

Speaker 7 (29:40):
I think it was a little over seven pounds, and
there was almost twice as many people fishing this year.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
As there were last year. Outstanding and a lot of
families with kids. It was good to see.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
You know.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
You had good weather for it, didn't you, Yes, sir,
very good.

Speaker 7 (29:59):
They had an Easter egg they had a deal with
the master Gardeners put on to.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
Teach kids about plants. You want to seminars. I just
had to. When you said an Easter egg hunt, I
had this horrible or kind of a prank to play
on them. Get them down there for a fishing tournament
and hide all those Easter eggs and put a dead
shrimp in every one of them.

Speaker 7 (30:22):
They actually for the grand prize, they actually put a
little piece of cardboard with the picture of the fish.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
Oh nice, that's awesome. Yeah uh.

Speaker 7 (30:31):
And other than that, I was reading something this morning,
actually pruised them through Facebook before I was going to work,
and I saw a deal with you and three or
four of the guys that's talking about one of the
congressman or senator somebody like that is trying to do
away with Texas parks and wildlife.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yeah, that's going on. And I've been talking about it
since it first broke a couple of weeks ago, and
I haven't heard you speak on it. Yeah, well, antually
what this guy wants to do is dissolve the Texas
Parks and Wildlife Department and move those people out of
there and into other state agencies. And no, it's just

(31:14):
it's not broken. It's not broken Parks and Walla. It's
close to broke from a financial sense when it comes
to giving law enforcement what they need to do their jobs.
But that department is not broken. And he also introduced
a bill that would lower the penalties for deer breeding violations.
And this comes on the heels of a huge bust

(31:35):
that Parks and Walleaffe Department announced February twenty fifth. They
arrested I believe twenty two people and had something like
twelve hundred total charges against them in a deer breeding scheme.
And yeah, well, this congressman up in Austin also is

(31:57):
a deer breeder that may be linked it. Maybe not,
who knows, but yeah, you know, if it quacks like
a duck man, I I'd love to talk to him.
I'm I didn't get a chance to call his office yesterday,
but I may do it when I when I finish
up today and just see if he'll talk to us.

Speaker 7 (32:15):
If yeah, if you continue keeping us up to date
on what's going on.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
With Oh yeah, I will absolutely, I'm watching it here
in Texas. Sure. All right, Well, I got to run
to a break. I hate to do it to you, Kevin.
That's okay, good talking with you. Yeah, I'm glad the tournament.
Holy Cown, I'm glad that tournament went well for you guys.
Thank you for the yes, sir Audio. All right, I
hate to break him off like that, but I got

(32:40):
to go to Brasis River Provisions Company. Well, I'd love
to go down there if they were open. I don't
think they're open on Sunday, open open during the regular
business week down there in Rosenberg at one thousand Wilson Road.
Write that down somewhere and go down and just see
for yourself how many varieties of jams and jellies and

(33:00):
sauces they make. See for yourself how you can talk
to anybody who works down there and let them help
you figure out exactly which of those jars is going
to pair best with whatever it is you're cooking up
for tonight or tomorrow, for a special occasion, anything and
everything from just the right chip match up corn chips, yeah,

(33:23):
potato chip price, something different? Who knows, and Mike Mercato
and his team are pretty dog one good at what
they do, and they'll make sure that you get what
you need. Maybe something for filaming you on you're cooking up.
Maybe something to go with fish, or to go with
a poor chop, to go with different wines. I don't know.

(33:43):
There are just so many options down there. I want
to say. He makes four to five dozen of these jams,
jellies and sauces, and now they're available of course down
there in Rosenberg or online of course at bpprovisions dot com.
But they're also available in the larger HB stores around
town and available in fine meat and other specialty food stores.

(34:09):
Been around a long time, Mike Mercado has, he and
his company. He was in the restaurant business originally and
broke off into this several years ago and has has
really built this company up to something pretty special if
you like more than just the routine stuff you can
get out of the grocery stores. BP excuse me, br
Brassis River Brprovisions dot com is the website Brprovisions dot com.

(34:36):
And I'm looking, oh there he is, yeah, good, good,
good good, Okay. At nine o'clock in just a few minutes,
we're going to talk to Jason Wooden from over there
at the Astros Slash Texas Children's Houston Open. He is
their VP of marketing, and we're going to find out
just what's coming up for us next week here in town.

(34:59):
Great tournament. There's a little bit of a well the forecast,
you know it's a week from now, nevermind, just wadded
up and throw it away. I'm gonna predict good weather
for the tournament and hopefully that will stick, which I
think it might. So back to kind of what we've
been talking about. I like David's idea, or I like
David's conversation that we had about getting more people to

(35:25):
understand the value to their children, more parents to understand
the value to their children of getting outside of learning
about things that affect the land around them. Because if
you live in this protective bubble, and I'm not knocking
kids who live inside the loop, I'm just saying I'm
using the loop as an example. If you never leave

(35:47):
that bubble, you don't know where food comes from. Really,
you don't know how we get food. There was a
there was a quote that still just it's so stuck
in my mind from probably thirty five or forty years
ago now where some young woman wrote into the New
York Times when there was such a big anti hunting

(36:08):
movement alive and well in this country. She wrote a
letter to the editor and it went up in the
op ed page. She said, I don't know why people
keep killing animals to get meat when they can just
go to the store and buy it, go to the
grocery store and buy it where no animals are killed

(36:29):
in the process of making it, Like, wow, what planet
are you from? And kids who understand all that, kids
who grow up involved in all of it. And I'm
not talking about taking your child out and butchering a
cow in front of them. I'm just talking about kind

(36:49):
of learning where it all comes from. You don't have
to make a cake to know what a cake looks like,
but you should know how it's made when somebody else
makes one seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
Shoot me some emails if you will. Now we're gonna
go to break here in just a second and we'll
talk about we'll bring this back up a little bit later.

(37:10):
I have some golf things I want to get to
once I finish talking with Jason who we're gonna be
talking about golf coming right to this city of ours
here pretty quick. You know what I'm gonna do. It's
all a favor of it, and get out a little
bit earlier. Let's just do that. Speaking of golf, Yeah,
I know, I've been behind all weekend, speaking of all.
Black Horse Golf Club up there on Frei Road, just

(37:32):
a little way south two ninety, great place on the
northwest side of town. They go tee it up on
a decent morning. We're gonna have a little pre sip today.
It looks like, gosh, it might be a good day
for fishing this afternoon too. Craig Hicks might be out there.
Who knows, he might be out on his own golf
course fishing. He's the GM up there. If you go
up there and you talk to him about membership on
the South course which is now fully private, or if

(37:54):
you talk to him about bringing a big charity event
to the North course and having something done there, ask
him how fishing is, ask him how his hunting's going.
He'll appreciate that, and I'm sure he'll help you out
with whatever you're talking about with the golf club as well.
They are making big improvements to both courses this year
off totally different budgets, not taken away from one to

(38:16):
take care of the other. And I think everybody and
anybody in this audience who's ever played black Hawk is
gonna like what's being done up there. Great place for
lessons as well if you need them down at the
far end of the range. And there are several different
membership options, the largest of which on that south course
gets you access also to both clubs at Golf Club

(38:39):
of Houston and to Blackhawk Country Club down where I
play in Richmond. Black Horse Golf Club dot Com for
our road just a little way south two ninety black
Horse Golf Club dot Com. Oday, and we're gonna, man,
we're gonna just jump right into the good stuff. Once
the valves Bar wraps up this afternoon, Golf's gonna pretty

(38:59):
much turn attention to the Texas Children's Houston Open, which
is teeing up pretty quickly. And I'm not gonna waste
any time. Let's just tee him up for me, do that.
Thank you, Jason Wooden, vice President of Astro's Marketing, Thanks
for your time this morning, man. I appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (39:14):
No, Doug thanks for having me on.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Holy Counsel. The fuse is lit, isn't it. You guys
are just rip roaring to go. You'd start doing stuff tomorrow?

Speaker 8 (39:22):
Huh, we do. And this tournament has taken and many
people don't know this, but it takes a full year
to really kind of prep yourself and get yourself ready
for what's coming for one week to have the best
golfers out there in the world, and then enjoy it
for the fans. So yeah, we're ready to go starting tomorrow.

(39:44):
I'm hoping some of this weather, this kind of cloud cover,
burns off, but we should be up for a good week.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
I'm looking forward to it, I really am. Yeah, Houston
Open doesn't last as long as baseball season, but it
sure generates a lot of attention while it's here, doesn't it.

Speaker 8 (39:59):
It absolutely does, And why wouldn't we want to do
both at the exact same time.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
But we do.

Speaker 8 (40:06):
Yeah, exactly, I mean we have we have the Houston Open.
Fants can come out there and see it, uh, Thursday
through Sunday. That's the kind of open play when when
fans are able to come out there and kind of
enjoy it. But we also have opening Day for the
Astro starting on Thursday as well. Why not, joh I
agree with you. Why why not make it the best

(40:28):
possible scenario for every Houston fan be able to come
out and get what they want. Wow, but the schedule
actually works up pretty good for us. Yeah, you got baseball,
You actually have golf in the morning, and then you
can have baseball in the evening and then.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
Just I'll just call my choppera pilot and tell them
to pick me up and take me to both.

Speaker 8 (40:47):
Hey, with us being at Memorial Park, you're actually pretty
close and then go it's not that far.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
That's true that you know. Yeah, you could just spend
the morning out there and just dress appropriately for both
and where are your Astros gear? It's not a bad idea.
Let's talk about what the field you've got coming to.
It's a pretty dog on good one. Do a little
name dropping.

Speaker 8 (41:05):
So we are, we're gonna have a fantastic feel this.
This really could be one of the best fields that
the Houston Open has ever had. I you've got number
one Scottie Scheffler he committed a while back, which we
were super excited about. And then obviously having Rory commit
right after the PGA. I will tell you there was
a few high fives going on in the office after

(41:26):
that happens. So you got one and two, and then
you have Ricky Fowler who was going to jump into
the Mexican hasn't played in Houston in quite some time,
but you have a a fan favorite out there. And
then Sahith Beagala, he's gonna be here as well. So
lineup is really great, playing good for us.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
Great listen former champions coming out. While we're on the players,
by the way, what was their feedback from last year?

Speaker 8 (41:55):
Well, the way that we had set up the golf
course and overseeating a lot of that to kind of
help some of the fair ways along with some of
the rough players absolutely loved it after the fact. And
I think it was Scotty. Now, now I don't want
to quote Scottie for ultimately saying this, but I got
this second hand and saying, hey, this course really sets

(42:16):
itself up for being a municipal golf course, a city
golf course. The layout, the way that it's it's actually manicured,
I mean, could be on par with a US Open
style golf.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
Yeah, yeah, I could see that absolutely, I could see
that now you mentioned earlier, Jason that the Astros Open
at Dakon or Dyking is dyk In.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
Park, Right, it is Diking.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
I better make sure I get that right with you.
Holy cow, any of the any of the guys coming
here to play. I already asked you for tickets.

Speaker 8 (42:49):
We have fielded a few requests, but ultimately, I mean
every single player is like, well, I don't know how
long I'm going to be playing. I'm hoping that I
make the cut.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (42:59):
So we do have a couple of golfers that have asked,
and then we also have on the opposite side a
couple of Astros players that are like, hey, I'd love
to go out there. We have a if I can
make it out there at any point in time, Sunday
is open no Astros Baseball. So we do have a
couple of players that have inquired about tickets.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Yeah, that's pretty cool. Jason Wooden from the Texas Children's
Houston Open on the Doug Pike Show. Let's talk about
the golf course itself. You mentioned it it's a year
long process, not just for organization of the tournament, but
actually you're kind of thinking about the agronomy and the
setup for this year pretty much after the last ball
drops last year, aren't.

Speaker 8 (43:38):
You You are, and you're taking a lot of feedback
from the players that go and play it now. Granted
we're not going to be able to accommodate everybody, of course,
but we want to make the course challenging enough to
where players.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
Don't get upset with it.

Speaker 8 (43:54):
But they do get a challenged golf course, and we
don't want to make it too easy that everybody's going
in and shooting. You know, eighteen nineteen twenty under couldn't
agree with it. It's a fine balance that we have
to have, and we do definitely take feedback from the
golfers when we go and try and figure things out
for the following year.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
These guys will be playing according to what I read
seven thousand, four hundred and thirty two yards, you know, which, interestingly, Jason,
is just about how far I actually play a golf
course sets set up to play about sixty eight hundred.

Speaker 8 (44:26):
You pay for year round, you might as well take
all the opportunity course.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
Yeah, my cost for shots not very high really, So
oh man, so you got the rough nice and thick now.

Speaker 8 (44:41):
It's actually I mean again, it's thick enough to where
it's going to be challenging, but it's not so thick
that your ball's going to sit there and just disappear.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
You got to take a search party and to find it.

Speaker 8 (44:51):
Yeah, exactly, that's the that's the balance that we have.
But again, this course is right now looks fantas astic.
Harper Henry over there are superintendent has done a fantastic
job getting this thing set up for us.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
I got a question. It's kind of a weird question,
so forgive me, but I thought of it yesterday and
I wrote it down. What would you consider the single
best part of this event that the average person who
goes there might miss or might otherwise wish they'd done
or seen or whatever and didn't do.

Speaker 3 (45:25):
Well.

Speaker 8 (45:26):
I have two for you. One may be a little
less known, and then the other is probably what we
want to be more known. The little less known is
probably the walkability of the course is being able to
actually go out there and see multiple holes if you
want to, and very you don't feel like you're sitting
here walking ten miles just to go and see the

(45:46):
entire course. So the walkability of the course, the visibility
of the course, the general admission opportunities for your casual
fans just to go and get really good visibility there.
And then the second piece is going to be whole fifteen.
That's the that's the hole that we it's the short
part three. It's the hole that we are really trying
to kind of build itself, and our fans have done

(46:09):
the job for us, but be able to kind of
make that the really really exciting hole. And it's right
there at the end. You got three holes left, so
you hit it on the green. You got an opportunity
to kind of make a jump. But it's also a
seems really easy as short part three, but you can
really kind of mess up your round at the very

(46:30):
very end, so it's a it's a high risk hyri
rulet hole.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
I like. I like both those ideas, I really do.
Speaking of great things that the Texas Children's Open talk
about the companies that support it.

Speaker 8 (46:42):
Fantastic companies are sponsors that have been with us for
quite some time with our community leaders and then Texas
Children's I can't really say enough about them, and obviously
committed to us as our second year having them as
the title sponsor. But what I love most about Texas
Children's is the fact that one, we obviously have a
Houston based company that has the similar values that we

(47:05):
do that wants to invest back into the city at Houston.
And then two, you have a partner that is really
getting behind the support of the tournament, but the visibility
of the tournament as well. They're going in and investing
their own dollars beyond the sponsorship to go out there
and making sure people are aware of this.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
You'll see the.

Speaker 8 (47:27):
Billboards out there that they have gone up and put
up themselves just to make sure people know one that
they are the partner here with it, but also two
to kind of help amplify our advertising behind it, which
really really helps not only us getting more fans aware
of it, but also driving more fans to have fun

(47:49):
during this next week in front of us.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
Sure, so where I'm sure a couple of my listeners
at least are scratching our heads right now. Where is
going to be the shuttle parking?

Speaker 8 (48:00):
Shuttle parking, I'm going to give you. I don't want
to be wrong with it, but I'm going to give you.
I'm gonna give you the website. I'm gonna tell you
to go to the Hou Open dot com and you
be able to look under parking. We do have parking
passes that are available, they get you a little bit closer.
But we also have shuttle rides that are kind of

(48:22):
select areas right around probably six' ten loop that you're
going to be able to go and park and be
able to get shoveled. In and then, lastly What i'd
probably recommend to people the most is going to be
our ride share the people that want an easy ability
to get in and then a safe way to go
and have your fun time at the golf. Tournament but

(48:43):
we have opened up a brand new one right off
Of Memorial. Drive we worked with the city to be
able to have immediate, access so it's a much bigger rideshare.
Location people have access right and they come right in
on Two green and Seven. Green it has a big
entrance along with a big retail spot over, there so easy,

(49:05):
access safe access for. Fans so ride share is probably
my number one Recommend.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
And for the, Record, jason what are the CURRENT pga
tour rules about what spectators can and cannot bring into the.

Speaker 8 (49:17):
Grounds, sure probably the biggest one that people don't know
about is autograph. Items, yeah SO i would love for
you everybody to sit there and be able to bring
in their own pin flag of their OWN i don't
know a cover of a sports magazine that they have
their favorite golfer. On, unfortunately that won't be able to be.

(49:39):
Permitted now that, said we do have pin flags in
our retail. Spot we do have sharpies that are. Available
we also have the ability for. Kids there's a kid's
autograph only area that they'll be able to go and
get our players coming right off of, eighteen soocused on kids.

(50:00):
Only if you are an adult over the age of,
eighteen and you migrate your way, around you may be
wearing a. Hat i'm not going to stop you from
getting that hat. Signed just obviously the most appropriate time
frames for players during their.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
Competition WHEN i come back after our break in a
minute or, So i'll explain why that is so you
don't have to AND.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
I know it'd be.

Speaker 1 (50:24):
Greatful, Yeah i'm taking you off the. Hook it's okay
BECAUSE i know exactly why that's. Happening and, Yeah i'll
get to that. Later so where there's a big question
for me WHEN i get out there at some point
during that, tournament where CAN i find you for a.

Speaker 8 (50:39):
HANDSHAKE i will be most likely up by the clubhouse,
area right by the putting green or practice. Green that's
usually where you can find. Me But i'm obviously kind
of kind of bouncing, around and then ultimately between that
AND i may be back over. IT i can park
for Some astro states.

Speaker 1 (50:59):
For there's that other little thing on your plate next.
Week hope to holy, cow, Man, jason it's been a
pleasure my. Friend. Jason WOULDN'T vp Of Astros marketing and
the buck stops at you on the, tournament doesn't.

Speaker 8 (51:13):
It oh, BOY i don't know IF i want that,
responsibility but, uh you, know we're hoping the fans come
out and have a great.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
Time you got great fans coming, out you got great.
SPONSORS i just we're gonna have a fun tournament next.
Week i'm Sure jason Wouldn't thank you so, much.

Speaker 8 (51:27):
Man, No, DOUG i appreciate, it and please find, me
shake hands and let's go have a good time.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
NEXT i got your phone. Number Now i'm gonna hunt
you down a good all, right thank, you. Audios all,
right we got to take a little break.

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fourteen eighty eight two eight one eight zero seven one
four eight eight four On Sports talk seven Ninety The
Doug Pike. Show thank you for, listening, certainly do appreciate.
It let me do a little clicking over here on my.
Computer take care of that, business take care of this,
business AND i will tell. You, oh by the, WAY
i will tell. YOU i was telling even a minute

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ago about MY i just finished a hunting. Trip, actually
WHEN i can tell you all about. IT I i
was running my traps in the in the kitchen over,
There evan and the Wiley kukaracha showed up AND i.
Start it was kind of a spot and, stalk kind

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of a. Hunt and he he was very wary and very,
quick but not as quick as. Me and So i'm
not gonna take you anywhere for. Processing but let's just
Say i've already processed. Him, OKAY i read, you. Dug
yeah it cockroaches, quick but he's not as quick as.

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Me and that was he tried to hide from me
too for a, second and then he just he zigged
AND i zigged right in on man got. Him you
can discover how quick you are when it's something like,
that and always hunt them in. GLOVES i always wear
gloves WHEN i hunt. Them. Uh in this case it
is a paper towel wrapped around my hand in my

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PO i don't know where you got gloves. From, boy
there there used to be a bunch of them around,
here gloves and masks and all that. Stuff i'm kind
of glad we're done with. That seven one three two seven.
Ninety email Me Doug pike at iHeartMedia dot. Com the vowel.
Spar let me get to that leader. Board i've got
it up. Here stand by there we. Go let me
click on the. Leaderboard, well you, KNOW i kind of

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was wrong about. YESTERDAY i thought somebody would make a
decent move and be a little farther up than the
leaderboard only. Changed the lead only changed by one shot
to the. Good nico At chivaria shot sixty six yesterday
to put himself at seven under. Par Jacob bridgman shot

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a seventy under. Part he kind of went, it kind
of sort of went backwards a little, bit and so
he's at. Seven and Then Victor hobland shot sixty nine
yesterday to get himself there Justin thomas shot fire, Well Ricky,
CASTILLO i got to talk about. Him he oh, no,
yeah he's six under. Par he's tied or he's alone

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in fourth. Place and then tied for fifth place Are
Victor hobland who shot sixty five, yesterday And. Kevin let's
see who. Else, yeah there's three or Four Old. Mercy,
yeah there's a pretty good. Log jab top ten are
all within just two shots of the. Lead the five
unders are real. Hits hiss At. Tuny that's a hard

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little last. Name i'm, Sorry Shane, Lowry, Jeremy Paul, Davis, Riley, kevin,
you And Justin. Thomas AS i, mentioned all at five under,
par that's where your. Lead that's where your winner's gonna
come from. Today. UH i don't think that at four under,
PAR i don't think any of those guys have a
real good chance of jumping over. All ten of these

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guys who are occupying those, spaces that's a lot of.
Them that's a lot of them to be just two shots.
Apart so it'll come From. MARY i wouldn't be surprised
to See castillo do. Something he's kind of going up and,
down up and down all week and had Some, uh
if you call even par a, HICCUP i guess that's
that's one. Thing but nonetheless HE'LL i think he's got

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a pretty good run at this seven three two one
two five seven. Ninety let's go talk To. Jeff what's, Up?

Speaker 12 (01:01:04):
Jeff When doug this is About Memorial park, itself in
the land bridge project and everything.

Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
ELSE i guess it's still. ONGOING i wanted to see
what she thought of from your outdoors, men the experience
and perspective on how it's. GOING i was kind of,
skeptical BUT i think the park looks, good AND i
know they've got a lot long way to. GO i
frankly thought it was going to be some sort of a,
boondoggle but it looks. Different every TIME i go through,
there it looks really pretty.

Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
Good, yeah they've done a lot of, work, obviously AND
i do believe that it's close to. Finish if it's
not finished those two, bridges and it doesn't really it
doesn't really bother me LIKE i thought it. Might kind
of like, YOU i almost looked at it like some
sort of little circus stunt and they were going to
turn it into a carnival ride or. Something but It,

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ACTUALLY i think they did a good job of incorporating
it into the. Landscape AND i Don't i'm not necessarily
one hundred percent sure why it was, necessary but it.
Does it does open up some other options for the,
park and for, That i'm grateful for whoever finance that.

Speaker 12 (01:02:11):
Thing from an outside of the loop or suburban, perspective
how do you and the other golfers that come into
play think of? It it does look dramatically. Different it
looks like the drainage issues may have been. Addressed But
i'm not an, expert and it looks Like i'm going
to go ahead and maybe.

Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
Think they actually got something. Right, yeah, correct and they
don't screw it up at the.

Speaker 1 (01:02:31):
End, Yeah the golf course itself, underwent as you know
and everybody else who follows the game around here, knows
underwent a complete overhaul a while, back and that's what
got them that. Tournament it had to be done before
they could get the, tournament And i'm really happy with
the way it turned. Out there are when it's shaved

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down to tournament, play rough links and whole placements and
everything that goes with setting up A Pga tour, event
it's gonna be really hard for any play anybody who
plays in one of those pro ams. There it's there's
a reason they do that and scramble, format because otherwise
these guys would be out there all. Day it's not

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an easy golf. COURSE i think it's it'll probably end
up being one and a little bit better than what
the valspar is gonna. Be and there there may even
been some last minute talk as the valspar is going
on about adjusting this course, slightly ever so, slightly so
that it doesn't play too terribly hard for. Him and

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that was a little bit of a critique early on
when they first went To. Memorial, uh some of that
stuff was a little too squeaky and too too, slick
and to this and to. That they've they've figured all
that out now and from What i'm, hearing the courses
is going to. Be it's just Like jason was, Saying
jason Wouldn't it's gonna be, fair but it's not gonna be.

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EASY i don't think it's gonna be one twenty something under.
PAR i really, don't and that and that says it should.
BE i think the best players in the world go in,
there they get, challenged but they don't get beat. Up
and WHAT i. Like there was a description a couple
of weeks ago is on one tournament or, ANOTHER i
can't remember which one it, was where one of the
one of the announcers, SAID i like it WHEN i

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see these guys scratching their heads after they hit a.
Shot and that's exactly that's exactly what makes golf fun
when as parenameter to watch these guys knowing that they're
the best in the world and they still mess up
every now and just like we. Do it makes us
all feel a little bit better about our.

Speaker 12 (01:04:35):
Games it's good for the, city it says the stone
to throw away from, downtown as the gentleman, Said.

Speaker 3 (01:04:41):
And it's a it's a nice. Spot i've always Liked
Memorial park pretty.

Speaker 1 (01:04:44):
Much OH i have, To, YEAH i have. To it's
hard some of the they're they're the knock. On Memorial
park is a place where everybody can go. Play is
that the if you don't, live if your driver's license
doesn't Say, Houston, texas you pay a premium to play
that off. Course but it is a very good, course
no question about.

Speaker 3 (01:05:02):
It checked the bus.

Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
All, right, Man i'm not talking about how far it.
Is i'm talking about the green. Fees that was a
city that was a city plan and it's it's north
of one hundred dollars to go. Play if you're not
if you don't live in houstonicipal, course it still is
a municipal. Course but but THE i, mean it's an
advantage for people who live In, houston And i'll blame

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them for doing, it but it sure has changed a
lot of people's frequency of play on that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
Course you're, Saying, Okay i'm.

Speaker 1 (01:05:36):
No, worse no worry that IF i had to ride
the bus in there to play, It i'd ride the
bus in there to. Play it's a great. Track it
is all. RIGHT i got to run to a break.
Man thank you appreciate. It, okay there we. Go American
Shooting centers out there On West Timber parkway Between katie
And highway six open. Today they they're, CLOSED i Believe
monday And tuesday double check. THAT i don't want to be.

(01:05:58):
Wrong but, today if it doesn't get too nasty outside'd
be good a day as any to go enjoy the shooting.
Sports they have two hundred plus shooting stations At American Shooting,
centers two one hundred plus places where are you and
your friends can go out and enjoy shooting rifle and
pistol from five yards to six hundred. Yards you can

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shoot on any of their three complete sporting clays courses
like golf with a. Shotgun people have said that for
many minutes since it. Started really that was the. Reference
there are five stands setups all over the, place ten
trap and skeet. Fields there's a beginner's wing shooting. Area
there's a pop up silhouette rim fire range that's a

(01:06:44):
lot of fun with the twenty, two so you can
take the kids out there and not burn up one
thousand dollars OF. Ammo America Shooting center has been out
there a very long. Time it's owned by a man
Named Ed origi now And ed a big sporting clays.
Guy don't ever bet against him in a sporting plays.
Match Ed origgi decided he was gonna make it safer
and better and, bigger and he's done all three of those.

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Things and plus you've got instruction out there. Too if
you're not breaking enough, clays or if you're not hitting
enough bulls, eyes there's somebody there. Anytime they're. Open pretty
much who can set up a lesson for you and
get you out there and fix your issues with your.
Shooting American shootingcenters Dot com is the. Website go there
and check it. Out West Timber parkway Between katie And highway.

(01:07:29):
Six you can't miss those big burms out. There you'll see.
Them American Shooting centers Dot. Com Hey Doug pike show.
Man i'm still kind of just running behind every TIME
i look. Up i've got a little shorty SEGMENT i can,
do and that's ALL i. Got that's all, Right it's
ALL i, NEED i. Think right, now a couple of
THINGS i want to get. To one is fishing. Related
bass fishing. Related got a question From david if you don't,

(01:07:52):
mind how do you work those pond bass when they're
in deeper water away from the shallows wh just a
lot of the, year and deep is a relative, term
but away from the, banks when those fish get off the,
Banks i'm gonna use. Something and, again if you're a

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soft plastic, fanatic then more power to. YOU i just
don't have that kind of. Patience i'm a very impatient,
fisherman AND i would probably catch more fish IF i
fished with soft plastics more, often BUT i just can't
stand in one spot and take two minutes to get
a cast. Back it drives me. CRAZY i like to

(01:08:35):
cover water either with crank baits or swim, baits maybe
spinner baits even out a little, deeper if that's what
the season calls, for And i'll work. Them When i'm
walking the, Banks i'll stand in one spot and kind
of fan cast and then move twenty yards down the

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bank and do the same, thing and maybe even maybe
even casting a little bit, back having some overlap in
my little fan. Pattern And i'm just hunting, fish and
WHEN i get a, Bite i'm gonna, stop And i'm
gonna stay. There i'll spend five minutes. There but IF
i catch one and then catch another one in five,
Minutes i'm walking. Again AND i did that. Yesterday it

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was very. INTERESTING i fished almost the whole length of
a pretty significant par four hole out there at Black.
Hawk and this is. Late nobody's on the golf, course
and if they do see, me they'll see me scuttling
off the course real quick and let them play their
whole and Then i'll probably move back. In BUT i
spent almost thirty minutes walking that one shoreline and very

(01:09:44):
methodically fishing it and caught five caught five bass on
that one shore, line about forty fifty yards, apart at.
LEAST i did a lot of. Walking THEN i went
to the opposite shore of the, bank that was the leeward.
SHORE i went to the the windward, shore or you,
know the windy, shore and thought for SURE i would

(01:10:07):
catch more fish over. There but for some, reason And
i'm not Really i'm kind of scratching my head a little,
bit didn't catch any not, one not even a bite
on that other. Side and it and that the shorelines
are as far as depth, goes they're almost the. Same
the lake is about two and a half three feet
low right, now so that's changed a, lot but it

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is giving me a really good look at where and
how the brakes are in the bottom of that. Lake
mostly what they were doing is just digging a, hole
just digging a hole to make sure that the golf
course undulations had enough dirt on. Them so there's no
real rhyme or reason to. It it's probably very boring

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on the bottom of that. Lake but one side five,
fish the other side no, fish and basically the same
water all, right, good it's already time for the last
break of the. Program, man this one's gone, Fast, Evan
i'll get this knocked. Out we'll come, back and THEN
i want to talk a little bit more about golf
BECAUSE i heard something that really caught my attention this

(01:11:10):
morning on the way in over on THE Pga Tour.
Network Rice Land Waterfowl club out In Eagle, lake run
by a guy Named David, pruitt who happens to be
a champion duck, caller who happens to be a passionate
water fowler still even though he's just a few years
younger than, me and, man he runs a very nice

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waterfowling operation out. There he works all year round to
make sure all of his members have really quality hunting,
spots really quality amount of. Water he keeps water all over.
Everything he told me he's drilling new well this year
just to make sure he's got a lot more water
that he can offer for his duck. Hunters all of
his blinds are at least a quarter mile apart where there's,

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one and he kind of. Laughed he, said this guy
took a rangefinder out there one day and shot it
and darned if it wasn't four hundred and thirty yards, like,
Oh i'm, Sorry i'm cool with. That i'll take that
blind that's only four hundred and thirty yards away from,
another Because i've hunted prairie situations where there are hunters

(01:12:15):
a lot closer than that over the. Years that's for.
Sure he doesn't do any guided hunting on club land.
Either every bit of that, stuff all that great habitat
he sets up for the wintertime is available only to
members and their. Guests that's. It and that's a nice
little perk to add because a lot of outfitters make
a little bit of their money with one part and

(01:12:35):
a little bit of their money with the. Other there's
nothing wrong with, that but it is nice as a
club member With Rice land to know that you're not
gonna get better dealt by a guided party. Somewhere everybody
out there is an amateur to some, degree and you're
all out there having a good time because you got
lots of. Birds they did had a great season last.

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Year called, him he'll tell, you and he's got the
documentation to back it. Up they bopped a lot of
ducks last, year and if you, didn't you might want
to think about moving out there To. Riceland good, People David.
Pruitt go To Riceland Waterfowl club dot. Com that's the.
Website check it, Out Ricelandwaterfowl club dot. COM a couple

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of THINGS i wanted to get. To where was the other?
One there's? That there's? That, well first of, All i'm
going to go to a little golf thing here THAT
i need to deal. WITH i was listening to THE
Pga Tour network on the way in this morning and
two very good instructors and they were talking about The

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one of the instructors is working works In, florida and
he's now a lot of his members down there In.
Florida these are some pretty high faluting. People they're going
back up to where their main home, is their main
business is up north. Somewhere so this guy is sending
back the things that his students have worked on over
the winter so that they're where there are summertime teachers

(01:14:03):
up there at their other one of their other membership
clubs can incorporate that into what's being taught so that
the all the lessons make. Sense and one of the
things they said that really caught my, attention AND I
i Had i've changed a couple of words in it
to make it more make it, sound make it make
more sense IF i can spin it, out is that

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you have to know the disease before you write THE
i think he said you have to know what's wrong
before you write the, prescription BUT i like the WAY
i phrase it better because it makes a little more.
Sense you have to know what the disease is before
you write the prescription to cure, it and in, golf
that means you have to understand exactly what's wrong with

(01:14:47):
one person's swing to help them fix. It and the
emphasis was put on the fact that a lot of
people will maybe turn to a friend or they'll they'll
they'll start listening to anybody and everybody who says they
can and, help and they a lot of times it'll
it'll be prefaced, with, well my instructor told me to

(01:15:08):
cure my slice by doing, this and so if that
person tells me that and shows me what his or
her instructor said to fix that person's, slice that may
just make my slice worse because the problem that they
had might not be the PROBLEM i. Had and that's

(01:15:28):
where you can really get into trouble as a golfer
by soliciting advice from people who aren't really good at.
What you, know they're not good players, Anyway and even
if they are a good, player if they don't understand
how golf instruction, works because it's a it's a long.
Process tommy O'Brien's really hammering this into my head because
every TIME i see him and he'll call me, over hey,

(01:15:50):
man what are you working? On And i'll tell him
and he's been working with me on things for about three. Weeks, now,
well excuse, me about three months THAT i. WAS i
was doing, this and he corrected, that and that's. Better that's.
Better keep doing, that that's. Better that's. Great you're good for. Now,
well what's the next, Step. Tommy, Now i'm not going
to tell you the next. Step you get this locked

(01:16:12):
in and then we'll go to the next. One and
we've been going through that process And i'm learning, why
And i'm learning how beneficial that is rather than just
going and asking somebody on the range to tell me
If i'm swinging over the top or to tell me
If I'm i'm shifting my weight. Poorly if you can

(01:16:34):
muster the dollars for a couple of. Lessons even if
it's just now and then and then and then take
notes when you get, Home you'll get much, better much
faster than if you're just frustrated and asking anybody who's
holding a golf club and wearing a glove to teach
you how to swing a golf. Club that's not going

(01:16:54):
to help you. Much that's not gonna help all. RIGHT
i still want to, know AND i might bring it
up again next week because we didn't get a lot
of input on. It What texas is going to have
to do to grow twenty pound? Bass what are we doing?
Wrong what can we change so that a thirty forty

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might be fifty year old? Record? Now who, knows it's
been a long. TIME i know that forty something years.
Probably what can we do to change that in the
state Of texas and get ourselves a twenty pound largemouth
bass on the. Books it's got to be. Doable it's
got to be. Doable we have all the tools to do,
that all the facilities we need to do, that and

(01:17:41):
yet we can't grow a twenty pound. Bass that's What
i'm looking. For that's What i'm looking. For And i'll
go back as we kind of wrap up. Here pardon,
Me Barry Saint claire nineteen ninety. Two it's not quite
as old AS i. THOUGHT i did a quick. Look
nineteen ninety two hadn't changed this change the licks and.
Sin that's. Incredible it's a long time to go without

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a new state record. Bass the other kid THING i
want to remind, us remind everybody about is how important
it is To When david called and talked about his,
wife who's a, teacher learning that young kids don't really
have much of an outdoors. Vocabulary they don't know what
common outdoors terms. Are his wife told him that one

(01:18:26):
of the words that she used in class once was,
drought and most of her fourth graders didn't know what
a drought. Was AND i think they've been sheltered too.
MUCH i think they've been restricted too. Much AND i
think they're just on those electronics too. Much maybe read
some books about the, Outdoors maybe take the kids outdoors

(01:18:49):
a little bit more often than we're, doing and we'll
all come out better in the. End i'll guarantee you
that we will all come out better in the. End
The Texas Children's Houston Open get started tomorrow unofficially as
far as the competition, goes and then the first actual
tournament competition rounds will Be thursday And, friday followed By

(01:19:12):
saturday And, sunday and hopefully know weather issues to bog everything,
down to slow anything. Down you got the top two
players in the world going head to. Head maybe who,
knows that'd be nice to See Scottie sheffler and ry
McElroy paired in the final group On. Sunday that would
draw a. Crowd i'm pretty sure all of these people

(01:19:34):
are so, good they're so fun to, watch and if
you watch them long, enough you'll and watch enough shots
hit you'll see that not all of them hit every shot.
Perfectly most of what we see ON tv is the
the good, stuff the big, shots the money making. Shots

(01:19:54):
but they chunk it every now and, then they shake
it every now and. Then the difference between them and
up us is that they can get back. Out and
this is something. Else boy very, quickly BECAUSE i hear the,
music learn how to get out of trouble in one
shot and put yourself back in position to try to
make no worse than a. Bogie that'll help your score
as quick as anything. Will all, right that'll wrap it.

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Up i'll be back here Next tuesday for fifty. PLUS
i will be back in here next that's over ON
kprc at. Noon i'll be back right in this same
studio here On saturday morning at, Seven god. Willing get.
Outside for heaven's, sakes this is a beautiful time In Southeast.
Texas it won't be long before the bugs are back
and all of that nasty. Stuff we got some good days,

(01:20:38):
ahead take advantage of. Them get, outside have some fun
with your, family stay. Safe that's. It thank you for.
Listening ideas