Remember Those Who Served and Sacrificed

On this episode, Doug talks about honoring our veterans, the best way to sharpen a knife that will cut tomatoes, and much more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
How many fish on our stringer, how many points on
our buck? How many feathers in our bag. That's how
we keep score around here. Sportsmen and women of all
skill levels, Let's disconnect from the day to day grind
and stay connected to the outdoor activities that you and

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your family love. This is the Doug Pike Show, brought
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members and their guests.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Now here's dog Pike.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Alright, Saturday Editions program starts right now. We get this
little mouse pulled out of my pocket.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
Here. You need that.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
I need this one. This one a little bit about
thirty seconds behind. I had to run back over. I'm
going to go pull that cup of coffee or the
pot of coffee off the thing whatever they call it,
the coffee maker over there. Sit right down in my chair,
get my headphones on. We are ready to go.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
And there's so much to talk about this weekend too,
not the well, actually, the most important thing about this
entire weekend, Memorial Day weekend is the request I'm going
to make. I've been saying all week over on fifty plus.
I'm asking all of you, at some time during your
barbecue or your round of golf, or you're jump into

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the pool, or your game of pickleball, whatever you're doing, fishing, camping, sailing, skiing, boating,
well we ought to talk about boater safety at some
point in this in this show as well, and the
opportunity for entertainment quick sidebar at public boat ramps. That's

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always fun. But whatever you're doing, wherever you're doing it
this weekend, all the way through Monday night. Pause, at
some point, I'm just asking just do it once, okay,
just stop what you're doing.

Speaker 5 (02:19):
And it's stopped for a minute.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Don't don't just go oh yeah, Doug said to stop,
and yeah Memorial Day. Okay, good, I'm back to it. No,
take one full minute, and if you have to stare
at your watch, if you don't wear a watch, set
a timer on your phone, and just give one minute,
one real.

Speaker 5 (02:39):
Minute, not just a blink, and look around.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
One minute, real minute to pay tribute to the tens
of thousands of men and women who gave their lives
so you could be doing whatever's on your agenda from
now through Monday. I don't think that's too much to ask.
I fully intend to do that, probably more than once,
and not because I have any specific special tie to
any one in the military. I know people who passed

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away during the Vietnam War because that was kind of
right in my wheelhouse. I know people who've been greatly
impacted by every war since then. My dad served in
the Navy in World War Two. That's how old I
am and how old he would have been. It was
a long time ago, and he didn't talk a whole

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lot about it. A lot of military people don't. They
just don't, and they have their good reasons. We can
talk about that too at some point, but don't be
shy about asking the people around you to do the same.
When you go ahead and take that minute, either one
minute of your life isn't even close to an even exchange,
not even close for somebody who sacrificed their entire life,

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gave up their cozy bed, gave up holidays with family,
gave up the chance to become parents or grandparents. They
gave all that up so that you and I can
go out and act silly and have fun over the weekend.
Don't act too silly either. That's that's that's another. That's
another thing I need to write down on my list
of things to talk about today, making sure you don't

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make a fool of yourself and end up getting arrested
just because you either peer pressure or whatever it is myself.
I got a seventeen year old son right now who's
been very good about avoiding peer pressure, avoiding trouble, and
I hope he continues down that path. He's he's showing
glimpses of maturity, and it's so fun to watch them.

(04:34):
He has these moments when I can tell he's almost
an adult. He's almost making a clear, solid thought on
whether to do this or that when this is probably
not in his best interest, and that probably far more is,
and he's leaning toward the latter more and more, and
I'm so happy. I'm so happy to watch that happen.

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It took a long time. Oh, it took a long time.
But he is a good kid and he's making good
grades and we can't get in his way right now.
I'm just I'm just along for the ride, and I'm
the financier, still not for much longer. But still, how
are you doing, Frankie? You got any plans this weekend?

Speaker 6 (05:18):
I'm good this weekend. Actually, uh later today of family
friends that they're headed out of town and so we're
gonna watch their dog for a while. And I've watched
that dog before and we're good friends, so we're happy.
I'm having a good time.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
So that's your Memorial Day weekend plan is to watch
somebody else's dog. That's right. Yeah, all right, Frankie, I'm
gonna give you a little pro tip, aim higher.

Speaker 7 (05:49):
Good.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
No, Reggie, You're a good friend to those people. I
hope they appreciate that. So where are they going? They're
not going to watch somebody else's dog, are.

Speaker 6 (06:00):
They No, They're they're going to a whole like wedding extravagant.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
It's uh.

Speaker 6 (06:10):
I think one of their cousins is it's like an
Indian wedding. Oh wow, the whole ceremony. Oh yeah, it's
a it would be very interesting to look at all
the I've seen photos of that kind of thing before,
and the the pomp and circumstance of it all is
really marvel to look at.

Speaker 5 (06:30):
So we'll be looking out for that. Yeah, I'm with you.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
I've never actually seen that, but I have not, not
in person, but yeah, but yeah, seems like they're gonna
be having more fun than you than you probably you know,
and that's okay. You just kind of chill out and
watch the dog. Yep, friendly dogs. You're not gonna bite you.

(06:53):
We know that, we've established that, so that's good. Yeah,
oh my word. Okay, Well, yeah, I don't have any
official plans either. I'm just gonna kind of wing it the.

Speaker 5 (07:02):
Highlight of today to trump your.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Non excited There's nobody's gonna set off fireworks for you
to wash the dog, and for me, I'm gonna be
in kind of that same situation because the highlight I
think of this afternoon is going to be going with
my wife to pick out a new washer and dryer.
Oh yeah, so we're about on even footing here, I think, Frankie. Yeah,

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and we've already been to one store, and so we've
narrowed it down. And in case you for anybody who
hasn't bought a washing machine or a dryer in a
long time, they're not getting any cheaper. Holy cow, this
guy tried to show me. I think it's about a
two thousand dollars washing machine. I said, dude, I'm not
opening up a dry cleaner here, okay, I'm just wanting

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to wash a little bit of stuff at home. And
in a year, I reminded my wife because she was
looking at some bigger ones and we don't want bells
and whistles. She would really prefer something old school. But
the long and the short of it is, I just
want to wash a machine, and we don't need a
big one anymore because once my son leaves, that's going

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to cut our laundry load probably by sixty percent. He
stacks it up, and he stacks it up tall, and
to her credit, she does his laundry still and that
hopefully that'll stop next year and he'll he'll actually learn
how to do that. Because when I went off to college,
I didn't know a lot about doing laundry, but I

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knew enough to I knew enough to get it done.
And being in the situation I was in, there were
no co ed dorms, so you couldn't ask anybody but
another guy who was eighteen or nineteen years old how
to do laundry. And there were a lot of a
lot of people on the baseball team. A lot of

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guys in that dorm who had faded shrunken close for
a very long time until we figured out how to
use those washing machines. All right, look, we're way off
the outdoors. I'm sorry. I apologize for that. We got
off on a tangent. Just do this for me. Just

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take that one honest minute, and don't be shy either
about asking people around you to do the same thing.
One minute of anybody's life. It's just it's not a
fair exchange for somebody who sacrificed their life for us,
so that gave up so much. Just do that, please,
And I don't care when you do it. I don't

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care if you only do it once, that's all right,
that's your prerogative. And you may not even be thinking
about it. I saw a pole taking this week about
how people felt about Memorial Day, and I think it
was barely half. When you tell them it's Memorial Day,
that the first thing that comes to their mind is
the men and women who died so that we could

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do what we're doing today. So just give it a chance,
give them the respect they deserve. And to the family
of anybody who was killed serving in our military. By
the way, I'm so sorry for your loss and so grateful,
truly grateful for their courageous sacrifice mercy. By the way,

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all throughout the day's show and tomorrows show, I'd be
happy to hear from any of you who have stories
about family members who served our country and maybe some
of your better memories about spending time with them outdoors.
I'll go first, and I'm not talking about people who
died in service either. Just if you have anybody in

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your family, and we'll do this again on Veterans Day,
you can count on it. But anybody in your family
who served in the military and you've got some good
outdoors memories, I'd love to hear them. I would. I truly,
genuinely would. My dad was in the Navy, served during
World War Two. I don't think he saw much, if any,
real live combat action. He had a fairly boring job

(10:58):
on the ship, so he says, at least, but he
was there, and he was pretty proud of that. He
really was. He took me fishing almost every weekend from
the time I was like three years old. Somewhere in there.
I tried to get him into hunting, but that just
wasn't really his thing. And there's a story I'll tell
another time for somebody who's not heard it. I told
it on this show, probably once every couple of years

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at least, but I won't get into it now, about
how one of his very earliest hunting experiences and he
only had he had he could count him on one
hand even up to the day he died. But it
really that may have been what put him off of
hunting for a while. And he wasn't a perfect guy,
not by any stretch of the imagination, but he was

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a good man. And he took me fishing almost every
time I asked him to. And I'm so grateful for that,
because I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing right now
if I hadn't had that exposure to the outdoors and
that real chance to bond with him in the outdoors
and for him to tell me whatever he told me

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when I was little about growing up in life. It's interesting.
I had a cousin who served in Vietnam Green Beray.
Actually he saw a lot of action. He didn't much
like to talk about it, though, And the older I get, honestly,
the more I understand about why soldiers don't like to
talk about what they saw in combat. To you and me,

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it's almost voyeuristic in a weird way that people want
to ask about the gritty, nasty, horrific parts of combat.
They want to ask people essentially who've been there to
just hey, just relive that for me.

Speaker 5 (12:45):
Just remember when you're.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
Asking somebody to talk about that, you're asking somebody to
bring up some of their worst memories and ask him
about something else. Tell them thank you for your service,
but ask him about something else, Okay, And unless they
just volunteer it, and most of them, all my cousin
didn't like to talk about it at all. He really didn't.
He really didn't. And I understand why the things they saw,

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the things they heard, don't ask him about that. They
don't want to tell you. They don't want to go
through that again. So let's get this show started, okay.
The military stories are welcome. Questions and stories of any
kind about the outdoors or golf always welcome, and outdoors
in golf pretty much intertwined the way I do them
these days.

Speaker 5 (13:32):
They're also fair game. Of course, for the Doug Pike Show, we'll.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Get into maybe how to can you really call it
surviving Memorial Day. As a fisherman, whether you have a
boat or not, you can expect a lot of a
lot of things to pop up that normally wouldn't on
any other weekend. And so let's see if we can
get ready for that. All the way out, I'll tell
you about American Shooting Centers out there on West Timber

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Parkway between roughly between Katie and Highway six. Very easy
to find, big old burns out there that have been
stopping bullets for the better part of what is it
thirty years now. I think man named Etarigi took the
place over I want to say, about ten years ago,
and he just improved it and improved it and improved

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it until now it's it is the largest non military
shooting facility in the entire state of Texas. I was
telling a friend of mine in San Diego about that yesterday.
He's a big shooter, mostly a handgun guy in competitive shooting,
but we were comparing the place where he shoots out
there to American shooting centers. And I didn't want to

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brag or anything, but I think American shooting centers is better,
and I always have this is my favorite place to
shoot around here for sure. Six hundred yards well five
yards starting five yards for pistol out to six hundred
yards for rifles. You've got three complete sporting places courses.

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You've got trapping scattering, ten trap and skeet fields. You
have a beginner's wing shooting area, a pop up silhouette
range for rim fire shooting. It's a cheap way, a
very inexpensive way, am wise, to keep the kids.

Speaker 5 (15:13):
Happy for a long long time. Go out there and
have some fun.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
If you're not breaking targets and hitting bull's eyes like
you want, get some instruction too. They've got professionals out
there who can instruct you in any shooting discipline. American
Shooting Centers dot Com is a website.

Speaker 5 (15:27):
Go check it out. You'll see what I mean.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
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right now on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 5 (15:38):
Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
On this Memorial Day weekend, we will tee it up
with Brannan. What's going on, Brandon.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
Let's going on? Mister Pye, carry you this morning.

Speaker 5 (15:50):
I'm pretty good man.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
I got a whole pot of coffee I've made and
I found out that Frankie doesn't drink it. So I'm
on man on a mission. I'm gonna empty that.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
You go, there, you go, there, you go. Now, I
wanted to talk about Memorial weekend?

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Sure, how long?

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Just second? Uh, I was fishing on my grandpa and uh,
and I didn't want to do this anyway, and uh,
we were sitting there fishing and he goes and he
served in World War Two, and he goes, I'm gonna
show you something, and uh. He brought back a bayonet

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from the Germans that had a squass to go on it,
and he kept it in his tackle box. And he goes,
nobody knows about this, and I says, well, I says,
you know it's gonna be okay, and he goes. He goes,
I'm gonna tell you where I keep it and that
way when I pass away, because you're the only woman knows.

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And I says, well, okay, and I tell you what
it's just so it's pretty tough. It's pretty tough for
the guys that served in that war because it was
and we're we're on the brink of another one. If
we can't get some things solved. Good thing we have

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a president that's got some guts to try to take
a hold of things. So yeah, anyway, but I mean
the outdoors. I mean we we sat and talked. I mean,
we finished a lot, and nobody knew that I knew.
Even my dad didn't know. Yea, And he told me.

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He says, when I passed away, said I'm gonna show
you where I'm gonna keep it. And when he passed away,
I told my dad, I says, you need to go
look at something. Yeah, it's pretty good. Outdoors is the
best thing for youthful person. You know. I want to
tell I want to I want to tell everybody just

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be safe because there's gonna a lot of be it,
you know, a lot of drinking and boating, and I mean,
it's just.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
You know. The sad part, Brandon, is that it's gonna
we're gonna get to we're gonna get to Tuesday morning,
and sadly, there are gonna be stories about accidents and
hopefully no loss of life over the weekend. But but
statistically that's gonna happen, and we're gonna have to deal

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with it all over again.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Man, I just want people to be safe, sure, I mean,
just don't be dumb.

Speaker 5 (18:42):
That just that simple, it really is.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
Don't do something stupid.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
No, if you're gonna do that, sit at home in
your own boat.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yeah, you know, don't drive your car, don't do any
of that stuff. Just sit at home, walk out in
the backyard, do something stupid and then call nine one
one and get them to come pick you up and
pick you But yeah, don't drag anybody else into it.
That's kind of what we're saying. Really, don't don't make
two families holidays miserable, right, definitely.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
And like I say, I mean it's a memorial weekend,
is a very special weekend, and just uh, just walk
up to a headstone or whatever it is and just
pay respects of however you can do it.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
You know what, We've got a veterans cemetery in Houston,
and I bet you, yeah, I know I have too,
And I bet you a whole lot of people in
this city don't even know it's there.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
No, they don't. And uh, it's a very solemn place.
It's like it's just like a piece of quiet. And
I mean, all you can do is just go up
there and say thank you for your sacrifice. And that
goes out to the veterans too that have paid a
pride because it's a huge price.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Yeah, and they they've given up so much for us,
so we can just go do.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
Something without a doubt. Well, I mean, it's a family sacrifice,
even especially when they have life and kids, sure, and
it's just huge.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
That's that's something that I think about when when this
holiday and Veterans Day come along, both because the family's
service members, even if they come back not physically hurt
at all, just just serving in the military and being
deployed somewhere for six months or a year, two years,

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that's so hard on those families. And it's not like
they're getting rich while they're doing it, you know. That's
something else. We just pay dirt to our soldiers. And
I hate that. I really do.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeah, I really do too, And I really want to
thank you for bringing that out because it is it's
a it's a huge sacrifice on the family.

Speaker 3 (20:59):
So so can you you tell us where the bannet
ended up or is that still a family secret?

Speaker 2 (21:05):
My dad has it, he does it, yes, sir, Yeah,
I know exactly. He's just like his dad. He kept
it up and he goes, I want to show you something,
and he goes, I got it right up here, okay,
and uh yep, and how he how my grandpa wound
up with it? I had no idea.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
Yeah I was. I was wondering if there's a story
behind that, and I'm sure there is. I bet you
a dollar here there is.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
But he never shared it with me, he said. I
just he goes, I brought something back to the ward
and he and back then, you weren't supposed to do that.

Speaker 5 (21:40):
I know you weren't supposed to bring back anything.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
No, sir, I bet you a dollar.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
I bet your dollar. Brand he didn't win in the
poker game.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
No, I guarantee you that. I was very astonished when
he when he showed me that. And I mean, it's
vid in my mind.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
Just a little tiny piece of you. Didn't want to
make him mad.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
Huh No, sir, No.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
Brandon, thank you for sharing your story. I really appreciate that.
I really do. This is exactly what Memorial Day is about.
And you said, yes, sir, thank you.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
There was a lot of sacrifice paid in World War Two,
that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
Oh yeah, all right, Well, thank you, Brandon.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
I'll see it, yes, sir, thank you.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
All right, let me get today before we have to
go to the break, Dave.

Speaker 8 (22:30):
What you got, buddy, Well, you know I've told you
before about my two uncles, Uncle Raymond, uncle William just
saves her five years over there in Germany and the Yeah,
and they were writing letters back and forth to my
aunts who ended up they ended up playing with the
He'll Billy playboys you know later on you know in
you so. But anyway, my uncle Raymond, he ended up

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being an HPD police officer. And but he told me
that when D Day went down, the B fifty two
bombers were so close in Unison that you couldn't even
put your finger in between them.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
Oh wow, yeah, you know that's that's just amazing.

Speaker 8 (23:12):
And then I had Yeah, and my other my cousin
in the Vietnam War. You know I told you about
him before, Sonny. He uh he taught us how to
fish for perch and stuff. He had two pet crows
and then uh.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
He well back up, you can't just say he had
two pet crows and not explained he.

Speaker 4 (23:30):
Had two pet crows. They just hung out in the cage. No,
he kept them in a cage and you let them out.

Speaker 8 (23:36):
Every once in a long they would come back because
there was a big pond out there and we'd go
fishing right there and they would follow us.

Speaker 7 (23:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
Yeah, but Sonny he uh he uh.

Speaker 8 (23:50):
And and really he was nineteen and he's in Vietnam
and shooting the gun all night long and things went wrong.

Speaker 4 (23:58):
The barrel melts down and not.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
A good thing. No, that's not good.

Speaker 4 (24:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (24:03):
And I remember I was eight years old, but I
still remember kneeling there, you know. And and and that's
why I'm glad. I'm a son of the American Legion.
And my dad, you know, he was he was in
the army, you know, in the National Guard with my
uncle Sonny, who ended up being a homeside detective. But yeah,
he uh there on that line. Uh, he had a

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he had a looter that a priest turned in that
you know, that a guy confessed to kill somebody with
it in Germany or whatever. And so that's you know,
it's maybe neither here nor there, but I mean that,
you know, it's part of life.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
You know, things go in you know, to go oh
and then uh.

Speaker 8 (24:49):
Real real quick, old miss Lynde over here where I'm
at right here. Uh they fixed their fence now that
the home owner Association come over here and put the
new white fence up.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Good things.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
So that's all good. And then tomorrow I'm.

Speaker 8 (25:04):
Gonna be going when my buddy Marry Seagull, he's my
accordion player slash. She graduated at Saint Pie's here I
was born now, yeah, and then Gary Kubiak is probably
going to be there, so.

Speaker 4 (25:17):
Gary and then his wife Ron, and my cousin.

Speaker 8 (25:20):
She's you know, she's probably going to be there. So
we'll be hanging around over there. That's coming with the church.
Have a good time, all right, God bless I was happy,
well blessed memorial.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
Yeah, let's just yeah, it's not a happy day, not
a happy day, but it's it's it's a day to celebrate, uh,
somberly the sacrifice that these people made for us.

Speaker 5 (25:47):
All right, pardon, thank you man.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
I know that that gave us a lot.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
Yeah, yeah, thanks Dave. All right, there's that forest weight in.
My dad was in the Merchant Range in World War Two.
Glad I'm made a video with him. Wish I could
go back and make many more. Yeah, once you once
it's done, it's done, unfortunately. And I'm gonna watch that
video he sent it to me. I'm gonna watch it

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during the during the break here. If you have, if
you're if someone you care about still around, just remember
that they're not gonna be around forever, and neither are you.
And unless you do something about it. If you're the
if you're the one who can, Unless you do something
about it, and nothing's gonna get done. And you don't
want that for your family, for anybody else.

Speaker 5 (26:33):
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Speaker 3 (26:35):
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Lopez over there in Texas City is one of only
about four dozen cigar manufacturers in the whole country, not
in the state, not in the city, in the country.
That's it.

Speaker 5 (26:53):
There aren't that many.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
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Mandy over at Elkuba and pick out the cigars you
want between he makes about one hundred and fifty different
brands or not brands, but kinds. They're all El Cubano brand.
But you can pick out the cigars you want. You
can pick out the band that goes around them. He

(27:15):
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Speaker 5 (27:31):
There's a lot of those going around.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Man.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
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If you've got clients you need to kind of schmooze
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Buy him a box of cigars for Christmas. If you've

(27:55):
got anybody who deserves a pat on the back, keep
bunch of those around. If you're a golf course manager
or owner, how about a box of your logo branded
cigars right there on the counter and the pro shop
make a little extra money with those because you're buying
them direct from the manufacturer. You're not having to buy

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them through some wholesaler like you're probably doing now. Lcoubanos
Cigars dot com. That's the website. He will come to
your place and wrap his own cigars. He will roll
cigars for your guests for as long as you want
to keep him there. It's a very simple fun thing
to do, and it's a real it's a real finishing

(28:37):
touch on a on a high end party if you
want to do that. Lcoubinocigars dot com. Lcoubano Cigars dot com.
All right, welcome back to Doug Place show on Sports
Talk seven ninety. I get some of the weirdest emails,
and so many of them too, just from I'm on
a lot of media lists, and at least I've gotten

(28:59):
over getting the one for women's fashion. For about five years,
I got three to five emails a day from women's
fashion houses wanting to know if I was interested in
their upcoming line, Like no, no, take me off your list,
and then they'd be right back two weeks later after

(29:19):
somebody after they bought a list from somebody else that
also had my name on it. That was kind of
weird and creepy. Seven three two two five seven ninety
Email me Doug Pike Adiheartmedia dot com. Let's go talk
to David. Good morning, David, what's up man? Hey?

Speaker 9 (29:35):
But real quickly, something to share with you. I know
today is not Veteran's Day, but you'll see, you'll see
where I'm headed with this. I've got to head an
nuncle when he turned ninety, Uh, my cousin, his daughter
asked me to put together a little tribute video for
him so I could send me some pictures. I never
knew it, but I couldn't believe all the pictures that

(29:56):
he had kept of the pilots that were killed with him,
or and the day that they were killed. He lost
his wingman over during the during D Day he flew
and now he flew reconnaissance. And you think, well, well
maybe that you know, they're not shooting, but they're getting
shot at low and slow and uh. But he never

(30:19):
he never spoke of that. But it made me think, realize, Doug,
that you know, we always hear that people who have
served in combat don't like to talk about it. I'm
sure they don't, especially don't like to talk about the
ones that didn't.

Speaker 5 (30:30):
Come back, no question about it.

Speaker 9 (30:32):
And uh, I've got the video up on YouTube. I'll
send you the link. But he never, he never talked
about it. I never knew that man had had flown,
had lost so many people in his squadron as he did.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
That's interesting.

Speaker 9 (30:46):
Yeah, if they don't want to talk about it, don't
make them.

Speaker 5 (30:49):
No, absolutely not.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
And one of one of the things I think that
a lot of people don't realize because in this country, especially,
we are so insulated from death, and especially violent death.
You don't see the images on the news. They don't
show people who've lost their lives in street fights and whatever,

(31:12):
and so we don't have to deal with that. But
for somebody who is in battle, they deal with it
every day and they see things that good people shouldn't
have to see. And the only reason that we're not
speaking a foreign language right now is because they made
those sacrifices for us. And I'm very grateful, very grateful.

Speaker 9 (31:33):
Yeah, and I'm sure you know they probably brought back
some bad memories for him to watch that. Oh oh
my god, it was something I guess that you know,
they cheer. I'm sure they cheer. I should every day
with the memories of the ones that they had to
leave behind.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
Well, what I think anyway, I was told by someone
who had been through that that what they have to
do is is find a very positive memory of that person,
and anytime the what they witnessed firsthand. The bad stuff
tries to come into their heads. They try to just
bring up No, wait a minute, Yeah, he and I
had a lot of fun doing this or doing that,

(32:11):
and maybe take a little bit of that sting out.
But there's no way you can ever completely, I think,
get over that.

Speaker 5 (32:17):
Those things don't go away. They just don't.

Speaker 7 (32:21):
Yeah, you don't get over it.

Speaker 4 (32:22):
You learn to live with it.

Speaker 5 (32:23):
You get through it.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
Yeah, you don't get over it. It's a very good
way to put it. Thank you. Oh use that again,
Thanks David. Yes, sir, wow wow man did a video tribute.
That's That's something else that when you're thinking about someone
in your family, maybe who went to war and was

(32:44):
killed in action, try to find something you did with
that person, even if it's just one time they came
to your birthday party. They took you fishing, they took
your hunting, took you bowling, played golf with you, whatever.
Just latch onto that and remember that because them doing
something like that, I guarantee you they remembered it for sure.

(33:06):
Those are the kind of memories we all should have,
and those of us who get to make those memories
with family members, the only reason they're doing it is
because somebody came before us and kept the bad guys
out of here. It's this is a unique country in
which we live. It really is, and people who don't

(33:29):
like it. We got jet planes leaving here every day.
So I like the fishing here, I like the hunting here.
I like playing golf in this country of ours. I
got invited years ago a quick sidebar before I have
to go to break right when my son. When my
son was born, I was doing coming into that. I

(33:51):
was doing a lot of traveling for work, and I
was going and playing golf in on some very cool
golf courses. I was going snowboarding and some beautiful mountain resorts,
and I was kind of living the dream. It was
a lot of fun. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not
gonna lie. Get on there, and I had to lug

(34:12):
a producer around with me, but that made it easier
to go grab dinner and stuff like that. We'd make
plans during the day. We'd split up during the day
to go do whatever we were gonna do. Well, except
for one guy who loved to play golf, so he
and I when we were at golf resorts, we'd both play.
But the bottom line is we would go and do

(34:32):
all this stuff, and then when my son was born,
all of a sudden, it was kind of like hit
the brakes. I gotta be home to help get him
raised up. He's seventeen. Now I'm about to put my
coat tail in the wind again and go do some
more of these fun trips. But that first couple of years,

(34:53):
it seemed like I was being reminded that I was
a dad now and had to pay attention into what
I needed to be doing for my son. Because I
was getting some of the coolest invitations to go to
some of the coolest places in the world, and I
just very politely said no, I'll be back in about
seventeen eighteen years when we can talk about it again.

(35:13):
Then I turned down ten days of golf in China,
or no, seven days of golf in China. I turned
down eight or nine days of hunting and fishing in
New Zealand, and just had to I wouldn't have done
it any other way. I wasn't going to leave my
wife there for nine days, and thinking back nine ten days,

(35:34):
even if I'd taken a two week trip, that's so
that just pales up against a six month or year
or two year deployment into some war zone. I was
going to be going off to hunting fish and play
golf somewhere while my wife took care of our son.
And these these Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard

(35:57):
wives do all that with knowing that there's a risk
that their husband or wife or whoever whatever is not
going to come back. That's I can't imagine the fortitude
these people have to do that for us, and voluntarily.
We're not talking about people who had to go into

(36:20):
the Army or Navy or Marines or whatever. We've had
a volunteer armed forces for many, many years now. Thank
God for that too. All Right, we're focused on Memorial
Day because it is Memorial Day weekend, and that's fine.
But I've got a lot of stuff to tell you about,
and it's a little bit lighter too, about avoiding the

(36:41):
crowds and why the crowds are where they are. We'll
do that when we get back. I totally missed it
in this segment. And stories about your relatives who fought
and served are still welcome all the way to ten
o'clock Black Horse Golf Club. Maybe you want to take
somebody in your family playing golf is to play go
this weekend. Have them.

Speaker 5 (37:02):
Probably have a little bit harder.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
Time than normal getting a tea time because families move
around a little bit, and all of a sudden, you've
got three or four people in town who brought their clubs.
Wink wink, Oh yeah, I'll get you tea time. Go
to black Horse.

Speaker 5 (37:15):
You got two choices.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
They are on too night Weather on Fry Road, just
a little way south of two ninety. Actually been there
for the better part of thirty years. And what I
would love for you to do is go to that
website black Horsecolf Club dot com and explore the new
for twenty twenty five options up there. North Course still
daily fees, still same as it was two years ago,

(37:39):
ten years ago, twenty years ago, except it's much improved
since then. The South Course has been taken private and
it is a membership opportunity and membership only unless you're
at a charity event or something out there that's taken
both courses. They do a few of those a year,
but that South Course option is really more than just okay, good.

(38:00):
You get to play the South Course without having a
bunch of other people around. Now. That South course option,
if you do it right, also gets you access to
both courses at Golf Club of Houston and to Blackhawk
Country Club out there in Richmond. That's five for one,
in case you weren't counting. You get both courses at
black Horse, both courses at Golf Club of Houston and

(38:23):
black Hawk Country Club all outstanding tracks. If you've played
them all, you know what I'm talking about. They're all
good places to go play golf. Black Horse Golf Club
dot Com. Great instruction out there, a great place to
run a huge tournament. I've played in tournaments that took
up both those courses many many times, and they do
an outstanding job of getting everybody around, getting them all

(38:45):
warmed up. All of that stuff takes place right there
and right now. Get everybody out, raise a bunch of money,
and make somebody happy. Black Horse Golf Club dot Com
is a website black Horse goolf Club dot com. Seven
already on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dug Pike Show.
Thank you for listening. I truly do appreciate it. Trying
to move something on my screen here real quick, and

(39:07):
then I'm going to get to the phones. And let's
go where's my mouse? There it is, We'll talk to Rick.
What's up Rick?

Speaker 10 (39:14):
Good morning, Doug. First, just big thank you to all
our veterans listening. Yeah, my dad, my dad was in
air force. Uh World War two? Okay, and uh so anyways,
just you know, hey, I just remember what to day is.
It's not a holiday, No, it's I got a fishing question.

Speaker 4 (39:39):
Okay.

Speaker 10 (39:41):
I've been listening to guides and uh this saltwater guides.

Speaker 7 (39:50):
Yeah, okay, and it seems.

Speaker 10 (39:53):
Like sometimes they like fishing under birds and sometimes they don't.
And I was just wondering if I correct on man.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
Well, there's a lot of variables when you're fishing under birds,
and that's something I was going to talk about.

Speaker 5 (40:06):
Actually, it's this is kind of starting up now.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
If you trip over a school of trout under diving
seagulls that's good sized fish, then it.

Speaker 5 (40:19):
Can be a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
And I can remember wading in South Texas and coming
up walking up behind birds and knee deep water that
were working over trout that were like four to six pounds.

Speaker 5 (40:33):
That was crazy.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
It was a lot of fun. But in Galveston Bay,
a lot of the time when you go rushing over
to those birds.

Speaker 5 (40:40):
It's either gonna.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
Be foot long trout that you couldn't keep on a
bet and just one after another, or it might be
gaff top which you really don't care about catching. It
might be a lot of things that are pushing those
shrimp because everything, pretty much everything with fins in a
mouth eat shrimp. So unless you trip onto some really
good fish under those birds, it can be kind of

(41:04):
it seems like a waste of time, especially to a
professional guy who's trying to get quality fish for his
fishermen out. These people have never been fishing before, and
they just love feeling the pull on the end of
the on the end of the rod. More power to them.
Just stand there and let them catch fish all day long.
Mash the barbs down so you don't hurt all those trout.
But yeah, that's one reason I can think of that

(41:25):
that the quality of fish under the birds, just in
a lot of cases isn't quite the same as going
off somewhere else. That makes sense.

Speaker 10 (41:34):
Well, hey, you gave them, Yeah, he gave me an answer.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
And next week and later all right, man, thank you, Rick,
all right, see you. Yeah, I hope he doesn't wait
till tomorrow. He's got good stuff to talk about. He
asked good questions too, one thing about fishing or with
around the birds.

Speaker 5 (41:54):
He's working birds.

Speaker 3 (41:56):
Uh, they're also an opportunity if you want to take it,
advantage of it. A lot of times that the little fish,
the more aggressive, younger fish who are trying like crazy
to grow big enough so they don't get eaten by
a bigger one. A lot of times those fish are
the ones up at the top making all the ruckus
and attracting all the birds. The big ones, the bigger

(42:20):
ones in that school are going to be deeper, and
they're just they're just kind of eyeling along underneath all
the chaos at the surface and picking on anything that
gets killed but doesn't get eaten, and it just kind
of falls to the bottom and they just wander over there.
H Okay, I'll eat that. Okay, I'll eat that. But

(42:42):
they don't burn all the energy that those young ones
do chasing shrimp all over the place.

Speaker 5 (42:49):
Those shrimp don't want to be caught.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
It's not like they just they just swim along in
single file waiting for a trout to eat them.

Speaker 5 (42:56):
They're trying to get away too.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
And if you get up in there close enough, you'll
we'll see those those shrimp jumping out of the way
in a hundred different directions. And if you're if you
feel like there are some pretty good trout under the
birds you're working, I can't believe fewer people still, so
few people still do this, especially on a holiday weekend.

Speaker 5 (43:17):
You've got a fish smart.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
And one of the ways to fish smart is to
trick the people who don't know any better. And here,
so here's what you do. When you go shopping for
your snacks. You're gonna bring along by yourself if you're
if you're rich and fancy, go ahead and get name
brand Fredos. If not, get get whatever the store brand
is for the fake FreeDOS, and get one of those

(43:42):
family size bags.

Speaker 5 (43:43):
You're gonna need them.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
And when you're out there, and when you see birds
working up over trout somewhere by all means, go over
there and try to get into them. But along the way,
about every one hundred yards, every two hundred yards, throw
a big handful of Cheetos or of free Doos, it
doesn't matter, Cheetos, freed Doze, potato chips, whatever, throw them

(44:04):
out the back of the boat.

Speaker 5 (44:06):
And what that'll do two things.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
Number one, it'll create a slick all that grease coming
off of there, which will lead people to believe there's
fish there. And number two, it's also going to attract
the seagulls because they're going to come over thinking those
free dos or shrimp until they eat a couple of
saugy ones realize it's not quite the same, but they'll
dive and compete and do everything that seagulls do over trout.

(44:32):
They'll do the same thing over a handful of free dos.
And when you've got a bunch of people who only
fish once a year or maybe five times a year,
they're not going to be able to tell the difference, really,
and so they're going to go racing over there to
be first to those birds. And meanwhile, you get to
stay on the little birds you're on that are over fish.

(44:52):
It's a simple thing. Really, it's fun fishing birds, it
really is.

Speaker 5 (44:56):
Be careful. Just make sure everybody understands that you really.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
Don't want to hang up a seagull, So watch where
you're casting, because that line's gonna go right down through them, hopefully,
and just kind of work with the school.

Speaker 5 (45:08):
If you have a trolley motor, use that.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
If you don't, don't fire up your big engine within
one hundred and fifty yards of those birds. Just wait
till your well down wind. And boy, there is some
wind blowing. If you wait till your well down wind
to fire up that big motor. Otherwise you're gonna mess
it up for everybody. The fish you're gonna scatter, The
shrimp are gonna go down to the bottom. The birds

(45:31):
are gonna be dazed and confused. They'll sit there for
a little while, but they're gonna leave too, and then
nobody's catching fish. Seven one three, two one two five
seven nine. Email me, Doug Pocket, iHeartMedia dot com. Let
me see if I can squeeze infoux pro real quick.
Hold on, I think there we go. What's up, faux Pro.

Speaker 11 (45:49):
We're going on bossom over.

Speaker 12 (45:50):
We're gonna get nice chest back, getting ready to head
to the boom in metropolis and schulting bird.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
Unless you were gonna say, lake, well, well we did that,
yes today.

Speaker 12 (46:00):
You know, I figured we'd have one day to to
beat the flotilla out.

Speaker 3 (46:04):
Oh yeah, amen. But by the time we got off
the lake the flotilla had arrived.

Speaker 12 (46:09):
In fact, this uh this morning, that valero right here
by my house and we have fourteen pumps and I
had to wait to get God.

Speaker 5 (46:16):
Well, so what do you got going in shuling bird?

Speaker 12 (46:18):
Well, my daughter's uh, my daughter's isn't mine for that matter.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
First baby showers, good for you, man, But the good
day grandpa, oh man, don't don't don't say it like that.
You get your you got you gotta go buy a
rocking rocking chair for the porch, now I know. And
I gotta get one of them rocking swings.

Speaker 4 (46:38):
I both meeting the next trip.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
But do what you have.

Speaker 12 (46:45):
But luckily my nephew has two stock ponds rapped behind
his house. Don't think, I don't think a frog rocks
got at my truck already.

Speaker 5 (46:52):
Oh my word, Yeah, you gotta work it in.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
I don't know how it got in there, I swear
I don't, but here it is, so we might as
well use it.

Speaker 4 (47:00):
Right exactly exactly.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
But yeah, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 12 (47:03):
If anybody wants to know what saltwater fishing is like,
come to lake Livings and bass fish and we caught
gargo white.

Speaker 4 (47:09):
Bass, blue cat.

Speaker 3 (47:10):
Oh man, we do catch a bass.

Speaker 4 (47:12):
So that's the closest thing to saltwater fishing is you're
going to get.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
Just about yeah, everything, but what you're thinking, you're thinking
you're gonna catch. There's a lot out there too. Man,
I gotta get you down to the beach at some point.
We need to go down to campus.

Speaker 4 (47:24):
Yeah, they said too, they said in Tombstone.

Speaker 3 (47:27):
Say when Yeah, I know, man, all right, all the
way out, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (47:31):
We'll go ahead, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (47:33):
I'm gonna say, props.

Speaker 12 (47:33):
All the dads out there for had time like my
dad did take me fishing at hunting.

Speaker 3 (47:37):
Came into that. Yeah, mine too. He wasn't much of
a hunter, but he he took me fishing. And that
that I'm forever grateful for. All Right, I got a
balance pro safe travels. Yes, sir, yes, sir, you see man,
all right, we gotta take you a little break here, Jeff,
hang on, you are first when we get back. Uh
Belleville meat market boy. Speaking of good day trips. Now,

(47:59):
if you're on the west side of town, it's really
not that far and there's no excuse not to have
been out there at least once or twice by now.
And once you've been once, there's gonna be a twice
and a third and whatever forced all of that's gonna
come after that, because you're gonna keep going back. The
reason you'll keep going back is because pretty much everything
out there is absolutely delicious. Beef, chicken, and pork cut

(48:21):
however you want. You want three inch stick ribbies, they'll
cut them for you. That's not a problem. There's always
if the lights are on and the doors are open,
there is a licensed butcher just waiting there to help
get you exactly what you want out of those meat
moat those meat showcases there, they have barbecue, lunch, and
dinner served every single day from ten in the morning

(48:44):
to seven at night. They have two dozen plus flavors
of pecan smoked sausage. They have homemade hot dogs, original
and with cheddar cheese. They've got hamburger patties stuffed up.
They've got pork tenders stuffed. They've got peppers, stuff, mushrooms stuffed.
Everything's stuffed out there. It seems like Bellville Meat Market.

(49:04):
It's gonna be your backyard barbecue headquarters. From the first
day you find the place and realize what they can
sell you to forever block parties backyard barbecues. Nobody's gonna
outfit them like Belleville Meat Market can chuck wagon patties.
They got those now, they're called chuck wagon patties. I
don't know why, but here's what they are. Half pounds

(49:26):
of beef, every one of them, seasoned up just right
and loaded with cheddar cheese, just loaded, got wild game processing.
There's a new sausage resspee available to you. Got to
go try that beef jerky turkey, jerky, dry sausage, dry sticks, well,
dry sticks, good stuff, everything for grabbing. Got snacking at
Belleville Meat Market, fifteen minutes north of Sealy, fifteen minutes

(49:49):
south of Hempstead on Highway thirty six.

Speaker 5 (49:51):
Or if that is not convenient for.

Speaker 3 (49:53):
You this holiday weekend, by all means, just jump online.
They'll send it right to your door. Belleville meat Market.
All right, welcome back, thanks for listening. As promised, I'm
gonna catch up with Jeff, and then we're gonna actually
have David Prewitt from Riceland Waterfowl Club on. He's gonna
I'm asking behold for just a second. Jeff's been holding
a long time. Jeff, what's up, buddy?

Speaker 10 (50:14):
Morning too quick, prades, you're gonna know the boat full devotion?

Speaker 13 (50:18):
Where do'll we get such men?

Speaker 3 (50:20):
I can't.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (50:22):
You're kind of breaking up. It's kind of walking.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
Is that better? Yeah? That's better?

Speaker 7 (50:28):
Sorry about this full measure of devotion? And where do
we get such men? You should probably know both of
these Gettysburg address and the britage of Toko Ree, which is,
even though it's fiction, is an indicative of what people
will do once they're abroad.

Speaker 14 (50:42):
The guy, none of them were happy to be there,
but they they they they gave their utmost to disable
us all and when there was saving private ride for hours.
So just watch the final scene.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
Of that movie.

Speaker 14 (50:56):
Yes, there isn't a commercial for William Holden.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
And that's a good film.

Speaker 5 (51:00):
It is, it really is. I appreciate you bringing those up.

Speaker 3 (51:02):
Thank you, thank you very much, Joe, thank you, Yes, sir, adios. Yeah,
that a lot of these movies these days are very
realistic and they don't pull many punches, if any, And
I'm certainly worth a watch to get a little bit
better handle on what these men and women go through.
All right, let me get David Pruet on the phone here.

(51:23):
David what's going on out there on the vast Eagle
Lake prairie this morning?

Speaker 15 (51:29):
Well, just sitting out here looking at a few cows
and gonna get some disking done on one of the pins.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
We quit last night after nine o'clock. I was gonna say,
this is probably the only only ten minutes or so
you're gonna be sitting still all day? Isn't it?

Speaker 15 (51:45):
Exactly to my BUCkies? Run and got everything going for
this morning? Oh good for you.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
So talk about as Riceland Waterfowl Club. What are you
doing in the offseason? And what's the prairie look like
right now? How different is it to drive through there
now as opposed to what it looked like in November.

Speaker 15 (52:07):
There's no water anywhere except for some of the rice fields.
That's the first thing. It drives a bone everywhere the
places that we places that the cows have been, that's
all dried up and cows are looking for water. But
it's an advantage to some of the places that we
disc up early to get everything set up and keep
it disk and then when we flooded, the right aquatics

(52:29):
grow for the waterfowl.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
Yeah, it's a year round thing, it really is. You
don't just hang up your boots at the end of
February and sit back and wait till September, do.

Speaker 15 (52:39):
You no, sir, It's a year round thing. I mean
there's other clubs out there that are We used to
call them weekend warriors back.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
In the day.

Speaker 15 (52:48):
But if you want to do it right, you need
to be out here all the time, consistently, year round,
working with farmers, working with the land owners and getting
things done early.

Speaker 5 (52:58):
How important, David, is that relationship with the farmer?

Speaker 3 (53:02):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (53:04):
It, first off, they like a hometown boy number one
and number two. You know, it doesn't hurt you to
help them with their cows, help run some of their equipment,
their tractors, do some levy work for them. Uh, things
like that, mending fences, running cows back in the fences.
We had some get out last week and they went

(53:25):
through four different fields just tearing up fences.

Speaker 5 (53:29):
Oh, I didn't think about that.

Speaker 3 (53:31):
Yeah, when you said that, I'm thinking, Oh, these cows
have just gone rogue. But they've got to find water.
They're going to die and and a little barberire fencing
going to hold them back? Is it not at all?

Speaker 15 (53:44):
They'll find a weak spot And which one starts to
it that two or three hit it and it's gone, golly, do.

Speaker 5 (53:50):
You work on blinds this time of year?

Speaker 3 (53:52):
Do you wait?

Speaker 15 (53:54):
We wait to do the blinds now. The other thing
we are doing we built a pad site last week.
We're moving one of our big woodlines with the fore
fists of a roof on it, and we're going to
move in on the other side of the pond. Well,
it's a ten acre pond and set it on a spot.
It's cut woodsides on it and the roof, like I said,
and we're going to get that moved while it's still

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dry before this rain hits.

Speaker 5 (54:17):
Boy, and that you're gonna try and do it before
this coming rain hits.

Speaker 3 (54:21):
Oh yeah, we'll have it moved today. Oh wow, man,
how much how much help do you have off season
out there to get this done? You and I aren't
young guys anymore. You're not doing that all by yourself.
I know that. How much help you.

Speaker 15 (54:33):
Got, well pretty much myself, but we got. I got
one of our members. It's Jeff Clinton. He is a
big help to the club. He's been here for many
years and self employed and he comes out here just
to help do things like that.

Speaker 3 (54:48):
He was working on our back oh yesterday.

Speaker 15 (54:50):
And then he was going to do some dirt work
today too with me.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
Dang dud, I didn't realize you're still that tough. REMINDMI,
next time, if I ever feel like I'm a about
to get in a fight, You're gonna get a call
from me. How'm gonna have you as my backup? I
hope not too old for that. Well, okay, how about
this the next time I need to move some cows?
Can I call you for that?

Speaker 2 (55:14):
A right?

Speaker 3 (55:15):
Cows?

Speaker 5 (55:15):
Oh my gosh, talk about the importance.

Speaker 3 (55:19):
You just talk very casually about working the ground and
getting it ready and.

Speaker 5 (55:23):
Doing a little disking.

Speaker 3 (55:24):
How how does step A become step B and then
all the way down to September October when your members
are gonna come out and look at just beautiful water
over acres and acres and acres.

Speaker 15 (55:37):
Well, we disc up fifty acre field here recently. Okay,
I got it all disc and then we got it
bench leveled.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
Now.

Speaker 15 (55:46):
Bench leveling is where they take the big tractors like
what I've got in scrapers, and what we do is
we go in there we do two percent grade.

Speaker 3 (55:54):
Okay, so.

Speaker 15 (55:56):
That way you're getting the levees or further apart. The
taller levees and rice field levees do not hold water.
I mean you've got to have the big tall bich levees, yeah,
because to be able to hold it back. And so
we got all that built and then I went in
there with the maintainer. We built all of those taller
and got the water boxes in. And today we're also
going to go there with the small tractor, run over

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the top of them with the blade and kind of
make it flat across the top and run or four
with across them.

Speaker 3 (56:21):
That'd be nice.

Speaker 5 (56:23):
Oh yeah, And all of that stuff has to be done.

Speaker 3 (56:25):
You can't.

Speaker 5 (56:26):
You can't just fake it.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
If you can either run a four wheeler on the
top of a levee or you can't. And if it's
not done right, it's not gonna last two weeks, is it.
Oh No?

Speaker 15 (56:37):
No, These bases over here like twelve fourteen foot wide
at the bottom some of these big levees.

Speaker 5 (56:42):
Yeah, they are big levees. You're holding back a lot
of water.

Speaker 15 (56:45):
Good having well, it keeps the cows from tearing them
up so fast because they've got cattle in the field.
Plus that we can hold the water back without any
problems or worry about breakage during the year. Bigger water,
and that's the goal, the bigger than the water. More
you went on birds, Amen to that.

Speaker 3 (57:03):
I think I read this week, David about something is
David Pruitt from Riceland Waterfowl Club. I thought I read
something from Sid Miller about some big new water deal
we got. Are you aware of that? No, sir, I'll
have to go look into that. I'll send you the release.
I get his stuff now that I've interviewed. I interviewed
him about a month ago or so, and I'm getting

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all his press releases now. And I saw something. I'll
send it to you and see if it impacts you
or not. How are memberships going? You got a couple
of got a couple of holes for people. Oh yes, sir,
right now, plenty of room. Right now. We're waiting some
of the past members last year.

Speaker 15 (57:44):
You know, they they always procrastinate, waiting for the last minute.

Speaker 5 (57:48):
Of course they do. They want to make you sweat, David.

Speaker 15 (57:52):
Oh yeah, And you're trying to figure out what you
do because we're we're just working on our mark on
property again. I mean, that's four hundred and twenty five
acres of water in one spot. Oh my, separate hits,
separated by you know, fence, and make a little road.

Speaker 3 (58:05):
In between it.

Speaker 15 (58:06):
Sorry, And then we got a'm gonna go talk to
another man about an eight thousand acre track of land,
so we put about four more hundred acres of water
over there.

Speaker 3 (58:15):
Oh my word, man, oh man. When when is a
good time to go ahead and get this done? If
somebody wants to come out and hunt with you this
winter and be a member of that club, when is
it gonna start being like, oh, you better hurry up
and get in.

Speaker 15 (58:33):
Oh, that could happen anytime. It depends on how fast
members start moving. We weird do not want to overrun
our memberships.

Speaker 3 (58:40):
We refuse to.

Speaker 15 (58:41):
We want fifteen to twenty percent more blinds and groups.
One year we was almost forty percent more blinds and groups.
And when we say blinds, that's four hundred and forty
yards apart. That's a quarter of a mile. That's yeah,
that's a big area.

Speaker 3 (58:52):
Yeah, it really is. Boy. I tell you what. When
I was on that Katie prairie, prairie back in the
back in the heyday of all this stuff, and we
were so close to Houston, and we had so many
people who would they would come out and hunt in
the morning and then go home and shower up and
go to work and be at work by ten o'clock.

Speaker 10 (59:09):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (59:09):
And yeah, there were a lot of times we hunted
closer than quarter mile apart.

Speaker 15 (59:14):
Oh yeah, well we're that's our goal. I figure that's
a safe distance. Everybody has a chance to work to burden.

Speaker 3 (59:21):
Yeah. I couldn't agree with you more. How important is
it for people to learn how to call or just
leave it in the car?

Speaker 15 (59:29):
Well, I know some people that are good callers, myself,
World champion callers, things like that, and even myself overcalling them.
The most thing I see out there overcalling.

Speaker 3 (59:44):
Oh my gosh, I don't know how many times, and
especially if it's where it was always the biggest problem
for me. If bird are coming at me, I'm not
calling them. That's stupid.

Speaker 5 (59:56):
They're coming, they're already on their way in.

Speaker 3 (59:58):
But these guys, if they're competitive with each other and
they're all pretty good callers, then they all think that
they need to be calling at one time. They're all
calling and doing different stuff, and it's just I'm sure,
and it's just just filling the duck's ears with nothing.
You know.

Speaker 15 (01:00:15):
How many times you sit in the duck line and
not looking over the.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
Dutch hit the water. Here pintails whistling like ten feet
over your head because you've been down there trying to
put Vienna sausage between two pieces of stale bread. Oh
my goodness. Yeah, I think I told you one time,
one of our guides back there one hundred years ago,
if somebody was calling, they were really bad at it.
He said, you know, the pitch of these these calls,

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the notes they blow, is really important, and if you
don't have it pitched right, it's not going to work.
You want me to pitch your call for you? And
they go, oh heck, yeah. And he'd had, they'd hand
it to him and he'd said, here I go, and
he'd pitch it halfway across the pond, never to be
seen again. I love that one's out. That's about right. Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:01:03):
Think how many times, let's say a group of ducks
get up early in the morning, Yeah, and they're flying
around the prairie. How many times that morning alone did
they hear someone calling at them?

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
Oh my god, Oh, you really think about it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:01:17):
I sat with David low Prize one morning years ago
and listen, and we were listening to all the duck
calls going off. I didn't have a party that morning.
I saw his truck park, the old biologist, and I
sat down with him and we got to talking, and
he said one of the most prophetic things I've ever heard.
He said, the duck call is probably the best waterfowl
conservation tool ever invented.

Speaker 15 (01:01:39):
Oh yes, sir, yeah, by far scare away. They think
they've got to blow them.

Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I bought this thing. By God,
I'm gonna make noise with it, all right, David Pruitt,
So what do you want to tell them? What do
they need to know right now about Riceland Waterfowl Club.

Speaker 15 (01:01:53):
Oh, you can check us out on the web at
Riceland Waterfowl Club dot com.

Speaker 3 (01:01:57):
You can call me, email me however you want to.

Speaker 15 (01:02:01):
And I'll answer all your questions, send you another email
about everything on the website that's not there, and invite
you to come out come see the proper set of
time with me.

Speaker 3 (01:02:14):
Meet me out or an.

Speaker 15 (01:02:14):
Eglect by the office or somewhere, and I'll drive you
around and show you the properties. Let you see for
yourself and much you make a good ethical decision for you,
your your friends on what we have and if it's
not what you're looking for, I'll help you find the
right place because that's very important to me as making
sure people are very excited.

Speaker 3 (01:02:32):
I'm happy about what they're doing. What's your average group size, David.
We do parties of six, Okay, that's perfect. Yeah, you
don't want ten man groups because if all ten of
them show up, that's a that's a mess.

Speaker 15 (01:02:46):
Well, we also take single guns as well, and we
you know, put them together and then make for the you.

Speaker 3 (01:02:52):
We don't we don't have anybody to you.

Speaker 15 (01:02:54):
And let's say you, Bob and Frank are hunting tomorrow
that we don't ask how many people's go out of
your group.

Speaker 3 (01:03:00):
We just know your group is represented. It's such and
such blind.

Speaker 5 (01:03:03):
Yeah, I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:05):
That's one of the reasons I decided I wanted to
visit with you and get you on the air with me, Man,
because I like the way you're running your program. I'm
gonna be out in Eagle Lake pretty soon here as
soon as I figure out what day I'm coming out,
So I got two trips to make out there now.
And I'm gonna do them both in one day, and
yours is gonna be my first one. I'm gonna be
Your're gonna be my first stop.

Speaker 15 (01:03:25):
All right, you come out here and see what we're
doing today, even I mean, when you get out here, y'all,
show you what we was doing today when we talked
to them.

Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
Take a jump on a tracker and get to work.
You're not gonna make me pick up a shovel or no, sir,
my back can't take that anymore.

Speaker 15 (01:03:37):
Drive around, yeah, your your hands don't fit the shovel,
but we'll just ride around.

Speaker 5 (01:03:41):
And can't shoes in the truck kind of cold. My
hands don't fit the shovel they used to.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
And you know it, man, Yeah, I know, but not anymore. No,
probably not, man, David, thank you so much for your
time this morning. Y'all. Have a great day. Happy Memorial
Day to all the veterans past Ricelandwaterfowl Club dot com.
David Pruit, I'll see you soon, buddy, all right, Yeah,
thank you. Oh man, he's a fun guy, the hard

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working man. You know. I stepped I stepped in it
right all by myself when I talked about going out
there and not being able to help, and he he
had me sized up pretty good. I'm I'm not as
tough as I used to be. He's one of these
guys who he's he's a he's a farmer at heart.
He's a Riceland Club Riceland Waterfowl Club guy, but he's

(01:04:33):
he's got farming in his blood and just you just
stay strong your whole life if you're a farmer, because
you don't have any choice.

Speaker 5 (01:04:40):
I've gotten a lot compared to him.

Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
I'm soft cheese, and I don't think I'm that soft.
Maybe I am. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:04:46):
We got to take a break.

Speaker 3 (01:04:48):
I'll tell you about something fun to do all summer
long if you want to. If you don't want to
run cows and and and bill levies, how about c
C A Coast Conservation Association Star Tournament. Kick it off.
Here we go. This is it. This is the beginning.
This tournament's been around for decades, and it gives members
the chance to win prizes that are right at about

(01:05:11):
two million dollars one point nine somewhere in there this
year for great catches you might make anywhere along the
Texas coast or offshore. What kind of prizes you ask
I'm glad you asked. How about a boat, motor trailer
and truck to pull it all? All you got to
do is catch especially tagged redfish for that or a

(01:05:31):
two thousand dollars Academy gift card or an ATV or
scholarships for the kids, as much as thirty thousand dollars,
all made possible by the great sponsors of this tournament,
at which CCA uses as.

Speaker 5 (01:05:48):
A recruiting tool. Perfectly easy to figure out.

Speaker 3 (01:05:52):
But they put on the biggest, the best tournament in
this entire state, and the prizes are crazy. These fish
get releie the tag redfish, or at one hundred and
twenty of them I believe it is now, maybe more,
I'm not sure. They get released up and down the
coast in places where a lot of people fish. You've
got a good chance of catching one of those red
reds that have those tags in them. They don't take

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them into the middle of nowhere and drop them all
off in one spot. You can go. You can go offshore,
catch yourself a big red snapper or kingfish, kobia, all
kinds of divisions. There's inshore for the little kids, there's
sheeps headed and all these things. Go look at the website,
go check it out. Star Tournament dot Org. All you

(01:06:36):
gotta do is go catch one of those fis. You
gotta be a member first, you gotta be signed up
for membership and for the tournament. And then once you
cross those two hurdles, you have an excuse to go
fishing every day this summer. I'm doing it for the kids, Honey,
I gotta take them fishing again. Yeah, I know, I know.
We're supposed to be somewhere else. No, we're supposed to
be at your sister's wedding, but these kids got to

(01:06:57):
go to college and we can't afford it. But we're
gonna catch a big fish and we'll get them there.
Remember that practice that line, because you're gonna have to
con you're gonna have to sell it. But it gives
you that shot to go fishing every day this summer,
win a big old prize and have a great time
doing it, and have a great family experience doing it.
Star Tournament dot Org. Great sponsors. We got Texas Ford Dealers,

(01:07:20):
Progressive Insurance, Academy Sports and Outdoors and Mercury and water
Burger and Mustangcat and Lone Star Coastline Trailers, Texas Fishing
Game Magazine, Halpower Transport Boats, McClain Trailers, dog Le Shoal Water,
Christas Marine. They all support CCA and so should you
starturnament dot org, Star Tournament dot org. All right, welcome

(01:07:43):
back Doug Flike show on Sports Talk seven to ninety
on this Memorial Day weekend. Yeah, it's time to just
pay tribute to the people who died for us so
that we can go catch a fish today. Maybe go
play a little golff, maybe go I don't know about
surfing today. I don't know. If it's that bumpy, i'd

(01:08:05):
have to go take a look at everything. I can
do that though I actually have the sight up. Let
me go real quickly. I'll see what the what the
winds doing. It was Holkin this morning. Yeah, I'm looking
at a live shot of surf side. It's ritable, no
question about it. I just don't know how pretty it
would be the wind along the coast. In case you're
headed down there, wondering what you're gonna face when you

(01:08:26):
get there, pretty much dead on shore right now. Southeast
wind fifteen sixteen ten, another ten eighteen, going down the
coast eighteen thirteen fourteen sixteen, sixteen fourteen.

Speaker 5 (01:08:42):
I mean offshore, it's even worse.

Speaker 3 (01:08:44):
It's blowing twenty three about about seventy five miles off
of Matta Gorda. It looks like eighteen miles an hour
at the little Booie about oh, I don't know, fifteen ten,
fifteen miles off Galveston wherever that thing is seven one
three two one two five seven ninety Email me Dougpike

(01:09:05):
at iHeartMedia dot com. I've been wanting to talk a
little bit about the crowds, and and every time I
try to get distracted when something shiny comes along and
I have to go look at it for a minute.

Speaker 6 (01:09:16):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
The bottom line for a weekend like this, just don't
let anybody get under your skin. Okay, there's no reason
not the people at the boat ramp who who get
the truck turned around, back it down to the edge
of the water and then get out and start loading
all their gear from the truck into the boat, because
they didn't do that while they were waiting for twenty
minutes in line or thirty. If you don't understand what's

(01:09:41):
wrong with that, By the way, sell your boat. Just
sell your boat today because you don't understand how important
it is for people to get on the water. That's
the whole reason you drive down there. The whole reason
you sit in that line at the boat ramp for
a long time is waiting so that everybody can just
row up, make that big U, turn back down, drop

(01:10:03):
the boat off already loaded, because you've been in line
for an hour. What were you doing in that hour
if you weren't loading your boat? And usually have somebody
with you, and so as you're creeping forward in the line,
just say, okay, take this, put it in a bow,
take this, put it in the rod locker, take this,
put it under the console, and the boat should be loaded.

(01:10:26):
All you should have to do is back it down,
turn the key and slide it off the trailer and
get out of the way. Have somebody ready to go
park your boat. If you're by yourself, be good at it.
I get a kick out of seeing these videos of
people who bring lawn chairs to boat ramps in the
afternoon or in the morning and say, well, we'll back

(01:10:46):
your boat into the water for beer or food or
five bucks or whatever it is. And I've been around
people who were ready to take up a collection to
get somebody off the red and onto the water. The
funniest thing I ever saw. I'll tell you what I'll
hold this. I'll make a note boat ramp. I'll tell

(01:11:09):
a story later in the program that I haven't told
in a long time. But we're gonna get out of
here now because in just a few minutes we're gonna
be talking to cowboys Andamanski from out at Phoenix Knives
in Belleville, and about what's going on out there this
time of year, and why might not be a bad
time to go out there. On the way there, I'll
tell you about Timber Creek Golf Club FM twenty three

(01:11:30):
fifty one in friends would about four miles west of
the Gold Freeway, twenty seven holes. Been there a long time.
Everybody out there, anybody's got a name tag on, is
there for exclusively to make sure you have a good time. Now,
if your swing stinks, then go to the range or
go to the range. Well, yeah, start there, walk across
the range into that ten building on the south side

(01:11:52):
of the range, and there you will find JJ Woods
and his staff ready to help you improve that game.
Whatever part of it's horrible, they'll make it better and
better and better until you're ready for the PGA Tour.
Who knows timber Creek Golf Club's been down there a while.
I love going down there. Got a great grill, good
food in there, good teaching staff like I just mentioned,

(01:12:15):
and a fun place to do a tournament too. They
got room with twenty seven holes. They can get a
lot of people out raising money at the same time.
Timber Creek Golf Club dot com, you can set a
tea time right there, right now, Timbercreek goolf Club dot com. Hi,
welcome back eight thirty four on Sports Talk seven ninety
The Doug Pike Show. Thank you for listening. I greatly
appreciate it. On this Memorial Day weekend. In this segment,

(01:12:37):
we're going to talk to a guy I'm to talk
to a little bit, and I understand from what I
read yesterday that the place is just getting bigger and better,
and that would be Cowboys and MASKI out there at Phoenix.
Nice Cowboy, How you doing, man?

Speaker 13 (01:12:49):
I am doing greatest, so good to talk to you again.

Speaker 3 (01:12:52):
Likewise, how man, how many people you got working out there?

Speaker 15 (01:12:55):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:12:55):
You're in that bigger space, You're you're comfortable in it.
I'm sure by now, and you're just gearing up for
this coming knife season, aren't you.

Speaker 13 (01:13:05):
Oh yeah, we're definitely set up. We've got three full
time journeymen that work underneath me, so I've got lots
of knife experts to help everybody out. My wife has
two counter people to make sure that no customer goes
untaken care of.

Speaker 3 (01:13:18):
Excellent.

Speaker 13 (01:13:19):
We are just trying to outfit the shop and make
sure that we can fill everybody's needs.

Speaker 3 (01:13:23):
Let's roll the calendar back, what about three weeks now
or so a month maybe to the show and tell
me how that went out there.

Speaker 13 (01:13:32):
Well, all the knife anchors had a really good show.
We had a great turnout. It was a lot of fun,
a little bit rainy and cold, but it was.

Speaker 7 (01:13:39):
A good show.

Speaker 13 (01:13:40):
We had a really great time. And the really fun
thing about it is is all the knife makers are
so excited about the new shop that they started leaving
knives to increase the amount of knives we have in
our shop. So now there's even more supply so we
will have all of our customers needs met.

Speaker 3 (01:13:56):
That's a very clever way to get some new inventory
in the store there through all big show and have
them all come down say, you know, you don't have
to carry that stuff back home with you. We can
just drop it. Holy cow Man. So how many knife
makes around?

Speaker 13 (01:14:11):
Go ahead, I was gonna say around our shop. We
like to say that every day is a show in
our shop.

Speaker 3 (01:14:16):
Boy, amen to that. And now more so than ever really,
with all these other people's knives in there, how many
knife makers would you think, Cowboy, are represented in the
store right now?

Speaker 13 (01:14:29):
Right now, we have about fourteen at the moment.

Speaker 5 (01:14:32):
Wow.

Speaker 13 (01:14:33):
But the largest international knife show is happening here in
about two weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
Oh wow.

Speaker 13 (01:14:41):
And a lot of our knife makers have got some
knives at those shows. And then right after that they
I've got another dozen knife makers that are going to
start sending blades to our shop increase our inventory again.
So we have I mean, you don't have to come
into our shop and wait for a custom knife. We
have so many knives that you can just pick one

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right off the shelf without having to wait or anything
like that. So many varieties of beginner knife makers to
master smith to women makers to veterans, so you know,
everything is in there. I'll try to call your hunting needs,
all your fishing needs, your cooking needs, everything is taken
care of.

Speaker 3 (01:15:21):
I'll try to come up with questions you might not
have heard before, and here's one of them. Is it
the knife industry anything at all, like maybe fashion or
cars where there are trends in certain styles and types
and configurations, or is most of it pretty pretty solid?

(01:15:42):
Don't break it if it's not or don't fix it
if it's not broken kind of styling.

Speaker 13 (01:15:47):
Well, you know, like the fashion like you asked, Yes,
it is like all those other things. There are times
I have clients that come in and they want different
colored handles to match their outfits like that. But a
knife is a tool. It's a timeless tool, and it's survival.

(01:16:08):
So whether you're a caveman needing an implement to cut
something to a professional chef, you're always going to need
a knife, and those knives are timeless, so they're going
to go forever. So yes, it's a little bit of both,
because some people want fashion, some people need function.

Speaker 3 (01:16:25):
Yeah, that's a good way to put it too, because
you could put any color, and you can treat the
metal the way certain ways to make it look different.

Speaker 5 (01:16:34):
But in the end, what matters is at the blade sharp.

Speaker 13 (01:16:39):
Exactly if it's not going to work. It doesn't fit
your hand. You're not going to use that knife. There's
no point. That's the problem with mass production pieces. They
aren't built to an individual, they aren't built by somebody
who uses that tool. And so you get these really
cool looking things in the gas station and it's like, well,
then it's uncomfortable hold and it won't hold a go.

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It's like, there's no point in wasting your money on
something like that that you're just not going to be
happy with. Talk about, though, you come to the professionals
to get the right tool.

Speaker 3 (01:17:09):
Cowboys emanski the professional when it comes to custom knives.
Talk about the right way cowboy to sharpen a knife.
These days, there's so many different tools you see on
late night TV that you know, one stroke and this
thing's going to cut a two by four and a half.

Speaker 5 (01:17:25):
What's the right way? What's the best tool to use?

Speaker 3 (01:17:28):
Too?

Speaker 13 (01:17:30):
Well, if you can make one stroke and supposedly pull
that knife sharp, that is not the sharpener you want
because what that is doing is it is removing so
much material off of your blade that it reads your blade.
There's a reason that stones are timeless, and we have
our professionals will sit down and guide you through the stones,

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different kinds of stones, how they work, homes, all these things.
So which one is going to be a maintenance to
maintain your blade, keeping it sharp to which one will
actually re sharpen your knife and remove metal and put
it back to the edge that it's supposed to be.
So in our shop, we really prefer good stones. And

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that's what I seem to like the most, is just
a good stone, not those There are many systems if
you don't have any skills, you know, Spider Kolanski, some
of those guys make these ones that are set at
angles that will allow you to maintain That's the hardest
thing about sharpening knife is maintaining angles. So as with everything,

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practice practice, practice, and we would love to sit down
and teach you how to do that, so we don't
even charge for that. You come in, we sit down,
we walk you through the different stones, how to use them,
and then we tell you you just got to go
home and practice and get that muscle memory. But we
want you to succeed. But any eye, if you purchase

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from us, you get a lifetime free sharpening, so you
really don't need those stones.

Speaker 5 (01:19:02):
That's a good point.

Speaker 3 (01:19:03):
Just put get a box full of knives you bought
at the store and bring them on out there.

Speaker 13 (01:19:06):
Huh, that's it. We'll sharpen them up for free. If
there are knives, we have no problems with that.

Speaker 3 (01:19:11):
I picked up a pair of knife the other day.
It wouldn't cut the skin on a tomato. Man, I
got to work on this one, and I have.

Speaker 13 (01:19:20):
Tomatoes are a funny thing.

Speaker 3 (01:19:22):
Okay.

Speaker 13 (01:19:22):
You can sharpen your knife too sharp to sharpen tomato.
It's kind of a it's a misnomer. If you sharpen
it like a straight razor, it won't cut your tomato.
What you need to do is, yep, get it as
sharp as you can, and then go back a stone
or two and make one pass down a rougher stone

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on a tomato. That skin is so slick. You need
a little bit of almost tereration. I would say on
your grip. You need some don't exactly, you need some grip,
and you do that, then that that knife will go
right through a tomato.

Speaker 3 (01:19:59):
Real you know, I hadn't even thought about that, but
you're exactly right. That tomato skin is so slick. It's like,
I don't know, I'm trying to think of something. It's
like almost like a very finely buffed leather, and it
doesn't it doesn't let that blade penetrate, does it. Wow,
that's kind of now.

Speaker 13 (01:20:17):
It slides on there. So that's why you see serrated
knives and other things like that are used for a
lot of tomatoes because it is it a gentle saw
action to make it right through that skin and it
goes from there.

Speaker 3 (01:20:29):
Well, you know what, now learn something. I can go
back to bed. I've learned something today. Man, I didn't
even think about that. So I understand also that you
have a ton of knife making supplies out there courtesy
of something happening around here right.

Speaker 13 (01:20:45):
Well, we lost one of Houston's knife supplies that have
been there for well over thirty years, have been a
staple in the knife community for a long time, and
unfortunately they just closed their doors. And I got a
phone call here about a month ago saying they're closing
and if I want anything, I can come get it.
So I've been going back and forth into Houston for

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the last month buying supplies. So now you can come
into our shop and you can buy steel, you can
buy sandy belt, buffet, Oh Wow, I handle material. You
can buy ten material. So if you want to get
into making your own knives, then you just come by
the shop and we have all the supplies that you
need to help get you taken care of, and we
teach classes and all that, so everybody can become a

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knife maker at some point.

Speaker 3 (01:21:30):
Yeah, how long would somebody need to come out there
and hang out with you to really get a little
bit of skill, not just to come make something they
can take home that day, but to get a little skill.

Speaker 5 (01:21:41):
How much time do they need to spend out there.

Speaker 13 (01:21:44):
Well, we've got an introduction program that takes about twenty
to twenty five minutes to actually get the hammer hot steal,
and we do that from ages six years old up
to one hundred and six. Our record holder's a ninety
seven year old lady who comes in and she forged
her own knights because she would never hit hot seal.
It'd be fun to do something new. The most fun

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is I've got a eighty seven year old Scottish lady
who flies in from Scotland every year and the first
stop is our shop, and she is a card She's
so much fun comes in there in that sarcastic wit
of hers. We have an absolute blast every year she
comes in. Wow, everybody can come in. Everybody can do it.

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And if you want more serious classes, I offer classes
that go all the way up to four days of building,
learning how to do wood handles and leather shees and
doing the whole product. So there's lots of ways to
learn in our shop.

Speaker 3 (01:22:42):
All right, cowboys, Emanski, I understand you're going to be
opening up in about fifteen minutes. I suspect you have
things to do, so I'm going to cut you loose.
And I greatly appreciate your time, you know, I always do.
And anytime you got something to talk about, just let
me know and we'll get you in.

Speaker 13 (01:22:57):
Doug, I enjoy our time together. Thank you so much.
You've been very supportive over many years, and I've always
enjoyed it.

Speaker 5 (01:23:02):
I'm not gonna stop, don't you worry.

Speaker 3 (01:23:04):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:23:05):
I'm on your team, cowboy, Thank you, buddy.

Speaker 13 (01:23:08):
All right, you have a great day.

Speaker 5 (01:23:09):
Hey, yes, sir, you too.

Speaker 3 (01:23:11):
Audios. All right, Yeah, we got to take a little
break and we're gonna do that right now. I'm a
couple of minutes late. Sorry about that, Frankie, Shooter's Corner
Palmer Highway twenty ninth Street down there in Texas City
is owned by Jerry and j TK. They are two
of the best gunsmiths I've ever met in my life
and have backed up my claim that they are that

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by taking care.

Speaker 5 (01:23:35):
Of listeners who have been going down there for years.

Speaker 3 (01:23:38):
When they call me and say, hey, I got a
problem with one of my guns, I talk to two
different gunsmiths already. They say they can't fix it. What
on what can I do? And I send them right
down there to Shooter's Corner where Jerry or Jay are
actually a lot of times some of the guys who
work there when they're out, when Jerry and Jay are

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out doing guiding all all over North America for big Game,
they handle it. They take care of it, and many
times at a lot less expense than they were told
it was going to cost them to get that done.
My favorite story is a guy who was I don't
even remember the details, but this guy was told that
he was going to have to either replace his barrel

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or replace half the rifle or the whole rifle, whatever,
And I said, well, before you do that. He'd been
told that by two different gunsmiths, big expensive repair. I said,
before you do it, take it down to Jerry TK
at Shooter's Corner and said, okay, I'll try.

Speaker 5 (01:24:34):
And I didn't hear back from that guy.

Speaker 3 (01:24:37):
But I talked to Jerry about two weeks later and
he said, oh yeah. He came in. I said, well,
what was wrong with his rifle? There was just a
little burr up in there. I found it and I
buffed it out of there real quick, and well, I said,
that's great, man. What'd you charge you? He said nothing,
It didn't take me five minutes. I just wanted to
do it so he'd have his rifle back rifles in
perfect shape. I was scared it was going to cost

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him hundreds of dollar. It didn't cost him a dime.
And I guarantee you Jerry and JTK made a lifetime
customer out of that guy by doing that for them
for him. D Shooters Corner, TX dot Com, He'll they'll
do the same thing for you. They've been there forty
plus years, same corner, same little strip shopping center. It's
an old school gun store. Everything you can imagine is

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in that an old school gun store is there at
Shooter's Corner. If you wear a badge for a living.
By the way, you get a discount, which is pretty dog.
On good D Shooters Corner TX dot com. D Shooters
Corner TX dot com eight fifty on Sports Talk seven
to ninety, this show is going fast. Man, Holy cal
I have got a couple of emails I need to
get to on this Memorial Day weekend. As promised, I will.

(01:25:45):
They take priority over a lot of things. The first
is from Mojo Darryl don Muller Mueller, excuse me, Darryl
don Muller, US Navy Air Corps. Wow, he flew a.

Speaker 5 (01:25:59):
P he won Submarine Hunter. That's kind of cool. And
he was the top turret gunner that.

Speaker 3 (01:26:07):
Oh she sent a picture too, handsome sailor right there,
top turret gunner. That puts you, That puts you in
the hot seat, no pun intended on probably every mission
they ever flew. Wow, that's amazing. Thank you for that.
Thank you for sharing that, Mojo. Lisa ways In, I

(01:26:30):
wanted to share my dad's military story. My dad joined
the Navy at seventeen. He was too young, so he
was not truthful about his age and my grandfather had
to sign for him. He was a gunner in World
War Two. His plane was shot down over the ocean.
His pilot was killed. When my dad serviced, he was
surrounded by Japanese soldiers and several boats, all pointing guns

(01:26:53):
at his head. Spent eighteen months as a prisoner of war.
Where he was held was deemed the bad one. He
was released when the war ended, which amazes me to
this day. He was inducted into the Enlisted Man's Hall
of Fame in South Carolina in nineteen ninety nine. There
were other men from his unit there that had no

(01:27:16):
idea he had survived the war. It was a wonderful ceremony.
He loved to hunt and fish. Hunting I never did,
but my brothers did fishing. I do love, always enjoy
listening to your show. Thank you, Lisa, and thank you
for sharing your dad's story that back in World War two,
before World War two, as it was breaking out well

(01:27:38):
pretty much after D Day or not excuse me, not
D Day, but after Pearl Harbor, there were a whole
lot of people in this country, a whole lot of
young men who said, you know what, I don't care
how old I am. I'm gonna go take care of
this business. So we don't have to deal with them anymore.
We're gonna get these bad guys off the planet. Stop

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this war right now. And at sixteen and seventeen years old,
some of these young men went in, signed up, got trained,
and went straight over there to Europe or straight to
the Pacific and found themselves in situations that they could
only have imagined that they would ever see in their lifetimes.
And thank god they did. Oh my goodness, shot down

(01:28:23):
over the ocean, you finally come up to get a
breath of air, and you're surrounded by people pointing guns
at your head. Eighteen months as a pow in Japan.
That could not have been in Japanese hands. I don't
know where he was held, but since that place was

(01:28:44):
called the Bad One, I can only imagine what went
on around there. God that's just so horrific, and God
bless that man for doing that. Seven three two two
five seven ninety Email me Doug pick at iHeartMedia dot com.
I had if you want to send me another email,
somebody else wants to send me one, talk about somebody

(01:29:05):
in their family who fought for us, to keep us safe.
By all me and send me the email and if
it's not. If it's not a book, I'll read it,
and if it is a book, I'll get the highlights.
But those people are important to you, and if they're
important to you, they're important to me. Man oh man.
And there's so many of us, you know, the World

(01:29:27):
War II veterans are just about gone now, they're just
about gone. You'd have to be really, really old to
have been fighting back in the forties and still alive today.
They are a handful, but there aren't many, and every
one of them deserves anything and everything that this country
of ours can give them in return for what they

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did for us. We don't do enough for our veterans.
Maybe we should take them all fishing. There are several
good organizations, by the way, And Captain Scott, if you
can get Camille to share with me some of the
stuff she does. I don't know if she's listening this morning,
but if she is, I'd like to kind of get
her on the phone maybe talking about what she does

(01:30:09):
to help veterans out. So one three two, one two
five seven ninety email on me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia
dot com. So back to the crowds for just a
brief minute, anyway. Don't get mad at people also who
are going to idle up so close to you over
the weekend when you're you're fishing somewhere, you're catching fish,
you're anchored up, or maybe you're just drifting and somebody

(01:30:33):
comes sliding in, maybe loudly, maybe not loudly even but
it's still a little close. You look up, you can
count their nosehairs. That's that's too close. Okay, just pick
up and move. Don't get in a screaming match. Don't
get don't give anybody an opportunity to get loud or

(01:30:53):
mean or stupid with you. Just don't. Just don't. Oh
David sent me, Yeah, Richard's Richard H. Cassidy tribute. I'm
gonna go check that out in a minute. And that's
taken care of. That's taken care of. Yeah, when these
there are hot heads on the water, just like they're

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road rage, boat rage. And if you haven't seen it yet,
which would be miraculous for anybody in this audience, if
you haven't seen it, there's a video of a guide
down in Florida who is really full of himself and
started a big hassle with a young man in a boat,

(01:31:35):
just trying to fish and try to have some fun
out on the water with his piles, I think, And
and this guy lit into them and ended up in
one heaping pile of trouble over the things he said
and the things he did.

Speaker 5 (01:31:50):
Uh, he made a bad decision.

Speaker 3 (01:31:53):
I don't want anybody else, and I don't want anybody
in my audience to become the victim of a bad
decision made by someone else. And as long as you
don't say anything to them, just if somebody pulls up
too close to you, just ease your anchor up or
lay the troller motor down and just quietly put her away.
Let them have it. It's a fishing spot, and the

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whole bay is a fishing spot. This is the kind
of weekend where you really would do yourself a favor,
not by trying to get back and just fingers crossed.
I hope there's not anybody at my favorite spot. Probably
gonna be twenty boats on your favorite spot.

Speaker 5 (01:32:32):
Or you can.

Speaker 3 (01:32:33):
Say, you know what, I'm gonna go someplace where nobody
is where if I think about it.

Speaker 5 (01:32:39):
There probably should be some fish there.

Speaker 3 (01:32:42):
And if you'll look for places like that, places where
there's nobody else there cut a drift, cut a drift,
or put the troller motor down and put her around.
Just let one little flick of a mullet's tail pull
you into a shoreline somewhere and just see what happened.

Speaker 5 (01:33:00):
And you can either do that and.

Speaker 3 (01:33:02):
Maybe trip over something really good and find a new
spot to punch into your GPS, or you can sit
out there and get angry and frustrated because people keep
drifting by you so close that they're bumping into your boat.
You could just high five the guy who just pulled
in on you with his family and took the anchor

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and it just swung it over his head like the
hammer throw in the Olympics, and slung it out there
and scared all the fish off. Don't let that happen
to you. Just stay home and then by all means,
set your lawn chairs up at the boat ramp later
in the afternoon when these guys are coming in about
half lit and fully incapable now of putting a boat

(01:33:46):
back on a trailer, and the people behind him will
yell at them, and the people in front of them
will tell them to wait for just a second, and
it's pretty entertaining. It truly is very inexpensive too. You
just bring your own beverages, bring a few snacks, get
one of those umbrellas you can put on your lawn
chair too, to keep the son off of you. You don't
want to get burned. Seven seven ninety. Email me Doug

(01:34:08):
Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. We'll take a little break
here at the top of the hour. When we get back,
we'll talk a little golf. And I got a couple
of things to talk about in that arena. Uh, Tommy
O'Brien's going to be in town all summer long. I
was scared we were going to lose him for a
little while to go do something different. But I had
some good talks with him this week, and my game's

(01:34:30):
coming around. I don't want to jinx myself because it's trying.
Tommy showed me some stuff too that really it changed
my world.

Speaker 5 (01:34:38):
It did.

Speaker 3 (01:34:39):
We'll take a little break here, we'll be right back
to Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety. All right,
welcome back nine o three on Sports Talk seven ninety
The Doug Pike Show. Thank you for listening. I truly
do appreciate it a couple of things I want to
get to before we talk about golf and things to
keep popping up this weekend. U Mojo wade in. We
talked about she She shared the story of her dad

(01:35:02):
enlisting when he was a little bit too young, and
she added, this is the this is the dedication to country,
the patriotism, the willingness to sacrifice for your country that
was alive and well back in the forties. Okay, get
this as the only son of a farmer, his dad,

(01:35:25):
she's talking about her dad. His dad got him exempted
from the draft, so he drove his Model Tea to
the next county and enlisted in the navy. How about
that at seventeen grandpa signed for him. I believe that
was him. Yeah, no, you can't. You're the only son

(01:35:45):
of a farmer. You have to be there to take
care of the family farm. I'll see you later. And
he drives to the next county, signs up and goes
and serves our country. Mojo also weighed in on dealing
with the weekend stay the heck off the roads, especially
any leading to the lake. That lake would be Lake Conroe,

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Mojo up there in Montgomery, Yeah, that's gonna be a busy,
busy area up there as long as the weather holds
out at least seven three two two five seven ninety
Email and me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 5 (01:36:27):
Ah, there's that.

Speaker 3 (01:36:28):
There's that. Let me check make sure I don't have
to do anything else here, and then I'll get on
to it. Ah. Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:36:35):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:36:35):
We were exchanging an email earlier about those big old
chuck Wagon patties out at at Belleville Meat Market and
Mojo weighed in. Probably would make a couple of meals,
and ye, me too, except my seventeen year old converse.
These are half pound patties. My seventeen year old could

(01:36:56):
probably eat two and potentially a third of those things
as a snack.

Speaker 5 (01:37:03):
He's he's the way I was.

Speaker 3 (01:37:06):
He is not worried about he has trouble gaining weight
like I did when I was his age, and I've
cured myself that in seniority very easily. Ashley all right,
set one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot Com.

Speaker 5 (01:37:21):
Let me get this is.

Speaker 3 (01:37:24):
I'll tee up. The Charles Schwab Challenge twenty twenty five
version of that Colonial Country Club up there in Fort Worth.
The boys are back in Texas, and I'll tell you what.
There's a really good feel to guys in this tournament
as always, and they are. They are playing pretty dog
on well, playing pretty dog on well. Ben Griffin and

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Matti Schmidt both at eleven under par through two rounds
a pair. They each shot sixty six on Thursday. They
eat shot sixty three yesterday and find themselves too clear
of John Pack, three clear of Chris got her up.

(01:38:08):
That's kind of an unusual name. I don't dare in
a lot of ways. His friends probably teased him by
that one. Rao hiss ut soon he is at seven
under par along with Oksha Battia. I like that kid.
He can play, and he's not a good win to
blow him away, but he can. Flett play the game.

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Doug gimmet six, Bryce Garnet at six, Ricky Fowler at six,
JJ Spawn at six, Emilio Gridley or emileianod Grillo at six,
Tommy Fleetwood at six and then come tied for thirteen's
and that's a pretty good pile of them as well.
Bud Cawley, Harry Hall, JT. Post and Nick, Hardy, Jackson

(01:38:50):
suber All at five under par, which puts them six
shots off the lead half a dozen. But I can't
write them off anymore. The way the PGA Tour is
shaping up in these last few tournaments, Well, when Scotti
Scheffer's name is not up there toward the top, you

(01:39:11):
pretty much have a good idea what's going to happen
if he is. But the rest of these guys are
all so good, and any one of them could just
light it up. Just light it up today, shoot a
sixty three today and another one tomorrow, and holy cow,
all of a sudden, you get yourself that many more
strokes back real quick like that. Yeah, you can play.

(01:39:32):
You can play the game. Seven one, three, two, two,
five seven nine. Email me Doug Pike at iHeart media
dot com. I mentioned Tommy O'Brien a minute ago. I
talked to him while he was driving back from New York.
Driving back from New York, and we we were talking.
I think he was in Alabama at the time, and

(01:39:55):
he made it most of the way back to Texas, uh,
the first day he was driving back and then finished
up the trip.

Speaker 5 (01:40:03):
I guess late's what is today today is Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:40:06):
I think it was like late Thursday maybe, And then
darned if he wasn't at the golf course yesterday. Out
there Blackhawk, just doing what he does and teaching people
how to play golf. He helped me with my short game,
specifically chipping little chip shots. Man, they just they have

(01:40:27):
boggled me for the better part of a year. I
had had a great short game for a long time,
and then it went away, and then it got worse
and worse and worse, and I kept trying to put
band aids on it, and all I ended up with
is just a big old pile of old band aids
on that particular part of my game. And Tommy said,
when we were talking about something full swing the other day,

(01:40:48):
he just said, well, what else is bugging you? Anything else?
I said, well, you asked, and here it is. And
I showed him what I was doing, and God bless him,
he just kind of looks at me and shakes his head. No, No,
that's all wrong, Doug. And I told him, for guys
like me, when they cut, when he comes across somebody
who's just that far gone, you just carry a pickleball racket.

(01:41:11):
And when somebody swing looks that bad. Just handing one
of these here, here go try this. This will be
easier for you. And that's how I was feeling. But
he fixed me up. And I'm not going to try
to tell you how to hit your chip shots on
the radio. That is number one, I'm not qualified. And
number two, it does, it just doesn't translate. You have
to see all this stuff. Let me go.

Speaker 5 (01:41:33):
Let me go grab Grant here. See what's up with him?

Speaker 2 (01:41:35):
Grant?

Speaker 3 (01:41:36):
What's up?

Speaker 2 (01:41:36):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:41:40):
Where'd you go? Oh? He fell off? Oh no, come back, Grant.

Speaker 5 (01:41:45):
You might have to be in line though.

Speaker 3 (01:41:48):
Oh did he?

Speaker 2 (01:41:49):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:41:49):
There he is? I got him.

Speaker 3 (01:41:51):
Grant? What's up, buddy Gray? I believe I lost you? Yeah,
well you're found. Now what's up? And there he goes again?
Tell you what lea. Let me go talk to Don
and then we'll get back to Grant somehow. Don, what's up, buddy? Hey, Misspake.

(01:42:14):
How's it going? I'm good? Thank you? You know who
this is? Which?

Speaker 13 (01:42:19):
Don?

Speaker 2 (01:42:19):
Is?

Speaker 3 (01:42:19):
This?

Speaker 13 (01:42:21):
This has down?

Speaker 3 (01:42:22):
Me and you and Scott and Noll went.

Speaker 2 (01:42:24):
Out on trip.

Speaker 3 (01:42:25):
Oh yeah we did.

Speaker 5 (01:42:26):
How are you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:42:27):
Man? I'm up here in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 3 (01:42:30):
Oh my lord, that's a long way from the beach.

Speaker 13 (01:42:35):
All of beach.

Speaker 14 (01:42:36):
I got up here is behind Westminster College, Kitch and
dink Pass.

Speaker 3 (01:42:41):
Well, you know what you gotta you gotta do what
you gotta do.

Speaker 5 (01:42:44):
Hoh don I got your brother all right?

Speaker 3 (01:42:47):
What's going on?

Speaker 2 (01:42:48):
Man?

Speaker 5 (01:42:48):
What can I do for you?

Speaker 2 (01:42:50):
I'm just checking in. Let you know I'm still alive.

Speaker 5 (01:42:52):
Well, I'm glad to hear it.

Speaker 7 (01:42:54):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:42:54):
Do you ever get back to Texas?

Speaker 13 (01:42:56):
I can't come back there and more my help will.

Speaker 2 (01:42:58):
It won't let me breathe down line.

Speaker 3 (01:43:00):
I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Man. Well, send me
a picture. Send me a picture of one of those
bash you're catching.

Speaker 2 (01:43:09):
I've been catching them on the water plopper.

Speaker 13 (01:43:11):
Oh wow, okay, you need to get one through tackle box.

Speaker 3 (01:43:15):
I may have to fait I get one or two. Man.

Speaker 5 (01:43:19):
Yeah, send me a picture of one of these little fish.

Speaker 3 (01:43:22):
I can look at a picture of a little fish
just as easily as I can look at a picture
of a big one.

Speaker 13 (01:43:27):
I made a comment on your post on Facebook a
couple of days ago.

Speaker 3 (01:43:31):
Oh okay, I'll go check it out. I will. Man.

Speaker 14 (01:43:33):
When you you broke off a crank feit or something.

Speaker 3 (01:43:37):
Oh man, yeah, I don't know what is doing this
to me. Uh, there's some some big fish in this lake,
and I'm sure they're big catfish, and I've I've hooked
them a few times now, and ever since I've decided
that I was gonna try deliberately to catch them, I
haven't caught them, and it's killing me. Man. I haven't
even gotten one to eat yet.

Speaker 5 (01:43:57):
But I'm at it. I'm still working on it.

Speaker 3 (01:44:01):
All right, miss Fike.

Speaker 2 (01:44:01):
I just try to check it. Ou't send you a
picture when I can.

Speaker 3 (01:44:04):
Yeah, and thank you so much. It's really good to
hear from you. I'll tell Scott I heard from you too,
I really will, man.

Speaker 5 (01:44:09):
Thank you, Okay, good time, Yes, sure you.

Speaker 3 (01:44:12):
Too, appreciate Yeah, bye bye. Yeah, I've been brings back
good memories. We had a pretty good fun trip we
certainly did while back while back. That's okay, goy li
it shame is health is and good enough to get
him back to Texas. I guarantee you. I'd like to
redo that we could. We could settle a score with
a lot of those fish we miss that day too.

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Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me dougpick at aheartmedia dot com if you were, if
you were a backyard barbecue or whatever, kind of slows
down a little bit. Here's a little fun story you
could share. And I saw it on Facebook the other day,
and it's anybody who works in an office full of
people and and Frankie, you'll you'll be able to relate

(01:44:55):
to this. This woman is on Facebook and she's looking
in the camera and she posts a lot of stuff.
It's a pretty funny little story. Said she took her
eight year old daughter to work. Takes her eight year
old daughter to work because it's take your kid to
work day. And they get in there and she walks
in and she's kind of walking this little girl around,

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and she said, you know, these are my co workers here.

Speaker 5 (01:45:19):
These are all the people I work with every day.

Speaker 3 (01:45:21):
And her daughter starts crying and she said, honey, what's wrong.
And in front of all those people, she said, where
are all those clowns you said you worked with? Oops?
And then she pauses, very well scripted and she pauses
and goes and now I have a meeting with hr.

Speaker 4 (01:45:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:45:47):
I thought that was pretty funny, especially working around here,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:45:52):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (01:45:53):
Yeah, you know, actually, in all fairness and in all sincerity.

Speaker 3 (01:45:58):
I worked with a lot of different people in a
lot of different places over my lifetime, and and this
is the best bunch I've been around it, truly is.
That's one of the reasons I like coming into work
because I'm gonna I'm gonna get help if I need
it from anybody else who's here.

Speaker 5 (01:46:14):
We're all very helpful with each other.

Speaker 3 (01:46:16):
We all get along, and yeah, we do a pretty
good job of what we do for our clients. And
speaking of if if you want to be part of
whatever we're doing down here and would allow me to
speak for your company, I'd be happy to have a
conversation with you, and you don't have to deal with
anybody else either. That's one of the things. I'm kind

(01:46:37):
of a unicorn in here in that I handle my
own accounts, I handle my own people. Almost everybody you'll
hear me talk about from Phoenix Knives, Rice Land, Waterfowl Club,
you name it, Berry Hill, el Kubano, Black Horse, Timber Creek,
Coastal Conservation, all of them. Well, if somebody else l CCA,

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which is is fine, they've handled him for a long time.
But I get to do those spots for them, and
I love it. Man Belleville, America's shooting centers. These are
all people I know personally, and that's why I enjoy
speaking for him as much as I do, and that's
why I put them on the team. I'll do the
same thing for you once I get to know you.
Not going to break the bank. I'm just going to

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make sure more people know about you tomorrow than know
about you today. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety Email me dougpick at iHeartMedia dot com speaking
of Phoenix Knives, that would be cowboys and ask you
who from whom we heard? Uh, what's going on out
there on Main Street in Belleville just a little bit
a while ago. Talked to him this morning and learned

(01:47:44):
that he's got so much more going on out there
than any of us could ever imagine. You really owe
it if you have any interest at all in fascinating
hunting knives for the season coming up, or maybe fishing knives,
or just like you said, hunting knives, fishing knives, kitchen knives.
The theme is not and anything that qualifies as a
knife they can make for you out there at Phoenix

(01:48:07):
Knives in Belleville, Right there on Main Street. You can
go out and learn how to do that. If you
want to do that, go out and actually build your
own knife right there same day. Just take you about
maybe an hour probably of your time to learn a
little bit about just enough about the knife building industry

(01:48:27):
to make one that's actually yours, and you can take
it home with you. They'll teach you for nothing and
for free, how to sharpen your knives and which stones
to use and win. And I learned when when I
was when we were talking to Cowboy that actually to
slice tomato. I was griping about a dull pairing knife
I have and it wouldn't cut a tomato skin, and

(01:48:49):
he said, actually, that's because of the skin of the tomato.

Speaker 5 (01:48:52):
It's very slick.

Speaker 3 (01:48:53):
And the knives that are designed to cut tomatoes have
just a little teeny bit of serration on a little
bit of kind of grit, if you will, that allows
that blade to grab that skin and then let it
sharpness follow behind, and you can cut these little paper
thin slices of tomato all day long. You learn something

(01:49:17):
every day when you're talking to cowboys and MASKI believe
me about knives. He's been doing this since nineteen seventy nine.
He's in that big new space. He's got more than
a thousand knives on display, and he would be happy
to build one custom for you, whatever color, handle you want,
whatever blade you want, whatever anything you want, and he'll

(01:49:38):
build that knife for you or somebody in his shop.
Will Phoenix Knives dot com is a website. Phe Nix
Phoenix Knives dot com nine twenty two on Sports Talk
seven ninety Where did man? This's going just as zooming
by man good interviews with Cowboys and MASKI with David
Pruett and then all of your input this morning about

(01:50:02):
some of your stories from parents and grandparents who served
our country. I appreciate that.

Speaker 5 (01:50:09):
Let me go talk to Sonny I had Sammy. I
hadn't heard from you in a while. What's going on?

Speaker 2 (01:50:13):
Man? Hey?

Speaker 11 (01:50:14):
Man, I'm doing all right and I just want to go.
I want to say to all the men and women
who gave their lives well about for us to have
our freedom today.

Speaker 2 (01:50:23):
I'm very thankful and grateful.

Speaker 11 (01:50:25):
What I'm bressed and sumplified.

Speaker 3 (01:50:28):
You and me both, man, You and me both, my friend?
What's on your mind?

Speaker 11 (01:50:32):
I was just called to see you know. I heard
your buddy on your other talk shoulder morning. So they
put out though the redfish. Oh yeah, if you were
fishing out the bank, where would you whatever would you try?

Speaker 3 (01:50:48):
If I were going to fish and I don't know
where they released these fish, but I worked out there
for ten years for ten years, I have have a
good idea. I might try to walk out the the
Galveston jetties. I might try to fish over around Sea
Wolf Park. I might try I'm trying to think maybe

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maybe along.

Speaker 5 (01:51:10):
The Texas City Dyke.

Speaker 3 (01:51:13):
Just just kind of think about places that are popular
and on on Memorial Day weekend, they're gonna be real popular.
So oh yeah, you're gonna be elbow to elbow in
some of these places.

Speaker 5 (01:51:27):
But uh, those.

Speaker 3 (01:51:29):
Fish typically have not strayed terribly far from where they
were dropped off. But yeah, but you just gotta, you know,
just kind of picture in your mind if you wanted
somebody to catch a fish that you were gonna release
like that, because Cca wants them caught.

Speaker 5 (01:51:49):
They want those fish caught.

Speaker 3 (01:51:51):
The sponsors are all they're footing the bill for all
these prizes. They're donating prizes, all of these cool things.
It's not costing cca of Dime. It's it's kind of
a self funding tournament thanks to the great sponsors they got.
So if you were going to release them where the
most people would have the opportunity to catch them and

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people who don't have boats, where would you put them?

Speaker 5 (01:52:15):
And that's why I like them.

Speaker 3 (01:52:17):
Maybe along the maybe along the jetty, walk out a
little ways and and redfish.

Speaker 5 (01:52:22):
You're going to be moving up and down those rocks.

Speaker 3 (01:52:23):
You don't have to walk to the end of the jetti,
you don't have to walk to the boat cut. Just
get out there a little ways and soak something on
the bottom and see what happens.

Speaker 11 (01:52:31):
Man, the good ones get called last year around Chema somewhere.

Speaker 5 (01:52:36):
Uh probably, Yeah, that's that's something else.

Speaker 3 (01:52:39):
Yeah yeah, yeah. And now those fish dropped there probably
wouldn't go far because they're gonna have good enough food. Yeah,
think about it.

Speaker 11 (01:52:48):
Years ago, I used to go out there the Liberty
City at Horsey Marena out there, okay, yeah, and are
you talking about one of the best fishes spots that
were mean? I caught a big jack out there one day.
Oh wow, that's all a good day, dude, that's so

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good and almost spooled me, Oh yeah, jackish man, I
take my glove down a little bit, and I just
kept turning a little bit, tailed, a little bit a
little bit. It took me an hour and fifteen minutes
to get that job, but I finally got him in.

Speaker 3 (01:53:24):
That reminds me of a night I had on the
San Luis Pass here when it still existed. There there
were three of us down there, me and two of
my best friends, and we had live shrimp and we
were catching. Man, we were catching speckled trout and having.

Speaker 5 (01:53:37):
A good time. And I said, I take it back.

Speaker 3 (01:53:40):
It was in the morning, the morning had come up,
the sun had come up, and we were we were
still getting them, and it was great. And I hooked
a big jack and I didn't have it. I didn't
have enough money to have an extra spool of line
or anything like that. I had to fight this thing
for like thirty minutes just to get it back, just
to get enough line back on my real that I

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could keep fishing. And my buddies are over there catching
trout and just laughing, Oh look, I got another nice
drout here. How you doing with that jackfish? Doug Man,
stop it?

Speaker 11 (01:54:13):
But you know what, back in the day, everybody, if
you didn't have a good row reel, that Jack would
tad up. Oh yeah, Jack, you know he's a bad boy.

Speaker 3 (01:54:21):
He's a baby.

Speaker 10 (01:54:21):
But hey, man, Doug, I really.

Speaker 11 (01:54:23):
Appreciate the shild man and appreciate the advice. And like
I see, I'm gonna wait there. I don't go seek
and doing it doing these holidays. I don't bring the
people out there too much. I just stay home and
last have a good time and go out there during
the week sometime. Appreciate you do, all right, then.

Speaker 3 (01:54:43):
Always a pleasure my friend here, Uh huh, man, what
a good guy.

Speaker 5 (01:54:48):
That's a good question too. It's a good question. And
those fish are going.

Speaker 3 (01:54:54):
To be released where they are likely to be caught.
And just use that when you're when you're s and
they're staring at the map or sitting there going through
your mind over places you've fished in the last couple
of years where you've caught some red fish. Perhaps think
about where most people would go if somebody called you

(01:55:15):
and said, hey man, where do you think I could
go catch a redfish? And you've been fishing for a while,
like Sammy has, think of the places you'd send them.
That's probably where one or two or three or four
of those tag redfish got dropped off somewhere, And you've
got as good a chance as anybody if your bait's
in the water. This is one thing beautiful about redfish.
You don't have to have a boat to catch redfish.

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You just park somewhere and chunk out there and see
what happens. And whether you're throwing into ten feet of
water or two feet of water, that's more than enough
to support a red fish, more than enough. They're tough, too, man,
they are so tough, good lord, they live in a
bucket of damp sawdust and so and by the way,

(01:55:59):
if you do catch one of those tagg fish, make
sure you read the rules about what you're supposed to
do with it, because by contest rules, you have to
release that fish live. And anybody, and everybody who's fishing
these days is going to have a cell phone with them.
Somebody nearby is going to have a cell phone. Make
sure you get that video of you releasing that tagged redfish,

(01:56:19):
or it could cost you a big old prize. I
don't know if the video is mandatory. I don't know
if it's a requirement, but it sure is better than
just saying, yeah, I cut it loose. You don't want
to do that. They take great pride with that tournament,
as they have throughout its history in making sure that

(01:56:40):
winners are legal, lawful, duly registered winners. They'll slap a
polygraph on you in a heartbeat if you're talking about
getting about one hundred thousand dollars or more value package
for catching one of those first five specially tagged redfish.
That gets you a boat, a motor, a trailer and
a truck to pull it all. How's that for first place?

(01:57:03):
Five times seven one three two one two five seven
ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. When boy,
I was looking at this real quickly, I know. I'll
tell you when we get back just how much water
we have, Just how much water we have in the
state of Texas where we can fish. I just this

(01:57:23):
is public water we're talking about here. We'll take a
little break here, we'll be right back. The Dugpike Show
on Sports Talk seven ninety nine thirty three on Sports
Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show that goes back
to the seventies, does it not? It's gotta be like
mid late seventies or early or possibly early eighties.

Speaker 6 (01:57:40):
What do you see ranking that's like, uh, seventy eight
or seventy nine.

Speaker 3 (01:57:45):
Yeah, that's what I thought. Grease came out. Yeah, that's right. Yeah,
that was.

Speaker 5 (01:57:49):
A big deal, a very big deal Grease.

Speaker 3 (01:57:54):
And oh gosh, what was that Cowboy movie that everybody watched?
Oh I don't know, dang it, John, Yeah, oh, it
would have been for sure late seventies. Anyway, I was
working at a h as a bartender back then, at

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that the club called Cowboy and ky Lee.

Speaker 5 (01:58:18):
I'm looking right at it. It's just slipping out of
my head.

Speaker 3 (01:58:20):
I can't think of it right now. Reynolds. No, no, no, no, no, no,
you're too young to remember this one. Don't worry. Weren't
even born probably when this movie came out. But anyway,
somebody will email me and let me know how foolish
I am for not remembering ky Lee.

Speaker 5 (01:58:37):
Not Midnight Cowboy. No, it wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (01:58:42):
Yeah, no, it wasn't Midnight Cowboy at Okay, this is
a little bit slightly more contemporary.

Speaker 5 (01:58:48):
Anyway, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (01:58:50):
And I as soon as I get the email from somebody,
going come on, Doug Why couldn't you remember this?

Speaker 5 (01:58:56):
I'll do it anyway. Back to the golf tournament.

Speaker 3 (01:58:59):
By the way, Scotty Scheffler is in that tournament, but
he's not eleven under, he's not ten nine eight seven
sixty five four under.

Speaker 5 (01:59:07):
He's three under par.

Speaker 3 (01:59:09):
He and Jordan Speed, and I guarantee you nobody on
higher up the leader board than those two at three
under par.

Speaker 5 (01:59:18):
And there they've got company there.

Speaker 3 (01:59:21):
Is looking for Jordan Speeth to come back and beat them,
but they're all still thinking about Scotty Scheffler. Oh my gosh,
what's what's Scotty gonna do today?

Speaker 5 (01:59:30):
He goes out there and puts maybe a.

Speaker 3 (01:59:34):
Crazy round of seven under par, get himself to ten
and all of a sudden wake up tomorrow morning only
having to make up maybe four or five whoever's that
four or five shots ahead of him tomorrow morning is
gonna sleep poorly tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:59:52):
That would not be I wouldn't want to. I wouldn't
want to fall.

Speaker 3 (01:59:55):
Asleep thinking there's any chance Scotty Scheffer could beat me,
because that's probably what's gonna happened. Gordon's has been playing
a little bit better, but he kind of tripped over
his shoelaces recently, and this is another one of those.
Let me go get to Grant here. We'll see if
we can see him up this time. Grant, what's going on, buddy?

Speaker 4 (02:00:13):
Not much, man.

Speaker 16 (02:00:14):
You were talking about launching boats and whatnot, and it
made me think about the time of the year. That's
fond of that I'm fond of in Louisiana, and that's
frog in season.

Speaker 3 (02:00:26):
Oh baby, yeah, my next time won't be my first.
That's fun, man, launching the boat in the middle of
the night.

Speaker 16 (02:00:35):
Make sure you got some good lights and uh a
cruise around the bayou with the boys, uh and grabbing
some frogs. Buddy, tell me about your experience frogging there,
mister Doug.

Speaker 3 (02:00:46):
I'm not nearly the expert that you probably are, uh,
but I am half Cajun, so I knew how to
do it from the time I was toddling, probably, And
mostly it was just a couple of friends of mine
and I who would walk the banks uh places close
to home, and we wouldn't get a lot of frogs,
but we'd get enough to make it worth cooking them.

Speaker 5 (02:01:07):
And it was fun.

Speaker 3 (02:01:08):
Man.

Speaker 5 (02:01:08):
I enjoyed that.

Speaker 4 (02:01:10):
Oh yeah, it's the best time, you know.

Speaker 16 (02:01:13):
We Uh, typically we ride up up and down the banks.

Speaker 7 (02:01:16):
Uh.

Speaker 16 (02:01:17):
You gotta kind of find some banks that work out
the best for you. And we put a man up
at the front of the boat with a hotlight and
you shine up and down the banks. There's red eyes
and there's white eyes. Yeah, and we're looking for the
white eyes. And uh, we line them up until we
get to the front of the boat, reach over the boat,
grab them, throw them in the cross this sack.

Speaker 3 (02:01:39):
And on we go, and on you go. What was
your best night of frog gigging? No gigs, no gigs,
excuse me if yah? Frog grabbing, Yeah, because that's a
little sportier than gigging, isn't it.

Speaker 16 (02:01:53):
Yes, sir man, I would say, uh, hadn't done. I mean,
it's the volume not there. It's more about the good
time with the friends. But I'd say we've gotten like
anywhere between thirty to forty.

Speaker 3 (02:02:06):
That's pretty good for grabbing them by hand.

Speaker 2 (02:02:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (02:02:08):
Man, Sometimes when they're there, they're there, and uh, it's
a lot easier than you'd really think.

Speaker 4 (02:02:15):
And but it's really just a good time listening to
the music, looking at.

Speaker 16 (02:02:21):
The stars, cruising through the bayu with the boys and
having us having a.

Speaker 3 (02:02:24):
Good old time. Yeah, that's exactly what being in the
outdoors is about.

Speaker 5 (02:02:28):
I can tell your plenty of caging.

Speaker 13 (02:02:30):
Man.

Speaker 3 (02:02:30):
If you're doing that grabbing them by hand, that's cool. Yeah, man,
take you easy and you'll have a good.

Speaker 2 (02:02:36):
Rest of you.

Speaker 3 (02:02:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:02:37):
Thanks, I'm glad we finally got this phone call to work.

Speaker 3 (02:02:39):
Grant. Thank you, buddy, Yes, sir, all right, man catching
frogs hand, catching them off the front of the boat,
that's some.

Speaker 2 (02:02:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:02:51):
If you don't know, why not the red eyes.

Speaker 3 (02:02:54):
Look it up? Seven one three, two, one two, five
seven nine. Email me Doug Pike at Ihart Media. I'd come.
You don't want to grab those. I'm trying to purge
a couple of emails here so I can get down
to what I was looking for. Make sure I'm okay
on those, because I didn't want to miss any of them.
Oh yeah, thank you Urban Cowboy. Oh my god, how

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did I forget that? I knew it was gonna happen.

Speaker 5 (02:03:19):
Greece seventy eight, Urban Cowboy nineteen eighty.

Speaker 3 (02:03:22):
Thank you Dan, Thank you Matthew, Thank you bridget Man.
I knew this audience is just so amazing. Every time
I forget something, I have younger members of the audience
who will find it for me if they don't already
know it. And thanks to all three of you for
jumping in so quickly. Yeah, when I was working at
that club, they offered us the opportunity because some of

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that movie was shot there, They offered us that opportunity
to be extras in the movie.

Speaker 5 (02:03:49):
And oh, that sounds pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (02:03:51):
What do we have to do? Well, you need to
be here by about six thirty or seven in the morning,
and you're going to be here till about seven, eight,
nine o'clock at night. And we're just kind of like,
uh huh. And how much were we gonna get paid
for that? And for the whole day to be there
when they wanted us there and not go home until
they told us we could. They were going to pay,

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and they paid all these extras, if I'm not mistaken,
fifty bucks to be there for like twelve thirteen, maybe
fourteen hours and the math on that's not really good.
And everybody who worked there, who actually did work there,
I think most of us, if not all of us,
just said pass you guys do your filming.

Speaker 5 (02:04:33):
You want to say something Frankie, what do you got?

Speaker 6 (02:04:35):
Did they at least give you lunch?

Speaker 7 (02:04:37):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (02:04:37):
I'm sure there was lunch, And I don't care, man.

Speaker 3 (02:04:41):
I mean we did much better than that, almost in
a good hour bar attending.

Speaker 2 (02:04:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:04:47):
So nah, nah.

Speaker 5 (02:04:50):
Being in a movie didn't make that much difference to me.

Speaker 3 (02:04:53):
I would have much And it would have killed me
if I had been in there working and found out
that there were the surf was green to the beach
and everybody who waded into their ankles was catching speckled
trout every cast. I would have just I couldn't have
taken that, So I just opted politely opted out. Thank
you for the opportunity. But y'all go ahead and shoot

(02:05:15):
your movie. And if I'm going to ever get a
movie credit, it's not going to be as extra where
I have to freeze frame a movie somewhere and say, look,
look back in the corner there, see that guy with
his head turned. That's my right ear right there, that's me. No,
that's not being in a movie. If your name's not

(02:05:35):
on the screen when the credits roll, you were there,
But it's not that important. It's cool, but it's not
that important. Uh, this is a Frankie, I'll bring you
in for this. Ponder this for a minute.

Speaker 5 (02:05:50):
Okay, I saw this about. I think it was actually
on yesterday.

Speaker 3 (02:05:55):
As a matter of fact, random poll asked people this question,
if you saw a fly on a spider web, would
you set it free?

Speaker 6 (02:06:06):
I can tell you right now, No, I just had
that happen. Really yeah. No, I saw one at the top. No,
it was a termite. Okay, whatever, are are kind of
coming around right now. And I saw it in the
top left corner and I'm like, I'm seeing it.

Speaker 3 (02:06:24):
It's late.

Speaker 6 (02:06:25):
I'm like about to go to bed.

Speaker 5 (02:06:26):
I'm like, I'm.

Speaker 3 (02:06:27):
Sorry, man, Yeah, I'm sorry. Man, I should have known better.
Spider's got to eat too, man. That's the way I
look at it. It's a circle of life stuff, you know,
Like it'd be like trying to take a gazelle away
from a lion. No, it's it's the same thing. That
thing's trying to eat and it needs to survive too,

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And there's a place for everything. Every animal deserves its
spot at that spider was spent all that time spinning
that web and called a fly. That's the fly's fault, man,
that's the flies fault.

Speaker 4 (02:07:00):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (02:07:01):
Yeah, I'm as much as I do care about animals,
and I don't want to see anything suffer needlessly.

Speaker 5 (02:07:09):
But to the to the victor, or to the victor,
go the spoils.

Speaker 3 (02:07:15):
You know, you catch spider, you get to eat it.
It's fascinating to be spiders, the bigger ones that's been
the big, big webs and whatnot, and catch birds and
stuff like that. Oh yeah, I've not seen that orb weavers.

Speaker 5 (02:07:28):
Man, They I've seen. I'll tell you about them when
we get back.

Speaker 3 (02:07:32):
We got to get out of here for this break,
and I'll tell you about some of the stuff that
these big spider webs. And there's nothing like seeing one
of your friends walking through one of those webs early
early in the morning, just after the do gets off
of them where you can't really see them that well,
and then acting just acting like there's a swarm of
bees on them. All it is is spider web, and

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it's so sticky and so nasty. All the way out.
I'll tell you about Berry Hill. Berry Hill in Sugar Okay.
This is a Texa, mex restaurant that's been there about
thirty years and it has served up delicious consistently delicious
product the whole time they're there. My wife and I
moved to sugar Land thirty two years ago, and I

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remember that being one of the first places we found
that we really like to go out to eat, and
since then they have just continued to do that for
anybody and everybody who can find their way to the
corner of fifty nine and Sugar Creek Boulevard. That's where
they are on the inbound side. If you go in there,
you'll see right away that it's not a fancy place.

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It's not pretentious at all. It's just down home, relaxed neighborhood.
Come as you are get in there, eat some delicious food,
and stick around for a while and watch a game
or whatever you want to do. Families are welcome, Individuals welcome.
If you're brand new to sugar Land or anywhere on

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the southwest side of town really and looking for a
good place to go eat Mexican food and friends.

Speaker 5 (02:09:00):
Go to Burry Hill.

Speaker 3 (02:09:02):
There's a very good chance that if you walk in
there solo, by the time you finish eating, somebody will
have invited you over to the table. Somebody will stop say,
who are you? We hadn't seen you in here before.
That's the kind of people they are in there. There's
outdoor dining too, until it gets one hundred degrees. It's
really not bad at all out there on that patio
late at night. Berryhill Sugarland dot com. The people in

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the kitchen, by the way, the two main chefs in
the kitchen been in there for more than a decade apiece.
They've been in there forever doing the same thing all day,
every day, just churning out delicious food. Tacos, burritos, enchiladas.
Tracey Lenchiz, Oh my god, that's some good stuff.

Speaker 5 (02:09:43):
Save room for that.

Speaker 3 (02:09:44):
You'll be glad you did. Berryhill Sugarland dot com is
the website. Berryhill Sugarland dot com. Bye, welcome back. Nine
point fifty on Sports Talk seven ninety ten minutes ago.
And that's about it. Holy cow, there's so much going on.
By the way, I need to call David Putt a
little while. I talked about this big water rights thing
that sid Miller's office released and actually came from Parks

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and Wallach Department. It wasn't sid Miller, and it doesn't
affect anything on the prairie. Unfortunately, it doesn't add any
water to any of our our waterfowl prairies. It's just
a ten year deal. See yeah, ten year commitment of
two hundred acre feet per year of surface water to
help conserve big cypress bio in northeast Texas. So I

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guess maybe downstream a little bit little help. They're actually
gonna build some paddling trails over there and stuff like that.
So once that gets done, basically, maybe I'll call somebody
over there. By the way, I had three people. I
want to thank them also for sending me reference to
Urban Cowboy by text.

Speaker 5 (02:10:49):
That was Manny Lopez.

Speaker 3 (02:10:51):
That's my guy from over there at El Kubano Cigars
Forest aka Faux Pro. And my buddy Jason Fortenberry, who
is over at Primo Doors and Primo Doors is about
to open. They opened in eight and a half minutes
right now. In case you needed a new iron door,
a new fiberglass door, a new wood door like I

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put on my house while back, and that thing's awesome.
I got so much good feedback from the neighbors, like,
holy cow, that's that's a beautiful door. It inspired more
doors in the in the neighborhood too, I'm happy to say.
And I know Jason be happy to hear that as well,
so Manny Forest and Jason thanks a bunch for also
reminding me that it was Urban Cowboy. And when Frankie

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said Midnight Cowboy, that threw me off. And it's not
his fault. It just I got stuck on Midnight Cowboy.
A couple of things I want to make sure I
get to before the end of this program. By the way,
going back to golf for a little bit, I saw
a very interesting statistic the other day, or actually it
was yesterday afternoon.

Speaker 5 (02:11:58):
Captain Scott forwarded it.

Speaker 3 (02:12:00):
And it's about putting and about the speed of your
putt as it gets to the hole and whether or
not that putt is gonna lip out or lip in.
I guess that's the only other way you can put that.
It's from a site called Cure my Swing, and Scott
forded it. The harder you hit a putt, the smaller

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the effective size of the hole. Think about this next
time you're thinking, Okay, this is a three foot or
I'm gonna take all the breakout of it and I'm
just gonna jam it in. There a putt that is
moving fast enough to finish just a foot and a
half past the hole, makes the effective size of the
hole about twenty five percent smaller. In other words, if

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it's racing by the hole fast enough to get a
foot and a half passed and it almost is just
right there on the lip and it starts to go in,
probably not gonna make it twenty five percent smaller. And
this is it's almost too much statistical stuff, because I like,
just as I'm feeling comfortable going ahead and just just
taking the break out of three footers, now I got

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this to get in my head.

Speaker 5 (02:13:06):
If you put the.

Speaker 3 (02:13:07):
Ball fast enough to finish five feet past the hole,
and that's whether you're ten feet out or whether you're
twenty feet out or thirty feet out or whatever, that
hole becomes sixty three percent smaller. In other words, you
got to hit a little bitty target. So if you're
gonna go ahead and ram one from twelve feet, you're

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only putting that a hole that's what two and a
half inches wide or so two inches wide.

Speaker 5 (02:13:38):
That's tough.

Speaker 3 (02:13:38):
Otherwise it's gonna lip out. Something else to plant in
your just an ugly seed. The plant in your head.
If you're on the way to the golf course right now,
and I guarantee you it's going to be in my
head every time I think about it. And that's the
last thing I need is more thoughts in my head
on the Spider thing, the spider and the fly. I'm

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I think I think we're all in agreement. Spider's got
to eat too. I don't have a problem with that.

Speaker 13 (02:14:05):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (02:14:06):
I did find this pretty interesting, by the way.

Speaker 3 (02:14:09):
See, I got that, I got that.

Speaker 5 (02:14:11):
I want to make sure I don't miss anything, says.

Speaker 3 (02:14:14):
The new ranking of America's top ten beaches is dominated
by spots in Hawaii and Florida. As you might think,
here's where I get kind of start scratching my head.

Speaker 5 (02:14:26):
But they gave the number one.

Speaker 3 (02:14:28):
Spot to Cooper's Beach in Southampton, New York. I'm pretty
sure that everybody who was surveyed.

Speaker 5 (02:14:39):
Is from Southampton.

Speaker 3 (02:14:42):
Otherwise, Frankie, had you ever heard of Cooper's Beach?

Speaker 5 (02:14:47):
I have not heard of Cooper's Beach.

Speaker 3 (02:14:48):
Yeah, well, neither has anybody who doesn't live there. I
think that's that's that just proves the pathetic lack of
worth in surveys and polls. But they are fun, Oh,
they are fun and silly sometimes, all right, it's a.

Speaker 5 (02:15:03):
Memorial Day weekend.

Speaker 3 (02:15:04):
Nothing fun or silly about that, except if you choose
to do something fun and silly and just like I
asked you to do earlier. While you're out there doing that,
pause just for one minute and really get into your
own head and acknowledge and thank the people who gave
their lives so that we could go do all this silly,
fun stuff we do every day of our lives in

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the United States of America. I'll be back tomorrow at eight.
We'll tee it up again. Then, thank you all for listening.
Stay safe outside, will you see it?

Speaker 2 (02:15:34):
Then?

Speaker 3 (02:15:34):
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