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February 12, 2026 (Hour 2) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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  Speaker 1: Check out the original DJ designs at David Gardner's Jewelers
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  Speaker 1: nine to one one University Drive in front of audio video.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I want to.
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  Speaker 1: Remind you that John and his staff at Lucko Ranch
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  Speaker 1: are building renovating ponds. They have complete services, fishery management,
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  Speaker 1: stocking services. They'll come by and if you have a
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  Speaker 1: lake or a pond at your property you don't understand
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  Speaker 1: why you're not catching fish. He will probably tell you, well,
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  Speaker 1: that's probably because you don't have any fish in your
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  Speaker 1: pond or your lake right now. But we can help you.
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  Speaker 1: He'll do those surveys. Then you'll tell him, hey it's
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  Speaker 1: too money or I got too much vegetation.
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  Speaker 2: This is what he does for a living.
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  Speaker 1: You may have property and say I would love to
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  Speaker 1: build a little piece of water, little lake on my place.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they do all over the Southwest. This is
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  Speaker 1: a locally owned operation. You can contact them online at
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  Speaker 1: Luckoranch dot com. Remember where it is spelled l occhow
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  Speaker 1: Lucko Ranch dot com.
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  Speaker 2: You pay less, but you get much more. At the
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  Speaker 2: Dollar Floor Store, visit.
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  Speaker 3: The Dollar Floor Store in Brian for all your quality
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  Speaker 3: floors at discount prices. Deet Mowawk brand vinyl glue down
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  Speaker 3: playing starting its forty nine cents of square foots. They
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  Speaker 3: keep the supplies you need in stock and installers are
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  Speaker 3: always welcome. Visit the big Orange building just south of
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  Speaker 3: the Bend on Texas Avenue in Brian. You pay less,
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  Speaker 3: but you get much more, great saving selection, fine paper
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  Speaker 3: shopping the Dollar Floor Store.
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  Speaker 4: I'm John Clark and I'm Josh Eisenhower.
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  Speaker 5: Clark Eisenhower Real Estate Services.
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  Speaker 4: Josh and I and our seven associates have over one
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  Speaker 4: hundred years combined to real estate experience in the Brass Valley.
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  Speaker 5: We specialize in commercial, industrial and land sales of all types.
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  Speaker 2: We also lease and.
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  Speaker 5: Manage retail, office, industrial and warehouse properties throughout the Brass Valley.
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  Speaker 4: And we are committed to professional service, honesty and integrity.
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  Speaker 5: Call us at the office at two six eight six
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  Speaker 5: eight four zero.
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  Speaker 4: Or find us online at Clark Eisenhower dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us here on this Thursday. This
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  Speaker 1: portion of the program is brought to you by the
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  Speaker 1: Dollar Floor Store. This is the Clark Eisenhower Outdoor. Addition,
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  Speaker 1: we have guests in studio. Guests We usually don't get
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  Speaker 1: people back a second time but you guys have been
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  Speaker 1: here a while.
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  Speaker 2: Introduce yourselves to my listener.
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  Speaker 6: Gentlemen, good looking guests. That's what you've got. Ben Jones,
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  Speaker 6: I'm with the Breses Valley Ducks un Limited.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Mike Teal.
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  Speaker 5: I'm also with Brasis Valley.
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  Speaker 1: Do you you guys have been doing this a while,
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  Speaker 1: because I've been doing this a while, so I know
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  Speaker 1: just about how long it's been.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a while, it has.
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  Speaker 6: It's our fifty second band up on February the twentieth Friday,
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  Speaker 6: and I've been here for I know I've been here
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  Speaker 6: for thirty of them.
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  Speaker 1: Good gosh. So that's a week from Friday at the
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  Speaker 1: Brasses Center. Correct, Yes, sir, I'm going to talk about
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  Speaker 1: this just a little bit because Ducks unlomited people who
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  Speaker 1: are outdoor people, they know the organization, they know a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about what they've done.
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  Speaker 2: You guys can tell me better. But this year we
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  Speaker 2: in any water. I do know that. My guess is
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  Speaker 2: it's been a little bit tough.
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  Speaker 1: And every year it seems the waterfowler stopping short.
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  Speaker 2: Of this area.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, the elephant in the room. Yeah, I'll just say this,
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  Speaker 6: Ducks Unlimited focuses on habitat, and they've conserved over fourteen
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  Speaker 6: million acres since nineteen thirty seven.
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  Speaker 2: That's incredible.
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  Speaker 6: So the habitat is there, whether climactic conditions. They don't
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  Speaker 6: always cooperate with us.
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  Speaker 1: The farmers haven't a ranchers haven't always cooperated number one.
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  Speaker 1: Number two the farmers and ranchers land has been sold
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  Speaker 1: off to development. And I was just remarking we had
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  Speaker 1: to go to Houston yesterday to my wife. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I used to drive down a hockey and see just
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  Speaker 1: thousands of geese in those fields, you know, right off
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  Speaker 1: the two ninety.
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  Speaker 2: You don't see that anymore.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. We were having discussions about this a lot lately.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, the geese, the ducks, they were going
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  Speaker 5: down to the Katie Prairie long before rice farmers started.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. True.
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  Speaker 5: So you know there's a lot of discussion. I know
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  Speaker 5: that there are legislators asking for further research, and there's
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  Speaker 5: everybody's got their different opinions of why. I think the
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  Speaker 5: good point is now we're discussing it, and I think
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  Speaker 5: we'll start getting some answers. But I think it's just changed.
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  Speaker 2: Ben.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't want to say that this is
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  Speaker 1: a dire situation and there's lots of waterfowl around, but
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  Speaker 1: here in Texas. By the time people looked up and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: where'd all the quail go? Right, it was almost too late.
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  Speaker 1: It took a huge effort to begin to realize that
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  Speaker 1: and to bring that back, which slowly they've done. And
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  Speaker 1: it won't ever be like the good old days. And
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  Speaker 1: my guess is waterfowl won't ever be like quote the
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  Speaker 1: good old days in our area.
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  Speaker 2: But there are things that can be done, Mike, right.
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  Speaker 5: Correct, And like I said, the discussions have already started.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think we're in that dire situation yet. We
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  Speaker 5: just don't want to get there because we want to
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  Speaker 5: have to try and recover it exactly.
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  Speaker 6: And I think you made a good comment. In our area. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: you know, there's I think the success of ducks and
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  Speaker 6: limited is there. We've got the numbers of birds that's
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  Speaker 6: just hanging out around.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, parts of Texas that we're used to see. Yes,
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  Speaker 7: you know, if they've shifted out west, yes, North Panhandle area, yep.
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  Speaker 7: As long as there's water up there, there's always going
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  Speaker 7: to be food.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, So food and water you gotta have it right. Yes, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about du a little bet. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: the banquet. How can people get tickets to the banquet again?
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  Speaker 1: Week from Friday. I'm gonna give a fuel away, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm not giving away the whole banquet. How can people
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  Speaker 1: get tickets?
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  Speaker 6: I understood, And there are a couple of ways to
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  Speaker 6: approach it. One, you can go to ducks dot org
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  Speaker 6: and navigate to love that your state. That's very simple.
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  Speaker 6: It is ducks dot org. Navigate to your state Texas,
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  Speaker 6: find an event. You will find the Brass Valleys Ducks
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  Speaker 6: in an event there and there's a link you can
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  Speaker 6: purchase tickets online.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: The other option is to call nine seven nine two
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  Speaker 6: five five eight five zero seven.
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  Speaker 2: I've got right here. I will mention that perfect.
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  Speaker 6: Michelle Jones, and she can help you with tables or
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  Speaker 6: individual tickets.
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  Speaker 1: I bumped into her at the CCA banquet last Friday night.
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  Speaker 1: This area has always been a terrific supporter of everything outdoors.
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  Speaker 1: I know I don't have to tell you guys that
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  Speaker 1: what do you have available for folks that show up
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  Speaker 1: at the banquet next Friday night?
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  Speaker 6: We're going to come at you with some a catered
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  Speaker 6: meal from Mallett Brothers. We'll have adult beverages, we'll have
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  Speaker 6: raffle items, silent auctions, live auctions. There'll be a dedicated
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  Speaker 6: raffle auction for the green Wings, the young the young
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  Speaker 6: kids that are there. We want them to all go
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  Speaker 6: home with something.
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  Speaker 2: So, by the way, this is a family deal. Kids.
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  Speaker 2: Kids are welcome, Absolutely it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's not And we've got to get kids out in
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  Speaker 1: the field, don't we. We talk about this every year,
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  Speaker 1: I know, but but we're agent out here. We got
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  Speaker 1: to get kids out in the field.
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  Speaker 5: So, yeah, twenty five years ago when I started on
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  Speaker 5: this committee, my kids were small. Yes they're still on
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  Speaker 5: the committee. Yes they're not small anymore, but they're still involved.
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  Speaker 2: Well you grew up taking them outside absolutely yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: In fact, they get to go more than I do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know that that kind of sucks. Life
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  Speaker 1: gets in the way.
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  Speaker 6: But so it's the important part about it. It's just
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  Speaker 6: getting out there with the absolutely absolutely kill ducks on
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  Speaker 6: your on every outing. But they got a sunrise and
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  Speaker 6: a beautiful day and they and they.
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  Speaker 1: Are looking down at a machine or a phone for
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  Speaker 1: for just a couple hours anyway, right, It's great I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a big deal.
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  Speaker 5: And we have a lot of people that come to
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  Speaker 5: the banquet or even on the committee that are not
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  Speaker 5: duck hunt.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, and we've seen that. I know over the years.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have done this forever, I'm telling you. But
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  Speaker 1: the bottom line is those of us who go outdoors,
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  Speaker 1: we're concerned with all of the outdoors.
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  Speaker 2: We're concerned with the habitat. We're concerned with conservation. Right
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  Speaker 2: We're not.
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  Speaker 1: The people that have signs holding up saying you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're murdering ducks.
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  Speaker 2: We're we are concerned about the whole of the habitat
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  Speaker 2: right at. Ducks Unlimited has done that for ever.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Yes, it's some of the primary funding. I think
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  Speaker 6: it's through the mole the Morale Act, and you know
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  Speaker 6: it's it's fees from hunters. Yes, are dedicated to go
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  Speaker 6: to state projects, federal projects. Is the hunter's decline and
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  Speaker 6: those those fees decline. Yes, and therefore everything stuff yep.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have like some hints of some of the
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  Speaker 1: things that people can bid on next Friday evening?
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  Speaker 7: I do.
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  Speaker 6: We've got just quite a number of guns. Every year
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  Speaker 6: Ducks and Limited comes out with a shot gun piston, yes,
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  Speaker 6: and rifle yes of the year.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: So we'll have brand new ducks and limited twenty twenty
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  Speaker 6: six merchandise.
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  Speaker 2: Very cool.
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  Speaker 6: On the we're one of the earliest banquets in the state,
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  Speaker 6: so you get to see everything that's new, including firearms.
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  Speaker 6: We'll have quite a few trips available. There's a nice
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  Speaker 6: quail hunt. You mentioned quail earlier over in Mississippi where
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  Speaker 6: they still have some really you know. And we have
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  Speaker 6: some duck hunts and some fishing shirt some international trips I've.
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  Speaker 5: Been mentioned the green Wings. We have a totally separate
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  Speaker 5: raffle for the green Wings. Yes, and it's a must
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  Speaker 5: be present to win, So we try to set it
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  Speaker 5: up so that we've got plenty of presents or raffles, giveaways, whatever,
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  Speaker 5: so that everybody goes home with something awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, look, you guys have been doing this a long time.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's a labor love. All these banquets aren't
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  Speaker 1: the easiest. Are Will there be tickets? I know you
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  Speaker 1: want a count because of the catering. Will there be
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  Speaker 1: tickets available at the door?
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  Speaker 4: Here?
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  Speaker 6: We will. We will not turn anyone down.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and sixty bucks? Did I did? I get that
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  Speaker 2: part right, that's right.
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  Speaker 6: Sixty bucks for adults and forty dollars for youth and first.
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  Speaker 2: Respect and first responders. Okay, great deal.
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  Speaker 1: A week from Friday night, February twentieth at the Brases Center,
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  Speaker 1: the fifty second annual Banquet. Can we do this again
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  Speaker 1: next Year'll y'all quitting yet?
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  Speaker 4: Sign us up?
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  Speaker 6: I hope we're all three here.
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  Speaker 2: I hope we're all three here too. Time's running out,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, gentlemen, Thank y'all so much, Mike and Ben. I
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  Speaker 1: really appreciate it. Thanks for all the work you do.
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  Speaker 1: Go to the banquet people, please, Thanks guys, we need you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. And we will be giving a few
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  Speaker 1: tickets away. We have got basketball coming your way here
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  Speaker 1: in just a few moments. I will tell you that
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow my weekly visit with Kurt Bowles, Ryan Starr will
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  Speaker 1: be sitting in. We will be here on on Monday
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  Speaker 1: with the writers round table. So we got that going
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  Speaker 1: for us, which is nice. I'll tell you what, let's
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  Speaker 1: play some music and get out of here. Why don't
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  Speaker 1: we do that tray and we will. I'll talk to
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  Speaker 1: people on Monday and Women's basketball Up next