The Doug Pike Show 5-20-2023

Doug talks golfing, fishing, and hunting on an overcast yet pretty day. Lots of fishing is being done down around Galveston, and Doug reminisces. Callers swap stories, and Doug talks about the ongoing PGA Tour.

Episode Transcript

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Fike. Give me that microphone.Oh my gosh, if they only knew,

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Adam, I'm sliding in sideways thismorning. I got here early enough,
but I'm man. If I hadn'tbeen able to go over and get
this cup of coffee out of thektr each news room, I don't know
if I'd have made it to eightseven fifteen, long night last night.
My son announces, not three daysago, not two days ago. He

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announces yesterday with a text to meat about three o'clock. Hey Dad,
I want to go to the LukeBryan concert tonight. H WEA really okay?
Who's taking it? Down there oneof my friends. Well, I'm
gonna be sitting with this friend ofmine if I gotta get this ticket to

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like in seven minutes, Oh really, seven minutes, I gotta drop sixty
dollars on a nosebleed ticket for youto go see Luke Bryan Toyota Center.
And I thought about it, andI called my wife. I talked to
her about it, and I thought, you know, at some point,
we're gonna have to let go alittle bit. He's our only child,

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and she especially has spoiled him bypretty much saying yes to anything. He
asked one to keep the peace intwo just because she wants she wants him
to remember all this. It's justsuch fun, and so I concede,
Okay, Yeah, he's he's alittle young to be marching out the door

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like this on short notice. Andhe's kind of caught us by surprise,
to be quite frank, I thinkthat may have been the element of surprise
may have been in his plans allalong, not give me time to say
no and say, hey dad,I got all these plans. And they're
always these teenagers are always making plans. Ninety percent of them don't ever come

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to fruition, But that's not important. The important thing is that they're always
making plans. They have a plan, they just don't know whether anybody will
be able to execute it because rightnow still very few of them can even
drive. So can I agree todrive him? What I thought? The

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original conversation went such that I presumedthat I was to take him to a
friend's house in West hw and thatfriends twenty four year old sister was going
to drive them down there, stayat the concert with them, and then
drive him home all the way outto sugar Land. I don't know how

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that was really going to happen,but I knew that at least if she
would get him back to West Hue. And I got a call at midnight,
I if I had to, I'dgo get him anywhere anytime. He
knows that, for any reason,if he needs a ride for any reason,
if he doesn't feel safe getting inthe car with somebody, for any
reason, I'll go get him.No questions, asked him. So I

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was, okay, fine, I'llrun you over to their house. And
this is going on now at aboutlike I don't know, five o'clock.
No, Dad, No, youmust have misunderstood You've got to take me
down to Toyota Center and then I'mgonna meet them there, and then they're
gonna give me a ride home.And you got this all covered, You're

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sure? Oh, absolutely, noquestion about it. So then he comes
back downstairs thirty minutes later. Theconcert is supposed to start at eight,
by the way, comes down thirtyminutes later and announces that his friend Drew
is actually gonna give him home orgive him a ride home from the concert.

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Oh, it's Drew gone with youguys, meeting you guys there.
No, he's already there. He'sbeen downtown for about three hours already.
Wow. Really yeah, yeah,Dad. And the only good part about
that is that Drew lives two hundredyards from us, as the street runs,

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And so that's probably the way betteroption over somebody who lives in West
You being convinced to drive all theway to sugar Land and then drive themselves
back to West You after being ata concert all night. Oh. In
any case, despite him reassuring methat I could just you just go to
sleep, Dad, don't worry aboutit, my wife said the same thing,

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just going to bed. I gotthis, no problem. There's an
emergency, I'll wake up. Well, I'm upstairs trying to fall asleep in
the snorers quarters with a crossword puzzlein one hand and a melatonin rolling through
me, and I still can't fallasleep. And it was I don't know
what time I finally did fall asleep, but I know it was after midnight.

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And I know if I hadn't beenable to get a cup of coffee
out of that newsroom a minute ago, I might have just fallen asleep.
Just you just heard this, andthat would have been my head hitting the
console. I'm running on fumes rightnow. But I do get to get
a nap. This is my reward. I get a shortened nap before we
go to a graduation party this afternoonfor one of my wife's best friends.

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And she's a friend of mine aswell. Any friend of hers is a
friend of mine. And so we'regonna go watch or not watch the graduation.
We're going to the after party andthat'll be fun. I'm looking forward
to it. I'm looking forward toit. Awesome sunrise. By the way.
On the way in the clouds havekind of taken over now to the
east, but there was just thisthree or four minutes on the Southwest Freeway.

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That was absolutely gorgeous, and Iwish I'm just not one to slow
down to forty five on the freewayand fumble with my phone and try to
get the camera moved up and allof that. I'm not that good at
it. I'm not that comfortable withit. Now. I'm sure there were
people doing that around me, andif you were one of them, by

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all means, send me a pictureof the sunrise this morning from fifty nine
at about I don't know, thirtyminutes ago, forty minutes ago. Really
pretty. That's just it was areminder to me of why you and I
and most of us get up soearly in the morning to go do the

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things we do. That's part ofit. One of the reasons is the
fish bite better, the deer movebetter, the birds fly better in the
very first part of the day,and that should that should kind of tell
us all that that's the part ofthe day we're supposed to be moving in
as well. If it's good enoughfor every other animal on planet Earth except
the owls, what else is nocturnalat them? Can you think of any

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other animals offhand? Like cats?The big cats yeah, even the little
cats if you let them out ofthe house. Yeah, they've got the
big eyes and can hunt at night. But buying large, it's for us
at least. The the relevance isthe fish, the birds, the deer,

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the ducks, all all of that. They're all moving at daylight because
they like sunrises too. I guesswhat they're trying to be is the early
bird that catches the worm. Theywant to get to the feeding fields first
because they know if they sleep inthe rest of the birds may go eat
all the food before they get there. Now, that's unlikely to happen,
not eat the rest of the food. But as somebody who guided waterfowl hunts

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for fourteen years, I can tellyou that toward the end of the season,
those birds are hungry and they arefighting over little bits of food left
in little parts of fields that haven'tbeen just wiped clean yet. The first
part of the season, they're droppingin anywhere in a field, usually in

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the middles, because that's the safestplace they eat from the center of the
field. And I'm talking about fieldsthat cover half a sectional land or a
whole section where there was a fieldthat we hunted back when I was working
with Larry Gore and some of thebest guides on the prairie that we call
Big Bean, and Big Bean wasin Soybeans the year we got it,

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and hence its name, and thatfield was a full section of land.
There were no barbed wire fences runninganywhere. For roma was a mile of
barbed running east to west, thenwest to north, and north to east
and east to south. A milein each direction of barbed wire, and

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a couple of little roads cut throughit, and that was it. And
the birds would start in the middleand they would work their way out to
the fence lines because the fence lineshave brush on them, where bob cats
and foxes and coyotes and all kindsof animals can hide and then jump out
and grab them and kill them andeat them. Everything's got to live on

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the prairie. Everything's got to livein the city. We just do it
differently people do. Sometimes. Ikind of like the country better being out
with the animals. It's really,it's so it's so uplifting, it's so
revealing. It's being part of nameboy, what a soapbox I'm standing on,

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Hugh Adam, Where did this comefrom? This is just that.
Oh, I'm also Adam's got mehooked up with a bird's eye view of
the beach front right at the well. It used to be the the well
what is now the Pleasure Pier?What's the name of that darned hotel?
Don't don't email me because it'll justembarrass me that I can't remember. I'll
remember in a minute. We usedto go down there all the time.

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And this beautiful, beautiful Gulf ofMexico I'm looking at this morning reminds me
of some really good days wade fishingin the surf. I'm gonna bring up
my surf cam camera and my holdon. Let me get saltwater recon up.
Where all my there there? One? Two? Three? Oh my
gosh, what happened to all mybookmarks that I put on this thing right

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as I left? They're not there. I'll have to go back and re
bookmark everything. I'll do that duringthis first break. Maybe that's what I
should do. Shooters Corner. I'mgonna get this break in early, and
I'm go ahead and get finished puttingmyself together in here. I still haven't
taken a pause for even one sipof coffee. But I will do that

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during the break as well. Shooterscorner problem. How I had twenty nine
Street in Texas City owned and operatedby a family, the t K family,
and they would offer a prize foranybody who can come in there and
spell their last name correctly in onetry. It's simple, it's just two
syllables TK. But you probably wouldn'tbe able to figure out how to spell

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it unless you're unless you're in themix and you know, you know them,
maybe that would help you. Okay, is it t K t K?
What like? That's the spelling Tthat's it, just TK. No,
you're missing letters, So that's allI'm gonna tell you. You want
to take one more shot t Iq U O K. Lord, you're

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not missing that many letters. I'llgive it. I'll give you this hint,
and then when we get back fromthe break, I want you to
tell me how to spell it.There are four letters in that word t
K, four letters and not awell, only the two obvious ones make

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any sense at all as to whythey're there. But it's a family name,
and it goes back as far asanybody's names go. And there are
oddball spellings of everybody's names. Andon top of that, these are,
honestly god, these are two ofthe finest people I've ever known in my
life. Just overall fine people.So go visit them at Shooters Corner.
It's a gun store, that's all. It is, nothing but guns,

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ammo, shooting supplies, reloading supplies, optics, some camo, some cool
mounts from all around the world.They are two of the best big game
guides in North America and done alot of hunting all around the world,
and like I said, just twoof the nicest, best guys ever.
I'll give you an example how nicethey are. If you wear a badge

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for a living, you get adiscount at Shooters Corner on anything and everything
you buy because they just feel thatstrongly about taking care of the people who
take care of them. The ShootersCorner, TX dot com. Palmer high
Wit twenty nine Street in Texas City, The Shooters Corner, TX dot com.
This is Sports Talk seven ninety onlineat sportsnet dot com. Now dug

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By, I had no idea thatit was Luke Bryan. I kind of
had a hunch because you don't playthat much country music, and since we
were just talking about him and notthis country and his big show Yeah,
the big show Man. They gaveyou a headache class night. He well,
he didn't give me a headache.It just made me nervous and anxious
and just ready for him to gethome. And we've got that life three

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sixty app where we can see wherehe is in this set and the other
and just typical teenagers. They tookkind of a circuitous route on the way
home. God knows where they went. They they did. I think they
stopped once for gas. It lookedlike on fifty nine coming home. And
why you would stop where they did, I don't know, not like we
don't have gas stations. But that'sonce again, I guess that's a teenager

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thing. You presume there's plenty ofgas in the car until it runs out,
and you don't pay attention to gauges, and it gauges for old people,
you know. So did you figureout how to smell TK? Sorry?
I'm going with t K E TI K E. No, it's
t K A C Okay, thatmakes sense t K Yeah, it all

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makes sense now, doesn't it.Yeah that sounds about it's kind of crazy,
all right. So I took alook at the weather radar while we
were out for a second there,and I will tell you this, there
is nothing headed our way today,at least currently. But there's just kind
of a big old blob that stretchesfrom San Anton all the way to the

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coast and comes up to about Victoriaactually a little bit north of Victoria even
but looks like in the motion radaras you you animate the scene, there
looks like it's just gonna fall rightoff the coast and go on out and
it's it goes all the way downto Corpus and stuff. It's a pretty
big system. But it doesn't looklike it's going to cause any problems for

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us, So thank goodness for that. Let me go to email real quick.
I saw a couple of them popin. There's one I'm gonna respond
to in just a minute. Uhha, where is this house of oh something?
I'm not sure. There's some concertphoto. I'm not sure what concert

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that's it. I don't recognize thatthat musician. I'm sorry for that.
I just haven't been to a concertin a while. I'll be the first
to admit it. It's been awhile. Oh I just pushed the wrong
button. Totally wiped out my outlook. Let me go talk today while I'm
fiddling with this. Speaking of fiddlers, what's up? Hey, Yeah,

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my dad nineteen seventy eight, Ihad a souped up dots and B two
ten get out of here, Iremember, yeah, yeah, and I
jacked him back in up. ButI'm I'm driving to where the old toyot
the center where the church is now. And you know how you had to
go in the spiral thing to getto the parking deal. And I drive
down in there and there's a motorcyclecop with a white helmet, big black

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boots and on a Harley Davison andhe's slowing us all down and he looks
in the win and he goes,David, be nice in there, man,
or I'm gonna call your dad.And if my mom gets ahold of
yeah, you know who it was. It was Ejay Hopkins, world champion
fiddler. But oh man, howabout that? Huh? Yeah? Hey,

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hey, God's blessed me with alot of inspiration. And you know
people mentors, well, yeah,people who watch out for you even without
being asked, You know that.And that's the way I am about anybody
I ever coached in baseball. Ifif any one of those kids said hey
coach Doug or hey Coach Pike onthe phone, I would instantly perk up

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and say, Okay, yeah,what what do you need? I'll help
you. Yeah, yeah, youknow, and I'll tell you what.
It don't hurt to ask either,you know, not at all. And
and hey, the other thing is, I'm a little troubled over the weather
coming into Galveston with all the peoplethat's supposed to be running and fishing down

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there. So everybody, you know, keep your eye of the sky and
be safe. I don't want tohear about no tragedies either Lake night or
the month. I think Galveston's gonnabe okay, Dave, the way I'm
looking, I don't see anything muchand nothing coming into Galveston. It's all.
It's turning from Austin down it's goingsouth, almost due south, and

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it's already hit the coast at thispoint. Let's see. Yeah, it's
it's starting to creep offshore by eighto'clock, and it does not look like
it's gonna make it to Galvis.And now the events they've got going on
down at Corpus Christy they're probably gonnaget a little wet sometime today. Okay,
up here we look, okay,we really do oh this way,

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you know, you know where I'mat right over here on Parker and Airline
kind of sort of. But Ithink we're gonna be all right until late
later on this afternoon, I believe. So yeah, I don't know that
we're gonna get a whole lot eventhis afternoon. Honestly, I'm not changing
myself. So yeah, I know, kid always been safe out there,
and hey, you never know,always keep a jacket, I don't care
with a hundred degrees outside, andput a jacket in your car because you

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never know it takes you know,That's why they made space behind the seats
of pickup trucks just for your jacket, You your jack, your toe strap,
your first aid kit, all thatstuff that really if if you ever
need it, you'll be darn gladyou have it. And most of the
first stead kids I've ever bought,I have ended up like five years later,

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opening them up, and everything's driedup and torn up and just looks
like just a hot mess. Youjust throw it all out and start over,
because when you do need it,you'll be dawn glad that band aid
comes out of there or whatever.Yeah, like my mom did you know,
dragging us around everywhere, fishing,playing in the band and everything.
She always had you know, campopwith neat bandaids. Yeah, I don't

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know. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, it's like, yeah,
it's like a woman's purse. Awoman's purse fits the same amount of stuff,
I believe it or not, thatfits behind the back seat, behind
the seat of it a pop uptruck. Think about it, man,
better, when you were a littlekid and your mom started, if she
opened up her purse, there'd bea blowny sandwich in there, there'd be

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a glass of milk, there'd beband aids, camp open, neat marthiolate.
God, you remember that stuff.Yeah, yeah, but wait a
minute, the purse was so heavyif somebody was gonna try to attack her.
Yeah, just get some momentum up, like a like a what is
that theo? What's the bolo?There's an Olympic event. It's not the

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the hammer throw. That's what itis. A discus and also discus like
a discus on a strap. Itweighs about like a shot put but yeah,
all right, everybody to be safeout there, all right, all
right, thank you? Yeah,yeah. Mom's purses are kind of like

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dad's tackle boxes. I have waytoo much fishing tacks on my garage,
and my problem is that I can'tI can't throw it away. I can't
look at the lure that has reallynothing wrong with it, or even if
the hooks are a little rusty,changed the hooks out. If that lure
is not it doesn't look like somebodyran over it with a tank or a

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steamroller, then I consider it tobe a legitimate keeper in my arsenal.
And whether I'll ever throw it againin my lifetime is irrelevant to the fact
that I need to have it,and I'm having a hard time letting go.
I really am. I've got somebodywho is volunteered to bring in to

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bring in the big guns to reorganizemy garage for me, if I can
just get it cleaned out, andthen he's offered to help me with the
shelving and all that stuff, andI just I'm having such a hard time
doing that. That invitation has beensitting there for a year and I haven't
taken advantage of it yet because Ican't get out there and clear it.

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We need to start up some sortof a I don't know, a halfway
house for people who can't get ridof fishing tackle or something. It's just
so difficult. It's like stress management, like depression management. I can't The
thought of throwing away perfectly good fishinglures just just eats at my very soul.

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It really does. Seven to onethree. I don't know how I
got on that subject. Seven onethree two one two five seven ninety email
on me dugpocket, iHeartMedia dot com. I got a picture of Hold on,
let me see what this is.Another email just popped in. Yeah,
oh wow, holy cow, that'sa pretty night. And it's surf

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side a speckled trout. That's I'mgonna say conservatively. It's twenty eight inches
long, called out of the surfat Surfside yesterday and the picture I'm looking
at from this morning. I needto pop this new one up. I
had to go and completely redo mybookmarks that I had in place. Ready
to go. Let me go getsaltwater recon up real quick. Come on,

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come on, come on, signme in. You know who I
am, You know who I am? Log me in now. Oh there
they're little check to see if you'renot a computer is a math problem six
plus five equals what. Let methink on that for a minute. Now,

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I'm gonna get my cam up here, and I want let's take a
look at the surf side. That'swhat I want to see. Come on,
bring them up, Bring them up, Bring them up, Jetty park.
That's a good indicator if you wantto know how good the potential for
speckled trout fishing is down out aroundthe end of the surfside, jetty.
Just get saltwater recon up or whatevercamera you can find that shows the end

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of that jetty out there, andthen and then count the beach umbrellas that
have been punched into the rocks downthere, or wire tide or hose clamped
to a wagon full of stuff.That will tell you it is dead flat.

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It is dead flat. There's acouple of guys. It looks like
kayaks going out. Maybe yep,two kayakers headed out as we speak,
and I would suspect they're going todo pretty well well. I can't tell.
I haven't looked, and I can'ttell whether the todd's coming up or
going down right now. It looksto be about midway through whatever it's doing.
The water is not entirely up tothe rocks. There's a little bit

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of seaweed down there. But man, oh man, I wouldn't mind being
down there this morning. It looksreally pretty, looks really pretty. If
you've got nothing to do and ahalf a tank of gas or more and
two fishing rods and box of lures, wouldn't be a bad day to run
down there. I would have betthere's a couple of places in Galveston that
I would want to check. Two, I certainly would, And I wouldn't

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mind at all turning south and drivingdown to the beach front. I had
a conversation with Cliff Webb earlier inthe week, and this is no fooling.
Earlier in the week he was kindof still down, like, oh
man, I don't know, serfhadn't really gone off yet. And this
was about when we were getting allthat wind and that rain, and it
was just the weather was nasty,and their surf was chopped up and big

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and blowing, just boiling on thebeach front and not doing them any favors.
And then the wind stopped and thenthe tide changed twice, and all
of a sudden, it's just goingnuts on that beach front down there,
just going nuts. It's time ifyou were thinking about when you might want
to make a run down there NorthPadre Island Seashore, which has become one

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of my favorite spots to fish,just on short notice. It's not that
far. Get yourself a motel roomsomewhere down there for two nights, three
maybe, and just go fish yourbrains out. There are other places around
there too, by the way,if you talk to some of the locals
down there, if you can getsomebody on the phone who will share some

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of those spots. The two verypublic places I fish are the Packery Channel
Jetty and the beach front pretty muchanywhere, pretty much anywhere down there.
Oh do I need to go?Oh lord, good heavens about and stop?
I got to take a break.I just got this silence. Somebody
turned off my microphone to tell meto shut up. On the way out,

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I'll say about Black Horse Golf Clubsup off Frye Road on Frie Road
off to ninety. Very easy toget too, especially up on that northwest
side of town. If you haven'tplayed Black Horse, yet you owe it
to yourself and maybe three friends ifyou want to get a foursome up there.
There are two golf courses at blackHorse, which makes it very easy

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to get out and play. You'lllike both courses. If you like golf
generally, you'll like both courses.They're totally different personality. On the North
course, you could pretty much airit out. There's a little bit of
extra room left and right. Southcourse gets a little bit tighter, but
not at all unplayable. Not atall unplayable. I can still swing it

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and not worry about where it's going. I'll find it and go hit it
again. You might have to bounceit off a tree or two to get
it back in the fairway, butthe fairways are always in good shape,
the greens are always in good shape, and the people up there just are
are so accommodating and so ready tohelp you have fun while you're playing golf.
Black Horse Golfclub dot Com huge practicefacility, great place to hold big

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tournaments or to just jump online andmake yourself a tea time because you've got
twice as many chances to get outthere as on an eighteen whole course.
Black Horse golf club dot com.Great instruction at the far end of that
range too, black Horse Golf Clubdot com. This is sports Talk seven
nine Facebook dot com slashing sports Talkseven ninety eight. Back to the Doug

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Pike Show, seven thirty five onSports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show.
Thank you for listening on this.I've got a third of a cup
of coffee at me right now.Hold on now a little bit more and
hopefully that'll perk me up here ina minute after a very abbreviated night of
sleep. Let's go talk to rickby. See what's up? Hey?

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What's up? Rick Man? What'sgoing on? Hey man? I got
two or three things, get onreal quick, all right, Just go
back to get Tar Dave. Inever take my winter clothes out of my
trout, hats, coats, boots, gloves, face masks, anything for
me I would wear on a Fridgidieday. I got in this truck to

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day. Why not any Why there'sroom for it, that's the thing.
Yeah, I don't understand why peopleclean all the stuff out of their car.
And my wife's that way. Sheshould have anything in her car that
she doesn't need right now, andI worried for her that she's gonna get
stuck somewhere and it's gonna be rainy, and the temperature is gonna drop down
and the wind's gonna start blowing andshe's gonna be uncomfortable. And I hate

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that, but I can't convince herotherwise. She thinks I just drive around
in a pig pen. But there'sstuff that I need in there. I
think I've cared on with me,you know, so many many, many,
many many years. It's just kindof like walk around and you know,
without your belt on, you know, or something missing and you want
it whatever it is it's missing.Yeah. Another thing is just a just

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to update on turtles. It's turtlesthe egg land season. Now. Why
they have to cross so far todo it, I don't know. But
they're all over the roads and everywhereI went this week, and I'm just
gonna ask everybody refrain from running overthem, give them some room, let

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them just let them go be.Ain't hurting nothing, They don't do an
even hurt damage to nothing. Uh. You know, I know people say,
well, you know redre Slidder.You know, he gets in my
bunnies from my fish. I know, that, but go to you.
I can take care of that anyway. Uh, just just watch them.
Um. And it's the heuristic tothe message. I have not seen a

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box turtle this year or so farwhat I called. I don't know that
I have either, honestly, justnow that you mentioned, you know.
Wow. The other thing is,I talked to you this week and in
our conversation, somehow we've got offon a instead of a rabbit trail,
we got off on a on atunneling mold or how are the mold wars

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go? Man? I told youI was gonna put the shot on them.
I had. If I had everypenny for every trap I was spent
in my life, I can valuein me and these both. But I
have finally found one that is easyand it's good. You gotta be careful
with it. You don't want youdollar or a kid around it because it

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can put some herd on you.Sure, but it's really easy to say.
Can I give you the just whenyou look it up, give you
the website? Yeah, it's it'sreally easy to remember. Easy mold trap
not coming. Yeah, I'll takea look and see what how scientific this
is. It's not that scientific.It's it's deadly. It's easy to set.

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No digging, no bathing, nonothing. Wow, anyway, I
explains that it works. I gotone last tribute question. I got a
mole. I got a mole tributequestion for how how far on the average
just for a mold to substain himselftravel or tunnel through the ground in a

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day? In a day on averagetwenty feet this thing. Wow, that's
a long time. That's a lotof digging. So what happens is you
think you got a whole bunch ofmods out there, Really you only got
two or three, and there they'vedone five thousand feet of comma. Really,

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I got one ask a questions.All right, cotton tail rabbit just
average maybe to the smaller sized cottontail rabbit. And I've been witnessing this
a lot, because I've got alot of them around here. How high
can't a cotton tail rabbit jump froma dead standstill? Oh boy, I

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don't know. I bet I'll giveit a couple of feet. I'm I'm
gaging this off of a pipe fencebecause they're wrapped behind them, and I
guess, I guess they're playing,But that cotton tail rabbit can do a
vertical jump about at least four anda half. Ee. Well, if
you look at the back legs onthat thing. The front legs are just

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for steering, the basic kind.They're like a dragster. Okay, they're
like a note. I'm trying tothink, like a kyod or something that's
kind of like a funny car,but a cotton tail or a jack rabbit
with that rear end they got andall the traction they're getting and all the
strength back there, the torque andthose back legs. Yeah, I can
see four feet. That's kind oflike how mountain lions can jump up like

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twelve fifteen feet just vertically from astandstill. Crazy. Well, I can
tell you this, if Trey Campbellwas a rabbit, he would be an
if one. That's about how fastthey can run. Wow. Man,
wow, I got these big dogsout here, and they can chase them

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all day. Yeah. That nevercatch a rabbit. Yeah, rabbits are
so quick. They're fun to watch, fun to wash. You have a
beautiful day. Yeah, thank you. Get out of here, you too,
Rick appreciate it, man, Well, I see it. Boy.
He's out there minding the moles andthe turtles and the rabbits out in nature.
He's out there, and there's that'sa good place to be. That's

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a good place to be. I'mstaring in disbelief, and how beautiful.
I can't tell the water color.I'm looking at the ninety first treat Pier
right now, live shot, livevideo, and I can't see the color
of the water. But I canassure you all it's very very calm,
very calm. I don't even havethe wind. I'll get the wind stuff

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up. Let me see, lookinga little ahead, kind of take a
sneak peek at the Texas temperatures.I'm not going to tell you anything at
them. I want it to bea level playing field when we go.
Yeah, okay, I know,I know now what the wind's doing on
the beach front and or what thetemperatures are doing state wide. Where am

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I? Where is my winds?Oh? There it is, I wind
surf. I suspect that I'm notgoing to be able to find ten miles
an hour wind within fifty one hundredmiles of here, and I'm pretty much
right. There's an eleven out deepinto the Gulf of Mexico. I would
say probably twenty twenty five miles outat one of the one of the structures
out there. Zero at Rice University, zero at Sugarland Airport. Pardon me,

(35:04):
I got the hiccups on the beachwhere Nobody cares about Sugarland Airport right
now unless you're a pilot and youactually have to go somewhere. How about
this zero Bay City zero rollover passformer what the area formerly known as rollover
Pass. Now it's just roll overthe highway to the other side of what

(35:27):
used to be rollover Pass. Twomiles an hour out of the south southwest
or west southwest, all the waydown to Corpus Christie, single digit wind,
and when you get down to BaffinBay, dead calm again. It
is a banner day to be onthe beach front. If that, if

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you're lucky enough to be headed thatway right now, just playing on,
staying a while, stay for atleast one good tide change three miles an
hour at Port of Ransas. That'sunheard of. Of. What a wonderful
day to be on the beach.I wish I could go. I got
a photograph yesterday from hang On.Let me put this away. I gotta

(36:14):
put that I gotta get my um. I got one more sip of coffee,
and I don't know whether I drinkit too fast or I drink it
too slow or whatever. And everynow and then it gives me the hiccups
in here, it draws me nuts. So Robert sends me a picture yesterday.
Oh I'm late again. Huh Oh, gosh, I'm mighty just constantly
peck peck pet. No, I'mnot going to tell the story now just

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because of you. I'm gonna makeeverybody wait to hear my cool story from
Robert down in Galveston. Halfway toGalveston, maybe two thirds spending on where
you live is the boatyard on FMfive eighteen there in Kima. If you
know where five eighteen is, it'sit's really not a long drive off of
the Gold Freeway either. To getto the boatyard, just take a left

(36:58):
on five eighteen. There's actually akind of a short cut to get in
there a little bit faster. Solet your if you have a GPS system
in your vehicle, let it takeyou there. And once you get there,
you will see lined up right thereon five eighteen a line of both
new and pre owned boats from whichyou can choose if you so desire,
you will find once you get inthere, you will find Hotsu outboards up

(37:22):
to two hundred and fifty horse powers. Brand new. We'll not brand new
anymore, but new enough that alot of people haven't even heard of them
yet. They've been around for along time, just not in this country,
and now they are making great inroadsinto this country and providing great reliable
power to anybody who wants to tackone to the back of their boat.

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The boatyard can help you with that, up to two hundred and fifty horsepower.
They do fiberglass work on site,They do all their service work on
site. They do it all themselves. They even build case gifts, which
are cool little boats that you couldgo down there and say, I want
one of those. What JT andhis crew are gonna ask you is,

(38:05):
okay, how do you want itconfigured inside? What do you want it
to look like inside? How areyou going to use it? And he
can help me. He even askme to hook him up with a guy
with somebody I knew who was areally crazy croppy fisherman, a devoted croppie
fisherman. And now they have plansthat they can put together for you.
If you want to use that boatto fish for croppy, shallow water,

(38:29):
redfish, whatever you want to dowith it, they can configure it so
that it is specifically designed for thatpurpose. They have trolling motors, they
have sound systems, they have lightbars, they have power poles, they
have all the accessories you can imagine, all the electronics all right there at
the boatyard. Eagles Boatyard five eighteenKima. Eagles Boatyard dot Com is a

(38:50):
website. Eagles Boatyard dot Com ninetyby Houston sports Fan on air and on
Facebook. Contact Back to the DougFight Show. Oh my heavens, what

(39:30):
have you found now, Adam,Oh, Peter and the Wolf. Yeah,
thank you, Classic Green. IGoogle classics. You know the very
opening of that sounds also like DingDong the Witches Dead from The Wizard of
Oz. Did you notice the similarities? I guess you're right. Do you
think one's derivative of the other.Yeah? Probably, you know, there

(39:51):
are just only there's only so manymusical notes that the human ear can hear,
So songs are just rearrangements of thesame notes. It's kind of like
work I had. Somebody asked meone time when I was at the newspaper,
still about all these columns we wrote, and how do you how do
you come up with all those newwords? There's no new words at all.

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I just rearrange the ones. Iknow. If I'm writing about geese,
throwing the word goose, write aboutshish, do the same thing,
throwing some fish. Okay, backto the story then, I so really
truly wanted to tell you before Adamrudely interrupted me. Not really, you
know better. You've been here longenough to know that. I and like

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I've always told you, we're notcuring anything here except maybe depression for people
who don't get to hear enough aboutfishing and hunting and camping and skiing insanely
and all that stuff. We arenot solving any world issue. We are
just we're just here to I wantto hear as many of your stories as

(40:55):
you end up hearing of mine,because they're all if they're outdoors related,
or if you just have something youneed to get off your chest. Oh,
speaking of a none outdoor story,this worth telling. Before I get
back to Robert and his picture hesent me yesterday, I was really glad

(41:15):
to see jose Al two. Theycome back into the lineup for the Astros
last night. I'm glad they wonthat game in grand fashion and in suspenseful
fashion. Has said they have cometo start doing with us all these late
inning heroics. I would much preferthat they just tack up about six or
eight in the first inning and thenlet the other guys try to catch them.

(41:37):
This whole one to one into thetop of the seventh is making me
aunty and probably giving me gray hairs. But they'll get back to clicking al
two bays back. Dubon's not going. They're not taking him off that line
up. There's no way they sendHensley down to sugar Land. And nothing

(41:58):
against David Hensley. He's a goodplayer, but if I had to pick
between him and Dubond, I wouldhave made the same decision they made.
So back to Robert and this photographhe sends me yesterday. There's a friend
of his who's down on the littlepier that I've actually gotten to fish one
time, and I would love toget back down there today, but I'm
going to that graduation party. Andso they're out there fishing, having a

(42:20):
blast, probably knowing Robert since hehad special friends coming down. He probably
broken bought some live bait, andI believe I remember seeing a cork in
the photograph. I may be wrong, but this guy, they're kind of
giggling, and you know, it'skind of a tongue in cheek photograph.
And they have caught. One ofthem has caught about an eight or nine

(42:43):
inch maybe ten inches long speckled trout. And so I send back a note
to him, a text reply thatsays, you know, neither one of
us would ever do this, becauseit would be wrong on so many levels,
including ill eagle. But if youwere to put a little hook through
that fish and throw him back outthere, you would be using one of

(43:07):
the best speckled trout baits for bigtrout that there ever was. And he
didn't realize that. I said,speckled trout are notoriously cannibalistic, which they
are, which is why you hearso little really about now they say down
at Lake Jackson, for example,c Center, Texas, they do grow

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and ultimately distribute in the bass system. Some speckled trout down there, But
the redfish are so much easier togrow, and they get along with each
other so well. The redfish aren'tinterested in gobbling up each other, not
nearly so much as speckled trout.It's kind of a joke down there that

(43:51):
would put a hundred that well morethan that. Let's say they put five
million speckled trout fry into a growout tank and then into outside one of
the grow out ponds, and oncethose things get about an inch inch and
a half long, any of themthat haven't gotten at least half that long
are gonna get eaten. They putthree million of them in a grow out

(44:13):
pond and saying out and distribute abouta half a million really fat ones because
they just flag gobble each other up. If you want to make every lure
in your tackle box better for catchingbig speckle trout, then meticulously bring them
out one by one and just putsharpie dots down the sides of them,

(44:34):
just random sharpie dots. Make themlook like a little baby speckle trout,
and they'll get gobbled up. Absolutely, they'll get gone. They'll be a
better lure at that point than theywere when they didn't have the spots.
No matter what color they are,unless it's a totally black lure, and
then I don't know what you canput white spots on them and make them
just infuriate the fish, I guessjust go with the total photographic negative version.

(44:59):
That might infuse them enough that theyjust eat it to get it out
of their face. Um Billy asks, what's the difference between a gopher and
a mole? I'm not sure.I've never looked it up. I'm sure
there are are basic down to genusand species differences, but I've never really

(45:21):
cared enough, frankly, to knowthe difference between a gopher and a mole.
If two of them popped out ofa hole, I guess the mole
is the one that was chosen forthe game whack a mole, because whack
a gopher just is too hard tospit out. There's too many hardshack a
gopher, whack a mole, that'swhat do you think? At them?

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The mole is the one that's likeblack and as a funky nose, and
it can't see its eyes, anda gophers like a rodent. Listen to
you, Holy cow, where didthat come from? Oh you're a garden
guy. Yeah, I've seen him. I don't try, Thank god,
I don't have that problem. Butno, I wouldn't want that problem either.
But let's not make a mountain outof a mole hill, shall we'

(46:08):
the dad joke of the day.Oh my well, yeah, you're gonna
hate this, but I'm gonna forceyou to go to break again. Oh
my lord, it's just just kickme when I'm down at him. Yeah,
okay, all right. On theway out, I will remind you
that at some point during the dayit probably would be a good time to

(46:29):
have yourself a cold adult beverage,if you like. And Bush Light's gonna
be out there, cold and smoothhas been the same great taste. It's
always had, even that same soundthat bush your sound that they want me
to tell you so much. Thatsounds kind of like the top right,
Does that sound even close? Ithink that's something like that. Yeah,

(46:51):
something like that. You're that ora cat's hissing at you. I prefer
to think of that as the soundof refreshment. That's what it sounds like.
It's an American style lagger, craftedto deliver the rewarding finish we've all
come to knowing love. So whetheryou're headed to the bay or the beach
front, or the lake or thewoods or wherever. When you get there,

(47:16):
when you get out from behind thewheel, crack one open today,
refreshing, cold and smooth bush light. Please enjoy responsibly. Okay, just
do that. All these people whoare out watching us and taking care of
us, especially as we come towardMemorial Day, make sure that you don't

(47:37):
drink and dry. Let's just notmess up there Memorial Day or hours.
They don't like working bad wrecks anymore than any of us would like being
in one, and certainly, Heavensforbid, let's not cost one. Okay,
enjoy responsibly. Twenty three bush bushLight Beer, Saint Louis, Missouri.
We'll be right back. Is theDoug Pike Show, brought to you

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by American Shooting Centers, guns Shootingan instruction since nineteen eighty nine, and
by taking Vegas dot Com or twentyyears helping sports investors make better, more
informed decisions. Now Here until Igot a showed up eight to two on
Sports Tug seven ninety. I almostgot out to go get coffee, but

(48:23):
I opted instead to stay here andchatter with Adam about stuff, interesting stuff.
I got a photograph from hang on. Did I misspell this word?
Oh? I did yes, okay, there we go. I'm gonna change
that and then the email will goout. I got a photograph from Billy,

(48:44):
and I'm really not sure what I'mlooking at. I can't figure it
out. No, it's from Keith. I'm sorry, not from Billy.
From Keith, he says, me, a photograph, and I can't tell
what I'm looking at. So Adamcleared up the difference between a gopher and
a mole. Thank you for that. I had no idea. Did you
did you look any of that up? Or is that just looks like so

(49:07):
you would beat me in that inthat category on Jeopardy, I get what
modes look like. Yeah, forfive hundred. Have you have you watched
any of the Jeopardy Master's Tournament whateverit is they're calling it now, they
got a tournament? Well, yeah, that's I mean, there's one guy
who is the most egotistical dude I'veever seen on a game show. And

(49:29):
to his credit, he's brilliant.He knows as mushle or more about the
world as anybody. He's been onMasterminds, and he's got He's at this
Master's tournament for Jeopardy, and hewas so far ahead in one of his
games that at the end in FinalJeopardy, his the question pick any question

(49:52):
you want, and his answer toas a total insult to the other two
players in the game that day,was don't you have anybody else? Or
something such as that. There's atotal total dismissal of the true, almost

(50:13):
equal brilliance of the other two players. They couldn't be slouches to have gotten
that far. This guy. Yeah, this guy's egos biggest, biggest Texas.
It really is. Let's go seewhat's going on. I got an
idea where he is. What's up, Tim? Hey, good morning,
Doug. How are you? Ohman, I'm not today. Hey,

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I've got a question for you.Have you ever written a an April Falls
story in any of your columns oranything? No? No, no,
Have you ever read any of thereally funny one? Yeah? I've read
a few of them, but I'veI've avoided that for a couple of reasons.

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There have been people, and inthe same in radio, there are
a lot of radio people who thinkit's funny to pull some sort of a
stunt on April Fool's Day. Buta lot of times those things backfire on
you and get you in trouble inour business. So I've just I've just
stepped aside and let other people stepin their own mess. Okay, Hey,

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the other thing this year, andI plan on completing it from I
guess from about anywhere two and ahalf three weeks that area. You know,
horns, horns are coming up onthe deer. Oh yeah, yeah
they are. And I walk thisyear to like kind of like document some

(51:45):
you know, some books that areregular and you know, track them from
you know, from April until youknow, say October. Yeah. That's
fun to do because you can seeit, You watch that development. You
realize how fast they grow those antlers. For one thing. Yeah, I
mean, I'm just by doing this, And and I didn't want to use

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game cameras because Dad's my Dad's gamecameras aren't that great. I'd rather just
use my own stuff, Okay,And you know, it's you know,
it's pretty neat to do and justjust to see and you know, in
a month's term, how much theyalready just oh yeah, you know,
it's like weeds growing. Anyway,that's a just a couple of questions for

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you. So you got any specificdeer you're looking at that look really good,
really young right now? Uh,yes, okay, so you're gonna
go. You were holding back onme, weren't you. Yeah, well,
well it is. You know,you know, our raging has been
so down down here, it's beenso at the right time. This year
is gonna be birds. There's gonnabe birds everywhere. I mean, in

(52:53):
the in the whale. How that'dbe great. Hunter. Now he'll come
through. They're already falling out.I haven't seen any down here. Okay,
now, you know, you know, well, you know, South
takesa's a brushed here. You know, you can't see him like in a
hill country. That's a good point, you know, Well it's half a
half of those hill country dude.They got to stand on a soapbox just

(53:15):
to be able to see him overthe grass, some of the smallest deer
on the planet. But you know, keep fire rings off of them,
will do good, yes, sir? All right man, all right,
yeah, thanks, I'll see buddy. Audios TOI. Yeah, that guy
gets around, he doesn't he Youknow, that's another guy who spends and

(53:36):
an inordinate amount of time out ofdoors. And I'm a teensy bit jealous
actually, because between raising getting myself. My son still likes being outdoors,
but his likes have migrated a littlebit more toward golf and baseball. And
I have no problem with that becauseI love both sports. But he's and

(53:58):
like I've said before, I thinkit's a little bit my own fault for
pushing him. Not pushing him,but pulling him into some early achievements that
maybe took some of the anticipation outof fishing for him. He still wants
to go. If I'm gonna makea trip somewhere. I've talked about going

(54:20):
in running down south to fish withCliff again this summer. Cliff Webb and
heasy, Yeah, Dad, I'llmake that trip with you, but just
some of the little local stuff thatI do. Run down to the beach,
run out to a couple of pondsI fish, and I don't know,
Dad, I think I'll hang aroundhere and that's okay, that's okay.
So I think he'll come back around. And I think summertime, when

(54:44):
the stress of school is off ofhim, I think that'll change things as
well. We'll all be we'll allbe a little more rested and a little
more civil to each other. Atthat point, he can be a teenager
sometimes and sometimes that's not fun tobe around. But by and large he's
a good kid and um I wouldn'ttrade him for a buffload to anybody else's

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seven one three two one two fiveseven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot
com. Speaking up Cliff, Italked to him about several things, and
I mentioned this earlier about hitting thatbeach front down there. If you've never
done it, I would encourage youto go, and you don't have to.

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You don't have to have any help. If you can fish up here,
If you fish the beach front uphere, you will not have any
trouble at all fishing the beach frontdown there around North Padreland. It's simple,
it's easy. The only the onlything you got to remember is that
you're not gonna have to wade outa hundred yards or even twenty yards if

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you weighed at high tide, Ifyou weighed twenty yards off the beach,
you're probably gonna be in at leastchest deep, if not neck deep water,
depending on how tall you are,might be over your head depending on
how tall you are. The bottomcontour is far more like an Ocean Coast

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than like this Gulf coast. TheUpper Gulf Coast has been shaped four thousands
of years by the flow of theMississippi River, and it is deposited silt
east and west of Louisiana for allthose years, so that the coast up
here off the upper coast of Texasand all the way over to the Panhandle

(56:38):
of Florida. Almost to there,it's at least into like around Gulf shores
and whatnot in Alabama, pretty shallowwalk Mississippi. And you go to the
state of Mississippi and start way now, and you can get out one hundred
and fifty yards and be in waistedeep water still in a lot of places.
I did that once. I watchedsome guys way out fishing once I

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was over there for some reason ofbillfish tournament or something I don't remember,
around out of Biloxi, and I'msitting in the hotel one morning on the
beach front, and I'm watching theseguys wade fishing. Well, it looks
like a lot of fun. Wehad an off day or something from a
tournament, or maybe we've gotten thereearly. In any event, I watched

(57:20):
them start waiting out and they keepwaiting and waiting, and if they were
even here on the Galveston coast,they would have been in water over their
heads and they barely had gotten theirbelts wet at that point. It was
just a totally different scenario, totallyopposite down there around Corpus, totally opposite.
If you're on the east coast ofFlorida, where you start walking off

(57:44):
the beach into the water, it'sgonna get deep fast. That first gut
is significant. May talk about thata little bit more. And it's so
easy to figure out when you're downthere compared up here. That's all you're
looking for, all the same things. You just don't have to You don't
have to get real wet to enjoythe fishing. On the way out.
Belleville Meat Market double feature on theirsausage trium before you buy thems this week

(58:09):
cheddar cheese, Pecon smoke sausage andor the double black pepper. So that's
fast, four or five times peconsmoke sausage. Try them before you buy
them. One hand on the toothpick, one hand on the wallet. Like
I've always told you, you're gonnawant it. You know you are.
It's kind of just an exercise that'sunnecessary because you can just look at that

(58:32):
stuff, and especially that cheddar cheesepecon smoke sausage. You look at that
and you see the cheese and yousee the sausage, and it okay,
Just give me a couple of poundsof that, Give me a few links,
big special eighty five percent lean groundb three fifty nine a pound bulk
priced wrapped anyway you like. Andthey've still got those homemade hot dogs and
pulled pork over in the barbecue sectionwhere you can serve your well, not

(58:54):
you can't serve yourself, but youcan get yourself a nice lunch. And
there are plenty of options down therefor those lunches. Custom processing on pigs
and calves all year long. Youorder a half calf or a hind quarter,
they will process it any way youlike. And of course the wild
game processing year round, that's justpart of Belleville's opportunity is one of the

(59:20):
many. They've got giant handmade Tomli's. They've got appetizers, cheese, a
spices, beef, chicken, andport cut however you like, all of
those delicious things right there in themiddle of the little town of Belleville,
about fifteen minutes north of Sealy,fifteen minutes south of Hempstead on Highway thirty
six. If you can't get downthere, okay, if you can,
you can go out and have lunchwhile they're putting together the order you want

(59:44):
to take home. If you can'tget online, pretty much, anything short
of a half a cow, they'llsend right to your front door, just
as you like it. Belleville Meatmarketdot Com is a website, Belleville Meatmarket
dot Com. This is the DougPike show walk in. Oh, this
makes you want to hollow. Yehright there in the middle, right at

(01:00:07):
the end of that line. Yea, even back scooting along now, who
is that Ernest Tub? Oh that'sholy cow. Yeah, that goes way
back, man. That would beearly seventies, mid seventies. Maybe it's
nineteen forty one. Oh my gosh, I wasn't even close. I'm not

(01:00:29):
even sure Ernest Tubs was still alivenedforty one. Okay, you had me
on that one for sure. Sevenone three, it's nineteen eighty seven.
Oh God, don't do that,killing me small thing. No, you
did not. You did it onpurpose. That's Okay, no, that's
kind of funny, all right.So there is a scam going around,

(01:00:50):
and I just I'm offering this upto anybody and everybody who may not have
heard about it yet, because it'sit's not brand new. It's been around,
and I've actually gotten these messages acouple of times on Facebook Messenger,
and all it is is a phishingscam that phi shi ng phishing scam to

(01:01:12):
steal your info. You're gonna geta message probably at some point if you
deal with social media at all,that says, look, who died in
an accident? I think you knowhim? So sorry. That is anything
like that that is just so genericand want you to click on something that

(01:01:37):
you should just just kill it outimmediately and restart your computer and just run
for the hills. What a mess? What an absolute message? The whole
a lot of this AI stuff Iwrote it. I just wrote a column
for Texas Fishing Game about AI andhow it's good in some ways potentially for

(01:02:01):
outdoors people, and yet potentially alsojust as bad as it could be good,
all kinds of things that could beused in AI. As tournament fishing
grows and incorporates more video evidence ofcatches as just the whole thing is really

(01:02:25):
kind of it's fascinating on one end, and it's there's a lot of interesting
stuff in there. For example,there's an app now that uses artificial intelligence
to predict, to forecast the potentialfor shark bites around the world. Okay,

(01:02:47):
they have taken somebody took the timeto dig up one hundred years of
shark bites around the world when whereI don't know how much information they plugged
in with tides and seasons and whatnot, time of year, so it would

(01:03:08):
probably be the date, the typeof shark, the size of the shark,
and the outcome whether it was justa nip or a fatality. And
so now you can get on thisapp and I don't even remember the name
of it. Now I'm not evengonna use it. There's no way I
would waste my time with that.Honestly, the odds if I remember correctly

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from the story, the odds ofbeing bitten by a shark or something like
one in thirty seven million people whoare actually in the water swimming or waiting
or whatever. So you have tobe that one in thirty seven million,
and you don't want to be that. But if you just are smart about
your interaction in the water with everythingthat swims in there, you'd probably save

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yourself from being bitten. And theodds, once again are just overwhelmingly against
its happening anyway. I would notlet an app if it showed a red
marker on the day I wanted togo to the beach at Corpus Christi or
up here or anywhere else around theworld, I would not let that keep

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me out of the water. Imight put it in the back of my
head and that be a little morecareful today. Don't go out as far
dot go splash around a lot,whatever. But if it's time to go
surfing, if it's time to gofishing or whatever, diving, whatever reason
there is for me to be inthe water, I'm not gonna let an
app run me out because of somethingthat happened a hundred years ago. It

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just makes no sense to me tothe outdoors. It's it's more dangerous to
drive to the beach than it isto go surfing or fishing at the beach.
That's what it comes down to.The the risk. Risk exists everywhere.
It exists in your house. There'sa one in something chance that something

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bad could happened to you every stepyou take. But the overwhelming odds say
that if you're just aware and careful, you're gonna be okay. And I
prefer to live my life that wayrather than to live scared of every one
in a million, one in thirtyseven million chance that shark might bite me.
It's cool, the technology is fascinating, and it has all kinds of

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potential application for good. If it'sif this keeps somebody from going in the
water, and they convinced themselves thatif they had gone in the water that
day, they might have seen ashark or gotten bitten by a shark,
so they didn't get in the waterthat day, and then tomorrow it greens
up and they go on and getin the water. Then good for them.
But I'm not going to live mylife based on computer models and predictions.

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If it predicts it, it's goingto be beautiful water to the beach
and a light incoming, well know, a strong incoming. I want a
strong incoming tide right at starting aboutan hour before sunrise and then continuing for
about three hours after that. I'lltake that. I'll take that information and

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use it to my benefit. Let'ssee what David's got going on here.
What about those live acting, Ohmy gosh, live acting minno lures you
find advertised on social media. Here'sthe way I feel about all that stuff.
If you've got to put a batteryin your lure, then you might

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as well just fish with live baitfor starters, and I guess they're legal.
I can't imagine any reason that alure with a battery and it wouldn't
be legal. I don't know forsure, but I think the game warden
would just kind of snicker if yougot conned into buying one of those.
There's a reason anytime you see somethingthat says only advertised on TV, there's

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a reason for that. There's areason it's not in Great Tackle stores because
Great Tackle stores only offered great lures, only offered great rods and reels,
great clothing, all that stuff.So if you're watching late night TV somewhere

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on the Outdoors channel or whatever,and there's this advertisement, maybe even be
a block program for some special lurethat's only available on TV, just remember
there's a reason that no wholesaler wouldcarry it and offer it up to its
retailers. Hey, Kevin, what'sup man? Hey Doug, how you

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doing this? I'm fine. I'vebeen up on a couple of different soap
boxes, but I'll be all right. I'm getting my coffee flowing through me
now. I've been listening to them. The luck always, thank you.
Yeah, I'll set you that picturethis morning of Aaron with that trout from
the beach. Oh my gosh.Yeah, holy cow. And you were
talking about the chair being bit bya shark. Yeah, he's a young
man that a little over fifteen yearsago was bit by a bullshark on on

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Brian Beach. Go to Brian Beachand let go turn right like you're going
to go to the mouth. Yeah. It used to be an old shrimp
boat skeleton that was out absolutely rememberthat. And he was fishing r up
there and got bit by the shark. He was out there with his uncle
and dad. Dang um. Hehad just watched a shark week and had
bit him in the leg and hehid it with his arm um across the

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nose and whenever he did, hadlet go of his leg and got his
arm and he almost almost black manlost his arm, but he made a
full recovery. Good, good,little fisherman. Now, he wished quite
a few of the tournaments that I'veweighed yesterday. Yeah, I was a
heck of a fish he caught yesterday. Holy cow. Oh yeah, he
can't waiting waiting, yester. Yeah, that's so fun in the surf.

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Oh oh yeah, I'm wishing Iwasn't working. Well that makes two us.
Yeah, but I just want touchbase with you about appreciate it.
Yeah, I got the tournament.I'm working this afternoon for Greg Bird Memorial.
Nice one that races proceeds for theOperation Canine Rescue where they rehabilitate,

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rehabilitate to military dogs outstanding. Thankyou for helping them. Well you have
a great weekend, Yes, sir, you too, paired up? Get
thank you, get down there gettingthe water now, I'm working on it,
believe me. Thanks all right,let me check that out. Missy,
my friend Missy from here at workhas um sent me a video from

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Pirates Beach in which she kind ofscans the beach and shows eight people fishing.
Eight people surf fishing right there atPirates Beach, and I would suspect
that some of the more popular areasthere probably twice as many people lined up.
Surf side's probably got a bunch ofpeople in the water by now,

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and it's just gonna it's gonna bea pretty day for that. The weather
that was threatening earlier, I'm gonnajust say it's moved out. Let me
get back to this real quick.I know, Adam, I know,
don't don't click me. I'm justlooking. I want to look at this
radar and see which way this stuffis going. Yeah, basically, the

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rain that was kind of spooking peopleearlier is moving offshore and falling apart as
we speak, and I don't it'snot gonna that chunk at least isn't going
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Houston sports online at sports set dotcom. Back back to the Doug Fike
show. Dam and I are thinkingabout what we would do if we came
into huge money, and a bigpart of that involves buying a big chunk
of land and then whatever you wantto do, it's your land. Seven

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one three two one two five sevenninety Email me dougpiket iHeartMedia dot com.
Where did I want to go?I got that done. I got that
very quick. A quick just personalsafety note if you do go down there
to the Corpus area and fished atbeachfront and get out there very very early,
especially before the lights up. Good, Just shuffle your feet, will

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you. The last time I wentdown there and fished with Cliff, he
just very casually said, oh,yeah, they're there's been some little sting
rays up here right on the beachfront. So I just kind of watch
where you walk. And it wasstill so dark that we couldn't see the
bottom, my son and I aswe walked through there and try to find
our way to more and more trout, and then the sun finally came up

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and it was man, it waslike trying to a There were a lot
of them, these those little nasty, little dinner plate sized sting rays.
That will just zap you like ahypodermic needle and then swim off. They
were everywhere. I don't know ifthey're everywhere this year, but if I

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go back, that will. WhenI go back down there, I am
going to act as if they areeverywhere until two hours of daylight proves me
different, shows me something that reassuresme I'm not going to step on one
if I make a bad move.That's just a nasty way to end a
trip. There's nothing you can doit my hooks. Almost every hook I

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use now I mashed the barb downflat. I just don't want to have
a day ruined by having to stopfishing and drive myself or my son or
anybody else to an emergency clinic oran emergency room to get a hook removed
from a face or an arm ora leg or whatever. But a stingray

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I can't remove all of their barbs. Just keep that in mind when you're
running down the beach. I've toldthe story before, but I was running
down a beach on the Chandeloor Islandsonce, trying to catch up with a
school of Spanish mackerel and just havingthe time of my life. Animal blast
down there. A bunch of guyshad gone down there together a media group.
We all knew each other. Wewere all having fun. And one

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of the guys, the guy Iwas fishing with that day, we had
decided to park our boat on theback side of the island and walk across
the sand to the front side andfish the surf. And it was lights
out. We were having a blast. We were catching a lot of trout.
There were big Spanish mackerel pushing throughthere right then. And I'm running
down the beach and there's this littletidle pool and I'm running through that tidle

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pool in about six inches of water, splashing away, having a blast,
trying to catch up with that schoollike a little kid in a rain puddle.
And I'm going I'm running full tiltthrough there, and my foot lifts
off, My left foot lifts offjust as my right foot pushes me forward,
and I realized that when that footcomes down, if it comes down
where I'm aimed right then it's gonnaland on a little dinner plate sized stingray.

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And I flashed back to being avery little kid and playing hopscotch and
managed to straddle that thing when Ilanded, scared the heck out of the
stingray. It took off and kindof scared me pretty good too. At
least I didn't land on top ofthat. That would have brought that entire

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trip to a grinding halt. That'slike slipping on an angry with a banana
peel. Oh man, oh Idid that? Do you remember me?
Did I tell you that about probablythree months ago? Now? You slipped
on a banana peel. I literallyslipped on a banana peel in the concrete
that polished concrete garage we have here, the parking garage. I get out

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of my car. It's early morning. I've just had my breakfast, part
of which was a banana, andI've got a banana. I've got a
an energy bar wrapper, and acouple of other things I'm trying to throw
up, probably an empty water bottleor something that I'm trying and got in
my left hand trying to throw away. I've got my right hand carrying my

(01:16:41):
keys and my phone because I don'tlike to put the trash in the same
hand as the phone of the keysbecause I might throw them away. And
I'm walking along and for some reasonI moved my left hand just so,
and that banana peel fell out ofmy hand and I watched it fall to
the ground right as my left footcovered it and hit it. And I

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went down like that, just straightto the ground, and I thought,
on the way down, I'm thinking, oh, here goes a hip.
I'm an old dude. This isn'tgonna work out well at all. And
I'm flashing back to the research I'vedone and the stories I've heard from doctors
on fifty plus about how if somebodymy age or any older actually breaks a

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hip, they usually don't last butabout two years more. Thinking I'm too
young. I got way more thantwo years in me. My hip better
not be broken. And fortunately Ilanded squarely on my backside, just went
down in a heap. Man.I did. I know better than to
slam my wrist down and snap themwhen I fall. I try to fall

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on a forearm, which is alittle bit more stable landing platform, and
I did and just kind of stoodup, dusting myself off, and walked
on into work and like nothing hadever happened. But yes, the long
story, short version is I slippedon a banana peel. Literally, I

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thought that was something you only sawin cartoons. But it's not. It's
and believe me, a banana peelon polished concrete. It's like ice skates.
Man, you're going down. Ifyou would strap, you should strap
two bananas to the bottoms of yourfeet and take off running on some of
that that rough concrete and then hitthe smooth stuff with both feet flat.

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You'd skid thirty yards. It's nuts. Man, Don't ever do that.
I'll just that's a little pro tipfor you, Adam, young guy,
don't ever step on a banana peelon polished concrete. Oh my god,
I've seen enough Looney tunes. Yeah, yeah, you think, and believe
me. Ever since that day,I've been just a little extra careful,

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just holding on a little bit tighterthan those banana peles. Ate one almost
every morning before work, and Ijust I hang on pretty tight and I
hold them out just a little bitmore to the side than I did that
day. Seven one two one twofive seven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia
dot com. I'm gonna put myselfback on schedule and go straight to this
break here. When we get back, we will continue this conversation about the

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great out of doors, and thenwe're gonna start talking a little bit in
the nine o'clock hour about what's goingon at the PGA Championship. They are
they are slogging. Oh my gosh, cut line five overpar rainy nasty,
thick rough. It's a mess upthere. We'll see how all that works

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out for him. More of theDoug Pike Show coming up each Are you
ready? Listen online at sportsnet dotcom Now more Doug Pike. God,
that is an old one right there. That's at least fifties. I think
nineteen fifty. There you go.I'm not so bad at it. And
I recognize it because a friend ofmine growing up, a high school friend

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of mine, Jimmy Hammond. Hisdad was a country music fan, and
so every time we were over athis house, there was always country music
playing. And I just started torecognize those songs the more I heard them,
and it stuck with me. Iguess that the music will do that.

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That's why so many educators now usedmusic to teach lessons. What was
when you were growing up? Whatwas it on Channel eight that you listened
to? Schoolhouse rock? That's itwere you are you familiar with that?
Maybe when my dad was growing up. Yeah, I stop it, stop

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it. Yeah, you had yourown little laptop probably when you were six,
didn't you. Oh I didn't havea laptop, but we had some
different songs. I guess they didplay that in school sometimes. Yea.
Our general, my generation grew upwhen the four or function calculator was a
big deal. For function calculator.I got one for my birthday when I

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was probably like sixteen or seventeen,and my parents paid forty bucks for the
thing. Forty bucks for a fourjust add, subtract, multiplying, divide
probably seven digits, that was it. It was some and a big,

(01:21:27):
old hulking thing to carry that muchcomputing power, you know who, big
deal. We'd have the Ti Inspire, which is like a fancy graphing calculator.
Oh my signed co sign all thatgood stuff and oh yeah, all
that stuff you never used. Youonly use it to add and subtract,
face it really, you know,and maybe multiply on the good day.

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Oh my gosh. I just lookedup at the beach front down there at
the Pleasure Pier and as the oldFlagship hotel, I remembered that right after
I said I couldn't remember it,and didn't get back around to telling you
that I remembered it. But Ihave now, and it looks gorgeous.
It really does. Man, thatGulf of Mexico. It's so rare that

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it looks that pretty. I stillthere's no sun on it. It looks
still quite cloudy down there, whichis a shame, because I do think
the water looks pretty good, andI don't I haven't even checked the tide.
I don't want to know because Ican't go down here this afternoon.
And if I were to look atthe tide schedule and see that there was
a low tide and about maybe fiveor six this evening, and then a

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high tide, or maybe four orfive the low tide, and then an
incoming tide all the way up todark, I would not be able to
resist going down there and jumping inthe water somewhere. I couldn't make the
daylight stuff because I here, Iam at work, and I'll be back
here tomorrow morning. But man,wouldn't it be nice? Wouldn't it be

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nice? Seven one three two,one two five. I'm a ninety email
and we Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I get all kinds of goofy emails.
I'm so glad that all of yousend me interesting, rewarding, satisfying,
inspiring emails on the weekends and sometimesduring the week too, But the

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ones I get on the weekend aregreat, Keith asked me. He said,
I was wondering if I'm not I'mnot giving up a secret here,
Keith, because every most people alreadyknow about this, and the ones who
don't probably won't go. They'll justgo to their own favorite spots anyway.
But he was wondering about going downthe beach at Quintana, way past that

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old fishing pier and just basically awayfrom the jetty way down there. He's
wondering if that's any good. Well, yeah, absolutely it is. A
couple of friends of mine and Iused to go down there routinely. Joe
Doggan and I made a great tripdown there. That was the first time
I'm flashing back to that trip.We caught some pretty good trout and it
was the first time that either heor I had seen an alligator in the

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surf. We'd had. I'm suresome flooding episode that was running fresh water
and logs and everything else, justflushing them right down into the Gulf of
Mexico. And that alligator somehow gotcaught up in all that. And we're
standing out there wade fishing in waistedeep water, and Joe turns to me

(01:24:26):
and says, what's that? Andhis eyes wouldn't believe what he was seeing?
And I looked and I registered itimmediately, just as he had.
I'm sure that sure looks like analligator, and we're both looking at each
other, going but it can't be. We're standing in the Gulf of Mexico.
There aren't he alligators in the Gulfof Mexico. But indeed it was,

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and it was just cruising down thebeach front, probably about a six
seven footer, not a particularly bigalligator, but a big enough one that
if it had submerged and swam upto us, it could have made a
mess of one of our legs.And so we just politely backed out of
there for a few minutes and lethim pass. And I'm sure he was

(01:25:12):
frustrated and lost and wanted out ofthere just as much as we wanted him
out of there. But he wason his own. We weren't going to
draw him a map and walking back. And since then I've seen I bet
I've seen three or four pictures.This was probably a good twenty years ago,
bear in mind, and since thenI've had seen at least a couple

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of pictures of alligators down along thebeach front, always next to a next
to a river mouth. To imaginethat every now and then you'll see a
big alligator up in the bay wherethey've kind of come out of the marshes
and found their way to the bayand thought there's some pretty easy food over
here. But mostly they're freshwater,freshwater things. Seven one three two one

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two five seven ninety. I'm gladI don't live well, No, I'm
never gonna say I'm glad I don'tlive in South Florida, because the fishing
down there is just so good.However, I saw a picture the other
day from one of the golf coursesdown there that showed a golf ball resting
on the the almost right between justa little bit right between from right between

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the eyes, just a little waysaft of right between the eyes, on
what appears to be at least tenfeet maybe twelve of what actually is a
crocodile, a freshwater crocodile down there. And then there's another one in the
water that's not quite as big butjust facing it and its mouth is open

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as if to be laughing. Heyman, can you do you know what's
on your head right now? Andsomebody I guarantee it didn't go over there
and try to retrieve that golf ball. Just you're just gonna have to walk
away from that one. But yeah, this animal on the lake shore along
a golf course somewhere. And Idid some research and reading and there are

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significant numbers of freshwater crocodiles down thereat one species, and a lot of
this stuff originates from the pet tradeunfortunately, like so many things do,
so many invasive species do. AndI'm guessing those crocodiles probably something to do
with the pet trade. It's possiblethat they wound up there otherwise. Well,

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one way or the other. That'sa big animal, and that a
crocodile scares me a little bit morethan an alligator. We're a little bit
more aggressive tend to be anyway.The saltwater ones certainly are like the ones
down in Australia, but I'm notone hundred percent sure on the freshwater ones,
So I don't know. Maybe it'sokay. Maybe it's okay to play
golf for crocodiles. I've got analligator at Blackhawk Golf Club that follows me

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around now, and he hangs outin the same area, and he doesn't
if if I get in the golfcart and move three hundred yards, he
doesn't pop up down there, butas I walk up and down the bank,
it kind of shadows me. Iguess he thinks I might throw him
a fish. Maybe somebody has donethat down there, But I'll never do
that with alligators. I will neverfeed an alligator deliberately because then it's gonna

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come to associate me with food,and someday when it's real hungry and I'm
not catching any fish, it mightjust say, you know, you look
pretty good too. And I kindof like I talked on fifty plus about
the importance of self defense and howI'm too old to win many fist fights,
I may not be able to outrunan alligator anymore. I'm not sure

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it was a time when I wouldn'thave been I wouldn't have hesitated to get
real close to one, and withone hundred percent confidence that I could outrun
it if I had to. Andnow, unless we can just call time
out and give me maybe fifteen minutesto stretch and and get the kinks worn
out, I'd probably be a goner. Let's just face it. I just

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find my rod and reel just sittingon the bank. That alligator he's bothersome
too. He gets just close enoughto make me have to pay attention to
him and not to my fishing,and he's caused me to miss several really
good solid bites. He actually thatalligator. I hooked a fish four feet

(01:29:20):
off his nose. Once I hookeda bass a little about a pound pound
and a half bass comes up,eats a spinner bait four feet off his
nose, and he never moved.He's a pretty cool cookie, he is.
All right, let's go ahead andget a break on time. How
about that, Adam. We cando that just for giggles. And you
know what, we don't even Idon't have to do anything here do it.

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I'm just gonna go straight to thebreak that way and leave us more
time to talk about the PGA Championshipand about some brand new person who is
oh so excited. Came to methis week here at the office and said,
I want to learn how to playgolf? What do I do?
And I think I steered her ina really good direction and I'll tell you
more about that when we come back. We'll take a little break here,

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we'll be right back the Doug PikeShow on Sports Talk seven ninety. This
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and by taking Vegas dot com ortwenty years helping sports investors make better,
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(01:30:50):
I um so right as we goto break, I looked down at my
phone and it's ringing. I thought, who's calling me during the show,
and it was Cliff Webb. AndI don't know how many people I would
have answered that phone for when Icould use a fresh cup of coffee.
There's all kinds of things that Iwas gonna do during this break, but
I wanted to talk to Cliff because, like I said, I've found out

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that it's pretty much on in thesurf so I pick up the phone and
he's on it immediately. You arenot gonna believe what's going on down here.
I told you it was about tostart off, and it has.
Just as soon as that wind laidand the surf settled, those fish just
jump to action. And they're actuallybecause they've got some big event down there.

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He couldn't even get near Packery channelany of that. There's some major
race or something down there, Idon't know. And then there's a tournament
down there, a bunch of onthe bay. There's a bunch of the
I think it's called Babes on theBay or something like that, a women's
fishing tournament that has I think arecord number of entrants. Saw Oh,

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he's just kind of having a laidback, not gonna go fish try and
not a charter day. And hegoes and checks the beach front and a
couple of old places that were wellaway from the crowd and anybody who's fished
down there a long time. Butit's it's a traditional spot, but it's

(01:32:20):
not that anymore. It used tobe a mainstay down there. In any
event, if you can't figure itout, maybe email me and I'll tell
you where it was, but Idon't want to mess it up because I'm
gonna go down there probably in thenext week or so. Adam, actually
maybe for like next weekend, beprepared for the best off. There's a

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possibility, there's a good possibility.After what I just heard about how many
fish are in that surf and whatsize they are, it's gonna be hard
for me not to go down there. And I want to get down there
before school completely lets out all overthe state and it gets inundated with people
who have been bottled up and can'twait to get down there. Like I
am. I try. I wantto try to beat that crowd as best

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I can. And what he wastelling me, it was just fantastic news
that surf that all of us havekind of been all of us who know
it at least have been waiting forit to pop open. Just popped.
And big fish, lots of bigfish. There's a significant amount of sargassm
weed in the surf right now,so you're gonna have to fish around that.

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And he was kind of laughing.He said, yeah, you can
only probably get about a ten ortwelve foot crank before it hits the weeds.
And then he paused. He said, but you only have to move
the lure about two feet before itgets hit. It's like, okay,
I can work with that. Sevenone three two one two five seven ninety.
Email on me Dugpike at iHeartMedia dotcom. Let me get my glasses
back on. Take a look atthese emails, and we're okay here,

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We're okay here. Don't let meforget Adam. I'll tell you what we'll
do as we go into this nextbreak. We'll get somebody on the line.
Not now, but we'll get somebodyon the line to play the Texas
Temperature game. And I want tomake sure we get that done on a
Saturday every week. And already we'rein the nine o'clock hour somehow, So
as we go to the break,remind me to give the phone number and

(01:34:12):
we'll get somebody lined up who wantsa nice little foursome of golf for himself
or herself and three others up thereat either River Plantation or well, let's
just do River Plantation today. That'dbe fun. That's a great track.
I like that one. Maybe you'reokhurst if anybody wants to go there,
And what I'll do is I'm gonnago back into we have we have access

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to rounds both at timber Creek andblack or Black Horse, and so what
I might do is also take alook at those and see if I can't
get a couple of those foursomes allocatedto this game, so that there we
gives everybody an option, no matterwhat part of town there, and to
go play a wonderful golf course onme. If they can beat you,

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Adam at this fantastic Texas temperature game, come close enough close yeah, the
close enough. Yeah, we haveto we have to write that down.
We have so many rules now wherethere's different ways to win there. It's
like a scratch off ticket. Yeah, only you win more often. I
think only one person's actually won,No, I know we've had like three

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well actually actually beat you. Yeahout right, straight up. Yeah,
that's right. Yeah, only one. Everybody else had to be kind of
got a participation trophy. But that'sokay. It's still golf, all right.
The PGA Championship ongoing out there inwell up there in New York and
okill conditions pretty rotten. Actually,it's been rainy, it's been nasty.

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I think they're still kicking it aroundup there. Let me see if I
don't even know if anybody's gone outyet. No, not yet. Well,
it's only that's ten o'clock up there. It's ten o'clock up there,
so they'll be headed out. Ohno, here's some activity right here.
Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry.I hadn't looked this morning, and I
apologize for that. But there theyare. The farthest anybody has gotten is

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through seven holes that would be MarkCovered and Rikuya Hoshino and maybe one or
two more and then but that's thet Let's see their t seventies fours and
seventy six players made the cut,which was at plus five. This is
like a US Open, the waythe course is playing. Plus five makes

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the cut, and a lot ofguys got in by the hair of their
chinny chin chin. Scottie Scheffler onthe other side with a five at minus
five, along with Corey Connors andVictor Hovland. Those three don't go out
until one. Well, Hoblin goesout at one forty with Justin Sue,
but Scheffler and Connors go out atone fifty, and they are they've positioned

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themselves on what's obviously a very difficulttrack to have a pretty good shot at
running away from this bunch. Idon't know that they'll run away. He
got kept cut to Justin Rose.You can never kind of count that guy
out. He's been playing pretty goodgolf lately. He shows up on leaderboards

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kind of sneaky. He hadn't hehadn't actually rung the bell yet, but
he's he's hanging onto the string andtrying to ring it. Who else Justin
Sue Bryson, d Shambo, threehundred parts. He's sporting a little goatee
now a new look for him,and he's got his own He's got his
own clothing line now. I sawit on his cap, has a BD

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on it and it kind of looksTiger Woodsie in the logo. If you
will kept Because at two Callum Tearnsat two, Taylor Pendrith, Justin Rose
at one, Michael Block. Isaw him interviewed yesterday. He's kind of
he's not exactly a household name him, but he's a good player and clearly
at even par when the lead inthis thing is only five under through two

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rounds. Steady Eddie Guys seventy seventytwo days. Watch him through today and
just see how he manages himself.He is thrilled to death to be where
he is, but he's also verycalm. He doesn't seem nervous at all
to be in the company of allthese guys. And he talked about how
he'd finally gotten his confidence back andwas he said, he's not scared by

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anybody out there. Let's see ifthat holds up today. If the nerves
are gonna get him, I suspectit will be today. And if he
can get through today and maybe climba couple of rungs up the ladder,
he might have a shot at ittomorrow. If today we're Sunday, I
didn't he was sitting there five shotsback, with his little heavyweight tournament experiences

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he's gotten, I wouldn't feel thesame. But with two rounds left,
if he can get through today andmake a move up that leaderboard one or
two notches, he could have ashot tomorrow. I don't see him winning,
but who knows seven one three,two, one two five seven ninety.
Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Let me get to my little

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golf notes that I took guests yesterdayafternoon. I wanted to talk about this
morning and one of the I mentionedearlier we're gonna talk about somebody new to
golf. Well, that brand newperson comes to my desk the other day
and she says, hey, Doug, I went and over to Memorial and
bought a golf glove yesterday. AndI'm thinking, oh, okay, it's

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Tessa from over on the Rod RyanShow on the bus. She's standing there
at my desk. It's a big, big smile on her face. Yeah.
I want to get into golf.What do I do? How much
do I need to spend on clothes? Where do I need to go?
All this on and on and on. So I said, Okay, pump
the breaks a little bit. Let'stalk about this. You're brand new to
golf, right, yes, Wheredo I get my clubs? Slow down?

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First of all, I want youto know that you don't need to
spend a lot of money on clubs. I want you I don't want you
to go someplace and buy a usedset of really high tech top line clubs.
I want you to go and buya set of beginners clubs at one
of the Bild stores that sell themaround here, and I want you to

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spend the rest of that money inlessons. And so I gave her Glenn
Children's number over at Memorial and she'scontacted him. I don't know if he's
yet contacted her, but I wanther to go over there, and she
lives very closely there. That's whyI suggested Glenn. He's a great instructor
and he's right there in her backyard. I want her to go over there

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and let him walk her into thegame rather than her try to just go
over there with a brand new bagof clubs and just start swinging at golf
balls randomly. That's the best adviceI've given in a lot of years,
and I've given it a thousand times, is take whatever money you've got to
invest early in golf, and spendabout twenty percent of it, or maybe

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twenty five spending on what you goton clubs, and spend the other seventy
five percent on getting a good foundationwith instruction. Doesn't have to be a
high end instructor, although that certainlyhelps. The lessons can be brutally expensive,
but you've got to think of golf. If you're brand new to golf,
you've got to think of those lessonsif you really want to get good

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at the game. Eventually, Ithink I'm like, you're making a decision
on who's gonna do your surgery onyour eyes, or who's gonna who's gonna
do your heart surgery, or whoyou're gonna hire for legal help if somebody's
coming after you in your business.You want an okay surgeon or you want
the best. You want an okaylawyer, or you want the best.

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So get as much exposure to agood qualified instructor as you can, and
don't don't be like, oh man, is it time again? Seven one
three two one, Oh yeah,that's right. We're gonna play Texas Temperature
Game when we come back. Sevenone three two one two five seven ninety
email me dug, Well, nevermind, you can't email me and play

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the game. Seven one three twoone two five seven ninety will play the
Texas Temperature Game when we get back, And then I'll get back to the
advice I gave Tessa on getting intogolf because it is Although it is a
very addictive game if you're competitive likeme, it can also be just a
very fun game to play until you'rejust too old walk however long that is.

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Speaking of golf, Timber Creek GolfClub down there on the golf well
off the golf Freeway about three fourmiles west of it on FM twenty three
fifty one in Friendswood. Twenty sevenholes, all of them very fun to
play, all of them, verygood. All of them you'll find if
you look closely enough and know whatyou're looking for, you can probably find
ballmarks I've made in tree trunks allthe way around that course over the course

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of probably got the better part ofthirty years now. I bet it is
been down there. Great place togo play golf, easy to get to,
a lot of fun. They canhandle a big tournament if you need
to do that, and raise abunch of money. Great teaching staff over
there, run by a guy namedDavid Pilsner. I've known the GM down
there for a very long time.Mike, Mike Griswold. If you run

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into him in there, tell himI said, hello, super nice guy.
He and his entire staff want nothingmore than for you to have a
great time. All the way aroundthat golf course. There's going to be
somebody making sure you stay fed andwatered as it gets hotter. There's somebody
waiting in the grill to cook youup something nice when you come in.
There are instructors over there in Pilsner'splace. Everybody wants to make sure you

(01:43:51):
have a good time, and youwill at Timber Creek Golf Club. Make
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timber Freek Golf Club dot com.Pros live here. We are Sports Talk
seven nineties. The conversation continues,this is the Doug Pike Show. We're

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gonna ignore this, Annam. We'rejust gonna totally ignore it. And it's
okay. I know, I knowbecause I watched that. There are I
know there's a bunch of golfers inthis audience, and apparently they all think
they can't get through, so theydon't call. I'll never get through.
Why should I try to call?And so they all just sit there on
their hands and that's cool, that'sfine. Maybe I'm just that intimidating.

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That's possibility too. They've heard howhow difficult it is to beat you.
I'll tell you what. We'll justwe'll do a dry run today with just
you. Because if I'm not gonna. I don't. I'm not worried about
this. We're not gonna First ofall, we're not gonna run out of
free golf to give away, becauseI got good friends in this business and

(01:44:56):
they will accommodate us. I canassure you we're gonna move. I'll tell
you what. Let's let you let'sjust see what would have happened if you
had guessed I got Oh, Igotta put that picture away. I don't
need to see that picture anymore.I'm tired of looking at it. Take
that one, put it down.I'll go to these emails real quick,
and then I'll go to the game. So you'd be thinking, you just
be thinking what it might be.I may wait till tomorrow. I really

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will. I think. So I'llgive the Sunday audience a chance, because
the Saturday audience is chicken. Mostof them are probably fishing in the surf
right now, and I'll give themcredit for that. They're probably in the
water or already on the golf course, so I'll give them credit for it.
But I do know that I don'tsee. Here comes George. See
what George wants? Maybe he'll maybehe's mad enough to step up and play

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against you. Just joking, ofcourse. Oh no, yeah, all
of a sudden, look at thisman, All of a sudden, Wait,
I'll play Keith wait In photo.Yeah, Keith waite In. There
was a hold on heavier lure.I'd like to cast far, but I'd
rather catch fish than cast far.Tried to tend to comb the beach.

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Oh yeah, okay. I wastalking to him about where to fish down
around Quintana, and there's good reasonfor the advice I gave him. I'll
go back to that. Keith sentme a picture from just yesterday of an
alligator in the surf at Quintana,down by the pier, about a seven

(01:46:30):
foot or He said. It kindof got his attention when he realized it
wasn't just a log in the water. Yeah, you got to make sure
those logs don't have teeth down therearound the mouth of that river anywhere.
Okay, let's go talk to George. Let me get the other mouse in
my hand. Here, there wego. What's up, George May I
cannot believe you didn't have audience participation. So I'm going to say the high

(01:46:56):
is eighty degrees. Are you doingthis? You want to play officially,
or are you just doing this tobrag and show how good you are?
Well? The two are not mutually. Oh I see, okay, George,
Joey, he's jumping out. Isay it, I am saying I
am, and I'm not. Okay, hold on, I gotta I gotta
write all this down just in caseyou accidentally win this. Well. I

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haven't played the sounder yet. Ohthat's right, yes, stand by,
hold on, George. We gottamake it official if we're gonna do this,
because I want to give you ashot at But it is it hot?
Is it called? We'll find outon the Texas Temperature Game. Standby
when I've done yet, you willkill up cold? I okay, Now

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I have everything set up here.George. You think the high you're going
first? You already put yourself first. What do you think the high tempturioses
eighty degrees? What do you thinkthe low temperature is? Fifteen? Fifty
fifty six? Okay, fifty six, Adam, what do you think the

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high temperature is? I'm going likeeighty seven, eighty seven? What do
you think the low temperature is?At sixty two? Oh? Lord,
have mercy you both of you guys. Okay, Georgie, you you did
very well. You only missed thehigh temperature by one. You missed the
low temperature by thirteen. The lowtemperature in the state of Texas right now

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is forty three degrees. So amziadam, you missed the low by nineteen
degrees. You're already You've already lost, and I haven't told you how badly.
Oh Mercy, what's this intimidating youtalk about? Yeah, you should.

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We're gonna have We're gonna end uphaving to have like a Master's like
the Master's Jeopardy thing. And Georgemay it well, George, you know,
in fairness to everybody else who's comebefore you, you did end up
with a double digit miss, butonly because you missed so badly on the
low color. It's a w absolutely, it's a say no, yeah,

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It's just blabber, isn't it.I'm Radio muddy, all right? Put
him on. What did I wear? You won golf for four at either
oak Hurst or River Plantation, AndI think I'm gonna send you to oak
Hurst because that way he might geta chance to win, to meet the
man. The myth, the legendof my Friend David Preisler, who offered

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up these rounds for us. Sowhen you go up there, ask for
David. His signature is going tobe on the certificate when you pick it
up. Listen to me just asecond. I'm played the rotator stuff surgery
in a couple of weeks. I'mnot a golfer any way, I like
watching it. I'll turn it tosit to us like meditating. Now.

(01:50:05):
Uh, talk to talk to MichaelBerry about camp Hope. You know donated
to to somebody your tuesday. Uh, I just wanted to play the game.
Well you did, and you provedthat even with rotator cuff surgery coming
up, you can still feel theweather in your just in your bones,

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can't you. It's it's a gift, didn't it really? Ho ho ho?
All right, yeah, I'll takecare of it from here. Thank
you, George. We'll see abody, all right. We're gonna find
somebody, somebody worthy of those fourfour rounds of golf and it will be

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in at the Thanks to George,somebody's gonna get some golf. We'll figure
that out. Now. We gotto come up with a way to give
those four rounds away because they wereactually one and both of you guys.
I don't know. If George hadn'tmissed the low temperature so badly, he
could have put himself into the Iguess kind of a hall of fame.

(01:51:10):
Huh. We don't have a hallof fame just yet. I think a
hall of fame will be reserved forwinning scores, or just any score by
a listener that is fewer five orfewer degrees off total. Do you think
that's fair? Is it? We'readding more and more rules. This is
I know, you gotta you're gonnahave to start a notebook, or at

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least, well, not a notebookfor you. You'll have to start like
an email or a message thread orsomething like that, or one master.
We need a spreadsheet, okay,of all the different ways you can win
and the different levels of winning.And then at some point, and anybody
who well knows, I'm gonna makeit more complicated. I can't do that.

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It's saying. It's just it's gettinga life of its own somehow,
And I don't know why, butI guess it's just because it's fun and
it's amusing, at least to meanyway, I hope it is everybody else
how about George just stepping up andsaying, look, I can't I'm getting
shoulder surgery. I don't even playgolf, but I'll handle this. I'll
take this on. And miss isonly by one. I thought this is

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going to be one of those veryspecial moments, and then it turned into
just another game. You what happenedto you? Though? I really dropped
the vall. Yeah, sixty twofor the low. That's nineteen degrees off.
I didn't I always neglect in nineteenand twelve. Last time I looked
a thirty one that was your youjust do you have a rough night last

(01:52:38):
night or something? I didn't getto bed as early as I might have
liked, Well, neither did I, if you're goal Holy cow worried about
a fifteen year old at a concertdowntown. What could possibly have gone wrong
there? And there are a lotof things that could have but fortunately none
of them did. And I knewhe would have a good time, and
he's a very responsible kid when he'sout and stuff like that. And he

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also knew, boy I had justI had told him what was going to
happen if anything went wrong. Assoon as I knew he was all right,
I was gonna ground him for acouple of years and just not let
him go anywhere or do anything.And so I think I at least made
it where he could still have somefun but not be stupid. And he
lived right up to it. Hecame home right about the same time I

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figured he would, and all wentwell. So I hope he had a
good time. I'll find out whenI get home. He was dead,
sound asleep when I got up thismorning and got out of the house.
All right, let's take a littlebreak here. On the way out,
I'll tell you about American Shooting Centers. They are out on the on the
West Timer Parkway between Katie and Highwaysix. If you are out there,
there's only really two things out therethat are significant. There's a baseball complex

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where my son played a few tournamentswhen he was younger, and there's American
Shooting Centers. And American Shooting Centersactually is much bigger. It is the
largest non military shooting facility in theentire state of Texas, and that's saying
something. They have three sporting clay'scourses. They have five stands setups all

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over the place. They have aspecial area of the property dedicated to trap
and skeet fields. They have abeginner's wing shooting area. They have rifle
and pistol ranges going the reverse theirpistol rifle from five yards out to six
hundred yards. It's fun just togo out there, especially on a calm

(01:54:30):
morning like this. There will beseveral people. I bet on that six
hundred because they rely on good calmconditions to really stretch that range of those
rifles they shoot, and they'll haveall kinds of high tech gear there to
test the handloads and make sure thateverything's going out at exactly the same velocity.
And it's just fun to watch thoseguys and talk to them and learn

(01:54:54):
about shooting long range. If you'venever done it, it'd be worth getting
to know and least talking about withsome of those guys. They have a
little pop up range too. Ifyou want to have some fun, bring
your rim fire rifle, get onthat pop up range and challenge those little
gopher and rabbit and squirrel targets.Being you hit them in and knock them

(01:55:15):
down and they come right back upall the way from about I want to
say, the first ones, they'reabout twenty twenty five yards all the way
out to two hundred and fifty yardsif you think you're that good with your
rim fire rifle instruction for anybody inany shooting discipline to make sure that you're
hitting more targets, you're punching moreholes in the paper, whatever it is

(01:55:36):
you want to do to become abetter shot in any aspect of it,
and you can do that all ina very safe, very controlled environment.
There's always eyes on you when you'reat American Shooting Centers, even when you
don't think there are. And ifyou do something wrong and they come over
and say, hey, you can'tdo that or you shouldn't do that,
just thank them for making you andeverybody else around you safer in that moment.

(01:56:01):
Listen to them. They want tomake sure you have a good time
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Now now get more Doug through theend up a cloud. There you

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go. Welcome back to Doug BrightShow. We're still on Sports Talk to
seven nineties. Britney. Appreciate youlistening. The air conditioner in this room
is when I came in this morning, it was warm, it was set
on. Somebody put it on seventytwo, which, as far as I'm
concerned, you could bake cookies atseventy two. That's how it feels to

(01:56:53):
me. So I flip it downto sixty eight and within ten minutes you
could hang meet in here, andit actually works very well. What is
dan pick a number? Okay,yes, I understand. This is a
Texas Temperature Reference poord A Aaron.What's the Aaron got going on? Oh

(01:57:16):
oh yeah, that's what you needto go do, Aaron, exactly what
you're talking about in here. Youneed to go do. And I may
be right behind you. If umit's these plans I had earlier fall apart.
I may just bounce and see ifI can't go find a big old

(01:57:38):
fat speckled trout down there myself sevenone three two one two five seven nine
email and me Dugpike at iHeart metatcom talking about golf. Going back to
that for a minute of all thisstuff going on, it's the PGA.
You've got people from Live Golf,people from the PGA tour people from around
the world. They're all out heretrying to win the PGA. And in

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case you haven't heard, Jim Natz, who great guy but never really been
a fan of live golf and nevermissed an opportunity to take a dig at
it. Well, this week hetook a shot during commentary as Dustin or
Justin spit it out Doug Dustin Johnsonhaving said his name in so long,
I mess it up Dustin Johnson's teaand off and Nat says and I quote

(01:58:24):
not sure if you had a chanceto see it, but he was the
winner last week in Tulsa end quoteWell. The reason golf fans might not
have seen the conclusion of the TulsaLive Golf event is that it went into
overtime. It went into a playoffbetween him and Cam Smith, and the

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CW network, which airs the livegolf competitions, opted at the end of
its allotted time I think it wassix o'clock, opted then to go back
to regularly scheduled programs at the topof the hour and not carry the conclusion

(01:59:10):
no matter how far it went.And what happened around the country is that
some of this regularly scheduled programming youwould think wasn't nearly so important, at
least certainly to the people who wereactually watching. However many they were.
Live Golf, by the way,has stopped reporting its television viewership. When

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it first started, it was braggingabout its numbers, and I'm sure they
hope the numbers would go up,but they haven't. They've gone the other
way, and so Live Golf justdidn't talk about it anymore. And it's
to the point where the network CWNetwork had to make a decision on what
to run and in Miami, atleast, instead of the sudden death playoffs

(02:00:00):
of the Live Golf Tour event inTulsa, they were showing in Miami a
rerun of an episode of The Goldbergs. So that tour continues to run into
hurdles. It hasn't. It hasn'tshown any sign, I'll give it credit

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of weakening or of changing course.They're steady, Eddie. There they go,
and there's potentially going to be anevent pretty close to home around here
in the near future. I can'tsay anymore because I don't really know a
lot more than that. I knowmore than that, but not a lot

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more, but I'm not at libertyto talk about it, and so we'll
see how that pans out, andif it does come here, I'll certainly
go. I'll be curious. I'llbe curious to see what the atmosphere is
that one of these tournaments, whatkind of a crowd it can draw,
And hopefully I do think that competitionis good. I don't have a problem

(02:01:04):
with competition. I think the waythat tour started and the aggressive way they
went in and just basically bought youfound out who could be bought, certainly
off the PGA Tour, and Ionce again, I'll never blame those guys

(02:01:27):
for taking that money, because everybit of the money they earned by jumping
off the PGA Tour and onto theLive Tour is money that the Live Tour
thought they were worth and thought theywould regain and draw. Only that hasn't
happened at least yet, And I'mnot sure what else they could do in

(02:01:51):
the way they present their tournaments andthe way they form out their tournaments to
gather some momentum in it, asit may be that it's already kind of
running its course, and I don'tknow what that would mean to the guys
who did go over there, they'recertainly kind of stuck because the the the

(02:02:15):
buyout. The the bailout for them, we found out about a month or
two ago, I think it was, is that yes, you can get
out of that super lucrative contract yousigned, but it's worse than just having
to give back the money they gaveyou. You have to give back a

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multiple, depending on who you are, between two and four times the money
you signed for it. If youwere even a mid level player in that
on that tour, you probably signedfor somewhere between thirty and seventy five million
dollars, and that was super goodmoney for you. That was that represented

(02:02:59):
years of work otherwise, and yougot it for one signature. But the
hook is that if you don't likethe way things are going, and you
don't like the fact that they're askingyou to play a couple of more events
a year now, which is stillnot a big deal, they shouldn't be
griping about that. But the bottomline is, if you made fifty million

(02:03:19):
to sign, you owe US onehundred million or maybe one hundred and fifty
million to get out. So basicallynone of those guys can get out.
None of those guys could get out. The more they made coming in,
the more it's going to cost themto get out. And that's some money.
None of those guys has, noton one of them has that kind
of money. If you signed forfifty, you don't have one hundred and

(02:03:42):
fifty. If you signed for twohundred million, you probably don't have four
hundred million laying around, or youwouldn't have gone over there. Probably,
So they've gotten themselves between a rockand hard place. And I wish them
all well, and I wish somehow, some way this would all kind
of this would all kind of settleitself out. But between Tiger and Rory

(02:04:06):
coming out with their new deal,and there are a couple of other things
going on in the world, agolf little fractionalization of the game and of
what's going on. Be interesting tosee how it all pans out. Ten
years, we'll look back at allof this and go, Wow, look
where we are now, and whereverthat is. One place you probably would

(02:04:28):
like to be sometime this afternoon isnext to an ice chest full of cold
surveyss, cold and smooth bush light. Maybe same great taste it's always had,
even that same sound that little wellthey had that long, the elongated
sound. Adam and I are justgoing with Is that about right? That

(02:04:49):
sounds close? Yeah, that's prettygood. Can you do better? That's
as good as I could do.That sounds like a hissing snake. Yeah,
you need they open the can allthe way. It's it's a little
sharper. We're gonna have to workon that, Adam. We'll work on
that during the week and come backstrong. American sylogue are crafted to deliver

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for sure. I much prefer thehunting and fishing part. I really do

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a couple of interesting emails and phonecalls and whatnot. Who wasn't from Ultimate
Tackle? Who called Mark? Mark? Mark? Thank you for that.
Yeah, the surf is on,and I think this is one of those
times. This is early enough inthe season that pretty much anywhere you can
walk in without rubbing elbows with somebodyelse, you'll probably be able to catch

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some fish. And if you that, I'm man, I'm flashing back to
one of the weirdest moments ever inmy Galveson surf fishing galveson slash freeports fishing
at him. You've never heard thisstory, and certainly somebody in this audience
hasn't heard it. So I'm drivingdown the beach at Surfside, between Surfside

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and Saint Louis Pass, looking fora place to get in the water one
morning that's not crowded. There wasjust the surf busted open with fish and
a million people are down there.And it's not quite as bad as opening
day of trout season in New York, but it's bad. There's people everywhere.

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And I see this one guy standingout there about waist deep. He's
got no shirt on, he's gota big old straw hat on, and
he's all by himself. There's notanybody for a hundred yards left to him,
not anybody for a hundred yards,right, So I pull in and
I'm just kind of sitting there watchinghim fish out on that second bar.

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He's in about like almost chest deepwater. And I'm thinking, you know,
this guy's catching fish. Maybe Islide in next to him and won't
bother him. I'll get him fiftyyards, that's not a problem. And
I'm washing and he turns around andhe's gonna come in, and I can't
figure out how in the world thisguy's managed to find a spot and he's

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clearly dragging a stringer, he's gotsome fish on it. And he comes
through that gut and comes up ontothe first bar, and I look,
and I look again, and nowpicture this guy. He's coming in.
He's probably in his late forties,early fifties, one of those hairy guy
got hair on his back, hisarms, everywhere, and most importantly,

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as he comes up into shallower water, I realized that this guy's out there
wade fishing in a thong, athong I was trying to get a good
tan. I guess he was tryingto keep people from fishing around him,
and it was working. He probablystood on that first bar for fifteen twenty
minutes and anybody and everybody around himhad just disappeared. And I, to

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this day, I cannot get thatimage out of my head. And it
did. Yeah, it just hauntsme. I'll probably have a nightmare about
that dude tonight. It was justso bizarre and so out of place.
I just never would have dreamed that'show this guy but and he may just

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be a genius because if you havethe courage to do, And bear in
mind also this guy, the nexttriple cheeseburger he eats would not be his
first Okay, that's just picture thatcoming out of the water in a thong
dragging a string or a trout,and I just kept driving. I didn't

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even My whole day was kind ofmessed up by that image, and it
just it was kind of weird andcreepy. And I, once again,
I think he may just have beenkind of a very why genius and managed
to find a way when it's totallycrowded everywhere to give yourself a little elbow

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room. And there you have acase slack cold too. I haven't talked
to her in a long time,a long long time. Interviewed her years
ago some golf related stuff. Mymemory is failing me on exactly what it
was, but there it was.Let me grab my moles here and go
to Jeff. What's up, Jeff? I grew up with respect for the

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game of golf, advocate tradition,and I haven't followed to accept through your
show. Mostly thank you, myfather wanted me to get into it.
What do you think of Tiger Woods? It seemed like every one not as
often, but he has some sortof social personal debris playing out in the
courts and he was supposed to notto. Yeah, the courts. They
were supposed to bring all these peopleto the game, and all these wonderful

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things were supposed to happen. AndI know he's trying to redeem himself,
but what what's your opinion of thetotal picture of this guy? The total
picture is better than the snapshots ofsome of the things he did in the
past. And once he was exposedfor some of the things he did in

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the past, a lot of peoplelost a lot of respect for the guy.
He was, without question, thebiggest draw to golf probably that ever
happened, because he brought everybody intogolf. Whereas Nicholas and Palmer and all
of those guys who proceeded Tiger broughtsome people to golf. Tiger brought everybody

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to golf. And you saw it. You when you were trying to play
around here at the peak of Tiger'sperformance, it took six hours to play
around to golf around here because somany people were out trying to play.
We were building, just as aHouston. Look, we were building a
new golf course. About every onewas opening about every three or four weeks.

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It seemed like back when I wascovering it at the paper. And
then all of that stuff came outabout his dallians, his having women in
every town where they had a PGAtour stop. He made some really bad
mistakes personally that that tainted his imageoverall, but didn't keep him from still

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being the single greatest player the gamehas seen. I'll give him that.
For about ten years, his averagefinish he didn't play in a lot of
tournaments, but when he played inthe big ones, the ones that really
mattered most, his average finish wassecond place. That's never been done.
A lot of guys have done alot of stuff, and now as a

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dad to Charlie, he's he's showinga much better side of himself. I
think as public relations and image go, I think he's done. He's done
with the foolish things he did asa younger man when nobody ever told him
no, and he was quietly gettingaway with a lot of stuff that a

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lot of us found distasteful when itcame to light. But what he did
for the game you can't take away. Now, a lot of that's kind
of worn off, especially because he'sjust not playing anymore. And when he
does play, he doesn't play wellbecause he is so hurt and beat up.
He's he's just pounded himself into submission. He did at first with taking

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so many swings and changing a greatswing which takes a lot of time,
and doing other different moves of hisbody that I think just wore out a
lot of his parts well before theyshould have been worn out. Man,
that was only because he wanted toget better. But yeah, go ahead,
no, you go ahead. Ihad talked for a long time people.

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He brought tradition and basically respect forthings. On the golf course,
you're more important. And Michael Jordanand on the in the NBA, although
he's been destructive and in that lanceArmstrong guy who all three of these guys
came out around the same time.Go into all that. But people that

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have been brought to the game,have they learned and have they conformed?
Have they found a tradition or didthey just show up because it was the
latest thing to do to talk aboutTiger all the time. But early on
it was the latest and greatest thingto do, and a lot of people
came into golf just because it wascool. But now I think a lot
of those people have gone away becauseit's it's not Tiger in the spotlight anymore,

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and they couldn't name ten players HolyCalcarti at a time. I'll go
back into more of this tomorrow.That's a good topic, Jeff, I
really I appreciate that. I'll makea note of that. Thank you.
Thanks for listening and bringing up somegood points. You do that every time
you call. All Right, wegotta shut down and get out of here.
We will be back tomorrow morning ateight o'clock. Thank you all for

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listening. Maybe we can't talk.I don't want to dwell on Tiger Woods
anymore because I think he's had hismoment and I think it's time for the
other players to be recognized. Butwe can talk about what he did for
the game for a minute or two. That's only fair. All Right,
that's it for now. I'll beback tomorrow morning. Today. Thank you
all so very much for listening.I really do appreciate it. Audioce