The Doug Pike Show 5-27-2023

Doug talks hunting, fishing, and golf, and talks to callers. The Texas Temperature Game is played, and doug gets jealous of all the fishing being done at the beach on a particularly blue-waterd and gorgeous day.

Episode Transcript

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Sportsmen and women of all skill levels. Let's disconnect from the day to day
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here's Doug Pike. All right,here we go. Saturday morning edition of

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the program starts right now on thisMemorial Day weekend. I will, I'll
tell you right now, I willwelcome all weekend long stories of anyone you
knew who gave their life in serviceto this country, whether it was your
ad, your mom, an uncle, a friend, anybody. Because anybody

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who gave their life so that youand I could go fishing or do whatever
we want to do today certainly deserveswhatever time you want to give them,
and I would be happy to hearthose stories and share them with this audience
just so that and especially so thatall of you who are young enough to

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not have really had any idea aboutwar maybe can make it a little closer
connection for you, so you understandthe sacrifice that people make, the changes
to people's families that happen when somebodygoes off to war and doesn't come back.

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It's happened a long time friends,mostly when I was younger. It
was friends, big brothers who wentaway and a couple of them didn't come
back. And that was tough enough. That was during the Vietnam War.
We lost way too many young menover there and lost way too many sins.

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Then for a country I had topause and think about this for a
second, But for a country thathasn't fought a foreign enemy on its own,
so we haven't had a foreign enemycome in here and try to fight
us on our own soil. Ina couple hundred years, We've sure sacrificed
an awful lot of young men andwomen battles around the world, and it

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just makes you scratch your head andwonder why we can't just we can't just
get strong, stay strong. Andthere's a reason nobody's attacked America on its
own soil, and it's because weare strong and because we do we are
capable. More people than I thinkanybody well, I think I think the

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foreign potential invaders understand that it's notjust our army that's going to be fighting
against them if they try to comein here. So anyway, let's go
to the outdoors, shall We wereat the very end of May already,
for heaven's sakes, and we're atMemorial Day weekend. And the best news

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for anybody who likes to fish thebeach front around here is that the Memorial
Day weekend appears to be coinciding beautifullywith some of the best conditions we've had
all year. It's absolutely beautiful downthere. I've been looking at the surf
cams this morning. I'm having alittle bit of computer trouble right now.

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I only pop this camera and makeit go live. Come on, come
back, come back, don't letgo jack, I don't know where that
came from. Okay, I'm gonnago to a different camera here so that
I can get a fresh look.Wow, my um laptop is just uncooperative.

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Oh there it goes. It's laggingdreadfully, and hopefully it'll quit that.
There's a surf side jetty. Youcan pretty much tell how the condition.
You don't even have to look atthe water to know how it looks
down there at surf side. Youcan just look at the bodies out near
the end of the jetty, andthis morning already, what is it's seven

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o five. There are at bestguests. It looks like it looks like
the line that forms right before aTaylor Swift concert outside the arena. There
are people at their shoulder to shoulderout there. It's ridiculous, honestly,
and they're they're just not That's whyI don't go to that jetty anymore,

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honestly, it's it's just not worthit. It's too crowded. It's very
difficult to enjoy yourself when you've gotpeople casting over your line, not just
from one side, but from othersides, and all of them they bring
their umbrellas down there, they bringtheir little portable barbecue pits down there,
they bring the dog, they bringeverything down there and then leave all their

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trade. That's that's one of thethings that really irks me about that jetty
and the red I'm thrilled that it'sopened up access to anybody and everybody,
but people are taking advantage of thatso horribly that it's just rough. It
really is. Surf looks absolutely gorgeous. Somebody's got control of the camera right

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now. I'm not sure who boyif they put a snap if they were
to hit a snapshot right now ofthat surf side Jetty Park view, that'd
make a good photograph, might makea good poster to put in somebody's bedroom.
There's a beautiful starburst around the sun. It's shining down on the water.
There are people out there fishing.Great time to be in the water,

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except I don't know how many ofyou saw it. That reminds me
down there behind Saint Louis Pass somewhere. This past week, somebody got video
of one of the most I don'tknow, I don't want to say alarming,
but alerting anyway, shark sightings ina long time. I'm still not

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scared to get in the water.I'm still not afraid to go wade fishing.
But it's been years and it wasin Florida when I last saw that
big a hammerhead in that little bitof water. Somebody got video of a
hammerhead and maybe maybe a foot anda half two feet of water dorsal fin

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probably two two and a half feetof water. Let's go with that,
because that's a thicker bodied fish thanI'm giving it credit to be as big
as it is. So it's probablyin two and a half feet of water,
and dorsal fin completely exposed, tailfin, completely exposed, this big
giant tail on the back end ofa hammerhead, and it was up there
looking for sting raising flounders. Itwas hungry, it was hunting, and

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it wasn't gonna leave there until itfound something. Probably, I'm gonna go
talk to David real quick. Here, get the right mouse in my hand.
TikTok, TikTok. Where is it? There? We go, Hey
David, what's up? Man?It's not working, Adam, fix that
for me. William, I'm gonnaput him back on. Got him now?
There you are? I hear you, Dad? All right, yeah,

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I'm here. Here stories of familymembers who were killed in an absolute
lad My uncle, my dad's brotherwas killed on the island of the time.
Well, that was a tough one, just before the death March.
That's the thing that was more interestingabout it, Doug As I wrote to

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the I wrote to the military yearsago to find out. I mean,
you know, when you're young,you don't worry about these kind of things.
Because you get older they begin tomean more to you. I wrote
to the military and got records.And I wish I had not told my
father, my dad, any ofmy family, for didn't matter that I

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was doing that because the details werenot something that you would want to share,
right And and my mother had anold saying, you know, leave
old bones, let old bones lay. Yeah, And so you know,
if you're going to do that kindof thing, that you keep it private
because the information may not be somethingthat the family would would want to know.

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That's true, but also I wantedto kind of tip you off,
and I can look up. Thereis a department. His remains were never
recovered because the island failed. Hedied on April third, nineteen forty two,
when the island was overtaken and theywere It was a sad situation many
people know. I mean that theywere left there pretty much alone, that

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right after the Japanese at bomb PearlHarbor and there were no defenses, and
they were actually on the Corregadior originallyand then took a defensive position on the
don the Ton and and that's wherethey will fail. And you know that
story. But there is a department. My wife read this article in reader's
side Ester and it might be somethinggood for you to talk about on your

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fifties show. There's a I saw, I say, relatively new. There's
a department in the military now thatis solely dedicated to finding and identifying the
remains of the miss UH. AndI looked looked it up and his his
name, my uncle's name is thereand he gave the same information that he

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his remains were considered unrecoverable the fall. But with the DNA information that there
have been, they have identified hundredsof remains thought about and through the DNA.
You know, technology did not exist. It's very easy if family members,

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if family members contact them and submittheir and I intend to do this,
uh and submit their DNA, thenthere can be a definite, definitive
match made between those remains and thefamily members. Absolutely, I will.
I will text you that website sothat you can maybe talk about it on

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your pity show. Yeah. Well, but again I go back, sometimes
you might not want to know whatyou're playing. Yeah, and I'm not
even gonna ask. It's none ofmy business, it's none anybody else's business
but yours. And thank you forsharing that, David, Right, I
understand yea, sir, I'll toyou okay, you bet, thank you,

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all right, let me drop that, take care of that. We're
getting closed, Adam. You wantme to take another one. You want
me to go to break first.I can't hear you. Oh good,
good, good good. Let mego up here then I'll try that.
It worked that time. Wonderful SanAntonio, Aaron, where do you?
Where in the world are you?What are you doing? It's like gorth
Wall though. Man. Yeah,I'm back at San Antonio. Yeah,

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Grand Canyon, Uh tomorrow, butnot before I got to sneak down to
Port of Ransas and like I toldyou, that water was so git clear.
I'd never seen it. Like,that's amazing, isn't it. Ever?
Yeah, um, I wanted tosee if you had any strategies let
me gets like that. Should youjust wait till the afternoon or I mean

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we didn't see anything in the surferit was it was so so clear.
I mean it was eerie. Thewaves are breaking like five to ten feet
away from the shore and just nothingelse like a mirror. Oh exactly.
It was unbelievable. You know,they get spooky kind of. I think
we swapped emails on this. Theyget so spooked because they can see everything,

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and everything can see them, anda lot of those fish. You
gotta remember, everything out there inthe surf especially, is not just a
predator, but it's also prey tosomething bigger, and so they kind of
they're antsy. They don't want todo anything that might get them exposed to
a bigger fish, even if itmeans chasing a smaller fish. So yeah,

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early and late probably the best timesto fish that gin clear water.
And you know, you say youdidn't see many fish in the surf,
but if you would, just ifyou stop and just stare at the surf
when it's like that, when it'sso clear, and put your good old
polarized glasses on and just watch youyou'll see way more fish than you thought.

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Are there. They're just they're watchingtheir backs. You know. It
was so still and so quiet thatwe could hear the mullet feeding up top.
And that's pretty, the little littlewhen they're just mouthing the surface like
that. Oh yeah, that's pretty. We saw it. Saw a few

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to chase. I'm underneath. Butanyways, well I wanted to share I
know some memorial day and we rememberthe little passed on. Yeah, my
my uncle My great uncle was oneof the guys driving the LRVs down there
in Auburn, d Yeah. Everyonce in a while at a birthday party

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or something, you pop or twoand you talk about it. What it
was like to have those bullets justhitting that front gate NonStop and he that
dropped that gate. Uh, watchthem all get mowed down. And because
he was in the back, youknow, he never got hit. Go
get another another. Oh man,you just do it all over again,

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over and go. Oh man,that's how could you do that? Yeah?
Man, I see some of thesekids now in this generation that you
know, never never got to meetthose little guys like that. That's something.
Hey, Well, on a happiernote, get down there and catch
the fish. Yea, I agree, weekend boy, Yeah it's this is

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a day for it if you canget down here. Man, Yes,
sir, this is a day forit. All right. Thanks Erin,
I'll see you, buddy. Wow, holy cow. All right, I've
got to take a break and whenwe get back, like I said,
if any of you want to sharea story, um, this is your
chance. I'm not gonna I'm notgonna stop you. I had tremendous respect

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for anybody who has served in themilitary, and I've met a lot of
people who have sacrificed parts of theirbodies to fighting for freedom around the world,
and I have tremendous respect for that. I really do. All Right
on the way out here, TimberCreek Golf Club is down there on FM

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twenty three fifty one and friends wouldvery easy to find, only a few
miles west of the golf Freeway.Go over there and take a look around.
If you haven't ever played Timber Creek, I think you'll be very pleasantly
surprised. Set a tea time.You can do that at the website.
Set a tea time for yourself.Go down there, bun it around with
a couple of friends. Like Isaid, there's twenty seven holes, so

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on a morning like this, they'rebasically two groups getting out with each tea
time and they rotate the nine sothat everybody gets around and has a good
time and can get all the morepeople out there having a wonderful time hitting
perfect shots everywhere they go. Ifyou're not hitting perfect shots, swing into

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the Timber Creek Golf Golf Club Academyrun by a guy named David Pilsner,
a great guy, great staff.They will knock the rust off pretty much
any golf swinging and have you alittle more satisfied each time you swing that
club. Timber Creek Golfclub dot comis the website. Whether it's just you
and a friend or you got onehundred people need to raise money for charity,

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they'll help They'll help you out.Timber Creek Golfclub dot com. This
is Sports Talk seven nine on theGoal with iHeartRadio Friends to try. The
conversation continues, this is the DougpikeShow. We're just gonna shove class right

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down their throats, aren't we.Well, it's name a titling artists,
please, I can't remember I've heardthat. I've actually seen live performances of
that song, so that that narrowsit down greatly. What is that again?
It's Tchaikovsky Waltz of the Flowers fromwhat is That's? Just it Waltz
of flowers And it's in something.I know it's in something. You're gonna

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have to come back in here duringthe next break and fix it. I
might just have to restart my entirecomputer. That may be my only salvation.
I have a screen up that it'sgreat that it's up, but it's
it's now become my background. AndI don't like my screensaver apparently, and
I don't like it that way,and I've messed everything else is messed up.

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We'll make it through there. I'mnot worried about it. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninetyEmail me Dugpikett. I heard media dot
Com. At least my email stillworks. Let's see what's going on there.
Oh yeah, they're kind of poppingin here. Holy cow, that
specs in the surf? Yeah,somebody else rubbing it in. Send a
picture to you to let you seehow the galvison surf it pirates was looking
for most of this entire week ginclear and flat so long that it's hard

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to fool them. Well, nowthey're calling artificial lures arties. Is there
anything that's not being abbreviated lately?Holy count lots of baby black tips?
This is from Aaron, Lots ofbaby black tips? What else mixed in
with the trout ice cream? Conditions? For sure? I may have to

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try to slip down there, maybethis afternoon or tomorrow. The only thing
that concerns me is the crowd andI don't man. Anybody and everybody who
can get there, I'm all forit. Go down there, play in
the water, catch yourself some fish, and don't be scared to throw arties.

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Just throw man, just to row. Let me go, Let me
go. Talk to Chris. Hey, Chris, what's up? Hey,
get Moran Doug this morning. Tellyou a great story that I'm excited this
to talk about my grandpa who hewas a huge influencer me. He taught
me to fish, taught me toshoot everything. He served in the war

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in the Coastal Artillery, initially atfour Crocket and Galveston got sent to the
island hopping campaign and support the Marines, you know, fighting the Japs Japanese,
and guided great stories from one ofthe random islands he was stuck on.
And I can also tell you thathe told a lot of tall tales.
So while I can swear that everythingI've told Jep's now is true,

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the story, but here's how itwent. They would get really really bored
in between air raids and stuff,and they would start dynamiting for fish,
Oh my god. And so Idon't know what was specifically explosives they were
using, but there were chillerymen andhis Middle War war too. They had
everything at their disposal. The wayyou explained to me, there was an

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inlet that came in that these fishscribe the kind of like you know,
he didn't know what they worked.This is some random island out in the
Pacific. They would come in andit had to go through a little narrow
opening, and so they would waittill the school was inside this big pool,
and then they would throw the dynamiteat the opening, and as the
fish darted out, they would gettheir dinner. However, the fish,

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maybe natural selection whatever, start gettingsmarter and smarter, and as they receiveing
a dynamite in the air, theywould start scattering as fast as they could,
so that keeps shortening the dead chordmore and more. Unctually, they
got to the point where he andthe other guys didn't feel comfortable of doing
it. But one crazy lunatic wascutting it down, and the guy blew
himself up and got killed. Kindof dynamite fish. Holy, no way

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in the world. The grandpa,he was actually the platoons one of the
time, could let this guy's familyknow that he was killed. Fishing up
as remains, they wrote a reportthat he was killed in an air raid,
gave him some combat awards. Somefamily back home to pass stories about
their uncle. I guess who diedheroically, not knowing he died. Well,

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they did a noble thing for theguy. I suppose. Goosh,
thank you, Chris. That's somethingelse, man, thank you. All
right? Take yes, sir,Holy cow. You know, when you're
young and you've got all this heavyequipment and explosives around, some of them

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are gonna do some crazy stuff.I had a very close family friend was
stationed over in Pensacola at the airbaseover there, and they had a hydraulic
the same apparatus as on it becausethey were training pilots there, and they
had the same apparatus as on aan aircraft carrier, the big hydraulic,

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steam powered whatever it was, thecatapult that launched the planes, and they
would use that on one of therunways to teach these pilots how to handle
the way that plane was going toaccelerate when they pull the cord and off
they went. Well, as thestory goes, my family great friend and

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some of his buddies over there werein the fire brigade on that air at
that airfield, and when they hadnothing better to do, they would hook
the fire truck to the catapult andpull the rip cord and send that fire

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truck screeching to hell on the runway. I don't know that they ever wrecked
one, but I'm sure they hadgreat fun doing that. That that just
reminds us all. I think,how young all these people are who we're
sending off to war, and theytheir minds wander, and they sometimes get

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lost and sometimes have all kinds ofproblems. That's why I'm so glad there
are places like Camp Hope out there, because the young men and women who
come back and a little confused andhaving a hard time assimilating, and before
they before they do anything to themselves, they find their way to someplace like

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Camp Hope and can get a lotof help. I've met a lot of
the young men who live at CampHope through the tournament we do for golf,
tournament we do for Saint Jude.We donate a lot of a lot
of positions in the tournament to someof those folks from Camp Hope, and
they're some of the greatest guys you'dever meet. And I'm so glad that
they found a better solution to continuingtheir lives with camp hopes. That's a

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good place to be. All right. Back to fishing. I can't stand
it. It's just just so good. I'm watching all these live cameras down
there. The water is beautiful.There are fish not everywhere, and that's
something you have to learn about surffishing. I'll stick with that for just
a minute, and I've just totallyfell off that big hammerhead at Saint Louis

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Pass. Just be careful down there. Pay attention to the water around you.
There are big sharks, there arelittle sharks, and especially when the
water is this clear, they're goingto be more sharks up shallow, especially
at first and last light and overnight. So just keep that in mind when
you and your buddies are down thereon the beach wanting to go out for

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a late night swim, you won'tbe alone in the water, and you're
more easily mistaken for something sharks likeat night. You're raising your odds of
something weird happening to you when youdo that break all at twenty at twenty
eight, really, Kyle Lee,you're becoming quite the taskmaster. Young Adam

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Snyder all right, I'll do thatwhen we come back, though, I'm
going to talk more about fishing thesurf and how to make the most of
what you've got in a situation thatI came upon years ago with some friends
of mine, and it taught usa great lesson until then. Shooters Corner.
Shooters Corner is at Palmer High Windtwenty Night Street down in Texas City.

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A fantastic place run by fantastic people. That would be Jerry and JTK,
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base of operations for their guiding operations. Those two are qualified and licensed to
guide pretty much all over North Americaall the way up to Alaska. They
do grizzly bear hunts in Alaska.For people do a lot of especially Jerry.

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That's how I met. Jerry wasdown at the San Burrito Ranch in
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these Shooters Corner, TX dot com. This is sports Talk seven ninety online
at sportsnet dot com. Now fight. Well, it's a little bit different
than than the Nutcracker music. HolyCow. By the way, one of
the guys um said, Swan Lakeor a Bugs Bunny cartoon? And actually

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I do remember that piece you playedearlier. Was this chopin? Was that?
Who it was? Kosky? Um? Yeah, that is that was
using a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Iremember it vividly. From there, Mojo
came in with the Nutcracker, andthat I'm almost certain as where I've said,
although I have seen, believe itor not, in theater, major

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theater, Swan Lake and the Nutcracker. So there you go, and never
mind, let's move forward. Nowlet's go talk today day. What's up
man? Hey? Can you hey? Yeah? Man, I was thinking
about my buddy lead to bottle Man. We were down there at the Hardy

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Institute working and he was doing adownspout and then he started talking to me
and tell him about he he wasdoing ironwork on aircraft carriers. Holy caw.
Yeah. And then I got toknow him more in radio stuff,
and then I went and helped himout on some other radio stuff. But
he's out there in between fifty nineand forty five, in between Willis and

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New Waverley over there, and he'sstill working man, working hard, helping
people building trailers and going on eightyyears old. But and he was there
working on aircraft carriers. You knowwhat work is what keeps people going.
I think, you know what,there's a lot of I've known a lot
of people older than me and someof them gone now who s got They

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looked so forward to retirement and thensix months after they retire, they're back
at work. I've seen. I'veseen that so weird times too. That's
why I getting up every day andI go pick up trash, and I
don't care what I'm doing. I'mdoing song, just doing honest work,
you know. Yeah, And youknow what, I'm sitting out here right
now in the back of yard goldHill golf Course and a boomer. He's

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over here, just panting big time, wanting me to chunk a ball.
God blessing God, keep us,God bless America. And hey man,
thanks so much for all our venturesthat sacrifice for us man, because we
wouldn't be here now, you know, in fact, thank you Dave.
All right, I'll see, thankyou. Let me go talk to Rick

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here. Rick, where are you? Man? You're You're like Waldo.
You and Aaron drive and get offin the middle of nowhere more than any
two men I know. Where areyou this morning? Well, I'm I'm
out west. I'll say that,okay, but she would never guess for
the million dollars, you would neverguess what I'm doing. Why I'm here.

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I'm scared to ask. I thinkI am watching these buzzard circle of
two baby fawns, probably less thanforty eight hours old, because they'll get
on poked her eyes out and killthem. Yeah, and uh, I'm
gonna shout at him twice just toscare them. But so I'm on.

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My day has been delayed. I'mhanging around here because they're gonna get it
up anyway. Not what I calledyou for um three quick things. I'm
kind of going back to some thingsyou talked about last week, but you
come out last week endangered species.Yeah, I got a quick one.

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I had a bank called me onetime. I said, hey, we
got this track of land out hereoff thirty five. Back then it was
in kind of the round round Georgetownarea. It's on the freeway and there's
a bunch of survey and stuff outthere, and we can't figure out what
it is. And when you andmean, how you go out there and
come back and tell us what's goingon? I said, sure, So

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I do out there. Cut thelong story short. I finally find this
thing. There was no method tothe madness of all the survey sticks out
there, and not when you're inthe woods the brush, and I finally
found this concrete cylinder, like apour of concrete cylinder in the ground.

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It's sticking up about three and ahalf feet above the ground. And right
on the top of it was thisday to Texas and brass plate. And
this was within six hundred feet.Now this is high dollar land, now
six hundred feet. Their conference fromthis point can never be developed. And

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they used the word perpetually oh wow, because there was an endangered cave beetle
found in one of them little creek. Now, I hadn't been down that
session in a thirty five and ina while, but I'll bet you it's
developed. You know somebody. Ibet you somebody paid to stay to re

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locate on or something because I hadto. I've worked on ranches world and
they had to relocate you know,speckled billy gilly monsters or birds or whatever
for the costs they're breeding area.But anyway, just just something interesting.
Certainly moving forwards. You were talkingabout last week getting lost in the woods.

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I don't remember what the subject wasthat you brought that up. Okay,
all right, let me give youmy chip on getting lost in the
woods. And I've been lost.I've been perplexed in the woods of many
times. A's to where I wasat. Um when all else fails,
keep an eye on that sunlight,don't let it go down on you.

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And when all else fells and youknow you're lost, if you can try
to go downhill, yeah, downhilluntil you get to some kind of a
drainage, a creek or something.Follow it, because that's going to go
to a creek and eventually if Mattleads to a little little stream or something.

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But at some point that's going tohit a bridge, and we're at
the bridge, there's a road.Now you're on a road and you're not
lost in the wood from go downhill. One more quick back toward my buddy's
out in California. I've never seenthem before other than pictures. What are
you? This is a question howtall is the tallest threating on the man

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kinds? According to this little article, it's a sequalutree. How tall you
think it is? Gotta be us? What floor are you on and you're
building? We're on the seventh.Okay, think about this for a second.
This thing is three that's the equivalentof about a thirty five four building

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close to it. Yeah, big, big tall tree. Man, Pretty
awesome it is, Thank you,Rick, I have a good one.
Audios. Three hundred and eighty feettall. That's um, that's a that's
an Albarez home run laying on theground. That's dropping one. Yeah,

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that's pretty much dropping a tree athome plate and having the top of it
fall in deep center field at mostbaseball stadiums doesn't quite get out of the
Park now it would. It woulddestroy the Crawford boxes. Absolutely wow.
All right, I'm gonna get backto the surf when i get back from

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this break. I promise you Ihad a lot to say about that,
and i'll say it when we getback. On the way out, I'll
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You threw the quarters into the freezer. It said you'd get back to
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that stuff, take it out toBelleville Meat Market. Let them turn it
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you good face from dot com?Then Slashing Sports talk Back to the Doug

(36:42):
Pike Show. Here comes a blindcommission. Listening to the lyrics of this
song and I come in. Can'trecall hearing any more random lyrics to any
song ever. What's the name ofthat one that's a Desolation Roll by Bob
Dylan. Yeah, it's just mumbojumbo. That's that's Dylan's way. Uh.

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I'm never really a big fan,honestly, and I listened to a
lot of music, but just becauseof that, he just kind of like
he's got marbles in his mouth andjust this. Yeah, I can't say
I listened to much either, butup today, so I um, I

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can't help but share this with you. And I'm just gonna give you this
piece of advice at him as ayoung man. You're gonna hear about some
new companies being formed all over theplace. There's all kinds of stuff going
on in technology. If you andI had a chance to do something like
this when I was very young,and I didn't take it. And I'm

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just gonna give you an idea.If you come up with if some big
name in technology or whatever, andnow this is a brand new company going
public and you have an opportunity tobuy some shares of it, you might
want to think about doing it.Facebook went public only eleven years ago,
and in its IPO it was thirtyeight bucks a share. Okay, eleven

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years ago, thirty eight bucks ashare worth about two hundred and forty dollars
a share now, So just tuckthat away in your mind and know that
you don't have to You don't haveto buy ten thousand shares of something to
make a little money if you canget it at the right price and get

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it, say, get something thatlooks really good, and don't just do
it based on your own opinion.Ask a couple of smarter older people what
they think as well. But ifyou get a chance to invest in something
like that, it's not a badidea. Speaking of money and investments,

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that reminds me of something myself onFacebook the other day, this guy said,
my only wish is that when Idie, I hope my wife doesn't
sell all my fishing equipment for whatI told her I paid for it.
Pretty good, pretty good stuff.Seven one three, two one two five

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seven nine. Email me Dugpike atiHeartMedia dot com. Let's talk about the
serf, shall we. We can'thelp it, honest to goodness, it's
just it's as good as it gets. It's as good as it's gonna get.
Right now, the highest wind velocityI'm looking at throughout the entire state
of Texas is ten miles an hour, and that ten is down at Port

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Ransas Pier. Nothing in double digitsanywhere on this map, which let me
see if I can scroll all theway down to South Texas. Oh,
sorry, it's eleven miles an hour. I'll pop back in and tell me
where you are. Eleven miles anhour down at South Padre Island Park fifteen

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a loop in fifteen. That's downin Mexico though, so that doesn't count.
Eleven miles an hour at Laguna Madreand everywhere else though, single digit
wind velocities every place that you andI could drive to today, and beautiful
water and it's loaded with fish.And one of the things I hear about

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people fishing the surf, there aresome places where there are breaks and sandbars
that serve as natural little funnels betweensecond gut and third gut and whatnot.
And if you study the surf longenough and understand what you're looking at when
there are just a little bit ofwaves in there, you can identify where
these things are. And that isan advantage. However, it's not to

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say that there's any place along thecoast where you just can't catch a fish
on a day like today, andthe reason for that is that those fish
are moving in small schools up anddown that beachfront constantly. I learned.
I got a real straight up lessonin this, probably thirty years ago,

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maybe more, even when a coupleof buddies of mine and I went down
to surfside beautiful morning like this.We're in the water early, and we
stand there for about ten fifteen minutes, and there are people for as far
in both directions as you can see, and we're spread out about between fifty
and one hundred yards between groups ofguys standing there fishing together, and about

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two hundred yards up the beach fromwhere we're standing, I see two guys
boat up. It's like, aly, man, I wonder if we ought
to move down there, and weall thought about it, and you know,
by the time we walk down there, those fishes they'll probably have that
school work over. And then theguys about one hundred and fifty yards up
bow up, and those other guysfinished fighting their fish and they're just back

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to casting again. And what itwas was a school moving down the beach,
and in succession each of us gota crack at that school, and
they were feeding. They were hungry, but they were moving up the beach,
and when it was our turn,we got some bites real quick,

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and then it stopped for a littlewhile and the people down to the in
the other direction. We're starting tocatch those fish. And if you just
stand there long enough, be patientenough, a school is gonna come by
and you're probably gonna get some bites. If you get impatient and getting a
hurry that you're probably gonna just walkout of the way of that school.

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Moving through something else that I've seen, especially in this super clear water like
this, people just march all theway out to the second bar without even
hesitating, and chances are pretty goodyou're walking through a lot of fish too.
There's no reason in the world togo stand in waiste deep water when

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if you're careful and give it afew minutes and really study what's going on
in that first gut, that onethat's about maybe maybe waist deep on you,
which you go through it to getto that next bar, there's a
good chance you're going to realize thereare fish in there, plenty of them,
especially the early and late. Theearlier and the later you fish,

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the more activity there's going to beup closer to the beach. It's just
simple logic when you stop and thinkabout how these fish have to chase down
what they eat. If they're inthree feet of water, they have to
chase that fish as far left,the bait fish as far left or as
far right as it wants to go, and they have to chase it up

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a couple of feet and down acouple of feet. If they come into
shallower water, the escape route forthat bait shrimp or whatever, a mullet,
the escape routes narrow, and itmakes them easier to catch, and
so the feeding fish has to expendless energy typically trying to chase down whatever

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it's trying to eat. And ifyou think about it that way, it
makes very good sense that those predators, the bigger, smarter, older predators,
would be in as shallow water asthey can find to try to feed
because they don't have to work ashard. That's why that oh you click
it at me, gosh, that'swhy that big shark was up in about

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two and a half three feet ofwater behind sand Louis Pass. All right,
well, Adam says, I needto take a break here for the
top of the hour or so,I guess I'll do what Adam wants me
to do, and we will takea break. We'll come right back more
of the Doug Pike Show. Feelfree, man, shoot me an email.
I'll check emails. I haven't checkedhim in a few minutes. I'll

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do that during the break. We'llbe back the Doug Pike Show on Sports
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decisions. Now here's Doug Pike.Welcome back the second hour of the show.
Start right now. Thank you forlistening. I startly to appreciate it
this Memorial Day weekend to hold on? Who sent me this? Tim?
Remember the two? What was thetune you played the Chikowsky? Well,
it's a tune. It's not atune Flowers Waltz of the Flowers. Tim

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remembers it, and I do nowsince he brought it up the swimming pool
scene in Caddyshack, that's what playedthere as well. So that one composition
has made the rounds from ballet ChristmasTime Ballet, to Bugs Bunny cartoon to

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big screen movies, and equally entertainingin all three arenas. Thank you for
that, I got that, Igot that taken care of. Cab Scott
just sent me a video from Idon't know where it was shot, but
it is a video that the titlejust says, fish smarter, not harder.

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And somewhere on the planet there isa water. It's not a waterfall.
It almost looks like just a spillway, but apparently there are some smaller
fish that are trying to move upshream just like salmon dow to get back

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to their lawning grounds. And theseare now, these are fish that are
maybe two thre inches long. They'dlook in the tiny, little grainy video
that I could see like a littlemaybe shad, and they are trying to
get up this one particular stretch ofthis perpetually falling water in almost a circular

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motion. You can see him comeout and go up and then hit the
water again. But there are somany of them that it looks like just
a big loop of fish. Andsomebody somehow has figured out that if he
goes and stands in that water witha big plastic picture in his hands,
like a big lemonade pitcher. He'sjust standing there catching those fish as they
jump and catching more of them thanmake it back into the water. It

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almost looks like it's quite funny.I mean, I don't know. Maybe
Scott will put it on his Facebookpage, or if he doesn't, I
probably will. It's pretty crazy.Aaron weighing in, You're right, were
fishing on the first bar, castingto the second gut, never needed to
get into the water higher than kneelevel catching and see and the guys standing

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on the second bar were not allfish caught by first hour after sunrise.
Floor carbon leader really helps, Yes, it does, especially in that clear
water. Those fish can see everythingright now, Yes they can. And
Captain Scott made a good point aboutit how now suddenly the water is clear

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and people are seeing a lot moresharks. I agree with him that though
most of those sharks are there allthe time, most of them are the
bigger ones, though I think willcome closer to shore now that the waters
that clear. They tend to Ifeel like anyway, they tend to kind
of hold back a little bit.The little ones, the little black tips

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and stuff are in there every day. They're all around you. It's nothing
to be scared of. The Igonna come bite you there, far more
concerned with things that they know orfood. And unless you're unless you're wearing
glitter all over your body or you'vegot on shiny jewelry, that's something that
I wouldn't wear in the surf hereas a rule, because any flicker of

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light might look like the light reflectingoff of fish scales, and that might
induce a bite, especially if you'reover on the East Coast and you're swimming
around with gold chains and bracelets andwhatnot. In addition to I would probably
be I'd be more concerned for abarkuta bite than a shark bite over there.

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And even here, no Spanish Macel'snot gonna bite you. They're smarter
than that, I hope. I'mnot sure. Yeah, one way or
the other. You're gonna see.If you want to see what's in the
water and Galveston, go down theretoday or tomorrow or Monday and just sit
on the beach with supolarized sunglasses andreally pay attention to what's out there out

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there, and stand waist deep andjust see what swims by you be real
still. You'll see fish come right, just right, nuzzling up next to
you and passing on through. It'sa fantastic time to visit the beach and
see what the Gulf of Mexico reallycan look like after despite eons of silt

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being deposited along this coast by theMississippi River and shallowing our piece of the
Gulf. When it does lay downand when it does settle out and you
get a nice onshore flow of breezeor no breeze at all, and let
the tides flush all the goo outof there, it's an absolutely gorgeous piece

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of water. It is chamber ofcommerce time. There are people down there
shooting for the chamber of commerce rightnow. Everybody on the beach, they're
all happy, they're all splashing inthe water. This beautiful clear water.
Yeah, that's what it's supposed tolook like. And when you can catch
it like that, it's just it'sjust borderline magical. Borderline magical. Seven

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one three two one two five sevenninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
Oh, I did mean to mentionearlier, but I'll do it now.
Over on the East coast, notanywhere near us. We saw yesterday,
anyway, was the first day I'veseen it, the first yellow X

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on the National Hurricane Center map,and I thought, oh boy, what's
going on here? But even yesterdaythis thing was off the Carolina coast,
the Carolina's coast, not very far, maybe fifty one hundred miles tops yellow
X. And I looked up atthe description of it, ten percent chance
of it doing or becoming anything reallyother than a windy, rainy day.

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And I looked again this morning tomake sure that they were right, and
they were. In fact, thisthing has gotten close enough to land now
that its opportunity to develop has beenreduced to zero, So it's still a
thing over there. It's still,I guess, a depression that bears watching

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by their guidelines, but it's kindof enohing to see here, and I'm
glad. I don't like the Idon't like any of that. The prediction,
by the way, for this yearis, for whatever it's worth,
for a normal hurricane season, anormal tropical storm development season, which I
think means about twelve to fifteen namedstorms, And for once, I kind

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of hope they're right, because thatwouldn't be as bad as some of the
ones we've had lately, where youhad to go into the Greek alphabet to
continue naming things. That's kind ofmessed up, whatever it is. If
you're anywhere near my age and you'velived here most of your life as I

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have, you've been through enough hurricaneseasons to know that they're gonna come and
go no matter how much you worryor how little you worry. The main
thing you need to do is justhave a plan on what conditions are gonna
encourage you to take off running awayfrom it, and what's gonna encourage you
to just hunker down and wait forit to pass. You run from water

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and you hide from wind. That'sbeen the old mantra for as long as
I can remember. If it's gonnaflood, get the heck out of there.
If it's just gonna be windy andcrazy and whatever a normal amount of
rainfall is, and there's no floodingexpected in your area, then ride it
out and be there to start patchingstuff up as soon as the sun shines

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again. I can't. I can't. I don't know how many hurricanes I've
endured. I really don't. Idon't know how many times I've sat there
and waited in the dark because Idon't have a generator, and I'm not
really sure I'm gonna get a generator, right, I'm kind of iffy about
I want to do it, butthere I have reasons to maybe not do

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it. I'll figure it out somedayseven one three two one two five seven
ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dotcom on this Memorial Day weekend edition of
the program. What a beautiful,beautiful set of weather we got coming up
here, I think, hold on, let me go check the official forecast.
What is that? Na man?When I had to I had to

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get Adam in here to work onmy computer, and I lost some of
the bookmarks I had pulled up.TikTok, TikTok. Let's go, come
on, computer. This is theslowest little laptop sometimes, all right.
The oh wow, they've upgraded thechance of rain on Monday now to forty
percent, which is still even lowerthan a fifty fifty shot. So don't

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get two worked up over that.I'm not sure where or how this popped
up, but I hope it popsaway. Just is fast. The good
news is it'll cool things down justa tad. If it does come through,
it looks like east northeast winds eastwind on Monday with that forty percent
chance of rain, so I geta hunch something's coming in from the northwest.

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Then an east northeast on Tuesday,also a forty percent chance, and
then we go to no rain againfor Wednesday, Thursday, Friday next week.
And the good news, even betternews, I guess, is that
there is no higher wind velocity expectedright through this entire week greater than ten
miles an hour. So if wecan kind of keep this little bit of

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calm spell here, I think allof us need to find a way to
get down to that beach and havea little fun catch some of those trout.
And we're not going to run outof trout. Don't worry about that.
Let's get down there. When youcan watch the tide schedule, look
for bait. Do that. Butif you'll be patient, if you sit
up on the seawall in Galaston sometimeand watch and you think, oh good,

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there's some little right there, I'llrun down there and jump in the
water and fish there. Well,by the time you get down there,
those little mullet schools will also havemoved up and down the beach, and
you just have to wait for thenext one. Everything's moving in that water.
Don't don't forget that. Don't justcamp out in one spot or do
don't be let me spit this outbefore I go to break. Don't be

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hesitant about wondering if you should moveor not. Let the fish come to
you. They will. They're outthere now. If you can pick out
one of those little guts between thebars and find that that's not a bad
idea to stay there even longer.That's they'll hold up in there. But
you stand there long enough in theright spot, you'll catch some fish.

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Bushit light, let me tell youabout that. It's by the time you
get down there and catch your limitedtrout and get back to the truck,
it might be that time might benew, be all right, and you
pop a top somewhere. Bush Light'sgot that cold and smooth taste, same
as it's always had, even thatsound that little Adam and I have worked

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on. This is it or cush? Which do you think? I like?
That first? Bush? Yeah,of course the bush. We gotta
go with the bouge. It's thesound of refreshment. I think this time
of year, it's an American stylelagger, crafted to deliver the rewarding finish
we've all come to know and love. So heading for the leg or the

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bay, the beach front, That'swhat I head for the beach right now.
Go catch yourself a limited trout andcelebrate with a cool bush light.
Enjoy responsibly, please, especially duringthis holiday weekend. Don't get out there
and do something stupid. Get Ifyou want to enjoy your pops, that's
great, but have somebody else who'snot doing the driving. Do not drink

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and drive. That's just messed up. Enjoy your beverages responsibly. Twenty twenty
three, Annhuser Bush Buhlightmare, SaintLouis, Missouri. This is Sports Talk
seven ninety day Houston sports Fan onair and on Facebook. Contact. Back
to the Doug Fight show Man.That's an old song. Holy cow,

(58:16):
trying about my age. It's actuallyit's not quite much. I'm gonna guess
like sixty seven, sixty eight.Maybe I it doesn't stay right here,
but well, are you tangled upin her? I guess I want to
say it came on the fifties.There the fifties, yet it might have
been. I don't know. I'mnot that old. Seven on three two

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one two five seven nine. Emailme, Doug Pocket. iHeartMedia dot Com.
Let's go to the phone show.What's going on, Robert? What's
up, buddy? How you doing? Oh? Man? Wishing I was
on the island. Hey, youknow, I'm unfortunately I'm to go do
a job for the Coast Guard inHouston before Oh no, all right,
you know, you know some ofus have to work on the weekend.

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It's just like you, right,yeah, there go, you get your
licks in. Oh I will,I definitely will this weekend. Hey,
I just sent you a couple ofpictures from buddy of mine that I went
fishing with the other night. Hedefinitely had a lot better luck than night
than I did when I went withhim. But he fished the same spot.
He was off off off a welllit pier out there, and uh,

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man, man, they lit,they smoked them reds man, Holy
cow, I'm looking at it.Yeah, Oh my gosh, there big
and he said he said that,he said that him and his wife went
so But anyways, I just wantedto keep your call. Yeah, I've
been uh checking my little light outback. Unfortunately, I saw a big
old guard again. I'm trying toget that guard, just to get him

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out of the way. He ishe as much as nobody wanted to catch
one. I'm telling you, I'mjust trying to get him so you get
him away from It's personal, isn'tit. He's made it personal. He
just standing in your in the middleof your law and just just rolling in
it. Man. But I'm prettysure I saw a couple of little specks

(01:00:02):
last night. Yeah, And uhso they're showing up. They're showing up.
Throw something a little you know,throw a very light, very little
jig or something like that. OrI'll I'll try and find I think I
have a couple in the garage.I'll try and find a little um,
little imitation um glass meadow that youcan make out of a big pen body.

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And I think I have some inthe garage. And man, they
smoke those little trout under the lights. Really. Yeah. Take take a
clear big pen and cut it ata forty five degree angle about midway down
the body, and then you threada little floor carbon through there, and
you tie a treble hook to oneend, and you put a little barrel

(01:00:47):
swivel on the front end and justthen shoves go to the hobby lobby and
get some of that metallic pipe cleanerand put a Yeah, there's there's all
kinds of ways you can customize thosethings, but they're just they'll smoke them
in the lights. Well, wellwe'll have to give that a job on
the list. But yeah, youwant to tell you, you know,

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just I'm sure you probably already said. If not, I know you will
today. But hopefully everybody that's goingto be spinning outdoors on the water raises,
hopefully they're safe today in this weekend. And uh, you know,
we don't need to be seeing anynews with any tragic no. Yeah,
I'm with you, man. Ifyou if you want to have a couple
of pops, go ahead, butget somebody else to do the driving exactly

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so well, I have a goodone, buddy. Be safe. Yeah
you too. You're gonna be onthe road, man, be careful,
yes sir, all right, audios, Okay, moving on, man,
I just I keep getting drawn backto the surf, But the surf is
not the only place there there arebeing There are lots of trout being caught

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up and down the Coast Bay fishing'sbeen generally good and getting better, And
the last couple of times i've talkedto Cliff web down there in Corpus,
he and I have had some reallygood conversations about how the fishermen down there,
especially the guides, have realized thatthe value of that fishery, especially

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in that area, because of thereputation it has for producing big trout,
that's greater than the value of fiveon the cutting board on the cleaning table.
And they're all kind of self imposinga little bit stricter limits on what

(01:02:37):
fish they'll bring home to eat,if any, for their customers, and
encouraging their customers to let those biggerfish go. Because Cliff's got records that
go back twenty something years maybe more, almost a daily diary, and I
overheard him saying this morning, actuallydown the dial, that what's missing right

(01:03:01):
now is that really big class offish, the thirty inch plus fish twenty
nine thirty thirty one, thirty two. That's the fish that he and I
encountered when I got down there onthat ridiculously crazy end of January trip so
many years ago. Now, wehad we had five fish over thirty inches

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long and about two hours of fishing. That's crazy, and it's not Those
weren't the only five fish we caughteither. The rest were seven eight nine
pounds, so all but just bigtoads, and those fish are kind of
missing right now. But they arecatching a lot of fish in the twenty
seven, twenty six, twenty eight, twenty nine inch class, and if

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people will just let them go,in a year, all of a sudden,
that whole class of fish he's gonnagraduate into that twenty eight to thirty
inch class. And what could bebetter for Baffin Bay, What could be
better for the Corpus Christi area thanto have that many more fish in that

(01:04:10):
class still in the water. Ithink that the era of fishermen generally who
wanted to bring back every big fishthey caught is kind of gone away,
and we replace it with people whoreally truly understand that the value of those

(01:04:31):
really big fish is in pictures.Take a picture of the thing, post
it on your Facebook page, postedon Instagram, Twitter, wherever you want
to post it. But let thatfish go. And we're seeing a lot
more now that we have phones thattake video, phones that take really high
quality pictures we're seeing a lot moreof that because you do have a permanent

(01:04:54):
record of that fish. Sidebar.I caught a big bash yesterday and I
wanted to take a picture of itbecause I didn't know how long it was.
So I laid it down just brieflyin the grass next to my rod,
and I grabbed my phone and Iturned on the camera and I stood
straight over the thing, and justas I pushed the button, that fish

(01:05:15):
flipped up on its back just fora second, and then it fell back
over. But that's when I shotthe picture. And when it flipped on
its back, I noticed that mylittle crank bait had come out of its
mouth. And then it flipped onemore time and right back into the lake.
So handy release. The only partof the fish I actually touched was
its lip to place it where Idid grab my phone, and now I've

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got this. It looks like justa white blob with fins. It looks
like the back of a white coyor something. I don't know, but
it's the belly of that bass.And this fish was all day six maybe
seven pounds, somewhere in that classor really nice. When I wanted to
show pictures of it to a friend, and I'm also gonna measure the length

(01:06:03):
against my rod there and see howlong that fish was, because I feel
like it was probably twenty one twentytwo. Maybe it was a big last
bit. It was the last castI was gonna make, the last fish
I was gonna catch yesterday, andthen it was time to go to the
house and paid off pretty well.That's why I always make one more cast.

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It's just incredible. I'll tell myself, like, I really got to
get home now. I gotta goahead and spool it up and go back
in and get to the house.But I got this one other spot I
gotta check real quick. Just acouple of casts and I looked, now,
I'll be there ten minutes, twelveminutes. Caught some good ones yesterday.
Didn't see my alligators. I haven'tseen them in a while. I'm

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sure they're there. There were twoalligators that have been interrupted twice in moments
of intimacy, once by me andonce by another guy that I played golf
with out there. We've seen thema couple of times doing what they do
this time year. Hopefully they don'tbite anybody. They just looked disturbed and

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bothered when we come around. Thereis actually one of them, though.
That's becoming a little more comfortable aroundpeople. I admittedly I was kind of
messing with him the other day andsplashing a spinner bait off his nose,
and he started chasing it and cameto within about six feet of me.

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I may post that picture. Thealligator is not big, he's only about
five and a half six feet long, but he had no problem coming up
to about maybe I don't know,ten feet from me. He was very
aggressive, and Adam wants me totake a break. The boatyard down there
in Kima on five eight. Teamwould love for you to swing by there
today and take a look at anew boat or a pre owned both.

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They've got both standing out there onthe right and facing the highway, so
you can get a good look athim as you drive by. Pull in.
Take a look at the Tahatsu outboardsthey've gotten down there. Take a
look at their electronics tatsuits. Bythe way, not a household name here
yet, but they've moved into NorthAmerica very comfortably and confidently. They've been

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powering boats around the world for along long time. They got those up
to two hundred and fifty horsepower downthere. They've got power poles, they've
got trolling motors, they've got allthe electronics. They've got light bars and
speakers if you want to deck yourboat out like a Mardi Gras float.
Great place to go, Great peopledown there. JT runs the place,
Mark runs a service department. Hecan help you with just about anything you

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need done to that boat of yours. They even do their own fiberglass work
at the boatyard. Good people.They've got a handful of lures in there.
If you want to just make ita ready set go trip, go
see them. Good people. EaglesBoatyard dot com. Eagles Boatyard dot com.
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We'll get that information to them fromthem. This is the Doug Fights.
Gotta be seventies, just gotta be. Who is that? Fleelwood MC
nineteen seventy seven. Gosh, nevergoing back again. That did just sounded
like the music I grew up with, And I wasn't really familiar with the
song. I'm sure I've heard itbefore, but I wasn't familiar with it

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just then. And um, yeah, there you go. Let me refresh
this win. I'm just so excited, but I may drive to the beach
this afternoon. I just might refresh. Take a look. Let's see if
we can find a big gusty problemsomewhere. Oops. Nope, it's actually
gotten up to ten miles an hourdown there at Port Ransas and Corpus eleven

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miles an hour at Wildcat, whichis I don't know, somewhere up inshore
from Port Ransas. That's about it. No more double digits on this map.
And this map goes all the wayup through the Galveston Bay System where
I'm looking right now. Take alook at Louisiana. They don't have anything
any worse either. Boy, it'sjust a nice, relaxing, calm,

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beautiful day. A lot of zeroson this map too, I always I
don't know about zero zero dead calmcan be a little tricky for fishing,
just a little bit at least,But better that than blowing forty I guess
if you have to go to oneextreme or the other. Yeah, it's

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just good stuff up and down thecoast right now. So if you can
go go ahead and go and evenif you don't catch any fish today,
you will at least been able tosay you saw the Gulf of Mexico in
its finest form, in its mostbeautiful form. Yeah, I'm looking at

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pictures from surfside. There's actually alittle bump of a swell coming from somewhere.
And I'm not talking about go grabyour surfboard and wax it up.
I'm talking about maybe a foot highwave out on the second bar. So
I'm guessing the tide is pretty lowright now from where that wave is breaking
and how small it is, Otherwiseit just wouldn't break seven one three two

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one two five seven ninety Email meDougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I found
a couple of just kind of sillythings that I will inject here. For
example, here's here's something that Ifind really ridiculous and misleading. Says here's
seventy five percent of us will dosomething for Memorial Day weekend. And then

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it continues. Backyard barbecues are themost common activity. And it dawns on
me that everybody, every man,woman, and child in the world will
do something this weekend. They mightsit around the house. That's something.
So yeah, I just have towonder who comes up with all this stuff

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and why they do even if evenif that something is do nothing, that's
ultimately doing something. You choose tosit on the couch. That's what you
are doing. So that's a falsestatistic. Adam, can you talk?
No, you're busy now he's talkingto somebody else. I'll give you this

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one real quick, and I'll scratchmy head on this one as well.
Firefighters in Ohio had to rescue somebody'spet squirrel from a tree this week.
Wouldn't it be quite the prank?And don't do this because it would just
be a horrible waste of public servicesand important people's time and efforts. If

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you were to in my neighborhood,almost anybody in my neighborhood could call the
fire department and say, hey,come rescue my pet squirrel from a tree
outside, And no matter when theystopped, if they looked up in a
tree, they'd see a squirrel.Yeah that's the one. Yeah, that's
my squirrel right there, Go gethim. How do they know it's somebody's

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pet squirrel? I don't know.I don't care. Hey George, what's
up man? Hey, good morning, Doug. Happy memorials that we can
Uh. And hey, I justwant to speak towards the conservation, what's
happening down in South Texas where they'vechanged their rigs and and hopefully we could
eventually we'll all be back on thesame page. And you know, I'm

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in the Uh, I'm kind ofI favor that slot limit that they have
down there actually because you and youcan we can point to it. Now
we have something we can point towardthat we can see. You know that
that you know, it makes adifference. And you know, we learned
a lot of things from the bassfisherman, you know. And that's one
thing. It's we're we're learning moreand more. We're transferring that I think

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to the saltwater and we've made greatstrides I think right here in our local
fisher Guison Bay, you know.And uh. Anyway, so and it's
it's a matter of awareness, Doug. It's about awareness and also your experience.
See the thing about the croaker fisheryman, to me, that was
like a bay snapper if we couldbring them back with those golden croakers,

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you know. But if you don'thave that, if you don't have the
experience a pound for pound, houncefor ounce and probably one of the best
fighters. Sure, they're all theDrum family, and I like you said,
it's tasty. I mean, oh, they were just it was such
a wonderful specie. And you know, I've been wanting to make him a
game fish for a well over adecade. So anyway, that's all I

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wanted to point towards, say,you know, and then I appreciate your
program, man, thank you forbeating that drum because I think, you
know, hey, the future isgonna the future is brightened my opinion.
You know, it's up to us. And but we all got to be
a part of the solution, youknow, And it all begins with you
know, it's about putting putting thingsahead of your own ego, man.

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And that's a big that's a boldstep in the right direction towards awareness.
Yes, sir, let's see.Yeah, that's some there's some good points
made right there. And the egopart is has been satisfied, I think
in most parts. And some peopleuse photographs to show the dead fish on

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the deck or on the cleaning table. Some people use photographs to show the
release of a big trout. Butthe opportunity to take that good a picture.
That high quality photograph has I believeencouraged a lot of people to go
ahead and snap the picture on thewater. It's such a much better photograph,

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frankly, on the water out whereyou were catching fish. It's such
a better photograph on the bay.And if you're if you're so scared that
somebody else might find your secret spotwhere you caught fish today and and there'll
be a million boats on it tomorrow, fine, just use your little editing
tool and blot out the scenery inthe background. But believe me, there

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are no secrets anymore. There areno hideaways, there's no there's no place
you can go anywhere in public waterthat you're making the first footprints in the
sand. Okay, So don't don'tthink that you have to make your place
where you caught a fish today asecret. It doesn't matter. Somebody saw

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you there, somebody was there theday before yesterday. Just let them.
Let them do their thing and learnmore spots, and you won't have to
worry about that stuff. That's whygood guides don't care if you take all
the pictures you want when they're onyour boat, when you're on their boats,
because they know if a bunch ofpeople are in that spot tomorrow,
they'll they'll just move to their nextspot. They won't have any problem with

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that someone three two one two fiveseven ninety Email me Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot
com. I do genuinely, Ithink, for the first time in a
long time, really see the thetied turning, so to speak, in
great favor of conservation. We arenot killing nearly so many fish. And

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I think the beauty of it isthat the people who are most capable of
producing limits of fish. If youtake five ft five people and put them
in a boat, or four people, you put them in a boat,
and you send them out to gocatch speckled trout. If not one of
those people has a ton of experience, the best they're going to come back

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with his four or five trout,maybe a half a dozen. If one
or two of those people have someexperience, they might get ten or twelve
fish for the day. If oneof those guys is a professional guide,
though they're all, they have afar higher likelihood of catching a full limit

(01:17:55):
of trout, a far higher likelihoodof catching a full limit. And now
the question becomes, what do theydo with those fish? And if they're
not keeping those fish, then they'vehad a great experience fishing, but they
haven't taken any fish out of theresource. And that's where that's where I

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see the best, the best lookat a good future for this trout fishery
especially and redfish and everything. Redfishare blowing up. They're doing really well.
It's so much easier to recover thembecause you can grow them out so
much better than trout which eat eachother up there, highly cannibalistic, those

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rascals. Boy, if only ifonly trout were as cooperative and easy to
grow out as redfish, we wouldhave I don't know how many can in
twelve and thirteen pound trout swimming aroundout there by Now it doesn't happen that
way. Pardon me, all right, we do need to take a little
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Talk seven ninety Houston Sports Online atsportsnet dot com. Back back to the
Doug bike show. What on earthis this? Now? This is back?
This is definitely at least fifties,maybe even forties. I'm guessing.
Yeah, I think so. Itsays uh eighty seven and the comments and
I know that now. No,I can't see that as being released in

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the eighties. That just doesn't goalong with who were some of the hot
bands in the eighties, you know, twenty years before you were born an
ac DC queen? Yeah, yeah, queen. I listened to a lot
of Queen. That was good stuff. That was good. Seven three two
one two five seven nine. Emailme, Dougpocket. iHeartMedia dot Com.
Let's go talk to Jeff Sholly.What's up, Jeff Marning. I don't

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know if it's a happy memorial thatit seems to be kind of a contradiction
in terms. Yes, I knowhow I feel, and I've been guilty
of this myself, but we're aboutthe same age. Do you remember when
it was it was celebrated appropriately,maybe during the Cold War and people were
thinking about the tomb of the unknownsoldiers or something else, or their local

(01:21:40):
air force or army. Guys,what where did we where did we lose
our way? On? Well?I was talking to Adam about this during
the break Actually, and what's happenedis that we've got a generation and a
half, maybe two generations, whohave really not experienced great loss to war.
The last really great laws that wesuffered was Vietnam. And so all

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of us knew somebody or in mygeneration and yours grew up with our fathers
fought in World War Two. Sowe all knew somebody either a father or
an uncle or both actually went towar and fought that war and came back.
Some came back, some didn't.And that it's the ones who didn't

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come back who we are supposed torecognize this weekend. And I think some
people get it mixed up with VeteransDay, when everybody gets recognized. But
this Memorial Day, I agree withyou, is to honor those who actually
gave their lives for this country.And it does reserve or it does deserve

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more respect than I think some peoplegive it. It's just a it's just
oh it's a holiday, yeah,Memorial Day. That's it's just like Rainbow
Day or Macaroni Day. They justdon't understand. And it's hard to harn't
really blame them because they they haven'tbeen. First of all, they're not
being taught anything about our military there. Nobody's talking about that, and so

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they don't know. They just don'tunderstand, and it's hard to fault them
for it. And it's hard toI don't want to sit down every person
in their twenties and try to lecturethem for an hour about military history,
about chance result or something, yeah, something, But yeah, they just
don't get training. Accident's where theseguys don't get enough credit. We talk
about school shootings more than we dothat, and I'm not going to get

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into that. But there was abad accident with some helicopters in Alaska.
Nobody's survived that. I think therewas eight lost. Yeah, and it's
just they're just trying to just tryingto learn to be better and sometimes the
training goes wrong. You're the onlyone who would have just who would discuss
any of this in contact. Iappreciate it. That's why I called my
pleasure. Thank you so much,Thank you, yes, sir, see
Jeff. Yeah, that's um,just a quick reminder. Memorial Day is

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to honor the memory of all thosepeople we had that call earlier about I
believe it was a grandfather or anuncle who was the pilot of one of
the boats that was moving people ashoreand one of those in beach landings in
World War two and had to madeit, but had to experience the death

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that happened right before his eyes whenhe would lower that gate and bullets just
came flying in. And so manypeople died in those things that never really
even got a chance to fight.They were they knew what they were going
into, they knew what their chancesof survival were, and they still went

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and they still fought and ultimately wonthat war. It's not always, it's
not always easy to make a sacrificelike that, And just at least at
some point this weekend, if you'reyoung, if you're if you don't really
understand that, maybe just look itup and spend five minutes, spend five

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minutes educating yourself about what Memorial Dayreally stands for, and then go on
out and enjoy the fun that you'reable to have because so many people did
make that sacrifice. I don't wantto lecture anybody, especially on a weekend
when the conditions are so good tobe outside, but just while you're out
there, just take a minute atsome point and just kind of stand quietly

(01:25:34):
and just pay a silent moment ofrespect to the people who made it possible
for you to do whatever the heckyou want to do today, because that's
what you can do. Seven onethree two one two five seven ninety Email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.I will shift gears one hundred and eighty
degrees and give you just something alittle silly to think about a topic of

(01:25:57):
conversation at some point today. Ifyou want to bring it up about how
some people in some states just don'tseem to get it and I don't,
Adam, I want you to explainto me why it would be that.
In Georgia, Okay, in Georgia, the Department of Drivers Services is in

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print reminding people that when they're gettingtheir ID photographs taken that they should and
I quote take pictures with your clotheson end quote why on earth and who
on earth would take a picture unclothedfor a driver's license? And I actually

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somebody actually came up with the firstthing that comes to my mind is pretty
raunchy and weird and not good,But somebody actually said yesterday, I wonder
if it's guys who work out alot in the gym taking pictures with their
shirts off and flexing their muscles,I think maybe, may I want to

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believe that that's what it is andnot what I was taking. Yeah,
well that makes more sense, doesn'tit. Though? Do they take their
own pictures? I guess they getto bring it like a passport photo.
Maybe so they're doing it alone inthe bedroom. They don't naked. Oh
lord, I don't want them tobe anywhere anyhow. Well, yeah,

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they apparently they get to put theirown picture in there. Okay, this
is something that just very quickly beforewe go to the top of the our
break. One more thing. Iread that a lot of people think,
especially your age, people are talkingin fake British accents now when they get

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flustered or whatever. Do you dothat or do you know anybody who does
that? I nor do anyone Iknow panic and start speaking in a British
accent. It says here that youngpeople are especially calm, and one in
five actually Americans think they're fake Britishaccent is good enough to fool an actual
British person. I think that onein five is kidding themselves now I do

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know people that have told me that, and then I heard their accent and
I was like you, yeah,no a little bit. No, it's
no way. Yeah, anyone wouldbelieve that you might be able to get
away with it in a Cheeto's commercialor something like that, but now you're
not going over to Great Britain andjust walking down the street whatever. I'm
not even gonna do it. Icould probably, I could fake it and

(01:28:35):
it sound like an American with atrying to speak with a British accent.
But that's as close as I think. I'm not gonna fool myself into thinking
I could fool someone from Great Britain. I know some people from Great Britain
and they wouldn't. No. No, let's go ahead and take this break.
We'll come back with the nine o'clockhour, third and final hour of

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the program this morning. After thisbreak. On the way out, don't
have to do anything. Oh good, I can just go straight to it.
That gives you time to get thisbreak done on time. And if
management's listening, yeah, we prettymuch hit all of these breaks on time.
We'll be back more of The DougPike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety
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Thank you all very much for listening. Adam and I were kind of having

(01:29:41):
a laugh during the break. Iwas telling him about a story I threw
out before we get I'll get tothem. I'll get to the golf tournament
in just a minute. Hold on, I got to move something over here.
I stand by one second, please, if you don't mind, I
gotta do that, and I'm gonnago here. Get this going and there.
That's taking air of So. Iwas telling him about a bride who

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made made some decisions about her budgetand how many how much food she could
afford for the hundred guests who've beeninvited to the wedding, and rather than
go through a caterer where she wasbeing told it was going to cost her
about seventy five bucks a person,She's having Chilies cater her wedding for less

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than two grand for less than twentybucks a person. They're all going to
get nice meals. And I don'tknow how she's doing that. Adam suggested
new Foods Knob. You said thatwasn't cool, and you suggested where Chick
fil A, to which I responded, So the first dance can be the
chicken dance. Be perfect. Itwould all tie right in. We're a

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big feathery wedding gown and just strutright out there like a big old chicken.
I don't know. Look, ifChick fil A's good enough for the
White House, it's good enough forthe wedding. Well, yeah, that's
a very good point, Adam,that's a very good You know what else?
What we haven't done today is playedthe Texas Temperature Game. And I've
got Oakhurst golf to give away,so we might want to do that.

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Let's see if we can get somebodyon the phone seven one three two one
two five seven ninety if you wantto if you want to try to win
a foursome of golf two Oakhurst,you and your buddies. There are some
restrictions on the certificate, but they'reeasy to get around it. Just grab
three buddies, and make one ofthem drive, because you're paying for the
golf, after all. Make oneof them drive, Make one of them

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pay for the first couple of roundsof beers, and and go have yourself
a good time at a good golfcourse. Seven one three, two,
one two five seven ninety Looking atthe Charles Schwab Challenge up at Colonial the
see hold on, let me getthe full leaderboard up here. I just
never have liked the way this wholething stands. I got to move in

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here close where I can read itthe like in two point type. Harry
Hall actually jumped out. He's attwelve under part through two rounds. He
shot a sixty two on Thursday.That'll kind of help your cause. Goes
eight under part against a part ofseventy there and then a sixty six on
Friday. Harris English is at nineall alone. I Mariana, Emiliano Grillo

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at eight all alone, seven underpart. That'd be Adam Shank, Robbie
Shelton and bionghun On, Andrew Novak, Scottie Scheffler, Austin Eckrod No.
Austin's at five. The five's in. We'll see he got two more rounds
to make up some time. Okay, going down. If you'll remember Mikey,

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you remember Michael Block, the guywho made such a splash, such
a big splash at the PGA,and man, he got himself a top
fifteen. He's going back next year. I think we're maybe three years going
back to that tournament. Well,he got an invite to play in the

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Colonial, and unfortunately for him.I don't know whether I don't know what
happened, I really don't, buthe shot eighty one seventy four. I
think it just I think it allkind of caught up with him, and
for whatever reasons, he just didn'tfarewell. And I'm not I'm not taking

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anything away from the guy, notanything at all away from the guy,
because what he did at the PGAwas just spectacular. He was in an
unknown arena to him and now heearned every dime he's gonna make off of
that. But this just wasn't hisweek. And you know what that happens
to all of those tour players,it does. They don't all make it

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in all right, we got oh, we got somebody ready to go.
Huh, let's go see what wecan do with him. Hey, Tracy,
there he is, Hey, howare you? Oh I'm good.
Hey, I'm trying to win thisfor my son. He's in his late
twenties, so he wants to die. Oh okay, well we can see
what we can do. I havein front of me here. Let me
go ahead and get that map backup. Stand by it. There it

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is. I had the tournament stuffup. Okay, I have in front
of me the I'm gonna actually doa refresh to make sure anything nothing's changed.
Okay, that's well, there isactually changed, so I'm gonna adjust
my numbers accordingly. Okay. Doyou want to go first or do you
want to go second? Well,you jump at the gun. I got

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the met Oh what it's right?Good heavens we can't hide. We'll find
out on the Texas Temperature game.Hide yours cold? Okay? Can we
start in hell? Let's do that. Okay, Tracy? Do you want

(01:34:46):
to go first or second? I'llgot second. Okay, Adam, What
do you think is the current lowtemperature in the state of Texas. Oh,
I'm I'm going with fifty fifty.Tracy, what do you think is
the current low temperature in the stateof Texas? Sixty sixty. All right,
Adam, what do you think isthe current high temperature in the state

(01:35:09):
of Texas. I'll see eighty three. Eighty three, Tracy, what do
you think is the current high temperaturein the state of Texas? Eighty eight.
Oh, it's gonna be close.That would be that. Okay,
we're gonna have to make a newrule, Adam. If you get within
one of you, then you win. So the current low is actually fifty

(01:35:33):
seven degrees. Adam, you missedit by seven. Tracy jumped out pretty
good with a three degree difference.The current high is just seventy nine,
so you're eighty three. Got youat four, and Tracy thought it was
way hot. I'm kind of surprisedactually that it's not hotter than seventy nine
right now. But this light windand apparently just a little bit of change.

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There's some sixties, let's see.Yeah, there's a lot of sixties
in the hill country, but everythingalong the coast so far today is in
the mid seventies. And at seventynine, I'm looking forward, I'm not
sure where it is seventy seven inGalveston. So you only lost by one
degree. Tracy, and I guess. We're just gonna make that good enough.

(01:36:18):
I'll say, yeah, I madenew rules every week basically, So
we're gonna send your son, Iguess, and three of his buddies to
oak Hurst. You gotta come byand pick up the certificate. That's all
we ask of you, and Adamwill get your information. Thank you for
playing this morning. Thank you.You're quite welcome. All right, let

(01:36:41):
me put her back on hold.You do that, Adam. I don't
want to mess it up. Thatwas kind of fun. That was close,
and she gets all kind of yeah, she gets credit for taking us.
Well, I don't know why herson didn't do it. Why didn't
she let yes, she should havemade him do it. Sink or swim
kid three years old. I thinkas you said, he was. They'll

(01:37:02):
have fun up there. It's agreat golf course when they're there. If
anytime any of you goes to ohKhurst, be sure to ask for say
ask for yeah, just ask forDavid. David Preisler is a guy who
owns a place. He's one ofthe nicest guys I've ever known in my
entire life. Would give you theshirt off his back. Kind of I'm
the same way with my friends.If you need something and I've got it,

(01:37:25):
I'll help you out with it.I don't have a problem with that.
That's why I like kind of givingaway these certificates the way I do.
It's a game we play, andit's I think I've given one or
two players who just missed it bya mile the boot and said sorry,
play again next time. But mostly, if you get pretty darn close,
I'll find a way. I'll finda way to declare you a winner.

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Don't worry about that. Seven onethree two one two five seven ninety Email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.I speaking of golf, I'll stick with
it for a minute. I've gota couple of minutes to this break.
So I saw this great tip.I thought this great short game tip on
TV the other day, and Ithought, there it is. There's what
I'm doing wrong. This is whatI need to change to get it right.

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I'm gonna try this. I'm gonnaincorporate this into my short game.
And for two straight days I spentmore time than ever at a short game
area where I practice a lot overat Blackhawk, trying to master that little
swing change. And after two straightdays of trying to master that short game

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play, I blew it off.I just couldn't make it work, and
I told myself I'd go back towhat I'd been doing for the last twenty
years. That wasn't horrible. Itkind of comes and goes all hits,
stretches where I can't miss, andstretches where I can't hit a short shot.

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But I'm in kind of the middleright now and it's it's not horrible,
and I have I've figured out howit works for me and that I
think it just That's kind of whatI'm trying to say, is you got
to find something that works for you, because not every shot. Now,
at the highest level of pros,a lot of their short game stuff is
very similar because they hit one hundredand fifty two hundred, three hundred balls

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a day and they've dialed it in. But for you and me, you
got to figure out what works foryou and just go with it. And
that's I'm gonna go back to myold stuff, and if it works,
it works, and if it doesn't, it doesn't. But at least I
know I'm comfortable over the ball tryingto make that swing. Same with my

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sand game. Tommy O'Brien over thereat Blackhawk has got my son doing something
very different than how I learned bunkerplay. And I've tried his way,
and I can see how it mightwork for somebody who's starting fresh. But
my habits are so ingrained that it'sit's virtually impossible for me to totally,

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at my age, just completely relearnhow to ride the bicycle. I've been
riding the bicycle for a long longtime, and I'm just gonna keep peddling
the way I've peddled. There aresome things that Tommy has taught my son
that have really worked, especially inmy driver's swing and my full swings.

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But my short game stuff that's justso so sensitive and it's so personal that
I don't think I can make thosechanges. I'm not that good. All
right, We're gonna take a littlebreak here on the way out, I'll
tell you about black Horse Golf Clubup there off Fry Road, just a
little way south of two ninety,one of my favorite places for so many
years. I've played there so manytimes, even for tournaments, for just

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because I had an extra half ofan afternoon to give up and wanted to
go play golf somewhere. I knewI could get on up there. They've
got two courses. Even when they'repretty crowded. Usually if you're just one
or two of you, they'll sneakyou out there pretty quick by the time
it takes you to hit a fewballs and get ready to play. Got
a great teaching staff at the farend of the range, led by Marty

(01:41:08):
Fleckman, who's been around forever.He's one of them. I think it's
only two people who who won thefirst PGA Tour event they ever entered.
He's got a lot of great storiesto tell. If you have time,
whether it's just you and a buddy, or you got two hundred people needing
to raise money for a good charity, black Horse can take care of you.
Got a great grill too, forbefore or after you go out and

(01:41:30):
play. Black Horse Golf Club dotCom. They're on Fried Road, just
a little ways south of two ninety. Very easy to find, very fun
to play. Black Horse Golf Clubdot Com. Eight Are you ready listen
online at sports dot com now more? Doug Fike. That sounds like a

(01:41:51):
chicken. Damn, I guess Ithink about it. It's about his goofy
equal goofy factor seven one three twoone two five seven ninety Email me,
dougpick At, iHeartMedia dot Com.I've got to go check emails real quick.
I haven't done it in a while, and I apologize. I had
to run down the hall and grabsomething off a printer. Okay, oh

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oh, where is this? Itlooks like a mule deer actually in the
picture that David just first glance,I'm gonna guess it's a mule deer,
and he's talking about it being biggerthan any white tail we have. The
white tails we have in Texas getpretty darn big in certain parts of the
state. If you're referencing hill countrydeer, then yeah, they're about the

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size of a German shepherd, andthere are dogs bigger than hill country deer.
But if you're talking about extreme SouthTexas or extreme North Texas, then
yeah, there are some pretty darnbig white tails. So I would have
to know where that picture was taken. It's a bucking velvet, and so

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I'm not sure who knows where,And it's just it's a photograph of quartering
away and it's just hard to tell. It's just hard to tell. Let
me do that. Billy wants toknow. Oh different, teb. Yeah,
I'm using the official Texas Temperature gametemperature map and that's all I can

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do. Um. So, yeah, we only have one captain. Scott
weighed in in your favorite Tracy.His thermometer. Where is the I can't
even see the mercury in this thermometer? Where is it? Oh? I
don't know what temperature it is downthere. It's kind of hard to tell.

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Okay, I yeah, she wonanyway, Scott, So it's okay.
Um, that's something I want toread about in just a minute.
Oh lord, holy cow, Scottsent me a picture. I got this
thing at eight thirty this morning.I apologize for not getting to it until

(01:44:12):
now. Scott of a gar caughtdown by this, says big guar from
our canal in Crystal Beach. Yeah, it is pretty big. Unless Scott
is three feet tall, which I'msure he's not. That guar is at
least seven feet long. That wouldbe my guests, and maybe even a

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little more, who knows. Dadgum looks like a dinosaur hanging there.
Pretty good, Well done, sir, well done indeed. Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety.Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
The temperature map that I'm using,just so you know, I'll see I

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don't know if I don't know ifI want to give it up, because
then somebody might go to it duringthe game and use it for ill gotten
gain. Now I'll just I'll keepthat one to myself. That's the official
Texas Temperature game on the Doug PikeShow Texas Temperature site, and we'll just
leave it at that. The picturethat came in, hold, there's an

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update from David. Let me checkdel Rio that's where that picture came from.
I would guess, yeah, I'mguessing mule deer that I think is
what I might be looking at.That's probably what it is, unless it's
might be an elk. Could itbe an elk? I'm not sure,

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all right? Sebone three two onetwo five seven ninety Email me Dougpike at
iHeartMedia dot com. Let's get backto fishing show. We holy call.
It's not deer season. It isgolf season. And but I'm no professional
instructor, so I don't want todeep dive too much into that except to
tell you that you can do likeTessa from over on the buzz is doing.

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And if you're brand new to golfnow, so I'll spend two minutes
on this. It's on a holidayweekend, a lot of people might be
thinking about it and playing maybe forthe first time even or at least going
to hit balls for the first time. And if you take a shine to
the game, which can follow youthrough your life as long as you're able,

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if you take a little bit oftime and a little bit in money
early on and invested in lessons toat least build a solid foundation, then
you will be much better prepared foreverything golf's gonna throw at you, whatever
can go wrong. This is Murphy'slaw in sport. Is golf just epitomized.

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If something can go wrong in golf, it's going to And that's everybody
from beginners up to tour level pros. Every now and then, the ball
and the club just don't want toget along, and they run away from
each other at impact act and youhit some horrible shot that you cannot possibly
explain, but you hit it andyou have to deal with it. The

(01:47:08):
best thing you can do is minimizeall that first by getting like I said,
some instruction, and I've talked toso many pros who have agreed with
me on this. When you buyyour first set of clubs, you can
buy them used, you can buythem brand new, whatever, but don't
spend a lot of money on them. Instead, maybe a beginner set if

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you are a beginner, or ifyou want something that seems something you a
name you recognize, if that makesyou feel comfortable by a used set of
those clubs, make sure they havedecent grips on them. That's critically important
to being able to swing the clubproperly. But other than that, just
something to get you in the game. And then when you can tell your

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instructor or you can tell me whybuying more expensive clubs would help your game,
and you really truly can make acase for it and understand the mechanics
behind it, then go buy thosebetter clubs. But until then, just
get out there and practice what yourinstructor has shown you. You go to

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the lesson. As soon as youleave that lesson, either go sit in
the car, or as soon asyou get home, make some notes.
Make some notes and keep them ina place where you can reference them anytime
you have trouble doing what the teacherwas telling you go back to it and
remember, by reading those notes whatyou were taught. That's going to make

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it a lot easier for you toget through. I referenced my brother in
law frequently in that regard, becausehe still has notes from This is a
guy who considered professional golf as acareer and ultimately chose law. And he
recognized at one point that he wasmaybe half a shot around away from being

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good enough to make the living hewanted to make on tour, so he
chose law. But he kept notesfrom every lesson he ever took, and
to this day, even as somebodyolder than sixty, he's still an exceptionally
good player, and he still referencesnotes from five, ten, fifteen,

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twenty years ago. When something inhis game doesn't seem right, he fixes
it by going back and reading whathe learned. Goss a fun game,
but it will frustrate you if youlet it. Oh, now I can
see it, Scott. Scott sentme another picture of the thermometer and he
actually got where I can read it. It's about eighty three degrees. It

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looks like down there in Port O'Connoreighty three. I don't remember what I
had. Whatever it was, though, is the official. I can't let
you have the official temperature down there, Scott. It might be higher low.
But I like the way you think, and I appreciate anything that can
help the contestant win. I'm allfor. So if any of you wants

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to challenge any reading I ever makethat keeps the contestant from winning, then
feel free to send me a messagereally quick and hope that I see it.
I might earn, might not.Most of the time, though,
with a wink in a odd they'regonna win. There's always some rule right
at them by which they'll win.There's always a new rule by which they'll

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win, the rule do jure.We'll call it the rule de jure.
In the Texas Temperature game. Ithink, what if we had like one
or maybe two people that were justso far off I couldn't possible. I
couldn't do it with a straight face. Somebody's got to somebody's got to carry
that burden of being so bad thateven I can't think of a reason to

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give them a certificate except that theycan play again sometime. I think you
didn't do it with a straight face, but you still give them the tickets.
Even then I think, really,I think you've given away everything.
Oh gosh, Well, then isn'tthat really though? Isn't that the object
of this It's fun and I wantit to stay fun. And I don't

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want anybody to have to walk awayfeeling like a loser because they're not.
They're listening to this show. Thatmakes them a winner in my eyes.
For sure. I appreciate that.I truly do all right. Seven one
three, two two five seven ninetyemail me dugpick at iHeartMedia dot com.
Let's go ahead and take this breakat the bottom, shall we, And
then when we come back, talka little bit more about fishing. We

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haven't talked at all about bass fishing, except when I laughed about that beast
I call yesterday. I'm gonna goback and look at the photograph on my
phone while we're in this break andsee if I can figure out about how
long that fish is based on whatI know about ros and reels and where
the real seat is and how muchdistance is between there and all whatever.

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If you are in the mood todo a little shooting this weekend, feel
free to run out to American shootingcenters that is the largest non military shooting
facility in the state of Texas,more than two hundred shooting stations. That
would be a lot of powder beingburned at one time, that's for sure.
They have three sporting clay's courses.They have five stands setups in several

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areas around the property. They haveI want to say, ten trap and
skeet fields. They have pistol startingat five yards and increasing in distance out
to the rifle ranges that go outto six hundred yards. There's a two
hundred and fifty yard pop up silhouetterange that's fun with your rim fire rifles

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and if you're not shooting as wellas you'd prefer. There is instruction available
in every shooting discipline. You canimagine everything from just basics brand new beginner
shooting two really intense maybe home safetystuff or long range rifle shooting. There's

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somebody in there who is specially trainedand professionally able to instruct you in breaking
more clay targets and hitting more bullseyes. All you gotta do is ask
a very safe, very fun placeto go enjoy the shooting sports. And
it's been there since the nineteen eighties. The guy who owns it now at

(01:53:27):
a Riggy, one of the nicestguys I know, and he truly turned
it into an amusement park for shootingenthusiasts. It's very easy to get around
there by yourself. Over on theclay target ranges, for example, you
don't have to have some kid comeout and pull targets for you. You
use tokens to get your targets going, and you and your friends can pull
them for yourself. American Shooting Centersdot Com is the website. They're on

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Highway They're no, They're on WestTimer Parkway between Katie and Highway six.
Very easy to find. You can'tmiss them out Their biggest, tallest stuff
standing up on There's a big buildingon top of a hill off. If
you'd be on the north side ofthe road between Katie and Highway six,
that's where you turn in American ShootingCenters dot com. American Shooting Centers dot

(01:54:15):
Com nine thirty four on Sports Talkseven ninety Who is that it's Dick Dale?
Didale I knew it? A Kingof the King of the Surf guitar?
Yes, Indeed, I was introducedto Dick Dale's music by none other
than Joe dogg At, the manwith whom I worked at the newspaper for
twenty three years. He put inthirty two I think it was, And

(01:54:38):
um, yeah, I didn't knowof Dick Dale because he was a little
bit before my time as a surfer. I was already listening to the rock
and roll stuff that got us toand from the beach when I came along
the Beach Boys, I like becausethe harmonies, but that was about it.
Everything else, especially when it wasn'tme driving, it was somebody else

(01:55:00):
and they got to choose which eighttrack went into the player. It was
usually other than Beach Boys or dickonDale. Let me get to these phone
calls, shall we. Let's seeThomas is up first? Then Greg Thomas,
what's up? Buddy? Talking tome? Yes, sir, okay,
I didn't know. I get myname. Okay. I gotta a

(01:55:23):
case knife. And it's real old. They started building in uh nineteen thirty
one, right in. My daughterlooked it up on the computers. Where
nine hundred and fifty dollars And I'dlike to find out where I could show
that. Would I'm not sure whereto start with something like that. There

(01:55:45):
would. I would. I wouldget online or get your daughter to get
online and find some knife collector groupsomewhere, because that Sue's going to be
interested in that. You're not gonnajust take it. If you took it
into a punishot, they might giveyou a fifty for it, knowing that
it's worth more and knowing that ifthey do the research they can find a
buyer. But yeah, I'm notsure exactly where to start other than maybe

(01:56:10):
knife collectors groups around here or noteven around here. Just get online and
now suddenly you've got collectors from allover the planet looking at it. Okay,
yeah, if I didn't have to, No, I understand. No,
I wouldn't ship it off to anybodyunless you got the money first.
Yeah, I would. There's away to do that, clearly. All
right, did that help. I'vebeen listening to you for a long time.

(01:56:33):
Well, thank you. I appreciatethat. I'm old enough that I
went to Coach Stadium and watched thecoachs Holy cow m yeah yeah, oh
man. Yeah, nobody who everwent to a game there didn't get eaten
by mosquito. I think that wasa breeding ground, rightly cow, Yes,

(01:56:54):
sir, all right, well,thank you. Yeah, I hope
you can somebody take care of thatfor you. Okay, all right,
yes sir, okay, all right, let me click that and then go
here Greg, what's up, buddy, Man? I wanted to tell you,
but you turned me on the shooterscorner a while back. Now back,
not ejected correctly. Oh yeah,I remember that. I took it

(01:57:16):
down there, and within a coupleof days they called me and had it
fixed. It was going to costme several hundred dollars to send it back
to rim Arm, and I garrieddown there. Took care of me.
I just want to give kudos anddrops for the man he turned me all
do that. Well, I'm gladit worked out for you. I really

(01:57:38):
am. Holy cow. That's that'ssomething I keep telling people that, and
you keep getting you and anybody elsewho goes down there. I've never knock
on wood. I want to dothat because I haven't had anybody call me
back and say, man, theycouldn't fix it either, So I'm glad
he got taken care. Didn't explainwhat the problem was. Absolutely. I

(01:57:58):
took it to another big name sureuh gun Smith and understand told me I
needed to have a new barrel puton it, and uh, I just
didn't believe it's a brand new gun. Yeah, took it over there at
Shooters Corner and uh with then uh, probably a day that called me that
they had some brash built up aroundthe objector oh wow, and uh they

(01:58:20):
put a borscope in there. Fixedit for me. If you don't later,
I'm good to go. Man outstanding. I'm so glad to hear
that. Greg, Thank you forletting me know. Well, let it
be known the shooters corners where youwant to take a rifle if you got
an issue, I'm gonna send Jerry. Kudos to him for taking care of

(01:58:41):
you, buddy, Thank you,appreciate you. Yes, absolutely anytime.
See you take care. All right, let's get that. There you go,
another satisfied customer outstanding. All right, I got something from I got
something from Rudy. Rudy I canalways count on. If I see his
name in the in the from lineof an email, I know it's going

(01:59:03):
to be good. And this ispretty darned good. Let me get this
story up here and share it withyou. Here's the headline. Killer whales
learn coordinated attacks on sailboats. Thinkabout that for a minute. Orcas the
story. This is a story fromemma Ogio from May twenty fourth, just

(01:59:30):
past Wednesday. Orca is maybe teachingothers to attack boats following a spate of
strikes on sailboats off the coast ofEurope. Sailors reported several coordinated attacks by
a group of orcas, including aMay twenty two strike on a twenty six
foot vessel sailing off the coast ofCape Spartel near the Strait of Gibraltar.

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In that incident, six orcas arrived, two a and four smaller ones too
very big adults and four smaller ones, and both rutterers on the boat destroyed
and blocked. Boat had to behauled off later this week. That attack
followed a nightmare strike on May fourth, when a Swiss yacht named Champagne,

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also in the Strait of Gibraltar,attacked by three orcas, eventually sinking it.
On and on and on it goes. They have actually chased this story
back to they think it says scientistsaid. Spikes and aggression may have been
started by a female orca that scientistshave named White Gladys. White Gladys is

(02:00:40):
to believe to have suffered a criticalmoment of agony, such as a boat
collision, which inflicted trauma on thatanimal and triggered a behavioral switch that other
killer whales now have learned to imitate. Holy Cow. Since twenty twenty,
things about this. Since twenty twenty, there have been more than five hundred

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interaction events recorded. Three sunken boats. Says here. We estimate killer whales
only touch one ship out of everyhundred that sailed through a location. That's
good news unless you're that one ina hundred, Holy Cow. At least

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they haven't hurt anybody yet. No, no injuries have been reported, even
amongst the sinkings and whatnot. Butstill dog gone. Just out for a
nice, pleasant sail through the Straitof Gibraltar and here comes a pod of
orcas, a pot of killer whales, just to jack with your boat and
mess it up. That's kind ofspooky. That would dumb. Make me

(02:01:50):
greatly appreciate Clear Lake in Galveston Bay. Just a little bit more, Just
a little bit more seven one threetwo one two five seven nine to email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.As Rudy did and shared this story.
That's just boys. That's one forthe sitting around the ice chests this afternoon.

(02:02:12):
Huh Hey, did you hear aboutwhat's happening in the Straits of Gibraltar.
Yeah, Orcas knocking out sailboats fivehundred plus times in the last three
years. That is a lot ofincidents. It's a whole lot of incidents.
I'm not really eager to be overthere doing that. That would scare
the heck out of me. Atleast they're not doing it to paddle boarders.

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That would be even worse. Allright, going out to this break,
speaking of sitting around the ice chest, at some point this afternoon,
after you have caught your fish ordone your chores, or whatever it is
you're gonna do on this beautiful Saturday, it might be time for a little
bush light hunk, hold and smoothand same great taste as always. That

(02:02:58):
little sound that Adam and I aremay whichever one we choose, whatever it
is that you choose to imitate thesound of opening a can or a bottle.
That's the sound of refreshment, especiallyin the heat like we've got right
now. American silaloguer crafted to deliverthe rewarding finish. We've all come to
New and Love, so you canhead for the lake, or the bay,

(02:03:19):
or the coast, or just yourbackyard and crack one open this afternoon
refreshing, cold and smooth bush light. Be careful out there on this Memorial
Day holiday. Please don't drink anddrive. If you're gonna have some beers,
make sure somebody else who hasn't hadthem is driving. Let's all get
home safe and be able to gothrough next week the same as we went

(02:03:41):
through this past week. Enjoy responsibly. Please, twenty twenty three an How's
your bush bush Light Beer? SaintLouis, Missouri, Our Sports Stock seven
nineties, Houston Sports Where you gowith an iHeart Radio Now get more Dug

(02:04:02):
ninety seven. It is on SportsTalk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show.
Thank you for listening. There isan email I got here, a press
release I got here. It's beena while, okay, but at some
point I wanted to talk about it, and it's about the Texas a Senior
Amateur tournament and it's changing its qualifyingprocess says starting with this falls eighty six

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Texas Senior Amateur to be held Septembereight, Dash ten at Amarillo Country Club.
There will now be a qualifying processto earn a spot in that fifty
four whole Major Championship for all exceptexempt players registration. There's going to be
a qualifier in the DFW area.There's gonna be one here in Houston,

(02:04:49):
There'll be one in West Texas,and one in the Hill Country. I
haven't seen where the local tournament willbe here, but I'll bet I can
find out. Just hadn't had achance to talk about this yet, so
if you're thinking about getting in onthat, you might want to double check
on all of that. Let meget to John here on the phone.

(02:05:10):
What's up John, Not much totell you today. I'm great, Thank
you. Yeah, I had alittle comment about your orcer strikes. Sure.
I worked in a yacht repair yard, or I ran a yacht repair
yard, and an't we worked onwas anywhere from thirty five foot and over.
Just YEA. One thing you needn'tyou may not have realized, was

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bottom paint only every YopT that's inthe water, I said, bottom paint,
right, and bottom paint only comesin four colors good, blue,
black, and green red. Youask all those people who got hit what
colored bottom paint the head on theboat, and I will guarantee the majority
of them had read interest red asign. It's a sign of anger, either

(02:05:54):
anger or blood either one. Yeah, exactly. So you know that's something
you should know. It's not somuch where they're at it. They're what
they're sitting on, the war orsomething red which sets them off that possibly
could be it. I hadn't thoughtabout that. That's a that's a really
good thought, John, Thank you, you guy. Y'all have a good
one. Well, yeah, Iappreciate it. Boy, that makes sense.

(02:06:17):
I wonder if that's been considered oreven even examined in all those strikes.
I wonder if they did check thebottom color red. Yeah, something
red. There's a reason that lureshave read around the gills of most of
them. Interesting. I hadn't thoughtabout that. Seven one three, Boy,

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I learned something every day around here. Seven one three, two one
two five seven ninety. Email beDougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Here's something
I learned this week. The backto golf for a minute, Live Golf,
the bunch that took away, Kepkaand Michelson and Ed adding all m
all these guys, Dustin Johnson,all these high names in golf, and

(02:07:03):
they were going to go over thereand make a ton of money, which
they've already made and which they prettymuch can't get out of now because it
will cost them a multiple of whatthey paid they were paid to get out,
two to three to four times asmuch as they got they would have
to give back to get out oftheir contract there. So that's not happening.

(02:07:28):
Only what has it been maybe twothree months since they announced their big
TV deal with the CW network.Live Golf came back out and now has
announced that they're going to pay perview on YouTube again, kind of back
where they started, and that itsure sounds like that tour is going in

(02:07:51):
not the direction it wants to go. I'm not wishing it ill at all.
I'm just reporting basically that that's wherethey've that's the corner they've turned,
and it doesn't It just doesn't bodewell for them. I like the idea
of competition, I like the ideaof different avenues of for these golfers to

(02:08:16):
take in different formats they can play, but this one is just I don't
know that it's it's gotten the attentionthat they wanted and the certainly doesn't have
the following they wanted, and that'sthat's gonna make it harder and harder as
those guys start scratching their heads thepeople who are paying for all of this.

(02:08:39):
I think there's a reason why youhaven't heard of any other big names
jumping ship and going to the LiveGolf Tour. I think the ones who
waited ultimately are probably gonna feel prettygood about it, except that when and
if it does go the other wayand it does dissolve to live tour is

(02:09:01):
not going to be able to callin the money that they paid these guys,
so they will have gotten that multigenerationalpaycheck and possibly would be welcomed back
into the PGA Tour if they weren'tplaying for any other tour. I would
say I would see them coming back. You're not going to ignore if if

(02:09:24):
they are otherwise unbeholden to anybody.I don't see the PGA Tour denying anybody
the opportunity to come back and play. That wouldn't make any sense at all.
They're great players. They need tobe playing golf. They need to
be seen playing golf. We'll findthem. I'm still I keep going back

(02:09:46):
to my surf cams and keep gettingmore and more excited about possibly trying to
ingest enough caffeine after I get hometo make it down to the beach and
back. I want to get backthere and take a look. I'm not
going to get on the surfside,Jetty. It is so crowded, just
incredibly crowded right now. All theway out there's just a wall of people.

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And that as much as I enjoyfishing around a few people out there
and tossing them a lure if I'mhaving good luck with it and they're not
having any luck, I don't likebumping shoulders when I cast. And that's
kind of what it looks like rightnow. It looks like there's a little

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bit of a breeze. There's actuallya little bit of a swell building up.
It's a it's not a wind choppedslop. It's kind of a just
kind of a little pulse of groundswell, even maybe coming from way out
in the Gulf of Mexico somewhere.But it's certainly not enough to scare anybody
off. Wouldn't keep me from drivingdown there this afternoon if I can.

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There's a couple of chores I needto do when I get home, and
then I'll go from there. Iwas hoping, Oh, I you know,
I just refreshed the four asked andearlier in the day, as I
told you, we had, wehad inherited somehow a forty percent chance of
rain for Monday and Tuesday. Nowthere's an extended chance at twenty percent on

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Wednesday and ten percent on Thursday,with both of which I can totally ignore
between now and Wednesday and Thursday.The truth is they have no idea what
the weather's going to do. Nobodydoes. We won't know. I don't
trust most of these forecasts six day, ten day. Whatever outpassed about the
second day, it just tends tochange, which means that the forty percent

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chance on Monday, come tomorrow nightmight be a ten percent chance again,
or it might go up to seventyfive. Who knows. The only way
they can predict is to just baseit on history, and history changes every
time a front comes through. We'llsee, I'm not really particularly concerned with
anything that's going on right now.That means that the Memorial Day weekend should

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be good for all of us.You should be able to get out there
and have your fun. But asyou do, I'll ask all of you
again, at some point this weekend, when you're out having fun with your
friends, or you're fishing, you'replaying golf, you're doing whatever you're doing,
just running around a park with abunch of little kids from the family,

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just take a moment and remind yourselfand reflect within yourself on the reason
that we're able to do this.This weekend, Memorial Day weekend is when
we honor the people who gave theirlives in service to this country. It's
not Veterans Day. Come Veterans Day, we can talk about anybody and everybody

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who has served or still is servingand retired from the military, left the
military for whatever reasons. They werejust done with it and they wanted to
go do something else, or alot of people make careers in our military,
and I'm glad that they make itthrough and don't have to endure combat,
don't have to see friends taken out. But there were friends of theirs

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taken out if they served in combat, almost certainly. And this day,
Monday, this weekend is set asideto honor those people. So make sure
you make sure you spend a secondat least recognize the men. You don't
have to, You don't have todwell on it. You don't have to.

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Really, it's it's actually probably goodthat you just reflect internally and pause
for a minute and set aside allthat's going on around you and just think
about the hell that those people wentthrough so that we could be out barbecuing
and playing golf and fishing. Allright, and I'll wrap it up for
today. I will be back inhere tomorrow morning at eight o'clock. We

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will do a couple more hours,hopefully a serful stay the way it is
right now. Hopefully the wind willstay calm. I don't see any reason
for it to change, at leastnot within twenty four hours. So maybe
we can get through another good beautifulday on the beachfront, good beautiful day
to be on the bay, onthe lake, wherever you want to go
do, get outside, take somefamily members, take some friends, take

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a kid fishing, get outside,have a little fun with your family,
Stay safe, watch out for thenut jobs on the highway, and catch
back up with you tomorrow morning.Thank you so much for listening. We'll
see then. How else