The Doug Pike Show 5-18-2024

On this episode Dougs talks about red snapper and the new offshore/state rules of saltwater and freshwater fishing. Doug discuss survival camping tips with local caller, tide and currents in Galvestion Bay. Is hunting hogs with drones legal? Doug talks about that and a new fishing lake in Texas. Also, golf, hunting on foot vs. waiting for the deer.

Episode Transcript

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This is the Doug Pike Show,brought to you by American Shooting Centers Guns
Shooting at Instruction since nineteen eighty nine. Now here's Doug Pike. All right,
Saturday Morning show starts right now.Let me turn this volume down.
Oh my gosh, what hearing impairedperson works in this studio on Friday afternoon.

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That would be would have to beone of the atoms. And I
don't know. I would bet it'sClinton. I would bet it's Clinton.
I don't know why I would betthat, but I think it probably is
Adam Clinton. But whoever it wasleft this on ear bleeding setting, whatever
that is. It's like a tenplus fifteen. I'm not sure what it

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is, but it's a train wreck. You're if you're still without power and
somehow listening to this program this morning. Thank you for doing so. You
are joined by hundreds of thousands ofothers, So don't feel alone, certainly,
and just honestly it's cliche, Iknow, but just be glad that

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you're okay. Because the storm thatwent through here and blew trees into houses
and rip things up and tore thingsup the straight line wind downtown. I
think it was at about something likethree or four hundred feet off the ground.
Was measured right around one hundred milesan hour down closer to the ground,

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not quite a hundred, but stilla Category two hurricane force wind in
some areas, and just absolutely devastating, absolutely devastating. A depth toll at
this point is seven. Well thelast I look. Now they there may
have been a change overnight. I'mnot sure, but last I looked,

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it was at seven, and Iwouldn't be surprised if it got worse.
I pray that it doesn't. Butboy, oh boy, that's a perspective
maker right there. There's no namefor this storm there. It just looks
like a big line of thunderstorms comingin again, and all of a sudden,
we peel out hurricane force winds thatjust ripped our entire region apart.

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Really was I was absolutely one hundredpercent blessed down in sugar Land. We
didn't get torn up too bad.I don't think Fort ben County had many,
if any power out of juice,at least none that are gonna last
as long as the ones this stormkicked off did. It's gonna take a
while for that juice to get restoredtoo, because there were some major,

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major towers and just it's not likea couple of transformers blew out because they
got hit by lightning. We're talkingabout those giant power line towers that just
got twisted like like they were spaghetti. This storm something I feel like something
almost had to have blown into thosepower lines to cause that much force that

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the wind should be able to goaround them. There were no There was
one tornado that I heard, Ithink at Cypress, somewhere around Cypress,
but the rest of that was straightline wind. Oh that's just horrible.
So I do have, actually,I do have a good news story from
this storm, if if anybody's inthe mood for one, and if you

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don't mind, A friend of myson, I believe he's a schoolmate,
a friend of my son, Ithink the same school, right before that
storm started, left the house towalk the dog. They knew there was
weather coming, but you know,this isn't the first thunderstorm that was headed

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toward Houston. So the kid goesout to walk the dog and doesn't come
home and was gone and was stillgone, and even twelve sixteen hours later,
as the new day dawned, hisphone wasn't active, he wasn't anywhere

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to be found, and I finallygot word from my son that I think
it was around I want to sayit was about like mid morning, late
morning yesterday. My son sent mea text. They found him. He
had been knocked unconscious by a tree. I don't know who found him,

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but he'd been knocked out and knockeddown but not killed, and he was
in the hospital at that point beingtreated. There was no update on that
dog. But I have a hunchthat that dog would have either been right
there by the kid's side, itmight have run straight home. It might
it probably would be somewhere between homeand wherever it was when that kid got

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hit by that tree. So notall the stories that came of that storm
are bad. And by the way, if you don't have to go downtown,
don't go. Okay, just don'tgo down there, because there is
so much debris and glass and allkinds of stuff on the street down there,
and there's just no reason. Let'sjust let's don't get involved in all

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of that. Okay, what elsedo I have a million things to talk
about? By the way, there'sall kinds of stuff going on. I'd
cover the storms. That's fine.There was a lot of fog by the
way when I walked out the housethis morning down in sugar Land. It
wasn't we can't go anywhere today fog. It was more like, be careful

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on the road fog. And thefreeway wasn't bad because the air keeps moving
on the freeway with all the carsmoving and with all that's just that turbulence.
It keeps the air moving, andI feel like the fog is a
little less on the freeway if youcan get there. There was no problem
getting to the freeway, but itwas a fairly thick fog, the kind

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of stuff that you got to flipyour wipers on for and for heaven's sakes,
if you're young and you don't knowit yet, don't turn your brights
on trying to drive through fog.All that does is reflect the headlights all
the way back to you off ofevery little molecule of water that's in front
of you. Hanging in the sky. That little cloud on the ground is

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like a giant mirror when you turnyour brights on, and it just shows
all that light right back on you. Speaking of I mentioned this yesterday on
fifty plus. If you were everhaving to drive in torrential downpour, like
I was coming back from picking upsome medicine for my wife on Thursday night
when that storm hit, don't putyour flashers on. Please. It's not

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illegal in Texas. It's actually illegalto drive with your flashers on in about
thirty five states, Texas not oneof them, unfortunately. And it's such
a distraction. You've already got rainblowing sideways, your wipers are on full
blast, back and forth, backand forth, back and forth, and

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now, oh, there's a carin front of me. Where'd it go?
Car in front of me? Where'dit go? Car in front of
me? Where'd it go? Becausethe lights keep coming on and off and
on and off, And if youget eight or ten of those going,
in addition to having just all theglare off your headlights in that rain going
sideways, it's pretty distracting and it'spretty difficult, and I believe it's I

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believe it's not as safe as driving. Just turn your headlights on so that
your tail lights come on and everybodyon the road behind you can see exactly
where you are the whole time.They can see your tail lights. It's
okay, you don't have to.You don't have to strike up the band
and sound the alarm. We cansee you, and we're gonna slow down

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just like you have. That wasanother issue. Some people were going.
There were some people, presumably youngsterswho've never really gotten gotten scared or hurt
from driving stupidly in bad weather,who were going still about fifty or sixty
miles an hour and all that stuffand come flying by you. And then
in contrast, you have people whoare going six miles an hour in a

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middle lane with their flashers on andjust white knuckle in every second of their
drive. Just move if it's thatscary, and I had to do this
before myself in some pretty bad weather. Just pull over to the side of
the road on a high spot,by the way, it's not a bad
idea, the top of an overpassor about midway up and overpass and just

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pull over and wait, just waitfor it to slow down. It's going
to it's not going to rain forever. And just you have a phone,
If you have your phone and yourphone's working, get on the phone and
say, hey, I've pulled overon the side of the road. It's
raining really bad. I'll be homein a little while, so now your
family doesn't have to worry about youeither. Seven one three, two five
seven to ninety. Email me Dougpikeat iHeartMedia dot com. That's that's that

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red snapper season coming up. I'lltalk about that some today if you want
to. Snapper season is gonna startJune one, hopefully with better weather than
we've had lately. Be pretty bumpyoffshore last few weeks or two, same
limits as last year, two fishout beyond nine nautical miles against a minimum
length of sixteen inches, and thenin state water, Texas said, no,

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we got more snapper. It's okay. State water. The limit is
for red snapper against a fifteen inchminimum length. And by the way,
you can't go catch two offshore andthen come back into state water and catch
four more. The maximum number ofred snapper per person on your per licensed
angler on your boat cannot exceed four. You can go catch two of them

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way out there and two of themin close. If you want, you
can go catch four and come homeand go back tomorrow and catch four more
in state water. A lot ofways to skin the delicious red snapper cat
but none of them equal more thanfour fish per day per person. So
don't and don't jiggle with the rules. The fisheries need. We need to

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be more conservative and not trying tobeat the house that the house is a
public resource, red snapper, speckledtrout, whatever it is, and you
don't want to Please, don't bethose guys who, well, I'm gonna
go out, and I'm gonna goout really really early, and just if

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I get stopped, I'll tell themI fished overnight and I caught four of
them yesterday and four of them today. All these ways that people come up
with, I've got a secret compartmentin my boat. Don't ever tell me
that. I don't want to knowthat. And if you tell me that,
then I'm gonna think a whole lotless of you and I probably won't
want to talk to you anymore.Secret compartment for bringing home I legal fish.

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Shame on you. Seven one,three, two two five seven ninety
email me it ha it out.I've already said that, and hopefully you
know that number and you've got itin there, because eventually, at some
point with me doing this show,I will say something that's either gonna make
you mad, or make you happy, or make you want to it'll remind
you of a cool story something youwent through. All kinds of reasons to

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have that number in there, allkinds of reasons. Let me make sure
I don't owe anybody a return emailjust yet. I'm good so far.
By the way, somebody asked methe other day, when all the salt
water is or is going to returnto the bays and when all that fresh
water is gonna be out? Eversince those huge floods up through the entire

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watershed of East Texas rolled through whata couple of weeks ago started then,
and then it just kept raining andraining and raining, and there's still people
who are flooded out, total trainwreck ever since then. There there's a
web site that I look at.Let me see if I can. I
can't remember what it's called. Letme see if I can bring it up
here real quickly, and I'll tellyou, Oh, where did it go?

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There? It is all the wayback over here ops map plots,
o fs excuse me, o fs map plots, And it's it's a
Noah site naa National Oceanic and AtmosphericAdministration. You go to Tidesendcurrents dot Noah
dot gov slash. Oh, It'son and on and on. If you

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get to the Noah dot gov andlook up tides and currents and look up
Galveston Bay the salinity forecast for GalvestonBay. If you recall a week ago
today I talked about this, Ifound this site. Fantastic site. Boy,
look at all the fresh water cominginto coming into Galveston Bay. It
looks absolutely no different now than itdid then. The entirety of Galveston Bay,

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Trinity Bay and East Bay and everythingpretty much east of the Texas City
Dyke is absolutely positively fresh. Thecolor grade on here goes from deep purple
to red, and it passes throughlighter purple than blues, the lighter blues
than a nice beautiful aquamarine color thatreminds me of the Caribbean. Then it

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goes into greens and then yellows,and then proceeds through orange all the way
up to a deep red. Deepred is super high salinity. The purplish
blue is zero to one percent salinity, and Trinity Bay and East Bay are
pretty much zeros. There's a hintthere's a maybe one or two percent salinity

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in the far western side of GalvestonBay. But that's it until you get
down all the way to where thatwater breaks off and heads over to West
Bay. The salinity there ten percent, which is still not that's not what
we're looking for, not at all. And there is fresh water finding its

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way now, I'm not so surehow fresh it is. Farther down the
coast. It's pouring out as fastas it can and the currents are carrying
it westward. But the salinity levelsalong the beach front still are being that.
They look pretty normal, they reallydo. Now. Farther out it

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gets saltier, which it always does, but it's just going to be a
train wreck for probably a considerable amountof time. I wouldn't be surprised if
you could catch large mouth bass inGalveston Bay, in East Bay, in
Trinity Bay. It's all fresh waternow, there's no question about it.

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There's no denying what this chart,this animated chart is showing. Holy cow,
I'm late. I'm late for avery important date with Carter's Country.
Let me take a little break here. Carter's Country has been around sixty plus
years and the slogan in the signthe hook line if you will is GUNSMO

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and hunting stuff. That's it.That's it. Stores all over town.
You can go find one pretty closeto you, I'm sure. And if
you can't, you can get onlineand buy just about anything that you'd find
in one of the stores. Youcan buy it online, have it shipped
right to your house. You don'teven have to put on pants. Just
figure out what you want, pusha few buttons, and in a few

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days, I guess you should puton pants to go pick it up off
the front porch, depending on whatpart of town you live in. In
any event, Carter's Country has beendoing this for so long now. Don't
forget either about these concealed carry classes. You don't have to take the class
anymore to carry, but I stronglyrecommend it, whether it's for you or
for mom, dad, uncle,aunt, anybody who needs to feel safer

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when they're out. Carrying a firearmis a huge responsibility, but it also
is an equalizer if a couple ofthug bad guys come up around you.
If you at my age, forsure, I'm not gonna win many fistfights
anymore. So in my age,I need help, I need protection,

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and it's something that's available to youas well, learn where. This is
what the classroom section. The classroomportion of this course is vital in teaching
you exactly when, where, andwhat legal things you have to know.
If you do find yourself in asituation where you feel like you're gonna have

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to pull that gun, you needto know you need to be sure and
confident. Also, they're gonna makesure that you're proficient with that gun.
And if you're not, if you'reup at the tresh Week store where they
do these courses, you can justgo out to the range and keep shooting
and shooting and shooting until you getcomfortable with your firearm. Carterscountry dot com
is a website. Go look itup, guns, Ammo and hunting stuff

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for sixty plus years. Carterscuntry dotcom. This is Sports Talk seven ninety
Hey Houston sports Fan on air andon Facebook at contact. Back to the
Doug Fight Show. All right,welcome back, And if you were on
hold during that first segment, Iapologized there was absolutely nothing showing on my

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board in here, and Melvin haddone everything right on his end, but
there was a glitch in here.We have it fixed now, and I
know that I owe Brandon and Forresta little conversation. So let's get started
with that, shall we owe?Now it doesn't want to go on,
punch him up for me. PunchBrandon up for me, Melvin. There

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we go. We're gonna have totag team this thing. Melvin, what's
up? Brandon? Gosh? Iunderstand how I thing. I understand how
things happen. It's fog you downhere in Wharton County. But no,
I just wanted to touch on onething. I mean, sure, I
know it's hard for people to bepatient when their electricity is out, but

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those guys are busting their rear end. They are, I mean, their
play, their their plate is full. They have already worked a full day
and then they had to call themback in and they're doing the best they
can. And the first thing isthey have to do things by a priority.
Well's, businesses, hospitals, schools. I mean. And so if

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you're out of electricity for forty eighthours, it's not like those guys don't
care. Oh, I know theydo care, but I mean it has
to do with priority. If youdon't want your electricity to go out,
move to a house next to ahospital, well, i'll get you an
interact direct. Yeah. Well okay, And something I pointed out yesterday on

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fifty plus, you're exactly right.The deal with this is that when there's
a hurt hurricane coming, have yousee it coming, and you start staging
provider or help staging technicians and linemenfrom all over the country. They'll come
rushing in and hang out right onthe edge of where the hurricane is going
to go through, and as soonas it's done, thousands of people rush

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into help. Nobody saw this doingwhat it did, and so now the
help has to get here, andthat can take a day or two.
So we're getting there. I agreewith you. Thanks. I appreciate that,
Brandon. That's right. Yeah.The other thing is, and I
mean, I'll preach this for theday. I we need to preserve what

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we have. If we don't preserveour outdoors and educate these people of what's
going on, we're going to loseit. Oh, I know, and
I sometimes I feel like we're losingground. Well, you're not the only
one. You're in good company,Brandon, I promise. All right,

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all right, yeah, let mego for Yeah, thank you. I
appreciate the call. All right,Melvin, you got to take care of
it on this end too. Ican't. I can't do anything with the
calls. So go ahead and clickthat one out and listen. Yeah,
let's get forest up. Oh you'reup? Are you good? What's up?
What's up? Man? Doug?Off the chain? Pickerel? What's
going? God? Chain? Pickerel? Okay, I like that. No,

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kind of got a kind of gota double blessing going today. You
kind of hit it. I kindof hit it towards your own messager this
morning. But uh, I wasblessed to kind of miss the brunt of
the storms. Didn't ever lose power, had a lot of water. Of
course it's at Livy, said Livy. Since a sets pool right now with
trees, Oh gosh, yeah,land mines exactly. They're still letting out

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over eighty thousand keeping. Oh yeah, that's pumping and that you know what,
It's gonna be a while too.It's like I was talking about,
all of Galveston Bay is as freshas a daisy, absolutely fresh. It's
crazy, man. Oh yeah,we need to go down there, mosquiter
and flipped up bynes for fast.You know what I said that? Yeah,

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in that opening segment you can,I would be well, I'm for
sure you could catch catfish in EastBay, Allison Bay, Trinity Bay anyway.
I mean, I bet you there'ssome bass that just got washed down
hard and woke up in the andlooked up and said, what you know.
A guy, good friend of minewho just happens to have access to
Gidden's creeking. Holy cow, that'sgood. We are on our way to

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give this creek. I told him. I told him were gonna fish till
we can't see. But the coolthing about it now, I'm not I
think the owners trying to return thelake to his glory days when he had
to call and blow up the phonesto get a reservation. Tell. Wow,
yeah, So he's wanting to take, you know, twenty thousand fish
out of this lake. And hewants to take every black mass out of

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the lake under fifteen inches. Wow, every crappie, every white bash you
catch you have to retain, ohmy god, or or he wants them
thrown up on the bank. Hewants out of the lake. You don't
care about any means. So Idid. I got it on that lake
for twenty years, and I couldtell you there's some massive slab socle aid.

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I'm sure, yeah, I betthere are. We're gonna bass fish
early. Then we're gonna see wecould do some damage on new craffee and
then, uh, unfortunate about thelaws in Texas, and I think you
can you can elaborate on this alittle bit if you would. I would
love to fill my live well upwith twenty or thirty bass under fifteen inches

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and put them into livingstons since theydon't stock that lake for black bath.
But I know legally I can't dothat, right, so unfortunately, I
know. Yeah, that's the sadpart about it, that all these fish
are gonna just end up in garbagedumps or flaid. Well yeah, well
is fine if somebody's gonna be ableto eat them. But you're tallalking about
an awful lot of fish. Yeah, then I'll only probably catch you about

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half of those todays. So youknow, all right, man, Before
I get out, I just wantto let you know I am on vacation,
so I'm off for ten days.So if you get a wild hair,
just give me a buzz that I'llcancel whatever I got done. Man.
You know, green fish, Yeah, you know, I was thinking
about running down the corpus, butafter visiting with Cliff this week. No,

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it's all messed up down there rightnow, So I may I just
might ring you up. I needI need a day off. I really
do. Just a day man,and I may give you a holler faux
pro. I'll be ready, baby, Just faux pro and chain Pickerel on
the water. Yeah, that'd bea good video, that'd be a good

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podcast. There you go, allright, man? Yeah, all right,
thanks, I'll see you audios.Okay, let me get here.
Yeah, see now I can't gethim back to what did I do?
Let me just go talk to Dave. Yeah, Aaron'll call back. Sorry,
I don't know what's happening here nowwhat Okay, I'm gonna put Dave

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on hold. There's Aaron right back. We got Aaron. I'll take Aaron.
Then we'll get today. By man, this is a train wreck.
I'm so sorry. We'll get thisfigured out. Aaron wants up. Buddy,
Hey Dad, how are you doingdown there? I'm good? How
are you? Oh? Cold?Man? Cold? Last last batch of

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this of this job before drive south, Begin a compass and drive south man
forty feet the air minus twenty whoa. But the other side of the equation
is I should be off the restof the summer and hopefully the water will
clear up because of the week,no doubt. But I don't know if

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you've got a chance to read thatarticle I did, Yeah about getting to
keep sixteen trout of any species ofYeah, if you want to, If
you want to, all these guysare wandering about only being able to keep
three trout and need to just driveto Utah you keep well, what do
they say, sixteen or something likethat, sixteen of any species only?

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Cow? Yeah. I didn't realizerainbow trout and those other species were considered
invasive. So well, some ofthem are in some in some parts of
the country. Uh. Over enthusiasticpeople for some reason, and over time
have introduced non native species of troutto all these lakes and streams and rivers

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and whatnot. And the the movenow is to revert back to native species
only, which means they're going tohave to yank thousands of trout out of
their rivers up there. Well,it's civic duty then, right, I
mean, you know, really,if you care, if you care,

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you got to go up there andcatch them all. Just like Forrest is
doing on that lake he's going totoday. There's somebody, somebody wants all
those crappy out of there, andby gosh, I guarantee you Forrest is
the guy to do it. He'llhe'll have a boatload of him before the
end of the day. Man.Man, I'm hoping within seven eight days
that that starts going to clear upfor us. Yeah, it's around here,

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it's gonna on the outgoing tide.At least, Galveston's still gonna stay
fresh for probably another three or fourweeks at least. It just looks so
bad looking at that chart. I'mlooking at it right now, and it
just it's solid dark blue or purplefrom up the river way past any base

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system around here, all the wayto the jetties, and then it just
it it has a little hint ofso only because the gal the Gulf of
Mexico's right there, got a littlehit of subtle assault along the jetties,
But out after that, it's justblue and dark blue going north as far
as you want to go. Thetrain wreck, well, I'm hoping to

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hit pins down that way. Soyeah, you know what, and I'm
gonna be keeping an eye out andkeeping an ear out as well down there
for when it finally settles back toa little bit better. And I think
that's gonna happen, probably sooner thanour water is gonna be good up here,
even depending on which way the windblows. If they can get a

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southeast see south, yeah, southeastwind down there and push some push some
water from the south back up,that'll that'll shove that garbage fresh water off
that beach and maybe we can getdown there. I'll give you a report.
I'll give you a report in abouteight to ten days. Do that,
yeah, will you? I'd appreciateit, all right, buddy,
think yeah, save travels man audio. Yeah, Bube, can you click

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that off? Melman? Yeah,there we go. What we got to
figure this out this I should beable to do that and take that off
your plate. He is. Yeah, Aaron Is is finishing up a warehouse
where they store I think it's wherethey store ice cream. And he wasn't
fooling about twenty feet off the groundin that building. It's twenty below that's

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pretty cool. I didn't even knowyou could refrigerate something that cold. I
know what a refrigerator is. Iknow what a freezer is and what a
freezer works at thirty two degrees.I guess, oh, you wouldn't want
your freezer said on that, butnonetheless minus twenty had no idea. You
learn something every day on this show. Seven one three, two one two
five seven ninety. Email me DougPick at iHeartMedia dot com. What I

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Man? Should I? Should I? Enter. Are you going to
fish this summer? Well, yeah, I fish pretty often. Then why
wouldn't you if you fish along thecoast, why wouldn't you be entered?
Because someday, somehow you're going tocatch that giant fish you've always wanted to

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The Doug Pike Show, seven thirtyeight on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug
Pike Show. Thanks for listening.Certainly do appreciate it. Oh mercy sakes
all kinds of technical things going onover here, but something that's not terribly
technical is Dave. And it didn'twork, did it. I can put

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him, I can put him backon hold. So let me try that
though, now you click him in. This is a team effort, Dave,
team effort there, Holy count,can you hear me? Yeah,
you hear me? Yeah? Gotyou? Hey, Hey, I'm on
there. I'm everywhere. I workingto pick up you know, the trash.
I can't even see across the airline, holy cow. Yeah, okay,

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yeah, the faulse Hey, butuh, you know what I was
gonna. Oh, and then yesterdaywas my birthday, sixty three, and
then uh three, that's all yougot. Anyway, I'm still here.
I got I played a couple ofsongs up there, and there were six
ladies and a couple of my buddies. They don't have no lights over there.

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I've got lights at my house.A lot of lights are out everywhere
around I know, man. Thewhole time, there's still a couple of
several hundred thousand people. I'm notsure how many. I'm gonna look it
up while we're talking. So what'swhat's going on with? Well, be
prepared for someone and something goes down. I don't have internet now now I

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don't have any of that. Idon't. I don't have any of that
is all off because I guess sometree, limb or something fell. But
uh, anyway, be prepared.Oh, hatchet, you're knives. You
got a gun, and bring yourfishing poles. But you can use a
hatchet to cut you a piece ofsomething off a tree or something. Bring

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you some tide string or whatever yougot. Put your baby pin on there
somewhere, you know, carry youa bag of extra hooks and all that
kind of stuff. Then a shovelso you can dig for some worms and
then you can dig the worms upand then you go and then you finish
and then you can hunt and thenoh and then you and make a fire.

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Oh, making a fire. That'simportant. That's very important. Yeah,
you know, if you can figureout how to make a fire.
And on that one episode of AndyGriffith when Barney was lost in the woods,
oh oh but it was good withyou just to look at they do

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that. Hey, And like Isaid, grasshoppers, crickets and digging for
worms. Now, on the crickets, you can take a local bread and
put it underneath the light and thecrickets will go in there and then you
just have to trap them. Ithink you need to like us the number
ten hook on there. Yeah,well you go and naked and afraid you

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could be a big asset to somebody. What's what? What was that?
You haven't ever seen that show?Oh? That one there? Yeah,
I know I would die on thefirst day today. But no, hey,
it's just a you know right now, I mean I'm serious. I

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mean I can't even see my handin front of my face kind of sword
right now. Wow, it's saidit's sad. But hey, you know
what, here's another thing. AndI got a lot of my buddies coming
in here that wave at me allthe time. You know, that's another
thing. A wave and a smileand a good morning or a good afternoon

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or a good evening is a veryvery special thing. And a lot of
people now I don't think are youyounger generation? And I heard, you
know, I heard some stuff onsome commercials about being adopted grandparent or something.
I got to meet. I gotto see a young lady Ashley,

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and that's the same name as myyoungest daughter, but I known her for
a while and I saw or yesterdayup here and her and her husband and
her son. Man, they gaveme so many hugs and happy birthdays.
You know what hug is worth amillion dollars, you know, sure,

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man, I appreciate it. Yeah, all right, I appreciate you all.
Happy birthday. Yeah, I gaveyou a little extra time for your
birthday day. Thank you. Allright, man, I'll see you audios
all right, Melvin, you're onover there. There we go. Thank
you. This is going to bea totally tag team thing today. Man,

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we're just oh technology, it's sogrand, is it not? My
goodness, I have an issue I'mdealing with with a new advertiser that's coming
into fifty plus. Actually they're goingto be on this program. It's VIP
Auto Glass. I got a bigold crack in my windshield about I don't
know, two weeks ago now,and I was referred to them by the

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guy who sold me my son's truck. And I called him up and they
sent a guy over here to thebuilding. I didn't need. All I
had to do was drive my Ifi'd have been in a different building,
I wouldn't have had to do anything. Really, what I had to do
was drive my car back around tothe back and get onto a flat pad

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back there where they take deliveries andwhatnot. And the technician came over and
in about an hour and a half. They tell you it's gonna take a
couple of hours, and it probablydoes for some But in an hour and
a half or so, he calledme back up, said your car's ready,
come on down and get it,and it was. And they have

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to reprogram these things. Now setall the sensors in the glass in the
front windshield on these new cars,and that can cost even more than the
glass. I don't I guess youdon't have to get that patched up,
but sure it's nice to have thoserain sensing wipers turned on. And I
had them on high blasts night beforelast. In any event, i'll have

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them on pretty soon. And Ican't even remember why I was going to
tell you about them, except thefact that they're good folks and they're coming
on. I'll tell you more aboutthat later on the way out. I
gotta take a little break here.Now, I'll tell you about Belleville Meat
Market. Bellville Meat Market has beenin the business of serving up delicious meat
products for more than forty two yearsnow, and they started out in the

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middle of the little town of Bellvilleforty something years ago and since then have
stayed right where they are. Theyactually built another building caddy cornered from the
original meat market, to process moreand more wild game during hunting season,
but the bulk of their business isdone right through that meat market twelve months

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a year, seven days a week. They even serve up delicious lunches and
dinners from ten a to seven pevery single day. Beautiful delicious barbecue lunch
with all the trimmings, all thefixings, all the sides, and they've
been there forever. Beef, chicken, pork, two dozen plus flavors of
premium pcon smoke sausage, giant handmadeto Mollie's. They've got mushroom caps and

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hollopeno stuff with cheese and wrapped inbacon, all kinds of delicious things just
for you. And all you gotto do is get there or not.
Well, getting there is pretty easyreally. They're about fifteen minutes north of
Sealy, fifteen minutes south of Hempstonor south of Yah south of Hempstead on
Highway thirty six or you don't evenhave to get out of bed. Belleville
Meatmarket dot Com is the website.Go there, look around. You'll be

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glad you did. Belleville Meatmarket dotcom ninety. This is Sports Talk seven
ninety Houston sports Online at sports sevenninety dot com. Back to the Doug
Fike Show, Doug Pike Show onSports Talk seven ninety. Here, Melvin,
here, we are all dressed upand no phone calls to test our

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what is it our fourth reboot ofthis thing? I don't know, man,
that's all right seven one three twoone two five seven ninety. Email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.I can go to that, and I
don't know if I want to goto that yet. I'll go to this.
Oh, by the way, Iwas telling telling Melvin in case you
don't know, and he wasn't awareof where he needed to go to find

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out what the limits are on certainfish in the state. And it's pretty
easy. It's just tep. Youdo a search. Don't try to remember
the whole website, but just doa search for TPWD. That's the Texas
Parks and Wildlife Department, and thatthe state's website should pop up when you
do that, and then inside ofthat you can go to hunting or fishing

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or a number of other tabs withinthat main website and just scroll around.
You'll find everything you're looking for,I guarantee, and it's a pretty user
friendly, pretty user friendly site.The share Lunker program, which has been
around now for oh gosh, Ican't remember how many years this thing's been

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going on, Toyota Share Lunker,it's called now. It started out with
different sponsors and it kind of waslooking like it might go away for a
while, and then all of asudden, Toyota jumped up and has been
providing funding to keep this program aliveand keep bigger and bigger bass growing in
this state. Well more. Iwon't say bigger and bigger, because we

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still have the same state record we'vehad for about one hundred years since the
pyramids were built. What we havenow is an increased number of qualifying fish,
and there are two or three categoriesnow, but the main, the
big one. The legacy fish haveto weigh at least thirteen pounds to be

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eligible for the program, and ifyou catch one that big, you babysit
it. You get it back intoan aquarium somewhere at a marina, get
it into one of their bait tanksif they don't mind losing a few minutes,
and then the state will come directlyimmediately. They will dispatch somebody to
come pick that fish up, takeit to one of the hatcheries and introduce

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it to some of the fellas thatthey have there, and then we will
grow out bigger and bigger bass,or at least a lot of potentially big
bass. And there were some interestingthings that came out of this year's This
year's program, for example, wehad nineteen of these legacy class fish that's
thirteen pounds are better huge, sevendifferent lakes from around the state. Three

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new water bodies contributed, which wasgood. But the reigning king, and
having dethroned Lake Fork for quite sometime now, is still Ohivy out in
West Texas. Head of the classof the nineteen legacy class fish. A
dozen came from Ohivy, a dozenof them. Seven reservoirs that were the

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seven were Fort Phantom Hill, Inks, Lake JB. Thomas Neckanese, Ohivy,
sam Rayburn always and Toledo Bend almostalways. Those lakes have been around
so long the last two Rayburn andTaleda Bend they got. I'm sure they
have bigger fish in there, butat least for Taleda Ben and Sam Rayburn

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to some degree, they're just sodog on big and there's just so much
water to cover. It's tough.The three new reservoirs jumping in Fort Phantom
Hill, Inks Lake and JB.Thomas, and those all three of them
also racked up new water body records. Obviously with these legacy class fish coming
out of there. An interesting thingA couple of interesting points that are made

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in the press release I'm looking athere. Kyle Hall caught sheer lunkers six
sixty five weighed fifteen point eight totwo pounds and makes the top fifty in
the state as thirty seventh overall.Larry Walker caught two legacy class lunkers in

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twenty four And let me tell youwhy. The reason that you're starting you're
going to start seeing the same peoplecatching legacy class bass, sometimes more than
one in a season. I've tossedmy paperwork over to the side for now,
is all because of the new sonar, the forward looking stuff, the

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scopes, live scope. That technologyhas completely turned trophy bass fishing on its
ear. You don't have to goout and think you found a spot and
think you see something good on yourtraditional sonar. You can just ride around

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and look and look and look untilyou see a fish that you know.
Because you know how to read yourown electronics and if you know how to
set them up, you can youcan dial it in even to specifically,
that's a bigger bass than that oneover there. The one on the left
is bigger. And you can actuallywatch your lure go down to the fish

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and you can watch the fish eatyour lure. Now, it's not like
watching television. The technology isn't quitethere yet, but the imagery certainly gives
you that much of an advantage overanybody who is still fishing traditionally. Is
it good. Yeah, there's goingto be some big fish caught, and

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ultimately, if it produces something thatweighs eighteen point one nine pounds to equal,
it's going to take something a littlebit more significant than that too.
I think take the official record awayfrom Barry Saint Clair. But let's say
somebody does finally catch a nineteen ortwenty pounder, then at least it will
prove what I've thought all along isthat we have twenty pound bass in this

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state. We just haven't caught oneyet. But now that this technology is
out there, there's no doubt inmy mind that that's coming. Like a
house afire. It's coming at asfast and that's gonna happen probably this next
winter and next spawn season. Thereare enough people now who have the technology

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and have invested in it, andit's not inexpensive to be able to do
this. But a lot of guidesnow are making a living guaranteeing people ten
pound bass because they know the fisherthere, and now they know that they
can see them, they can actuallynot waste time casting into places where there

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are no big bass. And itcertainly takes a lot of the romance out
of fishing, a lot of themystique out of fishing. It just there.
It is. It's kind of likegoing to the zoo and walking around
until you see the one you wantand take it, or going to a

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enthusiast paradise and set up to bemore user friendly since the new owners came
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years ago now and has turned itinto just that, a very fun,
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everybody else out there has a safeexperience. Get out there and take some
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never regret taking shooting lessons from aprofessional instructor. It's kind of like trying
to get good at golf. Ifyou're getting all your information from somebody who's
a friend of yours and eighteen handicap. That's what you're going to be.

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If you're getting your shooting information fromsomebody who breaks ten targets out of twenty
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Get your lessons from somebody who knowswhat they're doing and can help you
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Now Here's Doug Pike. Second Hourrestarts now seven one three, two
one two five seven ninety. Igotta jump in and take a look at
emails I've been staring at this salinitychart for so long, hoping it would

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change, but it hasn't. Ohwow, yeah, I forgot about that,
Rudy Who the title here says yourmentor. Bob Brister wrote an article
about catching a black mass at thegalvels and jetties during a flood a long,
long, long long time ago.Holy Cow Stumping Grounds reported bull shark.

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Yep, bull shark in the GuadaloupeRiver. I'm not surprised at all
bull sharks. They're kind of like, they're kind of like just redfish with
big teeth. They can live almostanywhere. They are not scared at all
to roll up into some fresh watersomewhere. And the redfish we already know
can do that. We got themstocked in several freshwater lakes around Texas.

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Holy can Lake Whitney, dam ohboy, I'm gonna get a picture Lake
Whitney damn discharged? Holy Cow?How many gates is that? One?
Two? Three? Is about adozen gates open and pouring water out of
Lake Whitney into the brasses. WhoI'm gonna have to go check that bress's
flood level here in just a minutetoo, Captain Scott oh Man, what's

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he got going on. He's braggingabout finishing up his house. I'm sure
I don't even want to look.I'll look during a break. I think
about look now. Because he andI had a we started a bet,
probably close to a year ago.I think Scott and I could both agree
it was about a year ago thatI bet him that I could finish cleaning
out my garage before he finished buildinga house. Now he hadn't had ten

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to fifteen guys. He's not thegeneral contractor. He is the plumber,
he is the electrician, he isthe ac guy. He is everything on
this house. Cabinet work, allof it, carpentry, lighting, all
of that stuff. He built ahouse. He didn't pour the slab,

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but he built the house, andhe's done, and I'm not. In
fact, there's kind of hard totell. I have done some stuff in
the garage. I really have,but not enough that I didn't have to
just concede the bet. So Iowe him around to golf and we will
get that done. I can assureyou we'll get that done. This is

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some This is interesting. Rudy threwsomething at me that I hadn't really thought
about a lot. But it makesgood Sin that's when you start talking about
live scope for fishing. Rudy theheadline, and that's that's all. It
is, just a quick note says, wait until whitetail guides start sending up
drones to find that giant buck feedingin the corn. Hmmm, wake up

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the hungover client, take him toa stand. Yeah, that that already
happens without the drone. I knowsome some whitetail guides on some pretty pretty
nice ranches who have had to reachover and nudge hunters when the right buck

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walked out and wake them up.And by the time they get home,
of course these guys are bragging alltheir buddies out about how they crawled through
the mesquite and the crack and thecactus went and camouflaged underwear with a knife
between their teeth. Like, no, that didn't happen, dude, your
guy had to wake you up.That I don't mind. I don't mind

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things that make life simpler or safer, especially safer for hunting and fishing.
But I do there's a line Ithink that's that's close to being crossed now
with live scope and with drones.And I know that most people won't use
drones unlawfully to either herd animals orto or to find animals if there's laws

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against it wherever they are the mostthat ethical hunters won't do that. Ethical
fishermen, I think, have havegot they've got to decide what kind of
fishermen they're going to be, basically, and it's either you're either going to
be in or out on the onthe live scope thing. I I'd like
to try it and just kind ofsee what it's all about. I've never

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really fished with live scope, butI don't I just still I still enjoy
fish, and I enjoy fishing morethan riding around in a boat looking at
TV. Let me go see ifthis works. Oh nope, here we
go again. Hit it for meout or Melvin, there we go.

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What's up, Allen? I'm goodman, you know. I'm I'm thinking
to me, well, you're you'rea little bit older me not much,
but uh, you know, Andthis is the times that you have to
ask yourself that I need three daysof survival gear in the truck of my

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car. If you had to stopon the side of the road, just
relatively speaking, and live for threedays, could you do it? And
I'm talking a decent tent, youknow, some bottles of water, cases
of water. Whatever. Yeah,well you could literally pull off on side

(53:59):
of the road, set up atent, have some matches, find cut
some firewood somewhere, and live forthree days. That's that's kind of like,
that's that's something that I was reallythinking about. I'm gonna I'm gonna
set up at least at least forme, and because you just never know,
I mean, get out there,get I'm sorry, my dogs,

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my firebed, and get them mynerves that but anyway, just something you
know that is kind of serious nowmade because forget the tornadoes and the hurricanes,
it's these out of the nowhere stormsthat are wiping us out. And
I'm sitting here at my house.I've been three days without power, and
God bless the great men and womenout there trying to get us back up.

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But I'm thinking, you know what, My only thing I was thinking
about is Okay, in the wintertime is not problem. I've got you
know, I kept firewood, goto fire, keep warm. Summertime.
I got to figure out how tostay cool in the summertime. You know
that's a lot easier around here,is Yeah, if you're just if you're

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counting on shade as your air conditioner, that won't be easy for sure,
you know. Yeah, I meanit'll help a little bit, but yeah,
you got to come up with aplan to solve that problem. But
anyway, I'm just putting it outthere because I'm buying a tent I found
online. It's a good canvas tentfor hunting this year. Yeah, it's

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only about two hundred dollars. It'sa two man tent. It's perfect what
I want. And uh, itcomes in a nice little duffel bag and
you know, it's a solid tin. It ain't real tall sure where you
stand up in it, but yousit down in it easy and that way,
you know, because when you getsomething tall, now you got to
worry about wind and stuff taking itdown rights. Very true. Yeah,

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the lower it is more stable it'sgoing to be, yeah, exactly.
So I just encourage everybody to thinkabout that, you know, because I've
got all three of my daughters.I got each one of them by bug
out bag that they carry in thetruck of their cars. They probably forgot
how to use them, but atone time they knew how to use them
because I taught them. Yeah,and you know, I'm just I'm just

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sawing that out there. Yeah,I need to do that for my son.
I want ahead. I bought hima new vehicle just so he'd have
something safe to ride around in.But you're right, there are things that
you might need. Even I don'tcare if you just drove the thing off
the lot. Something could happen onthe way home and there's stuff you need.
Yeah, that's a good call.I need to take care of that.
Okay, all right, man,thanks, yeah, thanks Elan.

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Good hear from you, buddy.Audios. All right, let me go,
I can't Yeah, there we go. Holy cow two man operation here
today for sure on one hundred.That's why Melvin's here, because they don't
trust me to do all this stuff. They may have you know, they
might have just pulled down my credentialsto work on this phone thing. I
don't know, Melvin. Maybe Ipushed the wrong button or something. Who

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knows. Seven one three two sevennine Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
Captain Scott jumped in pretty quick whenI started talking about drones and hunting
and whatnot. To remind all ofus, I know this and it is,
and I'll just read it as hewrote it. It's highly illegal to

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use a drone to locate game.Highly illegal to use a drone to locate
game. Yes, I know that, and I'm keenly aware of it.
It's illegal to keep four trout too. But I'll bet you there's somebody,
well, not on Galveston Bay,somebody somewhere in the state of Texas right

(57:35):
now has is fishing by himself andhe's got four or five trout in the
box. Just because it's illegal doesn'tmean it doesn't happen. And the lodge
coupe thing, once again, that'snot illegal at all. You can use
that, You can use that tofind fish, and more power to you
if that's what you want to do, that's that's cool by me. And
I can see where in a societyof people who have become more more bent

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on instant gratification, I got tosee that fit. Why should I even
cast? I've actually had people tellme, did you go fishing today?
Yeah? Yeah? And didn't hemake a cast? Though never really saw
a fish I wanted to throw toHoly count. He's just ride around in
a boat looking at TV and hegot a rod and reel somewhere in this
boat. Oh yeah, look there'sa big fish where we put those rods.

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Again, somebody ty lure on realquick. There's a fish. That's
nuts man, that's that's just notfishing, not my definition anyway, And
again I will go. I wantto go try it, I really do.
I want to. I want tosee for myself what everybody else is
so excited about. Uh, andnot everybody is excited about it either.

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So anyway, let's get to too. I got to take the break bread
and hang on. When we getback, you will be first up.
I promised. On the way out, I'm going to say you about black
Horse Golf Club at two ninety toFry Road. Take a south and in
about four miles or so, you'llstart seeing golf course on both sides of
the road. It might not evenbe four miles, might be three,

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and you'll see golf course on bothsides. And then as you head south
you will see a gate, abig, nice road leading into a gate
on the west side that would betake a right and that will lead you
between I think it's I want tosay it's nine. Maybe, Oh gosh,
I'm not sure which holes on whichside of the road. There's holes

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on both sides of the road.The bottom line is take you to the
clubhouse. Once you're in the clubhouse, from that point forward, pretty much
anybody you bump into is somebody who'sthere to help you have a fun time.
If your swing is not fun rightnow, at the very far end
of the range, you can runinto some people who can help you with
that as well. They're a greatteaching facility down there. It's been there

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for a very long time, runby a very good instructor, and everybody
he's got down there can help youout a lot. Big Big plays two
full golf courses, the North andthe South, and that enables black Horse
to host some really big charity eventsas well. I've played in events out
there where there were two hundred andtwenty two hundred and thirty people all tea

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and off basically at the same timeat a big old scramble and trying to
raise a lot of money for agood cost. Black Horse Golf Club also
offers a membership option that gets youdiscounts in the pro shop, it gets
you preferred tea times, and itgets you unlimited range use, which is
pretty handy for somebody like me.I love to go hit balls. I

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do. It's it's it's therapeutic,it really is, And every now and
then I actually start swinging better.Black Horse Golf Club dot com is website.
You can make yourself a tea timeright now, right there, black
Horse Golf Club. We are SportsTalk seven ninety. Are you ready listen
online at sports seven ninety dot com. Now more Doug Pike, Hi,

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welcome back Doug Pike Show on SportsTalk seven nine. I just took a
peek out the window out of thek t RH newsroom and found that it
is even foggier now than when Icame to work. I thought, okay,
well this is gonna burn off prettyquick. That's gonna be okay.
But no, it's it's gotten worse. And talk to Jeff back there and

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yeah, he said, it's it'sgotten worse around town. So if you're
going, if you don't have togo anywhere right now, just don't.
And if you do have to,low beams, not the high beams,
and just take a little extra time, slow down a little bit, leave
a little room between you and thecar in front of you. If you
can see it Hey, Brandon,what's up, buddy? Oh it's not

(01:01:43):
working again. Let's go double dipboom. There you are, Brandon.
What's up, Bud? I'm okay. Sorry, the Barry phones dead.
I do you have an in it? Yeah? We got a minute for
you every time. Okay. Sorry, the uh our power went out and
generator is on. Oh good,good for you. I've been trying to

(01:02:06):
get my wife to get a generator. She just thinks that if if the
power goes out, she's just gonnago somewhere where there is power and leave
me there to figure it out.I'm I'm kind of wanting one. Get
it, Barry, you one likej D's what kind of you got?
Uh? He has a barrier generator? Okay, get one? Okay,

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it sounds good to me. I'mgonna have to go do that. I
have to ask Jade when when hegets when when he got his? Okay?
So I will hew you probably whenwhen we got power. Okay,
that's cool. Well, what's onyour mind this morning? Fishing I'm gonna
do. I'm gonna do fishing first, okay, okay. I'm gonna probably

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figuring out to go waiter when thepower comes back. On. Yeah,
you got to have power. Man, how long y'all been without? Did
you go out like Thursday evening?Yeah? For uh no, Fursday afternoon
in the evening Friday. Man,that was a bad storm. God.
Well, I'm glad. Is everybodyokay in your family? Yeah, that's

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good. Our fans is knocked down. Well, that's that easily remedied.
We don't have to worry about that. I'm so glad for you. Man.
How about those asks? They good? Yeah, six in a row,
eight of the last nine, somethinglike that. It's just crazy.
They're they're playing so well right now, and I hope they can. Hope

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they can just kind of we're goingto the today's game. Oh good,
good for you. We'll be sittingon the third bay side where the tickets
are. I got you. Yeah, I know we've got tickets over on
that third bay side too. Certainly, what time are you going? Oh
I'm not going? Uh yeah,we I mean iHeart has them. We

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have tickets that we use for ourclients and stuff. Yeah. Well,
good luck to the Astros and andgood luck to you on this first fishing
trip. Let me know how itturns out. Man. I'm I'm waiting.
I'm waiting. Okay, I needto go before the Oh okay,
yeah, yeah, go plug thatphone in. All right, we'll see
you later audio Psyche tomorrow if Ican't by all right, bye, all

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right, let's move on, shallwe? What do I have here?
What I want to talk about?I just mentioned that fog. That's good.
I'll leave that alone. I'm notquite ready to get to to golf
yet, to get to Valhalla outthere at Louisville, Kentucky. Boy,
what a what a weird turn ofevents yesterday? Yes I am, let's

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talk about it. Let's let's let'sexamine the elephant in the room. Scottie
Scheffler on his way to his teatime yesterday, the PGA Championship at Valhalla,
and there is commotion, and tragiccommotion, unfortunately, because a pedestrian

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had been along the road into thetournament area. A pedestrian had been struck
and killed by a shuttle bus.Okay, and Scotty Scheffler is on his
way in to the property to preparefor his tea time. And there are

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police there and they have to hearthem say it. Scotti Scheffler basically disobeyed
their instructions and was trying to drivearound them. To hear Scotty Scheffler's side
of the story, he thought hewas following the instructions he was being given

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when he started to drive wherever itwas he was driving, and somehow things
turned south in a hurry, andthe next thing, scott he Scheffler knew
world's number one golfer. On hisway to his tea time at a major
championship. He was in handcuffs andin the back of a police car and

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wound up. I don't know whetherit was Louisville PD or maybe County.
I don't remember exactly where or whohooked him up, but they took him
in and he was there for anhour or two. I don't know exactly
how long he did actually make itback to his tea time. The tournament

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start was postponed because of that accidentand because of the investigation that had to
be conducted surrounding it, and itwas keeping a lot of people from getting
to the facility who needed to bethere. The bottom line is he he
he got back to the golf course, he got himself ready and he went

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out and played Xander Schoffley's leading thatevent. He's at twelve under par,
all by himself, Colin Mori Kalaat eleven and to look at the transcript
of his interview, feeling pretty confident. He for a while wasn't really one
hundred percent certain that he had itwhatever it is, but he thinks he

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does now. Che Shaffley, bythe way, put everybody on notice on
Thursday when he went, and Ibelieve he tied or beat the course record.
He shot sixty two, thank youvery much. Sixty two and that's

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yeah, that's something I used todo in nine holes years ago. I
probably no, I don't think I'veever had a sixty two, but I
might have had a fifty two innine holes is a pipe dream. The
lowest score I ever shot was aseventy and I was that was on a
par seventy two. So yes,I didn't have one round under par in
my life. But everything could havethat could have possibly gone right for me

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did that day. But I digress. In third place all the loans to
hit the Gala at ten, ThomasDetrie and Scotty Scheffler at nine under par,
along with Mark Hubbard and Bryson dschambeau SCHEFFERD nine under par. He
shot sixty six yesterday after spending alittle bit of time in the in the

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pokey, And I guess I honestlyI admire the man for being able to
gather himself and separate those two thingswhat happened to him in the morning and
what he had to do when hegot to work, got back to work
and probably had to drive right pastwhere all that happened, and he just

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he just compartmentalized it somewhere. Heset it off aside somehow and went up
there and tore it up. Sogood for him. And I'm glad that
I'm sad for the man who gothit and killed, but I'm glad that
they've they've as a tournament, havegotten through that and are pushing forward somehow.

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Seven one three two one two fiveseven ninety Email me Doug Pike at
iHeartMedia dot com when we get back. When we get back, I want
to talk about a new lake inTexas that should that should be pretty good
if you're willing to drive to it. On the way out, I'll tell
you about Primo Doors. This ismy buddy Jason over there. He owns

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the company, family run business,and he has been in the door business
in Houston for more than twenty years. Primo Doors he started about I think
ten years ago, maybe eleven now, and that's where my wife and I
bought our door, and we gota very fair price. We got great
attention, and everybody in there canhelp you. The attention part starts when

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you think, you know, yes, a boy, a new front door
sounds great for the house, wouldn'tthat look awesome? And talk to your
wife or your husband or whoever whoeverelse lives behind that front door. Years
it doesn't look so good because thesun's been on it for a couple of
summers, or just a little dirtin the air, little sunshine, it
can just dry them out and makethem look like driftwood. But Primo Doors

(01:10:36):
can help with that wood, iron, fiberglass, door handle sets, stain
colors. All that adds up toabout ten thousand plus choices. Overwhelming can
be if you try to do ityourself. Go to the showroom on North
Post Oak. Not going to beoverwhelming at all because somebody will sit there
with you and very patiently ask youquestions about your likes and dislike. What

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you like to do. Even comesdown to that what is going to represent
you and your family best when youcompletely take out and throw away that old,
beat up looking door and replace itwith something brand new. The before
and after pictures of the website arephenomenal. That's what got my wife and
me all fired up about doing this. And then we went over there one

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day and we sat down and wemade all our selections. And it's been
weeks now since since we said yes, let's go. But it's ready and
we're excited and it's going to beput on in a very short period of
time from now, just trying toget the timing right on a couple of
other projects we got going on,and as soon as it's up and running,
you guys will be the first toknow. Primodoors dot com. You

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don't want to be buying your frontdoor from a box store. You don't
want to buy it from a companythat does a bunch of other stuff.
You don't want it installed by peoplewho go from a refrigerator installed to your
door. Then they've got a washerand dryer they got to put in in
a couple of more hours. They'reopen today, by the way, ten

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to two over there, on NorthPost Oak. If you want to drop
in, and if you drop inand tell them I said, to come
by, and you're gonna get littlehelp on the price of that door in
that to the tune of several hundreddollars. Probably that's a promise Jason made
to me a long time ago.He said, tell your people, if
they come over here and drop yourname, they're gonna they're gonna get something

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that's worth several hundred dollars. PrimoDoors dot Com is a website. Start
right there. You will be impressed. Look at the before and afters and
ask yourself if your door is reallya reflection of you and your family and
the pride you're taking your home.Primo Doors dot Com, your Rockets and
Astros live here. We are SportsTalk seven ninety. The conversation continues this

(01:12:50):
as the Doug Fike Show. Welcomeback to Doug Flike Shaw on Sports Talk
seven ninety. I appreciate you listeningthe new Lake. I meant to mention
leaving the past segment and probably overlookedbecause of the Gulf. I just couldn't
overlook that big elephant in the roomanymore. Boat Arc, Texas boat Ark
Texas's newest lake. Let's put itthat way. It's up in Fannin County,

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which is northeast of northeast of Dallas. Actually and so so much so
so far from here that it's actuallycloser. It's actually closer to Hot Springs
in Oklahoma City than it is toHouston. You know, maybe faux Pro
can swing by there at some point. He's about halfway there already where he

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lives. Run up there and seeif Parks and Walleffe Department's assessment of that
lake is accurate. Because Gordon Parksand Wallife, this is going to be
the greatest new lake since sliced breadin Texas. And I quote, I'm
going to quote who am I quoting? Know, Tim Birdsong, Yeah,
Director of Parks and Waldlife Inland FisheriesTPWD is incredibly grateful and appreciative of the

(01:14:02):
collaborative partnership form with NTMWD. Ican tell you about that later. And
where did it go from there todevelop Boat Arc Lake into a world class
fishery for Texas anglers and our visitors. End quote from Tim Burdzel. Great
lake is going to have a tonof fish in it, advanced size sheer

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lunker bass fingerlings arrived in twenty nineteenwhen the lake began to and when the
lake began to hold water in twentytwenty one, stocking commenced in the main
body of the reservoir along with bluegilland channel catfish. So, in other
words, they've been sweetening the potfor years now. These aren't going to

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be three inch long bash you're catchingup there, unless they're young of the
year advances. Blah blah blah.So far this comes from Dan Bennett from
Inland Fisheries. So far three hundredand seventy three, eight hundred and fifty
nine and not another one or anotherTheless pure Florida largemouth bass have been stocked

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that are direct descendants of the thirteenpound or larger bass. That's where that
Cherlod Toyota share lunker program comes in. These bass are direct descendants of thirteen
pound females. We're excited to seewhat sort of trophy bass can be produced
from the combined productivity of a newlake and a new bass population, and

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as kind of proof that that canwork, a couple of the a couple
of the fish that were caught thisyear. The legacy class fish that were
caught this year, and I wouldbet others if they were if they were
checked as closely, were directly linkedgenetically to previously caught legacy class fish.
There was one fish that was caughtfor the second time, and boy,

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I bet it feels kind of stupid, but there were several that were direct
because they keep genetic markers on allthose legacy class fish. So there it
is. There's another lake we canall go fish, another reason to take
off on a road trip on aweekend. Parks One life also created gravel

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spawning beds and it's called commercial fishhabitat and PBC cubes around the lake.
In other words, they're making surethat there is adequate cover to protect the
young of the year while this newlake develops its own vegetation and its own
reputation and starts to make people aroundDallas make them happy. I don't know

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how many real fishermen there are inDallas anymore. It's kind of like Austin.
Austin has some really great fishing inand around that city, and it's
it's different. Let's just call itdifferent and keep on moving. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninetyemail on medugpick at iHeartMedia dot com.

(01:17:06):
I got a couple of emails whenI was talking about drones a little while
ago, and I got asked whetherit was illegal or legal to use drones
to help with your hog hunting.And I did a brief search at the
Parks and Wildlife Department's website, andI did find some information that leads me

(01:17:28):
to believe that it might be okay. I'm gonna double check and hope that
Scott is still listening. Captain Scottdown there with his feet propped up on
his porch, probably probably cleaning uphis golf clubs for the round that I
owe him, since he finished thehouse before I did my garage, and
I suspect that he would know rightoff the top of his head. I
did look at the Parks and WallelifeDepartment's website, and I got taken down

(01:17:53):
a rabbit hole of information and legalease and party of the first part and
second part and all that stuff.And it just was making my eyes bleed
trying to find what I was lookingfor. The gist of it tells me
that it probably is okay, sincesince wild hogs are an invasive species,

(01:18:15):
but I'm not going to declare suchuntil I get confirmation from at least one
or two sources, but I wouldbet that that's on the table on the
table because I know you can't useit for game animals, but a feral
hog is not considered a wild gameanimal, and for goodness sakes, we
can hunt them out of helicopters inTexas, so I can't see where somebody

(01:18:41):
would quibble over using a drone tofind them, and then you and I
still have to go marching through thewoods to go get them and get within
within range. Alan Wade in justa little while ago, the fog is
really really bad out in Oak Forest. I've gotten a couple of other emails
in the last half hour or soto say that, yeah, the sun

(01:19:05):
may be up somewhere, but it'sblocked by the fog where we are.
So if you're one more time,if you're still at home and you don't
really have to be anywhere in thenext thirty minutes or an hour, just
sit around till this stuff burns off, because it's just it's just not safe
to be out there doing that stuff. It's just not someone three two two

(01:19:29):
five seven ninety email on me,Doug Pike at iHeartMedia, do I can
come, you know, talking aboutall that fresh water. I've gotten a
couple of reports from down the coasta little farther and a little farther about
the fresh water that's rolling down thebeach because of all the the easterly factor
in the wind kind of pushing itdown south and ruining some fish beach front

(01:19:54):
fishing anyway. But go f ofMexico. From the snapshot that I'm looking
at that I'm looking at, ifyou get basically about a half a mile
east or west of the Galveston Jetties, where that water's pouring out in such
heavy volume that it's keeping the entiretyof Galveston Trinity, and that that hole

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in East Bay, all of that'sjust almost one hundred percent fresh But once
you get outside the jetties about amile, the Gulf of Mexico swallows up
all that freshness and just redistributes itinto the salt. So there may be
there may be gunk and other thingsmoving down the coast as a result of

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these floods coming out of the brassescoming out of the jetties. It's the
Sabine River I'm sure is pouring itser, but I don't think that.
I don't think that's going to greatlyimpact salinity terribly far south. I just
I can't from what I'm looking atit, it's not that way. And

(01:20:59):
if so somebody knows I'm wrong,tell me I'm wrong. Rudy weighed in.
He said, boy, if weget up another Cat three hurricane like
Alicia was, we're in trouble forelectricity our own government, he points out,
And I would very much have toagree with him. We have spent
but jillions of dollars propping up countriesall over the world in the last few

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years, and not a dime onour own infrastructure. There was I said
something about this on fifty plus thisweek. There was you remember the trillion
dollar infrastructure bill. Well we knownow that nine cents on the dollar of
that trillion, not even ten percent, actually went to infrastructure improvement in this

(01:21:48):
country trillion dollars. The rest ofit was just garbage money, just propping
up politicians making sure they got reelected. It's crazy. We got to work
on that. Uh Rick Pie waitedin fishing versus hunt, catching, hunting
versus shooting, I'll support fishing andhunting. Yeah, I like to fish,

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I like to hunt. I liketo walk through the woods and look
for deer. I really do.And that's a skill. If you if
you've said, if all your deerhunting has been in a stand, or
on a tripod, or in aground blind, just you're in one place
waiting for the deer to come toyou. If you want to find out
what kind of a hunter you are, try to go to the deer.

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And it requires that you walk adifferent way than you're accustomed to walking.
It requires that you move. Youhave to be willing to move very short
distances and take your time, andit's going to take you. It's going
to take you forever to cover threehundred yards. If you really are in
an area where you are pretty surethere are some deer, it takes forever

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because if you make one wrong step, if you put your foot down wrong
and snap a wig, you'll hearsnorts, and then you'll hear the sound
of running all those deer, allfour legs hitting the ground rapidly, and
four times however minute deer there are, and they're all leaving, and you
have to start all over. It'sa fascinating, a fascinating challenge. If

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you really think you're an outdoorsman anda hunter, go sneak up on a
deer. See how close you canget. You'll wonder how if primitive man
had been limited only to the outdoorsskills of contemporary man overall, not this
audience, but overall, they'd haveall starved to death. Certainly. Either

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that or they'd have been all they'dall been vegans because they wouldn't have been
able to catch any meat. Oh, holy cow, you gotta tell me.
Don't be scared, Melvin. Justjust break in and go hey man,
Hey, shush, go to breakGo to break man. Okay,
I'm going Shooter's Corner Problem Highway attwenty nine Street down there in Texas City.
On if I Jerry and JTK,the father and son, two of

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the best guns missing in the stateof Texas. There. I've said it.
I have no question in my mind. They have helped so many of
my listeners over the years who havehad issues with guns, who have taken
their guns to other places and beentold they either needed to spend a bunch
of money or that that gun justcouldn't be fixed. I'll tell them take
it down to shooter's corner and knockon wood. So far, I have

(01:24:27):
never had anybody call me back andsay no, they just couldn't help me.
And a couple of times, themost recent time, what I found
out from Jerry later on is said, yeah, that guy brought the rifle
down here. Somebody had told himit was going to cost him anywhere from
TUTU about five hundred dollars to preparethe guy's rifle. I said, how'd
it go? Were you able tohelp him out? He said, yeah,
I fixed it in about five minutes. I didn't charge him anything.

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That's the kind of people they are. They are passionate about the shooting sports.
They are passionate about helping you enjoythem more than you do right now,
at whatever level you are. Theymake an awesome custom rifle. I
can personally guarantee you that, andthey are perfectly happy to help you get

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yourself into a handgun, a rifleof shotgun. Whatever it is, new
or pre owned, doesn't matter tothem. What they do is what a
gun store should do. They focuson the shooting sports and that's all.
That's it. That and some reallycool stories getting told by pretty much everybody
who's in there. Every time I'vebeen down there, yeah, I've been

(01:25:29):
here five minutes. You used toend up staying a half an hour,
meeting people you've never met before,talking about things you just common passion of
shooting sports. The Shooters Corner TXdot com is the website. If you
wear a badge for a living,you get a discount, which I think
everybody should provide, and they doat Shooter's Corner. The Shooters Corner TX
dot com are sports Dock seven ninetyHouston Sports where you go with iHeartRadio,

(01:25:58):
Now now get more? Is thatyou playing the piano? That with me?
Just tuning up a little bit,getting ready, cracking your knuckles and
roll it out. Oh man,that's a fun song. I hadn't heard
that song in a long time yet. I don't think it's ever been played
coming back from a break, butI like it. That's a good one.
Nothing from nothing leaves nothing, youknow that, And it's a it's

(01:26:23):
a great catchy tune and all that. But I like to think just take
it the other way. Something plussomething equals something even better. Probably,
So let's go with that and getoff the gloom and doom. Stuff we've
had to deal with for so long. I still like the song I'm not
picking on you, Mault and don'tworry. Yeah, it's some I got
I've gotten emails from people who's whohave experienced varying levels of damage to property

(01:26:50):
from that storm, and there's alot of it. There are still trees
on houses, there are still severalhundred thousand people without power who may still
be without power for another several days. And as I pointed out a little
while ago, man our grid,our electric grid, has really not been

(01:27:16):
ramped up enough and bolstered enough.If that little brief storm did what it
did, I can't imagine what amajor hurricane could do here and how long
a lot of us would be withoutpower. So I'm hoping that we can

(01:27:40):
right the ship. We can getthrough this summer at least this storm season.
Hoping we can get through and thenmaybe change things around where money that
we allocate for stuff actually goes toAmericans and not halfway around the world.
It's getting frustrating. I don't wantto get into that. I'll tell you

(01:28:00):
something I'll get into and just kindof warn everybody think about this. After
all this rain mosquitoes were already gettingbad before all of this came along,
and now they're just worse. I'vetried a couple of times to go fishing
and hit golf balls and do allthat good stuff that I used to do,
did for months without ever getting bitby anything, and now all of

(01:28:24):
a sudden, both the mosquitos andthe gnats are all over me, driving
me crazy. The mosquitos we havegood repellents for them. The gnats I
have to be particularly careful of becausewhen they bite me, I puff up
like a toad frog. I hada bite on. I had two bites
actually on my neck about three weeksago, two gnat bites, and when

(01:28:47):
I got home, I I couldfeel that they were a little swollen.
I didn't think much of it,and my wife when I turned just so
it's just kind of like, ohmy god, what happened to you?
Nothing, I had a couple ofgnat bites over here? Why she goes,
go look at them in the mirror, and I did, and oh
lord, it just yeah, itwas ugly. These things were as big

(01:29:11):
around as a quarter. They wereprobably puffed up a quarter of an inch
above the other level of my skin. And that little nice bright red spot
right in the middle where that thinggnawed down on me and left whatever it
left that to which I am apparentlyat least moderately allergic. I didn't go
into shock or anything, but I'lltell you four or five of them bit

(01:29:35):
me on the face. They wouldn'tlet me into an elementary school, that's
for sure. Seven one three,two one two. Fight you like that
at Melvin Ugh, Yeah, Iwas thinking, Holy cow man. That's
by the way. There is somethingthat I have found works to repel them,

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and it is the same thing,only deluded that I used to catch
catfish carp and that is vanilla extract. And get one of those little go
to the dollar store by yourself,a spray bottle, a little small one,
a trigger spray bottle, and putit about half cheap, plain old
vanilla extract in it and half waterand that's it. I don't care where

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you get the water. I don'tcare whether you buy store brand or if
you're real rich, you can buyMcCormick's vanilla extract and use it to propel
your gnats. But the bottom lineis they don't like that smell for some
reason, and it's not if somebodygets down win from you when you've spritched
yourself with vanilla, they'll just they'lljust think you're a h You smell really

(01:30:40):
good today. What the heck isthat as opposed to being gagged by mosquito
sprays. So yeah, there isa way to protect yourself from nats if
you deal with it like I do. Capt'n oh. I know, cap'n
Scott just sent me a video.Well he didn't just send it to me,
but I finally got a chance todownload it and look at it,

(01:31:00):
and now I have visions of tailingredfish dancing in my head. We'll talk
about that, We'll talk about golf, and we'll talk about a lot more
outdoor stuff when we get back onthe way out. Bron's roofing. Now,
Skeeter Broun's been really busy. Hewas actually going to come by and
put a brand new roof on myhouse on Monday, but we had to
postpone, and honestly, I'm kindof glad I did because that gives Skeeter.

(01:31:23):
I know, I'm getting my newroof, but that gave Skeeter time
to go out and probably help sixeight ten twelve people personally, just in
the last forty eight hours to dealwith possibly a much more severe issue than
I've got. My roof still works, but I'm getting to replace because it
has tail damage. He will dothat for you. He'll do that for

(01:31:44):
anybody, and he's been doing itsince nineteen eighty seven. He has excellent
crews working for him. He hasbuilt his reputation in his company company on
doing good work, quality work ata fair price. It's just that simple.
Did it from a mom? Didit from a mother in law?
Has been on my roof, andhis crews have several times either replacing or

(01:32:06):
repairing. The very competitive pricing too. He's not gonna He's not gonna gouge
you at all. He knows thathe is. He makes his reputation and
he makes his money by doing theright thing. The first time. They'll
come to your house and give youa free estimate, usually within twelve hours.
This time of year, he keepshis crews moving, make sure that

(01:32:28):
everybody gets seen as fast as theycan, so that fixing that roof can
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Centers Guns Shooting an instruction since nineteeneighty nine. Now here's Doug Pike.

(01:32:57):
Nine o'clock already. We'll start thishour out with a quick look. Let
me see. Yeah, I'm seeingmore emails from listeners and a lot of
a lot of damage, a lotof structural damage, some cars with trees

(01:33:17):
on them. Just a little ofthis and a little of that. And
you know what, I'm just I'mglad I live where I do because I'm
pretty confident that anybody who's needing helpis getting it somehow, some way from
other Texans and to anybody who justmoved here from out of town or out

(01:33:43):
of state especially. That's what wedo. And if you're not doing that,
if you're okay and you have neighborswho aren't okay and you're not helping
them, then start over. We'llgive you a do over. Okay,
go see what they need. We'llsee if you can help them. That's
how we do it here. That'swhy we've hung around as long as we

(01:34:05):
have. We kind of take careof each other. I know some people
who up north just have seen theway. Texas and Louisiana, especially those
two states, would our next doorneighbor over there, when they need us,
we go to them, and whenwe need them, they come to

(01:34:26):
us. And I would, Iwould be stunned if there aren't aren't people
from over in Louisiana on this sideof the Sabine River today, and even
as early as Thursday night when allthis stuff started going down, people started
heading this way to help. AndI'm going glad that I'm part of that.
I'm Native Texan, that's me nativeHoustonian, a rare breed, and

(01:34:50):
that's just how it's always happened.When I think it was Ike maybe ripped
up my neighborhood as bad as itdid. Yeah, I just tore up
a bajillion trees, and the bulldozerswere out pushing trees out of the roads,
and in my neighborhood at the granularlevel, we were all outside just

(01:35:14):
kind of walking around asking what everybodyelse needed. I spent I think I've
spent six or seven days in myhouse with no power and just trying to
trying to get everything patched back up. And I sent my son, and
he was very young, then Isent him and my wife off to be

(01:35:35):
at my in law's house, mysister in law's house. Let them stay
there and wait till we get everythingput back together and get the lights back
on, and neighbor to neighbor,we just all got through there. I
had had a neighbor call during Harveywhen everything was flooding, and he said,

(01:35:57):
hey, man, you still gotyour I was. I was up
at my same my sister in law'shouse, and he said, your kayak
still in your garage? I saidyeah, He said, I need them
to go get I think it waseither a friend or maybe it was a
brother in law or something out ofa flooded area very close to our homes,
and he had a key to myhouse. When I left to go
to my in law's house, Iasked if he was going. He said

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no, I almost stick it out. I think I can make it.
And this guy is he's the magiverof the neighborhood. And I had no
doubt that he was right. Hewas going to be fine no matter what
happened. He was going to befine. And I said, yeah,
you're gonna have to go through thehouse though, because the gates locked,
there's no electricity so the gate's notgoing to open, he said, no
problem. So he and his son, who was about six four and at

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the time was probably high school ormaybe first year, not even first year
of college, maybe somewhere, probablyin high school. Then bottom line is
sixty four, probably about two fiftytwo sixty strong as a bull. And
they went over there, and hisson went through the house and actually left
towels in there to make sure theydidn't track any water through the house.

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We didn't have any flooding at myhouse then. And he went back there
and got the garage door open,got those kayaks out, and just carried
them both up to his dad's pickuptruck right at the gate and handed them
over. That's the kind of strengthand height that kid had handed them over.
His dad put them in the pickuptruck. They went and took care
of the in laws and brought themback and hung them right back in the

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garage where they found them, andyou'd have never known anybody even come through
the house except for a couple ofdamp towels outside the front porch. That
was it. That's how we takecare of each other in Texas. If
you got something I need i'd letme use it for a little while.
I'll bring it right back. Mostof the people who don't return stuff they
borrow probably not from here. Sevenon three two one two five seven ninety

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Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dotcom. Let me go back to let's
talk about that PGA Championship on goingover there in Kentucky. Let me get
a couple of these things off myscreen because they are in the midst of
everything else I need here. Goback up here, go back to PGA

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Tour. There it is DGA Championship. See if there's I don't see who's
on the golf course so far,if anybody, Yeah, they're out now,
they're out. And I'm looking atlet me see no maybe not no,
no, no, finish, finish, finish. I'm looking all the
way down the line. Yeah,here we go. Oh, yeah,
they're having to wrap up. That'sthat's right. They have have a little

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cleanup to do today and they'll getstarted here. Let's see. Why is
that I'm a little confused by whatI'm seeing on here. Yeah, they're
definitely having to finish up some someround two stuff before they can start the
third round. And that should,by what I'm looking at, come within
the next hour tops. The lastgroup is on sixteen, it looks like,

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and so it won't take them muchlonger. Wrap it up. And
I'm sure that right behind every holeof these people have had to play this
morning, and the people who arewho are having to finish up, I
bet nun of them's on the leaderboardup here, very high through three through
everybody. Yeah, there's just acouple of guys left on the golf course.

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They're going to be kicking off thisthird round shortly. As I mentioned
earlier, Xander Schaffley leading the way. Let me get up here and we'll
look again. Xander Shoffley at twelve, Colin more Cow eleven sahit the gala
at ten all by themselves, andthen come Thomas Detrie, Scotti, Scheffler,

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Mark Hubbard and Bryson Deshambo at nineunder par, and Austin Echrobe,
Victor holland Tony Fee now at eight. I wouldn't count them out just yet.
There are only four shots off thelead with thirty six to play that
they are definitely in contention, asare the two four six guys I think
it is or five who are atseven under par. By the way,

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there's already a little a little videoonline somebody did poking a little fun at
what happened to Scotty Scheffler yesterday.It's got the theme from cops playing behind
a picture of Scotty's arrest, alittle vignettes from Scotty's arrest and whatnot yesterday.

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H it's funny, it is.It's not funny to Scotty Scheffler.
Probably, you know, knowing thatguy and knowing how how calm he is
and how grounded he is, Ithink he even he could laugh at that.
I can't say for sure, butI would. I would like to
think so. I would like tothink so. I looked at something the

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other day, by the way,that that really got me thinking about my
own golf game. And I'm surethere are some of you who are kind
of like me, a little bitof old school and pretty set in our
ways and setting the way we practiceand setting the clubs we pick for different
shots. And it was I can'tremember her name right now, but she

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used to be here. Gosh darnit. I feel very badly that I
can't call her name, because she'sa fantastic instructor and has been for many,
many years. And in any event, what she was talking about is,
let's say you've blown a ball overthe green. Somehow, you caught

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a flyer somewhere, you picked thewrong club, the wind came at whatever,
and you throw a ball way pastthe green, and you've got to
cover in the pens close to thefront, and you've got to cover that
distance. There obviously are options.A lot of people I know a lot
of people with whom I play golf, grab the same two clubs when they

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get anywhere near the green. Theyhave a sixty degree wedge, which I
won't carry. I don't need thatmuch loft. It's not as steep as
my swing is. I'll just digup bigger chunks of turf and it's I
have. I'll carry one of I'llcarry three wedges out, actually, if

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I'm not sure what lie I haveand exactly what I've got to deal with.
But a lot of guys will onlypick the one, and most of
the time that's gonna be wrong,and they're gonna blame the club and not
blame themselves for whatever happens, whetherthey scull it, whether they chunk it,
whether they leave it short because there'sso much loft on the club,

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when, in fact, if youcan just get this is something Charlie EPs
in fact taught years ago, yearsago down at clinic two or three day
golf clinic I got to attend whenI was at the newspaper. Bring whatever
club will get the ball onto thegreen and rolling fastest, because you can
look at a shot and if youimagine it as a putt that starts right

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at the green, then you canread it and you kind of know which
way the ball is going to go. If you're trying to fly the ball
up close to the hole, allthe time that ball's in the area,
you have no control over what it'sdoing. But if you can get it
on the ground and rolling quickly,you have a lot better chance. That's
why my brother in law who's stilla very low single digit handicap to this
day. He's close to my age, he's not quite as old, but

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he'll chip with anything from six ironto nine iron or to wedge, whatever
it takes to get the ball ontothe green and rolling toward the hole as
quickly as possible. And once youstart doing stuff like that, you'll realize
that you can manipulate that club andthe speed of that club to get the

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ball to roll to first to flya specific difference distance, and then once
it's on the green, to rolla specific distance. I've gotten myself in
trouble a few times lately. ByI've gotten I've been really working on picking
my wedge shots, my little pitchingwedge or a wedge gap wedge shots around

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the green a little cleaner, andI'm getting better at that. But what
I'm finding myself doing is flipping thatball up there, but generating so much
spin that the ball just kind ofhops and stops rather than rolling out,
which is in a lot of caseswhat I needed to do. I'm leaving
hitting a beautiful shot right toward thegreen, and I expected to hit and
roll a little bit because that's whatI was getting out of it the way

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I was swinging before. And itgets up there and it jumps about three
feet forward, still fifteen feet fromthe hole, and just dies. So
take when you're doing your short gamepractice, take four or five clubs over
there. Don't just take your wedge. Take four or five clubs over there
and learn to get them on thegreen and rolling it diff diferent distances,

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specific different distances, and to dothat, set up a tea at maybe
three yards on, five yards on, ten yards on, and try to
get the ball to land at thatparticular spot and see which club lets it
land there, and then roll outto wherever the hole is. Land it
there, roll it out to whereverthe hole is and once you start doing

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that, you're gonna start you're gonnastart shaving a few strokes off your score.
That was really I'm gonna have togo back in and find who it
was, because I remember her frombeing here for many, many years,
and now she's moved I think outto Phoenix or someplace out there where the
where the weather's better. It getshotter, but it doesn't get as muggy
as it gets here. Timber Creek, speaking of golf and speaking a good

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actually you can get some good instructionon a short game out there too.
The JJ Woods Golf Performance Center,you can go right in there, and
I think they're just about close tobeing completely unpacked and fully operational. I
need to call JJ and see what'sgoing on so I can get him on
the air and let him explain whathe and his staff do down there.
Timber Creek's got twenty seven holes thatmeander over the river through the woods,

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and I still haven't found Grandma's house. I suspect it's up in there somewhere.
Great food down there, great staff. Everybody there wants to make sure
you have a good time. Youkeep fed and watered. There's a big
practice area so you can warm upbefore your round. And with the course
with the three three first tease,if you will, the three nines,

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they can get twice as many peopleout and playing golf on a morning like
today. Shouldn't be too wet downthere either. I would spect there maybe
even off cart pass, which wouldbe a nice departure from boy, from
what we've had around here lately.Huh. FM twenty three fifty one.
Take twenty three to fifty one offthe golf Freeway, go about four miles

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west and you'll you'll find the interestTimbercreek Golf Club. It's at a light,
so you be slowing down at least. There's a high school of Cross
Street on the left and there's thegolf club entrance on the right. It's
pretty well marked. You won't missit. Timber Creek Golf Club Dot com.
You can go there and make atea time right now Timbercreek goolf Club
dot com. This is Sports Talkseven ninety on the go with iHeartRadio Friends.

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You've got to try. The conversationcontinues this as The Doug Pipe Show.
Love you nine. It is alreadygood Heavens on Sports Talk seven ninety
The Doug Pike Show. Thank youfor listening. I certainly do appreciate that
want to go all the way backto red snapper season, and I'm wondering,

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amongst my audience members, who isa strong champion for the current two
fish federal limit on red snapper andwho thinks they're getting it wrong again?
Who thinks they're getting it wrong again? Seven one three two one two five

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seven ninety Email me Dougpike at Iheeart Media dot com. The State of
Texas is pretty much telling the Fedsthat know, we're going to go ahead
and manage our own state waters alittle differently and allow our fishermen to keep
four red snapper a day. Andmost of the people I know who are
going out there regularly are having absolutelyno trouble whatsoever getting there to fish and

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are pretty well convinced that where theystop a lot of the stops they make,
you could stay out there with Youcould have five hundred people on board
and catch two fish apiece for themif you stayed out there long enough.
So I don't know when or howthe National Fisheries National Marine Fishery Service is

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going to reassess that stock again,but I hope they do it soon,
and I hope they they will atleast can consider a little more evidence that
of what the fishermen are telling them, because the fishermen now, thirty years
ago, forty years ago, itwas very difficult to know just how many

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fish are over some of these spotsoffshore, just how many spots there are
offshore that we may still not evenknow about that are holding a bunch of
snapper, And so it was verydifficult, and all you could kind of
count on was, well, didyou catch your your red snapper today?
Dock side surveys of boats that hadjust come in, asking all the recreational
people, asking the charter boat skipperswhat kind of catches they were getting around

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structure and reefs and sunk and whateverholes everything out there. Almost anything on
the bottom out there you could dropa toaster into the Gulf of Mexico and
there would be red snapper around it, probably within three days. But the
bottom line is the electronics are somuch better now and we are so much

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more cape of documenting what we seeoffshore. We're not just we're not just
going to a rig or going toa little dirt pile or whatever, a
rock pile out there and chum chumchum and trying to count all the red
snapper we see coming up under theboat. We're able to take screen shots

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of the bio mass over this structureand have a pretty good idea whether there
are lots or few of whatever's underthat boat. And as the technology gets
even better, we'll we'll start tobe able to identify specific species. It's
already happened inshore in shallower water,and I don't know why it really couldn't

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be done in deeper water at somepoint. So I would be in favor
of a reassessment and let the chipsfall where they may, but use the
best evidence available. And I thinkif we ever get to that point where
the best evidence is examined, theremay be a little bit of an extension
of the season. There may bea little bit of a loosening of the

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bag limits, but all of thatalso still dependent as well on just how
how much of the allocation is goingto go to commercial fishermen, because there's
a lot of money involved in thatas well, and where the money goes,

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so go the fish. John Wadein and I kind of agree with
him on Tiger Woods at the PGAChampionship TV coverage, writes, John is
embarrassing. All aspects of his gameare gone. I don't think he'd be

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competitive on the Senior Tour aka Tourchampions That's what John writes. And Tiger
Woods did what he did for golf. But I'm and for a while I
softened a little bit and said,you know, let's give him his due,
let's talk about him a little bit. But there is still such an

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overabundance, an over reporting of everyswing Tiger Woods makes, even when he
is let me go back to thisleaderboard and I'll tell you where he is
right now. First of all,I'm gonna just drag it all the way
to the bottom and then work myway back up because I know he had
a poor showing and it's not thatanybody else didn't have a poor showing there.

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He is right there. He isseven over par. He is seven
over pars through two rounds, andthe cut line is at one underpar,
so he's well south. With aprojected cut line, they got a couple
more people on the golf course,but he is going to fall well south

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of that. And he is currentlytied for where did it go there?
He is? He is currently tiedfor one hundred and thirty third, one
hundred and thirty third in the competition. He's not He is still tiger Woods
okay, and he is still adraw for spectators. But for for the

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rest of his life. He earnedevery accolade he's gotten, and he in
his time was the best ever.But I don't think that it's fair to
the players who are top the leaderboard to have them pushed aside so that

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we can watch a man who ishe's physically broken. He just cannot do
what he used to do, andit's sad. I'm not wishing him ill.
I think he's actually become a farbetter man than he was at the
peak of his golf game. Heis he has turned out to be and

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you can see it the actions andreactions when he plays golf alongside his son
Charlie, it's it's a fantastic relationshipthey have, and same with his daughter
and anybody with whom he interacts now, I think would and who knew him
then would say he's much changed andfor the better as a human being.

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But his golf game's gone, andit's it's hard to watch when somebody who
was that good just isn't anymore.And I don't I just don't see him
being competitive anymore. And he's Ithink his pride is keeping him from even
mentioning anything about champions to There's justthere's no way he's gonna he's gonna do

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that. There's no way he's gonnago anywhere but to the best tournaments in
the entire world. And he'll stillhe'll probably go to the Open Championship.
He'll he'll do the Majors still asfor as long as he can, and
he's eligible until until he's done,untill he just can't play it all anymore.

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And someday, someday he will beone of the legends on the first
t at the Masters. But untilthen, I would like to see I
would like to see television show atleast I don't. I'm not saying the

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same respect they do for Tiger Woods, but show more respect to the people
who are at the tops of theirgames. Now. Tire's forty eight,
He's had multiple surgeries on every partof his body. He's just and as
much as he played, as muchas he practiced, and as hard as
he worked on his game to becomebetter and better and better, he redid

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his entire swing what three or fourtimes while he was number one in the
world, said now, this isn'twork, and I'm gonna I'm gonna make
it better by doing this. Andto reinvent your swing at that level takes
thousands and thousands of practice swings todial it in. And he did that,

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and it did make him better.And it was just when you thought
he couldn't get any better, hewould. He would pull off miraculous shots
one after another and lap the fieldin some of these tournaments, just just
make them. These guys were showingup knowing they were playing for second place,
and I'm sure it drove him crazy. Everybody who had to play against

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him knew that in most tournaments theywere playing for second place. And if
Tiger Woods had never played the gameof golf. A lot of these people
in their forties and fifties now wouldhave made a whole lot more money playing
golf, but it didn't happen.So yeah, I'm kind of I would

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like to see him talking about golf. I would love to hear his thoughts
on golf. There's a great dealexchange between Tiger Woods and Nelly Corda.
As a matter of fact, Isaw on Facebook earlier today that's fantastic about
them exchange talking about the driver swingsthat Nelly makes to get whether she's feeling
good or whether how she's gonna flightthe ball depending on how she's swinging that

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day. And it's a real it'sa real analytical look at golf at the
professional level with two of the bestplayers, one before and one now,
and it's that if you can findthat, it's really I'm gonna go listen
to the whole thing when I getback and watch the whole thing when I
get back to my desk, becauseI only got to watch a little bump

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it anyway before I get Before Iget Melvin mad at me, I want
to go ahead and break so hedoesn't have to tell me one thing,
one more time for Carter's Country.Okay, new gun, new Ammo,
new Camo. You know, huntingseason not that far off that you can't
start thinking about this stuff now,and what better time to treat yourself to

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a new shotgun for dove season,maybe a new rifle for deer season,
or maybe you just need a newhandgun. Things aren't things aren't as safe
as you think they used to be, and you want to be able to
protect yourself and your family. Allthat stuff is available at Carter's Country and
up on the north side of townat the Treshwek store, there is a
full service five star shooting range whereyou can you can fire your guns till

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you run out of AMMO and thenrun in the store, buy some more,
and go back out there and shootsome more. They've got exceptional product
up there, all the guns thatyou can imagine. They have a great
selection of Ammo. Even sometimes whenAMO gets a little hard to find,
Carter's Country's gonna have it. Theyhave Camo, they have optics, they
have everything that you need to enjoywhatever part of the shooting sports you like,

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hunting, target shooting, competitive shooting. I've been involved in a lot
of all of that actually to somelevel. And I've spent an inordinate amount
of time over the years in Carter'sCountry getting help from the experts there.
Carterscountry dot com is the website youcan find just about You can have most

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anything in those stores delivered right toyour door if that's what you want to
do. Carterscountry dot com. Thisis Sports Talk seven ninety online at Sports
seven ninety dot com. Now they'remore Doug Fie Sports Talk seven ninety The
Dougpike Show. Thanks for listening.I did a little research during the break.

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Tiger Woods is forty eight years old. Okay, he's forty eight years
old. Here I am doing thesame thing that I'm telling other media not
to do talking about Tiger Woods whenXanderschoffley and everybody else at the top of
that leaderboard and not at the bottomdeserve more. But at forty eight,
I was talking to Melviyn during thebreak, and I feel like if Tiger

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had stepped down from competitive golf justsaid, look, my body can't do
it anymore. I can't do itanymore, and he had conceded that his
time had passed as a competitor andwhatever he did other than that, whether
it was just go roller skating withhis kids, or travel the world or

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whatever he did other than try toplay golf, I think a lot of
people would have remembered him as certainlythe best golfer of his era and possibly
the best golfer of all time.You can argue for both of those or
against him, depending on whose campyou're in, Nicholas whatever. But I

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think now, sitting here at thePGA in one hundred and thirty eighth place,
that's gonna bring more and more peopleinto the camp of he's the guy
who really didn't know when to saywhen he didn't, you kind of want
to leave on a high. AndI think Tiger is trying to force a

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round peg into a square hole alittle bit. His body is just his
body has been used to his advantage, for he made absolute best use of
every skill he had. He honedhis skills, he improved his skills every
step of the way, and thenhe started having surgeries to fix stuff,

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and then he'd gotten a terrible accident, almost lost his foot. He has
been broken and beat up and patchedup so many times that it just doesn't
all work together anymore. And hewon't. He won't let that go,
and I feel badly for the man. I really do. Like I said,
he's become a tremendous dad to hiskids, He's become a tremendous asset

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to his own foundation and the charitywork that he does. But he doesn't
need to be out there in onehundred and thirty eighth place. That's that's
not where we want to remember TigerWoods. I want to remember him when
he was I think it was abouta five or six year stretch maybe where
his average finish in the tournaments heentered well second place. That was his

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average was runner up, and hewon as many or more, and it
was just amazing what he did inhis time at his peak. But he's
well past his peak, and Ihope he I hope he figures that out.
I really do. Let's see whatMark's got going on here. I

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got an email I gotta go checkhere. Just popped in one three two,
one two five seven ninety by theway, Mark over in Georgia.
Yeah. Wishing the best for myfellow Texas and praying for their needs to
be taken care of quickly. Holycow, Holy cow. At the portable

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power stations. Oh man, afteryears of experience. Yeah, I'm thinking
about not even a little generator ifI if I break down and get one
again. I had a little onefor a while and it just didn't work
out. But if I break downand get one, it's gonna be whole
house. And what I need todo is get my neighbor behind me.

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He's got a big, big yard. There would be plenty of room to
put that in there and kind ofinsulate the noise to make it go straight
up. And if we could geta two house generator, we might be
able to get a good deal onone, and that way neither one of
us would have to worry about it. From up in Montgomery County, Mojoe
ways in, we've only got lotsof small tree trash down. Yeah,

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I've seen tons of that all overtown. Holy cow, Houston is as
vulnerable now as New Orleans was.Uh huh. We need boy, the
truer words never spoken here. Weneed leaders who can see long term,
long term. And I hope thenew mayor of Houston is kind of seeing

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long term and realizing that he inheritedan electric grid that wasn't quite ready for
something like this, and just imagineimagine twelve or fifteen hours of wind like
that. Imagine a big hurricane comingthrough and doing that to a place instead
of being a couple of miles wide, to an area that's thirty forty fifty

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miles wide and stretches from from thecoast all the way up to the woodlands,
like Ike did, like Harvey did. Like we've had some bad hurricanes
through there through here, and we'reno more protected now than we were then,
Only there are a ton more peoplehere and a ton more need for

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better infrastructure here. And whether itcomes from federal or state funds, I
don't care, but we need tostart building some new power generation and we
need to start figuring out how tostrengthen the towers those lines are on.
Because seeing what happened to a coupleof those towers and how how much it's

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going to take to replace them andhow long that's going to take, that
doesn't make me really super confident.So all we can do is all we
can do is hope and take careof our neighbors. That's what Texans do.
I'm mentioned that talked about it alittle while ago. If you got
some you know who doesn't have power. Go to the store near you,
get a couple of cases of waterand maybe go drop them off over there.

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At least keep those people hydrated.They're gonna need it when it starts
to get hot and they still don'thave any power. Take them a can
of insect repellent too, that's nota bad idea, a little mosquito spray,
all right, last, break theprogram. On the way out,
I'll tell you about Braun's roofing again. Remind you that Skeeter Braun has been
doing this for thirty seven years.Free estimates within twelve to twenty four hours,

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always totally free. You get themon the phone, you go to
the website. I need your help. Here's my address. They will be
there. They will personally inspect thatroof of yours, and if you're lucky,
they'll come down and tell you youdon't need anything. Your roof is
just fine. If you got anissue, especially if you've got to drip
in the house, you need themthere quick. And they will get up
there and tell you exactly what it'llcost to get that fixed. And they

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will tell you if you need awhole new roof and whatever. They tell
you you can count on being accurate, and you can count on the estimate
they give you being fair and honestfor the quality of work you're going to
receive, which is top quality work. That's what he does, quality work
at a fair price. Skeeter Braun'sbeen doing that for close to forty years

(02:07:15):
now. Any kind of roof anywherein this great anywhere within about a half
a tank of gas and maybe more. Wherever you need him, Skeeter and
his crews will be there. They'vetaken care of me, my mom when
she was alive, that my motherin law's house up in the Woodlands,
all over Skeeter Braun, Bronze Roofing, b r a u NS Bronze Roofing

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dot com. All this is Sportstockseven ninety, Facebook dot com, Slash
Sports Talk seven ninety. Back tothe Doug Pipe Show nine on Sports Talk
seven ninety The Dougpike Show, tryingto I've accepted a challenge that I'm looking
looking up some information. Six golfers, it says here, have won these

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same PGA Tour event three years ina row, including Tiger Woods and Jack
Nicholas. Stuart Appleby won the Mercedesin two thousand and four five and six,
becoming the first player in fifty yearsto do so. Dustin Johnson won
three consecutive starts on the PGA Tourin twenty seventeen. Moving down's done by

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six. That's yeah. So I'mnot sure. I'm not sure where Danny
wanted me to go with that,but yeah, that's a very elite group.
And I think any any group ofelite golfers having done something amazing,
and it's only a it's a groupof fewer than five or six people.

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I'm pretty sure Tiger Woods is inall of those groups. He has more
records than a lot of pros thatprobably played rounds and always will. Those
records are his, and until somebodycomes along who can win four in a
row or five, until somebody comesalong who can have a better scoring average

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or have a better anything average thanTiger would did at his peak, and
he'll still be there. Records aremade to be broken, and for the
longest time, everybody thought Tiger Woodswas gonna take care of Jack Nicholas's majors
record. That didn't work out forhim for reasons. I can't say we're
not beyond or I can't say we'rebeyond his control. There were aspects of

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his life he could have changed earlyon that probably would have enabled him to
do that. I think he quitepossibly could have won two dozen majors had
he remained in peak physical condition andtaken care of him. So, but
he is who he is, andhe's still as good as there ever was

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or will be. Probably I'll takea lot the way competition now is in
golf, It's going to be verydifficult for anybody to emerge as that dominant.
Scotty Scheffler is about as close aswe've had in a long time,
and with him being just three shotsoff the lead going into this third round
today, I would not at allbe surprised to see him in the final

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pairing tomorrow, possibly with even alead of one or two shots. That
wouldn't surprise me at all. Andif he's not there, I would be
surprised if he's more than about threeshots off the lead. He is,
Yeah, he's striking the ball,he's good around greens that he misses.

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He's putting pretty well. I can'tI haven't seen his stats for this weekend
or for this week on putting.But if if that putter of his either
gets hot or stays hot, dependingon where it is. Now, he's
got a good chance he hits theball a long ways. His Irons iron
play has been great lately. Shortgame's been well. He's winning. Every

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time you turn around, seems likeseven three, two, two, five,
seven nine. We've got about fiveor six minutes left. I'm trying
to decide where i want to go. I've already talked about nats. I
don't want to talk about them again. They just give me the heavy gebis,
whatever those are. I don't reallywant to dwell on the storm.

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I am deeply saddened for the familiesof the seven people who so far have
been have been confirmed dead in thewake of these the one hundred mile an
hour wind that ripped through the topof downtown and blue windows out of a
lot of buildings down there still halfa million people without power in the fourth

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largest city in the country. Ahalf a million people without power. That's
kind of frightening, really, youwould think. And again, I think
it's partly because we just flat don'thave enough electricity to generate with all the
extra draw on our power system.Being the fourth largest largest city in the

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country. But a lot of italso is that we never expected this storm
that did this damage to be powerfulenough to do anything like this. I
got all the warnings on my phone, just like everybody else did. Dangerous
thunderstorms moving into the area. There'spotential for tornadoes, there's potential for a

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large hail, there's potential for gustywinds. And I think it's set up
to sixty miles an hour or somethinglike that. It wasn't sixty miles an
hour, or it certainly wasn't eightyand ninety even on the ground in a
lot of places, is what I'mstarting to hear now, And that's that's
well in excessive hurricane force win wetend to think of thunderstorms as coming closed.

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Maybe tropical storm forty fifty mile anhour winds, maybe sixty, but
not eighty and ninety. Those arethat's real deal hurricane stuff. And again,
it didn't really last nearly so longas whatever our next hurricane will.
It's crazy. Let's get this oneon the phone real quick. What you
got click me? Oh darn it, I did that hit it? What's

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up, Stephen? How are you? I am a native Houstonian I've spent
forty four years there before I movedto California where I live. Now,
I'm sorry, and I have notwell. Yeah, yeah, I feel
you're joking a lot of bad.Now you're not a lot of bad,
a lot of good. But Iam planning on moving back to Houston when
I can get my business running,which is home restoration water damage. So

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like I'm watching all this happening,you know, all of these storms,
and yeah, and you know,the state of insurance in California is horrific.
You know, people are leading indroves and I hear that in Houston,
that also in Sorry, in Texas, they're talking about it's going to
get to where like Florida, whereowns are uninsurable, you're gonna have to
get insurance through the state. Andyou know, I'm trying to build my

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business over there, but it'd belike a doctor that can only do medicare.
Yeah, you know, so Iwanted to get your take on that
and see it kind of like ifyou've been hearing the same or if you
even yourself are dealing with, youknow, tough to ensure your home.
I mean, what do you thinkthat five ten years looks like it's getting
more and more difficult. I knowsome people who have who saved forever and

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finally bought their beach house or theirbay house and anything on the water over
here. The insurance is through theroof. And I know one guy just
in recent he has only had ahouse on the bay for about two years
and he's already sold it. Hecouldn't he couldn't afford the insurance on it.
So wow wow yeah, I mean, and that was just in two

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years time. It went up.I think it like doubled or something like
that in two years time and itjust went out of control. So yeah,
that's wy I worry about that.Mm hmm. It's tough, but
it's still better than California. Ipromise you that, Oh for sure.
Man, I'm moving back. Idon't care if it's four times as much.
I'm definitely gonna head back home oneday. But was just curious,
Well, you guys have a greatshow. I love listening to you on

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Saturdays, and we are always listeninghere from California just to get a little
piece of home. Holy cal Well, I appreciate that. Don't be a
stranger with the phone calls, man, I want to learn more about what
you're doing and let me know whenyou're coming back. We'll welcome it with
open arms. Man. You gotHe'll put a calendar to call you on
every week. We'll talk about allthis stuff. Home stuff. Yeah,
let's talk about some talk about thesecond boy. There's all kinds of California

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stuff I can talk about. Let'stalk about them all week on. I
have a concealed weapons lives in Stern, California. Very dude. I live
in an area it's close to Narco, which is Horsetown. You out,
hey, baby. We are conservative, we are Trump lovers, we are
red. And it's just it's placeslike La and San Diego and San Francisco
that are the poopholes everywhere. You'dbe surprised. Man. I'd love to

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hear from you some more. Yes, stay in touch, shoot me an
email. Let's get in touch thatway, we'll talk about some stuff.
Thanks Steven. That was great man, what a great call. All right,
we got to wrap it up.On the way out. I will
remind you that there are a lotof people in trouble in Houston right now,
suffering with no electricity, maybe nofood and water. Right now,
see if you can find somebody tohelp today, Okay, do that.

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I'll be back here tomorrow morning ateight o'clock. Hopefully more people will have
their power restored, and then we'lljust we'll just keep building, keep rebuilding,
one one power line at a time, one bottle of water at a
time, until everybody's back up andrunning. Stay safe. If you're running
around today, be real careful,and I'll catch up with all that would
be tomorrow again at eight o'clock.Right here on Sports Talk seven ninety,

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