The Doug Pike Show 5-19-2024

In this episode Doug talks about salinity levels and which levels trout prefer. Doug chimies in on Utah's wildlife emergency changes. Get tips on fishing and a gnat/mosquito home remedy that will create a shield for you. Do you know when Dove Season starts? And where are the 20lb Bass located? All this golf and more Doug covers.

Episode Transcript

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This is the Doug Pike Show,brought to you by American Shooting Centers Guns
Shooting an instruction since nineteen eighty nine. Now here's Doug Pike. All right,
Sunday editions. The program starts rightnow. Slide in sideways as usual.
And I reached into the little bagof what was left of a long

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stack of styrofoam cups for coffee,grabbed one, the only one that was
left in it, yanked it outof there, filled it up, and
it's got a crack up on thetop. Now it doesn't go all the
way down the cup, which isgood. And it doesn't. I don't

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think I've threatened the structural integrity ofthe cup as it holds coffee right now.
If I'd filled it up a littlehigher, though, it might have
been a mess. Hey, Idon't know what you did yesterday afternoon,
but I actually got out and ohwait, I want to make a note.
Yeah, I want to talk aboutthis in a minute. I actually

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got out and played. I thinkI played five holes of golf yesterday afternoon
before I just couldn't stand it anymoreand started fishing. And in hindsight,
I probably should have kept playing golf, because that was going pretty well.
I was two over through five.Did I play six? Yeah? I
did, actually two over through sixand was striking it pretty well. I

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was pretty comfortable and confident. Imade some mistakes, though I did,
and I probably should have been ashot or two better than that, even
and that would have been That wouldbe very good golf for me. Lately,
I haven't. I haven't been exactlylighting it up, as they say,
but I have seen improvement in someareas and important areas too, like

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driving the ball. We'll talk aboutgolf a little later. I got some
information this morning, or actually yesterday, after the show. I went digging
and did some research on salinity levelsor speckled trout and what they like and
what they like. It turns out, going into the spawn at least is

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about fifteen to twenty five parts perthousand of salt in their water. And
then as the days get longer andthe trout a moving into other areas,
they're looking for a little bit highersalinity overall than even the fifteen. Well,
fifteen's about right, I guess somewherein there. And then I took

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that information to the little chart thatI've been watching hang on, I gotta
get mine. Oh, I gottaget this mouse out from my pocket so
that I can use it to manipulatethe cursor on the screen, And would
in so doing if I could findwhere that mouse is there it is.
Oh no, I didn't lose allof those, did I? Yeah,

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so I got Well, I'm gonnahave to manually go here click there.
It is the salinity chart that Italked about. I've been talking about it
for more than a week now.When I found this thing, I can't
even I wish I could remember whoto credit for sending it to me.
The bottom line is, what I'mseeing actually is ever so slight. We'll
call it improvement in the And itis slight. It's still basically the same

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chart. It's still dark blue,which is bad. That's low salinity still
virtually zero. I would say eastof a line from oh gosh, like
the Trendy River all the way tothe jetties, and everything east of that
is all pure fresh water pretty much. Now, when you get west of

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there, southwest of there, youstart to see some salinities of about maybe
oh ten somewhere in there, maybeeight seven eight ten somewhere in there,
let's call it. And trout cansurvive in that from what I'm reading,

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but they still want more and toget more, to get the salinity you're
really looking for when you're looking forspeckled trout. Now you're talking about from
the San Luis Pass bridge out intothe Gulf of Mexico, and there's an
incoming tide. I'm watching push waternow, and there's a lot of salt

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water getting up well up into thefar lower end of West Bay on the
incoming tide. But you got tobe where the water is salty all the
time. You don't want to bechasing salinity in tides. That's getting a
little too, a little too inthe weeds, I think when you're trying
to fish the Galveston jetties are theincoming tide pushing salt water back up into

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the bay system. That didn't showmuch much salt water being pushed deep into
into the bay system up here,though, I'm not really sure how long
it's gonna take before that exchange startslooking a lot prettier. There's a big
outflow right there. That was abig, major dump of fresh water.

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It got shoved out into the Gulfof Mexico and basically gets absorbed by the
much saltier water there, not terriblyfar off the beach front. I would
guess what, probably the equivalent ofabout three No, it's more than that,
probably about five ten miles. Thewater salts up pretty good, be

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twenty one twenty three, twenty fivepercent saw or parts per thousand, and
so that water will make it in. I don't I don't want to get
in the weedze on this. Istand here, I'm just staring at this
thing. It's like watching a videogame. I've got to put it down.
Move it away, move it away, Move it away, all right?
Seven one three two one two five, seven ninth. Email me Dougpike

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at iHeartMedia dot com. Wanted totalk about that today, and I guess
I have. And I don't knowif you recall or were listening yesterday when
Aaron called and was talking about what'sgoing on up in Utah speaking of trout,
but not the speckled kind the UtahDivision of Wildlife. I've got the

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I want it and printed the pressrelease that they sent out, and here's
what's going on. They have issuedan emergency change, an emergency change in
some Utah waters, not all,but in some because of an upcoming plan
to help restore native cutthroats. Onesmall release of rainbow trout here, one

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small release of brown trout there.I don't know if they got brookies out
there in Salt Lake City, butthe bottom line is what they're gonna do
is is they're actually going to duringthe summer of twenty five, they're going
to treat Fall Creek and its tributaries, says here, including Finnie and Anderson

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Lakes with rotent known, which isgoing to basically kill every fish in there,
whatever's left. And then once therotinone flows downstream and gets out of
the water, they're going to reintroducetheir native cutthroat trout, which is really
cool, it says here. Andthis is the kind of thing the parts
of widlife does things like this.Almost all of the fish and wildlife resource

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managers in the country have to dealwith things like this from time to time.
But what they're going to try todo is it's just bring it back
to where it was. And insome cases I think that's a great idea.
In some cases, I think itmay be, you know, it
may be that the horse is sofar out of the barn and across the

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pasture and over the hill that you'realmost better off trying to manage it with
maybe an increased limit on how manyrainbow or brown trout you can keep,
and just make it a no takeon the cutthroats for a little while,
let them re establish some dominance,and see if you can't do it without

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killing every fish in the water.I would hate, I would hate to
see something like that. I don'teven know what the equivalent would be.
In Texas, we don't have thatmany, well, we really have,
except for the Guadaloupe River, wereally don't have any at all spawning rainbow
trout I don't think in Texas,just off the top of my head.

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So we're not a let's just putit this way, We're not a mecca
for trout fishermen unless they're a speckledkind. And then the first places you
look are Baffin Bay, you lookat Matta Gorda, you look at South
Texas. Baffin Bay I think isthe epicenter of it all. And there
would be people I know in Floridawho would disagree because they also have some

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really giant speckled trout but I thinkI would I've fished both, I would
say extensively here and significantly there enoughtimes to get a feel for certainly for
both. And I'd have to givethe edge to Baffin Bay and that that
region down there. My son caughta really big trout in the boat with

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Cliff Webb couple of several years agonow actually twenty nine and change, and
that wasn't anywhere near Baffin Bay.We were barely five minutes from the ramp
when he caught that fish at alittle spot that Cliff said. It was
very interesting because we'd been chasing fishall day and on the way in and

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Cliff said, you know, Igot one more spot we could try and
we may not get a bite atall, but if we do get a
bite, it's going to be areally big trout. You don't have to
tell me that twice. Let's go. Let's do that. And so we
went, and it was on theway back, and no fooling, we
weren't maybe six eight minutes from theboat ramp at that point, and Cliff

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eases up in there and cuts thekey and we're just drifting across this place
and all of a sudden line comestight, and this fish is moving way
more like a redfish, like apretty significant redfish. And I thought,
oh man, that's too bad.Too bad he couldn't get a big trout.
And I said something about redfish toCliff. He goes, oh,

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no, that's gonna be a trout, and it's gonna be a good one.
And about that time, that fishcame up and shook her head,
and my son, to his credit, even very young, he might have
been eleven years old, maybe Idon't think he was twelve yet, somewhere
in there, eleven twelve. Andhe had to dance around the trolling motor
and the power poles and all theway around to the front of the boat

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once or twice. And to hiscredit, we ended up landing that fish.
In the one kind of funny part. About halfway through that fight,
after we'd seen this fish and weknew it was a giant, I said,
by the way, Cliff, he'sfishing with a barble's hook, you
know that. I mashed the barberson all my hooks, and Cliff's face

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almost went pale. He's, ohman, oh, and he started he
started really ramping up the instructions tomy son, and my son listened to
everything he said, and we gotthat fish in the boat. And that's
that's my screen screenshot or screensaver.What is that called? Oh darn it.
Melboyne helped me out. It's mythe photo on my phone that I

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look at when I open it up. What is that called? Just like
a jpeg? Oh no, nota jpeg. I'm not I'm not trying
to get technical on it. It'sjust that that's my screen or something like
that. Is that right? Idon't know, it doesn't matter. He
caught a twenty nine and a halfinch triut. It was pretty cool.
Grapefish settled on three two one twofive seven ninety Email on me Dougpike at

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iHeartMedia dot com. On the wayout here, let me tell you about
Shooter's Corner. Okay, Shooter's CornerPalmer Palmer Highway at twenty nine Street in
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met on a on a well,every hunt I had down there to the
Sombrita was fantastic. But on oneof my many opportunities, I was afforded

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to go down there and hunt that'swhere I met Jerry TK, and I
immediately recognized his knowledge about guns andabout hunting. I recognized his willingness to
teach it. So basically what Idid when Jerry was around is just sit
down and shut up and listen.And I learned a ton from that man.
And now his son is also inhis business with him down there,

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and the two of them down therein Texas City are probably among the top
five or ten gunsmiths in the entirestate of Texas, at least that I've
set people down there for all kindsof work on guns, and everybody has
come away satisfied and happy. They'vegot a great selection of new and pre
on firearms. They've got plenty ofAMMO and camo and optics and a little

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bit of a little of this,little of that. But every one of
those things this is and the vatsdown there are all shooting and hunting sports
related. That's it. That's it'sa gun store. It's an old school
gun store. If you don't knowwhat one of those smells like, go
into shooter's corner with your eyes closedand just that's what a gun store smells
like. Got fantastic gunsmithing work.As I mentioned, anybody in that store

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really can help you. Anybody canhelp you. Palmer Highway twenty ninth Street.
If you wear a badge for aliving, you get a discount,
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These Shooters Corner TX dot com.This is Sports Talk seven ninety,
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Doug Fike Show eighteen on Sports Talkseven to ninety. Thanks for listening.
I certainly do appreciate it. Ihope everybody's digging out from those storms we
had. I really do. AndI've heard now from more friends and more
people who live up in the heightsthemselves just about how horrible it was in

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there. It's just as though asthough nature just picked that one area to
really double down and put a hurtingon those people. Their properties are torn
up, and the devastation in thereis is at least as bad as a

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lot of the hurricanes we've been through. And it's really amazing how this thing
just cut that swath coming from westto east basically with a little bit of
north and south in it, andabsolutely I bet you there's still a couple
one hundred thousand people without power rightnow, and it just this ought to

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be a real wake up call forall of us to let us know just
how precious and how fragile electricity is. We all need it, and we're
being told to use it more andmore, but when we need it,

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the most kind of falls apart onus. Not everybody can afford a generator,
a whole house generator. It's alovely thing to have, but not
everybody can do that. And forus to be told that we have to
do this and we have to dothat involving electricity, how about we'll do

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that when you can promise us thatwe're never going to have to do without
it. There. I know somepeople who's only the only cars they have
are all electric cars, two orthree of them in a family, and
they're puffed up, proud, reallycool. Spend all the money I spent
on these cars. Oh boy,Yeah, these are nice. I love
these cars. But man, ifyou live, if you're one of those

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several hundred one of the eight hundredand fifty or nine hundred thousand people originally
without power and now still a coupleof hundred thousand three, four days out
and you still have no power atyour house. You've been scrambling lately.
I don't care who you are.I don't care what you thought you had.

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You don't have electricity, and thattakes away your transportation. It's kind
of scary and a little bit dangerous. Let's get off that subject for as
quick as I can and let mego find this mouse over here. There
it is and it's not working.Putting back on hold and Melbourne. Please,
there we go, Brandon, what'sup, buddy? I was making
coffee. That's okay, what's goingon? You did say we did have

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a bad storms? Yes, wedid, and that's the good news.
I'm listening. We got power.Yay. How long were you without?
Not mom? Because we had agenerator. Oh that's right, Yeah,
you got a generator. You're oneof those fancy guys. Huh yeah,

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that's great. Man. When wemoved, we're probably gonna get a General
generator. Okay, that's a goodidea. I'm thinking I'm gonna get the
number. General turned his celf on. Oh yeah, yeah, that's what
you want. What you don't haveto do anything? You just sit there

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and wait for the lights come backon in about three seconds. That's what
I'm thinking. We're gonna do that. That's not a bad idea. What
about those astros last night? Man? Was that that was the disappointing,
wasn't it? It was? Yeah? I hated to see that, I
really did. Man was not good. I didn't. Yeah, I didn't

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see much of that. But whenI heard he was at ninety pitches in
what like four and a half orfive innings, that's that didn't sound good
at all. I saw Probably hegot over one hundred. Oh yeah,
yeah, he's he doesn't need tobe throwing a hundred pitches. If he's
throwing a hundred, he's not havinga good night. Yeah. Anyway,

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I'm gonna do your fishing first,Okay, do it. I'm gonna go.
I'm think I'm gonna go. VinsonRater? Did you did you decide
what kind of fish you want tocatch? Tell me it's trout? Okay,
You're gonna have to head to thecoast then, right, got a

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spot? I think? So?Yeah, you got a place to go?
Yet you got it figured out?Not yet? You will? You
will? Got up this morning?Got drive? Uh vad what we have

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the air editioner. So you knowwhat, did Jaw have power at the
studio? Yeah, we're fine.We have generators. We have big generators
here. We've got to stay onthe air even if there's a bad storm.
You know, how how is theweek guys do the weekday guys?

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They did fine all the whole Thebuilding never lost power. I don't believe.
I don't think that happened, andso we were we were okay here.
You know, if the if thebuilding loses power, the issue I
have is walking up seven flights ofstairs and I've had yeah that has.
We had to do that a fewtimes over at the old building. We
weren't that high up, and sofar we haven't had to do that over

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here. But I don't know that. I don't know that our generator powers
an elevator, and so if theif the building went out of power,
it'd be it'd be pretty rough.I'm going to come see guys very soon.
Okay, before we move. Okay, good, Do you know where

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the studio is? I know exactlywhere it is. It's on the west
Loop twelve thirty three west Loop South, I believe is the address. And
we're on the seventh floor. Okay, all right, Hey, I got
one more I got to catch beforethe bottom. Okay, are you gonna
watch it today? Of course,of course I am. Can't wait.

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All right, Brandon, I gottarun, Buddy, I gotta go catch
this other call. All right,man, I'll see you audios. Okay,
Melvin, little help on both sides. Click and bring Joe up there
he is, oh, putting backon hold. Hit it again. We
have the same technical issue we hadyesterday. It's tragic. We're all doing

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double work. Joe. What's up? Man? Hey, good Marnin sir,
how are you very well? Thankyou? Good? Hey, listen.
I had a question out even overhere in Taskasita and uh, you
know, I'll take my dog out, take your little business. And I
came across across across a big lakearea, a water part of a water
over in Fall Creek, Okay,on on the south side of the belt.

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Wait. I don't know if anybody'sever fish there, if they can
let me know if there's anything inthere. I just happen to be d
Fall Creek Creek. Where's Fall Creek? I think I know that way in
Wilson Road north of downtown Houston North. Yeah, you know, I would.
I would say just as a generalrule, because I've never met a

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body of water I didn't want tofish. And if I can park there
and walk in there without having tojump over a fence or otherwise be worried
about trespassinger getting in trouble, ifthere's signs, you might want to make
a phone call at least. Butthe bottom line is almost all these places,
almost all these places have fish inthem. And the other thing that

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I've noticed is that most of thetime, if you're just in there fishing,
nobody's going to bother you. Nobody'sgoing to give you any hassle.
Knock on wood. I do alot of fishing in neighborhood lakes, and
every now and then I'll see abut I also see a bunch of other
people fishing. So you know,as long as you're not leaving a bunch

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of trash and making a nuisance ofyourself, you don't bring a radio and
turn it up to twenty four anddo all that. Nobody will give you
any trouble probably, and if theydo, they'll just run you off.
And you just say, okay,put that one, just tuck that one
away and forget about it. Butyeah, most of these retention ponds have
fish in them, now will theyhave a lot? There's one. The

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lake you're describing reminds me of onedown in sugar Land where I am,
and it's just this big, likeall of a sudden, you turn a
corner and holy cow, there's twentyacres of water and there's nothing in the
middle of it. They just duga hole to catch rain water, but
they use the natural drainages of thatland when they did it, and so

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whatever was in the little native creekshas spilled into that lake now. And
on a good day, I canwalk the perimeter of that thing and catch
maybe eight or ten bass. Ona bad day, I might not catch
any. But if you just justwalk the banks and throw something you can
use as kind of a fish finder, and really keep moving, I prefer

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doing that. Then We've got aguy here at work who will stand in
one spot and throw a rubber wormfifty times into the same spot and one
hundred percent confident that there's still afish in there, even though he's dropped
that same worm into a hula hoopshize spot. And I'll be darned if
he doesn't catch some pretty good fishthat way. I think they just get

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sick and tired of seeing this thingdropping on their heads. They finally eat
it. But I'm just the opposite. I've got to keep moving. I'm
just too frenetic, and I justwalking chunk and walking chunk and walking chunk.
And I might stop to change luresif I hadn't caught anything in a
while. But yeah, so eitherway, if they're in there, you'll
get them. And they are probablyare in there. I'll tell you somebody

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else to ask. When you're walkingaround. If you see some little kiy
it's like maybe bicycle age, butnot drive a car age between right in
there, watch for them and askthem if they know where their friends or
they are catching fish. No,I'll tell you you know, don't you
know? You got to be preparedfor somebody to run out and say where

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are you talking to them? Agood but just say, look, I'm
asking if they know any good fishingspots. I live in this neighborhood and
I'm just trying to find a placeto fish. If you don't want me
to talk to them, I won'ttalk to them. It's not a big
deal. You're not doing anything wrong. Yeah, correact, Okay, I
appreciate your time. And Brandon,if you listen, go asstros. Yeah,

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man, we need to all rootthem on. Thanks, I appreciate
it. I'll see audios. Okay, let's click that one down. Yeah,
the Astros, you know, thelost last night, but let's not
lose perspective. They've won their lasteight of ten and that's not bad.
I wish I could have helped Joe. I'm not familiar with that particular lake,
but I do stand by what Isaid about most retention ponds having fish

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in them, and that when Iwas talking about the sugar Lands got a
lot of big catfish in it too. It flooded once almost flooded, and
where the water was pouring out intoits own overflow, there was a there's
a big metal grate there in theslats in it are about a quarter inch
thick steel and about six inches apart, and there was a catfish stuck,

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stuck, and it had died rightthere. That probably weighed twenty twenty five
pounds. I would have never thoughtthere was one that big in there,
but they're sure was. So youdon't know what's in there until you try
to fish it. That's the wayI look at every body of water.
I see Timbercreek Golf Club FM twentythree to fifty one down in Friendswood.
I got a hunch a b openand running today. That's a pretty good
bed, I would think. Twentyseven holes and a fantastic staff down there,

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and they've upgraded their teaching facility downthere with a of the JJ Woods
Golf Performance Center. I'm still waitingto hear back from JJ about when he
has actually got all the boxes unpackedand got the sign on the door and
he's ready to start helping people fulltime. They've been doing a lot of
unpacking lately because they've got a lotof equipment they needed to bring in there

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to make sure that every student whocomes in there to learn from them can
learn with the latest and greatest ingolf technology, great food, great people.
Timber Creek Golf Club twenty seven holes, so they're getting twice as many
people out at the beginning of theday as a lot of other golf courses.
Make your tea time right now.Timbercreekgolf Club dot com ninety This is

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Sports Talk seven ninety Houston Sports Onlineat sports seven ninety dot com. Back
to the Doug Pike Show. Hi, Welcome back to Doug Pike Show on
Sports Talk seven ninety. Thanks forlistening, certainly to appreciate it. I
want to go back. This issomething I talked about yesterday because I want
I want to hear from a coupleof you, whether it's my email or

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you want to call, and especiallyespecially looking for people who are into bass
fishing, who love bass fishing.And this doesn't have anything to do with
live scope Okay, although indirectly itmight. But what I'm looking for is
somebody to help me understand why aftertwenty I think it is something years of

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Toyota Share Lunker program, why afterlake Fork made its incredible run of huge
fish putting them on the board.I still I think the top fifty bass
taken in the state of Texas stillare predominantly, if not overwhelmingly, products

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of Lake Fork. Lake Fork hadan amazing, amazing forage base for those
fish, and they took advantage ofit and the genetics everything fell in in
line twenty years ago or so ormore now, gosh, thirty years ago
I bet for lake Fork to reallyblossom as a trophy bass mecca, and

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it served that purpose in the stateof Texas, and people from literally from
around the world were coming here.If you can believe somebody would fly somewhere
to catch largemouth bass, but theywere doing that and Lake Fork was the
place they went. Lake Fork iskind of falling from grace now. It's
still a good lake. It stillproduces a lot of fish, but not

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nearly in the size that it usedto. And I am, for the
life of me trying to figure outwhy, with all these incredible genetics,
with twelve, thirteen, fourteen,fifteen pounders being caught now that are relatives,
direct descendants, direct descendants of priorLuncker entries, why haven't we caught

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anything bigger than Barry Saint Claire's eighteenpoint eighteen pounder. There have been these
these thirteen plus pound bass have comefrom gosh, I don't know how many
different reservoirs. Now they're being caughtin greater numbers, and this is where
the indirect correlation to live scope comesin. You're going to see more and

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more of them, I'm certain withuse of this technology that enables you to
just very slowly move through an areaand see individual fish and be able to
measure their size on that scope,on that screen, and then drop a
bait down to them, whether it'sa live bit or a lure or whatever

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you want to try to catch themon, you can know that you are
putting your BA eight off the noseof a monster bass. So we'll start
seeing more and more of these tento let's say, ten to fifteen pound
fish. But I still can't figureout when or how or where or who

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or whatever, how are we goingto get one to twenty pounds in Texas?
What's holding us back? We're stalkinggenetically capable fish. We are putting
them into lakes where there is ampleforage for them to grow, and I
just for the life and we can'tfigure it out. California, for God's

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sake, for all the dumb thingsthat come out of California, California has
at least got a couple of twentypound bass to its credit. Georgia has
them, Florida has them, orhas had at least in the past.

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Now they're not catching twenty pounders onevery cast anywhere, but at least they
have one on the books in thosestates. And I think a couple more
now even, but holy cow,we can't get one. Texas can't get
one. That's just it's obscene.We ought to be able to be able,
We ought to be able to dothat, and there's no We have

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fantastic hatchery facilities, we have fantasticbreeding facilities, we have fantastic genetics research
on these, all of this stuff, and we can't get a twenty pounder.
Now. I think I've heard rumorsthat a couple of fish that class
might be swimming around some private lakesin Texas, but I haven't seen proof.

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And I think if anybody actually caughta twenty pounder, maybe they put
it up there. There may beone on the books. I think I'm
not sure. Let me go,Ah, let's go talk to him.
Go ahead and pop him up therefor me. Thank you, Thank you,
Hey, doc, what's up?Man? Well, I think I
can answer that question. Thank goodness. I figured you somebody with your credentials

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could. So here's a riddle.A rabbit is ten feet away from his
hole, and every time he jumps, he cuts the distance in half.
Oh yeah, how long? Howlong does it take him to get to
the who he's holding? He nevergets there. He never gets there.
So why that's cute, George,But why okay, because those incremental games,

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there's going to be a genetic topOh okay, you know it took
us. It took us one hundredyears to get to a four minute mile,
and now those are routine, rightwhen we're going to get to you
know, to a three minute mind. Yeah, so those course early games
will come a lot quicker than whenyou get at the top end, right,

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understand, that makes sense. WhenI was at grew at Auburn,
I got to know some of thoseOlympic swimmers this is back at this is
back in the mid seventies, andone of them told me that there were
twelve going to the Olympic Trials andall twelve finished within like one hundreds of

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a second some redesce. So sothat just topped out. Basically, you're
you're going to you know, ifif you look at the geometric curve on
paper, it reaches an in sintestimallyrapid rate of growth. Now that's on

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paper, but in the physical worldit collapses before it hits there. That
we may be chasing something that's unattainable, at least under current knowledge that yes
it is, and I can tellthose states to say, we're not going

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to quit chase it. Well,no, no, and that's good.
Well, why then if Florida cando it, if Georgia can do it,
and if California can do it,California is basically their basket big because
they eat stocked rainbow trout. They'rein much smaller lakes, smaller deeper lakes,
and they stock these things with poundfoot long rainbow trout, and the

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bass eat them up. So Ican see them growing on that kind of
a forage base. But why wecan't produce even one? So we basically
eighteen eighteen was an anomaly and nowwe're chasing something that we may never catch.
Wow, well, what was thenext closest way to that? Nearly
nineteen pounds? Well, it's waycloser to eighteen than nineteen. Let me

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check real quick. Hold on ohoh yeah, okay, yeah, eighteen
and a half. Yeah, letme eighteen point one point eight barely eighteen
pounds? Yeah, hold on Texas'largest bass. Okay, boy, that
Google will tell you everything you wantto know. Oh, I know,
I know. Oh now now Ineed to I need to refine this search

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top fifty bass because this will takeme to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Departments.
List I think of them? Comeon, oh man, okay,
hang on, I had the rolland then you gotta think about that reported
events and anything. Yeah, that'strue. They didn't get to be eighteen

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pounders by being dumb. That's trueto it. This is where Livescope is
going to change the whole deal becausethe smart ones even now, that are
the ones that are sitting out inthe middle of the lake over nothing.
Now they can be found as well. Now I guess when are we going
to start putting them in a barreland trying to ca Yeah? Really,

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boy, if I could, Iwould. So here they are And here's
the breakdown. One, two,three, four, five, six.
The top six bass still came fromfrom Lake Fork back in the eighties,
basically in the early nineties. Andthe weights in succession go eighteen eighteen,

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seventeen sixty seven, seventeenteen sixty four, seventeen sixty three, seventeen twenty nine,
and seventeen oh eight. Those arethe top six, all from Lake
Fork, all within a span ofit looks like about maybe fifteen years and
them from there they were yeahty yearsago. Yeah, yeah, So then

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that eighteen pounder was not an anomalybecause you had a bunch of them within
a half the pound. So yeah, and then that's that's a very good
point because if any of those seventeensright there had just eaten a big shad,
they might have been eighteen point twoor good battle movement. Yeah,

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well, yeah, that's a goodpoint. Yeah, if they if they
lose weight on the way in.Yeah, I'm looking all the way down
and it's amazing how many of thesefish still came from Lake Fork. And
now we've got a lot of differentnames in there, but fifteen sixteens and
the smallest among the top fifty wasfifteen point five eight pounds and that fish

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was caught in eighty nine. Soand they're not a whole lot of There's
not much in the twenty twenty one, twenty two, twenty three range.
There's nothing. There's a twenty twentytwo from Eagle Mountain. I'm not even
sure where that is. That wasa sixteen pounder even and I'm looking for
anything else in the twenty twenties.There's a twenty twenty one from Ohivy.

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That's when ohiv started picking up asixteen pounder. It goes on from there.
It's a very fascinating chart, really, but you make a very good
point, and I'm just I'm gonnaquit worrying about it now because it may
be something that, although we're goingto chase it forever, the genetics may
have just capped out. There aren'tany There aren't any. Yeah, there
aren't any five hundred pound geese flyingaround and never will be. So.

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So you look at water, theyou look at temperature, you look at
death, you look you know,there's all kinds of environmental factors. Now
do you do you collect some ofthose fish from what fort? And you
know, and breed them with withsome of those other guys Marlin, you
know, hybrid hybrid vigor Yeah,yeah, holy you know the person in

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the seventeen hundred Subourbon family, therules of France all had a hook nose
and all bled to death, butthey were too good to breed with the
commoners. Yeah, holy cav youknow. So yeah, hey, I
had a run. That's that really. That gives me a lot to chew
on and a lot to talk about. Thank you so much. Doctor.
Yes, sir boy, Holy cow, what a smart guy he is.

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seven ninety. The good news isI've got golf up in here in the
Studio. The bad news is it'sthe American Express, where it's just old

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stuff. Unfortunately, they've got apretty good guy Xander Shoffley, sam byrn
Bazooon and Hoot, all of themat twenty seven under par in the Dunlap,
the amateur at twenty nine under par, and that's all. It's all
been played out. We don't care. We don't care, but it's something
to watch, at least until thePGA Championship resumes and these guys get going.

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Let me see, let me seeif they're see what the early tea
times are today. I'm I'll godown down here, down down, down,
down, down, scrolling, scrooling, scrooling, trying to get there.
We're at the cut. Go oh, there we go. We got
that going on nine forty five.Yeah, there's guys that they're playing.

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They're playing, just not the oneseverybody wants to see. That's what I
knew. They had to get goingearlier than this, and they have,
so we'll find out what happens.A lot of guys do nine. Let's
see, Well, it's people whoaren't anywhere near the leaderboard. Basically.
The cut, by the way,minus one was one of the lower cuts,
I believe in a major in quitesome time, or at least at

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the PGA Championship. I can't rememberexactly what the record was before or what
the the highest or the lowest cutline was, but I want to say
it was even par if I sawsomething, if I were remembering correctly from
what I read. Moving into whathappened yesterday at the event, I watched

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Shane Lowry move his Well, let'sgo, let's do a leaderboard first.
I'm sorry. I want to givecredit to the guys who were up there,
and Shane's name is gonna come up. Xander Shoffley, Colin Morikawa both
at fifteen under par. They shotsixty eight and sixty seven yesterday respectively,
So hit Thigala fourteen under par alonein third. In fourth place. Tied

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are Shane Lowry and I'll get backto him in a minute, Bryson d
Schambeau and Victor Hobland all just twoshots off the lead. And then comes
Justin Rose and Robert McIntyre, whoare twelve under par and tied for seventh.

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I got to think that the winner'sgonna come out of one of those
names that I just talked about it. It's almost I can't see anybody.
I can't see Burmester at eleven orHodges justin, Thomas, Tony fen Now
Harris English, Austin eckland Ek wrote, I mean, and is there anybody

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else there? Yeah? Good,heaven's one more Thomas Detrie at ten.
They've got too big a hill toclimb in, too many people to jump.
I'm still liking Shoffley to go aheadand finish it out. And by
the way, the name that youdidn't here mentioned in that little list right
there, the guy you're kind ofwondering about, where'd he go? That
would be if I'm gonna see wherehe ended up yesterday. Hold on,

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come on, Scottie Scheffer. Therehe is shot seventy three yesterday and just
walked himself out of the tournament.Basically, he's seven hunder par, tied
for twenty fourth. I think thepressure that originated Friday when he had that
incident that landed him in jail,landed him handcuffed, thrown into a police
car and take it to jail fora few hours. I think he just

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didn't sink in on Friday, andhe was able to put together two pretty
good rounds Thursday and Friday. Butyesterday I think it all kind of caught
up with him. I said,well, let me jump up here and
talk to Jeff and then we'll getback to this. Okay, let's do
that. Jeff, what's up,man? Do you have any problem with
the way this tornado, the straightline win or whatever was predicted reported.

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I get to the point where Idon't always believe and when they say heavy
weather, and when it finally camearound, it's like I've been through one
of these before, and we getthese around the area from time to time.
Always seemed to be something at twoninety in the Bellway and it tears
the roof off of the little hotelor something. Was this reported so seriously
because of the power loss or whereit hit and the population density, or

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did everybody just blow it? Ithink that the television news, the television
reports that we've been seeing for thelast five ten years, have become increasingly
sensational, and there is for somereason, there have only been a couple

(46:52):
of voices of reason. I thinkJeb and I think it's because they're all
just just begging for ratings. They'vegot to get ratings and they can't come
on and tell you, hey,there's a there's a slight chance that we
could see some really heavy stuff outof this one, but we're we're pretty

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confident that it's not gonna tear theroof off the hotel. And I don't
think that. I think they wouldrather say, you know, there's a
chance it's gonna tear the roof offof Houston, so you better hide and
take cover. And we've heard itso many times, just like you said
that, it's you're almost numb toit. I don't. I don't take

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my advice on weather much much morefrom from television. And the one guy
I was watching a lot just abouthe's announced his retirements coming up or he's
already gone, I can't remember which, And so I go to the weather
channel, I go, I goonline, and I find out what those
people are saying. And I've seenthat with with tropical storms. I've seen

(47:57):
it with the thunderstorms we get everyspring, and you really do you kind
of get like, h hum,what when are they going to get right?
Because they're trying and another problem theyface as TV people is they're trying
to talk to a group of peoplefrom Victoria to Huntsville, and that's in
their viewing area, So it mighthappen to Victoria, but up in Huntsville

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it might be a great day togo play golf or fly kite. And
they've got to tell everybody in thatgroup, because they can't just tell the
people who are going to get hammered, but they have to tell everybody that
the sky's falling. And I justwish they would be a little a little
less sensational and quit telling us thatwe're going to get bowling ball sized hail,

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and I mean, they just goto extremes. I think, I
really do it. It's frustrating.Was this a big one compared to what
we normally get? I know,you don't look at them every year,
But again, was it just becauseit hit us where we live as far
as power stations and nobody seemed tobe ready to go out and handle But
it was over. It was fiftyhours, maybe a little bit more power

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for me, and then there's Iguess three hundred and fifty thousand still out
there. We're going to be fixedup. And I don't know. That
doesn't compare to the freeze, andit probably doesn't compare to one of these
these tropical storms. But this wasa bit of a surprise. I heard
something everybody calls it a freight train. It sounded like a water being sucked
into a hole. And then thisis pretty serious. And I don't know

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if if a one is more seriousthan we normally get. I know it's
not Kansas or Nebraska material, butit was pretty scary for a second or
two, no doubt. I hada tornado come down my street once,
but it just it picked out afew fences that had knocked down somebody's gas
lamp in their front yard across themain street from me. Somebody's trampoline got

(49:53):
thrown up into a tree next door, but that was it. Basically,
It didn't It didn't change anybody's lifepermanently. And so those I think are
anomalies that you have to be awareof the thing that bothers me or not
bothers me. But the thing thatI think made this one different is because

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we all we have these big thunderstormsystems come through a lot, but we
don't have them as extreme as thisone. And nobody, nobody predicted eighty
ninety mile an hour straight line win. Nobody said that was coming. They
didn't. They couldn't see that,and it just boiled up and did that
in a very highly populated area.And I think the difference between this and

(50:37):
a hurricane, and I talked aboutthis yesterday. When a hurricane's coming,
you've got you know where it's youwithin forty eight hours, certainly you know
about where it's going to make landfall. And people and electrical crews from all
over the country stage outside of thatcone for a couple of days before it

(50:58):
hits, and as soon as itgoes through and it's gone, the thousand
trucks rush in and go to work. This thing. Nobody predicted anything like
what it did, and so therewas no there was no backup ready,
and we had to call in backup, and back up took forty eight
hours or so to get here,and they're all still working as fast as

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they can. I've seen trucks everytime I've gone out onto the freeways.
I've seen power company trucks from allover the place running around trying to get
us patched back up. But yeah, this was this was a very isolated,
horrific event. And then outside ofthat, a pretty bad event.
But honestly, in sugar Land.I was spared, I really was.

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We got some rain. I neverlost power, I never never really it
never really affected me like it didthe people in the heights. And there's
not much you can do really withthose. I'll see it this way and
I'll let you go ahead. Andit would have been really really needed on
this one. I'm not making anyparticular criticisms, but something like this was
perfect form. Yeah, yeah,this is. This is you know,

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this is a really good opportunity tostep back and say, Okay, just
how ready are we for a majorhurricane to come through here and do that
to an area that's not just maybea few miles long and a few miles
wide, but thirty or forty milesby thirty or forty miles. How ready

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are we for that? And I'mnot so sure, especially with electricity and
the more people are charging up,the more things at their houses and everything.
There's talk of everything running on electricityand nothing using fossil fuels, and
that then we don't have electricity fora month. How are we gonna do

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it? Don't I don't see it, man, It's gonna be tough.
I wanted to use my phone bettertoo, thanks for your timing Meia,
thank you. I appreciate the call. Yeah, holy cow, that was
That was an eye opener, andit should be a wake up call for
anybody who thinks that electricity is theanswer for everything, because there would be

(53:10):
a lot of people who couldn't move. They just couldn't get anywhere. If
it if we're on all electricity,it's gonna be gonna be rough. It's
gonna be rough. I don't wantto get into that. We are we
just did. I guess, Yeah, this was. This was an anomalous
storm, There's no question about it. Uh, the upper level, and

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I'm talking about just like top ofthe building level when downtown one hundred miles
an hour. I talked to somebodyyesterday who's I think his son works in
a building I think out in theenergy corridor. Maybe you're somewhere downtown anyway,
they had he was just working outin the little gym they have there
in his building, and all ofa sudden, the doors started rattling and

(53:54):
the big windows started rattling. Oneof them just boom, just blew up
on them. It didn't hurt anybody, but that was when they said,
okay, yeah, we got toget out of here. It's behind us
now. Thank god. There's sevenpeople died in this storm, and I
really just I hope that the peoplein charge, I really hope that they

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use this as a wake up calland seriously reevaluate the allocation of resources in
a time like that and the amountof resource we need on call at least
anytime, anytime there's a lightning strikeraround here. Let me just just be
ready for something like this. Idon't want them to start telling everybody that

(54:37):
everybody's going to get blown away thenext time something like this comes our way.
I want. I want some justaccurate, honest reporting and the chance
of something. I understand they've gotto say something about it. I don't
know. I don't want let's let'sjust move on. I want to do
that. I'll do that. I'lltake a break because I'm already three minutes

(54:58):
late. Sorry, Melvine. BlackHorse Golf Club two ninety at Frei Road,
two great golf courses, great foodand the grill there. And I
know personally, I know a friendof mine took a group out there,
I don't know about a year agonow, and I'm surprised they've got any
food or beverage adult beverage left.After that crew left, they spent some

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time out there, had a wonderful, wonderful afternoon of golf, and then
came in and topped it off withsome friendly ribbing in the cafe there and
the grill had great lessons at thefar end of the range. Two golf
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nice. You get preferred tea times, which is good. You get discounts
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the gear from the club, andyou get unlimited range use, which I
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I feel like I've got it figuredout, which may never come, who
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ninety The Doug Pike Show. Thanksfor listening. Certainly, do appreciate that.
I'm gonna get back to the tothe PGA Championship just a second.
I want to go ahead and talkto Chris first. So he's been holding
through that brake there, Chris,what's up? Man? Hey? Sure?
How are you well? Thank you? Question? Sure? Since since
the l ifeast been a saying,which is what two and a half years

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now, well, just two yearsand a half, go ahead, okay,
wild again, there's there's been noliv Gofer that has finished first or
second in a major maybe first,second and third. I didn't go that
far back, you know. Yeah, at this point in time, there's
not been a l I B.That's that's even yeah, And you would

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I can see your point. Youwould think that over two years of tournament
what we're talking about eight tournaments onlythough it's not that many, but you
would think that one of those guyswould at least come up and won one
of those events. But when youstop and think about how deep the talent
pool is and how it's not certainlyevery live player who's playing in these events,

(57:43):
there's only so many of them,even on the t sheet, on
the Thursday morning t sheet for amajor. I don't know that. It's
terribly hard to believe because they're justif you flip it over, there's a
lot of guys on the PGA Tourwho haven't won a major in the last
two years either, who are prettydarn good players. That makes sense.

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Yeah, that's fair. Yeah,So I mean there's only there's only one
guy who can win. You're onlytalking about eight opportunities in the last two
years to win a major. Andout of all the guys on both sides,
regardless of what tour they're on,that's a that's a then air rare,
very high altitude achievement. So yeah, yeah, I'll give him credit.

(58:28):
But yeah, I'll give him somecredit. But again, I mean
again, for sure, there's notbeen a first or second, and maybe
maybe a third or fourth, butI didn't go that far back. But
we'll see it continues on. Youknow, maybe it'd be noticed. Thank
you. Yeah, I appreciate it, Chris. I do appreciate the call.

(58:50):
Thank you very much. I'll seeyou all right. Hey, Melvin,
can you get Skeeter on the phone. Just go ahead and click him
through. I know who that is, Skeeter on. What's up? What
are you doing? From Doug?How you doing? Man? I'm doing
okay. I would imagine your businessis booming. Huh oh, yes,
sir. Yeah, it's kind ofsad. And people got trees all over
the real Yeah, it's sad.Some of them don't even have electricity.

(59:14):
So we're trying to, you know, help everybody out do the best best
we can, and so on andso forth. But let me ask you
a questions because you're the roof guy, Skeeter bron Bronze roofing, and I
have a roof question. So atree hits a house and it it kind
of crashes through. How far?How far down to you? I guess
you just have to replace everything thatgot broken before you can even put a

(59:36):
roof on it. Right, exactlyright. And a lot of times,
you know where you know, it'snot the roof, it's the decking and
the rafter, yeah, the rafts, and then inside sheet rock and painting.
We're pretty much going out there anddoing you know, a temporary patch
or a temporary uh you know,tart job until the insurance company gets there.

(59:58):
And that may take another week orso. But okay, it's kind
of sad. It's uh, youknow, it's just an unfortunate situation anyway.
But you've been driving through the heightsobviously you and your crewise have how
how bad? How bad was itin there? Well, it's pretty bad,
you know, and there's just youknow right there, you know,

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I uh, I was there Kirbyby Lamar High School and then you know,
closet of the river Oaks area thereand they had a bunch of damage
in there too. So uh,it's just it's just scattered about. Not
too much on the south side oftown, but yeah, mostly mostly north
and west was pretty bad. Soanyway, we're just trying to help out

(01:00:42):
and do the best we can andso on and so. Well, so
what brings you in this morning?What's you call them for? Not much,
big guy? You know, Ilive down here in Parland and are
at Golf Crest uh country Club,and they're going to have you know,
I played golf maybe once a monthor something, but they're going to have
everything. Uh, they're redoing thegreens and the fairways, I guess this

(01:01:02):
summer, and it's gonna be closeddown for three months, so I was
really surprise. Yeah what you're doing. You're looking for some place to play,
aren't you. Well, yeah,I'm just gonna have to play someplace
out they call me, so justcall me anyway, one of those things.
But it's it's a good deal.And you know, I'm from friends
with so I go over here tothe the what's the name of the course

(01:01:25):
here off of a creek, timberCreek. I go there quite a bit.
So it's a good deal. Butotherwise everything else is good. You're
doing okay? How's your wife?In fact? All good? Yeah,
we're gonna get We're gonna get youback out there in a couple of days,
I think, or this a weekor so. I'll let you know,
don't we back? All right?Man, thank you very much,

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you got in. I just wantto say hello, Yes, sir,
thank you. That's Skeeter Braun fromBraun's Roofing. He's been kind of a
busy guy, kind of a busyguy the last couple of days. I'd
say seven on email me Dougpike atiHeartMedia dot com. On the way out,
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(01:02:30):
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Carter's Country tends to get it andhang on to it and hang on
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Let me get my little cursor overhere and make sure I can find

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Memorial a weekend, and you cango to the website and find out more
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some hands on feeling for which oneof those is going to help you best.
Carterscountry dot Com is a website.Carterscountry dot Com. Your Rockets and
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at May twenty fifth? Is thatbig mega demo pistol range Day? Got
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(01:04:00):
what's up. What's up, Carl, Good morning, Doug. Hey.
Uh, just was listening to theradio and was listening to Skeeter Braun and
I just wanted to give a quickshout out and thank you to Bron's Roofing.
I had some leaks in my roofprior to the big storm that we
just had, and Bron Roofing cameout and fixed it all on a big

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band aid up there, did he? Yeah? And you know we went
through this no leaks everything was great. I will be calling them back because
I did lose a lot of shingles. But I'm gonna wait till I know
he's got bigger and yeah, wait, waiting until the people who have a

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tree still hanging in there in theirliving room. Yeah. Absolutely, I'm
the same way. I had someleaks a while back, and they came
out and took care of him forme too. And it's boy, the
first rain after they come out andfix a leak, you're thinking, oh
boy, I wonder, I wonderhow that worked. I hope it worked,
and you're not sure and you can'tfigure it out. And then the
rain stops and the sun comes out, and even a couple hours later,

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there's still no drops where there weredrops before. It's a good feeling,
isn't it. It's a great show. Gaudy wow. Anyway, that was
the bulk OVID. Now I'm listeningto your show and procrastinating because I really
need to go up and build afence. But no, yeah, I
did a little part of my fence. I'll keep you going for another right

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now, thank you. I'll keepyou going for another twenty minutes. All
right, good day, all right? Yeah, thank you. I appreciate
the call, Holy mackerel, that'sfunny man. Seven one, three two
five, seven nine. He's stillgot a little bit of time. I
wanted to get back to golf fora minute and talk about what Shane Lowry
did yesterday. Shane Lowry has notexactly been lighting it up this week with

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his iron play, but he tookadvantage of just just a white hot putter
yesterday to become only the fifth manever to shoot sixty two in a major.
Now, Golf's been around a while, and this is the next stat
I'm going to tell you about.Is it kind of surprised me a little
bit thinking of all the great playerswho have come before yesterday. The first

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sixty two in a major was morerecent than you'd think. That was twenty
seventeen Brandon Grace at the Open Championshipover in Great Britain. Then in twenty
twenty three at the US Open inla Ricky Fowler and Zander Schaffley both posted

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sixty two's, and then Chawfley didit again this past Thursday. This past
Thursday, amazing Larry. Larry hadtwelve feet on eighteen yesterday to shoot sixty
one and be alone. He wouldhave been the only one ever to have
done that, and he even saidso in the press conference afterward. He

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knew he hit the putt on theright line, but he didn't just didn't
give it enough gas and it broke. It ended up because it lost speed.
It broke more than he expected itto. And well, if he
had known he was going to hitat that speed, he'd have known it
take a higher line. The bottomline is it just broke right across the

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left front of the hole and didnot go in. And so he still
is in a very, very elitecompany. But he's not standing alone with
the record of sixty one. Andhe was fine with that, and I'm
sure anybody would be. If youshoot one shot off of a club record
or one shot off of a courserecord anywhere, you're still in good company

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because you're tied with the people whohad that number before you. And by
the way, yesterday Shane Lowry drainedone hundred and sixty one feet of putts.
It's a career high for him.I heard the Golf Channel guys talking
about putting and about how important itis and about how Shane Lowry, I

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want to say, was tied forlike a millionth this week in shots gained
on his approach shots, his ironshots. He was not doing much at
all, but he's lapping the fieldwith putting. I want to say he
had something like eleven shots gained puttingon the field, which that's gonna be

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hard for anybody to beat. It'sgonna be very hard. And one of
them was telling I don't remember whichPGA Tour Network person was talking about it,
but about how some very prominent instructorback when this guy was a young
youngster coming up through the ranks ofgolf told him that if you can make

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about eighty feet of putts around,this is something you can just kind of
let this little seed germinate in yourhead and then start paying attention to the
puts you're hitting. And if youcan make about eighty feet of putts per
round, you're gonna be shooting betterscores and better scores and better scores.
That's only four and a half feet. Think about that, that's just a

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four and a half footer per hole. But to get that, for every
ten footter you miss, you're gonnahave to make a twenty footer to kind
of regain ground. On it.For every three footter you miss, now
you're you're only gonna end up gettingcredit for maybe one foot. So you

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have to start making pretty much allof your all of your par putts and
making maybe making some of those longerbirdie putts to make up for the ones
you're gonna miss and tap in froma foot eighty feet not that much really.
Ah, Let's get to the bugs, shall we. The mosquitoes and

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the gnats have descended upon us,according to some of my friends in apocalyptic
swarm. I would say they're bad, but not as bad as they've been
in the past. Sometimes I canremember coaching little league baseball games this time
of year and absolutely being just beatup, just beat to a bloody pulp

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by gnats on the baseball field beforeI found something that would remedy that we
all have mosquito repelling. But Ican tell you right now, and this
is something Jim Murphy told me overit at Sugar Creek one day. I
was over there hitting balls years ago, over there, just working on my
game, and swing once and thenswat five or six gnats off my face

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in my back and my arms,then swing once again, and it was
horrible, And somebody asked if Iwanted some insect repellent. Yeah, and
I slattered myself elf in their deepwoods off or whatever it was. And
Jim came over and had said,Hey, I don't know how to tell
you this, Doug, but natslove that stuff. They get high on

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that stuff. They'll come and sipit off your skin while they're biting you.
And he was right. Nats don'trespond well to mosquito repellents. They
don't care. They just fly rightthrough it and latch onto you. And
when they latch onto me, Iend up with big welts on myself.
The remedy there is a mixture offifty to fifty at least the one that

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I'm using now. It's just fiftyto fifty vanilla extracting water in a little
dollar store squeeze pump bottle, alittle spray bottle. I carry that and
in mosquito repellent in my golf bagnow and I will until winter. That's
the only way you can get aroundall that stuff. And it helped yesterday.

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It kept them at bay. Theydidn't tear me up, which is
good, all right. We gotto take a little break on the way
out, and as we go there, I will remind all of you that
if you get a chance to godo something nice for one of your friends
who got torn up in the storm, go do it. Even if it's
not a friend. Just drive throughand find somebody trying to clean up their

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yard. If you're young and strongand you want to do something good for
the world, just drive through heightssomewhere and find somebody out trying to clean
up their yard and get the treelimbs out of it, and just park
your car and say, hey,what can I do to help? Do
one hour of that, you'll feelbetter. You'll feel tired when you're done
with that, but you'll feel betterabout yourself and about the world too.

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All Right, we'll take this littlebreak here, we'll come back and we
will wrap her up. The lastsegment right after this our Sports Stock seven
nineties Houston, The Sports where YouGo with iHeartRadio Now Now get more Doug
on Sports Talk seven ninety The DugpikeShow. Thank you for listening. I

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was coming alone to that one.As we came back in, let me
turn this microphone up just a teenyweeny bit. I'm going back kind to
the shooting sports for a minute,is here we are? It's just May.
Okay, it's just May. Butwhen you when you put it in
perspective, if you are a diehard hunter and a diehard dove hunter specifically,

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you realize that you're only one hundreddays from dove season. That's it.
September one is barely what is thisthe twenty with the nineteenth, so
we got another ten eleven days ofMay and then it's June, July,
August dove season. So to thinkthat it's too early to get out and

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maybe do some range time somewhere isreally not well. You just can't call
yourself a diehard shooter if you makeit excuses about not now if you're going
fishing, if you're going camping withthe kids, or if you're going hiking.
A hike for me, A hikefor me is just a way to

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get to someplace I'm gonna fish orhunt. I'm not. I love the
outdoors, but not quite so muchthat I want to just go out and
walk in a big, giant circlefor two or three or five or six
hours and then end up at thesame spot without stopping. That's just walking
in a circle and I live onthe way our neighborhood is built. There

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are probably I don't know, seven, eight, ten, twelve, fifteen,
maybe twenty, maybe two dozen homesin a big kind of a circle,
all facing out. It's like we'vecircled the wagons, and I got
actually ended up with one of thesmaller backyards. There are a couple of
backyards that are really big. Butanyway, we kind of say that we

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live on the island, and ifyou say that to anybody in the neighborhood,
they know what that is. Andso I'm on that island. If
I want to walk in a circle, I could just walk around the block.
And if I want to make ita ten minute walk, that's great.
I can walk around two or threetimes. If I want to make
it an hour walk, well I'mnot doing that just in circles. I
want to be going. I wantto walk a half an hour to this

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lake or to this deer stand orwhatever, and then when I'm done doing
what I'm doing there, I'll walkback that half hour to either be back
at camp or back where I'm goingto get picked up or whatever that's speaking
of. And I know it's alittle bit early to be talking about deer
season stuff. But that's one thingthat I've always been a fan of,

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and I kind of cringe sometimes whensomebody invites me to go on a hunt
and they insist on driving right tojust right to the stand, I would
prefer I would prefer to be droppedoff at least about two hundred yard yards
from that stand. Now, thatrequires a little bit of prior knowledge.

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You've got to know where you're goingif it's especially if it's a walk through
the woods. I don't want tohave to just guess how to get to
the stand the day that I'm thefirst time I'm taking out there. I'd
like to do that in the middleof the day and figure out exactly how
I'm gonna get there, and makesure that I make the right turn on
the right road whatever. So I'mnot at sunrise just standing in the middle

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of nowhere and one hundred yards inthe wrong direction from the stand. But
that way, if the vehicle thatdrops you off is still two hundred yards
from the stand and you walk inthere relatively quietly, even you're not going
to disturb the deer. I've huntedon some ranches where not only do they
drive you right up to the stand. But they on the way have the

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high beams on and somebody's got aqubam hanging out the window, and they're
looking for every deer they can find, and I the deer understand that,
and they know that when that starts, they need to lay low for a
while because there's somebody up there goingto try to make one of missbedcheck that
night. And I just much preferto go in and not announce my presence

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like I'm ringing the doorbell. Idon't want to do that. I want
to sneak up on that place.And it's the same with fishing, And
to some degree, there's a placethat I fish now out at the golf
course that I am really really carefulwalking up to because there have been in
the past fish within about maybe threefeet of where I'm ultimately going to be

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standing. And so when I getabout twelve or fifteen feet from that spot,
I stop and I make a coupleof flips of my lure into that
area, just to make sure thatI'm not going to walk up and have
some giant bash just booger out rightin front of me. Nothing's more frustrating,
especially oh man, when you're wadefishing shallow and you just your attention

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wanders off to something else. There'sa coyote running the shoreline behind you,
or a big buck if you're downin South Texas, you might see that
on the shoreline, or there's aboat coming and you take a couple of
steps too many and you look downto see a just a telephone pole of
a trout swim away from right underyour feet. That happened to me in

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Florida, actually on a big snook, and it wasn't it wasn't really my
fault. I was watching. Butthe lighting, the sunlight on the water,
even with polarized glasses, was suchthat there was just one angle coming
in from if I'm facing forward totwelve o'clock coming in from my tent,
kind of off my left shoulder,and I just couldn't see down into the

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water very well. Right there.There was just a riffle on the water
and there was reflection, and itwas difficult, and I just I was
moving, walking through moving water,the tides kind of washing across his flat,
and I'm patiently looking in front ofme scouting, and water's only maybe
maybe knee deep but maybe kneecap deeptop of the kneecap, let's call it

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there, bottom of the thigh.And at one point I just kind of
glanced down to my left and broughtmy hand up to my eye because I
wasn't sure what I was looking at. And when I saw what it was,
I just could have cried. Itwas probably one of the biggest snook
I've ever seen in the water,and it looked at me, and I
looked at it, and it justkind of lifted up and turned its head

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just the slightest bit in the currentand just washed it away. He was
in no hurry. He just said, eh, oh wow, I thought
that was you. No, I'mnot going to play today. And if
had I not seen, man,if I had just made one cast in
front of that fish, I knowhe was sitting there waiting to eat something
come washing across that flat. That'swhat they were there for. We caught

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quite a few that morning, too, but I missed it because I wasn't
paying attention. Oh back to ScottiScheffler yesterday, By the way, I
did mean to mention this, andI neglected to when I was talking about
the PGA Championship A little while ago, which is ongoing now, and we'll
be on TV all day today.The leaders don't go off for several hours.
Scotty Scheffler shot seventy three yesterday,Okay, almost certainly at least partially

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attributable to the dreadful turn of eventsthat happened on Friday, events that led
to him. Like I said before, if you haven't heard it yet,
I think most people in the golfworld have arrested and jailed. He was
briefly after that situation at Valhalla.He came out and played a pretty good
round on Friday. But yesterday's seventythree snapped a forty two round streak of

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consecutive rounds under par. Forty tworounds straight under par for Scotti Scheffler until
yesterday, and I think if heresumes shooting rounds under par, we can
almost put an asterisk by yesterday andjust throw it out. Just throw that

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one out, because I think that'swhen the weight of what really happened and
what he's going to have to dealwith now moving forward, that's when it
may have hit him. But he'sgot a new baby at home, so
he'll be all right. He andhis wife finally got that baby home.
I'm so glad for them, Goodfor them. All Right, that's gonna

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wrap it up for this week.I'll be back next Tuesday doing fifty plus
over on KPRSA at KPRC at noon, and then i'll be right back in
this studio doing this show next Saturdayat seven God willing. If you got
torn up in the storms, I'mso sorry for you, and I hope
everything gets put back together soon.If you were spared, thank you're lucky

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stars. Okay, and go helpsomebody who wasn't. And if you got
time after that, get outside andhave some fun with your face family.
Stay safe. Well, I wantall of you back next time. Bring
some friends too with all right,that's it for me, Audios