The Doug Pike 7-6-2024

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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. Saturday morning,
the day before I guess we startgetting acquainted more intimately with Barrel,

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which is barreling our way, andby our way, I mean generally somewhere
along the Texas coast. Somewhere alongthe Texas coast. Barrel is gonna make
landfall probably Monday, probably as areborn hurricane, and in a few long,

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harrowing hours it'll be over. Thenwe'll just get out and see what
happens. Expected to hit here Monday. Like I said, looking more and
more like we're gonna have to dealwith it. And one of the things
I was gonna I was gonna godown the page a little bit more before
I get to this, but I'mgonna go. Now. This whole cone
of uncertainty thing is just it's asource of angst for some people. It's

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so much, so much to puton people. When ten or twelve days
out they draw this cone, youmight as well let third graders draw it,
because they would have as much ideasix or seven days out where a
hurricane's gonna land. As any forecastercould. This thing has moved since the

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start, since it first showed ascoming across The first predictions of where it
would come across the Gulf of Mexicoafter it passed over the Yucatan Peninsula,
had it way down, just gonnadrop right into Mexico. Nobody needs to
worry about this thing up here,and then they keep moving the cone and
moving the cone. How about howabout we just show where they think it's

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going to be for the next threedays, and if the next three days
don't get it to the Texas coast, then don't show the Texas coast in
the bloody cone, because all you'redoing is creating mass hysteria among people who
know nothing about storms, among peoplewho are definitely afraid of storms. I

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was in HGB last night, andthankfully the people out where I live pretty
cool and calm about it. Therewere two or three people I saw who
had water. There's a limit offour, and there were two or three
baskets I saw with four cases ofwater in there, and I thought,

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you know, that's a little premature. It's just it is. There's no
reason to go out and panic andjust instinctively think that your water supply is
going to be tainted somehow, andthat four cases of water is gonna get
you through it. If your watergoes so bad, if you can't just

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turn on the tap and use thewater out of there, you're gonna need
more than four cases of water,and there's gonna be someplace you can go
get it pretty quickly. I'm hopingthat this thing has finally kind of gotten
close enough that we do have agood idea where it's gonna come to shore.
And the thing that bothers me about, Beryl is that it's gonna be

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coming kind of right up the coast, not making a ninety degree impact.
It's gonna be more of a glancingblow for a significant piece of the coast.
And somewhere they say today now thishour, somewhere they say roughly between
Corpus and Port O'Connor, is whereit's gonna land. Captain Scott and Will

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put it very well on Facebook yesterdayand I sent him a note about it.
There was a map that showed landfallfor this thing right where he lives,
basically, and he posted and thatit was three days out, but
it was gonna hit. Basically,it was gonna just roll over the top
of his house, and he postedthat three days out. Being right there

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in the bull's eye made him feelpretty comfortable because he knew it was gonna
move. It's gonna move, There'sno no doubt about it. It's gonna
move again and again and again untilit finally does make landfall. I send
him a note back, you mightas well book a fishing trip if you're
in the bulls eye three days out, it's gonna be pretty nice where you
are. Probably it's frustrating to watchall this and to see it's the worry

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that people have, especially on theheels of what happened when that very freakish
storm rolled through West u and thatarea. We had someone here in our
office whose house basically got the entirefront half of the house got destroyed.
I don't know if anything happened tothe back of the house, but the
entire front half of a two storyhouse got destroyed by a giant tree that

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fell and ripped the patio off andin so doing also exposed the entire front
of the The whole front of thehouse was gone. Well, it wasn't
gone. It was just on theground, laid out in front of the
house. So these things do havepotential to do incredible damage. This one,

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we're all kind of wishing and hopingdoes not spend a whole lot of
time out in the overly warm Gulfof Mexico. That's something that's been going
on that everybody's kind of worried about, is the temperature of the Gulf of
Mexico now, because warm water isbasically fertilizer for storms. And as we're

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only what six days into July rightnow, so it's going to be a
busy season, and we're all goingto have to just be patient, let
these things come, let them pass, and then emerge a little bit better,
a little bit smarter, a littlebit stronger after they're gone. I've
lived through probably I don't know,I experienced firsthand probably at least fifteen or

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twenty hurricanes in my life, atleast a dozen, I can almost one
hundred percent sure. And I guessyou probably could and should include Tropical Storm
Allison, which pretty much flooded mostof this city. That was a teetotal
mess. As they say, thosestorms come, storms go, and this

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too shall pass. I had tocancel some plans that I had with my
son and his cousin. It really, it crushed me, really because day
over in South Carolina his family,the cousin's family was nice enough to host
my son last summer. We weregoing to host theirs this summer, and
the trip was scheduled for Tomorrow throughWednesday at Moody Gardens. So probably not

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a good four days to be atMoody Gardens. I was gonna do my
shows from down there. I wasgonna just set up and just let them
go have a blast, and theywould have. I'm sure I had a
fishing trip set up that got canceledyesterday. And I don't blame the guy
who was gonna take them and takethem and me. I'm not about to
let somebody go fishing without me.But yeah, we've had to postpone the

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whole thing, and I feel horribleabout it. We have one more little
window between now and the start ofschool when there's no baseball tournament. There's
no I don't think there's anything onhis end, but who knows. They're
they're teenagers and they've got all kindsof they got plans, you know,
they got plans seven one three twoone two five seven ninety email me Dugpike

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at iHeartMedia dot com. If nothingelse, this storm, if it does
make landfall west of US, isgonna push a lot of water into our
base system. Again, it wasn'tbut a couple of weeks ago that we
dealt with super high tides that pushedwater up into neighborhoods, coastal neighborhoods,

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not up here, but push titleflow well into places where it didn't belong.
And we're probably going to get apretty good surge off of this thing
too. It's got a pretty tallcap on it, moving like north from
the eye. It's a pretty bigstorm. And that's something that newcomers to

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hurricanes. Maybe somebody who's come downhere from Tornado Alley need to understand.
Is that just because the eye ofthat thing hits around Port O'Connor doesn't mean
we're not going to get affected byit. Will we have the strongest winds?
No. Will we have the sameamount of rainfall? Probably not,

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But it's you can almost rest assuredthat it's going to rain and blow to
some degree. There's going to bea south or southwest wind blowing up here
for a pretty good amount of timethis thing. Interestingly, watching it come
inland on the well on the forecastedcourse, which means absolutely nothing, but

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watching it come inland, it'll staywest of Houston, which means we're whatever
it is, we're gonna be onthe wet side of it. The counterclockwise
flow pulling moisture off the gulf,and the longer that thing rides the coast,
the more moisture it's gonna pick upand dump somewhere between between there and

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wherever the rain falls. So hopefullythis thing will move quickly, get on
shore and go on up and botherDallas and bother Arkansas and Tennessee. They've
got the cone extended halfway out intothe Atlantic Ocean. Again, it's just
kind of ridiculous. And up wherethat is showing, they'll just be rainy

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days, that's all they're That's allthey're going to get out of this.
It'll be the remnants of barrel andit'll be a rainy day. And anybody,
pretty much, anybody, gosh,what north of Huntsville, I suspect
is not going to be dramatically impactedby this thing, And I hope not.

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I have heard several times from fishermenin the last week or so,
especially guys my age, There've beendiscussion about how fishing gets better before a
storm. I don't know that aspeckled trout really has that level of intuitive
power, but it's kind of coolto think they might so. And since

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we have to we get to wedon't have to we get to fish before
a storm. There are a lotof guys I know, especially when I
was younger, I would have fishedright up until the day the storm hit.
I would have come home, hunkereddown, and then as soon as
as soon as I saw the firstsunbeam, I would be driving right back
to the beach. And I've doneit many times. There was one storm.

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I have no idea what storm itwas, but there was one that
came through a long time ago,and a buddy of mine and I,
as soon as it quit, wewere gonna go surfing because there was a
tremendous swell behind this thing and stackedup just the way you'd want it.
There was a lot of water hadbeen pushed in. I was driving a
pickup truck. I didn't care aboutthe water. It wasn't jacked up or
anything. But when you're a lateteenager and maybe late teens, early twenties,

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and you've got a pickup truck,and you think you could drive across
the Mississippi River, And so offwe went and about I guess about maybe
two miles from the beach. Ican't remember exactly which road we were on,
but it was a two lane blacktophighway somewhere down between here and Surfside.
And there was about six or seveninches of water on the road,

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and so helped me. My buddygoes, slow down, slow down,
and following the yellow stripes in themiddle of the road was about at about
a twenty six twenty eight inch redfish, just cruising along looking for something to
eat him. Man, times aretough up here. I hadn't seen the
shrimp in two days, and Ifloodwaters pushed him up there, and if

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he stayed on the road, heprobably found his way back to a ditch
somewhere and jumped back in and hopefullyout into the out to the Gulf of
Mexico, or at least into theBay system. I think I told you.
I think it was this past weekendmy son caught a redfish about a
mile and a half north of theGalleria in Buffalo Bio. And if I

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had not seen the picture, Iabsolutely would have asked him to take a
test, you know, I meanit was it was a legit. He
and his buddy will fish anywhere,and they do. There's one one guy
who into it as much as heis, and they'll go anywhere to fish.
And they went to this one spot. And I believe he said it

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was on his first cast. Actually, and lo and behold, Buffalo Bio.
What at least probably twenty twenty fivemiles is the crow flies and probably
twenty eight miles of meandering Buffalo Bio. This redfish was clearly lost, but
he provided a lot of fun.All Right, we gotta take a little

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break care seven nineteen, It's appropriateSports Talk seven to ninety, The Doug
Pike Show. Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. We're are
This little narrative is right there.Every time the spots come on, the
endorsements from our fine sponsors, thevolume in my headphones just absolutely spikes,

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and it's all I can do tosave my ears from just blowing up.
Let's go get Dave on the phoneof see if this is gonna work.
And I've been standby, Oh itworks. Hey, man, you're off.
They they're exactly what you're saying.Man, Whenever all of a sudden,
I'll be laying there and I'm sleepingreally and then all of a sudden
the advertisement comes on. It wakesyou up. That's all right, But

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no important people, No, no, no, not on y'all. But
I'm talking about on TV or anything. Oh yeah. They do it because
they know you're going to go tothe bathroom or go to the kitchen,
and if you can't see it,they want you to hear it. I
hear and then they need some TikTokthings in the background. That was like,
man, what's ticking on the windor something? You know. Anyway,
that's not what I want to talkabout now. Hey, No,

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first thing, happy for the JiutJuly to everybody. But we had a
great time up at the American Legion. We had a great turnouts. Wait,
they actually clapped. I didn't haveto do it. They Thank god
they didn't do a standing ovation becauseI was already my arm was already too
tired. But anyway, meanwhile,back at the ranch on this hurricane coming

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in, oh man, you knowhow many you know how many we've been
through. One of them, Ibroke my right wrist. I couldn't go
to the hospital I had. Well, I think I told you this before.
It's okay, you know, youdo the if you watch enough Western
movies and stuff. You don't howto do, you know, do your

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own doctor made and then you know. Anyway, But what I'm trying to
say is everybody be safe right nowbefore this happens, because there may be
a lot of the medical centers shutdown, you know, after this is
gone. Because remember I told youwe've worked in the medical center and that
flooded down there and now it shouldn'tflood now. But anyway, yeah,

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well you just never know. Youhave to be prepared. But at the
same time, Dave, you don'twant and I don't want it. I
know you don't want either, forpeople to just panic and go buy a
thousand dollars medical kit just because theythink they're going to have to set their
own a broken hip or something.No, no, no, it's easy.
It's simple. Yeah, and youknow, until you get there.

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But on the on the other hand, I always say, uh, make
sure you got I mean, Idon't I've got candles, but I don't
want to use them. I've gotsome batteries in lights and that in case
your lights go out, and thenyou know, I mean, the main
thing is to be safe and andyou know, I think a lot of

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people they panic too much. Wellsome people, well wait a minute,
when where's coming in. I'm thinkingis maybe Victorian now is going to be
on the good side and then we'regoing to be on the back side.
Well, some weather focus on that. One one of the reasons people panic,
and I mentioned this in the firstsegment, is because for a week

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now, or maybe a week anda half, we've been told, here
comes this major hurricane Cat five hurricane. Man, it's the first time in
ten thousand years that there's ever beenone this early. And they just they've
just stretched it out and milked thiscow dry, okay, and they but

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they have to keep saying, theyhave to keep coming up with ways to
scare us so that we will tunein not just at four or five,
but tune in at four, five, six, and ten after listening to
the news at three to find outwhere Beryl is. And you know what,
just everybody in this audience, I'mpretty sure has access to the Internet

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or at least has a phone withsome access. You can go right there.
You can go to you can goto the National Hurricane Center. You
can go to. One of thesites I like most is cyclocane. Okay,
yeah, that's good c y Cl ocn E. And that's I
found to be more accurate and alittle tighter, a tighter prediction than the

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Cone of Uncertainty that the National HurricaneCenter puts out because it'll show this this
hurricane if you look at some models, and I honestly think that some of
the TV people are stretching the coneto make sure it to make sure it
hits their listening area because or viewingarea. And it really frustrates me when

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they do stuff like that, becausethey're just unnecessarily scaring people long before they
need to be scared. We don'tknow, if we don't know, I
mean until it's going to be happening. But like we were talking about being
prepared and then you know, makesure you got some water and all that
kind of easy kind of stuff andall that kind of stuff, and you

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know, I got guarantee, Igot plenty of food, and oh your
barbecue fit or something like that,and make sure that you you know,
in case you do lose power,you know that simple stuff is like going
out to the country or going onthe finishing trip, or tamping deer camp.
You know, yeah, deer camp, deer camp with no generator.

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That's that's now. Listen. Yeah, but here's the deal. Whenever that
one hurricane, I think I can'tremember which one it was, the whole
neighbor when the one was out fortwo weeks. Yeah, man, I
had a whole stack of wood anda barbecue pit out front. I heated
up water for the whole neighborhood tomake coff for you, good for you.

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What's call it? That's what youcall it, neighbor Yeah. Well,
and that's that's preparation too. Youknow, you know what's coming.
You got to be prepared. Butwe don't need in this age. We
don't need to be prepared to liveoff the land for three weeks after a
hurricane. No, you know,it's it's it's gonna be okay. The
grocery stores will reopen, the gasstations will reopen. Now, what I

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recommend getting every device you have thatcan hold charge. I've got a couple
of portable chargers at the house.I'm gonna go ahead and fire. I'm
gonna get them filled up and justleave them, leave them full, and
if we do have a short periodof time where there's no power, then
I'll plug them in. And I'vegot two or three neighbors who have generators.

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I'm certain they would let me plugin a phone or plug in a
charger for a couple of hours andget recharged. And after that, there's
not much you can do. Youknow, my galfriend that we went to
the fourth of July and then shewent back yesterday. You know, it
takes her about three hours down inVictoria. I think she's gonna be on

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the cleaning side of it. Thewhole should be, you know. But
she had she had friends coming inand they put all her rocking seers on
the porestrup pard and everything like that, because she's kind of got a bad
meaning in anyway. That's see that, That's what I'm saying. Yep,
we take care of each other,all health your neighbor with this, God

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bless us, God keep us,and God bless America. And hey,
everybody be safe and and and justuh use your peripheral vision, you know,
look straight and look left and rightat the same time. All right,
buddy, that sounds good to me. All right, thanks Dave,
see you man audios. Let meclick that. Oh man, okay,

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let me check email real quick.I haven't looked at a bit. I
got the wrong mouse in my hands. Stand by and oh, come on,
Doug. Oh I'm good. Ijust just it's just stuff. Rick,
What did he send me a picture? Saharan dusty morning, he says,
Let me see what this picture lookslike. Yep, yep, that's

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the haze of the Saharan dust.I wish there was more of it around.
We could use a bunch of Sharandust right now. Knock that hurricane
to its knees. It's not ahurricane yet again. It's meandering, as
they say, across the Gulf ofMexico. We'll see. Let's see.

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I was cleaning the tray when youmentioned that. The weather Oh yeah,
the weather website I like for stormsis Cyclocane and it's it's a it's a
site that is something similar to theNational Hurricane Center's deal, but it has
way more models than National Hurricane Center. Shows you what it thinks is its

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prediction of where the storm is goingto go based on a lot of models.
Cyclcane shows you all those models andthen there's one one primary path that
they choose to show that they reallyhave the most the highest confidence in where
it's going to go. And it'sbeen pretty similar to the Hurricane Center,

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pretty similar to that path, butit tended to lead. It tended to
move the storm eastward a little earlierthan National Hurricane Center did. Plus it
gets updated I think several times aday, where NHC gets updated twice a

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day, once in the morning andonce in the evening. So you go
to bed and nothing happens. Youhave to wait till you wake up,
and then you get that one snapshotfrom the Hurricane Center at I think eight
am, and then you get anotherone at five pm. Something like that.
Cyclocane tends to go, go,go, and change. I'd say,

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I want to say, like everythree four hours maybe, so you
get several updates during the day,and the closer the thing gets, of
course, the more it's gonna matter. But and I used to have two
or three other sites, and I'mnot really keen on them anymore. One
of them became totally unreliable and wasn'teven updated. I looked at the old

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site just a couple of days ago. As a matter of fact, in
the the information that was there wasfrom night or twenty twenty two. So
a me and now that's not gonnawork anymore. Seven one three, two
one two five seven ninety Email meDougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. We're gonna
take a little break here. Whenwe get back, we'll shift off of
the storms. And hey, it'sshark week. Boy, do we have

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stuff to talk about sharks here inTexas. Huh, we'll do that when
we get back. Doug Pike Showon Sports TALX seven nine. I was
just telling Melvin. I went inthe newsroom to get some coffee and there
is a big TV screen in therewith the Tour de Fronts on it,
and there's there's a high shot.They've got drones now, which make it

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really cool to watch how it's justa giant, perfectly choreographed ballet of bicycling
through France. It's beautiful from above. But they also have the the cameras
on the street, the TV cameraon motors. There's a guy driving a

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motorcycle and a passenger sitting behind himwith a video camera, and because the
riders would complain and be angry ifthe cameraman was in front of them getting
a shot of their faces and whatnot. About half the coverage I watched in

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the newsroom a minute ago was thebackside of a guy on a bicycle in
a leotard, and I just like, why is that necessary? At least
at least pan up? But see, what they're trying to do is show
you the pedaling motion. And I'djust rather see the back of the guy's

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pointy helmet. Frankly, that wouldbe enough for me. Seven one three,
two two five seven ninety. Emailme Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.
Shark Week It is on television onthe I think it's ant Geo network.
I believe that's correct. Shark Weekis underway and there have been some
actually some pretty good shows I've seenso far. We'll see how it all

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pans out. Hang on, Igot an email here. I want to
double check real quick. Oh I'llgo back. Oh yeah, good way
to go, STEVEO. Well done. Several good days in Galveston, said
a couple of good days with theboys here in Galveston. Yeah, way
to go, Steve. Well done. So back to Shark Week. Back

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to Shark Week the Texas coast.There was a shark along the Texas coast
that said, Hey, I wantin on this, and I'd almost guarantee
you that next year's Shark Week we'llhave a reference to this week's Texas shark
encounter down at South padre By.Now, most of the people in this

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audience would have already heard about itone way or the other. I saw
video of it not long after ithappened. Actually that it was posted and
I got found its way to mesomehow. There were four people who encountered
they believe the same shark. Nowunless they finger printed the shark. I

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it's a great story, but itcan't be absolutely verified. There are so
many sharks in the surf that peoplejust don't realize are there. You can't
really tell whether that happened. Theother thing that I saw misreported early on
was that there were four shark attacks, well technically four shark bites. Let's

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say that's actually what was reported atone four people bitten by sharks in Texas.
There were a couple of reports ofthat. There were two bites,
actually one very severe. One woman'slower leg got chomped really hard. And
I have still not found a storythat tells me whether or not she lost

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that limb, but it was.It was bad. The video that I
saw was bad. And yet ifnot for some very skilled and fast thinking
and fast moving people on the beach, she may have just bled out.
But I don't believe she did.I think she's still with us. Another

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person got a nip it was describedin one and a small bite described in
another story I read. And thenthe other two injuries were attributed to the
people themselves trying to defend themselves fromthe shark men. I don't know who
knows what could have happened, butthey somehow needed some medical attention after fighting

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off the shark without being bitten.And the line that got my attention most
out of all the stories, andit just showed the naivete of the person
writing this story about sharks. Melvinsof this and tell me what's wrong,

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and I quote the shark has escapedto open waters and there is no plan
to contain the shark at this timeperiod. End quote. Wow, he's
escaped to his own escape. Yeah, let me rewrite that as an editor,
a magazine editor. The shark wenthome or you know, honest to

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goodness, escape to open water.What else would a shark do. It
just got bored being shallow and itjust took a left and went out deep.
And yeah, and they could theycould send a thousand people out there
and not catch this shark and notknow for certain unless there's a very distinctive

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byte pattern on that leg. Andthey could actually take all the sharks they
could catch out there and analyze them. They don't know, They just don't
know it. But it makes sucha better story to say that this one
shark attacked four people. And againthat's the hysteria. There's no common sense

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applied before the story is done,this notion that four people were attacked.
Maybe maybe not. And I'm nottrying to defend the shark. Go ahead,
Melvin, what I guess? Youknow? Yeah? Really? Yeah?
That all you got, beach?Okay, I'm leaving. Yeah,

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And I'm not trying to I'm nottrying to diminish the significance or the severity
of that bite that woman sustained.Okay, I get it. That was
horrible. That was one of thosethat happens. But if you're scared of
going in the water, just considerthe overall statistics. Okay, only sixty

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nine unprovoked attacks, only ten fatalitiesfrom sharks world wide. Last year worldwide,
ten people killed and sixty nine hadan unprovoked attack to some level of

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encounter. Doesn't say whether they evengot bitten. That's just unprovoked attacked.
In the United States, only sixteenencounters significant encounters annually and only one fatality
every two years. That's of allthe exposures of all the people who are

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in the water. More and moreencounters with sharks probably are going to happen.
But you can't blame the sharks.Certainly, you can't blame the sharks.
They they're hardwired to try anything tosee if it's food. They'll bite
a boat, they'll bite a paddle, they'll bite a canoe, they'll bite

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a surfboard, they'll bite a rock, they'll bite anything, and all kinds
of odd things have been found inshark's stomachs over the years. But once
they bite down and realize that whatthey're biting isn't a seal or a fish
or something else that or a whale, something else that's on their normal diet.

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They tend to let go and goaway. They do. Now.
They might be angry with you ifyou gouge their eyes or shove a hand
law in their gills, which ishow you really need to fight off sharks.
The old punch them in the nosething is kind of gone by the
wayside. Go for the eyes andthe gills. That's the two most sensitive

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parts of that animal. If you, ever, god forbid, find yourself
in that position, eyes and gills, with all you got, with all
you've got, and that I'd beton that working. If somebody punched me
in the in the eyeballs, inthe throat, I'd I'd back off,

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gouge my eyes and yank on mythroat. You I'd be out of there.
Seven one three two one two fiveseven ninety Email me Doug Packet iHeartMedia
dot Com. Good heavens, it'salready time for another break. All right,
Welcome back Bugpite Show on Sports Talkseven ninety seven point fifty am.
It is seven fifty am. What'sMelbourne to you? We just talked right

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before we came back on hurricane ortornado. That's an easy one, okay,
Yes, so I'm gonna play alittle game, okay, And if
somebody wants to call and play thegame along and throw two things at me
that maybe you're scared of, oror maybe you think I'd be scared of,
and say what's worse, Okay,hurricane or tornado. That's it's easy.

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We who live along the coast preferthe hurricane because you can see it
coming from all the way over tothe African coast. That's right, there's
a little yellow ex pops up overthere, and I just boy, I'm
glued to the screen until that thinggoes away. Tornado, m pretty day

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outside. Let's go play some golfand then in an hour the sky's black.
Oh man, Yeah, don't makethat noise. I don't want to
hear that. No, no,no, yeah. So And also I
hate to be right. I hateit when I say and also because that's
redundant. And the problem with atornado is the real tornadoes, like they

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get up in the Midwest, theydon't just come through and knock over fences.
They just destroy stuff just absolutely.It's amazing to me, I guess
because they all have shelters that theycan go to underground, or I guess
I'm presuming most of them have shelters. Otherwise, how could you live through

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something that cuts a half mile wideswath of one hundred percent destruction? Yes,
it's just I just thank god thatwe've got the technology to keep those
people safe. It must have beenhorrifying fifty one hundred years ago to have
one just pop up when there wereno sirens, there were no warnings.

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Uh, it's amazing, But yeah, I would do that. So now
I'm gonna flip it on you though, Okay, Oh, jellyfish or spider,
A bite, a sting or abite, jellyfish or spider. I'll

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take the jellyfish. Yeah, I'mnot a bit sure about that spider you
didn't name. Which. Yeah,well, I've had a brown recluse bite
and that was not fun My.It was on a ring finger of a
left hand, and had I notgotten my ring off, my wedding ring
off at the time within a halfan hour, I probably wouldn't have been

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able to get it off. Wow, it would just swollen up that fast
and and got real ugly, realquick. And it took it probably took
a week and a half or soto go away, maybe two weeks,
and I don't recall a lot ofpain with it though. It was just
it was just dreadful swelling and sensitivity. Now was it was tender, but

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it wasn't something that made my wholebody ache, whereas a jellyfish thing that's
that's that can be really nasty,depending on the jellyfish too. What else,
what you got one for me?Give me two? Two things that
you think I might be scared of, and don't say snakes because I'm not.
Okay, raccoon or possum. Youknow that's not a bad one.

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Actually, a raccoon just because theirattitude. They seem so calm and so
docile, but right up until youget close to one and then they go
berserk and think that and sometimes rightfullysometimes not that you're out to kill them,

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and they they will if they're backedinto a corner. I would I'd
almost take the possum. And theycan be kind of nasty too, Yeah,
I see those rais of sharp teethon them. Yeah. But the
good news with the possum is itmight just play dead for you and then
you walk away and it'll jump upand run. Oh okay, there's some
have you ever heard of a guynamed Dusty Sleigh, a comedian. No,

(37:44):
he does a great bit about petsand uh. And one of the
lines he uses, and I'm paraphrasingbecause I can't remember it word for word,
but he said something about when hewas little, well he talked about
getting like getting cats when he wasyoung, and he said that were other
people nowadays. I said, well, we're gonna we had to take the
cat to the vet or the dogto the vet and had to put it

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down it was so old, andit was on and on, and Dussy
said he'd come home sometimes his dadsay, we don't have a cat anymore.
Just it. But the line thatyou made me think of was one
where he said, and he talkedabout how they got their pets, said,
we just he said, the dadwould just say, we'll put some
milk on the backboard and see whatwanders up. And that was their pet,

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you know. But anyway, hesaid, one time we had this
really really mean, mean cat tillwe found out it was apossum. It's
wow, pretty good stuff. Ohmy word. All right. I did
a quick look while we were talking, and just to see the difference between

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cycliccane and the National Hurricane Center,the National Hurricane Center's Cone of Death or
Cone of Uncertainty foes now Galveston Bayand Houston, and it includes pretty much
the whole Hill Country now not forlandfall, but for for well, for
landfall, it's still in the cone. Is still South Padre Island. It's

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still the Rio grand River that's stillin the cone. Somehow, I suspect
it's not going to go that way, but believe it or not, for
whatever reasons, it's still in thecone. I wish it would. I
wish it would take a left insteadof going straight. So you've got that
range. You've got everything from theRio Grande River to East Bay is technically

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in their cone. Now let mego get back over here to the spaghetti
models. If you throw out theextremes to both sides, okay, let
me back this thing out, becauseyou know, okay, if you throw
out the extremes to both sides,cycloc puts it either in somewhere from Matta

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Gorda to maybe Corpus somewhere in there. And there's one or two models that
take it a little south of there. There's one model that goes right over
downtown Houston, which those are outliers. They they're not gonna happen. But
the bulk of this that the degreeof certainty that's clearly more precise than what

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Hurricane Center is trying to give us. Pins it down to maybe seventy five
or eighty miles of coastline, whereasthe other one is, what about five
hundred and fifty miles the coastline that'sstill in the cone. So that's why
I like Cyclo Caine interactive spaghetti modelmap, and I'm staring at it right

(40:53):
now and wishing something would change forthe better. But all in all,
really, when you when you lookat this thing closely, it gives you
a pretty pretty good idea of wherethis thing's gonna go because there are so
many models and you can see themall. And the more models say it's
gonna go that same way, thethe higher the level of confidence. Once

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it gets north of two ninety,Yeah, once it gets north of two
ninety, it tightens up really good. They're all the models show it heading
up into well into half the country. They've got it. They've got it
pegged out to go all the wayto Memphis, now, believe it or
not, Holy cow, that's nowthat's getting a little too far out there

(41:38):
for me to understand. All Right, we gotta take a little break here
at top of the hour. Allthe way out, you know what,
I'll tell you what. On theway out, I'll just let Melbourne take
it. I don't know where he'sgonna take us, but I know we'll
have more when we get back.Seven one, three, two, five,
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Dougpike Show, brought to you byAmerican Shooting Centers Guns Shooting at Instruction since
nineteen eighty nine. Now here's DougPike. All right, second out.
The program starts right now. Thankyou all for listening this morning. I
do appreciate it, I really reallydo. Melton and I were talking off
the air there about these forecasts,and honestly, I think that there's no

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reason for weather forecasters to say anymore probably than that there is a storm,
let's say, in the Gulf ofMexico, or there is a storm
in the Atlantic Ocean until they're aboutmaybe seventy two. And really, if
you really want to go gung ho, go to ninety six hours, go
four days out so people can goget some supplies. If it's really looking

(42:46):
like it's coming your way, goget a little bit of stuff. You
don't have to stock your entire housefull of hard goods and paper goods and
all that stuff. And the longeryou live here, the more you realize
that that stores, big stores,the ones we really rely on, have
generators for just such occasions. They'regonna be They want to reopen as fast

(43:12):
as they can because they can makea lot of money that way. Let's
face it, So don't be becautious, but don't don't panic. There's
no reason. Like I said,last night, I saw a couple of
people in there preparing as though wehad a really big hurricane coming. And

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even by all predictions, it's notgoing to be a big hurricane wherever it
makes landfall, Hopefully it doesn't getas big as they even say it is.
Chances are pretty good that the withinthe what do we have now,
maybe seventy two hours before this thinghits, if that more like forty eight,

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they're pretty accurate for that. They'repretty accurate with that. And this
thing looks like it's moving pretty fastwhere it is to where it's got to
get to make landfall. When theysay it's going to it's going to be
humping along. And I'm already startingto see some of these people online just
stirring up trouble, saying, oh, this is looking like another Harvey because
it's coming in west of US.No, just because it comes in on

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the west side doesn't make it fiftyinches of rain in two hours. It
doesn't happen. All right, letme go talk to Jeff, see what's
on his mind. What's up,Jeff? Well, I think I agree
with you, but I might bea little bit more bitter about this.
I guess I've always presented to theseguys standing there and reporting to be experts
and talking about the hurricane hunters andthis and that, and it never turns

(44:45):
out. And then you've still gotthe fight for the toilet paper and water
love, the nasky woman in thetesla at the grocery store, kind of
a running us around all over town, and possibilities to take sure what I
have to. But at this dayand age, it's pretty ridiculous. Yeah,

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I would have to agree with you. Forty fifty years ago, in
the nineteen sixties, Okay, HurricaneCarla comes rolling through here. I'm a
little kid, and Hurricane Carl,this is back when we had wood shingle
roofs, back when we had nota whole lot of drainage, really thought
out well. All kinds of thingswere going on. Hurricane Carl came through.

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My family and I in our littlebitty house on Langdon Lane over in
Sharpstown, hunkered down. It blewlike crazy for a long time, and
then it stopped and the sun cameout, and my sister and I thought,
and every other little kid in theneighborhood thought it was over. Our
parents knew better because we did havetelevision then and we still had power,

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and so they let us go outsideand play. The street was they had
about a foot of water in it, nothing in the houses anywhere, And
so we went out and played fora little while, and then as the
wind started to strengthen from the oppositedirection, we were called back in the
house. We hunkered down for anotherseveral hours and it was gone. And

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when it all cleared up, therewere wooden shingles everywhere, a lot of
roofs had to have repairs, alot of things had to be done,
but there was no real sense ofpanic. Nobody we didn't have all this
precursor to the storm that we getnow, where they just build you up
and they get you all anxious andworried, and they're showing you what happened

(46:37):
to Jamaica when it was I believeit was Jamaica where it rolled through just
actually it went a little bit southof there. It would have been much
worse for them, but it wasstill horrible. It was a major hurricane
and they possibly survived. Oh yeah, I know, Yeah, we had
all this information. How did youmake it? I can't get it.

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I understand what you mean, Ido. It's it's it's information overload,
and it's redundancy on top of redundancy. We know a storm's coming, tell
us when it's gonna hit, ifit's gonna hit around us, and so
we can be prepared for it.But preparation doesn't take a week. And
I've been hearing about this thing foralmost two weeks, and I'm I'm really

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getting disenchanted with the weather. Mediais becoming like mainstream media when they're reporting
politics. They just can't get enoughof themselves talking about something that might happen
instead of just talking about what's morelikely to happen. They're they're given.

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We've been trying to sell it tous the whole time, and it couldn't
turn out like the storm from lastyear or the year before that was a
cat for and unfortunately hit Louisiana anddied into a wand or somebody was still
nasty. It was still a storm, but it was not a cat for
right right, you know, they'rethey're gonna remind us of it. It's
frustrating. I'm with you, Jeff, I really am man. I appreciate
the call, buddy, thil downto what it really is. I'm trying.

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I really am trying, Thank you, boy. Yeah, it's to
listen and each of the networks andeach of the forecasters within each network and
each station is trying to one upthe other. They've got to come up
with a talking point that is morecompelling than what their their competitors are saying

(48:29):
on the other on another station,and they sometimes, I think, get
get a little worked up and geta little ahead of themselves and become like
Melvin and I were laughing about across between Chicken Little and what was yours?
Or did you have chicken little?Yeah? I had Chicken Little.

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And I had what did I have? Uh, the sky is falling?
There was there was another one.Oh oh oh yeah the boy who cried
and you keep crying wolf on thesehurricanes. And unless it truly does make
landfall as something as catastrophic as theykept telling us it could be, then

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you lose confidence. Melbourne was talkingabout that, and I've talked about it
before. If you if you havesomebody who keeps telling you the worst is
gonna happen and it doesn't, thenyou lose confidence in the people who are
doing your forecasting for you. It'squite a mess, really quite the mess.

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Seven one three two one two fiveseven ninety Email me Doug Pike at
iHeartMedia dot com. Skepticism. Howcan you not be skeptical of these forecasts
when I don't know. I'm theyhave to do what they have to do,
okay, But a week out,six seven days out, if they

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were to tell the truth, theywould stand there and say, you know,
it looks like it might go here, but it's too soon to talk
about it. It's really too soonto get serious about it. Enjoy the
sunny day, go play some golf, and then go ahead when it's forty
eight to seventy two hours out andpeg it say, Okay, this is

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the way it's going because we havethe capability now of preparing so much better.
Anybody who lives in this area,if they're new, they can find
information on storm preparation anywhere on theinternet, all over the internet. And
if they've been here a long timelike me, you kind of already have

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a pretty good idea what you wantto do before the wind starts blowing.
Let me go talk to Calvi andsee what's up. What's up, Calvin
Doco, how are you doing thismorning? I'm good man. What's on
your mind? Well, you're touchinga shub matter that is that I found
equally as distasteful as you do.And let's go back in time to Hurricane

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Rita. I think it's back intwo thousand and fours, right after it
was, right after Katrina and everybodysolved the mass problems from Katrina. Now
here comes to Rita. Baytown isin the crosshairs in the Houston area of
Rita. It's a Category four.People are freaking out and there was a

(51:31):
horrible, dangerous evacuation of Southeast Texas. Oh evacuation was more there was more
death and destruction in the evacuation,and there was the storm itself. That's
a very good point. And soit's headed toward basically, let's say,

(51:52):
Harris County, and it starts toturn, and it's turning toward Port Arthur,
and I mean, it was justabout to make landfall in Port Arthur.
And Neil Frank on Channel eleven says, well, it looks like the

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outer bands are coming ashore. Butwe got we know these storms are predictable
and it's possible to change course andcome our way. Wow. And I
was furious. I was so mad, you know, yes, and I
called Channel eleven and reamed them out. And so so now fast forward,

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here we are again with what's goingon here. Let's let's be let's be
clear. Every meteorologist fearmongers these storms. They just do. Kevin Ross was
doing it this morning on ABC.Every He's showing every every model, and

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every model shows it going into Matagorda, every one of them. Yeah,
and he's still saying, well,okay, but be mindful of there's still
the cone of uncertainty. Of course, it goes from Brownsville to Sabine Pass.
Yeah, so like stay tuned becausethis ain't over. When seven hundred

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and fifty miles the coastline, it'sbound to hit us somewhere and we'll never
know where until it hits. I'mmad at Channel thirteen, but even the
Weather Channel fear markers. Every oneof these guys in gal likes to.
They want to hold that audience,so everybody will continue to be watching and

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stay tuned. And it's just it'sit's later today, I'm gonna call and
complain to Channel thirteen. And soit's just granted, these storms can be
somewhat unpredictable, but with the technologywe have today versus Hurricane Carl's lastly different.

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And so I just really, Ireally don't appreciate the way these people
play on our our emotion and andit's just not right. It's it's I
mean, my wife as anxiety isshe kind of breaks out about it.
So anyway you're talking about it,because it needs to be talked about it.

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These people need to rein in theirfear moderate got okay, thank you,
Yeah, I gotta run. I'mlate for a breakman. Thanks Kevin.
All right, we had a run. When we get back, first,
I'm going to talk to Kevin,because Kevin's on the phone, and
then I'm going to tell you aboutwhen I really kind of lost my confidence

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in storm reporters. And it wasit was a single event that I wouldn't
have believed unless i'd seen it myself, and a lot of you probably have
seen it since and remember it.All Right, We're back eight twenty two
on Sports Talk seven ninety The DougPike Show. Thanks for listening, certainly
do appreciate it. Let me getto Kevin before I get to this story.
I wanted to tell you about hurricanesand whatnot. What's up, Kevin,

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What's going on? Doug? Youknow, I'm just I'm venting about
hurricane coverage and I'm finding that I'mnot alone and that makes me feel good.
I agree with your last colinwar Calvin. Yeah, the fear mongering,
it's it's ridiculous. I know alot of people even about him half is
gets nervous as a long tail catand a room full of rocket chairs.

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I got you now, But Iwant to talk to you about the tournament
next week. About it the followup on the Texas Kingfish Championship in the
Bay Championship. Okay, i''s goingto be a surfer side Marina reaching the
Texasan in the captain's meetings Friday nightaround five o'clock, it's traction. They'll

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be fishing on Saturday, both thenshore and off shore category and then the
you know iteas after a storm,you never know what you're going to catch
out there. Boy, isn't thatthe truth? You know how the golf
gets topped around like a solid bowl. It does. Indeed, where'd you
say they're going out of, Sirsiber Marina? Okay? Is with the
based out of and it's this isthe toy run tournament where they urnaments.

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All the proceeds go toward buying Christmaspresents for kids up and down on the
Texas coast. That's fantastic. Yeah. During December they take off from Freeport
and run all the way down tothe stopping at all the different portocols dropping
and they're actually have their boats flowto connon toys to drop off in deeps
of the different places along the waydown with the kids that wouldn't normally have

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much of a Christmas. Yeah,that's not a bad thing at all.
Man. That's the kind of stuffthat just makes me glad to be a
Texan, you know, yes,sir? Yeah, then going up.
What what's your storm preparation level rightnow? Well, basically we went to
the store and kind of stocked upon the essentials, got gasped for the
big and just get a kick backsip and waiting to see what happens.

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I saw a guy he almost hasto be single in the grocery store yesterday.
He had he had four cases ofwater. Okay, so maybe maybe
maybe there's two people in the house. He had four cases of water and
he had like thirty cans of ofChef Boyar d Rabioli and spaghettios. And
that was his storm prap man hewas. He was loaded up anything with

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a with a pop top, youknow, smoker. I got a smoker
and I've got a propane cooker,so your sir, I've got a full
of food too, so if whateverI can cook, I got my fingers
crossed at mcdonald's'll be open when beforeit's over too bad? Yeah, Chick

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fil A, you know they'll beopen. Holy god, man. Mm
I had a very bad experience ata drive through about three nights ago.
And it's at a It was ata chicken place in Missouri City off Highway
six, and I sat because ifyou once you get into their drive through

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lane, there's a giant curb andyou can't get out, okay, And
I sat in their drive through lane. I was the fifth car in line.
When I pulled in there. Ithought, that can't be too bad.
Forty seven minutes, wow, fortyseven minutes to get something, not
even for me, for my wife. So I was really yeah for chicken.

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For chicken, it costs too muchanyway, Oh all right, thanks
for the call. Man. Hey, y'all right, stay saved, buddy,
Take care, bud Audios. Nextweekend, everything will be over.
Whatever's coming, it'll be over.But next weekend, and if you want
to go down to Surfside Marina,fish out of there and get these kids

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some Christmas presence and maybe winning anice prize yourself in shore and off short
division Surfside Marina the thirteenth and fourteenthof July. Holy cow. So this
incident I wanted to tell you about, and most of you have seen it,
and it's not the only time it'shappened either. And I don't remember
where it was. I don't rememberwhen it was, It makes no difference.

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But there was a reporter in waitersin a neighborhood somewhere, and the
water was up over this person's waistclearly, oh the just devastating flood.
And the reporter got the microphone,got the umbrella, the wind stopped,

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but oh that water all the wayup, belly deep. And then behind
that reporter these two teenagers come walkinginto the scene and walking across the scene,
and their knee aren't even getting wet. This person had knelt down in
the water to give the impression thatit was deeper, catastrophically deep, when

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it actually wasn't. And I've seenso many different examples of that. I'm
sure. I'm sure there are videoson the internet that show that one somewhere,
and there are others just like it, where there's a a this that
these reporters just feel compelled to makethings look worse than they are. When

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there's one one damaged trailer within onehundred miles of a storm and that's all
that's damaged, they'll find that andthey'll put that on the news. They
won't talk about how most everybody elsegot away. Okay, But this particular
place a tree fell on it,and it's very frustrating, it really is.

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It's very frustrating to watch this becauseit just instilled fear and people,
just like Calvin was talking about peoplewho deal with anxiety, that just that
just fuels the fire for them,and it's it's wrong. Hey, Rick,
what's uping Man? Happy hurricane?Happy hurricane be all going a couple

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of day out. I've got kindof an unusual way of tracking that storm
myself. I don't really care forany of the weather guys. I started,
I started four or five days ago, but on my home computer,
I just took a ruter and Ilined up on a little town in the

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Yucatan called I think it's called Nurandaand the direction that it was going at
the time, and it worked outit's on the other end on that straight
line. It landed up on,uh basically down by South Thundria Island.
Yeah, okay, now that waslike four days ago. But every day

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I'm tracking it and it's steady.Now. They did make a comment,
so they several that it had actuallynotched northward a little bit. It did,
but that was after it noted alittle to the south. Right now,
this minute I don't have a crystalball, but based on primitive way

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to see what kind of line it'son or if it's moved left for right,
it hadn't moved. It's moving obviouslyabout twelve or thirteen miles an hour,
but I don't think it's moving narthright now. It's not coming off
of my line anyway. Yeah,I'm looking at it one day, I'm
looking at it, save us somethingmajor changes. It's gonna hit somewhere between.

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I'm giving a little benefit of thedoubt. Not necessary south Padre,
but maybe up to on the westside of Victory would be my guessing.
Wow, that's just a guess.Yeah, I'm looking at cycle Can right
now, and it it shows theline that you're talking about. Actually,
it kind of shows it on thatline still right at this point. It's

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still on that straight line out ofMarita basically and going toward the Rio Grande.
But it's gonna slide off of therein the next twenty four hours and
start turning more north. Uh.This one, this one still shows it
making landfall pretty far down. They'rejust a little ways like between Corpus and

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Matagorda. That's about the only twobig things I'm looking at and more toward
Matagorda east of Victoria actually is whereit's showing it coming ashore. So it's
it's gonna it's gonna bang us upa little bit. But it's also gonna
be over land while it's moving deadnorth and hopefully that'll that'll eat it up
pretty good before it could beat usup. And I still I don't see

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it being a major hurricane at anypoint. And whatever's left of its life
if the current and which has beensteady four or five days, but the
current over life. You overlay itwith the wind direction map, the ones
that change over one thousand something seconds. Uh, there is a tremendous wind

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in front of it, I'll callit the front and to the east that
is moving west and southwest all theway up to Galvelston Bay. Wow.
So it's gonna have to defeat thatsomehow or I've just missed the whole thing.
Fingers crossed, man, So fingerscross you know, look at the

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cyclicane yesterday. The cyclicane shows aboutfifteen or twenty different models all at once.
Okay, I thank you calling thatcyclicane or are psycho caine? It's
see why Clo Cyclo Caine c Anedot com and then look up spaghetti models

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and as of yesterday, the mainpath that it shows the predicted path,
most of the models were east ofthat. Today most of the models are
west of that predicted path. SoI think that, you know, I
don't know that that bodes well forus. I don't know how how happy

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Victoria would be about that, butit bodes well for us. And once
that thing gets on shore, it'sI think it's going to get knocked down
pretty good. I hope it does, and we'll we'll get on by this
only eighty miles an hour right now. So yeah, you could jump in,
you know, fifty and only beone hundred and twenty as well landfall,
which'll it'll start breaking apart immediately.Yeah, I don't. I don't

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want one hundred and twenty coming acrosshere. Well, I wouldn't want to
be it won't be over here fora year, yeah, I think RISTI
Well, all right, well,yeah, I am into that. That's
all we got to do. Allwe can do is prepare and be safe
and then and yeah, I'm gonnatalk about some other stuff when we get

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back. Thanks rick A man.Yeah, when we get back, I'm
gonna take a little break down.When we get back. I want to
talk about what to do once thatstorm's over, and once you know that
it's safe to be back outside,and and things are going to start turning
back a little bit toward normality,whatever that may be for us. We'll
talk about that when we get back. I don't think to Go is ever

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gonna sing this is some Caribbean hurricaneHurricane Blues. Is that right? Is
that what you told me? Thatis correct? Hurricane Blues and the only
hurricane Dave would know that that's asong. I've never heard the song before,
you know, I guess it's theHurricane Blues. Yes, but it

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doesn't a hurricane song I would thinkwould have to be more upbeat, and
not happy upbeat, but just faster, a faster tempo, I agree,
and then just really build to acrescendo. I'm looking at a radar image
of a barrel, and this issomething that I've had to explain to a

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couple of people. So, oh, if it hits down it, if
it hits at Matagorda, it won'taffect us. It'll still be fine here,
right, Well, no. Actually, if you look at a radar
image of this thing, just likeI talked about in the very first segment,
the north side of that storm extendsprobably, I don't know, two
hundred miles. It's big. It'sa very large system that on the west

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and south sides is pretty tight andnot that big a deal. But the
top half of this thing is itsignificant, and it's it's gonna find its
way here one way or the other. And when it does, it will
it will tear some stuff up.There's no question about that. They always
do. Uh. Any hurricane isgonna tear things up. But hopefully if

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it's not a serious major hurricane,then it won't tear up as much as
it would have if it were.I I mentioned before the break, I
wanted to talk about what to doafter the hurricane and after, hopefully each
of us in this audience emerges,walk outside, look around. Really no

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major damage. If you're if you'recapable, and maybe if you have a
chainsaw, or if you have apair of gloves and a rake, whatever,
just throw them in the back ofthe truck and right around your neighborhood,
right around and see if you canfind somebody who looks like they could
use a little help. Maybe abunch of limbs fell across a driveway.

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Help somebody get them out of thedriveway so they can get to the store
and get what they need. Thisentire state of ours, it's been.
It's been my experience. Anyway,tends to come together after something like this,
and I don't expect this event tobe any different. So once you

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know you're okay, don't just propyour feet up on the chair and say,
okay, we made it through thisone hiding in the house. It's
gonna be hot, it's gonna besticky, it's gonna be nasty. It
always is. But there always willbe somebody who needs some help, somebody
who didn't realize that tree was gonnafall somewhere that needs to be moved.

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Whatever it is, whatever it is, just stop and ask somebody if they
need some help. Spend a couplehours feeling good about yourself and knowing that
you help somebody else make it througha little faster than they would by themselves.
I know ten years ago I wasa lot stronger than I am now,
and twenty years ago I was alot stronger than I was ten years

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ago. And I would do that. I'd ride around and just see.
I had a pair of canvas glovesi'd wear, and just anybody needed me
break something, shovel something, movesomething, pick something up. I'd try
to help out. Once my oncemy home and my family were secure,
Let's let's go look around see ifwe can help somebody. Neighbors always looking

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for stuff. Fence panels will godown. Fence panels are always falling down.
And even if you can just stopby with a hammer and a couple
of nails to temporarily get that thingoff the ground, people will appreciate stuff
like that. Seven one three twoone two five seven ninety Email me Dougpike
at iHeartMedia dot com. I gotan email from and this is another good

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source that I had neglected to talkabout because I haven't used it in a
while. But Space City Weather.Space City Weather is kind of a it's
a straightforward this is what it's mostlikely to do. But we're we're not
gonna scare you to death. Andjust to give you a little bit of
the terminology, says Barrel. Emerginginto the Gulf of Mexico as a ragged

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storm on Friday evening, has sincebeen struggling with dry air to its south,
that's why it's the way it isnow and wind shear to its west.
As as a result, as ofseven am Central Time, the storm
has a sustained wind of sixty milesan hour, and this was posted on
through It looks like twelve to twelveon six of July, which is two

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day okay in terms of intensity.It'll take Barrel sometime to regain its organization,
but by the night or Sunday itshould move into an area of more
moisture and lower wind shear, allowingfor strengthening. It's really a matter of
how long it takes Barrel to getits act together, because once it does,
it will find conditions favorable for intensification. The official forecast calls for a

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category one hurricane at landfall on Monday, but it could easily be a tropical
storm or a category two hurricane hurricane. So that's that's not trying to scare
anybody for Houston. It says,let's go over the anticipated impacts on the
greater Houston area region with wind,searge, rainfall suped. You know what,

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I'm already long on a break.That's another good site, and thank
you. Hold on, let mego back to where it was, because
I can't remember who sent it,and I want to give him credit.
I had forgotten all about that,Kirk. Thank you, Kirk. I
appreciate that I do. All right, let's take a little break. Welcome
back Bugpike Show on Sports Talk sevenninety eight fifty one on Saturday, which

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is about I don't know, overthirty six hours maybe forty eight from landfall
of Beryl. And it'll be goodriddance once it's gone. It's there's always
just there's angst that touches us allto one degree or another, some more
than others. And for those ofyou who are really scared of this hurricane,

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just know that it too will pass. Okay, it too will pass.
Oh oh wow. Back when wewere earlier, when we were talking
about what scares you most, DennisWade in, I just saw this.
So have you known much deer huntingat all, Melvin, No, I
haven't. Okay. There's always kindof hesitance when you step into a deer

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stand, especially like a ground standof a box blind. And these things
can be like say six feet bysix feet, so you got room for
a couple of people in there,some of them a little smaller than that's
I'm a little bigger. But everynow and then, if somebody leaves a
window open, or if there's anyother way for something to get in there,
there might be something in that blindWhen at an hour before the crack

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of dawn, you open the doorand go inside. Okay, you might
have a little flashlight with you.I highly recommend that. If you don't,
you take a flashlight and you doa quick analysis of that once you
open the door and you kind ofpeek up over the ladder or whatever.
Uh before you get in there.You check and and Dennis, what scares

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your most an owl or a raccoonin a deer blind? Because that owl
or raccoon when you open that door, it's gonna want out. It doesn't
want to be there when you're there. And I've had owls fly out of
I had an owl fly out ofa barn like two feet past me once.

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That scared the bejeepers out of me. I haven't had an owl and
a blind. I know a coupleof people who have, though, and
they say it's it's especially after along season where that things you think it's
been closed up and somehow something wentcaddywampus with a window or whatever, and
an owl is taken up residence inthere, and there's all the little bones

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and whatnot, and the scat ofthe owl with the little creature parts in
it. That's pretty scary. Snakesin deer blinds are equally unsettling until you
can at least identify what snake itis. Holy cow, man, I've
never encountered a raccoon in a deerstand, but most of those would,

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mostly because most of the stands I'vebeen in would be well off the ground.
I think a ground blind would bea place where you might find a
raccoon, But that would scare thejeepers out of me too, because there's
only one door and that's gonna bethe biggest escaper route for him. Usually
they're gonna just plow right over you. Uh yeah, I don't like that,
Dennis. I don't like that atall, Dan Wade. In a

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little while ago, I got hitby a brown recluse once on my ankle.
It looked like a pimple, andI thought, that's what. That's
a weird place for a pimple.So I popped it and it started eating
and almost eight I got to openthis up to find out. Oh my
word, it was on the backof his ankle and it the infection.

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Wow, oh started eating away athis achilles tendon. How about that?
That could have worked out a lotworse than it did. Oh my word,
Mark all the way over in Georgia, not worried at all about Beryl.
Thanks for weighing in, buddy.Pretty sure, like ninety percent of
the listeners for this show, yourfans are self reliant because we're outdoorsmen.

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The only people the only thing peoplelike us to think about is call my
friends and relatives that are older andask if they need anything, are my
gas cans full time to sharpen mychainsaw for broken limbs before dot dot before
I go play around of golf.Yeah? That does make me feel a

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little better, honestly, honestly,I'd like to in. As Mark points
out here, he says, askeach caller, are you like me?
And follow storms on your own?Don't even bother with the news. I'm
kind of that I'm to that pointI can get what I want off the
internet from people who have no there'sno acts to grind. There's no competition

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for them. They're just people whoare concerned and want to put out the
most accurate information, not the mostsensational information. I want to get off
this topic, I really do.I'll go back to sharks. I'll go
back to sharks. I saw apicture the other day I want to say

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it was. It was on theBob Hall Pier and the people on the
pier and I don't know whether itwas a new photograph or an old photograph,
but the people on the pier hadjoined forces. There are about six
or eight of them hauling up andhad it just to beneath pier level,

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about six or seven feet at leastof shark. I can't tell from the
picture. The picture was taken froma pretty good distance, so I can't
tell the species of the shark.You can't tell anything about it, really,
But for some reason they felt compelledto lift that thing up to peer
level rather than do what most peerfishermen who catch sharks do, and is

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that's drag it to the beach andhave a team on the beach to unhook
the thing and do whatever you're goingto do with it. I did hear
one. I did hear one persontalking recently about how it seems like there
are more shark attacks, and Ithink that's only a byproduct of the instantaneous

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news we get. For example,well, for example, the woman who
got her leg bitten down there onSouth Padre Island, that was on the
internet probably before she even got tothe hospital. And that's just that's the
world in which we live now.We can find out about something that happened

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anywhere in the world within a minute. If it's videoed, or if a
picture is taken, or if somebodyjust decides to write a text report of
something, it can be spread acrossthe entire world in a minute. So
waiting around if you want to findout where this storm is going to go,

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for example, you don't have towait around for the six o'clock news.
You can just get online, goto any of these sources we've been
talking about this morning, and haveas good an idea as any forecast on
the news of what's happening. Becausethey're basing their predictions on the same model

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as we are. I think theyjust tend to to some of them,
not all of them. I thinkthey tend to enhance their predictions for whatever
reasons they might have, and whateverreasons those are, if they're not just
giving you the straight up stuff,that bothers me. And I'm not picking
on all of them, because Iknow some of them are trying harder than

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others to keep everybody calm and bestraightforward. Let us know if something really
horrible's gonna happen. But until they'reconfident, without certain, without any doubt,
that something horrible's gonna happen, don'ttell us it might. Don't tell
us it might. I don't needto know the worst case scenarios. I
don't want to know what you thinkis the most accurate result. Mojo waghs

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in Ye, hurricane predictions get alittle extreme. My Iowa relatives are asking
questions, Oh yeah, the baseballtournament this past week. Not so good?
Not so good. That's a long, long story that involves a lot
of details that aren't worth getting intoon this morning, especially when I'm running
late for a break. Holy cow, tell you what we'll do. We'll

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go ahead and take this one cleanand dry and get back here in a
little while. We'll talk a littlegolf, we will, and we'll talk
a little, hopefully not much more. If any storm news. Until there
is news, we've pretty much goneover what it's about to do, what
all of us think it's going todo, and that should be good.

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We'll take a little break here.We'll be right back The Dog Pike Show
on Sports Talk seven ninety. Thisis the Doug Pike Show, brought to
you by American Shooting Centers Guns Shootingat Instruction since nineteen eighty nine. Now
here's Doug Pike. Hi, welcomeback, Thanks for listening Doug Pike Show
on Sports Talk seven ninety. Ratherthan just perpetuate the silliness of forecasts and

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why I'm not a big fan oftelevision forecasts specific We'll go to the world
of golf to the John Deere Classics. That's a pretty old tournament. I'm
trying to get the leaderboard to popup there. We go out there at
TPC Deer Run in Illinois, CTPAN who Actually, I'm pretty sure it's

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ct that I met here several yearsago when he was he was getting a
tour of Golf Club of Houston andultimately becoming a member of the club.
I'm pretty sure that's where he landed. He and Aaron Raye, who is
kind of come onto the scene recently, both at fourteen under par through two

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rounds. Here we go again withPGA Tour events where you're you gotta go
better than twenty under par over seventytwo holes to even have a sniff.
It'll take it. You got twoguys at fourteen, You've got Harry Hall
at thirteen, and then you havegot good heavens, we have a mini

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van full. Hold on, letme see how many people are at twelve.
There's at least four that'll be Ohmy gosh, hang on, yeah,
how about this, So the differencebetween first place and tenth place,
there are nine people within two shotsof the lead, including the leaders Penn
and Riot fourteen, Harry Hall atthirteen, Eric Cole, Davis Thompson,

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Danny McCarthy, Luke Clanton an amateuractually Sung Yea m and Hayden Springer all
at twelve under par. And ifyou're looking for a recurring theme, that
recurring theme is not a whole lotof household names in the game of golf.
On this leader board. I'm goingall the way down. Bo Hostlers

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at eighteen or he is at tenunder par, Johnny Vegas at ten.
It really not a not a starnstar filled leaderboard. But nonetheless, I'm
not taking anything away from anybody whois playing in that tournament, because to

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even be on a tea box inthat tournament, you've got to be among
the best in the world. I'llnever take anything away from anybody. I
don't even care what scores they shoot. If you qualify somehow to be in
that tournament and you have a roughday or a rough week, holy cow,
that can't be right. Yeah maybe, oh yeah, there's an amateur.

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Here's a guy who got cut,but he had a blast doing it,
Okay, guy named Anders Larsen.I don't know much about him.
He's got the red, white,and blue hanging next to to his name,
so we know he's an American.We know he's an amateur by the
little A in parentheses next to hisname. He missed the cut, and

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once again, more power to him. Somehow he got in, but he
shot eighty eighty to finish and getearly dismissal at twenty four over par.
And you know what, he couldstill whip pretty much, you and me
and everybody else. We know ifhe got into that tournament somehow, maybe
nerves got him. Maybe he didn'tfeel well, maybe he was just overwhelmed

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by it all. But Andrews Larsoncan say, at some point in his
life when somebody asked him, yeah, I'm playing in the PGA Tour event
once, how to work out Andrews, Well, not that well. But
I played the PGA Tour event once. I'll never get to say that,
that's for sure, not unless theyhave a super senior high handicap division somehow,

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some way, and I don't seethat coming. I'm looking to come
Ilovi Jacus missed the cut? Whoelse? Let's look at who missed the
cut in this thing. Neil Shipley. He's been in the news a lot
lately. Youngster doing well too,but not this week wasn't his week.
Scott Pearcy didn't make it. RichieWrensky didn't make it. Chez Reevey didn't
make it. Brent Snedeker didn't makeit. A lot of guys. Oh

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yeah, I take that back.Sneaker made it. Where's the cut line?
Oh there it is? Yeah,yeah, No, none of those
guys made it. The cut linewas all the way up at this is
something else has become interesting. Cutline five under par five under par all
right seven one three two one twofive seven ninety email me do a puck
ad aheart media dot com. What'swhat James got going on? Mandatory?

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Yeah, this is something. It'sinteresting. I've seen this story and I
mandatory Texas vehicle safety inspections and insix months so pretty much. I don't
know why that seems like such agood idea to the state of Texas,
UH, to have no safety inspections. I'll have to look into that,

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because that that leaves a lot ofvehicles on the road that probably don't belong
on the road, and that bothersme some cap'n Scott waited in. Let's
see what's on his mind real quick. Yeah, I've got a couple of
minutes slow, prepping for the storm. All about all I have left this

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is Cap Scott, and Cap Scott'sa good He's the Maguiver of his area.
I'm sure that stuff so heavy.I'll wait for sure for the hype
train forecasters. They don't necessarily lie, but what they do is pick out
a model that shows the worst.Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more
there. They're always looking at theone. They'll show you the map and

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then they'll say, according to thisparticular model, it's doomsday. And unfortunately
there are uh you know, Scottsays, here is also a couple of
fairly popular online guys who do thesame thing. I think the best thing
for any of us to do,now that we all have access to the
same Internet they do, is todo our own research. And that goes

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for fishing, it goes for politics, it goes for hurricanes, it goes
for anything you really want to learnabout. You need to go to more
than one source, and you needto absorb the information from both sides and
then form your own opinion based onfacts, not on a bunch of bologney,

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which is a lot of what wesee these days. It's an election,
it's a presidential election year, andthere's a lot of stuff going around
that I agree with, a lotI don't agree with, But I'm putting
in the effort, putting in thetime to read all that I feel like
I need to read, which ismore than average. I would think,

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as after being in the newspaper gamefor twenty three years and then twenty four.
Here there's a lot of overlap.I'm not that old. It's kind
of weird when I look back atmy work history. I've got twenty three
years at the newspaper. I've gottwenty four years with iHeart. I've got

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what was it ten editing Tied magazinein about fifteen or sixteen. I don't
remember something like that. On Fieldand Streams, Masthead. I've been on
Texas Fishing Games Masthead for a longtime. I enjoy writing for them,
still Saltwater Sportsman for another six,eight, ten years. I don't know.

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And if it all adds up,if it all added up and they
were all consecutive, i'd have tobe one hundred and twenty years old or
more. But it's kind of like, I guess it's yeah, I don't
know. I guess it's just alot of work, and I enjoy what
I do, so I don't minddoing a little bit extra. It's it's

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fun. The last, the mostrecent story I wrote for Saltwater Sportsman was
one on nighttime tuna fishing, andit's fact that's in the most recent issue
of the magazine, and it wasfascinating. It really was to do the
recent because I talked to people,talked to one guy who is featured on
Wicked Tuna. I talked to aguy on the West coast who talked a

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lot about his business and I hadto really pluck the answers out of him.
But I learned a whole lot aboutfishing off the West coast for tuna.
I talked to two guys on theEast coast, one of whom was
that wicked tuna guy, and anotherone, and I talked to three people
who fished the Gulf Coast and Igot different strategies. There were some recurring

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themes, but I also got differentstrategies from all of them, and it
was really interesting to see how theygo about their business of catching tuna the
East coast. Some of those guysare fishing blue fens. Over here,
it's mostly yellow fins. I didtalk to Cameron Plogg, who is James

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Flogg's son, and that kid wason the on the boat not only for
the state record blue fin tuna catcha couple of years ago, but also
a few years ago the state recordblue marlin catch. Happened to be working
both boats when those fish were caught, so he certainly was a valuable resource

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as well as is his dad James. One of my favorite guys on the
whole coast. He'll tell it likeit is. He doesn't sugarcoat anything,
and he knows what he's talking about. And I've relied on him. When
I was at the newspaper, Irelied on him. I relied on Mickey
blamed fire mood. The list goes, well, it's not that long a

(01:31:40):
list of guys I could really reallytrust. But the men I just mentioned
absolutely on there and moving down thecoast, I had at least one or
two legitimate solid sources pretty much outof any place that everybody fishes out of.
I was blessed with a lot ofgood, smart people to help me

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do my job when I was doingthat, and it was fun. It
really was good. Heavens, it'snine point fifteen already. We gotta take
another little break. Nineteen twenty onSports Talk seven ninety The Duckpike Show,
Thank you for listening. Certainly doappreciate it. Bonnie Joe weighed in.
People for whom I feel sorry whenwe have storms coming. Are people new

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to Texas. So many rely andtend to believe what they hear on the
news, be it local or national. Let me see how deep this goes.
Oh yeah, that's pretty good.If they're new and have not had
a talking to by someone who's experiencednumerous hurricanes and tropical storms, and then

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it does create fear and unrest,and it goes on here we in most,
not in most, I'd say someof this audience at least is old
enough to have been through more thanone or two or ten hurricanes. And
we're still here. And maybe wehad some damage, maybe we didn't,
but we're still here and we're gonnaget through this one and hopefully it'll come

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and go without a whole lot ofhooflaw. I'm gonna get off of hurricanes
here for a minute. Got amuch more important thing to talk about.
Where did it go? Mark wadIn from all the way over in Georgia,
helping me change the subject, whichis it's pretty timely. I'd say
we've given storms enough. Mark writes. Given the size of a hook,

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what do you use to cut thebarbs out? Also, what's the rule
about your hands and picking up fishso that you don't take the outer coating
off? Well, the slime onthe fish is it's that's like dipping yourself
in neosporing. It's an antibiotic essentially, It keeps all kinds of nasty things

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from growing on the fish and ultimatelypotentially killing it. If you've ever I
had the experience many times when Iwas at the Paper and Fishing County Reservoir
in the summertime, when the basswere schooling up on top and we were
out there throwing top waters at them, catching them just one after another.

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Fifty sixty seventy fish in the morningsome days, great fishing. Every now
and then you'd catch one that hada legitimate handprint across its back. Clear
fungal, nasty, algae growth,whatever was growing on that fish shouldn't have

(01:34:39):
been there, but it was therebecause somebody picked that fish up with a
dry hand. If you're picking upbass, it's easy to grab them by
that lower lip and roll them upa little bit and they won't do anything.
Okay, that's good news. Butif you're fishing for something that's got
teeth, you're gonna have to doit a little differently. Number one I'm

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going to talk about in a second. Mashing those barbs flat makes it very
easy to just take your pliers,grab the bend of the hook, flip
it a little bit, and thefish just falls off. You don't have
to rake things out of its gut. You don't have to. The hook
is just gonna fall out if yougive it an angle to come out,

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so you never really have to touchthe fish. Just hold it over the
side of the boat, or holdit over the water and let it go.
It's that easy. With a goodpair of needle those flyers, you
can get way down in there andlook down in the fish's throat and see
exactly where that hook is that's holdingit up, and get it out of
there. Same with your hand oryour leg or your arm or whatever.

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If you get a hook stuck init, if your barbs are mashed down
flat, then you can take careof that. But and if you have
to handle a fish in the boatfor some reason, if you can't grab
it by the lip, and ifyou can't get the plyers to it without
doing harm to it, wet yourhands first. Get your hands completely wet.
That will help eliminate dragging all thatslime off of there, because if

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you just put a bare hand onthere, that slime is sticky and it's
gonna stick to your hand and it'sgonna come off the fish and jeopardize the
fish's health. As for barbs,you don't cut the barb out, and
you don't file it out. Youdon't go to a grinder and put it
on a grinder and grind away thatbarb because that heats that hook up way

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more than it needs to be heated, and it'll weaken the hook. And
depending on how much you care aboutcatching big fish, that a weaker hook
is not going to be your friend. All you have to do is just
take I've got a pair of needlelos pliers I use for probably ninety percent
of the hooks. They have aflat section. Then they have a kind
of a ribed section for grabbing stuffand really holding it. That flat section

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is what I use, and I'llput I'll hold the back of the hook,
the bend of the hook. Iput the the barb into the flat
area of those jaws, squeeze downas tight as I can, and then
I roll that hook and at itspoint where the barb is forward and backward,
forward and backward once twice, maybethree times. Then I hold it

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up to the light and look tosee if it appears that that barb is
flat or not. If I thinkit is, I'll run my finger backwards
against it, and if my fingergets caught at all, I mash it
again until it's completely flat and it'snot gonna hurt me, it's not gonna
hurt any fish, and then I'llfish with it. And honestly, it's

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been a long time since any ofus I think would miss a meal if
one fish got off the hook.And you will be amazed at how few
fish get off the hook just becauseyou've mashed the barbs. If you keep
your line tight and you pay attentionto how you're fishing and what the fish
is doing, and try to keepit in the water and not up jumping

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around, you will land ninety fivepercent of the fish with a barbleous hook,
and you might land ninety six percentwith a barbed hook. Barbs were
put on hooks a long long timeago, not to hold the fish on
the hook. Barbs were added tohold life bait on a hook, because

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if you put your worm on abarbless hook, which is how hooks started,
they just wiggle right off. Youput a minnow on a hook,
just wiggle right off. Let's puta barb on there to hold that bait,
and that's all it's for. Let'sgo talk to the faux pro,
the one, the only, thefaux pro Forrest. What's up? Man?
What is up? Doug? Mu'ska lunch pike roll? What's going

(01:38:46):
on? I'm doing all right?What can I do for you? Oh
man? What can't you do forme? I don't know. But now
just do a little, do alittle, do a little outside prep uh.
Just I don't think I'm gonna getthe winds like maybe y'all are go
to get down. Now do alittle bit outside patio furniture, getting put
away stuff like that. Sure,but based on what you're talking about right

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now. Although one of the bestwhite bass fishing trips I ever had with
the day the hurricane, last hurricanehit me. But that almost that after
too long cast. But on catchyour release on fish. You know,
of course you're up here in thenumber freshwater guy ninety eight. So occasionally
I catch the gash pado, thecatfish, the gar, the grintl bowfen

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mudfish, whatever you want to callit. What part of losey out of
you? So I always keep apair of Boger grips in my boat.
Yeah, anything I catch other thanthe bass, I usually boga grip and
you can hold that thing at aninety degree and gonna do what you gotta
do with the hook. Yeah,just release that and drop it off.
Yeah, that's a good idea.That's a really good idea. I wasn't
thinking along those lines because I don'tcarry one when I'm bass fishing at the

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golf course. Yeah. Well,yeah, probably don't need it there,
one of my boat because you neverknow what you now, Oh yeah,
end up getting a little bitty basson the line and having some big old
blue cat come along and eat it. You might need that boat. Yeah,
you're able to watch that Louisiana weatherreport I sent you, I did,
I did. That's hilarious, man, enjoy that, not for air,

(01:40:20):
but nonetheless funny. Yeah, definitelynot for air for sure. No.
Yeah, he's got a he's avery colorful language that man has,
but he speaking the truth. Youknow, it's truth both man. You
stay safe down there, and uhyeah, there's always rescue if you need
it, if you need it,so I'll be around. Yeah, thank
you for us. I appreciate that. Man. I may take you up

(01:40:40):
on that someday. All right,Yes, sir, audios, let me
get him, get faux Pro offthe line. There we go. Yeah,
he's got a nice little setup,by the way, go go look
him up, faux Pro Forest.I believe it is his. I think
he's got a YouTube thing going now. Even got some pretty good video in
there. Pretty sure that's correct.And if you're still listening faux pro by

(01:41:03):
all means, let me know,and I'll make sure I make a proper
mention. I'm just doing that fromflying by the seat of my pants.
I think that's close. Anyway,Speaking of close, we are close to
time to go ahead and knock outanother break. Why don't we do that
and actually hit one on time today? That'd be pretty good, huh,

(01:41:24):
just just just to scare them,to scare them to thinking we really I
never mind. I'm gonna keep GAO. You know what's wrong. Something's going
on over on bmme. They hita break right on time. Somebody investigate,
now, all right, AI.That's about the only way that it

(01:41:44):
would be me. Getting a breakexactly on time would be AI, because
otherwise, if it's just I,then I'm probably gonna be a little late.
AI might make it, and wejust made it late. We'll take
a little break here We'll be rightback to Doug Paye Show on Sports Talk
seven ninety nine thirty four on SportsTalk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show,
Thank you for listening. I sawthem in concert Melvine to tell you how

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old I am in the in thelate seventies in Mobile, Alabama, thousand
years ago or so whatever it was, and it was a good concert,
but it was just something to doin Mobile, Alabama. Was that was

(01:42:30):
probably the biggest act that came throughthere in the past twenty years, you
know. And other than that,it was way more fun. This was
back when I was playing baseball overthere, and it was way more fun
to take off for Pensacola and gosurfing or go fishing or whatever I did.
I played golf over there only becauseand I fell in love with the

(01:42:50):
game. But I hadn't played untilI got there, and the baseball team
got to play free at the courseacross the street, so whatever, I
was going to go try it anyway. Sometimes there just wasn't much to do
after baseball practice or whatever. Arare day off maybe, And as you
can well imagine, the left handedrental sets over there in the mid nineteen

(01:43:15):
seventies left much to be desired.The only worst rental clubs I ever got
were on a media trip down intoFlorida and I called ahead. I said,
look, I really don't want tobring my clubs. Do you have
any decent left handed rental sets?Because I was playing pretty good golf back
then. And this guy, oh, yeah, yeah, we got you

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covered. Man, Come on,we got you covered. Uh oh yeah,
yeah. That was a red flag. I should have asked for details
or send me a picture something likethat. I got there. There was
a driver, but the top ofthe driver this is one of the early
metal drivers. I think it mighthave been one of those big berth of

(01:43:57):
whales or something like that, butthe size of a coffee can. But
it looked like somebody had hit itwith the back end of a ball peen
hammer once and then with the frontend one more time. Wow, So
that was a problem. There wasno three wood. There was some other
fairway metal I don't even remember what, and then there were four irons and

(01:44:24):
a putter and that was it.That was it, and one of the
least satisfying golf experiences I ever hadon one of those trips. And at
that point I started carrying my clubswith me. It was a little more
awkward trying to get in and outof airports and whatnot. Not nearly so

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much as it is now. It'sbecome well, all it is now is
an extra fifty bucks each way ormore right, you got a man,
you know you're bringing a toothbrush too, That's another ten dollars everything, everything
you have in your b They're gonnastart itemizing what you can carry on,
what you can't. It drives mecrazy. I'm not a big fan of

(01:45:06):
flying, except that it gets youwhere you gotta go, and it's kind
of a necessary evil. Seven onethree two one two five seven ninety Email
me dougpick at iHeartMedia dot com.I'm watching somebody. What is this weather
for you? Oh? This ishold on? Where is that? Oh?
Yeah, there it is trying toget this little box to open up.

(01:45:27):
It shows boy, you talk abouta scary, colorful thing. Monday,
six am. This is what Barrel'sgonna be doing. And I can't
even figure out where in the heckthe Texas coastline is here? Where is
Texas on here? It's just thisgiant map that I'm looking at. Pardon
me, I think it's a SanAntonio station and there's all these colors and

(01:45:53):
all these spinning, twisting pin wheelsof doom. But there's no reference to
land anywhere on this thing except atthe very bottom, and I guess that's
where is that. Oh good heavensthis is. I have no idea what
this is and why it's being shownon here. This is old, old,

(01:46:17):
old, unbelievable. Oh now they'vegot it racing. Okay, this
is just another example. This issomething that's on on my screen right now,
and it's from about five or sixdays ago, five or six days
ago. But boy, it's colorfuland flashy and scary. Oh man,

(01:46:39):
it looks scary ominous. And thenI go to the Galveston forecast. Okay,
I am looking at a forecast forGalveston, Texas and shows rain.
Let's see what it says in details. Seventy percent chance of rain on Sunday.
Your new precipitation amounts between three quartersof an inch and one inch.

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That's for Sunday Sunday during the day, Sunday night another threequarters another half inch
to three quarters of an inch overnight. And then it doesn't say how much
rain on Monday and Tuesday. Butthese are not that horrible for Galveston.
They're really not not at all actually, And then by let's see Thursday isolated

(01:47:31):
showers. Oh yeah, all over. By then let's I'm falling back into
my own trap. I don't wantto talk about this anymore. I want
to talk about speckled trout fishing,which has been good. Now I did.
I had a good conversation with Cliffweb yesterday and we talked about the
surf because I'm just I fell inlove with that surf down there on North

(01:47:53):
Padre after I actually got to fishit with Cliff several years ago. Now
took my son down there. Infact, I did it to summers in
a row with him, and ifhe wasn't playing baseball, we'd have been
down there this summer too. Thissummer so far, he's had far more
days of off color water than cleanwater. And he's confident that the fissure

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in the surf, but they're justvery difficult to catch because the water is
so off color. And he notedthat the video from South Padre showed that
the water down there was actually quiteclear and pretty, so he's not exactly
sure what's causing that abnormality along theNorth Padre Island Seashore where normally this time

(01:48:44):
of year you would have more cleanwater days than dirty water days. But
whatever it is, eventually it's gonnasettle, and probably behind this hurricane it's
gonna settle. And when it does, that's when I'm gonna be eyeball about
three days down there. I'm watchingit like a hawk already. Everybody's familiar

(01:49:08):
with the phrase the calm before thestorm. You know that one at Melvin
I of course you do, ofcourse. Okay. So I'm looking at
the Texas coast right now live winddata and along the entire Texas coast from
the Galveston Bay System all the waylet me keep going. I'll just go

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all the way down and look allthe way down to the Rio Grande River.
There is not one reporting station thathas so much as ten miles an
hour of wind, not one.The highest number I see is eight miles
an hour, and that is thecurrent current amount of wind at what used

(01:49:50):
to be Rollover Pass, which isnow just roll over sand. That was
one of the dumbest things the Stateof Texas is ever allowed to happen to
its line. It was the pluggingup of Rollover Pass, but we won't
get into that. And that's anorthwest wind right now. If you move
down the coast a little bit,it's still early this morning. Actually it

(01:50:12):
had more east. Now it's startingto turn a little bit. Then that's
for probably the first fifty miles offshore, and then there's a line where
it's meeting probably the early early precursorsof Beryl, and the wind is more
northeast. Right now, it's northwest, dead straight offshore wind at Galveston almost

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not enough to talk about. Downfarther down the coast, it's just very
little wind, dead calm at SanLuis Pass, six miles an hour at
the north Jetty at Surfside, justnothing, just nothing. I don't know
what the water looks like down there. I've been trying to get saltwater recon
to come up for me. Ohhere, I might get a chance at

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it. We're still, we're rightat break. Let me see if I
can get it before we have togo to the break. Come on,
come on, never mind, we'lllook when we get back. I'll take
a look during the break and whenwe get back, if I see anything,
of consequence, of any any reasonto drive to the beach and try
to catch a speckle trout today,today'd be the day to do it.

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Of the next five, probably,i'll let you know. Ninety one already,
Oh my gosh, nine fifty oneon Sports Talk seven to ninety the
Doug Pike Show. Thanks for listening. I finally got the surfs, the
saltwater recons surf side, Jetti Parkview up and running, and I was

(01:51:45):
I was pretty confident that I wasgonna see something I liked. And now
I've got to decide whether I candrive all the way to the beach.
Actually, it looks very good.It looks very good on the beach front
right now, as you might suspectunder maybe a five six mile an hour
wind on shore or offshore. That'sthe good news that The downside, unfortunately,

(01:52:12):
is that the tide is already quitelow and will continue to fall pretty
much until sunset and actually a littlebeyond sunset. Low tide Gosta high tide
was this morning at six twenty nine, and it's not very high, believe
me, because the beach front viewI saw it looks like somebody pulled the

(01:52:38):
plug on the entire Gulf of Mexico. However, it still looks pretty,
and you know, there's no reasonto drag a surfboard down there. I
was talking to Melvin a little whileago. There's some poor guy parked on
the beach who's got a long boardon top of his car. But there's
no reason to even unstrap that boardtoday. There's just not even enough of

(01:53:00):
a pulse to push alongboard. Idon't think you might be able to get
a six year old up on alongboard if you push them into a little
wave. But there's not much lowtide at what is it, eight twenty
four pm, so almost dead dark. That's a waste of a good beautiful

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day down there to not have anice incoming tide all day. There's no
telling what might have shown up alongthe beach front if the tide were just
opposite, if it were low rightnow, or if it had bottomed out
at about four o'clock in the morningand then been coming in for two hours
and was going to continue coming inall day. I might have invested the

(01:53:42):
gas in the time to drive downthere. I don't think so, though,
I don't think so today seven onethree two one two five seven ninety.
If you'd like to get in beforewe get to the end of the
show, feel free to dive onin see what's happening. It's so beautiful
down there. I would be willingto bet that there will be some little
boats that ran out and just makeone quick trip to whatever they like to

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go to a short distance offshore.Today this will be certainly the day to
do it. Nothing gonna bounce youaround, nothing gonna bother you. We're
a ninety first street fishing pier.Hold on, there's a little bit of
a pulse there. I'm gonna bringthat camera up if I can, because
there are some people actually out surfing. I'm kind of curious to see what
those waves look like. Okay,we've got long borders up on. Well,

(01:54:30):
there's a guy actually, Oh,there's a paddleboard guy. He's got
a little bit of an advantage.He's riding waves right and left. Some
youngster on a long board. Andjust as youngsters are prone to do when
they're on a long board, theyhave a hard time paddling into a wave
if they're too far aft. Andhe had moved up and paddled and paddled

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and as soon as the wave pickedup the back end of the board,
it buried the front end, andhe just slid right off the nose of
that board. I remember those days, I certainly do. There's at least
there's at least long board surf,and it is a calm gulf with legitimate
swell coming from far offshore. That'sabout need to thigh high. Maybe I

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think a couple of outside waves mightbe thigh high. There's a guy riding
a wave. Yeah, it's aknee high wave. Not bad. They're
decent rides. All right, I'mgonna bail out of there. I'm gonna
bail one more time into and geta refresh of cyclocane and see if it's
moved at all. I suspect it'sgonna be about the same right now,

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you know. Oh boy, letme get a close look at this.
There's a reason I want to makea close look. Yeah, it's it's
still it's holding true right now.There's no there's no variation. Uh,
the storm predicted. It looks liketo make landfall pretty much well yeah,
right around where they're saying, butabout between a little more more matta gorda

(01:56:05):
way than corpus Christie Way, butsomewhere in that window, and all of
the models, except for what Iwould consider outliers, would be within that
very narrow scope. By this time, there's usually about a maybe fifty sixty
mile plus or minus on landfall,and either way, either way, I

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don't think it's going to be catastrophic. It wouldn't be a great day to
be on vacation or great days comingup. That's why I'm so disappointed that
the meeting of my son and hiscousin over here he was my son,
was hosted in South Carolina last year. We were going to host over here
this year, and unfortunately the dateswe had were Sunday through Wednesday down in

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Galveston, none of which are goingto be really pretty. It's going to
be more rainy than anything else throughoutthat entire period. And rather than risk
anything with this thing getting as closeas it is, we we pulled the
plug yesterday and are gonna regroup fora couple of days or a couple of
weeks out. It's all we've gotbefore school starts. And if that doesn't

(01:57:15):
work, if there's something else botheringus, then by gosh, we'll haul
that kid over here at Thanksgiving timeand treating to some dinner and fun.
Then we owe him one. We'llget him over here seven seven ninety Email
me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. It's interesting the two of them had
never even met, but new ofeach other because they're they're cousins, and

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during the pandemic they started playing Fortnitetogether, which I don't think either of
them plays at all anymore, butit was pretty interesting and they became buddies,
and then one hosted the other.Now it's our turn to host,
and we'll get him back here.All right. That's gonna wrap it up
for today. Uh, whatever prepyou're gonna do, go ahead and knock
it out today before for the panicstra Actually, the panicky people have already

(01:58:03):
been to the store, and thegood news is that most everything you would
need, at least at my hub, there was still plenty of. So
I'm really grateful that fewer people nowthan in the past are panicking, and
I think we'll all be okay here. And like I said, once the

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dust settles, get out and gofind somebody you can help, even if
it's just raking up a little debrisin their yard. We'll be back tomorrow
morning at eight. Stay dry andstay careful, and have a good bit
of fun today because we might behunkered down for a few See it at
eight o'clock tomorrow. Audios.

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