The Doug Pike Show 7-7-2024

In this episode Doug gives updates on the storm brewing in the Gulf of Mexico. updates on the surf, wind reports. Doug express his feelings about fresh water fishing vs. salt water fishing. Want some excellent golf tips? Doug teaches you how to bluff on the golf course with a straight face (this is funny stuff). PGA updates on Bernhard Langer and the golf ball changes that are coming soon. Also, How will our roofs fair this storm in the Gulf? Doug talks to Skeeter Braun of Braun Roffing for some tips that will put you at ease.

Episode Transcript

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This is the Doug Pike Show,brought to you by American Shooting Centers Guns
Shooting at Instruction since nineteen eighty nine. Now here's Doug Pike. All right,
let's get this horse out of thebarn. The elephant in the room
or in the well. The elephantin the southern Gulf of Mexico headed our

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way and creeping, creeping toward usmore and more. And it's very frustrating
to watch this thing doing what it'sdoing. Let me see where it is
now. Yeah, it's still accordingto this hold on. I got to
refresh and hopefully it'll come back exactlythe way I have it now. And

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I know it's not going Oh itdid? You have very little movement out
of the storm this morning. Thetrack has been moved more northward than westward
currently. The last I looked anyway, it was moving northwest at about ten.
But I'm just I'm concerned that it'sgonna lose a little bit of that

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west and become more north And thetracks that I've been following pretty much show
it coming in way up closer tous than to certainly way up closer to
us than the Corpus Christie and eveneven halfway between, it's headed our way,
So make your preparations as though youknow it's already going to do that.

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The wind out there in the Gulfof Mexico is actually it's interesting that
once you get away from that eyewalland from away from the real bulk of
that storm, the wind isn't allthat strong. It falls off pretty quickly,
which is encouraging, I think forall of us who are in just

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like right in the sights of thisthing. It's not a major hurricane,
it's not predicted. It's still atropical storm right now, and it's predicted
to make landfall as a minor hurricane, not a major hurricane, and a
minor hurricane is kind of oxymoronic.A hurricane is bad enough at any level,
but far better a one than athree or four, Far far better

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a one than a three or four. We will, we will all get
through it. And just make sure, I guess at this point that you
and your neighbors and your friends,all everybody in your circle, people you
talk to all the time, justgive them a quick call, make sure
they're buttoned up, see if theyneed anything. Today is going to be
the day that you can take careof that. This thing's not gonna get

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here until closer to tomorrow than today. You're gonna start seeing some rain,
you're gonna start seeing some wind shift. And speaking of the wind down on
the coast. Let me go backto this because this is important and for
anybody in this audience who likes tosurf, I want to go to here.

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Where is it, I'm gonna goback. Yeah, that's at ninety
first Street. Ninety first Street.There's actually a couple of guys in the
water on the kind of the westside of the pier, if you will.
The waves are definitely big there.Let me see where this wave catches
this sky. It's about head high, maybe a little bit more on the
outside if you wanted to paddle outway past the tea head and make a

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fool of yourself. But it's it'sbig all the way up the coach basically,
but very disorganized. Now. Ialso looked at the surf side,
Jetty, and when when you lookat surfside, it's a washing machine.
It's horrible. It's just big andugly and difficult to paddle out. Now,

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all the things that you don't reallywant as a surfer you'll find at
Surfside Jetti if you go across toQuintana. However, that big long jetty
protects that water over there. Itis clean and beautiful, and the surf
is big. And I watched aguy just a little while ago right away

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for probably I don't know, agood fifteen seconds, just one wave just
peeling down the beach. I'm lookingat the darn camera won't roll over.
There a lot of people looking atthis surf Cama this morning, and it's
it's taken a long time to reloadat a different spot. Mostly what the
guys are doing west of the ninetyfirst Street pier is just sitting there watching

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these little, these little teepees comethrough there of water and nothing really good
coming of it because it's just chop. It's just wind chop. Oh now,
somebody's got in control of the JettiPark camera and faced it back up
Surfside Beach, which doesn't need tobe seen. Nothing to see there but

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chop and chopping. More. Ifyou're gonna go surfing today and you haven't
left the house and you haven't decidedwhere to go, go to Quintana,
Go to Quintana. Oh good,they're panting back the other way. Takes
about twenty seconds for him to getback by the way. I was in
HV last night picking up a coupleof things pretty late. Wasn't a big
deal, and the store by theway wasn't terribly crowded at all there,

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and it had been crowded earlier.The people in our area kind of know
to go get your stuff whatever itis you need. But it wasn't packed
at all. And then later inthe evening I had to run back up
there for something and I was askedif I was who Hey or you Dug
Pike? And I was very flattered. I really was, And I'm embarrassed

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to say that I can't remember theman's name. Very nice, very oh
man. I love running into peoplelike that, who who recognized my work
and think I'm doing a good jobup here. And I really appreciate that.
And if you are listening, pleaseemail me and so I can thank
you personally and mention your name.I'm so embarrassed. I'm just that age.

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Every now and then I'll forget somethingI had. Frankly, it was
so much more important to remember thestuff I wanted. My wife wanted me
to bring home. And I'm notdowngrading the importance of remembering somebody's name.
But I wouldn't have gotten in troublefor forgetting a name. But if I'd
have forgotten a couple of things onthat list, I don't well, I

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wouldn't get in trouble either. Icould have just gone back in any event,
Thank you very much, if you'relistening, I really do appreciate that.
That means a lot to me.I've been in this business for a
very long time, and I likewhat I do, and I hope you
guys like what I do. Andas we move through the next forty eight
hours, we'll get tried a fewtimes. And if only, if only

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I could, I could just bedown here and just talk about hunting and
fishing and golf for three days,we could all get through this and be
done with it. I think Icould talk that long too. My wife
says I could. My wife willtell you I could talk to bark off
a tree. That's her expression.And and she she actually told me the
other night, she said, youtalk too much for a man like I'm

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kind of puts food on the table. I probably got to need maybe good
idea to keep talking uh So,anyway, let's get past that. Let's
get to what's going on today andyesterday, and then in about forty eight
hours from now. The This isthe time of year, well more or

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less, the time of year whena lot of shrimp are exiting the bays.
They are heading out into the openGulf of Mexico to do whatever they're
going to do out there. Andthe trout know that every fish in the
sea knows when the when the shrimpare gonna go. I don't know how
they know that. It's just it'sinbred into them over thousands of years,
I suppose. And out there they'resitting out at every exit from the gulf,

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starting back in the marshes, youfind a place where the marsh is
gonna drain out after all this watercomes in with the storm, and you'll
find fish. You find a placewhere the more open bay drains into the
Gulf of Mexico, i e.Jetties and passes, you'll find fish.
Now, they may not be thebiggest fish in the sea. It might

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not be the place to go totry to catch a trophy trout or red
fish, but you'll catch some fish. You most certainly will catch some fish.
That's the one thing when the tidesare really pouring out in largemouth bass
do exactly the same thing. There'sa little drain pipe I know of over
in Avalon where after a really bigrain you can stand over there and you

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could fish with a six foot longcane pole and just stand on that drain
pipe and drop your plastic worm directdown where that water is pouring into the
lake. And I did this once, not with a cane pole, but
with a legitimate Roden reel, andactually stood there and caught I think five
or six from the exact same spot. I would drop it down, it

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would start to roll out with thecurrent, and I'd feel that thumb and
pick up a two pounder, thena three pounder, then a one pounder,
then a four pounder, and caughtsix I think it was. There's
somebody panning out across the Gulf ofMexico at the surfside Jetti Park, and
there's a pretty significant chunk of rainheading on in the outer bands. If

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you will, I'm sure that's all. It could be the outer bands of
barrel barreling toward us. Boy,if I hear one more weather cast or
say barrel is barreling toward us.I just I just might fall out of
my chair. They figured that outa day or two ago, as barrel
barrels our way, Like, yeah, no, just say the storm's coming.

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Just say the storm's coming. Weget it. You don't have to
be clever and cute when you're tryingto report on a hurricane either. It's
okay. Just give us what weneed to know. Give us exactly that,
nothing more. I heard a guyjust last night. We talked about
this ad nauseum yesterday about how sensationalthese forecasters are, and there was one

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of them. I can't remember whatchannel he's on, but he's got his
big map behind him, and he'sgot the kaleidoscope of colorful storms spinning in
the background, and he's talking abouthow the storm is expected to follow this
track and whatever it was, itpretty much put it on just dead center

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on Houston. And then about thirtyforty five seconds into his speech about how
horrible it could be and all theseworst case scenarios, he goes, now,
of course, I'm just looking atthis one model. Many of the
other models show it not coming quitethat far east. He spent all that
time scaring the heck out of you. And then he said, oh,

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by the way, I'm looking atthe outlier model. I'm looking at the
one that nobody else looks at becauseit's the worst one. And I want
to tell you all about that.Unbelievable, unbelievable seven one three two one
two five seven ninety. Email meDougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Let me
see if I've got any emails Ineed to go check on I do.
I'll do that. Let me let'sgo to this break. Meilment on time.

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Have you a little bit early evenI know you know, well,
it's a special time, it's astorm time. So I'm going to try
to try to make sure we stayon the clock. Why, I don't
know. There really would be noreason. But and by the time I
quit yapping, it'll be about timeto do it. Do the break.
This is Sports Talk seven ninety onthe go with iHeartRadio. Friends. You've

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got to try the conversation continues thisas the Doug Pipe Show. All right,
welcome back. I'm a little late. I had to go get a
pot of coffee off of the wellcoffee maker. Thanks for listening to Doug
Pike Show this morning on as weas we track barrel boy, who's not
tracking barrel right? Let me getmy glasses back on. Here, here

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we go. I'm kind of hopingthat it'll it'll hang on to it's it's
westerly push now, but it's actinglike it might not. We'll just have
to see and we're gonna get whereverit lands. We're gonna take a pretty
good beating from whatever this what's supposedto end up being a Category one hurricane,

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brings our way. I'm looking atrainfall totals according to somebody I kind
of trust, and we're looking atfour to six on the north side of
town, six plus inches down aroundwhere I am on the southwest side,
and down between say, Bay Cityand Columbus. Uh. The good thing

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about this storm, if it willmaintain it's its status now, is that
it's moving pretty quickly, so it'sit's gonna be kind of scrunched in and
hopefully get it over with. Thereare some obviously there's tornado thread anytime one
of these things comes ashore, whensome of these wind systems get twisted around.

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But in about what is that?Why do I have an alarm on
here. Oh, I know whatit was. That was for the big
baseball game a week ago. Todaydown in over in Lake Charles seven one
three two one two five seven ninetyEmail me Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
Mel. But it looks like everybody'sout there working this morning. Yeah,

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I believe so. They're just preppingfor the storm, battening the hatches as
it were. Of course. Yeah, it's really pretty quiet, it really
is. There was nobody on theroad this morning. Well, I say
nobody. You have your traditional guyin an early model sedan with the wheels

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on their half crooked where they standout. You know what I'm talking about.
I do know what you do?Look kind of like looks like a
turtle just under a truck, right, Just the wheels are all squished out
as though as though they're they're tryingto get to their starting time for the
Grand Prix race somewhere on a roadtrack. They're just dreamers making tons of

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noise. Yeah, oh yeah,they got a lot of stuff to make
noise. But then you look atthem and they're not going any faster than
the mom in her little soccer mobilehad a mini van and one of those
and then the mom's just here justdrinking her tea from her What are those
cups that they drink out of nowthat the Stanley cup? Yeah, drinking
out of her Stanley cup. Gottaking the kiss to soccer practice and this

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guy rolls up next to her andhe's making all that noise screen away from
the light, and she's keeping upwith him. I'm glad my son's not
into that. I really am.I used to. I greatly appreciate and
used to. I've owned a coupleof fast cars and it's fun and all,
but when you really think about it, there's no place you can drive

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a super fast car around here withoutgetting in a lot of trouble. So
unless you've got a track to takeit to and maybe even just keep it
there and then drive your normal humanbeing car down there to the racetrack,
and really doesn't matter, does it? It really doesn't matter? Seven one
three two one two five seven ninetyemm A Doug emailed me, Doug Pike

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at iHeart? Where did that comefrom? So? So, Melvin,
what's your gut on this one?How many hurricanes you've been through down here?
Oh? I've been through a minia lot like me. Okay,
so what's your gut tell you aboutthis one? I think this is going
to be a uh on a oneto ten scale, let's do a three,

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maybe a four. Yeah, that'skind of where I am before.
And even though it changed tracks overnightand pushed itself a little farther east back
toward us for landfall and the worstof whatever it's gonna be, like we
were talking about earlier, it's Iwould much rather have a category one hurricane

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head of my way than a four, so I think, and I'm also
I do believe we're pretty fortunate thatit's moving as fast as it is,
because once it gets here, thefirst thing's gonna happen to us is gonna
start breaking down, because when thatthing comes roaring onto the shoreline that quickly
it will, it will have moreof itself over land than water in a

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very short time. And that's whereit's gonna start breaking apart. Uh.
It's gonna be nasty. It's everyhurricane's nasty, and everywhere or every hurricane
that's ever landed somewhere caused major damageto somebody's house, to some structure.
There's gonna be a lot of treesdown there's gonna be a lot of all
of that stuff. There are goingto be power outages, and I'm already

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trying to make accommodations for them.I don't have a generator, do you.
No, I don't have a generator. I don't either, And I
don't think we're gonna I don't thinkit's gonna be super bad for this one.
They've known it's coming for two weeks. They ought to have people.
They ought to have people in placeright now, just with their with their

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hands on the keys, just readyto turn the turn the key, get
the trucks moving, and get startedputting everything back together once the lights start
going out, I would hope.So, yeah, I don't. I
don't foresee any long term power outageson this one. I really don't.
The wind should not be blowing hardenough to knock down the power lines like

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happened in that freak storm that camethrough a while back. It had higher
winds than this thing's supposed to have. So hopefully, hopefully will be okay.
I went fishing with a friend ofmine the other day and we fished.
I don't know, maybe this wasbass fishing again. And I say
that with kind of a kind ofan e in mind because it's still freshwater

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is not my favorite. Now.If I lived on Lake Livingston or Lake
Conroe or sam Rayburn or Chalita Bendor Fayette County or any if I lived
on any lake, I'd be prettyexcited about bass fishing. But I don't.
I live close to the coast,and because I live relatively close to
the coast, I like going downthere as much as I can. I

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much prefer saltwater. And if you'rea diehard bass fisherman, forgive me faux
pro Wils's faux pro forest. Ifyou're listening this morning, I'm sorry.
I love bass fishing. I'll gobass fishing with you anytime you want.
But I also like saltwater fishing.I always have. I cut my teeth
on saltwater in Florida many many yearsago, down at my grandparents house,

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and it just it opened my eyes. My dad had been taking me.
He wasn't a big fisherman. Hewould take me because he knew I loved
it. But we would go toplaces close by, close to Sharpstown.
We'd drive down and fish some littleox Bow lake in Richmond or Rosenberg.
That was about as far as wewent. I don't recall us going to

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I don't recall us going to thebeach that often. As a kid.
It was mostly for my dad andme, just little places where I would
have my cane pole or ultimately mytwo o two and we would catch catfish,
we'd catch brim, we'd catch justlittle stuff. And I was an

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occasional bass. Oh my gosh,look at this. Look what ate my
perch? I got a two poundbass. That was a big deal back
then, but now it's more Iwant to go. My grandparents had a
house in Pompino Beach, Florida,and that's where I cut my teeth on
saltwater fishing and learned a lot.I learned that if you quit using Kentucky

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fried chicken skin as bait and startusing little yellow jigs, you'll catch a
lot more mangrove snapper than hardhead catfish. I finally figured that out, and
at that point I used every nickeland dime that I could get my hands
on. Down there in Florida.I would ride my bicycle up to the
tackle store that was on Atlantic Boulevardthen a little just a small place really,

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but he had everything he needed tofish the canals and a little bit
of what you might want to useon a pier down there. And that's
where I invested all the money Icould gather as a nine ten eleven year
old kid doing odd jobs for mygrandmother and grandfather around the house. I
would do anything. I think ajig back then costs like maybe maybe twenty
cents, maybe a quarter. Thatwas about it, and boy did I

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love it? All right? Letme go over here, push this button,
Dave? What Oh I locked?Did I lock you out? I
know you're in. Huh, what'sup? I'm here? You are there,
You're there and I'm here. Waywait wait, what I'm trying to
tell you is I heard you tryingto? I mean, you got You've
got a great show, like youjustin well, well, justin Wilson,

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being humble and don't stumble. Butsometimes we can forget. I mean like
nobody's perfect. You know now,I'm far from perfect. I know that
me too, And anytime I forget, my wife reminds me, oh,
no, I've been there, youknow. But anyway, uh he and
then uh oh on the oh,look on my Facebook page, because in

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that round circle I found my SunshineKids, Uh trophy. Yeah, and
but I took a picture of it, and uh and and what it is.
It's it's a little bitty trophy thatI've won giant trophies before, you
know, playing football. That's thebiggest trophy for those little girls. You

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know, I think best if theywould have been, you know, on
Sunshine Kids, that's like making WishFoundation and stuff like that, you know.
And and I mean if we hyou know, I'm so happy that
they would probably be about twenty seven, twenty eight years old. Now,
wow, yeah, yeah, itwas back in cool thousand and seven when

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that happened. But hey, itwas an honor or pleasure for them to
come up and hand and maybe theirmom and dad may be listening to the
shows, right and who knows,who knows? You never know? Well,
yeah too. Oh and then Irequested Clint Black killing time. But

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Kevin Black, see, his daughterhad some kind of something that he was
doing the fishing tournaments for. Wow. And yeah, and you know,
so anyway, he did a lotof fishing tournaments for her. But I
can't remember exactly the name of theproblem. But meanwhile, back at the
wrench, uh, you know,I'm like you know. Oh, and

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look on there and look at thatlamp. My dad, mam and dad
bought that probably in the nineteen earlynineteen fiftiest. Wow. Yeah, look
look on my Facebook page anyway.Yeah, hey, but anyway, Okay,
the only thing I got to doright now here is told my uh
two garbage cans kind of up intothe shed. But what I wanted to

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talk about is my dogs. Theygot them a little underneath the house deal
because I got the air conditioner goingand there cooling off. Yeah, so
they feel safer underneath there. Somake sure that your dogs are happy wherever
they're at or whatever, you know, safe happy place, I know.

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And you don't let them in thehouse sometimes, yeah them, yeah yeah,
yeah, here you but right nowthey like it outside, sure,
you know. And then then whenthey get wet, oh lord, yeah,
I know I know what dog smell. Man. That's right. If

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they made a klow or they madelike a fishing deal a little bit,
you can probably catch fishal with it. Even a catfish has got something some
pride. Hey man, Well,hey, I really do appreciate you,
Andy, mean, I ain't alie for everything you do. And hey,
it's it's a cool show. It'seducational. Like it, and it's

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educational and it makes you happy.Thank you, Dave, appreciate it.
But audios, all right, letme click that button. That button is
clicked seven seven ninety email and wedug pick at iHeartMedia dot com. What
is the one thing that you've doneto get ready for this hurricane that some
people may have forgotten to do.I've got all my chargers charged up.

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I actually, when I get tothe house, I've got a shoplight that
is a battery powered shoplight, oneof the big like the same battery used
for electric weed eater and all thatstuff, and a blower, and I'm
gonna go ahead and get all thebatteries charged up for that thing. I
have about between all the tools Ihave that operate on those things, I

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probably have seven or eight batteries,and I'm just gonna make sure that every
one of them is full charge.We're not going to need that much light
for that long, but it wouldn'thurt to have it if we have to
move around the house for some reason. I'm trying to think of what else
that not much I can do.I've got a brand new roof, so
I shouldn't have to worry about that. I feel like I feel like knock

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on wood, that all my treesare secure and healthy and shouldn't be an
issue. That's one thing that outin our neighborhood, all of our trees
have gotten so big now that ifthey're not kept pruned and cleaned out,
they are at greater risk of gettingpushed over. I don't think this one's
going to be strong enough to pushover too many healthy, big trees.

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But you just never know. Youjust don't know what's gonna happen. And
hopefully nothing will happen to any ofus, hopefully, But as we saw
just not that long ago, wehad that what was it Alberto that hit
the coast not here, but fartherdown, but pushed several feet of water

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into our bay system up here.That's all that's certainly going to happen with
this one. We're gonna get supersuperstorm surge. I'm not ten fifteen feet,
but maybe three four feet of stormsurge. I would think it's certainly
reasonable to expect we're going to getthe wind. Of course, we're gonna
get lots of rain. There istornado threat with any hurricane and any tropical

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storm, any system like this thatcomes ashore. But hopefully this one will
spare us any of that isolated seriousdamage that tornadoes can do. I would
much rather be expecting a hurricane,especially a Cat one, then I would

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listening to the sirens go off upin Kansas or Oklahoma or Nebraska and wondering
if my neighborhood's gonna be there whenI come out of my underground shelter.
I can't imagine how terrifying that wouldbe. And I know those people live
up there and they get through itsomehow. But when you see the devastation

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behind a big tornado where it justdoesn't leave anything, yeah, yeah,
it's just it's like somebody just stompson a matchbox and it just all goes
away. Anything that's strong enough topick up cars and throw them down the
street. Yeah, I don't wantany part of that. It's amazing to

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me how these people go chasing tornadoes. Could you be a storm chaser?
Heck no, you know here's howI could be. Step one, get
you some good binoculars. Step twostay about five miles away, and step
three call into the station and tellthem whatever what you're seeing over there.
I'm not dye, I'm not drivinginto a tornado. Man's that's a fool's

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errand right there and these movies aboutit where all these people are so brave.
I saw one movie there's some tornadomovie coming out. It's either out
or coming out, I think.And they've got this truck and they drive
to where the tornado is. Andthen when they get super close and it's
coming right at them, this guypushes a button and these two like corkscrews

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go racing down into the ground underneathhim. Well, if you're corkscrewing to
even if they're one foot wide,well digging drill bits, it's gonna take
a minute to get them into theground far enough to do you any good.
And even and what if you're drivingalong and somebody says we got to

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stop now, putting down the screws, and you're in the middle of the
highway, you're just, oh,you here is that drill bit getting dull
rolling around on concrete. And thenthe next thing you know, you're flying
through the air with the cows andeverything else that storm picked up. Those
people are crazy, man, Arewe late for the bottom of the hour
or early oh oh, I'm sorry. Oh, I'm so Holy cow.

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I thought I had. I'm justkind of sitting back, man, I
thought I had about six seven minutes. This is Sports Talk seven ninety online
at Sports seven ninety dot com.Now more Doug Bike. Welcome back to
Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk sevenninety eight to forty one on this Sunday
morning. I'm watching the rain bandsof Beryl Barrel. Bear in mind,

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is still that the eye of thisthing is still south of Laredo. It's
still out in the open Gulf ofMexico and a long ways from here.
It's got a ways to go beforeit gets here. But the outer bands
are already tickling the Texas coast thisfar up and will well they will be

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in about an hour, hour anda half. I saw that live shot
from from Saltwater Recon a minute agoat surfside that showed significant rain just offshore.
We'll see, we'll see what happens. Let me go find where the
cursor is there? There it is, Hey, David, what's up?

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Man? Yeah, Doug, youwere talking about preparation. I want to
go. I want to throw inthe mix and I'll tell you why.
I've never felt more vulnerable. ThenI'd call it the hurricane that wasn't and
that was a Hurricane Rita. Iwas working. You know, it came
a queue just a couple of monthsafter Katrina, and in my opinion,

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the local Houston media it's largely responsiblefor a lot of the panic. There
were comments made that made people thinkthat Houston was going to look just like
New Orleans. And I was workingin Dallas at the time, and I
had to get back home, andI had ten gallons of gas and two

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in the back of my truck,and Doug, I swear every little town
I came for it looked like somethingout of a Steven Spielberg or the World's
movie. Cars running out of gas, people with no money, no gas,
And you know, I'm hoping Idon't get knocked in the head if
they find out I've got gas.And of course a storm made that right

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turn at the last minute. ButDoug, I mean there, I went
out the next morning. There werepeople sleeping in parking lots. I live
up on the north side of town. They were sleeping in parking lots.
Had, like I said, nomoney, no gas, cars out of
gas. I had a friend tellme that if he said if it would

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hold gasoline, people were trying toput it in cups and food restaurants,
trying to get it into their vehicle. And this one, of course,
we're not going to but it willalways be the standard in terms of hurricane
preparation that I'll always remember. Imean, it was amazing what happened in
Houston prior to Rita. Boy,yeah, I remember that. It was

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a nightmare. It was just thesix eight ten hour delay trying to get
a two hour drive done, andpeople scared, people dying on the road
because they couldn't get to where theyneeded to be. There was a bus
full of elderly people burn up onchild but you know the and then after

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that, after that, thankfully,and I remember Douctor Neil Frank was still
acted at the time. He madethe comment nine out of ten people who
die in a hurricane will die inthe storm surge. And that's where you
heard, you know, doctor Emmettwas the judge in it was the judge,
yes, I mean, And actuallyafter that, after that, you

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began to hear the term hunker down, just just stay put hunker down.
If you're not in the storm surgearea. You really don't have any reason
to panic or even leave. Justhide, run from the water. That's
that's how it works. If it'sgoing to be really windy, then just

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hunker down. If you you seewater coming in your house, get on
out, yeah, or just wellyeah, you know what I mean.
I'm not saying to wait until it'sup to your neck, but yeah,
you know what I mean. Hidefrom wind, run from water. But
it was the vulnerability that I feltduring that. I mean, my kids
were in high school at the time, and the principal called us and said,

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I've got four hundred people in thegym right now, no money us
and no food. Wow, anduh but uh again, admit anyway,
I just thought i'd share that.I appreciate it. Thank you, Thank
you, David. Yeah, there'sa guy right there who it's just so

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frustrating, so frustrating. Let melet me catch Jeff real quick and then
we'll go to that break Melbourne.I promise Dan, there we go.
What's up, Jeff? Well,you know what, Kat is this starm
or I'm not seen very much andI don't know if it really matters.
And also is it beginning to comeapart or is it too big and too

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early for that. It's it's actuallyit's in better conditions to reorganize and strengthen
before it makes landfall. Right now, it's still just a try tropical storm.
It's just way down south and it'sa tropical storm. Yeah, but
it is supposed to pick up toa cat one as it makes landfall,

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and that's about what it's going todo. It's so far it's not a
cat it's a kitten. But man, at some point it's probably gonna make
landfall as a cat one. That'swhat That's what I'm heard. Oh yeah,
I consider it's very lucky. Ireally do. It's it's big,
but it's also very fast moving,which is a great, a great asset.

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Anytime one of these things comes in, everybody remembers Harvey. Holy cow,
it just parked right on our rooftopsand just dumped rain for two and
a half days, and we sawwhat happened. You're a thing if you
have time to look at otherwise I'llwait. But look at the aircraft and
the history of the Hurricane Hunter sincethe end of World Wars two. Some

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really interesting stuff. It's some reallycool airplanes that they've used. Oh yeah,
it's amazing what those people to justfly right into a hurricane for the
PB Fouri, which is the Navyversion of the B twenty four, and
that aircraft is probably still fighting firessomewhere. I wouldn't doubt it. I
bet it is. Hey, Igotta run, Jeff, Thank you man,

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Thanks for the call, buddy,Bubby. All right, let's get
that taken care of on the wayout. Boy, that was a quick
segment. Gee, I can't imaginewhy, Melvin. Maybe I'll take seven
minutes late, five six, seven, I don't know. This is Sports
Talk seven ninety, Facebook dot Com, Slash sports Talk seven ninety. Back

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to the Doug Pipe Show, eightfifty four on Sports Talk seven ninety Dougpike
Show, Thanks for listening. Certainly, do appreciate it, really do really
do the Yeah, this thing justkeeps moving. It keeps moving the forecast
track, not the storm itself.The storm itself is still it's still south
of it's in the Gulf of Mexico, probably one hundred and one hundred and

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fifty miles something like that. Soit's out there, still still south of
the Rio Grande. As you asthe lines are drawn left to right,
right to left, east to west, west to east. So it's got
a lot, a lot of timeactually to make more adjustments. And every

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time it seems like that I openthis thing up, it moves a little
farther east. Every time I openit up, it moves a little farther
east. Now we're we're only twentyfour hours out, grant you, so
this may be it. But andevery time it moves farther east, it
changes the spotlight. I talked yesterdayabout Captain Scott sending something out a couple

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of days ago where he showed aforecast map and where he lives along the
coast down there around Port O'Connor wassupposed to be ground zero at that point,
and he made the point that henever felt safer being on the bullseye
three days out, because that bullseyethree days out is almost never accurate.

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These storms, they do what theywant to do. This thing could end
up. It could end up goingback west, it could go farther east.
It might come straight up to shoot. But I'll bet it doesn't,
and that opens up all kinds ofpossibilities. We don't know who's gonna take
the brunt of it, yet nobodyreally does. According to the television,
everybody in the state of Texas isright in the storm's path. Basically,

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you better boy, if you're in, if you're in Abilene, and you
better hang on tight here it comes. But they can't. They can't all
be right either. That guy lastnight when he when he read off all
these doomsday scenarios and said, nowI'm looking at this one particular model,
but it's kind of an outlier.That told me exactly what he was trying

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to do with everything he had saidup to that point. And because he
made it known that I couldn't reallytrust what he had said up to that
point, I figured I couldn't trustwhat he could say after that. So
I just changed the channel and won'tgo back to that guy. I won't
believe anything. Break again, Melvin, Come on, man, my buddies,

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my buddies at black Hawk we playMondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and
so help me, Melvin. There. I'm getting the emails. You know,
hey, who's in on Monday,and they're like like nine or ten
guys, Yeah, I'm in.I'm playing Monday. Like, no,
you're not. You might think youare. Yeah, bringing umbrella, bring
umbrella, You'll be all right.One guy. One guy had the humor

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to put in there. I'm infor all the down wind holes like that.
This is the Doug Fike Show,brought to you by American Shooting Centers,
Guns, Shooting and Instruction since nineteenNow here's Doug Pike. All right,
second hour of the show starts rightnow. We will. Let's go

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ahead and shift gears. Let meget down to the PGA Tour and tell
you what's going on over at theI think it's a John Deere this week.
Yes, it is John Deere Classic. Get the leaderboard up. As
I said yesterday, I was prettyconfident that it was gonna take at least
twenty plus under par to win thistournament through three rounds with one tournament yet

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or one round yet to play outthere at wherever it is they are,
I can't remember exactly. I apologizefor that. I want to say they're
in Illinois. Yeah, they're aTPC Deer run in Illinois. That's where
it is with one round yet toplay. Davis Thompson is twenty one under

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par. Davis Thompson is twenty oneunder par. Eric Cole is at nineteen
along with Aaron Raye, Hayden Springerct PAN. He's a local here now,
he's living out close to out closeto Golf Club of Houston. If

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I'm not mistaken, they're at seventeenunder par, and then three people JJ
Spond, Michael Thorbornson and Luke Clantonthe amateur, all at sixteen under par.
I don't know that anybody at fifteenor worse, as if fifteen under
par could be worse than anything exceptmaybe sixteen. I don't see them catching

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all of these people and passing allof those people who are at sixteen,
seventeen, nineteen, and twenty oneunder par through three rounds of play.
Through three rounds of play, Thompsonshot sixty two yesterday worth noting one,
two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,

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nine of eleven, ten of twelve, ten of twelve. And then
there are a couple of more whohave actually pulled it off too. Ten
of the top twelve players in thisfield, all three rounds in the sixties,
all three rounds in the sixties,there's a sixty one on the board.
They're just these guys are lighting thesecourses up and they are now granted,

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the playing field for deer run isnot nearly probably the playing field that
you would face for a US Open, that you would face for any major
tournament. They toughened those up,but still I don't care what golf course
it is. I don't care howlong or short it is. I don't

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care how long the rough is.These guys chew them up unless they are
really tricked out to be very difficult, unless they have really severe runoffs for
missing domed greens. Some of thesegreens are built like the hood of a
car, and if you don't putit right on the center stripe, it'll
roll off into a lake, intoa deep bunker. I'm talking at other

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courses and even this course. Iwatched some of it yesterday. I watched
some of the tournament. It's noteasy. It's not easy doing what they
do. There are places on thatgolf course where you flat don't want to
miss, and some of those guysare missing there and they're being punished for
it. The reward for getting itclosed is that the greens appear to be

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in excellent shape and rolling quite true, which is something I found, by
the way, when I got toplay in the in the member guest up
there at Golf Club of Houston afterthe live golf event. I'm wearing their
T shirt by the way, Melvintoday in case you didn't notice live golf.
See that? Check it out?Man, Yeah, I see that
looks pretty snazzy. Huh the nicedesign you know, that was so fun
too. Oh the back's even better. Hold on, let me turn around.

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I mean to make sure I don'tknock my head off. Check it
out. Uh yeah, now that'swhere they see that. They splash of
color, splashing noise golf, butlouder that thing? You like that?
Yes? I do. It iskind of cool, isn't it? And
I don't know why I'm wearing ithere? Who's gonna see it? I'll
wear it to the grocery store todayor something. See if anybody says anything,

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I need to get me wined.You should? You should? They
have plenty of them. I don'tknow what they charged for them. This
was part of the media thing whenI got out there. Hey, I'm
with the media. I get well, you should have been out there then,
man, I should have well,credentially you next year. Do you
like golf at all? Uh?Truly? You know you're on that you
got the you got the light detectoron Melbyn. Do you like golf?
I'm not really interested in it,but I like to watch its. Yeah.

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It's it's like a big game ofpool with one pocket. Yeah,
we when eighteen pockets. Actually,yeah, that makes sense. I can
see that get And then there aretimes when you have to ricochet a ball
off something. Boy, I've beenin enough trees and just you don't have
a shot here, Doug. Oh, yeah, I do watch this and
I'll bang it off a tree somewhereand try to get it out in the

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fair way and about one out ofI don't know, about one out of
sixty might work, and then youfeel like you're really somebody right. What
you have to learn to do ingolf to really be to be effective as
a mediocre amateur is when you pulloff an amazing shot, When you pull
off an incredible, amazing shot,you have to just act like you knew

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exactly that's what was gonna happen.You know, from two hundred and fifty
yards out, you thread the needlebetween two giant oak trees, You skip
it just along the edge of abunker, and the ball goes up and
rolls and stops a foot away fromthe hole, and you just just you
don't say a word, and youjust walk back over, throw your club

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in the bag, hop in thecart, and drive on down like yeah,
like, yeah, that's what Iintended to do. You expected something
different you got Yeah, it's yeah, So you got to just kind of
check it in the cool factor,the more difficult the shot, the cooler
you have to stay about it.If you get kind of a lucky break,
a little bit of a lucky breakor something, maybe a ball bounces

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off a sprinkler head and gets upalmost to the green instead of stopping thirty
yard short. Well that's not thatbig a deal. But when you pull
off that once that miracle shot,you skip one across the lake and it
bounces back up on the farewell onthe other side and gets close to the
hole. There's a hole at Augustawhere the pros actually on the par three

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tournament day. That's how they allhave to play that hole. Now they
have to try to skip it acrossthe water. And there's actually been a
hole in one made by one ofthose skip shots, and that that's pretty
cool. Even that the pros whenthey hit something like that, everybody knows
it's a fluke, so they allcheer for each other and they get loud

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about it. But at the amateurlevel, at my level of golf,
the cooler you in, the calmeryou can stay when you hit something like
that, the more it makes theguys in the in the group wonder just
how good you really are. Andthat's part of the game too, the
mystery how good is this guy?Just how good is he? And then
you can hit another shot and oh, yeah, that's right, he sucks.

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He's still bad. Seven one threetwo one two five seven ninety.
Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Oh, I've hit a load of
those two. Holy cow, it'sso frustrating. For the first time and
probably gosh, I don't know,Melvin, maybe maybe ten years during a
round of golf, I shanked ashot and I have no idea where it

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came. I've got to get thevolume down on this thing right now.
There's no reason for you guys tobe hearing that. Hang on a second,
Yeah, let's take that down toabout nothing. Oh no, I
don't want that. I got tohit this is what I'm looking for.
I think there we go. Yeah, for the first time in a long
time, I actually shanked a shot, and to compound the misery of doing

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that, the ball actually just spunoff left and bounced into the lake,
one of my favorite bass fishing lakeson the property too. But I had
no rod and reel, and Iwas involved in a really really high dollar
I think, like a couple ofbucks. Amongst all these old guys.
We all play together, and overthe course of the year, I am

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dead certain that every one of thosedollars, if you were to add them
up, and if we had anaccountant working and making all the investments of
winnings and dealing with losses dead evenat the end of a year. You
can't go out there and play onetime and win the money and run away.
Well, you could, but youwould be looked You would be frowned

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upon for doing so. But itis fun. And these guys who think
they're playing tomorrow, it's just like, I don't know, I don't know.
There's already enough rain coming that itmay put them on cart path only
and cartpath only plus ninety degrees plus. Average age of the group about seventy

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I don't know how many guys aregonna really show up. All they are
all talking big talk right now.They're all talking big talk on the little
chat that they're doing in the emailthing. But I'm just not gonna get
involved in that one. Tomorrow.I got stuff I want to do.
Make sure my house gets through thisthing. Seven on three, two one
two five, seven ninety. Emailme Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.

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When we come back, I'm gonnatalk about one of the the most iconic,
the most well recognized players in contemporaryprofessional golf history. And he's he's
made a move. He's made amove in his career that I'm gonna talk
about when we get back. Onthe way out of qu This is Sports

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Talk seven ninety Say Houston sports Fanon air and on Facebook. Contact back
to the Doug Pike Show. ComeDoug Pike Show on Sports Talk seven to
ninety on this Sunday. Before thestorm. It's it's coming. It's gonna
hit us somewhere, probably on theTexas coast, and we won't know where

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until it actually makes landfall. Reallythis thing, Captain Scott and I,
Captain Scott and all and I exchangea couple of emails during the break.
Here he's predicting wobbles as this thinggets closer and closer to the coast,
and it's still again, it's stillgot a long ways to go. It
could move significantly before it actually doesmake landfall, and it could go either

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way. The steering currents for thisthing are and and as it comes in
and tries to intensify and gets allthis different influence, they could move that
thing significantly. Just overnight it movessignificantly, and it's still got close to
another twenty four hours probably before it'sgoing to get here. You got to

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remember, the center of this thingis still south of Laredo, or not
Laredo, but south of Brownsville.It's off the Mexican coast still, so
no time to panic yet. Ithink, just like I said in that
last break or the last segment,I think my buddies who plan on playing

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golf tomorrow are a little overly optimistic. But who knows this thing where to
move significantly west or east? Allof a sudden, the sun might shine.
I would suspect that's not going tobe the case, but we'll see,
Okay, So I promised when Igot back that I would tell you

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about somebody very a very high profileperson in the game of golf, a
very high profile person. It's notwho you're thinking of. Everybody out there
is thinking of Tiger Woods. Ohyeah, something must have happened with Tiger.
No, it wasn't Tiger Woods.Bernard Longer yesterday announced that he has

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he has played his last event overthere in Europe. The guy is what
is he sixty eight? No,he's sixty six, sixty six years old,
and has he's got forty two winsover there in Europe. He's got
his two Green jackets, forty sixwins on the Tour Champions formerly the what

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is it, the Senior Tour whateverthey called it, every iteration of that,
that thing. And on Friday overthere in Munich, his home country,
he missed the cut and said goodbyeto the DP World Tour with formerly
European Tour and all that, anda very emotional, very emotional finish,

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even though he's still going to playTour Champions. He's still going to play
one more Masters, he said intwenty twenty five, but he is,
he's winding it up, He's windingit up and hats off to him,
that guy. He just it didn'tseem like he was ever going to age
out of golf, because every timewe wrote him off, he would come

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back and win another event. Gota lot of respect for you. I
interviewed him once years ago. Ican't even remember exactly what he said or
what I asked, but a fascinatingman and true to the rumors that he
was just meticulous for details. Theone story that sticks out, and it's

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just a it's a joke, butnonetheless, is that he asked his caddy
one time how far it was tothe pen, and the caddy responded,
it's about one hundred and seventy yardsfrom that sprinkler head in front of you,
to which Longer replied, in thejoke, the front of the sprinkler
head or the back of the sprinklerhead. That's how he That's how measured

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and confident he wanted to be inthe details. There's a quote from him,
and I'll read some of this foryou, and I quote from Bernard
Longer. It's kind of been adream come true for me, you know,
growing up in a village of eighthundred people where nobody knew what golf
was, And when I told myclassmates I'm going to go play golf,

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they thought I'm crazy, and theythought I'm a putt putt golfer, mini
golfer all that. So people hadno idea, and it was really a
strange situation. Even when I finishedschool and I tried to become a golf
professional, people didn't even know whatthat was. Didn't even exist as a
profession in a way. So itwas very difficult, complicated, but it

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was my dream. End quote.Boy boy did his dream come true fifty
plus years. That man's played professionalgolf fifty plus years, started as a
teenager all over the world. Hehas played and one pretty much everywhere he's

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gone. He has rubd elbows withkings and queens, rubbed elbows with all
sorts of successful people all around theworld. And he was all that time
equally happy to share time whenever itwas available with There's a quote here from

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him, Butcher's or bricklayers, anybodydidn't matter to him. It didn't matter
a privilege, he said. Itwas to play with a big five,
as they called him back then.Sebby by Steros, Nick Faldo, Sandy
lyle Ian Woosnam. They were theBig five, and they spurred each other
on, and boy, what agreat guy he's going to be playing over

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here, and who can blame him? And what it tells me is that
he still thinks he can win overhere. Otherwise he wouldn't tee it up.
Very interesting. Let me get Georgiastory here before we get to the
bottom of the hour. What's up, George? So two things earlier you
were talking about memory lapses. Theysay three things happened when you get older.
Well, they say four things,but I'm telling you that four thing

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is not true. Number one theysay you can't see as well. Okay.
Number two they say you can't hearas well. Two for two and
I can't remember what the third.Yeah, I saw that one coming a
mile away. Golly. So thisis supposed to be a true story.
Golfer was pro. Golfer was playingand he had kind of a difficult shot

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and he looked at his caddy andsaid, what iron would you use on
this shot? And the caddy saidI'd probably use a three iron, And
he thought hunt, you know,and asked for sun Mils, a different
club, and he got up tothe hole. He said why would you
use a three iron on that shot, Caddy said, because it's the only
iron I got. Gosh, ohLord, all right, Church, thank

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you, George. See you man. I don't know about that one.
I don't know about that one,George. There are there are so many
really good golf jokes out there thatone that was not bad. It's not
bad. Seven one three five sevenninety. Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia
dot com. Yeah, Bernard Longer, I have always had respect for that

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guy and just never understood how timeafter time, week after week, year
after year, half a century athis job and now granted a very fun
job playing golf, but the factthat his body has held up that long
and when you push him, youput him standing, stand him next to

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tiger Woods. Tiger Wood's body hasfailed him. I think because he overdid
the practice, he overdid the swingchanges, he made, He made corrections
to swings that were at it's attheir time, believed to be the best
in the game. But Tiger Woodsalways wanted to get better. I think

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Bernhard Longer probably had a more confidentattitude toward his game that he could win
with the game he had because hekept winning with the game he had and
didn't constantly try to change it.And I think that may have been a
lot of tiger woods undoing that,and and issues off the course as well.

(58:38):
He he made some big mistakes,one of one of them almost cost
him a leg or foot anyway,and he came back from that at least.
Uh. But yeah, Bernard Longerjust a time machine, a walking
time machine. Think about the clubsthat Bernhard Longer has used as a professional

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golfer over the years. Think aboutthe golf balls that Bernard Longer has used
as a professional golfer. Speaking ofMark sent me something from all the way
over in Georgia, talking about whenI was talking about, uh, not
really being enthusiastic about these new golfchange the golf ball changes that are coming

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in a year or two. Helooked it up and here's what he found.
And this is I find very interesting. As of March twenty fourth,
March twenty twenty four, excuse me, the Guinness World Record for the longest
golf drive in competition five hundred andfifteen yards five hundred and fifty yards fifteen

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five one five set by Mike Austinin nineteen seventy four at the US Senior
National Open Qualifier in Las Vegas.Austin was sixty four at the time,
using a per Simon wood driver witha forty three and a half inch steel

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shaft and a lot of ball aided. Now here's here's the asterisk, of
course, aided by a twenty sevenmile an hour tailwind. Uh even twenty
seven even one hundred and twenty sevenmiles an hour. I don't think I
could hit a golf ball five hundredyards, and I still swing pretty hard.

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The lot of balls in case you'reyoung enough that you've never heard of
them and have no idea, thesewere the centers were liquid filled and one
of the last real major innovations ingolf ball technology. It says here before
solid cores and the coatings, thatthe loot of cover on those balls,

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if you mishit it with your irons, would would slice the covers of them
and render them pretty much unplayable unlessthat was the only ball you have left
in your bag. But it wasstill Uh, you had to you had
to strike them perfectly to keep themin play more than more than six or
seven holes. One bad swing,and now that ball's just going everywhere.

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Very interesting, Mark, thank youso much. Very interesting. Captain Scott
Way's in boy, he's thinking whatI'm thinking. I don't dare say it
out loud because it would it wouldgreatly help me if this happened. But
since Scott wrote it, I'll justread it. Wouldn't shock me to see
it and make Louisiana. At thispoint, as they strengthen, they fade

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right like a bad like a baddrive. Oh oh, if only,
if only this one's been shanked,if only he'll go ahead and be a
shank like I hit the other day. Yeah, I like that. I
like that, Scott. That's agreat reference there. Oh my word.
Seven one three two one two fiveseven nine. Email me Dug Pike at

(01:01:57):
iHeartMedia dot com. We are at. I had another break. Time.
Here we go. Let's let's getthis done. Then when we come back.
I'm gonna correct something that I saidyesterday. Well I didn't say it
yesterday because I didn't know, butI just kind of ballparked it. And
the person uh this effects corrected meby email yesterday. So I'm gonna go

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ahead and set the record trait.It's not a big deal, believe me.
If you've got something really important todo, go do it, because
this isn't a big deal. It'sjust about fishing and stuff like that.
Things I like. This is SportsTalk seven ninety, breaking sports news on
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the Doug Pike Show, nine thirtyseven on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug

(01:02:42):
Pike Show. Thank you for listening. Before I get to what I was
gonna tell you when we checked out, I wanna go ahead and take this
phone call from a buddy, SkeeterBrown. Hang on, let me get
this mouse in the rice butt.Skeeter, Am I gonna am? I
gonna really want to know what you'reabout to tell me about all the fish
you've caught. Yeah, last twodays it was pretty good. There ain't
no beach this morning, But lasttwo days, these these coastal fishermen been

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doing pretty good. Yeah. Iheard a lot yeah yeah, and a
lot of bait fish right there bythis, you know, in the surf.
You know, it's just like labswere, We're just going crazy about
them. So, but it's startingto rain down here, and uh,
I get up about five point thirtyand take the dogs down to the beach.
Nobody's down there, but it's it'snot but there's no beach. It's

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it's starting to rain. So it'sare you going to stay down there?
No? Probably not. I'm gonnaprobably come on back. But uh,
you know it's a we kind ofwe have a beach house down here in
Pirates Beach, and uh we gotit kind of secured and and uh we
came down here I think on Wednesday, but I traveled back and forth usually
every day to work. Well anyway, but it's been good. Yeah,

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good news for me is I gota brand new roof. I'm not worried.
Well, I know, I knowthat hope where hurricane comes by and
blows it off. You know,put in a couple of morning nails next
time. Man, I bet there'splenty. You know. I'm not worried
about you. Skeeter. So whyare they catching catching trout yesterday? Trout

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yet and some red fish? Yeah, and they were just surf. It
was very calm and there was nowind. Two or three guys out there
on the beach there west beach,they were they were getting after it.
He had some stringers. Dang.Yeah, he was doing good. I
think I saw him Friday, andthen Friday and Saturday morning beautiful yesterday.

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I kind of figured somebody'd be calling, all right, yeah, thanks,
hi, Okay, let me whileI got you on the phone. You're
the you're the roof guy. Sowhat, if anything, is there anything
people should do to their roof toprepare first them. Well, that's a
good question. Is probably too lateto do anything now, you know,

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I probably be more worried about,you know, getting lawn chairs, and
you don't want stuff flying around hittingyour roof, or you have a neighbor
that that's the worst thing is theneighbors that don't take care of their their
house of their yard and there theirstuff comes in, you know, they're
they're half their deck blows off andhits your roof and that's kind of a
thumber deal. Yeah, you know, I've got some big trees by my
house. I kind of start gettingscared about my god, when you got

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some bad winds, when they're gonnablow me down. I have to be
sleeping with the tree, you know, my wife one night, you know,
one morning. So uh. Anyway, but but I don't think it'll
be that bad. Seventy five eightymiles an hour. That's not terribly that
you get around one hundred before itreally does a lot of damn. Okay,
But anyway, the roofs todays arepretty good. And uh, you
know everybody's got stuff on the coast. Here's got this windstorm insurance. Yeah,

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well, if they need a roof, I'm gonna tell them to call
you. Man, I know Iappreciate it. You tell everybody it's you.
I'll do that exactly, Thanks Peter, Yeah, buddy, audios.
All right, excuter braun Bronze roofing. Great guy, man, he really
is. And he's, like Isaid, for a couple of years now,
help my mom out when she neededa roof, help my mother in

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law out up in the woodlands.My mom was in Katie before she passed.
And I mean, he'll he'll senda crew wherever you need one.
So keep that keep that hand.He Bronze Roofing. And by all means,
if you're you got damage, callhim up. That's what I'm gonna
do. I'll say, come backe Skeeter. Who is okaya da da

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da dah? Yeah, John wastalking earlier. I just saw this.
I for forgive me, John ifI missed it. You know, it
was at eight thirty when I weretalking about the weather reporters and hurricanes.
Yeah, says I got all mybarbecue supplies just in case I need them,
ain't she be? Actually had inits hurricane limits it said four cases

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of water. And then one ofthe other items on there that was limited
and how much you could buy wasbrisket. You could only buy two briskets.
Couldn't get three, couldn't get Icouldn't get enough for the whole neighborhood.
No, no, no, atthis rate, who could afford more
than two briskets? Only? Cow? Did you see that thing? Did?

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I talked about it yesterday? Theguy who who had bought a grocery
list of stuff from Walmart in twentytwenty one or twenty two, twenty twenty
one, I think, and foundthe old receipt and it was about one
hundred and fifty hundred and sixty bucks, And just for giggles, he ordered
that exact same order and had itdelivered to his house just the exact same

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way he had done it before.How much was at this time, Melvin?
For all the money in the worldin the camper about a buck sixty
bucks seventy I think the first timearound. Okay, I would say at
least double it was more than fourhundred dollars. Wow, Yeah, that's
what I said. That's kind ofwhat I said. Was at the same
court quantity. Yes, everything everythingin the exact same order. You know,

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if it was ten ounces of potatochips, he bought ten ounces of
the same potato chip. If itwas meat, he bought the same amount
of me Everything on the order wasexactly the same quantity, brand. Everything
that says a lone costs, yeah, costs like one hundred and twenty percent
more. Um. Oh gosh,Mojo weighs in. Rick's out doing the

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preemptive mowing that aren't a driving awayIn reference to Beryl, Yeah, that'll
do it. Yeah. Every timeI go play golf and it looks like
it might rain, I put anumbrella on my bag and that usually keeps
it away. Just being prepared,being prepared, you know, you feel
foolish it kind of at the endwhen nothing happens. But then the day

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you don't do it, that's whenit's just gonna come pouring down on you.
I was happy to see that theyhad mowed the part of Oyster Creek
that flows near my neighborhood. Ithad gotten so bogged down with vegetation from
being dry for so very long thatI was concerned about how much water could
actually move through the thing if itif we did get a bad, bad

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flood. So I think we're gonnabe okay. Yeah, go out and
mow your yard today. It's thatthat makes sense to me. Dennis Wade
In on the Golf Black. Oh, I didn't. Did I get to
what I was talking about? No, the thing I promised to tell you,
And I'm almost a little bit late. My buddy Forrest, faux Pro
Forest, the fishermen, the bassfishermen, one of the best in Texas.

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Actually I was talking. I wastrying to remember what it was that
he had put up on YouTube towhere he had all these videos, and
I could faux pro this foe.I couldn't come up with it. Faux
Pro Forest. What it was?He shared my email after the show.
It's faux Pro Outdoors And if yougo to faux Pro Outdoors fa Ux Louisiana

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spelling foux Pro Outdoors, you'll findall his videos. They're pretty cool.
Billy by the way, before Igo to break real quick, Billy wade
in on one of the things thatwe can do to prepare, especially if
you live out in the country andyou have a water pump, the electric
water pump, and somehow your wateror your electricity goes out, you won't

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be able to pump water, whichmeans you won't be able to get a
nice cold drink or flush your toilets, which is kind of a handy thing
to be able to do in astorm. So what he advises is just
going getting some five gallon buckets.We're not talking about drinking water, We're
not talking about anything, but justrefill the toilet water and get get yourself

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fifteen or so gallons of water handyand by that time you should have your
power back. If you got tomake that many more flush as you might
want to make a trip by thedrug store too, before you hunker down.
Seven three two two five seven ninetyEmail on me Doug pick at iHeart
Media dot com. We'll take alittle break here seven ninety. This is
Sports Talk seven ninety Houston Sports Onlineat sports seven ninety dot com. Back

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back to the Doug Pike Show twoon Sunday on Sports Talk seven ninety The
Doug Pike Show. Thank you forlistening. Appreciate it. Tough loss for
the for the Astros last night.I hated to see him go down,
but they It just it just itseems that when they really go out and
score runs in bunches, the worldkind of brings itself back to balance by

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by quieting their bats for a dayor so. I hope it's not a
long lived issue. I hope theythey can rebound, and I hope boy
everybody got hit yesterday between Altuve andAlvarez. It just there was a lot
of a hit by pitch hit batsmenas they call them. Oh, Melvin,

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do you know why the farmer hadto cut off his WiFi? I
have no idea, because the cowswouldn't stop downloading moosic nice. I saw
that a minute ago. That's oneyou can tell the kids and they'll understand
you. They'll they'll relate to iteven how about that. Yeah, it's

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it's squeaky clean, because that's howI run this show. You know it.
You've been here long enough to knowI don't. I don't tolerate foul
language and such because I know,I got a lot of kids listening,
and it's important to me that theyget introduced to the outdoors, they get
introduced to golf, whatever it isthat they want to do. I don't

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do as much hiking as I considerhiking. It's it's great if you like
to do it, but walk justwalking out there and walking in a big
circle and then it ended up rightwhere you started, and not stopping to
fish or hunt along the way forabout four or five six hours, that

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just doesn't really do it for me. And I've been to some of the
most beautiful places in the world hikingwith a fishing rod in my hand,
hiking with a rifle in my hand, and I can enjoy that. And
most of the hunting I do thesedays, even rifle in hand, bow
in hand, whatever, most ofthe hunting I do these days, I

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won't shoot anything. I just don't. I've already I'm at that stage as
an outdoorsman that I'm far more interestedin helping somebody else learn how to do
it and teaching them whatever I canteach them. And unfortunately, for a
lot of parents and grandparents and unclesand aunts and moms and grandmothers and whatnot.

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Whoever in your family loves the outdoors. Unfortunately for all of us in
that position. Younger people these daysare trusting the social media sites more than
they trust their own parents to learnall of this stuff, and it's really

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frustrating. I had a story Italked about on fifty plus this week over
on KPRC Noon to One. Bythe way, Tuesday through Friday Live Mondays
is always a best of that's myonly day off. But I digress.
So I found this very interesting andalmost troubling bit of research that was done

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by people who polled a bunch oftwenty somethings on their top source for news.
Okay, this is where they gettheir news of the entire world and
on which they base most of theiropinions. Where do you think that was?
Melvin? A single site? Google? No? What? Oh?

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No? No? How about TikTokWhat That's where they're getting their news from.
And we all know who owns TikTokAnd so that forum, that app
is where young people are getting theirnews, where they're learning, in many

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cases, the wrong stuff, andthey're being led astray. I feel like,
and it's very troubling when I readthat. I was really concerned about
that. If you want to hearpretty much straight talk about good, fun,
wholesome stuff to do, just stickaround here for a little while.
If you have a question about fishingor hunting or anything by anything to do

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with the outdoors, certainly I'll tackleit. And if I can't answer it,
I'll know who can. That wasone of the most fun questions I
used to get when I was writat the newspaper. Man, I've read
your stuff for a long time,and throughout this edge of it too.
The radio man, how do youknow so much about so many things?
And I don't, But I knowwho to call. I know who to

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call. If I don't know,I know who to call. And that's
That's been the best life ring thatlife has ever given to me, the
best, the best insurance that life'sever given me is that I can't.
If I can't answer somebody's question,I know who can, and I'll get
that person either on the phone orI'll check in with him and check back
with you. Ask me any questionyou want about the outdoors, I'll give

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you my honest answer, and ifit's if it's not up to my own
standards, I'll find somebody who canhelp us. That's it for now.
Stay safe during this storm. Pleasebuckle up, hunker down, and do
what you can, and we'll we'lldo it all over again, probably Tuesday.
I gotta hunch I'll be back inhere, live for fifty plus then.
Stay safe, Please get this stormout of here, and we'll get

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back to doing what we love todo. That's it for now, Idios