The Doug Pike Show 7-20-2024

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This is the Doug Pike Show,brought to you by American Shooting Centers Guns
Shooting an instruction since nineteen eighty nine. Now here's Doug Pike. All right,
let's see if we can get thisSaturday rolling in a good direction.
And I certainly hope we can't.I know we can, I know we
can. I'm so weary of talkingabout all the things I had to talk

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about this past week, and Iam glad to be moving forward. I
got let me see what this is. Let me take this down from here.
I don't know what all this is. Okay, there we go.
All right, Well, so Idon't know. Two weeks behind Barrel's charge
through Southeast Texas, we're gonna finally, I think, get a chance to

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lay that one to rest. Ifinally got power after seven days Melbourne.
You were out what five days?Is that correct? Six? Six?
Okay? And there you know whatbothers me and I'm gonna I'm gonna say
this because I made the promise alllast week, and I even I think
I talked about it Saturday and Sundaythis past weekend. Until everybody's power is

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restored, which it's not yet,there's still a few thousand people, I
believe is the number that still don'thave power behind this thing. And I
saw a story this morning that afterthe show I'm going to read essentially saying,
hey, don't be too quick tobad mouth Center Point just yet.

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I don't know if it's too quickor not. I from what I read,
from what I saw and heard,I think the timing's pretty good.
Actually, they need to be heldaccountable. There needs to be some sort
of reckoning. I'm not going tountil they can prove to me that there
was nothing else they could have done, nothing possible that they could have done

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other than what they did. I'mreally not ready to forgive and forget and
hug and makeup and all of that. Oh, I do see something exciting
here. A wrap up from lastnight's game. I had to punch out
early. I think I left thegame in about the fourth maybe early in

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the fifth inning, and just putthem to bed with a three to zero
lead. And they left it thatway all the way through. Did you
see that, Melvioyne, I surethat it's exciting. Man, those guys,
holy cow, who would have thought, hold on, there's something wrong
with this storm? Monitor and camerain here. I don't want a camera
on me this morning. Just shit. I don't know why it was pointed

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at me. I don't think it'son, and certainly nobody trying to eat
breakfast needs to be looking at meright now. I'm not I'm not TV.
Oh that's the one. You haveto see me. Okay, Well,
I've got to. I'll put itback up on top of the monitor
where it belongs. But it wasjust hanging down otherwise I'll fix that.
Yeah. So anyway, the Astrosone, we don't have anything tropical to

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talk about, unless you want totalk about pina coladas, that would be
all right, And we're gonna moveon through. I am going to continue
to champion and advocate for the peoplewho are still without power. What is
two weeks later? Holy cow,there's no excuse whatsoever for that. I
got through it, my wife andI did with help from some really good

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friends, one of whom I can'teven tell you who he is, that's
how humble and how modest he is. He doesn't even want to doesn't even
want any recognition. And the otheris one of my friends from golf,
and I am gonna set up forhim, John Paulus is his name,
great guy is he? And justopen their house. It was amazing,

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amazing, it was, and Iowe him. I think what I'm going
to try to do for him isa specific type of fishing trip that will
remind him of his childhood, Aspecific type of fishing trip that will remind
him of his childhood. And heis not from anywhere in North America.

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But I know where the fish arethat he wants to catch. I know
I can get them in the neighborhoodby chumming them up with my secret deluxe
superpower trip chum. I know it'sgonna work, There's no question in my
mind. I've already proven it inother places. So We're gonna have to
weed through some lesser desirable fish forJohn. But I hope that if we

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sit there long enough, we'll catchat least one of the fish that he
wants to catch. And I knowit's going to be a blast either way.
I'm gonna set it up and we'llget that done pretty soon too,
And when we do, there willbe pictures. I can assure you if
he gets if he gets one ofthe fish he wants to catch, I
assure you there will be pictures andhe'll be smiling. I fished again,

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finally, after after kind of justbeing off the grid. There wasn't really
I had so much to do inthe yard, so much to do here
there and everywhere. I just finallywent ahead and that was interesting. Oh
I didn't even see that guy walkingdown the hall until he was just right

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on top of us. Anyway,the bottom line is I finally got to
go fishing. I just told mywife Thursday afternoon, I said, I
have to go fishing. I need, I need to catch a bass.
I've got a few places I'm gonnastop. As soon as I catch one,
I'll come on back to the houseand get back to my chores.

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And I did. It took me. There was the third spot. The
third spot I went to out insome of the neighborhood lakes out where I
lived. The third spot I wentto. I caught a bass that was
about if he stuck his tongue out, he might be a foot long.
And I was quite happy. Ispooled up my stuff, I put it

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all back in the car, andI drove home and around. I don't
know it was I guess it mighthave been Friday morning. When I got
an email text. It was frommy buddy Brantley. Here at Ihearty,
I work alongside him, and Brantleylet me know that he had broken off

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that morning at a place quite closeto where I had been fishing. Actually
the biggest bass he ever felt onthe end of his line. It broke
thirty pound braid. And he's goingon and on about this, and first
my gut says, when did youlast change out the line on that reel?

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Because Brandley's like me, he'll throwit up into the bushes, He'll
throw it up into sticks, He'llthrow it into rocks, He'll throw that
lure wherever he thinks it needs togo to catch a bass. And when
you do that, when you continuallythrow it places that may scratch your line
up, may ding it up alittle bit, fray it a little bit.
Eventually, you're gonna create a weakspot. And that weak spot is

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going to cost you. Because it'snot gonna break on a one pound or
a two pound or even maybe afive pounder. But when a really big
fish hits that lure and turns theother way and gives a few good tailkicks,
it's going to expose any weakness thereis in the line, in the

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knots that you've tied in your rod, if you've left it banging around on
the tailgate of your pickup truck whileyou drove across town. Anything, any
flaw between your hand and that fishis going to be greatly exposed by the
biggest fish you've ever hooked. That'sjust how it works. Little fish don't

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They don't break things. You cancatch a little little fish on a what
a three foot twig and a littlepiece of four pound test monofilament, but
you can't get a big one onthat stuff because it's gonna break. I
have no idea how I got whereI am right now. Seven to one
to three two one two five sevenninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot

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com and forgive me. All ofyou who have been fishing all your lives,
and you know all everything that Isaid is is true, and you
don't need to hear it anymore.Just remember that there's always somebody in this
audience who's who's working their way upthe ranks. It might be a little
hesitant to call for fear of beingbeing pointed out as being a newcomer at
thirty forty fifty years old. Idon't care how old you are. If

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you've never caught a fish before Iand you call me and you tell me
where you live around here, Ican give you a couple of places to
go. I can get you intofishing, not into high level fishing,
but into fishing, and get youa fish caught on your line for what
ten bucks? That's all. Ittakes ten bucks and maybe maybe a little

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bit more for your bait, dependingon what you want to use. But
yeah, you can. You canget into fishing. It's gonna be a
cane pole. It's not gonna bepretty, it's not gonna be fancy,
but you will catch a fish ifyou go where I tell you to go
and do what I tell you todo. And it's worked for one hundred
I don't know, at least onehundred people since I started doing this.

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I started doing this show twenty fouryears ago. Twenty four Melbourne was just
in diapers then, I sure was, yes, little little toddler, just
being bounced on your mom's knee,you know, just uh, each your
each your's what. I don't evenknow what babies eat anymore. I can't
remember Gerber. It was Gerber Gerber. Yeah, each your Gerber mashed up

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apples and yams and green peas andgreen beans, just run through the blender
forty times. Uh. That babyfood was something else, man, h
not. I'm not remembering eating it. I'm remembering serving it. That and
bottles bottles of formula. We hadto crank those out all the time flashbacks.

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So I asked Brandley what he thoughtwas the Oh holy cal let me
get some of these things off myscreen so I can just see the calls
that are there. I asked Brantleywhat he thought was the greater accomplishment,
me catching where's this mouse? There? It is? Me catching a foot
long bass, or him breaking offwhat he swears was at least eight nine

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ten pounds the biggest bass he hadever hooked. And he was at least
honest and wise enough to say,well, you caught a bass. You
caught the fish, so that trumpsall that stuff at Trump's the rest of
it? All? Right, Letme go get today before we have to
go to this break. Dave,what is up? Man? Well,

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I was out of power for fivedays. I got a big giant tree
down in my backyard and Crawlty responds, but I'm still alive. Yeah,
Peachey, just Peachey. You knowyou're right, though, Dave, we
got We gotta kind of thank Godfor what we still have and not not
focus on what we lost. Ithink a lot of us, and honestly,
I know a lot of guys wholost a lot in this storm,

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who had major home damage, majordamage to their businesses and stuff, and
I feel for them greatly. Butjust the fact that we're alive and can
talk about it is that's kind ofa blessing. You know. You can
you can always build stuff, youcan rebuild stuff, but you can't take

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my dogs. My dogs are doinggood and doing good. Uh my gal
fory is she come from Victoria's.She made it through pretty good. She
was only out of power for likeone day. But well over here at
the uh where we come over hereto that far south into I'm sitting here
at a concrete deal looking at Popping'son the lake over here, and there's

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that one boat, remember that one, I tell you, And then I
saw one cruising by wall though.Yeah, I got a young lady in
her daddy to my left. Overhere they're fishing with this little bitty looks
like glass Man is almost you knowhat yeah, maybe shaddy yeah yeah,
well he's real thin and pipeline youknow. Anyway, yeah, what he

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had, what she had on herhook? Yeah yeah, yeah, she
needs to put a smaller hook onit. Anyway, they're way over there.
But anyway, she showed me.She showed me on her and she
went to Willis High School too.You know, I said, my mama
was born than Willis, Tusan allthat stuff. But anyway, she showed

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me a picture of this cap is. She must have been about fourteen fifteen
inches. Oh yeah, man,it was nice. Yeah, right where
she's sitting there right here. Yeah, but I mean the water's tom right
now, it's barely rippling. Youknow. They do have the places where
they know the boat docks have allbeen prepared here and everything, and it's

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just looking good, you know,like I like it. And then tonight
they were going to go over thereto that restaurant and then oh that's where
Captain Vickey about fifteen years ago didthat shotgun start for like two hundred boats
coming out, you know, along time ago. And anyway, uh,
that's where there's some band playing thereat night. So I'm gonna go
over there and see if they'll signmy stolen from Sports Radio sixteen shirt that

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Sleeping Night a sleep. Well,yeah they did, but I'm talking about
a George Strait's band, the A'sand the whole band. Oh yeah,
so and then sheriff signed it ontop. So when I show it to
them, they're going to be likewhat he man, Hey, it's cool,
Hey man, it's nice and cool. Just a little cool breeze out

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here the clouds or barely moving.Life goes on. Yeah, we live
low cast stuff. But other thanthat, man, I feel good card.
Thank you, Dave, I appreciateyall. Yeah, man, you
bet audios. Yeah, life goeson. Yeah. It was a beautiful

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sunrise on the way in this morning. That the sky was just a real
It was just some deep tones ofred and yellow and and kind of a
pinkish all all that stuff. Beautiful, beautiful this morning. All right,
we gotta take a little break.Qu This is Sports Talk seven ninety they
Houston sports Fan on air and onFacebook. Back to the Doug Pike Show.

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I'm tapping my toe, already tappingmy toe, already, Welcome back
the Doug Pike Show on Sports Talkseven ninety. It's got a message across
the across the computer screen. Yourcomputer's about to restart. No, I
don't want it to restart, butfortunately Melvin can help me get through this.
It's gonna do this to me.It's just gonna go blank, kind

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of like the whole country did,the whole world did yesterday morning after that
debacle. But this will be avery isolated incident while I can still do
it. I will bring or Brandonon and we'll talk to Brandon until this
thing goes out. What's up Brandon? Hey, Doug, I'm good actually,
and the problem is only going tobe with the phone screen. That's

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all it is. So we'll beall right. What can I do for
you? Man? Hey, beforeI start that, did you try to
shut it down and always started?Well, this is an internal like a
corporate deal. This is just andit's only on the machine that runs the
call screener, So it'll be okay. I've still got my laptop. I'll

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be able to see everything I needto see on that as far as show
content goes and whatnot. But yeah, this one just hardheadedly is going to
restart right in the middle of myshow, how's your son's game? You
know? They they're one in oneright now, and they'll play again today,
play again tomorrow, and possibly anothergame. They can come back and

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do well today, they may getdeeper than one more game tomorrow. We'll
see they're doing. All right?Did you watch the Astros last night?
I watched about the first four.I think I got into the top of
the fifth, but that was aboutit. I got to get my beauty
sleep man. If you haven't seenme lately, trust me, I need
it. Are you there? I'mhere? Yeah? Okay, we won.

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It was like free to zero.Fantastic. That's what I like to
hear. That's what I like tohear. And no, I'm going to
wait till we some I just showa new TerrorVision. Yeah, so I
can just listen to Sports Talk seven. You do, you can listen to

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it on the through the TV.Now. Yeah, that's pretty cool.
That's pretty cool. You gotta likethat. I need to get a new
TV. I've got to get theone that I'm go ahead the other one
quite okay. Well, anyway,what I was gonna say is I kind
of need to get a new TV. The one I'm watching is quite old,

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believe it or not, and butit's still I bought a very good
brand and a very just a verygood television many years ago, and so
I still haven't found great reason tomove it. Although we're talking about moving
the TV room in the house,and if we do that, then I'm
gonna get a bigger TV than I'vegot now and go from there. Get

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get it one like when we havein the in the family arm. Okay,
Mark, it's a smart app,yeap, s Mark TV. Yeah,
that's what I'm looking for, somethingsmarter than me I got. I
gotta figure out how to run theone I've got just won't do stuff?
You know? All right? Doyou have fires? No? I don't.

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That's something else. Do you doyou use one of those? No?
We have a smart TV? Yeah? Okay, oh yeah, okay,
all right, Well that sounds goodto me. That sounds good to
me. Anything else. After theshow, I've got to go back and
work around the house. I'm stilltrying to still trying to button up everything

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from a little bit of storm stuffleft to deal with. Overall, we're
pretty good. But did somebody needto pitch your pants? The fans.
I'm gonna have to get done prettysoon. I think you know. I
saw a story yesterday. I havea guy. His name is he can
do the the fants, right,Okay, Well, I'll check back with

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you. I've got I also havea fence guy. So I'm pretty good.
But thank you. I appreciate it. My mom will send you the
number. Okay, all right,Well, if I do need it,
I will. I'll let you knownext time we talk. Okay, I
gotta kind of bounce. Okay,all right, buddy, great talking to

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you. Man, have a goodday, all right, audios? All
right, before before I go anyfarther, I actually Melbourne came in here
and got the Open Championship cranked upon my television in here in the studio
Colin more Kawa. Oh no,that's the Zozo, no wonder. Oh
we got to find the other turn. I looked up here and saw more

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Cowa. No way, no,this is the wrong tournament. Man,
you're killing me. All right.So now I'm watching Bo Hostler hit it
almost from uh oh. He's likefour or five inches off of the cart
path. It's a good thing theyget free clubs if they ding one up.

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I wish I had that luxury.There was a time when I had
some pretty good stuff going on withgolf clubs and and apperil actually for several
years. It made me feel reallyspecial that that ship has sailed, though,
that's all right. Open Championship ongoing over there at True Royal Troon
the South Ayrshire Course over there.Shane Lowry seven under par alone through two

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rounds. Daniel Brown is at fivealong with Justin Rose, Billy Horschel,
Dean Burber. Let me see,hang on, I want to make sure
there's nobody else there. This isthe way they drop these pop ups in
here. It's hard. There's ScottieScheffler also at two. Shane Lowry kind
of walking away with this thing.They better be careful if if he goes

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out and has another good round today, he might have to do little more
than just show up and not tripover his shoelaces. On Sunday, hopefully
somebody will make a charge. Andif it's gonna be anybody, it's gonna
be Scheffler. I'm not sure whetherhe's just he's idling, is kind of
idling around waiting for an opportunity tostrike. But he needs to go ahead

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and get striking. If he's gonnado it, he's got to get out
today to a really good start.A lot of these guys obviously are well
into their rounds. Justin Thomas,by the way, in his round today,
Justin Thomas, so you know thatthey the course can be taken.
Justin Thomas is five under par througheight holes today, five under through eight

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So if he can do it,certainly Scotty Scheffler can do it. But
there's still a lot of golf left. Almost to two rounds for a lot
of people, and almost two roundsfor many more. The round I'm looking
to see how many people are underpart today, there's a lot of lust
one even and minus one. Andthen of course the farther down you go

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Darren Fitchert. I don't know wherehe's from, but he's pretty well buttoned
up. He made the cut,so he has to stick around. But
he ran out and he rolled outan eighty today, eighty today? Who
else? Who else? Just reallydidn't have a good week. Let me

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see if I can find somebody who'swell the highest Let me just tell you
the highest score. I see agury. It was Saki bear in mind
professional golfer, or maybe it doesn'tsay amateur. No, he's not an
amateur. He is a professional golferfrom somewhere a gury. It was Saki
shot seventy four on Thursday, butbacked it up with a ninety one,

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a ninety one, so he wenthome early. Fantastic tournament fan. I
saw a great reel by the way, and I'll talk about this a little
more than the nine o'clock hour,just a little compilation of hard times.
These guys had fallen under over thereat Royal Troon, trying to hit shots

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out of knee high and worse grass. The caddy, theah, the balls
down there. You see it,see that, you could just see two
dimples. And the swings these guyswere making were as though they were trying
to chop a foot in diameter login half with one swing. And one

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guy, remember very distinctly, hemade this mighty, mighty swing into the
grass, and the ball popped outand rolled onto a moon area kind of
a walking path, and advanced roughlythe same length of his height, fancied
about six feet. But at leasthe got it out of the rough stuff,

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so more power to him. Therewas another one where the caddy was
kind of standing right over the golferwhen he swung, because if it didn't
come out, they were going tohave to find it again or take yet
another penalty shot. And as soonas the guy swung, instead of looking
upward and outward, he just keptlooking down and he and his caddy just

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basically dove into the grass trying tofind his ball. I don't know if
they did. They cut that clipoff pretty short too, So no easy
task over there. The Open andthe US Open, I think trying to
compete against each other for being themost difficult testing golf, because the US
Open has been making that claim fora long time. And now looking at

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the conditions these guys are playing inover there, you have a leader at
seven under par, you have twopeople at five and only three five shots
short of the lead, and everybodyelse, everybody else is trying to figure
it out. They're trying hard tofigure it out. All right, let's
take a little break here, shallwe are. This is Sports Talk seven

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ninety breaking sports news on Facebook twentyfour or seven. We'll get that information
to them. This is the DougPipe Show. Well, all right,
welcome back, Doug Pipe Show onSports Talk seven ninety. Thank you for
listening this morning. I certainly doappreciate it. Man, there's stuff just
everybody's been messing with this thing nowthat we're doing a little bit of TV
out of here. They're just monitorsgetting pushed around cameras in the wrong places.

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But we persevere because that's what wedo that as outdoors people especially.
I think if I were, ifI were ever gonna have to play some
reality game and I had a choicebetween as a teammate, I had a
choice between someone who has been passionateall his or her life about the outdoors

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or someone who was really good atvideo games. Not go with the outdoors
person. Every time in my lifetimeI have built fires, and it's not
as easy as a lot of peoplemake it look now. It's very easy
these days, just reach in yourpocket and get your little battery powered torch.

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But I did it the old fashionedway with a stick and a string
and winging a prayer. It's alittle cub scout thing that I had to
do, and I did it oncejust to show that I just to proved
to myself that I could. Asa young adult, there was no reason
to do that. I was actuallya cigarette smoker back then, so I

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had a lighter on me. Butin a campground setting, when there are
dares and there are bets involved,you know, yeah, I can make
a fire and I did. Haven'thad to make one sense and hope and
pray I never do again. That'swhat those little fireplace lighters are for,
right three two one two five sevenninety email on Medugpike at iHeartMedia dot com.

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Actually that the temperatures and are gonnabe milder for the next few days.
There's gonna be some clouds, there'sgonna be scattered little storms and whatnot.
I went out yesterday, as amatter of fact, and finally got
back onto half the golf course andthe water I want, I want,
I hit balls and I went andplayed nine holes and then I fished.

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And the frustration as a fisherman,and any of you who who are as
passionate toward fishing as I am willwill understand my frustration in this half the
golf course is open. Guess whathalf my favorite spots to fish under the

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current conditions and season are on thehalf that's closed. Of course, of
course they are so I actually Ispent a little bit of time not exploring
new water, because there isn't reallyany inch of shoreline out there that I
haven't ever fished. But I justkind of went back to some old spots

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and my heart wasn't in it.For some reason, my heart just wasn't
in it. I ended up catchingthree and that was three more than I
had caught on Thursday, So itwas not a bad day at all.
But I look forward to having fullaccess to the entire golf course again,
after which I will just go tostomping on them pretty good. I think,

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I think it should work out.I kind of know where they should
be. The water's back up,by the way, the water in one
lake that I like has been abouttwo two and a half feet down,
and that has drawn all the fishoff the shorelines completely. It had done
that operative word. Now now whatI've got is a lake that is absolutely

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full to the brim, and thosefish have scattered. There are the two
of the three fish I caught yesterdaywere within ten feet of that bank,
and no surprise there they're prowling upshallow places they haven't been able to get
all kinds of insects and little creepycrawlies and whatnot were exposed or at least

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put into the water as it rose, and so those bass are nudging around
in there, kind of like redfish, just looking for anything that moves and
attacking it. I saw a coupleof pretty good blow ups up in the
weedy little shorelines as well. Actually, it would be a fantastic lake this
one. I'm in particular to putin a kayak and then fish it back

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toward the shore. Because there's vegetationthat's partly covered and in some cases not
covered at all, that comes outsix to eight to ten feet from the
bank. It makes it very difficultto throw something parallel to the bank.
So I made it through. Icaught a couple of fish. It was
a good day, and I actuallyplayed golf well for those nine holes.

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I cannot complain, cannot complain atall. My my nine was in the
thirties. It would have been alot better if I hadn't bogied eight and
nine, but it still was itif I shot thirty eight, and I'm
very proud of that and very happywith the way I'm driving the ball.
My iron play could have been bettergoes on and on, but I hit
some good shots seven one three,two one two five seven ninety. Email

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me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Melvin's driving the bus. He can't
see me. I can't see thecall screener. Other than that, everything
is going perfectly well. Anybody onthe phone. Oh, for heaven's sake,
bring him up. Hey, Mike, what's up, buddy? Hey?
How you doing that? Bite?I'm doing all right. Yeah,

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he made you a couple of times, and he gave me some tips on
the fishing. I hope it.Heill on the that's hard. Well,
we got to send you out againthen. Yeah, I'm crying. I'm
trying. Okay. My brothers theythey caught a little bitty they are a
little fish. But nothing. I'mjust trying to get out there. Yeah,

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well you'll get them. You'll getthem. You can't do it sitting
on the couch. Just just rememberthat. Oh yeah, yeah, unfortunately.
Yeah, I only have a fewdays, like two days that don't
do it with my brothers. Ilove my brothers, and good's our things.
We'll go off fishing, you know. And that's a big part of
it, actually, just being up, being out there with your brothers.

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Man. You know, if theycatch fishing, you don't, You still
had to. You still got toget out there with your brothers. And
that's good stuff. Oh yes,sir, I'm a navy man, so
I love the water. Oh yourmy dad was a Navy man. As
a matter of fact. Yeah.Back World War two, way back on.
Wow. Yeah, yeah, notquite back to steamships. But but

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nonetheless, you know, I wason the US's Kiddy Off. Oh wow,
that's a good one. Yeah.But how big was the crew on
that on that ship? Couple thousands? They were wonderfully with the everybody is
about five thousand. Oh my gosh. Wow, it's amazing. It is

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it truly is a small city onthe water, isn't it. Yeah,
it was crazy. I was inH two to old six. Wow,
back then, uh, back whenuh the unfortunate after twin tiers. Yeah,
I went, man, oh man, well, it's good to hear

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from you. I'm sorry you haven'tcaught a fish yet, but keep trying,
please, yeah, keep one morething, okay, golf, Okay.
I traded a couple of times,okay, And the next day I
could not believe how sore was Ohyeah, you're using you're using muscles.

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You don't know you had? Yeah, my brother, come on, we
did. I think, Oh mygosh, it was why. I think
the Lake Jackson somewhere. That's amazing. That's amazing. Oh Lake Jackson you
were down at Oh gosh, I'mlooking right at it. I can't think
of the name of it. Ohthe wilderness. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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that's what. Okay, I'm abig guy, so I football player.
Okay, yeah, but you knowwhat, go out there and let
them play, Let the other guysplay real golf, and then every now
and then just hit a ball orgo make a pot, and then go

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back to the cart and drink abeer and just enjoy the day. You
know, you don't have to begreat at golf to enjoy golf. If
you had to be good at golfto enjoy it, nobody would play.
Nobody would play. Just take itfor what it is, man, Thanks,
Mike. Is a great call,buddy. Good to hear from you.
All right, I got it.O, Holy cow, we are

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late, aren't we. All right? I gotta let my gon ninety This
is Sports Talk seven ninety Houston SportsOnline at Sports seven ninety dot com back
to the Doug Bike Show. Oh, it just took a sip of the
coffee. I got early slow toget back up to speed around here.
I swear I just took a sipof that coffee, and it reminded me

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that the young news reporter we haveback there in the back doesn't drink coffee,
which means that the coffee that's thereprobably probably Skip Skip probably made the
pot about five forty five. It'salmost eight o'clock now. Not so hot,

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Yeah, not so hot. Lukewarm. That's the name of my
coffee, luke warm. Mm hmmmm. Thank goodness. Put him on Steve
O. What's up, mister Pike. How are you this morning? I'm
doing great, man. I havea little note here that I was going
to talk about that picture you sentme. That just it kind of made

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me laugh, and nobody else knows, so I'll tell them. You found
a picture. What was it fromthe fifties? It was a hood ornament.
Yeah. I saw it on Facebookand just screenshot it and thought of
it. Oh my gosh. Itwas dates back for many many years and
it is an actual elaborate little metalsculpture of a kind of art deco sculpture

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of a cormorant of all things.Oh my god, I can't even say
that word with that gag and alittle in the back of my throat.
Yeah yeah, somebody thought that thatbird was just so and honestly, the
way it looks there, if you'dname it something else, maybe put bald
ego on it, I don't carewhat. Yeah, it's not bad looking

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as a hood ornament, but whatthey do to docks and peers and horrible
mmmmm. Yeah. So let meask you, man. I was just
listed in a second ago before Iwas eating my burrito and I heard that
you were talking about fishing on golfcourses. And I've been to many golf
courses where I would have just lovedto fish, but they can. Do

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you know of golf courses that youcan do that on they're without getting thrown
off? Yeah? Yeah, Wellthere's the big rub right there. There's
a liability issue, especially at thedaily fee courses, so they typically don't
allow fishing. But that's kind ofa winking and odd thing because every now
and then you'll see somebody out thereand it's usually either the general manager's son

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or some kids that snuck in froma neighborhood. But yeah, by and
large, they just don't allow fishingneighborhood horses. The kids who live in
those neighborhoods are all over those lakesand out where I fish, the course
on which I do most of myfishing, there's a neighborhood that goes around
about probably fifty percent of the perimeterof that property, and there are little

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paths through the woods all over theplace, and I see them out there
all the time. I'll see themout there late. And as long as
they're out there late, because Idid it as a kid, and it
keeps them off the street and itkeeps them out of trouble. I just
say, look, man, I'mcool with you guys being here. Some
of the people out here are notas long as you're out here late when
the fishing is going to be better. Anyway, just you know, just

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stay off the golf course. Ihad to run some guys off once.
There were the four kids walked throughthe woods, two guys and two teenage
girls. They walk through the woodsacross a fairway, spread a blanket and
put their little ice chest up onthe edge of the fairway. Yeah,

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you can't do that, but whatso a beach? Yeah really man?
Well I grew up next to theMoody Guard. Well you used to beak
out? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it. Will. I
grew up right across the street fromWhole number five, so like we used
to hang out and sit or buyyou. But I've never done the whole.
I've never even freshwater fish. I'ma Galveston guy. So yeah,
I can't wait to try that.And I was thinking, well, man,

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if you were talking about fishing ongolf courses, I was about to
go hit it up, golf kid. Well, you know that's that's something
I do too. I'll bring exactlybring a little especially on a really crowded
golf course. Back when it wastaking six hours to play golf around here
in Houston, I would always puta rod in the in the golf courreer
because they're a little compactable ones.You know, well, you either gonna

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fish or you're gonna play around.Put a real If you're gonna put a
fishing right in there, put thereal thing. Carry one, you like,
carry one will actually catch a fish. Yeah, you don't want to
get broke off like my buddy Bradleydid. No, exactly thirty pound braid.
Yeah, I could lift an anvilwith thirty pound bra if it's fresh.
Really. Yeah, man, didyou see the lightning show last night?

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You know, I caught a lateglimpse of it this morning as I
was getting up and coming in here. But no, I whatever happened last
night, I slept through it.Man, in Galveston. It was pretty
wild, and I did not thinkit was going to rain as much.
And I'm a welder. I don'tknow if you knew that. And I
have no little welding business down hereGalveston. And I parked my welding machine

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on the side of the house,you know, lock it up outside,
out of mind, you know,all that kind of stuff. Well,
this morning I got stuck trying toget my love now, and I had
to get quite creative and put asled and oh he put of straps,
and yeah, it was pretty prettyawesome. I'm on the job. Sounds
like about a sixty minute job tome out of there. It's solely I

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started at six thirty, and yeah, I got that about seventh thirty.
Finished scratching your head at seven thirty. Oh God, actually got on me.
Oh yeah, I was gonna say, how deep are the ruts on
the side of the house. Man, you have a wonderful day. Oh
no, anytime, STEVEO. Thanksfor sending me that picture to It really

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did make me giggle. That waskind of cool. Audios. All right,
there's your welder if you need one, that's Stebo. He can take
care of you. If if it'snot raining, maybe not on a rainy
day, I don't know. Givehim a little extra time. If he's
supposed to be there at nine ona rainy day, wait till ten.
He'll be there, he'll be alittle muddy. Don't let him in without

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taking off his boots. Seven onethree two one two five seven nine.
And that's so funny man, thatpicture. Oh I know, okay,
Oh yeah, it's it's time.I'll start now so I don't run late.
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it develops, More on that asit develops. Seven one three two one
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enough. I think about baths thismorning unless faux pro Forrest calls in and

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has and wants to wants to bringus back to the world of the green
fish. And he's a diehard crappiefisherman as well, though he's not only
bath but he's pretty good at both. And I suspect if you, if
you had to pick a partner togo catfishing, he'd be a pretty good
one as well, well rounded inthe fresh water. I'm kind of curious.

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I'd be curious to know his saltwaterexperience and how the two overlap.
That was one of the most interestingthings and stories that I did over the
years, and I did that samestory, different versions of it, probably
i'd bet a dozen times over twentyfour years. The way that saltwater fishermen

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can apply their skills to fresh water, and conversely, freshwater fishermen can apply
their skills to salt water, andfor years as a young and naive fisherman,
I always had two different sides ofthe garage, if you will.
It wasn't I didn't have that muchtackle, but basically I had all my

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salt water stuff over here and hadall my fresh water stuff over there.
And the only things that were calmand on both sides were the rods and
reels. But all the tackle,all the tackle that was different. And
it was amazing to me once thelights were turned on in my brain by

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some people that really schooled me andtaught me a lot as a young adult
how much salt water stuff can beused in freshwater and how much freshwater stuff
can be used in saltwater. Now, if you're going to take freshwater lures
and convert them and drop them intoyour saltwater tackle box, you might want

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to think about changing out the hardware, because most of that stuff that's specifically
packaged and built and engineered and designedfor fresh water saltwater's gonna eat it up.
But once you get over that hurdle, or if you're not afraid to
wrench your lures after you fish withthem, or maybe even look at a

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little rust on a hook. Ifyou're if you're light, if it doesn't
depend on catching every fishy hook,then don't worry about it too much.
But the bottom line is I learneda lot from I think it started.
The first was probably the crank baitsfor redfish deal. And I learned that

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over in a Louisiana backwater, SouthLouisiana, way up in the marsh somewhere.
And I, of course had allmy usual soft plastics in top waters
and swim baits and this, thatand the other. I was all ready
to catch my red fish. AndI looked over and the guy I was
fishing with the fishing guide for thisparticular day had a little baby one minus

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crank bait on his line, andI thought, we're not going bass fishing.
Why you got that on there.That's a bass bait. But I
didn't say anything. Well, he'sthe guy. Maybe he knows something I
don't know. And it turned outbut he certainly did. I began that
day after he got up about threeor four fish to one on me.

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I started throwing those little baby oneminus crank baits at redfish. And other
than the fact that a big redfish could probably bite one in half and
just crush it like hitting it withtwo hammers at the same time. They
work, Man, they work likea charm. I've seen redfish absolutely turn

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themselves inside out to come chase oneof those down. Same with spinner baits.
Now, the spinner bait deal Ialso first saw used in Louisiana,
and I brought it back here andshortly thereafter took it down to redfish Lodge
kind of tucked in my back pocket. And I'll be darned if those the

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redfish react to them very much likethey react to that little baby one minus
shallow water bait, no question aboutit. But and you all so you
just rip the skirt off. Nowyou can buy or spinner baits that are
designed for redfish or a little heaviersprings or hangers. There's a little bit

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just beefed up hardware all the waythrough and through. And they don't have
the traditional little skirt of a spinnerbait. They just have a soft plastic
a traditional soft plastic jig, preferablya swim tail, because that'll hold that
thing up a little bit better,as will the colorado blades versus the willow
leaf blades. But man, redfisheat those things up on the flats.

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They absolutely eat them up. Andthe other one that works really well.
And when we had some of thebig National Redfish Tournament stopping through here like
Galveston wherever, up and down inTexas Coast, a lot of those guys
were throwing big traditionally bass fishing stylecrank baits, the big deep diving crank

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baits and bouncing them off to jettirocks. And that is boy, that's
another way you can catch a lotof big redfish. I'll tell you another
tactic I used years ago down Doyou have anybody on the phone, Melvin,
I'm just yapping away and that okay? Seven one three two five seven
ninety email on me, Dougpike atiHeartMedia dot com. I need to go

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check emails too. I've been remissand not taking care of that in a
while, long enough ago that I'mgonna have to sign back back into my
PC now or my laptop. Whydoes it not want to there we go?
Oh my goodness. So anyway outat the end of the the surf
side jetti many years ago, whenit wasn't so crowded that you couldn't actually
just make some cast without hitting anybodyon the back cast or the forward cast.

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Years ago in the fall, whenthose redfish were kind of stacking up
in the hole that's out. Ifyou if you walk all the way out
to the end of the surfside Jettiand you're facing the Gulf of Mexico,
and the Gulf of Mexico straight offthe end is at twelve o'clock. That
hole is washed out at about teno'clock or so, and it's it's a

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pretty significant, significant area out therewhere there's just a depression. There's no
question about it. In my mind. I've fished out there enough times to
know that that the tide's going towash that out into eternity. And what
I was using is giant, abig, full one ounce rattle trap.
Now I don't even know if theystill make them, Hopefully hopefully they do.

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I'm pretty sure that thing was afull ounce. If it wasn't,
it was three quarters. You couldthrow it a mile. I was throwing
them on heavy bass gear of therod anyway as a Magnum an old all
Star Magnum worm rod and a reelthat had enough line to get me as
far as that thing would sail,plus about another seventy five yards left on

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it of for that particular application,probably seventeen or twenty pound test line.
And I would let that thing fallall the way to the bottom and then
just kind of flicker it down there. I knew I was throwing on nothing,
but stand I wasn't worried about gettinghung up and just flicker it off
the bottom. And I'm one hundredpercent convinced that those redfish thought it was

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a little crab, and they wouldsuck that thing off the bottom. You'd
feel this little just kind of ajust kind of a tap. It wasn't
it wasn't just a bombing hit likethey would attack a fleeing bait fish.
This was just sucking it off thebottom. And Buddy, when you laid
back into those things, all theyput on a show. Oh that was

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so good. I'm getting fired up, getting so fired up. I'm so
I'm so so forgotten. What wasthat storm again? I'm just kidding.
I remember it all too well.Unfortunately. Oh yeah, you and me,
Melvin, we're gonna be shell show. Every every time the wind blows
or there's a bolt of lightning.I'm gonna get a little jumpy. I'm

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gonna I'm not gonna lie to youfor a long time, man, because
that was just that was hell onearth. It really was. It was
so hard for so many people.And once again, there are still people
still people who don't have power sincethat storm came through here, and that's
just unthinkable. There is absolutely nopossible legitimate reason for that to be happening.

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Seven one three two one two fiveseven ninety. Email me Dougpike at
iHeartMedia dot com. We'll take alittle break here on the We are Sports
Talk seven ninety. Are you readylisten online at sports seven ninety dot com.
Now more Doug Pike. All right, welcome back here the Doug Pike
Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.The good news is we figured out how

(50:44):
to restart this computer that just decidedit was check it out. Now.
I gotta get that call screener thingback up here, and it should roll
up here in about three two one. Oh. That's camera. Okay,
that's the camera of you, Melvinand I. All I can see is

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the top of your head. Ohman, I'm gonna I'm gonna need you
back in here. This is atrain wreck. It's just a train wreck.
I pushed the wrong screen and nowI just totally covered it up.
Oh my goodness, we're getting there. We are getting there. I guarantee
you. By the way, Well, no, never mind, I'm gonna
hold off. I've got something Ineed to let everybody know. But I'm

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gonna do it at about nine o'clock. And nine o'clock will give you plenty
of time to think about participating.Oh, look at you. Think about
participating in what I want you toparticipate in, and then okay, I'm
gonna let you do that. Bythe way, a couple of people here
who work with a lot of businessesdone in Galveston asked me to let you

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know that Galveston Island pretty much wideopen. Everything's back open, everything's put
away, tucked away, swept away, dragged away. All the storm stuff
is gone. Moody Gardens is open. Steve bo was talking about Moody Garden's
golf course just a minute ago.It's open. Oh come back, Melman,

(52:15):
take a look at that. Don'tdon't ask me. I have no
idea. Yeah, just blow itaway, you know what, Yeah,
close it up. Yeah, Ithink we're good. Maybe I don't have
to sign into that part of ittakes a village. Man, we are
I'm my way till it gets backto say this. This is kind of
funny. Hey, Melvin, AsI mentioned, it takes a village.

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It takes a village, right,so that makes us what the village people
exactly? I'm just about to saythat, which one do you want to
be? Hey, it doesn't matterone, you know? Oh my words?

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Seven one three two one two sevenninety email me Doug Pike Adiheartmedia dot
com. Holy cow, this isyou know. Live radio is probably one
of the most fun things. AndI get a lot of people like with
fifty plus, for example, theywant to pre record the interview, and
they want me to send them allof the questions I'm gonna answer or ask

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them, and on and on andon. They want all these little things
done so that everything will sound perfect. And to me, nothing sounds less
perfect than a scripted interview. It'sjust so stale. Hello, what time
do you go to bed? Igo to bed at seven pm every night

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and I don't wake up until fiveam. I get ten hours of sleep
per night instead of so are youable to sleep much at night? That's
a different question. Well, no, not really. I'm asking myself,
By the way, are you ableto sleep much at night? Oh?
No, not a lot. Iget woken up a couple of times a
night at to go to the bathroom. That's because I'm old. Seven one

(54:04):
three two one two five seven ninety. Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
I've actually got a client. Ineed to go see the folks at
a late health That's what I needto do, and see if I'm a
candidate for a procedure they can doto fix all that so I can get
a full night sleep. That wouldbe lovely that the storm put me behind
on sleep even worse tonight always havebeen. So now I gotta I gotta

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figure out a way to catch upon sleep, which isn't easy with my
schedule. It's a good thing.I like what I do. It really
is so moody gardens back up,all the attractions back up. The golf
courses on on the island are open. Pretty much nothing between you and the
beach except whatever traffic I guess youencounter on I forty five. That may
be, it may be significant,and it may not be. I will

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tell you this. The last fewtimes I've driven to Galveston, I've had
to drive home in darkness, andfor the the longest time, I thought
it was really really scary on fiftynine, coming in here on the weekends
early in the morning, in daylight. To have people flying by you at
one hundred and twenty miles an hourin a car or on a motorcycle,

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it's a little it's a little scarierwhen it happens on I forty five with
barricades on both sides of you atnight. You kind of hear the wine
coming, you see the single headlightbehind you way back there, and then
you start hearing that shrill, shrill, high rpm engine coming your way.

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And then it's just like and that'sall that's all you get. I've heard
it a thousand times. That's exactlywhat it sounds like, somebody going by
you on a motorcycle. Aaron Wadein, Oh my, I gotta go
see this picture and saw this littleellas swimming in one of the canals near

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Tampa. Didn't seem quite as interestedin the snook swimming nearby as I was.
Wow, I'm I want to sayit's either a I think it's a
manatee, I'm pretty sure it's amanatee. It. Yeah, it's got
to be a manateee. They're cooltoo. The first one I ever saw

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as a little kid, I justI thought i'd seen. I didn't know
what I was looking at. Nobodyhad told me. On the two day
drive from Houston to Pompino Beach,Florida, nobody told me about these things.
There. See cows, they crawled, yeah, okay, whatever.

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I didn't realize how big they weregoing to be. I didn't realize how
interesting they would be. And Iwas sitting back there in my grandparents' backyard,
probably probably soaking the skin off KentuckyFried chicken, which is as daggeringly
good catfish bait, by the way, probably sitting back there holding my little

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two o two, waiting for acatfish to bite, and a manatee swim
just right by, right up again. It was high tide, I'll never
forget it, high tied. Sothere's probably three and a half feet of
water on the seawall in their backyard. I could almost get my toes down
to the top of the water,almost, And here comes this thing,

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this giant beast, just lumbering alongnext to the seawall and I pulled my
feet. I didn't know whether itwas gonna try to eat my leg or
what. And I saw it,and I hollered for my grandfather, because
it's his house, he would knowwhat it was. He came back and
explained it all to me and said, you don't have to worry about it.

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They're not gonna hurt you. They'revery docile, very cool, calm
animals. And from that day forwardI thought the said, these are my
buddies, man, these are cool, and I just watched for them every
day. I watched for him whileI fished, while I fished, and
I fished a lot down there.I learned so much about saltwater fishing in
his backyard, so much. Firstmangrove snapper, first snook, first tarpin,

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first little bitty jackfish. Because Iwas a little bitty I was throwing
little quarter ounch yellow jigs and catchingmangrove snapper and probably ten twelve inch long
jackfish and just wearing out the littleplastic gears in those two o twos.
I'd go through one of those asummer down there, and it was just

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absolutely awesome. Seven one three,two, one two five seven ninety.
Email me Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I've got some emails I need to
go over. I tell you what, I'm gonna go ahead and back out
of this segment and start looking atthese emails, and when we get back,
I'll go just one by one methodicallythrough what I've got here and make

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sure everybody gets their questions answered onthe way out. You are right,
okay, sin Astros live here.We are Sports Talk seven ninety. The
conversation continues this as the Doug PikeShow. All right, welcome back Doug
Pike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety. We've got a couple of things that
need to take care of here.Oh by the way, Melvin, don't

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forget uh. Somewhere between maybe nowand the top of the hour, I
want to get in the Texas temperaturegame because we have to give away today.
Speaking of Moody Gardens in Galveston Island, Uh twusome at Moody Gardens golf
course. And if you've never playeddown there, it's it's really a tree.

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It's a fantastic golf course. Thewind is its best defense. That
the wind's not blowing. It's aprobably three or four shots easier, but
if that wind kicks up, Ohboy, oh boy, seven one three
two one two five seven ninety emailme iHeartMedia dot com. Uh. First
email I want to address is Tams, in which he show me a picture

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of the biggest bass he has evercaught, and it is a legitimate beast.
I'm not sure exactly how much itweighed, but I would say,
based on the size of its mouth, probably that maybe seven eight pounds of
fish all day. And it's hardto tell. It might it might be
a little more, might not.It's hard to tell, but it's a

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beast anyway. And by the way, he's holding it incorrectly, but he
notes in his email that he learnedhow to hold them correctly. All right,
now, I want to get tosomething I got from from Travis and
it's gotten my attention, and Iwant to bring it up because I want

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to clear some stuff up. Ihave been on center point pretty hard for
not getting some of these customers backup, and Travis points out and fairly
that anything that's still out is damagedto the customer service and needs repair and
permits if required. This is whatTravis has written to me before we can

(01:01:05):
get them back on. That isa fair assessment of some of the problem
that some of these customers are facing. And that's me talking again now,
and I have to I have tohonor that. I have to recognize that
it's not all center points fault backto Travis as far as the major damage
is concerned, and from what Iwas involved with in my rest in the

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restoration process, it was trees.I couldn't agree more. In fact,
I've had some friends talking about howat some point we may have to pay
a premium in our insurance policies ifwe have trees in our yards. Think
about that tree. Think about it. Trees cause a lot of damage to
homes. Right Trees fall on homes, They blow up a whole roof,

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they get water in the houses.If the insurers are going to ensure all
that, someday, we're probably gonnahave to start that. So let's get
back to Travis, and I wantto do this because it's important. Back
to what Travis wrote, we gethollered at every day when we have to
cut trees or bushes just for access. I'll never holler at you for doing

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your work, Travis. Never theway I explain it this is Travis again.
Is that there's one hundred foot treeseventy five feet out of our easement
and was the case as was thecase with this hurricane, and it falls
over into our lines and rips itall to the ground. Is it our
responsibility to move it beforehand? Andthere are and there are trees way taller

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and more out of our easement.CNP and our mutual response crews work tirelessly
and safely to get over two millionlights back on in an unreal timeframe.
I give you credit for that,I do, and I hope you don't.
Yeah, And he's kind of madat me, and he's got a

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right to be, says when youdisrespect my company, it hits me hard.
As I was out of the lightsfor four days and I didn't griper
wine, but carried on doing whatI do as a lineman. And I
still haven't done anything to my placeas we are trying to get the rest
of the folks lights back on.Travis headlinemen with CNP, I owe you

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an apology because I didn't know aboutwhat it takes to get some of these
these last few customers back online,including permits that boy I know permits take
a long time, Believe me,I do. And it's got to be
frustrating for you as a head linemanto have your crew ready to take care

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of somebody and you unable to doit because some other entity hasn't issued a
permit yet. I apologize to you. It's frustrating because I was out for
a long time. I had friendsout for a long time, and we
all got a little antsy. Thisis new information for me, and it

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changed my opinion a significant a significantto a significant degree. Were their mistakes
made, yes, there were,But I'll never I'll never bark at alignment
ever. I never have since dayone, I have not gone. I
don't man, I don't know whothose people were who were yelling and screaming

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at you guys, and threatening youand throwing things at you. But if
we ever, if you and Iever get a chance to get one of
them in a room, I'll holdthem. I'll hold them down best a
cad. That's inexcusable. And foryou and everybody else who was out there
doing what you were doing. Ifyou have to cut a tree down to

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get the power back on, cutit down, And if we have to
come back behind you and take itout ourselves. Take the pieces out then,
I guess we'll take them out.But keep doing what you do,
Travis, and keep your guys headsup. I've never once been upset with
anybody who was out there working inthat heat getting those lights back on.

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Never once need some help over atyour house raking well something. I can't
pick up big logs anymore, butjust let me know, and I do.
I feel like I owe you anapology and I'm issuing it right now.
I'm not mad at I'm not madat anybody who was out there riding
around on those trucks. I dothink we need some accountability at the top,

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and that's where it's gonna start,so that you and your alignment can
get out there and get started on. First of all, the next time
one of these rolls through, Ihope we are far better situated and won't
have such a tragic outage. Secondly, once again, I am behind every

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one of you and your crews andevery other crew who came here from all
over the country to help us,and you're gonna hear something about that.
In about twenty minutes. I'll giveyou an idea of something that I wish
I could have been a part ofit, but I'm gonna be able to
tell you about it. Somebody's doingsomething nice for Linemen, and man,
I hope anybody and everybody will tryto figure out a good way that they

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can do something nice for Linemen.Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety. Sorry, Travis, Ididn't mean to. I didn't mean to
pick a scab there, but Iknow you guys are are are frustrated,
and I didn't realize that you werebeing held up so much by permitting,
because permitting is just that's just peoplepoking their noses in. I guess it's

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it's necessary, but it's frustrating foryou and it's frustrating for us in equal
measure. You guys, I know, want to get all the lights on.
We want all the lights on.And there's somebody pushing paper on a
desk somewhere. I'll get to yourpermitting. Little wall. Yeah, little
wall's coming going. Let's go.Uh, thank you, Travis, thank

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for being out there and getting everybodyup as fast as you did. Buddy,
all right, I'll back out ofthere. I hope Travis was still
listening. And Travis, if youjust got back and didn't realize I was
talking about you and the hard workyour crews do. I'll get Melvin to
pull it all, pull that wholemonologue that as did, and I'll get

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him to send it to you.All Right, we got to move on.
We're almost to the break. Weare Sportstock seven nineties, Houston Sports
Where you go with iHeartRadio Now nowget more Doug all right, welcome back.
Dugpike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety. Just finished writing Travis a personal

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apology for anything I may have saidthat led him to believe that I didn't
back him and his Cruise one andif that's the way it came across,
and and I hated to even bashthe company he works for, but at

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the very top, as he evenconceded, we need some accountability. We
need to find out mostly now.Mostly now. What we need to do
is figure out exactly what didn't workwell, because clearly they restored a ton
of power very quickly. I'll neverI'll never not credit them with that.
I have to credit them with that, because they did. But for those

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of us who were left out fourfive, six, almost seven days,
it became part of the frustration camefrom hearing all of our friends, Oh,
we got our power back, andthen and then you realize when you
step way back and look at it, about half the city didn't even lose
power. Three three million, fourmillion people didn't even lose power during the

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storm in our area. My motherin law, she hadn't laws. She
didn't lose power in Ike, shedidn't lose power at Harvey, didn't lose
power with this one, any hurricane. And she's been where she is for
a very long time. So thefrustration level is coming down. The understanding
will eventually outweigh the the discomfort andwe'll get through this. And again,

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I'm i'd send him a personal apology, and I'll issue it here too.
I never once wanted anybody there,anybody who's out there working on those lines,
to think that I was not infavor of everything they were doing and
how they were doing it. Theywere doing everything they could with all the
tools they had, and for that, I will be very grateful that my

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lights came on when they did sevenone three, two one two five seven
ninety. I need somebody to playthe Texas temperature game, because we need
to do that to give away oftwosome at Moody Garden's golf course. It's
as simple as that. And assoon as Melvin can find somebody, I

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will get him and the lucky personwho wants to go down there and play
some golf and forget about all thatstorm garbage, and we'll get that taken
care of. In the meantime,I will get John on the phone while
Melbourne is looking for that phone.Call seven seven ninety John, what's up,
buddy? John? Uh? Oh, you know, I wonder if
that thing didn't come back wrong.You're gonna have to You're gonna have to

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click him up. So anyway,I need somebody to play the game.
And I'll get to him in asecond. John, what's up? Man?
Now? I got you, okay. I live on the outskirts of
tom Ball, which I'm technically Magnolium, and we needed that They that all
these linemen were posted in uh tomBall High School parking lot, and I

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went up there and talked to himand I was giving him the guys the
money and stuff. Anyway, thepeople that came over to my place and
fixed my power was from South Carolina, a lead power company, and they
told me at three o'clock in theafternoon. You're lit, you're hot,

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you're you're good to go. Wow, they get center. They didn't turn
my power on till four o'clock inthe morning. Wow. And I guess,
I guess it's all these switches.Anyway, these guys came in,
and these linemen, they were theywere so upset about setting in that parking

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lot waiting. Well, yeah,I don't want to they grow. They
drove all that white drove all theway to help. I know, I
appreciate that. I do. Idon't want to talk about this any I'm
kind of I think I'm a kindof no. No, I mean I
was gonna say, yeah, Ihad a real good, a good,
great outcome. But I stayed inmy truck for seven days with American District

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and and and so it is whatit is. How to do what you
gotta do. Yeah, we'll getwe'll get through this one, just like
we got through the rest of them. Man, thank you. I appreciate
it. Yeah. But but butall those people are they're good. All
right, Okay, who's playing thegame? We only need one? Melvin?
Are you taking like fifteen calls forthis or one who was first no,
no, no, it didn't.So Stephen was first, okay,

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and you're gonna at the end ofthis, you're gonna have to go back
and deliver the bad news to Greg. Okay and Thomas. No, that's
okay, guys. All right,I'm gonna get Steven. Put Steven up,
and we're gonna play the game.And I wish I had something to
give Greg right now, but Idon't, So we'll figure it out,
all right. Get Stephen in there, and then start the intro. Melvin,

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Melvin, is it hot? Isit cold? We'll find out on
the Texas Temperature Games because you're yourthat's Steve. Is that right now?

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All of a sudden, I can'tsee the name anymore. Melvin. It's
Steve right, all rights, Steve. We're gonna get through this somehow,
some way. Oh Mercy. You'replaying for a twosome at Moody Gardens,
which is pretty darn good play.Have you played down there before? I
have not. Yeah, you'll likeit. You'll like it, you really
will. I promise all you haveto do is beat Melvin at the Texas

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Temperature Game. I will explain therules to him and you at the same
time. Because this is this ishis maiden voyage. If you will with
the Texas temperature game, you,Steve, are gonna get to choose whether
you go first or last. Iwill ask you what the high temperature is
in Texas. I will ask youwhat the low temperature in Texas is.
And whichever of you to get itclosest with the least amount of variants,

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that's the winner. Fair enough,you want to go? You want to
go first or second? Okay,Melvin, what do you think is the
current high temperature in the state ofTexas. Current high temperature in the state
of Texas. Let's go. Iwould say ninety five, ninety five at

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nine o'clock in the morning. Ohokay, wait, wait, wait,
hold, I said current current.Okay, let's say eighty three eighty God,
okay, I'm Steve. I'm gonnagive you an opportunity to take another
guess if he because I Melvin,pay attention, mate, I am all
right, Steve. What do youthink it is? That's lord eighty five?

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Okay, eighty three and eighty five? Melboyn. What do you think
is the current low in the stateof Texas? The current low? I
would say seventy six okay, seventysix and hold on, I'm doing all
my calculating right now. Okay,Steve, what do you think is the
current low in the state of Texas. Let's go five seventy five. That

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is a variance of carry the two. All right, Steve, you have
a resounding victory here the current accordingto my calculation. Sorry, Melbourne,
and plus you got an extra guestanyway, Yeah, the current high in
the state of Texas actually is eightytwo degrees. The current low in the

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state of Texas sixty six degrees.So everybody's we're well, we're back to
playing the game. That's the onlything I could say that really went perfectly.
We got the intro right, Andwhat you need to do now,
Melbourn is put Steve back on holdand then get to him and get all
his information. Go ahead and clickgreg in. Let me talk to him

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while you're doing that and get usto the top. Okay, put Steve
on hold. I'm gonna walk youthrough this, man. You'll be a
you'll be a veteran at it soonenough. There we go. Hey,
hey, Greg, what's up,buddy? I'm doing well? How are
you sorry? I'm all right?Were you were you wanting to play the
game. Well I did. Idon't know if he could have got a

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little closer because I had something inmind. But that's all right, that's
all right. Well we're gonna playagain tomorrow and maybe okay, yeah,
we might be. I think bydefault almost you should have a first crack
at getting in tomorrow. So seeif you can call all right? All
right, man? Yeah, wellI got another question for you. I
wanted to call about that. Youcan do a quick one. These turtles,

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these turtles in these local pombs areout of control. You got something
I know you can't. You know, I know you can't the statue of
snapping turtles. But what about thesesoft shell teams soft shell turtles. I
don't know whether they're well is it? Are the ponds on private property?

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No, they're on public Oh wow, it's a public park. Oh,
a public park. Oh. Idon't know what you could do with a
turtle in a public park. Iwould call a game warden call because I
mean, if you put a ifyou put a mama out there fishing with
your grandchildren, those turtles surround it. Oh yeah, yeah, I have

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I have experienced that, and it'svery frustrating to have to keep unhooking red
ears and saft shells and everything elsethat's running around in the lakes. They
that does become problematic, especially forthe grand kids, because it's kind of
weird for them to see turtles comeup. It's different than a fish.
And yeah, I know, pickthe bait right off the hook. Yeah,

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that very good. I think asnapping turtle could probably just come up
and bite your rod and half,you know, and just be done with
it, take all your styf Yeah. I saw signs up here at the
at Lake Gleamingston saying you know,snapping turtles you know you cannot Yeah,
they're protecting for sure, you know. I don't know that. That's a
game warden question. And I havea game ward I me try and call.
I got a guy I might beable to call during the during the

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break here, if he answers andhe works all. I mean. I
looked it up on the outdoors Manualthing on my phone, but I couldn't
find any angle baty. So Idon't know what you know you can do?
Can you take them home and makesoup out over home? I don't
know. We're gonna find out how'sthat all right? Man, I gotta

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take this break. Yeah, thankyou, I appreciate it. Greg Audio
by all right, taking a breakhere. This is the Doug Pike Show,
brought to you by American Shooting Centers, Guns Shooting and Instruction since nineteen
eighty nine. Now here's Doug Pike. All right, welcome back, Doug
Pike Show on Sports Talk seven ninetyalready the nine o'clock hour, Holy mackerel.

(01:18:51):
The nine o'clock hour, which meansI am gonna go to the leader
board. Oh, we never diddog on it. We never did get
the Open Championship onto the TV inhere. I forgot about that, Melboyne.
I might try and do it duringthe next break. We're gonna get
something up there though, other thanthe zo Zoo Championship replay of the final

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round that's clearly on the wrong that'sprobably on the Golf Channel, and then
the Open Championship, I would imagineis is on another network. I'm not
sure exactly what it's on. Theupdated leaderboard shows very little movement since last
we talked about it early in theprogram. Shane Lowry not out yet,

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still at seven under par through tworounds. Daniel Brown not out yet,
Justin Rose not out yet, bothat five under par. Thurston Lawrence However,
there, boy, there's gonna besome people going low, and anybody
who's on that leader board and hasn'tgone out yet better get their ducks in

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a row when they because Thurston Lawrenceis seven under par through eleven holes.
He now is alone in fourth placeat four under par. He started the
day three over. He's four undernow. Billy Horschell two under hadn't gone
out yet, Dean Burmester two underhadn't gone out, same for Scotty Scheffler,

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and then you look a little fartherdown Justin Thomas. He is five
under through fourteen holes today. SamBurr's four under through eight. Mink you
Kim three under through six, asis Russell hensley Man. There's some guys
going deep. Adam Scott five underfor his round today. He's finished.

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Did O Sung Yam five under onthe round today. Finished a lot of
guys making a lot of birdies.There are a lot of guys making a
lot of bird I'm gonna go backup to this where did he go seven
under parr. I'm gonna look atThurston and Lawrence's scorecard so far. See
if there's any help in there witheagles or something. Oh really, it's

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not gonna show it. Oh hereit is. If it'll ever load,
there we go. Oh my gosh, I've never had a scorecard look like
this. Bertie Parr, Bertie Birdie, Birdie, Birdie. He racked up
four in a row, then pardsseven, Birdie's eight, pars nine Birdie's
or excuse me, pars ten tothe only two pars in a row he's

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had so far, and then Birdie'seleven. Playing twelve man man, he's
kind of He shot thirty on thefront and he's already one under on the
back through two. He's dinking aroundwith majors records. Again. I don't

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know what the record is for lowscore in an Open Championship round or maybe
low score in an Open Championship roundthree or some other specific little thing,
but he's there's got to be acouple of records he's sniffing at. Shooting
thirty on the front and then alreadyone more on the back. Holy cow,

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good for him? Seven one threetwo one two five seven ninety email
on me, Doug Pike at iHeartMediadot Com. As I mentioned yesterday,
I got to play nine holes outthere at Blackhawk and before I decided it
was my time would be better spentfishing, which I'm not really so sure
it was. Only had half thecourse to work with, as I talked
about very early in the program onthe fishing side, and and actually was

(01:22:38):
playing pretty well. In hindsight,might have served myself a little bit to
make a second loop of the front. Wouldn't have been a bad idea.
Wouldn't have been a bad idea.What I've what I've learned, Boy,
it just takes a long time.I'm so hardheaded and so competitive and so

(01:22:59):
so frustrated by the game sometimes becauseI don't get as much time to practice
as I would like. I takeadvantage of every chance I get, but
it's always not quite enough to reallyadvance myself. So I try to stay
out of the way of a coupleof my friends out there who are professional
instructors. Tommy Brian and Tommy O'Brienis probably one of the best, and

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I've watched him grow up. Hewas in his twenties when I first met
him, and may not have hadI'm sure he didn't have all five of
the daughters he has now, andTommy learned from Jim Murphy and has become
one of the best instructors in thisregion. Jim still added over at Sugar
Creek, a perennial top fifty inthe country, And from the two of

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them, I have learned a lotabout golf, but I've also learned my
own limitations, and my own limitationssay that I need to have of go
to shots, I need to havecomfort making certain shots. And for the
longest time, I kept trying toput a square peg in a round hole

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by trying to hit big, highdraws with my long irons and always almost
always fumbling the ball when I triedto make that swing on the golf course.
I could do it every now andthen, every now and then on
the range, but it took tremendousconcentration, and it took tremendous effort on

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my part. And then I'd tryto take that to the golf course and
just chunk one or slice one horriblyor duck hook it. And so now
I've grown more comfortable in my owngame, and it's taken me years to
do that, and anybody who's muchyounger than me and plays a lot of

(01:24:54):
golf, but keeps trying to changethe ballflight you have as your default.
If you just close your eyes andswing, which way does the ball go?
Does it cut a little bit,does it does it draw a little
bit? Does it go really high? Does it go really low? Take
the swing you have in the ballflight you have, and make them work
for you as best you can,and suddenly you'll start shaving some strokes off

(01:25:17):
your scores. I finally decided togo into that, just that little soft
fade with my long irons. Itdoesn't go super high most of the time,
sometimes higher than others, and I'mnot good enough to regulate that with
consistency. But nonetheless I had tohit that shot yesterday into the third green

(01:25:39):
from pretty significant I want to say. I was about one eighty two,
one eighty five out something like thatinto the wind pull five iron and just
said, okay, Doug, aimright. I'm left handed, aim right
about eight ten yards, because that'sabout how much it's going to fade on
that particular shot with that iron ifI hit it the way my normal default

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swing is. I made the swing, the ball ended up two feet from
the hole. That was my birdiein that round, two feet from that
hole. Because I didn't try todo something different. I didn't try to
to fix something that really isn't broken. I've just been trying to change it.

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It's not broken. I'm just tryingto change a perfectly functional swing for
my game, and I'm not gonnado that anymore. And same with putting.
If you have a stroke that worksfor you, use it. If
you're putting is horrific, then youneed help. You need instruction, and
don't get it from your buddy who'sa sixteen handicap, because he's probably he's

(01:26:45):
probably running up forty puts around wellunless he's unless he's pretty good at chipping,
because he's also missing a lot ofgreens. But the bottom line is
if you can find a way tojust play within yourself, know your limitations,
and not try to overdo it becauseyou're super competitive. I used to
be bad also about I had.I've always had good swing speed, and

(01:27:09):
when I was younger, I swungreally hard, and when I hit the
ball, when I connected, well, it was a beautiful thing. I
could I could move it down therepretty good and had great ball speed,
great clubhead speed, all of that, and now it's slowing down, and
I'm still I catch myself every nowand then overswinging to try to keep up

(01:27:29):
with the drives of people I playwith who are much younger for the most
part, and it's it's just afool's errand it doesn't doesn't do you any
good, not at all. Itdoesn't do you a bit of good.
Well, I gotta get this ZozoChampionship off here. It's driving me crazy.
Let's take a little break here whilewe're While we're out, I'm gonna
try and get Melbourne in here andshow me how to use this TV and

(01:27:49):
see if I can find the correcttournament. It just golf was golf to
you, wasn't it, Melvine.You're pretty excited when you saw golf.
Yeah, I just saw golf.Golf will do. Yeah, any golf
will do. He won't notice,It's okay, he won't notice if they
didn't show me. I know whatI'm looking at here is certainly not certainly

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not great Britain golf at all.There are big hills and forests and trees,
and now we'll find it. Duringthe break, I'll bring you live
updates from that tournament, and we'llsee who's gonna win it. They'll win
it. They'll be done tomorrow,well not before we get off the air,
but it'll be about mid afternoon.He'll be coverage all day. I'm
sure this is Sports Talk seven ninetyon the go with iHeartRadio. Friends.

(01:28:38):
You've got to try The conversation continuesthis as the Doug Pipe Show. All
right, welcome back Doug Pipe Showon Sports Talk seven ninety. I was
asked by the general manager of theHoustonian Hotel in Spa to let all of
you know this morning. He said, just do it one time. That's

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all it's gonna take. They areoffering. Uh, they put up a
little fundraiser for lineman, first respondersand law enforcement, all of the people
like Travis who were out there bootson the ground in the heat, in
the sweltering heat, making sure thatall of us eventually get our lights back

(01:29:20):
on. Pardon me, hold on, okay, better, what they're doing
today over there at the hotel,which is off North Post Oak I believe
yeah, I can't remember the exactaddress, it's easy enough to find.
They are gonna offer up big Sambarbecue pit lunches, and the proceeds are

(01:29:42):
all going to go to linman andfirst responders and everybody who was out there
doing what Travis and his crews weredoing. You're gonna get a plate of
ribs, brisket, and sausage whilethey last, starting at eleven o'clock.
Okay, don't go running over therenow trying to get in line or anything.
You gotta wait. Just ten bucks. They want ten bucks cash.

(01:30:04):
They're gonna put it in a big, old giant bucket, and when they're
done, they'll probably sweeten the potthemselves, and that money is gonna go
back to I'm not sure how orwhere. I don't know how the staff
is gonna distribute whatever it collects,but I guarantee you one hundred percent that
they will get that money to peoplewho work so hard to earn it.

(01:30:25):
They will get it there. Soif your lights came back on quick,
or even if they didn't, ifyou didn't have to gut your refrigerator or
you did and start over, doesn'tmatter. Your lights are back on.
And after reading Travis's email early earlier, I learned a whole lot about why
some of that delay happened and howit. The lineman couldn't have done anything

(01:30:50):
about it. It wasn't there.They have to wait for instruction from higher
up to go fix X, Yor Z. And that I'm sure frustrated
them. I know it did,because I saw some of them interviewed.
And I'm still seeing a lot oftrucks from out of state around town.
This is something else. If youcan't get over there and do the Houstonian

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thing today and get you a plateof barbecue for next to nothing, really
for just ten bucks, throw insome more. If your lights came back
on real quick, throw in alittle more. Do that. These folks
deserve it, they truly do.And as my friend Missy always has been
doing for the entire past week,pretty much anytime she can find a Lineman's

(01:31:34):
truck near any fast food joint,she offers those people lunch. And a
lot of these people who came herefrom out of state have never had a
what a burger, And I can'tthink of a better way to say thank
you with them than to treat themto a true Texas, true Texas hamburger.

(01:31:56):
Now they're good hamburgers all over,And if they say no, I
much prefer something else. Then buythem something else. But I'm gonna I'm
gonna try to corral some of thoseguys today on the way home, see
if I can find somebody that Ican buy a lunch for somebody who was
working on my lines. I don'teven know who worked on my stuff.
It doesn't matter whoever's lines they wereworking on. They were working hard for

(01:32:17):
us the whole time. And Iagain, my beef has never been with
those crews on the ground. Andwe'll find out what happened and we'll get
it fixed. We'll get it fixed. Everybody's just a little edgy lately,
just a little bit. And allright, what the old good? I've
got some time I have. Bythe way, Melvin came in here and

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we are now well, I arenow watching the Open Championship live. The
umbrellas are out. The wind appearson the plus side for these guys,
pardon me, and I honestly thinkthat they would much prefer to play in
a little bit of rain. Thena thirty mile an hour wind over there,
Oh here comes one can't even seeit. About half the club chunk

(01:33:02):
now maybe not not a bad shot, uh Connors on one and oh lord
in mercy, he's in one ofthose those pot bunkers. You might you
might as well be hitting it intoa laundry basket and then trying to swing
and get it out of there.I think that's the best analogy. That's

(01:33:23):
the best description of those pot bunkers. It's just a big laundry basket and
it's got sand at the bottom,and you have to get in there and
somehow make a full swing and getit out of there. Not easy to
do. Seven three two one twofive seven ninety. Email me Doug Pike
at iHeartMedia dot com if you thinkyou can make a strong case as to

(01:33:45):
why there's no chance that Scottie Schefflerwill win this tournament. I'd be curious
to hear it. I'd be curiousto hear it. I'm looking at let's
see see if there's any change now, thirst and Lawrence seven under through twelve
now rolling right along the three under, three under five under four under five

(01:34:11):
under again all the way down innineteenth place, sun am five under under
the day. Wow, there areonly by the way, how many people
there are? Forty five players underpar at all? Everybody else is even
or worse. Despite having some prettygood rounds today. It's really interesting to

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see these leader boards kind of unfold, and the farther down you go,
the more you can tell that theguys out there who just barely made the
cut and know that their check's notgonna change no matter what they shoot for
the next two days. Up inthe top forty, I would say there
are a lot of guys under parone or two. Uh, somebody having

(01:35:00):
a bad round might be three over. And then when you get down to
position number seventy five, all ofa sudden, today's rounds go up to
plus six plus seven, plus fiveplus six plus eight. And poor Darren
fishert he rolled out another eighty today. Uh he's yeah, he's nine over.

(01:35:24):
He's fifteen over. Excuse me,nine over for his round fifteen over.
Boy, if I could, justif I could make believe that I
were playing over where they are,well, no, I'm looking at Oh
my gosh, it's low tide wherethey are, and uh yeah, you
could ride a bicycle out about twohundred yards off shore, probably on hard
sand. Their Scheffler, he's gettingready to get after it. Seven one

(01:35:46):
three two one two five seven nineyWho is that? Melvin are we ready
for him? Or no? Areyou still talking? Okay, you're still
chatting. Tell you what I will. There was something else I wanted to
talk about. I got that takencare of. Got that. Oh,
by the way, I had Skeeterbron on yesterday on fifty plus Skeeter Bron
from fifty plus Bronze Roofing, andwe talked about what you and I can

(01:36:10):
do. This is some storm preparednessfor next time. Has nothing to do
with electricity. It has everything todo with your roof. First of all,
before the next storm gets here.If your roof came through this,
you didn't have any leaks, nonothing, Everything's fine. Go out there
and make a very methodical note takingobservation of your roof. Look at every

(01:36:35):
nook and cranny you can see fromthe ground. You don't have to get
up on your roof and do it. You don't have to climb a ladder
to do it. Just make somenotes and say, ayeah, this looks
a little different, take some pictures. And then after a storm, he
said, even if you still think, even think your roof is okay,
make that same walk and observe thesame nooks and crannies. Of your roof,

(01:36:58):
and that way, when you calla rooferor you say I'm particularly worried
about this, I'll send you apicture and they will be able to look
at it, even just in aphotograph probably and say, yeah, we
need to hustle out and patch thatup, or that's not a big deal.
We'll get to you as soon aswe can. And don't expect them
to get there like in an hourand a half. They're all swamped right

(01:37:18):
now, they're all totally swamped,So give give them a day or so.
Skeeter usually can get out there withina day, but right now it's
it's kind of backed up because notonly are so many of us having roof
troubles, but additionally he and hisstaff is in his office actually all had

(01:37:38):
some storm damage, so they're allkind of trying to get themselves out of
that as well. Bronzeroofing dot Com, he can take care of you.
He's got you covered, as helikes to say, I had okay,
he's still talking back there. That'sokay, and you know what, I'm
gonna take a yeah, go aheadand take his break. Melvin's in there
ringing out that same washrag that willdoes when I'm running late. That must

(01:38:00):
be some sit I don't know whatit means. I have no idea what
it means. It seems to happenalways when I'm running a little late.
I'll figure it out someday. Thisis Sports Talk seven ninety online at Sports
seven ninety dot com. Now moreDoug fight ding ding Hey. By the
way, thank you, welcome back. I don't mean to cut Willie off,

(01:38:24):
but I got lots to talk abouthere. And suddenly we look up
and we're inside of half an hourleft in the entire program. Very quickly,
that Houstonian Hotel and spa fundraiser forlinemen, first responders in law enforcement.
Ten dollars cash. If your lightscame on, quickly throw more in.
Okay, tell them thanks. Andby the way, if you are

(01:38:45):
a lineman, if you did workout there, or a first responder who
was out there through all that garbage, you eat free. I don't know
when they're gonna run out. Ihope they don't. I hope a ton
of people go over there and contributesome money. I'm not sure, like
I said, I'm not sure whereHoustonian's gonna ultimately distribute that That money they

(01:39:06):
raise, but I guarantee it'll beto the right people, the people who
deserve it. I just got anice email back from Travis telling me how
what he went through during that storm, and I can relate Travis. I
might send you a little note lateron how I can relate to who was

(01:39:28):
sleeping in your truck with you orwhat was sleeping in your truck with you?
Because I had something I had totake care of as well, and
it was tough and it was close. It could could have gone either way.
So I want to get to Georgefirst. And by the way,
Matthew, if you're still listening,I will get to your topic once I

(01:39:49):
get through these two calls I needto take, and I guarantee you we'll
talk about what you wanted to talkabout before we're done. Oh, I
got to put him back on hold, click him on in the we go,
George, what's up? Buddy?Hey Doug, listen. I wanted
to call in and kudos. Giveyou some kudos, man, because you

(01:40:10):
know own up, you know tojust you know, your apology and everything.
It's it's well received, you know, as as a fellow. Can
you know you know I depend oncenterpoint, just as yourself. Sure,
right, and uh, you knowyou're right, and you know I'm not
a lineman, but I'm an electrician. I have work to have alignments local.

(01:40:30):
I've worked onsult stations and you know, there's it's kind of like iron
workers. I did a lot ofiron working, you know, for a
couple of years early on, whenI was very young on timego, and
it's because a lot linemens. It's, you know, like iron workers.
There's two times. There's there's oldiron workers and there's bold iron works.
You won't find too many bold ironwork, you know. And they have

(01:40:51):
to make sure they have to takeall the safetyguards. When you work in
those power stations. Man, you'llsee some of those pickups running around there.
You can't let the or over yourshoulder. You have to be aware.
You'll see those pickups with the chaincoming off of their the trailer hits
or whatever, dragging the ground.To keep things grounded and to keep because

(01:41:12):
you know, we live in anelectric universe, despite which may have heard,
and it's all about positive electric charge. George, George, gotta we
gotta move on. I want tomention about Vibrio Vibrio. I don't know
that that's what they're calling it.There's one individual in the community who's he
needs our prayers. I'm not evensure who this individual is, but it

(01:41:33):
was on the radio this morning andthe main thing and I'm so surprised it
wasn't bought us. It's every yearwe have to go through this. You
gotta stay out of the water whenyou get a lot of fresh water influx.
That's the thing that the greatest detriment. The deterrent excuse me, deterrent.
Devibria magnificance is high celinity alkaline.It's the same thing with cancer.

(01:41:56):
Cancer cannot exist in an alkaline environment. You have good, good day,
Okay, thank you, Yeah,I appreciate it. Yeah. The vibrio
deal is that is that horrible,horrible. It's not flesh eating bacteria.
That's a totally different thing. Butvibrio essentially does the same thing to your
body if it gets in through acut, if it gets in through any

(01:42:21):
open wound or sore, and it'sit is in salt warm salt water.
Around the world. There have beencases from the surf, there have been
cases from bays, there have beencases from backwaters where people have gone into
the water with cuts, open wounds, and even well it's it's also possibly

(01:42:45):
ingestible, but that's that's a differentstory. That's the bad news is that
stuff can get you. And ifit gets you, I had a friend
of mine, a dentist, yearsago, many years ago, probably thirty
thirty five years ago. This guycontracted infection on it during a weekend fishing
tournament down in Port O'Connor and wentthrough two full leg amputations within the first

(01:43:11):
week and had died within I thinkeleven or twelve days of the original infection.
That's how fast it can get youif you have underlying circumstances, kind
of like COVID was especially hard onpeople with bad livers or bad lungs or
whatever. The good news is thatthere are only a few dozen cases of

(01:43:35):
this a year in the entire UnitedStates, and we have an awful lot
of coastline and there are billions ofpotential exposures. But if you're going to
get in the water, try tomake sure that you get in the water
with If you have little cuts andscrapes on you, use some of that
liquid bandage at least to protect youand put it on what I like to

(01:44:00):
do. If I'm gonna be wadefishingnow, I'll put some If I have
an open cutter scrape or whatever,and I got one on my knee right
now, I would deal with.I'll put that liquid bandage on there the
night before we go fishing, andthen I'll put it on again in the
morning over what I did the nightbefore, to make sure nothing's going to
get through there. And if youever feel like you're getting a fever,

(01:44:21):
or you're getting flu like symptoms,or there's some discoloration at somewhere on your
body where there was a cutter ofscrape, haul your behind. This is
from twenty years of research I didon this stuff years ago. Haul your
butt to the hospital, tell themthat you have you believe you may have
a vibrio infection from exposure in saltwater. And if the whole place doesn't

(01:44:46):
jump up and rush you into aroom to be evaluated, get up and
leave and go somewhere else because they'rejust killing you. If they don't,
it could happen that fast. Allright, Let me get Tony. Go
ahead and pop Tony up here.I want to get him before the break.
Tony bucks what's up man? Itdidn't work Melbourne. Oh there you
are, Yeah, you're there.What's going on, man, Kobe?

(01:45:10):
I'm wording for Kobe and the boysgot big shirts for fishing. They got
big shirts. I bet I havea little sure I'm going. I'm looking
on the website now trying to findout we've got Texas Trophy Hunters Extravaganza coming
up, second, third, andfourth of August. Well, I'm glad
you're letting me know about it,because nobody else does anymore. Well,
I am on the board of directorsfor the foundation so far a Clive International,

(01:45:30):
which owned Texast Trophy Hunters, Sosomebody's got to do it. Yes,
sir, I'm glad that you Tony. Well, we're working toward it.
There's going to be a great numberof outfitters and people that do paraphernalia
there. Please come and visit.It is a three day show and we
look forward to having y'all there.I'd love to come out of there,
Ashual. We'll have our booth overfor membership and such. We're going to

(01:45:53):
do raffles over there, but therewill be outfitters from all over the world
there, so come in and lookthere. Like I say, there will
be paraffe million gear. It's apretty good little show for the middle of
the summer. Well, it's nota little show at all. I know
better than that. You're very humbleand describing it as such. Let me
tell you what. Christine is doingher best even to grow up because we
know we've added at least sixteen outfittersthis year. Wow, that's how standing

(01:46:15):
got. Now we've got a guythat was the South African professional outfitter of
the Year that's gonna be right acrosssome Sparklub Internationals booths and that that gentleman
definitely knows his business when it comesto African game. But we've got two
other people from North America lined upas well as some mothers, and it's
gonna be nice to Verse five show, no doubt, no doubt at all

(01:46:39):
where that's gonna be an energy,always big, big, plenty of room
out there too, always always thefirst weekend of August and a r G
until something changes. My favorite storythat I ever heard from one of the
outfitters from Africa. I was talkingto the guy and he's kind of he's
talking with his hands and I couldn'thelp but notice but he was missing.

(01:47:00):
I believe it was the ring fingeron his right hand. And and he
noticed me looking at it, andhe said, there's a story. I
said, I got to hear it. And all he said two words was
his entire story on how he losthis finger on a hunt. He just
said snake bite, and then wejust just went on with his conversation.

(01:47:23):
Well, like me telling you Igot a mosquito bite on my arm.
It didn't matter of factly, youknow, I know who you're talking.
Oh my god, you know,and it was just like, holy cow,
are you kidding me? And forthem, though, I guess the
alternative would be eaten by a lionor stomped by an elephant. So snake
bite sounds pretty okay. That's crazyman. Well you're out here in definitely

(01:47:46):
places where other creatures can eat.Yeah, you know, here here we
have a limited number of them inNorth America. Yeah, they've got several
over there, but they've got awhole bunch. Yeah they And if they
don't eat it, they got thosethat will crush you in the butter.
Yeah. You know though, honestly, the one that scares me most,
and I'm sure it's anybody who hasany idea where I'm going with this will

(01:48:09):
agree, is that durned hippopotamus.They'll run you down and eat you.
Yes, And they're very They're muchfaster than people ever realize. They're not
a slow past means. I lovethat video. I love the video that
the little tour boat that's putt putputting along the river and that one comes
running along the bottom up behind themand just darn there catches the boat and

(01:48:30):
I'm sure would have eaten the boat. All right, man, well listen,
I'll chip, I'll touch base withyour twenty down then, but please
please do Tony, thanks so much, yes, sir audios. All right,
we're take a little break here.Holy cow, are we have?
I got time? Bring it on, sub George. Tiktokktok TikTok. There

(01:48:54):
he is. What's up, George? How much of a boat booster it
is to be? And slow ofthe duck popes? But somebody said something
once the wrong bug and the wrongplace at the wrong time. Now,
probably between eighty five and eighty nine, I got a pretty bad bite the
cocker spaniel bid meet through the handthe metacarpus which between the wrist and the

(01:49:18):
fingers hung there. Yeah, andhe hung there towards the end of the
day, and so I went andpopped a couple of antibiotics. You know,
I'm just a two legged animal andtake care of four legged animals,
So what could possibly be wrong?Well, anyway, my technician called friend
of mine, David Camvill's ocecated surgeon, you're locally in super Land. And

(01:49:42):
I looked up and this orthopek surgeonwas standing there in my office. He
said, let me see him.He looked at it, said get in
the car and we went to thehospital. He put a hepron lock in
me and twice a day antibiotics ina splint, and he told me a
story of a fish named Galveston seenin the finger and twelve hours later did

(01:50:04):
a four quarter amputation. Now that'snot an amputation, that's an amputation of
the shoulder. Yeah. Now,my friend doctor Mandola at Richard Animal Hospital,
I women and helped him a littlebit, called me and he said
that doctor Mark, called doctor Markis one of the old old head old

(01:50:26):
school veterinarians still had it at nearlyeighty. I think that was Iw's brother.
Anyway, doctor Mark called no onesees his associate, doctor Slope,
who does a lot of white fishing, has had one of his legs amputated
from an incident in the fishing.Oh my gosh, and that's been in

(01:50:46):
the last couple of days. Wow. Oh yeah, man, Vibrio is
not Vibrio is absolutely positively nothing tomess around with. And anybody who doesn't
understand that needs to read up onit. And once again, there are
billions of exposures to salt water,probably even just in Texas every year,

(01:51:08):
and the odds of contracting it arevery slim. But you don't want to
be that one. You don't wantto be that Yeah, sure, but
I don't want to get hit.You know. Some of the more serious
back to your infection was fifty yearsago. Garden variety of compamives. Oh

(01:51:31):
yeah, all right, George,Yeah, I hate to shut shut you
down, but I got to getto this break here. All right,
Thank you so much. We'll talkagain tomorrow. I hope you call back
if you can. All right,but thank you. All right, We're
gonna take a little break. Thisis Sportstock seven ninety, Facebook dot Com,
slash sports Talk seven ninety. Backto the Doug Pike Show. One

(01:51:55):
minute, Melvin, Really, that'sall I got? In and out?
Well this is isn't that a Burgerplace? In and out Burger? I
don't know much? Sure, Matthewcalled, I gotta go to it first,
very quickly. The tree can Icalled I think six or seven different
golf courses. I called the peoplewho run them and said, okay,
how many trees did you lose withthis one? How many trees did you

(01:52:18):
lose the average? The average isabout seventy five or eighty trees per golf
course. All those trees are down, and the one tree I wanted to
fall so badly at black Hawk,standing proud, full of leaves, full
of limbs in my way, Ijust please come on for next time.

(01:52:41):
If we, God forbid, weever get another one of these, ever,
don't. I don't want another oneof these, But if we do,
I'm gonna get out there with mylittle leather Man microtool and just cut
a little notch in one side ofthat tree and just hope that's enough to
tell you. I don't want anybodyto notice. Uh, but I'm surprised
that it didn't follow over as manytimes I've hit it from the back.

(01:53:02):
There's enough. Oh well, okay, we're gonna talk about that a little
bit tomorrow. I will I oweMatthew some conversation about secret spots and how
to keep them secret, secret littlefishing spots. And boy, you were
really hard with all the websites andall that out there. Now it's kind
of hard to find them. Wewill be back tomorrow. We will play

(01:53:27):
the Texas Temperature Game again for anothertwosome down at Moody Gardens golf Course.
And if you haven't played there,it's really beautiful. It's a lot of
fun. That's it for me today. Get outside, refresh yourself, get
some outdoors under your without a rakein your hands, put a fishing ride
in your hand today, or agolf club. No more raking. I've
had about enough of that, andI'm sure you have to thank you,

(01:53:49):
Travis. I appreciate everything your guysdid and we'll continue to do for us.
That's it for today, Audios,

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