Final Round of the John Deere Classic

On this episode, Doug continues the discussion about the tragic Hill Country floods, looks forward to dove season, and much more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
But here we go Sunday this year. The program starts
right now. I don't know about you, but I watched
the Astros game yesterday evening started when at six o'clock,
that was so much better a West coast start that
was two hours ahead of typical. I hate it when
they started at eight o'clock because it's for me anyway,

(00:21):
it's a little bit difficult to stay up to the
end if it goes at anywhere, if it's anywhere along game. Now,
I didn't mind enjoying the eighteen to one whatever, eighteen
to something thrubbing they gave the Dodgers two days ago
last night. There were times when I was a little
bit worried about whether we would pull that one off

(00:43):
or not, But by gosh, we did, and I'm thrilled
for the astrosk It's remarkable how this team seems to
and I don't want to jinx them. I hope I'm
not going to jink it. I'm not a terribly superstitious guy,
so I think it's safe to say that it is remarkable.
With all the people they have missing for injury, have

(01:04):
I want to say it's either five or six starting
pitchers we have an entire rotation of starting pitchers who
are out injured.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
And.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Somehow, some way, we just keep rolling out people who
can pitch, who can field. Our infield is as good
as it ever was. Part is at third. I got
no problem with that. Holy cow, that guy can make
some plays, and it kind of it helps us remember
after having great players in certain positions for so long,

(01:37):
It kind of reminds us that the major leagues are
the major leagues, and the the starting players at any
position are going to be really, really good. Would I
trade Jake Myers for somebody else in center field? Probably not.
I like what he can do, But there's somebody else
out there who's who's on his level at least right now,

(02:00):
probably one of the hottest gloves in the outfield in
the major leagues. That guy makes some amazing catches. But
if you keep watching even the Astros games, a lot
of our own guy, a lot of our guys who
maybe sit the bench most of the time because the
starters are the starters, they get put in there, they
do amazing things. So hats off to the Astros and

(02:21):
hopefully they can sweep the Dodgers. Boy, wouldn't they be
embarrassed in their own home stadium. It's remarkable how many
times you hear let's go astros. Have you been listening
to the games or watching the games at all, Frankie,
I have not. That's okay, you're not required to. Oh,
there's a phone called grab that and I'll take you

(02:41):
off the hook. Go check in with Rick and get
him teed up. The state of Texas, I cannot go
any longer without mentioning what happened in the Hill Country. Again.
The whole state, and honestly most of the country just
continues to mourn the deaths of so many people in
that tragic flood along the couple days ago, and so

(03:02):
many kids. That's what bothers me the most. The death
toll dep depending on what story you read. The death
toll now is between forty two, which I saw in
one story this morning, and more than four dozen, which
is what MSN had it pegged at, and any number

(03:25):
below a zero or above zero. For me, it's just
too many people to lose in something like this. All
these stories of despair, of miraculous rescues, stories of heroism
that prevented the deaths from climbing even higher. The man
who ran that mystic camp. Mystic, the man who ran

(03:47):
that camp died trying to save some of those kids.
And for that he a lot of those families are
going to be a little bit better off. Let me
go to Rick and see what's up. Hey, Rick, what's
going on?

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Buddy, God bless America? Eight fly tires and first responders
eight ply tires.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
I hadn't heard that one in a while. Yeah, I
understand that that's the only way you're going to get
back into some of those places without tearing your vehicle up.
Holy cow.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Well, if I can't, can I comment on this tragic
flooding in the Hill country and like we yesterday.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
What you got? Yeah, it's still it's a very fresh wound.
I don't have a problem with that at all.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Rick, Well, I'm sitting down the time fit. Last night.
I had a bunch of guys. They one of them
has a place out there. I sold him probably thirty
years ago, big, big place right right right in that country.
And there was a game warden with me and we
were just sitting there talking about it, you know, like

(04:52):
a lot of people, well sure everybody, And we made
this observation, all of us being real familiar with their country,
and and actually the rancher brought it up first, and
then we all we chimed in. But if you take
where the populated rivers are in Texas for like a

(05:14):
fourth of July, Memorial Day or whatever Labor day, you know,
these are not whitewater rivers. You know, for a guys
in cac this is an inner to floating family rivers. Okay, rolling,
low rolling lazy rivers. All right, now this does not
apply to all of them, but I'm fixing to coment

(05:36):
on that it does the probably the more popular ones.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
All right.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
You take Ginger State Park, you take the camp Wood area,
you take up the upper and lower Frio. You take
this in closer end, you take the same gabriel uh
lower Colorado, and even the lower Gaudaloupi, and of course

(06:02):
always the Frio if you look, if you go to them,
which all of us are around the fire, seven of us,
we've all been all of them many times. For the reasons.
Most of the access roads down to the actual water.
The roads are four or five feet above the level
of the water. Okay, I mean take Garter State Park.

(06:24):
Drive down there in the park lot. You can see
the water from the back of the parking light on
the host. And I mean it ain't like downhill, like
you're gonna slide down there to it. So that water
has only got to come up five or six feet
and it's got you on the bank of that river. Yeah,
you go on YouTube. We were watching YouTube last night

(06:45):
in this group and it was showing calm water and
places people from high vantage points, and all of a
sudden it looked like a two sami coming down the river.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yeah, you were even close to that river in all
the junk and debris, you didn't have a chance. Pretty ugly,
I'm warning, is pretty ugly.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
You got anywhere in any time that water rises twenty
feet in less than an hour. Nobody's got much of
a chance, honestly, would you agree?

Speaker 3 (07:23):
I do. I'll make one more comment on the rancher.
The rancher took an unplanned twenty mile ride down the
Frio one time. Wow, he got caught up in it. Okay,
Now he loves his river, but he takes they go
to someplace up above Goard. You know, there's little camps

(07:44):
all up and down all these rivers. So what he
does is he he goes somewhere where you can take
golf course, okay, and where he rents his Inner two
might be two miles from the camp and he's going
to the the cabin. He goes to that Inner two
guy up there on up. They're a mile up or

(08:06):
you know, half a mile or whatever. He says, Hey,
can I park my truck and everything up here for
three days for one hundred dollars? And he gets unloads
his golf courts, he puts all of this camping stuff
on it or whatever, goes down the river, got his
smokey with him, barbe or you know whatever, and he says,

(08:27):
if there's any sign threat, he says he's going to
beat everybody out them there, because there's one way in
and one way up to most of them. Look look
at the Old River Road and corners at Blow Canyon
down twenty mile road in one way, there's fifteen twenty
thousand people down there.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Wow. Yeah, that's amazing.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
I just thought it was interesting that if you go
look at all these parks, most of them where people
are camping, and all they're not five or six feet
above the water.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, and five or six feet happened in fifteen and
it's in this one and that's not enough time to
do anything.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
That's a very good point, it really is it really yeah, absolutely,
thank you, thank you, sir, appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (09:12):
Rick.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
All right, let's go from one trusted, reliable voice to
another and go talk to Dave. Dave, what's up, man? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Hey, the first thing I'd like to thank you know,
all our first responders, Salvation Army, Red Cross and all them,
you know, because man, I've been through situations like in
the medical center when it flooded and if it wasn't
for Red Cross and then people they were feeding us
every day we were working.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Twenty four hours.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
And I know right now all those military guys and
our firefighters and police officers who are out there looking
and so God bless them.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah. Yeah, hey, and you know what I thought about.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
But I couldn't pass the physical tests to be a
deep water welder like the welder yellow rig. Yeah, but
I couldn't pass the test. But one thing I like
to watch is on these documentaries when they're going way
down there and they're they're seeing all these this life

(10:19):
that's down there, that's glowing in the dark and all
that kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
You know, it's you know it kind of uh make it.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Opens your eyes up to what the world is really does, Yeah,
it really does, man. And you know, h I saw
a deal on the whales, you know what, and oh
and there and they I saw a documentary on the
whales and they're trying to figure out what the kicks
are and actually they were saying it's like Morse code,

(10:48):
you know. So man, I'm like, you know that that
is pretty cool. They talk to each other and everything.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, they've got their own language and we don't understand
and much of it.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
And porpoises man always like a flipper.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
Yeah, he was.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
A quick side note on that one. I saw a
story just this week about how how Orca is the
big old killer whales will try to share their food
with people, and I thought, you know, I'm going to
pass on the on the on the seal sushi, but thanks,
thanks Orca.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
You know, hey, what about the Sea World down there
in Galaston? I got I still got my patch over there.
Yeah that was a long time ago. Huh yeah, and
I and then uh yeah, there was a oh I
think it was a deal on Star Trek you know
that that they had the they had to go get

(11:48):
the whales to bring him back, you know.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, let me let you get out of here. Yeah. Yeah,
it's always good for nature, mother nature. Yes, indeed, nature
can each up or it can amaze you the same day. Yeah,
thanks Dave Audios. All right, we got to take a
little break here and try to stay on time today.

(12:12):
Lots of business, lots of business to tend to. First up,
American Shooting Centers West Timer Parkway between Katie and Highway six.
You can't miss it if you're on that road, you
really can't. Big giant berms on the north side of
West Timer Parkway. Once you see those, look for the
for the entrance road. Drive in there. There's a little

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building up on top of a hill. That's on a
hill for a reason because during a storm here, that's
the watershed where the water goes so that it doesn't
flood a bunch of houses in town. There's a lot
of stories about that. We'll leave them alone. American Shooting
Centers has more than two hundred shooting stations, and that's

(12:55):
three sporting plays courses. There are five stands setups all
over the property. Ten trap in skeet Fields, a beginner's
wing shooting area. Pistol shooting starts at five yards and
continues out through the rifle stuff that goes all the
way to six hundred yards. Between five and six hundred
yards there is tucked away a cool little pop up

(13:16):
silhouette range for rimfire shooting, which is a very economical
way to get your kids excited about shooting if they're
shooting anything but rimfire these days, it gets expensive in
a hurry. They can burn little rounds all afternoon on
that rimfire range and not cost you a whole lot
of money. If you're not hitting the target you want,
if you're not breaking the targets you want, get some instruction.

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They have a professional instructors in every shooting discipline. American
Shooting Centers dot Com is a website American Shootingcenters dot com.
The rain we've been getting here ought to be kind
of a reminder to those of us who live anywhere
near the coast that we're in the middle of that season.
And I don't even want to say it out loud,
I really don't. What I'm trying to express, though, is

(14:01):
the urgency now that we're in it, to get your
trees checked out, get champion Tree Preservation send one of
its arboris over to your house and make sure that
your trees are strong and sturdy enough to get through
a good blow. Maybe they need a little trim, maybe
they need some food, maybe they just got to come out.
All of that can be done by Champions Tree Preservation,

(14:23):
and they own all their own equipment. Their experienced crews
are going to come out there after the arborus makes
those recommendations and make sure that your trees get whatever
treatment they need and if they do have to go,
if you have to lose one, they own a tree
farm and will help you pick out just the right
tree to replace that one that had to be taken out.

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Consultation is just a phone call away or a visit
to the website away to eight one three two zero
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eighty two zero one or Championstree dot com. That's Championstree
dot com. Pay twenty on Talk seven to ninety Dougpike Show,
Thank you for listening. I'm still I'm kind of rocked

(15:07):
by what happened up there and seeing so much, so
many emails about what can we do, what could we do?
What kind of early warning system could we have? And
I just I have a hard time understanding why there
can't be some sort of some sort of stick in
the water with sensors on it that trigger an alarm

(15:31):
when the water rises above that level. And if enough poles,
if enough activated poles were in the water far enough upriver,
there could be sirens going off. There could be when
And how hard would it be to have a We

(15:53):
can get one hundred different ring tones on our phones.
How hard would it be to set up a system
that gives you gives you one sound when the waters
come up three feet, another when it's up ten feet,
and then you really don't want to be around to
hear the third sound. It just wouldn't be that hard.

(16:16):
I can't see in my mind how that's so complicated.
You have a river, you know where the river's main
course is, and at every crossing, put in a warning signal,
solar powered so it never runs out of juice, And
put in a warning system and have sirens going off

(16:38):
very loud. Sirens, trigger phone calls, trigger text messages. When
the pole gets wet at a certain mark, everybody's phone rings,
everybody's phone rings. Does it seem that complex to me,
and I may be wrong because I don't know much
about that, but alarms you can. If you can set

(17:02):
a fire alarm, you can set a water alarm. There's
got to be away. It's so tragic. There is a
legitimate fund in place now at which you can donate
to the victims of this flood. I'm hoping our social
media team will get it onto the seven to ninety
website this morning, but I'm not certain that's gonna happen.
The actual url is quite complicated to which doesn't help

(17:23):
at all. But it lives somewhere within the community Foundation
of the Texas Hill Country site and you can find it.
Don't leave the show now, go open another tab and
go over to the news radio seven forty KTRH site
and there is a nice big block right there, smack

(17:43):
in the middle of the page. You'll see it when
you open the site. I'm sure. And if you don't,
send me an email, but yeah, these people they're gonna
need just pray for them. Oh my gosh, especially the
ones who lost their children. I just can't imagine their
grief right now, all the what ifs running through their heads,

(18:03):
running through their minds. God bless every one of those people.
This fund, by the way, is it's been vetted and
it's legit. And I know the people up there could
use some old fashioned Texas neighborly help about now. And
if you look at the debris field in the river
and where the river was, and you realize just how

(18:24):
much was lost, if you can, if you can identify anything,
if you can name something that a person might have,
it's in that riverbed right now, and that goes from
cars to cars to chapsticks. It's there because it got

(18:45):
wiped away by a horrible flood. A horrible flood. All right,
Moving on gently, which we must, Rudy found a story
that I wanted to bring up, and it's it's a
story of a another Florida charter captain being arrested. Only
this guy wasn't mad at somebody on another boat. This

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guy was mad because a shark. He blamed a shark
for breaking one of his fishing rods. He was mad
at that shark, and while it was boatside on a
fishing line, allegedly, before cutting the line and releasing the fish, allegedly,

(19:31):
he decided he would stab it several times before he
cut the line and let it go. And I haven't
seen the video yet. I haven't really gone looking for it.
I'm sure it's out there, but apparently there's a big
old bloody mess right around the boat where he'd stabbed

(19:51):
that shark a few times and caused it to believe,
and that got him. Twenty six year old guy got
him boat felony ca account of animal abuse. Animal cruelty
actually is the charge. I cannot imagine. I really can't
being in a state of mind that would lead me
to stab a fish that's messed up, and anybody who

(20:14):
thinks that's okay also messed up. We catch fish, and
if they're the right size, can take them home and
eat them. The law allows us to do that, and
I'm the next fish I take home certainly won't be
my first. I've kind of eased away from bringing home
fish because I much more enjoy the challenge of catching

(20:36):
them than the work that follows. When I want to
take one home and eat it, I haven't had one
in a while. I'll probably carve it up and bring
it home, but otherwise it's going right back in the drink,
so I can make another cast and try to catch
another fish. We catch fish and we can take them home.

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But most of us, now I would say, tend to
let all or most of our fish go. We release them.
We let them go back in the water, get bigger,
entertain somebody else throughout their lives. That's perfectly fine with me.
If I catch a a thirty four inch trout, thirty
four maybe wait a minute, let me back up a
little bit. If I catch a thirty three inch trout,

(21:19):
that would be my personal best. Okay, that would be
my personal best. I've already notched one thirty two and
a quarter a long time ago. But if I got
a thirty three, the law would allow me, with that
special tag to remove that one fish unless they changed
it since the last time I looked. But I'm not
gonna do that. I want that fish to be back

(21:41):
in the water as fast as possible. We're gonna get
a picture, don't worry. But I want it to be
back in the water fast as possible. I want it
to be healthy when it swims away. And somewhere down
the line, I want somebody who hasn't caught a fish
that big to catch it. Catch her again and again
and again until she turns she'll figure it out someday,

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but until she does, why not entertain a whole lot
of people. I wish there was some way safely and
without hurting the fish at all, that we could just
make some sort of little mark, some sort of little mark.
And I actually heard of some guys up one hundred
years ago down in Florida who took little hole punchers

(22:24):
with them onto the water. And I'm not recommending anybody
do this in any way, shape or form, but they would.
They would pull up the dorsal fin of the fish
they catch and just gently just pop one little hole,
that little quarter inch circle or whatever it is, into
the the the very fine middle between the two between

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the many spines of a dorsal fin, just that little
membrane there, just pop one little hole in it. It
probably would not impede the fish from feeding and going
on about its life. And again I'm not saying go
do this, but I just remember some guys we're talking
about doing it a long long time ago. Seven one three,
two one two five seven ninety Email me Dougpike at

(23:09):
iHeartMedia dot com. I'm still trying to figure out who
the heck would do that. Speaking of eating fish, by
the way, speckle trout still one of my favorites to
see on a plate, and the odds of catching one
continue to go up. We're a year and a quarter
into the new limits now, and I honestly thought we'd
be still hearing opposition to the three fish daily bag.

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If it's out there, it's it's relatively quiet and being
being championed by relatively few fishermen. Three fish you can
bring home fifteen to twenty inches and that's enough to
eat for a little while. Now I don't I'll tell

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you something else too. I don't foresee the Parks and
Wildlife Department changing that limit. And I've talked about this before,
but I'll do it again. I tell you we'll do
that when we get back. So I got a couple
of calls coming in and I need to stay on
schedule this morning for Frankie or he'll pull his hair
out before the end of the show. Black Horse Golf
Club out there, two ninety to Fry Road. Fry Road

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hang as south, go south for about two and a
half three miles, you'll see golf course on your right.
When you see golf course on both sides of the road,
put on your west blinker at that point and then
apply your brakes and then ease on endo the gate
right there. At black Horse North Course, still daily fee
always will be. South Course has been taking private. That

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happened first part of the year, and you're welcome to
go out and enjoy either one, depending on your membership options.
That membership in the South Course, by the way, there's
an option to that that gets you not only private
access to the South Course, but it also gets you
access to Blackhawk Country Club where I play a lot,

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and to both courses, to both courses over there at
Golf Club of Houston. So it's basically a five for one.
You get the two black Horse, you get shadow or
not Shadowhawk, that's a different level. You get Blackhawk and
you get the two Golf Club of Houston courses fantastic seven, one, three. No,
that's not what I want to tell you. I'm going

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to tell you that the email address real quick. I'm
multitasking and I never do well with that. Black Horse
Golf Club dot Com. Let's start with getting that right.
Go there and make yourself a tea time right now.
Talk about the membership options when you get there. Black
Horse Golf club dot com. How about a little day trip. Okay,
here's what you do. You start from wherever you start,

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and then you go to Belleville, and then you go
to Bellville Meet Market, and then you hand off the
list that you and your family made. On the way there,
you hand somebody behind the counter said we're gonna go
eat some lunch. We'll be back in a little while,
So you hand that list over you go. Depending on
where you're standing, six or seven, maybe eight steps to

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your left, there might be a line because there's always
somebody wanting to eat that delicious barbecue out there, all
the traditional barbecue stuff, all the fixings that go with it.
They've got the homemade hot dogs for the kids or
for you if you want them, original or cheddar cheese,
hamburger patties, stuffed pork, tender stuff, pepper stuff, mushrooms. You
can pile o all of that onto the list that

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you're gonna take home with you. Even they're big chuck
wagon patties, which are kind of like a wagon wheel.
They're a half pounds of beef with seasonings and just
loaded with cheddar cheese, loaded that barbecue. Lunch and dinner.
By the way, served seven days a week from ten
in the morning to seven pm. Pulled poor homemade hot
dogs on that list too. Get you some of that

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dry stuff too, the little road snack stuff. Okay, that
would be like beef jerky or turkey jerky, dry sausage,
dry stick, I love dry stick. Everything for grabbing go
snacking is at Belleville Meat Market. They are on High
Oh wait, thirty six by, fifteen minutes north of Sealy,
fifteen minutes south of Hempstead. If you can't get there,

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jump online. They'll send pretty much anything smaller than a
half a cow. I'm guessing right to your front door.
Belleville MeetMarket dot com. Belleville MeetMarket dot com. Hey thirty
five on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dugpike Show, Thank
you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. I got a
couple of calls to take care of. We'll line them
up in order, first Brandon, then David Brandon. What's going on,

(27:28):
my friend?

Speaker 3 (27:29):
Good morning, mister pie.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
I'm all right. Oh good uh.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
Hopefully we get to see some sunshine here. No rank
for a little while. Fingers crossed, yes, sir, definitely on
our knee. I've got a question were you got to
bring it up or what they're trying to propose for
bath and Bay.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah, you still gather in details. Jim Lavelle sent me
something a text message two days ago. I think it
was about a meeting that's coming up down there, But
I haven't seen any meetings scheduled for up here because
we're so far from Baffin Bay and they don't think
we care. There's an effort to because you know it's

(28:11):
gonna make it better if they start dumping. I think
it's a couple of I don't know, billion gallons a
day of desalination water. Some plant down there has got
a bunch of waste water that they want to dump
into Baffin Bay on a daily basis, every day, rain
or shine. This water's coming and I don't see any

(28:33):
reason to break or to fix something that's not broken.
I really there's nothing. Baffin Bay has always been hyper saline,
and the people behind this are trying to trying to
push this narrative that bringing the salinity down in Baffin
Bay is somehow gonna make it better. You can't make
a bay system that produces eight nine ten pound thirty

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two thirty three inch trout. Better leave them alone and
let them keep breeding and let them keep eating, and
it'll be just fine. I don't know what they intend
to prove, but I suspect that somebody's got a lot
at stake to get this passed. And that scares me.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Well, it scares me too, because you're talking to somebody
that's been born and raised in South Texas and that's
the most pristine place that you could ever go to
fish and it's just done naturally. God designed it that way,
and they should leave it alone. And they're supposed to
be a meeting in Kingsville, and they're supposed to be
a meeting and corpus crew. I don't know the dates,

(29:38):
but if we don't speak up and we allow these
people to do that, they're going to destroy that ecosystem.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
And guarantee, I guarantee you they're trying. Let me see
if I can find that email from him, it would
be next it be Tuesday, two days from now in Kingsville.
That's the first chance we have to says here from Jim,
A first chance to communicate all of our concerns about
thirty million gallons a day of treated water being pumped

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into Petron Hill Creek and Baffin Bay. That's my unnecessary
thirty million gallons a day.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
So I could sit there and tell everybody is go
to the meeting and then get your congressman, and then
I don't care you get Trump and Ball if you
have to, because that's that's just that's that's insane.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
Yeah, it makes just about as much sense in my
mind as Oh, I don't know filling up rollover pass.
How did In fact, it's probably it probably will be worse.
Now they're talking about how the water they're going to
be dumping into there isn't fresh. It's still it's still
saline water, it's just not as saline. So they're trying

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to bring the salinity levels of hyper saline baff And
Bay down. But I want to know why, because I
don't see any reason that the salmon salinity in baff
And Bay is an issue. Everything seems to be humming
right along down there.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
Well, it should be perfectly fine. Look at look at
all the great fish that come out of there. Oh yeah,
I mean yeah, yeah, it's I hope this is not
I'm praying that this does not fly through. Because somebody
has got some money involved in it.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
Yeah, and you know the problem I have with it?
It really what really scares me the most is how
long it's gonna take to see that the effect of this.
It's not gonna it's not like they're gonna open the
floodgates and it's gonna it's gonna become a wasteland in
twenty four hours. This is gonna take years, and somebody's
gonna look up at some day and go, man, how
did we ever let this happen? So I'm gonna I'm

(31:44):
gonna get some more people on it, and I'm gonna
try to find somebody who's on the pro side and
not on the con side to come and answer some
hard questions. I'll see if I can find somebody. All right, man,
thanks for the call.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
That be interesting to hear from Cliff Webb and see
what they can.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
I'll get Cliff and Gym on the phone. I will
for sure. Thank you man. It's a good call. Appreciate it,
sir very much.

Speaker 4 (32:06):
By sir.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
All right, let me go check in with David. See
what's up, hey, David? What's up?

Speaker 3 (32:12):
Man? Yeah, Doug, another topic my generous discussion, uh, the
big beautiful bill a couple of things came out of that.
Number one, the tax stamp on UH suppressors is no
longer going to be needed. You'll still need to go
through the ATF for your approval, but you won't have
to pay that two hundred dollars fee. Yes, I'm from

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from what I understand, it's going to start January one.
So if you're going to be looking at getting a compressor, aressor,
a suppressor around that around that time, you might you know,
kind of get your ducks in order or whatever, because
probably a lot of people are going to be trying
to buy them. Uh. And then also we have we
have I sent you a link about it. There was
a provision in that bill that would have made it

(32:53):
easier for the government to sell public land, which typically
you know, hunters and fishermen, we don't come out on
the good end to those those situations that it was removed.
Oh welly and I can remember when we lost thousands
of acres up in East Texas, Davy Crockett when the
federal government did a land swap is what they did.

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But again, anytime it happens, hunters and fishermen lose. But
just wanted to bring up those two topics. The suppressor
probably pretty significant.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Yeah, I think it will be a lot of people
will be looking to It may kind of create a
little rush on suppressors for a while. I have a
hunch show that the manufacturers are are gearing up. There'll
be enough. If you want one, you'll be able.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
To get one. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
I think it might be like black fighting. You know,
there's so many dollars out there that people are going
to be spending after the first of the year, or
maybe even now. I don't know, but that it will
maybe creat a little bit of a pressure work around
that time.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Hopefully, wouldn't that be had had one of those in
a long time. Yeah, I don't know how. Yeah, I
don't know how old a man you are, but I'm
old enough to remember the gas wars when I was
growing up over in Sharpshown and gasoline would get down
below twenty cents a gallon. It was just nuts. Yeah,
gone are those days. Yeah, thank you, David. It's great

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to hear from everybody. Audios. Ok, those two solid calls
right there. I appreciate both of them, no question about it.
Good happens. We're all ready to another break. This is
some it's kind of zooming this morning. Some days they zoom,
some days they crawl. This one's zooming, and we're gonna
zoom into a little conversation about fine cigars available from

(34:35):
El Cubano Cigars, one of only four dozen or so
manufacturing facilities of cigars in the entire United States, and
it's right down there in Texas City. This is an
opportunity for anybody who fancies themselves a cigar aficionado to
go down and learn more about cigars when you go

(34:56):
to the Texas City location. There's also one in League City,
a smoking lounge. The League City place is just a
smoking lounge. It's got roll up doors and the fresh
air is going through there. It gets a little warm
and sticky in the summertime, as you might imagine, but
that's okay. It's like being in Havana if you're not

(35:17):
in Havana for Havana.

Speaker 4 (35:18):
Havana.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
I can't believe I said Havana. That's horrible Havana. I hope,
I really hope Manny's not listening. Misspoke his his hometown.
So in any event, the cigar smoking experience there is fantastic,
and if you're there and in Texas City, talk Manny
into a little tour of the place, so let see

(35:39):
if you'll let you see what goes on behind the
scenes and how it works. I was lucky enough to
get that tour, and it really really fascinated me. There's
so much to know about tobacco, where it comes from all.
Almost almost all of their seed tobacco is from Cuban seed.
And he makes about one hundred and fifty different kinds

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of cigars. And then they're they're even more customized, more personalized.
If you've got clients you want to impress, have him
create bands with the client's logo. Have him create bands
for your golf tournament, fundraiser, or a wedding celebration or

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whatever whatever special occasion you think a cigar would be
a handy thing to have around and pass out to
your guests. Many can do that. He can also come
to your event and actually roll cigars right there on
the spot for your guests. It's a fantastic company, really cool.
He made some for us here at iHeart and they're
they're awesome. L Kubano Cigars dot Com. Any special event,

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anything you need, man he will take care of you
and there's there's no price jacks either. He's he He
mails out hundreds, if not thousands, cigars every day and
you're getting it. The reason he does that is because
he sells them to you at the manufacturer's price. There
are no two or three middlemen in the in there,
each picking off a dollar or two a cigar right

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from the maker. Manny Lopez elcubinocigars dot com, lcubinocigars dot com.
If you don't know anything about the CCA, it's Coastal
Conservation Association, Or you don't know about the Star tournament
that they sponsor every summer, allow me. The tournament's been
around for decades, okay, and it gives CCA members a
chance to win incredible prizes this year, almost two million

(37:30):
dollars worth for catching fish. What kind of prizes? How
about a boat, motor, trailer and truck to pull it
for catching a red tagged redfish. How about two thousand
dollars Academy gift card, an ATV, a trailer to haul
it on everything? Scholarships for the kids? Boy, how important

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is that? And what a great excuse if you need
one to get out of the door and get the
kids on the boat with you, or down to the
bay with you, or wherever wherever you think you might
catch a redfish. Wherever you think you got might catch
one of any of the fish that are qualified to
win prizes in the Star Tournament. Great Tournament, Great sponsors.
Go to the website and take a hard look at

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that sponsor list. Okay, I don't want to read them
all all right now, because it's a long list of
fine companies that I support them for supporting CCA. They
all support CCA. I do too, and I have sense
its inception, and so should you. That's why we have
a lot of the fish we have in the bays
right now. That's why that's our watchdog. That's our fallback.

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When something looks wonky with a fishery, we turn to
CCA and they patiently and confidently fix it. That's as
simple as that. Go to Star Tournament dot org, get
registered for the tournament. It goes all the way through
Labor Day. Still got plenty time to win some of
the biggest prizes you'll ever win in your life. Star
Tournament dot org, Star Tournament dot Org eight fifty on

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Sports Talk seven ninety Still trying to soak it all in,
just trying to figure out what's going on, what's going
on with that Hill country. It's so sad, so very
very sad. Oh, I got this from let me open
this up from Joe Bond. I would like to see
this real quick. I think it's good news on where
we are with the with the Sports Talk seven ninety.

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That's not it. I'll check in a minute. I'm looking
to see if we've got that website up where you
can go directly to make a donation to the tragic
situation up there in the hill Country. And I'm pretty
sure it's going to be taken care of here real
soon because what I was seeing there, well not what
I was seeing there earlier, is still there. I'll oh,

(39:48):
I should have refreshed the page. That's what I should
have done in any of it. Let let's let's slide
along a little farther. I'll get to that before the
end of the show. I promise you I will. If
you're not thinking all ready about Dove season, why not?
We are now at what is this the sixth of July,
and from the sixth of July to the first of

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September is a month and a week.

Speaker 4 (40:13):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
We're we're at the five week point. I can't even
I can't imagine how we got here so quickly. When
you fold them up at the end of last season,
it always seems like it's just gonna take forever to
be bird hunting season again. But it's it's fast upon us.
We're gonna have that opening up, dove season opening up

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on the first of September. Then comes our little nine
day teal season, which will be good. Don't think for
a minute that because we only have nine days and
not sixteen, that there just won't be any teal down here.
If you have water, you'll have teal. If you don't
have much water, well you're still gonna have teal. They're

(40:55):
just not gonna stick around. They're gonna ricochet off of
here if they don't splash when they land. So fingers
crossed for just enough water to keep the tell here.
You got to be really careful about wishing for rain
in the summertime, because sometimes nature misinterprets what you're asking
for and says, oh, you need rain, Oh you mean

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tons of rain. Yeah, sure, we'll drop that on you.
We don't need that along our coast.

Speaker 4 (41:21):
We don't.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
In fact, we're in pretty good shape up and down
the coast and all the way well down into South Texas.
There's a lot of work going on out on that
prairie now too. By the way, the people who the
people who run waterfowl outfitting companies, they don't just they
don't just fold up the tent after the last day
of the season. They just start doing different work. In fact,

(41:43):
I'm going to go out this week out onto the
Eagle Lake Prairie and ride around with Jeff and with
David Pruitt out there from Riceland Waterfowl Club and just
get a first hand look at what the prairie looks
like when there's no prairie birds on it. Well, there's
birds on it, waterfowl hopefully, And I would bet that

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there's gonna be plenty of water. I'll bet they're trapping
water as fast as they can, because every gallon you
can save now is a gallon you don't have to
pump if we run into a dry spell this summer.
They're good people out there, there are several there's some
good outfitters in El Kampo with Marshall. Yeah, I believe

(42:25):
that's it. Mitchell No, Mitchell, Yeah, Mitchell Holder great guy
hunted with him with the du Bunch a couple of
years ago and had a wonderful hunt. I want to
get back onto that Eagle Lake prairie though, too, with
rice Land and see it in all its glory, because
I know David's putting in more water this year, more
blinds all of that stuff. And it's not like he

(42:47):
has a crew of one hundred people out there working either.
It's usually just him and Jeff, Him and Jeff and
a shovel, maybe a chainsaw, but that's about it, and
a lot of sweat, a whole lot of sweat. He's
been doing that fifty years. Birds in South Texas going
to be good as well. All the timely rain that
they had down there and are have still gotten recently

(43:11):
is only going to it probably will trigger another hatch
for the doves and maybe even the quail, who knows
they're already quail all over South Texas. And just because
of the good conditions down there, the grass is going
to be super high, probably unless once again, unless we
go into an extended severe drought, it's going to be

(43:35):
up high enough where in a lot of pastures it
might be hard to see the antlers above the grass,
and if it's just a bunch of young does and
yearlings walking through there, you may not see them at all.
I've seen South Texas like that. I've seen it so
low that you can see the deer's ankles everywhere they
walk in horrible drought years. And I've seen it so

(43:56):
high that unless it's a big mature buck standing up
trying to look over the tops of it looking for girlfriends,
you may not see them. You may not see them
at all. Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia Dot. Come I am.
I'm I'm gonna set some vacation plans. I haven't yet,

(44:17):
but I'm getting closer to doing that because I need
some time to truly compress. The last several trips I've
made out of town have been for other for purposes
other than fishing or playing golf for any of that.
They've been baseball tournaments. They've been college campus tours. And

(44:41):
now it's time for time for Doug to tee it
up somewhere and maybe well aligne with some old friends.
I got a couple of plans in mine.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
One.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
I've got a trip to Florida that I want to make. Actually,
I'm gonna have to make two trips, because I've got
to make an East coast trip to go fish with
Mark Nichols some more, and I truly want to make
a West coast trip. I've been swapping text messages with
Jeff Page, who I met actually during Ada event one
year with Mark Nichols over on the East coast. Jeff

(45:12):
came all the way over from the West coast because
he and Mark were friends and he was guiding some
of the media members there. I happened to be one
of the ones he guided, and we hit it off.
We fished the same, We we appreciate the resources the same,
and I'm cooking up a plan that's an awesome piece

(45:33):
of the coast too. My son, by the way, got
to do a little fishing where he is, and it's
not around here. He and some buddies got off shore
over there in Florida, on the West coast of Florida
and everybody else. He sent me a text message last
night and a couple of pictures. Everybody else, he said,
was using a live bait and dropping it down deep

(45:55):
and they were catching all kinds of stuff and my
son saw a rod on the boat that had a
little feather jig tied on it, or maybe a nylon jig,
I'm not sure, but whatever it was, it was a lure.
And he said, hey, man, can I throw that for
a little while? Yeah, I says, sure, why not? Now, Baron,
he's on a boat with a bunch of teenagers, so

(46:15):
they're not exactly setting world records or anything. But anyway,
first two casts. First cast a little benito about maybe
five six pounds. Second cast about a three pound dorado.
Beautiful little fit boy. Think that would have made some
sweet savici. I bet it would. All right, we got
to shut down this hour and start up the next

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on the way out. But speaking of Riceland Waterfowl Club,
what timing is that? Ego Lake Riceland Waterfowl Club. That's
David Pruett. He's been running that company since he opened
it fifty years ago. This is their golden anniversary, and
I don't know what he's got cooked up. I don't
know whether there's going to be a party. I don't
know whether there's going to be any kind of a celebration.
But anybody who can do the same job for fifty years,

(47:00):
I gotta tip my cap to him. And the reason
he's been in business for fifty years in the waterfowl
hunting business is because he is so good at making
sure there's plenty of water, making sure the blinds are
far enough apart, making sure everybody has an equal shot
at getting the good spots on any given day during
the season. There's no favoritism. He also doesn't do any

(47:23):
guided hunting on any of his properties. If you are
not a member or a member's guest, you're not going
to be hunting out there. It's just them and they
for that many years, for fifty years, seems to have
worked out really really well for everybody involved. If you
didn't have a great duck season last year, a lot

(47:44):
of hands probably went in the air. Just about then,
you might want to look at Riceland Waterfowl Club. It's
a great operation right there in the heart of what's
kind of what's left of the big prairie that we
used to all get to hunt. But he's got the
right spots pinned down, he's got the right blinds where
they belong, and he's got plenty of water to hunt

(48:05):
for all those ducks that come down here. Ricelandwaterfowl Club
dot com, Ricelandwaterfowl Club dot com. All right, here we go,
second and final hour of today's program starts right now.
Thank you all for listening to the nine o'clock hour,
when traditionally I will take a look at the the
PGA Tournament DuJour, and that would be the fourth and

(48:27):
final round of the John Deere Classic ongoing over at
where are they? I can't even remember. They're up in
the north. Had TPC deer run? That's what it is.
David Thompson managed to distance himself one shot from the
field at the end. He'd kind of rallied back and
made a late birdie to get himself to fifteen under

(48:49):
par through three rounds of play. A sixty eight, a
sixty three, and a sixty seven yesterday, and that was enough.
There weren't a whole lot of low score yesterday. In fact,
I'm looking and I don't see. Yeah, I don't see
anything else that really steps off the page. I don't know. Yeah,
there's another six, there's a sixty six. Kittyama shot sixty six,

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and Austin Eck wrote shot sixty seven. Will now see
a couple more of those. His though Thompson's put him
in first place, so he starts today alongside David Lipski,
who is one shot back at fourteen. Also at fourteen
Emiliano Grio, Max Homa and Brian Campbell, and then nobody

(49:34):
at thirteen. Two shots off the lead and a full
sleeve behind. You got four guys Kitty Yama, Austin Eck wrote,
Seema's Power, and Camilla vi Jagas and then it's five
elevens and about seven or eight, six or seven tens,
none of whom I think will be in the conversation
at the end.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
Of the day.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
I'm I don't know if I feel like I'm getting
kind of jaded. Like the score, it's just automatic that
somebody's gonna go out and and shoot a super low
round today and maybe win by two. And it may
not be anybody up at the top of the leaderboard
right now, but they won't get there from past about
three back because they're just there're just too many people
to step over, and they're all great players, and they're

(50:16):
all at the top of the leaderboard. It's quite unrealistic
to think that that many people. Let me see where
the where the elevens come in even the elevens takes
you to fifteenth fourteen places. That's fourteen people who are
at at eleven under par or excuse me, yeah, fourteen

(50:38):
people who are eleven under par or better. And it's
gonna be one of those fourteen. I wouldn't bet outside
that window. Set one three two one two five seven
ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Kind of
hoping to get to play tomorrow, but I've got also
got an afternoon errand that it's a must run unfortunately,
And usually I like taking my Monday's off to go

(51:00):
out and play with the guys out at Blackhawk, but
this one might, I don't know, it might be special circumstances.
We'll have to see. I'm also wanting to get back
down South. Oh, by the way, let me see there
was a I wanted to go back to my phone
and check the text message for oh, look at Matt
skaddenbragging on my way to Horseshoe Bay for the STPGA. Oh,

(51:23):
the South North Texas team championship, both sections wearing pink
pins and honor and remembrance that those lost and missing
by the floodwaters. Pretty great thing.

Speaker 4 (51:33):
We're doing.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
Yes, it is, Yes, it is. Thank you Matt for
letting me know that there's a reason he's going to
play for the South team. It's because he's really good.
I still haven't gotten a chance to play golf with him,
and I'm afraid that he's so good and I'll be
so embarrassed by some of the shots that I hit.
Although anybody who's at that level in golf has already

(51:57):
played in enough pro ams, enough charity events and all
of that that they've pretty much seen almost everything. I
think they could see. Back in the day, I could
have wowed them with a with a slice over a
house and into someone's front yard. I never did set
off a car alarm in anybody's driveway in the front yard,

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but I've hit a lot of rooftops, and it takes
a special kind of slice to deliberately start the ball right.
I'm left handed, start the ball like right edge, hoping
you'll get back to the middle. And then back in
the day, when I had better clubhead speed, I could
I could whistle one all the way across the fairway,

(52:40):
across the roof and either into a backyard or onto
a rooftop, and those make different sounds, you can tell
which one it is. I also up at Lake Conroe once,
many many years ago in a tournament. This is it's
so long ago that Jeff Bagwell was introduced as an
incoming Astros rookie. That's how long ago that tournament was.

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And I actually managed to hit a ball into a
swimming pool down one of the fairways, which wouldn't be
a big deal except for the fact that this swimming
pool was no bigger than the studio I'm in. It
was like my ball had a magnet, a water magnet,

(53:25):
and a lot of people who don't play well know
about that. It was like it was just it was
looking for water. It went looking for water. And we
saw a splash when the ball hit way down the fairway.
We were going away from the clubhouse. I remember that.
I don't know what hole it was. It's up at
that Margueriteville whatever, and I can't remember what the name

(53:46):
of the place used to be before that. But we
saw a big splash. I thought, oh man, it went
that guy's pool. And then we got up there and
the pool was about the size of a refrigerator laid
on it side. It was just so small and I
managed to put a ball in. It probably won't be
the first ball I hit into water or the last
ball I hit into water, and it certainly was not

(54:07):
my first either. I've settled my swing down a little bit,
and it may be because I just can't hit it
as hard or as far, so maybe the mistakes aren't
magnified like they used to be. I noticed that if
you ever play, or if you're ever invited to join
a group of women who are playing, mostly this is
not a and this is not a knock. This is

(54:29):
actually a compliment. They are comfortable with their slower swing speeds. Typically.
I've also watched a lot of college golf. College women
play golf, and then they can knock it down there
a mile and hit it straight. Tommy Tommy O'Brien's daughter
Abigail playing for Houston Christian University. Now she can flat

(54:50):
play the game of golf. But mostly the older women
who are enjoying the game of golf hit it straight
and straight and straight. They may hit it more times
than you to get on the green, but you rarely
see one of them walking out into the woods or
walking the edge of the water looking for their ball,
which it's starting to appeal to me. Actually, I saw

(55:13):
one guy on Facebook just commenting about playing from the
forward ts whatever you want to call them, and he said,
he said, it's not a condemnation. It's not something you
should be ashamed of. In fact, playing golf from the
forward tes is a reward for still playing golf at

(55:34):
your age, whatever that may be, or for whatever reason
you have to go up there. You're still playing golf.
You're still able to enjoy the game. So don't get
two worked up about not being able to hit it.
As far as everybody else in the group, I'm seldom
the longest hitter. Although on Friday, on whole number ten,
after I'd had a really rough front nine, I absolutely

(55:57):
smoked a drive past three guys that I know on
a day in, day out, basis can out drive me.
Whole number ten. That was my highlight reel. Hit a
little just a little little low cutting, hoping stop, shot
in there to about seven feet and then missed the pot.
Of course, my putting's gone south. Let's just leave it

(56:21):
at that. Seven one three, two one two five seven ninety.
Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Huh oh, Alan
is wondering why he can't hear the show right now, Frankie,
and I don't know. Let's see what this says here.
Let's see his email real quick. Um, that's that's odd.

(56:41):
That maybe a text message. I'm not sure. Are we
up and running? We're good, right, we're broadcasting. Okay, very good.
Then it's me who knows. I'll find out wherever that
came from. Says all right, yeah, here it is. No,
we're not offline, Alan, but I guess if I'm saying
that to you and you think we are, it may
be a streamy issue or something like that. Give it

(57:02):
a minute. That should pass pretty quickly, right, shouldn't be
a big deal. All right, Well, in any event, this
too shall pass, I'm sure, and I'll text him in
a minute. I'm gonna go ahead and go ahead and
take it. If that wasn't redundant, I don't know what
it was. It was almost like a time warp. I'm
going to go ahead and take this break a little

(57:24):
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on and make sure the juicy bits of the show
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your cause a little bit. It's always fun to get
a new gun, it really is. I've got plenty of them,
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All the calibers they've got amo to go with every
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(01:00:38):
This is an old school gun store. Jerry and JTK
Jerry especially, he's the dad, Jay's the son. They're both
outstanding in what they do, and Jerry has for forty
something years been turning on the lights and opening the
door every morning to make sure that anybody and everybody
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about fixing problems with guns. I've had so many listeners
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they couldn't fix that gun, and usually for a lot
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They just want everybody to enjoy the shooting sports. They
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Shooters Corner TX dot com. Scotne all right, welcome back

(01:02:29):
nine to twenty on Sports Talk seven to ninety. We've
got all kinds of things to tell you about. First
of all, Captain Scott waited in. Captain Scott has put
his heavy equipment on the trailer and he is joining
up with a volunteer fire department to head up into
the hill country and try to clear roads and get
debris out of the way so that those people up

(01:02:52):
there doing the really hard work. And I'm not saying
what he's gonna do isn't hard work, but they're gonna
be up there and all hands on deck. Anybody who's
got time and got the equipment maybe to help out
like that. I bet they'd find something for you to
do up there, even if it's just putting hot dogs

(01:03:12):
together for people who are getting something to eat. I
got kind of a funny email back when we were
all so worried about being offline here a minute ago,
poor Frankie and me Alan put us into a tizzy
worrying about the broadcast. He goes, sorry about that first email,

(01:03:34):
but one of the guys I played with yesterday, Remember
the reference was to offline, and he says, one of
the guys I played with yesterday managed to hit the
maintenance shack at Memorial off number eight. Offline was a
reference to his bad golf shots. Okay, now it all

(01:03:58):
comes together and makes sense. Now it all comes together,
Holy cow. Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. Also,
I got an email from let me see if I've
got it up here on this source s yet, so
I don't have to try to read it off the
little source. Good morning, Doug. This is from another Doug, actually,

(01:04:20):
he said, traveling back from Colorado and streaming your show
this morning through the Panhandle. Thank you for doing that,
by the way, I really appreciate it. Two things. First,
the basis for an emergency alert system exists with the
Amber Alert system, and that's true that that would be
the foundation they could start from. And secondly, the city
of Corpus is moving forward with designing a large desalination

(01:04:42):
plant to provide water to the Corpus area. I'm guessing
this thirty million gallons a day of discharge is a byproduct. Yes,
that's exactly what I'm hearing it is, Doug is it's
a byproduct of the desalination.

Speaker 4 (01:04:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
So what I don't understand though, is why this has
to be dumped into baff and Bay. I know they
have a problem with fresh water that's been talked about
for the last several months. Down there, I was down
there actually just yeah, we could go today, we could

(01:05:21):
go today. I was standing out at a twenty five
thirty mile an hour wind trying to cast lures and
not having any trouble casting. I just had a lot
of trouble catching. It was that way. I do understand
the need for fresh water, but I hope they can
come up with some alternative to dumping that much. Taking

(01:05:44):
that much water out of the Gulf of Mexico, I
guess is where they're going to get it, I don't know,
and then dumping that into I'm not sure where they're
gonna get it. I guess they would have to take
it out of the bay, then desalinate it, and then
dump it back in the bay. There's there's a lot
of moving parts to this thing, and I'm gonna I'm
gonna stay on it and try to figure it out.

(01:06:04):
But yeah, that's that's the issue. They want to create
a lot more water for Corpus CHRISTI, and I guess
so they can just grow the city even bigger and
put up some bulkheads and some beach houses. And I
don't begrudge anybody a coastal home if they can afford
it and want it, more power to them. I would
never deny somebody that option, but not at the expense

(01:06:28):
of a big bass system. That would That would bother.

Speaker 4 (01:06:30):
Me a little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:06:32):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety email
on Medugpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Let me go into
my emails here and double check some stuff. Ah, poor
Mojo a last, poor Mojo having to fall back on
a uh backup email system. Apparently, Mojo, as are we

(01:06:53):
dealing with sun spots or a full moon? Not that
I know of. It might be with the provider you
guys have up there now, and we Mojo and I
exchanged emails about a certain provider that's making a big
splash all around Southeast Texas, apparently coming in, digging up stuff,

(01:07:14):
putting in stuff. When they came through my neighborhood, they
somehow poked a hole in a sewage line and caused
sewage to back into one of my neighbors homes. That
wasn't really pleasant to deal with. And now apparently up
there where Mojo is there are issues with the service

(01:07:37):
being provided as well. You know, all of this electronic
stuff is great, but when it goes out, we're kind
of left standing there staring at each other. I do
I am encouraging with what Doug talked about. I'd never
thought of the missing persons at Amber alerts and the

(01:07:59):
Silver Alert, and they have alert for everything else where.
We all if we haven't turned off the notifications to
our phones, which if I had a place in the
hill country, I'd never turned that thing off, not unless
I had built my house on the top of a
hill on which I had put another twenty feet a dirt.

(01:08:19):
But that would be at least a starting point for
something to talk about, something that could help prevent something
like this from happening again. And Rick made a great
point earlier where he noted that in a lot of
these parks along these rivers, the parking lots, which is
that's your escape route. You have to be able to

(01:08:41):
get out of the parking lot. But if the parking
lot is only five feet above the river level and
you experience a rise like we had there, that would
mean that anybody who was not in their car with
the engine running would have to get back to shore,

(01:09:02):
back to that parking lot, gather everybody they could find,
throw them in the car within about fifteen minutes based
on the rise level of this tragedy. We had a
couple of days ago, twenty something feet in less than
an hour. It was about forty five minutes to an hour,
depending on who you ask and what story you read.

(01:09:25):
That's not a long time for the water to come
up that fast. That's who I've been looking for. Go
ahead and just set him up.

Speaker 3 (01:09:32):
I know who it is.

Speaker 1 (01:09:33):
Just go ahead and make it where I'm grab him. Yeah, absolutely,
come on, there we go. Okay, there you hey, Robbie,
what's up?

Speaker 3 (01:09:41):
Man?

Speaker 4 (01:09:42):
Oh man?

Speaker 5 (01:09:43):
Just trying to enjoy a fourth weekend with a big bummer.

Speaker 4 (01:09:49):
On top of the way.

Speaker 6 (01:09:49):
I know.

Speaker 7 (01:09:51):
In the country, you know, there's all when things like
this happen, there's so many experts that come out of
the woodwork, and I'm no means I'm an expert at all,
but what you know, the.

Speaker 5 (01:10:05):
Discussion of early warning systems and things like that, they're
they're vitally important.

Speaker 7 (01:10:10):
But also you just have to people have to understand
that in that particular spot, the headwaters of the quad
Loop only began fifteen, maybe less than twenty miles away
from where that flooding occurred. And there are two branches
of the Guatallyup that come together, There's a north and
the south. That water was sheet draining off a huge

(01:10:33):
hills in such a rate into a narrow valley and
was probably moving at a very rapid clip cliff clip,
I'm sorry, And it just.

Speaker 5 (01:10:45):
Didn't have to travel that far, and.

Speaker 7 (01:10:50):
You could, you could create an early warning system, but
it only probably began several miles above where it were
really built up.

Speaker 4 (01:10:59):
And I wasn't there, and I don't know, but but.

Speaker 7 (01:11:04):
Okay, the horns going off, but if you're down on
the river bank, it doesn't take twenty eight feet.

Speaker 4 (01:11:10):
Of water over your head to wash you away.

Speaker 7 (01:11:12):
At water will got speed if it's a foot deep,
you're off your feet, and it's too late, and it's
just it's it's really sad. I mean, it's a beautiful
area of the state. There's no telling how many people
go out there every summer and float that river.

Speaker 3 (01:11:27):
And and.

Speaker 7 (01:11:29):
You know, of course people get all worked up when
things like this happen, and they should and and they'll
they'll come up with something they're going to have to
just to quiet the crowd, so to speak. But it's
that river does flood often, right, does it? Does it

(01:11:51):
come up to the top of the you know, to
the levels where it did?

Speaker 8 (01:11:56):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:11:57):
I mean maybe every hundred years. And I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:12:02):
It's it's it's a tragedy. It's bothered me.

Speaker 7 (01:12:05):
It's you know, I know some people that were involved,
and I'm not going to use any names, but it
touches home to a lot of people because no question why,
simply they've been they've been there and enjoyed it and
they floated it. And now this happens, and you know,
would a warning system work? Can it even be done?

Speaker 4 (01:12:27):
I don't know. I don't have the answer.

Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
Yeah, that's that's kind of where I am. Robbie. I
want to see something done. But I'm not at all
going to say and this is how you should do it,
because I'm like, you know better than I. You're up
there on the edge of the hill country where you are,
and you've seen a lot of water probably moved through
your place and been glad you were up on top

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of the hill.

Speaker 7 (01:12:51):
But there's go ahead, Well this is true, and they're
suggests that there's a whole lot of people in the
outdoor or that want to go enjoy the outdoors and
have it out and get out of the city, get
out of the city that maybe through a new no
fault of their own, just don't possess what I call
spatial awareness. I mean I tend to tell I'm sort

(01:13:15):
of a weather nerd. I watch what's coming. That rain
was predicted, not for that exact spot, it was predicted
over a very wide range, perhaps from San Antonio all
the way up to Waco. There's no way to pinpoint
where that kind of an event is going to happen.

Speaker 4 (01:13:31):
But you know, I.

Speaker 7 (01:13:32):
Probably would have chosen another weekend to go sit on
the side of the guadaloop just by seeing what the
potential is.

Speaker 1 (01:13:41):
You know what the problem you know what the trouble
with that is, though, Robbie, people don't have an alternative weekend.
This this is there, This is the fourth of July weekend,
and by gosh, we're going and so I you know,
and that's.

Speaker 6 (01:13:54):
I can't argue with that. Yeah, and that's true. But
you know, oh yeah, I mean, I mean, you don't.

Speaker 7 (01:14:05):
Want to go if it's just a general rain. I
don't want to go sit out in the general rain
for a weekend in a sommer. But but there were
forecasts for substantial rain, but somewhere within a very very
wide range. And I assume that storm it was just
the remnants of that tropical thing that happened down in Mexico.

(01:14:25):
When or So goes, you know probably you know, it's
the way it just sat there and you can see
it's been a little bit. It was trapped by you know,
whatever upper air hearing currents there are, and it just
sat there and and I mean it's they'll they'll get
something figured out, right, And in the meantime, you know,

(01:14:47):
the structure loss and things like that, that's inconsequential, that's what.

Speaker 1 (01:14:51):
That's nothing.

Speaker 5 (01:14:52):
And if they want to rebuild, they'll rebuild.

Speaker 7 (01:14:54):
It's the other things that are you know, because it
will affect a lot of people for you know, we'
trajectory of a lot of people's lives.

Speaker 1 (01:15:02):
Rus it will. Man, I'm glad you call really because
I know you you live where you can see how
that sheeting happens. That all that water is moving so
fast down here. We're not accustomed to seeing water move
that fast. We're accustomed to it just hanging around. And
then you look out a couple hours later and it's gone,
uh up there, it's coming, and it's coming right now.

(01:15:23):
And that's that's what scares me, is uh, not being
able to have any warning at all if you're if
you're downriver, like I said earlier, if you're downriver and
you can't get back to your vehicle for thirty minutes,
that's that's gonna be a big problem.

Speaker 6 (01:15:40):
But yeah, I mean, yeah, it's it's it's a unique
it's a unique spot.

Speaker 8 (01:15:46):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:15:47):
I mean it's I mean it's you have a lot
of really high hills made of rock.

Speaker 4 (01:15:51):
No water's being absorbed.

Speaker 7 (01:15:52):
Yeah, and when it's coming down at that kind of
a clip, it's flowing into very narrow valley and There's
only one way that water can go, and that's up.
And I had no idea what the current speed was,
but that thing had to be moving that initial push.

Speaker 1 (01:16:09):
It was moving fast. Oh yeah, it was absolutely ripping
faster than you can faster than you can run. Yeah,
no doubt, you know, that's for sure.

Speaker 7 (01:16:17):
And like I said, it doesn't take you know, if
you're in knee deep water that's moving like that, Just
imagine being in this, you know, the first gut on
a big tide when you're out fishing in the surf.
I mean, I mean it's pushing you down, you know,
hopefully parallel to the shore, not out, and you can't.
You're not stronger than that water.

Speaker 1 (01:16:36):
No, nobody is. Nobody is man. So well, look, yeah,
I'm glad to hear from you. And what it's done
is generated a lot of conversation and that's exactly what
needs to start. And then we'll let people smarter than
us figure it out.

Speaker 4 (01:16:49):
Huh yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:16:50):
And I will say this and then I'll let you go.
I'm not a I'm not a huge fan of our governor.
I am very conservative, but I will say this. The
response from the state of Texas top to bottom has
been phenomenal.

Speaker 1 (01:17:04):
It has, I agree with.

Speaker 7 (01:17:07):
And and they were as ready as they could be.
They knew something was coming, they just didn't know exactly where.

Speaker 1 (01:17:13):
Yeah, I don't think anybody expected what we got.

Speaker 4 (01:17:15):
Either.

Speaker 1 (01:17:15):
Twenty feet of water in forty five minutes. That's just unpressed.
It's got to be unprecedented. That's just so much.

Speaker 7 (01:17:22):
Well, yeah, I mean it's you know, it's it's come
up before my shirt, it's ever come that hot. Well,
it probably has before there were structures there. Yeah, but
you know, but that camp, it's been out there basically
one hundred years. They wouldn't keep rebuilding a camp that
got washed away every other year, so you know.

Speaker 1 (01:17:41):
Point all right, Robbie, great to hear from you, my friend.
All right, Tare, But yeah, we'll be talking about Argentina
before you know it. You watch absolutely, I'm ready to man,
I don't want to go back there. We'll talk audio, okay, now,
oh yeah, that's Robbie Granger. He is the man behind
Excited Outdoors. I made a trip with him down to

(01:18:02):
Argentina years ago and got exposed to some stuff that
I'd never seen before, just awesome stuff. We'll be talking
about that come fall seven one, three, two, two, five,
seven nine. You got to take a quick break here
on the way out. Champion Tree Preservation one more time.
All these rains and whatnot around here, the potential for
even worse stuff that ought to get your attention. And

(01:18:25):
if you got trees that you look at and think,
you know, that tree's been there a whole long time.
It looks okay, but I'm not sure. Get Champions Tree
Preservation to bring an arborist out to your house and
let them take a look at that thing. Whatever it needs.
It may need nothing, you might be you might roll
the dice and get a good solid report. You know what, sir, ma'am.

(01:18:46):
All your trees look great. They're strong as bank vaults.
They're not going anywhere. He's a thank you very much.
I appreciate that, and they'll shake your hand and walk away.
If there's a problem, they'll explain how they can fix
it all the way up to it, including yanking that
whole tree out of the ground and putting a brand
new one in there. Because they happen to own a

(01:19:06):
tree farm, they can do that. They own all their
own equipment, too, which is really nice because they don't
have to be thinking about, wondering where they're gonna rent
something to come to your house next week, and then
it gets postponed because somebody got to it first. No,
Champions Tree Preservation owns all their own stuff. They have
all the equipment they need to come take care of
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On Sports Talk seven ninety good Heaven Summos breakdime again
for the last break of the program. I am watching
the video that Allen referenced in an email just a

(01:21:18):
minute ago from the New York Post that shows the
river rising about twenty feet within a matter of thirty
seven minutes and coming downstream with all that water is
ton after ton after ton of debris. It's fascinating. I'm

(01:21:39):
gonna go watch that again when I get off the air,
and just I don't know how anybody could have survived that.
I really don't. Hey, folk, pro what's up my friend?

Speaker 4 (01:21:49):
What's going on? Buddy?

Speaker 1 (01:21:51):
You know, just trying to get through the end and
get a little work done over at my desk.

Speaker 8 (01:21:56):
There you go, man, I'm on my way to nice
little old Mexican break buffet that have it Libby Ship
from eight to twelve every Sunday.

Speaker 1 (01:22:04):
Does he sound bad?

Speaker 4 (01:22:06):
Now? You You walk out of there in pain, But
it's all worth.

Speaker 1 (01:22:10):
He gotta loosen your belt a little bit. Oh yeah, pants, exactly,
that's good.

Speaker 3 (01:22:16):
I was talking.

Speaker 1 (01:22:17):
Go ahead, I'll go it.

Speaker 3 (01:22:18):
No, no, no, okay, Well I was, Uh I was.

Speaker 8 (01:22:21):
I was at a cookout Fourth of July cookout and
a down there in a winfree down there, and uh,
I talked to a guy that he has a buddy,
he's won a pretty big prize, significant prize the last
two years of the CCA tournament. Yeah, okay, and he
was told that if he won another equivalent prize this year,

(01:22:44):
he couldn't fish it again for seven years.

Speaker 4 (01:22:46):
Have you heard of anything like that?

Speaker 1 (01:22:48):
Yeah, there there is. I don't remember exactly what what
little rule that is, but I think it's like, okay,
give somebody else a chance and.

Speaker 4 (01:22:57):
He fishes there, he fishes in a lot, you know,
his his odds are greater.

Speaker 1 (01:23:03):
Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I have heard. I have heard
of that. I don't know where it is and the
rules or exactly how it it triggers, but yeah, it's
just like, okay, you've done enough damage.

Speaker 4 (01:23:18):
You know, he's done pretty good. I need to find
out where.

Speaker 1 (01:23:20):
Apparently, Yeah, no kidding, man, he's stumbled on to where
some of these fish are. If it's if he's catching
really big sheep's head or gaf top or something like that.
There was a family years ago when I was at
the newspaper that every year some member of their family
was winning the gaff top division, I mean every year

(01:23:42):
folk pro and I think that might have been even
what kind of started that rule because they were just
dominating the category. I think the last name. Well, I
don't want to say it because I don't want to
be wrong, but anyway, yeah, they were. Every year somebody
from that family was in. That's crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:24:02):
I don't recall if like biggest fish or it was
a tag fish or what.

Speaker 1 (01:24:05):
Probably the biggest because those tag fish are hard to catch.
That's a that's a one in a bajillion thing. There's
a lot of there's a lot of red fish out
there swimming around, and to catch one of those tag ones,
it's that's pretty random, even though they do release them
in places where they hope they'll be caught. Yeah, for sure,

(01:24:25):
there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:24:27):
I had something else on flooding, but I can wait
till next week. If you're up against it.

Speaker 1 (01:24:31):
Yeah I am a little bit. If you want to
hold on, we can. We can do it at the
end because I've just got a quick in and out
for Cca speaking out right now, all right, hang on
to drive? So okay, yeah, hang on one second. All right,
let's get this last breakout of the program. Then Forrest
and I will will wrap her up.

Speaker 3 (01:24:47):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:24:47):
If you don't know about Cca Star Tournament and the
the prizes you can win it. It ranges everywhere from
two grand at academy to five figure and six No,
it's not six figures. Five figure scholarships for the kids
and all kinds of stuff in between, boat, motor, trailer

(01:25:08):
and truck packages, all kinds of ATVs, you name it,
they've got it. In the prizes. If you like the outdoors,
you're gonna love the prizes you can win in the
Star Tournament. Gives you a great excuse to go fishing
every time you turn around, a great excuse, and you
just got to plead your case. Hey, you know it's
for the kids. We want to educate them, So we're
going to go catch up prize winning fish and you

(01:25:29):
get to take the whole family fishing again all summer long.
The tournament runs through Labor Day and so long as
you are a member of CCA and you have signed
up for the tournament, you are eligible for those prizes.
And that includes the kids. Now they have to be members,
they have to be signed up as well. But it's
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are coastal fisheries, and on top of that, it does
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this state. Star Tournament dot Org is a website. Star
Tournament dot Org. Bie, welcome back nine to fifty on
Sports Talk seven to ninety The Doug Pike Show. Thank
you for listening on this. Yeah, still celebrating the holiday weekend,
but with that awful dark cloud hanging over SnO. Yeah,
just dad, gum it. I'm watching video. First of all,

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I watched that New York Post video how fast the
water Rose. I encourage anybody who doesn't understand how fast
this situation changed to do that. Let me get back
to faux pro too. He's been sitting there, well quote pro,
so what where were we? Man?

Speaker 8 (01:26:54):
Something about flooding, I mean, as devastating as all the
stuff is in Central Texas. There's also I have there's
also a fascination about flooding and fish and uh what
I mean by you know, I live on Lake Livy,
which is fed by I assume if not the biggest
one of the biggest rivers in Texas and Trinity are Yeah,
and uh, you know I pull up north there where
I do a lot of my duck cutting.

Speaker 4 (01:27:15):
I've seen that river three miles wide.

Speaker 1 (01:27:17):
Oh my god, we have.

Speaker 8 (01:27:18):
When we have big floods and uh, you know, big
hurricanes and stuff like that, and and people are more
or less accustomed to it. They know it's coming, right
and uh, you know we've been up there island right
and mut boats where you're passing stop signs you can
touch with your head when you go by stocks.

Speaker 1 (01:27:32):
You know what, though, put this in perspective though for us,
think about a stop stign it's what five and a
half six feet off the ground. They had twenty feet
of water in forty five minutes. Yeah, it's just crazy. Yeah,
it really is. Yeah. You Rick Rickail email a little
while ago and or texted a little while ago and
made a very good point about some sort of early

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alarm system. Though, if it's going to be transferred by phone,
how many phones are going to be on at four
o'clock in the morning. Yeah, No, probably not. Not in
the kids camp. They probably take their phones away from them,
say hey, y'all are gonna all play together. So there'd
be one big bag of phones in the office somewhere
buzzing like crazy. But there, I don't think there'd be

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anything else.

Speaker 8 (01:28:17):
Oh no, well, I guess the thing that you know,
it's fascinating about the flooding part of where the fish
are concern. Like, I have a place up there. I
haven't taken you to it, you know, but I will. Okay,
there's a there's a couple of places up there in
Livingston where it's actually natural waterfall right oh wow. And
there's one particular waterfall.

Speaker 4 (01:28:35):
This is back in the day.

Speaker 8 (01:28:36):
I was in a smaller basketball with a nighty horse
power Mercury, and during a flood I wanted to go
up there and see what it looked like. Well, I
got within about one hundred yards of this, and I
was a half trottle with a nighty horse power.

Speaker 4 (01:28:47):
Mercury to stay in place. Wow. So at that point
I decided it's not worth it to go any further.

Speaker 8 (01:28:52):
As soon as I cut the boat and like it
just flew, we would we would fly down the creek.

Speaker 1 (01:28:57):
Yeah, it moves, uh.

Speaker 8 (01:28:59):
But what it's fascinating to me is that, you know,
three weeks later, floods are gone. That creaks back clear,
and I'm out. They're catching fish on the top water
exactly where they were before the flood. Where did these fish.

Speaker 1 (01:29:11):
Go with hide down? They go to the bottom. They
go to the bottom and let the water roll over them.
I have to believe that, and I base that on
the habits of rainbow trout. Rainbow trout feed in moving
water every day, and that water they go to the bottom,
they sit down there. Now, if they're in a pool,

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a quiet pool, they're rising up on this really slow
moving water and eating grasshoppers or bugs or whatever. But
in the moving water, when they're eating nymphs and stuff
like that, they just sit down there at the bottom
and don't come off of it until they see something
they want to eat. Gotta be.

Speaker 8 (01:29:52):
That's fascinating, that raging water. You think all these fish
are blown out to them?

Speaker 1 (01:29:55):
Yeah, halfway to the Golf of Mexico by now. Sure.

Speaker 4 (01:30:00):
It's just crazy that.

Speaker 8 (01:30:00):
You know, just a few weeks later, it's back like
nothing ever happened to the fish, Like, oh, no big deal.

Speaker 4 (01:30:04):
Yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:30:06):
Just start fresh, that's what just what the people have
to do. Honestly is start fresh. And you ask ask
yourself this question, do all the fish make it? Or
do some of them just get so overwhelmed by the
current and banging off of stumps and rocks and getting
squished between logs and all that stuff. Maybe some of
them don't.

Speaker 4 (01:30:26):
It's a thought, you know, it's definitely fascinating.

Speaker 8 (01:30:30):
I know it's gonna take years to recover up there
with their ad you clean up and stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (01:30:34):
It's gonna be a while where that looks like it
used too.

Speaker 8 (01:30:36):
But yeah, hopefully people learn from that and they pay
a little bit more attention to weather patterns and stuff
like that. And because like the Weather Channel said this morning,
you know, when you go down to the river and
tell somebody, hey, hey, y'all be careful, just think to
rise twenty feet out on the border, and they're like.

Speaker 4 (01:30:50):
Yeah, right, whatever.

Speaker 8 (01:30:51):
Now, you know, it's it's hard to get some get
that too. Somebody's head. This could be you know, this
would be fifteen feet over your head in a few hours.

Speaker 1 (01:30:58):
Yeah whatever, I'm telling you. Right now, if you go
look at that video at the New York Post site,
it just it shows in real time. Now it's not
the whole forty minutes it's about it's a fairly short video,
but it does show when the river was down. You
can just see all the exposed rocks and it's just

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this lazy little thing. You probably have to stand up
and walk across some of those spots because there's not
enough water to float an inner tube. And then you
just see this first push of water that's rolling through there.
It just like it really fast, and then after that
it just gets bigger and bigger and bigger, and now
here comes all the debris and now suddenly there are

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giant trees being washed under the bridge. And it just
that'll tell you. If that doesn't get your attention, nothing will.
You'll never learn. Man. Oh man, go check that out.

Speaker 4 (01:31:52):
Yeah, I will.

Speaker 8 (01:31:53):
It'll teach people to respect mother nature. Nature is a
scary thing. You have all the bombs and stuff you
want going off overseas, but mother nature will love it.

Speaker 4 (01:32:00):
Level of playing field.

Speaker 1 (01:32:01):
Yeah, that's a very equal opportunity destructor too. Whatever's in
the way of water, you don't have a chance. Hey man,
it's great to hear from you. I hope you get
some fishes for I'm gonna.

Speaker 8 (01:32:15):
We're gonna get down there patrolling grill and see how
much I can eat from miserable.

Speaker 1 (01:32:19):
All right, man, I'll see lady. All right, Frankie, how
we doing. We got a minute or so or no,
we just got a couple few seconds seconds, all right. Everybody,
please stay safe for me the rest of this holiday
weekend and all the way through the rest of all
whatever time we got left on this earth. Pray for
those people up there. They're gonna they're gonna need that

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for a long time. That's it for this weekend. Thank
you for listening this fourth of July weekend. I'm sorry
it couldn't have ended on a much higher note, but
let's just make sure we do something for the future
that will be better.

Speaker 2 (01:32:52):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:32:53):
I didn't realize you were gonna start that all kinds
of time now too, don't know, thirty seconds, forty seconds
until that, I wish I had a known. Yeah, honestly, God,
thank you all for listening, Thank you all for praying
for these people. There should be I know at k
t r h's website there is that link to the
fund that you can do that's already been vetted by

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all by heart, and we're gonna have that thing up
all over the country so that we can raise some
money to help these people get back on their feet
and at least take away a little bit of the
sting of what happened up there. That's it for now. Bye,
Please stay safe for me. I want you all back
next week and for a lot of weeks to come.
That's it, Thank you, Audios.