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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
I'm coming. Let me put my headphone on stand by
struggling a lot of things in here. If you usual
on a Saturday morning, pre pre freeze, we've got bad
weather coming, today's gonna be. This is gonna be the
easiest day on which to prepare for a freeze, probably
in a long time. Give me darn near nice this afternoon.

(00:34):
Let me put that away there, and should be easy
to get everything done that you need to get done
in advance of whatever it is we're gonna end up taking, right,
just just a big punch in the gut for a
lot of us, I would prefer not to have to
deal with any kind of a freeze. And this one's

(00:54):
gonna be. Let me let me check real quickly. I
need a mouse pad in here. Hold on, I got
to move that. I got to move this so I
don't spill it.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
I sure hope Tom and Bob aren't listening this morning, Melbourne.
They would know that I have something in here, A liquid,
Oh dear heaven, A liquid in the in the studio
like I'm the only person who's ever done that too,
you know. Okay, so I'm going to go to Okay,
here we go. Now I can do this. I want
to see the little the one the forecast that I

(01:26):
watch most closely. I got to get all this other
garbage off of here real quickly that I don't need that,
I don't need. Okay, here we go. Get my little
googly chrome thing cranked up. I want to see what
the change is now in the predicted the forecast lows
at the two sites that I really trust more than

(01:47):
most to give me accurate readings of temperature in advance.
And now that we're at Saturday, it's it's going to
be pretty easy to peg. Okay, So it's come up
a couple of degrees, not not to where we don't
have to worry about anything at all, but it actually adds. No,
it doesn't. We've got tonight it's going to go down
to about thirty five ish. And this is a this

(02:09):
is based on Houston. If you're in the woodlands, it's
going to be colder. If you're on the beach, it's
going to be warmer by a few degrees either way.
So tonight's low is thirty five and Cliff's saunterers who
was just grumbling because he had to come into work.
Did you see him over there, Melman, Poor Cliff, and
he was really upset. He's running the marathon tomorrow and

(02:32):
was planning to get plenty of rest today, he told me,
poor guy, And gets a call at probably at three
o'clock in the morning, the man who was supposed to
be here this morning had the wheels stolen off his car.
In other words, he awoke to something that I awoke
to many years ago, back in the late seventies, and

(02:55):
that was a vehicle on cinderblocks. Wow, they came, and
they came in. This happened to the same vehicle twice,
by the way, get out of here. Yeah, in an
apartment complex parking lot. Somebody, Well, I take that back,
only once they stole the wheels. The other time they
stole they just took the whole thing and it was

(03:17):
found on blocks. They just drove it off. I guess
they were too scared to do it again in the
parking lot. Maybe somebody almost busted them the first time,
and then the third time that bright yellow Ford pickup
truck got stolen. It was used in a jewelry store
robbery by three of the dumbest criminals ever to walk
the face of the earth, as if nobody would see

(03:38):
them getting away in a yellow truck. And actually they
didn't even get one of them. One of them never
made it out of the store. The other two were
arrested nearby. As the police tend to say, bottom line is,
we've got cold weather coming thirty five tonight, twenty nine
Tomorrow night, thirty Monday night, and then the the bulk

(04:00):
of the cold air finds its way here. The high
on Tuesday is only thirty one, So make sure that
whatever you've wrapped and prepared pipe wise and all can
can withstand about. It's going to be a good probably
twenty four hours below freezing at least, so do what
you gotta do around the house after that, if you

(04:23):
can believe them, on Wednesday night, it's only going to
be thirty three, thirty four, thirty nine for Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday for lows, so out of the freeze by Wednesday hopefully,
And you know, you just gotta do what you gotta
do around the house to keep everything running. I'm gonna
make my final preparations this afternoon and hopefully be well.

(04:46):
I'll be as prepared as it can be. I think
I might. Because it's going down to twenty two on
Tuesday night, that might be the night I go ahead
and just shut off the water to the house and
not have to worry about it until we get up
in the morning and start moving water through the po pipes.
And being thirty one for a high that's not exactly
an enthusiastic endorsement of it being warm enough to not

(05:10):
be a problem. I just don't want problems. I don't
want busted pipes. Years ago, when I lived out in Katie,
the guy who lived next door to me was just
totally oblivious to whether a very young couple first time homeowners,
as was I at the time. And I think it
was either eighty three or eighty nine one of the
I think it was eighty three, and the temperature just plummeted,

(05:33):
absolutely plummeted at that little house I had out there
on I think it was eighty three's freeze. The I
had a clock outside in a little atrium area an
outdoor or not a clock, but a thermometer big something
I could read from inside the house. It was as
big as a dinner plate. And it pegged down to
four degrees at that house, four degrees one morning out

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there on the Katy Prairie, and a lot happened out there.
That was during obviously during winter and during goose season,
and dumb and young as we were back then, a
lot of us who were guiding waterfowl hunts back then,
even though our clients just said absolutely not, we don't
want any part of it. There were a few people
who came out. They were either from the north originally

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and had moved down south, or they were visiting from
the north, and four degrees didn't scare them. But the
bottom line was it was flat cold, and that neighbor
of mine, when the temperatures warmed and the ice inside
his pipes all up in his unprotected attic finally got

(06:44):
back to normal temperatures, he had something like twenty five
or thirty blown up pipes up in his attic, and
it was a rainforest in his house. It was just
water was just gushing out of everywhere in the ceiling
and it took them took them months to get all
that fixed and back to normal. I just clearly not

(07:06):
enough attic insulation, and that's something you might want to
go ahead and run up that little ladder. You've got
to get into your attic today when it's gonna be
nice and comfortable up there, and just make sure everything
looks buttoned up and covered up, and do what you
can in the last minute. Here. The one little advice
I like to give this time of year, by the way,

(07:27):
as far as keeping your spigots going and keeping everything
outside and inside going, is by yourself if you can
still find them. I found a bunch of them yesterday
at Dick's Sporting Goods, just those little small pocket hand
warmers and keep them and a couple of old dish
rags and a handful of rubber bands around. And several

(07:49):
times in the past when I haven't thought it was
going to freeze, or I didn't think it was going
to go low enough to bother anything outside, or maybe
maybe somebody took one of the covers off of us
pigot outside and it went through an overnight blow freezing
and low and behold it had frozen. If you take

(08:10):
one of those pocket hand warmers and put it, shake it,
open it up, shake it up, get it good and warm,
get it going, and then snug it up to the
below the pipe outside the spigot outside, and then put
a rag around that, and then put a rubber band
around that to hold that rag and warm handwarmer in place.

(08:32):
It will slowly and gently melt that ice inside that
pipe and get you back up and running. I had
the same thing happen on a toilet fill valve on
the west side of my house years ago during one
of these freezes, and I thought, oh God, I've got
a pipe frozen inside the house somewhere in a wall.

(08:52):
What am I going to do? And I put one
of those things on that little pill valve down there
near the floor and just cross my fingers and walked away.
And five minutes later, I mean it was done. It
was running like a champ seven one three two one
two five seven ninety. That's enough. Not outdoors talk. Speckled
trout action continues to go solid behind the the new

(09:18):
rules that were put in place. What back in March,
I think it was Marcher May. I can't remember exactly
either way. Three fish fifteen to twenty haven't heard of
anybody using their trophy tag yet. And for the record,
by the way, if somebody does use it because they
caught the biggest trout they've ever caught, or because they
just landed a new state record or whatever that is,

(09:39):
I think we all need to be okay with that.
I don't believe that that two dozen of those tags
will be used in the entire year. I just don't
think so. Everybody I talk to, everybody I know, has
come around if you will, in the past few years,
and I'm sure somebody out there listening to me right
now is going to I got to thirty two inch

(09:59):
stra God, I'm killing it no matter what. Well, that's okay.
You know, if you've got that tag and you haven't
used it yet, okay, you're entitled to one, so do
what you have to do. But most of the people
who are invested, if you will, in this fishery have
told me that even if they caught a really really

(10:21):
big trout, and even for a lot of folks my age,
even a new state record, I don't know that I would.
I don't know that I'd kill that fish just to
put my name in a book. For a couple of years.
Records are made to be broken, except for our state
bass record that's been around since the Nixon administration. It
seems like not quite that long, but it's been around

(10:44):
a long time. Barry Saint Clair in his eighteen eighteen
and man if all this new electronics stuff in the
lakes now doesn't get us a new share lunker state
record doesn't get us a nineteen maybe a twenty pound
or somewhere. Uh, we just don't. We just can't make
them for some reason. I don't know what that reason

(11:05):
would be. I do not. Back to the trout thing,
by the way, this week was a little bit weird.
I was I was watching some of the reports and
some of the some of the pictures that showed up
and reading and listening and making a couple of phone calls,
and it was kind of weird because the highs and lows,
and the north and the upper end, lower end, middle coast,

(11:25):
all of them, they were all kind of on different schedules.
There were there were good bites, good bites up and
down the coast, but they weren't they weren't in sync
with each other. It seemed like there were one day
it was great here, the next day it was great there,
and that on a seven hundred and something mile coastline.
You've got to expect a little bit of a little

(11:48):
bit of lag time or a little bit of advanced time,
depending on when and where and the majors and the
miners and everybody. Uh there, there's a lot of detail
available to fishermen. But I'm still I'm still in the
camp that says, you know what, if I've got time
to go fishing, I'm going fishing. And that that just

(12:09):
feels a lot better to me. Let's go see what's
going on with Brandon Brandon? What's up man?

Speaker 4 (12:14):
Good morning, mister Prie, carry you this morning?

Speaker 3 (12:17):
I'm good. Are you ready for this thing?

Speaker 4 (12:20):
Yes, sir, good, yes sir.

Speaker 5 (12:21):
Hopefully it doesn't link. Hopefully it doesn't linger around very long.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
You know. The only thing I'm looking at that kind
of concerns me is that the high on Tuesday is
thirty one below free Yes sir, so it'll be close.
Hopefully the sunshine will be out. Let me see eyah, Well,
no Tuesdays today is supposed to be yucky and nasty,
so it's gonna.

Speaker 4 (12:39):
Be cold, yes sir.

Speaker 5 (12:42):
Yeah, I've got to I've got a question about what
is what is this freeze going to do? To the
trout situation. In other words, how long does it need
to persist before it affects them? Or well, that's I'm
gonna lead that question wide open. So if you if
you have an answer on it or speculation, it's the water.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
It's cold enough, it can certainly stun those trout. And
if they get stunned in shallower water and can't can't
find a place to hide deeper where it's just a
little bit warmer, And it's not like they're gonna go
to the bottom and it's going to be a sauna.
I mean, cold water is going to permeate the entire
water column. But the farther you get away from the
source of that cold the better chance you have of

(13:22):
coming up a tick or two maybe if it's deep enough.
So they've got to find some place where the water
is warm enough to sustain them for a couple of days,
and hopefully it'll get cold enough tomorrow and tomorrow night
to push those fish out of the shallow water, push

(13:43):
them into deeper water. They know where to go instinctively,
they know where to go, and if one of them
doesn't know where to go, it'll follow the one in
front of it. And they'll get out of the super
cold water. Is it going to be cold enough that
it could kill them, Absolutely it is. It's going to
be in the twenties up here, and so probably maybe
thirty degrees on the coast, maybe twenty seven twenty eight.

(14:05):
That's plenty cold. If they get caught in shallow water
somewhere and they're exposed to that for a long time,
their bodies just shut down. But hopefully we won't. If
we lose some, we won't lose as many as if
it were just going from eighty degrees to ten degrees overnight.

(14:25):
That's what happened a lot of the big fish for
killing freezes. If you look at them, they they came
on really quickly. It went from flip flops and t
shirts to Arctic parkas almost overnight. And those fish get
trapped and caught, and their metabolism slows down because they're
cold blood and animals, and they just they can't make

(14:46):
it to where they could survive it. That's the hard part.
I don't think this will cause a major fish kill.
You'll see some dead fish. I mean I saw a
dead tilapia or a dead crappie in the little lakeside
fish on the golf court. We're the other day, a
couple of days after that last freeze we had, so
who knows. Yeah, I think we're gonna be all right.

(15:06):
And because we've got this three fish fifteen to twenty
inch slot limit in place right now, there are just
so many more trout already in that fishery that would
have been gone if we'd have been keeping five all
summer long. I think we're starting from a better place
no matter what happens. Well, that's great.

Speaker 5 (15:26):
Hopefully, I hope and pray we don't lose too many.
And I'm glad the three fish limits is working out great.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
Yeah, I know a lot of people.

Speaker 5 (15:34):
Some people were upset about it, but obviously it's made
it But it's made a huge difference and that's fantastic.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
Yeah. It all depends on whether you want short term
or long term fishery health, and I think the finally
has gotten around to more people wanting long term fishery health. Yes, sir,
all right, mister, great to hear from you, Brennan.

Speaker 5 (15:53):
Yes, sir, y'all stay warm, you bet buttle up, let's see, Yes,
sir Audio, all.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
Right, I gotta take you a little break.

Speaker 6 (16:01):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety, Facebook dot com, slash
sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Back to the Doug Pipe Show. All right, welcome back,
thanks for listening. I'm Dougpike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Everybody's bracing for the big freeze coming up in a
couple of days. Will we get snow? Will we not?
I'll believe it when I see my yard covered in
snow up until then. It could be sleep, it could
be cold rain. It's just gonna be a miserable, dang day.

(16:30):
It's a good thing. This is not the the marathon
day that would be a mess. What's up, rick Bie?

Speaker 4 (16:38):
Well, I'm stalking with Major Melvin.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
Yes, sir, freeze.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
I missed a really good hunt this week because I
had to come back and do some winter rising.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
That's too bad.

Speaker 4 (16:49):
And she's some pictures on that. But yeah, the the
on the winter rising thing. If you've got a we
do this every year. Just another reminder if you've got
a ranch or a camp house or a weekend place
or something like that, uh, you better get up their
winter as it because I believe, like I told you yesterday,

(17:14):
this sustained cold weather for four or five days even
though it's gonna get above freezing. To give you an example,
I think if you said a ten a ten found
block of ice in the shade tonight, uh, I think
he'll be there Thursday evening, maybe Friday, because it just

(17:39):
is not gonna throw out. I'm winter out with a
lot of property. But here's one kip I was gonna
tell everybody one of the biggest things I run into.
People go to their weekend place or ranch, whatever, and
they say, Okay, it's not freeze while I'm gone, I'm
gonna cut the power off. I'm gonna cut I'm gonna drain,
cut the water off, drain my pips, or I'm gonna

(18:00):
leave the electric one and drain my pipes. Whatever. But
the ones that drained their pipes, regardless it can be
a huge water problem, are not so major. But I'll
tell you what. I've drove up to a many a
camp house or a ranch that the power was on,

(18:21):
but they had, you know, all the heat off, whether
it's central or wind, the union or furnace or whatever.
Ain't nobody there still up there, and there's water running
out the weap hoose or the sidewalk or out the
under the store. Oh man, And I called and I said, hey, man,
you got a problem. Now, any problem is cut the
water off. Well, uh yeah, And if you cut the

(18:47):
water off, here's here's my point. You're gonna drain your pipes,
go in there and flush the toilet. Good point, because
if it gets down to a thirty degree sustained or
you know your house is cold inside anyway, there's no
heat and your your toilet tank or even the toilet

(19:07):
boat will crack.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
That's a good point, yep. That happened to a friend
of mine years ago.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
If you're not going to do that, then pour some
Manner freezer in them. Now, one last thing, I have
a I have an experiment I'm gonna do through this ordeal. Okay,
for the first time in my life, I have bought
some windshieled d Iicer spray. Okay, now this is now.
I know there's guys out here listening smarter than me.

(19:35):
That's probably stupid, But I'm gonna get two starfoam cups
and I'm gonna put about I don't know inch inch
and a half of water in each one, but one
of them, I'm gonna spray some d icer spray in.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
There Iceland a styrofoam cup. You realize that, right, Well.

Speaker 4 (19:54):
I'll put it in a plastic cup there, but anyway,
or I'll put it in a glass cup. Ye, I'll
put it. You're right, though, you're I don't never pour
gasoline in the styrefront cup if you do your trouble.
But anyway, No, I'm gonna do an experiment and I'll
have to report back on that next week. I'm please
scientific uh uh, I'm gonna call them scientific study that

(20:15):
I'm gonna do. Somebody's probably laughing after going I already.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
Know this, and we'll leave you. We'll leave youbody knows
the answer.

Speaker 4 (20:23):
If somebody knows the answer, go ahead and call it
and tell me so I don't waste my time in
my spright a right man, Thank you, Rick, everybody, stay warmed,
be ready. It's gonna be a tap and I think
you know.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
I'm watching the numbers, and it's gonna be four pretty
miserable days. And if we can make it through, if
we can make it through to Wednesday morning, I think
we'll be all right because it's gonna turn around pretty
quick then, and hopefully where.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
You're at, where you're at, that possibility where I'm at
when I'm not that far from you as to prop live,
I was telling Melvin, I'm gonna be somewhere between five
to ten degrees. Coders again, I'm probably within fifty sixty miles.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yeah, it won't take much geography between you know, one
person to the next to make a big difference.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
Hopefully well within your listening, Oh, Dari, because I know
up here, I'm not here in brent On where I'm
at right now, and I'm winter rising a deal right now,
you know, according according to the weather channel and the
news on on the radio up here, you know, seventeen degrees. Yeah,

(21:35):
it's coming on Thursday morning. Thursday one is going to
be the coldest morning when it all clears up.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
Wow, well, Butterlow, buttercup. Good day to be a plumber,
Good week to be a plumber. Anyway, all right, man,
I see it. All right, Audios, we let him go there.
We're right on this break time. I want to go
ahead and hit it on time if I can, which
I do believe I can do, and that would mean

(22:02):
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Speaker 3 (22:11):
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Speaker 3 (22:25):
I gotta go take a quick look at We have
a new, new and improved it said, email way to
look or email protocol here, email app, whatever you want
to call it. I don't know how to identify this,
but no, I don't like it at all. It's brand

(22:47):
new and it's different, and it's supposed to be better
and more secure and all that good stuff. But I
don't like it at all one bit. It's just I
gotta make this quick send, and it's complicated. The old
way allowed me to instantly preview things just I just

(23:09):
touch them and just scroll down next, next, next, next, next,
And this one doesn't allow you to do that. You
have to push like ten buttons to make it work. Damn,
Wade in Rick, if you're still listening, do not use
a red Solo cup as a funnel. Yeah, what you'll
end up with is a is a handful of melted

(23:33):
plastic that smells like gasoline. Yeah. I hadn't even thought
about red Solo cups. No, they're they're no better than
styrofoam when it comes to flammable liquids. Not the best
idea at all. Seven seven ninety email me Dug Pike
at iHeartMedia dot calm uh going to fresh water fishing

(23:56):
for a couple of minutes. Here the share lunker p
P that's already underway, already had an entry or two
is I don't know I got to release this week.
That makes me feel. On one side of me says great,
finally there's some good corporate support for something for Parks
and Wilife Department. Again, because Toyota has always handled the

(24:18):
front end, the title sponsorship of the program, and now
each of the divisions also has a sponsor. It's kind
of like going to a charity scramble golf tournament. Every
hole's got a sponsor. And at first that kind of
it was a little off putting when I started reading
about this legacy class sponsor and that monster sponsor whatever

(24:43):
that I can't remember the exact termination they use for
the different weight classes of fish that are eligible eligible
for entry. But then I thought again, like, hold on,
it's money that keeps these programs alive, and if it's
gonna be money going to the Parks and Wildlife to apartment.
I'm fine with that on any level. Any corporate donation

(25:05):
to the Parks and Wallife Department is fine with me,
as long as there are no strings attached, as long
as they let the department do what they want with
the money, or they buy the department something that the
department really needs, like new vehicles, like new boats, like
a bigger fuel allowance. There was a time. I hope
it's passed and things have been taken care of, but

(25:26):
there was a time when the Parks and Waldlife departments
coastal game wardens were only allotted so much fuel per
week to go chase down bad guys and go looking
for violations, and to have those men and women limited
in such a way, pretty much starting the week with

(25:47):
a hand tied behind their back, knowing that if they
had to run too far to do something on Monday,
they might not be able to go check licenses on Saturday.
That just made no sense in the world to me,
and I hope it's changed since, and I really do
any any kind of restriction on members of law enforcement
doing their doing their jobs, especially with wildlife like this.

(26:11):
It's just why bother. If you're not going to do
it right, we just why bother. We in this state
don't have, I believe, don't have the poaching problem that
we did years ago. I think some of that's gone away,
even just generate generationally, as as mindsets have changed across

(26:32):
the board and has as more people who once lived
remotely and didn't really have contact with the outside world,
so to speak, in certain parts of Texas, now that
they've gotten out and been educated and learned a little
bit more about conservation, a little bit more about taking
care of the resources. Much of that has stopped, not

(26:55):
all of it, certainly, but much of it has. And
at least we've got that going for us. I'll get
back to the sharelocker program in a minute, too, because
it's it's got some good stuff going on. I want
to go talk to Dave though, first. Dave, what's up,
my friend?

Speaker 8 (27:07):
Hey, I'm back in Houston, man, I'm I'm cranking down
the hatches and hoisting the mainsail and everything else.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
I'm on a buddy.

Speaker 4 (27:15):
I wanna be hanging here because you might want to.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
You might want to wrap a little insulation around that
mast yours.

Speaker 8 (27:22):
Hey, Well, I tell you what though this house was
built in nineteen forty two. It's sheep rock on on wood.
There's no insulations. Yeah, no, I've got I got, I
got a game plan. I got a generator that my
buddy I took it in for him to get it done.
You know, I'm gonna go pick it up today. I
got that, I got gas and then uh oh, then

(27:44):
I'm gonna have both my dogs in there. They'll warm
me of if anything, but well, yeah, they warn your
feet at least. But no, oh, I was gonna give
you an update on I saw Sunday's head was on there,
you know when he actually did he shot hisself in
the stomach. Yeah, he's back.

Speaker 4 (27:59):
He's back doing good. Man, he's doing very very good.
That's that's a blessing right there.

Speaker 8 (28:04):
And now what I did though, I forgot my medicine
out there and willis so I had to run out
there yesterday and I put all the plants in for
the wife, and then I asked her, may I come
back home over here and keep my dogs warm?

Speaker 3 (28:17):
And she said, yes, you may.

Speaker 8 (28:19):
You know, mother, I'll tell you what if everything's going
good and it ain't like this, ain't our first rodeo here,
you know, and yeah, I just.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
Don't like so I don't like you.

Speaker 8 (28:32):
I know, I tell you what it is terrible. And
I heard Rick when they're talking about Yes, I did
have a busted toilet one time.

Speaker 9 (28:42):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
I forgot to drain the pipes.

Speaker 8 (28:44):
Completely out of the bathtub and it busted some pipes there.

Speaker 4 (28:50):
But luckily it wasn't.

Speaker 8 (28:51):
Super major redo damage, you know. But yeah, the main
thing is that, you know, stay safe, make sure, like
you said, I'm gonna feed the dogs up and get
them all ready to go and they'll be in a
warm spot and keep an eye.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
On the weather.

Speaker 8 (29:08):
And then oh, I brought all my rod reels here
and a lot of my tackle equipment because you know,
what do you do when life gives you lemons? You
make lemonade. I'm gonna go and re string all my
stuff and get it all ready in the next four
or five days, and then I'll.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
Be ready to go. Yeah, take advantage of the downtime,
you know.

Speaker 8 (29:25):
Yeah, And then you know, still, I.

Speaker 4 (29:27):
Still got to clean a.

Speaker 8 (29:28):
Whole bunch of stuff.

Speaker 4 (29:29):
But that's and mow grass. So I got a bunch
of things. Yeah, yeah, but hey, that keep you warm.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
Think about this. Mowing that grass takes away some of
its natural insulation against the cold. You might want to
think about that. I interviewed Ant yesterday. As a matter
of fact, he said to go out and water the yard.
Water it yesterday, water today. The coal or the wetter
that soil is, the less likely it is to freeze.

Speaker 8 (29:54):
Okay, yeah, thank you, thank you for that tip. Yeah, hey,
thanks for that tip.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
Man for you too. I just made you were talking
about Sundance and how he accidentally shot himself but he
came through and maybe he won't do that again. That's
gonna be called a blessing because it's a blessing and
a lesson in one.

Speaker 4 (30:15):
Oh yeah, blessing.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 8 (30:18):
You coined that, you coined that. I'll write a song
about it. That's a blessing. Thanks man, all right, thank you.
I'll see you dude. Oh oh man. All right, let's
get moving.

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We'll get that information to them. This is The Doug
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Doug Pike Show. Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate
it got a lot going on coming up at eight o'clock.
By the way, we're gonna get Scott and all on
the phone and talk a little bit about photography. He's
got this new chocolate Lab puppy. If you if you
follow Scott's stuff on Facebook, you've known about the puppy

(31:01):
since he first got it. He is going to have
probably the most extensive library of photographs of the one
single dog ever put together. And they're all good shots
because he's a good photographer. No, he's a great photographer.
He's won a bunch of awards in the last ten
twelve years, and more power to him. I only wish

(31:25):
I had the time to devote to photography still that
I did when I was doing it for a living,
because it is fun and it's art, there's no question
about it. And we're going to talk about the difference
between doing what he does and what I did with
film cameras, with digital cameras and now with phones, and

(31:49):
the pluses and minuses of all three efforts. I've had
great experiences with film back in the day, especially shooting well, yeah,
there were just so many different kinds of films and whatnot,
and the deeper you got into it, the more complex
it got. It's the same with digital photography. I think

(32:11):
a lot of people kind of use it as a
crutch and they buy a nice camera and they set
it on automatic and then just don't ever look back.
And that would be it would be like buying a
cell phone and only using it as a phone. There's
just so much more inside those cameras. There's more technology

(32:34):
most any electronics these days. Really, there's more technology in
all of that stuff than the average purchaser of that
piece of device ever will learn. I've seen that on
my phone and know it because my seventeen year old
son could run circles around me and knowledge about what

(32:56):
my phone will do. He has an Apple phone. I
have an Android phone, and he can still get on
my phone and just dig around, knowing the technology like
he does, and find stuff that I can't find in it.
And it's the same with cameras, same with the phones.
On the cameras, they're even better in many cases than

(33:16):
the average camera that's out there that only takes pictures.
And even that's kind of becoming not the rule. Most
of the cameras you can buy now can be hooked
up to Wi Fi and you could just send the
images electronically from them. So it's all getting easier. And
the one thing I want to talk to Scott about though,

(33:38):
is that despite how easy it is to take really
good pictures for someone who knows what they're doing, I
still see a lot of photographs on social media that
could have just been so much better as a photograph
if the person who took it would have just taken

(33:59):
a little time. Not to add a bunch of filters,
I'm not a big fan of that, not to make
the colors just jump off the page unrealistically, but just
the simple act of cropping a photograph can make a
ton of difference, a ton of difference. And there are little,

(34:20):
tiny little basics the rule of thirds. If you don't
know what that is and you like to shoot pictures
for the family, or you like to shoot pictures of
your pets or whatever, just go to the web and
look up. Just do a search for rule of thirds
photography and you'll get all kinds of education there that
will help you take better pictures. I've sunrises in sunsets.

(34:44):
I see a lot of those, and I love every
one of them just the same as if I were there,
but the place for the sun is in one of those.
It's just not dead center in the frame. If it's
dead center in the frame, you're doing that at sunrise
or sunset and injustice and not allowing it to make

(35:05):
the impression that you want it to make. And you've
got to remember that the person who's going to see
your image is not going to be there that they
weren't there with you when you took that image. You've
got to you've got to make it pop without making
it unrealistic. And there's an art to that, and that's
why they're good photographers and not so good photographers. Melvin,

(35:25):
you take a lot of pictures. No, I'm not photographically
inclined photographically challenged, are you. Well, there's nothing wrong with that,
but it is something that if you were to start
doing it, and if you see something like you know,
you see a pretty sky or something like that, just
throw your phone up and pop an image of it,

(35:46):
and then when you get home, play with cropping it
in different ways to kind of see how that changes
that image. What I tell a lot of people now
who I don't want to carry a whole bag of
cameras around, Well, you don't have to carry your phone,
know how to get the camera dialed up really quickly,
have it on your home screen there and just push

(36:08):
a button and then get the image and then start
working about get working on getting other images that are
a little bit better of the same thing. As long
as it's still there, like if the sun's coming up
or going down or whatever. As soon as you see
it and look at it and go, oh wow, that
looks awesome, get that. Just snap that in a big
wide shot, and then if necessary later on, go back

(36:32):
and tweak the best of those images that you got
of that sunrise or sunset and crop them and maybe
sharpen them a little bit. But don't don't add crazy colors.
Don't make it look like somebody threw up at a
box of crayons or something like that. Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety Email me Dougpike at
iHeartMedia dot com. A little later in the eight o'clock hour,

(36:55):
I'm also going to talk with Mitchell Holder from down
there at Waterfoul Specialties. I got a from my buddy
Jim Level down there in Corpus CHRISTI formerly guided up
here with me, and we've made a lot of good
trips together. I got some information on the well. What
it is is the Texas Coastal Goose Survey summary from

(37:16):
Texas Parks and Wildlife that was done. This survey was
done in December, and it reveals the numbers of light geese.
And this is the same methodology that's behind the what
were and hopefully will be again the annual Gilnet surveys
that we did in the bays. But this is how

(37:36):
we measure how many geese are here. We approximate. We
can't actually just count every one of the birds, but
there's a great way to approximate these things. And the
numbers probably won't surprise anybody. And they're just they just
break my heart, to be perfectly honest, they absolutely break
my heart. They do. Back to the Toyota Share, we'll

(37:59):
talk about that thirty I think, and maybe a little
bit beforehand, I don't know. Back to Toyota Sharelunker real quickly,
they have partnered now in addition to wait, let me
find those each of those different each of those different
divisions has its own sponsor, and that would be where
did they go? Oh, okay, here we go. Share Lunker

(38:20):
entry classes include the bass pro Shops Lunker class that's
eight pounds, it up Strike King Elite class that's ten
and up and lose Legend class which is thirteen pounds
and greater thirteen pounds in greater. Thanks to Toyota two
for maintaining that really big sponsorship level for this program

(38:43):
because it is responsible for God who knows, who knows
how much more advance we've made thanks to that program
where they can go pick up big, big female bass
right before they spawn in many cases and get them

(39:04):
into a hatchery usually within about twenty four or thirty
six hours. They don't play around with these fish. They
get them back to those hatcheries. They babysit them, they
pamper them, and the offspring from those fish are pretty
much and they can tell genetically now when they test
these things. A lot of these biggest fish we're catching
lately are the offspring of some of these Sharelucker entries.

(39:29):
The newest category, by the way, is the share Lunker Partner. Well,
they partnered with AFCO for a Guide of the Year award,
which is nice Guide of the Year is gonna win
five hundred worth of five hundred bucks worth of AFCO
Gear five hundred cash and then be recognized that the
Toyota Share Lunker VIP banquet in the fall. So a

(39:50):
lot of companies getting on board with this program, and
I'm so glad because we need all the help we
can get for that Parks and Watlocke Department. We have
got to take a break and on the way out, Oh,
I printed that twice. I'll be doing.

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Speaker 4 (40:15):
All right, welcome back.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
We really do have to work on getting on TV
in here, Melvin. See what they've got on Space City
Houston Network right now is probably some like the semi
finals of middle school mixed doubles ping pong. You know,
it can't be it can't be much, can't bends by right,

(40:37):
It can't be more compelling than this. Exactly, we clean
up pretty good. I would I would demand that you
have the second camera, though it would have to show
both of us, so doubt we'll both have to dress
up a little bit more. Can you tell?

Speaker 10 (40:53):
What?

Speaker 3 (40:53):
Do you know? What's on there right now? No, I'm not.
I don't have you check while I'm talking to Scott.
Well that's right, Yeah, you can't just just whip up
the TV and see what's up. Let me get Scott
and Noll on the phone as promise. What's up, Scottie,
what's going on, Doug? You know, it's been a pretty
good morning. There's a rumor going around that you got
a new dog. I been kind of keeping it quiet.

(41:18):
Yeah yeah, yeah, uh huh okay, Holy cow, man, I've
never seen somebody just fall head over heels for a
dog as fast as you did with that little pup.
And I and I can see why, gole. What a
photogenic dog, you know, she is, man? And she poses?
Oh well, she'll just sit there for you. Oh my gosh.

(41:41):
I've had other dogs that you couldn't catch a photo of.
Yeah yeah, yeah, that's the way mine would have been.
It would have you'd have had to ramp up your
shutter speed just to slow him down long enough to
get him the whole dog in one frame. And this one,
I mean, she just sits there and poses for you.

Speaker 11 (41:58):
Man.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
I saw something the other day. This woman showed a
picture or she had a video of her dog and
she was kind of laughing about how if he if
it keeps looking at her like that, she's going to
get him into one of those SPCA commercials that's Sarah
maclocks and thing, because she's just talking into the camera
and then she she turns the camera to her dog
and it's just got that that look, you know, like

(42:21):
it like it hadn't eating in a month and it's
been out in the cold, chain to a tree and
it's just in her house. Well, let's start go ahead.
That's her reads Yeah, Bill, Yeah, you got a good
one there. Holy cow man. All right, Well let's get
to photography though, that's what that's what we were going
to talk about. When when did you transition from film

(42:43):
to digital? It took me a little while. Yeah, the
first digitals just weren't all that great. I agree, yeah
that I had the same here. I mean that first
one I got to think was a Nikon D seventy. Yeah,
And I looked back at that thing and look at
the megapixels on it, and it just cracks me up.

Speaker 11 (43:02):
Now we thought we were we were in man.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Oh yeah, that was a big time, wasn't it. Oh yeah, man,
look at all these megapixels They go all the things
we can do and the cropping we can do. Now, shoot,
I'm shooting the Nikon Z nine now, gosh. I did
finally go mirrorless, uh with my last okay, okay, about
a year and a half, two years ago, I finally

(43:26):
would finally bit the bullet and did it. And a
lot of other people have been doing it, some other
brands good with it, But I'm so invested in Nikon
with lenses. Yeah, that's the thing. Once you for Icon
to catch up. Yeah, once you once you commit to
the lenses, because the mountings are different. The mounts are different.
So once you commit, you got to kind of stay

(43:47):
with it for a while unless you want to just
redo the whole thing. And you got to win the
lottery to do that, basically, don't you. Yeah. I know
a few hardcore professional guys who've switched. You know, they
were all Nikon and then you know Cannon was ahead
of them. Yeah, the Alphas, you know, the Alphas were
ahead of them, so they they whole self switched and

(44:07):
I took advantage of that with a couple of them. Yeah,
no doubt. Yeah, they were making the big switch. So
I'll jump on in there and grab what you got.
Good lens? Is a good lens, isn't it? No, Ken,
then I've got my favorite lens is probably ten eleven,
twelve years old now. And you know that brings up

(44:30):
something I'll ask you because back in the film days,
I was more concerned. I had good cameras and at
excellent cameras, but I was more concerned with the lens
really than I was with the with the camera because
the camera, the camera just moved the film through there
to let you get the images. It just it opened

(44:50):
up and the mirror got out of the way and
then boom, you got your image on your film. But
digitally that that camera is, is it as important or
more important or still a little bit less important than
the lens. I'd say it's less important than the lens,
but it's still pretty dead gum important. Yeah, if you're

(45:11):
gonna do what I'm doing, yeah, exactly. Yeah. The average
person going out there and shooting some birthday parties photos.
I can still take my D seventy out there, my
old first digital camera and do just signing. But when
I get into these contests, then that's where the difference comes. Yeah,

(45:33):
and shooting this mirrorless I was real skeptical back going mirrorless,
but I like it. There's no shutter, so you don't
have the shutter sound when I'm doing wildlife photography, which
wildlife photography is all about getting close and being quiet
and that that shutter gets going and yeah, everything knows

(45:57):
that you're there. I got burned more than once on
with with motor drives, just like oh please, Yeah, that
was That's a whole different level. Was like a blowing
a duck call inside of deer stand, you know. Oh
my gosh, man. So let's let's let's go to the

(46:18):
the other, uh, the other opportunity to take photographs. And
now that's with phones too. Before we get into any
kind of detail on stuff, but the phones that are
out there now and and I that's all I've carried
for a long time, frankly, because I'm not trying to
I'm not trying to make money off photographs right now,
and I'm I'm doing okay with that. Do you ever

(46:39):
do you ever snap something with your phone real quick
and then maybe get the cameras out. If you're in
a pinch, it's usually one of the other. Yeah, you
just you're dialed in one hundred percent either way, right, Yeah,
And I can tell you the truth. I have shot
more cover photos for magazines with my phone, yeah, than
I have with real camera. I can totally understand and

(47:03):
agree with that. Yeah. I got some stuff early on
when when the phones got finally got good, Like, holy cow,
this is this is worthy? You know, it really is. Yeah.
I've got the iPhone fifteen now or something. I think
it's a fifteen. Oh. Yeah, And I sent you that
photo of Josie's the end of the day, a little

(47:25):
black and white one. One thing that they came out
with on these this you know, in the last few models,
I guess is a is a setting called portrait. Yeah,
and it just drops your f stop down to like
F one point eight or one point four to two

(47:46):
point eight. You can adjust it a little bit, but
that gives you that the look that everybody really likes
in photos that they don't know wh it's there. It's warmth.
It's it's warmth and depth. Does that make sense. It's
it's all about the depth. It blurs the background and
it focuses on the subject. And that's the photos that

(48:07):
I use. I use that on the boat all the
time for people taking photos of their fish, and then
the guy next to me standing there taking it regular
and then when it's all said and done, I send them,
you know, send them my photos and they're like, oh
my god, this is so much better, better than what
I got. Hey, speaking of the phone is gonna it's

(48:31):
gonna focus everything. The background, the net laying on the
bottom of the boat, and everything is all sharply focused
along with the guy and the fish, and it just
it confuses your eye. Look at the photo, you don't
really realize it, and then you know it's not in
the front of your brain going oh wow, this this
is really cluttered. But when you see one that is

(48:53):
taken in this portrait mode, all that stuff is a
little blurry, so your eye goes to what's sharp. Yep,
And it's just a mental trick that Melbourne was just
asking me to ask you. And I didn't even know
these were available, but a little like clip on lenses
for phones. Have you ever toyed with any of that?

(49:14):
I did a long time ago. Okay, and the phones
first were getting better. I'm gonna guess that they're not
worth hammer getting better. It's not really worth having anymore,
because like this one here, it's got three different lenses
on the back of it.

Speaker 12 (49:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
Uh so used to be when you tried to zoom
it was a digital zoom. It never got never was shark.
Now you've got a different lens. It's just like carrying
lenses for your camera. Uh yeah as well. Yeah, it's
got a wide and then you can still zoom with them.

(49:48):
But it's so much better. Yeah. Anything you're clipping onto
a phone to take a photograph, I think you're you've
you've tied a hand behind your back already. It's seems
to me it and it couldn't be that great optics. Yeah,
there's no way that the lens is not clear as

(50:08):
clear as it can be because it's cheap, you know,
it's a cheap little clip on. And it's time for starters.
I mean, that's hard. Hard enough to get big glass
clean and sharp and you're gonna now you're gonna do
it with something the size of a grape. That's I
don't know. Yeah. Now, just if you want to do
it with your phone, get a good phone, you get
one of the upper end phones and get to work

(50:31):
with it. Uh yeah. Yeah, it's one of the funny
things is everybody always says, well, well, what camera did
you shoot that with? And that's like asking to cook, Now,
what pots do you use?

Speaker 5 (50:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (50:45):
Yeah, I mean I can cook, really I cook. I
can cook pretty good and people like my food. Sure.
I'm no chef, you know, And it wouldn't matter if
I had cheft hoots and pans and knives and all that.
I'm not cooking on a chef level. It's the same
thing with photography. You got to work at it and

(51:07):
work at it and work at it to get those
photos where people walk by and look at them and
they don't know why they stopped and looked at it,
but they there's something about it that drew it to them.
These contests that I'm in, that's it's all about that,
because they're looking at thousands and the judges are looking
at thousands of photos of the same dead gun thing.

(51:30):
Whh my gosh, holy go. And you know, imagine how
many deer photos are they looking at it and they
have to and they're I guarantee you they're sitting there
at a computer and they're swiping. Because I've talked to
a couple of the judges and they're they're just swiping
them in just one boom boom boom, boom boom, and
then all of a sudden they stop on one and
they click it, and they put checked by that one,

(51:54):
and they're going to go back. And it's the first
You have to make it through that first wave of
the photos, and something has to jump out about your photo,
no doubt. And that's the difference between the really good
photos and just pictures. Yeah, you got time to give
me one more segment. Sure, I'm gonna put you on hold.

(52:14):
We gotta take a little break here. We'll get that
out of the way. We'll come back and talk to
you a little bit more. Scott and Noll helping us
out with photography here. If you've got questions, this is
your chance. I used to be pretty good at it.
I don't know, I don't know, but yes, Scott, he's
on the cutting edge of all this stuff, and I've
got some questions for him when we get back on

(52:35):
the way out.

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This is Sports Talk seven ninety Houston Sports online at
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Speaker 3 (52:46):
Let me give it another few seconds. I could have
done a twenty on Sports Talks. I'm gonna get back
to Captain Scott. No talking a little photography here. I'm
making sure we don't don't have anything to go over
and emails. Melbourne said, he you got another question, Melvin, No,
I'm good. That was about the only one. Okay, Yeah,
we talked a little bit off the air, So me

(53:08):
and you back to this. So let's talk about but
you know, when auto focus back a little more into
the history of all this digital stuff and whatnot. When
auto focus and auto exposure came around, everybody thought they
would just be game changers and that anybody could take
a great picture. But at the level you're shooting, at
the level I used to shoot, you have to understand

(53:32):
that camera and be able to manipulate one or the
other or both to get a specific image, kind of
like you're talking about the portrait thing. So rolling on
automatic doesn't really do you any good except that you're
probably going to get something in focus well, and even that,
there's so many different ways to focus get on these
new cameras. There's an entire book that I've been reading

(53:55):
on how to use these new new cameras with the focus. Uh,
They're incredible, absolutely incredible. They have AI inside of them,
which is pulling in the eyeball.

Speaker 9 (54:13):
Come in.

Speaker 3 (54:14):
That's what it's focusing on. You can have your settings
for wildlife set for eyeball. Yeah, oh my word, it
is set for eyeball. And if you can watch the
little focus spot, yeah, and it dances around on your
screen right on the eye and then just locks in.

(54:35):
I don't know how to do. It's one of those
things you would do that, yeah, yeah, just say thank
you camera. So so if you if you've got so
there's a deer standing in front of you, okay, and
it's in profile, and you got that one eyeball focused.
If you move the camera a little left or a
little right, it tracks and holds focus in that one

(54:56):
spot or does it have to recalculate there? There's different lord,
different settings on the subsettings to the settings right, and
it gets so dead gum confusing. Uh so what all
the newer cameras have and even some of the slightly
you know, some of the older Sure, a five or

(55:17):
six year old digital camera is way better than anything
you ever shot, of course. And there you can have
groups of settings where you go in and you set
this camera up. I want to get it set up
so that I can do you know, birds and setting

(55:38):
it and I go to a and all my settings
are set for for the birds on that a good lord,
No for movement, you know, for shooting a moving animal. Uh,
And I can go to that setting and then I
start playing with it. But what it does, it frees
you up as the photographer of artist, whatever you want

(55:58):
to call it, to concentrate on the light and the
light is as your name is everything for photography. So
now that I don't have to worry quite as much
about the focus, I still got to still gotta play
with it, still gotta make sure everything's right, but I
can concentrate so much more on the position of the

(56:19):
animal and the light and getting it that, you know,
just that right moment. And it's really it's there's a
lot involved in it. Ye. Well, yeah, we could do
a whole Yeah, we could do a whole debum show
on it. Yeah, we could do a month on photography.
And just like you said, there are books out there,

(56:40):
entire books written on how to use a just one
different camera or one specific camera. It's kind of like
and your your immersion into the the nuts and bolts
of all this stuff It's kind of like being a surgeon.
Any you and I could go to some medical supplies

(57:00):
store and we could probably buy all the tools we'd
need to do open heart surgery, but we're not going
to do a very good job of it. And that's
what no, no, exactly, And that's kind of the way
these cameras are. If I think, what I would like
the audience to take away is if you're willing to
dive into this and willing to not just invest money

(57:22):
in a good Because I see a lot of man
coaching baseball Scott. I saw hundreds of moms with really big,
really expensive cameras, and I would watch them and see
what they were doing. They had no idea what they
were doing with that camera and with that lens, except
that it was just the biggest camera in the biggest

(57:43):
lens in the stands, and they it's like hanging a
piece of jewelry around their next They're just showing off
that they went out and spent all the money on
this camera. But I saw some of the pictures they
shot too, and they just didn't know. If you're not
willing to make the investment in time, that equals the
investment in money. Probably better off with a little bit

(58:06):
less advanced camera. Is that a fair statement? Yeah, I
mean even the cheapest cameras out there are better than
what we yeah oh yeah years ago. So yeah, I
wouldn't go crazy and go buy the most expensive one
to go go shoot you know, your kids playing soccer
or whatever. It's man, it's there's so much involved with it.

(58:32):
It's a rabbit hole, isn't it. It really is what we
call well, you know, in my photography buddies that I
hang out with, and you know, we discussed you have
to learn drive your camera and take it off auto. Yeah,
uh yeah. One of the guys was top bases. Let
me in, you know, in a Formula one car or something.
You know, Yeah, anybody can jump in there and drive it.

(58:55):
You can't win a race. You're not gonna You're not
gonna drive that car to its fullest potential. There's no
way I'm punching how to drive it. I'm not going
to stand on the accelerator in the F one car. No, right,
And so you have to take your camera off a
automatic and learn to drive it. Learn, learn what f
stops are, learn what shutters do, and those are your

(59:19):
But with the new cameras, the the old you know
ISO stuff. Sure, you know we're used to you never
shot above four hundred on your ISO if you wanted
to print a photo. Now with these new cameras, Doug,
you can go that are I mean incredibly high. Yeah,

(59:41):
I mean I've shot some stuff that it looked like
it was dark outside. Yeah, and like twelve twelve thousand ISO.
It's not really print worthy, you know, you couldn't blow
it up and print it, but still makes a pretty
dag dumb good photo.

Speaker 4 (59:56):
Well.

Speaker 3 (59:56):
Yeah, and what's being shot these days is the only
place people see it's on social media anyway, right, and
I can go out there and shoot it super high ISO,
put it on social media in a little tag photo. Yeah,
and everybody just goes guy, guy over. You blow it
up and it's gonna get grainy. And that that's where

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the ISO, you know, fails a little bit when you
start trying to blow it up. So I trilled, I
still try to shoot nothing higher than about twelve hundred,
right for the contest, but that's preferably I'll get I'm
gonna stick it five hundred or less. Yeah, that's that's
the new standard. The old standard was much much lower
now because of the technology you can get there. Hey,
Melbourne's got his hand as Arry's got a question for you, Okay,

(01:00:42):
Scott hit at Melbourne four K or egg k oh Man.
I don't get into the video into things very much.
That's a whole nother rabbit hole go down. I've got
buddies that have gotten off into it. I would think
four K is plenty good. It's better than most of
the the equipment that there's you're viewing it on, and

(01:01:07):
that that's where that's the four K a K and
all that comes into play is what are you looking
at if you're if you're posting it online and it's
on somebody's phone, they're not gonna be able to tell
the difference between a four K and akrue. That's what
I If it's on some big, you know, high dollar
you know, multi thousands of dollars equipment that they're looking at, yeah,

(01:01:31):
then they can probably tell a little bit of a difference.
But I don't think that there's that much difference when
you get in that high end. Uh. It's it's more
about what somebody's gonna watch it on than it is
about what you took it with well, you you hit
it kind of the nail on the head. There's Scott
talking about the person who's looking at it. If the
person who's looking at it, no matter what size screen

(01:01:53):
it's on, it doesn't understand the difference between four K
and a K, then they're not going to see a difference.
But between four K.

Speaker 4 (01:02:00):
And a K.

Speaker 3 (01:02:01):
Yeah, just same thing with music. You know, you got
the audio files who pick out the little bitty things
in music. Yeah, yeah, and they to me, it's just
it's okay. I didn't notice that. It sounded good to me. Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:02:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
Sometimes we've recorded on something super super high quality equipment
that it was recorded with. Yeah, okay, it sounded like
like everything else to me or you. Back well, back
when I was growing up, we were recording AM songs
on AM radio onto little tape recorders and that was

(01:02:41):
fine for us.

Speaker 10 (01:02:42):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:02:42):
Well, one of the funny things I've done. And then
when I'm out shooting a lot of times i'll do it.
I'll send something to you. Yeah. I took a picture
of the back screen of my good camera. Yeah, with
my phone. I'll be I'm sitting in a deer stand.
I take a cool picture and I use my phone
to take a picture of the little screen on the
back of my good camera and then I folsted those

(01:03:05):
and had to just go guy gout. Oh yeah, wow,
that's amazing. Yeah, and that thing is so degraded. But
you know that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Scott.
But when I send it to you, you know what
I did. Oh yeah, I know exactly because you know
photography a little bit and you can tell. And the

(01:03:28):
big like I said, the biggest things that people need
to get into if they want to get into the
photography into things a little more seriously is learn what
f stops are, learn what the shutters do, learn your
ISO and get off automatic and playing with those settings
and push the limits a little bit, you know, go
beyond what you know. This is what the book says

(01:03:51):
I should be doing. But if I push this a
little bit more, then you get a little movie or folks,
or you get a little clearer, a little brighter. There's
there's things you can play with when you're doing that,
and you can get out of automatic that really turn
into some pretty cool photos. Yeah, and you won't learn
it if you don't take it off automatic. That's what

(01:04:12):
I think. That's the emphasis here is you've got to
be willing to just because you're not buying film. You're
just you're just shooting images that you can erase and
reload as many as you want. There's no risk involved either.
I like that part of it too. Not the only
risk is that you fill up your computer. Well, yeah,
that's that, which which is what I do. Like that
contest that I'm fixing, the startup, the wildlife and focus. Yes, yeah,

(01:04:36):
you might want to invest in a thumb drive at
some point, you Yeah, I think I shot eleven thousand
images on the last contest. You have to be disciplined
when you start doing that. Yeah, you got to get
disciplined to go in there. And the hardest thing to
do is to make that first pass through and go nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, yep,

(01:05:00):
I'm going to keep that one because you can look,
there's so many things you can do on a computer
to a photo nowadays that those marginal photos that in
the film days you just throw out. You look at
them and go, I can't save that. Next you know,
you got that's another rabbit hole you got to go down. Man,
oh man, I would much rather take a really good

(01:05:21):
photo that's straight out of the camera, clean and good,
and didn't work with those. Yeah, and that's the ones
that like in this photo content. I'll go out and
shoot in the morning, and I go back and Mom
eating lunch at the at the cabin. I'll sit there
and go through them, and I have to get ruthless
about it. And that was my biggest hurdle. And when

(01:05:44):
I first started this was the ruthless cut. What I
call it is is that first one where I've taken
five hundred photos in the morning and I come out
with six. Yeah. Yeah, that's about right that I did.
I understand with that. I know I can work with theys. Yeah,
it was totally different. You go out there with a
roll of thirty six and then you shot, and then

(01:06:06):
you had them developed and you went, oh, I can't
get anything. Well, you got something. You got a dog
to work with, you got great family to work with,
you got a lot going for you, great places to
go shoots. God in Oh thanks man. Now I've got
this ranch down in South Texas. It's unbelievable. It's almost

(01:06:26):
ten thousand acres and the ranch owner is very much
into the wildlife. Oh that's awesome. They don't go out there.
I was on a ranch one time where they just
shot everything. Yeah, yeah, they just ride around shoot Armadilla's
oh whatever, you know, they just shot stuff. Yeah, And
it was I went to shoot photos out there and

(01:06:48):
I couldn't get close to anything. I mean, sure they
heard a vehicle coming, or to saw a person that
just ran there. Dig a hole and dive into it.
This ranch, everything's real calm. Wow, Yeah they're And I
can get right up on on animals and it's so
much nicer and for you. It's a great family. And
they treat me. They treat me like family. And I

(01:07:10):
just got free roam with a ranch throughout this contest. Well,
good luck in the contest, man. I'd hate to do
it to you, buddy, but I'm running late. I got
to take a break, all right. Well, the people who
are interested, I've got scottenold photography dot Com and there's
photos on there. You can go in there and start
playing around and make you a print, and they I've

(01:07:30):
got a great printing company that just sends it directly
to you. It doesn't have to go through me or anything.
And Camille set that up she's in a fantastic with
that kind of stuff. Yeah, I may have to call her.
I need some help with some stuff too. You don't
have to. You don't have to do you know, you
don't have to. You can go in there and tell it.
I want it on canvas or I want on metal,

(01:07:52):
on how big you want it, all those different things.
That's so pretty cool little set up. That is awesome,
Captain Scott, Thank you, man. I greatly appreciate your time,
you know I do. We need to share a little
boat time at some point soon. Yep. I've been trying
to get you down I know, dang it. I'm trying
to get out of town. Believe me. Well. When you
only have one day out of seven that you can

(01:08:12):
really get down here that one day, the weather just
don't always cooperate. Yeah, I'm off Monday. That'll be fun,
won't it? All right? Kevin you yep, thanks man, Thank you?
Joing Ready for the freeze? Ah yeah, I'm gonna do
that all afternoon. I see you, buddy, all right. Yeah.
Scottanolphotography dot Com go there. Take a look at some

(01:08:33):
of those images and you'll understand why I consider him
my best source. For all this. We gotta take a
little break here on the way out.

Speaker 6 (01:08:41):
We are Sports Talk seven ninety. Listen online at Sports
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Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
Hey forty two on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show.
Thank you for listening. Certain to appreciate it. Brandon has
been holding for a long time. I'm gonna catch him
real quick, and then I'll get to Mitchell Holder, who
is patiently holding. I hope not in the middle of
a swarm of ducks and geese. Brandon, what's up, buddy mine,
Good morning, I'm okay, I got a minute for you.

(01:09:09):
What's up?

Speaker 8 (01:09:12):
Happy Saturday?

Speaker 3 (01:09:13):
Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Happy Saturday to you.
What's on your mind?

Speaker 6 (01:09:19):
What are you doing today?

Speaker 3 (01:09:20):
I am working. I gotta get through this show. Then
I'm gonna go take care of my house, make sure
it's ready for the freeze.

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
Oh you need to do that.

Speaker 3 (01:09:30):
Oh, I definitely do that. I'm gonna I'm gonna go
at it with a fine tooth comb. Man. And they've
got contingency plans for just about anything. I do not
want busted pipes, absolutely busted pipes. Man. Oh man, you
guys all buttoned up.

Speaker 6 (01:09:47):
Uh we already got the pipe.

Speaker 3 (01:09:51):
Sorry, okay, it'll you know, it'll come and go and
we'll all get through it somehow. The plum will be
happy come about Wednesday or Thursday, and hopefully most of
us will be happy as well that nothing got hurt,
maybe not kill too many fish. Hey, let me go,
I need to run ketch up with Mitchell. He's he's

(01:10:13):
out in the middle of a goose field, I think,
trying to run a hunt, and I got to go
talk to him. Okay, all right, but let's talk tomorrow
to see how the Texans did anyways. Yeah, all right,
well I see you, Brandon, Thank you audios. All right,
let me go catch up with Mitchell. Are you out
in the middle of a field somewhere.

Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
Not this morning, Doug.

Speaker 14 (01:10:36):
I got three groups out, but I got one kid
with strap and one kid.

Speaker 3 (01:10:41):
With the flu.

Speaker 12 (01:10:42):
Oh lucky you you are.

Speaker 4 (01:10:47):
Locked down, aren't you?

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:10:51):
Yeah, but I do have some groups out this morning.

Speaker 14 (01:10:54):
It finally looks good, it Uh. I got one goose
group out, one crane group in, one duck group. So okay, everyone,
everyone's going in on birds and uh so they're doing
pretty good as of now and yeah, looking to just
grind out the rest of the season.

Speaker 3 (01:11:11):
On the last week for ducks, right.

Speaker 15 (01:11:14):
Uh, yeah, yeah, it's the Sundays, the Yeah, tomorrow is
the last day for cranes, and then we've got the Yeah,
this is the last week for for ducks and geese.

Speaker 12 (01:11:27):
Well snows they send.

Speaker 3 (01:11:29):
Go and then I don't know how many more of
anything you're looking at. Really, they're not a whole lot
of dark.

Speaker 14 (01:11:37):
Snipe no, no, yeah, the dark gies.

Speaker 2 (01:11:42):
It's been weird.

Speaker 14 (01:11:43):
We've had to they've been segregated pretty much since Little
A probably right at the New Year. If you go
in on darks, don't don't throw more than like five
white ecoys, and if you go, it's pick your poison.

Speaker 3 (01:12:02):
Yeah, but it's been good when we go. You know,
for geese, we're this time of year, it's tough to traffic.

Speaker 14 (01:12:09):
So if you're gonna if you're gonna go, you'd better
be going on a feed.

Speaker 3 (01:12:13):
Did you see the Parks and Wildlife's Texas Coastal Goose
Survey summary.

Speaker 14 (01:12:19):
I haven't seen it yet now if I'm flying around
a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 4 (01:12:23):
But I'm sure it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:25):
It was not great.

Speaker 3 (01:12:26):
It was just crippling to me. I'll give you a
couple of highlights out of here. They did the surveys
on the nineteenth and the twentieth of December, and the
estimate for light geese across the Texas coastal everything, it's
one hundred and twenty three thousand, seven hundred and sixty four.
That's thirty eight percent less than last year. And to

(01:12:49):
put it in perspective, from about nineteen seventy eight to
two thousand. Now I'm looking at the chart two thousand
and one, that estimate was the entire time was greater
than six hundred thousand and in nineteen seventy eight one
point two million light geese on the prairie.

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
Oh yeah, yep.

Speaker 14 (01:13:15):
It's crazy because you know, earlier this season I was
telling people I felt like it was the most geese
I've seen, you know, right around Thanksgiving I've seen.

Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
But that's our area, you.

Speaker 14 (01:13:29):
Know, And I think if I know, the guys up
in Garwood and like towards Lizzy and Eagle Lake and everything,
they haven't had hardly any geese out that way. And
I know east of town out on the Winny Prairie
and stuff like that. I haven't been seeing many many

(01:13:49):
goose kills except our little area.

Speaker 3 (01:13:52):
You know. Yeah, that's the only zone that had had
an uptick that was even worth talking about. That's it
your zone? Is it? Zone three? Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:14:02):
Yeah, we're very very fortunate, you know it it's managed
that way. And yeah, just very fortunate to have have
the opportunity to go out and you know, give them,
give them a try every weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:14:16):
So man, what about what about ducks? Mitchell? I've had
so many people call and ask where are the ducks?
You got the answer.

Speaker 14 (01:14:24):
It's been weird. Yeah, North, I guess. But it's everyone.
Everyone throughout the country's asking the same thing. I know
that you know up in Arkansas, they don't really they
don't batny it teal and pintail. You know, they just
care about their green heads.

Speaker 2 (01:14:39):
But they're you know, this last.

Speaker 14 (01:14:42):
Front, we we didn't see the effect. We didn't see
any new birds show up. Yeah, someone, we've we're starting
to see them, you know. All we're really looking for
this time once we get into January is really that fresh,
big push of green wing teal and and we finally

(01:15:04):
got some. I guess the full moon this past week
along with this harder freeze. We're about to get kind
of kind of pushing a few more down.

Speaker 3 (01:15:13):
But yeah, it's been this past month has been.

Speaker 14 (01:15:16):
It's been tough and inconsistent. You know, if you go out,
you're you know, ten birds, you're you're a happy camper
on a duck hunt, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:15:27):
So it's it's been.

Speaker 14 (01:15:29):
It started out really hot November December were great, and
then right around Christmas it started the birds that we've
been hot and been the same birds. Yeah, and they
just get stale and wise to what you're doing.

Speaker 3 (01:15:45):
And you know, yeah, not much you can do, not much,
you can.

Speaker 14 (01:15:50):
Do, no, no, And it's uh but I think, you know,
these last two weekends the season, hopefully we'll make it,
make it worth it.

Speaker 3 (01:15:59):
So trying to around a little bit. Yeah, back to
that survey and I'll cut you loose. I know, you
got tough to do with sick kids. The speckle belly
numbers on the entire survey six thousand, seven hundred for
the whole state coast. That's a ninety one percent decline
from the most recent, it says here, twenty five year average.

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It's just the bottom dropped out of them. And then
how about this no Canada geese for the eighth consecutive year.

Speaker 14 (01:16:32):
Well, I there are three out there somewhere, and there
are three I have been, I believe.

Speaker 3 (01:16:40):
In the six thousand speckle belly.

Speaker 14 (01:16:42):
That's crazy, I am, you know, I don't I feel
like I've seen all six thousand of them.

Speaker 3 (01:16:47):
Yeah, you know, And again going back to the late nineties,
in the early two thousands. Wow, in nineteen ninety nine,
three hundred, about three hundred and forty thousand, and it.

Speaker 14 (01:17:00):
So yeah, yeah right now, wow, yeah, And I don't
even know, you know, there's not really much.

Speaker 3 (01:17:08):
Anyone can do about it.

Speaker 14 (01:17:10):
It's funny because you see these all these ducks floating,
these videos of these ducks floating down the Missouri River. Yeah,
everything's so frozen up except the Missouri River. And I
hear other people talking, and it's just it's more that
the ducks are adapting. And a lot of people think
it's due to pressure, you know, that don't want to

(01:17:30):
go to Arkansas anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:17:31):
They don't, you know. And then you'll see.

Speaker 14 (01:17:36):
You see up in Lubbock they're killing, you know, widget
at a Canada goose decoys on red dirt.

Speaker 9 (01:17:43):
Wow, it's wild.

Speaker 3 (01:17:44):
It is. It's just different, and you just adapt to
the change. You know, you've got a good operation. You're
going to be solid and steady for a long time
to come. Uh in Zone three where you are, some
of these other zones, it's going to be it could
be slim pickens for a while.

Speaker 12 (01:18:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:18:01):
Yeah, as long as we manage it properly, manage the water,
manage the pressure. You know, we're always going to have
birds down here. The only thing we can't manage is
the expansion of Houston, which I just hope my kids
are old enough to see see a little bit of
the prairie that's left before it all goes to the
wayside and put up in houses.

Speaker 3 (01:18:23):
Man, oh man, what a mess. What a teetotal mess,
my friend. But you're on top of it. I know
you are. I'm not worried about your place down there.
You got You've had more birds than most people I've
talked to, and I'm really happy to send people your way.

Speaker 14 (01:18:38):
Well, I appreciate it, Doug, appreciate it sending your friends
down down.

Speaker 3 (01:18:41):
To hunt with us.

Speaker 14 (01:18:42):
They they've had a good time, and.

Speaker 4 (01:18:44):
Yeah, it's been a good I can't complain.

Speaker 14 (01:18:46):
It's just been very inconsistent. But like I said, we've
we've managed through it. We cannot overhunt. You know, pressure
is when you got slim birds. Pressure is the biggest thing.

Speaker 3 (01:18:59):
Especially especially so all right Pardner, Well, I got a run.
I hate to do it to you, but you get
back to those kids, and I'll get back to you soon.
We'll see if this front drops these ducks down, better
late than never, you know, we'll take them, putting no doubt.

Speaker 4 (01:19:12):
All right, buddy, Well, I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:19:13):
Doug sur in the during the freeze out. Yes, sir,
Mitchell Holder Wildlife Specialties down in El Camp. I'll give
him a call, thanks, Mitchell Audio. Oh bye bye. All right,
we gotta take a little break here real quick. Nothing
on the way out. We'll talk when we get back.
Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.

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The conversation continues this as the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 3 (01:19:40):
Heye fifty six already on Sports Talk seven ninety. He
only got a minute. Boy, I don't know what I
can yap about for one minute. Takes me longer than
that to tell you who I am and what I do.
Holy cow, my wife says I talk too much. What
do you think, Melvin, I talk enough? He's okay, I
talk enough. That's what I do. I talk. Let me

(01:20:01):
see if I can find something interesting here. No, no
trying to find something that will tie into this program.
That's in my little short notes of fun and interesting stuff.
Better yet, Melbourne. I think what we'll do is just
go to a break, go to this briak at the

(01:20:22):
top of the hour early, and then when we get back,
I've got a little golf news to talk about, and
I'll see what's going on with the tour. I'll ask
all of you to weigh in on what you think
of the new tgl which is Tiger and Rory's little
adventure down there in Florida. I think it's a cool concept,
and I've watched once now and I'll try to go

(01:20:45):
back for another one because I think it's interesting at
least all the way out to this break.

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I'm gonna start with a trip to the telephone seven
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What's up man?

Speaker 9 (01:21:19):
Hey, good morning, Doug.

Speaker 3 (01:21:20):
Hey you doing, I'm good, Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:21:24):
Hey.

Speaker 9 (01:21:24):
What would you spend on a good compass? Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:21:29):
I don't think you have to spend just a whole
lot of money on a compass, to be perfectly honest. Well,
they're not highly complex. Now, if you're if you're talking
about going on a boat halfway across the ocean, I'd
invest in some pretty good electronics, including a really good compass,
an old school compass, but just something to carry around.

(01:21:51):
What are you what are you gonna use it for?

Speaker 9 (01:21:54):
Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna scout the national forest. Oh boy,
I'm trying to figure out if you park on side
of the road, because I ain't trusted my phone by
any means. Yeah, if you park on side of the
road and you take off into the wilderness, Yeah, how
do how do you determine I need to get back
to my trucks?

Speaker 3 (01:22:15):
I don't know. Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 9 (01:22:17):
I wonder how that, I wonder how that works.

Speaker 3 (01:22:19):
I don't know the exact cost of a good compass.
But what I would do if I had to do
it old school like that, and you don't trust your phone,
and I wouldn't either, frankly, I would have a compass
with me is I would kind of make notes. I'd
have a little notepad and a pen in my pocket,
and I would take off walking east off the road,

(01:22:41):
and I would follow that compass east for maybe say
ten minutes, and stop and if I was going to
turn and go in a different direction, I would stop
and make a note that at ten minutes I turned
and went north for another ten minutes and then so
you would at least have an approximation. Now it's not

(01:23:03):
going to be perfect, but it's gonna be better than nothing,
and you could just kind of and just kind of
draw it out. Here's where I started. I walked ten
minutes north, then I walked ten minutes east. Then I
walked ten minutes to the northwest. And then you should
if you draw that on a onto a little makeshift map,

(01:23:23):
or even bring a map with you and kind of
charter course, you should be able to figure out, uh,
you should be able to get back pretty close to
your car or truck or whatever. Uh, at least get
yourself back to the road. And that's that's the main
get back to the road. And and I'm not at
all opposed to I don't know how the National Forest

(01:23:45):
feels about it, but dropping little pieces of surveyors ribbon,
you know, just kind of like break crumbs.

Speaker 4 (01:23:50):
Oh definitely.

Speaker 9 (01:23:50):
Yeah, they got this little uh, I know, they got
this little uh stick pedge and just sticking to a
pine tree. Yeah. Got now, not at all, not at all.
So I'm just wondering about that because I was going
to start scouting here. What's still cold?

Speaker 10 (01:24:06):
Cool?

Speaker 3 (01:24:06):
And oh, it's gonna be plenty cool. I would maybe
wait till next thirdday.

Speaker 9 (01:24:12):
No, no, no, I'm not doing it today, but I'm
you know, I'm gonna do it here before it gets
the mill of July.

Speaker 3 (01:24:17):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely spring, And I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:24:20):
Worried about it.

Speaker 9 (01:24:21):
I was like, if I if I park here and
I've got a decent composite in my hand, I want
to get back to my truck if I get too
far out there and every tree looks alike, Yeah, do
you have a map of that area. No, but I'm
going to go to the Forestry Service up here in
East Texas and if they have a get a good map, Yeah,

(01:24:44):
they can give me.

Speaker 3 (01:24:45):
In that way, as you're walking and as you're trying
to kind of measure your distance that you've walked and whatnot,
you can look at the elevation change and see if
it or maybe there's a creek running through there, or
maybe there's some drop off some whatever it is. If
you if you measure your steps right and watch what
you're doing with your compass, you should be able to

(01:25:05):
find all of that stuff and it just it opens.
You'll you'll be able to see not as well as
GPS would, But of course in the woods like that,
you may not have coverage. So yeah, I would. I
would trust a pen and some paper and a topo
map and a compass. I would.

Speaker 9 (01:25:21):
I'd be okay, yeah, yeah, definitely, because I ain't about
to trust my phone. They know, no, we'll shape or form.
So I mean, I got a good compass on there,
but you know, tend to screw things up. So I'm like,
I'm gonna get me a real compass.

Speaker 3 (01:25:34):
Yeah, that's not gonna be impacted by whether or not
your battery goes dead, or whether or not the trees
block the signal, any of that stuff.

Speaker 9 (01:25:41):
Now, I mean, I'll carry one with me just yeah,
case it does work, But other than that, I'm just
not gonna Yeah, I just want to, you know, old school,
because I know the earth thing's going to change and nope,
a real compass ain't gonna change.

Speaker 3 (01:25:52):
So people people navigated the entire planet for centuries with compasses,
way before your GPS.

Speaker 9 (01:26:02):
All right, man, I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:26:04):
Thanks all see. Man, Yeah, I wouldn't be scared to
walk into the woods just turn my phone off. I
wouldn't leave it in the truck. I think that would
be a mistake. Just in case it is working. That's
going to be pretty sophisticated navigation as compared to a compass.
But a compass won't lie to you. A good quality

(01:26:26):
handheld compass isn't going to lie to you, and it
will tell you where magnetic north is. And if you
leave your vehicle and walk, according to the compass, straight north,
and then you turn around at some point and come
walking back, kind of tracing your footsteps, or even if
you if you dare just look at the little map

(01:26:47):
you've created about where you've walked, and approximate distances and
whatnot relative to the topo map and the elevation changes
it shows, and just map yourself a direction to walk
in a straight line to get back to your vehicle
as fast as you can. That's a skill that anybody
who's going to be spending a lot of time in

(01:27:08):
the woods ought to have, especially in unfamiliar woods. It
amazes me how easy it is that people who guide
up in the mountains, they just walk up and down
these hills and mountains and go up over ridges and
then up over and down another ridge. And I feel
like if I had grown up there, I'd be way
more comfortable with that. But I grew up in the flatland.

(01:27:29):
I grew up where in most instances, if you can,
if you can shinny six feet up a tree and
you can probably see your house from there. There's just
not a whole lot of relief in the land, and
it makes it a lot easier to kind of get around,
especially with cell towers and and all these different things.

(01:27:50):
These structures that get built across relatively barren land just
follow the windmills in half a Texas. Good heavens. All right,
let's move to golf, shall we. The big news around here,
the big local news in golf is that the Covey
at Big Easy Ranch, which was designed by Chet Williams

(01:28:11):
and was the dream of Billy Brown, the guy who
owns Big Easy Ranch. That golf course, the Covey was
named the best new course in America by Golf Digest
for twenty twenty four. And that is it's a Chet
Williams design. As I mentioned, I actually got to play

(01:28:33):
that golf course alongside Chet Williams. He was riding in
the cart with me. I felt like a big deal
riding around with the guy who put the course together.
And boy did I have questions for him? Why'd you
do that? Mostly? Why'd you put that where my golf
ball went? Surely you could have grown one more square
foot of turf so that my golf ball would have
stayed on the fairway. It was good, it was fun.

(01:28:55):
It was very eye opening to ride around with that
man and understand the genius that went into his architecture
of that golf course, every bit of it. He said
in the quote in the press release I got. This
is from Chet Williams. The property where the covey is
located was blessed with many beautiful natural features and elements.

(01:29:20):
The goal was to incorporate them into the design, and
I feel we were successful in doing this. I couldn't
agree more. It's such a beautiful layout. If you ever
get a chance to play it, and you have it yet,
I strongly recommend this kind of dropping what you're doing
and taking care of that business. First New Texas layout
in the past thirty years to be named best in

(01:29:43):
the country by Golf Digest. Think about that. That's pretty impressive.
That's pretty impressive. Chet Williams takes credit also can take
credit also for Whispering Pines. That's one of his designs.
Number one in Texas for a lot of years. Outstanding,

(01:30:05):
outstanding golf course put together by a man who truly
walks that land front to back, side to side. Billy
told me every now and then when Chut was down
there designing that golf course, that he would show back up.
He'd be out walking around in the woods, just barret,
just native land out there, and he'd come back all
scratched up and cut up from charging through the underbrush

(01:30:29):
to see what was on the other side of it
to see how he wanted to use that particular piece
of property. You wouldn't know that thing was anything other
than a gorgeous golf course. Before you can see you
can still see how the land lays out, and what
you will see also is how beautifully they put that
place together. Just absolutely beautiful. I was going to try

(01:30:50):
and interview Billy Brown today. We're going to do that tomorrow.
I want to pat him on the back personally on
the show for seeing his dream come true. And he
he pretty much gave Chef Williams a blank check to
make this an outstanding golf course, and that's what it became.
He was going to be on today, but he's playing

(01:31:12):
golf this morning. What an appropriate excuse for not coming
on to talk about the golf course. He's playing beautiful place.
Shifting to the American Express which is ongoing now out
in California, let me find out. Yeah, they've got a
lot of different courses they're playing. This is one of

(01:31:32):
those ones where they bounce around for a little while
and there are some pretty dog one good scores going up.
I must say, I don't know how this is another
one of these tournaments where the winning score might be
one hundred under par at some point. Charlie Hoffman has
put together rounds of sixty five and sixty three so
far that would be seven and nine under par, respectively,

(01:31:56):
to be sixteen under and he's not alone. O hooey
sixty five sixty three through two days, also at sixteen
under par. There are three players justin lower, Mark Hubbard
and sept Straka who are just one shot behind at
fifteen under par through two rounds. These are just incredible scores,

(01:32:19):
and it shows it doesn't really show how easy those
courses are, because no golf course, no golf course, is easy.
Whoever you are, however good you are, you still have
to get the ball in the hole in as few
strokes as possible. These guys just happen to be better

(01:32:40):
at it than most of us, and the average golfer
could go to any of these courses and probably go
ten twelve over, maybe fifteen over, maybe twenty who knows.
The average score among golfers who actually keep proper scores
is about one hundred, So more power to people who
can who can navigate two rounds in one hundred and

(01:33:04):
twenty eight strokes that's pretty impressive. That is, that's an
average core of sixty four and two guys did that
this week, so hats off to them. They'll continue through Sunday,
and I don't know what I would peg as a
winning score coming up. I know it's going to be
well in excessive twenty over and it may it may

(01:33:26):
creep up on twenty five, twenty six over. Already more
than halfway there. Good heavens, pretty good stuff. Actually, all right,
we gotta take a little break.

Speaker 6 (01:33:37):
Are sports Stock seven nineties, Houston Sports where you go
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Speaker 3 (01:33:44):
Doug Night nineteen, Can Sports Talks seven ninety Dougpite Show
be paying attention At the bottom of the hour. When
we get back from the break, we will play the
Gems and Jelly's game. I had a great conversation yesterday
with Mike Mercado. I'll tell you more about that a

(01:34:06):
little bit later. Let me go get to Dwayne and
see what's up, de Wayne? What's up my friend? Not much,
just to let you know who I am.

Speaker 10 (01:34:15):
I talked to you several months ago, and I was
in the army and was the soldier that was struck
by lightning.

Speaker 3 (01:34:21):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:34:22):
Oh man, But I was talking to your partner there
and I got back into the truck and you were
talking about navigating through the woods.

Speaker 3 (01:34:33):
Yeah. And I'm a surveyor by trade, okay.

Speaker 10 (01:34:38):
And a couple of three decades ago was surveying some
property and the deed, the original deed for the property,
it read, Why the gentleman that was measuring the boundaries

(01:34:58):
of the property original he said, while riding my horse
smoking three cigarettes, and that's how he measured the distance.

Speaker 3 (01:35:07):
Holy tew Holy tell.

Speaker 10 (01:35:12):
I was like, yeah, I was like, how am I
supposed to figure out how far that is?

Speaker 3 (01:35:18):
Yeah? First you got to take up smoking. Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:35:23):
And but you know, over the years doing doing my job,
I've come across a lot of interesting things, you know,
as far as what people use for property corner.

Speaker 3 (01:35:35):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 10 (01:35:36):
I had a side rail of a model T truck
was the property corner. As I'm and as I'm you know,
measuring the boundary, I'm like, how am I going to
recognize this? And when I came to it, about four
foot of it was sticking out of the ground and
painted yellow.

Speaker 3 (01:35:55):
And I was like, I think that's it. Wow. Man.
You know, they had to do what they had to do,
I guess, and it was Yeah, it was sufficient. At
least there was There was official documentation in the county
courthouse somewhere. Huh. Yeah, that's where we got it. Yeah. Wow.

Speaker 10 (01:36:16):
I was working down on the border and doing some
work for the Fish and Wildlife Service.

Speaker 3 (01:36:22):
It was a.

Speaker 10 (01:36:24):
Property that they had bought that was to protect h.

Speaker 3 (01:36:30):
Ocelots. Oh wow.

Speaker 10 (01:36:33):
And uh was going across a mesa. This is when
I was very young and just started out, and I
was a low man on the totem pole and I'm
going across the mesa and I called the party chief,
the crew chief, and said, do you want this monument here?

Speaker 3 (01:36:51):
He said, what monument? Because we had no record of him. Wow.

Speaker 10 (01:36:54):
And it was a stove pipe and we were about
a mile from the Rio Brand. You could see the
trees along along the Rio Brand. That's you know how
far we're away from it. And we're in Texas. And
he said, what monument? I said, this this monument that
says Texas Mexico border eighteen forty something.

Speaker 3 (01:37:18):
Wow. And it was. And it was a stone pike
that they had filled with Holy cow and then stamped
that on the top of itally cow. That's crazy, man. Yeah,
that is, like we said, we were.

Speaker 10 (01:37:33):
A mile away from the Rio Brands. So that's how
much the border had changed in you know, one hundred
and fifty years.

Speaker 3 (01:37:40):
That's amazing. Yeah, yeah, if that's fascinating. I actually did
a little research during the break looking back at some
old Mormon pioneer was the inventor of the odometer, and
it talks about measuring distance by ribbons tied to wheelspokes,
and all kinds of stuff.

Speaker 10 (01:38:00):
Well, if you get an old eaton Texas, you're gonna
see bearas say City Veras.

Speaker 3 (01:38:07):
Yeah, yeah, r as.

Speaker 10 (01:38:09):
And what that originally was, that was a wagon wheel
laid on its side and then it flipped over and
that's how they measured the distance only fifty times. It's
fifty varas. But then you gotta think, is every wagon wheel.

Speaker 3 (01:38:24):
A little bit different?

Speaker 10 (01:38:25):
I am, yeah, And so you know, eventually they made
a specific measurement for that, but originally, yeah, that's what
it was.

Speaker 3 (01:38:36):
That was the only thing they had. I guess that
was anywhere close to consistent. Yeah, holy man.

Speaker 10 (01:38:44):
So you know, now you have a set distance for
a bear that we converted to. But originally it was
just the wagon one they flipped, flipped, flipped it, flipped it,
and that's how they got the bear.

Speaker 3 (01:38:57):
It's like one of those big old strong man competitions
with a truck tire. Right, you could be kind of tired,
I would imagine. Yeah, I wouldn't want to be the
wheel flipper. You know that was a low man on
the totem powl job. The landowner out there. Flip that
wheel over to yon Ridge, my friend, and tell me

(01:39:17):
how many it takes. Like, guy, be like, no, I
can't flip that thing all the way to there. You're
just gonna have to own a smaller place. That's all
I can do for you. Oh that's fascinating. Thank you, Dwayne.
I appreciate it. Man.

Speaker 10 (01:39:32):
You're welcome as sir, and I always remember I enjoy
your show.

Speaker 3 (01:39:37):
I appreciate what I do. Appreciate it man, all right,
you bet, stay save and stay warm. All right? Wow,
flipping wagon wheels kind of a job would that have been?
That's something you pay a pay a teenager a nicola
a week to do. Back then, probably you know, part

(01:39:59):
time job. There were no burger flippers back then, that's
for sure. Yeah, doing flipping wagon, wheels, bears. Okay, had
absolutely no idea about that. That didn't come up in
my search. Yeah, I looked up a couple of things
about measuring distance back back in that day, in that time.

(01:40:24):
And I'll tell you what else about that job would
have been interesting. So this guy talked about Dwayne was
talking about seeing this deed that was measured, you know,
three cigarettes while I'm riding my horse. Okay, Well, first
of all, how reliable is your horse? Second of all,

(01:40:45):
who rolled your cigarettes? And I guess today you'd have
to ask what were you smoking? You wouldn't have any
idea what it was over yonder have three throw of
a rock? Yeah, you know, it's just so random. And

(01:41:08):
then some of these things, like he said, they're wandering
out there in relative wilderness today looking for marks and
stones and markers that have been left by surveyors past,
and who knows how they got to those places. And

(01:41:28):
like you said, that one delineation of the of the
state line was held long ways from the river. At
that point, everything changes. Thank goodness, we've got the precision
that we do today. Boy, I tell you, it makes
me just think back not that long ago, back into
the seventies, even in the sixties when you could have

(01:41:49):
bought pretty much every acre in South Texas for less
than one hundred dollars an acre, including the minerals that
people didn't even really realize were there, but you just
throw that in just because you were a nice guy.
They had a lot of fortunes made and lost by
some of those land transactions back then, when when people
who had great foresight bought up some really big parcels

(01:42:13):
down there before it just got prohibitively expensive and valuable.
You just never know. You just never know. I do know.
Watch this transition.

Speaker 6 (01:42:25):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety on the Goal with
iHeartRadio Friends.

Speaker 3 (01:42:30):
You've got to try.

Speaker 6 (01:42:31):
The conversation continues this as the Doug Fight Show.

Speaker 3 (01:42:35):
Nine three on Sports Talk seven ninety. It's time to
play Melvin's Jams and Jellies. I need a contestant who
is interested in winning a delicious gift basket from Brasis
River Provisions Company seven one three two one two five,
seven ninety. If you have any idea what the theme

(01:42:57):
of the musical Rejoins was this morning morning, you are
welcome to step in and even if you're not one
hundred percent sure, take a swing. This is one of
those games that I like to play where I'll do
my level best to make sure you win the game
and get to come over here and pick up one

(01:43:18):
of these baskets full of delicious jams and jellies and sauces.
I picked up six more baskets from Mike yesterday evening,
as a matter of fact, and it was kind of funny.
I wish I'd had time to run down to the
car during one of these breaks, because on the tops
of two jars he put in a little sample bag
for me were the pairings, And like I said earlier

(01:43:39):
in the program, because he heard me talking about it
last week, he also has something that apparently for the
bass fishermen, the aspiring young bass professionals in the audience
who might be here. He even has a salsa that
pairs beautifully, he says, with Vienna sausage. So it's it's

(01:44:02):
not the ideal food, but I would imagine that if
you put some of this on it, it's gonna taste
a whole lot better. We had a great conversation standing
outside a little restaurant down there at ninety nine and
fifty nine yesterday evening, he coming from Rosenberg, guy coming
from sugar Land, and we just stood there and yapped
about the outdoors, about fishing, about hunting, and all of

(01:44:25):
the things that we both like to do. It turns
out we're close in age and had a lot of
common likes back when we were younger and dumber and
stronger and all of that. It was good s one
three do what. I don't know if we need a hint.
We'll find out see who that is, and maybe we'll
give him a hint. Maybe we won't. We'll see sebone three.

(01:44:49):
Oh well, I already got somebody on the phone for that.
I'll take care of that. By the way, I mentioned earlier,
I got Billy Brown coming on tomorrow to talk about
the Covey and back to another paddle on the back
for him. Seeing as how being named the best new
golf course in the country is, it's not a pretty

(01:45:10):
big deal. It's an amazing deal. And like I said earlier,
it's been twenty something years or thirty I think it
is thirty something years since any course in Texas had that.
The Covey of Chet Williams design and one of the
other perpetual winner for best course in Texas Whispering Pines,

(01:45:31):
also another Chet Williams creation. And I've had the honor
to play that place more than once or twice, and
it's just fantastic every time I go, all right, you
got the music ready, Melvin? I sure do? Okay, tee
it up, man, I'll get Mark on the phone.

Speaker 12 (01:45:57):
Now.

Speaker 16 (01:45:58):
A taste of Melvin's champs on the Dunk Bike Show,
deliciously spread for you by Rosas River Provisions locally meet
Gorney Jams, jellies and sauces for all occasions.

Speaker 3 (01:46:16):
Can you put him on the air for me? Because
I don't seem to have Okay, you got it? I
don't know how. Why there you are? Hey Mark, what's up?

Speaker 4 (01:46:23):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:46:24):
Mark you there? Oh? He says, it's in you. You've
got it. Oh, Now I can get him. Now, I
can get him, Hey Mark, what's up? Man? Yes, sir,
I'm a big fan of yours. Oh Man, thank you.
I appreciate that. I'm gonna make you a happy guy,
probably because we got the delicious little assortments of jams

(01:46:46):
and jellies from Breaths River Provisions. And I have a
hunch that you already kind of know you know the
question I'm gonna ask you, so, what has been the
theme of Melvin's gems today.

Speaker 4 (01:46:59):
I'm gonna say a hotel nailed it.

Speaker 3 (01:47:02):
Well, Well, you got to get a bell Melbourne. We
got to spare a lot of intro and then you're
just over saying ding ding ding. We went from the
penthouse to the outhouse in that. Yeah, Mark, I got
you hooked up. So you're all the way up in brim,
are you?

Speaker 12 (01:47:19):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (01:47:21):
Can I tell you a quick story?

Speaker 3 (01:47:23):
Of course you can. I had some people.

Speaker 4 (01:47:26):
Here over Thanksgiving.

Speaker 12 (01:47:27):
Yeah, some younger people, family members in their early thirties
that working. I'm an old steel worker and welder and stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:47:37):
But I took them all to Phoenix Knives. Oh nice,
the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

Speaker 12 (01:47:42):
Yeah, and man, they made their own knives. And the
looks on their faces, They've never done anything like that.

Speaker 3 (01:47:53):
You wouldn't see anything like that anywhere, but at Phoenix Knives.

Speaker 12 (01:47:57):
Really it was awesome, And that was the hit of
the whole Thanksgiving.

Speaker 3 (01:48:03):
Oh wow, that I.

Speaker 12 (01:48:04):
Took them down there and they were, you know, texting
their friends, showing photographs and stuff. Man's they were so
proud of themselves. And I got that idea from listening
to your show.

Speaker 3 (01:48:17):
You know it really is.

Speaker 12 (01:48:19):
I just wanted to thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:48:20):
Thank you man. It's a it's a unique experience. It's
totally unique. You're not going to find that anywhere else
in town. There's no way, maybe not any where else
in Texas. Yeah, good for you, man.

Speaker 12 (01:48:32):
It was fun.

Speaker 3 (01:48:34):
I'll bet it was Holy cow.

Speaker 2 (01:48:35):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:48:36):
So I'm going to put you on hold and letting
Melvine get your information. Do you get into Houston much?

Speaker 4 (01:48:44):
I have some.

Speaker 12 (01:48:45):
I have a brother in law that lives there, but yeah,
occasionally we go.

Speaker 3 (01:48:49):
How much do you like him?

Speaker 4 (01:48:55):
Well?

Speaker 12 (01:48:56):
I got no comment on that.

Speaker 3 (01:48:57):
Okay, that's fun. Yeah, I'm just making sure you can
get down here and pick that prize up. We're about
we're overbred Galleria.

Speaker 4 (01:49:07):
Now.

Speaker 12 (01:49:08):
I will make I will make a way down there.

Speaker 3 (01:49:11):
I'll make you deal. As long as you don't come
on a Monday, because that's my only day off, And
as long as you don't don't come in between about
eleven thirty and one point fifteen, I'll probably be here
and I'll darn sure come out and shake your.

Speaker 4 (01:49:24):
Hand, give you a little too appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (01:49:27):
It'd be my pleasure, man, it would be my pleasure. Mark,
thank you. Okay, I'm gonna tip to put you on
hold here and there we go. Yeah, thanks for playing.
I appreciate it. How about that Mark, no comment? He said, Well,
just just let the silence hang there for a second.
He had to do what he had to do. I'm

(01:49:48):
sure he's choking seven one three two one two five
seven ninety email on me Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
Let me go back over to my little notes over here.
I'll go. I'll go all the way back to speckle
trout by the way, because this is a potential, a
potential fish killing freeze that's coming our way. The temperatures

(01:50:10):
down south aren't going to be quite as severe, but
it doesn't have to get below freezing to stun and
ultimately kill these fish. It's the water temperature that dictates it,
not whether there's icicles on the eaves of the beach houses,
and so we have to be aware of that. I
do think that as the temperature falls tomorrow, these these

(01:50:33):
fish will have time to react, time to find their
way into the intracoastal, time to find their way to
other areas where they can find some relief from the
worst of the temperature change, and hopefully we don't experience
a major kill. But again, like I was talking about
in the in the beginning of the program, we're still

(01:50:56):
in better shape because we have left so many fish
in the water thanks to the new limits that are
in place. If we'd have been keeping five all the
way through croaker season, we would have had a much
more difficult task ahead of us. If there is a
kill that happens because of this, and there will be,

(01:51:17):
there'll be some smaller fish killed, There'll be some a
little of this and a little of that on whatever's
left with little fish right now. But I don't know
that the any halfway mature speckled trout I think are
going to be are gonna be okay, And again I
could be totally wrong. Depends on how long the weather
sustains and how how quickly it slams across the coast.

(01:51:41):
If we get a fairly gradual drop in water temps
and it's been cool for so long now there I
doubt that there are too many fish left exposed in
the gallaton based system, certainly, and even Matta Gorda now
maybe farther down, I know there have been a lot
of fish, very shallow laylist, actually a lot of big trout.

(01:52:01):
And I hope they're smart enough after having lived four
or five winners to have bailed off those flats and
figured out what to do. Time will tell, and that's
the only thing that will tell for us. All Right,
I'm gonna head out to the break, the final break
of the program.

Speaker 6 (01:52:20):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety online at Sports seven
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Speaker 3 (01:52:25):
Now more Doug Fight. That doesn't sound like a hotel Well,
I guess it could turn into one right time, right place.
Might be playing in a hotel room on somebody's phone.

(01:52:46):
Here that just in the background, you hear that little,
that little when the wine cork comes out of the bottle. Oh,
move music? Is that what you're into? Now? That what
you're doing? Movin? You know we try to caterchamp everybody's needs.
That's a very special need. Melbourne, what's up Forrest?

Speaker 11 (01:53:06):
Grandmaster Pike, the Man, the Myth, the letch.

Speaker 3 (01:53:09):
You know, I know you got some cold weather coming
your way, don't you think?

Speaker 13 (01:53:15):
I think my low's all the way to Next week
is going to be twenty six, twenty twenty twenty four
and twenty eight.

Speaker 3 (01:53:21):
Good golly, we're showing a nineteen here for Tuesday night.
Nineteen man, that's a weather channel for cast too.

Speaker 13 (01:53:29):
They call it snow Here, Money and Tuesday. So we'll
see if I get to drive it. I got to
drive to Lufkin work, so we'll see how that goes. Yeah,
we'll see how that works out.

Speaker 3 (01:53:36):
Yeah. I'm about to send Will Melbourne an email to
have a best of put together for Tuesday, because I
don't know if I'll be able to get here. They're
talking about several inches of snow in Sugarland even, so
we'll see. That's not good.

Speaker 11 (01:53:53):
No, I got a golf slash fishing story for you.

Speaker 13 (01:53:56):
What do you know about golf, man, I'm all knowing
except for that. But but uh so, anyway, we we
went fishing up there.

Speaker 11 (01:54:05):
Around Lane's place up there with me and Lane thought
all the white bass last year. Yeah, and we fished
the entire creek.

Speaker 13 (01:54:12):
I mean, I think got a shot of livescope in
every living creature in that creek. Used to get out
those a bait fish. Couldn't find a single white bass.
That's what we were up there, trying to get ahead
of the white bash run. Yeah, and apparently it's not
happening up there. We caught one black bass way as
far as you could take a skeeter up that, up
that creek, one black bass.

Speaker 11 (01:54:32):
I saw that picture, but the golf part of it.

Speaker 13 (01:54:36):
So we're going along the Whispering Pines area is where
we were at, and uh, there's all this heavy equipment
out there banging around, putting in more bulkhead than I
could pay for in twenty years of my salary. But uh,
putting into some thuds of steel bulhead. Of course, pounding
that in the ground probably didn't help the fish.

Speaker 3 (01:54:52):
Dinny's probably not, probably not, but there.

Speaker 13 (01:54:56):
But what upset me is whispering times when you go along,
like when you're going up to the creek Whispering Pines.

Speaker 11 (01:55:03):
On the left side, yeah, there's one probably.

Speaker 13 (01:55:08):
I want to say, a solid acre, maybe a one acre,
a little pond that feeds in.

Speaker 3 (01:55:13):
Off the creek. Yeah, that a.

Speaker 13 (01:55:16):
Crappie get in real good spawn catfish, I mean a
black basket in real good spawn.

Speaker 11 (01:55:21):
And as you go to the mouth of this thing,
it's it's as white as a bass boat. That's about it.

Speaker 13 (01:55:25):
On the right side is the tea box and on
the left side where you go. It's a long peninsula
to your hole for a.

Speaker 3 (01:55:31):
Part three, yep, I know the hole.

Speaker 13 (01:55:34):
Yeah, so what they did They filled in where you
go in that pond there and they're pumping the water out.

Speaker 3 (01:55:41):
Oh no that.

Speaker 11 (01:55:43):
Me and my buddy is dead.

Speaker 3 (01:55:44):
And I was like, really, you know, yeah, it's to
preserve the golf course. I understand that, but I hate
the crappie hole. That's a tough one. Did I lose you?
I by crying, come on, foprah. I don't know where'd
he go. He's in a weird bought o pro. I
don't know if you can hear me. But I can't

(01:56:04):
hear you, and that doesn't make good radio. So I'm
gonna drop you and then see if I can get
him to call back. That'll make it easy. When he
hears a dial tone on the other end, he'll know
that we've lost the connection. Yeah. That forecast is I
see a lot of different lows and a lot of
different highs. The downside to the weather forecast, or the

(01:56:25):
Weather Channel forecast, for example. The upside to it is
in Tuesday, when a couple of other forecasts showed it
would stay below freezing all day Tuesday, they tossed us
a little bone and put it at thirty three. But
that night, instead of being twenty two or so, they're
showing nineteen, which is darned low and requires a little

(01:56:48):
bit of extra prep around the house. I mentioned earlier
the value if you do happen to have a spigot
outside or maybe a line that's kind of right against
the next tier your wall on the inside of your
house that freezes up, and you catch it before it
thaws out, and if it's you know, if it's not

(01:57:09):
able to just flow, if you catch it before it
thaws out and potentially has cracked that pipe, you can
use a little pocket hand warmer and a rag or
a paper towel and just shake that thing up, get
it started warming, and then rubber band it to the
spigot or the little It was a toilet valve in

(01:57:30):
my house, a toilet filled valve that had frozen because
it sits on kind of a northwest corner and all
that north wind and cold temperature A couple of years
ago taught me that I need to take care of
that thing. And sure enough it worked. It kept that
thing from freezing, and I was darn glad it did too,
Holy cal Already, all right, I'm gonna get out of here.

(01:57:53):
I got a little work to button up before I
leave here today. Then I'm gonna go home and take
care of the house while I can still do it
in short and a T shirt, and then just hunker
down like everybody else is gonna do, one way or
the other. We'll get to the other side of this one,
like we've gotten to the other side of all of them.
I hope you all can stay dry and stay warm,
and if it does snow, I hope you don't have

(01:58:15):
anything to worry about and you can get out there
and just kind of marvel at it. There are a
lot of people in Houston, I'll bet you, Melvin who
have never actually touched real snow, and they might just
get their chance on Tuesday.

Speaker 10 (01:58:28):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:58:28):
If Dan Matthews is next, by the way, I don't
know if he's got snow in his past or not.
We'll find out. He'll probably tell you. Dan Matthews is
next on Sports Suck seven to ninety. I'll be back
tomorrow morning. Today. Thanks for listening, I really do appreciate it.
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