Independence Day

On this episode, Doug discusses the tragic Hill Country floods, questions the Bringing Baffin Back initiative, and much more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, it seems I'm a little late, oh, Frankie.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Oops.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
I had to run to a couple of things before
I could get started here. Welcome to Saturday morning, day
after the fourth of July, and out in my neighborhood. Anyway,
it was. It was quieter than usual, A welcome quiet. Now.
There were some pretty good booms and bangs early actually

(00:26):
around all between say nine and ten, maybe ten thirty.
But after that it kind of settled out. I was
quite pleased. I was quite pleased with that. Do you
do anything over the weekend or over the holiday, Frankie.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, my nd uncle always throw a party, so went
to that big time.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Where was that what? They're near the woodlands?

Speaker 4 (00:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Oh, okay, okay, yeah, I got in laws up that way.
My mother in law's up there and has been for
a very long time. Actually, she enjoys it, I think,
but she's ready for a change. I think we'll see
how that works out. Seven one two seven ninety. If
you had some had some fun yesterday to celebrate the holiday, uh,

(01:08):
be feel free. I mean if, and I'm talking about
if you went out and caught fish, if you went
out and worked on the deer lease, maybe went and
cut some cane for the duck blind. Who knows if
you were outdoors doing something other than barbecuing, I'd be
kind of curious to know how it went on a
on a very tragic note. God Lee, it's so sad,

(01:31):
uh that just a devastation that's gone on in the
Hill Country in the past forty eight hours. Torrential rain,
the creeks rise, the rivers rise, they spill their banks,
and already more than two dozen people confirmed dead. And

(01:52):
as of a headline I saw from late yesterday that
this one absolutely just broke my heart. The headline said
more than whenny girls missing from Hill Country summer camp.
This was a camp. It's called Camp Mystic. From this
is bits and pieces. I'm not one hundred percent on
any of this, so don't hold me to it. But

(02:14):
the stories I saw, I believe this issue was from
Camp Mystic. There were seven hundred and fifty girls there,
just having fun, enjoying their summer. Pardon me, going to
celebrate the fourth of July somehow, and all of a sudden,
the water starts coming up and up and up, and
it doesn't stop. A rescue personnel from Kerr County as

(02:39):
of yesterday evening, anyway had already saved the lives of
two hundred and thirty seven people. Rescued him anyway, got
them out of the water, got them out of harm's way,
including one hundred and sixty seven people already picked up
by helicopter. There was a rain gauge in the tiny
little town of Hunt that showed a twenty two foot

(03:02):
spike in the level of the Guadaloupe at the height
of that flood, and that's enough water to pretty much
destroy anything in its path. In Ingram. I saw this
story this morning, and Ingram, a woman woke up till
water coming into her house around four o'clock in the morning.
She and her family ended up outside clinging to a tree,

(03:23):
just hanging on to a tree until the water backed
up enough backed up so they could climb uphill to
the home of a neighbor, another family moved from All
these accounts are just horrifying. I can't imagine. They wake
up and there's water coming in the house, so they
move up to the second floor. The water starts coming

(03:45):
up into the second floor, so the whole family, including
a nine year old grandson and a ninety year old
grandmother go into the attic, and the water actually started
coming into the attic before it finally turned around and
started receding again. As the sun comes up this morning,

(04:07):
up there, more than four hundred people are going to
be out there searching for anybody who is yet to
be rescued, and I hope they find everybody who can
be rescued. At this point, it's just horrible. Nine rescue teams,
a dozen or so helicopters, and almost as many big drones,
either on the ground or in the air, searching for

(04:28):
anybody who might still be hanging on to whatever they
could find to keep them alive. I'm watching for a
call from a buddy mine, Robbie Granger, great friend who
lives a little ways northwest of Hempstead in a family
home that's been there for decades on a hilltop up there,
placed there deliberately decades ago. He and I swapped text

(04:49):
messages yesterday about the potential for flash floods and stuff
in places where the elevation and the pitch of the
land generally is pretty steep, because all all the water
that falls runs into that little valley and then starts
to fill up, and it's it's really it's really tough.
And I'm betting he's seen some scary water in his

(05:11):
lifetime out there. Just pray for all those people, we
every one of them.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
There.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
A lot of lives got changed with that flooding. And
sadly there's a little bit more rain in the forecast.
I hope it's not bad. I hope it's not much.
The only salvation is that most of the water that
caused all the problems thirty six and forty eight hours
ago is already down. It's already downhill and gone. It's
it's memory. But this next little round here, I don't

(05:38):
know what it's going to be for them. Dave, what's
going on?

Speaker 5 (05:42):
My friend put it this way, God bless us, got
to keep us, and God bless America.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
And my heart goes out, Oh, you know, for man,
You know, I know I've been to a lot of tragedies.

Speaker 5 (05:54):
It's probably you sure been through in your lifetime, and
you know it's not easy. We ain't yet now this
world alive, but I sure would like to stay here
a little bit longer. But yeah, man, I just feel
so bad for all those campers out there, and girl
Scouts and boy Scouts and whoever else was all in that.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Little kids, you know, dog going it just little kids
don't deserve that. And then it's so Sadden tragic.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
Hey, I'll tell you what you know.

Speaker 5 (06:19):
On Rocky Creek, if you look it up on the
on the map here, it's a dry creek. But man,
when that water gets flooding there, it's about twelve feet
deep and you do not want to be in there
because that goes down to the Sandy Center River and
it all goes out to Golf of Mexico then or
Golf of America.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of stuff washing down
for the next several days. I'm sure from the flooding
they had up there in the Hill Country. It's got
to go somewhere and it's going to go to the
Gulf eventually.

Speaker 4 (06:46):
Sir, oh man, you know what you know. And I
tell you another thing is what I always uh do
is I always keep my.

Speaker 5 (06:55):
Life jacket close by when I'm around water, because you
got my pacemaker and everything.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yes, not a that idea, David, you you let's let's
stick on that for just one second. So anybody who
drives around in the Hill Country on a rainy day.
Probably wouldn't hurt to have a PFD in the truck,
would it.

Speaker 5 (07:14):
No, it would be wonderful. Yeah, that's and uh and
then and then here's another thing. Uh like if you
if your car, your car will start floating in one
float of water, man, you know, so at least roll
all your windows down to where you can get out
and then grab onto your live jagger or whatever, and
then you know, then try to swim the safety.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:37):
Yeah, that's that's some good sway. That's some good safety
stuff right there.

Speaker 6 (07:41):
It is.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
And there's so much there's so many ways we could
do little extra things to save ourselves. You talk about
rolling down windows with all the windows electronic. Now, as
soon as you feel maybe some like something's wrong with
the car and there's flood water around, get those windows
down so you can get out. Otherwise that the pressure
is gonna keep you from opening the door, and the

(08:04):
locks may just freeze because the power goes out.

Speaker 5 (08:07):
Yeah, so you're gonna be in there and it ain't
gonna be a good sign.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
No, no, And you.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Know, uh like like you know, I'm right here sitting.

Speaker 5 (08:14):
I sent you a picture here of Lake Congros slinking
glass right now.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
We got we got, we got it looks like a
dad with his daughter over here fishing. You got one
of them?

Speaker 5 (08:26):
Yeah, she got one of them.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
Little kid poles over here.

Speaker 5 (08:29):
I got another guy over here that I went and
talked to, and I was telling about, Hey, I put
range cubes over there, man and everything. And he goes,
you're talking to an old fisherman and he lifted up a.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
Bag he had. He had range cubs in his bag.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Great minds on the same track.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
Huh, That's what I'm telling you. You know, I don't
I don't see anything. I don't see any birds over there.

Speaker 5 (08:51):
And there's not there's not that many trucks and trailers
over here right now, because I guess everybody's still trying
to get over last night. Always speaking of the fireworks, Yeah,
oh man, we sat out on the front porch at
the rent house and man, we were watching them here
on Lake Colonel. They were beautiful and uh again uh

(09:12):
they well, they're telling us hopefully on Monday, we're gonna
sign on that house. And they busted out the fence
fifty feet by fourteen feet forward, so on the on
the wooden fence.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
So my dogs are gonna be happy.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
So I bet I'll let you go, all right, Dave.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
Yeah, I mean all thanks.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Great to hear from you as always. Man, appreciate it, sir, Thanks,
uh huh, audios.

Speaker 4 (09:34):
Good guy.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Right there, Hey Brandon, what's up man? Brent Hood? Oh
where do you go?

Speaker 7 (09:40):
I hate to hear about the tragedy in the Hill Country,
And I mean, I want everybody to know that that's
what you need to do, is you have to watch
the weather and you have to know where it's at.
And I'll just give a personal experience.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Sure I went.

Speaker 7 (09:55):
I was on the Frio River and we were going
home and I went to throw the trash away and
I saw some lightning and I heard some thunder in
the distance, and about that time, the turns went off,
and I'm like, and all of a sudden, I heard
this big roar and I was like, what the heck?
And all of a sudden it just turned into like
the Brass River. I mean, you know how the Frio is.

(10:18):
Its crystal clear, and all you could hear trees cracking,
you could hear everything. And they think about an hour
and a half for it to go down.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (10:27):
And that's the only thing I can tell people is
you have to pay attention to the weather. If you don't,
you know, it's uh. I don't know how to say it.
I mean, it's a tragedy. And I don't push that
on anybody. I don't ye of your yes, sir.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Well, I was, yeah, I was gonna say, better safe
than sorry. Like what you saw the lightning and all that,
What was the time from when you well, it looks
kind of kind of scary over there, way over on
the horizon. What was the timeline between that and when
you started hearing trees cracking?

Speaker 7 (11:01):
I would say maybe maybe thirty minutes. Yeah, it wasn't
very long. It wasn't very long at all. And I
always heard about it. So, you know, people that are
floating on the river or whatever, I know you're up
there to float, but it's not worth it. Just get
the heck out of dodge and just get on higher ground.
And if if it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen. If

(11:23):
it happens, it happens.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
You know, you know whether it happens or not, I
really do, whether it happens or not. If you prepare
and you get out of the way of something that
might be coming. You know you're going to be okay
if you try to wait it out till the last minute.
And I'm kind of stupid. I certainly was when I
was younger, when there'd be a big old electrical storm.
There's lightning everywhere, but I'm catching fish every cast And

(11:47):
I God, God spared me a lot of stupid things
just to teach me lessons, and I feel very grateful
for that. But yeah, you're exactly right.

Speaker 7 (11:56):
That's the reason I'm speaking from experience too. I'm not fit, defive,
but I mean, I do I feel for those people. Yeah, Okay,
that water, the water is the most powerful I've seen
a powerful, most powerful force. It can six inches eight
inches of water can push you off the side of the.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Road, and given enough time. Grand Canyon, yes, sir, it
was just a few drops of water that started the
Grand Canyon. And that didn't work out well for the rocks,
did it, No, sir, No, sir. It's great to hear
from you. I'm glad you were spared any of that
Holy cow.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Right.

Speaker 7 (12:34):
Yeah, And I'll pray for those people that are going
through this right now, because it's just it's something that
I don't know. It's hard to fall on. It's hard
to just.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
Pray for him.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
That's all you can do. It really is. I'm grateful
for the call. Thank you, Brendan, appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (12:50):
Yes, sir, you're welcome.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
Man.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Oh oh, this is what's happened in the Hill country
is horrible. And as long as it takes us to
discuss it until everybody's had their say, I have no
problem with that today. Things like that, it's like when
hurricanes come through water, run from wind or hide from wind.
Run from water. You're not going to beat the water.
We have to take a break and when we get back,

(13:15):
we're going to talk to Rick, see what's on his mind.
He runs that country all the time. And I would
imagine as a pretty good firsthand knowledge of little flash
floods up there. Not the kind that just rolled through
down the Guadaloupe, but yeah, all the way out Champions
Tree Preservation. If you remember what happened to Hurricane Barrel

(13:35):
last year, you'll know that wind and water can move trees,
it can move house, it move anything really, And if
you want to make sure your trees are ready for
something that may come into us off the Gulf, call
Champions Tree Preservation. Get them to come out to the house.
They'll send an arburst out there to take a look
at all your trees. Make sure they're safe and sound
and healthy and ready to withstand whatever nature throws at them.

(14:01):
Keep them off of your house, keep them off your fence,
keep them off your cars. Their trees, they're supposed to
be standing up. And that's what Champions Tree Preservation is
going to do, is make sure they are. If they
need a little food, Champions Tree Preservation will take care
of that, maybe a little pruning, maybe some bigger limbs
lopped off, Maybe the whole tree's got to go. And
that if they suggest that, if they recommend that, I

(14:23):
strongly recommend taking their advice. They own a tree farm.
By the way, if you if you want to replace
that tree, it won't take long. You can go out
to the tree farm, pick something out, and it'll be
back in your yard, standing straight up like it's supposed
to be. Get a consultation. Make sure your trees are
ready for the season. Two eight one three two zero
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eighty two zero one, or just check out the website
Champions Tree dot Com. Champions tree dot Com seven twenty
it is on Sports Talk seven to ninety The Dugpike Show.
Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. I'm
gonna get Rick Bis on the phone here. What's going on?

Speaker 4 (15:02):
Rick?

Speaker 7 (15:03):
Well? The last place in the world I'm gonna be
right now is Luken bought Texas.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
Boy, isn't that the truth? They got pounded man?

Speaker 7 (15:11):
Talking about this event. I sent you a couple maybe
a couple of fitchures or some Samul related property that's
was there and it's not there anymore on some of
the branches as a river estate. From the last four
or five years, I have dealt with flash floods out there, sure,

(15:32):
And I'm gonna make a couple of comments on that.
One is if you're on a river or a creek
in the hill country and it's dry and you're having
fun and mer saying there's there's some you know, a
flood warning, take heed because ninety percent of the time

(15:53):
that water that's gonna kill you coming down that river
started about twenty to fifty miles above you and you
never saw a drop of rain.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, yeah, sunny.

Speaker 7 (16:04):
Day, it's just gonna be a twenty foot wall of water.
Everything drains downhill. What's the lowest spot a creak.

Speaker 4 (16:12):
And the river.

Speaker 7 (16:13):
It's why they're there, So get out, make sure because
it'll hit you and you have no warning. And that's
what's going on. That's what I got relatives. I got relatives,
you know, camping right now at Canyon Lake. And you know, uh,
it's kind of a kind of if you think other

(16:36):
thing real quick crossing, low water crossing. Okay, here's my
real thumb. And I've crossed the many of them with
water in it, and I'm I'm I'm the biggest chicken
never was.

Speaker 8 (16:49):
Okay, But my real thumb is.

Speaker 7 (16:52):
If the walk Now, I drive a pretty big truck.
It's ob jacked up for nothing, but it's a big truck.
If there's water up to the hub, the center of
my whill, not the cap, well, this will then, depending
how far across I might do it, I might do

(17:13):
it anything higher thing that forget it. I'm out. I'm
hitting reverse. I'm gonna make that little run. I'm gonna
make that little run. Get our Dave. That made a
good point. I already know this, and I practiced this.
I'm gonna roall a Wednesday I'm for me personally, I'm
gonna take my boots off.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
That's a very good idea that, yeah, you can't swim
in boots.

Speaker 7 (17:38):
And here's the deal. You don't want to go fast
because when you go faster throwing water from an engine,
and the faster you go, the more buoyant you wres
exactly if you're gonna do it, what you do is
and this is just me my personal opinion. I put
my brake, my foot on the brake, my foot on

(17:59):
the gas, and I'm I just ride them both the
real slum creep and my reason I'm doing the break
thing I want to. I don't want water getting in
my tailpip and running up in my engine because I
do get off in there another six or eight inches.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yep, Yeah, that's now. You know here, here's here's my
look at that rick. And you you have enough experience
that you've you've got guidelines and it's okay, this much water, yes,
this much water no. But for the average person, there's
nothing on the other side of that creek. Unless the
water is rising behind you. There's no reason to try

(18:34):
to cross when water is just rushing over one of
those little flat spots where you know, it's it's a
road when it's dry, but it's it's it's a pretty
scary thing when it's wet.

Speaker 8 (18:46):
Two other rules.

Speaker 7 (18:47):
You can see the center stripe on this road, you're
probably okay. And I always remember this. Oh, I don't
care what road it is, freeway, highway, FBM, I don't,
I don't care what it is. The highest point of
a road is in the dead center, yes.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
Sir, like a football field. They want it to dre
they want the water to drain off. Now, yeah, yeah,
it's gonna be if it's a sidehill deal. There may be.
There may be a few exceptions to that. But as
a rule, absolutely, and the center stripe thing is really good.
I just took to lighten it slightly real quickly. After

(19:25):
a big old tropical storm through here years ago, a
friend of mine and I were driving down the surfside
to go surfing. We just couldn't wait because we were
young and stupid. We didn't want it to clear up.
We just wanted to go. And about ten or twelve
miles inland, we were driving down just such a little
highway and there was a bright yellow stripe right in
the middle, and there was probably six inches of water

(19:46):
over that stripe. This is all flat land country down
there by the coast, and it's for miles. There's just
water on the road. And we found a redfish about
twenty four twenty six inch red fish, just swimming down
the yellow stripe, trying to figure how in the world
he got so.

Speaker 7 (20:01):
Far from home speak getting up the center of the road.
I'll end up with the joke of the day. All right,
you ready for the joke of.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
The day, I hope.

Speaker 7 (20:11):
So if you ever get lost in the woods, do your.

Speaker 8 (20:17):
Best to find a possum.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Okay, why is that?

Speaker 7 (20:22):
Because find the possum and fall in Sooner or later
he's going to lead you to the middle of a road.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Okay, Yeah, I get it.

Speaker 4 (20:35):
I get it.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Rick, all right, man, thanks audios. Yeah, where else you're
gonna find a possum if you want to go looking
for one in the middle of the road. Uh seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Email me
Doug Pike at iHeartMedia. Do'd come. It's kind of laughing
right at the onset of the show about how how

(20:59):
quiet it was relatively and maybe I just slept through
a bunch of the fireworks. I just saw something in
that neighborhood app whatever it's called, and it popped in
god least seven twenty six this morning. It said, whoever
is still popping firecrackers in Old Mill Park or creek

(21:19):
Shire cut it out? Oh no, this is it showed
up this morning in my fee. But it says it's
one it's practically one am and you're keeping everybody awake. Yeah,
I don't blame them. It's amazing to me. This is
just a quick aside. Amazing to me how many people

(21:40):
these days know the law, they know the rules, they
know what they're supposed to do and supposed to not do.
And yeah, oh no, that just that that applies to
everybody else doesnt apply to me. There's just a just
this lack of respect, not and not even of the law.
It's not a dis respect for the law, it's a

(22:01):
disrespect for the people around you. That's what bothers me
when people think, ah, yeah, I want to blow off
firecrackers around here till one o'clock in the morning, because
we want to and we think it's fun and cool.
But it's not to the people who have new babies.
It's not to older people. Who really need their rest

(22:22):
to be able to greet the next day. However many
days they got left. And it's just this arrogance. It's
an arrogance and entitlement, and that I'm not a big
fan of seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
Email me, dougpick At iHeartMedia dot Com. Franky, I'll go
ahead and go to this break a little bit early
here seven one three two one two five seven ninety

(22:44):
email me for real, do call us, email us. I
want to hear what you're thinking. Uh, and I do
want to hear to lift this, lift us out of
the flood zone a little bit, so to speak. Uh,
what did you do yesterday? How did you celebrate? And
I'll tell you what ale Before the fourth of July.
I found that the majority of Americans were going to

(23:06):
do yesterday. And I'm wondering who did it? I did it.
I absolutely did. On the way out, speaking of the
Hill Country, Belleville Meat Market May through July, and we're
in the last month of this into July. They have
got all kinds of good stuff up there for you
at good deals if you will. Those chuck Wagon patties

(23:28):
that's half pound beef patties seasoned and loaded with cheddar cheese,
the good heavens, the stuffed pork, tender stuff, pepper stuffed mushrooms,
the hot dogs originals and cheddar cheese, and of course
all the wild game processing year round. Just call to
make sure that what you're going to haul in there
is something they're going to process for you this time

(23:49):
of year. Beef, jerky, turkey, jerky, dry sausage, dries, tick
everything for your grab and go snacking is available at
Belleville Meat Market. They're right in the middle of the
little town of Belle, about fifteen minutes north of Sealy,
fifteen minutes south of Highway thirty six, or online anytime.
They'll ship darn near anything in the store right to

(24:09):
your door. Bellville MeetMarket dot com Belleville MeetMarket dot com.
If you're thinking about doing a little uh, well, not shooting.
They don't do shooting at Shooter's Corner, but they do
gun buying gun selling. I've got a few guns over
there right now, two actually two shotguns over there on consignment.
Maybe you'll pick up one of mine. I don't think

(24:29):
they'll tell you whether it was mine or not, but
both of them are really nice pieces and would make
handy additions to your arsenal before Dove season. If you're
thinking along the way like I do. Jerry and JTK
father and son team home that place and have Jerry's
owned it for forty plus years and Jay came on
as soon as he was old enough to go to work.
I suspect I suspect that Jay got into that business

(24:54):
pretty early and Jerry put him to work pretty early.
Both of them as good as they get with anything
you need for fire our arms, anybody who works in there,
really I've talked to all of those guys more than
a couple of times, and they they know their stuff,
they really do. They'll help you with anything you need,
whether it's guns, ammo optics, reloading supplies, pretty much anything

(25:16):
you need to help you enjoy the shooting sports better
today than you did yesterday. Great hardware at a great price.
That's the bottom line. Palmer Highway at twenty ninth Street,
Dshooters cornertx dot com is a website. If you wear
a badge for a living, you get a discount, which
I think is pretty dog on nice of them to do.
It's an old school gun store. If you don't know

(25:37):
what that smells like. Walk in, take a deep breath
through your nose, and you'll know for the rest of
your life what an old school gun store smells like.
V Shooters Corner, TX dot com seven on Sports Talk
seven to ninety The Dougpike Show. Thank you for listening.
I certainly do appreciate it. You'll see what's on Cheryl's
mind here, Cheryl, what's going on? Oh hello?

Speaker 9 (25:57):
I heard the two men before about the rising rivers. Yes,
and it happens, you know, that water's coming down from
higher ground. But they both mentioned that they heard the syreenes.

Speaker 10 (26:11):
They heard warning.

Speaker 9 (26:13):
We don't have that in Chema, and we don't have
that in Seabrook because see everybody is like so high tech.
They think they're going to get warnings on the cell phone.
But see the cell phones go down and hurricanes and
the electricity goes off for like days and days and days.

Speaker 10 (26:28):
Anyway, the reason.

Speaker 9 (26:29):
I'm calling, we don't have any weather transmission now for
Galveston County.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (26:37):
None.

Speaker 10 (26:38):
If you have a marine.

Speaker 9 (26:39):
Radio, if you have like a ship to shore radio,
and I have one, and that's what made me. I
evacuated for Hurricane Burrel because my radio it said seaze
thirteen feet.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
That would get your attention anywhere pretty much about forty
miles inland.

Speaker 9 (26:59):
Yeah, so I started, Yeah, I started packing because and
then later it went down. It didn't happen, but that
was enough to get me going. And so then I
just then the other one was center Point set a
robo call at eleven thirty and woke me dead out
of this sea.

Speaker 10 (27:18):
And so I got up. I had the car ready,
pull a gap.

Speaker 9 (27:22):
I topped off more at Seabrook and I just drove
straight to the interstate. And I thought it would be
like Hurricane Rita. I thought, oh no, it was already raining.
It's going to be that interstate. It's going to be
just packed with people going through. I ten and it's dark,
and I'm driving there at two and because I finally

(27:43):
got got the gas in the cart two in the morning,
popped it off. There was nobody on the highway but
me and the Trumpers.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
You know, that's fine. If everybody else wants to stay home,
that's fine. If you if you want to go, you
feel more safe getting out of there for a little while.
I don't, you know, don't I hope you didn't feel
like silly at all.

Speaker 9 (28:05):
No, because like everybody says, run from the water. Yeah,
and so that's another word for saying get out.

Speaker 10 (28:12):
I think I'm a block to the day. You know,
get out. But here's the thing that I'm getting out.

Speaker 9 (28:17):
Nobody is going to have any warning if we get
a hurricane and not their not their best warning from
the National Weather Service because you don't have a transmitter
because it burned up in March twenty fifth. So nobody
at Galveston, nobody in Galveston County is getting any weather

(28:39):
related Noah information on their radio.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Do you know if they plan to fix that thing?

Speaker 9 (28:45):
Well, I called I've been keeping up the Galveston Baby
News has been really good about reporting. So the first
week way back in March, I called them over here
at the little bunker building that you have on six
forty six, sure you know by Low's and TJ. Math
And I said when, uh, when do you think it'll
get fixed?

Speaker 10 (29:04):
And he said, I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
Wow, seat, we don't know.

Speaker 9 (29:11):
And he said could be five or six months, because no,
four or five yeah, four or five months?

Speaker 10 (29:16):
I said why? He said, it's on private property.

Speaker 9 (29:19):
And oh my word, well, that's what you get when
you get the bureaucrats.

Speaker 10 (29:25):
They can't do anything anyway. Their hands are tied.

Speaker 9 (29:29):
So we're still at the same point now three months later,
and I wrote to Representative Webber. He's supposedly on it
because some other people have contacted him. I wrote to
May's Middleton. I have heard nothing from him at all.
So but I have friends that live on their boat

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here in Keema. She she knew what I was talking about.
But when I talked to the ladies in the pool
last week that had no idea what I'm talking about
here and at south Shore Fitness, the older ladies in
the pool, they don't know what I'm talking I said.
I said, k PRC came to my house. They filled
me and I showed them my little weather radio that

(30:11):
I got at academy. You know, I feel like I'm er.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
If I lived as close as you do to the coast,
I would own a marine radio, absolutely.

Speaker 9 (30:21):
And it doesn't do me any good because I've got
it plugged in and it's not crackling.

Speaker 10 (30:26):
It's not it's not given.

Speaker 9 (30:27):
See, you can sometimes hear like rescues out in the bay,
or boats coming, or you can hear the highway, you know,
and they're coming above sea Kima, you can hear them.

Speaker 10 (30:37):
There's nothing. It's very quiet. You cannot get and this
radio has little.

Speaker 9 (30:43):
Dots, so it's got like, uh, the watch and the
little dots start to light up. Then as it gets closer,
then it's got hurricane warning.

Speaker 10 (30:55):
Yeah, and then they'll start to light up. And but
I I don't.

Speaker 9 (31:00):
Know whether people are really busy, whether they're working, whether
they don't know what I'm talking about. I do feel
like I'm selling a lot of marine radios, though I.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Hope you are. Cheryl, Thanks for the call. Is that
I appreciate that. I really do. Okay, good talking to you.
Uh huh boy, thank you. You know. It's interesting that
she brings up the warning systems that we have for storms,
and all throughout Tornado Alley there are sirens that go

(31:31):
off when something bad's about to happen. And I read
this morning. I read just this morning, and I wish
I could tell you exactly where it was. But one
of those little towns that got hammered in this flooding
up in the in the Hill Country. There's one of
the spokespersons for that town said we don't have a

(31:54):
warning system. We don't have sirens here, And I thought,
for the love of God, why why would you not.
That's something that I'm sure isn't a major expense, And
even if it is, I would have to think that
the federal government. But with all the money it's wasted
over the last one hundred years, it could find enough

(32:18):
to put up a few sirens in a small town
to where everybody could hear them, to let people know, Hey,
the water's coming, get the high ground now and deal
with it later. If you have to cancel your haircut,
cancel your haircut, if you don't want to, if you
don't have time to get to the grocery store before
whatever happens happens, then just don't go. You'll get fed.

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Don't worry. I'm watching the Weather Channel radar right now
and out between Osay, Colleen and New Bronze Bles and
down to Pleasanton and over to really down all the
way south of San Antonio, darn near to the coast.

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The farther north you go into the hill country, there's
a pretty good batch of rain rolling on to them
right now. Like I said very early in the show,
the good news is the water that did all the
damage yesterday and day before has gone. It's all. It
doesn't take long for it to rush downhill when downhill
is is at a pretty steep angle down here, when

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we get flooding, it tends to just hang around because
it's like it's like pouring water on a pool table.
It doesn't have anywhere to go there. There's no high
point and low point. It's just big flat land, this
whole prairie down here. But up in the Hill Country,
when it comes, it's gonna come with great force, deadly force.

(33:45):
And I just I pray that these things are always horrible,
but I pray that people learn from them and the
next time it happens, because there will be a next
time that fewer people are hurt, that there's a better
warning system that they're there, is better placement of rescue
resources as soon as even before. Hurricanes tend to do

(34:08):
well with preparation for rescue and for restoration of power,
although Beryl wasn't a really good example of that, but
they stage people. They know something's coming and they stage people,
and hopefully there's a way to do better with that
in places like the Hill Country where what happened. Happened,
all right, We got to take another little break here

(34:28):
speaking of flat Land Prairie Riceland Waterfowl Club. By the way,
we are less than two months away from Dubs season
right now. In case you didn't realize it, I'm gonna
go meet Jeff and David Pruitt out there on the
prairie Tuesday afternoon. That's my plan right now. I'm gonna
go out and visit with them and see exactly what

(34:49):
they're working with, see where the water's gonna be. And
you know, I'm pretty good at at visualizing things, and
I'm pretty sure that by next Saturday I'll have a
great report from the Eagle Lake Prairie out there, one
of the finest waterfowl operations, finest waterfowl place is left
in the country. That prairie has been productive for a

(35:10):
long long time. The geese have kind of moved out,
mostly not all of them, but the duck hunting is
still quite good if you have water and if you
have food, and that's what Riceland Water Foul Club has
a ton of great places to hunt. David Prut's been
running this company for fifty years, ever since it opened.
It's his baby, and he's very proud of the results

(35:32):
that he gets for his hunters. Every club member and
group member out there has the same shot at every
good spot every day they hunt. There's a good system
he has in place where nobody gets favoritism, nobody gets
the pick of the litter every time they come out there,
no matter who they are or how long they've been there.

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It's everybody working together to make sure that as many
great duck hunts go off that morning as possible. Tons
of blinds, thousands of acres of water, and those blinds,
by the way, all about a quarter a mile apart
or more. So he doesn't have anybody bumping into each
other out there that used to happen on the Caty
Prairie quite often. He also does no guided hunting on

(36:16):
that land. Everybody who's out there is either a guest
or a member of Riceland Waterfowl Club. There are no
guides working out of there. Go to the website check
it out. He's still got a little bit room for
this coming season. Boy, it's gonna be here before you
know it. Ricelandwaterfowl Club dot com. Ricelandwaterfowl Club dot com
seven to forty nine on Sports Talk seven ninety The

(36:37):
Dugpike Show. Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
On this somber day after the Fourth of July, I'm
glad our country got through yesterday without any any problems,
not at least not to my knowledge. I really am
a chance for Americans to just celebrate. And I was
actually quite pleasantly surprised. I made a grocery store trip

(37:03):
yesterday afternoon on the way back from the golf course,
and twice twice in the parking lot, on's going in
and on's coming out. I just got an unsolicited happy
Fourth of July from just people, just people, people closer
to my age than maybe to Frankie's age. But nonetheless

(37:27):
they did. They were fired up. They were fired up,
and and so am I. I think we're doing well.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
Medugpick at iHeartMedia dot Com. I'm hoping that I can
get my friend Jim Leavell on the phone here in
a little bit. There's something going on down there in

(37:49):
the valley, and specifically something that would impact baff and Bay.
There's a plan down there. Let me get to the
the email that or the text message he sent me
just a second ago. Mark your calendars for next Tuesday
in Kingsville. First chance to communicate all of our concerns

(38:09):
about thirty million gallons a day of treated water being
pumped into Petronilla Creek and then Baffin Bay. If your
life or livelihood is in any way impacted by Baffin
Bay and the Laguna Madre, you should consider making time
to be there. I couldn't agree with him more, or

(38:32):
really couldn't. There is an effort underway under the guise
of well, Baffin Bay's hyper saline, so we need to
fix that. Baff And Bay has been hyper saline for
decades maybe uh, maybe centuries, and there's nothing to fix.
There's no reason to fix it. They don't the plan is.

(38:54):
They're they're spinning it to say that, oh yeah, we
need to dilute all that salinity. It'll make it a
better system. It's pretty good for what we're using it
for right now. And I don't I don't particularly like
that idea. So anyway, I'm hoping to get Jim on
the phone. In the meantime, we're gonna talk to Mike,
see what's on his mind, what's going on.

Speaker 11 (39:13):
Mike, happy for Bud.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
Thanks buddy. How how was last night in Sharptown? Was
it loud? Was it quiet?

Speaker 11 (39:20):
You know for a change?

Speaker 7 (39:22):
Uh?

Speaker 11 (39:23):
I heard the commercial works for a change off in
the distance. Wow, didn't didn't hear much around the neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
It was quite pleasant, yeah that you know, that was
the same with mine. It was much quieter, which which
I actually take is kind of a good thing.

Speaker 11 (39:38):
I agree. I agree. Well, two things. Number one, you know,
the Devil's Backbone up there, you know, is notorious for
those kind of floods. And this is not the first
time one of these episodes has happened. Oh lord, it
won't be the last.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
No, it won't be.

Speaker 11 (39:57):
Listen, I heard you went down to corp Fish and
cut some turballs and a little windburn.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
Yeah, that's exactly all we caught. Actually, the tarballs were
the worst of it all. Mike, Oh my gosh, I
haven't seen those in decades. I haven't even thought about them.
And then all of a sudden, the first day we
jumped out in the afternoon when we got down there,
we pop out onto the beach just to take a
look around. And yeah, it looks kind of fishy. Let's

(40:24):
try it a little bit. Drop the shoes, drop the socks,
walking up and down the beach making some casts, and
get back to the car and pour water on my feet.
I brought two big gallons of water so we could
rinse our feet off before we got in the car.
And that didn't really keep the sand out at all,
but nonetheless it was an attempt. And I washed all
the sand off my foot, and I've got these giant

(40:46):
black blobs like, oh man, I haven't seen those since
high school.

Speaker 11 (40:52):
It's like we're in a set of booties.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
Oh boy. Yeah, I literally threw away on Saturday morning.
On Sunday morning. Sunday morning, I wore a pair of
tennis shoes deliberately so that I could say that I
caught fish without without getting my feet wet. And I'm

(41:14):
just walking up and down the beach, not thinking much
of it at all. And when I got finished and
looked down at the bottoms of those tennis shoes, it
was even I couldn't even have pressure wash that stuff
off of there. I just threw them in the trash can. Oh,
they'd served me well for many years. They were ready
to they were ready for the boneyard. But man, that

(41:35):
was it. I actually had a blob of that stuff
hanging off the back.

Speaker 11 (41:39):
I've been hearing all these outdoorsmen talk about how they
are building up residences and beach homes and businesses along
the coastline, and I kind of look at it from
an optimist point of view. I'm just thinking, that's just
future structure fishing.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
That's a good point. Yeah, something else to cast at.

Speaker 11 (42:05):
I'm telling you. That's all I got.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
Thanks, I'll see Mike Audios. Yeah, that tar ball thing
that somebody in a conversation I had down there. I
don't remember where or when or why, but said, yeah,
maybe I guess one of those tankers offshore must have
purged out their tanks and that's why all this oil

(42:28):
is washing up on the beach. That's not at all
why oil washes off up on the beach. First of all,
it's absolutely against the law, maritime law, and I'm sure
US law out to the end of our national waters.

Speaker 11 (42:45):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
They ships can't do that, Okay, it's just not done.
And what happens actually is this stuff leeches up from
the bottom of the Golf of Mexico, Gulf of America,
from the bottom of the gulf, up comes this oil.
It's just crude, and when it gets to a certain temperature,

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coming from underneath the seafloor, percolating up through it and
finally squeezing its way out the It's like the bottom
of the gulf has unlimited blackheads, okay, And these things
pop and they come out, and they sit there and

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roll around a little bit, and then at a certain temperature,
and don't ask me what the degrees are, but at
a certain temperature, they become buoyant. And when they become buoyant,
they head for the shore. They get washed by the
waves and the wind and ultimately float up with the
tide onto the sand. And then as the tide recedes,

(43:52):
they don't float back out. And that's the ones we
step on. You can get rid of them with baby oil.
You can get rid of them with a lot of
different products. The one that I was told works best
by someone who lives down there. I think it was
Carlon Level, Jim's son who told me this where it
might have been Jim, but they go into the big

(44:14):
box discount stores. Actually, I think I think it might
have been Amy Lavell, Jim's wife, who mentioned going in
the walmarts have these, and I'm sure HB and all
the other big stores have them makeup removing wipes, kind
of like little baby wipes, but for makeup. And they're
cheapest can be. And uh she was talking about. Just

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get boxes of them and put one in the truck,
put one in the boat, put one in the tackle box.
Any place you think you're gonna need to get tar
off your body, use those. They're inexpensive and they work
really well, and they're easy to get rid of. Seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Email me
Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Boy. I can remember those

(44:57):
tar balls back before there was anything to get rid
of them with. You'd end up using pretty much anything,
even a little cup of gasoline or something, and it
probably wasn't good for our skin, but it got that
stuff off of there. It ate it up right away.
I'll tell you what would get it would be Gooby going,
but then you'd smell like Gooby going on the way home.

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I would much prefer to smell like a makeup remover.
Whatever they smell like. I've never had had the pleasure.
El Cubano's Cigar speaking of good smells, Holy cow, fine
cigar has a good smell about it, It really does.
I used to be a cigar smoker and absolutely enjoyed
hanging out with the guys having a good cigar. And

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if you like that, then you are absolutely gonna love it.
Learning about El Cubano Cigars run by a guy named
Manny Lopez. He and his dad started the company many
years ago when they came over here from Cuba after
having worked for many, many years, both of them in
cigar factories there. They came here for a better life.

(46:01):
They did it all correctly, and lo and behold, Manny
now owns and operates. His dad's still around, but he's
not in there working so hard anymore. But they own
and operate one of only four dozen cigar manufacturing facilities
in the whole country. He ships out hundreds of cigars
every day. He's got three or four more people in

(46:22):
there working to roll these things with him, and they
make i want to say, about one hundred and forty
different kinds of cigars and what in two things. Number One,
you get a much better price on your cigars if
you buy him direct from a manufacturer, because there's nobody
in the middle scraping off a couple of bucks a stogie.
And then you also get the opportunity to use them

(46:46):
promotionally for your business or just for a special event
you're having, maybe a fundraiser for a golf tournament or
something like that. You can have your company or your
organization's logo printed on the bands that go around those
cigars to give them a really custom look. That he
makes some really beautiful cigars, all of them. Boy, I've

(47:09):
been in both lounges. There's one in Texas City where
the factory is, and then there's also one in League City.
And if you go down there, you don't know.

Speaker 4 (47:17):
What I mean.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
It's just such a relaxed, cool atmosphere. Lcoubanos Cigars dot
Com is the website. Go there, take a look at
what they offer, and if you man, these are fine
cigars made from the finest Cuban seed grown in Central
America and then shipped up here, turn them into great cigars.

(47:37):
Lcubanocigars dot com. Lcubano Cigars dot Com. All right, second
hour of the program starts right now. Let me see
if Jim's got time to talk this morning. It doesn't
it doesn't look. Yeah, he says he's got bad reception
down there. Oh he's way down, down, down down the
coast on the bay. Never mind, I'm not gonna interrupt.

(47:57):
What he's trying to tell me is he's fishing. He's fishing,
and he doesn't want to doesn't want to mess up
his fishing time by talking to me, and I don't.
I don't blame him at all. The reception is kind
of bad down there, and I would rather that he
get out there and catch a big old trout than
have a crackly conversation with me that can't be well
understood by the rest of you. So moving forward, I

(48:20):
got got an email from Mojo to actually two good
ones and remembe there's a third one here. Let me
see what this is. Oh yeah, yeah. So the first
is about the tar balls, and Mojo explains, and this
is something that I used when I was a much
younger man and always had a can of WD forty

(48:41):
somewhere in the truck. That stuff will will dilute and
break down the tariness of a tar ball. It just
chunks a crude oil basically, and that works well if
you've got some of that around and The other is
in reference to the fire wars. Every holiday, every holiday,

(49:05):
next door has its whiners carrying on about banning fireworks.
The same holidays happen every year. Prepare and pipe down.
I kind of see, I kind of see that point.
It's not like it's a surprise. It's not like it's
a surprise when they start teeing them up. Oh yeah,

(49:26):
Mojo has some.

Speaker 12 (49:27):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
The quote is enthusiastic neighbors in every direction who celebrate loudly.
I'll be darned, Okay, I'll be darn Yeah. I guess
it's it's all about perspective, and I don't I'm not
bothered by them. I've had pets that were I've had
pets that weren't.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
Any dog I ever had for waterfowl hunting didn't couldn't have,
couldn't have cared less about fireworks going off. But we've
had some a little bit, a little bit. It's spookier pets.
Let me see what Steve's got here in this email.
Oh a picture of the Frio River at Lakey. Let's

(50:09):
see what that looks like. Oh, it's it's a video.
Maybe I can get it pop up. Maybe I can't
right now. I'm sure it's gonna be scary. Oh, holy cow. Yeah,
the road what used to be a road is now
covered by rushing water that I would bet is still
on its way up down there. Holy cow.

Speaker 7 (50:29):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
This would be a very prime example. This video would
be of a crossing, a river crossing you would not
want to make at that time. Holy cow. You can
see the cars all stacked up on the other side
over there. If I were the guy in the first
vehicle close to the water, I might start backing up.

(50:52):
It's not gonna get good, boy, Holy mackerel, They're gonna
it's gonna be a long time cleaning all that up.
I'm sure that video was from a believe it was
from yesterday. Anyway, I believe it was from yesterday seven
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I love seeing all of these. I get the pictures,
I get all this good stuff. Who is that? Oh,
I don't even know what that is. We'll scratch that.

Speaker 13 (51:23):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
By the way, I got a call from Manny Manny
Lopez from Elkubana Cigars. While I was talking about his
place down there in Texas City. It dawned on me
that I wanted to I reminded my I was reminded
to tell you guys about something he told me about
that I had no idea existed. And it has nothing
to do with the outdoors. But I think it's very

(51:44):
cool because I've got this little history buff streak in
me that I inherited from my father, who actually majored
in history at Tulane University a million years ago. So
Manny's telling me that he and the family are up
there in Hot Springs, Arkansas, And I said, well, what
have you been doing up there?

Speaker 7 (52:02):
Said?

Speaker 1 (52:03):
Oh, we went by the gangster Museum. You ever heard
of that, Frankie a gangster museum? Oh that sounds cool.
So here's what he told me, And it makes me
if I'm ever within close distance to Hot Springs, I'm
going to this place. The reason there's a gangster museum
there is because that's Hot Springs was kind of a

(52:25):
hideout for national gangsters. They would go to Hot Springs
because there was a casino there, and as long as
the casino was greasing the palms of the sheriff and
the law enforcement people there. Then nobody was going to
have any trouble with anybody and all. They were all

(52:47):
pretty much on their best behavior amongst each other. It
was kind of neutral ground. It was neutral ground for
the some of the most wanted people in America, and
that's where they went to hang out. Who knew, Huh.
I think that's pretty interesting. By the way, there was
a storm. Let me see what Frankie sent me here.

(53:08):
Oh good, Frankie sent me phone numbers. A follow up
from Cheryl's call earlier. Somebody called in and had some
good numbers to call for weather info for Galveston. There
is a number here, and I'm not sure where it goes,
but you know what, I tell you what I'm gonna do.

(53:29):
I'm gonna sit on this until we go to a break,
and then I'll dial both numbers just to make sure
they're what they say they are, because who knows, somebody
might be playing an April Fools prank on us.

Speaker 9 (53:38):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (53:38):
In the meantime, I'm gonna go talk to Kevin. Hey, Kevin,
what's going on down there?

Speaker 4 (53:43):
Man?

Speaker 1 (53:45):
What's going on? Dus? You know, I'm just praying for
the people in the Hill Country and hoping I can
get back to Corpus and catch a fish.

Speaker 14 (53:53):
Yeah. Do you went down there recently and fish with Cliff,
didn't you?

Speaker 2 (53:58):
No?

Speaker 1 (53:58):
Cliff and I didn't get a chance to fit. She
had he had groups on the days we could have,
and then he took he took some family time, and
that's certainly his prerogative over hanging out with me. I
don't blame him. He got grandkids, man. So yeah, I
was down there and I and two capable teenage boys
managed to catch it nothing. It was the first time

(54:19):
I've been skunked in Corpus Christie. But it was it
was the weather's fault, it really was. I didn't know that.
Have you ever fished off the rocks there at Packery
a hundred times? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (54:30):
Have you?

Speaker 1 (54:31):
I have yet to be down there and even seats
back beautiful water. I lived there. I lived there years ago.

Speaker 14 (54:36):
Yeah, when I was doing some electrical construction, we fished
off the little short jetty there by JP Lubyan.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
Yeah. Man, it was an awesome day down there.

Speaker 14 (54:45):
When one day we were down there, crystal clear you
could see the fish swimming around down around the bottom
of the rocks, and yeah, it was. It was like
fishing in a goldfish bowl. You just put it in
front of the one you wanted to catch.

Speaker 1 (54:55):
Oh, Mercy, Well, it's not quite that good anymore because
there's such easy access us and you know, it's it's
similar to the surf side and in Quintana Jetty's when
you give everybody easy access to a great fishery, it
ends up being too many. Everybody's down there and it's
kind of it's tougher to fishing than it used to be. Yeah,

(55:17):
the day we were down there, we were the only
ones on the rocks. Days like that, it's surfside, Holy cow,
you just everybody.

Speaker 14 (55:26):
We're catching black drum in one right after another, and
then all of a sudden, all of a sudden, the
water turned to orange and a massive school of redfish. Cool,
and I think you could have caught him on anything.
What's the main reason I called? Wanted to talk to you.
Next weekend as the Texas Kingfish Championship Fishing Tournament at

(55:47):
Surfside Marina, right, And that's that's the one where they
raised money for the Freeport to Port O'Connor toy Run
where they buy presents for underprivileged kids up and down
the Texas coast.

Speaker 1 (56:03):
It's a good event.

Speaker 14 (56:05):
They Friday night they'll be out there and I think
they have a little silent auction nice that they do
on Friday night. And uh and then the fishing they
start fishing that.

Speaker 1 (56:15):
Night at midnight.

Speaker 14 (56:16):
I believing then the way final way in is like
a five o'clock on Saturday.

Speaker 1 (56:21):
I don't know if I'm tough enough to fish from
midnight to anything right now. You know, as much fun
as I used to have doing that, good lord, if
I only had a dollar for every time my friends
and I spent the night on that ninetieth Street pier
in galves Ian. We're bringing toothbrushes and sleeping bags, and

(56:42):
we were we were gonna start and catch trout all
night and then catch big old jacks in the morning.

Speaker 14 (56:48):
It was fun, man, Well, I can remember doing that
whenever I was younger. One San Luis, San Luis Pas.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
Oh yeah, oh that peer, that's that's the only pier
I've ever hooked a tarpain on. And it was really
it was kind of early August, a full moon night,
and so helped me Kevin. That fish jumped in the
moonlight and just blew up this just this sparkle of water.
You know, it was really it was. That was an

(57:15):
unforgettable image in my brain still, that would have made
an awesome picture. Well yeah, if i'd have kept him
on maybe one more jump. It didn't take long. Man,
that was the biggest thing I'd ever hooked on a
surf rod. And it's just like, oh my god. Yeah,
it was fun. I gotta call.

Speaker 14 (57:32):
I gotta call this week too, that I'm gonna be
working another tournament, the twenty four fifth and twenty sixth,
the Sergeant Rodeo. It's a three day tournament Okay inshore,
offshore and juvenile.

Speaker 1 (57:46):
I got I got a hunch one of my friends
probably gonna be fishing. His name's Jeff Cooper. If you
see his name on the list, look him up. He's
a neighbor of mine. Great guy, good deal. Yeah, I'm
looking forward to it. It'll be my first time working.
I think this the second annual Okay tournament for them,
But it sounds it's going to be an interesting endeavor,

(58:06):
no doubt.

Speaker 4 (58:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
Sergeant's a kind of a unique place, man, Yeah, it is.
They're on their own little world, their own little clock everything.
It's cool though, I like it down there.

Speaker 14 (58:17):
Let's keep keep everybody in our prayers that's going on,
with what's going on with Cavin down there.

Speaker 1 (58:23):
Mmmmm, and have a good, great quest to the rest
of your week. You you too, Thank you, Kevin, you too.

Speaker 4 (58:28):
Man.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
See, yeah, that guy, that guy works. I doubt that
he gets paid much of nothing to do these tournaments
and be the official way Master and everything that goes
into that. It's it's not like you just show up
with a scale, a bathroom scale and and drop a
fish on there every now and then. There's so much,

(58:51):
so much that comes so naturally to him because he's
done it so long. But if you or I tried
to do what he does there, you'd realize how much
he must care about all those kids, or about all
these people at the tournaments and doing them right. He's
constantly every time I turn around, he's telling me about
another tournament he's working, and that's giving up his weekends.

(59:15):
It's giving up his weekends, but it's something he loves
kind of like me, just like me. There was a
storm by the way or a brewing as early as
three or four days ago on the National Hurricane Center
map that was kind of like a sweater on Florida,
if you will, the Panhandle. It went up to the Panhandle,

(59:38):
but it didn't go far enough west along the Panhandle
toward Alabama to really mess up any of that Pensacola area.
But it was over a big chunk of the north
half of Florida, and it just wasn't moving for several days.
For our interests, at least, I'm happy to report that
is now. It's been upgraded to a tropical depression, which

(01:00:02):
means it doesn't have a name yet, but at least
the National Hurricane Center is giving coordinates and giving a
direction for it, and happy to report that it's moving
northeast and not southwest. It is going away from us
and expected to continue doing that. We don't know what
it's going to become, but it is. It's moved from

(01:00:26):
Yallow to Orange to Red now with that little tropical
tropical depression formation, and hopefully it just does like Andrea
did or Andrea that first name storm and just kind
of goes out over the Atlantic Ocean and falls apart
and fizzles up and doesn't wreck anybody's day. It's going
to bring some good surf, no doubt, to the Carolinas. Uh,

(01:00:48):
I'm sure of that. But other than that, I hope
it just stays way out there and becomes a rainy
day that nobody remembers later on some one three, two,
one seven nine, Holy colum Late Frankie, Oh my, if
you happen not to know, and I don't know where
you've been, if you don't not to know about CCA's

(01:01:08):
Star Tournament Coastal Conservation Association every summer for the past
on what thirty five forty years, been around forever, and
it gives CCA members only members. You can't you can't
play if you're not a member, but it gives the members.
It's a great recruitment tool and a great opportunity to
give you an excuse to fish every day this summer.

(01:01:29):
Why because if you do that, if you join CCA,
and if you sign up for the Star Tournament at
Star Tournament dot org, lo and behold, you have a
shot at I think it's roughly like one point nine
million dollars worth of prizes this year, almost two million
bucks worth of stuff including pickup trucks and boats and

(01:01:53):
trailers and ATVs, and four figure gift cards to Academy
Sports and Outdoors. The list goes on and on of
cool things. And by the way, the reason you need
to take the whole family with you is because there
are scholarships available for the kids. You have no idea
what you're gonna catch when you fish in saltwater. And
if that no idea turns into one of their specially

(01:02:15):
tagged redfish, and you're entered and you're a member of CCA,
lo and behold, you just might win yourself a truck,
a trailer, a boat, a motor and gears of fun
for however long you want to hold on all that.
Texas Ford Dealers, Progressive Insurance, Academy Sports and Outdoors, Mercury, Whataburger,

(01:02:40):
Must Thank, kat Lone Star, Coastline Trailers, Texas Vision, Game Magazine,
Half Power, Transport Boats, McClain Trailers, Dargle, Shoal Water, Chris's Marine.
They all support CCA, as do I, and as should you.
That's one of the reasons CCA is one of the
big reasons that are co resources are what they are today,

(01:03:02):
especially those redfish. Redfish were on the brink. They were
fading fast, and CCA was formed back in the seventies
and Lo and behold their very steady, patient approach to
fisheries conservation along the coast. Star Near is kind of

(01:03:22):
It's almost hard to throw a rock and not hit
a redfish in the bay. These days, they have made
a miraculous recovery, thanks in great part to Cca, and
our whole base system is doing better than it was
not that many years ago. Go sign up, become part
of the recovery, part of the rebuilding. Star Tournament dot org.

(01:03:43):
Maybe win yourself a boat too, Star Tournament dot Org
twenty three on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show.
I didn't get a chance to make those phone calls
about the weather sites. Frankie, if you've got a phone
in there, you could use to call those numbers and
just verify that their git for sure weather forecast.

Speaker 7 (01:04:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
I appreciate that, and I'm not doubting whoever sent them.
I'm really not. I'm just making sure because you never know.

Speaker 7 (01:04:09):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
I get so many spam calls these days. And there's
one number that's popped up a couple of times on
my phone that I saw about three or four days ago.
Somebody else was complaining that they were getting these calls
from a certain number, and I can't remember exactly what
it is right now, but something about their AT and
T bill being late, they better pay or else one

(01:04:30):
of those frantic. Anytime there's a sense of urgency, it's
probably a scam because people who you actually do owe
money like that, when they send you that they're they're
not gonna threaten you. They're not gonna haunt you, they're
not gonna force you, force your hand with some or
else plan against you. They're just gonna say, hey, you

(01:04:53):
owe us some money, you need to pay us. Hey,
you owe us some money, you need to pay us.
And at that point, if you're not sure, just call them.
Go to the go to the internet, find their customer
service line, and call them and ask them to look
it up for you. And nine times out of ten
you're gonna find out it's a scam. That one number
I was looking at turned out somebody posted up that

(01:05:16):
that same number has been tied to that they purport
themselves to be any of two or three dozen big
national companies. So all they're doing is fishing for some
sucker who is gonna believe that they actually owe money.
And it'd be a great idea to go buy a
bunch of gift cards or or send them a payment

(01:05:38):
through some third party source right away before their service
gets cut off. Honestly, would it be so horrible to
lose social media for a day or two or a month.
I would really like to see more of that. Maybe
we could have maybe a yeah, I no, never mind,
it wouldn't work. I was gonna say we could have

(01:06:00):
a day of no social media, a national day of
no social media. But there is not a snowballs chance
of that ever happening anymore, and with good reason. By
the way, the fourth of July was yesterday, but the
big holiday weekend will continue through today and tomorrow and

(01:06:22):
maybe even Monday for some people. The way it depending
on how you parley your vacation days at work, wherever
you work, you may be. In fact, it looked on
Thursday like the whole country had started its vacation early,
because our parking garage here looked about as crowded as
it will tomorrow morning, which is even less crowded than

(01:06:43):
it was this morning. I can't believe how many people
had Friday off or Thursday off, or at least took it,
called in sick, whatever they had to do. But in
these four days, three four days, whatever it turns out
to be, hoping against hope really that we have not many,

(01:07:05):
if any, major boating incidents. This is the time of
year and this is the holiday on which a lot
of boating accidents and even fatalities happen, and I'm just
kind of hoping we can avoid that in Texas. I'm
not counting the flood. I'm talking about on rivers and

(01:07:26):
lakes and bays and open Gulf of Mexico. Where I
open Gulf of Mexico, You're not going to have too
many collisions. But the long and the short of it
is on the lakes, when there are people out there
on floats, there's people pulling water skiers, there's wake borders,
there's people on all those flying inflatable contraptions, all of

(01:07:48):
that going on, and in the blink of an eye,
somebody maybe on a personal watercraft, comes zipping along and
U turn and they turn, and all of a sudden
you realize that you've both turned into each other, and bam,
there's a problem. So law enforcement's out there. And if

(01:08:09):
you are operating a water craft of any sort, anything
with a motor on it impaired, I don't know if
there's a. I don't know if there's a law against
sailing while drinking while intoxicated. I wonder if there is it.
Certainly if it's a it's a boat. You can steer
and manage like that and the wind becomes the propulsion.

(01:08:33):
I kind of wonder if if not, and maybe it
should be. But I yeah, i'd bet you sailing while
intoxicated is against the law, just as boating is. And
if they pull you over and you've been drinking, you're
gonna have a problem. It's a very similar charge to
driving while intoxicated, which is exactly what you're doing. You're

(01:08:55):
just doing it on water instead of land. I I've
talked about it before. I'm I'm hoping to live long
enough to go through an entire hunting season without a fatality,
without one, a whole hunting season, and maybe I could
concede an accident or two where somebody got not seriously hurt.

(01:09:15):
I'm trying to get through just one season before I
die where nobody dies from a hunting accident, and so
far I believe it hasn't happened yet. I would remember
if it had. I'm pretty sure same with boating. Boating
accidents happen all the time. You see the pictures and
social media shows some of the stupid things people do.

(01:09:37):
There's a place in Florida call Haulover in and Haulover
is one of the most dangerous inlets in the country.
When the tide is such and the wind is such
and they stack up on each other, it's it's horrible,
horrible conditions for any boat. And there are thousands of
videos of people who thought they knew how to drive

(01:09:59):
boat bats, thought they knew how to navigate a harbor
or an inlet like that, and ended up getting people hurt,
getting people bounced out of the boat in really rough water.
I'm glad we don't what the end of the surf
side jetty and the end of the galves and jetty
can cause problems similarly, but they're just not as constricted

(01:10:23):
and not as as rough and dangerous as Haulover. Go
look it up. It's it's got some pretty pretty scary
stuff out there. And they don't actually show people really
getting hurt on there for just because, and I'm glad
they don't, but you can you can see when some
of these things start to unfold, how nasty it's gonna

(01:10:45):
end up for everybody on board and been boats capsized.
There have been all kinds of problems at haulover and
it's just from and I think that's just ignorance really
of how to how boats operate. Because once we're back
to the boat or safety courses now maybe nobody has
to do anything but make sure the check clears to

(01:11:07):
own a boat and to operate a boat. And you
can get a little free instruction and that's cute on
a calm day in a controlled environment, But what really
happens on the water when the weather goes walk here,
when there's somebody coming at you and you don't know
what to do, that's when people get hurt. Black Golf Club.

(01:11:28):
The only think that might get hurt there is your
feelings if you don't have a good round. Black Horse
has been out there off two ninety and Fry Road
for a better part of thirty years now and has
just kept making people happy when they get out there.
The South course has been taking private as you know
from the first part of the year. They still hold

(01:11:51):
onto the North Course as daily fee. Public. Come one,
come a go ahead and make yourself a tea time
right now at the website if you want to and
it's one of the most relaxing and easy places to
play because most anywhere you hit the ball on the
north course, short of the woods, you're not going to
really have to worry about losing your ball. You'll be
able to find it. You might have to hit around

(01:12:12):
it a random tree or two coming in, but you'll
be able to find it, be able to work your
way onto the green eventually and knock the ball in
the hole and have a good time. They have gotten
new personnel out there in charge of a lot of
things that make a difference in a big golf club
like they are, and all of those people were put
there by Craig Hicks, the general manager, who, by the way,

(01:12:33):
as an avid out doorsman himself, if you ever get
a chance to talk to him. Great place for a
big tournament, great place for a private club experience or
the daily fee experience, both of which are available now
at black Horse Golf Club. Black Horse Goolf Club dot
com is a website. Make yourself for tea time, Go ahead,
black Horse Goolf Club dot com. I'll just tell you

(01:12:54):
two words to think about and we'll go from there.
Fish Tacos, the Berry Hill Fish tacos are as good
as I've ever eaten, and I've eaten my share of
fish tacos over the years. Berry Hill's been down there
in sugar Land, right at Sugar Creek Boulevard in fifty
nine for the better part of thirty years. My wife

(01:13:15):
and I have been eating there regularly since we found
them when we moved to sugar Land, and we haven't stopped.
There's not been a break in the time that berry
Hill is going to come into the conversation almost every
time we decide to go eat out. It's a great
family friendly restaurant. You don't have to get dressed up,
you don't have to make reservations. You just walk in there,

(01:13:37):
walk straight over to the counter and place your order.
There's a big menu up over your head, figure out
what you want, tell them what you want, go have
a seat, and then in a few minutes, somebody's going
to bring you some very delicious Text Mex food, the
likes of which you may or may not have ever
had before. Everything I've eaten there at berry Hill, and

(01:13:57):
I've tried several things off the menu, absolutely love. I'm
pretty sure you will too. And again, the fish tacos
are there claim to fame. There are specials going on
right now too. You might want to call them and
talk to them about the holiday specials. And then I
think it's Taco Tuesday maybe where they have a discount
on those fish tacos. That's not a bad thing to

(01:14:19):
deal with. The people who are cooking that food in
the kitchen. By the way, the two primary people back
there churning this delicious food out have been back there
for more than a decade apiece. So there's nice, consistent product,
very friendly people. The left side is kind of tables

(01:14:39):
and booths, the right side is more sports bar, and
then beyond that is outdoor dining that you'll pass on
the way through the door. Berryhillsugarland dot com. Whether it's
just you and the family wanting to go, or you
need something catered for a really big group thirty forty
fifty people, they can handle that as well. I know
that because they did that. We wore our whole building

(01:15:02):
one time. Brought a whole truckload of food over here
and we devoured it. Berryhillsugarland dot com eight thirty eight
on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dugpike Show. Thank you
for listening. Truly do appreciate it. Oh man, we had
Brandon called a little while ago and he hadn't called
back yet, and maybe he could give me the I
didn't listen or didn't watch the entire Astros game last night,

(01:15:24):
but I felt pretty comfortable going to bed when it
was I think thirteen to one. Did you see that game, Frankie,
I did not. Yeah, they started off pretty good. I
think it was Partties who. Yeah, Parretti's on the very
first pitch of the game hit a home run. That's

(01:15:45):
a pretty good way to start your day. And then
it just became a slugfest more and more after that.
They were the Dodgers could not find a pitcher who
could keep the Astros from hitting home runs. I think
it was I think it was Peretti's maybe actually who
later in the game, right before I went to bed,

(01:16:06):
that was kind of like, Okay, Doug, they're gonna be
all right without you. He had a grand slam his
second of this road trip. By the way, they have
managed somehow with with more and more issues with injury
and up to an including now we're out. We're at
without Jeremy Pina for probably at least five or six weeks.

(01:16:27):
He's got a fractured rib, I think, and and Alvarez
is back on the DL for more pain in his
thumb or wherever it was in his hand. I don't
know why that guy can't get well. It's it's just
like some of these things are just I don't know.
I don't know when I when I was coming up,
unless you couldn't walk, you were expected to be on

(01:16:50):
the field. And I know these guys are. They're being
coddled and pampered because they are valuable, i e. The
salary they're being paid. They're very valuable resources, and nobody
wants to lose them forever and have to keep paying them,
so they just let them sit out. I call Kyle

(01:17:10):
Tucker last year anyway, I think that I'm pretty sure
the Astros handled the rest of the Dodgers game last night. Tonight, though,
they'll face show shohl Tani, and that's gonna be a
different game for them, for sure, be a different game
for Oh. By the way, Bob called Frankie a little
while ago and offered up two numbers. They're from the

(01:17:32):
National Oceanic Administration and Atmospheric Administration Noah weather numbers and
let me go back to them and I will tell
you what they are. If you need some help. TikTok, TikTok,
tick talk talk here it is okay the number. If
you need help with your weather forecasting, especially in troubling

(01:17:54):
times for weather for Galveson, you can dial two eight one,
three three seven, five zero seven four two eight one
three three seven, five zero seven four or down. In
Corpus Christi, the equivalent number is three six one, two
eight nine one, eight six one, three six one two

(01:18:15):
eight nine one eight six one. And a lot of
people who who could, probably depending on where their beach
houses are and whatnot, might benefit more from the Corpus
number than the Galason number, which is why I gave
out both. And to Cheryl's point, though, hey, if the
power's out for three or four days and you can't
get to someplace where you can charge your phone, that

(01:18:38):
phone number really doesn't do you much good. It's uh,
we've become so dependent on the electronics and it makes
me wonder how we just ever survive storms in the past.
But you do. Most people do. Most people get through
these things somehow, usually with the help of friends and neighbors,

(01:18:58):
and that's something never to forget it. If you're in
a situation where you and your family are safe and
somebody else in your neighborhood is at present unsafe or
without power, without food, without water, whatever, try to help
out because it might might be your turn in the
well next time. And Texans for sure, and Louisi At

(01:19:20):
pretty much anybody along the Gulf Coast I've ever run
into has been willing to share whatever they got that
you might need if you're in trouble. Mostly good people,
mostly good people, and I want to keep it that way.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Let's jump onto
a break so I can kind of sort of stay

(01:19:41):
ahead for Frankie American Shooting Centers. Doesn't look like a
terrible morning to be out there at the shooting range.
And if you're interested in whether you want to go
out and bust clay targets starting to get ready for
doves season. Maybe you found a new rifle and fell
in love with it and bought it, and you've got
some amo for it now, and you want to go
out there and test fire that thing on the one

(01:20:02):
hundred yards and get it dialed in there and then
maybe take it out to two or three or four
or six hundred yards. You can do that. There are
five stands setups all over the property, three sporting clays courses,
ten trap and skeep fields, a beginner's wing shooting area,
a pop up silhouette range, more than two hundred shooting
stations available at any time of day or night that

(01:20:25):
they're open mostly daytime. They're not open at night. There's
also instruction available in every shooting discipline of American Shooting Centers.
It's the largest non military shooting facility in the entire state,
in the entire state of Texas. And when we got
a lot of big ones, believe me. American Shooting Centers
is on West tim Or Parkway between Katie and Highway six.

(01:20:46):
You cannot miss those big burms. When you see them,
just start watching for the sign and the entry drive
up to American Shooting Centers. American Shooting Centers dot Com
is the website American Shooting Centers dot Com. Eight forty
seven On Sports Talk seven to ninety The Dougpike Show,
Thank you for listening. Do you think it's a Do
you think it's a coincidence, Frankie, that I just talked

(01:21:09):
about American shooting centers and then I get an email
from a place that sells AMMO online. Is it coincidence
or no? Or is it just or is it just creepy?
Perhaps just creepy? I actually did what was it?

Speaker 7 (01:21:27):
I was?

Speaker 1 (01:21:28):
I did something about windows because my wife and I
were thinking about replacing some of the windows on the
back of the house. And I just touched one little
thing about them, and for the next forty five minutes
got bombarded, bombarded with window company spots, just little commercials

(01:21:48):
in the feed I was looking at on Facebook. Every
other thing that popped up was about windows. Not this, though.
Let me get this on the phone. Hey Brad, what's
going on?

Speaker 15 (01:21:58):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:22:00):
Driving down forty five going into Houston. So being a
hurricane season all I wanted to share some things for preparedness.
Uh sure, you and I both were heavily involved with
the CCA indeed, and the crux the crux of the
story here is to save a plastic you know, contamination

(01:22:21):
to our weight system. So the so the good old
fashioned gatorade bottle or good old fashioned milk carton should
should be recycled very heavily in our community. Why, uh,
if we have power outages, if you had your freezer
full of stuff, Yeah, and if you had any extra room,

(01:22:43):
you could take these water bottles and fill it that way.
So that way, in the event of a outage, you're
going to have situations where you're gonna have to go
in and out of your refrigerator. Well, the more stuff
that's in there, the colder it stays. Yeah, it's a
matter of volume.

Speaker 1 (01:23:00):
Well, yeah, and I guarantee you a gallon jug of
frozen water, a gallon big block of ice is gonna
stay cold a lot longer than a frozen spaghetti and
meatball dinner.

Speaker 4 (01:23:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:23:12):
Yeah, and uh, you know, and then not to mention it,
it also converts into your.

Speaker 1 (01:23:16):
Persons water on top of absolutely, yeah, I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:23:20):
And then as far as as far as our boaters
and fishermen, especially if you go you know, offshore of the.

Speaker 7 (01:23:28):
Gulf or whatever is.

Speaker 3 (01:23:30):
For years, I've been using the court gatorades size bottles,
filling them with water and using that to cool my
my fishmen I catch them.

Speaker 1 (01:23:38):
Yeah, that's a good idea going.

Speaker 3 (01:23:40):
Out buying instead of going out and buying six bags
of ice every time you go out and ended.

Speaker 1 (01:23:45):
Up with a fish slime slushy.

Speaker 3 (01:23:48):
Yeah, and then you avoid all the slime, the fishery
easier to clean and everything's good.

Speaker 2 (01:23:53):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:23:54):
I told my buddy Blame Friar moved that story about
twenty five or thirty years ago, and he kind of
laughed it off. You know what, he finally tried it,
he goes, He goes, Yeah, it does work, you know,
keep him cold enough.

Speaker 1 (01:24:09):
You're buying a bag, well.

Speaker 3 (01:24:12):
But keep keeping it in the gatoray bottle. The nice
thing about it is if you get stranded in the
Coup of Mexico, now you've got emergency drinking water.

Speaker 1 (01:24:19):
Amen to that too.

Speaker 7 (01:24:20):
And then and and.

Speaker 3 (01:24:22):
In the worst case scenarios of those, uh, plastic bottles
are nice and tough. You can empty mountain turn in
emergency flotation.

Speaker 1 (01:24:30):
Sure that's a good point as well. Yeah, a gallon jug.
I think if I had a gallon, an empty gallon
jug in both hands, I'm sure it would float my
fat tail for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:24:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:24:42):
Oh yeah, no, even to one quart bottle. If you
could put them underneath your shirt and it'll be a
flotation device like that.

Speaker 1 (01:24:50):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:24:51):
That's kind of stuff I learned back in lifeguard school
back in the day.

Speaker 1 (01:24:55):
Yeah, you don't have to let me throw this at you.
Speaking of lifeguarding, Okay, I saw story yesterday. Have you
seen what the lifeguards in Los Angeles County make for
a living.

Speaker 2 (01:25:07):
Well?

Speaker 3 (01:25:08):
I know how much they get paid. I don't know
how much they make for a living.

Speaker 1 (01:25:11):
Well, good point, But you see that story.

Speaker 3 (01:25:13):
Half a million dollar a year, gig, I'm moving to California.

Speaker 1 (01:25:17):
Yeah, the one guy was making a half meal. There
were a couple of more at about three hundred, and
then there were dozens of them making two hundred grand
a year to sit on the beach. And now, granted
there that's that's hard work, and it's very serious and
dedicated work. But man, oh man, most of the time
you're just hanging out using your binoculars for who knows what.

Speaker 3 (01:25:42):
Yeah, well, you gotta figure California, that's they can mess
up just about everything.

Speaker 1 (01:25:47):
So yeah, well, why are we not surprised? Huh?

Speaker 3 (01:25:51):
I guess you get less chance of drowning for half
a million than you would for them easily fifty grand,
like you'd probably get here in Gabling boy.

Speaker 1 (01:25:58):
Yeah, so okay, here's the here's the question for you.
Where are you driving from that You're coming south back
into Houston when your business in Houston gold Exchanges all
the way out at West Timor and Highway six. Almost.

Speaker 3 (01:26:11):
Well, basically, I've been down at Tecky Island for the
fourth of July and oh.

Speaker 1 (01:26:14):
Okay, you're coming up dogs, okay, yeah, yeah, they're probably gonna.

Speaker 4 (01:26:18):
Mess you about that.

Speaker 3 (01:26:20):
Yeah, yeah, well any rate, Now, I just got to
do a little welfare check on the pooches.

Speaker 1 (01:26:26):
Yeah. If you said, I'm sure you've been using the
go ahead, go ahead, No you go said, I said,
I've been.

Speaker 3 (01:26:33):
Using the water bottle technique at least thirty years. Yeah,
and uh, not to mention every little bit we do
to keep stuff out of the uh you know, sure
the recycling bins and everything else, because half of that
stuff they say gets recycled doesn't.

Speaker 1 (01:26:47):
That's definitely. Yeah, that's the biggest fraud perpetrated. Well, it's
one of the big frauds perpetrated on us. That's the
same with organic foods. I read some stuff two or
three different sources to back it up, making sure I
was right that that was just kind of a little
window dressing somebody years ago put on some foods that

(01:27:07):
really doesn't make a hill of beans. Right, yep, all right, man,
be careful.

Speaker 11 (01:27:15):
I have a good show.

Speaker 1 (01:27:17):
Thanks man, Thanks Brett. Good to hear from you for real. Yeah,
they travel. He didn't mention catching any fish. I wonder
if that's that was deliberate. I didn't want to ask
if somebody, somebody's not volunteering what they caught, I'm gonna
leave it alone. I'll tell you when I don't catch
them anymore, because sometimes it happens and it just makes me.
It teaches me something. Every every fishing trip I've ever had,

(01:27:41):
every cast I've ever made, teaches me something. And I
actually saw something yesterday on Facebook. There's a guy standing
there talking to the game warden and he specifically says, no, no, sir,
I was not fishing. I was casting. I've never caught
a thing. He wasn't fishing. He was casting. He's never

(01:28:06):
caught anything. In the language in that little piece is
a little more floury than that. But nonetheless, you get
the point, and he makes a valid point. I'm not
fishing until I catch you fish, really, am I At
what point does it move from just casting to fishing.

(01:28:28):
I would imagine once you get a bite seven one
three two one two five seven ninety, email me Dougpike
at iHeartMedia dot com. I've covered that. I've covered that.
I'm gonna go back to maybe in this Well, gosh,
we're almost up on the third hour already. Holy cow.
Is that what I can grab before the break? Frankie

(01:28:49):
or no? I think so? I think? So team up?
Who is it Old Charles on the line. Okay, yeah,
let's get Charles and then I'll check with their in
in a second. Go ahead and talk to him. Tee
up Charles for me. There we go. Hey Charles, what's
up man? I got a few minutes left.

Speaker 4 (01:29:09):
Hey Doug, how were you?

Speaker 1 (01:29:11):
I'm great? Thank you good.

Speaker 12 (01:29:13):
I hadn't talked to you in a while, but uh,
this one was on my mind. I know you do
a lot of things regarding veterans, especially Yeah. Well, there's
a gentleman in Stockton, California, by the name of Corporal
Frank s Right who's having his one hundredth birthday today.

Speaker 1 (01:29:36):
Holy cow, Happy birthday, Frank.

Speaker 12 (01:29:40):
Now I saw his information just on the third so
it didn't give me a chance to really, you know,
do anything other than get.

Speaker 1 (01:29:48):
A couple of cards.

Speaker 12 (01:29:50):
Yeah, but he would like to have had one hundred
thousand cards for his birthday.

Speaker 1 (01:29:55):
I bet so.

Speaker 4 (01:29:57):
If you know, if you got some.

Speaker 12 (01:29:59):
Guys that are out there that would love to, you know,
send this guy a birthday card. I continue the information
and you know, they can have at it.

Speaker 1 (01:30:10):
But I think he would really love that. Where and
when was he service?

Speaker 7 (01:30:14):
He?

Speaker 1 (01:30:14):
Although he certainly's all the way back to World War Two,
isn't he? Yes, sir, he was Wattle.

Speaker 4 (01:30:19):
Canal and.

Speaker 12 (01:30:21):
Yeah, wow, and he's got a couple of books published.

Speaker 1 (01:30:26):
Good for him.

Speaker 12 (01:30:26):
So yeah, I just thought it was a good thing that,
you know, especially you know, with your talks and.

Speaker 1 (01:30:35):
Yeah, his birthday. I thought it would fit nice. I'm
always looking for somebody. If you ever run into somebody
who claims to be a backer of our US military,
tell them to put up or shut up and call
me and help me get that this week in US
Military History piece, I do on to more radio stations
and more cities. I think it ought to be on

(01:30:55):
ten times a day, every day and every station in America.

Speaker 12 (01:30:59):
Oh sure, with with all of the history that's put
out there, and you know, like you I like history too.
The the concept of being able to start from basically
pretty simple war and just work your way on up
through this.

Speaker 1 (01:31:18):
It's mind boggling.

Speaker 4 (01:31:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:31:19):
I found some good sources, and I always liked at
the end putting together those two or three names of
people who earned the Medal of Honor, because that's some
of their stories that the source I'm using are just fascinating.
They just they just took off running across a field
full of machine gun fire and got hit five or
six times and just kept going until they finished their mission.

(01:31:42):
It's amazing the sacrifice these young men made for us
so we could pop fireworks on yesterday, you.

Speaker 13 (01:31:49):
Know, Yeah, right, Benavetas, Yeah was you know, he was
in the Il Campo and a couple other spots beyond.

Speaker 12 (01:31:59):
But you know, you got a chance to sit down
and talk with the guy and you just get goose
pimples just lishes to what he was talking about.

Speaker 1 (01:32:06):
Yeah. Well, Charles, I hate to do it, but I'm
right up on kind of wrought up on this break,
but thank you send me that information with all right,
We'll do all right, thanks Charles. Huh you all right?
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Welcome back. Third hour of the program starts right now.

(01:33:34):
I've got some phone calls I gotta take care of
before I even think about talking about golf. I certainly
don't want to talk about my round yesterday. So let's
get the air in here.

Speaker 7 (01:33:43):
Aaron.

Speaker 1 (01:33:44):
What's going on, man, You back in town?

Speaker 2 (01:33:47):
Oh yeah, yeah, I was just down there about one day.
Oh man, boy, yeah, it's been raining two days, two
days straight down here in San Antonio?

Speaker 1 (01:33:58):
Holy cow? Yeah, has had Has anybody in San Antonio
been affected by what went on in the Hill Country?
Does it get Does it trickle down that far to
you guys?

Speaker 7 (01:34:08):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:34:09):
No, sir.

Speaker 2 (01:34:10):
We're just right on the on the edge of it.

Speaker 7 (01:34:12):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:34:14):
A few weeks ago we had some funny here, but
we're right on the edge of it, so we could
see the lightning and everything back that way. But it's
just been so ominous and just.

Speaker 1 (01:34:24):
Just dead still outside of you.

Speaker 2 (01:34:26):
If you have some smoke up there outside of it
just goes straight up.

Speaker 1 (01:34:31):
Oh man. Yeah, that's that's not good. That's just not good.
When storms aren't moving, they're just they're just dumping and
dumping and dumping. God, I'm so sad about what's going
on up there? All right, So go ahead and just
rub it in what you do at a Ransas you are.
I told Frank yea, I said, he knows I didn't
catch any fish, so he's gonna call and tell me

(01:34:51):
what he caught. And I'm I'm good. I'm good with that.

Speaker 2 (01:34:55):
Well in uh that Monday morning, you know it it
kind of just all blown over. So we waited out
there that little spot and uh, you know, I tried.
I tried a couple of uh uh mirrdins and a
couple of other things, and had to put my skirt on,
and I bring up the white and yellow purse and

(01:35:18):
we started catching some trout that way. But I was
with the buddy, and you know, we just whatever however
you want to excuse it, but uh, we each caught
a a keeper trout, and then another storm blew through,
you know, from about eleven to three that day.

Speaker 1 (01:35:38):
Yeah, it must have.

Speaker 2 (01:35:38):
Been forty mile an hour with we could better stand
in it.

Speaker 1 (01:35:41):
That's what That's what I was dealing with on Sunday afternoon. Man,
it just you couldn't hardly stand up, except you know,
the only thing kept me on the ground was those
tar balls.

Speaker 2 (01:35:52):
Blue Down wasn't as bad as everyone said it was
that bad out there.

Speaker 1 (01:35:56):
Yeah it was bad. Man. I had one hanging off
the back hook of a skinter walk once.

Speaker 2 (01:36:01):
Well, it blew so hard and and rained so hard
there for all. I was afraid we're gonna start getting hypothermic.
I mean, because we're you know, we're so dedicated fishing
out there. We were literally cold shivering. And then uh yeah,
right about four thirty or five and it opened back up.
And so we went back out there, us our our

(01:36:22):
little spot, and my buddy, as much as he's fishing,
he just does not believe that fish can can be
out there in four or five inches of water. And
sure enough I saw some reds tailing right up against
the shore. So do you stay here, I'm gonna go
over there and side cat to him, and he went
with me, and maybe the nice guy that I am,

(01:36:43):
I said, okay, you know, put him right on him,
and sure enough, about three or four red fish yes,
right there, I mean there were there were within four
or five inches of the shore right there, and yeah,
it was interesting opening him up. There were mostly full
of little fiddler crabs, and that was it, you know,

(01:37:06):
it was a tough day. Yeah, it was a tough
day of fishing when we fished ten twelve hours just
to catch what we call yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:37:12):
Well you know what though, Yeah, you just got to
grind sometimes. And if you're not fishing, you certainly can't
catch a fish. That's the way I look at it.
Why not unless there's lightning cracking all around me, I'll
get out there. I'm not scared.

Speaker 2 (01:37:24):
And the irony is that morning up and Gallus and
everyone was catching everything.

Speaker 1 (01:37:29):
That's where I heard. Oh boy, of course, all.

Speaker 2 (01:37:34):
Right, man, great West your weekend. Hopefully get up to
Nebraska next weekend and that happens, everything be really good,
so outstanding.

Speaker 1 (01:37:43):
Yeah, I'll keep keep my fingers crossed for you, buddy.
All right, man, I see here. Thanks, thank you. He's
over in San Antonio. That's a good dude right there.
He knows how to put a warehouse together to I
guarantee you that.

Speaker 5 (01:37:55):
Dave.

Speaker 15 (01:37:55):
What's up, man, Hey, good morning to giving you an
update from the shrimp industry.

Speaker 4 (01:38:04):
Dave Williams.

Speaker 15 (01:38:07):
I don't know if you heard what happened in North
Carolina last week, but basically.

Speaker 4 (01:38:13):
There was a.

Speaker 15 (01:38:16):
There was a regional bill trying to be passed to
basically ban shrimping within the intual waters, and North Carolina
only has insure fishery basically shut down the entire shrimp industry.

Speaker 1 (01:38:34):
Even if you wanted locally shrimp, you couldn't get them then, right.

Speaker 4 (01:38:38):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 15 (01:38:39):
So what happened is the good thing is the industry
got together and managed to defeat the bill, which was great.
But I need, I need everybody to understand about shrimping. Okay,
everybody talks about by catch, and everybody talks about damaging
the bottom of the by shrimping. First of all, by catch,

(01:39:03):
we have turtle excluders, and we have large fish excluders
on just about every net. And there's two reasons for that.
One is we don't want to damage the stocks of
turtles and sports fish. The second reason, which is even
more important if anybody's ever been on a shrimp boat,
is the most backbreaking work in the world at picking

(01:39:27):
through shrimp to throw the by catch over the side.
So fishermen do not want to catch shrimp. Fishermen do
not want to catch fish. They go out of their way.

Speaker 4 (01:39:39):
To avoid it.

Speaker 15 (01:39:40):
So when everybody says there's these huge by catch landings
that are being killed. That's completely untrue. The second thing
that's super important, because we're seeing in the bays everywhere,
is if you don't actually shrimp in the bay, you
don't actually stir the bottom up. In a lot of bays,

(01:40:02):
the bottom goes somewhat stagnant and you end up getting
like a little black sludge that kills everything on the bottom.
You can see that in Mobile Blood Bay. It's very
very obvious because of the demise of the oyster industry.

Speaker 4 (01:40:17):
If you don't stir.

Speaker 15 (01:40:19):
Up the bottom, you don't get product, productivity, and you
don't actually have ecosystem that works anymore. So everybody who
says that shrimping is bad for you, et cetera, et cetera,
and fishing, commercial fishing is bad, just understand that our

(01:40:40):
whole ecosystem is improved by fishing on the bottom.

Speaker 1 (01:40:46):
There's room. There's certainly room for everybody in this fishery.
And the only, the only concern I would ever have
would be over harvest. And I don't I don't think
with the limited number of shrimpers who are out there now,
I don't think that's an issue, is it?

Speaker 15 (01:40:59):
And no, it's not, And in fact, the actual Gulf
shrimp fisheries I considered one of the most managed and
sustainable fisheries in the United States. Sure, there is no problems,
and you know you have activists who want to stop everything.
But I don't particularly want to be eating tofu for

(01:41:20):
the rest of my life.

Speaker 1 (01:41:23):
Nor do I.

Speaker 4 (01:41:23):
Dave.

Speaker 1 (01:41:24):
That's a pretty good spot to send it off on.
I would say thank you. As usual, I greatly appreciate
the input, you know, I do.

Speaker 15 (01:41:32):
Man, Well, look up what happened in North Carolina. Yeah,
we'll try and make sure it never happens in Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:41:39):
I will absolutely. I'm making a note right now. Thank you,
Dave gou Bless, Yes, sir, you too. All right, let's
click that and let's go here. I'm going to run
over to the John Deere Classic on going up in
oh they got to see Oh, that just says weather
by I thought they were having a weather issued TPC

(01:42:03):
deer run. That's where they are. It's eighty six degrees
already with a twelve mile an hour northeast wind sliding
across there. Doug gim at twelve under par through two rounds.
These guys are just lighting these courses up I don't know.
Man six an average of six under. Well, of course
he shot he shot what is it nine under yesterday?

(01:42:25):
Nine and three. Yeah, they're playing to a par of
seventy one, which I would suspect the members are playing
as a seventy two and gim shot sixty two on Thursday.
Good golly, sixty eight yesterday. He is, he is all
by himself out there. That's the good news for him.

(01:42:45):
The bad news is one shot on his heels are
David Thompson, Brian Campbell, David Lipski, Emiliano Grio and Max
Homer and behind them at ten under par on only
two shots off the league going into the weekend. Another
stack up on the freeway, Camille Vijegas, Taylor Montgomery, Sam Stevens, Seawoo,

(01:43:10):
Kim cam Champ and Kevin Roy. There are the nines
and eights. They're so far back.

Speaker 7 (01:43:18):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:43:19):
If you're at nine hunder par, you're tied for thirteenth.
There's twelve guys in front of you, none of whom
wants to not be on top of that leaderboard. Comes
Sunday afternoon, we'll see the course is giving up a
lot of birdies. That's pretty clear, and a lot of
the guys are already out over there. So let's see,

(01:43:40):
I think, let me get down a little bit farther
down the list, I'll see how far out there the
other four or five four or five holes into it
for some of the guys. The cut line on this tournament,
by the way, was at minus five. I don't know
about you, but I've never been minus five ever in
my life. I've actually come close to that. There was

(01:44:00):
one time, at one point on the round where I
had my lowest round of golf ever, which was eons
ago up at Golf Club of Houston on what is
now the Member Course. I actually got it to I
want to say four, maybe somewhere early in the back nine,

(01:44:21):
and then things kind of went wonky. I still ended up, though,
shooting the best round of my life, which was a
six seventy two under par seventy. And my hit myself
on the head thing was that to shoot sixty nine,
I had about twelve feet almost straight up the hill

(01:44:42):
and left it short because I was so scared that
if I hit it too far above the hole, I
would have this really slick downhill thing that might have
ended up taking me all the way back to even par,
and I so desperately wanted a round under par, so
tap in for seventy and I'll take it. I'll take

(01:45:05):
it that just that one round puts me in some
pretty thin air when it comes to golf. I was
reading about scores and averages and all that stuff the
other day, and if you look it up, how what
percentage of golfers ever break par? What percentage of golfers
break one hundred? What percentage of golfers do this that

(01:45:26):
or the other? Can hit a ball two fifty on
the fly, carry the ball two fifty, all of these things.
If you can do any of that stuff, if you've
even had a round lower than one hundred, you're in,
when you get right down to it, pretty select company.
There's a lot of guys who will tell you they
shot eighty one, or tell you they shot seventy six

(01:45:49):
or ninety or whatever, But probably if you followed them
around and made sure they played by all the rules
of golf, they wouldn't finish. There have to take a
little break here on the way out. We'll tell you
about Phoenix Knives. This is Cowboys and Manski and his
wife Elena. They're out there in Belleville, right there on

(01:46:09):
Main Street, same street, bigger location than they were about
this time last year. And boy have they taken advantage
of that. I got an email from them just recently
to let me know that they have taken advantage of
that bigger space so that they can bring more people in,
They can provide more service, more products, even for knife buildings.

(01:46:32):
They have all kinds of knife building supplies, which I
wouldn't have really thought about, except that here he is
cowboys and Manski telling me he's stocking more and more
stuff for the people who are in his business as
kind of a maybe just a side hustle, maybe they
want to make a few knives for their friends, whatever,
and he can help with all of the equipment you

(01:46:53):
need to be one of those people. He's got more
than a thousand knives in stock. The people who were
with him, the journeymen who are coming up under him,
are constantly building more product so that anybody who comes
into the store, not only can you just take a
couple of hours and learn how and actually build your
own knife, you can also select from all that thousand

(01:47:18):
and thousand plus knives and find something that's exactly what
you need, whether it's for the kitchen, whether it's for
the file at table, whether for the skinning rack, whatever
it is. If it's if it's got an edged blade,
there's gonna be a whole bunch of them at Phoenix Knives, Bellville,
right there on Main Street, big new space. Go to

(01:47:38):
one of those seminars. Just take a tour of the place.
It's a fascinating thing to know how to build knives
and see what goes into them. If you want a
truly customed knife from Cowboy and you got a couple
of months to wait for it, you can get one
of those as well. His work takes time. He takes
great pride in making sure that that knife you're gonna

(01:47:58):
buy from him, it's gonna have his signature on it.
One of a kind. Phoenix Knives dot com. P H
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you for listening, certainly to appreciate it. I haven't seen
the email yet. To give me the idea or give

(01:48:20):
me the address or social media or whatever for that
veteran who has he's celebrating his hundredth birthday today, Captain
Frank is right, And if I do, I'll let you
guys know, and I'll put it maybe on my Facebook page.
I'm sure you could find it actually, and Dave guitar.

(01:48:41):
Dave was asking about that it's gonna send a card
or two, and I would be willing to bet you
that it's somewhere on social media. So if it is,
it is. Mojo weighed in earlier too. This was something
when Brad and I were talking about filling up water
jugs and putting them in the freezer as kind of
a a stop gap between a power outage and losing

(01:49:03):
all the food in your freezer. Because if you do
have a few gallons of ice in there, and I can,
I can tell you if you're gonna put them in
there and do yourself the best good you can, try
to get them onto a high shelf, because the cold
air off of them as they very slowly melt, there's
not near as much surface area on a gallon jug

(01:49:26):
of water as there is on the little cubes and
a bag of ice, and so as that not frozen
air gets to it, it'll it'll free it'll fall very
slowly and keep your stuff cold enough to at least
survive for a long time. The bottom line is, though
Mojo asks who has that kind of time and who

(01:49:47):
has that kind of freezer space. My family has that
freezer space. Really, we don't keep a ton of stuff
in the freezer, but it's still still hard and I
have done that before. I wouldn't mind putting an empty gallon,
a gallon of water or two on the top shelf
of the refrigerators. Well, that's where the most damage would

(01:50:09):
be done. I think if we lost power again, and
last year, I want to say it was at least
I believe twice that we had to replace everything in
the refrigerator. Beryl, for sure it was. That was a
gone er. We were without power for about eight days.
I think it was just horrendous, absolutely horrendous experience. And
I hope, I really hope, for for Center Point sake,

(01:50:32):
that it's got its ducks in a row. Otherwise it's
I think, foolish once, Shame on you, foolish twice. Shame
on us if we let them get away with another
botched power recovery period. If we have to watch the
neighborhoods where all of their executives live get power back

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before most of us do. My only guilt is that
I'm on a very small grid, only about sixty or
seventy customers I think it is. And so guess who's
last on the list to get our power back? Just
because and nobody told us we were on that grid.
If I'd have known that, I might have moved somewhere else.

(01:51:13):
Who knows, I might have bought a different house. Nobody
tells you what grid you're on, and if you're not,
if you're on one like I'm on, just be ready.
You might want to go look at generators because yours
is going to be the last switch flipped if we
have another issue like that. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety email on me. Dougpick At. iHeartMedia

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dot Com greatly appreciate Dave's updates on the shrimp industry.
That's something that I've actually been on a shrimp boat.
Parking Walleafe Department invited several of us out there, several
media members years ago to take a little ride on
a shrimp boat and watch how it worked, and watch
how shrimping was done, watch how the culling was done
between the the bycatch and the shrimp, and this particular

(01:51:59):
net had all the excluder devices on it and whatnot.
And it was really impressive then to see just how little,
just how little by catch there really was compared to
what it was like years and years ago when they
just they threw that net down there and dragged it
across the bottom and brought it up. And I mean

(01:52:20):
there was a little bit of everything in there, pretty
much everything but a kitchen sink. It's not that way anymore.
And to the industry's credit, like Dave said, they don't
want by catch. That's just time suck for them. They
can't they can't sell shrimp until they get all that
other stuff out of the nets and off the boat.

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And the actual amount of by catches actually it's fairly small,
it really is. So if they had have succeeded with
that in North Carolina, then the only shrimp those people
would have had available to them would have been imported shrimp,
and that would just be a hot mess, be an
absolute hot mess, uh, all the way down around Florida back.

(01:53:05):
I can remember being on one of the piers in
Florida as a as an adult, a young adult. I'd
gone down there to either fish with somebody, or maybe
I was down visiting my grandparents before they passed, But
I went up to the pier one night, and this
is something I don't recall seeing done here, but during
the height of the shrimp migration up and down that

(01:53:26):
Atlantic coast, there were people out there on the pier
with very long handled, like from from from pier level
to water level, very long handled dip nets, fine mesh
dip nets, and these big, big shrimp would you could
see them in the lights of the pier at night,

(01:53:46):
cruising at the surface, and these people were scooping up shrimp.
It was it's a legally or it was then anyway,
a legally illegal option to get your own shrimp. I
don't remember what the limit was. I think it was
in pounds maybe or gallons something like that. But these pictures,
these people would be out there just not quite shoulder

(01:54:08):
to shoulder, but pretty close together and just scooping them up.
They'd wait till they had eight or ten in the
net and then bring it up, dump it in the bucket,
and send the net right back down. And I'm talking
about like twenty counting bigger shrimp. Some pretty significant pieces there,
and some of it even like ten twelves or something
seven one three two one two five seven ninety email

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on Medugpike at iHeartMedia dot com got that taken care of.
We really haven't had time, unfortunately this morning, to dig
in a little deeper on the waste water issue. Uh,
these millions of gallons a day that are gonna be
that are slightly less saline. They're not. It's not fresh water.
They're gonna be pouring into baff and Bay like from

(01:54:52):
a great rain event. This is less salty water being
that eventually, if nothing happens, will be dumped into baff
and Bay to lower the salinity of baff and Bay.
I don't see a reason to do that. Baff and

(01:55:16):
Bay has served its purpose and served it very well
for a very long time. And I'm concerned that the
people who there's an ulterior motive. That's what I'm concerned.
I don't think baff and Bay needs to be desalinated
a little bit, not in the least. Baff and Bay's
lived on its own for thousands of years. So hopefully

(01:55:37):
I can get Jim Levell, maybe Cliff Webb on tomorrow
and talk about that a little bit and get their
takes on it. Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't
think so. Anytime somebody talks about about just just totally
gutting a natural system and changing it, i e. Filling
roll over pass, I gotta ask why, what purpose does

(01:56:02):
that serve? And there was no purpose served to Galveston
Bay by closing that pass, not anything in any way,
shape or form. We'll see. We gotta tell a little
break on the way out. If you've got south side
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There's trouble out there, make no mistake. There's bunkers, there's water,
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nine on Sports Talk seven ninety Welcome back, Thanks for listening.
Certainly to appreciate it. I'm trying to get a little,
uh one of those next door things to load because
there's always some hysterical holy cow, what's going on? This
one is just titled be ready? What on earth could

(02:00:26):
that be? Frankie? You got it could be one of
a bazillion things. Be ready. Let's see what it says here.
Oh stay now, now there's something stay ready. I don't
know what that's about. Oh what a what? I don't
even know. I don't even what I'm supposed to be
ready for? Stay ready, be ready. And then it just

(02:00:48):
falls off from there. Apparently whatever started this chain of events. No,
I'm just clicking out of that. I have no interest whatsoever.
And look at that anymore. There's that, there's that, there's that.
The story of the entire show so far, and we've
covered a lot of ground, and I'm glad we have

(02:01:10):
is what went on the last forty eight hours up
in the hill country. And they've got more rain coming today. Again,
I don't believe it's going to be nearly so severe
or devastating. It's what's happened already. But thousands, not thousands
of people were displaced, certainly by what went on up there,
and it's been there are dozens of people confirmed dead

(02:01:34):
and more to come almost absolutely certainly. There are still
so many people missing up there, and hopefully we'll, hopefully
we will get some some peace for all the families
who are still looking for loved ones and at least
some closure. It's there's still some families, I'm afraid who

(02:01:57):
are going to be really devastated by what's happened up there.
I just I just it just brings tears eyes almost
about what happened at that little girl's summer camp. There
are seven hundred and fifty girls up there just having
a good time and enjoying the cooler temperatures in the

(02:02:17):
hill country than down here or wherever they came from,
probably and their lives, many of them lost, and their
families lives forever changed, just in that one blink of
an eye. Horrible. Let's go to Faux Pro, see what's
up there. What's up pro Pro, what's going on? You know,

(02:02:40):
I'm just hoping those people can get through whatever they
got to go through. Man, that's God, that's just that'd
be gut wrenching. I can't imagine.

Speaker 15 (02:02:49):
That's great.

Speaker 6 (02:02:49):
I was looking at the you know, before we came
fishing today down here on the South Angela River, I
looked at the you know, the radar prediction, you know
you can make it pan out through the hall, yeah, yeah, yeah,
and that that whole system is just stuck there right
at Austin, just like it's like it's stuck.

Speaker 1 (02:03:05):
Yeah, it's not moving away, it's it's still gonna try
to drop some more water on them. I'm just glad
the water had a chance to get out of there
before today's rain comes. That's gonna help them a little bit.

Speaker 6 (02:03:19):
Yeah, this river here has got a little bit of
water in it, but raver and pretty keeps raver.

Speaker 4 (02:03:24):
We're below Ravern.

Speaker 1 (02:03:25):
Yeah, okay, so it's not too bad.

Speaker 6 (02:03:27):
But catching a few spots, a couple of blacks lean
really I just now turned on the spotlight. So we're
at that stage of the day when it gets to spotlight.

Speaker 4 (02:03:37):
And so you know, man's got to do with the band?

Speaker 1 (02:03:40):
Don't you just put on an episode of The Adams
Family or something. All you're doing is watching TV for us.

Speaker 6 (02:03:46):
I'll tell you what, I wish it was that easy,
because we're sitting here saying things I can't say on
your station to these fish, and we're watching ten of
them follow your baked.

Speaker 1 (02:03:54):
Like me and you that, oh my gosh, yeah, and
then they all turn off.

Speaker 6 (02:03:59):
We're sitting here on ten different baits and they follow
everythingle bait like, hey.

Speaker 10 (02:04:02):
Look at this It's like they.

Speaker 6 (02:04:04):
Know there's a six six swimmer, or there's a there's
an academy crank bait.

Speaker 1 (02:04:07):
You know what that's called. That's called in on the
job training. They're learning not what not to eat. And
one of them. You got to catch the teacher. That's
what you gotta do. You got to get the teacher
out of the water. Then the rest of them will bite.

Speaker 6 (02:04:21):
Yeah, there's some big ones. There were pastically what we're doing,
you know. You know when you got current in the river.

Speaker 4 (02:04:26):
We're hitting the mouths of these little oxbow lakes and
stuff like that, and.

Speaker 6 (02:04:30):
Ganged up at the mouth of the You throw it
there and catch one real quick, and the rest of
them are like, okay, this fisher, but up there, don't
eat for.

Speaker 4 (02:04:35):
Till they leave.

Speaker 1 (02:04:36):
How long you think it's going to be before somebody
starts using one of those scopes and throwing a spear down.

Speaker 6 (02:04:45):
I'll tell you what for booger fish, and at Post Raine,
you could get pretty right on top.

Speaker 1 (02:04:51):
Of them, you know, and just watch the spear tip
go into the water and then just when it's right
where it needs to be, just give it an extra shove.

Speaker 6 (02:05:00):
I knowed, I know one of the local pros says,
you know, people go out there and say, well, why
don't you just file hook them?

Speaker 1 (02:05:04):
But he's he's offered.

Speaker 6 (02:05:05):
I won't say no, he's offered a thousand dollars if
you could file hook a fish on lipscope And I've
tried it, but you can get closed.

Speaker 4 (02:05:13):
And I bumped them. But wow to do.

Speaker 6 (02:05:16):
But I ain't gonna say you get into a school
of you throw your big salt water treble hook out
there and just.

Speaker 4 (02:05:21):
Go to Yankee.

Speaker 1 (02:05:22):
Sure, there's a lot of salt water applications, so much
so that you can buy weighted treble hooks, you know,
and have a little extra lead right around the shank
of them. And well we should use those to catch
mullet for bait.

Speaker 4 (02:05:37):
Oh yeah, we should.

Speaker 6 (02:05:37):
We used to catch a cart going to Lewison to
catch a carp for trot, lion bait or cat.

Speaker 1 (02:05:45):
All right, you guys have fun, Thank you? Yeah, man, audios,
we got to take this final break in the program.
On the way out, I'm gonna remind you, speaking of
salt water fishing, remind you about CCA's Coastal Conservation Association's
Star Tournament started back on Labor Day or a Memorial Day,
runs all the way through Labor Day, and it is

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your golden ticket to fishing every day if you can
just convince your spouse that you are doing it so
that you might win a big prize for the whole family,
might win them a new boat. Who knows, might win
a new truck, might win a scholarship for the kids.
All you have to do is fish. And if you're
a member of CCA, which you have to be to

(02:06:27):
join and register for the tournament, and you get that
tournament registration done, then it's just up to you. How
many times can you go fishing all summer? Try to
set a record, because if you do and you get
lucky and you catch just the right fish, maybe a
tag fish, it might be the way to the fish.
Depending on the category, that thing may be worth a

(02:06:48):
whole lot of money or a cool prize. Like I said,
you can win. There's five options on the I believe
it's the red tag that get you a brand new forward,
pickup a brand new boat, a brand new motor, and
a brand new trailer to pull it all on. Just
for catching one fish and clipping the tag and making

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sure you get a video of the release of that
fish safe and sound. That's all part of the rules.
You need to go to the tournament site really and
take a look. There's almost one point nine million dollars
in prices. And additionally, what you're going to be doing
is supporting an organization that works very hard to make
sure that we have all the fish we could possibly stand,

(02:07:33):
all the fish we can put into the base system
that we can put off shore of the great state
of Texas. CCA's been around about fifty years and done many,
many good things. The crowning achievement, of course, is the
recovery of the redfish. There were many years, not that
many years ago, when fishermen who really knew what they

(02:07:54):
were doing, could go a week or more with three
or four people in their boats and not catch a
single redfish. Now it's kind of just the opposite. I
don't know that you could go a day without catching
a redfish if you know what you're doing and nowhere
to go. They're recovered, well recovered, and we are on

(02:08:15):
top of that, thanks in great part to CCA and
a lot of work by a lot of people. Slowly
but surely they make these things happen. Nothing's done knee
jerk at CCA, I can assure you measure twice, cut once,
and that's what they're doing to make sure our fisheries
are well protected and well on their way to however
many fish the base can can hold. CCA been around

(02:08:39):
doing good work all to sponsor this tournament. Support CCA,
I support CCA, and you should too. Star tournament dot org.
That's where you get your It's not a free pass,
but it's a nice pass, a whole passed if you
will to fish as many times as you can over
the summer. Got to take care of that scholarship for
the kid, and got to get out there and win
a new tra I can use a new truck, use

(02:09:02):
whatever excuse you have to and get you out there
fishing more. And you have that choice. You have that
choice to either participate or not. But if you aren't participating,
as a couple of people have already found out, and
you catch one of those tagfish, too bad for you.
Sign up today. Star tournament dot org. Star tournament dot org.
These summer showers we're getting in the afternoons are kind

(02:09:24):
of reminders of what could happen if your trees get overgrown,
if your trees get damaged, if your trees are sick
and their root systems are compromised. That just lets them
move a little bit more in the ground, and a
little bit more and a little bit more until if
we get a real blow through here, those trees may

(02:09:47):
come down. Poorly maintain trees are subject to anything. If
we get a storm through here. You got to protect
your house. You gotta protect your cars, your garage, all
of your big investments from becoming collateral damage just because
you waited a little bit too long to deal with them.
You can get them pruned, You can get them fed

(02:10:09):
to be healthier. You can get them removed altogether. With
a little help from Champions Tree Preservation. They've been around
for decades. They own all of their own equipment. Their
arborus will come to your house and do a full
walkthrough for all your trees. See what's up, what has
to what can stay there and is healthy? What needs pruning,
what needs anything to make sure it can ride out

(02:10:31):
a storm like you need it to. Don't wait, we're
smacking the middle of it now. This is July and
something could spin up anytime. Give them a call, get
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to the website championstree dot com championstree dot com. All right,
Independence Day. Pray for those people up in the hill country.
Stay safe. I'll see you tomorrow day. Thank you for listening.