The Doug Pike Show 5-5-2024

Doug talks about Lake Livingston rising water. Fishing update due to weather  conditions. Doug explains why the rain is good for fish population. Tips on creating fly bait. Doug talks about types of sharks. Also,tides, currents and golf courses.

Episode Transcript

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This is the Doug Pike Show,brought to you by American Shooting Centers Guns
Shooting at Instruction since nineteen eighty nine. Now here's Doug Pike. We're still
dealing with the rain and it's movingout. Okay, there's the good news.

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It's moving out of our region.Let me go back and get an
absolutely updated little radar shot here.I've been working. Actually, I'm gonna
go over here and look at myphone where I have the weather channel radar
up and I've been watching it ifwe can, depending on where you are.

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Of course, the worst of itactually has moved east of us.
Now, let me get this thingto come up and I'll make it a
live, legitimate right now as recentlyas eight o'clock. So that's pretty good.
And it looks like by about theend of this program we will be

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relatively free of issues, especially thepeople who need it most, the people
up on the north side of town. Eight nine ten. I don't need
to see an advertisement at ten o'clock. Oh, this thing took me all
the way back. Stop it.At ten o'clock. We get pretty good

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and clean. There's a little bitof overcast and light rain in the woodlands,
maybe around Magnolia. Kingwood still gota little bit, but it kind
of gets either all the way eastof fifty nine or almost east of fifty
nine by eleven o'clock. And Iam deliberately not really closing this thing up

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too much. I want to snapshotof where we are. Yeah, at
eleven o'clock, there's nothing in Kingwood. There's a little bit more just kind
of lingering a small piece of rainover the woodlands. That's high tailing it
out of there. That may delaythe third round of the inspirity, which

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I hope it does, And Ihope this thing turns out to be a
little bit wrong and a little bittardy. I hope that stuff gets out
of there so that they can getout on that golf course and get in
a third round. Today. We'llhave plenty of time and plenty of good
clean sky. I think after thislast little bit gets through by noon,

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there's still some stuff trying to hangaround even twelve thirty one o'clock, and
then it's gone, and then itfinally gets on out of here. Now
the coast gets some later in theday. There's some afternoon stuff. I'm
looking at about one thirty or twoo'clock, a pretty significant chunk of clouds,
say roughly from oh maybe the beachto thirty miles inland that'll stick around.

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Bottom line is it's just that timeof year, unfortunately, and all
this stuff has come through, toomuch of it at once, certainly for
the people who live up on theNorth Side, and the more we get
of it that it's going to justturn at least pretty good situations for some
of us into potentially not good situations. And then of course the people who

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were already dealing with flood, dealingwith high water that either kept them pinned
down or wouldn't let them get backinto their homes, won't like a pin
down, won't let them out ofhome. There was a television newscast last
night that showed a little bit ofa conversation being had between firefighters up on

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the North Side somewhere and a womanwho wanted to drive home or to drive
somewhere to pick up her son,and the firefighters at their station were pointing
down the flooded road and saying youcan't make it down there in your little
sedan, to which she said,well, yeah, I just saw firetruck

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go there, go through there withouta problem. Fire truck can go,
I can go right, and no, ma'am, you don't want to drive
into that water. And she ignoredthem, and she drove into the water,
and she ruined her car forever periodinto story and still hadn't picked up
her son at that point. Hardheaded, hard headed people get hurt in

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high water. She was very fortunatethat that water wasn't really moving fast,
because she probably would have done somethingequally stupid and could have potentially risked her
life. Wherever her son was,there was no indication that he was treading
water. He was safe somewhere andshe was safe somewhere. But that wasn't

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enough for her. And I understandthe instincts of a parent to go get
your child, but when three firefightersare standing there telling you, no,
your car won't make it through there, you've got to kind of trust them
and let them use their communications tosend word downhill, uphill wherever it needs

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to go, to let that childknow somehow that he or she is safe
and needs to stay right where theyare. It's just people. Panic.
Panic can get you hurt so fast. Far panic has probably taken out as
many lives as almost anything else inthe panic which results in doing something or

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whatever that makes a bad situation worse. She was in a bad situation,
There's no question about it. Hercar was on high ground, there was
no except for wanting to go gether child, which once again, that's
a very powerful instinct. Wanting todo that, though, caused her to

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override common sense in her brain andrisk something. And now she's gonna have
to have a new car. Iguess insured it'll pay for it. Uh,
but her premiums will go up andlike everything else does right seven one
three seven ninety Email me Dougpike atiHeartMedia dot com. Foux pro Forst sent
me a picture this morning of whatI'm pretty sure is the bridge at fifty

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nine over the Trinity River just belowthe Lake Livingston Dam, and boy,
there is not a whole lot ofdaylight between the river and the train trestle.
Hopefully we can get that water outof the lake and downstream and out
of the bay system as fast aspossible without causing any more trouble. I
suspect that with the rain we hadthis morning, there still may be a

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little bit more at least more timeneeded. I don't know that the water's
gonna rise much more, but atleast it's gonna take some time. And
there's still whatever runoff is coming fromthis is a big broad piece of the
water ship all the way up intoOklahoma and whatnot that is gonna be saturated
and sending water our way. Andthe more creeks and bios this water leaves

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and the more rivers it gets intentinto, the higher those rivers go,
and it's gonna be tough. It'sgonna be tough. Lake livingson churning out
water as fast as the gates I'mpretty sure darn closed to full open.
And that's there. They're at thepoint where I think there is a point
where they can open those gates wideenough that it will absolutely positively and they

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tell the people downstream, hey,here it comes. They have to open
it up to preserve the integrity ofthe dam and everything up there. And
so they open that water up tocome down at a level that they know
is going to flood into some areaswhere people live, and those people have
lived there for a long time.They put their houses on els, just

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like they do at the beach,and when the whistle blows and they they're
told it's time to go, theygo. Most of them, they don't
have to go. There's no lawthat says you have to leave your house.
The smart people do. Though.Let me go talk to Brandon for
just a minute here, Let's seewhat's going on. Hey, Brandon,
what's going on? Buddy? UnderOkay? I was up with the Yeah,

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I was too, so more thana little. I think for me
that they've got to do something.And I don't know what it is.
You can't just you can't keep stickingyour finger in the light socket and not
thinking it's gonna hurt. They needto step back and and really I don't
know. Poor Joe Spotted. Lookwhat he inherited. I mean, he

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had the team that he inherited didgreat last year was basically the same lineup.
They made what looked like a fewimprovements to the lineup, and now
they can't win. To save themselves, they need to win. Here's the
deal, though, real quickly.If they win this game to day though,
they win the series, that's anotherseries one. And as long as
they can keep whittling out two outof three, that'll be okay. They'll

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they'll be fine by the end ofthe season if they can do that.
Yeah, great question for you.For I'm partly gonna go fishing party here,
Parby, I'm not gonna go onthe boat. It's probably gonna rain.

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Yeah, that's Paul. I don'tthink. I don't know. The
boat thing maybe depends on where you'regonna go. Wait till the sunshine and
wait till there's not a cloud inthe sky. Why why risk it?
Why go to all that effort andget to where you want to go to
really get dialed in and catch yourselfa fish. If it's gonna rain on
you, yep, make it.Damn. I'm gonna wait telling that share.

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Okay, well you don't have towait till next year. Maybe just
give it a couple of couple ofdays even, Yeah, all right,
Well it's good to hear from you, It certainly is. How was your
day so far? So good?I actually got awakened by thunder and lightning
this morning, but it wasn't pouringdown rain yet, and I thought,

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you know what, I'll just wakeup and I'll just go on and go
to the office and get some stuffdone. So I took off and I
was telling Melvin on the way hereor when I got here. I got
here safely, and it wasn't raininghard, but it had started to rain
a little bit of I saw oneweird, weird lightning bolt too. It's

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be very o at the window pans. Yesterday I thought I was going to
rain it yesterday. Yeah, itlooked like it was. It really didn't
rain much out where I played golfthe most, out at black Hawk Country
Club. I went out there yesterdayafternoon fully expecting it to be just swampy
and super wet and whatnot. Andwe didn't even have to drive the carts

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on the cart path. We couldjust drive all over. It was dry
as a bone out there. Icould not believe that thing had drained that
fast and that thoroughly. It wasgood man. That was baseball game,
the game they played on Friday night. They won. I don't know what
they did last night. As amatter of fact, I haven't heard and

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I haven't seen anything in my inboxto tell me whether they won or lost,
So I'm not sure this was.This was the varsity. He's on
junior varsity this year. He's asophomore playing on junior varsity, So I
don't know how the varsity team did. But they they made a great I
had a great game Friday, andin fact, in the year they played
Spring Creek, I think it wasthis is this is playoffs in their in

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their division, whatever you call thosethings. And the long and the short
of it is they were down.They were down, I think by a
couple of runs going into the bottomof the six. We were at home
for that game and had a coupleof guys on and there were there's a
young man who plays first base hita ball that it I don't know if

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it's come down yet, but Imean it. He hit. As soon
as he hit that ball, assoon as I heard the crack of the
bat and saw the exit angle,I turned to the guy next to me,
I said, that one's dead gone. And it was straight center,
straight out of center field. Man. It was a fantastic swing, a
big hit, and it gave themthe lead. And once they got that

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lead, which it took them along time to get the whole game,
they were trailing and kind of yeah, but not last night, but a
couple of nights, two nights ago. Yeah, that's a big game,
man for them. They won.I don't know that I think they play
again today at a neutral site.We were at their house last night,

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and hopefully they can pull it offand keep going through the playoffs. Hey,
let me go, I got toco take a good haven't you.
I got to go take a break, Brandon, I didn't realize we chatted
so long. Man always posed tomy friend. I'll see you later.
Have a good weekend. I havea good day. I straight have a
good weekend. I will see youthis weekend. You got it, thanks
Man, Audios Mike, all right, I see who's holding Man? Yeah,

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I know who that is. He'scalled here before. I can't wait
to talk to him. I spendquite a while, all right. Carter's
Country, Mother's Day. A lotof people don't think of don't put the
two together, but I know alot of people who do as well.
And one of the things that youcould do for Mom, if she does
a lot of driving around by herself, dropping the kids off and then running

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errands, it's just not the supersafest place we've ever lived in frankly anywhere.
Might not be a bad idea toget Mom into a concealed carry class
so that she can learn the insand outs of carrying a gun can learn
with some time on the range upthere at the Trash Week store where you

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take the concealed carry class, howto be confident and efficient and well comfortable.
I'll say, let's just call itcomfortable carrying a gun. It's not
a bad thing at all. It'sa good thing. It's actually a confidence
builder. It will make you moreaware of your surroundings to carry really,

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because you know that if something doescome up, you don't have to just
throw your hands in the air andsay take what you want. You have
a rite in Texas to defend yourself, your family, your property, other
people if some nut job shows upand starts hurting people. But there are
legalities to it, and that coursewill teach them to you about four hours

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in the classroom. Then you gooutside and you do your proficiency test,
which is not difficult. It's notsomething that you have to worry about and
fret over. And if you arefretting over it, just take some lessons
before you go guns ammo and huntingstuff all over town. And for the
past I don't know about a goodten years anyway. Also, online just

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about anything in the store can beshipped right to your door. Country dot
com. If you want to getmom into one of those classes, they
are held every weekend. You calltwo eight one four four three eighty three
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to Carter'scountry dot com. This issports Talk seven ninety, Facebook dot com

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slash sports Talk seven ninety. Backto the Doug Fight Show. Listen,
Melvin? Who's that title in artist? Melvin? You gotta get I'm sorry,
you gotta get used to that.So what were we hearing? Eric
Church? Okay, okay, nowI know it, see Lattle Church.
I don't know all this. Idon't listen to that much music anymore.
I did certainly as a younger man, but I don't needmore. All right,

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I gotta get to my phone callshere. I got Andre, and
then I'll get to you, Dave. Hang on, man, Andre,
what's up? Buddy? Hey,brouh? How you been? Where you
been? Man? I've been livinglife and just trying to endure all that
is to throw you in life.I got you. I understand that.

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And so I'm dealing with my momwith uor something. Okay. So that's
that's that's a whole other venue.Now what y'all are dealing with her?
And you're doing the right thing forher. It sounds like and and and
and trying to fish for bed thisweather. Yeah, oh my god,

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the weather has been just so stupidcrazy things down. Huh. Called a
friend of mine and he was tryingto go down to Medagorden And I'm like,
man, why are you going?He's gonna burnt up some gas and
you got the lifted truck. Let'sgo burn up board gas. Oh my
work, he got an electric truck. No, he's got the lifted the

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lifted truck. Oh yeah, it'sgonna be burning all kinds of gas.
You go burn all kinds of gasto out there and get frustrated. And
like I told him, I sitbeing all this weather that's up doing all
the water got to come. A'llwait it is, Yeah, it's coming.
So you're not gonner like, man, can you go with it?

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Waste? She said, I can, but I won't. Yeah, I'm
not going to waste my money.I was your promoter. I won the
first uh the weather being bitch,Oh Texas Temperature game. That's right.
It was a long time ago,man, you did and the seven seven

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paths closed down before I could evenGosh, I'm so sorry, man,
So I still got the court.It's like a sooner bed to be wait
till you know what, wait tillthe sun pops out and and shoot us
to shoot me an email or getMelvin to give Melvin your information or something

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and figure out a way to contactus and we'll find something for you around
here. Well, I hope Icould participate because I'm part of the c
C eight. I was sure.I hope I could participate in the contest
this year because last year it wasjust so oh my gosh, don't even

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remind me of that flashing. Ijust thought I was gonna catch on fire
four or five times, that Icould not fish one day because of everything
else that had happened every year,you know, And now I was on
certain medications. Told me. Theywas like, man, don't be out

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there, don't do that. Yeah, you know, because some of them
are are part of the CCA tenemor two, they knew what it was.
They were just like, well,I wish you luck this year.
Andre. I'm gonna go talk toDave real quick before I get to my
brain. Yeah, Man, toform a club, you get along so

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good. I don't know what he'sgonna do up there, kind of no,
tell him where he is. We'llfind out and sit. It's honestly,
Andre, it is so good tohear from you again. Man,
don't be a stranger. Okay,all right here, yeah, alright man,
audios, All right, let melet him go. Let's go get
Dave up in here. What's up? Dave? Hey? Will Andre?

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I appreciate all the time. Worsehey in Melvin, he's already pretty much
getting to be a pro. Yeah. Yeah, he came in as a
pro. He just had to figureout what what buttons we use from the
different buttons he was using in TV. Man, that's all. Don't don't
push the redell. Yeah, butno, you were talking yesterday about stuff

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that you got stolen, you know, you know, on the fishing equipment
and stuff. I remember, youknow, it was Joel Bridge's place when
I was a kid, and thatwas my cousin. But then it became
Squeaky's right there on forty five andh the road that goes to stow Away
Marino over there, and all thatShepherd Hill Cemetery and all Shepherd Yeah,

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yeah, yeah, yeah. Soanyway, I went and parked. I
was had my truck there and Ihad my two rodden reels in the back,
and I had a bucket with alid on it that had all my
expensive lures and everything. Oh yeah, I know when I've come back out
and my rodden reels was gone.Now they were zeb Co thirty three,
so I really don't care about that, but thank god they didn't take my

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bucket of a thousand dollars worth ofthose. You know what you say,
you don't care about those zeb Cothirty threes, but honestly, deep down
inside, you got to care becausesome scumbag decided that they didn't want to
work to get rods and reels.They were just going to steal yours.
And I know it's not a significant, a big financial loss. It's not

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like you lost to Penn International fiftiesor something or eighties. But there's still
some of the stole something that youworked really hard to get the money to
buy, and that that bothers me, and it's bothering me more and more
that we have we've turned into asociety that says, oh, yeah,
you need to steal something, Sure, go ahead, it's okay, And

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that's that's messed up. Iron Ihear you, you know. And then
working where I work at sometimes whenthey go in and they walk out with
something they don't, uh, that'sit. They don't. They don't even
want to pursue it. Don't chasethem crazy. Yeah. Back in eighty
cis when they flew me to Washington, d C. And I was working

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on that fifteen story kind of menium. Ye, looking at the Washington Monument.
I come in there with my cowboyhat on, my starts lost sleeve
shirt, with my blue jeans andmy red lizard boots, and I knew
where you were from, didn't they. Well, here's the thing. They
asked me, man, y'all behindhorses in fighting indians out there? Really?

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No? In nineteen eighty six theywere like, oh my gosh,
they thought we were fighting indians downhere. I said, no. My
dad's great grandmother was charity Indians.I don't want to fight them no more.
Oh yeah, that's been a while, been a while since we rode
a horse school. You know,Hey, let me tell you what riding

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a horse or I like to say, driving horse ain't Easy's got to figure
out which way to go. ButHey, I was gonna tell you I
mentioned again, I don't know weather. It looks like it's gonna be clearing
out. So that deal over thereat Saint Rose Alima, you know where
all the marriage Stan Bruce and PaulAmerican all there, and they're gonna be
giving away a lot of stuff fordifferent charities and kids charities and all that

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kind of stuff. What times thatstart today? You know, I'm gonna
be over well, I think aroundabout ten o'clock, but I'm going to
try to be over there about eleven. The band don't start till one o'clock
at the Tail Stars, and theywere up my heroes. No, I'll
just go up here and check everybody'shand and take pictures. You know,
these guys are Hey, these guysare the guys we grew up. You

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know, they've been playing probably forfifty years or more. Yeah, there's
like the Rolling Stones man, Well, that's who we grew up with.
And now instead of like us theCountry Can Band, We're we're tired.
We're the Cripple Can Band. Allright, Dave, Hey, I got
to catch go go. We don'tget drill. Always a pleasure, my

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friend, Audios, boy boy,When you say, go Dave's yeah,
Okay, he understands. He reallydoes, all right. Speaking of drying
up around here, I suspect thatblack Horse Golf Club probably going to be
playable today, and in a goodway too, not just not just slogging
around. I don't know how muchrain black Horse really got. It's kind

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of on the on the edge ofwhere it could have been good or bad.
And I haven't talked to anybody outthere, but I suspect you could
get out. They got the twocourses and both of them drained pretty well.
And it's worth a phone call ifyou want to play and live up
on the northwest side of town,take two ninety to Frai Road, go
south. You had great food upthere. You had great people in the

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pro shop, great people in thecafe there, great people on the range,
everybody just wanting to help you havea better time. At black Horse
Golf Club, lessons down at thefar end from some really great teaching staff.
There's a membership option too, whichis pretty good what they do with
their membership. It's a daily feecourse, but if you jump in and

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commit to a little bit more everymonth, then you get preferred tea times.
You get discounts in the pro Shop, and which is very important for
range rat like me, you getunlimited range use. You can just hit
balls to your fingers bleed. Whetherit's just you wanting to get out and
you look up, sky's clear,Holy cow, let's go play golf,

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or you got a big tournament comingup and you need to make room for
a lot of people to raise alot of money. Black Horse can cover
you. I've played I don't knowhow many dozens of tournaments out there now,
had a great time at every singleone of them. Black Horse goolf
Club dot com is a website.Start right there, black Horse Golf Club
dot com. This is Sports Talkseven ninety, Hey Houston, sports fan

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on air and on Facebook at contact. Back to the Doug Pike Show on
my laptop that the cursor just blendsinto the screen. When I've got all
these these pages opened and I couldn'tfind it for a minute. Now put
it in a nice quiet place sevento one three two one two five seven

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ninety. Email me Dougpike at iHeartMediadot com. Let's go talk to Aaron
shall we what's up man? Hey, how you doing? I'm good.
How are you erin a little colesabouts gearing up to go work in a
minus twenty degree freezer? No way, who keeps the minus twenty except ice
wives? Oh okay, ice creamwives are yeah. Have that hard to

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start with, right, Yeah,that's a good point. Don't freezer about
three more weeks of it. Soyou're in an ice cream place, Well,
it's actually a cold store, justkind of a co oper with like
a third part of the distics wherewhere they put all kinds of different stuff
and then just focus on the shippingof the prisoner. I gotcha. Okay,

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so there's not something you'd want tobring a spoon into, just in
case, you know, uh no, no, But ironically a lot of
ice cream falls off those palettes andyou see rocky Road. Oh but con
prale, Oh wow, I takea second look at Yeah, all kinds
of stuff. That's funny. Yeah. I like the guitar Dave style too.

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We kind of do the same thing. We drive up and you know,
in our truck and our cowboy bootsand everything else, and it's it's
a good ice breaker. Yeah,always asking me what's that? What's that
fish with the red spot on yourlicense? Plate. Well, you just
stand there and tell them as muchas you much as you dare. Don't
tell them so much about how goodit is down here though that they want

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to move here. We got enough, We're full. Yeah, So what's
on your mind? Man? Exactly? Well, I was going to ask
you about how all this rainfall andthe and the river systems, how does
that affect the fish, the fishpopulations in the bays, and also does

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the fertilizer or the runoff, doesthat leave the bait more suscepsible to algae
blooms? And just kind of howa massive flood like that affects the based
system. Yeah, when you floodeverything everything into the river and down it
comes. There's everything from trees tobarbecue pits, anything that'll flow, old

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tires, anything that will float awaythat was in somebody's backyard up river is
in the river. And part ofthat system now, including fertilizers, including
pesticides, including just about anything andeverything you can think of. And if

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I don't have anything out there,I just leave the door close. It
will be I'm not letting that stufffloat away anyway. I'll protect that before
I'll protect my car. But yeah, it comes down there and it impacts
for as long as that flow isso heavy, and some of it settles
down to the bottom and the mainchannels of everything. There's no question about

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that, but that it's kind ofnature's way of flushing the whole system.
It gets all of that stuff outof there. That's why when hurricanes come
through, everybody sees them as sucha horrible thing because they tear up so
many houses. But houses, asfar as nature's concerned, houses aren't supposed
to be there either, So naturedoes a pretty good job of purging what

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it does to the fisheries. Thebay fish, for sure. Of the
trout there have been trout all overthe place, and it was it was
a very optimistic feeling that was justpervasive throughout our bay system up here all
the way down to South Texas aboutwhat it was gonna be like in early
spring. Well up here anyway,it's gonna set that back aways because all

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this fresh water is gonna move alot of those fish closer and closer to
the Golf of Mexico until they're justgonna keep swimming ahead of that fresh water
as best they can until they hitsalt water. Even if that means getting
all the way into Golf of Mexico. So we may be setting up for
a fantastic early season in the surf. We may be setting up for fantastic

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fishing down in West Bay instead ofTrinity and Galveston Base in East Bay.
Just the closer you get to wherethat salt water can get up in there
and make them comfortable, the betterit's gonna be. Another red fish aren't
gonna care so much. They canadapt a little bit better. But the
trout, for sure, are gonnathey're gonna move down and uh, people

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who can find them are gonna aregonna have a heyday, and people who
can't are gonna be scratching their heads. Like we've been fishing up here in
this part of Trinity Bay since wewere little kids, and we can't understand
why those fish aren't here. Again, Well that you got a bajillion gallons
of water or what is it?They're dropping out now, like one hundred
and twenty thousand cubic feet a secondout of Lake Livingston. It's a lot

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of water, man, So they'regonna they're gonna have to hide from that,
and they will. The the freshwater will be uh, fresh and
salt water don't mix. So oncethat's fresh water gets out of there and
there's salt down below, and onceit gets out of there, then we'll
be back to normal. Great,And I don't know when. Go ahead,

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quick think that that young man whotied you to fly, and if
he cared to tie jack, ifhe could learn to tie a little glass
minnow. And I've been out ofthe piers all night long, and one
time this guy came out there witha little glass mental fly ten minutes,
caught his limit, which was youknow, a lot more back, then
walked right off the pier. Wejust all looked at him and let me

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let me plan a see, letme plan a seat in your head.
Okay. You go to an officesupply store and you buy ten I think
they sell them in ten packs ofthose clear old fashioned old grade schools,
clear big pins. Yep, yes, sir, And you take it home
and you cut it in half ata forty five degree angle, and you

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run a little twenty pound floor ofcarbon through there, and you put a
little tiny treble hook and a redbeat on the back, and you come
up to the front. You puta little another red beat up front you
can, and I dressed. Iused to do this a lot, and
I started using metallic colored pipe cleaners. I'd put a green one on the

(32:05):
top and a silver one on thebottom and run them through there, and
then also with the leader, andthen you tie on your hardware. You
put a little barrel swivel out front, and it takes a very light spinning
rod. Basically kind of throw thesethings. Now you can also you can
put one on like a clear likea kind of a fresh water clear float

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and so that you could get toget some water in that float and you
can kind of toss it out therea little ways and they will absolutely smack
that thing at night. I usedto wear those fish out at the San
Luis past pier on those little bigpen lures. I've got to oh man,
and it will look so much likea glass minui. Wow, Why
didn't I think of this? Youknow, why didn't that catch us first?
Good love, I'll say some tryout for me, man, We'll

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see those such. Thanks all right, Yeah, save travels, good luck.
There's no tilling, no telling whereAaron is this morning and what part
of the country that deep freezer isin, but it's there. Somewhere,
and when he and his crew leave, it'll be way better off than it
was when they got there. That'sfor sure. That's what he does.
I was telling telling Melvin about thatjust a little while ago, right before

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I took that phone call. Aaronand I been talking about decking out my
garage with some shelving, and itI get so fired up and then I'm
so worn out by the end ofthe day. It's hard, but we
are making progress out there. I'mgonna have to find somebody who can just
sit out there with me for abouta day and methodically pick something up and

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just say sell it, donate it, or keep it. Sell it,
donate it, or keep it.And we're gonna have to almost do it
by the container, because if Istart opening containers and going through packages of
lures one by one, it's gonnabe rough. I could be out there

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years. I don't know. Ido want to do this. I want
to get this done. I've gotshelving and I've got cabinets in the back
that need to be gone through.I know what's out there, but I
have reached the point and it's notwhere you can't get in there. I'm
my wife parks your car in there, and you could almost probably squeeze a
second car in there now if itwas relatively small. So it's not I'm

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not a hoarder, and it's notyou can't. You can get around out
there and move where you need tomove to find what you need to find.
But it's time. It's time,and it's so hard, and I
can I could just I've watched thesehorder shows and just thank God that I
haven't gotten that way, and thatI have either given away or thrown away

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so much stuff in the past yearor so that I've kept it in a
balance. But I could do better. I'll confess to that. And by
the way, I owe Scott andall, and I know he's listening this
morning. I owe him a roundof gold because we bet about a year
ago that he would finish building thehouse he's got on his place down south

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faster than I would be able toclean out my garage. And he won.
I knew he would. And Ishould have made the tea time the
day we made the bet. Ishould have just figured a tea time about
a year out. And so anyway, there you have that true confessions of
a guy who just loves to fishand has a hard time throwing away a
perfectly good lure. It's hard there, I said it, Okay, I

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don't like to I'd like to giveaway stuff, but I don't like to
throw away stuff. And yeah,it's a difficult thing. Here's something you
want want to throw away anything youbring home from Belleville Meat Market. Belleville
Meat Market has been very somewhat quietlyreally, although everybody who knows about it

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now rants and raves about it toall their friends, and it gets a
little bit busy out there on theweekends especially. They're about fifteen minutes north
of sea. Leave fifteen minutes orso out the Hempstead on Highway thirty six.
Very easy to find and just driveto the middle of a little town
of Bellville there and roll down yourwindows and when you smell delicious barbecue smoke,
drive up wind. If you cando that, you'll find it.

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Can't miss it really once you getin Bellville. It's not a big town.
They have smoked sausage samples available everysingle day in the store. They
have eighty five to fifteen ground beefthree fifty nine a pound if you buy
ten pounds or more, and ifyou've got a sixteen year old son like
I do, that won't last long. They also do handmade tomalies that are

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delicious. They do bacon wrap,cheese, stuffed holapenos, and mushroom caps
that are delicious. All the beef, chicken, and port varieties. Ways
of cutting it. You can imagine. If you want to get a half
a calf, they will process thatfor you for free. Just buy the
meat and they'll cut it all upthe way you want. Belleville Meat Market

(36:57):
has been doing this for the betterpart of four three years I think it
is now, and they talk aboutserving the greater Houston community. Frankly,
they serve about half of Texas atthis point and are just proud to keep
doing it. Family owned company beenthere forever. Get a nice meal.
Here's the deal. Drive out therewith the family on the way there,

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write out what you want to takehome. All is just place your order
on you either write it out ona piece of paper, put it on
your phone, make a list.The whole family gets to make some selections.
Kids can choose those venni dogs.Bring some venison out there. They'll
make hot dogs out of them forthe kids. Go there, enjoy a
nice lunch on the patio, andthen go back in, pick up that

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meat order, and head on homeand enjoy Belleville Meat Market around the clock
every day. There's breakfast stuff there, there's dinner stuff there. Use your
imagination. Everything you get at BellvilleMeat Market, you will love Belleville.
MeetMarket dot Com is a website.Belleville Memarket dot com starts Talk seven ninety

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breaking sports news on Facebook twenty fourto seven. We'll get that information to
them. This is the Doug PikeShow, now almost to the halfway point
on this two hour day. Alittle later in the program, by the
way, about nine thirty, I'mgoing to get an update from I think
it's going to be from Brian Nougleup there at the Inspirity in the Woodlands

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to figure out just what in theheck they're going to do with this thing.
I am looking at Rudy sent methe Galveston Bay salinity now cast,
and I'm looking at a future castfor Galveston Bay. This is from Noah.
Noah puts this out and I'm tryingto see when this is supposed to

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be. The situation in Galveston BayI know, I don't there's no way
that's today, but in a nutshell, oh yes it is. It's a
it's an animated thing. So let'stry and figure out where now is.
I'm trying very hard. Okay,they're pouring out. There is going to
be almost zero salinity in pretty muchall of Trinity Bay, pretty much all

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of East Bay, and even someminimal and I do mean minimal salinity over
stretching west pretty far for quite sometime. I'm trying to see what the
timeline is on this thing, andI can't. Oh yeah, these are
just this is five whooah man.Yeah, we're almost at zero salinity in

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East Bay and Trinity Bay and abig chunk of Galaston Bay except for the
westernmost little edges of it. Espasicallyfrom the channel east is either zero or
darn close to zero salinity. Sothose fish, the specl trout especially,

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are going to be packing their gearand and swimming as fast as they can.
And it's interesting to watch the developmentI'm trying to look at, you
know, watch the development of thisjust this pouring outpouring of fresh water into
the Gulf of Mexico and even howmuch it affects the Gulf of Mexico.

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It really is is fascinating to lookat that it does. It does get
swallowed up by the salt water prettyquickly, but it still impacts the I'm
watching this thing in real time asit shows how it's working, and it's
really it's really kind of okay,there's gonna be a lot of fresh water

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for a long time. Let's justleave it with that for right now.
I do like this website, that'sfor sure, and it is Tides and
Currents dot no o AA dot gov. And then from there it's it's more
code about for an hour and ahalf, but it's a Salina now cast.

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If you went to the Noah site, I think, and you just
go to Tidesandcurrents dot noah dot govand then find a search bar somewhere or
a search window and put in salinitynow cast and you'll see this and it's
it's impressive. Thank you, Rudy. That's pretty That's something that I hadn't
seen before, and I'm glad I'veseen it now. Seven one three two

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one two five seven ninety Email meDougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Adam Scott
I knew he was out there,just sent back a string of ha haas
about my garage. It's just it'sjust time and it's hard. I've got
I'm not retired, Scott. Okay, I get it. I get it.

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You're just living the dream and yougot to build an entire home for
your house, for your family.And I applaud you. I tipped my
cap to you, sir. Nofooling, no fooling. That's amazing,
by the way, says all that. Basically, he's talking about the rain
basically one hundred miles northeast and hehasn't had a drop of rain from any

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of this in more than a week. The way rain is, man,
that's where rain is. It fallson some of us and it doesn't fall
on the rest of us. Andthat's pretty much how it happens every day.
I need to respond to this emailreal quickly, Da. I think
I spelled everything right. All right, That reply is out and moving.

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Got just a couple of minutes,by the way, before we turn the
page and go into a little bitof golf. I'm not going to dwell
on golf, although I am goingto have that interview at nine point thirty
with Brian Naugle from up there atthe Inspirity, because I do want to
find out whether they're going to getthrough. The hope, obviously, is

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to get through three rounds and finishup as a fifty four whole event.
The money and the title in allofficial, so long as they get through
two full rounds, which they actuallydid yesterday. They just held their noses
and played and played and played andgot through all of that yesterday. Let's

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get Jeff before we have to goto a break. What's up, Jeff.
When we were growing up, therewas like ten sharks on the man
eater's list. That's kind of probablyoverdoing it. Would you say we're down
to three? I was interested inthe stressure. I don't know if you've
ever seen one. I know they'rea long way away, but they used
to be considered a man eater,but they're just magnificent in big sharks.

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I don't know if they ever botheredanybody. I've never heard of one bother
anybody around here. I think they'rein the far east. Mentioned do a
have no subspecies? Go ahead?Well. They also compared it to a
mackerel shark. I don't know ifsome sort of a common originality or origin.

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I'm thinking man eaters of the bull, the great White, the tiger.
Those three would be the first thatwould come to my mind, certainly
any exoticy you've ever seen either aroundhere that there aren't supposed to be here
when you were around the world fishing, I have not nothing dangerous. I

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mean you practically trip over lemon sharkswhen you're waiting for bonefish sometimes, but
no, I'm looking, look justreal quickly. It is under normal conditions.
I want to just run this bya shark, harmless and quite shy.
Only a few stark species known dangerousto humans. Out of more than

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four hundred and eighty species, onlythree, the three we just talked about,
are responsible for double digit numbers offatalities on humans. And that's just
in over time. That's the greatWhite, the tiger, and the bull.
They're the ones that are you don'twant to run into. The one
you will run into in the bayis a bull shark. There are lots

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of those, and they are notfun to play with. They don't get
along well with others at all.Do they ever take your fish or do
they not come in schill? Ithink I've even heard about them coming in
short. Maybe that's why they're soyeah, Yeah, they'll take fish.
They show up and are happy totake your fish off your shreer. Farther
down the cos go, the moreyou'll see them. I'll never get tired

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of of sharks and snakes, eventhough I haven't been out in the belt
like you have. When you bringthem up. I love seeing them in
the wild. I really, Itruly do, even sharks. I've been
fairly close to sharks diving and wadefishingand whatnot, and out of respect,
I don't go poking them in thenose to see what they'll do. But
I like to watch them and itsnakes. If I recognize it as non

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venomous, I'm gonna try to catchit. I'm gonna try to catch it.
And I've gotten nipped a couple oftimes for doing that. But if
you've learned to manipulate them, youcan use their own muscles against them to
keep them from actually ever getting toyou. So it's kind of fun.
Nothing I understand the food steam,but I do know that they've got to
be important and they need to beleft alone. For a lot of different

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reasons. I could not agree more. And I'm thanks. I appreciate you
for bringing them up, both ofthem. Thank you, Jeff, thank
you. All right, Pardner,all right, I have got to take
a little break here. Sharks andsnakes. We can get to them anytime.
Really, I'd love to. Iwould be happy to. American Shooting
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there and everywhere. They have abeginner's area for wing shooting. They

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That's it. That's some self defensestuff right there, fifteen feet. You
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This is the Dougpike Show, broughtto you by American Shooting Centers, Guns
shooting and instruction since nineteen eighty nine. Now here's Doug Pike. Second hour
starts. Now, let me getthis inspirity. The local boys up there
in the woodlands, they're out theregrinding right now. They started. Uh

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well, no, I think theystarted at ten o'clock this morning. Uh
that's the good news. The unfortunatenews. I looked at the Weather Channel's
future radar again and darned if there'snot another line of stuff, mostly north.
I tend but there's another line ofstuff that's going to come rolling through

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here early afternoon, and I hopeit goes around them. I hope it
breaks up and does something different thanwhat it says it's gonna do, because
that's gonna impact that tournament. ScottDunlap is leading through the two rounds.
He hadn't out yet, but hewas at nine under par through the two
rounds that were completed yesterday. JoeDurant and Stuart Applebeer at eight. Steven

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Alker, the defending twice defending champion, hoping thinking maybe he could make it
a three peet. I don't knowthat that's been done three times in a
row for the same tournament. Buteven if it has been done once or
maybe twice in the history of thePGA Tour, which I doubt, that
would still be an incredible accomplishment.He's at stephen or Is. He's at

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seven under par along with Thong ChaiJay d Mike Weir, the Canadian at
six under Park Canadian Lefty by theway, it gets my attention every time.
And then three guys at five that'sDarren Clark, Dickey Pride and Jasper
Parnavic. The rest of these guysat four aren't gonna catch the guys above

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them. I don't think that itwould be a monumental undertaking given the course
conditions. And yeah, so anyway, hopefully they'll get in a third round.
I would love to see it goto three, although it's just really
hard to think they will with whatI just saw on the radar. The
CJ Cup up north up there inMcKinney McKinny, Texas at TPC Craig Ranch,

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Taylor Pendrith is at nineteen by himself. He shot sixty three yesterday.
That's all Holy cow. Jake Napat eighteen, Ben Coles and Matt Wallace
at seventeen. If you haven't guessedit yet, this is not a big
name tournament. This is not asuperstar tournament. So a lot of these
guys, a lot of the goodplayers are playing, they're just not up

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at the top of the leaderboard.But this gives some of these other guys
a chance to really grind it outamongst their peers. Now, they're all
great golfers, and any one ofthem can win in any given week,
but if you throw the top twentyout there, at least probably half of
them are gonna occupy a good percentageof the leader board. Alex Norn at

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fifteen under par as is, KellyKraft and Kevin Tway, Vincewaly, Benghunan
and Troy Merritt, whom I interviewedby the way here years ago at the
Shell Houston Open, then up atgolf Kelobe Houston. Great guy, all
of these guys. When they're notout there working, they can seem a
little bit a little bit cold sometimesto fans and not really interactive. But

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when they're inside the ropes, theyare at work, and their work is
their livelihoods depend on them being successfulat work. At most jobs, you
can make make a few mistakes andit's gonna be okay. You're still gonna
get paid the same amount of money. If they make a few mistakes,
they don't get paid much of anymoney. If they get it all right,

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they get a boatload of money.And so there's a ton of pressure
on those guys when they're playing,but when they're just hanging out, when
they're interviewing, when they're doing everythingthat we do when we're not working.
All great fun got moat, well, not all of them. I know
some who aren't, but most arereally good fun people to be around.

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Seven one three two one two fiveseven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot
com. I kept looking at theseshark stories and shark assessments, and if
you look hard enough, you canfind the top three species of most dangerous
sharks, the top five, thetop ten. I suppose if you look
long enough, you could find thetop thirty. If anybody wanted to go

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down and check history books to findthe one time a nurse shark bit somebody
on the finger or whatever, they'veactually the nurse sharks actually have bitten a
few people, but I would suspectthat those people were kind of in some
cases at least egging it on.Sharks typically are pretty shy, they are

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pretty now hunger. Hunger changes everything. If they're looking at something as a
food source, they're probably going tobite it. And sharks have been known
to bite just about every piece ofa boat, every piece of floating debris,
all kinds of things. They biteit to figure out whether indeed it
is or is not food. Andthen once they make that assessment, that's

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why there are so many shark biteswhere they're just the impressions of the teeth
left in the victim and not achunk of flesh removed. It all happens,
everything from a scratch up to fatalitiesand large when when sharks bite into
people, they bite and let goand because they just they it doesn't taste

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right. They've bitten in there.All kinds of the big offshore boats,
many of them buried up in thatfiberglass, and when they haul them they
find sharks teeth on the on thestern, on the sides of the boat,
down the keel line, and thesharks are coming up just trying to
figure out whether or not that's food. And when they realize it, and

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they've knocked a few teeth out,and then they quit doing that. In
the bays, they have become fairlycomfortable around people, comfortable stealing the fish
off of stringers for those who stillcarry stringers, And that's a very unsettling
feeling to know, to see adorsal fin rise up around you and just

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wonder whether you're gonna be mistaken fora t bone, your five for a
t bone. No, they almostinvariably are focused on the smell and the
look of the fish on your stringer, And if you leave them hanging back
there, those sharks will grab themand they'll yank that head back and forth

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until they saw them off pretty muchright behind the gills. They're very exacting
predators. They can do that quitewell. That led over the years.
I haven't heard much about it lately. I don't know if the sharks have
kind of backed off. I don'tknow if they are fewer up in the
that from roughly East Matagorda or WestMatagorda Bay down through Port O'Connor and all.

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There were some stretches along there thatwere pretty sharky for a while,
but I haven't heard much about it. Lately, but that spawned all kinds
of alternate ways to keep your fish. There were these floating baskets for a
while, and then guys started floatingice chef to just go ahead and throw
the keepers in an ice chest withpool noodles around the edges to keep it

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out of the water and keep itfloating in an upright position. There are
all kinds of ways to keep thesharks off of stringers, And if you
get around enough of them and theysteal enough fish off your stringers, you'll
you'll figure out an alternate method.To good heavens, I need to take
a break. I'm gonna go aheadand take this break. I am going
to well in about I don't wantto rush them. They've got an official

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announcement they have to make up atthe tournament right now to the in the
media center. But once that's done, I'm gonna try and get Brian Naggle
on the phone and see what's goingon up there, and we'll get their
official forecast for the region, theWoodlands region, and see if they're gonna
be getting that third round in Ihope they do. I really do Bronze

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Roofing gonna be getting a lot ofcalls here up on the north side of
town, I'll bet, and oncethe sky clears and the rains have stopped,
they'll be happy to send somebody upthere, free of charge, to
check out your roof and see ifanything happened to it. They got these
crews that they'll send anywhere in town, and by town I mean the greater
metropolitan Houston area, from the Woodlandsdown to the coast. They'll send them

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out there to you no charge.They'll inspect that roof. If they find
damage, they'll show you pictures ofit. They'll explain what it costs,
how they're gonna fix it, andwhen they can get started, and then
they'll say what do you think,or something to that effect. And your
best bet is to say get started. You're gonna get quality work at a
very fair price, just like Ihave, just like my mother did with

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her house out in Katie, justlike my mother in law's house up in
the Woodlands where they've got tons ofrain, and they will do the same
for you. They'll be out thereto inspect. Usually within one day.
I'm getting a brand new roof thanksto Bronze Roofing. They came out Skeeter
himself came out and met my insuranceadjuster, and they both agreed. After

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Skeeter showed him what he'd do,and then the inspector did his due diligence,
they both agreed that I need abrand new roof and I'm thrilled to
have it right here before hurricane season. You will be too. If you
need one, you better get onebefore this stuff comes. Hurricane season's coming.
You need a good solid roof overyour head. Keep that house from
leaking. Bronzeoofing dot com is thewebsite. Go there, get on the

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phone with them, whatever you haveto do, get them to your house
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ninety. This is Sports Talk sevenninety Houston, Sports online at sports seven
ninety dot com. Back to theDoug Pike Show. Sports Talk seven to

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ninety, The Dougpike Show. Thanksfor listening. I want to go check
an email here real quick before Iget back to doing what I was doing.
Come back, what's going on?Yes, I've seen that one for
sure, Dan Wade in The humidityis ugly this morning. Well, at

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least it's not what they're getting.I know where you are, and at
least it's not you don't have twofeet of water all around your house.
Oh my goodness. Let me geton the phone here and go talk to
Kevin well sub Kevin, Good morning, Doug, How wanta doing today?
I'm good man. Are you dry? Are you safe? Well? I'm

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down here, Doug dodging rain dropsin Brazoria count Oh my gosh, few
sprinkles driving between my parks this morning. Okay, I just wanted to talk
a little more about the port Freeport. Take a child fishing that's coming up
next Saturday. Absolutely flood for that. Anybody with kids between the ages of
three and fourteen. They have twodifferent age categories, three to eight for

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blue fin for the smaller kids,and then nine to fourteen yellowfin category for
the bigger kids. It cost themto can cans of vegetables two can good
items as entry fee, and thecan goods go to the local area food
pantry. Each kid that registers getsa goodie bag and a T shirt with
that year's logo on it. Theystart registering at eight o'clock there at Municipal

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Park at the big pavilion. Wesee do you know the address of that
park so people can punch it intheir GPS or you know it's right behind
the Freeport Police Station. Oh,if you pull up the Freeport Police Departments
address, then you'll be right,yes, sir. One side of the

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levee and the dead end of theOld River where they diverted the river channel
is the high school and the otherside is the police station. Yes,
sir, Yeah, that's easy enoughto find. Yeah. They fish from
nine to eleven, then eleven o'clockto sound a horn and all the kids
come around to the pavilion and getin line and wait for me to wear
their fish. And during that timethey each kid also gets a lot and

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you're a yellow or blue lanyard.Whichever age group they're in has a number
on it, and they call outnumbers throughout the way in and kids.
They give away about two hundred andfifty door prizes. Oh that's awesome,
man. The kids compete for firstpraise. First place is a Dell laptop.
Get out of here? Wow?Can I finish? Yeah? I

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know I could use one myself.And then the second and third prizes I
think are like two hundred and oneacademy. Are not a Walmart gift card?
Wonderful, It's fantastic. Yeah,ain't got all kinds of Get some
groceries in there. Feed those bigkids, man. Yeah, all right,
Well, Dodd's the weather today.Get those parks ready. We'll see

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if we can get a bunch ofkids down there. If anybody wants to
email me and try to get alittle bit more information, I suspect I
can find it because Kevin sent itto me. You gotten a couple time.
Yeah, I sent the link toyou last Saturday. H Yeah,
I remember I was looking at itwhen we talked. Fantastic man, All
right, Kevin, thank you bunch. I appreciate it. Good luck next
week. I hopefully we're through allthis mess. Fingers crossed, right,

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I know, all right, Iknow that, I know that. I
just drove over the brasses the rivera couple of minutes. Yeah, how'd
that look there? In East Columbia? It's and croach looked like it's just
to the edge of getting out ofthe bank. Oh my god. And
I talked to a buddy of minethat lives up north. Said his friend
was as a son that lives therein College Station and it was already jumping
out of the bank and crawling intohis yard there. Yeah, that's I'm

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gonna go ahead. And while I'msitting here, I'm taking a look at
Brassis River at Richmond. I wantto kind of see where it is.
I tell whoa baby. Yeah,it's yeah, rising pretty steadily and at
the kind of a it's at thatstage where it's almost to minor flood stage.
We're at forty four point one andforty five goes to minor flood and

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it's moving up. What it's doingso and from what I hear that we've
got a lot more coming down fromup north. Oh my gosh, here
we go again. Huh all right, but I know, all right,
A good kid. Yeah, thankyou, Kevin. Be safe dinner audio
by Holy Macaroni. That is.I hadn't you really thought about that much?

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Man? I drove over the rivertwice yesterday and saw it as high,
but it still had some room.And as of yesterday, let's see
where that was. Well today,actually, I take that back, okay.
I'm I'm looking at projected levels andhopefully this stuff will stop and hopefully
it'll start its way back down.Today we're only at thirty eight and a

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quarter at Richmond, but by nextFriday is where it starts to creep up
and sniff around at that forty fourto forty five level. And if it
gets to forty five, that isconsidered minor flooding. So we've seen it
higher than that before historically. Idon't want it to get any high.

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I would have loved for it tojust stop, just stop, get this
stuff out of here, good heavensseven one three, two one two five
seven ninety Email me Doug pick atiHeartMedia dot com. There's that, there's
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good with. In a few minutes. By the way, like I said
at the bottom of the hour,we're gonna get Brian Naglon from the Inspirity
on going up there in the woodlandswhere they're trying. They got that course
back into incredible I watched a lotof it yesterday afternoon on television, and
they got that course back into remarkableshape, playable shape. After taking I

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want to say that, what diddorn And say yesterday, Chris? I
think he said they got something liketwelve inches of rain up there in a
day and a half and everybody allhands on deck yesterday or actually Friday.
As soon as the rain stopped onFriday, they scrambled and put everybody who

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could physically get onto the course outthere doing something, put something in their
hands that would make water go away, and they did it. Hats off
to them. It's an important thingfor the players. It's an important thing
for the charities that are involved.It's an important thing for the sponsors who
were involved to get that tournament playedif it's safe for them to be out

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there. I've hat somebody ask whythey rush everybody off so fast just because
there's one little thunderbolt, or onelittle this or that, Well, anything
that even remotely sounds like thunder getstheir attention. Then they have to go
see how far away the thunder andlightning that caused that thunder are. And

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if there's a lightning strike anyway,I want to say it's eight miles.
It used to be five maybe,but I think they opened it up a
little bit. And the reason theydo that is because there are so many
people out there, and those people, every one of those people needs to
find their way to safety. Nowthey'll haul the players out of there quick

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as they can, and vans andwhatever else they can get down a cart
path to get them out of there. Once something like that happens, and
the patrons, the people who arethere to watch the tournament at aren't required
to run for cover, but ifthey're taking the players off, it's a
pretty safe bet you need to gofind some shelter somewhere. I was out

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at the Golf Club of Houston yearsago when a dramatic thunderstorm rolled through there
right at daylight. I was outthere doing my show and we were in
kind of a semi exposed little tent, something you'd see down vendor row,

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one of those things with the heavycane of us covered in plastic tarps all
around the walls, and then aroof over it made of the same stuff.
And I felt like I was inthe Wizard of Oz. It was
going south quick, and this stormyou could just see it coming on the
horizon, just gray light early inthe morning, and a guy, a

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sheriff's deputy comes by on a golfcart and he's got his full slicker and
rain gear on. He said,you guys need to get out of this
tent now, and whatever's coming wasgoing to hit in about like four or
five minutes. And I don't evenremember who my producer was that year for
that particular weekend, but he andI gathered our stuff and dead ran over

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to the Media Center, which isa legitimate building with a legitimate roof on
it, and we were able toget in there, get plugged in,
and ended up being off the airactually only about well, I want to
say, maybe four five minutes tops, and then of course I'm sure the
broadcast after that saunted a little bitsnap crackling poppy on AM radio, but

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nonetheless we regained the connection. Hedid a way better job of doing that
than I was able to do it. Moody Gardens over the weekend to Saturday
Sunday morning. It was when,yeah, when I didn't know why the
thing stopped working. Now I knowwhy, and I'd be very comfortable at
that same scenario happened again, I'dknow exactly how to fix it. Timber

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Creek, Timber Creek Golf Clubs Southimportantly south of Ien, probably going to
be able to get some golf indown there at Timber Creek. I bet
they're teed up and going around rightnow down there, timber Creek's been around,
I want to say since around gosh, nineteen ninety, maybe somewhere in
there. Maybe a little bit laterthan that. I'm not sure exactly when

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they opened up. Might have beenthe mid nineties or so. But I've
been down there, I don't knowhow many times lately and always had a
good time at Timber Creek is afantastic facility. It just got better recently
with addition of the JJ Woods GolfPerformance Center. Like I said yesterday,
once JJ and his crew are inthere and get it all put away,

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get it all tied it up,get all the boxes emptied out, and
everything up on the shelves where itbelongs. All of that, it's gonna
be fantastic. You're gonna be ableto go down there and fix whatever's wrong
with your swing with some really reallygood instructors. JJ Woods Golf Performance at
Timber Creek Golf Club FM twenty threepoint fifty one down in friends Wood,

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twenty seven holes, fantastic, beautifullayout. It's really a lot of fun.
It's very user friendly too. It'snot gonna beat you up. You're
not gonna feel like you've been towar when you finish at Timber Creek Golf
Club. You're gonna that's pretty good. That was a pretty good round for
me. It's gonna help you out. It's gonna make you confident in your
golf game. Timber Creek Golf Clubdot com is the website. Set yourself

(01:09:58):
tea time right now. I betyou'll make it out today. Timber Creek
Golf Club dot com. We areSports Talk seven ninety. Listen online at
Sports seven ninety dot com. Nowmore, Doug Fike, Indy, I've
got somebody on the line who Idon't want to keep waiting at all because
I know he's got a ton todo. Brian Naugle, what's going on

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up there? Man? Holy cow, Doug. You know, it's just
unfortunate. Mother Nature sure didn't wantto cooperate with us this week. Well,
it's unfortunate we get we get thirtysix in yesterday and we're hoping you
get the final round to complete ittoday. But right now we're in hold,
and uh yeah, we're gonna makeanother decision here in a few minutes.

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If we can't get out on thegolf course by noon to where we
can't finish, then unfortunately, we'regonna probably cancel the final round. You
know, you gotta do what yougotta do to keep these guys safe,
and you gotta do what you gottado with golf course. I applaud no
matter what happens today, the factthat you were able to get thirty six
holes in yesterday is is astonishing reallybased on what that course must have looked

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like when the when the sky finallycleared late Friday, Doug, it was
incredible. We got eleven and ahalf inches and it's amazing what this grounds
crew, this fantastic ground crew hereat the Willows Country Club did for us
by hands, squeezing fairways and justthe work that they put in to get

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us to be able to play yesterdaywith something. And I mean, we
see what's going on all around town. We've lost a couple of rounds of
golf, and in the big pictureof what's going on with everybody, you
know, it's okay, it's agreat point, you know, really point.
Yeah. I talked to Chris yesterdayand from what he said, pretty

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much on Friday and even overnight,everybody who could get out had a sponge
in their pocket and was just runningaround looking for more waters to pick pick
up. Huh, yeah, theyjust they just did an unbelievable job for
getting getting the golf course even readyto play, Yes much lass to play

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thirty six holes in a in aPGA Tour competition as Wood's just crazy.
Well and you also you got yourgrades of golf out. Talk about that.
Three teams tied at seven under parfor nine holes. That's what we
had, our four, four teamsof greats. And for them to get
out there and you know, rightin the middle of you know, we

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played the morning round. We hada slight break before the afternoon two times
were going to start, so wewere able to slide the four groups out
in the middle of it, anduh, you know, for them to
go out there and have like yousay, I had three teams shoot seven
under for uh for nine holes,pretty amazing. I mean, they certainly
haven't forgotten how they haven't forgotten howto do it. You know, they

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don't hit it as far as theyused to do and stuff, but I'll
tell you what, they still strikeit beautifully And it was a pleasure to
watch, he really was. They'restill very competitive too, aren't they,
every one of them? Oh mygosh. You know they're asking every hole,
how we stand, what are wedoing? What do we need?
I don't need anything. It's Watsonmake the forty footer on the last hole

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because he knew he had to.You know, it was it was great.
It was just great. Talk alittle bit about Marcomera winning at Dave
Mar Award too. Well. Youknow, the Dave Mar Award is something
that's very near to my heart,and I knew Dave very well. He
was one of my mentors and justone of the greatest gentlemen I've ever known.

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And you know his son, JuniorDave He's actually Dave Mar the third,
but I've always called him Junior.He was a fantastic announcer and in
the golf historian, and to havehim in town to present the award means
means an awful lot as well.But Marco Myra is just one of the
classy guys. He you know,not only is a well Golf Hall of

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Fame member and two time Major championshipwinter, but more importantly, he's a
good person. He's just he's sucha nice gentleman, honest h just these
assualts of the earth type person.And I couldn't be happier that mark one
because it was a recipient of theyear's Dave Bar Award. Briannaugel from out

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there at the Inspirity, I knowyou have way better things to do.
So where if somebody was thinking aboutcoming out today, where could they go
to find up to date information onwhether or not you're going to play?
Yeah, they can go to Inspiritiivitationaldot com. I'll tell you we're going
to make a decision here, Dougat about here coming up shortly at about
ten o'clock whether we're going to beable to play if we can't get everybody

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started to with a to t startby noon, and then it's it's feudile.
Yeah. So, and you knowit's just not safe to bring peop
go out right now at this moment. I don't want people coming out here
because we still do have lightning inthe area. Oh, like I said,
we'll make a decision at ten andgive some clarity on all that.

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All right, Partner, Well,I'll have them go looking for the information
at the Inspirity Invitational twenty twenty fourwebsite. Just go to PGA tour Golf
dot com and then navigate you we'rethere. That that's an easy way to
do it as well. Brian,thank you so much. Thanks for acknowledging
what everybody else is going through.You're a pretty grounded guy and you know
you know what this is, man. It means a lot to everybody.

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Thank you Brian so much. Man. I appreciate your time, Doug.
I always appreciate being with you,Doug. Thanks for all your support.
Oh my pleasure. All right,audios man, man, oh man,
that guy's got his hands full,they are, and he doesn't lose sight
of the fact that so many otherpeople up that way are dealing with water

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in the house, flooded cars,the things that these storms have caused elsewhere,
and they're very fortunate to be doingwhat they're doing where they are,
and Brian hadn't lost track of that. I'm so glad to hear him say
that, and I would have expectedno less from him. Honestly, He's
been around this game for a verylong time and made a lot of things

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happen that nobody thought could happen withgolf and a little tip of the captain
Brian noggle too. But I meanit's every time I go to these events,
and I see him over there,and I think I got to run
over and say hi to Brian.And then I see him over there.
I man, I missed him overthere. Dog, go on, I
got to go over there. Therehe is again. I'll I'll talk to
him over there. And he movesso fast and he's doing so much.

(01:16:35):
It's very hard to catch up withthat guy sometimes. All right, so
we are going to take a breakand try to stay semi on time.
I'm hoping they get that tournament finishedup today. But honestly, just from
the tone of his voice, fromknowing that they're still lightning in the area
and seeing on the future radar predictions, what's going to be up there around

(01:16:58):
one or two o'clock, just abouthalfway maybe through if they were to start,
everybody, I think maybe, justmaybe, maybe, just maybe it's
gonna be it's gonna be a washout today. Keep an eye on it,
though. If if they do play, it would be fun to go
up there and watch them. Itcertainly would Someone three two one two five

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seven ninety. On the way out, I'll tell you about Shooter's corner.
Palmer Highay at twenty nine Street inTexas, city. That's Jerry and JTK,
a father and son. There areother people who work there. Everybody
who works there is just eight upwith the gun sports, with shooting sports,
shooting, target shooting, competitive shooting, hunting, long range shooting,

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all kinds, every discipline you canimagine is represented by somebody who works there
in some way, shape or form. They are excellent at helping you select
the right firearm for whatever it isyou want to do with it, Helping
you get the right ammo, getthe right optics, the right camo,
if you're a hunter, whatever itis, they've got it there in Shooter's

(01:18:03):
Corner. And it's an old schoolgun store. Okay, that's what it
smells like. If you don't knowwhat a gun store smells like, close
your eyes, walk in the door, take a nice deep inhale and through
your nose, and that's what agun store smells like. And if you
ever walk into any other place thatsmells like that, know that you're in

(01:18:25):
good company. If you like theshooting sports like I do, they've been
down there for forty plus years.They if you wear a badge for a
living, by the way, youget a discount at Shooter's Corner, which
I think is pretty dog gone nice. I've sent a whole lot of listeners
down there over the years who werehaving major gunsmithing issues. Something's wrong with
the gun, nobody wants to touchit, or they want to charge an

(01:18:47):
arm and a leg or whatever itis. Take it down to the Shooter's
Corner and let them get a look. The last time I did that,
so help me. The last timeI did that, somebody had been told
they either knew it needed a brandnew barrel or or hundreds of dollars worth
of work for something else. Ican't remember what it was. And I
sent him down there to Shooter's Corner. Found out later from Jerry that he

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remembered that man coming into the storewith the issue with his rifle, and
I said, were we able tohelp him? He said, oh,
it took ten minutes. I didn'tcharge him a dime. That's the kind
of people you're dealing with, thetks Jerry and Jay and anybody who works
for them forty plus years. Ifyou wear a badge for a living,
you get a discount at Shooter's Corner. I think is pretty dog one nice.

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The shooters cornertx dot Com the ShootersCorner TX dot Com. Your Rockets
and Astros live here. We areSports Talk seven ninety. The conversation continues
this as the Doug Fike Show.Yeah, we got some I got an
email from I got an email,but it doesn't doesn't give me a name.

(01:19:56):
It was a text text into myemail from somebody's car, and I'm
not sure who it was, butdaughter's you see daughter's carport Thursday, house
completely flooded, Livingston, Texas.I hate to hear that for anybody up
that way, but I already knowthat that's not the only victim of this

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storm who's dealing with water in thehouse, dealing with a flooded car.
So far, I haven't I haven'theard of any fatalities associated with this,
but I haven't really gone looking.I hope and pray that people had enough

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time to get out or reach highground, or go to the upper floor
of a home that's got some waterin it now, whatever it took.
Man, oh man, we're notout of the woods yet. That's what
frightens me most. We're not out. We're not free and clear just yet.
It's still there's still gonna be alittle bit more rain. Today,

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the rivers are going to rise moreand more and we're just gonna have to
write it out like we did Harvey, like we did Alison, like we
have every other storm that's come throughhere. This is certainly it's not an
unprecedented event, but it's just horribleevery time it happens, wherever it happens,

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because people end up suffering for that, and I just hate it.
I just hate it. Let mego see what's going on over here with
Danny. Danny, what's up,buddy? Oh? Not a whole lot.
Uh you're talking about them three ina row? Somebody winning that?
Yeah? I want I wanted.You gotta look up Kiger on Jax's tournaments

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and memorial He whole buck he did. Matter of fact, I won't say
if he did three in a row. I'm gonna take a quick look.
I think I'll look it up rightnow. Hold on tiger Woods Memorial Tournament
record. Let's see if it popsup for us. What time that the

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most Tiger was one in the year, What records Tiger was in the memorial
tournament record? Memorial tournament, Let'ssee if I can find the winners tournament
records, Memorial tournament, most careerearnings or brother. Come on, Oh
I can't come, man, itmay take me a while. I'll look

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it up, Danny. Okay onthe on the Malcolmer, Yeah, they
said he said that. They saidthat he was a two time major winner.
One of them was a memorial Iknow, not the memorial the Master
Yeah, okay, okay, onthat Master's I was in a in a
pool at mother sports Bor Memorial Parkand they did on twenty five the one

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on the players, and then youdid on three different group. It made
a good little pop. There wasa lot of fun. I bet it
did. I made I've made theworks bet ever made my life. But
I bet three hundred dollars this onefifth of this one pool and Malcolm Man
won it, and I got,Holy cow, I didn't find Tiger Woods
record in the memorial. Okay.He had won it in ninety nine,

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in two thousand and two thousand andone, so there's the three peat that
I was looking for. And thenhe also won it twice more in nine
and in twelve to twenty twelve,so he he won it five times.
Holy cow. That just that stufflike that's just not going to be beaten.
It's just not I don't know howit ever could be. All Right,

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I've been listening to you next WEEKND. Yeah, thanks Danny, I
appreciate it. Man, we'll seesomebody good audios. Yeah, five times
winning the same tournament. A lotof people, a lot of very good
golfers in the world, and Iknow I could, I could name off,
I could rattle off the names ofa bunch of them, really really
good professional players who pretty good livingsplaying on the PGA Tour and then on

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the tour champions and never win once, never win a tournament, And well,
a lot of that's doing part inthe guys like Tiger Woods, Jack
Nicholas coming out and just win inso many times, and every time one
of them wins the tournament, somebodylike that who's racking up win after win

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after win, somebody else didn't know. Everybody else in the tournament didn't win.
I know, I know a guywho has won one time on the
PGA Tour and got to know himpretty well over the years. Years ago.
He's moved away and I don't runinto him anymore, but I think
he really he greatly appreciated that onewin because even that helped him establish some

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credentials for himself that ninety nine pointnine nine nine percent of the golfers in
the world could never even dream ofattaining. And anytime you think somebody on
the PGA Tour is not playing wellor in't any good, shouldn't be out
there whatever. That's just a badday or maybe even a bad week.

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But even to even get an entryinto a PGA Tour event gotta be really
dog one good. It's so funfor me. I get to play in
some programs now and then, andso I did more when I was younger
in writing golf at the paper.But it's so fun to get out there

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with those guys when they're just kindof they're playing a practice around. It's
what they're doing. They're trying tofigure out on Wednesday, what's gonna be
their best strategies on the rest ofthe week. So sometimes they help your
little pro am score and sometimes theydon't. But either way, it's fun
to be out with them and seethem in a little bit looser environment when

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they're not when they're not truly grinding, when they're not wondering what the guys
in front of them and behind themare doing, and I truly enjoy that.
I do. I hope they getthat third round in up there at
the Woodlands, but it's looking moreand more like it probably won't happen.
Just watch that website, go tothe just do a search for Insparity Golf

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and it will pop right up andyou can find out what they announce in
the next three or four minutes.And unfortunately, my gut says it's going
to be a no go and they'regoing to go ahead and cut it off
where it is, and that willthat will certainly work in the favor of

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Scott Dunlap, who will win bywhat if that's the case, who will
win by one over Joe Durant.I'm guessing that Joe Durant and Stuart apple
Be, and especially Steven Alker,who had a shot at at doing something
that very few and I don't knowhow many more people might have won three
in a row other than Tiger Woods. That's something I'll make that a project,

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I think, and try to findthat answer before we come back next
week. All right, I willbe back on the air Tuesday over on
KPRC at noon for fifty plus listenif you can please and hopefully we'll be
under a bright, sunny sky bythen. I'll be back here next Saturday,
seven am, bright and early,talking about the great outdoors and hopefully

(01:27:27):
talking about receding water and not asbig a mess of Galveston Bay as it's
probably gonna be. Get outside whenyou can, when it's safe, Go
have some fun with your family.Okay, we're all kind of missing our
vitamin D right now. By theway, watch out for the gnats.
They're horrible. I'm allergic to theirbites and I'd swell up like a bag

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of popcorn. That's it for now. We'll see you next week. Audios.
Thanks for listening.