The Doug Pike Show 7-28-2024

In this episode Doug talks about alligators on the surf, the surfing olympics being held in Tahii. Doug talks to a long time listener and gets and update on salmon fishing in Alaska. Can you guess why the salmon population in Alaska is booming? I can you, you won't beleive the reason why. Doug talks about carpfish, catfish, and copper head snakes.Of course the listens share some amazing stories and memories with the audience.

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. All right,
here we go Sunday edition with theprogram starts right now. And why
is this thing so in a weirdplace? All right? Took care of
Hang on, I gotta move somethingreal quick. Oh okay, okay,

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that's much better. There's all kindsof stuff going on in this Yeah,
it's you know what, it's reallyweird how that happened too. There's something
going on in here with one ofthe a big monitor and a smaller monitor
that parallels and it will it mirrorsthe big monitor, and it's not working

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for some reason. It's just notworking. It has decided to go into
what would you call that, likea reboot mode or something, and that's
all it did. It put onit socked, but it didn't put on
the boot. So I don't knowwhat's wrong. I don't know what's wrong,
nor do I care, by theway, because between Melvin and me,
we will get this done and wewon't have to rely on the function

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of that thing, hopefully not atall. There is a lot going on.
In case you are in a soundproof room, you're probably getting rain
right now, almost certainly getting rainright now, and it's not going to
stop for depending on where you are, maybe an hour, maybe two.
Let me see if I can getthis weather radar map up again real quick

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and refresh it. This is justyet another wave of this stuff that just
seems not to want to leave here. It will, rest assured, it
will. I'm just not sure whenhurry up and load. For heaven's sakes,
I get so impatient when I've gotsomething I want to tell all of
you and I can't get it toload. So currently there is a nice,

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open, nice open sky over ElCampo, but everybody else has probably
got clouds or drizzle or rain.There's nothing really severe, doesn't appear to
be anyway. But we've got justthis steady marching showers coming up all the
way from Corpus Christie. That's aboutwhere they're starting up Corpus Christi and then

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marching our way. The good newsis it looks like they're trying to dissipate.
I think we're finally toward the endat least of this mess that we've
been in for so long and hopefullywe'll be okay. Hopefully we will be
okay. Let me go talk toBrandon here. I bet I guess I
can guess at least one thing he'sgot on his mind. Brandon, what's

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going on, buddy? One thingof mind? While you were asking,
uh huh, how about the Astroslast night? Yeah? Watch the game?
That was a great and actually itwas. It was kind of doubly
exciting for me because I was busydoing some things and running a couple of
errands, so I was getting bitsand pieces and the bits and pieces I

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was getting up until very close tothe end, until after the fifth inning,
we're all kind of bad news.It was. It was four to
nothing, I think, and thenit was six to nothing, and then
I thought, oh my gosh,we're just we're just circling the drain here.
And then I finally got home andwent upstairs and turned it on,
and yeah, we're tied. Allof a sudden, I had no idea

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that we're going to come back andwin that game. I would never bet
against my Astros, but if Iif I'd had to place a fun wager,
I might have just that once wagerthat they couldn't dig themselves out of
a six run hole, but theysure did. Yep. It was amazing.
Yep. You know, Bregman,he he took that first pitch and

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I don't know, just something aboutthat guy who he can and he hit
it on the track, oh Iknow. Yeah, he hit it a
mile. He hit it a mile. As soon as he hit it,
he knew it. He looked backto the dugout to let them know he
knew it, and then had thatobligatory run around the bases before he could
come back and get showered with icecubes. I don't know why they do

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that still, let's just I guessit's in the moment and it's become such
a tradition that they're all going todo it. And I saw it on
the temple drawing up in the atOrange Juice Part. Yeah, it was
way up there, man, itwas way up there. It was well
hit, all right, So whatelse is on your mind? How'd your

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Sunday was in the game? Youknow they're doing okay. I think the
last tournament was supposed to start actuallyyesterday and finish on Tuesday, and the
whole thing had to get canceled becauseof all this rain. They just can't
find a dry field to play on, even though, uh well, in
a tournament play like that. Heplayed different teams each day, and I

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don't know exactly who they were goingto be playing, so but it's it's
on pause right now. We don'tknow if we're gonna make that one up
or not, because it was goingto be the final tournament of the season.
But y'all could do a devile hitter, right the Astros did one time.
They would have to do a lotto make this up. They played
four games in these tournaments typically,so it would take. It will take

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a good bit, it really would. But we'll get back to him in
the fall. We'll be playing baseballagain. Then. Okay, what did
y'all do last time? What didyou eat? I don't even remember what
I ate last night. I wasbusy, so I was doing all kinds
of stuff. Man, Hey,hey, Brennett, anything else? Yeah?

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Before I hang up? Okay,if you see Walbert and Steve,
they would you tell him? Icalled? Absolutely, I will, yeah,
absolutely, man, you got itall right? Thanks Brandy. A
good day, you bet be safe, A good week? Yeah, same
here, audios, Yeah, besafe. Okay, there were there was

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a lot of rain on the roadthis morning coming in here. It wasn't
it wasn't raining hard when I wasdriving in, but it apparently had probably
rained a little harder, just likeright in front of me, maybe one
of those storms training right in frontof me. And there was just a
lot more water than I'm accustomed toseeing on the rain on the road on

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the highway, especially on freeway whenit's not raining very hard. And that
was it was a little bit weird. And and again, pay attention to
what you're doing if you're gonna drive. It's it's mostly young people I see
doing this. But this morning Ihad probably it was barely gray light when
I was coming in, and Ihad four or five people go flying past

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me with no headlights on, nono, not a care in the world.
And that not a care in theworld attitude is only because they have
it spun out and slammed into awall yet. And I just hope that
when they do, it'll number onethat'll sober up anybody, and at least
for years afterward, you'll you'll slowdown a little bit in the rain because

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it's a very helpless feeling when yourcar just suddenly lifts up. You can
feel it lift up when it startshydroplaning. You feel it lift up,
and you realize that you have absolutelyno control over that vehicle at that point.
None. Your tires aren't doing anything. They're not even touching the ground.

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They're just slipping and sliding on avery thin sheet of water. And
they'll stop when they're good and ready, but not before then. That's happened
to me. It happened once manyyears, probably thirty four years ago,
maybe thirty five, and I'll neverforget it, and I don't want it
to happen again. And that's whyI'm gonna be somebody. I'm not gonna

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drive forty miles an hour on thefreeway. Okay, I'm not gonna be
that guy with his hazards on.That's something else. It's not illegal to
drive with your hazards on in therain, but don't do it because all
it does is distract people from exactlywhere they are in their lanes, from
where the other cars are. Itis the worst distraction. And if you'll

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pay attention next time you're doing it, and look at all the flashing lights
in front of you and realize howhow great a distraction that is to safe
driving. Maybe you'll stop doing ittoo. Leave your leave your lights on,
that's fine, But don't flash yourhazards just because it's raining. That's
just it's not not good practice.It's just not seven one three two one

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two five seven ninety Email me Dougpikeat iHeartMedia dot com. We have got
a lot going on in the worldright now. The Olympics, the Olympic
Golf, by the way, doesn'tstart until Thursday. I think it is
August first, whenever, that iswhat is today, the twenty eighth,
twenty nine thirty, I think it'sThursday. So they'll play, Actually they'll
play a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, as most of them are

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perfectly accustomed to doing anyway, andhopefully somebody from our team will win the
gold medal. Our team, bythe way, if you're not aware,
consists of on the women's side,Nellie Corda, Lily Avou and ro Jang.
And on the men's side, wellhold on, yeah, that's it.

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And on the men's side Wyndam Clark, Collin Moore, Cala Zanderschawffley,
Scotti, Scheffler. That's a prettygood that's a pretty good hand to draw
to right there. As I don'tknow think, I think it's been well
done, and I think we certainlygot as good a chance as anybody,
as good a chance as any withScheffler for starters it it doesn't hurt to

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have the world's number one in yourpocket. And then you got three guys
back at four guys back, youknow, three guys backing him up.
Yeah, three guys backing him uppretty strongly. Its gon'll be fun to
watch. It'll be very fun towatch some one three two one two five
seven ninety. There was a photographyesterday that was sent I think it was

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on face. I'm pretty sure itwas on Facebook. Somebody sent Actually was
a video of an alligator in thesurf. Oh my goodness, an alligator
in the surf. Imagine that.How did it happen? Where did he
come from? And one person evenhad the the I'm new here factor working

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it said, it looks more likea crocodile to me. Well, it
wasn't a crocodile because we don't havethem up here. They have them in
South Florida, but we don't havethem here. It was an alligator.
It was in the surf. Andcounting that video and three others I've probably
seen in my lifetime and the twoi've seen personally, that makes six alligators

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in the surf. It's not abig deal. The salt water doesn't bother
them at all. They don't breatheit. They don't have gills, so
it's just water to them, andthey actually float a little easier on that
water. So there was this pooralligator. He'd been washed down the probably
the Brasses River. It's it's kindof like a really like a day's long

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lazy river ride at Alligator Amusement Park. That's what that is for them.
So it's not a big deal.You don't have to be scared of them.
They're kind of confused and weirded out, and they're not going to come
chase you up on the beach.The one that I saw, Joe Dogge
and I were in wat deep waterwhen we saw it, and it was
about maybe it was within certainly easilywithin a short casting distance of us,

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when it just swam like, doy'all know why which way back to the
river? Can you can you justpoint for me? Please? I'm not
gonna bite you. I'm not gonnado anything to you. Just send me
to the river. All right.Let me get this mouse working over here,
and I'm gonna go talk to Daniel. Hey, Daniel, what's up,
buddy, Hey man, Hey Doug. A longtime listener, dude,

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first time calling. Thank you,thank you. But dude, I just
wanted to kind of disagree with youjust a little bit. Man, And
I hate first I'm calling no no, no, no, no, no,
man. We're all friends here.What's up? Yeah, dude,
I just like with the haggard lights, like I was. I was just
in traffic. I was hitted.Uh. I took my wife to San
Marco's for a birthday because she likesto outlet me all down there and whatever.

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Say we stayed here, Oh soeverybody. Anyway, we were in
a bunch of traffic and do thehagid lights kind of saved our behind.
Because what I think is that thatwhat they're good for is like knowing where
the cars are in front of youin like large sheets of Now, if
you're talking about like the rain,just some moderate raining or whatever, I

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agree with you. But when itcomes to like the big downpours, then
those hazards like really help out man, just because you can. You can
you can actually see the people youknow in front of you, and it's
not a distracting at all because whenit's when it's like that, nobody's going
because some people are going sixty milesan hour sailings, some people going five

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miles an hour. And you know, if you run up on one of
the people going five miles an hour, you don't see him before rap,
and you know, just run themuntil you get to them. Then it
could be a problem to back dog. Okay, I've heard your point.
Now listen to mine. The problemwith the hazard lights is that when there's
there are some people with hazards,some with nought and there every time those

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hazards flesh on and off, theyflash and I don't know what this sound
problem is we got there? Ohwas that Melbourne? You got any idea?
Almostret I hope you can still hear, no idea. I don't know
if he's still there or not.And yeah, I think he may have
fallen out. Yeah yeah, okay, but he's listing. So here's my
point. When those hazard lights areflashing on some cars and not on other

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cars. Every time they flash,they also reflect off every rain drop in
the sky. And if they werea good idea and everybody agreed that they
were a good idea, they wouldn'tbe It wouldn't be illegal to drive with
your hazard lights on in a bunchof states. Texas happens to be the
one happens to be one of theones that allows that. But I also

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did some research back when the hurricanecame through here, and the state generally
discourages it because I see your point. You think it's helping you figure out
where the cars are, But whenthe lights are on steadily, it's far
easier to know exactly where those carsare and how fast they're either coming or
going than it is if the lightlights are flashing. Just just test it

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out next time you're in heavy rainlike that, and just try and try
to go without them, and tryto find it in an area where there's
where there isn't somebody with their flasherson, and see if it's not a
little more it's not a little easierto see exactly where you are. All
right, let me you want meto take Brent before we go to the
bancrafter Okay, let's do that.Hey Brent, what's up buddy. Hey,

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guys, thank you for kicking mycar. I love listening to your
show like every weekend. Thanks.I could just yeah, thank you,
actually, thank you, man,because I could use a little positive reinforcement.
I'm going through some heavy stuff rightnow. I don't want to get
in all the intricacies of what's goingon, but it's it's it's really bad,
man. But what I'm trying tohang on to are the positives.

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And listening to you guys talk aboutyou know, fishing and whatever, it
just means a lot. I couldjust use a little positive reinforcement. I'm
not a big religious person everything,but I've been praying and praying a lot,
and I just, uh, Icould use a little bit of a

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well wish from you guys. Man. I just want to let you guys
know how how thankful I am thatyou guys do what you do and how
much it provides a little, uh, you know, relief from the day
to day stuff. Sure, likeyou know, shoot the stuff. So
what what's your what's your when you'rein better times? What do you like

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more? Fishing, hunting, camping, skiing, sailing, what uh you
know what, Uh, I lovehunting. It's a lot of fun.
But for me, man, I'ma huge music guy. And and there's
been times in my life when I'vehad nothing to hang on to but like
a particular song. And I'm notgonna songs because their person and all.

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And then, but like, musicis one thing that just no matter how
bad things have gotten, Yeah,and especially on like a you know,
like when you think about like bluesand gospel and R and he and country
and all that stuff. Man,and music and of course obviously sports.

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But music is my my my truepassion. All right, what without without
giving me song title? And Igotta take a break here pretty quick,
man, But without song titles?Just what genre do you like? All
of it? I was? Iwill say this. I will say this,
all of it with the exception ofthings that are played on computers.

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Oh my gosh. Oh yeah.All right, So Melvin's job for the
rest of this show is going tobe to try and hit a bump that
you really like. All right,We're gonna we're gonna try to feel your
vibe and feel your music, andwe'll see if we can't find something you
like. What what decade. Canyou give me a decade? I mean,
I go. I mean my researchin the history of music goes all

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the way back to the early nineteenhundreds. Oh lord, you're making it
hard, right right? Hi,that's cool man. You know what you
know would be a kind of funbump in song? What's it is?
A steely Dan black cow see whatwe can find? All right, Bret
hey man, hanging there and callanytime, buddy, Thank you guys,

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Yes, sir, all right,we got to take a little break.
Oh boy, do we ever?No, that's a that's a very important
call, and I was glad totake it, and I'm glad we got
to do it before the break.This is Sports Talk seven ninety on the
go with iHeartRadio. Friends. You'vegot to try the conversation continues this as
the Doug Pike Show. Hi,welcome back. What Doug Pike Show on

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Sports Talk seven ninety kind of likethat song? Actually that's a good one.
Yeah, we could do that oneagain sometime for sure. Seven one
three, two one two five sevenninety. Email on me dougpick at iHeartMedia
dot Com. From the what willI Call this file? The Strange and
Bizarre and I've seen it too.File. My buddy Brad Schweis from over

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at Houston Gold Exchange text me thismorning with a photograph that he took.
I think it was at Jamaica Beach. He's got a place down at Jamaica
Beach. Let me make sure that'swhere it was. Scroll up. Yeah,
saw this red streak in the westernsky of Tiki Island at four am.

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First of all, Brad, whatwere you doing up at four am?
That's that's one question that needs tobe answered. And then he wonders
what it might be. He saidit lasted about twenty minutes. The reason
it lasted twenty minutes is because itwas probably a SpaceX launch. I actually
have seen a similar phenomenon, andit was down at Sergeant one night where

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we were a friend of mine andI were coming back from dinner and my
son and we paused at his houseand looked up in the sky and there
was just this bright, glowing,weird, unbelievable, unseen before image in
the sky. It was like agiant doughnut that would kind of get bigger

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and smaller and bigger and smaller andjust kept going and going, and we
couldn't really tell if it was movingor not. There was so much mist
in the air, and that's whatwas reflecting and making it look like it
did. But that also was aspace as launched space X launch from a

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little farther in South Texas. Andwhat I said back to Brad is a
pretty basic summary of how I feelabout things in the sky like that,
because he was one of the men. One. If you're testing some sort
of hypersonic missile or what kind ofa test is this? What? What
is this? We we weren't surewhen I was witnessing what I saw down

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at Sergeant, and Brad wasn't surewhat he was looking at. And when
I sent back, sums up mydeal. As long as it's going up
and out, I got no problemwith it. If it's flying parallel to
the ground or coming down, thenI'm gonna pay attention to a little bit
more, especially if it's coming towardme. If it's getting bigger and getting

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brighter coming toward me, I'm gonnamove over a little bit. I don't
want any part of that. Sevenone three two one two five seven ninety
Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dotCom had a couple of people ask me,
why on earth are they holding theOlympic Surfing competition in Tahiti. Well,

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it's a very simple reason. BecauseTahiti actually is a French territory and
it's a beautiful place, and becauseTaya hupo Oh usually throws a really nice,
consistent swell this time of year,unlike most any beach in France.
He just big waves, big consistentlong waves where these athletes, and they

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are athletes, really can show offtheir skills. There was a study done
years ago by Sports Illustrated magazine,and Joe Dogget just couldn't wait to show
it to me when he came acrossit. It's back when we were both
as paper, both very young,very fit, doing a lot of surfing
together. And Sports Illustrated had rankedsports different professional sports based on the amount

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of conditioning it took to be reallygood at them, and the number one
sport conditioning wise, Melvin, I'mgonna ask you, if you can figure
this out, what do you thinkwas the number one sport as conditioning impacts
performance? And it's say water polo, you know that would be a good

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guess. And I actually played aseason of water polo, believe it or
not, just just something else,a weird box I checked. When I
was in the what grade was Iin? Like maybe I don't know,
fifth grade something like that. Therewas a little school I went to over
in New Orleans when we were mydad got transferred over there and I did

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one year at that school before wemoved back, and I was on the
water polo team, and it waspretty sad really looking back on what it
was. Treading water. Yeah,it's basically, especially when it's a bunch
of little kids in the pool,it's just who cannot sink the who can
keep from sinking the longest, basically, And the rest of it was just

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hollering and hooting anyway. So thenumber one sport for conditioning was boxing,
okay, because not only do youhave to dance around in that ring for
three minutes times however many rounds you'redoing, but you also have to do
it while somebody else is trying tobeat the tar out of you. And
that's that makes it a little moredifficult. You've got to you've got to

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endure a lot of pain. Youhave to have a very high threshold for
paying to be a boxer, whichpretty pretty self evident. Number two was
surfing, Believe it or not,professional surfing, there's a lot of paddling
involved, some of the some ofthe now when you're talking about professionals,

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and for sure in the Olympics here, I don't know that anybody's going to
be just paddling out from the beachto that break. It'll probably be transport
by boat. I'm not sure howfar off the beach to break is really
and maybe they can paddle to it, I'm not sure. But just in
a lot of competitions, you haveto go running into the water. You

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see it all the time. Yougo running into the water, you start
paddling and you get out to wherethe waves are. And those are in
regular, average competitions, not Olympicclass competitions. So where we're dancing on
the board, uh yeah, it'sa dance. It's a dance, and
your partner is the ocean. Andthe ocean is very fickle, very unforgiving,

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very unpredictable, and every wave,every wave you paddle into, is
as unique as your fingerprints, itreally is. Every single wave is different.
I served for a very long time. I haven't been in the water
in a while. A true confession, and that's okay. My life has
taken a different turn. But JoeDogg, it's still surfing even today.

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He's still out there grinding every chancehe gets that he's not. He knows
his limitations, as did I,And there were a couple of times when
he and I got down to thebeach and thought, okay, it's a
long paddle out. We would eitherwalk out the jetties, or back when
I was in high school, wewould jump off the peace years they would
let you do that. You'd throwyour board in the water and then jump

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out behind it and go grab itand start your surfing way out there.
Because paddling off the beach in Texasis far different than paddling off the beach
at some place a point break ora river mouth break where you can go
around the waves and paddle out throughfairly calm water. Here, if it's

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breaking three hundred yards off the beach, which is not uncommon, and you
want to be mister big wave riderthat day, you got to paddle through
three hundred yards of waves that all, every one of which wants to throw
you back up on the beach,and it's an absolute workout. And there
were times when I started surfing therewere no leashes on the boards either.

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And if you got out there andyou got knocked off your board three hundred
yards off the beach, you eitherhad to try to catch your board before
the next wave picked it up andthrew it another fifty yards ahead, or
you just had to very patiently andcomfortably and confidently, without panicking. You
just had to take very small strokesand just let the water kind of push

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you toward the beach. You mightend up on the beach two hundred yards
down or three hundred yards down fromwhere you went in, but at least
you made it back to the beach. It sits tough, man, but
boy was it fun. All Right, I'm running late for another break.
Here we go. This is SportsTalk seven ninety online at Sports seven nightighty

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dot com. Now more Doug Bite. All right, welcome back, Thanks
for listening. Certainly, do appreciateit. Man. I'm gonna find some
of these little I had. There'sthis series of bad dad jokes that I
have stumbled upon somehow, and I'mgonna have to start taking notes because most

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of them will make you smile,and some of them will just make you
laugh out loud, and we canall use that. Honestly, I sit
here and I talk about a lotof things that are relative to the real
world. They're somewhat trivial, butby gosh, there's stuff that I like
and stuff that keeps me from gettingdistracted by the workload I carry by things

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that are going on in the world, things that are going on just everywhere.
And that's why I went yesterday.I needed to catch a fish.
Yesterday I did, and I toldmy wife, I said, look,
I'm gonna go. And this wasI did the same thing about a week
ago, I believe it was.I said, I'm gonna run out and
go fish for a little while.How long you will you be she said,

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she asked. I said, whenI catch a fish, I'll come
home. And I was determined yesterdayafternoon to catch fish on the top water,
a legitimate dog walk in top water. And it wasn't conditions weren't ideal
for that, but I wasn't goingto be deterred. I was determined and

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stuck with it for about It probablytook forty minutes to get that bite and
and I had to use some someold school logic on where the fish should
be. That water has come upin that lake a good foot and a
half, and so as you might, as any bass fishermen in the audience
might suspect, they're kind of hangingaround the edges right to see what gets

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gets flushed into the water. Thereare no real true drains that come into
the surface of that except for thisthe regular golf course runoff, and it's
really hard to predict. In otherwords, that doesn't draw multiple fish to
one spot, so you have toyou have to do a lot of walking.

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And I was willing to do thatwalking. I didn't I didn't care
at all how long it took me. I was gonna stay there. If
I hadn't caught a bash yet,I'd probably still be there. I want
to call Melvin and said, hey, you're going to have to run this
one. I'm still not I'm stillfishless, fishless in Richmond. But I
got him about a two and ahalf pound or a decent fish, which
is good. And as soon asI did, I unhooked it, tossed

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it back in the water, andput the lure secured the Lord of the
rod, and homeward bound. Iwent seven one, three, two,
one two five seven ninety email medougpick At iHeartMedia dot Com. I gotta
go look at these emails real quick. I haven't I've been remiss as they
say. That's okay. I canwait on that. That's not a big
deal. Golf gadgets, I haveenough of those. The Seattle Times I

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get now, I get their feed, Melvin and you know how you know
what a big fan of Seattle Washington? I am, no, not really.
Why would you move to a placewhere it rains almost every day?
It's just it just doesn't sound fun. The only the only person who is
happy about Seattle's weather is the guywho sells umbrellas, because everybody's gonna need

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at least one and probably two.I have actually have like six umbrellas,
and two of them at this pointare the cheap ones that you can get
at the big hardware stores. Righton the way out the door. They
have a big old box of them, about six seven eight bucks whatever it
is. And I actually tend tocarry at least one and sometimes two of
those in my car because every nowand then I'll run across somebody who is

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walking in the rain. They don'thave an umbrella. They have somewhere they
have to go, and they're eitherstanding under a tree or just had to
start walking and getting soaked wet.Years ago, after a I think it
was just some big deluge. Iwas driving home and this poor woman was
walking along the main thoroughfare on myway home, walking on the sidewalk and

(31:41):
just getting drowned. And I movedover and slowed down, and boy,
you could tell she was a littlecautious. She didn't trust me at all.
And I rolled my window down aboutsix inches and stuck the handle of
that umbrella out of it, andshe lit up, and she grabbed that

(32:01):
umbrella and started hollering thank you andoh bless you and all this stuff.
And at least I got her outof whatever else would have made her even
wetter on the way home. Poorthanks. You just looked like a drown
rat. And I felt so sorryfor and I hope that helped her feel
a little bit better going home.But that's just a it's a very little

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it's a very small gesture. It'sless than ten dollars to basically make somebody's
day. As if they're having towalk through the rain. They they got
stuff, they got stuff. Goingon. They got nobody they can call
to come get them, They gotnobody place they can go hide from the
rain. They're scared their phone's gonnaget wet and quit working. And so

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to hand somebody an umbrella in atime like that, it made me feel
pretty good. What's the average Seattleexperiences and average of one hundred and fifty
two rainy days a year? Oh, mercy, and a lot of a
lot of them are to be likethis. I talked about this, I
think yesterday up in that in thatnorthwest part of the country, they have

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average rainfall amounts about the same asHouston gets, only we get them in
buckets and they get them in littleI don't know, just like pouring water
through a colander or something. Pointyget zero one inches of rain average average?
Yeah, point zero one. That'snothing. That's just a sprinkle.
It just sprinkles all the time.I don't want that. That's one hundred

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percent humidity almost every day at leasthalf the year, And no, I
don't. I don't want any partof that. All Right, we're running
late again. Oops, there itis. It happens around here. Feel
free to jump in after this breakand by the way. Well, no,
we're gonna talk in the nine o'clockhour, not only about the three

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M championship on going up in Minnesota, but about Olympic golf and the man.
We need to just sweep Olympic golf. We really do. We've got
the best players clearly in the world. Now there are others, and every
other team out there feels like theygot a good shot because golf's that way.
But I'd like our chances. Thisis Sportstock seven ninety, Facebook dot

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com, Slash sports Talk seven ninetyBack to the Doug Pike Show. All
right, welcome back Doug Pike Showon Sports Talk seven ninety eight fifty one.
It is I'm a little late gettingback. I was gonna be back
probably about a minute sooner. Butas I walked over to the to the

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kitchen to pour myself a fresh cupof coffee that I made because the guy
who's doing the news now is prettyyoung, and I don't even think he
drinks coffee Melbourne and it and skipsout, I believe, isn't he?
Is he on vacation or something?I believe so I think so. Yeah,
Because I looked in there, itwas pretty dark, and our news
guy is he's he's not a coffeedrinker. So anyway, as I made

(34:57):
a pot of coffee, well,as I was going to you get some
coffee from the pot I put together, about thirty minutes ago or twenty minutes
ago, I looked down and therewas a kind of a puddle on the
floor in that hallway just outside thekitchen, and I thought, did somebody
spill something that doesn't make sense?Yeah? I saw that too. Yeah.
Well, I wiped it all upand then put a paper towel down

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there just to see if it wasa leak from the ceiling. It's a
leak from the ceiling. About that, Yeah, I figured that out.
So it made me feel right athome actually, because I've been dealing with
that for like three days. Butwe got it. We got it all
patched up. I'm in good shape. I'm in good hands. I'm not
worried about it. The Yeah there, it's a long story, but I

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know I'm gonna be taken care ofon that. It took a while to
fix that thing. Though it wasa stubborn little leak it was, indeed,
but it wasn't a severe leak.It's not like buckets were pouring in,
so that was good. I wasable to contain it all once I
identified where it was coming from.Kind of yeah, yeah, if you

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have a tiny little hole in yourroof, that's how it was. Just
a little seat. I got itdone. Yeah, le's just see.
I just reminded me. You know, it's just such a fun place to
go if you like humidity and youlike to wear a little raincoat every single
day that you walk out the house. I wonder if anybody dares leave the
house without an umbrella in Seattle orPortland or any of those places. No

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wonder. They're so grumpy and miserableand have to find something to protest all
the time. It makes sense tome. Someone three two two five seven
ninety email on me, Doug pickAt, iHeartMedia dot com. I'm still
searching, by the way, asI was yesterday, for potential Olympic fishing

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related events, potential Olympic fishing relatedevents, something, anything to get rid
of ribbon twirling. We can throwthat one out. I just I don't
understand how that is an Olympic sport. It's a dance. They're just dancing.
They're dancing and their partner is thirtyfeet of crime scene tape. That's

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all they're doing. That's all they'redoing. Too much luck involved really to
actually try to catch fish, regardlessof whatever lure or bait you might have
wanted to use. So it becomesskills competitions. That's what we'd have to
do. I would watch casting accuracychallenges. I really would. There's a

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little short, distant stuff for bassfishermen, like maybe twenty to thirty feet
something like that, and I meantiny little targets and a little longer then
maybe where outdoors wind would become moreof a factor. You're still throwing at
targets, still throwing it very smalltargets, but having to adjust for the
breeze. And then long distance castingof course, that's still actually pretty popular

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in a lot of parts of thecountry. World record, by the way,
was slung by a guy named Dannymoss Coops about three hundred and twenty
yards. According to the Internet longestoverhead cast there's a different technique used by
guys like Danny. The longest overheadcast over in Great Britain was two hundred

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and fifty four yards, So whatis that seven fifty seven sixty something yards
or feet. Pretty dog on farLet me go catch y'all? Where'd he
go? Put him back on?Hold? So I and grab him up
real quick. I can do this. Well me, who am I talking
to? I don't? Okay,Well put him up there? Click,

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I got him, stand by,I got it the right mouse. Here
we go. Hey, Carl,what's somebody? Hey? Good morning,
Doug, Good morning. I heardyou heard you talking about your little leak,
and I just wanted to share withyou that I'm sharing the same pain.
Oh no, yeah, it wasFriday morning. Man, we just

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I live out in Cyprus. Yeah, Friday morning. I got up early.
I was going to go into theoffice get a lot of stuff here
early and we we had this daylouge. I mean at five o'clock it
started raining and it was just pounding. Yeah, And in thirty minutes we
had a three inch train. Wow. And I, you know, before

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I you know, when I gotup, everything's fine, everything's good,
and I'm fixing the head out thedoor. It's five point thirty and I
thought, well, let me gostep into the restroom one one more time
before I get on the freeway.And I walk in my bathroom and there's
this stream of water just pouring intomy bathroom. Oh gosh. So I

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thought, well, quickly, Ineed to get up there and start drying
up and seeing where this is comingfrom. To make matters worse now that
my feet are you know, Ididn't, you know, I'm standing in
my bathroom. The floor's wet.So I thought, well, let's run
up there real quick. So I'mwalking, I'm up up in the en,
I'm heading over to where the leakis. And my foot slips off

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one of the rafters and goes throughthe ceiling in the kitchen. No man,
oh god, bless you. Oh. I thought, well, don't
worry about that right now, that'snot where it's not the problem. Let's
get over to the leak. Andyou know, so I found it and
started mopping it up and got itall done, you know, and I

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stopped the leak. Well I didn'tactually stop the leak. Well I did
was. I mopped it up outof the ceiling area. I put some
fans up in there, I putsome fans down below. I had to
remove all that blowing in insulation,get it out of the way. And
so basically what had happened there's aroof vent where right above, and that's

(40:50):
where the leak was coming from.Here that body out there. This is
the second time if you got leaks, go to your roof fence first,
that's where it's leaking from. Thenthat's where mama coming in from. Because
and I think it might have gottenjiggled a little bit. There's there's some
there's a lot of moving parts onthis particular issue. But the bottom line
is it it got fixed up prettyquick, it did. Yeah, well,

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I called your good buddy, andgood I knew I had a problem,
and he came out that day anduh patched it up. You know.
He said, look, this isthis is gonna this isn't a fix
temporary. He goes, I'll beout next week to kind of wrap it
up because there was some he foundsome other issues. Sure. You know

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what was amazing is Darren Barrow didn'thave any leaks. Wow. But I
think as a result of you,Ferrol. He explained that your vent had
really literally been pulled loose and waterwas just flowing in. And yeah,
anyway, oh well, well,at least you you've identified it, it's
been stopped, and now you're gonnabe all right, great, a silver

(42:00):
lining. You know what I foundout. I found a way I think
that got all the patent this Well, it wouldn't be patentable, but it'd
be a good hack. I'll talkabout that when we come back. How's
that sounds great? Wonderful? Yeah, thanks a lot, Carol. That
was interesting. All right, wegot to take a little break here on
the way out. This is theDoug Pike Show, brought to you by

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American Shooting Centers, Guns, Shootingand Instruction since nineteen eighty nine. Now
here's Doug Pike. All right,welcome back. Nine o'clock hour starts right
now. I want to get toGeorge first because he's been holding forever,
and then I'm gonna go to Kendallif he can hang on just for a
minute, because he is a longways away. What's up, George,

(42:42):
hey Man? Not long at all. Yeah. Your story is yesterday about
things that can go awry at theDyke. Yeah, Jenny's rather remember Captain
Wayne Vienton absolutely, yeah, underfishing guy sure and all yeah, Well
he's say that. You know,there's a lot of things that can happen
out at the jitty, and mostof them are bad. Yeah, it

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was right on targets, not noton you know, I've got the story
to relate to that. My mybrother in law, Uh, his dad
uh was on Tiq Island and he'sa boat owner, you know, and
experienced. And I didn't talk tohim directly about it, but he told
me about what happened. You knowhow you get uh, you know,
you get a big swell out everynow and then out there. Yeah,

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and you might get what they callthe green one, you know, the
sailors call it because I've seen youknow that happened on the beach front wall
sudden there's It wasn't a passing ship. You and I discussed this years ago.
I think it was a techtonic.Yeah, yeah, that does the
bottom at the time. You agreewith that, Yeah, and uh anyway,

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uh make it try to cut ashorter. Uh. A big wave
came up and it deposited his dad'sboat up on top of the jit wow
and another one following behind it,and it lifted him up off of the
jetty, which may been a goodthing, but it deposited him on the
opposite side. Then yours is youranchor at speaking Bankers. That's one of

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the number one things that you loseout there with all that. Yeah,
there about half the stuff on thehalf the stuff on the bottom of the
jetty's anchors where he's shrimping. Man, is the way to do? You
know? If you're fisher bait outthere, you know, of course I
like to throw them lures up inthere and you close thinkers. But hey,
I'll let you get you next.Yeah, listen to you. I'm
commiserating with your the leaks and theceilings too, because I had to get

(44:38):
out in the isle the hurricane,you know, a couple of weeks ago.
That facier board, you know,to keep it out of my ceiling.
All right, thank you, yeah, thank you, George. Let
me catch everybody adios. I thinkyou'll understand why when you find out where
this goes. Are you really upthere on the Kena man, I am
driving down from sol Dotan to theHomer now catching a halibit charter. Oh

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holy cow? How'd it go onthe on the river? Man? Whenever
I got up here the first dayand the second day it was only twenty
thousand fish, but man, itblew up. Ever since we had a
ninety thousand day, one hundred andsixty thousand day and then another one hundred
thousand day. I've got one hundredpounds of salmon flats already. I'm going
to take home home. I fortyfifty pounds of halib it from the trip

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to the other day only. Soyeah, so we go have about four
boxes spring home this time. It'sbeen it's been a heck of a year.
Man, I'll Saylanks, good foryou. It's good man. I
hadn't talked to you in so long. That's great. Yeah, it's it's
been. It's been a run,a pretty good run since I followed at

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you. Man. But man,we've got a lot going on. Well,
yeah, we didn't understand when didyou leave Texas, Kendall. I
left Texas Monday morning last week?Holy cow, been up here for right
about a week. I come homeTuesday. And how long is that season?
Last? Oh? The salmon run, it really started about July sixteen,

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seventeenth. I mean they had afew thirty forty thousand days starting about
July twelfth thirty. That's crazy.Yeah, it blew up. On the
seventeenth. They had three days ina row of one hundred thousand fish and
good floor. That river thick withthem. You could out here walk across
the river on the batch of fishsecond third cast. You're you're hooking up

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on something. That's just crazy.That's just crazy. That's a that's a
significant commercial fish. Were there tobe able to take that many fish and
and nobody's bothered by that, that'sincredible. They've already had. Yeah,
they've already had one point three millionescape up river. And that's with all
the commercial guys out there in theinlet. Wow, taking everything that they

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can. This has been one heckof a year. And the size of
them is insane too. I mean, you're getting one one day last week
everybody's stringer had ish on it.That was every bit of seven and a
half eight pounds in bigger. Ohmy god. I don't know if you
know. Don't Yeah, I don'tknow if you know much about saka,
but nine a half ten pounds aboutthe biggest you'll see m pushing a state

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record. Holy cown. What towhat do they attribute the the boost in
population like that? Believe it ornot, it's COVID because starting in twenty
this is the first year that youhave the run from those fish that went
out to see ye yeah, yeah. The first year that those fish are
starting to make the run up,so for the next four or five years

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ought to be a pretty good littleclip of the company. Eh Man.
It is great to hear from you, no kidding, don't be a stranger,
Holy count Yes, sir, notproblem man. I love listening to
you guys, even all the wayup here at the Land of the Midnight's.
Uh. I'm gonna check another box. That's another state I can put
on the list. Melvin, allright, Hetek Kendall is great to hear
from Kendall. Help hill Man,great to hear from you. And safe

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travels back home. Yes, sir, I appreciate it. Many have Yeah,
feel free to call anytime. Ilove hearing all these stories. I
love it, man, Audios steewhat bye. Yeah, that guy was
down here for a long time.I've known him for a really long time,
and he's made Alaska's kind of likea second home almost for him.

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I think, what a fantastic whata fantastic story catching all those salmon going
down to jump on a halibut boat. I have not caught a halibit,
and if there were any of themcloser than where you have to go to
go get them. I probably wouldhave. I think it would be fun

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just to see. And they doget huge. The average not incredibly large,
but some of those things weigh acouple hundred pounds and change and they're
just gigant. It looked like abig old flounder, is what they look
like. There was a story yearsago about a guy, and I'm about
eighty percent sure it was true,because I know a couple of the people

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who alleged to have been involved ofa guy who went up to Alaska and
came home with a bunch of halibutsteaks, and he brought home one about
a twenty five or thirty pounder holeand frozen solid, and in the dark
of night one spring when or earlysummer, when the bottle of her pocket

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was in great shape, and heknew that there would be a bunch of
wade fishermen coming out that day,well before daylight, he took that twenty
five pound halibut out of the freezerand put a stringer on it, and
took it to the beach and weighedout about waist deep, not very far

(49:39):
where, just out there where peoplewould believe he was actually fishing, but
not far enough that a lot ofwould stop before they got to him.
He wanted to encounter as many peopleas he could, and as the waiters
would walk by, they would say, hey, man, you getting any
well, I got one flounder,only fish I've caught so far, and

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of course they're gonna ask is itwas it a good one? And he
would reach down to the end ofthat stringer, right off that twenty five
pound halimet snows and pick it up, say what, just just this one,
and their jaws would just slap intothe surf like holy cow. Man,
he had more fun doing that.Average floundered down there? What maybe

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pounds a couple of pounds, maybethree four pounds, and he's got twenty
five footer it's probably thirty six incheslong, hanging off hish stringer. It
had to have been funny, andeven if it's not true, it sure
sounds funny, doesn't it. Yeah, I just got the one here,
But it's a good one. Yeah, let me see it. Oh well,

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yeah, yeah, that's pretty good. That's a whopper. Yeah,
that's a double whopper. Man,that's a double meat whopper. Seven one
three, two, one two fiveseven ninety email me Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot
com. Let's take a break,shall we? The first and only one
will probably do on time in thisentire show. This is Sports Talks ninety
a Houston sports fan on air andon Facebook. They contact back to the

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Doug Pike Show. What's going onhere at this nine to nineteen point on
a Sunday morning? You know Ishould. I've got to talk about golf
for just a second, and I'llget to it. I promise I will.
Two things. Number One, yesterdayit was brought to my attention,
and hold on, I'll see ifI can get back to whoever told me

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this quickly, and if I can, I will give credit where credit is
due. About an issue with thejetti crash that I talked about yesterday.
Somebody had put a boat on thejetties at Galveston. Three people rescued and
hospitalized, two went missing. Onebody had been found, but still I

(51:50):
haven't seen confirmation that that one is. I mean, it's got who have
been somebody from that from that boat, Okay, But the bottom line is
one of the things that I'm scramblingas quickly as I can. I apologize
for not having it here in frontof me, right off the top.
Bottom line is autopilot if you're unfamiliarwith how it works. If you put

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the wrong place in your autopilot,it won't in some cases recognize the jetty
as being between you and your destination. The autopilot will get you back,
but I would dare say that withinabout a mile or so, you might
want to flip that autopilot off andgo visual if you can, and steer

(52:39):
well clear of those rocks. Anotherthing, I well, you know what,
I'm gonna go talk to Dan.I'm gonna get out of there.
I'm gonna go talk to Dan.Hey, Dan, what's up man?
You're not working today? No,No, there's no shops open on Sunday
so week. Nothing fair enough.What's going on, buddy? Well,
he's talking about upperhead stories and aboutbagging ninety ninety one. I guess it

(53:05):
was before my son was born.He was born in ninety two, and
I had a house that had likea it was a cross space, but
I had dug it out and madelike a little shop area for me to
get away from them. And theyweren't supposed to be running in and out
of there. The rest of myyoungness. They weren't supposed to be running

(53:25):
in and out of there, butthey were. And I went down there
to run them out, and justas I got the last one out,
I looked down at the threshold andthere was a copperhead sticking its head up
out out of the threshold. Wow. So I hollered. I hollered at
the at the wife for a blacka little better term, and I had

(53:49):
not my wife now okay, okay, now yeah, and uh. I
hollered at her to bring bring mypistol down, and she brought my little
twenty two automatic down and I poppedit, popped that copper head right in
the head. I went to pullit out. I grabbed it by the
back of the head, so itcouldn't I know, they can still buy
it after you kill them, theycan, but I grabbed it with it.

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I had a pair of weld weldinggloves, and I grabbed it by
the back of the head and Ipulled that thing out of there, and
that song was begun. Was Idon't know, probably at least three feet
long. That's a big copper head, man. And I laid it out
on the on the ground and allof a sudden, I noticed right back
towards the back of the tail itstarted butting up, and I thought,

(54:34):
what in the world. And Irealized it was getting ready to have babies.
And that's when I found out thatthey have live babies. They do.
And needless to say, I grabbeda boy a cork can or you
know, by a pine of gasoline, and I doushed it with gas and
burnt it. Oh my goodness.Yeah, it's scary. You don't want

(54:55):
them to slither all over your house. Holy cow, man. But I
mean she was a big old copperhead. I mean, it was a pretty
good pool trying to pull her upout of them. You know, it
was a cinder block threshold. Yeah, I would imagine, Holy cow,
and it was. It was prettytough trying to pull her up out of
there. That's why it It waskind of spooky, considering, you know,

(55:15):
not not two minutes earlier my youngnesswas running in and out of there.
You know. Yeah, I knowthat's the thing. It's scary.
Move I don't you know, ifsomebody has to dispatch a venomous snake from
a place where there's kids hanging around, I don't have a problem with that,
I really don't because you can't takechances with your kids or your pets.
You really can't. But in thewild, if you see one,

(55:38):
just walk around, leave it alone, you know, just walk around,
leave it alone. I don't reallybother them in a while. I mean,
when when they're not six inches frommy kids running exactly, it's a
little different. Yeah, yeah,threshold. Threshold of the house makes all
the difference in the world. Man, it's great to hear from you,
Dad. That's nice talking to youtoo, Doug. I appreciate all of

(55:59):
it, giving me my pleasure.My pleasure, buddy. We'll see you
after all, right, man,how if you need anything, okay,
by Howds. Yeah, that's agood guy right there. That's a good
man right there. Seven one threetwo one two five seven ninety. I
want to go back to my mycontraption that I came up with. The

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leak I had in my attic waswas frustrating because it involved a vent stack,
just like we talked about a minuteago, and that ben stack would
depending on what it was, whatrain was falling and how hard, would
leak a little bit over here,and it worked. We're talking about spaces
that are a foot apart or so, a little over here, a little

(56:43):
over there, and then maybe alittle higher, a little lower. Uh,
it's running down the wood a littlebit and then dropping. So I
had essentially overall three sources of justa very fairly slowly. Thank goodness,
it wasn't pouring in, but itwas dripping in, and I've got little

(57:05):
containers underneath, all these little plasticcontainers trying to catch the rain. And
I did a good job of it. But it dawned on me that there
had to be a simpler way,and I came up with this plan.
You ready for this moment. Ready, you buy plastic tarp, maybe a
large garbage bag something like that.Okay, I went and bought a tarp.

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I think it's like ten by twelvefeet or maybe eight by ten something
like that. I'm not gonna useit at all, Okay, I'm gonna
cut off a piece that's maybe say, let's call it a circle, maybe
three and a half feet in diameteror maybe four pretty big. And now
all these I've got all these rafterscoming down from my ceiling right, and

(57:51):
I got all this wood up there. So what I'm gonna do is I'm
gonna create a circle of tarp dropsto a point at the bottom, and
that is bigger than the sources ofthose two or three little leaks. And
then at the bottom of that tarpwhere it's hanging from the ceiling and catching

(58:13):
every drop, I'm just gonna puta little hole right there, and then
I'll put a bucket under the hole, so all three drips are being contained
by one piece of plastic. Nice. I've got it kind of halfway rigged
up now that the leak is fixed. Of course, I got this bag
of stuff. I went and boughtit one of the big hardware stores,

(58:36):
and I still have the receipt too, so I might take some of it
back. You're an engineer, youknow. It was born of necessity.
I thought, there's got to bea better way than trying to manipulate all
these things and tape wires out ofthe way and in the way and whatever.
There's all this other stuff that Ihad to deal with because the water

(58:57):
was falling on top of my mainair conditioning unit, so I had to
protect it, oh, of course, And it made more sense when I
thought about it, too, notto try to have separate places to catch
the leaks. Just have one bigthing that all that water can fall into,
and then just have one bucket underneaththere. And it wasn't pouring in

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like I said, over the courseof three hours, i'd pick up maybe
twelve ounces of water. Well withthat, we don't mess around with the
AC unit at all. No,no, no, no, no,
no, no, I'm not.I'm not taking any chance, no chance
with wat Texas. Yeah, yeah, don't ever forget it. If it's
not one hundred degrees, it's rainingand eighty five degrees and that's at night.

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Boy, the sun's coming back nextweek. I think I have a
forecast up here. Let's do that. By the way, let me see
if I still have it there.It is right there boom forty percent today,
twenty percent tomorrow, twenty percent Tuesday, which is great, its way
better. Allegedly no chance of rainWednesday, and only a ten percent chance

(01:00:07):
on Thursday Friday, then no rainagain on Saturday, and even better.
Actually, if I look at thisagain, the highest ties are Monday and
Tuesday, and they're ninety two andcompared to what it could be right now,
one hundred and two. Now I'lltake ninety two and then Friday,
eighty nine degrees again, so thelowers are going down into the seventies,

(01:00:30):
which is much relief for our airconditioners, much relief for our electrical grid.
So hopefully no issues there. It'sprobably gonna be years before I can
I can be awakened by thunder andnot be scared of my lights are gonna
go off. It's just that wasjust so unsettling, so unsettling to be

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without power for as long as Iwas. And like I said yesterday,
I think it was Friday. Yeah, it was Friday. We had a
brief outage like fifteen twenty minutes orsomething at the house, and it just
I was flashing back to some really. Oh, it was so hard during
that hurricane. Holy cow. Wehad to find places for everybody and the

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guinea pig. And the guinea pigwas actually the hardest. Although we do
have we we've made friends now andwith people we found who said, well,
sure, we used to have guineapigs. We can take care of
him for a few days, nota problem, just come back and get
him when the lights come on.And our guinea pig made it through.
My wife thinks he was traumatized.I think he was just glad to be

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home. He was fine seven onethree two one two five seven ninety Email
me dougpick At iHeartMedia dot com.Let's get out of here on time too.
That'll make two breaks kind of.I know, well, well,
you know, I can just sithere for a minute now. I'm not
gonna do that. I've got toget to the three m and I'll do
that when we get back, andthen I'll talk a little bit more about

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our Olympic team possibly, and thenI'll talk a little bit more about maybe
fishing. I've got some golf stuffI wanted to talk about that I heard
between what is his name is?Armitage and the other guy on the golf
PGA Tour Network. I listened tothem on the way in on Sundays too,
excellent instructors, and they talked alittle bit about bunker play, and

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I might delve into that in myamateurist way. All I can do is
just try try to repeat what theywere talking about and it makes good sense.
It made good sense to me.Here's something that will make good sense.
This is Sports Talk seven ninety,Breaking sports News on Facebook twenty four
or seven. We a'll get thatinformation to them. This is the Doug

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Fike Show, nine thirty six onSports Talk seven ninety. Looks like we're
going to get a decent little breakfrom the rain. There might be some
about two thirty or three o'clock somethinglike that, trying to get through here
again. But once whatever you've gotover your head right now kind of settles
down, looking into the afternoon hours, let's see, there's now so we're

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gonna look and watch this stuff.It's just kind of fizzling and falling apart,
thank goodness, right about it savebetween El Campo and Rosenberg until about
three. Then there's a little blipof something. All in all, not
a bad afternoon. Probably if you'vegot things you need to do outside,
it shouldn't be too bad. Igot where did it go? I got

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an email from Forrest, who isprepping for a catfishing trip. And Forrest,
if you know faux pro Forest,is an outstanding fisherman and pretty capable
at catching just about anything. He'sa great bass fisherman, great white bass,
great crappie fisherman, and apparently agreat catfisherman. And the one thing

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that I would challenge him to dois and he sent me a picture of
the rig he uses, and hesaid he uses fresh shad for bait,
which is great if you don't mindhandling fresh shad, but that can share
gets stinky after a while. Wellof his the rigging he's using. Yeah,

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I want to see the rigging.Yeah, I can do that.
For that, I can do that. Not hold on, let me get
some I will, I'll do itin the next break. Yeah. So
uh. It's basically kind of aslip rig where the fish can pick up
the bait and start to swim awaywithout feeling too much pressure, which is
exactly what you want. You wantthem to feel unfettered, so that as

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they slide away from you with thatcircle hook in their mouth with the bait,
they will at some point if theline will tighten up and that circle
hook will lodge itself correctly and easily. As long as you don't, as
long as you can resist the temptationto try to set the hook like you
would with a normal jayhook, youlet that circle hook just nestle right into

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the corner of that fish's mouth andjust lift up and start reeling, and
you got him. You got himtime. I would challenge him to forego
the shad and try my vanilla soakedcorn, which I bet one hundred dollars
he's never done. And at somepoint maybe I'll bring him down here and

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we will go toe to toe ata little place I've got to fish,
and we'll see whether his shed ormy corn catch the most. What I
like about the corn is when youchum with it, the corn, especially
if the catfish are of any size, really they're going to hang around a

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long time because it's going to takethem a long time to get full.
And I can remember when I wastaking my son and his friends to go
fish in a little lake in MissouriCity. The catfish that we would catch,
you could feel their bellies and youcould feel the little corn kernels in
their bellies. They were eating andeating and eating and still eating after feeling

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pretty full. Really to grab onejust one more bite, one more bite,
and that's the one that had thehook in it, and we just
caught and caught and caught a littlecarp or big carp, actually a couple
of those, and loads of thoselittle catfish now out where I've been fishing
recently and taking a few kids.The car or the catfish we're catching.

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There are more like two to eightpounds, and they put on quite a
show. They like corn just asmuch as any old catfish. But it
would take probably a half a canof corn to fill up an eight pound
catfish with corn kernels, which meansthey're gonna keep eating and keep eating,
and eventually the odds get better ofthem picking up one of them with a

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hook in it. The only decisionI would have to make where I'm gonna
fish this thing with my friends isI'll probably steer away from one spot because
it's got a lot of rock onthe bottom, and I wouldn't want to
use a very weighted rig because theweight would get lodged in the rocks.
There's a flat bottom, just amud bottom place I might chum up real

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good where we could use the rigthat he's using somehow someway, though there
are a lot of catfish, alot of catfish going to feel the sting
when we get going, and I'mactually gonna try because the gentleman I'm taking
and his wife, a good friendof mine, did me a great favor
during the hurricane, and he's fromGreat Britain and he used to carp fish

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over there as a kid. Ithink I talked about this a little bit
yesterday, and so our goal reallyis to catch one of those carp and
I saw, actually I saw twoof them yesterday that got washed over a
spillway because the water was so high. One of them had succumbed. It
got stuck between a bunch of alot of debris and just got overwhelmed and
had died. The other one wasstill on the flat part in about three

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inches of fast moving water, tryingdoing his ever loving best. This is
about a five or six pound cardoing all he could to look like a
salmon trying to swim upstream. Onlyhe was just getting tireder and tirer,
you could tell. And fortunately forhim when he finally kind of gave it.
I was actually trying to snag thefish with the lure I had on

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to bass fish, and if Ihad I would have put him back in
the main body of the lake.But he didn't give me that chance.
I couldn't quite get to him,and he ended up tumbling out in a
way. And the good news isthe last time I saw him, he
was in very open water and probablygot into Oyster Creek at some point seven
one three two one two five sevenninety. Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot

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com. We're gonna take a littlebreak here. When we get back.
I'm suspecting there will be a phonecall I need to take. I'm not
sure who it is, but ifhe can wait through the break, I'll
take it. Ninety. This isSports Talk seven ninety Houston sports online at
sports seven ninety dot com. Backback to the Doug Fike Show. TI,
welcome back Dugpike Show on Sports Talkseven ninety. Thank you for listening.

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I started to do. Appreciate itBob way through the break. That
means I'm gonna go right the ball. What's up, Bob, Well,
not much. I'm gonna thank you. First, you brought up a tremendous
memory for me. Right my dad. You mentioned cartfishing. You bet.
My dad was a carfishing enthusiast.He had he called his world famous cart

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beat. No, he's got tohave great Britain in his veins somewhere.
He's got to have English blood,well Scottish, I guess, okay,
yeah, same thing. And sohe bought a house. I grew up
north. This is seven sixty yearsago he bought a house on the Old
Tangy River because it was some ofthe best cart fishing, and he bought

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it so his back went right downto the river. Heat fished constantly.
He had people coming in from allover, friends of his, and all
they would do is fish cartfish.And I wish I had kept his car
bait. But it brought up sucha great memory deck and I want to
thank you for that. Oh you'requite well. You love cartfish. You

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don't have his secret recipe anymore.I never never did, you know,
There's so many things. When Iwas young, I wish I had kept
my uncle's cookie recipe. And knowhow, that's why I have a journal
now, and I hope if mykids ever need anything, they can go
through my stack of journals. ButI have one other story on cot I

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don't know if you're familiar with SanjaCenta river below Lake Houston. The damn
they're having apron and used to beable to go up to that and you
could get out and walk up andthere was this big hole where you could
cat fish fish. But I remember, and I thought this is how DUMBA

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was. I thought it was samThese carp were getting up there and trying
to get up the of Have youever seen that. I saw it yesterday
that one fish I was talking abouthad been washed over the edge and wanted
back into that lake very badly,and the problem it faced and never was

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able to fix. I do believeit got away. That one got into
open water of the creek, soit'll be okay. But it had to
if it even if it got backto where it had come from, it
would have had to jump about aneight inch block where there's just a rock
wall across this little spillway, andI carp aren't known for their jumping ability

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unfortunately. Yeah, it shocked meto death to see them. Now they
could get down off the apron andget in the Sanjy Santa River and go
as far as they want sure intothe but it was so cool to see
them. It looked like Sam andI didn't know that ye did that,
but they did. And I'd justfun to share that with you because you
brought up a great memory and Iwanted to thank you. Well, yeah,

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I'm glad to do that for you. That's what a lot of my
stories are memories of my own,and I know in this audience, there's
going to be either a father ora son, or an uncle or a
nephew or aunt and nieces and whatever, and hopefully it brings up something just
like it did for you. Iappreciate that, Bom it did. Thanks.
Have a good day, you betgood, good day. You're good

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fishing. All your listeners. Ifwe ever get to fish again, oh
yeah, yeah, we all needto get together somewhere and go catch some
carp that'd become fun, all right, Bud, I thank you, I'll
see audios. Yeah. Just alittle while ago, I got a nice
email from a man named Clem,and I greatly appreciate what you what you
wrote, Clem, I greatly appreciatethe kind words, and I'm glad I

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could I could do what I didfor you as well. That's one of
the reasons I'm here, it reallyis. I just I talk about hunting,
fishing as much as I can.I talk by golf as much as
I can. I talk about seasonally. We might we might, oh gosh,
I break again, Yes we do, don't we A little bit late,
just a little bit, It'll beall right all the way out.

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Holy cow, what happened? Melvin? We kind of ran out of time.
Don't tell anybody. Don't tell anybody. We didn't miss anything. That's
the good news. All right,We're gonna have to check out of here.
Thank you all for listening, Thankyou all for letting me blab like
I always blab, And thanks forthe kind words I've gotten today, both

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on the air and in email.So I really do appreciate that. That's
what gets me out of bed onSaturday and Sunday morning, is it really
does? I am so motivated.I so want to get in here and
talk to all of you and hearfrom all of you. The sun's coming
out sooner or later, hopefully sooner. Get outside, be safe, have
some phone with your families. Iwill catch you again next week. Thanks
so much for listening. I reallydo appreciate it. By the way,

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live tomorrow with fifty plus at noonon kPr C. We'll talk then, Audios