The Doug Pike Show 9-8-24

In this episode Doug talks about seizing the moment. Take the picture. Just get the shot of that beautifl sunrise or whatever it may be. Doug talks technology of todays phones. Hear some of the best stories as Doug and callers share dove/teal hunting stories along with some funny embarrassing moments. Doug talks about accident preventative tips when hunting outdoors. Also, Doug expresses why drinking and hunting gets a bad rep. Find out why SPAM is not good for your dogs. Snake stories and fishing all in this episode of The Doug Pike Show.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
All right, Sunday edition to the program starts right now.
Thank you all for joining us.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Whether you're on your way to church, on the way
home from a great dub hunt, no matter what it
is where you are, you're listening to the show. I
do appreciate it. I guarantee you so does Melvin Melvin.
Melvin appreciates the audience every bit as much as I do.
And he was so flustered by the presidence of an
audience member yesterday while we played the Texas Temperature game.

(00:39):
Hey forgot that I'd asked him for the low temperature
in the state of Texas, and he spouted off a
high temperature in the state of Texas, which was it
was actually only within a couple.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Of degrees of the high.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Nonetheless, we will play the game again today. I still
have this very nice thank you, sir, I'll take that.
I still have this very nice envelope full of prizes,
I say, I do. I think I put it back
in my bag. It's here somewhere. I've got a golf
at a couple of places. There's actually, if you're a
museum kind of a person, put that over there. There's

(01:17):
actually an annual, a one year membership to a museum
down in Galveston.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
That would be nice if if you, just if you
happen to.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Be going to Galveston and you happen to like cool things,
we'll talk about that later.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
We'll talk about that later.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
I was at the Astros game last night, by the way,
when they absolutely stomped and I do mean stomped.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Holy cow.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
They ended up scoring I believe it was eleven five,
maybe eleven four when the final curtain fell, but it
was quite the game and home runs. I was disappointed
that Kyle Tucker didn't play. I wanted to see him
hit his first home run back as an Astro after

(02:02):
being gone what a couple of months now with that
bone bruise in his leg. Who could have possibly thought
that would take so long? And I do agree with
the Astros for not bothering to put him through a
rehab assignment down in Sugarland, as much as the Sugarland
Space Cowboys would love to have had him down there
for a few games.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
He's Kyle Tucker. He'll be all right. He'll go through.
Hopefully he'll play today.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
He played the day before yesterday and kind of got
his feet wet a little bit. And I think today
might be the day he goes ahead and breaks out
and just smashes ball somewhere. I don't know that it'll
get out of the park, but he's going to hit
one at least one hard ball today. The whole team
rallied around to each other yesterday, and once they turned
on the faucet of hitting, it was pretty clear who

(02:54):
was going.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
To end up winning that game. And I'm glad they did.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Great group, like I said, from Carter's country with me
in thew eat last night, and we had a good time.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
They were.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
I would say that on a one to ten as
far as interest in the game goes. A lot of
people up around that suite area are kind of just
casual baseball fans. They don't really watch the game. They
meander around the e lot and.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Chet chat a lot and do this.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
This game.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
This bunch was. They were gamers. They wanted to watch
that Astros game. They cheered the Astros the whole way through,
and that was fun. It really was. I'm an old
baseball player. I played a little bit of baseball in
college and and understand the game. I learned from some
of the best in the game, not just how to

(03:42):
catch a fly ball or how to run bases, but
the subtleties of the game, and so I really appreciate it.
And I was glad to have somebody who who knew
baseball and appreciated as much as I end Last night
another pleasant autumn morning, and even better with more of
these to come on the horizon. If it weren't for
a power line about two hundred yards east of the

(04:04):
window next to my desk this morning, I would have
gotten a really awesome sunrise shot too.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
The problem.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
I posted it at Facebook only to show how distracting
and frustrating above ground power lines can be, not only
during hurricanes, when if a a leaf falls on one of.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Them, you lose power.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
And I'm exaggerating, of course, but even when you're just
trying to get pretty a picture of a pretty sunrise.
It was pretty too. It was beautiful except for those
power lines. If we'd been on the twelfth floor, if
we had been on the twelfth floor of this building,
and not the seventh. I think those power lines, they're

(04:45):
so close to me and we have trees beyond them,
I think they would have just melted into the trees
and nobody would have noticed, or I could have even
possibly cropped them out, but as it was where they were,
didn't work out that way. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety. Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
And yes, as I'm sure all of you found out

(05:07):
on the news last night, but not on ABC because
Disney owns that and we can't get that.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
I actually have.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
A TV in the house that's just hooked up to
an old school antenna, and I'll bet you I can
get ABC on that.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Melvindn't.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Wouldn't you think that would be because Disney doesn't. Oh
well yeah, no, yeah, but this isn't for cable or anything.
This is just old school through the air TV, just
that the whole Yeah. Analog, yeah, old yeah, analog A
little well, now there's a little boosted antenna that I've
screwed into the back of it, but that's all. There's
no connection to cable or satellite or any of that.

(05:43):
So I bet I can still get ABC. Hum I'm
pretty sure you can that that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
They did. They did the analog digital conversion.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, I can't believe they can't. These
two can't at and T and Disney can't get and
give back the TV that people are paying for.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
I'm paying for it.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
I'm paying for it right that and all the ESPN
channels and that GEO. I'm paying for all of that
and not getting any of it. They'll get it out.
Just two kids in the sandbox each I'm wanting to
be the king of the castle.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, that's all it is.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
They'll get over themselves, hopefully soon. I have not, by
the way, I have not had my head buried in
the sand. Speaking of about this storm that's brewing down
in the Bay of Campeache and.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Headed it's headed toward the Texas coast.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
But I did some research this morning, and knock on wood,
knock on wood, this one is supposed to it's supposed
to move into the Gulf of Mexico in a day
or two and then so far the models don't really
show this one becoming much of a storm. There were
only there's a website that I use that I really like,

(06:59):
and now that it's a red X. They've got it.
They've got it on their radar, and they show it.
Most of the models except for one, show it one
or two maybe show it not even becoming a hurricane
as it moves up and kind of parallels the Texas coast.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
It's supposed to stay off shore. It's supposed to if
it does.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Get past us, make landfall somewhere over in Louisiana. Maybe
that's what most of the models are showing. But you
can't guess too far out. And I'm a big I'm
a big advocate of not getting the cart before the horse,
because Beryl, if we looked at the early models and
trusted them, was supposed to go in the middle of

(07:43):
Mexico somewhere.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Then it was a little farther up toward Texas.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
Then oh, right around the border, and then up and
up and up until it came right down Main Street
in Houston. And so it's still too early to tell
where this thing's going to go. I do like the
forecasts showing that it probably isn't going to ramp up
and become any kind of a big hurricane knock on wood,

(08:10):
So we'll just have to watch it. There's no reason
to go to the grocery store yet.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
And buy up all the water and the bread.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
There's no reason to stock up on pop tarts because
their expiration dates about two years from now.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Go Lee, Well do we talk about that yesterday?

Speaker 4 (08:25):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, with the spam?

Speaker 3 (08:26):
And yeah, you know you could put a slice of
spam between two pop tarts and just kill two birds
with one stone, and probably yourself.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
That's a that's not right.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
And if we missed anything by yesterday, by the way,
between faux pro and Rick and five or six other
people who called to tell me what their favorite h
made a snack would be, what else was there? The
Vienna sausage that always comes up jerky jerky, Yes, and

(09:00):
I prefer dry stick sardines.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Or if you're real upity.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
If like sky Mike likes to call you, if you
have an easy tag and you got that kind of money,
you can also ditch the sardines and get smoked oysters.
That's how the fancy people live. Seven three two two
five seven ninety email and me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia
dot com. By the way, that that that sunrise photo

(09:25):
I shot this morning, I did paste it on fate
my head of my tongue again, take your time, I'm
going to slow down this morning.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
I just ramble, ramble. I did post it to Facebook so.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
That you can see how distracting it really is to
have this power pole and power lines in what what
could have been a good shot if I had not
been sitting there, just kind of bemoaning the fact that
that pole and those lines were right in the middle
of what could have been a nice sunrise photograph. It

(10:02):
I probably could have gotten a little better before the
clouds parted a little bit.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
There's kind of an.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Arrowhead looking piece of clouds that comes in from the
right side of the frame into about one third of
the way in, and the sun was tucked into them
pretty good when I first noticed it, and then by
the time I got sick and tired of looking at
that stupid power pole in those power lines, the sun
had peeked out.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
A little bit and the shot and got a little
washed out.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
But anyway, I posted it because clearly that pole in
those lines are in the way, and that just bothers
the heck out of me.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
I don't know why, but it does. Don't we have
software that can crop that out? Well? Yeah, there. You
could if I had all the time in the world.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I could go crop those lines out,
and I could I could erase the power pole and
all of that, But that's not how I grew up
taking photographs. And now, if it could have been just
a clean crop to take it out, I don't mind
doing that. But who's got that kind of time to

(11:07):
wipe out power lines that go from all the way
to the left side, all the way to the right side,
basically right and I smack in the middle of the
photograph too.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah, it was a near miss.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
I'll call it a near miss on a one to
ten scale at its peak. When I first really noticed
it and saw kind of which way the sun was
going to go, I got all excited. It could have
been an eight, and it turned out with the power
lines to be in my estimation after working as hard
as I did for thirty years to take photographs and

(11:38):
try to get some good ones, and there is a four.
The sun's up and it's behind the clouds. Pretty cool,
but it's washed out now, and I just all these
things that went terrible with that photograph.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
I won't lose any sleep over it.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
I still I'm so impressed by the photographs you can
get with your phone now, and even there are some
phones and some of the just SLR cameras with digital
SLR stuff that can take movie quality images. Either you
can either take moving pictures or really really good quality

(12:15):
still photographs on your phones. My phone takes great photographs.
It really does. That's one of the reasons I went
for it over an iPhone when I bought this phone,
because three or four people I talked to and a
couple of people I kind of look at and trust
on the internet, said yeah, this phone's better than that
phone for taking pictures. And I haven't been disappointed yet.

(12:35):
There's no excuse not to get a photograph anymore. And
I've talked about this before and I have no idea
how I got to this subject except for that little
sun rise mentioned. But if you'll just go ahead and
take the shot before anything else, when you see something
really cool, really beautiful, get your phone out, open the
camera up, and pop it, boom pop, two or three frames,

(12:57):
and then maybe go back and maybe crop it a
little bit, or if you want to play with your
filters and all that stuff, you can do that.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
But the first thing you have to do is get
the shot. And if you if you.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Waste time trying to do something with that phone before
you take it, if you're tweaking it before you even
push the button, then you're gonna miss the shot you
thought you could get. Still interested on this weekend between
the Dove and Teal openers to hear about your best
ever hunt or ever for either Bird Teal or Teeler Doves,

(13:31):
I think it'd.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Be fun to kind of focus on those two uh.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
And and maybe even some that you would rather forget.
Not because anybody got hurt.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
I don't want to.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
I don't want to talk about injuries or accidents in
the hunting field as memorable, which they are, but that's
not what I'm going for. I'm looking more for for
somebody who who did something that just embarrassed the heck
out of them or their buddies have have been teasing
them for four years after this happened in the field

(14:01):
and they still won't let go.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Every time you meet up for opening day, Hey, you
remember four years ago?

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Hey you remember nine years ago when Melvin did whatever
he did over there next to that tree. Oh that
was crazy. Yeah, we all do crazy stuff. We'll take
a little break. Your rockets and astros live here. We
are Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 5 (14:24):
The conversation continues this as the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
Hi, welcome back Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
Sip of coffee lukewarm just the way. I don't like it.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
It's amazing. I don't know somebody's at least making coffee
in there. It wasn't horrible when I poured it. But
this studio is kind of cold, and so it doesn't
take long to get that heat out of there. But
it's coffee, and it gets me going. Boy, I ate
like a hog in that sweet last night too. How embarrassing.
There was no reason for it, really no reason whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
You know.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
I guess, man, I guess. And by the way, if
any of you want to call and tell me, let
me see if I've got any emails you. I haven't
even turned that thing back on. If you want to
call and share one of these stories, that's great. I
would love to hear from you. And just remember, please,
that this is a family show. I emphasize, gosh, what's

(15:22):
wrong with this microphone? I emphasize that because I don't
want little kids on their way to church, little kids
on their way to go fishing, or to go play
soccer or Little league or well select baseball this time
of year, whatever it is. Wherever those kids are listening,
I want them not to have to ask mom or

(15:45):
dad what that means. I want them to just enjoy
whatever you're saying. If you want to know how g
rated this is, here's a joke for you, Melvin. You're
ready for this.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
Of course.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
I have a rooster that can multiply and divide and
add and subtract.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
You know what he is?

Speaker 4 (16:04):
What is he?

Speaker 2 (16:05):
A mathema chicken? Ah? Nice?

Speaker 3 (16:08):
See See that's how That's how g rated we are
around here. Anyway, mind your manners, watch your tongue. And
unfortunately this this audience of mind is really good about that.
Over twenty four years, Melvin, I think we've had to
had to push the dump button maybe six, six times,

(16:28):
maybe seven times in twenty something years. That's not bad, No,
not bad at all, I would say, And believe me,
I knowing how all that works. I've heard some I've
heard some dump buttons pushed. It's hard to tell sometimes,
but it gets happy. It happens outside of the show.
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me Doug pick Adiheartmedia dot com if you're if you're

(16:51):
not thinking about going fishing today because it's just so
windy out there.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Oh now I see what's going on.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
Hang on, I have to move your picture Melbourne because
if I don't, I can't see my little my little
box there.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
It is.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
Holy cow, we got people all over the place. I
gotta shrink your the size of your image too. Let
me get here. I'll go talk to Rick. I'm gonna
guess Rick's first and Dave second. We're gonna go that way. Rick,
what's up?

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Man? Sorry about it? I could see the screen.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
I want to stay on two of the subjects you're
talking about. One is the sunrise thing.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (17:25):
You know I run These little sunrise guys are pros, Okay,
And I can tell you this. If you're going to
reach down and grab a snack bar and wait just
a minute to think you're gonna get that perfect shots,
you better stay on that camera because two minutes could
make a difference between a good sunrise and one that
is just so so on what they used. Because I'm

(17:47):
not an expert, they basically are using really high quality
Apple phonts. Yeah, but they do have them on tripods. Okay, okay,
and they have thumb triggers on them.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
You know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 4 (18:01):
Yes, push button, you know push But okay, that covers that.
On the embarrassing moment atter this minute, May Park friend
of mine has a sweet he owns a sweep. Nice
He said, would you like my sweep for this game?

Speaker 2 (18:17):
You bet?

Speaker 4 (18:18):
I said, Ben, I would love to. I've never been
in a sweep before. Up there. So I got my wife,
I've got my kids. I called them all day, were
both in college. I said, grab a couple of your buddies,
come on, we go down. So we're there. I don't
know how many seats a lot, but there was only
about five of us. Well, my youth pastor from our

(18:40):
church called and he had the youth group up in
the right field nose beads that you at the top.
I thought, you know what, how many of those kids
that we would never in their life get to experience this?

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Lord?

Speaker 4 (18:54):
I said, look, bring them down, bring them down to
here and this and that and everything. And I had
to guide that person. So I'm favoring these kids in
and out of there. And I don't eat anything you
want all you want that you know where I'm going.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
I do.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
When the game was over and everything, there was a
forty seven hundred dollar bill for the food.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Oh my god.

Speaker 6 (19:21):
You know what.

Speaker 4 (19:22):
You know how it works?

Speaker 6 (19:23):
Right?

Speaker 2 (19:23):
I do know how it works.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
I did not know how it worked. You do now, Man,
I have to call the owner and say, look, I'm
gonna pay you. Before I tell you I'm gonna pay you.
I really made a big mistake, but I sure made
a lot of kids happen. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yo, that's exactly right. That's exactly right.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
Anyway, that's my kind of an embarrassing story. But I'm
not too embarrassed. I'm kind of proud of it, my boy.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
All right, Ricky, thanks man, that's a good one. Yeah,
that is a good story. Holy cow.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Let me get Dave here and then I'll grab Willis
on the way out.

Speaker 7 (19:57):
Day.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
What's Upboddy?

Speaker 6 (19:59):
Oh yeah, Channel thirteen. I was wondering what it was
brought The problem was, Hey, we went to the moon
on reel to reel tape. Hey, and I could hear
the dove hunters firing off over there in those steels
around the house over there, and then uh, I had
a nikon camera that I bought at the pawn shop

(20:20):
on the way to Houston Older's practice game in Austin.
And that's when Dan pass GREENI and Earl Campbell was there.
Sure I got I got a few good pictures, you know,
I really liked that one. And then uh oh and
that Astros sweet guess what I did the mock ups
for that for that round Sea went up in there

(20:40):
and Drake McLean's office. Yeah. Now I didn't get to
actually work it when it made, but uh, I'm the
one that did the mock ups. And then one more thing,
Sundance Head. Uh yeah, I was telling you about here.
Huntley put a story on his Facebook page about how
him and his dad Roy Head, when the football games
had start, they'd be sitting there in the kitchen watching

(21:02):
the TV, having the guns on the kitchen table, cleaning them,
sharpening the knives, talking about what they did and then
the adventures that they were going to do. And it
was a really good article that he put in there.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Nice man, Yeah, that's cooling.

Speaker 6 (21:18):
Yeah, Hey, we just we just got back over here
by Saint Passanhascal. As a matter of fact, I got
to go by the house and drop some stuff off,
and then we're going out at one o'clock to look
at that house. And we already got she's already got it.
But uh, but we hadn't seen nothing but pictures on it.
But it's really nice. So all right, good, all I

(21:38):
got man, Thanks.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
A lot, great to hear from you day, you man.
You bet all right. Let me click him out. I'll
get Willis up here before we go to the break. Willis,
what's up, buddy?

Speaker 6 (21:51):
How you doing this morning, Doug?

Speaker 2 (21:52):
I'm great.

Speaker 8 (21:54):
Uh, quick story for you. Back in the late eighties,
I was living in Georgia and hunted with a put
a buddy of mine and his dad on his lease.
And every morning we're beginning, we'd be in the woods
and this old boy we hunted with it sounded like
he had a fully automatic sixteen. Every time he's seen

(22:16):
the deer, he must fired ten fifteen shots just kill
the deer. Well, autumn shots ringing out was boot the
deer for.

Speaker 9 (22:23):
The rest of us.

Speaker 8 (22:26):
So we got together one weekend. We was fixing the
head out to the least, so we headed out a
little early.

Speaker 10 (22:31):
We took a fifty.

Speaker 8 (22:32):
Five gallon drum and an old deer pelt that my
buddy's dad had and a eight point mount, and we
took it out there and just out from his stands.
We've had it up where the head was just sticking
out of the woods, far enough for him to see it.
And we all went got in our stands, just the
sun from up. We heard these shots start ringing out,

(22:53):
and you could hear him when he went to cussin
and saying all kinds of ugly words, and he fired again,
shout out, out, out out, Well, finally he got down
out of his standard. Yeah, when when the shots started
ringing down, we all headed back into camp because hunting
was done for the morning, and we're sitting around drinking
a cup of coffee and laughing. He come walking into

(23:14):
the camp and he was hot. Oh, he was hot,
and he was he was really hot when we found
out what we had did. But you know, we told him, look, dude,
you got one shot, one shot. You're scaring the deer
for the rest of us. The rest of us can't
get no deer.

Speaker 6 (23:30):
But uh, he didn't.

Speaker 8 (23:31):
He didn't speak to us for probably about a month.
He wouldn't go hunting with us, no more.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
But no sense of humor at all. Man, that's hilarious,
none of of because.

Speaker 8 (23:41):
Everybody else in the camp thought it was funniest thing
they had ever seen or heard.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
It's funny, but man, we got.

Speaker 8 (23:49):
A good laugh out of it. I still think back
today and and like I said, that's forty years ago
and I still I still get a good chuckle out
of it.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
So yeah, it's a great uncle. Thanks Willis Man, that's good.

Speaker 6 (24:02):
I just wanted to share.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
I'm glad you did, Buddy, you too, man, Audios. Yeah,
the old decoy in the woods trick.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
It is kind of funny some of the things that
have been done in the name of good humor. And
if you end up being the butt of one of
those jokes, you might feel embarrassed a little bit, you
might feel frustrated, But just know that if just think
about it, if you pulled it on somebody else, how
how hard you'd.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Be laughing and let them have their fun. Man, It's
and it's not I fully think and believe, I fully
believe that when when people are playing jokes on you,
or when they're having fun with you, stuff like that,
and so long as they're good natured enough that they
can take it as well.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
As dish it out. It just means they care about you.
They're focused on you. There's a reason for that too.
They're not trying to beat you up, they're not trying
to be mean to you. They're just having some fun.
And like he says, as long as it's not horrifyingly embarrassing,
as long as it's not it's just in good fun
and nobody gets hurt. And I've had pranks played on

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me more than once and they just you just got
to laugh them off.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
That's all you can do. It's fun, it is, man, Yeah,
it's kind.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Of that's how and well in a lot of hunting camps, Yeah,
that's how. That's how guys show that they care about
the other guy. If they don't talk to you, if
they don't do anything around you, if they don't include you,
then man, maybe that's not so good for you. But yeah,
if everybody's in there having fun, and it'll be somebody
else's turning the well next time, that's what That's the
way I look at it. Even if it's not with

(25:39):
the same group, it'll be somebody else's turn and you
can laugh at them.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Then not a big deal.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
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Speaker 1 (25:52):
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Speaker 2 (25:58):
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Speaker 3 (26:01):
I have to let the Beach Boys play. Really, I
can't not do that moment, So yeah, I boy. I
used to listen to the Beach Boys over and over
and over all the way back to singles, the Little
forty five.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Did you have any of those? Moment? Of course? Yeah, man,
I had stacks of those things. Go to the record store.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
Go to any department store they would have a record department.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
We didn't call them vinyls back then. We weren't up
at E and goad.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
What we paid less than a dollar, I want to
say for a recording of a song, and it was
that was just a totally different time, and you got
really upset if one of them finally scratched, like oh no, man,
and it would.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Skip in the middle. Do you ever have some of those?

Speaker 9 (26:48):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (26:48):
Of course you did.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
If you had, if you had forty five, if you
had any kind of vinyl back then, eventually you had
one that skipped and it would drive you crazy, or
it would just glide on across. Oh yeah, just just
hop up and ride, ride the wave all the way
to the middle. Oh my gosh, just bypass the intersection
where the song was sleeping under the bridge, right, Steve

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o' waded in.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Let me see what he said.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
Here, he emailed me. Me and buddy named Ley went
to his stepdad's place in Fredericksburg, saw so many beautiful
bucks among everything else, but could only shoot pigs as
a guest. Oh man, that's just almost cruel. That's tough there.

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I've gone on those missions to take pigs out, or
maybe to take what on a lot of ranches are
considered cole bucks out, and it is amazing to see
what else is there and why they're trying to pair
the rest of that stuff out, because, in fact, I
had a good conversation with one of the guys last

(27:58):
night about going up to a patche Springs, the family
ranch of the Carter family. And it's a beautiful place,
no question about it. And it's got quite a few
different exotics on that ranch now and back when Bill
and I, or Bill and I and Joe Doggett were
up there on a just kind of a fun trip.

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Bill wanted me to take out a little black buck
antelope because there were so many of them up there
and he couldn't get a lot of people to go
even do that. And the way he looked at him,
they were just eating a lot of food that would
be would serve him better, at least in his estimation
of what he wanted for that wrench. They're eating up

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food that was better served as going down the endo
the belly of a white tailed buck than the little
black buck antelopes. But anyway, it was a very cool
place and its very interesting. So anyway back here. Well,
the next morning, this is back to Stevos, we went
to the blind and had a a gastro intestinal situation

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we'll call it. And the person who was having that
situation had forgotten. Oh man, no, I'm not even no,
I'm never mind, oh Steve O.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
No, it's just it's breakfast hour. Never mind.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
We're just gonna move on from that. Seven one three
two one two five seven nine. Email me Dougpike at
iHeartMedia dot com. Melvin remind me to always pre read everything.
Oh mercy, I did have. Now this is something that's
kind of interesting. We talked yesterday about spam being one
of the big, one of the big UH emergency foods.

(29:37):
If you will, well, if you wanted to look at
uh A pretty interesting. I found it kind of like
a waste of time and money. And I usually don't
talk about these promotional deals that food companies put together,
but Hormel, the same people who make spam. Hormel is
launching a new limited edition product that combines its this

(30:00):
black labeled bacon Melvin with what for all the money
on the planet and even if there's money outside, it's
somebody buried gold on the moon. I'll give you that too,
if you can tell me what they're pairing it up with.
Probably some other type of pork product. Oh no, go

(30:21):
get the fun really yeah, sinnamon toast crunch, cereal, get
out of here. Yeah yeah, gonna be available says here
later this month at select Walmart and Kroger stores. And
you know what, if you don't eat it, and I'm
sure you'll have plenty of time on the can, it'll say,
but if you don't eat it, you can also take

(30:41):
it out and mold it into bricks and build yourself
a little shed to hide in during the apocalypse and
then just eat the bricks away.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
One by one. Good heavens. Let me go talk to Greg,
see what's on his mind. What's up, Greg Burlocker? How
you doing?

Speaker 4 (30:56):
Man?

Speaker 7 (30:58):
Doing good? We're driving down to rock for It's a
beautiful day.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
Isn't it though? Holy cow, it's gonna be nice down there.
It's a little windy on the coast, everything else is
pretty calm. Actually, you get forty miles inland, it's hardly
blowing it all.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
But on the coast it's twenty plus.

Speaker 7 (31:12):
Wow. Wow, Well you got to go back up in
case the wind blows.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
So, yeah, you've mentioned you mentioned.

Speaker 7 (31:22):
Our Joe Doggett, which prompted me to remember when he
got his Lifetime award, you know at t ow A.
He told the story that he laughed kind of like
that that hang in the decoy or the mountain. He

(31:45):
just just a caller called, yeah, Uh, he went somewhere
and I think he was going to shoot a stag,
and so the lodge owner gave him the sword to
glow and said, it's tradition that before you take your
first stag, uh, you have to do this, And Joe's

(32:07):
kind of like, really, do I have to do this,
and then decided to be a good fellow and he
decided to blow it. Well, the this thing kind of
looked like a French horn.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Another story. I'm gonna let you go man.

Speaker 7 (32:22):
And correct me, correct me if I'm wrong. But anyway,
they had packed it with flower, so Joe will it
loose with this indeed blast His whole face was white
with flower. But he was a good, good, good sport
about it. But you know, those are great jinks for

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deer camp.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
Yeah, there's a there's a little sleight of hand involved
in that prank at the deer camp because the horn,
the little horn they had, is fairly small, and it's
just kind of a toy thing, but it's it's functional
and to make it make sound, you have to blow
it really hard. And that was the emphasis that was
put on it. Before Joe got to blow it. One
of the guys in camp showed him that you go

(33:05):
like that, and then you said, but look, when you
do this, you got to blow it hard, and there's distraction.
And then they pour all that flour in there and
tap it down real quick where he can't see it,
and he picks it up and said, now, remember Joe,
just you just give it all you got so you
can get that horn to work, and it just it
got him really really good.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
Oh yeah, I gotta find one of those horns.

Speaker 7 (33:29):
Man. There's the there know, there's got to be other
stories that he could tell, but that was just really
cracked me up. So anyway one to share that with you.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Yes, safe travels, Greg, I'll see yeah, all.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
Right, audios. Yeah, once I'm once I'm back from this break.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
I've told it before, but I'll tell you the story
of one of the field and stream guys who was
hunting with others from from our industry back then. Uh
and so proud, so proud. He had one of the
very first handheld GPS units and was bragging about it
and bragging about it. And the guys finally got here

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and we got tired of hearing him bragged, so they
set him up and it was a pretty darn good prank.

Speaker 5 (34:16):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety on the Goal with
iHeartRadio Friends.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
You've got to try.

Speaker 5 (34:21):
The conversation continues this as The Doug Pipe Show.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
Alli, welcome back Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it, as I
mentioned a little while ago.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
And by the way, we will play the Texas Temperature
game of the nine o'clock hour, Melvin, don't let me forget,
and maybe maybe even the first segment we'll see. I
want to go back to this wind I was talking about,
because it was interesting when I looked, and I want
to go look at it, you know, let me refresh
this to make sure I've got the most recent, most accurate.

(34:54):
Greg's down on his way to get the house buttoned up,
down along the Yeah, all the numbers on the coat,
well not all. The lowest I see is a thirteen,
but I've also got a twenty five, of twenty six,
another twenty six, twenty four, twenty two, twenty three, twenty three,
twenty four to twenty And then you just keep going

(35:15):
down and it keeps blowing all the way down the coast,
all the way to the Rio Grande, where it's seventeen sixteen,
eighteen miles an hour. There's a twenty nine out in
the Gulf of Mexico, there's twenty five. It's blowing now
if you flip it the other way and come inland.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
Not very far to be. I mean, just not very
far at all. What you have is ten nine ten
eight seven, seven thirteen.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
There's a little more wind up our way. Now, hang
on this thing, this map is is not it's not
doing what I want it to do. It's it's too
it's too tight. I need it to back out a
little bit, and I'm not sure where to do that.
It doesn't have a bar that I can raise or
lower to make it pull in or back out. The

(36:06):
bottom line is up around where we are. You walk
out right now, you think, guy Lee, I ought to
go down to the beach. Maybe the surf will be
calm uh if you do. When you get there, you
will find a tremendous side shore wind just just screaming
from northeast to southwest.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
And yeah, it's gonna be kind of rough.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
I wouldn't I wouldn't do that unless you're a surfer.
There's gonna be some serf. I'll check that when we
go to break at the top of the hour. I'll
get in there and see. Actually, I might be able
to pull it off. Right now seven one three seven
ninety email me Dougpike at di iHeartMedia dot com. I'm
gonna get saltwater recon up and see if I can
see anything. I'll go ahead and check for this too

(36:47):
as well. Ooh Rich got a decision to make a
low fence black buck analpe prancing around on one of
the places he's got, or a trip to Louisiana to
take an alligator. Well, Rick, you can't make a pair
of boots out of a black buck antelope. So and

(37:11):
maybe if there's any leftover, if you get a big alligator,
you get me a wallet.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
That'd be nice, be kind of cool, you know.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
Actually, I saw some pictures of the Louisiana alligator season
up and running, I believe, I guess that's where they were,
and there were some like more than a couple of
really really big ones. And I don't know whether, I
don't know how. I'm sure the statistics are available, but
I wouldn't know where to find them on the average
length of the alligators taking from year to year, and

(37:44):
whether there are any real patterns there that could say
anything about alligator hunting.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
I haven't done a whole lot of that. One of the.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
One of the dumbest things I ever did. My old
buddy Philip and I were when we had access to
a family place that he was involved in down on
the Bress River years ago. We would go down there
and see all these alligators and decided at one point
that we were going to try to try to take
one or two. And we got the correct permitting, all

(38:17):
the paperwork was in order, and we hung some old
dead chickens above the water, just like you're supposed to do.
And when we went back to check the lines, sure enough,
one of the lines was down and in the water
and fairly tight, but we couldn't really, we couldn't really
get it moving from the dock to which it had

(38:40):
been tied. And so I volunteered, like a total idiot,
to get in the water and try and loosen that
line and get it untangled. And what I was thinking,
and I was stone sober too, and what I was
thinking at the time, I'm not really sure, but there
was Philip standing on the dock with his shotgun in

(39:03):
hand with a buckshot, I think, is what.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
We had in that thing. And there am I.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Waist deep in water full of vegetation, trying to shake
loose a line that we pretty are are pretty confident
has an alligator on it, and at some point, I just,
you know, I thought, probably, isn't that great an idea
of Philip, I'm gonna get out of the water. So
we heave holed it from the dock, both of us

(39:28):
on square or solid footing, and actually got it loosened.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
And all we'd caught is a bunch of water hyacinth.
That was it.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
That was that was all that was holding back. There
was no animal at the other end. The chicken was gone.
Something stole our chicken.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
But that was it. Your brave man.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
Well, there's there's a fine line between brave and stupid.
For especially among young men, there is a very fine
line between brave and stupid.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
And that's I'm.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
Trying to make my son understand now that I'm trying
to keep him from from crossing that line. And I
want him to be confident. I want him to feel
good about taking undangerous not undangerous, I don't even know
if that's a word, taking not so dangerous risks in life,
to just see, just see what he can stand and

(40:21):
what he can stand. I want him to push himself.
I want him to be stronger, but I don't want
him to do something stupid. I don't when I was little.
We used when I was probably six or seven, maybe
eight years old, we were jumping off the roof with
a towel wrapped around our neck and clothes pinned in
the front because that was our Superman cape and as

(40:41):
long as we had the cape on, we weren't going
to get hurt.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
That was the plan anyway.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
Sometimes every now and then you'd get a little ankle
sprain or something. We had I think it was one
of the older kids in the neighborhood had told us
that we needed to roll when we hit. And sometimes
you'd start to roll just at the right time and
you just hop up like a ninja. And sometimes if
you started the role just a little too early, you
just landed flat on your side and it hurt for
a couple of days.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
Yeah, the power of TV. Yeah, I didn't do it
again for at least another hour and a half. You know,
go back and try again. Nothing's broken, there's no bone exposed.
Get up. We were in.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
Hindsight, well, all of the I believe that most of
the young men, well most of the men in this audience,
when they were young, did something stupid, and boy, I
could I could fill a month with goofy things my
friends and I did. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety. Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia.

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Speaker 2 (41:49):
Now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
All right, second out of the program starts right now.
Thank you all for listening, certainly to appreciate it. Let
me get my headphones back on. I'm trying to I'm
multitasking in here. And in case you're unaware, you can't multitask.
It doesn't work. Your brain can toggle back and forth quickly,
but it can't multitask. It just has to stop, restart, restart, stop,

(42:13):
back and forth and seldom seldom works out well.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
If you want to play the Texas Temperature Game and
see if you can win something from us down here,
by all means jump on now and I'll let Melvin
decide which which line he picks up, and he will
have a player for us, and we'll talk about maybe
you can maybe you can win some golf, Maybe you

(42:43):
can win a little gift card for somewhere down on
Galveston Island. I'll go over some of that when we
get through it, but I definitely want to play the
game this morning, and I'm not going to tell you
why because that would give a hint to Melvin and
the player. And this is a Pinkies where honor system
deal where you can't be you can't be looking at

(43:03):
the at the weather map right now and then jump
on and make a guess and huh huh, well look
how close I am.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
No, it's got to be fair and square. Not that
big a deal.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
By the way, Melbourne did some research on spam during
the break, and I want to share with you what
he found. First of all, for us, if we eat
too much of that stuff, we're gonna have a blood
pressure issue. It could cause your pressure to rise. Is
that basically what it said about people? Yes, that is correct,

(43:35):
thank you. And the other thing that's even at least
as important, if not more so, is that on the
can and in the literature that's available online, it cautions
us not to feed spam to dogs. And that would
be I think that would be something that any dog
in any camp would come around if you opened a

(43:57):
can of spam. They'd smell it, and they'd come running
around and it would be it would be very tempting
to just carve off a little chunk and toss it
to the dog. But they right there in their own stuff,
say no, not for dogs. That's one of the top
meat products that's available in Hawaii, by the way, that
they eat more spam in Hawaii than anywhere else.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
And I don't understand that really. I guess it's the
taste buds.

Speaker 3 (44:22):
The taste buds are a little different in everybody, and
I guess there's just take a shine to spam. Mine
do not, Mine do not. It's an interesting interesting well.
There was a take I saw on hunters safety the
other day that still and it was from someone who

(44:44):
is more progressive and liberal than not, and it still
leans into this notion that hunters especially are are out
there liquored up and getting in trouble and just doing
and stupid stuff and just one millisecond away every time
they're out there from doing something crazy with a gun.

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When if that person had done I think it was
I don't remember whether it would be a his or
her anyway, if that person had done the right research,
that person would have found out that that alcohol is
involved in fewer and fewer hunting accidents around the country
over the past ten or twenty years, and in many

(45:29):
cases in a lot of states were certainly where there
aren't as many hunters out there as we have in Texas,
it just doesn't come up as much anymore, if at all,
they'll go a year or two. I'm still waiting on
the year that we can get through an entire hunting
season with no hunting accidents, alcohol or not. That's what

(45:50):
I'm shooting for, and that's why I talk about it
so much. And they're just they're simple, they're very common
sense rules.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
About all this.

Speaker 3 (45:58):
There's no there's no real reason that you can't get
through all of your hunting trips short of catastrophic mechanical failure,
which happens once in millions of hunting trips when something
just goes horribly wrong with the firearm itself. Most of

(46:20):
these other incidents and accidents can be prevented just with
good old fashioned common sense. You never point a gun
at something you don't it's something you don't intend to shoot.
You never accept that someone's handing you an unloaded gun
until you check it yourself, and I take that really seriously.
Even if you've just shown me that that gun is unloaded,

(46:44):
I'm gonna make sure for myself that it's unloaded when
you hand it to me.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
It's just a check and double check. It's a belt
in suspenders. But when you're dealing with something as potentially
lethal as a firearm, you got to make sure you
don't make a mistake. You got to know what's behind
what you're shooting at as well. Pardon me, especially for hunters.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
If you're sitting in a deer stand and you don't
know what's around you in all directions, you need to
find out. Basically, you need to find out before you
even get in that stand. I'm gonna hunt. What stand, okay,
where is the nearest stand next to me? What compass
direction is it? And how far away is it? Is

(47:27):
there any possibility that a bullet could leave my stand
and travel to that stand unencumbered? And if the answer
is yes, then it's it's important that you and the
person in that other stand who's also hunting, make sure
that you don't ever face each other. I don't care
what walks out of the brush between you and somebody else.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
You still, you just don't shoot. I've got a picture on.

Speaker 3 (47:52):
My phone that an old friend of mine sent me
many years ago on the result of someone one taking
a shot on a on a big South Texas ranch,
taking a poorly advised shot, and my friend has a
through and through wound in his shoulder, in the top

(48:12):
of his shoulder. That will make a believer out of
you that a mistake with a firearm could be But
if that, if that that bullet had passed four inches
toward his neck, he probably wouldn't have survived the wound.
And so it's kind of like what happened to President

(48:33):
Trump in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
But for him moving his head just at the exact.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
Right time, the outcome there could have been totally different.

Speaker 2 (48:43):
So I want as.

Speaker 3 (48:45):
Hunters, I want as outdoorsman, and I'll throw it in
for boating accidents too. There's no reason to be out
there driving a boat drunk. That makes no sense at all.
If I here, I am playing Sally safety again. But
I just I kind of can't help it. I kind
of want to keep all of you around for at
least as long as I'm around, and whenever my day is,

(49:08):
I don't intend to leave this earth because I or
someone else made a mistake with a firearm or driving
a boat, or anything to do with the outdoors. The
outdoors is it's a privilege that we've been given. It's
and I'm not talking about by the parks and wildlife departments.

(49:29):
All the beautiful things, amazingly magical things that happen in
the outdoors I think are there for a reason because
and the reason is to get us out of our homes.
The reason is to get us outside in fresh air. Now,
sometimes the air doesn't smell so great, but in fresh
air and where we can enjoy this stuff.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
I certainly do. I love being outdoors.

Speaker 3 (49:52):
There's very few things that excite me more than the
opportunity to go fishing, go hunting, just go walking around
the woods. That little place I mentioned that Philip and
I had access two years ago. I would go down
there and just get out of my truck and just
walk around. And it wasn't a big enough place to

(50:13):
get lost. You were going to run into a fence
sooner rather than later. But you could still walk if
you knew if you knew the place well, you could
still walk for forty five minutes or an hour and
really not not be not feel like you'd reached the
end of the road. And that's a lot of ground
to cover. Seven on three two one two five, seven ninety.
Email we Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I'll take a
little break.

Speaker 5 (50:35):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety online at Sports seven
ninety dot com. Now more Doug Fight.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
Hi, welcome back Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk of
seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. Dennis sent me
an email and I don't know if I agree with
this or not. Melvin. Let me read this and you
tell me whether you agree one hundred percent. Okay.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
The fine line, Dennis says, is defined as if you
can walk away uninjured your brave trip to the emergency
room stupid, yes or no.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
Man, That is a great line.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
Is just because you end up at the emergency room
doesn't mean you were stupid, And just because you pull
it off doesn't mean you're only brave, right, because I
did some really stupid stuff.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
And pulled it off, right, and that's it's.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
But I also did some really brave stuff and got
dinged up for doing it. The consequences for you know,
I had to had to try to. Yeah, holy cow,
I don't know, I don't know if I get where
you're going, Dennis. And it's a good it's a good
quick look at trying to set the bar somewhere. But

(52:01):
emergency room visits and especially nowadays, holy cow, when you
got to worry about whether it's in network or out
a network, you're driving all over town and in the
meantime you got bone sticking out and whatever. Now that's heroic,
that's just that's craziness. You know what, though, who can
afford just straight up care. I saw something very interesting

(52:24):
yesterday that I'll share there was It was a pharmacist
who was talking about how in some parts of that
world there are medicines, medication. You come in to get
a medication and his cost on it's like two bucks,
and he'll sell it to you for five bucks or
four bucks. Okay, But if you come in and tell

(52:45):
him you have insurance. This person's company and I don't
know if it's across the border what, but they are
not allowed to tell you that they can give you
a better price for cash. They just take your insurance card,
they swipe it, they charge you a ten dollars copay

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and then they get to keep when they when they
send the money to the manufacturer, they get to keep
the rest of that ten dollars copay.

Speaker 2 (53:17):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
And I don't know if that's right or wrong, but
I'd be curious to find out. There's probably somebody in
this audience who would know. But I do know that
one time my wife had to get an MRI on
her back and just out of care, and I knew
what it was going to cost me through insurance, and
that's okay, that's fine, And just out of curiosity because
I just watched a woman come in and do that.

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I said, what's the cash price on these MRIs? And
it was less? It was considerably less than what I
was about to pay as a deductible. So I said,
you know what, give me a half a dozen. Let
me just put them on credit. I'm just joking, but yeah,
just that just it just.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
Came to my mind.

Speaker 3 (53:58):
And I don't know why I'm talking about it, although
there are I mean, I've had I've had to go
to the er on a surfing trip because I took
a surfboard right smacking the eyebrow and it split me
wide open above my eye I have never broken a
bone on a hunting trip, thank goodness. I've had some

(54:19):
sprains though that were very painful. Never knock, boy, I'm
gonna knock on wood for this one. Never been bitten
by a venomous snake, And I'll bet you there are
some people in this audience, even more than the ones
I already.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
Know about, who have been tagged.

Speaker 3 (54:34):
I almost got I almost got hammered about three weeks
ago now out at the out at my bass fishing
lake at the golf course, one of my favorite lakes,
and I've dropped my guard for maybe ten twelve seconds
walking down the edge of this little spillway and was
looking for something specific that I had seen the day before,

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and in doing that, I didn't keep my eyes on
the ground right in front of me, and I came
within two feet of stepping and probably a little less
than that even of stepping on a cotton mouth. And
that was as close as I've been to getting bit
by a venomous snake.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
Actually, there was one other time up at black Horse.

Speaker 3 (55:16):
I had to go just take a break on one
of the tea boxes and stepped a little ways into
the woods and looked down and right within about a
foot once again, maybe a foot and a half of
my feet, was a copperhead that blended beautifully into the leaves.
That's exactly what they're supposed to do. That's what they're

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trying to do. And that copperhead was virtually invisible until
it just moved a little bit. And so far, so good.
All these snakes have juster slithered away from me. They
don't want to bite us. I've drawn that conclusion after
having many snakes that had many chances to do so.
They don't want to bite us. They don't want to
confront us. They don't want to waste their venom on us.

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They need that to stop their prey in its tracks
so they can eat it. But man, oh man, if
that would be, that would be an er trip I
wouldn't want to make because all the way to that
ar you're gonna be hurting pretty bad. Snakes are nothing
to fool around with. But it's it's also important to
know that most of the stakes in Texas, and I

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have this discussion with people all the time, most of
the snakes in Texas are harmless. You know, they may
nip at you, they may even bite you, but if
they're not venomous snakes, it's going to be more like
a paper cut, or it's just some sort of a
little scratch or puncture, but it's not they're not fangs

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going into you and delivering venom, and in that case,
you got a problem. Otherwise, ninety nine percent of the
snakes in Texas, maybe I don't know ninety five percent.
If there's a hundred species of snakes and as is,
only about five of them count as venomous. And once
you learn them, you can be at least a little

(57:06):
bit calmer when you see a snake and not have
to panic, not after I still I know grown people
who still just they so despise snakes that they'll tell me,
even though they know that it's gonna bother me. They
just say, Yeah, if I see a snake, I kill it.
I don't care what kind it is. Well you should,
because they're they're out there for a purpose, and we.

Speaker 2 (57:27):
Moved into their neighborhood. They didn't move into ours. I
hate to get up on that soapbox seven one three
two one two five seven ninety email on me Doug
Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. That system I've gotten a
couple of emails about it. Where is this thing? What's
it gonna do? Well?

Speaker 3 (57:42):
I know I don't have a crystal ball, so I
can't say for sure what it's gonna do. But the
consensus among people I trust and among sources I trust
is that it's going to be more of a rain
maker as it moves up the coast than it is
a wind event. And if it'll just stay offshore, which
hopefully it will do, we shouldn't We shouldn't have too

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much to deal with.

Speaker 2 (58:08):
It just all depends on what speed it's moving as
it moves up the coast.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
If it slows down, you get more rain, you get
coastal flooding, potentially some heavy rain intown here.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
Who knows.

Speaker 3 (58:19):
If it goes firing through really fast, it's the one
of the forecasts I saw yesterday kind of said, Okay,
if it goes slow, it's gonna creep a little closer
to our coastline and maybe cause more rain. If it
goes fast, it might ramp up to something a little

(58:39):
more serious, but it'll get out of here more quickly.
So pick your poison. We'll see how it goes. We'll
see how it goes. What you got there in Melbourne?
Does this is be I can't. Oh you're talking on
the phone, aren't you all right? You want me to
take that one before? After thumbs up? Thumbs down? Yeah,

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I don't know.

Speaker 2 (59:04):
This is one of the downsides to having the Ah, yeah,
see it, Glen. What's up man?

Speaker 11 (59:10):
Oh? Not much. Just out here on a little Cypress
neighborhood pond fishing for a little bass.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
And you've caught how many so far? About thirteen fourteen? Yeah,
it's fun.

Speaker 11 (59:24):
They're all about six seven inches, just a little fun.
So much more fun when they when they hit it
and I miss them, the excitements there and then it
goes away.

Speaker 2 (59:31):
It's fun time, you know.

Speaker 3 (59:33):
I said years ago that if fish hooks just kind
of dissolved or let go after the strike and then
about five six seconds of really adrilline rush fun and
just let the fish go after that and then start
all over. Man, I'd love it. I'd buy those hooks
all day long.

Speaker 4 (59:50):
Yeah, I'm with you on that.

Speaker 2 (59:51):
It's it's so much fun. And like you said, the
weather's so nice out right now. I'm walking around.

Speaker 11 (59:56):
I'm just walking around the whole pond and I'm catching
them all around this thing.

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
Blast you ever get any bigger ones out of there?
Is it just kind of a steady dose of those
because they're fun too.

Speaker 6 (01:00:06):
Yeah, it's a.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
Steady dose of the same size.

Speaker 11 (01:00:08):
There is six seven inches.

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
That's about as big as they get.

Speaker 4 (01:00:12):
But it's fun.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
It's it's I just.

Speaker 11 (01:00:14):
I enjoy being outside and getting.

Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
Some fresh air stuff, no doubt. What are you throwing.

Speaker 11 (01:00:19):
A little Actually it's a little croppie rig and it's
oh yeah, got a little spinner on it, and they're
going crazy for it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
So that's not a bad plan at all.

Speaker 3 (01:00:27):
I kind of like that, it would be I'd be
curious if you get a chance to do it. Just
take a take a plug, take a top water plug,
or maybe just a little swim bait, but something that's
about three inches long or three and a half, and
I'll bet you those little bitty fish will jump all
over it.

Speaker 11 (01:00:44):
They yeah they are, and they're hitting it like four
feet in front of me, right on the bank.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
It's hilarious. Oh that's fun, man. Yeah, it's good for you. You
just called the brag. You've caught the most fish so
far this morning.

Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
If anybody I've talked to, no wind up there either,
I would imagine.

Speaker 11 (01:01:02):
No, no, it's a slight slight breathe, yeah, perfect breathe.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
I mean, yeah, it's not it's not a heavy wind.
But no, it's it's It's been a lot of fun, good,
a lot of you.

Speaker 7 (01:01:12):
Yeah it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
Feel free to send a map to that lake. Okay,
all right, man, Well I'm glad you called. Holy Cow.
That's good. How many so you got thirteen so far?
About thirteen.

Speaker 11 (01:01:23):
I'll probably probably do this another thirty minutes to the
end of your show, and then I'll probably head on
head on back to the house.

Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
Well, great, Glenn, thanks for the call, man, I really
appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
No problem, thanks to you.

Speaker 3 (01:01:35):
He does You didn't even tell me that he didn't
Melvin didn't. Just Melvin's just trying to interrupt me, flagging
me down. Said he wants to play the texta temperature game.
Let's go then bring it up, Dad, gummt. I didn't
realize that, Melvin.

Speaker 4 (01:01:51):
Melvin.

Speaker 2 (01:01:52):
We'll get him. Okay, we're on now the dollar waiting
on a dime.

Speaker 4 (01:01:56):
Here?

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
Is it hot? Is it cold? We'll find out on
the Texas temperature game is because you're hot yours cold?

Speaker 4 (01:02:09):
Ice?

Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
All right, I guess here we go, Glenn, your choice
first or second.

Speaker 2 (01:02:21):
I'll go second.

Speaker 3 (01:02:22):
All right, Melvin, to pay attention Melvin, Okay, I'm paying
attention this time. What do you consider right now, Melvin,
to be the low temperature in the state of Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:02:33):
Low temperature in the state of Texas.

Speaker 12 (01:02:36):
Let's go sixty two, sixty two, Melvin, what do you
consider to be the low temperature in the state of
Texas right now?

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
You mean, Glynn?

Speaker 4 (01:02:49):
Glenn.

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
I'm sorry, Glenn, oh man, I'm messing up. That's no problem.
I'd say fifty eight, fifty eight. Melvin.

Speaker 3 (01:03:00):
Back to you, what do you consider to be the
high temperature in the state of Texas.

Speaker 13 (01:03:04):
High temperature, let's say eighty one, eighty one, Glenn, what
do you think is the high temperature in the state
of Texas?

Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
Eighty five eighty five.

Speaker 3 (01:03:18):
Well, Melvin, you did a better job today. I got
to tell you. You came back swinging. Holy cow. Melvin's
total miss is only three degrees. And unfortunately, Glenn, you
didn't do bad.

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
You really didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:03:33):
The low currently is sixty one, in the highest seventy nine,
so you only missed by like nine degrees. Overall, not
so it wasn't bad. It wasn't bad at all. But
since there are no losers on this game, never lose it,
never a loser.

Speaker 2 (01:03:49):
What do you want, man, But you want some golf?
You want to go down to Galveston? What do you
want to do? Golf would be good? Golf be good?

Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
Good And you're up in Cyprus. Y. Yeah, you know
we're black Horses, don't you.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
Oh, it's right down the street. This is off.

Speaker 11 (01:04:03):
I'm off Farker Cypress right now.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
Holy cow.

Speaker 3 (01:04:06):
Yeah, we're gonna send you and three of your buddies
to go play black Horse. How's that?

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
That sounds awesome?

Speaker 3 (01:04:12):
Thank you man, Yeah, my pleasure. Gosh, I didn't even
realize that Melbourne. I kind of hurried him to get
your your calls teed up, and in so doing I
kind of messed up and didn't see the Texas temperature
game thing. All's well, that ends well, Thanks Lynn, and
good luck with those bass man.

Speaker 4 (01:04:29):
Appreciate it. Thanks.

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
Yeah, I'm able to put you back on whole. We'll
get your information.

Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
I am going to go to a break and on
the way there, I'll tell you about all well, all
about you got a Melbourne?

Speaker 2 (01:04:38):
Yeah, there we go.

Speaker 5 (01:04:41):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety, Facebook dot Com, slash
sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
Back to the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
All right, welcome back to Doug Pike Show. Thank you
for listening Sports Talk seven ninety. It is big day
in sports. Astros go the Texans go? What time do
they play Melvin? Do you know they go at noon?
Probably I have I'm guessing, yeah, research, no problem, Thank you, sir.

Speaker 6 (01:05:07):
All Right.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
I got an email from Alan caddying for Dad at
the Salisbury, Maryland Open about about a thousand years ago.
That's how I feel sometimes too.

Speaker 3 (01:05:17):
Early tea time. Oh yeah, you gotta love those. The
sun was blindingly bright dew on the grass. I was
walking in my dad's footsteps, just kind of moping along.
At seven thirty am. Dad was out in front of
me about twenty yards and I heard him tell me
to look up. I saw the serpentine line in the

(01:05:40):
dew colored covered grass, excuse me, And then saw the
moccasin at ninety degrees to my path. Snake just lay there.
I was lucky to stop five feet from it. I
went around it very gingerly.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
Tail end. Yeah, that's a good idea, don't don't walk
in front of the dog. One thing.

Speaker 3 (01:06:02):
If you walk behind it, even if it recognizes you,
it smells you, it feels you at whatever, it'll probably
take off.

Speaker 2 (01:06:10):
Like I said, snakes don't want to bother you. So anyway,
he continues, pardon me, so as not to disturb that
fangned killer. Come on, man, a fangned killer sounds like
something out of a bad movie script. Not only my
not my only snake encounter. Every boy? Am into that?
Am into that? Yeah, I've I've grown almost too comfortable

(01:06:38):
and confident.

Speaker 3 (01:06:39):
I gotta kind of check myself sometimes when I go
walking into the woods looking for golf balls, whether they're
mine or somebody else's in the group that I'm playing with,
and I'm I'm pretty cavalier about it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:52):
I really am. I've got to be a little bit
more careful. I still I still feel.

Speaker 3 (01:06:59):
Good about looking for snakes, except for that one incident
with the moccasin, and in fact, that one only two
days later, I almost stepped on a water snake. A
friend of mine and I were out at the golf
course just kind of casually fishing and just goofing off
trying to catch some catfish and carp and we had

(01:07:20):
walked that same probably a twelve or fifteen foot span
of shoreline, back and forth a dozen times over maybe
a half an hour, let's call it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
And darned if I didn't look down one.

Speaker 3 (01:07:34):
More time, and in that same area, right there, just
at my foot was curled up about three feet of water.
Snake wasn't anything dangerous, but like, holy cow, there's another
snake that I missed. And that concerns me that I'm
not picking up on them like I used to. I

(01:07:56):
had to go brush up my skills. I'm gonna go
looking for snakes. That's the best way to not find
one when you really want to find one.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
That's that's when you can't find one. Oh what good?
What do you got?

Speaker 3 (01:08:09):
Let's say Astros or Texans? The Astros? Okay, what time
do they play tonight? At six ten pm?

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
Six to ten? First pitch minute made park? Be there?
Six ten, be there? What about the Texans? What time
do they play? Do we know that yet? Hang taight?

Speaker 3 (01:08:24):
Kind of curious someone, Well, you know what, let's take
this last break. I'm not really gonna worry about them.
They'll be on soon enough. How about that? And I
do like their chances this year. I really do. I
do like the chances for the Texans. I don't know
how far they'll go, but with that asterisk that's on
every professional sports team, if they stay healthy, they certainly

(01:08:45):
could be in the conversation for a long time endo
this year.

Speaker 7 (01:08:49):
Ques.

Speaker 5 (01:08:50):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety the Houston Sports Fan
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Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
Back to the Doug Fike Showy welcome Back, final segment
of the program, holdly count It did go by kind
of fast. And by the way, Melbourne, you got beat
to the punch, Bonnie Joe waded in Texas play at
noon on CBS.

Speaker 3 (01:09:11):
Yeah, good luck to the Texans getting kicked off. I
got there's a little bit of time towards the end
of everything, I think where the NBA starts up too,
where all three of our teams are going to be
kind of bouncing around. Am I corrected or am I dreaming?

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
Yeah? I know, I was just asking you a question.
Never mind, never mind. Oh man, I'm gonna go talk
to Jeff. Maybe he'll pay attention. Sorry, no, come on,
you know I'm kidding. What's up, Jeff?

Speaker 14 (01:09:44):
This week in military history, you covered the nads Oup
operation in New Guinea.

Speaker 2 (01:09:48):
And I didn't go look or.

Speaker 14 (01:09:49):
We sing up the top of you or anything, but
I did. I want to say I had seen it before,
and I wish I wish it got more pressed, but
you covered it really well. MacArthur was there riding around
into D seventeen and the waistgun position and with the
zaggie full Colonel Dusty Rhoades up with the controls and
they asked the sergeant on the ground after it was over,
and he said, I don't see ike doing that.

Speaker 4 (01:10:10):
And this guy was not some.

Speaker 14 (01:10:11):
Sort of part of the staff or anything. This type
of unit we used when we took Corregador back, and
you had a different situation with guys landing on the
fair way of a golf course under fire rather than
New Guinea jungle. They were pretty good units. They were
not on the airborne, but they were a little bit
trimmed down, so they.

Speaker 7 (01:10:29):
Were a little leaner and meter.

Speaker 14 (01:10:31):
I appreciate that program very much.

Speaker 2 (01:10:33):
Thank you. Yeah, I appreciate it. I'm glad.

Speaker 3 (01:10:34):
I'm happy to do those. I really I learned so
much from doing those fascinating and.

Speaker 14 (01:10:39):
You don't steer into politics or proto politics or anything
after the fact. The personalities. No research is good.

Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
Yeah, it's just there's no reason at all. That's not political.

Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
That's just our country's history and safety. And I think
the men and women who do that deserve all the
attention I can give them.

Speaker 4 (01:11:00):
Yeah, thank you for You've covered that area a lot.

Speaker 14 (01:11:02):
It was one of the most most interesting part of
the whole war.

Speaker 4 (01:11:07):
A lot of terrible.

Speaker 14 (01:11:08):
Fighting combat down there, and probably one of the first place,
one of the worst places we've ever fought of the nation. Well,
I coget he was horrible.

Speaker 2 (01:11:17):
Well, thank you for thank you, Yes, sir, thank you
all right, let me click that. Yeah. I do enjoy
doing those things. I really do.

Speaker 3 (01:11:25):
Seven one three, two one two five seven ninety email
on me Doug pick adiheartmedia dot com. Alan Wade back
in set in South Africa with his dad about nineteen
seventy three playing a course. When Dad hit a ball
into the rough, I told him I was going to
go look for it, and he said, don't bother, I'm
going to drop another ball. I asked him why it's

(01:11:46):
only in the rough. He said one word cobra. Yeah,
that would have gotten my attention. That's some that's a snake.
I would not want to run into it, really is.
I think that one would would bother me tremendously. Oh man,
remind everybody Steve weighs in, and I remember this. Steve

(01:12:09):
at one point not that long ago, shared that he
had reached into one of the pool skimmers to clear something,
to grab something whatever, and lo and behold there was
a cotton mouth that had gotten pulled into that skimmer
basket and wasn't well. What that snake was doing was

(01:12:32):
just waiting for something to come along that it could bite,
so that it could get out some of its frustration
and being trapped in that skimmer bucket for however long
it was basket.

Speaker 2 (01:12:43):
Yeah, that's a good call.

Speaker 3 (01:12:45):
If you got a pool, look first before you go
sticking your fingers in there. I'm sure that didn't feel
really good.

Speaker 2 (01:12:52):
Thanks. Thanks for the reminder, Steve. Holy cow. Let's see what. Oh,
let's see what.

Speaker 3 (01:12:58):
Mark weighs in on the different between courage and stupidity. Oh,
this is interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
Courage is knowing it might hurt and doing it anyway.
Stupidity is the same, and that's why life is hard.
Interesting concept. Oh my gosh. Yeah, courage is knowing it
might hurt and doing it anyway. Stupidity.

Speaker 3 (01:13:24):
Yeah, it's the same thing and these different outcomes. Oh
my gosh, oh my word. Yeah I like that. I
like that a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
All right, well, let me go talk to Brandon real quick.
Let's see what's up. We'll maybe finish off, finish off
the hour with Brandon. What's up, Brandon? How you doing?

Speaker 9 (01:13:40):
Man, dog?

Speaker 2 (01:13:41):
Good morning? You watch it?

Speaker 4 (01:13:45):
No, it's okay.

Speaker 2 (01:13:47):
Yeah, not a problem at all, man.

Speaker 9 (01:13:49):
Yeah, you're yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:13:51):
I was not off. I was there.

Speaker 3 (01:13:53):
I was out here all three more three hours this
morning or yesterday morning?

Speaker 4 (01:13:58):
Where were you?

Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
I was wondering where you were.

Speaker 9 (01:14:01):
I was busy throwing some stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:14:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:14:05):
Sometimes you got things that get in the way. I
understand that. It's not a problem. Do you watch the
game yesterday?

Speaker 6 (01:14:11):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (01:14:11):
Yes, we were at the game.

Speaker 2 (01:14:12):
Oh really? Where were you?

Speaker 9 (01:14:15):
Base side?

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
I was there as well.

Speaker 3 (01:14:17):
I got to figure out where your tickets are, because
that's that's where we are.

Speaker 2 (01:14:20):
Its third base side, straight up. Yeah, I had some
friends in there.

Speaker 9 (01:14:25):
Do you know where the swing is? The fun of
the fun of the stand? Oh yeah, yeah, we're fun
of the screen.

Speaker 2 (01:14:36):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (01:14:37):
I'll have to check it out next time I'm down there,
I will I'll look for you.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
I'll look for you. I'll figure it out.

Speaker 9 (01:14:43):
We'll be we'll be at bird base line. We're to
the stage, Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:14:52):
I got you. Yeah, after after the game when they
had that stage out there.

Speaker 6 (01:14:57):
Yeah, hey, you don't have.

Speaker 3 (01:14:58):
To know why the turfle so bad in there, do you?

Speaker 6 (01:15:03):
Now?

Speaker 14 (01:15:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:15:04):
I can't figure that out.

Speaker 10 (01:15:05):
But opened because we're we were doing the uh not
the concert, we're just doing and Jack Brum and.

Speaker 3 (01:15:18):
Yeah, uh Blum and Dubon and somebody else were out there.
It was a faith and family I think is what
they called it, faith and family not or something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
After the game.

Speaker 3 (01:15:29):
Yeah, it was good, man, that was really good. All right,
Well I'm I'm just about to check out here, Brandon.
I'm gonna cut you loose, buddy, and I'll be watching
the Astros this sevenon.

Speaker 9 (01:15:41):
I will watched to all right, man, and so.

Speaker 2 (01:15:45):
Glad to hear from you. All right, we'll see you. Yeah,
that was a good game yesterday. Holy cow.

Speaker 3 (01:15:53):
It kind of it concerned me for about I don't
know the first two or three innings. I can't remember
exactly when when everything lit up, but once they got cooking.
They kept cooking, and boy, that little shot Altuo Bay
hit into the Crawford boxes. It's funny how some balls
don't quite get out there and some do.

Speaker 2 (01:16:13):
But that one, that one was a no Bryant brainer.

Speaker 3 (01:16:17):
Jeremy Pena shot in the right center field into the
bullpen out there. I didn't think was gonna get out
when he hit it, but that ball just carried forever.
So the good Astros are back, and once we get
Tucker up to speed, I think we can take care
of this division at least. So you got Astros at
six ten, you got Texans at noon, you got golf.

Speaker 2 (01:16:39):
If you wanted.

Speaker 3 (01:16:40):
It's a gorgeous day to be outside. Maybe get outside
and listen to the Astros game this evening as you're
finishing up eighteen holes at your favorite golf course.

Speaker 7 (01:16:49):
Do that.

Speaker 3 (01:16:49):
Will you get outside? Please get no excuses. Now it's
not hot anymore, it's beautiful. Get out there, have some
fun with your family, and I'll be back tomorrow on
fifty plus on KPRC at noon, and then right back
here at seven o'clock next Saturday morning.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
Thanks for listening, Idios