The storm is coming! Houston are you ready?

Call this part 2 of winter storm preparation. Doug, and callers share more tips on keeping those pipes working as the temperture drops in the 20's in Texas. TDOT is putting the brine on the roads and highways. What is the best way to remove it from your car so that your car doesn't rust? You don't want to miss the answers and sugesstions to this question. What will the speckle trout do once it gets cold? And where are the ducks and geese? I heard someone say they may be in El Campo,Tx. I'll let you decide. Does lures matter? Here's a tip. Never judge a lure. You have got listen to find out why, you should never judge a lure. This is some good stuff. Plus, Doug interviews Bill Brown from Big Easy Ranch. This ranch has it all for the outdoors sportsman. Be sure to listen because your next trip will be to Big Easy Ranch.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now Here's Doug Pike. Someday morning edition of the program
starts right now. And in case you haven't been outside yet,
wherever you were yesterday, it's colder today unless you were,
unless you were in Minnesota or someplace like that, I'm
getting buttoned in here. I was running up and down

(00:33):
the hall trying to find a pot of hot and coffee?
Is there none out there?

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Melvin?

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Or oh? Did you now? I trusted the newsroom. I
went in there and the only thing they've got in
there is a pot of yesterday's now cold coffee. So
I got to catch my breath. I've been running up
and down the halls. You should I haven't been running
the marathon. No, oh, definitely not. Cliff's out there. Cliff
Saunders is out there now running a half marathon after

(01:00):
being rousted from his probably pretty important sleep to come
in here because one of our guys woke up, basically
to find his The guy who was supposed to come
in yesterday woke up to find his car. I don't
know where he was parked, but wherever it was, it
went from being on four good tires to being on

(01:22):
four cinder blocks. And you can't drive a car on
cinder blocks, and this breaks. That's crazy. I heard about that,
you know. It's that's that's so frightening to think that
they're just and they are out there every night. These
people are out there, people who would just steal your

(01:42):
stuff and leave you hanging and don't give a petit
about what you have or what you work so hard for.
They they just wanted the easy way. And every now
and then the good guys win in those kind of
things where they they catch somebody in the act and

(02:04):
stop them. But I think it happens not as often
as it should. Basically, let's just leave it at that.
It's very frustrating. I had the same I talked about
it yesterday briefly. The same truck got stolen three times,
well once left on cinder blocks, twice stolen, and it
just I don't know. I wasn't brought up that way,

(02:26):
and I don't know how people turn that way because
they're not born. You're not born a thief, I wouldn't think,
but to just to try to enjoy your life more
by making someone else miserable. Just doesn't seem like the
way it ought to be anyway, Let's don't worry about that.

(02:47):
What we need to be paying attention to is this
weather that's coming our way. It's kind of it started.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
This is.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
The wake up call. This is the alarm going off
for what's going to happen over the next of days.
It's already in the low thirties. It was thirty two
in sugar Land when I left the house, barely freezing,
but freezing nonetheless, and overall, highs and lows aren't going
to do anything for the next couple of days, but
just get lower and lower. I think we're supposed to
bottom out in sugar Land at nineteen somewhere in there.

(03:19):
In Houston, the latest forecast I saw said twenty two
on what is it Tuesday night? It's going to be
so bad, Yeah, Tuesday night or Monday night. I can't remember.
I've lost track. I know I'm relatively close to finishing
all my preparation. I've got a little bit to do
in the I have two attics, if you will. I've

(03:40):
got a two story house and there's there's one ac
unit out second floor door, and then there's an The
other one is up another flight of stairs from the
upstairs into that that main part of the attic. It's
going to be a little chili up there this afternoon,
but it'll be a lot better than it will be

(04:00):
for the next couple of days they are. The potential
for snow continues to be pretty strong, and possibly several
inches of it. I think anybody who's talking about several
inches of snow though on the on the weather forecast,

(04:21):
is telling you something that is a worst case scenario.
We just don't get that much snow here, and we're
probably we're gonna get some. It's just a question of
where and how much, and it'll be the conditions look
like they're going to be dry enough for that stuff
not to melt and turn into freezing rain or sleet

(04:44):
or whatever, and I hope it doesn't. But the best
advice I can give anybody for the next seventy two
hours is just hunkered down. Just hunker down unless you
absolutely positively have to go somewhere. Don't the freeways are
covered with Now did you see that coming in Melbourne's
You come up post out, I came up post op. Okay,

(05:05):
I didn't know that. That's interesting. Yeah, they've got a
whole crew of trucks dropping this liquid brine onto the freeway.
That will it will hinder the formation of ice. What
it does is it it's kind of like salt water. Basically,
it turns whatever hits the ground, whatever hits the road,

(05:26):
It turns it a little bit salty. And as most
folks know, the salt water won't freeze at the same
temperature as fresh water. Hih, freshwater thirty two degrees. I
don't know what that brine, how much it's gonna change it,
but hopefully it'll keep our freeways open, because that's gonna
be it's already gonna be a hot mess out in
places where there's no brine on the road. They don't

(05:48):
they don't come around and brin your street, in my street.
They just do the major arteries and that's enough. The
question I have for somebody in this audience who can
answer it, is what is that going to do to
the under undercarriages of our cars? Because Brian, Brian is
salt and salt. Yeah, you know, that's that's a Once

(06:09):
that moisture gets on there and it starts really splattering
upward onto the bottoms of our cars when the sun
comes out and it gets nice and hot, and six months,
eight months, two years later, step into your car and
your foot goes straight to the concrete, right through the floorboard,
some flintstones that ship man. I I don't know, maybe

(06:32):
I'm overreacting, but anytime I hear brine on roads, I
think of all that exposed metal. They don't paint the
bottoms of cars. It's just metal down there and salt.
In this environment, in our coastal environment like this, it's
already bad enough. I don't I don't think we need
any more of that.

Speaker 5 (06:53):
It's gonna be a.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Challenging first half of the final week of duck season,
and I think that puts it mildly. I don't know.
I can remember back when I was waterfowl guiding out
there and Katie, even through the freezes in eighty three
and eighty nine, we went, We went out there, but
we didn't have much fun. Not when it's ten twelve

(07:20):
fourteen fifteen degrees, got a not a hard north wind blowing,
but enough north wind to get up under a couple
of layers of your clothing. That's rough. Man, it's rough
and it's gonna stay rough around here now for two
or three days. Hopefully everybody's got their pipes taken care of.

(07:40):
I actually went out this morning before I came in
here and put the cover over my sprinkler ball valve thing.
I'm gonna go out there and just shut the water
off to it. When I get home, I'll take that
cover off and kind of start over. I might even
throw one of those little hand warmer packs in there
right before I close it up and just let that

(08:02):
thing toast up to about eighty five degrees or so
and ride it out there. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia
dot com. We'll start with Kelly. What's up, Kelly, Hey,
how's it going.

Speaker 6 (08:17):
Good morning.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
I'm good. I'm feeling pretty comfortable about my preparation. And
that's all you can do.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
You know, Yes, yes, sir.

Speaker 6 (08:25):
Yeah. My family lives up in Detroit.

Speaker 7 (08:28):
So they always deal with that, uh, you know this stuff.

Speaker 5 (08:31):
On the ground.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Oh yeah, okay.

Speaker 8 (08:32):
All the car, Yeah, the car.

Speaker 7 (08:34):
Is always get messed up. So if you do drive
through this stuff, I always heard, you know, probably like
a day or two after. I mean, I'm sure you
don't want to do it every day? Is you would
probably want to spray underneath your car? Yeah, just kind
of read off, yes, sir, not a bad Yeah, that's
pretty much.

Speaker 6 (08:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, I wonder how long this stuff is going to
linger on our roads though. I mean, if if let's
say Friday morning, I wake up and I'll think, okay, yeah,
the freeze is over and then it rains a little bit,
is it gonna spray more salt back up under my car?
Or does that stuff just really kind of go away.
I don't think it goes away, does it.

Speaker 6 (09:14):
It just depends on the traffic.

Speaker 8 (09:15):
It'll get there for a while.

Speaker 6 (09:17):
So I mean you just have to keep cleaning the undercarriages.

Speaker 7 (09:21):
I would say probably for a good week.

Speaker 5 (09:25):
Man.

Speaker 6 (09:26):
Well, it could be different with each car. Just like
you said.

Speaker 7 (09:28):
I mean, those big hating lithers that come through spread
it out.

Speaker 6 (09:32):
So they can.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Spread it as far as they want, as far as
I'm concerned.

Speaker 6 (09:37):
Right, exactly.

Speaker 7 (09:38):
Well, I'm the first time callers for a long time.

Speaker 5 (09:43):
Enjoy the show. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
How long you've been in Houston?

Speaker 6 (09:46):
Oh I've lived here my whole life.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, Yeah, I'm a Lifer myself. Briefly. I was out
four years when my dad got transferred once when I
was little, and then went off to Alabama to play
baseball and college, and that's that was it for me.
I've been here ever since.

Speaker 7 (10:04):
I don't think out, yeah exactly, I don't think I'll
go anywhere.

Speaker 6 (10:07):
You're there.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
I kind of like you everywhere. Do you like to
fishing hunt?

Speaker 9 (10:13):
I do?

Speaker 6 (10:13):
I love fishing. I've never been hunting.

Speaker 7 (10:15):
My father used to do it up in Michigan. He
used to do the boat hunting, and I just wanted
to take us, but just never really got into it.

Speaker 6 (10:25):
Honestly.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Yeah, fishing, got it though I didn't.

Speaker 6 (10:28):
Oh yeah, definitely. I can't wait.

Speaker 8 (10:30):
I got a I got a four year old.

Speaker 6 (10:32):
I'm trying to get into fishing.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Oh man, you're you're at a great age. You got
to do. You promise me, Kelly, when you when you
take that four year old fishing, at least for the
first few times, and when they until they're really comfortable,
don't even bring your rod and reel, focus on your kid.
Oh yeah, yourself?

Speaker 6 (10:49):
Definitely?

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Good?

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Good good good, all right, Well holler when you get
send me pictures of that first fish too. That'd be great.

Speaker 6 (10:57):
Oh yeah, Sair, I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
My pleasure. Good time talking to you, man, Thank you
for the info. All right, boy, all right boy, that
was interesting. So we just got to kind of rent
it off. Maybe, I don't know. I'll see if Tim's
got something. What's up, Tim?

Speaker 8 (11:16):
Hey, Doug, hope you're having a good weekend.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
I am so far.

Speaker 8 (11:20):
Listen on that Brian solution they put down on the road.
After the freeze is done and they're through putting Brian
on the road, just just give it a couple of
days after that and then just take it either do
it yourself or take it to one of these car
washes that have the the undercarriage cleaning on it. Yeah,

(11:44):
and just run it through that.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Just run it through, knock it off, and don't worry
about it.

Speaker 8 (11:49):
That Brian doesn't last real long. And if we do
get snow and ice, the runoff will most likely take
take care of most of it. That it's not something
that's going to be there for weeks and week some week.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Lord huh.

Speaker 8 (12:02):
Yeah, and the salt on your car for a week
isn't gonna hurt it.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 8 (12:08):
I mean, I grew I grew up in Wisconsin, and
so we had lots and lots of salt.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Well, it's not like we don't have any salt in
our air either. I mean, anybody who's ever driven to
the beach has salt on the bottom of their car.

Speaker 8 (12:21):
Oh yeah, yeah. And it's of course, it's more it's
more of an issue down there right off the coast.
But yeah, it still does give us problems. To that
has a beach house down there, and he has to
replace almost all of his appliances every five six years.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
Oh my goodness. Yeah, that's rough.

Speaker 8 (12:42):
The salt. The salt's just brutal.

Speaker 5 (12:44):
It is.

Speaker 8 (12:44):
Of course, you can't live with that. And you can't
live with that. Their conditioner down there, and they they
they've tried their best, but I think he said usually
between eight to ten years they have to replace the
outside unit.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Holy cow.

Speaker 8 (12:59):
Well yeah, but any thing metal down there. And you know,
like I said, this is a it's it's a it's
a solution. It's not actually just right, it's a very heavy,
soft solution. But it is also no, no, well we
used that up there too. Yeah. Oh yeah, that's how
that's how we kept our sidewalks and our porches try

(13:21):
to keep them ice reage went out and bought rock salt.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
I don't know how people live up there. I really don't.
I just couldn't do it.

Speaker 8 (13:28):
You know, I never thought I wouldn't go back. I
was in the Service and I got out and ended
up here in Houston. I've been here for forty forty
years now.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
I thought you'd just try it for a few minutes.

Speaker 8 (13:43):
Well, you know, it's to me personally, I wouldn't. I'll
never move. Whatever you want to do outdoors wise, it's here.
It's here in Texas absolutely, except for except for snow skiing,
mountain skiing. Could probably you could probably go to cross
country if you go up to North Texas during the winter.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Well that's yeah, for sure you could. They'll they'll have
plenty of snow up there in about an hour and
a half. Probably, Yeah, thank you, Tim, Yes, sir, audios.
Oh man, that's that's good to know. That's that's comforting.
That's too straight, straight, good information from people who understand

(14:26):
it better than I do. A little bit that that
stuff's not going to be a big problem. And I
wouldn't even thinking about really, if we do get a
lot of pre sip on the freeway because of this storm.
Whether it's snow or sleet or rain or whatever, it's
gonna wash that stuff off. And by the time it's
all washed off, it's not going to be cold enough
to be freezing anymore. Hey, you know, so I figured it.

(14:48):
Texas have a lot of broken pipes, and I mean
Houston does. Don't say that out loud, I know, I know,
but I'm just thinking about how it could be useful
well by washing the undercap back going through the water.
Holy cast a solution. Oh, I see, you're talking about
the gist of pipes. This everyday pipes, not frozen pipes

(15:09):
in the houses. Yeah, oh yeah, Yeah. There's always a
puddle somewhere, right, Just pass through that big puddle and
that's what I want. The carriage go through that like
three or four times. Yeah, just loop around the block
a couple of times and you'll be good to go.
That's a great idea, Melvin, that's a great idea. We're
gonna take a little break here.

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Speaker 2 (15:39):
For us. For us, this is a really cold thing.
For most people who live north of I twenty, this
is just a just another day, and their construction is
built to take it. That's that's what bothers me is
we don't really build for this because it's such an anomaly,
and it's I'm sure it's more expensive to add had

(16:00):
all the insulation they do up north. But man, oh man,
sure be nice to have a North proof home down
here somewhere where you just just oh, there's a foot
of snow outside. Okay, not a big deal. Hey, Rick, Bie,
what's up man?

Speaker 8 (16:13):
Rick?

Speaker 6 (16:14):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (16:14):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Where is he? He put him back on hold. I'll
try again. There we go.

Speaker 4 (16:19):
What's up, Doug, Yeah, I'm here, Okay.

Speaker 10 (16:23):
I was just gonna chime in on the Brian thing.
Yeah soon less he brought that up this morning, immediately
takes to Clayton. He's in Darth, Carolina, sitting at an airport.

Speaker 4 (16:34):
Fixing flap back. But yeah, you know, he spent nine
years in Wyoming and Montana hunting, fishing guide and here
three of his vehicles are down here that he had ships. Okay,
And of course curiosity got me, and you know how
hard it is done for an old man and get
a flash light and get underneath and look underneath two
trucks and a call.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yeah, I'd still be down there, man.

Speaker 8 (17:00):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (17:00):
Anyways, I said, hey, what what you know that, Brian?
That stuff on them up was the roads? They keep
it one thing up there in those states, they do
keep the main roads clean.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Okay, yeah, yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 4 (17:13):
I said, what what do they use, Brian? Salt? You
ever wash underneath your truck? He says, I've been there
nine years, these vehicles that I ain't never washed nothing.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
Oh wow?

Speaker 4 (17:22):
And I said, well, what, they don't hurt nothing? He said,
it's mostly sand and it's not really salt. He says,
it's a some kind of an artificial silica.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (17:36):
And he said they really like it because as soon
as the stone starts the mounting, in their eyes, it
runs off the side of the that's a good place
the grass.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Oh okay, that's a good place for.

Speaker 4 (17:49):
I don't know what we use down here, but I
have seen out here where I live they dumping sand
like with my play sand and a plate plate, right.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen that used as well. It
just kind of crunches up the ice and it doesn't
give it a chance to three out of sheet.

Speaker 4 (18:05):
Yeah, it gives you traction.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
Mm hmm, one way or the other. It's gonna be
chili for a couple of days. Man, it is what
it is.

Speaker 4 (18:11):
It gonna get tough. We're just getting we're just getting
warmed up. Not no, we're getting colder, but we're you
know what I'm saying. It's oh yeah, it's rough for
the next forty eight hours for more.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yeah, I'd say it's solid forty eight because the temperatures
are supposed to bottom out. I want to say, it's
not even until Tuesday night it gets the coldest it's
gonna get. And that's Wednesday. Is it Wednesday night? Is
it that late? Well, I thought it was Tuesday night.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
I'm at it's Wednesday night. I mean, I'm off that far.
But Wednesday, Okay, Thursday's still freezing. Fridays I still got
a thirty two on Friday.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Okay, yeah, wow, yeah, well you're north of me, though,
you are north of me.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
Well, they warm up. I mean, one thing about it.
We get Thursday afternoon, we're home sight. The only thing
that is of this marsh we're gonna get could really
mess things up and really make things stuff. And one
last thing, Yes, protect your sprinkler system backflow device absolutely

(19:14):
made out of brass. Yes, sir, It's made out of brass.
And that's the only thing that I'll ever have problems with.
I don't care what I put on it. I guess
that brass is complex that I don't know. Anyway, I'll
talk that sucker for sure.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
I've got a big old cover on it right now.
That's supposed to be good down to five degrees and
I'm counting on that.

Speaker 4 (19:36):
Hey, don't get you little ice tift out there in
your garage and put that over it too.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Now, this thing is, it's about twenty six twenty eight
inches off the ground. I can't put a little ice
chest over it. I wish I could. I'll bundle it up.
Don't you worry. I will pull it up. But yes, sir,
all right, Ricky, thank you, careful men, audios. Yeah, it's
I'm glad. I'm I'm feeling a little bit less worried
about the brine because we do have a salty environment anyway.

(20:04):
Number one, Number two, I actually read that it shouldn't
that stuff shouldn't stay on the road. Now I think
I don't know what solution we're using down here. I
have a hunch that they have premium brine up north
where they have to deal with this stuff all the time.
And I think I even saw Lena Hidalgo talking yesterday

(20:27):
about having something like two snowplows. You might as well
have no snowplows in the city of Houston, which is
counting all the outlying communities and whatnot, basically sixty by
sixty miles thirty six hundred square miles and having two

(20:47):
snowplows is like, I'm trying to think of a really
good one here. It's useless, basically. I mean, it'll be cute.
They'll be able to maybe carve a path from city
Hall to police headquarters or something like that, but we're
not going to use snowplows. That's why all those trucks
were out this morning. I don't know, and certainly I

(21:10):
really hope they didn't have to rent those snowplows. Kind
of the way that that what's our electric provider that
failed us so horribly in the last one? What was that?
What are they called was that center Point? Center Point? Yeah?
Center Point had all those generators, remember all those big
giant generators millions of dollars to rent generators and they

(21:33):
never even turned one on back when Oh that was
with Beryl. That's what it was. It wasn't the freeze.
It was Barrel had all those generators could have put
the power back on somewhere. It didn't happen. We'll move
through it. We'll get through it. On the plus side,
I feel like speckled trout are as we speak bailing

(21:55):
out wherever they were shallow. They are bailing for deep water,
and they'll find it intracoastal. They retreat to marinas that
have a little bit, especially down in South Texas where
most of the base systems are just so bloody shallow.
They'll get up in marinas where the bottom has to

(22:15):
be a little bit farther below the surface to accommodate
bigger boats, and they'll huddle up against the concrete structure
that makes those marinas because that concrete holds heat from
sunlight and the water there might be one two degrees
warmer than elsewhere, so they'll find their way. I'm I've

(22:41):
got my fingers crossed on a minimal, minimal fish kill.
If a fish kill, I haven't checked Galveston's temperatures to
see what they're supposed to be. I know it's gonna
be cold, it's gonna be below freezing several times, I'm sure,
but they still are going to stay six seven eight
degrees better than us. I'm pretty sure. And hopefully these

(23:04):
fish of ours, the ones we're babysitting and have been
since springtime with that new limit of only three fish,
three fish on a fifteen to twenty slot, which really says, Okay,
you can take home some really good prime eating fish,
but our better spawners, our trophy class fish, and our

(23:25):
little bittyfish, we're going to protect them because one average
spawner is going to cough up a bunch of little
fish during its year of procreation. And the more of
them we can get to sexual maturity so that they
can go out and do that, the better off we're

(23:47):
going to be. And I think we figured this out.
I really did. I think we've got it figured out.
I think our fishery is going to be in good shape.
We may lose some, like I said, but hopefully not
too many. Let's take a little break.

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Speaker 2 (24:11):
So welcome back, eight thirty four already on Sports Talk
seven ninety The Doug Pike Show. Thank you for listening.
I do appreciate it. I'm gonna send an email back
to Lisa in just a few minutes, so Lisa, hang tight.
I saw your email and I will respond to it
probably during the next break. And yeah, I do have
some news for you on what you're asking. So let's

(24:32):
go talk to if I can find my cursor here
there it is. Let's go talk to Brandon. It's not
working in here again, Melvin. You're gonna have to see
him up there we go. What's up, Brandon?

Speaker 12 (24:43):
Good morning, mister bike.

Speaker 8 (24:44):
How are you on this cool morning?

Speaker 2 (24:46):
I'm just watching it get cooler?

Speaker 12 (24:48):
Man.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
It was thirty two in Sugarland this morning.

Speaker 12 (24:52):
Yes there, yes there, Yes, they're right. Guarantee you. All
you can do is bundle up. I love your intellectual show,
and I just wanted to tell you, I mean, I
really do.

Speaker 8 (25:01):
I mean that seriously because it is.

Speaker 12 (25:04):
And I have two prominent rice farmers in my area,
and they've been in the rice business combined I would
say sixty years of experience between the both of them.
Both of them are straight shooters. And everybody wants to
know where the geese and the ducks are. And now
maybe I mean i'd be I might be off on
what I'm going to say. Man, I want you to

(25:25):
chiy them in on it. But we don't have the
habitat anymore. We've lost rice water. We've lost rice water
due to drought, and like one of the rice farmers
told me, there's too many straws in the pond now
and they're slowly getting squeezed out. So we don't have
the habitat now. If we had the habitat, I would

(25:46):
venture to say, there'd be I can't say the geese,
but I would know that the ducks.

Speaker 8 (25:50):
Would be here.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
Where you go here.

Speaker 12 (25:54):
The other day at a restaurant.

Speaker 8 (25:58):
And I.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
Was talking to Brandon. What happened? What happened? Hang on, Dave?
Hang on, Meg? What are you doing? Melvin? God? Leave
you buy his books and send him to school? And
he licks the glue off the pages. That's my that's
my fault. What's up? And now I'm back to you, Brandon.
I'll get to you in a minute. Dave. What's up?

Speaker 12 (26:23):
So I don't know how much.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
You heard of that conversation a good bit. I really did, Yeah,
And I think what it is is that habitat is
probably sixty percent of it, agriculture, no habitats. I'll put
habitat at just fifty because we've still got a lot
of open ground out there. Agriculture is probably thirty and

(26:46):
just the burger stopping farther north because they're being pampered
in babysat all the way down the flyway because people
up north like to hunt them too, and they figured
out a long time ago. If they make it comfortable
for those birds to stay, they're not going to fly
an inch farther than they have to to find food

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and cover and roost water. That's all they need.

Speaker 12 (27:12):
Well, I don't think that's very advisable. I mean, nature
has a way of doing the way that things that
should be done, and you shouldn't manipulate it.

Speaker 8 (27:22):
That's the way I look at it.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
Every time, every time we build a house or a
road or put up a gigantic warehouse on the prairie,
we nibble away. It's something that used to be really special,
and the people who are doing the nibbling aren't aware
of how valuable those natural resources are because they're business people.

(27:46):
They want to be able to ship things. They want
to be they want to be close to the rail lines,
they want to be close to the interstates, and they
want to put their stuff up wherever they want to
put it. And if somebody shows up with a big
old nut, big enough wheelbarrow full of money at a
farmer's house and says, hey, I need your two hundred
acres here. How much you making on that two hundred

(28:07):
a year? And this is why I'm making about X. Well,
how about if we pay you forty X to buy
your property? Well, then it's just it's sad. But that's
what happened to that katy prairie. It's gone, man.

Speaker 8 (28:20):
Oh.

Speaker 12 (28:21):
I can remember as a kid coming home from church
and people would pull on the side of the road
full shir katie wherever, and I mean just to sit
there and watch the gates. I mean I could probably
shoot them with a pelty gunner. And I mean when
they got up, you couldn't even hear yourself because it
was so loud.

Speaker 8 (28:38):
There were so many geese.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
I still have one frame of film that I shot
many many years ago, about about a mile north of
five twenty nine out there on that Katy prairie, and
I would bet anybody who would like to take the
bet that I have more geese in that frame of
film than has ever been captured in one frame of film.
It was just a stupid, big concentration. There were three

(29:01):
or four roosts that emptied out and dumped into this
one field, coming from all directions, and we were done hunting.
It was kind of like you said. There were about
ten cars just pulled over and watching them, and a
little airplane was coming and airplanes get them up. And
that airplane got within about half a mile and those
birds just started lifting up off of that field and

(29:22):
they just they just just swamped us. I mean, you
couldn't hear. You could scream at each other and not
hear anything. It was amazing.

Speaker 12 (29:30):
Those are the good old days before this break.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
But thank you, Brian. With you, I just I don't
know what we're ever going to do about this. I
wish there was something we could do. Thank you, Brendan.

Speaker 8 (29:43):
I wish we could too.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
Yeah, that's that's tough, losing all that now, Dave. Now
the shining I know, well, yeah, but it's shining through
chilly air unfortunately.

Speaker 13 (29:58):
Well, yeah, you know what. And I was thinking on that.
I did shut the water off, and I think I'm
gonna turn it back on for a while because I
need to fill some more stuff up for dishwashing water.

Speaker 8 (30:09):
And stuff like that.

Speaker 13 (30:09):
And then but I was telling Melvine, I still got
there's two trees back here. You know, I rent this here.
They fell down the last time we had the thing.
And you know they ain't hurting me here because this
is a big piece of property. It's kind of on
gold Hill golf Course here in the back. And I
saw the Australian blue heater. I saw this white feathery

(30:32):
looking thing going and I looked and it was his
tail sticking up on the other side of that tree.
My question is my question.

Speaker 9 (30:41):
I got in on the tail of that.

Speaker 13 (30:43):
You know, like my brother Harold, he's got that boat
over there in that canal that goes out to the
towards the dam over there. And what were you saying
about the concrete because he had a bulkhead put in
there with a pier.

Speaker 4 (30:57):
But I haven't been there to.

Speaker 13 (30:58):
Look and see what it's like concrete.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Well, no, it's not changing. The freeze or anything. But
what it does is it soaks up sunshine and it
keeps that water just a tad warmer than the water
anywhere else, and those those fish are gonna seek out warmth.
If they find anything warm, they're gonna snuggle up to it.
Down along the coast. Years ago, we had problems in
some of the marinas around Rockport and whatnot, where people

(31:24):
would go in there and those big speckled trout would
get in there in a winter freeze and just be
huddled up, just stacked like cord wood against there. And
these people were going in there and just snagging them
with treble hooks and taking them home.

Speaker 13 (31:38):
And hey, that must be the concrete ships that sunk
over there. Maybe that's why the people fish around there,
because the sun goes, you know, gets it warm with
that concrete warmed up, and then go from there.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
The whole jetty is a is nothing but dark colored rocks,
and they suck up that sunshine on the on the
Quintana side of the surf side or Freeport jetties in
the in the wintertime, the sun hits those rocks and
there are some really good trout to be caught this
time of year. A couple of days after a front,
when the sky clears and the sun gets on those rocks,

(32:13):
it's it can be really really good. Not too many
people know about that either, you.

Speaker 13 (32:18):
Know what that's. And then the mud too, the dark mud,
dark blood doesn't pick up the heat.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yep, in the shallows up in there.

Speaker 5 (32:28):
I did.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
I did.

Speaker 13 (32:29):
Get talked to my brother Harold. Uh, he said around
his dock over here. I said, well, what's the big caps?
She caught there already? He caught a three pounder there.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
That's good solid. Yeah, that's a good fish. I feed
a couple of people.

Speaker 13 (32:41):
I'm telling you. No, when like you know, back in
the day, my mom when I caught those thirty catfish
that time, I didn't know much about silet, but she
liked them skinned. You never tried to skin thirty catfish?

Speaker 2 (32:53):
No, I have no intention either. I'll just call you hey.

Speaker 13 (33:00):
But I made it through there, and then you know,
I took that over to my mom. She loves frying
them hole, you know, and then even and like on
the perch, uh, you know, the scale them and all
that stuff, and then you know, get them all cleaned up.
And then the best part is the crunchy tale.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
Yeah, oh yeah, you bet man, Oh dude, I gotta run, man,
I'm running late, yes, sir adios. Yeah, and I'm thinking
about eating fried catfish right now. That sounds pretty good.
I don't know where I could get any around the house.
You got any place over in Missouri City that's got them.

Speaker 3 (33:38):
And does it?

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Well?

Speaker 3 (33:39):
No?

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Not not well. I see that's the problem. Lots of
places off of fried catfish. Yeah, but if you go
back in the kitchen, you'll see the chef that and
I wrapped chef in quotes, just shaking it out of
a box. Yeah, Gordon's.

Speaker 9 (33:54):
You know.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
What are the other ones? What's the other fish stick brand?

Speaker 3 (34:00):
What?

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Man? All I knew was Gordon's. But yeah, they're shaking some.
I just in my head I see a commercial where
they're shaking frozen fish sticks out Cap'm. Scott made a
very good point, very good point about only having a
couple of snowplows around here. We also don't have anybody
who really knows how to drive them, now do we? Now?

(34:21):
Do we? And I you know they might who knows
what this administration would do and this county would do.
I think the Brian's going to be enough I hope
we don't get four inches of snow around here. That's
a lot, and there'd be some serious accumulation where the
wind drifts it a little bit. I haven't seen that

(34:44):
in many, many years, maybe once or twice in my life.
And there's supposed to be some eighties or eighteen hundreds
event where we had twenty inches of snow or something
like that. Melvine, are you Seren? Yeah, it was a
graphic on TV last night and it said nineteen eighty
five twenty inches and that was the record all time. Wow.

(35:05):
And even the well even yeah, but even the guy
talking said that that's a typo. I think it's eighteen
ninety five or eighteen hundred and something. It wasn't. It
wasn't in the twentieth century. Okay, so, but still twenty
inches of snow in Houston. That just goes to show
you how how temperature extremes have existed forever. Well, I'm

(35:27):
looking at the news right now, live on Channel two
breaking news, yeah and what not breaking, but it's seeing
the snowfall five point eight inches in sugar Land where
we are. No, I'll take that bet, yeah, I'll take
that bet right now. That's that's they're trying to tell
you what what the model show is the absolute anomalistic

(35:49):
maximum that it'll evered.

Speaker 5 (35:51):
It.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
I just don't see getting five inches of snow in
sugar Land, right, you know. I mean it'd be great
for the kids. Yeah, it'll be great for the kids.
It'll it'll cause anxiety for people who are trying to
take care of their houses and their pipes and all
that stuff. And then a couple of days later it'll
be okay again and we'll patch the leaks and do
what we got to do. Wish nothing else. We can

(36:13):
make it happen. Yeah, absolutely we can. Speaking of getting
stuff done.

Speaker 11 (36:17):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety breaking Sports News on
Facebook twenty four to seven.

Speaker 6 (36:23):
We'll get that information to them.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Yeah, man hold account all right, Melvin, I'm gonna give
you an opportunity. I'm not officially gonna play the Texas
Temperature game today because if we do, we might run
out of time. But I'm going to give you an
opportunity to just show off your skills, sharpen those skills
of the money. Yeah, so if we were playing, and

(36:47):
let me refresh this, and I want to make sure
I've got an accurate right now? Temperature? Okay, yes, I
do so if we were playing, what would you think
would be the current low temperature in Texas? Aren't low
temperature in Texas throughout the whole entire great state of Texas,
the entire state of Texas, all the way from the
Rio Grand at Port Isabelle up to the Oklahoma border.

(37:12):
Let's go twenty one twenty one. You like that number,
do you know?

Speaker 6 (37:16):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (37:17):
You want a minute, I wish I was what is
the high temperature at present in the state of Texas
presently as we speak? As we speak, forty three? You
did much better with the high. Okay, it's forty six,
so you only missed that by three. However, oh no,

(37:38):
when you said that the low temperature is twenty one degrees,
you missed it not by one but by one digit.
What you had you had too many digits in your answer.
So if you just take away the two, then leave
the one. That's the temperature up in the Panhand's serious.
I'm dead serious, man, that's what's coming our way, dude.

(38:00):
That is at Dalhart. Dalhart currently one degree. A little
while ago, Dumas was at one degree and Dalhart was three.
Now they've inverted, and Dalhart is one and Dumas is three.
We got this, Texas, we got this. You can handle.
They can have that up there. You know what we
ought to do if they ever give us any trouble

(38:23):
up in that part of the state, it's just take
the Red River and just draw a straight line right
dead west from where it intersects in that little point
at what's that little town there, Childress. Just draw a
line straight west and give Oklahoma that whole chunk. Now,
we're not giving up any I know, never mind. I

(38:43):
just would. It would make for a little tighter Texas
temperature game, but I think it's far more important to
hang on to Texas. We might have some valuable resources
in that area. I'm sure there are. There's pheasant hunting.
I know there's that, and there's some pretty good white
tail hunting. There's some big deer up in North Texas, man,
really big deer. I did a hunt up there years
ago when it was actually very cold and met a

(39:05):
man named Barefoot Bob. I've talked about him on the
show many times. And this guy, even in the dead
of winter, he was not wearing shoes anytime I looked
at him the whole time we were there. Never put
on shoes. Okay. He was as characters go in the
outdoors in the country. He was an unparalleled character. This

(39:31):
guy was just I could take hours talking about the
weird stories he told and were told about him, all
the different things he did. I'm trying to trying to
think of whether it's better to tell the story about
him picking up a dead skunk on the side of
the road and explaining it by saying, hey, five bucks
is five bucks. Somebody was going to give him, give

(39:54):
him five bucks for that pelt, and oh my god,
what just a mmmm he picked it up off the
side of the road man and just grabbed it by
the tail and threw it in the back of his truck.
They can't had plans for a hat. He also to
retrieve a pig that was getting away from one of
his hunters. It had been wounded. He stripped down in

(40:17):
winter and swam across the river, caught that pig in
the middle of the river, grabbed it by the tail,
and swam back and got out of the water and
then said shoot him again. Wow to his hunter. And
this guy, this guy's amazing. He he was tough, man.
Now I have a question for you. Yeah, we could

(40:39):
call him barefoot Bob. Bob. That's because he doesn't have
any shoes or he's got feet that are like bare feet. No,
it'd be a r e okay, naked foot Bob. Yeah,
and their toughest shoe leather. He might as well have
shoes on him. The way you're talking, he's going to
grab the pig. And yeah, he doesn't care about the temperature.
He didn't about anything. What he's walking on. He could

(41:01):
probably walk on broken glass in their part bay or something.
Oh no, no, no, no, he was part something, but
it wouldn't I don't know what it was. I'm not
part part Bigfoot. That might be it. Wow, got a
little gene. It's a little yetti gene in him somewhere. Oh, mercy,
we gotta take a little break here when we get back.

(41:23):
In addition to at some point talking a little bit
about the PGA tour, I'm gonna get Billy Brown from
Big Easy Ranch on the phone to talk about the
award that he was he and his golf course were
given just recently, just a few days ago, as a
matter of fact, and I just want to congratulate him publicly,

(41:43):
and we'll do that when we get back on the
way out of.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
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Speaker 2 (41:57):
Now here's Doug Pike. Alright. Second hour of the program
starts right now. Thanks for listening. Certainly, do appreciate it.
I have got on the phone and I'll bring him
up here in just a second. I gotta say some
good things about this guy though, I've got on the phone.
One of the guys a man I met a couple
of years ago, now I guess it was. And I
got to go tour his place with him, and we

(42:20):
spent a better part of an hour riding around, and
at every turn he told me about something else he
had plans for on the plans for this, and plans
for that. And he wanted to make big easy ranch
out there north of Columbus a showpiece, a showcase, and
a place where his members could come out and do

(42:43):
pretty much anything they wanted to do relative to the outdoors.
And his vision is such that he either it's go
big or go home. With Billy Brown and the dedication
and investment he's made in that place proved out once
again with announcement last week that the Covey at Big

(43:06):
Easy Ranch was named the best new golf course in
America by Golf Digest for twenty twenty four. Billy, how
you feeling, man? How does that make you feel?

Speaker 5 (43:18):
Man? I'm on cloud nine. It's so trying to wake
up as like a dream.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
Holy cow, Yeah, it's a dream. It's a dream come
true for sure. But when you and Chet Williams sat
down to put that golf course together to cut the deal,
you had to have had that in the back of
your mind, didn't you. Were you thinking about being that good?

Speaker 5 (43:41):
Oh? Yeah, yeah. It was a process we.

Speaker 14 (43:45):
You know, before we sat down, I traveled around the
state and really around the country, sure, and looked at,
you know, the top golf courses and decided, okay, what
I wanted to do. And and you know, with you know,
you always make goals and all businesses you try to do.

(44:05):
And my goal was to be number one in the
state and top fifteen the country before I even started.

Speaker 5 (44:10):
So I was going to leave no stones unturned to
try to get to that.

Speaker 14 (44:16):
And I knew I had a beautiful piece of property there,
and that's what golf a good golf course starts with,
you know.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
Yeah, you don't have any you have to have the
you have to have the right land. And boy, did
you ever have it with that layout.

Speaker 5 (44:30):
Yeah, we were very fortunate.

Speaker 14 (44:32):
I got lucky when I bought that, you know, twelve
fourteen years ago.

Speaker 6 (44:35):
Sure, but but that's it was a process.

Speaker 5 (44:39):
And then you know, Chad had already done.

Speaker 14 (44:41):
My poor three golf course, so I worked with him
about eight years earlier, and.

Speaker 5 (44:48):
So we went through everything that we wanted.

Speaker 14 (44:51):
And you know, having been a member of Whisper and Pines,
which was number one rated golf course for the last
i know, twelve thirteen years. Oh yeah, I knew what
he was capable of, and he did Houston Oaks.

Speaker 5 (45:04):
So I just told him, I want those things.

Speaker 14 (45:08):
And in addition to that, I want these other things,
you know, like the running creeks that run through the
property to be pumped and recirculated, and you know, I
want the fast greens, and I want the surrounds to
be very augusta like where you know, you could you
could put them up to the thing, but at the

(45:30):
same time, if you you could put them off the
green too.

Speaker 9 (45:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
I've experienced that, Billy oh Man. And I've also experienced
the anti gravity effect of just rolling hills and greens,
where my flatland brain looks at a putt and goes, okay,
it's gonna break about six inches left, and then I
hit it. It breaks about a foot right, and it's
breaking up hill. I don't get it, man, but no,

(45:56):
it's yeah. This is a well deserved on from from
the magazine and it just it just it says a
lot about how devoted you are to everything and just well,
just like the Eagles Nests talk about that, that was
your latest project up there, right, That's correct.

Speaker 5 (46:14):
The Eagles Nests came about. You know, I played at
blue Jack quite.

Speaker 14 (46:19):
A bit and they had it just an incredible turn
and number twelve where you could go and go to
the barbecue shack and have something there, and it was,
you know, just a cool idea. And I said, you know,
I'm going to do something like that. But you know,
we have a big old heel there, sixty five foot
heel overlooking the whole golf course where the number nine

(46:42):
comes in. So I want to I want to do
something very very dramatic and have something where.

Speaker 5 (46:50):
When people go, they.

Speaker 14 (46:51):
Can if they want to just stay for you know,
fifteen twenty minutes, you can.

Speaker 5 (46:57):
If they want to come there after, they can come back, you.

Speaker 14 (47:00):
Know, enjoy the views and the fire pits and you know,
just just the whole thing. And that's how the Eagles
Nests came about.

Speaker 8 (47:09):
You know.

Speaker 14 (47:09):
I studied it and studied it and found some ideas
that I liked on Uh, when I did some Google
searches and an old I guess ranger station up in
North Carolina was division with the stone and the big
wood beams, and yeah, got it to the architect who

(47:32):
happens to be the best architect in the country for clubhouses,
and uh, he went to work and came up with
exactly what I wanted. So it was a dream come true.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
Truly amazing when I was up there that last time
with the guys from around the state, that the view
from up top there is is stunning. That big putting
green down there, that that's just something else is going
to keep them out there till after dark. Billy, they're
not going to leave that place.

Speaker 15 (47:58):
Well it's uh, we're going to keep them even beyond
that because we're putting in lights there too. Oh man, Yeah,
so will you build a putt until nine ten o'clock
at night?

Speaker 5 (48:10):
You know, we, Doug, we do a lot of corporate
entertaining out there.

Speaker 14 (48:13):
We got a lot of corpus numbers and being in
the corporate world for you know, forty plus peers.

Speaker 5 (48:20):
I knew you know that that was.

Speaker 14 (48:22):
That would be a cool feature to be able to
have a you know, food after the round and go
in there and do some additional putting and gambling betting
on you know how guys do uh.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
And and women too.

Speaker 5 (48:36):
I mean, we have a lot of women that I
love to come up to.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
You know, you mentioned the putting in the corporate aspects.
Golf a great corporate game, right. Everybody that I know
who plays golf at all loves to be invited to
some sort of a golf outing. But for for deals
where it might take a little more than just riding
around in the golf cart and playing for four hours,

(49:02):
there could be some pretty pretty dialed in conversations done
on a putting green that couldn't be done in a
golf cart, couldn't.

Speaker 5 (49:09):
There That's correct?

Speaker 14 (49:11):
That yeah, no, no, it's it's it's a lot more
a lot more fun. And you know, the after round
is just as important as before the round, where you
can actually ask him about some business, you know.

Speaker 5 (49:25):
If you want to.

Speaker 14 (49:27):
And so that's that's all the whole idea, you know,
got started. I wanted again something good and is actually
another contest that Golf Magazine puts on as the best
turn building in America.

Speaker 16 (49:39):
And we're we're gonna, we're gonna, of course go for
that too, absolutely, you know, so we're you know, it's
all about it goes Doug and everything you know you
do in life, and you know, some things you want
to you just want to do in first class and
and the good things will happen after.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
Everything you do is first class. Billy Brown, you know
that you're being kind of humble. Now stop it, okay,
you you can take credit for all of this because
it would not have happened if it weren't for your
vision and your your dedication. You're talking about ranger stations
half a country away, and then you're that's how far
you went to look for exactly what you were looking for.

(50:19):
That says a lot about how how strongly you feel
about making sure you get it right the first time.
That's off to you man, I appreciate that. Oh yeah,
my pleasure. So you still got room for more members
and stuff up there?

Speaker 14 (50:31):
Oh sure, sure, we're.

Speaker 5 (50:33):
We're getting closer.

Speaker 14 (50:34):
We're probably within twenty twenty five percent of being full
for membership.

Speaker 5 (50:38):
So we figure with this with this year, it's.

Speaker 14 (50:43):
You know, going to peak a south probably by the
end of this year. And you know, we have to
save something for lots we have, ah, you know, about
sixty lots. Yeah, so we have about twenty five twenty
eight already.

Speaker 5 (50:59):
Sold and by another sixty.

Speaker 14 (51:02):
We're not doing a big Old Rose residential development, but
I got to save.

Speaker 5 (51:06):
Some of them for my people that buy lots. So yeah,
we're getting real close.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Good for you, Billy, couldn't happen to a better guy.
I got a question for you, and without saying who
or or what, how far away does your most long
distance member live.

Speaker 5 (51:31):
That's a good question.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Because something of this magnitude is going to attract attention from.

Speaker 15 (51:37):
A long ways away obviously, right right, Yeah, we're on
the national scene yea with this, yeah, being the best
in you in a country and.

Speaker 14 (51:46):
You know, hopefully top one hundred to a country, I
would say.

Speaker 5 (51:53):
Yeah, maybe Colorado.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
Oh wow, sure that makes sense. There's a lot of
people who like to leave ve Colorado in the winter time,
just like we like to leave here in the summertime.
And that just passed correct. Yeah, that's a good called.

Speaker 14 (52:06):
Well some of them are, you know, from this area. Yeah,
but they spent most of their time up there. But
they also got a house here. Yeah, and you know,
but there's the permanent residence, is there they you know,
they can get a national membership, which is going to
probably be a really big draw going forward.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
I think it will as well. Billy, congratulations to you, man.
I really appreciate your time this morning.

Speaker 14 (52:27):
Absolutely, Thank you, Doug, and come and see us man,
the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
I do want to do that. How'd you hit him yesterday?

Speaker 5 (52:33):
By the way, Well, I didn't play.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
You worked, didn't you?

Speaker 5 (52:39):
You worked well? I worked until about twelve.

Speaker 14 (52:44):
I had some things that wanted to get done before
the freeze.

Speaker 16 (52:46):
Yeah, because you know, we're we're covering all the greens.

Speaker 14 (52:50):
And oh man, you know, I just wanted to make
sure that we were in good shape, to make sure.

Speaker 5 (52:56):
After the round all the greens were covered.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
That's why everything looks good up there. Billy's as you
got hands on everything, man. Congratulations, really, I appreciate your
time this morning, absolutely, sir, Thank you, thank you man. Audios.
All right, we got to take a little break.

Speaker 11 (53:12):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety Houston, Sports online at
sports seven ninety dot com.

Speaker 3 (53:19):
Back to the Doug Bike Show.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
The heat is on, it'd better be on. It better be.
My wife pranked up the heat. I got bandage to
the snores quarters a while back, and that's upstairs in
a bedroom up there most of the time, and downstairs
she'd crank the heat up. I don't know when she

(53:42):
turned the fireplace off last night. She might have left
the flu open, but anyway, that that heater was just
running almost all night long.

Speaker 9 (53:49):
It was.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
It was pretty hot upstairs, pretty dog on hot. In hindsight,
we got rid of the carpet in the downstairs a
long time ago, and having just that wood floor there
and really not nothing else to insulate. Some of the
cold I think creeps in almost like through the slab

(54:11):
around the edge of the house and gets on that
and the tile floor in the kitchen and the wood
and the den and whatnot, and I think that affects
the ability of that house to stay nice and toasty warm.
It does a good job that. The systems we've got
are good, but every now and then it gets a
little gets a little chili. If you walk around barefoot

(54:32):
about you melvine carpet or other tile wood? What a
combination carpet? And what's yeah? Same here? Same here? Do
the wood floor seem cooler? Don't they? Definitely?

Speaker 8 (54:43):
I don't.

Speaker 9 (54:43):
Man.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
I'm going to go buy a giant rug and just
move everything off of it and then move it all
back onto it, at least for winter. I'll roll that
thing up and store it. I've got a storage unit
I could put a big old rug in if I
had to. Not going to be too bad. I think
we'll be all right. I'll be active fishing probably, uh
possible by the weekend. That could happen. I got a

(55:06):
friend of mine who's going to Australia, I believe tomorrow,
and has created a makeshift hothouse in his garage in
which he is going to put and this is this
is one of those life hacks. Okay, so you gotta
put a bunch of I'm gonna quiz you, Belvin. You've
got to put a bunch of a bunch of plants

(55:27):
in a makeshift just a big like about a ten
or twelve foot square of plastic ceiling in the garage
to floor that you can kind of semi close up.
I mean, he didn't build a house inside his garage,
but he's gonna be able to put these plants in
there and keep them warm. Okay, okay, what do you
think he would use to keep them warm? We'll go

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get go, get that call, get Jeff's call, and then
I'll I'll just tell him. Then i'll tell you when
you get done. You just have to be in suspense
for a minute. What he did, Uh, he said years ago,
a couple of years ago, when we had another freeze,
he used a little space heater, and he worried about
that catching fire out there in the garage, and by
the time he would know it, it could have been

(56:10):
a pretty big fire. Something might have gotten overheated. Who knows,
the heater, the plastic whatever. He was concerned about that,
and then he found somewhere online somebody had this really
good idea. What you do instead of running that power
sucking heater. Instead of running that, what you run you

(56:32):
get a garbage can, a big, full sized garbage can
and you fill it with about thirty gallons of water,
and then you put in an aquarium heater that just
warms that water to about seventy five or eighty degrees,
and it keeps that heat at just a really nice
level for those plants with just almost nominal risk of

(56:56):
any kind of fire or anything. It's not gonna get
nothing's gonna melting's going to get too hot. It's just
that warm water keeping the air in there not only warm,
but a little bit moist too. So I think that's brilliant,
I really do. All right, let me go catch up
with Let me go catch up with Bob first, and
I'll get to Jeff.

Speaker 8 (57:17):
Bob.

Speaker 5 (57:17):
What's up, man, Good morning.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
I learned a lesson the other day. Okay, now I'm.

Speaker 17 (57:24):
Seventy seven years old, but I knew quite a bit.
I was over one of these little ponds chickens if
they put the rainbow trout, Yeah, yeah, very small pond.

Speaker 6 (57:35):
This chid come up.

Speaker 17 (57:36):
He's got about a six inch It looked like a shiner,
but real sin, what is he going to call? He
pulled out about a seven and a half pound black mass.

Speaker 5 (57:47):
Out of there.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (57:48):
I'll never judge a lure again in my life.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
Don't judge a lure, and don't judge a lake by
its cover. You don't know what's in it.

Speaker 17 (57:57):
I couldn't believe it. Yeah, I couldn't believe it. I mean,
this is a a half acre pod.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
Yeah, it won't support many of those fish because it
doesn't it can't grow enough food. But the king of
the hill is going to get all at once.

Speaker 17 (58:12):
Yeah, and I'm sure he's eating plenty of rainbow.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
Oh yeah, that thing might be eight pounds by the time.

Speaker 17 (58:18):
He's Yeah, and they kind a couple others after that.
But I mean I saw this big.

Speaker 2 (58:26):
You know what, you know what that lawyer looks like
to those bass don't you looked like a shad looks
like a rainbow trout.

Speaker 17 (58:35):
Well, that's true.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
They just stuck that thing with those little rainbow trout
and that's he was just matching the hatch. That's awesome.

Speaker 4 (58:42):
I guess that's what it was.

Speaker 17 (58:44):
I just wanted to share that with you.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
Yeah, I appreciate it again. No, that's a that's a
great lesson right there. Okay man, Yeah, thank you you too. Audios.
All right, let me catch Jeff before this break. Jeff,
what's up man, beautiful Davil.

Speaker 9 (59:00):
What time are they going to roll the snowplows in
the morning?

Speaker 2 (59:02):
We're a word, holy cow. Yeah, there's the whole television
broadcast weather thing has become a little bit of theater,
kind of like the news on mainstream media, unfortunately, and
they all try to scare you a little bit more

(59:23):
than the other. And in fairness to them, they are
speaking to audiences that start around Huntsville and stop around Victoria,
So they've got to tell the truth for the Huntsville people,
or at least up to Conroe. And because everybody in

(59:43):
Conroe can can watch Houston's news stations, TV stations, and
everybody all the way down to at least El Kampa
is watching those things.

Speaker 9 (59:55):
There is the line where it starts getting dicey up
in the hill country just out of San Antonio, or
is it going to be closer than that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
It'll be a little closer than that. Yeah, we're expecting
some pretty nasty stuff just basically north of I ten
is where it's gonna be worst. And and then you
get up another twenty miles and it's gonna be worse. Still,
it's gonna be a pretty nasty storm. It really is.
There's a lot of precip coming with it and bottomed
out temperatures depending on you where you are, anywhere from

(01:00:24):
the low teens so that maybe the low twenties, and so.

Speaker 9 (01:00:27):
I guess we're having that transpake is this is kind
of pretty actually.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
Yeah, yeah, it's It's not bad for the environment, and
if you prepare for it, it shouldn't be a problem.
So hopefully we'll get it all done and get through it.
And like I said, the only thing I worry about
is broken pipes. I don't I don't care that it's
cold outside. I just don't want that cold to get
into my pipes and freeze one of them. And I

(01:00:52):
take pretty good precautions. I've gotten through all the other
freezes knock on wood without having.

Speaker 9 (01:00:59):
A way for your I wait for your debriefing next week.

Speaker 6 (01:01:02):
Have a good one.

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
Thank you, hen you, thanks for calling. I'll see. Oh
bored him to death with all that, just bored him
to tears. Oh my goodness. Seven one three, two one
two five seven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
All the way out.

Speaker 11 (01:01:19):
We are sports Talk seven ninety are ready listen online
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Speaker 3 (01:01:25):
Now more Doug Fike.

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
It's not a whole lot of snow any plays worth
these things saying this type of songs are played a
love might see, that's for sure.

Speaker 16 (01:01:35):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
I've been all over the Caribbean and I just fell
in love with it when the first trip I made
into that part of the world, I just it was
so relaxed and so fun and the music was just
so Yeah. It kind of just makes you kind of
it doesn't really make it stomp your foot. It just
makes you kind of tap your toe a little bit
and just lean back and forward and you just go
with it. I love it down there, and most of

(01:01:56):
the stops I've ever made in the Caribbean at Sunrise
were going fishing and we're gonna catch a lot of fish.
Absolutely love it down there. Seven on three two one
two five seven ninety. Email on me Doug Pike at
iHeartMedia dot com. Let me go over. I gotta get back.
I gotta get this new this other website up. Where
did it go? PGA tour dot com so I can
get us an update from the American Express out there

(01:02:19):
in California. Hang on let me get this. Click, got
that click, Come on, come on, leaderboard, let's go. It's
cold too, moving slow like molasses. It's not even looping
there it goes, thank you for that. Here we go.

Speaker 9 (01:02:39):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:02:39):
They're playing by the way three courses, so it's kind
of it's a little bit confusing, uh for the first
couple of days. But today everybody gathers up uh for
the home stretch on the same golf course. Stepstraka leading
away by four. He shot sixty four yesterday and just
at a quick glance, it doesn't look like anybody beat

(01:03:01):
that score unless it's down the Oh yeah, Frankie Capan
the third shot sixty four as well, but wow, so
did JT posting, So it was out there to be gotten.
I kind of thought he was going to be the
only sixty four, but there were three at least scept
straca Is at twenty three under Charlie Hoffman, Jason Day,

(01:03:23):
justin lower All at nineteen under par, four shots off
the lead. There's a chance one of those guys could
go out and chase down Straka if he stumbles at
all out of the gate. And then you've got Patrick
Catley and Mark Hubbard at eighteen and Justin Thomas alone

(01:03:43):
at seventeen but six shots back. I don't see him
making any kind of a move there. I really don't.
I don't see they're just once again, there's just too
many people between him and the leader for that many
of them not to not to match whatever he could do,
and if they match what he does, then he doesn't

(01:04:04):
win the golf tournament. We're kind of running into the
end of all the hunting seasons, and next Sunday at
sunset will mark the end of duck season around here,
and then I believe there's one one more week maybe
for snow goose hunting. If you're trying to go hunt
Canada geese, you might as well not worry about it. Unfortunately,

(01:04:25):
our Canada goose population in Southeast Texas well. Talking to
Mitchell Holder yesterday about the geese out down around El
Campo where he is, that's the biggest concentration of geese
in the state of Texas, and the entire number of
geese that were and these are all estimates, but the

(01:04:48):
entire snow goose population in Southeast Texas now is roughly
ten percent of what it was back when I was guiding,
so just imagine for every goosehoe see seeing nine more
and hearing them in the night sky as they moved
back and forth from the east side of town to
the west side of town, or from the the Katie

(01:05:10):
Hockley Prairie down toward the coast a little more and
got into some of that ground. All of those birds
were here. It's just I'm not exactly sure what the
percentage and numbers are on ducks, but I would suspect
they're pretty close to the Seine. When we had all
the geese, we had all the ducks too, and all

(01:05:32):
being a kind of an estimate, there were a few
that stopped elsewhere, but man, it was. It was wonderful then,
and not to not to knock what we have now.
It's certainly been a rough year for waterfowl hunters, and
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna try to sugarcoat it
at all, because I don't think that would that would

(01:05:54):
bode well for the future of water hunting around waterfowl
hunting around here, it's still worth going. You just if
you're older like me and remember a different time on
those prairies between well, really, when I first started hunting,
you didn't have to go much west of Highway six

(01:06:15):
to get into agricultural land. There wasn't a house until
you got out to oh Gosh, practically to fullsher and
you just there was plenty of hunting going on out there.
Now you got to go way out just to find
someplace you can shoot a gun without getting in trouble
for it. And the birds just can't find places to feed,

(01:06:41):
they can't find places to roost, not nearly what they
had before, and so it's become a little difficult. But
I don't want to discourage any younger hunters from getting
out there and taking swings at it, because there's a
lot of effort underway to enhance and proof what's going

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on with our waterfowl, to get more birds into the
into the populations, and as those efforts continue, it'll just
make it better, it really will. It may not, it
may well. I don't think it ever could get back
to the levels of the eighties and nineties. I just
don't see how that could happen. There's not enough ground

(01:07:24):
on which to grow rice, even if we started growing
rice as fast as we could down here anymore. There's
not enough roost water, there's not enough agriculture to feed them,
and so it's tough. And on top of that, like
I've talked about before, you've got all the effort north
of us to keep those birds from coming down here. Now,

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if ever, this, if ever there was a front that
would push ducks and geese our way. Whatever's left up
there north of us, this is the one and so
we and we won't get many opportunities to find out
before or the seasons over for duck hunters, but at
least it would be encouraging as the process continues to

(01:08:08):
where the buttoning up behind the season starts to happen,
where there's still a lot of traffic on the prairie.
It's just not so early in the morning or so
late into the evening for scouting whatever. And maybe just
to see a lot more ducks or see a few
more geese come on down would be encouragement enough to
get fired up for next season. I will be for sure,

(01:08:30):
I'm not gonna quit going just because there aren't as
many birds as there used to be. I'm gonna try
to make the money. Believe me, as a waterfowl hunter,
even when it was so great so many years ago,
Not every field had one hundred thousand geese in it.
There were lots of fields where I would take my
people in there knowing that we might see a few

(01:08:51):
thousand geese that day, which would be It wasn't ideal.
It really wasn't a couple thousand geese in the field
in the evening and then the next morning you go
back into that field. If you see half of those
geese come back that way, and you get chances to
decoy some of them, you can put together a pretty
decent hunt. And that's what they're doing now. Not every

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field can be hunted for geese, not every pond can
be hunted for ducks. But if you manage the property
you've got and you make sure you don't overhunt it
and just flat run them out of the county, good
seasons can be made. Just was take just what took
place at Waterfowl Specialties with Mitchell and his crews. They

(01:09:33):
are very careful about how often they go back to
the same well, so to speak, and that bodes well
for everybody in the operation, and it bothes well for
other hunters who have the opportunity to maybe if you
only have one place to hunt, then just don't hunt
as often if you have multiple places to hunt, rotate
them even if it's just pond to pond, if they're

(01:09:56):
quarter mile half mile apart, depending on whether you're talking
about flat prairie or flooded timber or whatever. And there
is flooded timber around here too. More than you would think, Ah,
you're you're gonna make me break right now. I'm just
so I get I kind of get carried away talking
about waterfowl hunting, don't I You see that maybe maybe

(01:10:16):
a little bit, there's something you can get carried away about.

Speaker 1 (01:10:19):
Your rockets and astros live here we are Sports Talk
seven ninety. The conversation continues this as The Doug Pike
Show nineteen fifty.

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
On Sports Talk seven ninety, The Dug Pike Show, Thanks
for listening.

Speaker 9 (01:10:33):
Something to do.

Speaker 2 (01:10:33):
I appreciate it. Fixes Mojo. Mojo, who hails from the
colder climate, puts those plants in the garage and then
just puts a light bulb over them. That also works
for sure. That's just enough heat to keep them on
the right side of the dirt, so to speak. Poor

(01:10:55):
faux Pro. Faux Pro's in rough shape. He's got a
bad fever. He's trying to drive home this morning, get
himself tucked in, sit around the fire, and hang out
until that in the winter. Yuck go away. We got
a few days of this stuff. Let me double check.
I'm kind of watching the forecast. The one I trust

(01:11:15):
as much as anything is the Weather Channel forecast, because
that's just some people in a studio or in a
room with a lot of computers in it somewhere that
is just they don't have any other reason. Where did
it go?

Speaker 8 (01:11:35):
Boy?

Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
I was just right on the Weather Channel forecast, and
all of a sudden the KHOU forecast popped up somebody
just a minute ago. By the way, I'll double check
and see who it was in a second. But somebody
sent me, oh, this is the wrong site. That's what
it is. Okay, here we go.

Speaker 8 (01:11:51):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
For Sugarland, that is where I don't know. I've got
it back to. It defaults to Houston, so that's just
stay there. And uson tends to be about two degrees
warmer than sugar Land, and the low four tonight is
going to be around twenty nine. So it's here's the
first day of freezing low Tomorrow twenty eight. Low Tuesday

(01:12:13):
night twenty one low, Wednesday night twenty eight low, Thursday
night thirty one. So that's one, two, three four, five
straight nights of freezing temperatures. The daytime highs, though, the
good news is at Tuesdays high has been upgraded to
about thirty five. For a while it was showing thirty
two for a high, and that would have been kind

(01:12:34):
of dicey. I didn't want to see that. Anyway. It's
a winter storm and looks like we're gonna have about
five straight days of it, and then come Friday Sunday
and fifty three degrees, then sixty four, and then on Sunday,
Holy cow, seventy degrees for the high with scattered thunderstorms.

(01:12:56):
Though it's gonna punish us for being warm. No, you
can be warm, but you can't be.

Speaker 5 (01:13:01):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
The good news is that'll get all that ice off
the road Melbourne. That will help a lot man the
grocery store by the way last night, I don't know
what it is, what DoD bananas keep you warm? There
wasn't a banana in HGB last night where I shot,
not one, not even an old, crusty, dirty, nasty, beat
up looking one. You're sure it's not because of the marathon,

(01:13:22):
because once we run the race usually they give you
bananas and after the race and water forms Melbourne. How
many marathon runners you think we got in Sugarland in
Missouri City? That many that they're hoarding all the bananas.
I don't know, Nah, no, no, man, I guess it's

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just a banana thought. You know, we'll have a hard
time running a muck all right now alone a marathon.
There was some guy, well, he was laughing about marathons
and whatnot, and he just conceded that he was terribly
out of shape and that if he did try to
run one, they could time him on a calendar. You
ever hear that joke before? A hundred times or so,

(01:14:04):
it's it's apropos. I can still, like I said, I
think it was Friday or maybe Thursday I talked about this.
I actually I still have a little bit of run
in me. My my joints can take it, and I've
I've broken out when my wife and I have been
walking recently and run off, not far and not fast,
but running nonetheless. And there's a there's a part of me,

(01:14:27):
It's a very small part, but there's a part of
me that wants to just keep running, you know, run
Douglas Run. But then there's this other part of me
that says, you're gonna snap something. You've run a lot
of miles in your life. You're gonna snap something if
you just take off doing it and and don't slow down.

(01:14:48):
For I might just get on a treadmill somewhere and
run for a while, go out to where I play
golf and go in the gym there and just just
jog it out at a fairly slow speed to start.
The problem I had was running slow is that it's
it just feels like it's not really running.

Speaker 9 (01:15:02):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
I want to speed up to where I'm actually running
and not just these people you see that are like
they're kind of fast walking, but they they got their
arms going like they're running, but when you look, they're
not moving hardly at all forward or just barely moving.
So what kind of time you said you told me
during the break that you used to run the half?

Speaker 3 (01:15:21):
Huh?

Speaker 2 (01:15:22):
Yes, I used to run the halves and like competitively
or just to to finish, just to challenge myself. Yeah,
just to get through it. Yes, And how hard was
it to get through the half? Not that bad? I
did well. My halfs were I started off doing five k's,
then I did six k's, then I did uh you know, okay,

(01:15:42):
that's what I'm okay all that stuff, but uh, you know,
you kind of build up your tolerance, so you get
to the half and I got to like a nine
minute mile pace, okay, and I was doing pretty solid.
Yeah half uh, half marathon in like uh, you know,
two hours. Although let's share what you at our fifty
nine minutes. Let's share what you just found about the

(01:16:03):
time of the guy who won the half marathon. Oh wow,
huh this guy. Somebody sat down. This guy did the
half marathon in fifty nine minutes and seventeen seconds. That's
just that's thirteen miles and one hundred yards. Correct me
if I'm wrong. It's going like six a six minute miles.
He's racing, dude, he's he's sprinting that man zero. Ok okay,

(01:16:28):
that's what I can run. I'm gonna run the okay
like that. Oh yeah, I may use that at some point.
That's a pretty good one, right there.

Speaker 9 (01:16:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:16:36):
I used to do five ks. Now I just do
okay nice as much as I'd like to do it,
and my coworker down at the paper for so many years.
Joe Dogg had actually ran one marathon and he got
a mug and he kept that mug on his desk
for like two years and always would put it where
anybody who walked by where we were could see it. Oh,

(01:16:59):
Houston Marathon, as you run it, and he just go, yeah,
that's bragging rights, Yeah, well you know, and he did,
to his credit, he finished it. He did finish. And
I suspect there are people at those races who don't finish,
and I don't certainly hold anything against them. They made
the attempt. But it was cold this morning though. That's
why that guy probably ran at fifty nine seventeen. He

(01:17:20):
wanted to get finished and get back in the car. Man.
All right, Melvin, that's gonna do it for us. I'm
out tomorrow and possibly out tuesday for fifty plus, depending
on the weather and the roads. I'll be in here
if I can get here safely. If not, I'll be
back when I can. Thank you all for listening. Stay warm,

(01:17:41):
get the pipes covered, get the pets inside, get the
plants taken care of, and we'll all get through this.
I'll see you on the other side, thanks for listening.
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