The Doug Pike Show 8-4-24

In this episode Doug talks about chumming the water for your favorite fish, whether its catfish, trout,red fish, or bass. Dougs gives you the trick to get the fish to bite. Dougsgives an  update on the Texas Star Tournament, see how you can win lots of big prizes. Also, Doug and the callers talk about some modern ways of staying cool, with cooling devices. Doug and the callers talks about cooling vest, cooling rags, and just old fashion water and shade. Whatever, you do don't let this Texas heat get the best of you. Are your dogs ready for hunting season? What should you be doing to get them in shape and how to keep them performing their best? Be sure to listen in as Doug as he shares his experience on this topic.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now here's Doug Pike. We go. First words I hear
from my cracker Jack producer moment, How we're having problems again?
Oh way, we got problems? Oh great, Well that makes
me feel right at home, Melvin. Oh yeah, man, this
is just just another day. I wouldn't have it any
other way. I wouldn't know any other way. There's always something.

(00:35):
This tough is so when it's all, when it's all
jelling and working exactly as it's supposed to, it is amazing.
It is absolutely amazing, definitely, But every now and then
it gets a wild hair and decides to act up
like a little toddler. Right, and no, I don't want

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to work today, you know. Okay, it's just fantastic. We'll
work around. You know. It is a very how should
I describe it? Out there? A very calm day along
the Gulf coast. At least I'm looking for one piece
of paper. Then I can focus on what I'm trying
to do here and I don't even see oh here

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it is. No, that's not it. That's not it. I'll
find it the wind. I checked it because the first
picture I saw from down on the coast showed pretty
choppy water, and it didn't seem right. It seemed very calm.
Yesterday afternoon, I was outdoors for about three hours, three
and a half. Maybe I talked to some people down

(01:41):
on the coast. Oh yeah, it's just almost eerily quiet
and calm down here, and it threw me off a
little bit. But then when I looked around and saw
what it was, that was just the result of a
very small, isolated thunderstorm. So if it's crackling and rumbling
outside your house right now, don't be alarmed. It's not

(02:01):
going to last. Only got to be there for a
little while longer, and then we have a according to
the Weather Channel, anyway, we've have a pretty smooth ride
all the way into the afternoon and maybe even late afternoon.
And then there was note that there might be possibly
could be potentially a scattered thunderstorm this afternoon, after about

(02:26):
four I found the piece of paper I was looking for,
Thank goodness, seven seven ninety Email me Dougpike atiheartmedia dot com.
We talked a little bit about snakes. Yesterday, we talked
a little bit about the heat, and I have some
information there I'll share in just a minute. We talked
about fishing down on the coast, didn't talk much about
bass fishing, but Faux Pro was out there. Maybe he

(02:47):
can give me an update on his crappie and white
bash trip from yesterday. He did give me a pro tip,
he said, because when I confess that my friend John
Paulis and I had caught three turtles on our trip
where we expected to catch a lot of catfish and
maybe even a really big carp, that was a signific

(03:09):
a straight up, that was our mission. Our mission was
to catch one big carp and until we do, one
of us does. Anyway, I'm gonna keep dragging him out
there because I owe him a favor. And at some point,
it's especially in August when it's calm outside. He's probably
not gonna feel like I'm doing in any doing him

(03:30):
any favors, But it's it's the thought that counts, right Movan,
Wouldn't that be the case? Oh of course, yeah, My
intentions are good. I want him because he hasn't caught
a big carp since he was a little kid. I
want him to have that opportunity. I want it to
work out, and until HGB runs out of Colonel Corn,

(03:53):
I'm gonna keep trying. That's a very inexpensive bait, by
the way, and I don't want to go into it
just add nauseum. Because everybody's heard me talk about using
corn soaked and vanilla for bait for little kids, for perch, fishing,
for catfish, for carp for rainbow trout. They all love

(04:14):
that stuff and they all eat it up, and apparently
so do the turtles. The turtles, I honestly feel like
when I went and chummed that place, and I'm not
gonna dwell on this, but when I went and chummed
that place the first time before I took John back there,
I feel like the fish would have come on to
it because I had just done the same thing a

(04:36):
day or so two days before. Actually I skipped one day.
But they're not that picky and they're not that smart,
and so I feel like the fish should have been there.
What I feel like happened though, because there's also in hindsight,
there's two problems with the place I chose to fish,
and it's only it's only one of maybe three where
I can. Because of shoreline vegetation, that greatly limits where

(05:00):
I can make these attempts. Shoreline vegetation and interference with
the primary function of that property. We can't get in
the way of people doing other things out there. The
bottom line is that the wind blows to the prevailing
wind blows directly into that shoreline. So when I throw
all that corn out there, and all that little vanilla

(05:20):
sent and starts wafting off of it, it just piles
up on the shoreline. It doesn't really go across the lake.
Were we able to fish across the lake, I could
throw the chum out there and the wind would pull
it out into the middle of the lake and every
catfish would get a sniff and come looking for it.
The other issue over there, well, no, I don't want

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to get into all that. Let's just jump over all
of that. It's August. It's not going to be terribly
comfortable out there, but you are still going to be
able to catch plenty of fish aal on the coast.
This is generally speaking now, it's still going to be
that ten percent of the fishermen catch ninety percent of
the fish. Very little is gonna change as regards that.

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But if you happen to be one of the ten
percent who can figure out the formula and actually get
out there and get amongst them, you're gonna do very well.
You should do very well. You're gonna go through a
lot of small trout probably, but if you step back
and think about what the bigger trout might be doing
that the little trout aren't doing, i e. Eating bait

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fish rather than eating shrimp that are migrating out, you're
probably gonna do very well. There's big fish down the
coast especially. I'm hearing nothing, but I got another text
message last night. Hey man, you really ought to be
down here. You can get here soon. We can have
a lot of fun. There's a lot of fish on
the beach. There's a lot of fish in the bay

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anywhere you want to go. And that makes me hopeful.
They're the bass. I think they're in summer mode. They're
gonna get out deep, find a thermocline somewhere and bury
themselves in a little bit cooler water if at all possible.
But they're fish and there they have to eat at
some point, and so if you're out there, you're going

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to catch them. If you're not, you're not. If you're
not entered in the Star Tournament, by the way, which
continues all the way through Labor Day, You're not going
to catch a tagged redfish. You're not going to catch
a catch a big fish and maybe have your child
well if they catch it, maybe win a win a scholarship. Start.
The Star people got in touch with me and a

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lot of other people in my business this week that hey,
please remind everybody that there are very few of these
tagged fish caught so far this year, only two actually
that qualified for the truck, boat, motor and trailer package.
That leaves a bunch of them out there. And the
issue I think is not with I don't even think

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it's that there just aren't enough people out there who
are registered. The problem is we been dealt all kinds
of cards around here that made it difficult to get
out and fish. There was a little thing called Barrel
came rolling through here, Derecho whatever. I don't know where
that name came from or why that wind event was

(08:16):
even given a name, but it was and that changed
a lot of people's plans for longer than they anticipated.
Roofs and fences and trees and all these things came
down and had to be put back together before a
lot of families and a lot of diehard fishermen just

(08:38):
really could get back to fishing. On top of that,
you have, especially with a hurricane, you have the change
in the water levels, and the change in it just
changes everything along the coast, and that becomes a problem
because what happens is when the tides swell up as

(08:58):
much as they did, and then and then there's more
wind brings it from the other direction and just mishmashes everything.
Those fish, the tagged redfish that were released in places
as Star always does, as the tournament people always do,
they release those fish in places where many people fish.

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They want those fish to be caught because the tournament.
But I think by actually by rule, the tournament has
to give away all those prizes. They're all paid for,
they're all taken care of. All we got to do
is get some registered winners able to pass the polygraph
test and we give them the price. But there just

(09:45):
haven't been that many of them caught because who knows
where they are now. So even if you usually fish
and really obscure places, even if you usually fish away
from the crowds. You might want to be sure you're
signed up just in case, because there's no telling where
those things are. Might be a retention pond in sugar Land,
for all I know. That'd be kind of cool. It

(10:07):
will take, it will take quite the tide event too.
I think put a tagged redfish into a retention pond
in sugar Land. My son caught one, actually, and I
put a picture of it on Facebook. He and one
of his buddies were riding around and just out of
the blue. They always carry fishing rods no matter where
they go, and his buddy said, hey, I got a

(10:28):
place where we can go fish over off Buffalo or
on Buffalo Bio. Now, this is probably maybe two miles
off the West Loop if that, and maybe two miles
north of the Galleria if that, on maybe three north
of the Galleria. But it's it's right smack in the

(10:50):
middle of Houston, basically West Houston. And his first cast
over there he caught about it, I'd say, about a
twenty twenty two inch red fish. Why that fish was there,
I have no idea how it got there. I know
how it got there. It swam and it swam all
over the dam. What's that little fishy song, Melvin? Do
you remember that? And they swam, and they swam right

(11:12):
over the dam. I'm just bringing any pells saving Nemo
to the movie. Oh lord, no, this is this dates
back to when I was a little kid. Yeah, oh yeah.
It's kind of a jingly. It's kind of a if
a nursery rhyme and a jingle had a baby, and
I don't even know what the product would be. It
makes no difference. Really, let's pause, Let's take a break

(11:35):
to Melbourne. What is that? Oh boot? But there it
was right there. Swim, said the mama fish, swim if
you can. And they swam, and they swam all over
the dam. That reminds me of Tuesday. That poor carp
was trying to swim upstream and just had no chance.
The wall carp aren't known for jumping. They're they're not

(11:58):
they're not Olympic high jumpers. They're just kind of like
the They're more like shot putters. And this poor car
was swimming against a significant current being pushed out of
that swollen lake and compounded by wind pushing in the
same direction, and it just had no chance of making

(12:18):
it up and over the ledge that it had to
climb even to even get close to get back and
getting back into the main lake. So it finally relaxed
and waddled right over the wattle, right over and into
somewhere out into Oyster Creek. By the way, if I
seemed distracted at all throughout the remainder of the show,

(12:40):
know that Melboyn came in here and was able to
get me live coverage of the Olympic Golf going on
right now. They played through. One thing I'm noticing already
is that they don't really put leaderboards up here much,
so it's kind of hard to tell the last leaderboard
I saw. I've got it on my green here. Let

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me get to it. Oh where did everything go? Oh
my word, Oh my goodness. No, that's not what I
want at all. Well, all the tabs I had put
up here to have ready to go have all disappeared.

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But I have my little bookmarks here, so I'm gonna
check this out. Olympic Golf leaderboard courtesy of the PGA
Tour because that's the fastest place in the best place
I could get it. John Rum continues to lead. He
is at eighteen under par through eight holes. He's four
under on the day. Tommy Fleetwood three under on the day,

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and he's halfway through the round and sixteen under par.
Decki Matsuyama and Xander Shuffley both at fifteen and more
or less halfway through. Scotty Scheffler at four team Now
he is four under through ten holes and certainly making

(14:08):
everybody in front of him pay attention at least. How
could they not? How could they not pay attention to
the world's number one who is four under through ten hole. Now,
he's still got quite the hill to climb. He's going
to have to continue in that direction. He's got to
pick up four more just to get where Rom already is.

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So I don't know how concerned John Rohm would be
with a four shot lead over Scottie Scheffler when Rom
himself is almost halfway through his round. But there's a
lot of golf left to play there. Certainly is the
Is the tournament course set up that hard? I don't
know if it's that hard, but I know that the

(14:53):
best players in the world as chosen by their countries,
and this is something I want to get into a
little bit later. Actually, I'm jumping over some other things. Yeah,
I'll wait till the nine o'clock hour to get into
the golf stuff a little more deeply. But I do
have a question that I think merit's asking when we

(15:13):
get there, And for those of you who are who
are fans of golf and follow it even moderately closely,
I think it'll be an interesting thing to think about
and talk about. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.
After we talked about the heat yesterday and different ways
to cool off, Rudy sent me word Rudy by one

(15:37):
of my favorite sources of information. Rudy comes up with
stories that I usually look around pretty good, and he
comes up with a lot of things that I haven't
found outdoors related. And yesterday he sends word about these
cooling devices that are all over the internet, and because

(15:58):
actually because there are so many of them on the Internet,
I question a lot of them. He mentioned something about
cooling mits, and when I went digging on the internet,
I found cooling this and cooling that, and all shapes
and sizes something to fit over pretty much well, almost

(16:19):
every body part, and honestly, some seem more functional than others.
I'm frankly a little suspect of these cooling vests that
incorporate little tiny fans down around your waistline that circulate
air upward and out through your neckline and your shoulder line,

(16:44):
because if it's ninety five degrees they're just blowing wind
up your shirt basically. And if it's ninety five degrees outside,
guess what the temperature is of that air they're blowing
up your shirt. If you guess ninety five, that would
be right. It's just blowing hot air against your body. Now,
I get it if a little a little breeze feels

(17:06):
good when it's ninety five, but that's wicking moisture off
of you. This this device, I don't think, really wicks
any moisture off of anything. It just keeps on and
on there. Scottie Scheffer laid one into about ten feet
on I believe the what would it be? Oh there

(17:28):
he is, ooh my, yeah, he's playing eleven, I think
it is, and pretty close he is. So all these
all these devices are are cute, but some of them,
a lot and a lot of them you can get
for next to nothing, and that you're gonna get what
you pay for, too. But there are some that look
pretty good, honestly though. Anything that doesn't incorporate ice or

(17:51):
ice packs or just something that has liquid that can
hit your skin and be evaporated with a little breeze ease,
then it's it's just probably not gonna help you much,
if at all. And that's unfortunate because people are gonna
be duped into buying these other little things that go
around your neck, There's things that go around your waist,

(18:14):
there's things that just anywhere and everywhere complete vest and
why you would want to put on some heavy vest
full of ice that that's certainly not something you could
use to do any sort of an outdoor activity. And
once the ice melts, then what and you gotta you
gotta call kings X and race back to the convenience

(18:34):
store for another cooling jacket. I just nah, oh my gosh, yeah,
it just be a soggy, nasty mess. I'm just you
know what I'm gonna do, Melvin. I'm just gonna stick
with how it's been done for the last what seven
eight hundred thousand years, I don't know. Water electrial electrolytes

(18:55):
are kind of new. They're a new thing. We had
never heard of electrolytes when I was a little kid,
But welcome it. Adition to summer health and so water
and shade and maybe a time machine so I can
go back to when I was about ten. I could
stay out inside all day in the heat and humidity
of a good old fashioned Houston summer and be kind

(19:16):
of ticked off when I had to go back inside.
Even though we had a very fancy single room air
conditioner in the breakfast room. We were uptown, Melvin, we
had an air conditioner hanging out the window. My goodness.
Oh yeah, I'm not trying to brag or nothing, but
we had a cool room in the whole house. Literally, yeah,

(19:39):
one cool room. And buddy, if you got outside that
room on August the fourth, it was gonna be rough,
you know. You adapt though, it's amazing how easily I
made a trip to the Caymans once and a It
doesn't matter why I was there, but I make this
trip to the Caymans, and I'm put in a bungalow

(20:03):
that's beautiful and nice and right on seven Mile Beach
when there were only about a half a dozen properties.
Even if that on seven Mile Beach. There was a
holiday in there. These they were called the Cayman Sands.
They're probably still there. And there were about eight or
ten bungalows. And I walk in and get into my

(20:24):
bungalow and have these beautiful, big, tall screened walls around
the perimeter, and I'm kind of looking around. There's lights,
and there's light switches and lights and stuff like that.
But man, there's no thermostat. And I just kind of
kept looking around and looking around. There was no thermostat.

(20:44):
There was nothing whatsoever to hang on. I got to
move this over here if I can somehow. I'm getting
the phone. I'm getting all kinds of phone calls, and
I can't see him because Melvin's full screen in here. Man,
like watching the movies TikTok, TikTok. Anyway, there was absolutely okay,

(21:05):
let me go get I got a boy. I got
calls to take here real quick, branding you there, uh
oh oh, there he is. Yeah, what's going on, buddy,
I'm gonna try and catch a couple of these calls.
I couldn't see him. All I had on my screen
was Melvin. So what's up in the astro? I saw
the Astros lose. I was crushed. I was Yeah, I

(21:25):
saw that. I was watching the Yeah you were. I
was watching tennis first. How was that?

Speaker 3 (21:38):
Ah?

Speaker 2 (21:38):
Gods? Okay, well that's step in the right direction. I didn't,
I'm not. I haven't watched any of the tennis, to
be honest, I haven't watched golf yet. Yeah you should.
It's on right now. I do know that.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
What is it on?

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Is it on?

Speaker 4 (21:59):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (22:00):
I think it was on. Let me think direct TV.
That's how we got it in here. We got it
on direct TV. Okay, yeah, pull it up. It's pretty
good stuff. Man. I don't have direct TV, but I
have it all Okay, okay, I have.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
I have, I can.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah, I bet you could. Yeah, I'm sure you could
get it there. That should work. All right, Hey, I
gotta run catch Aaron before we get to the break man.
All right, all right, buddy, hanging in you bet.

Speaker 4 (22:33):
All right?

Speaker 2 (22:34):
Will indeed you too, Brandon. Thanks good to hear from you.

Speaker 4 (22:36):
Man.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
All right, let's go get Aaron real quick.

Speaker 4 (22:38):
Here.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
What's up Aaron? Hey, good morning day. How are you
doing this one?

Speaker 5 (22:42):
I'm good, good, good, Well, I just want my two
cents in about staying cool.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah, you know, uh, what we do.

Speaker 5 (22:52):
You know what we do.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
That how the air gets trapped up up.

Speaker 5 (22:57):
Top, you know in these in these roofs's work houses
that we're working, so it's heat to stay hydrated.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
And the next thing, those those neck.

Speaker 5 (23:05):
Gators or whatever you want to call them. Yeah, those
seem to really work. They you know, they've all those
blood vessels in the back of your neck that has
access and it really really works for us.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
Yeah, as much as it's gonna.

Speaker 5 (23:22):
Work when it's one hundred and five and it's one
hundred and fifteen.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yeah, no doubt. Holy cat, I didn't thought about that.
But that's just like a cap it's like a dome,
a heat dome. It is really inside there. Absolutely.

Speaker 5 (23:34):
Oh and the last thing I would say is you
can just come up here to Montana.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
It's forty Yeah, having coffee out here, Yeah to some geese.
I'm gonna leave now, come on up forty eight. Oh
my god, just flipping around, And that's what it is here.
It's about eighty four outside probably right now. I got
to rub it in a little bit. Yeah, you did,
thanks a lot. Have you caught any fish? Why don't

(23:58):
you just go ahead and make a bad situation worse
for me.

Speaker 5 (24:02):
No, well, you know I still have my gear from Tampa,
sure a saltwater gears. So you know we're throwing a
four thousand spinning reel. We're in a Trout river.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, you might be might be a little overgunned for
your game. I think that's all right.

Speaker 5 (24:19):
Well, I had to make a drive from here to
Missoula to drop someone off at an airport and runs
right along the Clark Fork River.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
Oh nice.

Speaker 5 (24:26):
And if you've got a second, google the Clark Fork
River and how inclaerable that is. And there's eagles flying
with Trout and the towns oh man.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yeah, this is a big, beautiful country of ours. And
the more you get to see of it, the more
you appreciate it. You know, a lot of people go
all their lives and don't leave their hometown or don't
leave their home state. And it's it's I feel for
people like such as them, because that they are missing
out on just so much. That there's free admission to

(24:58):
just drive around the country and you'll see if you
just drive long enough and far enough, you'll see some
amazing things in this country for free.

Speaker 5 (25:07):
Yeah, you know what made my week is as my
foreman son, he's fifteen.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
He he was on that one hundred twenty mile.

Speaker 5 (25:14):
Drive and he could not take his eyes off the
side of the road and asking me about bears, bears
and all kinds of stuff. And he put down his
phone and just was totally into it.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah and yeah, man, that's fantastic.

Speaker 5 (25:29):
Ever get the chance to get out, you gotta do it.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
I've been I've been to Wyoming a couple of times,
and that's it's a similar, similar countryside. Oh and it
just goes forever. And what fascinated me the first time
I left. I was doing business in Cheyenne and the
first time and we would be finished up by eleven
or so, and I would just take off and just
drive out of town and it just amazed me to

(25:54):
see all these these antelope running around and just this
rolling beautiful countryside and you may not see a fence
for twenty miles, like, holy.

Speaker 5 (26:05):
Cow, Yeah, Ryanstone Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
Hadn't been a Ryan Stone out in Montana in a
long time.

Speaker 5 (26:16):
Probably fun fact there's only one escalator in the state.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
Oo oh wow, I know that's that's a fun fact
to know and tell. All Right, I'll drop that into
a conversation this afternoon somehow. Thanks Aaron, It's great to
hear from you. Man. Alright, buddy, Yeah, safe travels, audios.
All right, we gotta take a little break. Your rockets
and astros live here. We are Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
The conversation continues this as the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Welcome back, Dog Pike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.
I'm bringing up the Weather Channel, radar and all that jazz.
I want to take a look at it and see
if all that stuff I was looking at before is
gone now finally, I hope it is. Can't wait and TikTok, TikTok.
Let's get to radar and let's go talk to rig bodies.
What's up, rick Man.

Speaker 6 (27:08):
There's nothing like a little fabulous thunderbird to get your
blood going in the morning.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
You bet, man, you bet.

Speaker 6 (27:15):
I was gonna talk to you about weather, but probably
don't have time. I wanted to talk for just a
second about you talking about those cooling vests. Yeah, I
don't know much about them, but my brother, one of
my brothers, abbed out and there was Munhunker Fisherman, big
time motorcycle guy, long distance multi state guy. Sure guy

(27:38):
divers the whole nine yards.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
He has a.

Speaker 6 (27:41):
Heated vest and he gets them from motorcycle venues or
websites and it's got it's got multiple you know, no,
you know, I mean you don't have to burn it up.
But it's battery powered. And he and I and Travis
or Clayton were in uh the three way texts all

(28:03):
back on wintertime. And of course Clayton's up in north
where you know where he's at, Sure And actually he's
come home. But uh, he asked Clayton, why don't you
use these up there? Clayton says, we would, but there's
no way to charge them.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (28:19):
Anyway, on the weather, I think this is my personal feeling.
Yesterday afternoon and up until I'd say from three o'clock
to nine o'clock was the hottest day of the year.
I mean now humid. He had a lot to do it.
It was miserable, it was.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
It really was that morning.

Speaker 6 (28:41):
Oh it was horrible. I can take it. But good
this morning. On the other hand, I left early. I
sent you a few sun right and no humidity on
the truck and about of ten to twelve maybe thirteen

(29:02):
mile an hour wind out of the west, and that's
the cool and no humidity. I mean, like what I mean,
the difference between just last night and this morning is
where I'm at, Northwest area, unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Yeah, I'm looking at the wind right now. There's actually
some wind has come up along the coast. Right before
I went on the air, there was no place on
the entire Texas coast that had double digit wind, And
now these little storms that popped up around just going
off the coast and stuff. I'm up at seventeen at

(29:39):
San Louis Pass from the northeast, thirteen from the south.
There's a little something spinning around there at the Galveston
Jetty and but those really Now when you get in town,
there's a little bit of wind too. Where oh you're well,
you're out northwest of here, aren't you wherever you're sitting.

Speaker 6 (29:55):
Another county, But yeah, up on a hill. But that's
kind of cheating in this conversation because you're not where
I'm at. Yeah, well, you know, there's just not much
windy morning. I mean, it feels wonderful out here, but
last night was horrible.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
I could I could definitely agree with you on that
because it was. It was miserable. I play golf with
my son. That that part was fun, but I was
just bacon the whole time, just absolutely baking. Hopefully we'll
get some more of this dust in here too. I
want to keep these storms all.

Speaker 6 (30:27):
That was the other thing, doing the sunrise shops with
the shutterbugs that I do. I would say, this morning,
well you saw my clear son, Yeah, beautiful. This morning
was the first day and I don't know how long
that we haven't had a hare in sunrise.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Oh wow wow. And they're they're cool looking. Actually they can.
They can bring a really nice effect to a photograph.

Speaker 6 (30:52):
But also that came they wanted to sun here and
sun today we didn't have one.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Oh lord boot who you had to take just a
normal beautiful sunrise.

Speaker 6 (31:04):
Yeah, well that's not what they're looking for a couple
of weeks anyway, the rain's kind of shut down that
that little dventure. Anyway, so we're talking about this some more.

Speaker 5 (31:17):
Anyway.

Speaker 6 (31:18):
That's it for me.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
But partner, Yes, save travels man, I'll see. Well, I
don't know, I don't know who drives the most. Aaron
Rick Wrecks are just out and back trips every day
out and back out and back out and back and
he I mean, they're the out is pretty good, pretty significant.
But when Aaron fires it up and gets the trucks rolling,

(31:41):
they may they may drive all day and then get
up the next morning and drive all day again to
get wherever it is they're going. That'd be kind of
interesting to get annual mileage out of those two. I
love talking to him too, and both of them so
enthusiastic about the outdoors like I am. It's just it's

(32:04):
refreshing to find people like that. And the only thing
that I really truly enjoy more is coming across somebody
who hasn't quite experienced it yet but wants to and will,
who will take a chance and go out there and
not worry about snakes and spiders and all the things

(32:25):
that can get you in the outdoors. That holds a
lot of a lot more people back I find in
the last ten years. Maybe it used to be I
don't want to go out there because it's too cold,
or I don't want to go because it's too hot.
I heard that pretty much all the way through the
time I spent at the newspaper, and then all the

(32:45):
time I've been here No, I've never really been an
outdoors person. I just like the air conditioning. Okay, that's fine,
But now there's people are scared of things that are
so unlikely to affect them. They're scared of snakes, they're
scared of spiders, they're scared of ticks and chiggers and
and whatever else. It just lives out there. It's their

(33:06):
house we're going into. But they have a really pretty house.
And if you haven't spent much time outdoors, I would
encourage you to find a way to do so. And
if you need some beginners areas to go, start with
something that has manicured trails. Start with something that has
asphalt trails. So if there's a snake in front of you, you

(33:26):
can see it on the trail and just wait till
it passes. You don't have to turn around and run
back to your car and jump on the hood. Just
wait till it passes. And then you like that in Melvin. Oh, no, spider,
I gotta go. I gotta leave the county. I'm gonna
have to move. H No, it's just see how doors.

(33:49):
My son got nailed by something yesterday walking off the
golf off of a three parhole He just went out
like that and reached down and slapped the back of
his leg, and there's something zapped him there. We don't
know what it was yet. He just like whatever. And
that's kind of the way I am. Unless I can
see fangs hanging off my leg or something like that,

(34:12):
I'm not gonna be too terribly worried in the outdoors,
because what is the saying, Melbourne, the juice is worth
the squeeze? Is that it something some movie? Yeah? What
I get back from nature from being out there more
is ten times more than nature's ever taken from me.

(34:33):
And even if I were to get bitten by a
venomous snake or something like that, as long as it
didn't kill me, I wouldn't blame the snake. It would
have been probably a mistake on my part if it
bit me. So that's just fair and square. We're in
their house and we got to respect their rules. But man,
it's sure it's fun to be out there.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
Are sports Stock seven ninety's to the sports where you
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Speaker 2 (35:03):
That song is right in my wheelhouse from when I
was a teenager. The older teenager too, not thirteen A
good song though, all right? Seven one, three, two, two
five seven ninety E mailed meat Doug Pike at iHeartMedia
dot com. Let's go talk to Forrest. What's up man,
what's up, Dougie Fish? You know how to come out

(35:24):
for you? Yesterday I just went out. I didn't even
take a fishing rod out of my car. I just
left him there and went and played nine holes with
my son. And then actually I played pretty well on
the front, so I dropped him back at his car
so he could go off and hang out with his
friends where he'd rather be anyway. And oh, yeah, you know,
I mean he's sixteen, whatever, I get it. But I

(35:45):
went out and played a little bit more and never
wet a line yesterday. I'm mad at the fish is
what it is for, for failing me miserably when I
all but guaranteed my buddy John that he was going
to catch a big old car up on it on
this cool crop we had. I don't know if that
kroppie poole would have pulled that fish out, but it
would have been a fun, yea. It would have been

(36:06):
a fun fight. And then I had had twenty pound
braid and twenty pound floor of carbon leter. So I
was going to just I was going to get hold
of that line at some point and just manhandle that
thing and throw it up against a tree. Anyway. Yeah,
I had I had about it. I had about a
about a two.

Speaker 7 (36:21):
Pound black mash this day, I guess on my thirteen
foot croppy pole.

Speaker 4 (36:24):
It was.

Speaker 7 (36:25):
It was a pretty good rodeo, wrashing him all around
the boat and jump to day.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
Well, the beauty of using those poles like that, and
that's by design, is that they're so limp and limber
that they can absorb almost all the shock that that
fish can give you on a short little run. And
that's how I think we could. We could wear the
carp down. It's not like we're going to tune a
boat it and throw it over our shoulder, but we

(36:50):
can wear it down to where I can just go
pick it up with a boger grip by the big
old rubber lips and get them out of there, you know,
that's the way. That's the way to do. Yeah, about
eleven forty five about all I could take that. So
that was a little bit of west breeze. We all stop. God,
it was so hot.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Same here. I think I went through just in nine holes.
I want to say, I went through like four maybe
five bottles of water and just and grabbed one for
the road on the way home. It was a brutal man.

Speaker 7 (37:19):
Oh yeah, yeah, you're talking about heat earlier and the
thing that I do that I always got useful. I
got those and you call them a cooling rap, a
cooling rag, yeah, academy says them. But I'll take those
and I keep them in my cooler with my water. Absolutely,
you did bring one of them out of Poppa and
he did put it over your head to put your
cap on top of it. Another fur. I think I've

(37:41):
saved my nephew's life on many a trip. Yeah, wrapping
that thing around your neck and your head. But those things,
those things weren't wondering.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
We had a kid. We played a when my son
was about twelve ish. Maybe we played a tournament up
in Dallas five straight days. I think it was four
or five days, I don't know. But on the last
day we were we were in the winter Winter's bracket
and moving up through the rake ranks, and of course
every time you win, you got to play another game

(38:08):
until midnight or whatever, and they started everybody at eight
o'clock in the morning. The temperatures were in the high nineties,
close to one hundred and in our I think it
was either our fourth or fifth game of the day.
This kid comes trotting off the field and he goes coach,
I don't feel so good. And he looked like a
styrofoam cup.

Speaker 6 (38:29):
Man.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
I mean, that's how much color was gone from him.
And I said, sit down, and I grabbed a bag
of ice and put it on. Like I've talked about before,
what the old trainers did when I was in playing
baseball in college. Put a bag of ice between your
belly button and you and you're growing. And then I
hollered to one of the guys in the stands who

(38:50):
was an EMT and got him in there and he
started helping him and working with him the way they're
trying to do. And the kid was okay, but he
was he was made two or three more steps from
going down. Man. It was scary. That's nothing to fool with.

Speaker 4 (39:05):
No.

Speaker 7 (39:05):
I had had an incident years ago fishing a bass
tournament with one of them hundred and eight degree days,
and I'm talking hundred and Nate without the heat indecks,
and my buddy asked if I was okay, and I
was just a cheeter tutter on the front of the boat.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
I'd stopped sweating and uh.

Speaker 7 (39:19):
He pulled me off the front of the boat and
got me all covered up and we finished the tournament.
Did okay in the tournament, but I ended I'm missing
three days from a minor heat stroker.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
I'm sure. Yeah, you stop sweating. That's a that's a
big red flag right there, buddy. There's nothing left. Your
body has nothing left to give, and it's kind of
it's it said, no, we're not giving up any more more. Sure,
we got a hold onto what we got. That's yeah,
you need to get out of the sun. When that happens, Well,
I'll leave you. I'll leave you with a I'll leave
you with a dad joke. Be careful. Well you know

(39:53):
how to get a farm grow to go out with you?
I don't know? First no, my word? Yeah, hang up
forrest alright, man, I'll see yeah, drop the mic later.
Good gosh, Yeah, that's a good idea.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
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Speaker 2 (40:28):
Now here's Doug Pike. All right, nine o'clock hours starts
right now. I am looking at the leaderboard John Ram
at eighteen, Tommy Fleetwood also at eighteen, now through twelve,
and they just went to commercial. They just went to commercial.
Are you kidding me? Okay? I just so happened to
have it handy on. Let's see if I can do

(40:49):
a refresh here and get it back to where they've
got it. Wow, Wow, this is still all very old.
Not hold on, no, there it is. No, they still
don't have Fleetwood at eighteen. John Rawm was shown at nineteen.
This is very interesting. I don't know whether this is

(41:09):
new or old, but I would suspect that the TV
is the most current leaderboard. And so I'm gonna wait
before I go overloading my big fat mouth. I'm not
gonna go with the leaderboard. I'm looking at here online.
I'm gonna because I've already refreshed it twice and it
doesn't show the little snapshot that I was able to

(41:30):
gather while I was watching the television. I'll wait and
go back to that the question I wanted to ask
in this hour and hopefully while'll get some response from
some of you who are kind of really into golf.
Who is gonna be the PGA Tour Player of the year.
Scotti Scheffer's got six wins, Okay, he won the Masters,

(41:53):
he won the Players, and in March and April he
won back to back tournaments in each month. So that's
your clear front runner. But Xander Schaffley, even though he's
only got two wins, they were both Majors. And the
question that I saw or heard posed this morning was

(42:13):
does that even put him in the conversation? And what
if he were to win at the Olympics. There he
is sitting in fourth place or who knows where he
is now until I get this current leader board, but
he's sitting higher than Scottie Shuffler Xander Schoffley is. So
does it at least put him back into the conversation.

(42:35):
And I think it has to, but I don't think
that would be enough to sway me. And in the
same conversation, these guys started talking about whether the finishes
in the Olympics make any difference as to who is
going to be the PGA tourst Player of the year.

(42:56):
I personally don't think that at the Olympic golf competition
is a deep enough field to put enough emphasis on
it to maybe sway somebody one way or the other.
There's Fleetwood and Fleetwood and Shoffley. Okay, they show Showfley

(43:20):
at fifteen. I show him at sixteen, so he's lost
a stroke since then. Yeah, I'm not really sure. I'm
gonna have to get the full leader board on TV.
But at least I get to watch him hit this
shot over the water. It looks like he had to drop.
Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. This is where these
guys are so much better than you and me. I
feel like now I'm doing play by play from Paris.

(43:41):
Oh yeah, they're so much better. He's hit this shot
from across the pond to two feet. He is forty
yards forty yeah, probably forty forty five yards and he
hits it to two feet. Oh, he's in two out
three hitting four. He'll make bogey and lose another one,
it said, said, but true it seems seven one three,

(44:03):
two one two five seven ninety email on me Doug
pick at iHeartMedia dot com. There's only a handful of
people who get to play in Paris. And they are
chosen by their countrymen, not by their world standing necessarily.
And so a lot of players in the United States
against whom Scheffler and Shoffley would be playing, were this

(44:27):
a normal week on the PGA Tour and not an
Olympic week, those guys aren't there, and so I don't
think to go over there and win that tournament certainly
matters and certainly is an amazing thing for them to do.
There's John Rahm. Yeah, they're showing him at eighteen and

(44:48):
it shows here online is still from the that's the
PGA Tour's leader board. It's just a mess. Oh he
didn't make it, all right. Let me go get Dave
on the phone and see what's upstand by and click
what's up, Dave.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
I'm back in Houston, Texas, and a boy.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
Yeah, it's from where it's nice cool Vanderbilt. Well that's
about the same temperature in Vanderbilt, wasn't it.

Speaker 4 (45:14):
Yeah? You know what, that's another thing. Pretty much most
of the time I stayed inside and you know, you know,
and my doctor stuff. They got everything. That's doing good.
I ain't you know, they're they're just you know, on
your fifty plus make sure that you stay you know,
your doctors make sure that you understand what they're telling
you and what you got to do, you know.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
And boy, that's a big part of it. If you're
working with doctors who are trying to help you, you
need to pay attention. And here's the other thing. And
I'm sure that you you've been through this enough to
know you also have to have to show up with
your questions written down so that you don't forget anything,
and then you have to answer or you have to
turn around it and you have to write down what

(45:55):
the doctor says to you so you'll remember it three
days from now. It's very that's what I'm glad.

Speaker 4 (46:01):
That's why I'm glad. My lady friend was escored me
around because she was my secretary. And I don't mean
to sound like that, but she was my right hand person.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
It's you know, it's just a second set of eyes
and a second set of ears.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
And my doctor liked it too well.

Speaker 2 (46:17):
Of course they do, because that helps them help you. Yeah, man,
And you.

Speaker 4 (46:22):
Know, uh and on the on the hydration stuff, you know, man,
you know, uh, well, we'll see. I had congestion of
heart failure in two thousand and four, so I got
to be real careful, you know, you know, but no,
I'm okay. But then, you know, learning from one playing
football seven years, you know, back then we had plenty
of water. But then I don't know, I'm not a doctor,

(46:45):
but that we we we ate a lot of salt
tablets and dextros.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
Yeah, and oh yeah, I remember all that, holy man.

Speaker 4 (46:52):
Yeah, and then but what I'm saying is the main
thing is we had jugs of water out there when
we were practicing. It was unreal, you know, some of
the you were thirsty.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
Yeah, you had to go go straight to the jug.
You get just well, you just put your mouth underneath
it and push the button. We didn't have little cups
and stuff. We just had the jug up high enough
where you could just get up under it and just
lap it up. But yeah, it's so important. And so
many people leave the dock. They've got they've got two
cases of beer in the boat. They got a couple
of soft drinks for the kids, and one gatorade and

(47:26):
six bottles of water for four people. And that's just no. Man,
you gotta stay hydrated with the right stuff. Beer is
not going to keep you healthy.

Speaker 4 (47:35):
No, no, no, and then then like if you drink
one beer, drink two waters.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
Yeah, that's a good idea.

Speaker 4 (47:41):
Something like that. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
Well, again, I'm not.

Speaker 4 (47:43):
A doctor, but I'm just saying water is water and
beer is beer.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
Yeah, you don't have to be a doctor to know that.
I guarantee you, dude, Holy mackerel. Well, I'm glad you're
back in town. I'm glad you're doing all right.

Speaker 4 (47:56):
I don't know, I'm fine. We did see that storm
over there when we were coming in fifty nine towards Houston, Yeah,
towards Baytown. It was, and the clouds were pretty and
like I heard Rick talking, yeah it was, it was.
And we saw a lot of lightning down that way, yeah,
right when we were coming in. But uh, we saw
I could see the rain coming down out of the

(48:16):
clouds way way over there.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Sugar Len didn't sure Lynn didn't get any rain this
morning that I at least not before I left town
or left the house. And but I did wake up
to thunder and then there were three or four little
flashes of lightning. But knock on wood, nothing going on
when I left, So it should be all right.

Speaker 4 (48:38):
One more thing, yeah, the mosquitoes are so long they're
in Vanderbilt. I think they could carry you off to
wherever they want.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
To get you.

Speaker 4 (48:47):
Hey, I've never seen mosquit as that big. Yeah, they
You know.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
There was a guy years ago sent a picture of
himself down around somewhere around Bolivar, uh you know, on
that on on the other side of the island there,
and it was the most mosquitos I've seen on one
person's arm ever. Even those old off commercials where the
guy would stick his hand up in that tube and
they'd all jump on his arm that made that look

(49:13):
like empty space compared to what was on this guy,
And it would just, first of all, I can't imagine
how he could stand being out in it. But he
just said, yeah, I just wanted to show you how
bad the mosquitos are down here on the peninsula. Like, dude,
I already knew. I've been down there before on a
Teal Hunter too. I've been on the Katie Prairie on
Teal Hunts. Well. One guy, a good friend of mine,

(49:34):
once called and said I was doing my show and
it was a Saturday morning and he calls in and hey, man,
it's me. My friend Philip and I said, how's the
teal hunt going. He said, we're going back to the truck.
I said, already, it's not even shooting time yet. He goes,
I can't even get to the blind. The mosquitoes are
so bad. My dog is inhaling mosquitos and it's hurting him.

(49:58):
It's messing his breathing up. Yeah, get back in the truck, man.
They were that bad.

Speaker 4 (50:04):
Yeah, yeah, I was down there around uh I think
it was a Louis Pazer somewhere on one of them
peers over there. We got. I got out of the
truck and that was just swamped.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
Yeah, they.

Speaker 4 (50:19):
Yeah. And then and then I got back in the
truck and that was it.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
There's only one way that there's only one way to
combat that day. There really is that. There are some
there's mosquito repellents that they are aerosols, and then there's
little pump spray ones. And if you can get a
pump spray or a stick okay that you just kind
of wipe on like a deodorant. If you can get
those and wipe it all over your skin, wipe it
all over before you get out of the car, that's

(50:44):
your only chance. And as soon as you get out
of the car, you gotta spray yourself down. Just you
ought to put a put a mask on and then
just spray your entire body and you might get an
hour of fun before they before they.

Speaker 4 (50:56):
Figure out and then carry you around the bottle of
an l a extraging the water.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, you got to keep the gnats
off of you too, you know. Not on wo the
gnats have not been bad for the last couple of weeks.
I think the mosquitoes killed them. I think they just
went to war.

Speaker 4 (51:13):
That could happen. And I've seen a few. I've seen
a few. I've seen a few red stingers out there,
the red walls out there and around here and there.
But I mean they wasn't real bad. But a lot
of mud daggers too.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
Yeah, that was like I said yesterday, everything out there
because of the storm. But because the hurricane and then
we had that whole week of rain after that, every
one of these little animals has been displaced again, and
they're they're really struggling to build new homes. To find
new homes will depending on whatever animal it is or

(51:50):
another snake at the golf course yesterday, this this kid
that knows I'm a snake fan, comes riding by. He's
working on something out there, and he goes, he, man,
I just saw a really cool snake, and he thought
it was a ball python. I think he saw rat snake.
And I told him to go home and look him up.
But he loves snakes too, And he saw a big

(52:10):
snake coming across this little maintenance road out there, close
to the main road, and I said, but take me
back there. I want to see if it came back
out yet. Maybe he's, you know, trying to move or something.
And we went back to where it was. A snake
had of course run off. But nonetheless, that's three snakes
this week that I saw out there, and two of
them I almost stepped on. And I'm usually.

Speaker 4 (52:31):
Pretty good about her stepped there.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
Oh my god, Dave, I came on Tuesday. I was
one foot from stepping on a cotton mouth.

Speaker 4 (52:39):
Oh yeah, they run after you.

Speaker 5 (52:42):
No.

Speaker 2 (52:42):
This one, fortunately was a chicken, and it just it
was half chicken and half snake, so it ran away.

Speaker 4 (52:48):
I think I heard it cluck when I moved some
wood yesterday. I moved a stack of wood over and
I seen about four or five beautiful little geckos. Now
they eat a lot of mosquitoes and stuff food.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
Yeah, they Yeah, don't mess with the get gos. I
thought you were gonna tell me you saw a brown
recluse spider, because that's how I got bit was reaching
into a woodpile twenty years ago.

Speaker 4 (53:07):
Oh no, no, hey, And I remember that, And every
time I see a spider, I'm like, no, to me,
there's never a good spider.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
Oh well, yeah, yeah, I'm kind of with you on that.
I don't really, especially in the house I got. I
told Melvin earlier. I got just bolted upright. My wife's downstairs.
I'm upstairs, and I hear this dog come downstairs right away,
and I thought, oh my god, somebody kicked in the door.
And I go down there and she's pointing at the ground.

(53:39):
It's a spider. It's a huge one, and it was
a spider, and I did have to dispatch it. I'll
let snakes pass, certainly, let any kind of lizard pass. Uh, Yeah,
a lot of things. I'll I'll give some head, give
some leeway too, but not spiders. I don't want to
mess with spiders, especially with my wife's upset. I'm taking

(54:01):
that baby out now.

Speaker 4 (54:03):
Tarantula not too bad. Yeah, yeah. We had a bunch
of them on the farm out there on that seats
two acres. Man. I mean everywhere you.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
Walked there was only cow, that's yeah.

Speaker 4 (54:15):
And then then you got the tarantula hawks that come
over there and put them to sleep and then put
their eggs in them, you know, the hatch their ba
and you have to look all that up on that yeah, nag.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
You know, nature has some weird stuff when you really
if you go digging, you can find some really weird
stuff man, in nature. And that's that's I love talking
to people who do that like you. You know, you find
these obscure. I look all the things Rudy sends me
about animals and how they interact and interact with people
and other animals. It's it's fascinating to me. It is

(54:46):
Holy cow. Man, I'm running late, Dave, you.

Speaker 6 (54:48):
Better go, you better go.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
All right, all right, man, I'm glad you're back home, right, Yeah,
I'm glad you're home and safe and healthy. Man. I'll
see you audios. All right, we gotta take a little break.
Speaking of golf, which I was playing yesterday. I played
nine holes yesterday. I thought I was going to burst
into flames, but I didn't.

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It's kind of in and out, in and out. I
don't know whether it's well. I know it's working. I
know it's working. I'm just gonna keep talking. All right.

(55:35):
So I got some emails I want to go through
real quickly. Here I kind of pondered. I wondered which
of Rick Bie and Aaron Botello was the annual mileage King,
and Aaron was first to respond. He wrote back that
his biggest mileage year was eighty two thousand. Eighty two

(55:59):
thousand miles in a year. That's pretty strong, Rick Weiss,
he should have he should have started this email with
hold my beer, it says here. He says here, I
have had twelve new trucks in thirteen years, and the

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least miles on any of them was one hundred and
four and the most was one hundred and thirty three goody,
So he's he's rolling it out too, probably roughly about
the same, maybe a little bit more than Aaron. The
only difference between the two of them, I think is

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that Aaron rolls his out in pretty much straight lines
that go across the country. Aaron has sent me maps
where he's dropped little pins in all the places he's been, Meloyn.
And it looks like the little red pins. You know
what I'm talking about, right, Yeah, yeah, it looks it
makes the United States just look like a strawberry patch.

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He's been everywhere. He's been everywhere, Rick, Rick would have
all of his would look like an apple, because there
would be nothing but color in pretty much from a
little ways past the hill country back towards this way,
it just be solid red. He's been everywhere. And I
sent Rick an email just a minute ago, and I

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hope Aaron's still listening. I think between the two of them,
they are probably single handedly or double handedly propping up
the oil and gas industry. Oh of course as we
ride out this no drilling stuff and whatnot. So yeah,
hats off to both of them. That's a lot of
time in the driver's seat, man, A lot of time
and a lot of miles something some type of sponsor

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shifting depends. Think about it, you think about it. Never mind.
All right to the other email. Oh you just got it,
didn't you. Yeah, you just got it. Then you could
just drive all day, didn't Who was that kind of

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semi whackadoodle woman who was going to go out and
kill somebody or whatever? And she wore diapers driving across
the country. She sure did, she did that, Remember that?

Speaker 4 (58:21):
Yeah? I did.

Speaker 2 (58:21):
I don't even remember who it was because it's irrelevant
at this point. All right, So the other email I
got far more relevant, far more interesting than who can
drive the most miles in a year? Mark Wade in
from over there in Georgia. Mark worked offshore in the
oil and gas industry on steel decks in direct sun

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out in the Gulf of Mexico, and he says, here
we used primarily Coastguard guidelines, and these work because my
crews stayed healthy. My crew stayed healthy, and here they are. Okay,
pay attention to this, Melvine. This could save your life man,

(59:06):
or save somebody in your ears. Yeah, I'm gonna send
you this. I'm gonna askual you. I'm gonna write this down,
I'm gonna take it out to the club and have
them post it somewhere. Yeah, that's what I'm doing right now.
Number One two eight ounce glasses of water an hour
before you go outside. In other words, and this is
something that Charlie Epps taught me years ago and a
at some I don't remember what event it was at,

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But when you're preparing to play in the summertime, you
don't hydrate when you get there. You hydrate beforehand. You
load your tank the day before that you're gonna go
play golf. So I would even say to drink that water.
Start drinking your water earlier than an hour or two
before you go out there. Number Two, while you're outside,

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drink cool but not cold water, and not sugary water either.
Sugar and cold fluids can't be absorbed as the body
attempts to to take it in the body. And I've
known this for a long time. If you drink icy
cold water, your body has to work overtime to warm

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that water before it can be processed and moved through
your system so that it can help you. So don't
reach to the bottom of the ice shest and get
the one that's been buried up in ice cubes. I fact,
when I'm out playing golf, they keep a couple of
bottles in the little cooler on the carts, and they
put a handful of or a scoopful of ice on

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top of it early in the morning, and this lead
that there and even in the middle of the day,
that stuff is still on ice. And the first thing
I do when I get in the cart on a
hot day is take one or two bottles out of there,
and the next car, the next big water station I
come to, I get a few more bottles and just
put them in the back of the cart. They don't

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ever get really super hot, but they certainly are easier
to absorb at that room temperature or maybe even just
a little tad of warm than if they had been
on ice. That's not good for you. Number three, cool
packs on either side of the groin are the most
effective way to cool as two major arteries. Think about this.

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Your fhemeral arteries are close to the skin right there.
Number two, the armpits, that's a good place to put those.
And the neck is actually number three and number four
on his list. The number one reason heat issues occur, Well,
there's actually two here. Either people are very alone. They're

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out there alone and don't think the heat's gonna hurt them,
or they're just not communicating with anybody and don't really
realize their own symptoms, such as dry skin or heavy breathing.
Heavy breathing means your body is trying to expel internal heat.
And if it's ninety eight degrees outside, it's kind of
like why dogs get overheated. They don't sweat, They have

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to expel their heat through exhalation. They have to do
it with breathing. And your dog starts panting because it's
trying to get that heat out of its body. If
it's panting and you've got it in direct sunlight and
it's ninety five degrees outside, you're not cooling your dog
at all. That's another story we need to get into.

(01:02:20):
And he adds this one extra thought, and then I
got to go to a break. Older people and young
children may have issues and need to be checked on periodically,
no matter where they are outside. If it's that hot,
your animals need attention, just like I talked about as well,

(01:02:41):
when dogs outside not good in the heat, not good
in the I have seen and with dove season coming up,
I can kind of dovetail onto Well, no pun intended.
I'll tell you what. Yeah, we'll talk about taking care
of your dogs and getting them ready for hunting season,
and I'll tell you about some of the mistakes I've
seen made. Just it just crushes you when you see

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somebody's dog go down like that on the way out.

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
Of This is Sports Talk seven ninety online at Sports
seven nighty dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
Now more dog fight. Hi, welcome back the Doug Pike
Show Sports Talk seven ninety. Rick and Rick and Air
are going back and forth on this mileage thing. It's
kind of funny. Let you go get John on the phone. John,
what's up, buddy?

Speaker 6 (01:03:30):
Well, I heard you talking about dogs.

Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
I just tuned in. I'm driving and maybe you've covered this,
but I was. I was coming down High ten three
o'clock in the afternoon yesterday and I see a black
pickup truck, open bed with a black lab and you know,
the wire kennel thing in the back, and I'm thinking,
I'm thinking that that can't be good.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
What an idiot? And you know, well, it's like having
the dog in the confection of and that's all Oh
I thought.

Speaker 3 (01:04:02):
Okay, he's probably thinking, well, he's got a nice breeze
that cools them off. But a lot of people don't
realize that, you know, unless it's panting, it's not cooling off.
But I bounced that thing off my my fairly dog
wise daughters. One's an FFA teacher and the other ones
just likes likes dogs, sure, and they kind of said,

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it's it's you know, unless you saw that dog panting heart,
it's probably not an issue.

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
And I just won't agree with that. I would agree
with that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
But it's just, you know, from the gift go, it
doesn't make sense to me to put a black lab
out in three o'clock August sun.

Speaker 2 (01:04:38):
In the back of a black PI truck.

Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
It's, you know, seventy mile an hour breeze or not, you.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
Know, a seventy mile an hour breeze. Though here's the problem.
The seventy mile an hour air that's hitting that dog
is probably ninety eight degrees. Yeah, and the exactly yeah,
that's not the way.

Speaker 3 (01:04:56):
To It just didn't make sense to me. But you know,
I've never owned a lab. I know I've had my dog,
you know, dogs in the past. I'm not a retriever guy.
I'm I'm a walk in the woods guy. Sure know that,
I think? Yeah, So just curious you. I know you've
had a lot of dogs and retrievers especially and taking

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them out and worked them.

Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
What would you tell.

Speaker 3 (01:05:21):
Somebody who's got a dog that's going to drive down
the freeway and can't put that dog in the cab.
How should they manage that?

Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
Well, the first thing that comes to mind is is
find some way to depends on how long a drive
you're gonna be on, if you're going to be on,
say a fairly short drive, I wouldn't worry a lot.
I would prefer maybe a port kennel that's light in color.
And something else that you could do is take a

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couple of those freezer packs maybe, and and find a
way to toss them in there. Now, you got to
make sure that the dog can't chew them, because of
a lab will chew pretty much anything. But yeah, if
it's seriously hot and you're really worried about your dog
and you don't want to let them inside the truck,
for way, you some dog gets sprayed by a skunk,

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you don't want to put it in your truck. So
you get a pass for that. But you just have
to think how you would how would you cool a
child if that child had to ride in the back
of your truck and think, yeah, there's in the sun,
where there's a will, there's a way. You put some
sort of a light colored cover over the top half

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of that thing. I wouldn't want to. I wouldn't want
to restrict the airflow through it by any means.

Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
So if you just yeah, you're right, good at good point,
maybe a white tiel pin to the top.

Speaker 2 (01:06:43):
Yeah, lots of air still flows through it and reflecting
some of the heat out of there as well. Yeah,
that would be better than nothing there there, Where there's
a will, there's a way, And somebody else is going
to have a better idea than me. But just my
gut reaction to a black dog in a black I
pick up truck in a wire cage just screams one

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hundred and twenty degree heat on the floor of that cage,
and that's the first thing the dog's dealing with. And
you driving by and not seeing the dog panting, you've
watched the dogs second tell yeah, yeah, yeah, you can't
tell that. That's my point. You can't really tell whether
that dog's in distress or not, And if it's lying down,

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you don't know whether it's dead or alive at that point. Yeah,
that kind of spooks to me a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:07:32):
Yeah, everybody, you know a lot of people heading out
to check out the least along and a lot of
people if they're coming from Houston od they got a
minimum of an hour and a half drive, and I
can't imagine it takes more than about thirty minutes to
put that dog in distress.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
So yeah, it will take long. I guarantee you. All right, Well,
thanks for the call, John, I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:55):
Man, No, just just curious what your thoughts were. I
knew you were a dog guy.

Speaker 2 (01:07:59):
I thank you. See, yeah, I my first reaction, my
knee jerk reaction, is that that's super hot and that's
bad for that dog. And I've seen labs go down
from the heat of a dove hunt. Now that's with
a lot of exercise and the heat, but they were
still in shade when they went down. I mean, one

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guy I remember distinctly, he recognized that his dog was
in trouble and actually had brought a little pool and
some bags of ice and some jugs of water and
got that dog into the ice and water as fast
as he could when he saw the problem. But the
problem was already a big problem when he was addressing

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it as though it were a small problem, and that
dog eventually died, got to the vet, it got pumped
full of antibiotics and were not antbiotics but steroids for
several days and ended up dying all because it wasn't
acclimated to the heat before or September one, And especially
if you're going to take a lab out there on

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September one, it's probably gonna be ninety ninety five degrees.
It very easily could, and if it is, if you're
not exercising that dog right now, if you're not swimming
that dog and getting it strengthened and getting it accustomed
to working in the heat, which you've got to start
in very small doses, just a few minutes. Take the

(01:09:25):
dog somewhere where it can run around for five ten minutes,
and then shut it down and build up gradually. You
got to do it daily. This is a commitment you
have to make to that dog of yours. It's been
sitting around ever since probably the first of February at best,
and been sitting around and sitting around and laying around
the house, hanging out in the ac goes outside to

(01:09:47):
do its business, you let it back in because it's
so hot outside. And then come September one, you're gonna
drag that dog out there at two o'clock in the
afternoon and do an afternoon hunt somewhere and expect it
to go pick up a bunch of dead doves. That's
frightening for any dog. Let's be careful. I got to
take a break here. I'm getting long winded, and I apologize,

(01:10:09):
but and sorry Melvin, but I hate it, man, because
I've seen it. I've seen what it does to dogs,
and it's just it's it's sickening, it really is. It's
heartbreaking because there's no reason for it. And closer to
hunting season, we'll talk a little bit more even about
what to bring to make sure that your dog isn't
the one that goes down. Make sure that you're way

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ahead of the curve when these dogs start working, because
they're competitive, they don't want to stop. They want to
please you by going and getting one more bird, one
more bird. And if you have to, if you have
to put a lead on that dog and put it
on a short leash in the shade of a tree,
and put a little swimming pool next to with of

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cool water. It doesn't have to be deep. They're not
trying to do high dives into it. They just have
to have enough water and cool water to lie down
in it and let their body start to heal up
a little bit and get better.

Speaker 1 (01:11:07):
This is Sportstock seven ninety, Facebook dot Com, slash sports
Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:11:13):
Back to the Doug Fike Show. He's fine. Welcome back
rounding third headed Home, which the Astros did too few
times yesterday to win the game. Do they still they
play the Rays again tonight? Is that right? Or do
you know, Melvin? I don't. We don't will them. That's okay,
you're not required enough. You probably know more about the

(01:11:33):
outdoors now than you do about the Astros. Man, you
will don't be surprised of how educated I am about
the outdoors. And then I'm so glad. I'm so glad man. Welcome,
Welcome to the club. You still haven't let me take
you and your son fishing yet either, and that's irritating me.
It's gonna happen. It's become a thorn in my side, Melvin,
we gotta do it. We're gonna go to that little
lake in Missouri City. Yeah, we're gonna chum it up

(01:11:54):
just tremendously, and we're gonna sit there till we catch catfish.
That's right. It's not gonna take that long either. I
don't think I don't think it's gonna take very long.
Just just say win and we'll knock it out. I
only live about maybe twelve fourteen minutes tops from from
where I'm gonna sit down and start fishing. No pride, man,
I'll get there about thirty minutes before you. I'll chum

(01:12:16):
the be jeepers out of that spot. That lake's not
big enough to make it hard to find those fish.
I have you number. Oh yeah, let's go, man, let's go.
And I know where you work at too. Let's go
really like, maybe maybe wait till it's about seventy five
degrees instead of ninety five, though we might want to
think about that. Yeah, no doubt. We're just burst into
flames like that, all right. Seven one three, two one

(01:12:37):
two five seven ninety email We dug pocket iHeartMedia dot Com.
Nobody took up. Nobody took the bait. When I asked
about whether a win at the Olympics would factor into
the PGA Tour deciding who its player of the year
would be. And I'm still waiting for the television to
show me a refreshed leader board. I'm gonna try, hopefully

(01:13:02):
not in vain, to get in and get this leaderboard here. Ah,
very interesting. It has recycled and at present which I
can't compare to TV because it's not showing. I'm just
watching John Rahm think about making about a three footer
standing over it. Like it. Well, it does mean a

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lot currently I show at the PGA Tour website. Well
know this is says official Paris twenty four Men's Olympic
Golf Competition, et cetera, et cetera. Scottie Scheffer and Tommy
Fleetwood at eighteen under par Heideki Matsiyam at seventeen alone,
Victor Perez and John Rahm at sixteen now and this
is all very close to finished. They are playing at

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least on fifteen. Yeah, and that looks like that's the
that's the last group on the course. They're on fifteen
right now. Xanderschaffey at fourteen, Jason Day at thirteen alone
in tenth place, Corey Connors and Thomas Detrie at twelve
under par in eleventh place, and it goes on down

(01:14:08):
from there. If this accurate? If this is accurate, John
Raum sixteen, John Raum sixty, Yes, at least it it
meshed with the official flash of John Rams and see
shows McElroy at fifteen. Yes, okay, so that may be
current actually, and they are just about at the end
of the competition. McElroy just laid one end within Birdie range.

(01:14:32):
If he can make that putt, that'd be good. Oh, Mercy,
how much the Olympic coverage? Have you watched? Moment? I
watch track and field? Track and field? Did you have
a favorite event? I like the women's one hundred Saint Lucia. Yes,
was that their first medal ever? I think it was,
I believe so. Yeah, and a gold on top of that.

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That woman just absolutely broke down in tears. Oh this
year you saw, man, that was awesome. And I saw
some footage of the people from our country and they
would just oh can you imagine? Oh man, I bet
they could have set off on a Richter scale or
something probably, so yeah, and rightfully, so it's such a
small country, the odds of even a qualifying Olympia. Well,

(01:15:17):
I guess you could send whoever you want to send,
like the Jamaican Bob's lead team. Okay, But nonetheless for
this woman to come out of there and be such
an elite athlete and actually get over there, and you
got to make it through qualifying rounds too. It's not
like you could just get out there and go in
the finals and catch lightning in a bottle. Exactly. You
have to you have to get to two or three

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because there are so many athletes involved from so many countries.
You have to get through what the preliminaries, in the
quarterfinals and the semifinals, and then there you are. You're
in right there in the finals and you take off,
and to her credit, she out of the blocks like

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her feet were on fire and just never never backed
off the throttle. That was as clean of race as
I've ever seen one. And our our women scored second
and third, So that was it. Certainly wasn't bad news
for the Americans. We did not win the goal, but
we won the other two medals in those finals. I

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like the swimming company. How about how about Katie DECKI
Holy cow, she's got more goals and only she and
Michael Phelps. I think it is have won the same
event four times in the Olympic, won gold four times
in the Olympics in the same event. Is that what
I saw? Wow, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, that's pretty strong too.

(01:16:43):
All right. The golf over there in France is nearing
its finale, and the leaderboard, well, the cream rose to
the top. Apparently only Tommy Fleetwood is tied with him
and Hideki Manciyama is going to have to get another
birdie and then next couple of holes or he's gonna
find himself on the outside looking in. It'll be interesting.

(01:17:05):
It's gonna be a sprint to the finish. They're all
gonna have to start throwing at pins. Even Scheffler and
Fleetwood can't back off the throttle now. They have absolutely
got to keep it up. I will be back tomorrow. Gosh,
I'll be back tomorrow for fifty plus man. I will
be back here on Saturday for the next edition of

(01:17:27):
the Doug Pike Show. Thank you all for listening, Thank
you all for participating. I appreciate it. I truly do.
Get outside have some fun in the outdoors. Just stay
cool and stay safe, will you, I don't want anybody
getting overheated audios