The Doug Pike Show 5-13-2023

Doug talks hunting, fishing, and golf, and about the rain sweeping through Texas. It being Mother's Day weekend, Doug asks listners to share stories about their mothers and the outdoors, and tells a few stories of his own.

Episode Transcript

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How many fish in our stringer,how many points on our buck, how
many feathers in our bag. That'show we keep score around here. Sportsmen
and women of all skill levels,let's disconnect from the day to day grind
and stay connected to the outdoor activitiesthat you and your family love. This

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years helping sports investors make better,more informed decisions. Now here's Doug Pike.
All right. Saturday morning edition ofthe program starts right now, starting

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without me, kind of. I'vegot a couple of things I need to
move around on my desk here console, I guess you would call it.
That's what they call it in theradio business. He set myself down,
put my headphones on. It doesn'tmatter what time I get here. I
could get here at three o'clock inthe morning and I would still probably come
in here and feel like there werethings I needed to do before we could
start this show. Mother's Day weekendit is in case you aren't aware,

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and all weeknd long in celebration ofthose mothers who brought us into the world
and somehow let us find our wayor led us to the great out of
doors. A lot of moms aremore involved now than they were when I
was growing up. I can't rememberas a young person going on fishing trips

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with my dad and his friends andtheir kids. It was rare, and
so rare that I honestly don't remembera single mom who just was crazy for
fishing or hunting. They were alwaysback home, keeping the home fires burning
and keeping everything in line there.And the world has changed certainly a lot

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since then, and it certainly Ido know through reading and hearing stories that
there were lots of moms who werejust knee deep in the outdoors. They
couldn't get enough of it. Butjust the crew I ran with, the
kids I ran with, I don'tthink any of our moms growing up in

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Sharpstown or that outdoorsy. And that'snot any kind of judgment at all on
any of them. That's just theirbackground and the way it was interwoven with
our backgrounds. Some of them mighthave wanted to go and just couldn't,
had to stay home and take careof other children. I don't know but

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whatever, they were still moms,and there's a lot to be said for
what moms do for all of us, a whole lot to be said for
that. With that, I willwelcome anytime during the show, except what
are the exceptions going to be acceptbreaking into our playing of the Texas Temperature

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game. We're not going to interruptthe game for a mom's story, but
pretty much anything. I'm If Iget up on top of a soapbox about
something and you want to break inand tell me about your mom, that's
great. Good stories, odd stories, crazy things you did that just made
your mother either reach for a switchor laugh out loud related to the outdoors.

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Whatever it is you want to shareabout mom, I'd be happy to
hear it. I really would mymother to start it off. I guess
my mother was not an outdoors womanat all. She was a kind of
a city girl and born and raisedthat way a long long time ago,
in a totally different era of Americanhistory. But she understood how passionate I

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was about it. She knew howmuch it meant to me to be able
to go hunting and fishing with myfriends and to occasionally bring home some dead
animal that I would then proceed toclean at the house, and as I
got a little older that permission tobring home stuff and then do all of

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the traditional field dressing at home.That stopped and it and rightfully so.
It was a messy job. Theone that stands out in my mind as
probably the biggest mistake I made inwild game processing was when I brought home

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I don't know, it was probablyfive six geese and at the time we
were we were living until another housewas ready. We were living in a
town home that had a little patioon the back. She immediately said,
no, you're not plucking those nastybirds in this house. So I went

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out onto this ten by ten patiowith a six foot fence around it,
six foot cedar fence around it,and started plucking geese. And I would
I'd pull out a handful of feathersand i'd drop them in a big paper
grocery sack. For those of youwho are old enough to remember what those
look like, I haven't seen one. I don't know that I've seen a

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paper grocery sack in years. Ithink you could still ask for paper instead
of plastic get in some of thestores. But I don't know how many
actually still offer it. In anyevent, I'm out there plucking away on
all of these geese, and thebigger feathers were easier, easy enough to
hold onto, and easy enough tojust put a handful in the bag.

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Even though as it was a fairlywindy day, I was getting this little
vortex of wind that would spin upwithin the within the confines of the patio.
And I'll be darned if it onoccasion didn't look like you know,
those little boots you can get into, Adam, whare the money spins around

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and you're supposed to grab all themoney? Are you? I can't hear
you push your other button? Nopressure, there you are, Oh my
gosh, there you are. Soyou know what I'm talking about. Right.
So now, imagine one of thosebooths, not full of money,

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but full of feathers, And imaginethat there are for each dollar bill that's
in one of those boosts that you'resupposed to be able to grab all the
money and keep it. Imagine athousand little goose feathers. That's kind of
what the back patty looked like.When I was two thirds of the way
finished, and my mother happened tolook outside and see that and realized that

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not only was the entire patio andevery splinter on the sea fence boards grabbing
a feather, but for everyone thatwas being great, it almost looked like
somebody painted the fence white. Itwas that bad. And for every one
of those, there were about adozen outside the fence and just disappearing into

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the entire courtyard or whatever was beyondthere. I don't remember exactly where that
specific patio sat, but I prettymuch I pretty much laid down a dusting
of snow across that place. So, adam do you you're not You're more
of a gardener than an outdoors guy. Right, Oh yeah, but so

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I go outdoors. You got alittle outdoors in you. So what how
does your does your mom participate?Does she getting outdoors with you? She
likes the garden two, but she'snot very outdoorsy yet. I got you.
Well, norm was mine, andthere's nothing wrong with that. That's
what I was saying before. It'sjust good that mom, if not participatory,
at least is supportive. And that'swhere mine is. That about where

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yours falls. Yeah, good spakingor whatever. So here's the deal.
What do you have? You alreadytaken care of her from most day yet,
are you just gonna scramble out withthe rest of the tardy people.
I've I've got something for her,do you really? Yeah? Idea?
Good for you, man, Goodfor you. I gotta get my son
out this afternoon. And I'm notgonna I'm not gonna take no for an
answer either. He's the he isbecoming a professional procrastinator in some things,

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and and some he some he procrastinatessome he's Johnny on the spot for It's
kind of weird. I can't reallycan't really peg which way he's gonna go
on being prepared. There's not awhole lot of boy scouting him right now.
He's baseball, he's golf, he'sfinishing up school for the year.
He's got exam not exams next week, exams the week after. And once

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we get through all that, wecan all just take a big deep breath
and say, Okay, that's behindus, whatever it is it is,
and move on. Oh, bythe way, and thank you for participating.
You don't have to you don't haveto pay attention to me for a
while. By the way, Iam going to officially start letting everybody.

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I need what I need you tofind out him, I'm back to you.
What I need you to find issome sort of sound. And it
can't be you know, legally,it can't be that official emergency alert sound.
You know that. But I needa bell, I need a whistle.
I need trumpet, fanfare, somethinglike that. After which, every

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week from now to September, I'mgonna announce how many days are left before
hunting season, before September one's openingof dove season. Are you looking or
do you have something in mind?Yeah, I'm looking for it. Let's
hear it. Give me one.Just give me the first one. It
pops up, It might work.What do you got? Um? Too

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simple? I need noise. Idon't that's just that's it's a combination.
It sounds like some people screaming becauseit's raining on a tin roof. So
what do you guys? Oh,you can't even hear that. Gave me
trumpets. I need trumpets. Ineed musical instruments, even just a banjo.
We maybe Dave could record something forno, that's Ramon's bell. If

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that's something better, but you mighthave to give you. Yeah, I'm
gonna give you. I'll do that. I'll give you a minute just so
that's your assignment for this morning.Sometime between now and ten o'clock, come
up with something we can use.And I'm not even gonna tell you how
many days it is today until thenuntil hunting season for Dubs starts on September
one in Texas, but I'll tellyou it's not probably as many as you

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think. And it's it's it's gonnasound like a big number, but you
watch as the week's click off,it's gonna it's gonna come on. You're
like a freight train. And whatI'm trying to do is make sure that
we all I'm going to I'm goingto give the the sponsorship of this to
American Shooting Centers. This one's onme because it just makes so much sense

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for starters for me to do this. I think it's gonna be kind of
fun to reveal to you guys howquick it's coming on us. And I
also think that no place around hereis more deserving, certainly of that association
than American Shooting Centers. Maybe Icould I could draw in a second sponsor.
I don't know, it's not wellit's just not that big a deal.

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Oh, there's Dave's If you cangrab Dave, get him on the
phone real quick, and I'll talkto him and maybe I can talk him
into doing something. We'll see heready to go ahead, and just just
push him right through to the frontof the line. Man, some of
this stuff. Is there some dealthey in here? Come on, Adam.

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Oh, they're gonna chat. Theyhave They chat for five or six
minutes. I'll tell you what I'lldo. I'm gonna go to the break
first while they have their morning coffee, and then when we get back,
we'll talk to Dave. On theway out. I'll tell you how the
Timber Creek Golf Club this is placeddown on twenty three fifty one twenty seven
holes. Why well, some ofthem are more wide open than others.

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I was gonna say, just wideopen, hit it and go get it.
But not really, not really.Some of those holes you have to
every hole if you just stop atthe tea box the first time for a
few times you play down there,just stop on the tee box, take
a look around, and you'll seeexactly where the architect of that golf course
wants you to hit the ball.Whether you can do that or not as

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a different story, but it's it'spretty open and honest as golf courses go.
You can see where you're supposed tohit it. There aren't any real
tricks, There aren't any secret passageways. It's just straight up play hard,
hit your ball, go get itand hit it again. If you have
trouble with that procession, you mightwant to check into the teaching staff at

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the Timber Creek Golf Academy. They'reat Timber Creek Golf Clubs run by a
guy named David Pilsner, and heand his staff can can knock the rust
off just about any swing flaw.Great place to go just for a couple
of guys want to squeeze in aweekend eighteen somewhere. Great place to go
if you've got a bunch of peoplewanted to raise money for charity. They're

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very good at tournaments I've done.I don't know a couple dozen of them
down there over the years. TimberCreek Golfclub dot com is the website timber
Creek Golf Club dot com. Printninety. This is Sports Talk seven ninety
Houston Sports Online at sportsnet dot comback to the Doug Fike Show being behind

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so I thought I had made guestman live. Let me guess sixty two
No. Fifty eight, seventy five, seventy five we have hot ride Lincoln.
I should have thought about that thecar it had to be in a
time when that Lincoln Continental was wasactually a thing. I'm actually wrong seventy

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one seventy Still, I was wayoff. I thought I was thinking of
older songs, and the way thatsong is is built is even more contemporary
than the older song. Seven onethree, two one two five seven ninety
email on me Dougpike and iHeartMedia dotCom. I've got a lot of things
to talk about this morning. Iwant to I want to point out I

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heard my friends down the dial thismorning talking about how a significant tide and
it's I'm so pleased to hear thisfrom the person who said it A significant
tide is turning among some of theguys working, especially the middle and lower
coast of Texas for years, andit's it's up here too. And I

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don't know how far the tide hasturned up here. We'll see come a
little bit later in the year,but for years, a lot of the
guys who who run trips, theprofessional guides, not guys guides. A
lot of those guys have they throwcroakers during the summer. They use croakers

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for bait because croakers absolutely will catchspeckled trout when most other baits, especially
all the artificial baits, just reallydon't work nearly as well. You've got
to work five times as hard tocatch your trout on on lures in the
summertime as you do on croakers.Crokers make it pretty darned easy. And

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for the longest time, almost allof those guides also thought because their clientele
kind of like taking home some fish, they also thought that their livelihood depended
on them hauling in and boxing andfileting and sending home with their clients a
full limit of speckled trout. Anythingless in the ice chest on the way

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home for their clients was a disappointment, they thought, to them and to
the fishermen. But it's turning outand they're figuring out that there's more to
this than meets the eye, thatin fact, if they really want to,

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if they really care about that fishery, which they all contend they do,
and they're fishing within the limits setforth by the Parks and Wilife Department
after all, But for the longesttime they didn't see anything wrong with what
they were doing. And for somestrange reason, now that tide is beginning
to turn, and the evidence thereofis that some of these croaker guides now

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well they're trout guides who use croakersfor bait. Let's be fair, some
of these guys are mashing the barbson their hooks. Now. They can't
be mashing them all the way down, which is my recommendation and has been
for twenty years or better, becauseif they did, those slimy little croakers
would wriggle right off the hook.But at least they're mashing them sufficiently that

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the bait stays in place. Butwhen it's time to let a fish go,
they don't have to rip its skillsout to achieve that task. And
what do you know, some ofthe biggest trout, especially in that basystem
down south where they get really reallybig, some of the biggest trout are

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now being released unharmed or mostly thereso they're so that's not a word,
or mostly so. And in turn, now now next year that twenty six
or twenty seven inch fish they letgo down there might be thirty inches long.
It's a it's an opportunity that ifthe lower coast guides seize it will

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will perpetuate that fishery just until somecrazy catastrophic weather event wipes them out again,
another hard free or a spill orwhatever. But as long as there's
decent water down there and they arereleasing most of the bigger fish that they're

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catching, hey Briant on board.If you have to take a picture with
it, big twenty six, twentyseven, twenty eight thirty inch trout,
and then let it go. Andif you want to take a few fish
home to eat, because by gosh, that's why you're there, and that's
why you hire a guide, thenI'm not gonna begrudge you some trout.
But at least take home some fromthe middle side bunch, which is the

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most prolific, the most numerous bunchof fish in the bay. Take them
out of the middle where there areplenty to replace them, and not from
that upper end. There's a lotof things we could do, a lot
of things the Parks in Wildlife Departmentcould do that would be far worse than

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than tightening our limits a little bit, or making it more difficult to keep
the bigger end fish of a particularspecies called down around some of the other
states in the country. Just callany other state and ask them if there's
a closed season, a totally closedseason on any species, and they every

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one the yep, yep, wehave to shut down this because it's spawning
season. Even we had something Ididn't think I would really see in my
lifetime, we shut down flounder forsix weeks to let them spawn because the
population was coming down. And whetheryou believe that or not, whether you
agree with it or not, wehave very little choices in this state other

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than to trust the biologists, manyof whom are actually recreational fishermen. We've
got to trust them because there's noother way to have any have any authority
over how many fish get taken outof that bay. And the frustrating part
for me is knowing, after talkingto dozens of people in the Parks and

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Wildlife Department over the years, howfrustrating it is to know that when they're
setting limits, they have a stackof data in front of them on boat
ramp, questionnaires on boat ramp surveysthey do. They have mailout surveys they
do. They have all of thisinformation that they gather, gillnet surveys,

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all these things that they can useto figure out about how many fish are
in the water and how many fishwere taking out. But the one thing
that they can't measure that they haveto account for somehow is people cheating the
system. People going out there catching, say a limit of fish, and

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then looking around and nobody's looking,well, I just tossed this one in
a box too. It looks likeyou kind of hurt. They'll start making
up excuses to put illegal fish inthe box. This fish is undersize,
but it's the only one I've caughtall day, and yeah, I just
want to take something home. Theyhave to account for that. And not
just in fisheries too, this isin wildlife. You got deer hunters who

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disregard to everybody, everybody out there, not well, not me, not
you, but a lot of fishermenand hunters in this state of ours just
couldn't care less about the law becausethey've not been caught. It's not cost
them anything, and they're glad.What the heck, I only fish once
or twice a year and a lotof you guys fish thirty forty fifty times.

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I'm going to take home a bunchof fish then end up freezer burned
it in the garbage can. It'svery frustrating. It's very frustrating. But
they have to account for that,so that brings down the limit of fish
that if we did decide to takesome home that we could take home.

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Illegal fishing activity, illegal hunting activity, all of that stuff goes on every
dog one day, every dog oneday, and it drives me crazy.
Seven one three, two, onetwo five seven nineties. Let me go
catch Dave here and then we'll seewhere we go from there. What's up,
Davey? Yeah. Nineteen sixty seven, Hot Run Lincoln Commander Cody and

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his Lost planet Airman. Yeah,man, now I remember it all.
That's better, thank you. Yeah. The on the flip side was Queen
little silver dollars. Oh my gosh, I had no idea. Yeah,
and then rape ends and they didhot Rod Lincoln later on, and before
Ray gets up there, and youknow, I'm I know him, He's
like, we're gonna send this outto Rand to Cody, hot Rod Lincoln

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man, and they they take offon it and then they did a dedication
to the naturally past. That's verycool, man, your world, what's
going on? Well, I'm I'mlooking at all these clouds and everything,
and I'm wondering, you know,like working out here in the parking lot
and everything. It's you got topick you, uh, your windows or
opportunity, you know, especially youknow, if it's raining and I ain't

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worried about it, it's lightning andI'm getting underneath cover. But i mean,
even like when you're fishing, it'sthe same thing. You know,
you just got to be careful whenyou're fishing. But hey, I've told
you before, I caught some ofmy best fish in driving sideways. But
we were idiots. If we wereboth idiots. Hey, well that's about
all I got. Hey, I'mgonna call you back on Mother's Day.

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I'm gonna give a tribute to mymom and everything, and then all right,
I appreciate you. I'm gonna getto the house, okay, body
else, all right, let meget there. Let's go move this.
So talk to Alan for a second. What's up Alan? Hey, goot
morning, Hey, um uh wahoo? How far off do you gotta go?

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Catch? Is it to get towater. It's a blue water fish.
You're gonna have to go. Itdepends on the day and where the
waterline is. If you if youkind of make a couple of connections down
along closer to the coast. Someof the big boat guys they all talk
about that there should be chat rooms. I haven't looked in a long time
and stuff like that. But theevery chat rooms were about where the water

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is. But it's gonna be uhoh, I'd say on your best day,
it'd probably be fifty sixty miles beforeit gets serious. That water has
got to be just blue. You'reyou're at Wahoo. Uh no, so,
but but I've heard it might beokay. So if you get one,
maybe chunk cut me off a bigchunky. Yeah. They're awesome.

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Oh they're great fish. Well,I was watching the show last night.
They were catching them on these theyI mean they I guess they had weights
on them, but they were pink. They look like pink mirror lures,
normal pink mirror lures, but biggerthat they were catching them on. And
I'm thinking, were they trolling themdown deeper? How were they? You
know how? Wondering how I wasworking. You can. If you're gonna

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troll for wahoo, you can runat eight ten twelve knots. You can
cover a lot of water. Thosefish have no problem catching up with a
bait, moving really fast, andwhen when they hit, they it's just
it's it's spectacular. It's a greatfish, it really is. You don't
want to get out there undertackled becausewith two light a rig, because you

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may hook a sixty or seventy pounderwhatever. I can't remember exactly what the
biggest is. But nor do youwant to be overgunned where you don't get
any kind of fun fight at all. You know, if you we used
to catch them pretty often trolling forfor marlin on heavy heavy tackle, and
it's kind of like, oh it'sjust another wi somebody's sitting down and crank

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it in pretty fast. But ifyou can, if you can hit a
balance maybe with thirty pound gear somewherein there, that can be They're they're
really sporty man, and they they'regoing to catch them on two two gear.
That's what I mean. You don'twant to catch them on two gear.
No, lord, No, that'sthat's over there. You can get
away, yeah, that might bepretty good, and they'll make a king

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finish look like it's dragging a boxof rocks behind it when it goes.
Yeah, they're pretty good, andpretty pretty good on the table too.
Yeah. Thanks you good talking,all right, thank you. All right,
We're gonna have to take a littlebreak here, Rick Bis hang on,
you are next when we get back, I promise Gold grab a cup
of coffee or whatever it is you'redoing. I know you're probably not outside

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right now because there's a lot ofrain out there, and a lot of
it's headed our way at some pointtoday. Hopefully it'll get through here before
I get this is. Of course, we've got a brand new refrigerator being
delivered today, so that I'm surewe'll go just smashingly well. Shooter's corner
down there in Palmer, how Iwent at twenty Night Street in Texas City,

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is owned by an old friend ofmine, guy named Jerry TK.
He and his son Jay have beenpartnered since Jay was old enough to start
working in the store, and betweenthe two of them, I'm not sure
I could name anybody who's a bettergunsmith. There are a lot of good
gunsmiths in the state of Texas.Jerry and Jay both high high on that

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list. Both able to take careof, gosh most any gunsmithing needs you
might have. They have a fineselection of guns, Ammo optics, reloading
supplies, camo and that's it.It's a gun store. What else you
want to find in there? Shootingsupplies, shooting supplies and guns. That's

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what they have. Because they're agun store, just an old fashioned gun
store. It's got a smell aboutit that just says, Okay, I'm
in a happy place. You'll rememberthat smell if you ever go in there.
If you haven't yet, you'll rememberthe smell. That's what gun stores
are supposed to smell like. They'renot supposed to smell like tennis shoes or
washing machines. Go in, takea look around. If you wear a

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badge for a living. By theway, you get a discount at Shooters
Corner and that's pretty cool. Fortyplus years and right down there in Texas
City. Great people, great gunsmiths. They will help you get exactly what
you need and not try to upsellyou or sideways sell you or anything like
that. They're just gonna make youhappy. Whatever it takes to make you

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happy. That's what you're gonna getfrom the Shooters Corner D Shooters Corner TX
dot com. D Shooters Corner TXdot com. Is this the one where
he's actually gonna say what he's gonnasay towards the end? Or is this
just the the actual orchestral version.Yeah, this is the orchestral dealing's fancy.
This isn't the This isn't the TVshow Silver. This was by Dave's

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request, By who Dave's request?Oh Dave. Oh well, now that
that tells me a lot. Allright, let's get back to the phones.
Go talk to Ricky. Held on, let me get my mouse working
and find it. There it isand bam, what's up? Rick Hey,
I like guitar Dave's pick for yourintrouh, but I don't know if

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you like trumps, go with gowith Go with the movie Rocky. Oh
wow, yeah, that's a goodone. Anyway, Hey, let's call
him. Tell you about rain.Sure, um, this morning, when
I left, I'm looking at thatradar. I saw this coming. Oh
yeah, when I thought, man, I'm fixing the drive just right in

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to the teeth of this thing.And and uh I did the temperature dropped,
I would say in ten minutes atleast or twelve degrees when I started
at seventy six. Now, wow, and I'm not that far from you.
I'm just feeding horses. But Iwas gonna say one other thing.

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Uh, you know, this timeof year, me and my brother does.
One of my brothers doesn't live farfrom me, and we both have
gardens. His is a mine spurtparsish, but his is a lot bigger
than and they're just you know,they're just busting, you know, producing
right now. And the h butwe're about to lose them because they're gonna

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drown. Yeah, that's a goodpoint. They're literally starting to drown.
The plants. Yeah, yeah,yeah. And so ever since Harvey,
you know, he and I,you know, we've sped. We lived
pretty high ground. I know,I was careful when I bought my house
and which is you know, I'vehad it for a long time. But
you know, Hurricane Harvey made meraise my eyebrows a little bit. Yeah,

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And so I told my brother,I said, you know what I
said, Uh, I'm gonna goout here in my shop. I got
a bunch of scrap wood. Igot a big chop saw I'm gonna take
some fold by fours. I'm gonnacut me some six inch blocks. Sure,
and you know, if my housestarts flooding a little bit, I'm

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gonna put the furniture every up home. And and uh, you know I
had a dishwasher gold nuts one time, and uh that that wasn't pretty.
Yeah, no fun. Hope youcan find one I got anyway. Um
he told me, he said,you know this time we live in and

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everything. He said, why don'tyou just stock up? You know?
He said, put you a cannonof a can of food, then of
beans under them, and uh,he said, just set them up on
that and that way you've got foodplus you can just you've got him up
there in your pantry, poll yourfurniture on them. And I said,

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we were talking on the phone.I said, hey, I gotta let
you go. He said, whatI need to talk to you? I
said, No, I gotta goto the grocery store stock up all the
bean cans of beans. Yeah,anything. I have to get a second
job to fill up my refrigerator afterhaving to empty the one I've gotten right
now in the freezer. Oh lord, no kid, I buy a lot

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of this Uh, it's cords youcan buy and I don't know what it
is. It's a rope. Ilove it. I can, I love
it. I go through the lotsand lots kind of stuff up can and
uh, I could buy that stuff. And I used to buy like teen
at a time. I could boundfor four three or one hundred feet eleven.

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I went yesterday. I went yesterdayto tractors supply. I'm gonna go
ahead and drop her. Drop themon this that saying that gun rope was
anywhere from twenty nine to forty nine. Oh my god, Wow. Told
them they keep it and anyways,it's just crazy. But anyway, I

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just wanted to throw out there isa big wall of water. Oh,
we got a lot of Latin,and uh it's coming down hard. I
mean, you know, we're gettinglucky on off, We're getting lucky around
Houston right now and even out asfar as sugar Land. I'd say,
I'm watching this system come this way, and it's it's really kind of starting

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to go more north than east,and I don't think we're gonna miss it,
but it's at least being delayed alittle bit before it gets here.
So I agree with you. I'vebeen sitting here watching it for an hour
and a half. I'm miss upthere feeding horssman. I ain't getting I
ain't getting off the road. Butthe yeah, no, it's it's.

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It was pretty tough this morning.But I think that the front line has
got a lot of water in it. So oh yeah, yeah, everybody,
I'm talking about it pouring all right, man, Yes, stay safe
out there, Ricky see, Isee Bud buddy. Yeah, rain,
rain, go away. Come on. I got a refrigerator delivery today.

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I need that. I kind ofneed it, you know. I'm why
I'm looking at this front and theway it's working on the Texas radar site
I use, and there is,like any low pressure system, there is
circulation. There's counterclockwise circulation, butit's it's a big broad thing. And
the circulation in the middle of itis almost up like around Brady or oh

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gosh, even north of Brady ofgood Ways where it all starts to turn
back west. And this tail that'smoving up an our way, Holy cow,
the part that's headed our way actuallyis bigger and deeper lengthwise. It
stretches right now pretty much from Corpusdown to the Mexican border. That's how

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how wide and heavy that is inthe leading edge is pretty it's pretty thick
too. So once this stuff getshere, it's hitting Victorian now, and
so clearly it's not that far away. I do think we're going to get
some relief because it's it looks likethere's kind of a hole in it between

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not a hole, but at leasta gap in it before the worst of
it gets to Houston. It alldepends on whether it tries to slide east
or try to go more north.Let me run over here to the coastal
wind stuff real quick. I wantto take a look at what's going on.
Yeah, we've got a hard heartonshore push east northeast wind at eighteen

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to twenty miles an hour down onthe beach front right now, all the
way down around Corpus and such.You're looking at and Ransas, Corpus Boa,
Port of Ransas. They're twenty fivemiles an hour down there, and
that's almost got a little bit moreeast in it than what we have up
here. There is clearly a flowaround the center of this front, which

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is way up in the middle ofTexas. Like I mentioned, so we're
gonna get it. It's just aquestion of how much of it we get.
And you know what, the sunwill come out afterward. It always
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Show I offered up earlier this morning, an opportunity for any and all of
you to share some sort of storyabout your mom as you grew up,
and whether she was all for youbeing outdoors and joined you, or whether
she chose to stay on the sidelineswhile you went out and enjoyed the outdoors.

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Whatever it was, something, somehow, some way you remember your mom
being part of, or opting notto be part of, but allowing you
to go do it. Your passionfor the outdoors. My mom was fine
with me doing just about anything outdoors. My friends and I were constantly from

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the time I was old enough toride a bicycle, I and my friends
were out of there any chance wegot to go fish in the neighborhood ditch
to go hunt back on some propertybehind where we lived when I was in
high school were we were outside catchingsnakes, catching crawfish, catching frog,

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frog hunting. We tried not tokill any snakes. Every now and then
we would get startled by a copperhead, and because there were a lot
of kids around where we were,we would dispatch one or two of them
a season. But by and largewe were mostly into trying to catch some

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non venomous snakes and bring them homeas pets. And my mother tolerated that,
and in hindsight, that was prettyspecial. I got an email from
Brian and I will read it toyou. Won't take long. Brian says,
miss my mom. As a kid, she fished with me some mostly

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always dropped us off at sunrise onthe dike in Texas City and came and
picked us up at night, alwayshappy if I had fish for her to
cook. The reason for this though, my parents retired to a cabin in
the woods in East Texas. Iwas ecstatic as I had free hunting land.

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Well. Not long after my dadpassed, I went hunting up there
by myself, shot a nice buckand drug it back up to the house.
I started cleaning it, and itblew my mind when my mom came
out to help me clean that deer. Never in my life would I have
expected that I missed my mom.She passed two years ago this summer.

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Thank you, Brian, Thank youfor sharing that. That is a very
cool story about a mom who hada little more knowledge of the outdoors.
It seems than you might have thought. Who wasn't wasn't That probably wasn't the
first dear she'd ever cleaned. That'dbe my guess, and I do One

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of the things that stands out inthis is that he and and the same
thing happened in my generation. I'mnot sure how old a fellow, Brian
is, but your mom or yourdad or somebody a big brother maybe would
drive you and your friends somewhere withno cell phone, no line of communication

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whatsoever, whatsoever, and then tellyou, okay, we're dropping you off
right here at seven o'clock in themorning. We're gonna be back here at
three o'clock in the afternoon. Yoube here at three o'clock, and at
three o'clock you and your buddies werethere because you knew what would happen if
you weren't. And it was avery efficient system. It worked out really

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well. All right, thank you, Brian. I'm gonna go ahead and
catch Aaron's call before he gets toolate, and I'm here with him now,
Aaron, what's up? Man?Hey, good money, Dougy doing
something great? Thank you, goodgood. Well. I've mentaled this one
before, but hey, I don'tknow. I think it's entertaining enough until
it again a few years later.But the rule, the rule around the

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ranch was you cook it, youkill it, you clean it meat.
Yeah, And it was a goldenrule. And I had never shot ducks
before. And there I was withmy death gun, and I guess several
Mallards and some other ducks, andI shot one. I wasn't sure exactly
what it was. I thought itwas a mallard. I was eight or
nine years old. You were hopingit was a mallard. I was hoping

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it was. It was a littlefoggy early, okay, and uh,
I didn't realize a bird of thatsize can have that many guts inside of
it. I gotta cook it clean. Didn't eat it. So, yeah,
my mom cooked it up and itlooked like kind of a brown meat.
But before yeah, bottle of bottleof barbecue sauce later and I'm still

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trying to choke down looking back up. So, yeah, that was a
I have a hunch what exactly wasit you were eating? Um, I'm
not sure. It had a lightblue bill. It looked it was the
size of a like a book duck. I wasn't exactly sure, but you
know, I didn't just shoot intothe group. I thought it was a

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Yeah, but sure, yeah,you learn better. Yeah, it could
think two or three birds it couldhave been. But holy cow man,
that's a that's an eye open.And that's a great rule when kids get
turned loose to go hunting for us. You know, if you turn kids
loose on a dove hunt, alot of kids if the doves aren't flying,
they're gonna start shooting at kill deersand dragonflies and cardinals and whatever,

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just because there's something so deep intheir DNA that says they've got to provide.
They've got to be the hunters,hunters in the in the group,
and it's it's so important that somehowthey learned the lesson that not everything is
fair game in this world. Andboy, making you eat what you kill.

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I know a man who made hisson and someone out on the back
while they were at their ranch andcame home with a couple of robins,
and he said, okay, cleanthem up, and made that kid clean,
cook, and eat two robin breasts. So he learned a little bit
too. Yeah. Yeah, Iwas this department store called Shields up here,

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and this kid, he was oldenough to know better. He was
thirteen, running running around where theyhad the expensive rifles. Yeah, and
knocked over doctor and me the mosthorrendous crash, and his dad was looking
at it at a rifle. Butoh my god, the look on that
kid's face. I didn't stick aroundto see what happened. They just gotta

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run. Oh you're in San Antonio, aren't you? Everywhere. I just
noticed that, Yeah, you're inSan Antonio. Is it raining over there
now? Well? I actually upin Salt Lake. Oh holy cow.
Yeah, I watched that rain comein all night though. I got friends
out there and lakey and okay,stakes them in between the lake too,
so I was kind of rooting forthem. But yeah, we're gonna drive

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from here to Hershey, Pennsylvania Thursday. That's gonna be oh yeah, that
might be a little bit dicey drivelooking at the weather and the which way
it's going. Be careful, man, Hey, y'all take care of Yeah,
we gotta get you back here inone piece. Man. I like
your stories, I really do.Aaron you have. Boy, I don't
know. I'm not sure one hundredpercent what you hate, but it sure
as heck wasn't a mallard. Weknow that now, all right, Well,

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it's it's called affectionately the mud hintaround. Oh yeah, yeah,
there are some of those out there, Thank you man, y'all. Yeah,
save travel buddy, audios. Youknow, I didn't even notice when
I when it said San Antonio,I was trying to figure out who that
wasn't where he was, But thatwas my buddy who spends more time on

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the road than anybody I know,including long haul truckers. He and his
cruise travel the country erecting the gutsof giant warehouses. And I'm not talking
about I'm not talking about a shoestore. I'm talking about like Amazon size
and make a make a home depotor a lows look like an outhouse,

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big warehouses. And they must bedarn good at what they do because they
are in demand. Those guys workreally, really hard. I hope he
makes it home. So at somepoint he and I are gonna have to
go fishing somewhere. There's a listI'm gathering now, people I haven't yet
fished with, but I really wantto. Oh my gosh, I gotta
take a break. I'll tell youwhat. Let's just go straight to this

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and then we'll pick up on theother side. How about that Adam Doug
Pike show on Sports Talk seven ninety. We'll be back. What the heck
is that? Miles Davids, Okay, Moss Davis, I get that's cool,
all right. I used to listento a lot of jazz back when
I was a DJ in the discodays, and I had to play all
that fast, upbeat music all thetime, and it just all kind of

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started to say on the same.And I would go home, and I
had a professional set up at home, and I would just kind of sit
back and chill and put some goodjazz on there. Chuck Mangio and Herbie
Hancock, who else, I don'tknow. I had an extensive collection of

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jazz albums, all in pristine condition. As you might imagine, being in
that business. I didn't I didn'twant it so much as a speck of
dust on my stuff, had coverson all my turntables and m boyd.
I'd pull that album from the sleeve, pull that vinyl out, put it
on that felt and start the processand slam that lid down fast as I

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could. No dust No. No. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMediadot com. Captain Scott send me something
that I was thrilled to get.Here's the contact. Okay, I'll go,
I'll check up. I'll call orI'll email Nicholas Scott and yeah,

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this is great. He found there'sa company. And I'll follow up on
this probably tomorrow. And there isa company that offers an exchange for you
or me or anyone else taking avery very brief, very easy online course
in venting these fish properly. Theywill send you at no charge, a

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venting tool too. It's actually Scottsaid they send two different options, and
he took the course, he gotit, and I'm glad that I can
help with this. I'll do alittle more digging off the air when I
have some time, and then we'llget to that, probably tomorrow. That's
when I'm going. There's the linkright there here. It is okay,

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let's do this. I'll tell youright now. The link is return and
they go with the contemporary stuff.Return them right, so it's r E
t U R in return e Mas the abbreviation for them right r ight,

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return them right dot org. I'msure they've gotten somebody to donate those
tools. You take the course,they send you the tools. It's that
simple, so you don't have togo shopping around for them. You don't
have to worry about forgetting them beforeyou do a lot offshore season fishing this

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season. Go to return them rightdot org and see what you can take
care of there. I have anotheremail from this one's from Mark, who
used to live in the Heights andlisten to the show back then, now
listens from his current home. He'dbeen there for years now over in Georgia,

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and his Mother's Day tribute goes likethis, Born in the sixties,
Mom and dad were born in Tennessee, I said Mark, who was born
in the sixties. I'm a littleolder than he. Mom was an excellent
Southern cook. I'm the youngest ofthree children. My connection with mom,

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a stay at home mom while mydad was a math teacher, was that
she taught me to cook. Andher rule was cooked for more people than
you need, because you never knowwho might drop by, and they would
get a plate of food, whichhe says in parentheses was a real treat
for my friends. Her halopenal cornbreadand key lime pie with Oreo cookie crust

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was always a hit. Mom alwaysloved people, and without my knowledge,
when I left go to school,go to work and live my life,
Mom created one of the first foodbanks in Saint Petersburg, Florida, which,
in her passing last year, nowprovides food for five thousand families a

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week. Quietly, never wanting attention, she knew that happiness starts at the
dinner table. Happy Mother's Day,Mom, I miss you. Mark.
That's pretty special stuff right there.That's a special kind of mom that that
would go out and start that onher own. Just recognize a need.

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I told a story similar, notwell, not about food, but just
somebody who recognized the need. Actuallyit is about food, and I'll share
it here. So up in Canada, in some very rural area of Saskatchewan,
this family recognized that. And thiswas back COVID started a lot of

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stuff. There was a ton ofinnovation and a ton of invention during COVID,
and this family recognized that a lotof these neighbors of theirs who lived
miles away weren't getting enough fresh vegetablesthrough the wintertime. It was very difficult
to get that stuff shipped fresh.And so they had a school building in

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town wherever town was, that hadbeen abandoned after the new school was open,
and that building was just sitting there, not being used for anything,
and they, hey, we havean idea. They got to the right
people and they started in that oldabandoned school in just three classrooms in the

(53:44):
libraries. All they were using that'sall they're using to this day. But
in those four rooms, they builthydroponic farms and are now growing enough vegetables
and I'm talking about a dozen ormore different varieties of herbs and vegetables to
supply the whole town all winter andultimately year round. And it's been such

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a successful program that they're actually gonnathey're taking a really hard look at just
turning the whole school into that,and then I'm presuming starting a major business
of this organically grown, hydroponically grownvegetable wagon. It's pretty cool. They
even set up a drive through somehow. I'm not sure how they pulled that

(54:29):
off. I guess that maybe theyjust covered the pick up and drop off
lane at the school or whatever.But the bottom line is that when people
see other people in need, theoverall reaction is to help them, not
to hurt them. And we seeso much news about all the bad stuff
going on in the world, andI've started on Fridays, even on fifty

(54:52):
plus, that's all I talk aboutis good news. I try very hard
to avoid politics. I try veryhard to avoid cry all of that stuff
because it gets talked about so muchthat I feel like if I just add
to that it's going to fall ondeaf ears. We're also tired of hearing
about it. I do what Ihave to on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,

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and I'll do the same here.But here, anytime I get a
chance to tell a good story,I'm gonna tell it. Unfortunately, the
outdoors affords us far more good storiesand far more good news than bad.
Thank goodness. That's why we dowhat we do. That's why we get
up at the crack of dawn,an hour and a half, two hours

(55:36):
before the crack of dawn, anddrive an hour and a half or two
hours to be at a beautiful place, a place we love. When that
first little hint of light comes acrossthe horizon, that's just so special.
It's so unique. And people whodon't do that, people who don't do
that, have no idea. Wow. Captain Scott just sent me a picture

(55:59):
of the box they sent to himthat returns these fish to deep water correctly,
and it's it's extensive. There's athere's a for starters. There's a
three pound lead weight to make surethat the fish that they're sending back down
there makes it to where they needto be. There's a what amounts to

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the hookwork of a boga grip kindof a lip grab device that you attached
to the fish and that three poundweight and send it on down and then
when it gets to a certain depthyou release the fish there. And then
there's also a venting tool, alittle needlelike thing. It'll get the air
out of that fish as well.That's pretty special offering it up to you

(56:45):
absolutely free, and from what fromwhat I'm looking at there, if you
would and try to buy it ina store, it would probably cost you
at least twenty bucks, maybe more. So go to return them eight dot
org. Thank you, Scott Man. I really appreciate that, buddy.
That's so important that we take careof the resources we have. Honest to

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goodness, I don't know why anybodywould not. Oh, well, keep
Scott sent a picture from his porch. Yeah, that's pretty much the front
of a storm system I'm looking at. There's no clue. Well, there's
probably higher clouds on the other sideof it, but the stuff that's rolled
up over him at that point isit's pretty thick and pretty ugly and pretty

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dark. Seven one three two onetwo five seven ninety email on me dougpick
At, ihearmedia dot Com. Whatdid he send me this day in weather?
This is fascinating. Rudy just sentme something. Oh wow, yeah,
here it comes. Here, itcomes, it's trying to get it's
still not quite here yet, andit's it's almost It's like Houston has put

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up. Houston is a spaceship andit's put up a force field which isn't
gonna last for long. Unfortunately,it's gonna get worse for most of the
day. It looks like now.But that's okay, that's gonna that's gonna
do. Wonders. Well, wedon't need a whole lot more fresh water
in our bay fishery around here.The guys down south will benefit from it

(58:16):
far more than we, But wecould use some extra water and a lot
of the lakes around here. Iknow, just as one little barometer that
I use. One of the lakesat the golf course where I fish has
been about three or three and ahalf feet low for quite some time now,

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and I'm suspecting that by tomorrow afternoonit'll look a whole lot different.
It's gonna it's gonna take on apretty good bit of water. There's not
a ton of drainage into this thingthat the drainage for the golf course goes
a different way kind of, butnonetheless it's gonna plenish that lake, and
that is going to trigger one heckof a bite in there. I can't

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wait. Finally got over a backissue I had this week. I had
to go to the doctor. SoI'm such a whimp, but my back
was hurting so badly that on Wednesdaynight I woke I fell asleep, but
I woke up at three o'clock inthe morning and so much pain that I
couldn't find any position in the bedwhere I could fall asleep, and was

(59:27):
just up from three until the alarmwent off, and then I went on
about my business day. The goodnews is I went to the doctor yesterday
and it's just some orthopedic muscle issue, not a disc, not anything to
do with my spine, thank god, not anything to do with anything but
me being an old man and notstretching enough. So I came home with

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about ten pages of stretching exercises hewants me to do, and I told
him, yep, I'm gonna dohim. I don't want to go through
that again. It took me.I feel better today than I have in
four days. And it's just somethinghe said that, And I think just
knowing that it's not going to requiresurgery or fusion or any kind of major

(01:00:14):
issue, just knowing that took someof the pressure off of me, and
I can relax a little bit.Now. I want to say one very
quick look at that radar again beforewe check out here. Let me refresh
this page. See where we arenow. Dude, there it is.

(01:00:36):
Oh it went back to the littleteeny tiny map. Let it populate and
there we go. Yeah, it'sonward. How about some motion. Let's
go. I have to push alittle button to make it move. I
wanted to move. When it starts. It's still still coming, I mean
obviously still coming, and still ahuge mess down south of us. Oh

(01:00:59):
my gosh, the stuff that's outin the Gulf of Mexico now it just
looks frightening. It's just blowing upand blowing up. And so once this
stuff does get here, it likelywill last a while. There's there could
be some localized street flooding and whatnot. I don't if I remember correctly last

(01:01:20):
night, I don't remember them talkingabout just torrential rain and a foot of
it or something like that, butmore like a few inches, which on
sooppy ground isn't isn't going to helpmuch. All right, I'll step back
from all of this. Let mego on and get out to the break
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is the Doug Pike Show eight thirtyseven on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug
Pike Show. Thank you very muchfor listening to certainly do appreciate it.
Aaron Wade, Na Man, ifyou find some of those death preventative screws
for license plates, Lemon know he'sgot a one of the old red Fish

(01:04:00):
plates and he doesn't want to loseit. I don't blame you. I
don't know that anybody would steal oneof the Redfish plates though, because that's
pretty identifiable. That's pretty identifiable.What's Connor got going on? See what's
going on with him? Michael Connoror astros Man weighing in down the line

(01:04:20):
here, I'm not telling let's seeRosenberg ugly clouds? Yeah, I bet
there are. Dan waited in he'sin Rosenberg today and there are some ugly
clouds just west of me. Yeah, they're just east now of Captain Scott.
So now we know where that thingis and it's it'll probably hit.
I can almost guarantee you it's goingto hit the way my luck goes sometime

(01:04:44):
between now and ten oh one,when I get to check out and be
off the air and could race home, and I, for the love of
me, don't know how they're goingto deliver a new refrigerator to me today,
but I sure hope it happens,because living without cold stuff is not
easy, and I'm since we gotit all handled in about forty eight hours.

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I didn't want to. I reallydidn't want to. I didn't want
to start. I didn't want toget in the habit of having to go
buy ice and put it in anice chest. And I had a wire
frame actually all figured out that Icould put in there to put the food
on top of that so it wouldn'twind up swimming in a sea of melted

(01:05:30):
ice. I just didn't want togo through that, and we made a
family decision not to do it.So fingers crossed they can get that darned
refrigerator in there. It's gonna taketwenty four hours for it to get completely
up to super cool and ready togo, and hopefully we can figure that
out. Seven one three, twoone two five seven ninety email on me
Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Whatdid Connor want? Is he telling you

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something really important? Yeah, wellhe's got a show coming on after this.
Oh good, I wanted to touchbase with me. Well see,
now I know I didn't even knowthat because taking Vegas is in hiatus right
now, so I had no idea. I haven't seen Ross coming in lately.
Who is this normal for him tohave it today or are we getting

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it because it's gonna be pregame fora rainout makeup today. Well, this
is gonna be from here on prettynormal. Ross's show endedn't oh good?
Going to kind of take over thatspot. Ross is kind of a busy
guy too. Yeah, they theythey use us as much as they can
around here, and I'm still enjoyingwhat I do so much talking to all

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of you that I don't care theyjust tell me do a couple more hours,
Doug, Yeah, sure I'd dothat. Seven one three, two
one two five seven ninety email andme Dougpike, and iHeartMedia dot com.
By the way, if you're tryingto reach the audience of an outdoor show
or reach an audience of seniors foryour own business, if you're letting me

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know, I might be able totake you into the family myself because I
kind of do some of that.I take care of a short list of
very clients. I know a lotabout clients I really really trust and want
to speak for and I can dothat and it works. Tends to work
very well for the people who doit. Oh, here's Captain Scott.

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Yeah, wow, interesting This isfrom Captain Scott again. Down there around
Port o'connorsh rolled in like a blackoutwith a bunch of lightning, rained like
a tropical storm for maybe five minuteswith fifteen to twenty mile per hour winds
Now, it's just a pleasant lightrain with a cool five mile an hour

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northwest wind. Holy cow, I'mhoping, man, I'm hoping it comes
flying through like that. Boy amI ever? Wow? Yeah, I
can see where it just came plowingthrough. He sent me the radar video
and it just plowed through there.Maybe this thing will gather some steam and

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come shooting past us the same way, if I think, if I just
I'll tighten this thing up, andI bet it'll look like it's moving faster.
Right now, Wait, I'm goingthe wrong way. I gotta make
it just zoom in on my house. That's what I want to know.
I want to know what's going onbetween here and my house. Okay,

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it's pretty much tracking. The diagonalline is pretty much on fifty nine right
now and running from Victoria almost,I would say to maybe Rosenberg, like
Dan was saying, it's gonna hithere in a little while. But the
good news is, like Captain Scottsaid, it didn't rain hard for long

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where he is. So hopefully,hopefully this thing will be more bark than
fight, and we will all beable to do something enjoyable by this afternoon.
We'll see, all right. Onthat cheerful note, I think I'll
go ahead and no, I tellyou, we'll go straight to the break.

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Let's do that. We will,We'll take a little break here,
We'll be right back. More ofthe Doug Pike Show on Sports Tuck seven
ninety. This is Sports Talk seveneighty online at sportsnight dot com. Now
you find these is a sad partbefore you tell me where you find him.

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The sad part is I've heard everyone of these songs many times before.
Do wha could do? Who's sangthat? Roger Miller and that's okay,
Oh yeah, Roger Miller. Yeah, he's he was big time in
his time, that's for sure.He was to his era. What who

(01:09:54):
um? What's that guy's name withthe red hair? The English kid ed
Charon ed Cheron. Yeah, he'slike the Edge Sharing of his time.
Now, I don't know if he'squite Elvis Presley of his time. Maybe
maybe, but anyway, Yeah,Roger Miller, dang me, have you
heard that song before? I havea cute up for the next really,

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Yeah, I'm looking at it.I don't doubt it. Yeah, that
was a good one as well.Seven one three, two, one two
five seven nine Email me, Dougpikeand iHeartMedia dot com. For those of
you who are are concerned that youhave outdoors plans today, there is you
know, if you look for thesilver lining and all these dark black clouds
that are descending upon you, dependingon where you are. If you're an

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El Campo, it's looking pretty nastyright now. If you're in victoria's looking
pretty nasty. But Captain Scott justsending up dated email. And this is
a man who who understands whether,who knows whether, and who I'm happy
to report sending me an email thatsaid in a nutshell, hey man,

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a thirty forty five minutes ago orso, it looked like death rolling down
on us. Here came through.It rained really hard for about twenty minutes.
Wind got up twenty twenty five thirtymiles an hour or whatever it was,
he said. But then the rainlightened up, the wind shifted to

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the northwest, and the temperature droppedabout ten or fifteen degrees. And now
he's just out working on his newhouse down there, just having a nice,
comfortable afternoon, a little light pitterpatter on the roof. Maybe,
so hopefully whatever we get And honestly, I'm watching the radar here and it
kind of looks like it wants toIt wants to break up, it wants

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to fall apart. So maybe it'lldo some of that. We're gonna get
something. Probably I don't want tosay we'll get nothing. But right now
it's not raining at my house,and it's not raining here in Houston,
and that's a step in the rightdirection. Whatever it is, it won't
last long seven one three, twoone two five seven nine. Email and
me, Dougpike and iHeartMedia dot Com. Do you have that music for the

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countdown to Dove season? I'm readyif I'm gonna have to come up with
a line that you have to saywhen you play it, and we'll think
about that. We'll put we'll puthours and hours of effort into this one
line that you're gonna say, You'regonna ask me the question about how many
days it is until dove season.But for today, after you play your

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intro, here's your assignment for today. I need tomorrow morning when I come
in, I want to see anemail that has three options of what you
would say to ask me how manydays until dove season? And then we'll
take the best of the three andeither take it as is, probably do

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that, or we might tweak itand fine tune it if the two of
us can come up with something thatmakes it even more coppelling, something that
nobody would ever tune out if theyheard that coming. But for today,
just play the music, okay,No, just give me trumpets. So
just ask for a simple trumpet.There's an alarm of some kind. No,

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I don't want an alarm. There'sa big difference. Herb Albert didn't
play an alarm. He played atrumpet. Okay, do you want it
to be scary or do you knowit doesn't have to be scary. This
is a good thing that's coming.It's not like bad weather's coming. No,
this is just no play a horna trumpet, No, No,

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not a car horn. Nothing,nothing yet you want to wait? Now
we're cooking, okay, faded out? Ask me how many days there are
till dove season? How many daysare there till love season? There are

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until dove season? Brought to usby American Shooting Centers. I'm always going
to include that one hundred eleven days. One hundred and eleven days until dove
season. And whilst that sounds lyinga lot, it's really a ninety ninety
two days and three months and thenten more. It's three and a half

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months away. That's not a tonof time. Actually, in the hunting
people's lifespans, we can't wait.It's and it's gonna seem like it drags
forever. The days will be long, but the weeks will be short until
we're all back out there sweat andbullets on a ninety five degree human You

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know it's gonna be human because it'sgonna rain right for before dove season and
scatter the birds to the four winsin a lot of places. But I
have a good feeling. I justgot a good gut feeling about this dove
season, the way things are going. When I'm looking at birds flying around
the city and stuff like that Ijust have a good gut feeling and I

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may be totally wrong, but Ihave lived through an awful lot of opening
days and been there for an awfullot of opening days, and this one,
I think is going to be somethingspecial. We all want them to
be special. And the beauty ofdove season opening up on September one across
this state is that somewhere, somehow, in a state this big, somebody's

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going to be in the field wherethere are historical numbers of birds flying around,
and they're going to get their limitin ten minutes, and they're going
to be able to tell everybody theyknow who will listen, and even a
few people who start running away halfwaythrough the story about their incredible, awesome,

(01:15:51):
magical opening day of dove season.I've had several of those actually over
the years, a lot of reallygood hunts, and they all really they
kind of run together a little bit, honestly, because I guided so long,
and it took people into places weknew had lots of birds, and

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we all just blazed away for avery short period of time and then we're
done. And at that point youcan't catch and release doves, So at
that point we just get out ofthere and let the birds have it,
and we could come back for daysand days at a time. In some
places, come at them from adifferent angle, come out from whatever set

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up a different way. But yeah, I had had some incredible dove hunts
all over this state. A coupleof times down in Mexico. Ah,
Yeah, not a north up north. They're not so big into dove hunting.
I don't think as we are downhere. It's it's close to,

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but not quite as big a dealas opening day of deer season. In
Texas, opening day of dove season, some kids get taken out of school
because it's a family tradition and nomatter what day of the week it is,
they want to make opening Day.But on opening day of a lot

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of it's actually it spreads over intoOpening Youth weeknd the week prior to the
opening of the regular deer season.You don't have to take off for Saturday's
opener, but a lot of familiespull their kids out of school on the
Friday before so they can drive tothe lease and be there. And in
some parts of the state, Iwould be willing to bet that attendance at

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public schools goes down by I betten to fifteen percent, just because it's
opening to have deer season, whichis really a good reason not to ever
put seasons on our sport fisheries.We already got kids skipping two days a
school, one for dove season opener, one for driving to the lease before

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the deer opener, and some kidstake two to take that youth weekend Friday
off. And then I'm not feelingvery good today, teacher. It's I
know it's Thursday, but Saturday's openingday. I mean, I just don't
feel good. I probably won't behere tomorrow. And if they're well,
never mind, I don't want to. I don't want to suggest things.

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If there are kids listening on howto get out of school, schools more
important. School is more important.Now, if you can keep your grades
up, I'll just climb up onmy little box here for a minute.
I'll talk to the kids. Ifyou can keep your grades up, and
you can arrange with your teacher tohave your homework, assignments or any other

(01:18:45):
work you need done so that youcan work on it somehow and have it
ready when you get back into schoolon Monday. I'm not gonna say it's
okay to skips tool to go hunting, But neither am I gonna Neither am
I gonna criticize you if the outdoorsit means that much to you, because

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it meant that much to me asa kid growing up. And while I
didn't start hunting until I was inhigh school, and at that it was
only it was only waterfowl hunting anddove hunting, So I didn't really leave
school to go do any of that. Didn't need to the season was long,
and I didn't have any fancy placesto go anyway. I was just

(01:19:34):
kind of jumping in with friends andwe would all pile into a car together
to go hunt ducks or doves orwherever we could find that we could get
into for a ten dollars day feeor whatever. Oh lord, I need
to break really imagine that. Andon the way, I'll tell you about
the boatyard down there on five eighteen. And oh, by the way,

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so stay in school, kids,and get your education and get a great
job and make a lot of money, and then you can go hunting whenever
you want as a grown up.FM five eighteen, Kima. That's the
boatyard, brand new boats, preowned boats, all sizes in shapes.
There's no tug boats there, butrecreational boats. Let's call it bay fishing

(01:20:17):
boats. They have to hot Sueoutboards up to two hundred and fifty horsepower.
If you're not familiar with the name, look up t O h A
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and now they're moving into North Americaand making a nice, big splash with

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reliable power. Eagles Boatyards got that. They have trolley motors, they have
electronics, they have power polls,they have all the accessories you can imagine,
lights, sound systems. I'm nota big super fan of those,
but they have them. If youwant them. It's your boat. Put
whatever you want on it. I'mnot gonna beat you up over it.

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Eagles Boatyard dot Com is a website. When you go down there, they'll
sell your boat for you too.By the way, they'll help you sell
it and then take a little piece. They put those boats out there on
consignment where everybody on five eighteen cansee them. Tell JT. I said
hello. When you get down there. Maybe mark over in the service department
who can figure out a way toput almost anything into your boat in the

(01:21:24):
place you want it, and alot of places won't do that. They
also do all their own fiberglass workdown there, which is something a lot
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This is the Don Sike Show,brought to you by American Shooting Centers guns
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here's Doug Pike. Third and finalhour of the program starts right now.

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Thanks for listening. I certainly doappreciate it. I let me see,
I gotta check a couple of things. I just got back in Madam and
I were talking about coffee. Actually, oh, I got some rain updates.
Dan weighed in. He was downin Rosenberg. So far, so
good, only about ten drops andthe ugly clouds went north of me,

(01:22:34):
just cloudy and wendy. Now Billyweighs in, where is he It doesn't
say, let's see that, ohGarwood. He's in Garwood. We haven't
been as lucky as Scott. Beenraining hard here in Garwood since the start
of your show. Oh my gosh, I wouldn't doubt that we didn't already
get an inch and a half totwo inches since seven tennish Oh okay,

(01:23:00):
I'm sorry. I'm sorry to hearthat, but that's that's still better than
some of the forecasts we're talking about. Oh Dan, oh no, damn
waiting? What time is it?That was at eight forty four? Yea
forty four? He said, Win'spicking up now, and then at nine
o'clock fifteen minutes later, as inlike two minutes ago. So far,

(01:23:25):
so good, only about ten drops. So this thing maybe falling apart.
And if there's anybody I think who'sgonna benefit from that, it's gonna be
Billy. Hopefully, Billy. Thatstuff's gonna shut down for you sooner rather
than later and just fall apart andgo away, and we'll all be better
off for it. I'm not abig fan of heavy rain. I've lived

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through I lived through Allison, Ilived through Harvey, two of the wettest
storms in history, and it's scary, and I know a lot of people
who weren't nearly so fortunate as I. With those two storms, a lot

(01:24:08):
of people I knew got flooded outpretty badly, and that's I would rather
face wind than that, although Idid see Speaking of wind, I saw
a video this week in two differentoccasions, somebody I saw it, and
then somebody else shared it back ontoFacebook again. And I don't know whether

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this is taken from a camera ona radio tower, or whether it was
taken from some sort of a doubtan airplane. A plane wouldn't have been
flying, and whether that was badenough to produce what I saw, I
don't think. But maybe somehow somebodyran a drone up real quick and brought

(01:24:51):
it down. Pardon me, butthe bottom line is this was actual video
from an overhead view of what amajor tornado was doing it it Bear in
mind it wasn't a wide one.This wasn't something that was a mile wide.
This thing was maybe a hundred yardswide, but just ripping through a

(01:25:13):
neighborhood and absolutely just peeling the roofsoff of houses and blowing houses and walls
apart, as if they'd been hitby a bomb, and all this stuff
just flying up into the air,being sucked into the tornado, then thrown
up higher and higher into the air. And I just can't imagine being anywhere

(01:25:36):
near. There's no way I'm movingto Oklahoma or Kansas or anywhere in that
tornado belt. We had one comedown our street in Sureland many years ago.
If the scales F one to Ffive ours was about an f half,
it wasn't much, but it stillripped up a lot of roofs.

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It blew down fences and across themain street from us. In a different
neighborhood, but only about a blockand a half away, somebody's trampoline ended
up on the next door neighbor's roof. We got off lucky. I saw
that video, and I just dearGod, please help whoever was in way
at that one. It's all Icould think. Seven one three two one

(01:26:23):
two five seven ninety Email me Dougpikeat iHeartMedia dot com. Let me go
up here to the top of mypage and we'll kind of shift gears a
little bit and go to the AT and T buy Ron Nelson just up
the street little ways actually TPC CraigRanch, Scotty Scheffler. I'll be darn
Scotty Scheffler ringing the bell again.He's fourteen under par a pair of sixty

(01:26:47):
fours, seven under two days ina row. I would say everything is
clicking on all cylinders for him atsixty five sixty four to May thirteen under
Ryan Palmer, and the same pairof scores for McKenzie Hughes. They're just
one shot out of the lead.A sleeve behind the leader is Woo Kim

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at eleven, then Ricky Warinsky,Richie Warnsky, Scott Petwell, Wrensky's at
ten, Scott Piercy, Sam Stevens, Jason Day, Harrison Endicott. Let
me take another breath. Here's acouple more ct pan who lives here in
town now, Henrik Norlander and HidekiMatsuyama and Zai Shangdu, all at nine

(01:27:36):
underpar. That's thirteen guys that anybodyat eight or worse are gonna have to
jump over if they plan to winthis day. I wouldn't count out the
eighth or the sevens even now.And that's that makes a bunch of people.
If you count the eighths and thesevens you've got thirty two players and
now granted sevens a long way fourteen, but with two rounds to play,

(01:28:03):
kind of anything can happen. That'sa lot of golf to get gun get
done. If somebody gets crazy hotand rolls out seven eight under part today
and then gets themselves within three orfour shots and is feeling that good,
there you go seven one two sevennine. Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot

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com. He didn't get a chanceto play any golf this week or even
to hit a ball because my backwas hurting so bad. And one of
the things I wanted to talk aboutthis morning is the importance if you're gonna
take lessons of making sure you're withsomebody who is giving you age appropriate lessons.

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And by that I'm talking about notallowing yourself, which I did,
not allowing yourself like I did,to get wrapped up in listening very closely
and taking literally the instruction that TommyO'Brien was giving my son, who is

(01:29:12):
fifteen, and then trying to transferthat into the swing of the old man
that I am now. Because itdidn't work out super super great for me,
I think what I have been doingin trying to incorporate some of the
moves that Tommy's showing my son wasoverdid it? I think, I don't

(01:29:36):
know. There's something in here that'sjust making my nose drain, like I've
got a cold or something. Iwonder if it's a spicy coffee I've told
you about that may have triggered somethingin my nose that it didn't like,
because all of a sudden, itwas just like, holy cow, what's
going on here? In any event, I took to heart the moves he

(01:29:59):
told my son to make going backand finishing, and I've tried to incorporate
them to change my ball flight andit's working great. It's not that I
can't do it, But what Ican't do is bring that into my swing
until I've stretched my back muscles andstrengthened my back muscles and strengthened my core

(01:30:23):
overall, which is gonna be awhile. I have. You know,
I had a friend years ago turnedsixty and he said, man, I
can't believe it is. And thisis back when I was in my mid
fifties. I guess, so,yeah, I can't believe it. I
never had a belly in my life. And now all of a sudden,

(01:30:45):
there's just this little belly on methat I can't get rid of, no
matter how hard I work at it. And I kind of snickered. Yeah,
I'm still flat belly at fifty something, even pretty trim back then.
And all of a sudden I wokeup one morning several years later, thanking
goodness I got. I got apretty good run of being in pretty good
shape, and thought it would justlast forever. And you wake up one

(01:31:12):
morning you look into marriage like,who is that dude? What's ross he
been eating? And what had happenedIs I got away with for years eating
anything I wanted, as much ofit as I wanted, Even into my
forties. I could sit down andeat an entire bag box whatever of chips
Ahoy cookies, an entire package ofchips Ahoy cookies, and just one at

(01:31:35):
a time, sitting there watching theAstros game or something, and look down
and the whole thing's empty. Can'tdo that anymore. I've got to.
I've got to make some changes becauseI still swing hard. I still expect
a lot of my muscles, butI'm I over extended them so much that

(01:31:58):
a muscle in my left lower back. Just said, hey, pump the
brakes, cowboy. You're just you'regoing way too fast. You need to
stop. And Thursday morning I hadbarely walk after I couldn't. I couldn't
fall asleep. I fell asleep Wednesdaynight, wake up at three o'clock in
the morning, cannot fall back asleepbecause I cannot find a position where it's
not painful. And fast forward toyesterday. Yesterday morning, at eight o'clock,

(01:32:20):
I'm seeing my dock out at MethodistSports Center or whatever it's called sports
Rehab center in Sugarland. Great,great orthopedic guy. If you need his
name, I'll give it to you. That's easy enough. Trust him one
hundred percent. And he gave mea once over and said, okay,
we don't need to take pictures ofanything. This is all muscle and you

(01:32:43):
just need to get stronger and youneed to do a lot of stretching.
Which that's the whole point I wantto make here before we have to go
to break, which I have toin just a second. If you are
anywhere near my age, I don'tcare how fit you think you are before
you every day really is when Iis how often I need to be doing
these stretches and strengthening exercises because otherwiseI'm asking so much of my body to

(01:33:09):
generate so much torque and then releaseit all at once in one hundred percent
swing. And it just it's alittle wake up call. Say, hey,
Doug, Hey, you remember whenyou were thirty, forty fifty,
Remember when you turn sixty? Ohthat was fun and games. Now you
gotta work at it. If youreally want it, you can still have

(01:33:31):
it. Ask burnhard Longer, he'lltell you. He'll tell you. I'd
be curious enough. I wish Icould get him back on the phone.
I had him for a great interviewyears ago. Burnard Longer an outstanding physical
condition still, and I'll bet youhe works out a whole lot harder than
I do. All Right, we'lltake a little break here on the way,
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If you want to learn something,just stop down there and ask these
guys who are down there, withall their instrument ventation and all they're very

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groundbreaking. That's how old I am. American Shooting Centers dot com is a
website, American Shooting Centers dot com. This is Sports Talk seven nine Facebook
dot com. That slashing Sports Talkseven ninety eight. Back to the Doug
Pike Show. I'm going to savethe sense or dang manars. He's got

(01:36:06):
man, he's bought five rounds ofdrinks, groceries, what else all that?
To do that today, you'd haveto start it with about a thousand
dollars. This refrigerator that we're replacing, by the way, when it went
out, and this is you knowMurphy's law. Are you familiar with Murray's

(01:36:26):
law? Adam I believe whatever cango wrong will go wrong. Yeah,
I'm gonna change it to Dougie's law. Because the day before this refrigerator decided
to die and the freezer went first. The refrigerator stayed a little cold for
a little while, but the daybefore it died, I had just gone

(01:36:49):
and made what we call in thePike household, a big run at the
grocery store. Filled up the fridge, filled up the freezer with wouldn't have
had to go back for probably atleast a week. Would have been good
all the way around. Got eggs, we got some my son grabbed some
ice cream while we're in there.We got cool whip, we got jello

(01:37:13):
puddings, we got what oh,deli meat, I don't give that away
these days. All of those thingsand every bit of it, pretty much
everything in the freezer wound up inthe garbage. We were just done.
Oh you know what we haven't donetoday? You want to you want to
play the texts temperature game today ortomorrow. I'll let you decide. Uh,

(01:37:36):
well, today wild card boy,isn't it Holy cow? Let me
see, let me just see.Yeah, let's wait till tomorrow. After
this thing blows through because I thinkit might be a little easier just for
giggles, just for giggles at them. What do you think is a low
temperature today right now? Because Ijust refreshed the page. Forty it's hotter

(01:38:00):
than that. Fifty four is thelow in the state of Texas. And
what do you think is a highright now? Eighty three? That's very
good. It's actually eighty two,and that is over in Orange, Texas,
where you can throw a rock intoLouisiana. And ironically, the earlier

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high temperature in the state was eightyone, and that was not down along
our open border at the south.That was in Galbot or in Houston,
Texas. It was eighty one degreesthis morning in Houston, and I think
the humidity was probably about when Ileft Sugarland, the humidity was about nine
and you could cut the air witha knife, as they say in cliche.

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Yeah, gosh, it's only sixtyeight at Edinburgh, seventy two,
at Zapata for those for the deerhunters in the audience. McAllen seventies,
seventy three, at Brownsville seventy two, at Port Isabel seventy three in Corpus
Christie where I wouldn't mind being rightnow, Although it's yeah, maybe through

(01:39:10):
there, I think it wouldn't bebad. They're gonna catch a bunch of
fishing Corpus Christie next week. I'dbe willing to bet on it. I'll
be listening. I'll what I'm gonnado is I'm gonna check in with Cliff.
I'm I'm planning a trip at leastone trip down there this summer and
maybe two to fish with him.And I'm gonna get in touch with Jim

(01:39:30):
Level too. He's an old friendwho still does a lot of fishing down
there. He and his son,Carl Carlin actually I think was responsible for
giving up one of his favorite bigtrout spots to my son and me several
years ago when we went down there, and it's it's paid off several times
if one or two or three ofthe other ones don't pan out that we

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have down there. That little spotis rarely crowding. In the wintertime,
it gets crowded, they said.In the wintertime he gets crowded, But
during the spring and summer and fall, it's just a good place to go
where the water funnels in and out. It kind of there's a tight little
hourglass thing and the trout funnel throughthere. Pretty steady. You can go,

(01:40:16):
I can go, al, let'sgo get a few bites. Oh
yeah, I'm having That's exactly right, Mojo. Mojo asked if I'm having
one of those snake bit spells.Yes, yes, I am. My
wife is sick right now. She'sgot some horrible cold. She doesn't have
COVID. We checked last night forthat, and I figured as much when

(01:40:38):
my son went to the E nT with the sore throat last week that
I think my wife caught from himsomehow. He We were told that there's
been a lot of strip going around, so keep yourself, keep washing your
hands. But that COVID in thatoffice at least, which is a very

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popular, very busy Sugarland slash Missouricity what do they call pediatrician's office,
They hadn't had a case of COVIDcome through there in almost a month,
which and not many before that recentlyeither, So hopefully that's fizzle and falling

(01:41:19):
apart for a while at least.A lot of strep though, and just
that and the other seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety
I was telling Adam very quickly beforewe go to break as you, especially
anybody who spends a lot of timeoutdoors, if you're not allergic to anything,
right now, that's great, it'sfantastic. I'm happy for you.

(01:41:42):
What until my fifties, until Igot allergic to stuff, and it's pollen,
it's basically what it is, mostlypollen. But what I saw a
study this week that said that mostof the most of the allergies, say
twenty thirty years ago or thirty orforty years ago, anyway, when I
was growing up, we're limited tomaybe fifteen percent of people, that's all.

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Only fifteen percent of people had allergiesto anything. And now it's like
three times that, three or fourtimes that amount of people, that percentage
of people who are allergic to something. And they are pinning in the responsibility
for that on people not letting theirkids get dirt, play in the dirt

(01:42:26):
basically, and be exposed to allthese out not letting them outside as much
as we used to go outside,and we don't get conditioned, and our
bodies don't learn to respond on theirown to that stuff. And so you
get a little bit older and allof a sudden stuff you've never been exposed
to, but you should have beenexposed to when you were young and tough

(01:42:48):
and your immune system was really reallyresponsive to stuff. Anyway, there you
go. Someone three two one twofive seven ninety email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia
dot com a reminder that if youwould like to share either on the air
or by email, and I'll readit on the air. Something to do.

(01:43:10):
We're going to tie in Mother's Dayto the outdoors somehow. How was
your mother involved or not in yourupbringing when you were learning about the outdoors
and developed whatever passions you have aboutthe outdoors. For me, my mom,

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as I mentioned earlier, wasn't necessarilyinto it, but she encouraged my
dad and me to go fishing.It seemed like almost My recollection is that
we went at least a couple ofweekends a month. It wasn't something we
did weekdays in the afternoons, becauseit was just that's not how it worked.
I had baseball usually too, Buton weekends when I didn't have baseball

(01:43:56):
games, pretty routine for my dadand me take off and go to some
little oxbow lake somewhere or maybe godown to the Brazis River or somewhere he
had a lot. I don't knowwhere he found these spots. There was
actually a little bait stand on Highwayninety just Oh, I guess, maybe

(01:44:17):
two miles of what maybe five mileswest of what's now the Southwest Freeway,
and we would go down to thatlittle bait shop, and I think that's
where he found out about some ofthe places we would go fishing. And
some of them were just little publicplaces, little bodies of water where there
were lots of perch and a fewcatfish. I don't even remember how old

(01:44:38):
I was when I caught my firstbass, but it would probably have been
a little older than most of thekids. Now. My son probably caught
his first bass when he was fiveor six maybe at that caught his first
fish at three, same as Idid. But I did deliberately bring him
up very slowly, because I wantedI wanted there to be something always a

(01:44:58):
little bit better that we could godo then the last trip we made and
kind of good or bad, happiersad. Now he's man, he's got
all kinds of stuff going on.He's already checked a lot of boxes,
so I may have talked myself andplayed too many cards too soon. But
he still likes going out there withme, and that's good. I can

(01:45:20):
deal with that. I want totell you this is a lot going on
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(01:45:41):
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(01:46:03):
to the lake or the bay,or for your after hunting what comes September,
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(01:46:25):
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and when I make it, it'lltake you if you close your eyes,
it'll take you either to after asuccessful dove hunt, when everybody's sitting
on the tailgates talking about the shotsthey made and the shots they missed.
It'll take you two maybe to thecleaning table when you're when you're carving filets

(01:46:48):
off a bunch of trout and redfish. Listen to this, here we
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Louis, Missouri. This is SportsTalk seven ninety day Houston sports Fan on

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air and on Facebook. Contact backto The Doug Pike Show, nine thirty
six on Sports Talk seven ninety TheDoug Pike Show. Thank you for listening.
Certainly to appreciate it. Let's letme get the other mouse here.
Let's go talk to Jeff. What'sup, Jeff, Doug, I think
you'd forgotten, but I thought i'dcall in and remind viewers about this week

(01:47:33):
in military history. A guy downto Dive, who I listened to in
the afternoon, has kind of adoptedyour metal of honor Monday. You didn't
have that directly, but almost yourbit, and you know he's expanded.
I love I like both of youguys a lot. I hope you find

(01:47:53):
some sponsors for that. That wasa very well done bit you did.
You didn't research, and it justdidn't slap it together on the weekend.
Yeah, it doesn't. It doesn'ttake anything. It doesn't take much to
bring it back on and I thinkit ought to be running on every station
once an hour in the whole country. But until I can find somebody to
sponsor it, the stations won't runit. And if anybody's interested in sponsoring

(01:48:18):
this week in US Military History,I would be happy to help them.
So there you go. What elseyou got you incorporated? Could you incorporate
it into fifty plus? I could, Oh absolutely, I could. I
just need somebody to sponsor it,because what it is is it's a one
minute feature that has it has sponsormentions in the front and in the back,

(01:48:39):
and it's it's a it's an opportunityfor a company to share it's appreciation
like yours in mind for our USmilitary. So there you go. Well,
I'm sixty two almost and I stilldon't need to stretch. But I'm
not playing golf. I'm just gettingon a bike. But I still have
to get my leg over the satellite. Oh god, Yeah, sure that's
something i'd have to think about rightnow. But get I may get a

(01:49:01):
nasty surprise here anytimes. Yeah,be careful just to start stretching early.
Do that. Just do even ifit's only five minutes a day. Man,
Just try to find five minutes andstretch out some you'll be glad to
stretch around when you're walking around thehouse. Or do you just do it
about about an hour before you're headingfor the winks. Normally, my former

(01:49:24):
routine would be to just drive tothe golf course, get over there on
the driving range, and take aboutmaybe maybe three minutes to loosen up my
legs. So loosen up my backwhere how I turned my back both ways
and kind of twisting wiggle. ButI found out from my WORTHO that what

(01:49:47):
I was doing was maybe ten percentof what I need to do to really
be to have my body prepared tomake that kind of a you know,
make the aggressive moves that I'm making. Thanks for this week for in military
history. I hope you can getsome sponsorship, you and me both.
Man, if you, if you, anybody you talk to who's interested,

(01:50:08):
just get them to get in touchwith me, and I'll make it pretty
darned easy for him. I reallywill. I want to get a check.
I understand. Thank you, appreciateit, Jakie buddy, I'll see
all right, let's click that bangseven one three two one two five seven
nine to email me Dougpike at iHeartMediadot com. Rick bas just sent me

(01:50:29):
a very interesting video I'm watching nowon YouTube about the dangerous of traditional bird
shot to people and how far andI can't unfortunately I'm not hearing the audio
from it, so I'm not exactlysure how far it goes. But what

(01:50:51):
it shows is how deeply these littlebird shot pellets are penetrating the same the
gel that's used ballistic to simulate humanskin and flesh and whatnot. And it's
kind of spooky. It's kind ofspooky to see just how far that stuff
gets in there from pretty significant range. Actually, let's see, Yeah,

(01:51:16):
he's pretty far up there, andI mean most anybody who has done a
lot of dove honey. At somepoint in a busy field, somebody's gonna
take a shot, and pellets aregonna rain down around you somebody, usually
pretty far away, and if oneof them hits you, it kind of

(01:51:39):
like, hey, dang man,stop that, but it doesn't feel terribly
dangerous. The problem, I thinkis not even so much pellets that might
catch you in the back or thebackside, or the leg or the arm,
but one that might stray and gointo your eye. That's gonna be
a bigger problem. That's going tobe a very big problem. And I

(01:52:01):
actually have a friend from high schoolwho experienced that shortly after he got out
of school and went to work asa quail hunting guide, and a kid
just swung the gun a little toofar, and my friend took a pellet
and lost an eye. So I'mnot trying to go safety sally on you,

(01:52:27):
but I'm gonna anyway, because inone hundred and eleven days we're gonna
be back at it out there inthe dove fields, and especially in the
early days of the season. Thosebirds tend to fly pretty low, same
as geese, same as any otherbirds. They don't want to expend any
more energy than they have to toget from point A to point B.
So they get off the ground sothey don't have to run to the feeding

(01:52:49):
field. They get off the ground, start flying and they're flying low,
and you're swinging on one and you'renot paying attention, and the guy down
the fence line from you is incamo and dog gone. All of a
sudden, he's screaming and hollering,and you just can't do that. It

(01:53:10):
just can't do that. So watchwhere you are and know where everybody else
is in the field. It's veryrare who that people get hurt on trapp
and skeep fields or any kind ofa safe environment shooting operation like that.
That's pretty rare, but it doeshappen, even with accidental discharges in the

(01:53:33):
field though. It's just things arehappening so fast, and everybody's moving so
fast, and everybody wants to getshots off at birds that are in range,
and you tend to Some people atleast tend to lower their guard or
they're not really paying attention. Anotherthing is very important that I got to
go to break for sure. Theother thing is very important is that you

(01:53:56):
if you're going to get up andmove from where you were. Let everybody
within earshot. No, Ham,I'm going out here to pick up a
bird. Now, keep an eyeon me before you shoot. Hey,
I'm going over here to do whatever. Keep an eye on me, and
let them know that you're out ofwhere you were when they were thinking about
where they could and could not shoot. Don't man, don't leave home without

(01:54:20):
making that declaration. All right onthe way out, final spot right here.
Black Horse Golf Club, good placeto end up. It's gonna be
a little wet probably, I don'tknow how much rain they're gonna get a
black Horse. They're on Fry Road, just a little way south of two
ninety. But whatever it is,as soon as it's okay to get back
out there, they'll have people runningout there to go play golf and have

(01:54:42):
fun. And on the two coursesthey have up there, there's a North
course in the South course to theNorth course at a little more open if
you will. The South course stillvery very playable. That's not a big
deal. But both of them areavailable pretty much every day that the condition
are okay for it, and theykeep that course in very good shape.
Goes courses in very good shape.They really do. Blackhorse Golfclub dot Com

(01:55:09):
is a website. Whether it's justyou and a buddy or you've got two
hundred people who need to raise somemoney for charity, they'll take care of.
They've even got a good lesson facilitydown at the far end of that
generous, generous practice range. Theyhave Blackhorse Golf Club dot com. Black
Horse Golfclub dot com. This isSports Talk seven ninety breaking sports news on

(01:55:30):
Facebook twenty four or seven. We'llget that information to them from them.
This is the Doug Fike Show.About a mile out of Shaky Town.
We're Shakytown. Has there ever beenany explanation of that? Maybe it's next
to ten buck two? Yeah?Probably? Oh mercy seven one three two
one two five seven that cow.We're already at the end of the show,

(01:55:51):
Holy count. Only about ten minutesleft to go. A reminder that
tomorrow is officially Mother's Day. Ifyou haven't done anything yet for Mom,
I was gonna say, now's yourchance, but now as you're pretty much
your last chance, this is thelast day at least that you can do
anything like that. You gotta gotake care of it. You gotta go

(01:56:14):
take care of it tomorrow. Ihope that we will have more people interested
in sharing stories of their own moms. I can remember my mom being very
Mostly what I remember is her patiencewith some of the stuff that went on
part of me relative to my experiencesin the outdoors. I and my friends

(01:56:41):
we lived in a neighborhood in originalSharpstown Sharpstown Section one. This is way
before the Southwest Freeway, way beforethere was any building larger than the Esperson
Building, which wasn't that tall indowntown Houston before a lot of stuff,

(01:57:02):
and one of the things that wehad in our neighborhood and most neighborhoods back
then, was these little Houston toads. I guess I think that's what they
were specifically. In any event,they were jillions of them, and much
of their demise and they're not gone, but there aren't nearly as many as

(01:57:24):
there were back then. And oneof the reasons for that is that they
were they had insatiable appetites for flyinginsects, and at night, when the
street lights came on, by thedozens, if not hundreds, they would
go into the street into that lightand suck down the bugs that were flying

(01:57:45):
around. They also, unfortunately,were in the way of every car in
the neighborhood. Ah, Mojoe helpedus out at them Shakertown, San Francisco.
Why, I don't know, there'sno explanation given that's just a definition

(01:58:09):
and X well it's not an explanationof why it's called that, but at
least we know what city was referencedin that song. So these poor toads
would be out there and to passthe time in daytime. On a lot
of summer afternoons, my friends andI would go looking for these things as
they'd crawl up in a cool spacesomewhere, and then we just kind of

(01:58:32):
we just kind of tap a handbehind them and get them to jump.
Oh, now, hold on,James says that Shaky Town is La.
Now we've got Now we've got acontroversy. You need to go to the
internet real quickly at them and figureout exactly where it is. I'm reading

(01:58:53):
here that it says it's La.Okay, Yeah, Mojo is saying.
Mojo is saying spell check strikes again. Yeah, So for some reason,
I don't know, one begot whoknows it's okay, I'm reading it's trucker
slang for la. Okay, yeah, well that's what and that's that convoy
song is about Trucker's Obviously, betDan would know. I think Dan was

(01:59:17):
listening earlier. I don't know ifhe still is. I don't know if
he wants to pipe in on that. We're gonna go with La Mojo nothing.
I don't know how the I don'tknow how spell check changed to la
to San Francisco. But let's justgo with that. So tomorrow Mother's Day,
I expect some reports from you guys, some phone calls from you guys

(01:59:39):
about mom and what she meant toyou growing up in the outdoors. My
Houston toad story, to go backto that involves me being in the backyard
and finding a toad and slapping myhand behind him a couple of times and
him jumping out of the way justbefore my hand hit the ground. And
one time I slept a little tooclose and he didn't move, and I

(02:00:01):
swatted him on the backside, andhe acted like he was all hurt and
messed up and kind of limped awaya little bit, and I thought,
oh my god, I've killed thistoad. That'd be horrible. I was
so upset, just so upset,and so I go into the house.
Oh, Mojo's sticking to it.Shakytown, you know why, earthquakes,

(02:00:27):
and maybe for the same reason inLa. But nonetheless, that's a good
point. Maybe there's two shaky towns. It might be there's a lot of
pasadenas. There's a lot of Houstonsin this country, so there could be
at least two shaky towns. Soanyway, back to the toad. So
this toad. I got this injuredtoad in the backyard and I run into

(02:00:47):
my mother. Mom, You're notgonna believe what I've done. I'm so
upset. I gotta figure out howto nurse this thing back to health.
So I go out in the gardenand I dig this little hole, a
shallow it's just a depression and maybethe size of a dinner plate, and
I'm probably about four inches deep.And Mom comes out with one of my
dad's handkerchiefs, which I'm sure heappreciated. She probably never told him we

(02:01:11):
did this, but we put thistoad on the handkerchief, and of course
it wets the handkerchief immediately, youknow, like that. But I'm out
there just patting him and stroking himand patting him Australia and just saying,
man, I'm sorry I bangs youup there. I hope you're gonna be
okay. And I don't know,five ten minutes I'm out there doing it's
just laying in the grass right upnext to the flower bed and talking to

(02:01:34):
this frog like a toad, likea little kid who cares about animals.
And at some point, off hegoes. He just hops on out.
He dinged him up, a littlebit of bruised him, knocked him down,
but he got right back up.I can't hear are you talking to

(02:01:54):
me? Oh? Okay, You'rejust such a busy guy in there.
I can never tell. I seeyour lips moving. It's like you,
I don't know, it's like yourventriloquist kept kept squeezing the handle in the
back. But stop talking there.You have that, all right? Let
me go back and check email beforewe flat run out of time. Make

(02:02:16):
sure that I don't miss anything vital. Yeah, Mojo is still sticking to
the shakytown thing. Rick Biss isasking me questions about fifty plus. That's
fantastic. I'm glad. I'm soglad that maybe we can get this going
again. Billy also, well,Billy goes back to shakytown being in LA
because of earthquakes. So how aboutwe just call it shaky state. Let's

(02:02:41):
just go with that. I don'tthere have been earthquakes reported, I believe
in I don't know, dozens ofAmerican states. I can't remember how many,
but not like the ones they getin LA. And honest to goodness,
if I lived out there anywhere nearthat San Andreas fault or anywhere west
of it, I'd sleep with oneeye open every night. I think that

(02:03:03):
that maybe that's my that's a Californian'stornado, because if that fault ever decides
to really slip, it's it's gonnabe like a million f five tornadoes all
at one time someday. I don'tknow. There's people joke about California slipping

(02:03:29):
off into the ocean and so onand so forth. It hasn't, and
I don't think it's expected to inany short term. But man, the
way of the way people are leavingthat state for other reasons these days,
you'd think that there'd been a warningissue that it was about to just slide
right off into the Pacific. Ocean. That's a that's a whole different set

(02:03:53):
of people out there in California.They really are. And I see a
lot of California tags around here.And if they're here because they like what's
going on in Texas, I welcome, come on in, you're one of
the family. But if they're tryingto bring California to Texas, that's a
different story. How much time doI have to fill here, and I'm

(02:04:15):
happy to fill it. About twominutes, maybe less. Oh, that's
easy, two minutes to fill.There are there are more and more efforts
underway. I'll go a little bitgun rights on you for just on the
way out here, because it's importantto me, it's important to you.
Two, there are a lot ofpeople still trying really hard to take guns

(02:04:38):
away from everybody who's a law abidingcitizen, or at least restrict them so
badly that you can't afford the shells, you can't afford the bullets. And
there's all kinds of different games beingplayed that would dismantle our ability to defend
ourselves, the law abiding citizens atleast, and ultimately, if they're successful,

(02:05:03):
it's going to be a very difficultthing to do. I've said it
before. I'm too old to wina fistfight in most cases. Just keep
an eye on that stuff. Maybewe can talk about that some tomorrow.
Maybe not. It's okay. We'regonna get through this. It's a rocky
period for this country, no questionabout it. But we're going to get

(02:05:25):
through it. And to help usthrough it, to keep us grounded,
we need to just spend as muchtime in the outdoors. That's the way
I look at it. I'm gonnaspend all the time I need to fighting
for things in which I believe andgood overcoming evil. However you want to
look at that. But in themeantime, wait for this rain to stop,

(02:05:48):
and then get outside and have somefun with your family. Okay.
Teach your kids to appreciate the outdoors, appreciate animals, and they'll in turn
appreciate a lot more about their lifeas they grow up. That's what we
gotta do. I'll be back tomorrowmorning at eight. I hope you can
join me then for Mother's Day.Bring your stories. I'd be glad to
hear him. How doos