The Doug Pike Show 5-14-2023

Doug talks hunting, fishing, and golf, and shows his appreciation for mothers all over on this Mother's Day edition of the show. The Texas Temperature Game is played, and a caller wins a round of golf. Doug talks alligators, crocodiles, and sharks.

Episode Transcript

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How many fish in our stringer,how many points on our buck, how
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Pike. All right, Sunday editionof the program. This Mother's Day starts

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right now. I have on mycomputer screen and we will get to Mother's
Day. But there's there are thingsI want to go ahead and talk about.
Also. Before we do that,let me get this weather radar up
and see just what's going on here. This is all messed up again.
It looks like it essentially almost likea replay of yesterday. Let me get

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this thing to populate. Yeah,there it is. What's coming is it's
just doing exactly what it did yesterday. It's creeping up from the southwest and
ever so blooming slowly trying to wellsee, actually, I'll take that back.
It's peeling around Houston right now.I need a bigger view though.

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Hold on, let me back outa little bit and see how much rain
we've got. Yeah, it lookslike it's gonna rain most of this Mother's
Day, So just be very verycareful. It'll go on and off.
There's a break in it out overthe Gulf of Mexico, but that break's
not gonna get here for a while. There are holes in it here and
there, and then as the progressionof the video goes, some of those

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holes filled back up, some ofthem go away. It's gonna be a
wet, zoggy, sloppy Sunday forMother's Day. So just if you have
plans to go out on the road, for Heaven's sakes, please be careful.
When I was coming in this morning, it was just a horrific drive.
There was a lot of wind,there was a lot of ponding on

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the road, and I'm frankly prettysurprised. The only thing I think that
kept us from all of us whowere out there this morning, from Na
seeing IREC was just there weren't thatmany cars, and there weren't at least
the idiots, whichever of them wereout there this morning, even they slowed
down a little bit. It wasjust that rougher ride on the way in

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oh And to cap the ride thecherry on the nasty drive in Sunday.
Was that about halfway here, somewherearound I don't know where around, maybe
bel Air or Hill Cross somewhere betweenthere. I'm paying strict attention to the

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road and I hear this thing ding, and that means something's on that dashboard
that I'm probably not gonna want tosee. And indeed that's what it was.
Low tire pressure, Doug. Youneed to deal with this, at
least in my vehicle. At leastit shows which tire and just how bad
the situation is. I got thirtyfive, thirty five, thirty five and

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twenty six in the right rear.So somehow, some way I picked up
something that's caused a slow leak,I believe. And I really had no
intention whatsoever of stopping in a downpourto call Triple A and just sit there
for an hour while I waited forsome really unhappy record driver to show up

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and take care of my tire.So anyway, I got here and it
doesn't look any worse then it didwhen probably when the light came on.
And if I have pressure at allwhen I leave here, what I'm gonna
do. Actually, after the show, I've got some work to do,
so I'm gonna call Triple A andget them to come meet me then and

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take a look at that tire,and if we don't see anything obviously dangerous
in it, which I don't thinkwe will, I'm going to get them
to just air me up and I'mgoing to run it down to NTB in
Sugarland and see if we can getsomething done there. I presume they're going
to be open today, not anat Well, I don't know. Yeah,
they won't be. They won't closeup for Mother's Day seven one three,

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two one two five seven ninety.It is Mother's Day, by the
way, in case you didn't knowit, and if you didn't, shame
on you. The one day ofthe year when we really need to do
something special for mom. You gotto treat your mom right all year round,
but on today she gets to callthe shots. That's how it's supposed
to work out. Now, mywife and my son may have to take

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a couple of those shots. Themselvesearly this morning because I'm not going to
be back for a while. Idon't know how long it's going to take
the Triple A crew to get over, but at some point I got to
get them there and figure it out. And let's see. If this building
has an air compressor, I mayI may just air up and take off
and try to get back out there. It's not gonna be too bad.

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Whatever happens happens. It's just I'vejust got to let it roll off my
back like the rain that I wouldhave had to stand in to hold the
umbrella over the Triple A guy ifwe had stopped this morning. Oh and
back a few more steps, Adam, I didn't even tell you about this
part. So I'm sleeping, justsleeping like a rock man. I am
out. My back got diagnosed asbeing not nearly as bad as I thought

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it would be. I got somestretching exercises to do, and I feel
almost one hundred percent now. Ihaven't even thought about my back this morning,
and I couldn't think of anything elsethree days ago. So I'm sleeping,
snoozing, snoozing, sleeping, andI wake up and I look over
at the clock and it says whattime was it, six twenty three?

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I think it was something like that, and this cold chill rushes over me,
and I think, oh my god, I've got to be on the
air in forty minutes. I'm thinkingit's Saturday. Oh my goodness. In
my coming out of sleep mode,the adrenaline just rushed through me. Okay,

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I've got to do this, this, this, this, and this
pore I got before I can go. And I'm scrambling, trying, panicking,
trying to get ready to get outof the house, and I'm moving
super fast, and then about Idon't know, I'm now, I'm already
dressed, I've got my contacts in, brush my teeth, brush my hair.
I'm ready to go fed the guineapig. That's partly my duty.

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On the way out the door,let my son sleep in a little bit
later on the weekends, and honestly, I'm ready to just hit the door,
and it dawns on me, thisis Mother's Day, this is Sunday.
I don't have to be on untileight o'clock. So all of that
weird stuff that happened between the houseand here did at least happen without me

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panicking over being here on time,because when I realized how hard it was
rainy, I could hear it onthe roof, and I realized how hard
it was raining, I thought,oh man, I'm this is the last
day that I need to be ina hurry driving down here on fifty nine
in the loop. But all's well, that ends well, and this day
too shall pass. We got ournew refrigerator delivered yesterday. It has to

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cool for twenty four hours before that. This is the manufacturer's recommendation to not
put anything in it for twenty fourhours. So another half a day or
so without cold food and house andyou don't know how much you miss a
lot of the stuff in your fridgeuntil your refrigerator is entirely empty and out

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the back door. And we thisis hardly a first world problem. Well,
actually that's the only place it'd bea problem is in the United States
of America. Probably refrigerator goes outfor two days, you don't have energy
with I can't get any ice creamtoday. Boo hoo, it's all right,
huh Adam. If you ever hadto go without a refrigerator, yeah,

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a couple of times. Any timea hurricane happens. Oh well,
yeah, yeah, Oh that's evenworse because and invariably when we get power
outages, it seems always to bethe day after you go to the grocery
store and spend a month's worth ofpay on three bags of groceries and fah,
you get them home this solid goldstuff that you eat and then the

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freezer goes out. Yeah, we'vehad that happen once or twice as well.
And now the clock stick and youhave to, okay, start the
clock. The power went out atthree twelve am, and now it's six
thirty in the morning. Gee,can I still eat the stuff in the
freezer if I haven't opened it?If my son opens the refrigerator two times,

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to have to start throwing stuff awayin there, and it's yeah,
let's get past that. Oh mygod. It's a mother's day. Welcome
any of your stories, anybody whowants to talk about their mom and what
kind of an influence she was ormaybe was not in the outdoors my mom.
I talked about it a little bityesterday. My mom didn't fish,
she didn't hunt, she didn't growup that way. She grew up with

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a sister. I'll see. Yeah, my aunt Barbara, and that's all
of them. There were just thetwo girls in the family. Grew up
in Atlanta, and actually I foundout years ago that relatives of mine on
my mother's side owned at one pointtwo or three square blocks of what is

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now downtown Atlanta and apparently sold theproperty and squandered them up. I don't
know what they did with the money. Maybe they just maybe they just burned
the candle at both ends until theyjust died over their last penny. Who
knows, But at least it's ait's a what it could have should have
said. I wish I could havegone back in time and told them,

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hey, hold onto that stuff forone more generation, maybe just one more
generation or two, or maybe untilmy mom came along. At least no
nobody on my side reaped any benefitfrom that. That the dissolution of that
whole deal was done and gone bythen. In any event, it's high

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let me go check email, makesure I don't have a Mother's Day reading
to do here stand by Dennis weighsin. Oh No NTB and Discount Tower,
both tire both closed on Sundays.Oh don't tell me that, Dennis,
No man looks like I might haveto wheel around on a spare until

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tomorrow morning. Maybe Dan says,I can call him. No, man,
I'm good. I'm not gonna dragyou out in the rain. Dan,
there's no way, buddy, that'snot necessary at all. Mercy.
Oh, that's bad news, Dennis, dog gone. The fun just keeps
on coming my way. I needto find an air compressor. I just

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I just want to get enough.If I can just get enough air to
get home, then I can getaround because I can use my wife's car
because she's not gonna go anywhere today. I'll just limp over there and put
it on the foot, it onthe driveway, and yeah, that's disappointing.
So I'm counting on Triple A tobring air. And if they can
bring air and I can get thattire, air it up and get it

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home, I may get them toput the spear on. I think I
may do that. I'm gonna costme any more or less either way,
Just let him put spar on inthe comfort of this garage and I'll go
from there. Well huh, HappyMother's Day, Doug. I'm gonna continue
my countdown to dub season just atrandom whenever it kind of fits into a

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hole. This is a very shortsmall hole. I've got here before I've
got to go to break the countdownat current. Yesterday we were one hundred
and eleven days. Oh, I'vegot a Oh you go, okay,
go, I made one. Yes, good, let's hear it. I

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like that. That'll wake everybody up. Holy cow. Yeah. So initually
on Mother's Day we had one hundredand eleven days. Yesterday, maybe we'll
just do this once a week becauseit's kind of silly. Although it's all
right. Now we have, forthose of you who weren't math majors,

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one hundred and ten days left beforedove season. And that little tip,
of course, is always going tobe brought to you by American Shooting Centers
out there on West Timer Parkway.If you've never been out there, don't
go to day. It's gonna bekind of wet. I'm sorry, Ed,
I just don't think the weather's gonnahold up. If it pops,

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if the sky clears out that wayand your clothes go all right, we're
gonna take a little break. You'reon the way out Shooter's Corner Palmer Highway
at twenty nine Street in Texas City. Jerry and JTK the father and son
who have owned and operated that store. Well, Jerry has anyway since gosh,
nineteen, I don't know, it'sforty plus years now. That's the
business he got into and he's darnedgood at what he does. He's down

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there in Texas City, So anybodyany where on the south side of town
absolutely should go check it out.If you're farther away, but you have
an intriguing gunsmithing situation to rectify,by all means, call them and take
your gun down there. You'll behappy you did. They'll get it fixed.

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They'll get it fixed, and they'llfix it right. Shooters Corner is
nothing but an old school gun store. They have long guns, they have
shotguns, they have handguns, theyhave ammo optics, shooting supplies, reloading
supplies, all of those things.All of those things at Shooters Corner and

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nothing else really except cool taxidermy fromaround the world. And whoever's in there
hanging out is going to be justas interested in the shooting sports as you.
So you start telling stories, they'lltell stories back, and you'll go
in there planning to stay three minutesand grab one thing and you'll be there
for an hour and a half talkingshooting the breeze with people who like shooting

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just like you do. The ShootersCorner, TX dot com Palmer Highway twenty
nine Street. If you wear abadge for living, you get a discount
there. And I think that's fantastic. The Shooters Corner, TX dot com.
We are sport Stock seven ninety.Are you ready listen online at sportsnet
dot com. Now more, DougFike, Welcome to the Refinement Hour.

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Taylan artists. Please Adam Mozart Symphonynumber forty in G minor. You know,
I thought it was thirty nine fora minute in a major book.
Close only accounts and horseshoes and handYes, certainly not around here, it
doesn't seven one three two one twofive seven nine Email me Doug Pike and

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I Hurtmedia dot com. Let memove this and getting this other mouse rolling?
Where are you there? You area little mouse? Come on,
come back on the screen. Thething wanders across two screens and so man,
what is it? Where did itgo? Oh? There it is?
Finally I got you on the phone, Rick, But that's what's going
on? Man? Hey, goodmorning, Doug Fake, Yeah you too,

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buddy. Well you talk about somerain this morning, Dude. I
thought yesterday was bad, Dude,it got it today. I couldn't wait
to get up here and working thisbarner of for said Barnes got some me
hosing. You might as well havebeen out in the rain. But anyway,
it's kind of cleared up up here. I'm feeding these horses and anyway,

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that's another story. But okay,I got two things, all right.
One is you and I we havea hatred something that's black with a
long neck, cormaranze corma. Now, now there's another thing that you and
I have a very common hatred for. I hate to use that word hatred.

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Sound yeah, it sounds hateful.I know. I don't like that.
But anyway, um, I'm gladyou a hint. They are lime
green, and they can are fast, and they can jump along ways.
Lime green and fast and can jump. Man, all I'm looking at little

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chameleons and I'm not scared of chameleonRick the what did I forget? It's
hey, man, it's the returnof the dreaded green tree foult tree frogs.
Oh, holy cow man, thatjust sent a chill up my spine.
I don't hate them the house,Oh no, oh. They drive

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men you know, can never doanything to get in the house, and
they get the share of the doorframe. But I got a little cure for
them. I've done figured this acewar, dug. This is not a
battle. This is all out stockingoff war. How you got them?
How you got them pinned down?I gotta know, daisy bb gun that
I can shoot at a target atten yards and I it's so slow.

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I can run down there and turnaround and catch it in my hand man
and about two foot I've already figuredout it shoots about three inches high and
about two inches to the right.But now I'm zero and I got them,
and don't the little baby won't dono damage to nothing. No,
that's a good right. I gotme too this morning. Yeah, those

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things they're they and and sum howlermonkeys are the two loudest things I think
I've ever heard. They'll just penetrateyour brain. The other thing I wanted
to call up on from yesterday youwere talking about something about earthquakes. Yeah,

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and you know Clayton, you knowhe's Rooks for that outfitting group packing
people up in the mountains and evidentlyhis outfitters pretty well ring now because Clayton
had a job last summer. Itwas about a ten day trip and he
took a bunch of government people andgeologists in the Yellowstone to Old Faithful Story,

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working their way back down through whathe called the Rockies. And they
were GPS, and they were theywere checking this and putting these things to
monitor Old Faithful blah blah blah.And one night they were sitting around the
fire and Clayton asked him. Hesaid, you know, I know y'are

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doing all this and and uh,we're hauling all down this really high country
and y'all are got all this electronicstudy. Say, why are you really
trying to figure out They said,well, we're trying to modernize our way
that we can detect an earthquake.Cause if if Oh Faithful ever erupted,

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they told him, if it reallyblew to its capacity, to the best
of their knowledge, it would turnthe Rocky Mountains into small rocks and level
the rocky rubble. Huh from rockthat's one thing that's impressive. That's impressive.
Impressive. I hope that doesn't I'mkind of hoping that doesn't happen.

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Rick, Yeah, I think youwould probably feel it. Yeah, I
guarantee you. Yeah, all ofNorth America would feel something like that.
There's no question about it, nodoubt about it. Anyway, he enjoyed
the trip, and he still saysin contact with a couple of them,
he could stay in contact with lotsof people over Damn. Yeah, that's

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a that's a that's a different it'sa different group of people who want to
go up into the mountains for anyreason for six eight ten days like that
and cut them off from society.And frankly, on the times that I've
done stuff like that, I foundthem to be very interesting and very down
to earth and very grounded people.Well, he said, it was just
really interesting, because yeah, that'snot having the permits to go and off

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limits, but jealous Stone the thinglike, I just gonna follow up.
I just thought that was really interesting. Yeah, I appreciate that. Thank
you, Rick, all right,good everybody, Yeah, idios made you
Yeah, thank you. Seeah,all right, let's go from there to
Richard. What's up? Richard?Hey, Doug, I prest taking sure

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I loved your show. I'm I'ma terrible caller, So I'm gonna I
don't think so what makes you thinkthat? I just just the way it
is. So a couple of monthsago, maybe a month ago, you
were sharing with us a good catfishchum bait. Yeah, you were fishing
somewhere in sir Land. You saidyou were bass fishing. You threw out
this chum, Yes, I did. Okay. Two questions is can you

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tell us what that is? Again? Absolutely? What's the second? Tell
me we're fishing at that'd be evenbetter. Okay, all right, Richard,
I know you're shy. It's okay. Well, well, there's any
collars in the Crawlby area that knowsof any ponds that are obviously legal to
fish? Yeah, that would begreat. Me and my wife are fishing

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a lot now and we're trying tobuy some good ponds to pinder shot.
It's kind of limited. So yeah, I think I can help you out
here. Okay, yes, sir, you two just sitting back and relax.
I can do this. First ofall, that chum is the simplest
thing in the world. Okay.All you do is go out and buy
a can of the cheapest kernel cornyou can find and take it home and

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open it and dump all the waterout of it, and then drop that
corn into a ziplock bag, quartbag, pour about two three tablespoons two tablespoons
of vanilla is. Honestly, it'sprobably enough. That's all you need,
two tablespoons of imitation vanilla extract becausethe high grade stuff, the name brand

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stuff, is ridiculously expensive and thecatfish do not care. So you ziplock
that bag. And if you're gonnabe going with a lot of people and
you need to chump a bigger area, then spring for two cans. You're
out a bucket a quarter maybe,So you get your corn soaked in vanilla
on the way to wherever it isyou're fishing. When you get there,

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you reach into that bag and yougrab a big handful and you just sling
it out across the water. Andjust as though you were just trying to
broadcast fertilizer on your yard or somethinglike that. You don't want to dump
it all in one pile, justsling it out there as far as you
can. You're gonna be able tocast farther than you're throwing that stuff.
Find maybe a shady spot if it'sa hot day, find a sunny spot

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if it's a cold day in thewintertime, but whatever, Just sling that
corn out there and then sit backand drink a beer or eat a sandwich
or do something like that. Givethat chum a little time to work,
and fifteen twenty minutes. Usually whenwhen I would do this with the kids,
I'd throw the chum out and thenI would tell them to go throw

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a football together, or kick asoccer ball or something. In ten fifteen
minutes later, I'd call them backand we'd start fishing. It's also a
good time to make sure all yourtackles exactly the way you want it.
You're rigged up the way you wantand you can fish this stuff on the
bottom. You can fish it suspendedunder a cork. It's gonna work.
The catfish are gonna find it andthey're gonna eat it. And as far

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as where to fish, from Crosbyto where I'm fishing would take you an
hour and twenty minutes to get there, So don't worry about that. Go
into a local sporting goods store.Watch for kids riding around your neighborhood,
because chances are pretty good. InCrosby, almost all those kids who have
a bicycle also probably have a fishingrod and a place they go to try

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to catch fish. And any legalbody of water that's been around for more
than a couple of years in thisstate probably is gonna have catfish in it.
So don't worry about trying to findsome secret spot. You don't need
my secret spot, and I don'tneed your secret spot, because all these
neighborhood lakes have fish. Now,you gotta watch for the signs, and

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usually if you don't, if youdon't set up camp on the lake shore,
neighbors in these neighborhoods probably won't mindyou sitting there trying to catch a
couple of catfish. But you you'dbe better off even Maybe I'll tell you
what. Call your local law enforcements, say hey, where are a couple
of bodies of water where my wifeand I could go maybe catch a couple

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of catfish. Call the game wardenwho works your area. That's a great
source right there, because that's theguy who would write a ticket for somebody
trespassing in a place where they weren'twelcome. And also somebody who might just
stop buy and say, hey,you got your fishing license? And you
just show them the license. Hewalks away. Man, it's an easy,

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no brainer bait. It'll catch catfish, it'll catch rainbow trout, it'll
catch big carp all kinds of fish. All the little blue gills and stuff
in the lake are gonna come nibbleon it. That's why you want to
get it away from shore too.They're mostly tighter to the bank, so
you don't have to worry about themcoming out and gobbling up all your chum.
If you've got any more questions,man, feel free to email me
Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com and I'lllay it out for you how I rig

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up and whatnot. Easy, simple, no brainer, absolutely going to work
for you. If there's a fishin that lake, catfishing that lake,
it'll find that chump. All right, we gotta take a little break here
on the way. I don't tellyou about black Horse Golf Club, which
is probably not a good idea thismorning because it's raining cats and dogs out
there. But the sun will comeout, and once it does, black

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Horse will be able to get outplenty of people on their two courses.
Black Horses at It's two ninety tofry Road Fry road, take a south,
go a couple of miles and you'llstart seeing golf course. Then you'll
see the entrance gate on your westif you're headed south. Fun place to
go play out. I don't knowhow many dozens of times I played black

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Horse, enjoyed it every single time. A lot of tournaments out there,
A lot more lately, I've beengoing out there just on random days when
I had time and getting to jumpin and make three, two or three
new friends as I went around thatgolf course. Black Horse Golfclub dot com
is a website. They've got agreat teaching facility. They've got a great

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restaurant that's a grill. It's moreof a grill than restaurant, and usually
a lot of people in there hootingand hollering about the rounds they shot and
the money they took from their buddies. But a great place to go have
some fun playing golf. Black HorseGolfclub dot com. That's black Horse Golf
Club dot com. This is SportsTalk seven ninety Houston sports online at Sports

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seven ninety dot com. Back,did the Doug Fike Show sounds like my
morning? Kind of Oh that guyhas worst problems than I did. This
morning coffee went down the wrong way. All right, Richard, I have
updates for you already. Two thingsNumber one Steve. Steve pointed out,

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Hey, you've got Lake Houston closeto you, and you've got Highlands Reservoir
close to you, both of whichI'm gonna present. I know Lake Houston's
public and Highlands Reservoir, I'm notfamiliar with that. I know where Highlands
is up there off ninety nine,but yeah, so those two big pieces

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of water. And then Philip weighedin and reminded me that the Parks and
Wildlife Department, if you go totheir site TPWD dot st dot TX dot
us whatever, just just search TexasParks and Wildlife Department and then within their
search bar or search window, typein where to fish, and it'll pop

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a bunch of stuff up. Ithink it's gonna ask for your zip code.
Maybe, I'm not sure exactly howit works. I didn't have time
to do that, but I dorecall that being a good source for what
you're looking for. I was tryingto get a story to load because it's
technically it's outdoorsy, and it's kindof funny, really out in North Carolina

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there's thirty four year old guy whois allegedly fled from police after a traffic
stop. He takes off running throughfarm somewhere and when the officers arrived.
As officers began to search the area, they received some unexpected but welcomed assistance

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from some local cows. These cowscommunicated with the officers as best they could,
and essentially it's kind of like Lassierunning home to tell the parents that
Timmy'd fallen in the well. Apparentlythey got their message across to the policeman

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and led these police officers right towhere the bad guy was hiding. I
think that's just hilarious. Oh holycow. Somebody mistakenly unfortunately wrote because cow
farmers farmers or cow farmers. That'lldefinitely keep them off somebody's plate. I

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don't know. And the best linein here is I believe those cows were
on a steakout like that, Adam. That's pretty good. Huh. That's
a good dad joke. And onemore book them, Elsie. Police promise
to beef up their patrols. Itjust keeps getting better. That's pretty funny.

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Seven two five seven ninety email meDugpike and iHeartMedia dot com speaking of
nature and the great out of doors. Pop open my computer this morning and
I look down and in Facebook Messengerthere's something from my buddy Aaron, and
I though, this is gonna begood. I don't know what it is,
but it's gonna be good. I'msure, he said. A backyard

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video, not his. He foundit online somewhere, but it's a video,
and it's just from an open camerathat's running all the time, a
little wildlife camera in this person's backyard, and it looks for all the world
like the the first sketch, theinitial draft of some of these sans,

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like from Bambi, the Disney movie, where all the animals have gathered around
and the birds start singing and rabbitsstart hopping up and down. Whatever first
reference I can remember at all aboutanimals actually getting along and talking to each
other in nature, which I'm notreally sure is the best message for kids,
but nonetheless typical backyard. Really there'sa squirrel bouncing around on the limb

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of a tree, a couple ofgrackles hanging out in the trees, and
then this big male grackle bounces downto a large landscaping stone in the backyard,
and he's standing on that looking aroundpatiently waiting his turn. He thinks,
so, I guess there's something toeat on the ground. Maybe the
people feed the squirrels in the birdsback there. But this big old male

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grackle bounces down to the ground,and before that bird can ruffle its feathers
and settle its wings, a bobcatjumps out of the grass, jumps out
of the bushes the shrub and grabsthe grackle and he's got his breakfast.
And the squirrel and the other gracklecan't blow out of there fast enough.
Which is that's how nature works.Okay, that's how it works. And

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you can call it survival of thefit is called it eater be eating.
Only the strong survive. All ofthat. You can call it whatever you
want, but you cannot dance aroundthe fact that that's how nature works.
And that's a disservice that's been doneto kids for the last I don't know,
twenty years, all these animals runningaround, singing songs and and being

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buddies. The sharks. Sharks aresharks because they serve a purpose in the
ocean. They they're the garbage men. They clean up all the dead stuff.
They they'll eat darn there anything,especially the bigger the sharks, the
bigger the meal, little tackle,and it cleans up the ocean. The
coyotes, the well, the hogs. I could live without. But there

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are animals out in the woods thatare there for specific purposes, all of
which work together to have a healthyand vital environment without any You take anything
out of there, especially anything largerthan most, and it's going to crumble.

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If you take all the predators outof the deer herd, away from
the deer herd, or away fromthe geese and duck flocks, all those
populations, there will be overpopulation,which will then result in nature's other tool,
which is starvation or disease, tokeep that population in check. It's

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a balanced thing. The land canonly provide for so many animals, and
if there's too many of any onespecies either side, if there are too
many predators, then that reduces thepopulation of the ductor geese or deer.
If there's too many ducts or geeseor deer, then that's gonna be a
problem and they're gonna go away.That's just how nature works. You call

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it whatever you want, and it'sa great video, I think for slightly
older kids, but I wouldn't Honestly, I wouldn't feel super comfortable showing it
to a toddler. I don't thinkit's necessary to teach them that early about
how that all works. But eventuallythey're gonna need to know that to get

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something, you have to give upsomething. To get fried chicken, you
have to kill the chicken. Andto get vegetables to the grocery store,
you got to kill the bugs thateat the vegetables. Let them grow.
So it's there's all kinds of sharks. I'll go back to them. Tis
the season. Water's warming up,and if you want to, if you

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want to take a swim in theGulf of Mexico before the sharks getting the
surf up, you've always been toolate. We'll take a little break here,
be right back, Maybe talk somesharks. That's kind of fun.
They're always out there, sometimes morethan others, and in numbers that would
scare the average person, but neednot scare anybody, really, you just
have to be aware and careful.Belleville Meat Market long ways from sharks up

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there, but boy, what asurprise at ending if you've never been there.
When you walk in and you seeall those two dozen flavors of pecan
smoke sausage, When you see allthat beef chicken import cut the way you
want, when you see chickens andappetizers and cheeses and spices and handmade to

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mollies that are darner as big asa junior football. All of those things
are out there, just waiting foryou. They'll do custom processing, by
the way, on pigs and calvesall year long. You order a half
calf or hind quarter and they'll processit any way you want while game processing.
Still making those Vinni dogs hog dogsif you bring the venison and pork

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that you shoved into the freezer inquarters way back during hunting season. But
I'll get around. I'll cut thisstuff up someday. Take it out to
Bellville. Let them do the cuttingfor you. Let them turn it into
something you guys can eat every day, not a fantastic lunch or dinner,
whichever you want to call it.Out there, all you gotta do is

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go in, take two stom Butit's about six steps from the meat counter,
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My wife tells my son that allthe time, I want you to
listen to this song. Son,he'll be doing something stupid. You gotta
listen. I tried. Mama tried, and she does every day. She
tries really hard to make him better. I used to be a teenage boy,
so i'm a little I'm a littlemore understanding and a little more patient

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with some of that. But she'sgreat with him, a very good mother
to him. He needs to understandand appreciate that lem gonna go talk to
Dave and then I'm gonna talk aboutsharks and alligators and all kinds of cool
stuff. Where's that mouse? Thereis? What's up, Dave? Hey,
Mama tried eight tract tape, manboy. Yeah, you remember,

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you'll you'll remember this vividly. Wheneight track tapes were super super popular.
Okay, and you're driving down theGolf Freeway or you're driving across town or
around the loop, you can't goa half a mile without seeing some tape
that quit working and just got yankedout of the player and thrown out the
window. There's there's a quarter mileof tape peeling around in the wind behind

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it. You remember seeing all thosethings? Oh yes, sir, I
remember vividly. And cassette page too, Oh yeah, I got it.
Yeah, uh oh yeah. Andyou know and on that David Allen Cole.
So you know my mom, mymom, man, she could do
everything but her and my dad.See, they went and got that forty
five and had us learned that song. When yeah, when we got to

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the part of Mama got runned over, we had to say Mama got runned
over by dang do old train.Yeah. That cleared it up a little
bit, you know, and ina lot of different songs, and you
know, they would coach us inlike uh Eric Clapton's you know, you
know, we'd have no name insteadof the drugs you know, and stuff

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like that. You know, sowe were, uh, I guess that's
why we did, with my momand my aunts and stuff, and my
dad. Uh es courtners around mymom sewing her band shirts and keeping you
know, bringing all the band aidsand tyler all and everything in fruk spray,
you know, and drug us aroundall over Texas. Uh, God

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bless you, Mom. And Imissed her every day and takes her out
of hunt fish everything. So that'sabout all I got to say about that.
But she was a great lady.You know. I did send you
a picture of the day that mymom and dad got married at Saint Josephs
here in downtown. Oh wow.Yeah, and uh and yeah, and

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he's he wasn't twenty one till midnightthat night, and she was seventeen,
but didn't have to get married ornothing. But you know, my dad
was working for each other well too, and die company. He was in
the National Guards and and uh andher brother. He was in the National
Guards with my dad and he endedup being the homeside detective. Wow,

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she made us part of Texas history. Let me let me get out here.
Man, Look at it. Lookat the rain, rain, rain.
Okay, I'll see you day.A happy Mother's day, everybody,
the boy. All right, BeforeI get to Sharks, I gotta I
gotta go to something first. I'mgonna go to something that Scott sent me

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before the break happened. And itwas a video from down in Florida somewhere.
It could have it could have beenshot pretty much anywhere in southeast Texas,
anywhere in Louisiana, a little bitof Mississippi and Alabama. But what
it is is shuttle of golf courseand there is a size triple xl alligator

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next to the lake and it's it'sit's perpendicular to the lake shore. Its
nose is pointed to the lake andits tail is pointed back to the golf
cart that's videoing it from a safedistance. And as the golf cart moves
a little bit, you can seemore of the lake shore kind of slopes

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down, so you can't really seethe alligator's head at first, and then
when you get around the side,you realize that that alligator has somebody's golf
ball perched right on top of hishead. There's actually another alligator that you
don't notice it first, but it'sin the lake and it's kind of got
its nose pointed out. Hey man, you're gonna eat that egg something like

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that. No, you know,you know what I told Scott asked me.
He said, Okay, we're gonnaneed a ruling on this, and
you know what the rule is.Here's the rule. Okay, guys,
I am not hitting that ball.I am not retrieving that ball. I
am not taking a penalty shot fordoing so. And if anybody in here

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disagrees, you can just us giveme a big old fat kiss wherever.
You're like, yeah, there's noway. I'm no. That ball isn't
gonna be found until those alligators aregone. And some guys out there like
James the golf ball guy, rootingaround on the shoreline looking for looking for

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golf balls. It's huge. Ithink it's a crocodile. No, no,
no, there are no crocodiles inNorth America. Yeah, there are
in the Everglade. The crocodile,so a little yeah, but that's not
a crocodile. I think it is. Oh gosh, here we go taking
my guns on this. What madereally you? I'm gonna go back and
look at it again and just seeit's it's teeth are like, No,

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doesn't have an overbait. I'm notworried about his teeth. I want to
see his nose. Come on video, Come on video, let's go.
Okay, here we go, andthis is the other back end shot and
then you come around to the frontend. Yeah, it's let me look.

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No, that's an alligator, dudetoor I'm thinking about guns of this
one. You know, I'm stilllooking. And it's snout doesn't look necessarily
as wide as it probably would beto be an alligator. You might,
I'll give you a ten percent chanceor write because it's hard to tell,
but the one of the water definitelylooks like it has a longer, narrower

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snout than alligators, So who knows. Maybe so, But anyway, it's
a neighborhood of a there's a cardriving by, there's houses all around,
very nice homes. Of course theyare because they're on a golf course in
Florida. But yeah, that's apossibility. I'll give you, I'll give
you the benefit of the doubt,and we'll let Captain Scott decide what's what.

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You may be right, Actually,the more I look at it,
you might be I'm not giving youa one hundred percent yet, but I'll
give you a twenty percent or somethinglike that. Oh my gosh, we
gotta take a little break here attop. When we get back, I
still may not get back to theto the shark talk because I'm looking at
something here from Rudy that i wantto address. Oh lord, this is

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It's just man, It's just onething after another. This morning on Mother's
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Before we get to golf, I'mgonna bring up this story that that
Rudy sent and it's it's been goingaround a little bit. It's all the
way from up in Iowa and upin Iowa there is this black rabbit and
you there, you see them outin the wild every now and then.
And I don't know whether this wassomebody's pet, that just random muck or

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what the bottom line is. Thisthing has been running around the neighborhood,
chasing people, biting people, andthese folks are scared. They're flat scared.
Two people have reported being bitten bythe vicious beast. The stories it's
a rabbit, but it's still bitingthem. One person captured video of the

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rabbit quickly turning around and lunging ather feet. I got a hunch this
rabbit might have been might have beensomebody's pet for a little while and then
something somehow, maybe it got outand just got the the jeeper scared out
somehow. Yeah, it's a it'sa vicious little bunny. So the bad

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news is it's it's frightening and it'sattacking people. The good news is it's
a bunny rabbit, okay, Andas long as it's not rabid. As
long as it's just a rabbit andnot rabid, I think it's kind of
play on. Just if you seethe black money running down the street,
just duck for cover, Just getbehind something, or get up two feet

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in the air somehow, sit onthe hood of somebody's car for just a
couple of minutes. You'll be allright. The bunny will run run away.
I don't know what they're gonna do. I guess they'll try to catch
it, I'm sure, and andtake it to where bad bunnies go,
wherever that is. But I'm notgonna worry too much about that. One
seven one three two one two fiveseven nine email me Dugpike and iHeartMedia dot

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Com. I will go ahead andtalk about sharks for just a minute,
because this is the season. Ifyou want to go If you've never caught
a shark in your life and youwant to go catch one, this is
not a bad time to go doit. You can, and you can
do it from the rock Ruins inGalveston. You can do it from the
from the jetty down at the surfside from the Galveston jetties. You don't

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have to go far. You don'thave to go ten miles offshore, fac
you don't have to go much offshoreat all. At the crack of dawn,
there'll be sharks up patrolling that firstand second gut, and there won't
be any giants at that time ofday, probably, but that's also not
really what you want to catch asyour first shark. I used to see
them called all the time off thesurfside jetty when I was down there trout

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fishing. People put a chunk ofcut mullet or menhaden on there, slang
it out there as far as theycould, which is really also terribly necessary.
If you're standing on those rocks somewhere, all you gotta do is really
throw about maybe sixty seventy five feet, just get it away from the base
of the rocks, and the oddsof attracting a shark there just as good

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as as at the very end ofyour longest cast out toward the end of
those jetties. Now there are right, and this is at Galveston End surf
side. The Galveston Jetty is muchlonger and much a much greater population of
sharks and the maybe four to eightfoot range. But the surf side Jetty

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has them as well. I've talkedto guys who've dived out there many times
about what they see down there,and some of what they see down there
can be pretty frightening. They areaccompanied on dives every now and then.
Buy some pretty big sharks. Fartheryou go offshore, the more you can
find by summertime, by June andJuly. Let me go mile or two

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off the beach front of Galveston,pretty much anywhere, and turn off your
engine and put four lines out withfreshmen having on them. It probably won't
be ten minutes, maybe five beforethe first line goes off with a shark
on it. They're out there.You just gotta be patient with them.

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You gotta be You gotta learn tobe respectful of them. You can't ignore
the presence of a shark. I'vehad them come up to me while I
was waiting down in the Bahamas,Lemon sharks. They'll come us there,
what are you doing here? Whoare you? What are you doing here?
And as long as they don't feellike you're a threat, to them,
they're gonna bug you. They reallywould not prefer to eat us at

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all. They would rather go dowhat they do and eat the foods twhich
they are customed crazy seven one threetwo one two five seven nine Email me
Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. CaptainScott waded back in. I was also
thinking that this is evidence in yourface, and I'm leaning that way as
well, that those might be crocodiles, and one in the water definitely looks

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like one. I would agree onehundred percent. It's from South Florida,
so I suppose it's possibility. Andnow I'm leaning your way at them.
So that's a good catch by youtoo, because I was so focused on
the golf ball that I didn't reallypay attention to the noses of those animals
until right now. And I thinkif Scott and I agree and you agree,

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we're gonna decide we're going to declarethat those are indeed two crocodiles and
not alligators. From ten percent confidenceto what namedy, I'm with you.
I'm one hundred percent. Now,yeah, I am one hundred percent because
if you go back and look,they're not an alligator out there unless it's
had, unless it's had plastic surgery. This kind of knows that narrow and

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not many alligators get plastic surgery.For one, they don't have money.
For two, they can't drive themselvesto the doctor, and for three,
there's no insurance planning in the worldthat would accept that. So there you
go. Insurance is crazy that way, isn't it. Man? Oh man?
We pay so much money, somuch money for insurance, and then
still got to pay more to untilwe hit the magic number of how much

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more they want, and then they'llpay. It's kind of one of those
can't live with it, can't livewithout it things. And I don't mind
investing in good insurance, but man, sometimes it's tough someone three two one
two five seven ninety The boys aretrying to get ready to play golf.
There. They put out the teatime notice for tomorrow, and so far,

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the three responses I've seen, ohtwo so far are might be a
little wet, and I want toplay, but it's too wet for me,
and I may join that group.Honestly, as much as I want
to get back on the golf courseafter hurting my back earlier in the week,
as much as I want to getback out there as much help as

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I got from the stretch as Idid yesterday, I don't know if I
want to go out there and goeighteen holes of cart path golf. It's
just not my favorite. I lovethe game, but I also love it
conditionally. Why don't you go getthis and take care of that? George?
What's up? Man? Two guyswere talking on them said I love

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to play golf, that I gota week back, and I said,
how long about a week back?Oh gosh, So come on. You
know the difference between a crocodile andan all dator? I think I do
visually. Are you talking about?Are you gonna tell me a joke?
Well, one of them to seeyou later and the other one to see
it after a while. Oh gosh, Oh lord, all right, I'm

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gonna run back to cleaning my barn. Now that's it. I thought you
were good. Give me some wordsof wisdom. This is your profession.
You're an animals call taker. Arewe right about the noses though? So
I'll tell you they have ah especiallythe alligator has um some is able to

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control pressure differentials in the right andthe left heart when they're underwater pressure.
And then I think a crocodile hascomparable bite strength, either biting down or
opening his jaws, you know,jump on the back of an alligator and
hold their mouth shut. Those musclesof opening the jaw or a lot weater

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than the word closing it. Andthen you know alligators generally, their garbage
eaters carry leaders, so you knowthey wait for somebody to write. I
was out at Brassbin State Park andyou know they got do not let your
dog off the leaf side. Yeah, good story of a woman throwing a

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golden retriever throwing a uh, youknow, the retriever toy into the lake.
Sudden all of the sud Let meget them come back. Yeah,
I'll bet Yeah. Oh, thankyou George. Good to hear from everybody.
Audios. Oh yeah, that's that'sright about alligators and crocodiles. I

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had forgotten that. But that's agreat point to bring up. And it's
not something that any one of usis going to ever find out because we're
not going to do that. Butindeed, George says, as he says,
the alligator when it opens its mouth, it's it's it's straining, it's
working. Hard because those muscles aren'tthat strong. But once they get it

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open, and once they lunge forwardand latch onto something, that downward bite
pressure is tremendous. And I well, I know he's right. That's his
that's his business. A crocodile canopen its mouth as strongly and quickly as
it can close it. And that'swhy I don't think they're There are a

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whole lot of crocodile exhibitors who jumpon their backs and try to grab them
with their mouths closed. That's justnot going to work out. Well.
It's a good way to lose ahand or an arm or a life.
Alligators don't scare me, They reallydon't. I've got there's a video of
some golfer walking along and tapping oneon the tail and shoeing it back into

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the water. And there's actually videoof me doing the same thing a couple
of years ago. I think Ithink it might have been Rob Logan who
sent it to me this week inone of those memory reels where we're just
walking along and there's a gator thereand it's tapping on the tail and shoe
go away. I don't know thati'd do that. With a crocodile,
And I feel I feel very confidentthat if one actually did show up here

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in Texas where I am, orif I was down in Florida playing golf
and I saw one, I wouldimmediately recognize the difference, because that knows
would look very wrong. And there'san alligator out where I fish. Now,
actually that's bothering. I'll tell you, well, we're gonna take a
break here. I don't want toget too late. And because this alligator
is on a golf course, Iwill use that little story as short as

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are Sports Talk seven nineties. Theconversation continues. This is the Doug Pike
Show. My MoMA for me,all right, welcome back to fifty no
no, no, no, Doug. This is this kind of day,

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It's been this kind of weekend.Welcome back to the Doug Pike Show.
Thank you for listening, starting todo appreciate it. I'm Doug. He's
at him. I did some researchover the break, and the interesting thing
about this these alligators, those crocodiles, alligators whatever you want to call him,
caming down there and sell pardon me, South Florida. That one that
has the golf ball on its headlooks enormous, it does. It looks

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much longer than what the Internet saysfrom Encyclopedia Britannica. Actually that the other
species, the ones that probably wouldbe in Florida, max out at about
be about eight feet. That animallooks bigger than eight feet. Now there

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is the largest of the species,the black cayman is potentially dangerous, it
says here, and can get intoalmost fifteen feet. So maybe that's what's
down there. I don't know,but I know I wouldn't want to put
a hand in that mouth of thatanimal. I can tell you that.
Let me go. I'll tell youwhat I'm gonna go to Kevin, and

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then I'm still trying to get whereI'm trying to get and maybe we will.
Who knows. What's up? Kevin? Hey Doug, how you doing
this? I'm good. I sawan email from you a minute ago.
Talk about it? Ye, yes, sir. Next weekend I'll be way
mastering the second annual Greg Through Memorial. He was a captain that just boughty

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my brand new j H boat yearand a half ago and was out for
an initial test drive on it anddidn't make it back to the die.
Oh my gosh. Yeah. Theydid a memorial for him last year and
doing another one that The proceeds forthe event are going to a program called
Operation K nine Rescue, where theytake military service dogs that have been over

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there serving our country and bring themback and retire them. And this this
company takes them and rehabilitates them sothat they can be adopted. Wow.
Last year they had two of them. They had a Belgian shepherd and a
German And the whole time that theywould take them out of the kennel and
go walk them around and everything,and that chairman Shepherd. The whole time
she was walking around, she wassniffing and you could tell she was looking

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for ordinance and explosives. But itwas a really good program and a good
group of people. Um, it'sgoing to be at bass Stop Marine of
their Captain Mark's place really nicely inyou and that's good man. Yeah,
it's great. Captain's meeting on Fridaynight in the tournament being on Saturday,

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and I think the following Saturday they'rehaving one for the Gulf Coach Rescue Squad.
What's a good place to go forinformation about that? UM? I
did email you the u UM thelink for it, okay, and UM,
I'm not sure exactly the web atdress UM they can let me up

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on Facebook, Kevin Keith Burns umand I'll be posting them for my son
and on my on my my page. Yeah, I'm looking right now for
boy, all these young people gettinginvolved in the marketing of these kinds of
things. They've got that they've gotthat coding thing and just take a picture
of this. I'm hard to evenknow how to do that. Put a
phone number on here for God's sakes, you know, than myself. Yes,

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sir, scan the U is thata you? Adam? What is
that little thing that just looks likea bunch of square squiggles? Is it?
Uh? Some kind of code?QR cod QR code, That's what
it is. Thank you, youngperson. Holy Kevin, all right,
technology for God? All right,Kevin, Thanks man. I have a
great week. Yeah. I hopeyou got better weather for the tournament than

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today. That's for I know,that's right, you bet think, yeah,
my pleasure. That's um. Yeah, today's weather is God telling us
that maybe we ought to pay attentionto our moms today. I think maybe
could it be? Uh, there'sa lot of going on with the alligator
versus Cayman discussion. I'm gonna letsome of that fall to the wayside.

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The pet trade actually that a lotof people were buying these little baby Caymans
in pet stores and they grew up, and you know what happens when a
pet grows up and nobody wants itanymore. They just put them out and
they can't they can't put them down. They just they can't do that to
their little fluffy or whatever they calledtheir fake baby alligator. But they can
sure toss them in the canal andwish them well. And that's I think

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what happened down there, and thatpopulation is become pretty well established actually down
there. The common mark ways andthe common cayman is an exotic species in
Florida, although it's become established inthe southeastern part of the state. Native
to central South America, we knewthat distribution in Florida, etc. Etc.
Yeah, a lot of that goingon. One more thing I want

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to get to. Aaron's got hissense of humor in full gear. I
was talking about that bunch of cowsthat led the police to a bad guy
up in Where was that was that? And I wouldn't know. That's where
the bunny is, That's where thedangerous rabbit is, wherever it was,
wherever it was. We cracked acouple of jokes about the patrolman, saying

(01:05:31):
they were gonna beef up patrols andwhatnot. So Aaron, in his can't
let it go sends me back inthe subject line. Those cow jokes of
yours are utterly terrible, but let'smilk it for all its worth. So

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just check two more boxes below thatstory. I gotta get to this golf
tournament. This is something a littlemore stable and settling. Let me get
my website back up here. We'llgo to the A T and T Byron
Nelson on going up there in McKinney, Texas. Austin Ekrow out of nowhere,

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rolls in it shoots a sixty threeyesterday, that is eight beneath the
level par of seventy one. He'sgot sixty nine, sixty five, sixty
three, so if he continues thatkind of a play, he'll probably shoot
sixty today. I doubt that'll happen. He's going to be standing alongside Zahing

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Doe, who was also at sixteenunder par, and Ryan Palmer, the
third man who's at sixteen. Allof them got there very differently. Dough
even had a seventy. He hada seventy on Friday, but he paired
that with sixty three and sixty fourbookends around it, so they all not

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up at one ninety seven. Theygo out last today. Right in front
of them will be Vincent Norman,Jason Day who had a good round yesterday,
and see Woo Kim all at fourteenunder par, and then Scottie Scheffler
the last of the fourteens to rollin goes out with Patton Kazar and Terrell

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Hatton at thirteen under par two morethirteen, Son King and Richie Wrensky,
and then there are one, two, three twelves, and that's fourteen guys
that an eleven under would have tojump over. And among those fourteen,
I don't see anybody. I don'tsee all of them going backward today.

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So the names I just mentioned,those are all potential winners. They really
are even three shots out as alegitimate shot, but beyond that, they're
all playing for paychecks. Great tournament, all kinds of good things going on
with the PGA Tour and golf.And there was actually a story and I
may take a look for it duringthe break that Phil Mickelson said something this

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weekend. I never got around toreading what he said, but apparently he
upset a lot of people with it, and I'm gonna find it during the
break, because he also, almostas quickly as he put the tweet up
or Instagram or whatever it was,he pulled it down. So somebody got
to him and said bad idea,and he responded not by saying it's my

(01:08:26):
idea, I'll keep it, buthe tugged it down. And you know
how the internet works. If youput something out there that's controversial, somebody
will have saved it and screenshot itwithin what, adam, a tenth of
a second, maybe as soon asit pops up. They've just got They
just live with their finger on thebutton, don't they. Hello, No,

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yeah, I think so. Iasked the question. I was just
waiting for the rhetorical or not.No, Well, not really, man,
you're a part of the show.You need to be respond. You
need to jump in and just letme know what you think. Mojo maxed
out the rain gay, holy cow, got a five inch rain gage in

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the backyard maxed out overnight. Sothat's not good. Up. That's far
in Montgomery County. Wherever Mojoe is, Well, it's not good or not
bad, depending on what kind ofkind of backyard yard you got and what
are you trying to grow back there? What a messy, sloppy morning.
I'm gonna go to the radar,That's what I want to do. I
want to see the radar. Andwhen we come back, by the way,

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let's get somebody on the line atthem and let's play the Texas Temperature
Game. And I will let allof you know, because there's been some
confusion lately. When you win,Adam is required to get some information from
you and name it a dress anda phone number, and then it's a
incoming upon you to come and pickup the certificate. We don't mail them
out. That's just not how iHeartrolls anywhere in the country. We don't

(01:09:55):
mail stuff out. We don't driveit to your house. You're gonna have
to take ten or fifteen minutes tocome over here and pick up free golf
for four people, which I thinkis a very very reasonable expectation, So
be prepared if you win to dothat. We'll take a little break here.
We'll be right back. American shootingcenters I need to tell you about

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right now. This out on WestTimer Parkway between Katie and Highway six.
And if you've never been there,but you like the shooting sports, you
owe it to yourself to take somefriends out there and go shoot some sporting
clays, or shoot some trapper skeetor five stand, or take somebody to
the beginner's area and shoot some claytargets that are pretty easy to hit.

(01:10:39):
Get somebody's confidence level up a littlebit, get on the rifle and pistol
ranges. They go from five yardsout to six hundred yards. Again today
probably not the best day for that, but as soon as the weather improves,
it's pretty good idea to go outthere and have some fun. To

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Shooting Centers. The new owner,and I say new, he's had the
place for I don't know, six, eight, ten years, but he
did a really good job of turningthat place into a very safe, very
fun, very user friendly amusement partfor shooting enthusiasts. That's what it is.
Great place to go have a littlefun, burn a little powder and

(01:11:21):
just enjoy the shooting sports. AmericanShooting Centers dot Com again West Timer Parkway
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(01:11:45):
get more dug a great selection ofMama songs today. Thank you Adam On.
Behalf of all moms. Those ofyou whose moms are still around,
be sure to make contact with themtoday, and even if you went through
a couple of rough patches, sayyou know what I am what I am,
and we made it through, andthank you for getting me to where

(01:12:10):
I am. You made some mistakes, apologize to your mamma because she sure
didn't raise you that way. I'dbet I need somebody who wants to win
some free golf on the phone soon. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two onetwo five to seven ninety It's an honor
system game, so it don't don'ttry to cheat the system. Don't try

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to beat the house by sneaking apeek at some current temperature guide. You
don't know which one I use.Probably most of you don't anyway, And
that's the official Doug Pike Show Texastemperature game guide. So as soon as
we get somebody who wants to wina little free golf up on the north
side of town for themselves and threefriends, or themselves and three people they

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know they can beat out of afew bucks. Whichever how you manage that
is up to you. I've gota cool email from Captain Scott and he's
thinking exactly like I'm thinking, hesaid, evil rabbit Southern solution. And
first of all, I can't imaginethat the people in Iowa haven't figured this
out already. What Scott send meis hearty rabbit stew with vegetables. In

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other words, this bunny rabbit that'srunning around scaring people, take him out,
Just take him out, I told, I said Scott a reply,
they said, I'd be walking upand down the street with a six iron
in one hand and a sack inthe other hand. When here bunny,
Bunny, Bunny, Here, bunnygot carrots. Come on out, bunny

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Bunny, and dinner end up.Granted this this animal, being as aggressive
as it is, there's a prettygood chance it's got some kind of crazy
rabies or something. Mark's my winner. Let them deliver the bad news to
whoever that is ringing in on one, and then we'll get the game started.

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Hold On, I got to writedown the numbers before I start the
game, just to make sure Idon't make any mistakes. So the current
temperatures I'm going to refresh right nowbecause I use right now temperatures and that
and that. Okay, so Mark, let's get Mark. Hold on,
I got this, I got itat them? O God, Hey,

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Mark, what's up man? I'lljust drive around. Okay, I'm going
to ask you to select whether youwant to go first or second today in
the game second? You want togo second? Adam? Oh, well,
you didn't even play the music atthem. You didn't tell me too,
I got it? Is it hot? Is it called? We'll find

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out on the Texas Temperature Game becauseyou're high yours cold? Okay, there
we go. Now it's official.We had to start the official music or
it just wouldn't be the Texas TemperatureGame. Mark or Adam? You want

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to go second? Right? Mark? Yeah, you got it. Adam,
what do you think is a lowtemperature in the state of Texas?
Right now? I'm going with fiftyfive? Fifty five? Okay? Mark?
What do you think is a lowtemperature in state of Texas? Right
now? I'm gonna go fifty twofifty two? Adam? What do you
think is the current high temperature inthe state of Texas? Eighty two?

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Eighty two? Okay, Adam?What do you or Mark? What do
you think is the current high temperaturein the state of Texas? Eighty Gosh
darn man, you guys are goodyou're both good. Okay, you both
really Adam had one of his betterdays at your expense. He did,
Mark, I'm so sorry because hehad fifty five for the low and the

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low is fifty five, so yougot three points in Adam got zero for
that. The high temperature is eightyfour. So Adam only missed by two
and you missed by four, whichis a seven, which under any other
circumstances probably should be awarded a prize. But yeah, didn't we have did

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we have a rule where if yougot less than ten degrees off total,
they win? Is that right,Adam? Yeah? Well I think it
was seven. But honestly, therules have been changing. Yeah I know.
Well you know why because I wanteverybody to win and go play for
golf and have fun. Yeah,why not? So for we're gonna make
up a rule before you get hereto pick up your prize that qualifies you

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for the prize, Mark, becauseit's just fun playing the game. Um,
okay, river Plantation or Oakhurst,and they're both good. Which will
be closer to Tomball? Tom Ball? Probably? Wow, probably'd be a
toss up. Almost. Let mesend you to river Plantation. Doesn't sounds
good? Yeah, you'll like it. And you find three friends and make

(01:17:04):
one of them drive good. GotHey, thanks, I'm gonna put you
back on hold and let Adam getyour information. And thanks for playing man.
I appreciate it. All right,moving forward, I've got a couple
of minutes while he takes care ofthat, I want to go No,
I don't have to do that rightnow. I'm in pretty good shape.
That's awesome. So I want togo back to this weather radar if and

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I'm not trying to be a weatherwall, but it's it's just well,
I go to the wind first togive you an idea what's going on out
there whilst you're driving around. Ifyou're anywhere near the coast, you're gonna
have some pretty strong winds blowing around, and even up in Houston at Rice
University right now, it's blowing twentyone miles per hour down on the coast,
a little higher up into the midtwenties and a few recording stations.

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So in addition to all the heavyrain we're getting, you're also gonna have
that potential for ponding on the streets. And if that happens, the car
is gonna lift up and it's justnot gonna be pretty. So take good
care of yourselves wherever you're driving today, allow plenty of extra time. I

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don't want anybody getting hurt on Mother'sDay. And you know, dog on,
well, there are gonna be rex. People just have to get where
they have to get, so watchout for other people as well. Seven
one three two one two five sevenninety. Let me go check emails.
See if I'm caught up here realquick? What is that? I don't
need that right now. I cantake that down. Let's go over here.

(01:18:38):
Push that button looking for that's now, that's something that I don't even
care about it at all. Allright, I want to go. I
finally get a chance to talk alittle bit about sharks again. And my
son actually caught his very first sharkwithin fifteen minutes of the bab being put
out down there on North Padre Islandwith Cliff web several years ago. He

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was young, Cliff and I werenot, but and all we did was
catch a mullet in the surf witha little cast net and then cut a
chunk of it, send it outnot terribly far on one of my heavier
trout rods, and quite literally ten, maybe twelve minutes later, it was

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a done deal. He had abouta three foot shark on the beach,
so proud held onto it for apicture or two and then released it back
into the water, and not toomany maybe a year or two after that,
we jumped on Mike Catchiotti's boat.He wanted to upgrade his total shark
catches from one to two, andwe ran out to the end of the

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Galvison jetties. I was talking aboutthat earlier, and he caught one that
was a good, good five anda half six feet long, a legitimate,
significant shark, something that would domore than just give you a scratch
if it bits you, and thatalso did not take terribly long. They're
all over the Gulf of Mexico,and that's a good thing. Sharks are

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garbage disposals. They eat anything theycan get their mouths on. They'll try
anything to see if it's edible beforethey dismiss it, and that's one of
the reasons a lot of people endup being bitten. It's not that the
shark is attacking them to eat themin entirety. It's attacking. It's biting
because that's the only way it candetermine whether that's a tasty meal. And

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most times, unless that shark isridiculously hungry, when it tastes human blood
and flesh, it backs out ofthere and leaves a nasty, nasty wound
but doesn't carve out a chunk.Have sharks done worse to people? Yes,
of course they have throughout history.Somebody gets caught in the wrong spot

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in the wrong time, it's awrong shark. It can happen. There
was a big hammerhead caught recently,as a matter of fact, like thirteen
fourteen feet I believe on the Texascoast here, and they're out there as
well. I've seen huge hammerheads downin South Florida on numerous occasions, and

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I'm never really panicked when I seeone. I'm standing in thide eat water
once when one I'm popped up acouple of hundred yards in front of us
on a flat snook fishing. I'vetold that story on here before, Like,
holy cow, what's going on there? Oh? This guy just very
casually yeah, and he'd been comingup here every morning eating our snook's driving
me crazy. He won't bother ustoo much, And I just casually said,

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well, I'm glad that you knowthat the shark doesn't have to come
anywhere near us to get off thisflat. And she turned it. She
goes, well, actually, yeah, he kind of does. If he
wants to leave this flat right now, he's gonna have to come between us
and the boat. And I thoughtto myself, don't panic. If the

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guide's not panicked, I'm not panicked. So I just kind of hung close
to her and shark disappeared ultimately whereit was. It could not submerge.
It wasn't possible even for it tosubmerge its dorsal fin and tail. It
was just that shallow and just loadsof fun. Captain Scott, with optimism

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here reports sunny seventy eight degrees southwind at nine miles per hour. That's
down around Port O'Connor. Hopefully we'llget a little some of that. Let
me look at this official radar stuffand see what's going on. Yep,
I can see why. The badnews is there maybe a little bit more
crawling your way, Scott coming upin about an hour or two. But

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the good news is you got sunshineright now. There you go? All
right? Good heavens. I needto take a break here. I don't
want to get too late, havesome time to wrap up on this Mother's
Day weekend and Mother's Day and rainy, uh horribly rainy Sunday morning. I
hate seeing that for all of us. Timber Creek Golf Club. Once the

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rain stops, once the water dryup and rolls away, or even a
little bit before that, while it'sstill damp, get down there and play
those twenty seven holes at Timber Creekon FM twenty three fifty one in Friendswood,
run by a good friend of minefor a very very long time.
In fact, he and I oweeach other a shooting day at some clay's
range. I'll probably he's a longway from American, but maybe I could

(01:23:19):
talk him into coming out here forthat. That'd be a great time.
Fantastic teaching staff there. If youneed work on your game, this is
the kind of day when you wantto go indoors and work on incorporating some
new moves into your golf swing.That wouldn't be too bad. Timber Creek
Golfclub dot Com, FM twenty threefifty one. As I said about,

(01:23:39):
I'm maybe four miles I guess westof the golf freeway, very easy to
find, very fun to play,big practice facility, huge practice putting green.
And I'll spend a little time therebefore you go out. You'll save
yourself some strokes on the way.Timber Creek Golfclub dot com. You can
go there and make yourself a futuretea time right now timber Creek Golf Club

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dot com. This is Sports Talkseven nine on the Goal with iHeartRadio friends.
You've got to try. The conversationcontinues. This is the Doug Pike
Show, and I turned out tobe you only hell my mama. Welcome
back the Doug Pike Show on SportsTalk seven ninety. Thank you very much.

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Mojoe weighed out about Montgomery can't orwait in wait end on Montgomery County,
letting me know that no reason totry to do any business up this
way today. All the low spotswill be a wash. They will be
a wash. So don't go upthere to Montgomery County. Now, if
you know the county really well andyou're from there and you know how to

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get around, then go. ButI'm not going there. I'm not going.
Got time for a little bit offun if you will, if you
need to, if you want tosay something about your mom something. I'm
not gonna take any bad calls aboutanybody's moms from this point for where we
only got about five minutes left ofthe program, and would always have to

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be it would have to be goodstuff, for sure. I can think
back to thinking back to some ofthe things that I brought home, and
in hindsight, in retrospect, mymother never bad at an eye all these
crazy things that I brought into thehouse. I would bring in stringers of
speckled trout, bring them into thehouse and clean them in the sink.

(01:25:30):
I would bring in, bring inand then bring straight out the back door
to go pluck them. I wasalways talking about yesterday, geese and ducks
that I'd shot out on the prairie, doves that bring them home, the
little feathers that get all over theplace. There were all kinds of things
I brought home live animals as well. My friends and I was and when

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I was very young, would goup to the baseball fields on Bissonette in
Sharpstown. And if you're from anywherenear that area, you know where those
baseball fields are. They they arehomes to both the brayburn and sugar or
excuse me Sharpstown little leagues, andthat's where I cut my teeth playing baseball.
I played there till I was ten, then we moved away a few

(01:26:15):
years, came back then played ponyleague baseball up there on those same fields,
and then on to high school.And we would go up there when
I was well, it had tobe before I was ten, and this
is back when it was okay toride your bike up there. And we
would take an old empty, wellit's going to be redundant, a mayna's
jar that was no longer in usefor a maynai's jar, and we would

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go up there and catch tadpoles outof the ditches that held water and drained
where the drainage from the fields went. And I'd bring these tadpoles home and
we'd put them in a bigger containerand grow them up till they got frog
legs on them, and then I'dtake them back up there and let them
go. She never never said oncesaid anything about that. What else I'd

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brought home. We would go inthe backyard with little holes poked in the
top of the mayonna's jars and catchhoney bees off the ligustrium bushes and have
competitions, not my mom and me, but my friends and me on who
could catch the most honey bees inthe jar. And then I'd take the
whole buzzing jar full of bees backin the house to brag to my mother

(01:27:29):
that I had won that day becauseI had caught fourteen bees or whatever it
was in the jar and it onlygot stung once. Just some crazy stuff
as a kid, and my momjust took it in stride, And for
that, I am so grateful toher because it taught me that nature is
something to be respected but not feared. It taught me that it wouldn't be

(01:27:53):
cool to just capture those bees andput them in that jar and cinch the
lid down airtight and watch them die. No, the job after bringing them
in. First of all, youhad to take a hammer and nail and
punch holes in the top so theycould breathe, not big holes. You
didn't want them flying out. Andthen you go out there and you catch
your bees. You bring them inand everybody laughing, giggles, and you

(01:28:15):
shake the jar just a tenius littlebit and they would all It was kind
of interesting. And then you hadto take them back outside and unscrew the
jar. Now, you had tolearn the hard way once or twice that
when you take the top off thejar, you don't want to still be
holding the jar because they know who'sholding the jar, they know who caught
them, and they will zap yougood. What you did was you took

(01:28:38):
the jar and set it. You'reloosing the lid to where it could come
off. The little bees couldn't flyup and hit it and knock it off.
Maybe if they all jumped at oncethey could have. But you set
it down with the lid ready tocome off, and then you get a
long stick and you poke that jargently in the grass till it tips over

(01:28:58):
and the lid falls off, andoff they go back to the Ligustrian bushes,
back to gathering paulen, and backto making honey. Mom. Mom
allowed me to douce, in hindsight, some things that I would guess ninety
percent of mothers would say absolutely positivelyno to today to their kids and instead

(01:29:21):
would send them upstairs to go playa video game or something. And I'm
so grateful that I grew up witha mom and a dad. Dad.
My dad had some problems, hedid, He had an alcoholism problem for
many many years that he did beatlater in his adult life, and I
was so I was very proud ofhim for doing that. He that he

(01:29:44):
overcame that. But Mom, Momwas the rock. Mom was the one
who kept us together and made surethat we all cared about each other.
And man, she's as good asthey get the more I think about it,
all these crazy things we did onour bicycles. We did jump and
we made ramps when ramps weren't anythingwe would. We learned how to pop

(01:30:06):
wheelies on our high handlebar bicycles withthe banana seat. When I was ten,
I got a five speed bicycle witha banana seat and tall handlebars and
immediately learned how to do a wheeliethat I could ride all the way down
the street. And Mom just,okay, when you scrape your elbows or
your knees come in, we'll bandagethem up. I would be one of

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the bet that she repaired a minimumof three hundred skinned knees, skinned hips,
skinned elbows from me just getting tobe a little kid growing up in
Sharpstown when it was cool to befun and fun to be cool. We
had a blast. Adam, youwant to weigh in before we leave.
Uh, I just got to sayHappy Mother's Day to all the mothers and

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my mother especially now she in town. Yes she is. Oh good.
So you're gonna try to get overthere through the pouring rain. Yeah,
I am good. Good luck again, She'll got some Yeah, watch the
weather, ydri played my way hereand just get it up to speed and
then just just save the wear andtear and you're tires when you're floating on

(01:31:15):
the water. Right, What acrazy mixed up mess this is. There's
gonna be some hard rain, someperiods of light rain, whatever it is.
Just be safe above all else sothat we can celebrate Mother's Day again
next year. How about that.Let's go that way, all right?
Thank you all for listening. HappyMother's Day to all the moms out there,
and to anybody who's not. Hey, you have a wonderful day.

(01:31:39):
Just make it a wonderful day howeveryou need to. I'll be back next
week on Tuesday with more fifty plusand I'll be back next Saturday, god
willing with more of the Dugpike Show. Thank you all, I really truly
do appreciate it. Pdious