The Doug Pike Show 5-12-2024

In this episode Doug shares stories about his Mother on this Mothers Day. He invites other calls to share their mother day stories as well. Doug talks how gun ranges are setup and designed, honey bees, thermal scopes. Doug also gives info. on nut allergies from pecan wood smoke.

Episode Transcript

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This is the Doug Pike Show,brought to you by American Shooting Centers,
Guns Shooting and Instruction since nineteen eightynine. Now Here's Dog Pike. Sunday
Morning edition of the program starts rightnow this Mother's Day, and I'm going
to focus pretty heavily on Mother's andMother's Day today. There's no it's the

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only shot we get to acknowledge theperson who brought us into this world.
And if you have a story youwant to share, if you have information
that we might find amusing or entertainingor otherwise useful to the program today and
it involves your mom, come on, this is your time. I will

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accept any and all questions as alwaysabout the outdoors, hunting, fishing,
camping, skiing, sailing, canoeing, let me put this over here,
backpacking, snowing, whatever it is. But if you have something you can
lead with that involves something cool yourmom did, well, then lead with

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that and then we'll talk about yourfishing question or your hunting question or whatever
it is. This is the oneday of the entire year that you should,
if you're smart, you should payattention to mom. Give her the
entire day. Don't do what Idid for my sister's birthday many many years

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ago when we was in fairness,I was like eight or nine years old.
Don't come home with a brand newfishing rod for mom unless mom fishes
all the time, and we'll reallyappreciate that when there are so many other
things that I would think the majorityof moms won't be wowed by outdoors gear

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nearly so much as something a littlemore thought full, a little more sensitive,
a little more, a little moremom. And you know your mom
better than I do, certainly,And if your mom is going to be
really cool with a with a brandnew handgun or a brand new rifle,
which, by the way, asI've been talking about for a couple of

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weeks now, Carter's Country does havethose concealed carry classes, and that's a
handy thing for mom if she spendstime outdoors or out well out of the
house and has to go in placeswhere she's a little uncomfortable. And any
event, I'll start it off.My mom put up with me for well,

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for her entire life, basically thepart of it that I occupied.
Anyway, I was a pretty busykid. And I'll give you an idea
how frenetic and goofy I was whenI was young, and this is before
anybody had any idea what add Idon't think I had add I would just
I was just curious. And that'show my pediatrician explained it to my mom

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when she said, what was hisname? Doctor Cohen? I think it
was over His offices were in belAir, I think maybe, and we
lived in Sharpstown, kind of onthe edge, so about not too far
from where he was. I don'tthink anybody traveled far to see doctors back
then. You went to the closestone or god how old of mine,
or occasionally they would even come toyour house for a doctor visit, Melvin,

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I know, have you ever heardof that? Even Melvin? Yes,
I have home visit from the doctor. You know. That's actually making
a comeback a little bit. Anddid you ever have the doctor have to
come to your house and give yousome medicine? No, I haven't had
that, but they have can formy grandmother. Yeah, okay, yeah,
yeah, Well that that's how itwas. Even for kids. Your

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mom didn't have to throw you inthe car and haul you in there and
sit you down with a bunch ofother sick kids. The doctor kind of
at the end of his office daywould hop in his car and use his
map, his paper map to findyour house and then knock on your door
and come in and give you somethingto make you feel better. It's just

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amazing how things have changed and streamlined. And it's not good or bad whatever
it is. But yeah, Momhad to do a lot for me when
I was little. Uh. Thestory I was getting to when I got
distracted by home house calls for doctorswas that my mom once asked doctor Cohen,
why do you think he crawls intowalls. I'm just I was kind

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of like a one of those littlelike a rumba, just hit the corner
and then go off and go hitanother wall, and go off and go
around. You know what The doctor'sanswer was, he doesn't know he can't
go through them yet. That's gotboom boom, just keep bouncing my head
off the wall, just hoping Iwas gonna find that portal into some other

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reality. I guess I don't know. But she tolerated that. She tolerated
the rock wars that sent me homebloodied a couple of times. She tolerated
all kinds of goofy stupid things thatI did, and I did get many
chances to thank her all the waythrough her adulthood as I became an adult,

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and I'm glad I did. That'sThat's something any of you in this
audience, if you have a chance, whether it's no matter how far away,
if you can't drive there, andjust tell her personally, if you
can't huger and tell her how muchall of that meant to you, then
get on the phone. Get onthe phone. Tell your mom how much

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cared, how much you appreciate whatwas done for you A lot of And
it's instead of just walking up andsaying, hey, mom, thanks for
everything you did for me when Iwas little. I thought about this for
a few minutes, actually a littlewhile ago. Find some way to bring
it up, as though it's notthe only thing you want to tell her.
Bring up some memory like I could. I could have gone to my

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mom, for example, and said, guy, you remember that time I
came running home and my face wascovered with blood because I got hit in
the head by a rock and youhad to take me to the doctor.
That was crazy, wasn't it,And just let her tell her side of
that. Story and then and thenremind her how important it was and how
thankful you were that she was thereto take you to that doctor and get

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those stitches in your head again.My poor mom, Holy cown, I
had one. It didn't scare heras much as the guy who was working
at the convenience store. But downin surfside one, speaking of getting bunked
in the head, I was surfingwith some friends of mine and came off
the board and tumbled around. Andjust as I came up and started looking

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for my surfboard it it just rolledup flat like an ironing board and hit
me right above my left eye,just smacked it and split it open pretty
good. And I'm bleeding like astuck pig again. And on the way
back to walking my board back upthe beach, these guys my friends kind

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of followed in behind me because theycould see I was messed up pretty bad.
And I said, somebody got atowel. I need to hold some
pressure on this for a second,and they said, then no, we
kind of got to go. Weneed to go get you sewn up.
And I didn't know what was thatbad. I looked in the rear view
mirror on the outside of the car. I think, yeah, okay,
somebody else drive. So we driveto the convenience store to figure out where

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the hospital is. And I walkedin there, and just for giggles,
we had already had this figured out. I had blotted the blood away pretty
good, and then as I walkedin, I kind of kept the right
side of my face toward him.While my friends were standing there asking if
they if this guy knew where thehospital was, and just as if he

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had been reading a script, hegoes, gosh, what happened? And
I turned so that he could seethe left side of my face, and
it was horrible. We never shouldhave done that to that poor guy.
There was no reason except that wethought it would be funny. And ultimately
I got I think it was sixor seven stitches on that one. Just
I was a mess. Frankly,and my friends and I did things that

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we shouldn't have done, and weknew better than to do, but we
didn't think our parents knew anything.We didn't think they knew anything. We
took chances in the outdoors. Westayed out later than we should have on
hunting trips and fishing trips. Wewent wherever we wanted to. And this

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is mostly outdoor stuff. I wasn'tgoing into sketchy parts of town doing stupid
stuff. I was outdoors doing it. But I still put myself at a
lot of risk. And in hindsight, now that I've been a parent for
sixteen years, I didn't have anyidea how much anxiety and how much dread
I was causing my parents by doingwhat I was doing. And this is

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long before anybody could just pick upthe phone and look at an app.
To know where, at least whereyour teenager's phone is doesn't necessarily mean that's
where they are, but as attachedas they are to their phones, there's
a pretty good chance that if youcan find the phone, you can find
a kid. One of the greatestthings we can do as an adult is

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let mom or dad know that weget it now. We understand now how
much they sacrificed for us, howmuch they gave to us, how much
it meant to them that we acknowledgedthem every now and then. And boy,
what a what a blessing you canbe to your mom today just by

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letting her know. Huh seven onethree two, one two five seven Email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.It's Mother's Day. Give me a call,
tell me about your mom. Andyou know, if you're too shy
to talk on the radio, emailme. I'll read it with all the
passion you put into whatever you write. We'll do that for you. Do
that, and I'm not gonna doit for you. I'm gonna do it

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for your mom. I'm gonna doit for your mom. Important stuff.
They tried to teach you. Theyoh man, moms. Moms are so
patient. Oh my god, theyhave to be. They try to teach
us when we're little to become goodpeople, to become honest people, to
become hard working people. And someof us listen, and some of us

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don't. Some of us don't getit till a little bit later. Get
that story started with mom today.If you get a chance to do that,
then let just walk her right intosomething you know you're gonna do when
you start the story. But walkher right into a very humble apology and
for being such a jerk when youwere young, and then thank you for

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her never giving up on you.Today'd be a good day to do that.
I think. All right, let'swhere am I here, I take
a break. I'm gonna take abreak early since its Mother's Day, and
I do I most sincerely do wantto hear from some of you how your
mom reacted to your outdoors adventures,whether you were allowed to clean fish in

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the house, clean ducks in thehouse, or you had to do it
outside. My mom was kind ofpicky about that. She didn't really like
us bringing fish into the house toclean him. It didn't it didn't stink
up the house, but it typicallymade a mess. When my dad and
I would clean any kind of wildgame, he didn't. He wasn't much
for animals, but we did bringsome fish home to eat from time to

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time and when we were successful anyway, and Mom wasn't a big fan of
that, and that's carried over mywife. I picked kind of the same
woman for my wife. I endedup once coming home when my son was
very little with a rainbow trout wecaught from a stock to lake close to
the house. He wanted to bringit home and eat it, and I
had to go stand outside at thehose and clean that little fish and ended

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up cutting my thumb while I wastrying to do it in the dark.
By the way. We stayed infish till dark and he finally got his
little rainbow trout and then I cutmy thumb. I came in and told
her I'd almost severed it off.It was a nick that's all it was.
But it was bleeding. I madethe most of it. So fun
raising kids. As a parent,I get it a man, my dad,

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my mom. It's amazing how muchthey did for me that I didn't
appreciate until I was much older.And I'm trying to help my son understand
that now. And in talking toother parents of sixteen year old sons,
I realized that I'm not the onlyone who feels like he's talking to the
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Fike The Doug Pike Show on thisMother's Day Sunday. Glad you're joining me.
I truly do appreciate it, becauseI know you got bigger and better
things to take care of today,most of us. Anyway, for those
of you whose moms live really,really far away and you're just gonna go
play golf, you better call her. You better call her. And if

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I found out, if I findout from a mom that she didn't get
a call from one of you,I'm gonna call you for probably a week
in a row every day and remindsyou of how wrong that was. So
don't don't set yourself up for that. Well, let me start with Dave
and then I'll get to James.Here we go, Dave, what's up?
Man? Oh man, you knowI told you before my mom she

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taught us how to MoMA fish clean, fish clean brave squirrels. It's like
now we had to do it outsidetoo. She was like, Danielle Boone,
well yeah and uh yeah man,and she she uh well then then
uh. She she would wash allour football uniforms and then she sold all

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our band shirts and put the pearlbuttons on them and everything and make sure
that we were dressed right and theygo down. Yeah, and then uh
and then then uh. In herlater years, when I was there for
I think eight years, having tobe in the morning, I'd leave her
noon to go rest at my houseand then had spend the night with her.

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And it ain't got pretty rough,you know, towards the end,
because sometimes she couldn't even recognize whoyou were, you know. But then
I but then I thought to myself, like you said, look at all
she did for us, man,this up passed, this up, put
up with us. If mother's,if mother's got a dollar for every band

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aid they put on their children,they would be the richest people in the
world for sure. And I'll tellyou what she and she uh comforted us
too, and and and coached uson the lot of stuff and not along
with my dad. But she wasmy dad was mostly working all the time.
Yeah. And then, uh,they didn't have no pampers back then.

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And I got three brothers. Ohmy gosh, that's right. There
were no disposable divers to wash themout, wring them out. Oh my
gosh. I remember. I remembersitting there on the kitchen chairs and watching
her do all that. And thenshe go and hang about. Oh she
had a clothes line in the backYeah, heck, yeah, man,

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I have clothes line over there onon Langdon Lane in Sharpstown. There was
a clothes line in everybody's backyard.That was the only way to dry your
clothes. Wow. And you knowwhat she is. She was just a
very special lady. She always madesure she dressed up nice. And then
she thanked me, you know beforethe Latin, you know, before she

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passed away. I had to goand play at the American Leasion for a
benefit, and I would take herover there, and the ladies there would
help Forrida hot dog. Oh that'scool and stilling ideals down. And I
told her, I said, Mom, I got to go over there and
do this, or I'd go tothe hospital of the week. And she
looked at me and held my handsand said, David, you go help
some people. They need you.That's awesome, that's awesome. All right,

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yeah, thank you, Dave.I appreciate the call. Buddy.
All right, let's go to Jameshere. He is right there, James.
What's up, buddy. Happy Mother'sDay to your mom. My mom
is from ninety seven. Oh mygosh, fairly sharp, okay, she
she contributed greatly. You're in thewar effort as all of rosy deriveters.

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Wow. She worked on a tbyassembly line, putting the tail on the
Those were for pro bombers. Yeahknow what it meant until recently and they
rescued down to airman and also strandedneighbor. Wow, first mail and whoever
rights. It's just it's just itis it truly is so. I'm the

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oldest of nine and the fellow wasjust talking about diapers. I know about
the business end of that stuff.The oldest will do that. Oh that's
right. You got stuck with allthat, didn't you. As as my
younger sister and siblings says, wewere raised by a different set of parents.
Wow. But uh my mom mostnotably nursed my dad back to help

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numerous times, just being so kindand caring and really quite smart about what
she was doing. She kept trackof all kinds of medications that he should
or should not have, and youknow, all all the things doctors like
to know about that that older peoplejust and I'm now that age and she's

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ninety seven. I'm the oldest up. But she is just incredible. She's
the most favorite person in anybody's nursinghome anywhere. Give her, give her
a hug from me, will you? And it's it's great to be able
to have hugged her yesterday. Wow. And Tyler, and then drive home

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this morning and have this call.Oh Man right on hurt. Okay,
James, thank you. I likeyour show. And by the way,
I caught fish at midnight in fairFairbanks, Alaska. Okay. That's in
June. That's cool. Okay.And at two o'clock in the morning,

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I am cleaning fish by the naturallight. Wow, on my son's porch.
Right. That is a great memory. I want to tie into your
outdoor guy stuff. I like thatthat I got to do that. Yeah,
that's cool. James. Thanks forthe call, buddy, all right,
yeah ninety seven. That's uh,that's getting up there. Man,

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holy cow, hey Brandon, what'sup, Bud? Hey, mister Pike,
horry you good morning. I enjoyeverything everybody all are talking about.
But I'll guarantee we all have memoriesof our mom sure, sure, yep.
And so they're strong. And sometimeswe as kids or boys, you

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know, we mess up. Butthey're strong and they they remain strong and
the seeds that they plant and loveand patience is unbelievable. Patience is the
one that I come back to almostevery time. Well, the love is
is what what breeds the patience thatthey have to put up with our stupidity.

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And as as a former little boy, I know what you're talking about.
Man, we gave our moms hellfrankly, thank you, right yep
with she Yeah, go ahead,I'm listening. I'm listening to you.
Man. No, that's I mean, you're right. I mean it's I
come from three boys. I mean, yeah, three boys, but I

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mean, yep, yep, andit is. I mean they're a blessing.
They I mean, they work.It's kind of like oh, and
that's what I wanted to tell youthere is a movie out called Unsung Hero
by King and Country and it's playingin theaters right now, and it's about

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their mom. Holy yeah, meand my fiance are going to go out
there and watch it in Katie.So it's called Unsung Hero and that's the
reason I called in. That's whatI wanted everybody to know and watch that
movie. I don't know. Idon't, but it's about their mom.
That's nice. Thank you, Brendon. I appreciate it, buddy. I'm
gona go catch another way to breakThank you. All right, let's do

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that. I'm gonna go to Lynnnow and then I'll get to Tim if
I can. If I can't,I'll get him when we get back.
What's up Lynn? Good morning,Doug. How you doing this? First
time caller? But I've been listeningfor a long Thank you. I appreciate
that. Might I really do.I can say our curiosity about hunting ranges.
What brought it to my attention isI was just looking for the distance

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on certain rounds well travel and theysay a three h eight round can travel
three point five miles. Is thereare regulatory deals that are made for people
to have a hunting range. Imean, do they just have to have
two hundred acres and they can puta hunting range up, or they have
to have ye qualifications. What you'llnotice if you go to a rifle range

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is that the shooting stations at mostof them, they have the bench where
you're gonna sit down and put yoursandbags and get ready to shoot and all
that, and then there's gonna bea big burm of dirt out there that
catches those range, those rounds thatgo straight down range as they're supposed to.
But then there will also be justkind of a wall of plywood just

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maybe fifteen twenty feet in front ofthe bench, or maybe not even that
far, but you're basically forced toshoot under that to hit the targets.
And so if you were trying tolift that barrel up and touch one off,
it would be stopped or at leastslowed down dramatically and not go anywhere

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by that plywood or by that otherobstruction, whatever it is. And that's
that's what keeps those rounds from goingtwo and three miles. And I'm not
sure exactly how far it is northof the firing lines at the ranges around
here to the next whatever it iswhere any person might be. But I

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know it's there is a regulation.I just can't remember how far it is.
Okay, Well, I was thinkingmore of like, if you're out
hunting and you have maybe a youngperson or an amateur, yeah, you
know, and you just want toset up talk on property. Yeah,
if you mean, if you're onprivate property, you can shoot into a
tree stump down range as far asyou want. But if that bullet leaves

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your gun and leaves that property andgoes and hurts something or somebody, that
you're responsible. All right, Well, thank you for all that information.
That just there's something that popped upin my mind. I just had to
get a question for it. Andit's dog on it. It's about time
you called Lynn. You've been listeningfor a while, a long time.

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All right, man, thanks everySunday, Thank you, thank you.
All right. Tim's been waiting,he's got a Mother's Day story. I'm
not gonna make him wait anymore.What's going on? Tim? Hey Doug,
thanks for taking me on sure.Uh my mom when I was young,
very young, just getting in ascout so our scout leader for some
reason had had to drop out,couldn't do it anymore. I don't really

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remember why, but so my momstepped up and took us place. She
was our dead mother through cub Scouts, we blows and boy scouts. Wow.
She was not an outdoor girl,oh boy, but she did it.
We went on hikes, fishing,camping. You know. The fathers

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would come along and help her out. But for about twelve years she handled
for about twelve years, for twicetwice a month. Yeah, she handled
anywhere from ten to fifteen boys runningaround in the house, doing arts and
crafts, going out, hiking,camping. Now helped us. She just

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she just learned. She just talkedto people and figured out what we got
to do. Well. And I'lltell you something that makes her accomplishment stand
out all the more. When youtalk about learning the arts and crafts and
how hiking, doing all this withyou guys, there was no Internet.
There was no YouTube for her touse to find stuff to do or how
to do it. She probably,without you knowing it, she probably figured

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a lot of this stuff out juston her own and maybe talking to her
friends or something like that. Therewere no sources for this. That that
makes the accomplishment all the more incredible. It really does. Yeah, she
put it you know. Of courseyou don't realize it when you're young,
No, not at all. Butthe amount of time and effort that she
gave up to do all that forus. Sure, And of course you

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know this was this was late sixties, seventh early seventhies. Know where you
were, This is when we were. This is when we were young,
rambunctious boys who got outside and justwent crazy. You know, now like
kids today they get outside and they'relooking for someplace to plug your phone in.
And you'll never know what she sacrificedthat she might have wanted to do

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way more than to hang around andtry to herd twelve young boy cats running
around exactly. So she gave upsomething for that at and you know,
you've had a chance to take it. Just something that I wanted to pass
on, you know. It's allmy example of scouting. But moms give
up their dreams, yeah, mostof the time for their kids. Yeah.

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Well and if they don't, thenthat's on them. But yeah,
the raising children is a very importantthing. Really, you can't take it
for granted. Thank you, Tim. It's a great story, Yes,
sir, my pleasure. Mother's Daystories always welcome this morning from now to

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ten o'clock. If your mom lovedto fish, if your mom didn't love
to fish, if your mom likesto play golf, if she never picked
up a club in her life,there's some story you've got that you could
share, and I'll talk about thata little bit more when we get back
on the way out. I'll tellyou about Belleville meat Market all the way
out there. Way wait, wait, wait, wait, way out there,

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Belleville meat Market. It's not thatfar. Really, I'm just kind
of playing. Go to ninety toHempstead Highway, Well, take Hempstead Highway
two ninety to thirty six, ortake I ten to thirty six, and
if you go north from my tenor south of two ninety, in about
fifteen minutes, you'll be smack inthe middle of the little town of Belleville.

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And at that point you can justroll your windows down and sniff around
for barbecue smoke, and when yousmell it, drive toward it. Belleville's
been out there forty plus years,forty plus years, and people from farther
and farther beyond just Belleville. I'mtalking about pretty much half of Texas right
now knows where Belleville Meat Market is. That's where they take their deer to

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get processed all through deer season.Any wild game, anytime of the year
you can bring out there, aslong as it's lawfully taken. They have
amazing beef, chicken, and pork. They have well you just get it
cut anyway you want ten fifteen oreighty five fifteen ground beef. Excuse me,
they've got that. That's on saleall the time. Until I hear

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differently if you're buying ten pound packsthree fifty nine pounds for that. They
have got two dozen plus flavors ofpremium pecan smoke sausage. They have got
appetizers and cheeses and spices. Thelist just goes on and on and on,
and everything I've ever had from therehas been absolutely delicious. If you

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can't get to the store, youcan always go online and they'll ship just
about anything short of a whole cowright to your house. Belleville Meatmarket dot
Com is a website. Check themout. Belleville MeetMarket dot Com. Your
Rockets and Astros live here. Weare Sports Talk seven ninety. The conversation
continues this as the Doug Pike Show, Dougpike Show on this Mother's Day Sunday

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morning. Let me go, man, I need to go check in here
with Kevin before I start you appingagain and get on a soapbox. So
let's recap this kid's event from yesterday. Kevin, what's going on down there
in Freeport as the confetti quit fallingout of the area yet or what?
Pretty much? Yeah, okay,it was a great turnout of We had
three hundred and twenty four kids atrech and fished and everybody had a good

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time. Nobody got hooked or heartthat I saw, and tons of fish
turned in. That's awesome, youknow that. You know my next question,
what was the biggest one? Well, the I emailed you a bunch
of the pictures from the event,and there was one kid that caught a
thirty three inch black drum nice thathe had to of course let it go,

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sure, a little bit over thelimit. But other than that,
there weren't a whole lot of bigfish. I think the winners winners in
both age categories had like close totwenty eight and thirty piggy perch. That's
a lot. Some of the piggyperch were bigger than your hand. Oh
my gosh, how cool is that? They were monsters. The one kid

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in the yellow fin division, Ithink he had of piggies that were thirty
pigs. Oh, and then theyounger kid had four pounds and I think
she had twenty eight fish. Butit was a great turnout. Lots of
mothers out there, that's mothers.They time with the kids, and yeah,

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it was like always another great yearfor the event. Yeah, I
guess so. Man, Holy cow, have you get three hundred something kids
out there and they're hauling in.How it's gotta be cool for the kid
who catches that big drum to havebecause there had to have been probably fifteen

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twenty kids rooting him on and screamingand hollering when that dinosaur came up.
Huh yeah, that's They were allexcited for him. And I mean he
understood that it's part of the limit. Sure, let it go. He
was old enough to understand. Butwe've had in years past, we've had
kids that were four or five yearsold that caught those big oversize like that

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and had to let them go,and they didn't quite understand, Oh that's
you you have to let the bigfish go. You know, Kevin,
that's a prime that's here. That'swhy you're doing what you're doing, because
think of it this way. Ifthose kids had already been introduced to fishing
by parents who understood conservation, theywould already know. They would already know,

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Hey, look, if you catchone of these, see the picture.
This is a picture of a blackdrum. If we catch a little
one, we can keep it andtake it home and eat it. If
we catch a really really big one, we have to throw that one back.
That's a mommy or a daddy,and it's got to go back so
we can have more black drum.And it's a lesson they should have already
known. I hated for the kids, but that's kind of why you're doing

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what you're doing, to make surethey get that exposure at a very young
age. That's awesome, man.And I'd say probably fifteen to twenty percent
of the kids that came out infifty event that was their first time to
ever fish in their lives. Alot of the kids that are there,
they do it year in and yearout. They're veterans. One of the
girls, I think they got secondplace this year, got first place last

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year. Oh wow. Yeah,you just have to hope that it's not
their last time. If it's theirfirst time. Oh yeah, that's that's
what always used to bug me.I had two two young ladies that were
fishing at that were future well imean past winners of the event. Well
that they were. Now they're nowout of school and one of them just
graduated from college, became a teacher, and she's out there giving back to

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to the event that she grew uphere. Yeah, yeah, that's really
good man. I'm glad it wentwell. I'm glad you had the weather.
It looked kind of like it mightbe a little dicey up north again
today. At least you got itin yesterday. Yeah, it was a
bit windy, but other than that, everything went pretty well. Kids don't
even notice the wind, man,No, they don't care. For you
and me, I'll be like,it's kind of wendy. Well maybe we're

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old enough, we don't have togo today. Maybe we'll wait till it
slowed down a little bit. Butfor the kids, man, you just
better get out between with between thecar and the water. Just don't get
in their way, you know.Yeah, yeah, I have two more
tournaments that I'll be doing this year. One we'll be in June, and
that's a scholarship tournament put on brotherBrazoria County Fair and Excellent. The one

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in July that I'm doing is aTexas Kingfish Classic, and that actually is
a tournament that they raised proceeds forthe Blue Santa program, and they actually
have a toy run that they dofrom Freeport to border acoss Men and they
collect presents and raise money to buypresents for kids up and down the Texas
coast that wouldn't otherwise have them.I wonder, Kevin, if there would

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be any interest anywhere in an alladults first time fishing event. I bet
there would you think? I thinkit'd be cool. And I've actually taken
some adults, some grown men andwomen, both who have never caught a
fish, and I've taken them tothe same place where I took probably fifty

(35:57):
little kids when my son was young, secret spot where it's guaranteed you're gonna
catch a fish. It's not gonnabe a giant, but it's gonna be
a fish. And I've taken adultsover there and they actually kind of get
kind of smitten with it. It'sfun. I doubt that they're gonna turn
out as crazy about it as Iam, but they'll go again, and

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they understand it. I'm throwing allthe fish back anyway, so they don't
have to worry about that. Andyeah, it's really kind of fun.
I wonder just toss that around sometimesand see if you can get the interest.
All right, so sure will Yeah, man, all have great week,
Yes, sir, enjoy Enjoy yourMother's day. You got it,
buddy, audio, Yeah, allright, we gotta take a little break.

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I'm so glad that event went well. Three hundred and twenty four kids,
Holy cow that I wasn't expecting itto be that many. But once
that's that's another little, another littleoptimism box. I can check little kids
still interested. Well, it's actuallythe kids are interested, but the parents
also have to be interested or thatdoesn't happen and not interested in fishing.

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They're interested in introducing their kids toit. But now comes the hard part
of hoping that they go again.That's what used to bug me about a
lot of these first time events likethis, is that the kids go,
but then the parents don't follow itup. The kids love it. They
fought most ninety nine percent of thekids. I would say, love these

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little fishing events. But if thekids, if the parents don't, don't
back it up with yeah, wecan go again. Let's try a different
spot, or let's come right backhere. We already know there's a lot
of fish here. Whatever it is, use those opportunities to interact with the
kids. Get mom out there andmoms who've never caught a fish. That

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would be an interesting little event,wouldn't it. Black Horse Golf Club two
ninety to Fry Road. Fry Road, Hang a south about three miles down.
The gate will be on your rightside. At that point you'll be
seeing golf course on both sides ofthe road. Don't take a left,
don't take an east, take awest. Okay, depending on whether you're

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coming up from Katie or coming downfrom two ninety two. Golf courses that
meander through the woods and around corners, a few water features. You don't
want to put golf balls in thereon top of the ones I've already hit
in there. Great food, greatlessons. At the far end of the
range, it's a hole, abig giant facility for golfers and lots of

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them. They can handle a hugetournaments. With two full golf courses,
they can put more than two hundredpeople out at one time, raising money
for your great cause. Played alot of tournaments up there, played a
lot of tournaments up there, MattMusel's tournament, Larry Derker's tournaments. I
enjoy every one of them because blackHorse does such a good job and they

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have the facilities to put on anevent that big. There's a membership option
too. It's a daily feed course, but if you become a member,
you get preferred tea times, youget discounts in the pro shop, and
my favorite thing, unlimited range balls. You can just hit balls until your
hands ache. Black Horse Golf Clubdot com is the website you can make

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tea time right there, right now. Black Horsegolf Club dot Com are Sportstock
seven ninety Houston Sports where you gowith an iHeartRadio now now get more Doug
Doug Pike Show on Mother's Day.There's a call we need to go get
right there, Melman, when youget a chance, go pop him up.

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Man. I want to talk tohim for sure, for a lot
of different reasons. I've got astory and I think I tell you what.
I'm gonna wait until I finish talkingto Boyce, and then I will
tell you about bees. What's up? Boys wondering when you're gonna come up
here and do some fly fishing.They're starting to run. Oh man,
don't even I am. Actually I'mtelling you technically, I have fly fished

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in New York Is back when Iwas on field and streams Masthead and we
did an annual trip up there andthe first brook trout I caught out of
a tiny little stream. I've toldthe story. It was like, holy
cow. I set the hook onit like I was setting it on a
red fish down here, and Ijust I heard this, and this little

(40:27):
fish would fly him on my head. Yeah, he wow. I'll tell
you what. Oh well, Itell you it depends on where you go.
Kie Browns are real big here.Yeah, it's fantastic. I can
arrange everything. I just said somethingabout it. Okay, look at that.

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Yeah, it's the best East ofthe Rockies without doubt, and some
some real and there's some serious,uh old school tie shops around, and
there's it's you know, and suppliesand it's fantastic. Make for a heck
of a trip, and I'm they'rea little bit small right now because the
bugs are just starting to come out. It was thirty seven here. Oh
my word. Yeah, yeah,I'll pass on that too. I want

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somewhere in between. I need tomeet in Iowa or something. Yeah,
but uh yeah, this is uh, it's it's starting to warm up enough
and get enough bugs on there.That but I walk over the streams,
over footbridges and see them in there. Oh my gosh. So all right,

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so I got you an email andsend me some pictures when you catch
some big ones, will you.Oh? I sure will. Yeah.
Thanks for listening all the way upthere in New York. I appreciate that.
I really do. Well. Youknow, I'm from Houston, I
know, and this is where whereI am is beautiful up here. You
don't think I'm here because I justlove Yankees or anything here in the fish

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all right, I'll see it.Holy cal that's funny, man. All
right. So let me get tothe B story. Not a B C.
This is B E E. SoI'm sitting here at the office after
the show yesterday, sweeping up somethings, finishing a magazine column, and

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my phone rings and it's my sonhe says, hey, Dad, there
are bees in the house. Andmy first question is Mom know it yet?
Nope, she's in the back andall the bees are upstairs. So
we're calculating what needs to be doneand and in what order. And so

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anyway, I said, Okay,I'm coming home right now. We'll figure
this out. There. They're gettingin from somewhere. We'll get them out,
and we'll make them un happy tobe there. And so I race
home and I realized this morning,and I've already sent in an apologetic email
that I actually missed a phone meetingyesterday because of that. But bees in

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the house, that's pretty big.In any event, I call a bee
keeper a bee get rid of whatdo you call people who get rid of
bees? They're not bee keepers,They're just they're be people. And sure,
yeah, we can be out theretoday. That's not a problem.
And the price it takes to getbees out of your house, I found

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is pretty darn high. The longand the short of it is what I
found out between the time we hadabout ten or so of them flying around
the house and on windows and whatnot, until the time I called them back
a little later in the afternoon,I realized I can't find a bee anywhere.

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And what turned out is that thesebees when they when they get booted
out of one house or get tiredof it or whatever, they send scouts
scouts, and the scouts came tomy house and thought they were going to
squat. I had squatter bees,That's what I had. Melvin had squatter

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bees. So anyway, the bottomline is they're out and the house has
been treated. Hold on, letme go talk to George here. What's
up, Doc? Isn't it somethingelse? Lee? I was raised in
I was raised in my home untilI was about thirteen or fourteen. Those
brook trout are not the easiest fishin the world. To Church. No

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they're not. I no, saythey're not. Have you ever seen somebody
clean one? No? They justyou wrap your finger through your gills and
everything comes out. Switch whistle.Oh wow, all right, Andy.
So to get a hag exemption,I had to put bees up on my
property. And what you're seeing thistime of year is they're starting to swarm

(44:59):
and look for some where else.So my son in law comes in and
we're in a small neighborhood and hesays, there's a there's a swarm of
bees up here on the corner aboutways time. So I grab a five
gallon bucket printing shears. And whenthey swarm like that, they're not that
aggressive, right, So I wentand the queen is in the middle.

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So talked to an expert beekeeper that'sbeen helping me, and he says,
yeah, we actually put out traps. He says, he's already collected three
swarms. I heard of that.Yeah, I read a lot about it
yesterday. It's fascinating. I gotto tell you it really is. Do
you remember saving Rod rings? Ido? He okay, well, he
lived across the link from me therein sugar Land. When I was over

(45:42):
on Halkire Lake and I looked upand this was in a killer bee scare.
And I looked up in the topone of the time trees and was
a bee I about as big asa fixed five gallon drum. And so
I called Sila and East and afilm crew out there and got a boom
truck and a beekeeper come out andget him down. I was afraid they'd
follow and get the kids. Andthat's when I started getting interested. That's
probably close to twenty five years ago. But there. That's pretty true.

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It's yeah, that whole scout thingthat really got my I had no idea
because and I'm thinking, okay,and my wife even pointed out, she
said, you know, are wegetting taken now? These bees have left,
and we're gonna still pay for themto come out and do all this
stuff to keep them away. Isaid, if he's right, and I

(46:27):
think he is, because I dida lot of reading up on it.
These little scout bees are out,and if they liked our house, they
weren't gonna be. It wasn't gonnabe long before the whole swarm came and
squatted up in my attic, andso I let him come on. They
put some kind of powder all theway around the house that doesn't kill the
bees, but they hate it,and so that's good. And he's got
a thirty day guarantee. Yeah,they didn't do like a little rain dance

(46:52):
kind of thing and having arrange sticksin a triangle. Know I've done to
that. Man. Just it kindof freaked me out too, you know,
And to her credit, my wifewas just amazingly cool and calm about
this. Is there anything else that'sin the house, you know? I
gotta go kill it. But listen, and they're coming in. I heard

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my years and years ago screaming.I went up there and there's a little
eight inch Yes, indeed, manonce again. Enjoy the show. Yeah,
thank you, George. It's greatto hear from you, baby,
Audios, Holy cow man, snakesand bees, all kinds of stuff gets

(47:34):
in your house and there's just nothingyou can do about it. Really.
All right, let's take a littlebreak here on the way out. Get
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Why Heart Radio station Today The Rocketyour home for your home teams. This

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is Sports Talk seven ninety. Thisis the Dougpike Show, brought to you
by American Shooting Centers Guns Shooting aninstruction since nineteen eighty nine. Now here's
Doug Pike. All right, Welcomeback on Mother's Day. Second and final
hour of the day starts right now, and then I've got Mother's Day stuff

(50:15):
to take care of. I'm lookingat the Wells Fargo Champion. By the
way, anybody and everybody who wantsto call and talk about their mom and
let me go to emails too.I want to make sure I didn't miss
anything over here, and I thinkI have I see here. I want
to make sure. Oh gosh,yeah, I've got a story kind of
like this too. Alan, I'mgonna okay, I think I can read

(50:37):
this one without anybody being upset.Yeah, it looks pretty good. This
is from Alan says. I wasabout six in nineteen sixties. It was
my sister and I racing in thehouse, and of course I tripped over
my own feet, went face firstthrough a glass window of a storm door.

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Mom was pregnant with me, mybaby sister. Oh my gosh,
on the phone in the kitchen.I walked into the kitchen a cut between
my eyes on my forehead and acut on the left side of my nose.
If I could describe the look onmy mom's face, Uh, talk
about a stuck pig. I wasbleeding like crazy. She dropped the phone,
rushed to our neighbor's house and tothe hospital. I only needed butterflies,

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but I still have the scars.Rest in peace, Mom, I
love you, and thanks for everything. Yeah, mom's mom see far more
than they ought to have to justa goofy stupid stuff that we do.
When I was when I was probablysix, I don't know. I had

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a bad habit of leaning back inthe breakfast room chairs that in the table
in the breakfast room was adjacent toa sliding glass door on the back of
the house. And I leaned backa little too far one time, and
the chair shattered the sliding glass door, and I continued downward toward the floor

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and caught myself on my own handswith outstretched arms, and Mom very quickly
ran over and yanked me out ofthat chair, because underneath me was just
nothing but jagged, sharp glass.And if I had let go, if

(52:30):
my arms had given out, I'dhave been chopped up pretty good. It
had come through the back of thechair and around the chair and there was
just there was there was mess allover the place. Man oh man uh
mark waves in. Mom's greatest giftsshe gave me was whenever she taught me
something new. She taught me,when you do this, you need to

(52:52):
do that. Let me open thisup and give you the full one.
Yeah, I know it. Needto do your best at it. Holy
cow. Moms tell you that allthe time, so do dads. She
taught me to be above average andto be proud of myself for my effort.
Dad, of course, taught mewe never quit on anything. So
it was wonderful one to two punchfrom Mom and Dad that made me who

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I am today. What a blessedlife I have had, and frankly take
for granted. But thank you,Doug for reminding me of the grace and
love my mother brought to my life. Yeah, I'm happy if that's if
it takes me to do that,I'll rattle your cages every couple of weeks
and we'll call our moms and letthem know that we don't have to just
wait for one time a year,one time a year. Matt weighed in

(53:38):
my story of my mom, howmuch time I'm good, I have time.
The story of my mom is thatshe went to every single one of
my golf tournaments in school and allof my junior events. She never missed
a single event. One of thereasons I was able to pursue my career
as a golf professional. That's prettygood. By the way, in case

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you don't know, he's down atParland Golf Club and he can flat play
my friend. My mother is myhero. Three exclamation points well earned for
his mom. I'm sure, thankyou, Matt for sharing your story.
Keep moving here. Rudy made avery good point. I don't want to

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bring it up, but it's prettyfunny. I might towards the end,
I don't know. I'll have todecide. We'll see. That's pretty funny
though. Seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety Email me
Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Andand by the way, okay, I'm
talking about what we're what we're talkingabout here, is are moms and all

(54:45):
the wonderful things they did for us, and I'll I still want to hear
all of that. Any call youwant to make, if you're ready to
talk about your mom, let's dothat. But here's the thing, I
just want to hear one cool thingabout your mom. And I'm going to
recognize. I'm going to recognize thatsome moms. There may be some mothers

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whose cool things list is pretty short, and I get that, and if
that was your circumstance, I'm sorryyou had to go through that growing up.
But you're here, Okay, You'reYou're right here on this earth.
And here's the deal. To considerthat a blessing that she gave to everybody

(55:28):
in your life today. Whatever whateverissues your mother may have had, whatever
relationship you may have had, nomatter how far south it went, she
got you to where you are.And I bet you got some pretty good
people in your life now, soat least you can thank her for that.

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Okay, seven one three two onetwo five seven ninety email me Doug
pick at iHeartMedia dot com. Whatelse was I gonna talk about? Oh?
I got to go to the leaderboard. I'm gonna take this call as
soon as Melvin's finished, I thinkI am. Maybe, maybe not,
I don't know. Hey Phil,what's up buddy? Hey man, how

(56:12):
you doing. I got cut offyesterday. I swear it did fall asleep.
He just got bored. No,my thone cut my phone cut cut
off in a bad zone. Iguess, yeah, what's up? So
I got I got a couple ofquick mom mom stories for you. The
one she loves is she loves totell anybody who will listen her dad used

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to go skeet shooting at I thinkthat the Texas Gun Club and they're in
the middle of Houston. Yeah,and he actually won to turn them,
but I got a hat somewhere anyway. But she'd go every once in a
while. And she loves to tellthe story that she'd go skeet shooting with
a twenty gage coach gun. Oh, wow, Holy can that's kind of
cool. Yeah. And then theother one is the other one is,

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uh so, my dad managed afour and out of a hairshop in the
middle of Houston, the Med Centerfor like almost forty years. Wow.
And every once in a while he'dbring home a more exotic car that needed
some more tuning issues that they hadto diagnose. Well. He one time
when my mom was eight months pregnantwith me, brought home at the time

(57:19):
fairly new BMW M three, verynice, and she took it for a
test spin, zooming around on theback roads while she's eight months pregnant with
me. Oh my gosh. Sothat's where that's where the joke is.
I got my need for speed whenI was gonna say, does that anything
explain anything about you? Yeah,a little bit and then uh And ironically,

(57:40):
my first car was it was aIt was as old as I was,
but it was a BMW oh man, Yeah, that's kind of cool.
That really is Go ahead, no, no, no, you go
ahead. Well, I was justgonna tell you. I had somebody call
when I was talking about buying acar for my son, and he said,
here's what you do. You buya bit big giant bag of tools.

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You'll appreciate this coming out of theauto repair business. Buy a big
bag of tools that you need towork on a car. Buy him that
big bag of tools, and thenbuying a car that costs less than the
bag of tools. Yeah, thatwas the thing. We bought that car
for like five hundred bucks. Oh, Wow, and then you made a
customer because I mean it had likeI think, over two hundred thousand miles

(58:22):
or close to it at the time. The only reason we kept it is
because my dad managed all a repairshop, so we could do it.
Yeah, you knew you could doit. I got a friend who's like
that. Actually yeah. And thenI had a quick question. I guess
I didn't get to ask you.So you keep talking about the Bellevue Bellevue
meat Market, the Belleville meat Market. Sorry, and my mouth waters every

(58:44):
time I talk about it. Butyou said they're famous for what Pekhan smoked
meats, right, sauce? Well, the sausages. Yeah, they've got
more than two dozen flavors of sausageout there. All just well my question,
my question is in your experience,have you ever run into any or
the situation, uh that you knowof with anybody that's got like a food

(59:05):
allergy, like nut allergy. Anddo you know I've ever run into anybody
that knows whether or not smoking somethingwith like that it matters. I don't
know, but I would bet adollar in seventy eight cents that if you
were to call Belleville and ask themthey would answer that question. And now's
I gotta go to a break.I'm gonna I'm gonna look it up and
see what I can find. Phil, I'm gonna look it up during the

(59:29):
break and see if there's any referenceto nut wood smoke. See, here's
the deal. You're if say,you're allergic to pecans, okay, right,
but you're not allergic to the tree, are you? I mean,
can you stand under a pecan tree? Then I well, it's not me.
It's not me, it's not me. It's okay. Well, yeah,

(59:51):
I mean, like allergy to allthat. But I don't know because
I think it's supposed to be likethe proteins. So I mean that's the
thing, Like, I don't evenwe haven't even like tested the theory.
If like, let you smoke themacan, would I mean, that's the
whole point. Yeah, Yeah,d's worth taking the risk. Yeah,
I'll find out. I'll do mybest to find out. And then after

(01:00:14):
that it becomes a doctor question,you know. Yeah, Well she's gone
to allergis a couple of times thatshe wish agrests the aska damn quest.
All right, let me go getthis break in and I'll take a look
while I have a go on,man, go will, I'll see buddy
audio host man, Oh, okay, we got to get his girlfriend mate,

(01:00:34):
make sure she can eat the stuffat Belleville Meat Market. What a
tragedy to be allergic to anything inthat place. Timber Creek Golf Club down
there on FM twenty three to fiftyone, about fourish miles west of the
golf Freeway, twenty seven holes,fantastic layout to it. It's so fun.
Every one of those holes is funto play and playable. That's a

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lot of golf courses get pretty tough, frankly, and I can think of
a half a dozen of them thatare just kind of they're rough, they
beat you up a little bit,but not timber Creek. It's very enjoyable.
It'll challenge you. It's a it'snot a putt putt course. It'll

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it'll challenge you, but it alsowill reward any good shots you make.
And if you don't make as manygood shots as you would like, you
certainly are welcome over to JJ WoodsGolf Performance Center. As soon as JJ
I've had a talk with him,and as soon as JJ's ready and has
everything put away and it has everything. All the boxes are emptied and all

(01:01:36):
the shelves are filled, and he'sin spick and span, ready to go
shape one hundred percent. He'll letme know and we'll talk about it.
Until then, you can still getin there. You can still get your
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Golf Club dot com. Doug BikeShow, thanks for listening on this Mother's
Day Sunday. Mother's Day stories alwayswelcome today. Mother stories always welcome anytime.

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Let's just make that perfectly clear.Just because it's Mother's Day today doesn't
mean that you can't call next weekor the week after or the week after
that and share a cool story aboutyour mom. This is when we're it's
it's kind of it almost doesn't sayit's just wrong to only pat mom on

(01:02:44):
the back one day a year.If you're not thanking that woman for all
she did to get you where youare, unless you're in a really,
really horrible place. I don't knowwhere that would be because your mom and
like I said, some moms makemistakes, some moms do some bad stuff,
but they got you where you aresomehow, one way or the other.

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Your road led to where you are. And if you're in a pretty
good spot right now, if you'vegot people who care about you, your
mom had a hand in that becausesomehow, some way, they these other
people that you care about so muchand care about you so much, came
into your lives. Somehow, someway through all of that. Oh,

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there's always something. The glasses isalways half full, It's always a little
more than half full. That's wayI want to look at it. Really,
I know a lot of people whoare in worse shape than I am.
And I'm I'm falling apart, I'mold, I'm tired, but I'm
I'm not going to slow down neck. No, that would be that would

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almost be disrespectful. I think tomy parents, for me to slow down
or give up on anything, theydidn't teach me to do that. No
quitter seven one three two one twofive seven ninety email Bedugpike at iHeartMedia dot
com. And if you don't,if you think I'm a quitter, ask
anybody to tell you what I doafter I tell them, Okay, I'm

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just gonna make this one more cast, just one more cast, and then
we can go. Uh, andwe're gonna be there a while. Uh.
The temperature in this studio, bythe way, I had to mention
this. I had to mention this. I said it it was warm in
the studio yesterday. So when Icame in, I knocked it down a
few degrees and didn't really pay attention, and I finally had to go bump

(01:04:36):
it back up a few minutes agobecause it is so cold in here.
This is like its own personal littlerefrigerator. I found out, Melvine.
Do you get over here. Youdon't have a thermostat in there? Do
you no no thermostatic? Oh pods. Let me tell you what. When
I walked in here this morning,it was about sixty five sixty five,

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you would you would have very muchneeded that hoodie you had yet yesterday for
sure. All right, let's getback to Phil and the smoke and all
of that stuff. I've gotten someresponses. Let me see. Here's what
Brian found. And by the way, I'm gonna tell you straight up,
I'm not a doctor. Nobody hereis a doctor weirdness reading stuff we found

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on the internet. Okay, Ihave one here, and this is from
a guy who has a peanut allergy. He says, when using a meat
smoker, he oh yeah, okay, so he looked this up. Somebody
got a peanut allergy. If you'reusing a meat smoker, would pecan would

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smoke cause reaction? And the answerthat was found online was wood from a
pecan tree does not contain pecan nutfood protein. In addition, pecan is
a tree nut and is not relatedto a peanut. But if your wife
or wife or girlfriend I can't rememberwhich maybe some day for both of you,

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huh. Anyway, the pecan woodsmoke is not supposed to cause that.
Now that comes also from a secondsource. I have here somebody who
wrote they are allergic to the meatin the nuts, not the wood.
And then there's confirmation of that andanother source that says allergic reactions to tree

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nuts are due to it should saycaused by But anyway, it's written here
as due to eating the specific nutproteins in it. These are responsible for
the allergic reaction. They are notfound in wood smoke. All of that
said, Phil, do your ownresearch, but I think that if you

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do your own research you'll find someencouraging information there. Total disclaimer. We're
not doctors. I'm not telling youto go buy anything, or eat anything,
or do anything different than what you'redoing yesterday. But look it up
and I think you will find someencouraging information. Man, that's just such

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a hassle, but you gotta dothat these days. Okay, Yeah,
I was encouraged by what I foundfor you, Phil, I had I
mentioned my bee experience in the houseyesterday and the only swarming experience I've ever
had. Actually, it's happened twice, both times on golf courses. I

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was up at where was it,I can't remember right now. I'll think
of it in a minute. Anyway, it was up way up on the
north side of town and playing ina charity event and had an entire swarm
of bees just come flying past uswhile we were parked in the cart in
the fair way. Oh my gosh, it was. It was amazing.

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It's kind of sad there and theywere shooting through the cart and around us,
and not a one I'm wanting tostop and bother us. A couple
of the guys there were a coupleof guys in the group that it was
kind of a tournament set up whereyou had two groups on each hole,
and I don't remember the format oranything, but there were two guys who
actually laid down on the ground whenthese bees were flying over like they were

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getting strafed by the enemy, crawlingacross a battlefield. They were hugging the
ground, scared the death of somehoney bees. And this was way pre
Africanized horrible killer bees and all thatstuff. There were honey bees. It
was kind of cool, it reallywas. It was very loud, and

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it took the swarm probably probably anhonest thirty seconds maybe forty five to get
through, and they were there wasa It was a bunch of bees.
It was a bunch of bees.Man, It was really cool. Seven
one three two one two five sevenninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot

(01:09:13):
com on this Mother's Day. LikeI said, Mother's Day stories always welcome.
Um. Yeah, that's a goodpoint. Roger puts up a good
point. If pekaan, if smokewas was causing allergic reactions, there would
be a warning sign in every barbecuejoint. That's a very good point.

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I hadn't thought about. That makessense. That makes sense. I've got
such a bright audience. And again, total disclaimer, don't do anything without
checking with your doctor first. Ihad somebody else ask me about salinity in
Galveston Bay. The salinity level inGalveston Bay generally, uh, and this
is let me see, make surethis thing's been updated, because I've had

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it sitting there for a while.Yeah. This this is on yep,
so on today, five twelve.This gives hourly predictions for salinity. And
it actually looks like the on theincoming tide, there's a little bit of
salt water finding its way back intothe end of the bay system. But
still all of Galveston Bay, allof Trinity Bay, and all of East

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Bay are pretty much fresh, likealmost ninety to one hundred percent fresh.
And the only place you've got beginningto get significant salt back in the water
is in the far southern southwestern reachesof West Bay down around San Luis Pass.

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But the whole stuff, everything everythingeast of the Galveston Jetties, basically,
except on the extreme incoming tide isfresh and will be for a little
bit more. All right, Ipooh man, I'm gonna take this one.
Melboyne, don't get mad at me. I gotta go see what's up
Todd? What's up, buddy?Hey? Good morning? Hey, Yes,

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sir, I had two quick storiestoday. All right. You first
off, about to going through thesliding glass door. You know, back
then, it was before tipper Glass. I have a true I don't know
how old I was, six,seven, eight whatever. I was chasing
my brother. He ran out thesliding glass door, and then he closed
it behind him, and there wasa curtain, of course, and I

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flung open the curtain that flew intothat door and cut it wide open.
Oh man, thirty seven stitches,Oh no, thirty seven in your forehead,
in my forehead, Oh dude.So it was a huge flap of
skin just flapped down from you.Yeah. But let me ask you this,
How cool was it when you gotback You got back to school at

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that young age with all those stitchesin your head? Oh well, I
can't remember that, but I cantell you it's been a great story all
my life, Holy cow man.Okay, And the second story I wanted
to tell you about is the mother, my mom, literally the most productive
human being I've ever known. Shejoined a choir and the uniforms for the

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men and women were three pieces,like a vest of blouser shirt and of
course the pants of her skirt,And so she volunteered to remake all the
uniforms. All the cow had tocome to her house get measured, and
she had to hand sew their theirpants there and best right, Okay,

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get this. There were three hundredand thirty people in the choir, so
that's over a thousand. No way, she did all of that herself.
She sewed it by hand. Andthen the next year she did it again.
My gosh, I've never met amore productive human being. That's that's

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pretty special man. How long didit take her to do that? Do
you remember? Oh? Gee,I don't know. Months in Yeah,
we'll have to. You know,I was a young guy off playing sports
and she was sewing people. Icouldn't believe all the strange people come in
to our house. Oh yeah,that well, that and all the uniforms
all over the house. It hadto take up a lot of room.

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Absolutely, absolutely, But that's amazing. She was an amazing mom. I'm
going to see her now. Goodfor you. She just had a major
stroke. Unfortunately. Oh I'm sosorry. Well give give mom a squeeze
for me, will you. Yougot it? Brother, just wanted to
pass that on. Thanks for havingus on. Thank you, thank you,
Todd. That's awesome. Holy calwhat a story. A thousand uniforms.

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Oh we're changing again this year.I got you. That's that's what
moms do. They just they justwhatever the project is, if it needs
doing, yeah, okay, wegot this. I don't know how they
do it. And my wife isjust it's an amazing She's an amazing woman.
She does so much for us,my son and me, and without
a you know, I'm I'm atthe point now where I need I need

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a scheduler. I need somebody toremind me to do stuff. And that's
my go to right there if Idon't know. And I got a card
that kind of reflects that too.I found the perfect card. It says,
today's Mother's Day. Whatever you wantme to do, I'll get it
done. Whatever you want me togo get, I'll go get and then

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you open it up and says,just tell me where it is and of
how I'm supposed to do it,and that's that's pretty much it. Man,
Just tell me where I find itand what to do with it,
and I'll go do it. Itrimmed some trees yesterday. I thought I
was going to get credit for that. Today, I don't know. Maybe
I will, maybe I won't.All Right, on the way out,
I'm going to tell you about Shooter'sCorner down there at Palmerhighway in twenty nighth
Street in Texas City. Owner isan old hunting buddy of mine. I

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was gonna say fishing, but Ithey just spend so much time hunting,
Jerry and jt K. I don'teven know if they have time to fish.
Shooter's Corner been there forty plus years. Old school gun stores exist.
Factly what it is, that's all. It is an old school gun store.
They have new and pre owned firearms, they have reloading supplies, they

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have optics, they have camo,They've got cool mounts from all over the
world. Jerry and Jay, bythe way, spend a good amount of
their time in the fall and winterguiding big game. Like I'm talking elk
and moose and bears up in allthe way up through Alaska, and they
are two of the best on thecontinent. And doing that, they kind

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of know what they're doing. Theyalso are incredible gunsmiths. I have sent
I don't know how many listeners nowto shooters Corner who had problems with guns
that had already been checked out byother gunsmiths who have told them, now,
that's going to cost a bunch ofmoney to fix this, or it

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can't be fixed. You're going tohave to replace the whole receiver or the
whole barrel or whatnot. And everysingle time I have heard back that it
went remarkably smoothly. The last time, real quickly. There was somebody who
was told he was either gonna haveto buy a whole new barrel for his
rifle or he was gonna have todo something else that was gonna cost him

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about two or three hundred dollars.I sent him to Jerry and Jay.
I talked to Jerry about a weekand a half later because I hadn't heard
from the guy, and Jerry said, oh, yeah, I remember he
came in and I said, wereyou able to help him? He said,
yeah, it only took about fiveminutes. I just didn't even charge
him. They put it all backtogether. Change completely changed something that was

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supposed to cost him hundreds of dollars, and it got done for little or
nothing. Shooter's Corner Palmer Highway,twenty nine Street. If you wear a
badge for a living, you geta discount, which I think is really
really cool. V Shooters Corner tX dot com. V Shooters Corner TX
dot com. This is Sports Talkseven ninety online at Sports seven now More.

(01:17:01):
Doug Fight on Sports Talk seven ninewas just telling Melbourne that was that
was actually a pretty good movie.I could watch it again. It's it's
not scary, it's not sensational,it's not political. It's just a it's
just a cool story. Let melet me run through the Wells Fargo leaderboard
real quick and then I will getto Rick's call. Stand by Rick one

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second. At the Wells Fargo outthere in I think it's North Carolina,
North Carolina. I think no,it's yeah, Charlotte, close to Charlotte
Motor Speedway. They always a lotof the driver or a lot of the
players all go over there and tryto get rides and it's fun and good
for them. Sanders Shoffley had apretty good ride yesterday. He shot seventy

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one under par. That puts himat twelve under for the tournament. Roy
McElroy shot sixty seven for under paryesterday to snuggle up one shot right behind
Shaffley. And if I'm Xander Shaffley, I'm confident. But that's the guy
I'm watching is Roy McElroy. SunYay m is eight under par, four

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shots off the lead, three shotsbehind McElroy and all alone in third place
at seven under par, except Straka, who shot sixty seven yesterday, another
good round. I think four hundredwas the low round of the day.
That's a hard golf course, avery hard golf course. Jason Day,
he went the wrong way, shottwo over yesterday. He's at five under

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par and alone in fifth place.And then quickly the four's Sam Burn,
Dong Hunan Taylor, Pendrith who wonlast week, and Stefan Jegoh and Colin
Morikawa also Colin Moore. With allthose guys shot in the seventies. So
there's got a lot of work todo to get anywhere. Let's go talk

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to Rick, shall we what's up, Rick? Hey, morning, good
morning. Hey. I ask aquestion of maybe somebody listening can help me,
and I'll just hang up. Okay, that's fine. I don't know
much about thermal scopes, raffle scopes, Okay, okay, fair enough,

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And I want to see if somebodyout there in plain every day Layman's term
emeless, which I've had trouble findingsomeone that can do that in this subject
of dermal scopes, that would tellme the frozen cons of a thousand dollars
dermal scope versus what some that lovethem and some of them that saves the
waste of money. But they're allselling them so either way, you know.

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So I was just going to seesomebody in comment. Yeah, I'd
love to tell you that I knowmore about them than I do, but
I don't because I don't. Idon't own one at present, uh,
and it interests me, but mytime is so restricted now that I don't
know what night I would get togo out and use it. So yeah,
let me see what do we goout I'm gonna use I'll probably use
mine more in early morning. Yeah, that's fair enough. Yeah, I

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would like to be able to walkout there and you know on tonight time
and you just take a peek around, you know, but then fifty sixty
yards to see what I was cooking. You know, have you called?
Have you called down to to shoothis corner? At all? American?
Pretty much everybody, you know,I want to be able to you know,

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I have minimum requirements I want,you know, I want to be
identified a hundred it's a large animallike a stick or a deer or a
cow. And then on the smallend, you know, at fifty I'd
like to be able to identify asmall varment. Give you I think you
just want it for crow hunting.I do well, I want it for

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a crose and I'm want to boda wight is that you call me?
Because I'm gonna put it on aon a one pump tell it right,
you I've about a thousand dollars ona two hundred dollars pellet rifle. You
better believe it, because I've gotone that at eighty yards, so you
know I can kill the squirrel ateighty yards or a fidgeon only cow.

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So I want to be able touse it, and uh for for you
know, small small animals. ButI've got to be able to identify them
about forty Maybe you might need to. You might need to get some help
from some special forces guys. Whenyou're shooting pellet guns at eighty yards one
thousand dollars cops on them, Rick, And I'm sorry I said eighty yard.

(01:21:31):
I'm talking eighty feet. I gotthat wrong either, eighty feet?
Okay, yeah, that makes sense. They just you shine your firelight on
them. No, man, ateighty eighty one hundred feet, you know,
if you got them zeroed in,they're pretty deadly. Yeah, you
know, I'm that's it. That'sa yeah, that's a fact. I've
had a couple of pretty good pelletguns and they really are fun. I'll

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give them that. They are,all right, Pardier, Well, let's
see what we can find when he'ssome help Wan thermal scopes for Rick?
Who is the pigeons? What?I'm a tight what I only spend up
to a grand that's a lot ofmoney. Okay, I got somebody on
the phone. It's gonna try andhelp us. Sounds goods, all right.

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Let me get this real quick andthen we'll come back and wrap up.
David. What do you think,man, what are you gonna tell
him, yeah, real quickly,just to get it started. You've got
night vision and you've got thermal.Thermal is gonna look for heat. Of
course, night vision basically amplifies theambient light. Yeah. Uh. And
the other thing. You're gonna wanttwo of these things. You're gonna want

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one that you're gonna use to scanfor targets, and then you'll have the
one that you're gonna use to actuallytake the shot. Uh. Boy,
I kind of I'm leaning towards nightvision because the thing about thermals is night
vision is gonna show you everything wherethermal might not show you something that doesn't
have a heat signature to it.I'll leave it some others pipe in something

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that doesn't have a heat signature.What would that be, well, not
everything as warm as other things,Like you're going to see animals really well
with thermal. Yeah, you're notgonna see metal objects and things like that
that seemed to you know, tendto stay at the ambient t Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, okay, area, that's a good point. But uh,
but anyway, I'll let others pipeinto Yeah. Okay, thanks David,

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Huh all right, boy, thehelp Rick, We're getting started that's
a good starting point. I thoughtI hadn't thought about the night vision,
which may actually help you a littlebit more than thermal. All right,
we got to take a little breakhere. All the way out, I
will just say, last chance tosay something nice about your mom. When

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we come back, we'll have justa couple of minutes, and I would
be more than happy to entertain acouple more cool stories about cool moms.
I got a golf story I cantell you about somebody's mom. I've told
it before on the show, butif you're to it, it'll be it's
amusing. And it was. Itwas a lesson, a very humbling lesson
to me where I prejudged a goodfriend's mom and kind of wished I had

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to eat a lot of crow,speaking of Rick Meie's least favorite bird.
Yeah, I had to eat somecrow that day. We'll take a little
break here. We'll be right backto wrap up the Mother's Day edition of
The Doug Pike Show on Sports Talkseven ninety. This is Sports Talk seven
ninety, Facebook dot com, slashsports Talk seven ninety. Back to the

(01:24:34):
Doug Pike Show. All right,welcome back, Thanks for listening. The
Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk sevenninety on Mother's Day. I yeah,
I do miss my mom. Ido. I watched her take care of
my sister and me for all theyears she was on this earth. I

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watched her become an amazing grandmother tomy son, as she was to my
sister's two daughters, and it wasjust it was really fun that. I'm
so glad that he got to knowher, and my son did got to
know his grandmother, and she stillhad several good years of her life with

(01:25:17):
him before her health really failed.It was yeah, and she did so
much for me, so much formy sister, so much for my dad,
even through some of his struggles.And yeah, she just like most
mothers we've talked about today, justabove and beyond, it's remarkable how much

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they do and typically don't really expecta whole lot in return. They just
they just do it because they loveus and they take They want to take
care of us, they want tosee us succeed Edward, what's up?
I wanted to pay homage to mymother who was kind enough to teach me

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get me involved in the game ofgolf as I was growing up, which
I am forever grateful for Riverbend CountryClub was my playpen kid growing up,
and the luck I had with adear friend of hers, great Little,
who was the head pro at LakeCharles Country Club, who taught me my

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golf swing. Uh, And forthat, I was a lucky man growing
up. And her putting up andshipping me off the little golf tournaments when
I was younger. Yeah, itwas a true blessing. That's amazing.
Quick quick side story. I don'tknow if you were familiar with great Little.

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Uh, he was teaching, hewas pro at another golf course and
Babes Harris work there. She came, She came running out one day onto
the course screen, I mean Grave'sname, saying you got the head,
the head pro job at Lake CharlesCountry Club. You got the head Joe

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Wow, head pro job. AndBabes and Harris announced to that man and
everyone on the golf course that he'dgotten the job at Lake Charles. Oh
that's awesome. That was yeah,a fun little anidote. And I surely
missed my mother and thank her allshe did. And uh, you know
she could still beat a couple ofher sons herself. She was a good

(01:27:30):
golfer. But the fact that shewas kind enough to push me through that,
Uh, I forever grateful for I'mglad you shared that story. I
really appreciate it. I'll tell youa quick one about about a mom.
This is one I mentioned a minuteago when I said I had to eat
eat crow that day. Uh.And I've shared this story before. But
anyway, a friend, a goodfriend years ago, We were at his

(01:27:53):
house one morning, headed off toplay golf at Quill Valley and his mom
walks through the house and just says, hey, do you mind if I
play with you guys? And I'mthinking, oh, man, come on,
you know and this boy and wewere in our twenties and just full
of you know what, man,and just we we thought we were it.

(01:28:14):
And here his mother wants to goplay golf with us, like,
oh, okay, come on.And he didn't say a word to me.
So we get to the first teabox and he and I are playing
from the Blue Tea's and we teaoff and I hopped in my cart.
He was riding with his mother andI hopped in my cart and I started
to drive off, and she goes, where are you going? So well,

(01:28:38):
you know, I'm just gonna moveon up to your tea box.
She goes, I'm good from here, like and I had just I had
stepped right in the middle of it. Man. She had played golf in
college and was a very good collegegolfer. And she proceeded from the blue
teath to just whip our butts like, yeah, I'm about to go.

(01:29:00):
Oh yeah, you're some humble pieand some crow and that. Yeah yeah,
a little deeping helping them both.Man, Well, thank you.
I had some friends going up too. They said, your mom's playing with
us, oh yeah, and shesaid she'll give you strokes and they're like,
huh yeah. Their eyes were buggingout when they saw her head of

(01:29:21):
golf rank. Thanks for the time. Thank you, Edward. I'll see
buddy audios all right, real quick, I'm looking at my emails here.
That's an excellent sight, but notgood. Oh yeah. I sent John
the salinity forecast for Galveston Bay andanybody else who wants it just shoot me

(01:29:41):
an email and I'll send you thelink to it. It's not encouraging,
I can tell you that, notfor the short term. At least.
Roger that was good. I gotthat one in took care of that,
took care of that. We're inpretty good shape here. I guess all
this left now is to go takecare of mom. My mother's passed away
years ago, unfortunately, and Ilost my dad a very long time ago,

(01:30:06):
almost thirty years ago now, andso i'm the senior. I'm the
elder. My mother's or my wife'smother's still there and she's still strong,
and I'm hoping we'll get to seeher today. Maybe we will. It
depends on the weather, I think, frankly, because it's a pretty long

(01:30:26):
drive. All right, we're gonnatake it out of here. I will
be back next Tuesday, live forfifty plus, and then i'll be back
in this chair on Saturday, aweek from me yesterday at seven o'clock in
the morning. God willing be goodto your mom today. Whether it's whether
you can do it with a phonecall or a hug or a meal,

(01:30:47):
or take her out somewhere for awalk. Whatever you do, make sure
you honor your mother. Without her, you wouldn't be here doing all the
fun things you get to do.All right, hoppy mother today, Moms,
I'll be back next week. Thanksfor listening to be safe out there,
Audios yeah,