WEBVTT - Dean Sharp's Fall Tree Pruning Tips 0:00:00.409 --> 0:00:03.970 It's KFI AM 640 and you're listening to The Conway 0:00:04.030 --> 0:00:10.399 Show On Demand on the iHeartRadio app. We flipped everybody! 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:18.660 We are now the commercial Christmas station. We beat Coast 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:23.009 to the punch. Alright, we have a very talented dude 0:00:23.329 --> 0:00:26.489 who has an owl that lives in his yard. Something's 0:00:26.510 --> 0:00:29.500 going on there. He's on every Saturday morning, 6 to 0:00:29.500 --> 0:00:32.019 8 a.m., and then on Sunday from 9 a.m. until noon. 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:35.540 The House Whisperer, Dean Sharp. Welcome to the show. How 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:38.200 are you, bub? I'm great. How are you doing? Buddy, 0:00:38.260 --> 0:00:40.880 how did you find out you had an owl living 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:43.940 in your tree? That would be a bird poop on 0:00:43.979 --> 0:00:46.580 my deck the size of a dinner plate. Oh, is 0:00:46.620 --> 0:00:48.860 that right? Yeah. No, we have a lot of birds. 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:50.440 I mean, we have a lot of birds at Visit 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:53.700 Yard because we've set our yard up to be, you know, 0:00:54.350 --> 0:00:56.740 bird-friendly it's a halogen and so you know you get 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.700 little bird droppings here and there little dots right little 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:03.320 quarter size drops well tina comes out a couple weeks 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:08.000 ago and she's like whoa what is this thing and 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:10.020 uh she looks up and she comes in and gets 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.540 me she's like i think maybe one of our chickens 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:16.060 got up in the tree and uh because she saw 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:18.190 you know a mass up there and then you know 0:01:18.270 --> 0:01:20.350 as we got a little clearer view we realized oh 0:01:20.370 --> 0:01:23.559 that's a great horned owl And he has, or she, 0:01:23.819 --> 0:01:27.180 we don't know. You can't tell. Has adopted this one 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:30.270 branch for daytime napping. Oh, that's cool. 0:01:30.350 --> 0:01:30.550 And. 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:33.360 And they've been with us ever since. It's been about 0:01:33.380 --> 0:01:35.179 a week and a half now. I love the big 0:01:35.380 --> 0:01:39.000 eyebrows on that. Right? Those are awesome. They are awesome. 0:01:39.220 --> 0:01:43.250 Like an old great-grandfather hanging out. Something you told me 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:47.190 years ago has always stuck with me. That if you 0:01:47.209 --> 0:01:51.750 go out and you spend $ 20, 000 or $ 30, 000 on some 0:01:51.850 --> 0:01:54.190 big-ass tree that you put in your front yard or 0:01:54.230 --> 0:01:56.490 in the front of your house... That when you go 0:01:56.530 --> 0:01:59.090 to sell your house, you'll get double your return. I 0:01:59.410 --> 0:02:01.250 always think of that when I see these big trees. 0:02:01.670 --> 0:02:02.410 Yep. 0:02:03.170 --> 0:02:06.170 Now, with the one qualifier, because I know you tell 0:02:06.190 --> 0:02:08.410 that a lot to a lot of people. The one qualifier. 0:02:08.450 --> 0:02:10.510 I didn't know there was a qualifier. Well, I mean, 0:02:10.780 --> 0:02:14.579 the assumption is that your yard isn't crap. Oh, I see. Okay. 0:02:14.620 --> 0:02:18.700 In general. But in a nicely landscaped yard, a feature tree, 0:02:18.740 --> 0:02:24.679 this is a studied fact. Right. A feature tree will, okay, 0:02:24.700 --> 0:02:29.730 get this. A feature tree will raise the ROI of 0:02:29.810 --> 0:02:34.790 the entire house by 5% to 10%. A feature tree 0:02:34.889 --> 0:02:38.790 in a well-landscaped yard. Now, you think about that. Let's 0:02:38.830 --> 0:02:40.930 say the impossible, that you live in a $ 500, 000 Southern 0:02:41.010 --> 0:02:43.609 California home. Right. A dump. Right. So, you know, 5% 0:02:43.610 --> 0:02:53.709 right there, that's $ 25, 000. 10%, that's $ 50, 000. You could buy 0:02:53.750 --> 0:03:00.460 yourself a nice big 30, 40-foot tree for about $ 20, 000. 0:02:58.820 --> 0:03:02.880 So the point is, yeah, there is no better single 0:03:03.180 --> 0:03:07.990 item you can install on your property for instant ROI 0:03:09.210 --> 0:03:12.410 than a feature tree. I always liked the trees that 0:03:12.610 --> 0:03:14.330 lose their leaves. I think when people go to buy 0:03:14.350 --> 0:03:21.710 a home... and they see that the, you know, the 0:03:21.750 --> 0:03:24.900 seasons are changing with the trees as opposed to an evergreen. 0:03:25.190 --> 0:03:27.560 I think that's, uh, at least in my opinion, I 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:28.620 think that's more attractive. 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:29.320 I agree. 0:03:29.580 --> 0:03:31.399 I agree. I, you know what, uh, and we've got 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:33.880 them here. Uh, a lot of people think, oh, you know, 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:37.040 you know, Southern California doesn't go through seasonal change, but 0:03:37.060 --> 0:03:39.660 we have them here. One of the Southern California's most 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:44.010 native and favorite trees is a sycamore tree, sycamore, London pain. 0:03:44.050 --> 0:03:47.610 There are various versions of it. Um, Tina and I 0:03:47.630 --> 0:03:50.920 have planted, I don't know, we have four, five, five 0:03:50.980 --> 0:03:55.020 sycamores in our backyard because we do. We like the 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:57.780 leaves dropping. And we also have, we've got an ash tree. 0:03:57.820 --> 0:03:59.880 That's the one that the owl is staying in. That 0:03:59.920 --> 0:04:02.300 stays green all year round. So we've got a combination 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:04.510 of them, but we love it when the leaves fall. 0:04:04.750 --> 0:04:06.530 And you know what? We don't rush to clean them up. 0:04:06.570 --> 0:04:09.370 A lot of people, a lot of people, Tim, have 0:04:09.450 --> 0:04:12.390 issues these days with nature. You know, it's like this 0:04:12.590 --> 0:04:15.910 natural thing's happening and they're like, oh no, no, we 0:04:15.930 --> 0:04:18.450 got to clean that up. Just relax. You know, it's 0:04:18.510 --> 0:04:20.730 the world. It's the way the world works. And it's 0:04:20.810 --> 0:04:24.150 great fertilizer when those leaves start to break down and 0:04:24.170 --> 0:04:27.750 it keeps the roots moist and warm as well. I 0:04:27.770 --> 0:04:29.480 think it's a lot of benefit to keeping the leaves 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:33.020 on the ground. Actually, that's what a tree is doing. 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.800 It's trying to do. It is trying to mulch itself. 0:04:36.820 --> 0:04:39.280 You know, it's a private matter, but, you know, a 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:42.870 tree is trying to mulch itself. By dropping leaves at 0:04:42.930 --> 0:04:45.690 its base. Here's the thing, though. Leaves don't break down 0:04:45.730 --> 0:04:48.870 very fast. Okay. And so your gardening crew is going 0:04:48.890 --> 0:04:51.050 to come in and mow and blow and just blow 0:04:51.089 --> 0:04:54.570 them all away. If you do this yourself, here's one 0:04:54.589 --> 0:04:57.310 of the things I always suggest. Instead of getting your 0:04:57.550 --> 0:05:01.380 blower out running as a blower. Most blower these days 0:05:02.020 --> 0:05:04.180 have a reverse function where you put a bag on 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:07.730 the back, use it as a vacuum, as a leaf vacuum. Oh, 0:05:07.779 --> 0:05:10.700 that's interesting, yeah. And turn it around. There's an attachment 0:05:10.740 --> 0:05:12.440 for it. Use it as a vacuum because what will 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:15.820 happen is when you use your electric blower, even your 0:05:15.860 --> 0:05:20.420 gas blower, as a leaf vacuum, then it's sending those 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.830 leaves through the impeller blades. Right, and you hope you 0:05:23.850 --> 0:05:26.370 don't get a stone. And yeah, but it's sending them 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.330 through the impeller blades. And so it's going to mulch 0:05:29.390 --> 0:05:32.469 it into tiny little chips and then take that bag. 0:05:32.510 --> 0:05:34.890 Don't put it in the trash can. Just spread it out. 0:05:34.990 --> 0:05:38.150 Spread it out in the garden bed, and you got 0:05:38.190 --> 0:05:41.670 free mulch. Right. And the mower does— like, we have an 0:05:41.890 --> 0:05:46.289 electric mower. It does an incredible job breaking those leaves down, too. Exactly. 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:46.880 Exactly. 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:50.100 So let your mower do its job and leave them be. 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.060 It's amazing what'll happen, you know, if you let nature 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.600 have a little bit of space to do what it does. 0:05:55.620 --> 0:05:57.480 You might end up with a great horned owl living 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:01.200 in your backyard. Well— Look, a perfect example of that 0:06:01.300 --> 0:06:04.969 is leaving nature alone and letting it survive on its own. 0:06:05.350 --> 0:06:09.550 When you drive on the 101 freeway and, you know, 0:06:09.610 --> 0:06:12.229 it's rush hour traffic and you're going, you know, zero 0:06:12.250 --> 0:06:14.909 miles an hour, you look on the shoulder or even 0:06:14.950 --> 0:06:17.370 in the median there and there's a palm tree growing 0:06:17.450 --> 0:06:21.290 out of a crack. That nobody attends to. And it just, 0:06:21.350 --> 0:06:25.289 it's beautiful. I think we overdo it with trees and plants. We, 0:06:25.310 --> 0:06:27.210 you know, we water them every day. We feed them 0:06:27.250 --> 0:06:28.650 every day. And I think they just want to be 0:06:28.690 --> 0:06:30.940 left alone. I think one of the most beautiful things 0:06:31.020 --> 0:06:35.360 about trees, as opposed to smaller shrubs and flowers. is 0:06:35.420 --> 0:06:37.740 that once you get one started, it will find its 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:41.180 own water. That's right. And you can just turn that 0:06:41.220 --> 0:06:46.300 whole thing off. That's right. I go to that moon, 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:50.520 what is that? Moon Valley. Moon Valley. And the moon juice, 0:06:51.110 --> 0:06:53.170 we put a lot of that on our trees, our 0:06:53.230 --> 0:06:56.650 ficus trees when we planted them. And that was six years, 0:06:56.710 --> 0:06:59.770 seven years ago. Now they're all 25 feet tall. I 0:06:59.810 --> 0:07:00.790 don't know what's in the moon juice. 0:07:00.810 --> 0:07:01.130 I don't either. 0:07:01.170 --> 0:07:02.750 I got to tell you. I don't want to know either. 0:07:02.830 --> 0:07:05.180 And they don't, yeah. They, they're not going to say 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:06.960 it either. I think like the formula for it is 0:07:07.050 --> 0:07:09.970 on the dark web or something, but, uh, the moon 0:07:10.010 --> 0:07:12.330 juice is pretty amazing stuff. Um, is that where you 0:07:12.370 --> 0:07:16.310 go to get big trees? Uh, always moon Valley is, 0:07:16.590 --> 0:07:19.890 and you know, uh, not, you know, we're, we're giving 0:07:19.910 --> 0:07:20.590 them free promo. 0:07:20.750 --> 0:07:20.910 Sure. 0:07:20.950 --> 0:07:26.340 Moon Valley is, uh, the Western United States preeminent tree nursery. 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.440 You don't go to moon Valley to get your flowers 0:07:28.500 --> 0:07:31.520 and your perennials, although they have a smattering of those. But, uh, 0:07:31.580 --> 0:07:35.050 when I need a tree, for a client. And the 0:07:35.070 --> 0:07:37.290 question is how big, and that's the cool thing about 0:07:37.310 --> 0:07:39.570 Moon Valley. It's like, oh, you need, you, you want 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:41.739 to save money. You just put in a six foot sapling. 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:43.880 We'll go get one. They've got like 800 of them 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:44.680 of that brand. 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:44.980 Right. 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:47.790 Or do you want it 10 feet tall? You want 0:07:47.900 --> 0:07:50.710 it 20 feet tall? They're all there. And so I 0:07:50.750 --> 0:07:53.510 can just go and just pick my age of tree 0:07:54.250 --> 0:07:57.190 among many they've got just they're beautiful trees they've got 0:07:57.370 --> 0:08:00.530 so many trees and crozier had a great experience he 0:08:00.590 --> 0:08:04.100 bought a an avocado tree and it died right. 0:08:04.450 --> 0:08:06.920 Yeah i went through two before the third one finally 0:08:06.940 --> 0:08:09.240 took and now it's absolutely beautiful. 0:08:09.060 --> 0:08:11.600 And they came out and and and planted the other 0:08:11.660 --> 0:08:14.040 two for free they will see that's yeah that if 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:16.240 they plant it if you allow them to plant it 0:08:16.660 --> 0:08:19.240 then you've got a seasonal guarantee on it so if 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.040 it doesn't take they'll uh switch it out. 0:08:21.190 --> 0:08:23.470 And then they came out a couple times afterwards, a 0:08:23.470 --> 0:08:26.270 few months later, just to do some up checks, and 0:08:26.330 --> 0:08:27.010 everything worked out. 0:08:27.530 --> 0:08:27.730 Yeah. 0:08:27.750 --> 0:08:28.210 It's beautiful. 0:08:28.270 --> 0:08:29.970 Yeah, they do what they're doing. All right, hold on 0:08:30.010 --> 0:08:32.010 a minute. Dean Sharp is with us. We'll talk a 0:08:32.010 --> 0:08:34.030 little more about trees. I want to ask him when 0:08:34.070 --> 0:08:37.579 we come back, when's the perfect time to prune a tree? 0:08:37.910 --> 0:08:41.300 There's two schools of thought. Do it in the winter 0:08:41.580 --> 0:08:44.020 or do it in the spring? But I don't know. 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:45.040 We'll ask him when he comes back. 0:08:46.340 --> 0:08:50.179 You're listening to Tim Conway Jr. On Demand from KFI 0:08:50.380 --> 0:08:52.720 AM 640. 0:08:53.020 --> 0:08:55.360 Dean Sharp, The House Whisperer. He's on every Saturday from 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.940 6 to 8 a.m. And then on Sunday from 9 a.m. 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.750 until noon. And Dean, we have a bunch of ficus 0:09:02.780 --> 0:09:05.510 trees around our yard. I do have to have them pruned. 0:09:05.550 --> 0:09:08.189 They're growing out of control. But I've heard two schools 0:09:08.250 --> 0:09:12.030 of thought to prune it right before winter hits or 0:09:12.170 --> 0:09:17.000 right before summer. Do you have any useful tips? yeah 0:09:17.420 --> 0:09:21.210 good prune it now now okay so here's the thing 0:09:21.570 --> 0:09:25.050 you know there are no absolute universal rules so here's 0:09:25.090 --> 0:09:29.530 the general rule uh do heavy pruning in autumn for 0:09:29.650 --> 0:09:32.440 most trees period okay that's just that's just the way 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.660 to go uh there are some exceptions citrus and avocado 0:09:35.700 --> 0:09:39.770 they're a You should probably wait till spring for those. 0:09:39.890 --> 0:09:43.070 And stone fruit, like any fruit tree that's got a pit, 0:09:43.110 --> 0:09:45.319 like a peach tree or a plum or whatever, do 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:49.460 those in the summer. But with those exceptions, every other tree, 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.840 better to prune it in autumn before winter sets in. 0:09:54.179 --> 0:09:56.730 You're going to get your healthiest, best reaction. And there 0:09:56.750 --> 0:09:59.030 are a number of reasons to do that. Number one, 0:09:59.850 --> 0:10:02.959 like you and I were talking about not disrupting nature. 0:10:03.420 --> 0:10:06.819 Most birds are done nesting in trees in autumn. So 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:10.610 you are invariably going to bring down some nests if 0:10:10.650 --> 0:10:12.829 you do a major pruning of a tree. You'll bring 0:10:12.850 --> 0:10:15.150 down empty nests and you're not going to be disturbing 0:10:15.210 --> 0:10:17.430 anything in the autumn versus when you do it in 0:10:17.450 --> 0:10:20.050 the springtime and you're bringing down fresh nests full of 0:10:20.150 --> 0:10:23.640 eggs and stuff. Okay, so that's one reason. But the 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:28.080 most important reason for the tree itself, all trees. Now, 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.700 somebody's going to disagree with me and say, wait a second, 0:10:31.460 --> 0:10:34.830 all trees go into dormancy in the winter, all trees. 0:10:34.990 --> 0:10:37.990 And somebody will say, well, wait a second. Evergreen trees 0:10:38.030 --> 0:10:42.270 never drop their needles, and some trees, like my ash tree, 0:10:42.330 --> 0:10:45.319 never drop their leaves. That's true. Dropping of a leaf 0:10:45.740 --> 0:10:51.260 is not the sign that it's going into dormancy. Every 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.800 tree has rings. If you clear-cut a tree, right, you 0:10:53.820 --> 0:10:57.280 see those tree rings? Light and dark, light and dark, 0:10:57.540 --> 0:11:00.300 light and dark. Every two rings, a light and a 0:11:00.340 --> 0:11:02.960 dark ring, that represents one year of growth. 0:11:02.980 --> 0:11:03.360 Okay. 0:11:03.380 --> 0:11:03.559 Okay. 0:11:04.050 --> 0:11:07.630 The light ring is fast summer growth. The dark ring 0:11:07.890 --> 0:11:11.750 is slow winter growth. It's dormancy. So when is the best? 0:11:11.809 --> 0:11:15.210 It's like asking somebody, what's the best situation to get 0:11:15.270 --> 0:11:17.809 a root canal? Okay, well, probably you go to the 0:11:17.870 --> 0:11:19.970 dentist and they put you in that light, you know, 0:11:20.580 --> 0:11:24.250 that twilight sleep. That's basically where trees are going right now. 0:11:24.530 --> 0:11:26.880 They're headed into this twilight sleep. So if we're going 0:11:26.900 --> 0:11:29.420 to do some major stuff, we're not going to shock them. 0:11:30.260 --> 0:11:32.179 We're not going to set them back. All the better. 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.600 We're forcing them to draw deeper roots during the wintertime, 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.160 and they will bust out in spring healthier than ever. 0:11:38.340 --> 0:11:41.460 Dean Sharp is with us. My wife is from Oregon, 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:45.100 where logging is the big profession up there. And they 0:11:45.140 --> 0:11:48.980 make toilet paper, paper towels, paper bags, all that stuff, newspaper. 0:11:49.660 --> 0:11:53.390 And they used to plant trees, and then there was 0:11:53.429 --> 0:11:57.150 a 50-year growth period before they'd clear-cut them and turn 0:11:57.170 --> 0:12:02.090 them into paper goods. And through manipulating the tree's DNA, 0:12:02.470 --> 0:12:06.400 they've reduced that from 50 down to 20. Is that 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:10.820 something that they will eventually sell to people, that secret, 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:12.380 or is that something you think they want to keep? 0:12:14.780 --> 0:12:16.300 How to grow a tree. How to grow a tree. 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:18.680 It used to take 50 years. Now they can do 0:12:18.700 --> 0:12:21.360 it in 20. Those trees are actually available now. 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:21.940 Oh, they are? 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:22.420 Yeah. 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:27.500 Oh, I see. So it depends. It's not the actual fertilizing. 0:12:27.570 --> 0:12:30.189 It's the tree itself. It's not so much the fertilizing. 0:12:30.270 --> 0:12:33.589 It's the hybridization of the tree. That really changes it. 0:12:33.610 --> 0:12:36.910 And those trees are available. They're not great for lumber, 0:12:36.970 --> 0:12:43.590 by the way, but still, they're great fast-growing trees. The 0:12:43.610 --> 0:12:46.840 last two or three years, we've gone out in Oregon 0:12:46.900 --> 0:12:50.160 and cut our own tree down, and I can't tell 0:12:50.220 --> 0:12:54.840 you how effing heavy those things are. Yes, they are. 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:58.440 God almighty. They're very wet. Yeah. They're a six-foot tree. 0:12:58.460 --> 0:13:02.100 They're filled with water. And it's like 110 pounds. Yeah, yeah. 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.240 They're healthy and they're filled with water, and water is 0:13:04.380 --> 0:13:08.660 very heavy. I love the evergreen trees, but the sap 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.420 on the cars, on the sidewalk and stuff like that, 0:13:11.450 --> 0:13:14.630 that does get old. It can. Yeah, sure. It does 0:13:14.650 --> 0:13:17.190 get very old. I mean, well, I mean, here's the thing. 0:13:17.650 --> 0:13:20.370 It's not their fault. That's right. Evergreen trees did not 0:13:20.410 --> 0:13:23.900 evolve to grow next to asphalt. Yeah. Speaking of trees, 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:28.140 I'm surprised that the Grove and, you know, and some 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:31.479 of these outlets that have hundred foot trees, I'm surprised 0:13:31.540 --> 0:13:34.340 environmentalists haven't got all over them. I never hear the 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:38.210 environmentalists attacking those people. You know, it's just hard to, 0:13:38.230 --> 0:13:42.000 you know. It's hard to S on Christmas. Yeah, it is. 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.660 It really is. And by the way, for everybody who 0:13:45.740 --> 0:13:47.360 knows this, you know, and I have no problem with 0:13:47.820 --> 0:13:49.540 artificial trees. Aldic home. 0:13:50.179 --> 0:13:50.760 Oh, yeah, right. 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:52.280 Buy a good one if you're going to get an 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:56.650 artificial tree. Buy a great one. But trees are an 0:13:56.710 --> 0:13:59.650 agricultural product. Christmas trees are an agricultural product. So if 0:13:59.670 --> 0:14:01.370 you've been a standout, you're like, man, I don't want 0:14:01.410 --> 0:14:03.670 to cut down a real tree because that's clear cutting 0:14:03.690 --> 0:14:05.730 the fort. No, it's not. It's grown on a farm. 0:14:05.950 --> 0:14:06.150 Right. 0:14:06.500 --> 0:14:09.550 Okay. Christmas trees are grown. On Christmas tree farms, they're 0:14:09.590 --> 0:14:11.850 an agricultural product. They actually help the environment. 0:14:12.030 --> 0:14:12.209 Yeah. 0:14:12.309 --> 0:14:14.370 And real quickly, I know you've got to go. The 0:14:14.450 --> 0:14:17.050 spike that you hooked a hose up to to throw 0:14:17.110 --> 0:14:21.280 water three, four feet down, is that worth it? Yeah. 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:25.940 And we don't normally use the spikes. What we'll do 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.220 is if we're going to plant a tree, we'll actually 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:32.580 put a two-inch or three-inch PVC drain line down in 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.900 the hole on the side. Because the only issue I 0:14:35.940 --> 0:14:38.160 have with the spike, the theory is perfect. You want 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.100 the water going to the base of the tree root. 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:43.660 That's the idea. But the spike can get clogged. It's 0:14:43.700 --> 0:14:46.480 very tiny. It's very small diameter. So I like a 0:14:46.620 --> 0:14:50.870 big old wide pipe that we know no matter what happens, 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.450 the water's getting down to the base of the roots. 0:14:53.510 --> 0:14:56.710 And then do you fill that with rock? You can, 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:58.770 so it doesn't have to fill up with anything else. 0:14:59.390 --> 0:15:01.790 So rock or pea gravel makes a great filter, keeps 0:15:01.850 --> 0:15:03.650 the dirt out, lets the water through. Right, but you 0:15:03.670 --> 0:15:06.250 don't have to water it forever. As you said, it'll 0:15:06.270 --> 0:15:08.400 find its own water. No, you just got to train it. 0:15:08.470 --> 0:15:10.330 And so many people say, well, I don't want to 0:15:10.350 --> 0:15:13.890 get trees because you're going to get surface root growth. Listen, buddy, 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:18.080 the trees grow their roots where the water is. So 0:15:18.180 --> 0:15:20.680 if the only source of water for a tree is 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.260 the sprinklers in your yard, of course there's going to 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:25.550 be roots at the surface. That's right. But if you 0:15:25.870 --> 0:15:29.320 plant a tree and send the water down at the base, 0:15:29.420 --> 0:15:31.980 train it to send its roots down... It's going to 0:15:32.020 --> 0:15:34.350 send its roots down. You're never going to see them. Buddy, 0:15:34.550 --> 0:15:36.870 I will see you at the White House. And also, 0:15:36.890 --> 0:15:38.370 I'm sure you're going to have your big Christmas show 0:15:38.410 --> 0:15:41.930 again this year. Yeah, it's coming up on the 22nd. Oh, okay. 0:15:41.970 --> 0:15:44.750 November 22nd? Yep. All right. I'll write that down. 0:15:44.950 --> 0:15:45.210 Excellent. 0:15:45.230 --> 0:15:47.500 Buddy, thanks for coming on, man. Thanks, Tim. All right. 0:15:47.550 --> 0:15:51.120 Dean Sharp. Listen to him every Saturday, 6 to 8 a.m. 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.840 with his lovely wife. They do a great show. And 0:15:53.860 --> 0:15:58.120 then on Sunday from 9 a.m. until noon, every weekend 0:15:58.140 --> 0:15:59.560 here on KFI. 0:16:00.490 --> 0:16:04.350 You're listening to Tim Conway Jr. On Demand from KFI 0:16:04.530 --> 0:16:04.990 AM 640. 0:16:04.990 --> 0:16:08.360 I don't know if anybody on this show or anybody 0:16:08.390 --> 0:16:12.100 listening is watching or if you watched the Matthew Perry 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:14.820 on Netflix. Have you seen it, Stephush? 0:16:15.420 --> 0:16:15.720 I did. 0:16:15.820 --> 0:16:19.080 It's unbelievable. It was unreal. It's very sad. 0:16:19.220 --> 0:16:19.440 Yeah. 0:16:19.860 --> 0:16:24.660 But just a remarkable life that that guy had. And, 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.370 you know, the good friends he had, the good family 0:16:27.390 --> 0:16:30.710 that he had. and still couldn't beat it. He had 0:16:30.730 --> 0:16:33.270 a great line in there, which I think he stole 0:16:33.330 --> 0:16:38.420 from me, but I'm not going to contest it. Learning 0:16:38.540 --> 0:16:43.300 to live in reality is an acquired taste. I thought 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.020 that was great. That is a great line. And he 0:16:46.220 --> 0:16:50.580 said he hadn't really acquired that taste yet. But it 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:54.610 all started, his whole drug problem started with, he was 0:16:54.650 --> 0:16:57.880 shooting a movie in Las Vegas and, And during either 0:16:57.940 --> 0:17:01.300 a down day or when he wasn't needed on set, 0:17:01.580 --> 0:17:04.240 he got on a jet ski and had an accident 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:09.869 on Lake Mead and hurt himself pretty significantly. Went to 0:17:09.890 --> 0:17:13.730 the hospital, got checked out, and then the doctor gave 0:17:13.750 --> 0:17:16.910 him a pill and said, here, after you're done shooting today, 0:17:16.970 --> 0:17:19.460 take this. The pain will go away. And he said 0:17:19.500 --> 0:17:22.900 he took that pill and it changed his life. He said, 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:26.609 this is what people, normal people probably feel every day. 0:17:27.010 --> 0:17:31.209 He felt normal on whatever pill he was given. And 0:17:31.250 --> 0:17:34.350 then it was all downhill from there. But it really is, 0:17:35.070 --> 0:17:39.820 it's a sensational, I guess it's a documentary, right? It is. 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:40.619 It's just three parts. 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:41.040 Yeah. 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:42.720 But it really is great. I'm on the first part. 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:45.520 The first part's slow, a little slow. But once it 0:17:45.540 --> 0:17:51.290 gets into friends and how crazy his life was, it's 0:17:51.310 --> 0:17:53.820 pretty good. It's pretty good. I've got to see the 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:55.960 John Madden one, too. I haven't looked at that yet. 0:17:56.580 --> 0:18:01.530 All right. We do every single Thursday at 736. We 0:18:01.570 --> 0:18:05.830 talk about food, of course. Although, I wanted to ask you, Kroj, 0:18:05.850 --> 0:18:08.050 I didn't ask you off the air, so I probably 0:18:08.230 --> 0:18:11.070 should have asked you maybe off the air first. Can 0:18:11.109 --> 0:18:12.560 we talk about your trip or not? 0:18:13.420 --> 0:18:13.640 Sure. 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:17.639 Okay. You've been invited. They're going to fly you to 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:19.970 New York on a private jet, put you up in a. 0:18:20.990 --> 0:18:21.510 Oh, God. 0:18:21.590 --> 0:18:21.909 Really? 0:18:22.230 --> 0:18:23.909 Oh, my God. This is going to be fantastic. 0:18:23.970 --> 0:18:26.030 It's going to be great. No, but it's a big 0:18:26.290 --> 0:18:29.100 union extravaganza you're going to. 0:18:40.990 --> 0:18:43.110 And this one now is in New York for this 0:18:43.150 --> 0:18:43.710 coming weekend. 0:18:43.830 --> 0:18:47.250 But the union really likes you and respects you to 0:18:47.350 --> 0:18:49.430 fly you there, put you up in a hotel, pay 0:18:49.490 --> 0:18:51.260 for all your meals and everything. And do you have 0:18:51.300 --> 0:18:52.480 to speak at one of these things? 0:18:53.260 --> 0:18:55.120 Not that I know of. So if I do, it'll 0:18:55.140 --> 0:18:57.820 be a surprise. I'm pretty honored by it. It's kind 0:18:57.859 --> 0:19:00.020 of cool to be sort of in that atmosphere. And 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.570 it's basically just looking at the state of broadcasting, how 0:19:02.619 --> 0:19:04.330 it is and where it could be going and what 0:19:04.369 --> 0:19:05.260 we could be doing about it. 0:19:05.290 --> 0:19:05.470 Yeah. 0:19:05.670 --> 0:19:09.909 But that's a great vote of confidence. 0:19:10.109 --> 0:19:10.510 Yeah. 0:19:10.570 --> 0:19:12.729 That you got that. Because I don't know anybody who's 0:19:12.770 --> 0:19:13.790 ever been asked to that thing. 0:19:13.810 --> 0:19:14.070 Yeah. 0:19:14.450 --> 0:19:16.610 I didn't even know it existed. And at some point, 0:19:16.630 --> 0:19:18.600 the union reached out to me and said, hey, we'd 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:20.980 like you to be a part of this. And I'm like, yeah. 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:21.500 Wow. 0:19:21.540 --> 0:19:21.840 Yeah. 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:22.939 And so you leave tomorrow? 0:19:23.140 --> 0:19:25.240 I leave tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:26.240 Oh, Christ. 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:27.160 Yeah. 0:19:27.540 --> 0:19:31.020 And you didn't say, please, is there anything later? 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:34.470 Well, there's... What's worse than that is I'm leaving New 0:19:34.530 --> 0:19:36.410 York to come back at 6 a.m. 0:19:36.550 --> 0:19:36.889 Sunday. 0:19:36.950 --> 0:19:38.179 Oh, you've got to be kidding me. 0:19:38.190 --> 0:19:38.580 Yeah. 0:19:38.670 --> 0:19:40.280 After being out all night Saturday? 0:19:40.340 --> 0:19:40.720