July 17, 2026 • 33 mins
The Tim Conway Jr Show Hour 2 (7.16)
A bizarre rescue unfolds after a man climbs into a portable restroom toilet in Kansas City, as Joe Shelton, CEO/President of Patriot Portable Restrooms, explains what happened and how these units are designed. Dean Sharp, the House Whisperer, shares expert advice on home maintenance and improvement, Tim Conway Jr. gives a special birthday shoutout to a loyal KFI listener, and the show revisits the timeline of the West Hollywood flooding caused by a ruptured 100-year-old water pipe.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's camp I am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio Apple at
your ass. Timmy Wow, Timmy Wow. He's a little lamb
with a lot too. He's always having such a lot
of fun. A lot of fun, Timmy.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
With a time right out.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Okay, you may have seen this story about a guy
in an outhouse, you know, at the end of a
concert or the end of an event, and there's like,
you know, twenty or thirty outhouses you see, you seem
at the Kia form all the time. You know, if
you leave the key of forum, they have like forty
out houses outside. And then once the crowd leaves, one
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of the security guard is guards is in charge of
going through the outhouses and making sure that everybody's out safe.
And you know, nobody wants to be left in an
outhouse or locked in an outhouse. And then a lot
of times they'll lock them when they've examined them to
make sure no one's in there, and that's the where
they keep them safe and they keep people safe. So
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evidently they knocked on one of these doors and a
guy says, I'm in here, and they said, well, you
got to come out. We'll give you ten minutes. Ten
minutes later, he would, he didn't come out, so they
called the cops. Cops busted the door down, and this
is where the story starts. All right, Joe Shelton is
with us. He knows a lot about this. He's the
(01:38):
CEO and president of Patriot Portable Restrooms.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Joe, how you Oh, I'm doing great.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I'm doing excellent. I appreciate you asking. Have you ever
heard of anything like this before in your life?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
No, I've seen a lot of things, but this one
takes the cake.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Okay, tell us give us the details.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Why was in Why was this guy in that outhouse
for what was it eight or nine hours?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
I mean the best that we could tell from from
his statements was he had dropped the mountain dew apparently
in the restroom, and felt like he needed to get
the do so he went back in.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I thought when I originally saw the story, I thought
that was a euphemism for something dropping the mountain dew.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
No our driver on site, I mean, some of the
story you got straight. There's a lot of rumors going around,
but we were actually there to pick up the equipment
from the event. And our driver was knocking on the doors,
just making sure everything was empty and ready to pick up.
And and sure enough he didn't want out. And and
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so my guy was like, all right, I'll give you
the time. You know, I'll give you the time you need.
You know, we get it. It's a toilet. So we
started picking everything else up. But when it came down
to the minute that that one needed to go, the
guy wouldn't get out.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
And uh so, and it wasn't like he was asking
for help. He just was saying, I'm busy, you know,
I'm taking care of stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
So, uh, now where did this happen, Joe? Did this
happen outside of Kansas City?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
This was uh the the event was a soccer watch event,
meaning that I think it was probably like a beer
a beer garden type event where everybody came out and watched.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
The the soccer game.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
We had about eight eight toilets there and this was
just us cleaning up after the weekends.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Uh charades.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So this guy is lucky to be alive.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
You know, when you get when you go down into
that that water to you know, to you know, retrieve
a ring or a you know, a necklace whatever, I've
never heard of a mountain dew, but in this case,
a mountain dew.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Uh, you could be killed down there, you could.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
You know, with the fumes and that water, that could
that could seriously could kill you.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Well, I mean it was hot out.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Let's say that.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
I don't know that you would die. I mean you
could pretend.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I don't think you could die.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
But you definitely are going to be blue afterwards. I
mean a chemical If you get that stuff on you,
it's sick. So there's a guy walking around Kansas blue.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Now, how was he unable to get out? So he
jumped into the water to get his mountain dew or
he fell in and he wasn't able to pull him
upself up where the seed.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Is well, I mean the portable restroom is only like
a fifty five gallon drum. I mean he kind of
slid in there, kind of.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Like a bathtub, right.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
And I don't think he was in a hurry to
get out. That was the problem. Is he he was
enjoying himself enough. I don't know. No one really got
a great interview from him. They washed him down with
the fire hose afterwards, and he went.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
On his way.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
So we don't know if this was a drunken bet
he lost, that he picked the wrong team. Don't really
know other than he made the statement that he was
after his mountain dew.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Now I don't know Kansas City that well. Is that
a mountain mountain dew dry jurisdiction where you're not allowed
to buy mountain dew in that area?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
You know that that could be a great question. I'll
have to look into that. I haven't heard that news,
but you know, and I don't know if it was
a euphemism. Maybe he wanted a little bit different kind of.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Dude, know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
This is great.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
So when the cops show up, they see him, then
they call the fire department. The fire department has to
come out with a saw with a chainsaw and tear
that that toilet set up, and that outhouse up to
get this guy out.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Well, the funny part was is they actually didn't see him.
And that was even funnier because they knocked on the
door told the guy to get out. He said, I
can't open the door. My driver helped the police officer
open the door, and the seat was down.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
He's in the.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Tank and my guy looked at the cop, and the
cop looked at him like are they crazy, Like they
just heard the guy talking and so, and then all
of a sudden, kind of like Oscar the grouse popping
out of the trash can, he pops up and says,
I'm right here. And they both were like, oh my gosh.
And that's when they called for back up and then
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requested the fire department, the Great Fire Department of Kansas.
And we want to thank the police department for participating
and you know, helping this guy out of the toilet.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Yeah, I guess, you know, as happens, you know occasionally,
But did did did you make that guy pay for
the damage of that outhouse?
Speaker 4 (06:53):
You know, it's one of those situations where we didn't
get his name and I don't know. Yeah, I think
that the whole experience was was so unusual. Everybody was
a little bit shocked. And I think after they hosed
him off and he just moved on, I I that
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was it, you know, I mean, both everyone was kind
of out.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
No one had to Joe.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I'm glad we have you on the line.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
A separate issue. I always wondered how people got into
this business. Did you start with one outhouse and then
you bought two, and then twenty and then thirty.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Well, I mean I grew up in the business. I worked.
I grew up as a young man. I've been stuffed
in those toilets. I have everything that you can think of,
tipped over, lifted up in forklift back trucks, backed up
and locked in. And so I know how kind of
how that guy feels in some ways.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Sure, how many do you want, by the way, how
many are in the in your business?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Well, we're we're now a nationwide business. You're a family
owned business. My dad's third generation. My kids are are
part of the business. So I mean, of course, you
start with one toilet and the truck and and a
lot of grit, and you just work your way through it.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
And it takes a team. It's not just me.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
I mean all the drivers and all of the guys
in the sales office and everything. There's a whole team
of people that really make it happen right. And it's
a big family, you know, we try to we try
to keep it that way.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
And real quickly. I don't know, I don't have any
idea what this cost. If I wanted to put an outhouse. Uh,
you know, I want to call patriot portable restrooms. I
want to put one outside of my house because there's
a lot of homeless guys around.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
What does that cost me a week?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
We're similar to a gardener in the sense that, you know,
we we show up every week, we clean it just like.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
A gardener would.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
And uh and.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
But the difference is we take away the dirty stuff.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
They don't. They don't take it away.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
And it's a couple hundred bucks.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
And you could secure yourself a portable to it for
your event or or a construction site, or just to
keep the gardener right out of your bushes.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Okay, last question and then we'll let you go. I
know you've been, you know, on with a bunch of
different stations with this incident. Are we close to any
improvements in the outhouse where you just sit on a
plastic seat and there's blue water filled with s below you.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Oh yeah, we got a lot of improvements.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, we got restroom trailers, now trailers.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
We got luxury restroom trailers, which a lot of the
movie industry uses, especially in the LA area, with flushing
toilets and running water and air conditioning. And even this
station can be played inside it.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
That right, that's great.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Have you had to expand the size of it because
of how big people have gotten in the United States?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Yeah, I mean there's re regulations. Of course, everything's got
our regulation and so but yeah, we do have larger ones.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
We have the handicap ones for some reason. All I'm sorry,
you need a little bit of.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I could talk you for an hour. One last, last
last questions. How many portable toilets or outhouses you own?
How many are in the Patriot game.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
The Patriot across the nation. We've probably got five to
ten thousand. We're through a small family business and we're
just we're just slowly growing.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So excellent.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
But I really appreciate you coming on. I know that
you've been pulled by every new station and to make
time for us is really cool.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Really appreciate man.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Yeah, no problem, long time.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Listener, man, Is that right?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I was delivering toilets listening to you keep me awake. Well,
I was driving around.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Delivering We'll keep promoting Patriot portable restrooms.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yep, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
All right, thanks good, All right. Take that's Joe Shelton.
He's the CEO and president of Patriot Portable Restrooms. What
great publicity for that guy and his company? Did A
guy gets stuck in one of those things for eight
hours and he's going after a mountain dew, which is
Steph Wish. I gotta rely on your expertise here. What
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does a bottle of mountain dew go for two fifty today?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Yeah? Like maybe nine bucks?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yeah, Okay, guy jumped into a portable toilet.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I just don't think it was a literal mountain dew. Yeah,
you know what I think it was.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I think he had a lot of a lot of
liquor before the mountain dew. Yeah, and one wrong slip
and bang he's in the blue water with the TUTSI rules.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
What a night for that man?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
What night?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
God Almighty? All right, when we come back, we have
the great Dean Sharp. We haven't heard from a while.
He's been out of town. I've been out of town,
and he's back.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Baby.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
We every Thursday at seven twenty and we're about four
minutes late, so I apologize. We have our good friend
Dean Sharp the house whisper. He's on every single Saturday
and Sunday morning on KFI and he's with us.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Dean, how you, Bob?
Speaker 7 (12:21):
I needed that extra four minutes. It was a long
it was a long day. He just got back from
doing a design consult, a successful one design consult in
San Diego.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Oh is that right? You worked that far to salient?
Oh yeah, yeah, is that right?
Speaker 7 (12:35):
Yeah? Well we do, we do design. I mean we're
we're designing at house in Kentucky right now. But as
far as consults go, yeah, well we'll drive.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
By the way.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I call it the best fifteen hundred dollars you could
ever spend.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
Well, thank you, and you know what, thank you? Also,
I was sitting here listening and you know, do you
know that you are the only host on KFI who
has ever announced me as the I'm like, as you
were starting to say, coming up next, the great and
I'm like, oh great, I've been bumped again. Well it
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was written here for me. I was just reading what
you wrote.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Oh hey, let's say real quickly before we get into
you know, the topic today.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Do you know anything about these water mains and why
they're breaking? Do you have any insight as to it
because I know the pressure has to do with it,
you know, pushing that water over the hill. But this
has got to be an impossible task to replace all
these things in the next, you know, a couple of years.
They don't have the manpower or the equipment to do it. Yeah,
you know, I don't know the exact reason why, but
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I will tell you this. You know, if we were
to just kind of take this in a microcosm sense,
if you never replace half the.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Piping in your house, right okay.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
And the reason is that you're like, well, okay, this
side over here, I mean it's fifty years old, seventy
years old, but it's not leaking. So let's just replace
the side that's and then you crank the pressure back.
So the point is it's difficult to put new up
against old and not run into problems.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Right, But you know, I know that you have you know,
there's no dig pipe repair where you shove a or
trenchless pipe linings.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
That's for sewer lines. Oh I see, okay, all right,
that's for sewer line that you're busting apart cast iron
or clay sewer lines. It doesn't doesn't work for water
means did.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
You see the volume that goes through that pipe, one
hundred thousand gallons a second. Oh yeah, yeah, that's incredible.
It's a lot. Yeah, it's a lot. I mean all this,
you want up to eighteen million gallons of water?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Gone, all gone?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
All right, we're gonna talk about home maintenance and home improvement.
When your kitchen cabinets wear out, just replacing them might
be the wrong move.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
Yeah, So Sunday show, we're going to do a classic
house whisper show on Sunday. We're helping people kind of
understand how to see things differently. And and I have
a little you know, I got a pet pee I
can totally get it. Okay, so it's not a conspiracy,
but I have a little pet peeve about the home
improvement industry. Right, it's called the home improvement industry, right,
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And the fact of the matter is about ninety percent
of what happens in the home improvement industry is not
actually home improvement. It's home maintenance and home repair. Ah okay,
that's good.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
So yeah, so you know, and I guess you could say, well,
it improved my house because I had something broken and
now it's not okay, Yeah, but if you really really
take a look at it. You know, the home improvement
industry in the United States is like a three hundred
billion dollar industry, and you would think you measure that
against the amount of houses that are in the US,
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why aren't houses getting substantially better?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Right?
Speaker 7 (15:49):
And the reason is very very simple. It's design that's
missing and the design question. And I'm not putting it
on homeowners that it's their fault, but I am helping
them to see the fact that when something happens, you know,
I like to say this, that everything in the house
eventually fails, right, some system fails, a pipe gets worn out,
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you know, whatever the case is, every time that happens,
you are standing at a fork in the road. Okay,
Now this is not HGTV in which I tell you
every time that happens you should completely redesign the house.
But you got to ask the question, are we just
going to replace this thing or is there a bigger
picture here that we're not seeing? In other words, the
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thing that we're replacing should it have been there in
the first place?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Interesting?
Speaker 7 (16:37):
And we got to at least ask the question, because
you know, the homes that really incrementally move forward in
terms of design, are where homeowners a kind of lay
all of their assumptions aside and just ask all of
the questions. And so, yeah, the kitchen. Time to redo
the kitchen. I'm sick of these cabinets. They're worn out.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Time to redo that.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
So you're about to drop on the average house these
days about one hundred grand cabinets and countertops in a kitchen. Okay,
in doing that, if you don't stand back and say something,
and people are gonna think this is ridiculous for me
to say, but it's not. If you're not going to
stand back and say, is the kitchen in the right room?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Oh? Interesting?
Speaker 7 (17:20):
Then then you know what, then you may be missing
a huge, huge, huge opportunity. And now people are like, well,
you can't just move the kitchen to the other side
of the Yes, you kiss you. And if you're about
to spend one hundred grand on that kitchen, guess what,
You'll maybe spend another ten to move it to another room.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
That's great, Okay, get oh, we gotta take quick break here.
I love this saying. I think I heard it from
you originally. The only thing that works in an old
house is you.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah, all right, we'll come back and talk about that.
And then I got a question about buying and selling homes.
When you're buying a house, what is the one thing
the first thing you should look for when you're selling house.
What is the one thing you need to do because
there's a lot of people I've noticed this just in
Burbank in the valley, a lot of homes moving right now,
a lot of buying, a lot of health. All right,
Dean sharpers whethers he's on every Saturday and Sunday right
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here on KFI in the mornings, and we'll come back
and talk to him.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Dean Sharp is with us.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Dean, before we get into those questions, I asked, I
got a quick story for you here. My wife is
from Oregon and about twenty years ago, almost exactly twenty
years ago, we bought a small townhouse on the Columbia
River and it was a brand new project.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
You know, we're going to have it built.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
There was about forty units on the river there and
we bought one of them for two hundred and four
thousand dollars, three bedroom, three bath, high end appliances, nice countertops,
cabinets and everything really really cheap. And it was about finished,
you know, the walls were up, the plumbing was done,
the electric was done. And my wife looked at it,
and she has a back ground in design, and she said,
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why is the kitchen on the river? The living room
should be on the river. And and we said, hey,
can we change it? And the guy said what do
you mean change it? And I said, can I pay
you to change the plumbing, the electric and to move
the kitchen back about, you know, thirty feet And he goes,
it's going to cost you? And I said, well, before
we'd start doing it, how much? And so he took
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it a week to figure out how it's going to cost,
redesign the whole place, you know, and everything, and he
comes back to me and he goes, okay, it's going
to cost you.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
You're not going to like this.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I said how much He said, for everything, labor, parts, everything,
seven hundred and fifty dollars?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
WHOA can you believe? All right, that's a hard no.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
And so after she made that change in our unit,
they changed all the rest of the units, all the
way down the next thirty units and that's a big,
you know, a big sort of vote of confidence that
you know that she did something right.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I thought that was really cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
And you what, that's exactly kind of the point of
what we're talking about. You know, she pulled the trigger,
she put her foot on the brake before it went
too far, and right at that moment that is, you know,
whatever the cost is, that is the least expensive moment
to make the right change.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Right.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Okay, So, if you're selling a house, what is the
one thing you should make sure that your house either
has or people see or you should repair before you
sell it.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
But like the one big thing the bones. I'm just
gonna say bones.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
You know, people get worried about like should I remodel
the kitchen before I sell the house? No, I guarantee
you're gonna spend all this money, and the one buyer
who's going to walk in and want your house, you're
going to hear them say, yeah, everything's great, but man,
I hate that kitchen.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
That thing's gonna go okay.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
And then well, and then what about buying a house.
What is the one thing when you look when you
go to a house, what is one thing you should
look for where you know that the rest of the
house is well kept in quality.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
It's the same thing. It's the bones, the bones. Okay, Yeah,
you want to take a look at that home inspection report. Okay,
because here's the thing, man, how houses get and this
is a good thing for buyers. Right, houses get devalued
all the time because the dry walls in bad shape,
or you know, the window screens are torn, or you
know whatever, rooms are dingy and they haven't been cleaned,
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or you know, these things are meaningless. These are not
structural elements. These are just blemishes that can get handled.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Right.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
What you don't want is to end up buying a
house that's got intrinsic plumbing issues, intrinsic electrical issues, bad roof,
that kind of stuff. So the things that make the
house fully functional, these are the most important things buying
and selling and the rest of it. You know what
I mean. If you're buying a house and it looks dingy,
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you know, count yourself blessed. I mean, because you're going
to get a better price on a house that just
you know needs some touching up.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
You know, we had when we moved into our house
in Purbank, we had in the first month, we had
like four leaks in four different pipes, and I said, oh,
this is going to be a major problem. And it
turns out it was the pressure regulator that was wrong
and there was way too much pressure in the house
where you're getting pinhole and leaks and pipes. So we
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just had to replace that for a couple hundred bucks
and we're fine.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
Yeah, pressure regulators, I guarantee you right now, everybody who's
listening to us, half of the homes that are listening
to us have bad press. Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Is that right? And that's the cheapest thing you can
do to help your pipes in the house.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
Yeah, because you know, they wear out, they wear out.
They're actively restraining city pressure for years and years and
years and years and they end up wearing out. And
people don't realize it because maybe you don't have ultra
high city pressure anyway, and you've gotten used to the
fact that, hey, we've got really good pressure in the house. Well,
if you've got pressure over eighty psi, then your pressure
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is actually doing damage to your system and your appliances.
So you don't want that good of pressure.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Right, and especially if you live in the foothills where
they have to pressure rise that water push it over
the hill.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
Yeah, so, and it could change. I mean, I've been
in neighborhoods where two houses have low pressure and the
next three have high pressure. It's just the way the
city runs its water lines, and it can change. It
can change from street, street and house to house. So
everybody should double And by the way, you can get
a pressure regulator check valve down at you know, the
home depot or lows or whatever for about eight bucks. Right,
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it screws onto the hose bib. Now, don't go way
out into your yard and screw it on one of those.
But any hose bib that's actually coming out of the
wall of your house, that's a hose bib that is
after the pressure regulator. So screw that on there and
find out you open up the valve and find out
what your water pressure really is.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Right.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
We were always told that the best valve to put
that on it is the hose in the backyard because
that's already gone through the pressure system.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Any as long as nothing else is running, any hose
bib will do. Any any opening will do. As long
as there's not something else running, that's the best ten
to twenty dollars you could ever spend. Absolutely, yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I appreciate coming on. We'll I'll talk to you next week.
All right, Bud, all right?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
There he goes Dean Sharp every Saturday morning six to
eight am on KFI and then every Sunday nine am
until noon. It's a great show. It's a great show.
I listened to it on Sundays. It's great to drive
around listen to Dean and Tina talk about houses. I
can listen to it all day. I would if it
was a six hour show, I'd be on for six hours.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I'd be listening.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
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just heard Dean Sharp and he said, and this is
an unbelievable stat I didn't think it was this high.
That fifty percent of the people listening right now, and
we'll have we have about eighty thousand listeners I'd give
(25:34):
or take a couple thousand with on air live and
then streaming and podcast. So there's about forty thousand homes
people who own homes who are listening right now. And
your water pressure is too high in your house and
that can blow apart your pipes. You saw what happened
on sunset today. That was because the pressure was too high,
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and the same thing on a much lower scale, I'll
give you that can happen in your house. Especially if
this happens when you're out of town. You can't imagine
how much damage water can do to your house, and
it may not be covered by insurance. And you don't
want to deal with insurance companies right now. They're really
at their wits end with writing checks. Because of all
(26:19):
the fires and you know the flood damage from this morning,
they're gonna be writing.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
There's gonna be more checks being written. So you go
to Low's.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
I'm giving you this tip and it could save you
potentially tens of thousands of dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
You go to Low's.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Watts makes one, Orbit makes one, Star Water System makes
another one. They're about twelve to twenty dollars and it's
called a water pressure gauge and then you put it
on any of your exterior spigots there and it'll tell
you what your water pressure is. And I don't know
what the cool water pressure is or the horrible I
(27:00):
think it's around forty to sixty. You have to ask,
you know, somebody knows more about water. But I'm telling
you you got to go and buy one of these,
maybe tonight and find out what your water pressure is.
You can go to a home depot as well. Watts
makes one water source. I think in Orbit is another one,
and they're you know, twelve dollars, thirteen dollars, twenty dollars,
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and it will tell you what your water pressure is
inside your home and if it's in the eighty You know,
one hundred, one hundred and twenty, your pipes potentially could
break and explode and you wouldn't know it until you
got home from vacation. Could be thousands of gallons of
water inside your house destroying everything. So please, I don't
(27:42):
ever beg you to do something. I'm begging you to
go out and get one of these water pressure gauges
and test the water pressure in your home. You'll thank
me if it's especially if it's a one hundred, one
hundred and twenty. Your house is about your pipes are
about to give and again if they do, you can't
(28:05):
imagine the damage monetarily, and just you know, if you
keep sakes in the house to get damaged by water
that you can never replace, it's horrible. I think water
does more damage to homes than we realized. It really
really sucks. So get on out there, get one and
(28:26):
test your water. All right, let's get back a little
more of this water main that broke, because this is
really big news.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
On sunset sunset, and.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
I think it's Holloway there where the water just exploded
in the street around four o'clock this morning. They finally
shut off at seven potentially eighteen million gallons of water
running down the street. And it's on a hill there,
so all the water rushed towards Santa Monica Boulevard and
also went into a bus yard where they keep these
(28:57):
metro buses, and I think buses flooded as well. But
there's mud all over the streets, there's dirt everywhere, there's
pavement that's been chewed up. There's cars that were submerged,
and it's going to cost the city a ton of money.
And you might be pulling your hair out right now.
You live in West Hollywood. It's a great area, it's
a great town to live in. It's your own little
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tiny city, beautiful place to live, and then La City
ruins it with their one hundred year old water trunks
or water pipes. All right, here's the West Hollywood floods.
The powerful rush of these of this water just destroying
one car after another.
Speaker 8 (29:37):
We're here off of Palm Avenue and Cynthia Street. The
damage is absolutely significant. Take a look at this is
one of the flooded garages here on Palm Avenue. You
can see a number of cars completely under the water.
It just gives you an idea of how powerful that
rush of water was this morning from that water main break,
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and you can also get idea of just how high
the water got from that water line on some of
these white poles here in La County. Fire Cruise right
now are focused on working NonStop to pump all of
this out, and we want to go ahead and walk
over and out here with my photographer Scott Weber to
show you another one of these flooded garages. You can
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just see fire crews here making multiple efforts to pump
all of this water out from numerous garages here on
Palm Avenue. And again, the damage is absolutely significant, but
we did hear from Fire Cruise earlier that they are
making progress. Here's another example.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Oh good, all right, little progress. Maybe this thing could
be wrapped up by this weekend.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
Of the damage and just how high the water got
about an hour ago. You couldn't even see the license
plate on that white car there on the right. So
just a lot of debris here, a lot of cleanup.
Let's go ahead and take you to some video from
earlier this morning, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
This is gonna be an absolute mass for a long time.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
But if you see the white car right there, the
first one. My car is right next to it. The
waters were seated a lot, but earlier it covered the
whole thing.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
And I have an.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
SUV so it's almost six feet tall.
Speaker 8 (31:18):
What's going through what's going through your mind right now?
Speaker 5 (31:22):
I luckily have flood coverage, so am I insurance, So
that's helpful.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
But okay, even if you don't have flood coverage, the
City of LA is going to pick up the tab
on that car.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
They have to. They absolutely have to. It is their
fault on.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
I was almost I'm paying off my car, so now
I'm gonna have to sign up and I don't have
the money for this.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Don't worry, City of LA. They'll pick up the tab
on this one.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
And I just feel bad.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
I don't know how many people do have flood coverage.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
It's Los Angeles, Yeah, very few people have flood coverage.
Very few.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
We bad for our elderly people at our neighbors and
they a lot of don't have cars, by some of
them do and they're gonna have to deal with insurance
and policy and it's just yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
And by the way, this is not an act of God.
You know, this is not a storm or an earthquake.
Or a tornado. This is the City of Los Angeles
wasting a lot of money in other places as opposed
to replacing these water mains that are one hundred to
one hundred and twenty years old. There's seventy four hundred
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miles of water mains that have to be replaced in
the city of la and they do forty five miles
of replacement a year. That's one hundred and sixty four
years to replace everything. And then once they there are
one hundred years into that timeline of replacing everything, then
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they've got to go back and replace some of the
ones that they've already replaced over the last hundred years
before they get to the last you know, sixty four years.
So it's going to be a never ending battle to
replace these things. And unfortunately it wasn't handled in time.
And it's another reason why the City of Los Angeles
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another thing you can point to on how poorly it's run.
I don't see this happening in many other cities, you know,
I don't see it happening in San Francisco or San Diego, Vegas,
you know, Tucson. You just don't see anywhere else. You
see it all the time in La. There was one
earlier off of Cold Water Canyon near Ventura, and now
this big one on sunset, and it's going to keep happening.
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It's going to keep happening and then wait until that
big earthquake comes and they all blow. We're live on
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your ass. Timmy Wow, Timmy Wow. He's a little lamb
with a lot too. He's always having such a lot
of fun. A lot of fun, Timmy.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
With a time right out.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Okay, you may have seen this story about a guy
in an outhouse, you know, at the end of a
concert or the end of an event, and there's like,
you know, twenty or thirty outhouses you see, you seem
at the Kia form all the time. You know, if
you leave the key of forum, they have like forty
out houses outside. And then once the crowd leaves, one
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of the security guard is guards is in charge of
going through the outhouses and making sure that everybody's out safe.
And you know, nobody wants to be left in an
outhouse or locked in an outhouse. And then a lot
of times they'll lock them when they've examined them to
make sure no one's in there, and that's the where
they keep them safe and they keep people safe. So
(01:17):
evidently they knocked on one of these doors and a
guy says, I'm in here, and they said, well, you
got to come out. We'll give you ten minutes. Ten
minutes later, he would, he didn't come out, so they
called the cops. Cops busted the door down, and this
is where the story starts. All right, Joe Shelton is
with us. He knows a lot about this. He's the
(01:38):
CEO and president of Patriot Portable Restrooms.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Joe, how you Oh, I'm doing great.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I'm doing excellent. I appreciate you asking. Have you ever
heard of anything like this before in your life?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
No, I've seen a lot of things, but this one
takes the cake.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Okay, tell us give us the details.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Why was in Why was this guy in that outhouse
for what was it eight or nine hours?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
I mean the best that we could tell from from
his statements was he had dropped the mountain dew apparently
in the restroom, and felt like he needed to get
the do so he went back in.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I thought when I originally saw the story, I thought
that was a euphemism for something dropping the mountain dew.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
No our driver on site, I mean, some of the
story you got straight. There's a lot of rumors going around,
but we were actually there to pick up the equipment
from the event. And our driver was knocking on the doors,
just making sure everything was empty and ready to pick up.
And and sure enough he didn't want out. And and
(02:50):
so my guy was like, all right, I'll give you
the time. You know, I'll give you the time you need.
You know, we get it. It's a toilet. So we
started picking everything else up. But when it came down
to the minute that that one needed to go, the
guy wouldn't get out.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
And uh so, and it wasn't like he was asking
for help. He just was saying, I'm busy, you know,
I'm taking care of stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
So, uh, now where did this happen, Joe? Did this
happen outside of Kansas City?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
This was uh the the event was a soccer watch event,
meaning that I think it was probably like a beer
a beer garden type event where everybody came out and watched.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
The the soccer game.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
We had about eight eight toilets there and this was
just us cleaning up after the weekends.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Uh charades.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So this guy is lucky to be alive.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
You know, when you get when you go down into
that that water to you know, to you know, retrieve
a ring or a you know, a necklace whatever, I've
never heard of a mountain dew, but in this case,
a mountain dew.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Uh, you could be killed down there, you could.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
You know, with the fumes and that water, that could
that could seriously could kill you.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Well, I mean it was hot out.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Let's say that.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
I don't know that you would die. I mean you
could pretend.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I don't think you could die.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
But you definitely are going to be blue afterwards. I
mean a chemical If you get that stuff on you,
it's sick. So there's a guy walking around Kansas blue.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Now, how was he unable to get out? So he
jumped into the water to get his mountain dew or
he fell in and he wasn't able to pull him
upself up where the seed.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Is well, I mean the portable restroom is only like
a fifty five gallon drum. I mean he kind of
slid in there, kind of.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Like a bathtub, right.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
And I don't think he was in a hurry to
get out. That was the problem. Is he he was
enjoying himself enough. I don't know. No one really got
a great interview from him. They washed him down with
the fire hose afterwards, and he went.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
On his way.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
So we don't know if this was a drunken bet
he lost, that he picked the wrong team. Don't really
know other than he made the statement that he was
after his mountain dew.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Now I don't know Kansas City that well. Is that
a mountain mountain dew dry jurisdiction where you're not allowed
to buy mountain dew in that area?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
You know that that could be a great question. I'll
have to look into that. I haven't heard that news,
but you know, and I don't know if it was
a euphemism. Maybe he wanted a little bit different kind of.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Dude, know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
This is great.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
So when the cops show up, they see him, then
they call the fire department. The fire department has to
come out with a saw with a chainsaw and tear
that that toilet set up, and that outhouse up to
get this guy out.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Well, the funny part was is they actually didn't see him.
And that was even funnier because they knocked on the
door told the guy to get out. He said, I
can't open the door. My driver helped the police officer
open the door, and the seat was down.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
He's in the.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Tank and my guy looked at the cop, and the
cop looked at him like are they crazy, Like they
just heard the guy talking and so, and then all
of a sudden, kind of like Oscar the grouse popping
out of the trash can, he pops up and says,
I'm right here. And they both were like, oh my gosh.
And that's when they called for back up and then
(06:30):
requested the fire department, the Great Fire Department of Kansas.
And we want to thank the police department for participating
and you know, helping this guy out of the toilet.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Yeah, I guess, you know, as happens, you know occasionally,
But did did did you make that guy pay for
the damage of that outhouse?
Speaker 4 (06:53):
You know, it's one of those situations where we didn't
get his name and I don't know. Yeah, I think
that the whole experience was was so unusual. Everybody was
a little bit shocked. And I think after they hosed
him off and he just moved on, I I that
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was it, you know, I mean, both everyone was kind
of out.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
No one had to Joe.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I'm glad we have you on the line.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
A separate issue. I always wondered how people got into
this business. Did you start with one outhouse and then
you bought two, and then twenty and then thirty.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Well, I mean I grew up in the business. I worked.
I grew up as a young man. I've been stuffed
in those toilets. I have everything that you can think of,
tipped over, lifted up in forklift back trucks, backed up
and locked in. And so I know how kind of
how that guy feels in some ways.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Sure, how many do you want, by the way, how
many are in the in your business?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Well, we're we're now a nationwide business. You're a family
owned business. My dad's third generation. My kids are are
part of the business. So I mean, of course, you
start with one toilet and the truck and and a
lot of grit, and you just work your way through it.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
And it takes a team. It's not just me.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
I mean all the drivers and all of the guys
in the sales office and everything. There's a whole team
of people that really make it happen right. And it's
a big family, you know, we try to we try
to keep it that way.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
And real quickly. I don't know, I don't have any
idea what this cost. If I wanted to put an outhouse. Uh,
you know, I want to call patriot portable restrooms. I
want to put one outside of my house because there's
a lot of homeless guys around.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
What does that cost me a week?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
We're similar to a gardener in the sense that, you know,
we we show up every week, we clean it just like.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
A gardener would.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
And uh and.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
But the difference is we take away the dirty stuff.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
They don't. They don't take it away.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
And it's a couple hundred bucks.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
And you could secure yourself a portable to it for
your event or or a construction site, or just to
keep the gardener right out of your bushes.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Okay, last question and then we'll let you go. I
know you've been, you know, on with a bunch of
different stations with this incident. Are we close to any
improvements in the outhouse where you just sit on a
plastic seat and there's blue water filled with s below you.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Oh yeah, we got a lot of improvements.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, we got restroom trailers, now trailers.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
We got luxury restroom trailers, which a lot of the
movie industry uses, especially in the LA area, with flushing
toilets and running water and air conditioning. And even this
station can be played inside it.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
That right, that's great.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Have you had to expand the size of it because
of how big people have gotten in the United States?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Yeah, I mean there's re regulations. Of course, everything's got
our regulation and so but yeah, we do have larger ones.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
We have the handicap ones for some reason. All I'm sorry,
you need a little bit of.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I could talk you for an hour. One last, last
last questions. How many portable toilets or outhouses you own?
How many are in the Patriot game.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
The Patriot across the nation. We've probably got five to
ten thousand. We're through a small family business and we're
just we're just slowly growing.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So excellent.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
But I really appreciate you coming on. I know that
you've been pulled by every new station and to make
time for us is really cool.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Really appreciate man.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Yeah, no problem, long time.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Listener, man, Is that right?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I was delivering toilets listening to you keep me awake. Well,
I was driving around.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Delivering We'll keep promoting Patriot portable restrooms.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yep, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
All right, thanks good, All right. Take that's Joe Shelton.
He's the CEO and president of Patriot Portable Restrooms. What
great publicity for that guy and his company? Did A
guy gets stuck in one of those things for eight
hours and he's going after a mountain dew, which is
Steph Wish. I gotta rely on your expertise here. What
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does a bottle of mountain dew go for two fifty today?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Yeah? Like maybe nine bucks?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yeah, Okay, guy jumped into a portable toilet.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I just don't think it was a literal mountain dew. Yeah,
you know what I think it was.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I think he had a lot of a lot of
liquor before the mountain dew. Yeah, and one wrong slip
and bang he's in the blue water with the TUTSI rules.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
What a night for that man?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
What night?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
God Almighty? All right, when we come back, we have
the great Dean Sharp. We haven't heard from a while.
He's been out of town. I've been out of town,
and he's back.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Baby.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
We every Thursday at seven twenty and we're about four
minutes late, so I apologize. We have our good friend
Dean Sharp the house whisper. He's on every single Saturday
and Sunday morning on KFI and he's with us.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Dean, how you, Bob?
Speaker 7 (12:21):
I needed that extra four minutes. It was a long
it was a long day. He just got back from
doing a design consult, a successful one design consult in
San Diego.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Oh is that right? You worked that far to salient?
Oh yeah, yeah, is that right?
Speaker 7 (12:35):
Yeah? Well we do, we do design. I mean we're
we're designing at house in Kentucky right now. But as
far as consults go, yeah, well we'll drive.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
By the way.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I call it the best fifteen hundred dollars you could
ever spend.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
Well, thank you, and you know what, thank you? Also,
I was sitting here listening and you know, do you
know that you are the only host on KFI who
has ever announced me as the I'm like, as you
were starting to say, coming up next, the great and
I'm like, oh great, I've been bumped again. Well it
(13:09):
was written here for me. I was just reading what
you wrote.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Oh hey, let's say real quickly before we get into
you know, the topic today.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Do you know anything about these water mains and why
they're breaking? Do you have any insight as to it
because I know the pressure has to do with it,
you know, pushing that water over the hill. But this
has got to be an impossible task to replace all
these things in the next, you know, a couple of years.
They don't have the manpower or the equipment to do it. Yeah,
you know, I don't know the exact reason why, but
(13:40):
I will tell you this. You know, if we were
to just kind of take this in a microcosm sense,
if you never replace half the.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Piping in your house, right okay.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
And the reason is that you're like, well, okay, this
side over here, I mean it's fifty years old, seventy
years old, but it's not leaking. So let's just replace
the side that's and then you crank the pressure back.
So the point is it's difficult to put new up
against old and not run into problems.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Right, But you know, I know that you have you know,
there's no dig pipe repair where you shove a or
trenchless pipe linings.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
That's for sewer lines. Oh I see, okay, all right,
that's for sewer line that you're busting apart cast iron
or clay sewer lines. It doesn't doesn't work for water
means did.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
You see the volume that goes through that pipe, one
hundred thousand gallons a second. Oh yeah, yeah, that's incredible.
It's a lot. Yeah, it's a lot. I mean all this,
you want up to eighteen million gallons of water?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Gone, all gone?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
All right, we're gonna talk about home maintenance and home improvement.
When your kitchen cabinets wear out, just replacing them might
be the wrong move.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
Yeah, So Sunday show, we're going to do a classic
house whisper show on Sunday. We're helping people kind of
understand how to see things differently. And and I have
a little you know, I got a pet pee I
can totally get it. Okay, so it's not a conspiracy,
but I have a little pet peeve about the home
improvement industry. Right, it's called the home improvement industry, right,
(15:12):
And the fact of the matter is about ninety percent
of what happens in the home improvement industry is not
actually home improvement. It's home maintenance and home repair. Ah okay,
that's good.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
So yeah, so you know, and I guess you could say, well,
it improved my house because I had something broken and
now it's not okay, Yeah, but if you really really
take a look at it. You know, the home improvement
industry in the United States is like a three hundred
billion dollar industry, and you would think you measure that
against the amount of houses that are in the US,
(15:46):
why aren't houses getting substantially better?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Right?
Speaker 7 (15:49):
And the reason is very very simple. It's design that's
missing and the design question. And I'm not putting it
on homeowners that it's their fault, but I am helping
them to see the fact that when something happens, you know,
I like to say this, that everything in the house
eventually fails, right, some system fails, a pipe gets worn out,
(16:09):
you know, whatever the case is, every time that happens,
you are standing at a fork in the road. Okay,
Now this is not HGTV in which I tell you
every time that happens you should completely redesign the house.
But you got to ask the question, are we just
going to replace this thing or is there a bigger
picture here that we're not seeing? In other words, the
(16:32):
thing that we're replacing should it have been there in
the first place?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Interesting?
Speaker 7 (16:37):
And we got to at least ask the question, because
you know, the homes that really incrementally move forward in
terms of design, are where homeowners a kind of lay
all of their assumptions aside and just ask all of
the questions. And so, yeah, the kitchen. Time to redo
the kitchen. I'm sick of these cabinets. They're worn out.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Time to redo that.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
So you're about to drop on the average house these
days about one hundred grand cabinets and countertops in a kitchen. Okay,
in doing that, if you don't stand back and say something,
and people are gonna think this is ridiculous for me
to say, but it's not. If you're not going to
stand back and say, is the kitchen in the right room?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Oh? Interesting?
Speaker 7 (17:20):
Then then you know what, then you may be missing
a huge, huge, huge opportunity. And now people are like, well,
you can't just move the kitchen to the other side
of the Yes, you kiss you. And if you're about
to spend one hundred grand on that kitchen, guess what,
You'll maybe spend another ten to move it to another room.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
That's great, Okay, get oh, we gotta take quick break here.
I love this saying. I think I heard it from
you originally. The only thing that works in an old
house is you.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah, all right, we'll come back and talk about that.
And then I got a question about buying and selling homes.
When you're buying a house, what is the one thing
the first thing you should look for when you're selling house.
What is the one thing you need to do because
there's a lot of people I've noticed this just in
Burbank in the valley, a lot of homes moving right now,
a lot of buying, a lot of health. All right,
Dean sharpers whethers he's on every Saturday and Sunday right
(18:09):
here on KFI in the mornings, and we'll come back
and talk to him.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Dean Sharp is with us.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Dean, before we get into those questions, I asked, I
got a quick story for you here. My wife is
from Oregon and about twenty years ago, almost exactly twenty
years ago, we bought a small townhouse on the Columbia
River and it was a brand new project.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
You know, we're going to have it built.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
There was about forty units on the river there and
we bought one of them for two hundred and four
thousand dollars, three bedroom, three bath, high end appliances, nice countertops,
cabinets and everything really really cheap. And it was about finished,
you know, the walls were up, the plumbing was done,
the electric was done. And my wife looked at it,
and she has a back ground in design, and she said,
(19:02):
why is the kitchen on the river? The living room
should be on the river. And and we said, hey,
can we change it? And the guy said what do
you mean change it? And I said, can I pay
you to change the plumbing, the electric and to move
the kitchen back about, you know, thirty feet And he goes,
it's going to cost you? And I said, well, before
we'd start doing it, how much? And so he took
(19:23):
it a week to figure out how it's going to cost,
redesign the whole place, you know, and everything, and he
comes back to me and he goes, okay, it's going
to cost you.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
You're not going to like this.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I said how much He said, for everything, labor, parts, everything,
seven hundred and fifty dollars?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
WHOA can you believe? All right, that's a hard no.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
And so after she made that change in our unit,
they changed all the rest of the units, all the
way down the next thirty units and that's a big,
you know, a big sort of vote of confidence that
you know that she did something right.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I thought that was really cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
And you what, that's exactly kind of the point of
what we're talking about. You know, she pulled the trigger,
she put her foot on the brake before it went
too far, and right at that moment that is, you know,
whatever the cost is, that is the least expensive moment
to make the right change.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Right.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Okay, So, if you're selling a house, what is the
one thing you should make sure that your house either
has or people see or you should repair before you
sell it.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
But like the one big thing the bones. I'm just
gonna say bones.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
You know, people get worried about like should I remodel
the kitchen before I sell the house? No, I guarantee
you're gonna spend all this money, and the one buyer
who's going to walk in and want your house, you're
going to hear them say, yeah, everything's great, but man,
I hate that kitchen.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
That thing's gonna go okay.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
And then well, and then what about buying a house.
What is the one thing when you look when you
go to a house, what is one thing you should
look for where you know that the rest of the
house is well kept in quality.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
It's the same thing. It's the bones, the bones. Okay, Yeah,
you want to take a look at that home inspection report. Okay,
because here's the thing, man, how houses get and this
is a good thing for buyers. Right, houses get devalued
all the time because the dry walls in bad shape,
or you know, the window screens are torn, or you
know whatever, rooms are dingy and they haven't been cleaned,
(21:13):
or you know, these things are meaningless. These are not
structural elements. These are just blemishes that can get handled.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Right.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
What you don't want is to end up buying a
house that's got intrinsic plumbing issues, intrinsic electrical issues, bad roof,
that kind of stuff. So the things that make the
house fully functional, these are the most important things buying
and selling and the rest of it. You know what
I mean. If you're buying a house and it looks dingy,
(21:42):
you know, count yourself blessed. I mean, because you're going
to get a better price on a house that just
you know needs some touching up.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
You know, we had when we moved into our house
in Purbank, we had in the first month, we had
like four leaks in four different pipes, and I said, oh,
this is going to be a major problem. And it
turns out it was the pressure regulator that was wrong
and there was way too much pressure in the house
where you're getting pinhole and leaks and pipes. So we
(22:10):
just had to replace that for a couple hundred bucks
and we're fine.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
Yeah, pressure regulators, I guarantee you right now, everybody who's
listening to us, half of the homes that are listening
to us have bad press. Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Is that right? And that's the cheapest thing you can
do to help your pipes in the house.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
Yeah, because you know, they wear out, they wear out.
They're actively restraining city pressure for years and years and
years and years and they end up wearing out. And
people don't realize it because maybe you don't have ultra
high city pressure anyway, and you've gotten used to the
fact that, hey, we've got really good pressure in the house. Well,
if you've got pressure over eighty psi, then your pressure
(22:47):
is actually doing damage to your system and your appliances.
So you don't want that good of pressure.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Right, and especially if you live in the foothills where
they have to pressure rise that water push it over
the hill.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
Yeah, so, and it could change. I mean, I've been
in neighborhoods where two houses have low pressure and the
next three have high pressure. It's just the way the
city runs its water lines, and it can change. It
can change from street, street and house to house. So
everybody should double And by the way, you can get
a pressure regulator check valve down at you know, the
home depot or lows or whatever for about eight bucks. Right,
(23:20):
it screws onto the hose bib. Now, don't go way
out into your yard and screw it on one of those.
But any hose bib that's actually coming out of the
wall of your house, that's a hose bib that is
after the pressure regulator. So screw that on there and
find out you open up the valve and find out
what your water pressure really is.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Right.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
We were always told that the best valve to put
that on it is the hose in the backyard because
that's already gone through the pressure system.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Any as long as nothing else is running, any hose
bib will do. Any any opening will do. As long
as there's not something else running, that's the best ten
to twenty dollars you could ever spend. Absolutely, yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I appreciate coming on. We'll I'll talk to you next week.
All right, Bud, all right?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
There he goes Dean Sharp every Saturday morning six to
eight am on KFI and then every Sunday nine am
until noon. It's a great show. It's a great show.
I listened to it on Sundays. It's great to drive
around listen to Dean and Tina talk about houses. I
can listen to it all day. I would if it
was a six hour show, I'd be on for six hours.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I'd be listening.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
We have a birthday shout out, a birthday wish to
Van Clease. V am c l E A s E.
Van Clease a birthout birthday shout out. Huge fan of KFI,
so happy birthday to Van Clease. I was going to
write a song, a happy birthday song, but I ran
(24:51):
out of time today. Just have too much to do tomorrow.
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Wow with digital coupons at Smart and Final. Okay, you
just heard Dean Sharp and he said, and this is
an unbelievable stat I didn't think it was this high.
That fifty percent of the people listening right now, and
we'll have we have about eighty thousand listeners I'd give
(25:34):
or take a couple thousand with on air live and
then streaming and podcast. So there's about forty thousand homes
people who own homes who are listening right now. And
your water pressure is too high in your house and
that can blow apart your pipes. You saw what happened
on sunset today. That was because the pressure was too high,
(25:56):
and the same thing on a much lower scale, I'll
give you that can happen in your house. Especially if
this happens when you're out of town. You can't imagine
how much damage water can do to your house, and
it may not be covered by insurance. And you don't
want to deal with insurance companies right now. They're really
at their wits end with writing checks. Because of all
(26:19):
the fires and you know the flood damage from this morning,
they're gonna be writing.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
There's gonna be more checks being written. So you go
to Low's.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
I'm giving you this tip and it could save you
potentially tens of thousands of dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
You go to Low's.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Watts makes one, Orbit makes one, Star Water System makes
another one. They're about twelve to twenty dollars and it's
called a water pressure gauge and then you put it
on any of your exterior spigots there and it'll tell
you what your water pressure is. And I don't know
what the cool water pressure is or the horrible I
(27:00):
think it's around forty to sixty. You have to ask,
you know, somebody knows more about water. But I'm telling
you you got to go and buy one of these,
maybe tonight and find out what your water pressure is.
You can go to a home depot as well. Watts
makes one water source. I think in Orbit is another one,
and they're you know, twelve dollars, thirteen dollars, twenty dollars,
(27:21):
and it will tell you what your water pressure is
inside your home and if it's in the eighty You know,
one hundred, one hundred and twenty, your pipes potentially could
break and explode and you wouldn't know it until you
got home from vacation. Could be thousands of gallons of
water inside your house destroying everything. So please, I don't
(27:42):
ever beg you to do something. I'm begging you to
go out and get one of these water pressure gauges
and test the water pressure in your home. You'll thank
me if it's especially if it's a one hundred, one
hundred and twenty. Your house is about your pipes are
about to give and again if they do, you can't
(28:05):
imagine the damage monetarily, and just you know, if you
keep sakes in the house to get damaged by water
that you can never replace, it's horrible. I think water
does more damage to homes than we realized. It really
really sucks. So get on out there, get one and
(28:26):
test your water. All right, let's get back a little
more of this water main that broke, because this is
really big news.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
On sunset sunset, and.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
I think it's Holloway there where the water just exploded
in the street around four o'clock this morning. They finally
shut off at seven potentially eighteen million gallons of water
running down the street. And it's on a hill there,
so all the water rushed towards Santa Monica Boulevard and
also went into a bus yard where they keep these
(28:57):
metro buses, and I think buses flooded as well. But
there's mud all over the streets, there's dirt everywhere, there's
pavement that's been chewed up. There's cars that were submerged,
and it's going to cost the city a ton of money.
And you might be pulling your hair out right now.
You live in West Hollywood. It's a great area, it's
a great town to live in. It's your own little
(29:18):
tiny city, beautiful place to live, and then La City
ruins it with their one hundred year old water trunks
or water pipes. All right, here's the West Hollywood floods.
The powerful rush of these of this water just destroying
one car after another.
Speaker 8 (29:37):
We're here off of Palm Avenue and Cynthia Street. The
damage is absolutely significant. Take a look at this is
one of the flooded garages here on Palm Avenue. You
can see a number of cars completely under the water.
It just gives you an idea of how powerful that
rush of water was this morning from that water main break,
(29:58):
and you can also get idea of just how high
the water got from that water line on some of
these white poles here in La County. Fire Cruise right
now are focused on working NonStop to pump all of
this out, and we want to go ahead and walk
over and out here with my photographer Scott Weber to
show you another one of these flooded garages. You can
(30:19):
just see fire crews here making multiple efforts to pump
all of this water out from numerous garages here on
Palm Avenue. And again, the damage is absolutely significant, but
we did hear from Fire Cruise earlier that they are
making progress. Here's another example.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Oh good, all right, little progress. Maybe this thing could
be wrapped up by this weekend.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
Of the damage and just how high the water got
about an hour ago. You couldn't even see the license
plate on that white car there on the right. So
just a lot of debris here, a lot of cleanup.
Let's go ahead and take you to some video from
earlier this morning, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
This is gonna be an absolute mass for a long time.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
But if you see the white car right there, the
first one. My car is right next to it. The
waters were seated a lot, but earlier it covered the
whole thing.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
And I have an.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
SUV so it's almost six feet tall.
Speaker 8 (31:18):
What's going through what's going through your mind right now?
Speaker 5 (31:22):
I luckily have flood coverage, so am I insurance, So
that's helpful.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
But okay, even if you don't have flood coverage, the
City of LA is going to pick up the tab
on that car.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
They have to. They absolutely have to. It is their
fault on.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
I was almost I'm paying off my car, so now
I'm gonna have to sign up and I don't have
the money for this.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Don't worry, City of LA. They'll pick up the tab
on this one.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
And I just feel bad.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
I don't know how many people do have flood coverage.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
It's Los Angeles, Yeah, very few people have flood coverage.
Very few.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
We bad for our elderly people at our neighbors and
they a lot of don't have cars, by some of
them do and they're gonna have to deal with insurance
and policy and it's just yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
And by the way, this is not an act of God.
You know, this is not a storm or an earthquake.
Or a tornado. This is the City of Los Angeles
wasting a lot of money in other places as opposed
to replacing these water mains that are one hundred to
one hundred and twenty years old. There's seventy four hundred
(32:30):
miles of water mains that have to be replaced in
the city of la and they do forty five miles
of replacement a year. That's one hundred and sixty four
years to replace everything. And then once they there are
one hundred years into that timeline of replacing everything, then
(32:50):
they've got to go back and replace some of the
ones that they've already replaced over the last hundred years
before they get to the last you know, sixty four years.
So it's going to be a never ending battle to
replace these things. And unfortunately it wasn't handled in time.
And it's another reason why the City of Los Angeles
(33:11):
another thing you can point to on how poorly it's run.
I don't see this happening in many other cities, you know,
I don't see it happening in San Francisco or San Diego, Vegas,
you know, Tucson. You just don't see anywhere else. You
see it all the time in La. There was one
earlier off of Cold Water Canyon near Ventura, and now
this big one on sunset, and it's going to keep happening.
(33:34):
It's going to keep happening and then wait until that
big earthquake comes and they all blow. We're live on
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
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