March 20, 2025 • 32 mins
Conway reads his E-mails with Crozier // Guest: Dean Sharp - The House Whisperer on big remodeling wins for tract homes // Cross with Tawala Sharp
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF. I am six forty and you're listening
to the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Hey, Krozer,
I got an email. Let me see for doing anything here? Okay,
I could not read it. I got an email. Email,
We get email, We get lots and lots of emails. Emails,
(00:23):
Dear Tim Ready Croz. I'm a former cheerleader from the
Torrance area. I'm a current swim soup model mostly for
the European and Asian markets. Plus I'm a junior at
USC and that says, go Trojans. I'm listening with my
dad and he suggested I email you all right. If
(00:45):
you want me and my two ex cheerleader friends to
ride along with you in the Orange County Parade, we'd
be there in a heartbeat. I've been listening since I
was seven years old. My dad is your biggest fan
of South Bay. He goes back to the Steckler days. Plus,
I once called in way back when you did. What
the hell did Jesse Jackson say? And I want a
ten dollars gift card to subway? That's true, we were
(01:08):
giving away ten dollars gift cards a subway. It's like
you could barely get anything.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
It's like we give you the gift card and then
with another ten of your dollars you can eat two
five dollars foot longs.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, I'm not not anymore. James is my dad's name.
He said you met him at the White House, or
he met you at the White House and he ran
into you at the Huntington Beach parade a few years back. Anyway,
let us know if you guys need some company for
the parade. Go Trojans.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I hope you u.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Cela loses tonight to Utah stay. Her name is Katie
Ka d Y. The interesting way to spell Katie. I
guess Katie Katie. I would think that was great, thank
your dad for me, But I don't have the negotiating
skills to make that happen and keep a happy life
(02:00):
at home.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I have got saved yourself there, man, And how you're
going to respond to that?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I am not going to live through that, so I
appreciate it them. Please tell your dad I said, hey,
and nothing to do with her, nothing to do with you,
It has nothing to do with keep in peace. I
am just not going to do that. I am not
(02:28):
There were her. Was she wearing a bikini when she
won that ten dollars gift cards?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Well, she was seven. I don't know. I don't know
what you know, seven she was seven? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I know, I know, Angel, you always want to know
what seven year olds are wearing.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Stop it she stupid?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Oh it's Angel has.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Always been that way. Hey what is that guy wearing?
He's six months old? Angel, I know how to see a.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Panza and.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Much.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
She's just into fashion. That's it, you know, in the fashion.
That's so great. But anyway, I'm going to pass on that.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I thank you Katie, James and your other two U
c l A junior cheerleading friends from towards.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Uh pass. I want to make it very publicly that
I'm passing on that. I appreciate it. It's a nice offer,
right to.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Come down on their own generous, come down on their
own dime, and you know, maybe you know add to
the parade, but.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I you do that? Maybe Rose not a chance? No,
you mean you want me to get in the outfit
and sitting there with you? Chance? Yay?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
So yeah, I do appreciate the offer that that's very
nice of James and Katie and her palse. I really
do appreciate it, but I can not do that, and
so we move on. But the parade is eleven am
on Saturday. So come on down and enjoy the parade
(04:40):
and sit there on the sidewalk and yell at people,
and I know it's it's a great parade.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
It really is. I was there last year.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
It was pouring rain the entire parade last year, and
yet thousands of people stayed.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
It was remarkable.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I thought when it started raining everyone was gonna split,
But the parade went on anyway, and there were literally
ten to twenty people deep along the entire parade.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Route in the rain, in the pouring rain. That's amazing. Yeah,
it really was great. Should be a madhouse this year then, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And the swallows are coming back to Copistrata.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Here's always start the parade.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Take it away, Kenny, the swallowing come back.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
To come back to me.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
The ink spots when us sounds.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Like it.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Strong, I sing this the whole parade round, all.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Through the scene, all silly. Sorry, the Chuble choir will see.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
The spot. What about the Lenin sisters, don't they do
another one?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Here are the lovely Lenon Sisters with a song that
marks this event.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Maybe this is the go to.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
When the stalls come back, come Strato.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
That's the day we all high runs to come back
to me.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
We'll be singing this.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
When you whisper without the cheerleaders, There'll be no cheerleaders.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
That's the day the swallows food back to the sea.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Oh no, Crozier.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I think, look, if if I was doing it for
the the parade fans, not the fans of the station
or the show. But if I was just very giving
to the people in San Juan Kavastrana, I would say
yes to Katie and her buddies.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Sure, you know, absolutely, because you want to.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
You know, see young, healthy people riding in a float
with that kind of energy.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Right, Okay, good, I'll think about it. Yeah, yeah, I'll
think about it. All right.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Mayo from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
It's Conway's show, one of our favorite guesses on with
us Dean Sharp the House Whisper from the House Whisper
Show every Saturday morning from six to eight am and
every Sunday morning from nine am until noon.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Dean, how you Bob, I'm good. I'm good. Oh man,
I love talking to you.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I saw something at Low's about three years ago. I
bought him and I love them and I just added
more to them. But it's those magnets that you stick
on your garage door that make you look like you're wealthy.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Oh you mean the carriage door. Yes, the carriage door assessories.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
It's great because we look like we've got a couple
of bucks now. And when we you know, just put
in standard doors that are metal or aluminum, whatever they are,
and then we put these magnets on them, it looks
like handles and hinges and everything.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
It looks like, you know, we got some couple of bucks.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Yeah, it's a way to up. But just a big
old white garage door, you know, give the impression that
you've got two separate carriage doors. That's right, I just
do it. Just do me a favor, right, If anything
ever goes crooked, fixed.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I look whenever I've washed the doors, I drive down
the street all the time, I'm like, uh, hey, that
guy needs to get you know what.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Now, that's you might as well just park a car
out in front, put it up on blocks. That's a
on your garage door.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Man, if you can commit, do it classic man. I
love them though. My wife thinks I overdid it though,
because I have like twenty on each door.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
You know, they're all over the place. That's a little extreme. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
But when I when I you're right, when I wash them,
they move a little. I got to move them back. Yeah,
I mean they're good, but they they will slide a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, just keep it up.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Hey, something that Neil Sevadra did that I'm always jealous of,
and I'd like to do that with one of our windows,
turning windows into doors. My dad did that in his
house with French doors and it really makes the house.
It really opens it up and makes it seem much
cooler and much nicer.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Way, way way cooler. It's a great idea. In fact,
that's on our list of things that we're talking about
this week ago because we're talking about remodeling winds for track.
I mean, you're you're a gambling man, sure, okay, so
you know everybody loves to go to the track and
uh and you know and come away with a huge
win right on a small investment, right yep. And when
(09:45):
it comes to remodeling. A lot of things very expensive.
Everything's very expensive. But there are certain things, especially for
a tract home that most people don't realize. Man, if
you just do a little I mean, this is a
really easy thing right here, and it's not very expense
andiev and the payoff is huge. And one of those
things is turning windows, especially like bedroom windows secondary bedroom windows.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Right.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Uh, you live in a single story ranch house here
in southern California, tracked ranch house, then you're gonna have
bedrooms face in the backyard, right that only have a
window into the backyard. That window five foot wide windows
six foot five wide window could so easily be turned
into a sliding glass door, so easily. And here's the thing, Okay,
(10:32):
imagine this. Imagine imagine taking a door right, like a
sliding glass door and turning it into a window. Okay,
the other way around. Right, So you're gonna pull the
door out. You've already got the header there, everything's going.
What would you do?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Right?
Speaker 6 (10:47):
You would put the window in and you would just
build up a little wall, a little stud wall underneath
the window to fill in the gap.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Right.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Sure, that what I just described, that's exactly how every
window in your house was framed to begin with.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Oh, that's interesting. Words.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Every window in everybody's home started as a doorway, okay,
and then so in other words, the studs, they go
all the way to the floor of the header.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
It's all there.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
And then a window was put in, and a little
what we call a cripple wall was built underneath the window.
The point is removing that little piece of wall which
is not structural, and taking that window out and boom,
you're ready for a door. I mean it's a minimal change.
Do they still call it cripple wall? Yes, yes they do.
(11:34):
They do. Hey, it's the construction world. We have our terms.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I heard this in Pennsylvania. I'm sure it's gonna, you know,
spread across the country. That you can't use when you're
selling a home. Nowadays, you can't say room with a
view because of the people who are I guess site impaired.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I don't want to say blind, but you know you.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Can't use room with a view, and you can't use
there's another one room with a view and walking closet
because the people.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Who aren't able to walk. Yeah, well times are changing.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
H do you know what what are you gonna call it,
I don't know. A spacious closet, yes, an inhabitable closet.
That's probably somebody just going way over that. You know,
that has not that has not actually become a reality.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Realtors have to live in a different world than I do, right,
because they have to deal with all sorts of people.
But let me tell you, I was just working on
a walk in closet today. I don't care what you
call it, roll in, walk in, crawl in, toss in, Okay,
but you know it's a walking closet.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Let's just let's just call it what it is.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I want to ask you about something I've always heard
when it comes to home again. Dean Sharpers was with
us the house whisper. I always heard that you build
a pool for yourself, not for value. That you almost
never get the value out of building a pool in
your in your backyard.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Is that true? Uh? Not exactly?
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Okay, Ultimately, I mean, if you're gonna yeah, okay, I'll
say this, sure it's true, because you know what, you're
gonna need a good You're gonna need to stay in
that place for a good twenty twenty five years in
order to recoup the value. So you're gonna build a
pool for you. Definitely on the on every single list
of things not to do to upgrade your property before
(13:30):
you sell. At the top of that list in a pool.
Install a pool, Okay, I mean pools these days. I
mean you blink, and we've spent over one hundred thousand
dollars on just a just an average sized pool, okay.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
And there is no way, no.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Way that that's gonna raise your property value by one
hundred grand.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
No way. But we don't have a pool.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
But the friends of mine that do, I always ask
them how often they use them, and if they don't
have young kids. I always get the response of three
to four times a year.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Yeah, yeah, it's pretty typical. I'll tell you why, or
tell you tell you along those lines. Every time I
design a pool for a client, I'm always, you know,
angling it with the home. I'm getting it across outside
of open vistas, and They're like, you're treating this thing
like a water feature. I'm like, cause that's what it is.
(14:25):
I don't care if you're an Olympic swim team family,
if you are in the pool eight hours a day,
you are still out of the pool another sixteen plus
hours of that day. So by the numbers, every swimming
pool is first and foremost a visible water feature, and
that's what I design it for. And secondarily, yeah, people
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occasionally jump in if.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
It's if because I've got a pool, And yeah, that
three to four times a year is probably pretty accurate.
And you know, I've got five, maybe at most ten
years left in this place. Is that at some point
do I do I consider just filling it in?
Speaker 6 (15:03):
You know what, you you might want to consider filling
it in if it's just completely taken over.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
The backyard isn't that expensive though, if you're.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Trying to sell a house and it's not as expensive
as you think, but you're trying to sell a house
and and basically, you know, the realtor has to say
has to say something like, well, there really isn't a
backyard because the pool is just it's wall to wall
pool back there. That's never a cool thing. And so
that's something to think about. I usually suggest that we
adult a pool.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Okay, But you know what, I think you're on to
some of the here, because I think there are a
lot of families with kids that purposely look for a
home without a pool because they don't want that that danger.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
I mean the funny thing is you think about the
pool for the kids, right ultimately, but not when the
kids are young. So it's it's just a weird it's
a weird thing.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
It is beautiful though, when the lights you're on in
the summer. It's so beautiful to have the pool, but
you never use it. Yeah, well, water feature. There you go,
and it's expensive to have a guy come buy and
then to you know, you know, the pump breaks down,
the heater doesn't work, it leaks. You know, there's a
lot going on to have that much water in your backyard.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
An awful lot, which is why most pools these days
that we build are shockingly to a lot of people
old school. Most pools we have five feet across the
whole way deep five feet deep.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Let oh wow, that's interesting. You know.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Also I discovered because we had a house in Tarzana,
they did out of a pool and the diving board
was falling apart.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
So I took the diving board down.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I called twenty five companies to have them reinstall the
diving board, and all of them refused.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
No, you can't.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
If you've got a diving board right now on your pool,
use it till it breaks and somebody is is paralyzed.
Nobody will replace it. No, it's not legal to replace it. Wow,
they are grandfathered in. You take it away, you can't
put it back the end. I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Do you have a diving board krozer new h Then
you're screwed. Yeah, that's you're right, you know that's the
it's the paralyzer.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
But our jacuzzi is on the deep end side of
the pool, so we can go from the jacuzzi, we
can dive into the pool.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Wow, what's Dean he's got He's got three fireplace.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
In his house.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Well, you know what he's doing it right, he's living the.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Right jacuzzi deep pool and he's got a fire kuzzi,
three fireplaces.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
God, all right, Dean's gonna stay with us.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
We're live on KFI every Saturday morning six to eight am,
Sunday nine am to noon.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
It's the favorite show of.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
A lot of listeners of ours, especially Mark Thompson's brother.
He does not listen during the week He only listens
to Dean Sharp on weekends. I think that's a huge consulate.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Does the House Whisperer, and he's on every Sunday morning,
every Saturday morning six to eight am, and every Sunday
morning from nine am until noon.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
See real quickly.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I know that this wasn't on the list of things
we're going to talk about today, but I have a
question for you. I think a lot of people won't
be experiencing the same thing. When should you be concerned
about cracks in a wall? I know we all have
earthquakes and walls. You know, where the joints come together,
they do crack. Should you be concerned about small cracks?
And or does it get to a point where you
(18:33):
know something in the wall that you can feel is moving,
or you push on it and the crack disappears, or
it gets bigger?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
When do you when? When?
Speaker 5 (18:40):
She?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
When do you bring somebody in to look at stuff
like that?
Speaker 6 (18:43):
If a crack forms in a wall that you know
where you put your eye up to and you can
see the neighbor's house, you should probably get it at
number one, number two.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Right, Okay?
Speaker 6 (18:56):
If there's a crack in a wall where the two
surfaces like the dry wall right right, and the two
surfaces they haven't just spread open, but they're uneven with
each other, like something's sticking in right and like on
a slab, we would call that uplift where one side
is higher than the other. Oh, then that's probably something
that you should look at. But what we what most
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people get freaked out about what we call spider cracking. Uh,
that just happens. It happens, gonna happen after an earthquake.
It actually happens more often than not in new homes,
and it's got to be one of the number one
things that new homeowners, I mean of a home that's
just been built, you know, call the builder back for
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like a year later they're like, we got cracks coming
off the top of our door jams crack over there
in the corner. This house is falling apart. No, it's
just the lumber is drying out. The house is settling
and and some of it works its way through. Those
are completely nonstructural cracks. And just got to know the
reason I said. You know, you can see light through it,
(19:59):
or you can see the name Bab's house, or there's uplift.
Just everybody needs to know. Drywall is not a structural product.
It's a skin that we put on top of walls.
So a lot of stuff can go wrong with drywall
that has nothing to do with the house falling apart.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Okay, well, a house continue to settle though for years decades.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
A house will continue to settle, and mostly when we
say settle, a house will settle over a year or two.
But you know, new homes are notoriously built with what
we call green lumber, wet green lumber in other words,
not kiln, dry and lumber. That lumber will dry out
over a number of years, and as it does, it
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gets a little shorter, it changes dimensionality just a little bit,
and eventually it's enough to you know, sometimes send a
crack or popping, Like a home is like ten years
old and you're sitting in your living room and you're like,
what the hell does that sound? It sounded like, you know,
rats ran across the ceiling or something, and it was
just a whole but lot of sets that all of
(21:00):
a sudden happens, So it can happen. Very rarely does
it happen in a house that's older than twenty thirty.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
You know last night I was at a hardware store
and I bought one of those cedar planks to replace
in a you know, a dog eared thing and for
the backyard, for the fence. And I couldn't believe how
heavy those things are.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
It was.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
It was really damp, it was really wet. They used
to let those things dry out before they sold them.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Yeah, but you know it takes time and money. Okay,
it takes time to let wood dry out naturally. Okay,
because it's about drying naturally in an enclosed area where
it can't brain can't get to it. We have to
deal with this with furniture grade would all the time
one inch of thickness of dryness per year. Wow, I
(21:50):
mean okay, So if you're not going to do that,
you're not gonna have that laying around for a year
or two. Then you have to kiln dry it, which
means you send it through another and that's a whole
another layer of expense. And so that's why most lumber
at the lumber yard is what we call green lumber.
And it could be anywhere you could pick up one stud,
like you're picking up two by fours right in the
(22:11):
home depot and like four studs are you know, pretty light,
and you pick up another one you actually feel the
moisture on your hand and it weighs like six pounds heavier.
I couldn't believe it. That's just the nature of the
beast and in that's that's the way it works out
these things.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
But when you put up fencing, you know that redwood
fencing with with wet lumber, doesn't it shrink over time?
Speaker 6 (22:32):
It will shrink over time, yeah, it will, and you'll
get little gaps.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
And then real quickly.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
For our our friends who have gone through, you know,
these fire disasters, I heard a lot of people having
to replace walls and ceiling and floor because of smoke damage.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yep, that's a pain in the ass, Yeah it is.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
I mean the smoke causes, you know, on average, far
more damage to a home than flames do. Now, obviously,
if your house burnt to the ground, you're like, Dean,
that wasn't smoke. Okay, I understand that. But anytime, but
there's a fire in one part of a house, just
one part of a house, and you're like, well, that's
(23:13):
where the fire was. But if the smoke made it
through the rest of the house. It all has to
be dealt with. I mean, just it's difficult to get
smoke out of anything, and so yeah, it's a serious deal.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Those companies that do restore homes like that are very
good at.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
What they do.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
They are they are they specialize in just that they
know how to get in there, how to treat it,
they know how far to go, and so, you know,
remediation companies that have a great reputation have have well
earned it.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Buddy, I'll be listening on Saturday. I really appreciate coming on.
Thanks Bud talk. There we goes Dean Sharp. The house
was for Saturday morning, six am to eight am. Sunday
morning nine am to noon. When we come back, Twala's
coming on with us. He's filling it from Moe Kelly
And as I always say, the last honest guy in radio,
that's what the show should be called, The last honest guy.
(24:04):
Who is the last DJ? The last honest DJ. Remember
there was a song the last DJ he plays what
he wants to play? Was that Jim Ladd?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, it's Jim Ladd. Yeah, the Jim Ladd of Talk
Radio to Walla. The last DJ I heard a guffa
from him in the back.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
He knows it's true. That's why you heard the goffalks.
He knows it's true.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Mo Kelly's filling in tomorrow for Bill Handle, so Tuwalla's
taking over and I to see you many, sir, look
at you, And I always say the last honest guy
in radio, because when I listen to you and Moe
Kelly and the whole crew, when everybody agrees on something
and then I hear a long pause, I hear.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
It's just not the way it is.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Like.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I know you're gonna like to say answer, but you
guys are wrong here. Man.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
Look, I can't hold it back. I cannot put a
filter on for the people. The people need the truth
at all times. Yeah, at all times.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
You and I.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Your daughter is probably about the same age, maybe a
couple of years younger. And how old is your daughter fourteen?
Should be fifteen, just okay, especially about four years younger
than my daughter. But you and I went through the
same thing where we both even went to the school
to complain because my daughter and your daughter at some
point during their school career, they were carrying around thirty
to forty pound backpacks.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
Yeah, they were giving those Scoliosi's devices to carry around.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
That's what it's gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
They think they think you and I are paranoid, but
we're not. We're just we're just worried about their future.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
You see your child walking with a hunch, and it's
because they're carrying the backpack. That's not a good thing, right,
That's not a good thing, especially in a world where
there are such things as computers. I don't understand how
lausd is constantly complaining about needing more computers. They got
this huge budget, got iPads up for everyone, all of that,
especially during COVID, and now you still need books and backpacks.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
What are we talking about. I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
They You know, at Burrows High School, they had problems
in the eighties, nineties and early two thousands of people
keeping drugs in their lockers. So they took all the
lockers out. There's not a single locker in the school.
Remember we had we had lockers. Winters say yeah, yeah,
lock keeper books at school. Now they got to take
them back and forth because there's no lockers.
Speaker 8 (26:25):
Now, see, I can that I can understand, right, But
but but if there are lockers, and you have classrooms
that are on different floors, and you have short bell periods,
and you've got these kids that have to lug all
of this stuff around there in lies of problem, That's
when I went into the office and I'm yelling at
my daughter's Oh my.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
God, I'm so embarrassed. Oh my god, Please say no,
why are you cursing?
Speaker 8 (26:48):
And it's just not really bad because I got really
because I don't like the well, sir, I don't want
that to be automatically. I know you're about to give
me some line of crap that I don't want to hear,
and I'm like, I'm I need a solid reason and answer.
Why these kids that's just my kids. Why are all
these kids carrying around backpacks that way more than they do.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
And they carry them around up downstairs all over the
you know, the campus. I picked up her backpack and
I could barely pick it up. Yeah, I could work
out with my daughter's backup. Literally a thing has got
to be like sixty seventy pounds. But I do miss
the lockers because you know, when you and I went
to school, I'm a little older than you, but you
remember when it was your birthday, they'd decorate your locker,
or if you want to, you know, if you became
(27:28):
a you know, the quarterback, you know, you got a
special like sticker for your locker.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Was all of that.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
I love the first day of school, decorating the locker,
that's right. I love back when the lockers had the
slot and if there was a girl you would like
you know, yeah, my little notes into the locker, passing
notes in the lockers. All of that was a right
of passages, part of what made us who we are.
And even being late to class because you're standing and
sharing secrets and you know, talking trash at the locker.
That's what it was about. It was the meeting place.
(27:53):
We're meeting up at the locker, that's right. Any place
you want to know what's going on, meet me at
my locker.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
You used to say that after class, right, And you
felt better if you had a better position in that
lock on your locker than the rest of the school, like, oh,
I'm close to the cafeteria and your way the hell
down at pe.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
You know.
Speaker 8 (28:11):
The one time I hated having a locker is when
my locker was underneath this one jerk of a guy,
And anytime I was bending over to pick, they would
always come and kick me from behind and knock me down.
And this him and his friends would run down the
hall just like I forgot about that. But there was
upper and lower locker.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah, and if you have the lower one, you know,
if the guy open up and you bang your head
on that on the door, on that sharp metal corner, I.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Can't remember that. You're bleeding? What's on the big show tonight, Bob?
You know?
Speaker 8 (28:42):
I think tonight's show is a show that you will
really really like it. There's a show for fathers. It
is a show for mothers at a show for parents
for small business owners. Of course, I have to talk
about the dismantling of the education department, working within education,
having a child that is currently going to school, what
that means big picture, but actually what it means to
(29:04):
you and I more locally, and what it means to
us just as far as governmental overreach is it is
it not? But more importantly than that, I think a
story that you will relate to the most. There is
a story I saw of a kid who got jumped
walking home fourteen year old young man got jumped and
beaten almost within an inch of his life. And I
(29:25):
saw that story and it's sent to shiver down my
spine because I think about the times where my daughter,
like and her and her friends want to walk over
to local bobo shop that's like maybe a block away
from her school, and I just think to myself, there,
before the grace of God, what ifs just some punk
kids decided to run up on my daughter and just
start pounding on her. This is a kid who was
(29:45):
minding his own business. So these criminals, these these thugs,
they even be found and they need to be locked up.
So we have to get in that because for me,
that's something that as a parent, it's my worst nightmare
come to life. Some kids just out for two trouble
jumping on my kid. Oh no, I wouldn't be here
right now, that was my kid. I'd be in the streets.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
When I see girls fighting, I always imagine my daughter
in that fight with her hair being pulled. It makes
me sweat and anger like like nothing else in the world. Yeah,
girls fighting, Yeah, that that bothers me to no end.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
And and and there and the people not breaking it up. No,
people no, they're not breaking up.
Speaker 8 (30:25):
They're filming right, they're filming in right for click yeah, yeah,
and views. And this is how it was discovered because
it was on social media. This is how some of
the news outlets picked up. So I got to get
into that because as a father, for me, that is
something that.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I used to walk home. I used to be able
to walk to the mall.
Speaker 8 (30:44):
I could be outside all night, and and that danger
was never was never a parent of me. We knew
which neighborhoods to stay out of. You know, I grew
up right at the height and the beginnings of gang violence,
but we still knew, hey, don't go over there.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
It was easy right.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Nowadays there is no safe space, and we need to
talk to each other about how we're going to do
better to protect our children, how we're going to do
better to stop this, because this is something that we're
seeing more and more in the south Land, groups of
kids showing up at schools and just jumping on other
kids and beating them with an inane.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Of their life.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
And that's why I see when you know the Marriort bring,
you know, touch these the decrease in crime. I'm like,
where I don't see. I see crime every every night
on the station, or every day we talk about a
house that's being broken or a business being broken every day.
Speaker 8 (31:31):
The mayor can't talk about a decrease in crime when
she has sway over metro and there's a stabbing on
a Metro station right the same day or the day
after she talks about the decrease in crime.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Her house has been broken into twice. This is what
I'm saying. It's is this for? Is this for well?
Almost cursed? I say, is this for?
Speaker 8 (31:53):
Blanks and giggles? I mean, why are you saying this?
Because it's not right. It's just not true.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Are you filling in tomorrow as well?
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
All right, so please come back on tomorrow. Absolutely, we'd
love to our Tuala is going to be on tonight
from seven to ten pm and then tomorrow seven to
ten pm. Mo filling in for Bill Handle, So get
up early, go to my first of all Amy King
the wake up call at five to six and then
Bill Handle is off. Moe Kelly'll be filling in from
six to nine pm tomorrow. Nice to see it, Bob
(32:23):
talk tomorrow, Yes, sir, all right, mo is out. Tawala
is in and I'm Out. We're live on KFIM six
forty Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now,
you can always hear us live on kf I AM
six forty four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and
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It's k IF. I am six forty and you're listening
to the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Hey, Krozer,
I got an email. Let me see for doing anything here? Okay,
I could not read it. I got an email. Email,
We get email, We get lots and lots of emails. Emails,
(00:23):
Dear Tim Ready Croz. I'm a former cheerleader from the
Torrance area. I'm a current swim soup model mostly for
the European and Asian markets. Plus I'm a junior at
USC and that says, go Trojans. I'm listening with my
dad and he suggested I email you all right. If
(00:45):
you want me and my two ex cheerleader friends to
ride along with you in the Orange County Parade, we'd
be there in a heartbeat. I've been listening since I
was seven years old. My dad is your biggest fan
of South Bay. He goes back to the Steckler days. Plus,
I once called in way back when you did. What
the hell did Jesse Jackson say? And I want a
ten dollars gift card to subway? That's true, we were
(01:08):
giving away ten dollars gift cards a subway. It's like
you could barely get anything.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
It's like we give you the gift card and then
with another ten of your dollars you can eat two
five dollars foot longs.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, I'm not not anymore. James is my dad's name.
He said you met him at the White House, or
he met you at the White House and he ran
into you at the Huntington Beach parade a few years back. Anyway,
let us know if you guys need some company for
the parade. Go Trojans.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I hope you u.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Cela loses tonight to Utah stay. Her name is Katie
Ka d Y. The interesting way to spell Katie. I
guess Katie Katie. I would think that was great, thank
your dad for me, But I don't have the negotiating
skills to make that happen and keep a happy life
(02:00):
at home.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I have got saved yourself there, man, And how you're
going to respond to that?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I am not going to live through that, so I
appreciate it them. Please tell your dad I said, hey,
and nothing to do with her, nothing to do with you,
It has nothing to do with keep in peace. I
am just not going to do that. I am not
(02:28):
There were her. Was she wearing a bikini when she
won that ten dollars gift cards?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Well, she was seven. I don't know. I don't know
what you know, seven she was seven? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I know, I know, Angel, you always want to know
what seven year olds are wearing.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Stop it she stupid?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Oh it's Angel has.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Always been that way. Hey what is that guy wearing?
He's six months old? Angel, I know how to see a.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Panza and.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Much.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
She's just into fashion. That's it, you know, in the fashion.
That's so great. But anyway, I'm going to pass on that.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I thank you Katie, James and your other two U
c l A junior cheerleading friends from towards.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Uh pass. I want to make it very publicly that
I'm passing on that. I appreciate it. It's a nice offer,
right to.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Come down on their own generous, come down on their
own dime, and you know, maybe you know add to
the parade, but.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I you do that? Maybe Rose not a chance? No,
you mean you want me to get in the outfit
and sitting there with you? Chance? Yay?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
So yeah, I do appreciate the offer that that's very
nice of James and Katie and her palse. I really
do appreciate it, but I can not do that, and
so we move on. But the parade is eleven am
on Saturday. So come on down and enjoy the parade
(04:40):
and sit there on the sidewalk and yell at people,
and I know it's it's a great parade.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
It really is. I was there last year.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
It was pouring rain the entire parade last year, and
yet thousands of people stayed.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
It was remarkable.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I thought when it started raining everyone was gonna split,
But the parade went on anyway, and there were literally
ten to twenty people deep along the entire parade.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Route in the rain, in the pouring rain. That's amazing. Yeah,
it really was great. Should be a madhouse this year then, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And the swallows are coming back to Copistrata.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Here's always start the parade.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Take it away, Kenny, the swallowing come back.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
To come back to me.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
The ink spots when us sounds.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Like it.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Strong, I sing this the whole parade round, all.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Through the scene, all silly. Sorry, the Chuble choir will see.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
The spot. What about the Lenin sisters, don't they do
another one?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Here are the lovely Lenon Sisters with a song that
marks this event.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Maybe this is the go to.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
When the stalls come back, come Strato.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
That's the day we all high runs to come back
to me.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
We'll be singing this.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
When you whisper without the cheerleaders, There'll be no cheerleaders.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
That's the day the swallows food back to the sea.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Oh no, Crozier.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I think, look, if if I was doing it for
the the parade fans, not the fans of the station
or the show. But if I was just very giving
to the people in San Juan Kavastrana, I would say
yes to Katie and her buddies.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Sure, you know, absolutely, because you want to.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
You know, see young, healthy people riding in a float
with that kind of energy.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Right, Okay, good, I'll think about it. Yeah, yeah, I'll
think about it. All right.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Mayo from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
It's Conway's show, one of our favorite guesses on with
us Dean Sharp the House Whisper from the House Whisper
Show every Saturday morning from six to eight am and
every Sunday morning from nine am until noon.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Dean, how you Bob, I'm good. I'm good. Oh man,
I love talking to you.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I saw something at Low's about three years ago. I
bought him and I love them and I just added
more to them. But it's those magnets that you stick
on your garage door that make you look like you're wealthy.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Oh you mean the carriage door. Yes, the carriage door assessories.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
It's great because we look like we've got a couple
of bucks now. And when we you know, just put
in standard doors that are metal or aluminum, whatever they are,
and then we put these magnets on them, it looks
like handles and hinges and everything.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
It looks like, you know, we got some couple of bucks.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Yeah, it's a way to up. But just a big
old white garage door, you know, give the impression that
you've got two separate carriage doors. That's right, I just
do it. Just do me a favor, right, If anything
ever goes crooked, fixed.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I look whenever I've washed the doors, I drive down
the street all the time, I'm like, uh, hey, that
guy needs to get you know what.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Now, that's you might as well just park a car
out in front, put it up on blocks. That's a
on your garage door.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Man, if you can commit, do it classic man. I
love them though. My wife thinks I overdid it though,
because I have like twenty on each door.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
You know, they're all over the place. That's a little extreme. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
But when I when I you're right, when I wash them,
they move a little. I got to move them back. Yeah,
I mean they're good, but they they will slide a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, just keep it up.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Hey, something that Neil Sevadra did that I'm always jealous of,
and I'd like to do that with one of our windows,
turning windows into doors. My dad did that in his
house with French doors and it really makes the house.
It really opens it up and makes it seem much
cooler and much nicer.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Way, way way cooler. It's a great idea. In fact,
that's on our list of things that we're talking about
this week ago because we're talking about remodeling winds for track.
I mean, you're you're a gambling man, sure, okay, so
you know everybody loves to go to the track and
uh and you know and come away with a huge
win right on a small investment, right yep. And when
(09:45):
it comes to remodeling. A lot of things very expensive.
Everything's very expensive. But there are certain things, especially for
a tract home that most people don't realize. Man, if
you just do a little I mean, this is a
really easy thing right here, and it's not very expense
andiev and the payoff is huge. And one of those
things is turning windows, especially like bedroom windows secondary bedroom windows.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Right.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Uh, you live in a single story ranch house here
in southern California, tracked ranch house, then you're gonna have
bedrooms face in the backyard, right that only have a
window into the backyard. That window five foot wide windows
six foot five wide window could so easily be turned
into a sliding glass door, so easily. And here's the thing, Okay,
(10:32):
imagine this. Imagine imagine taking a door right, like a
sliding glass door and turning it into a window. Okay,
the other way around. Right, So you're gonna pull the
door out. You've already got the header there, everything's going.
What would you do?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Right?
Speaker 6 (10:47):
You would put the window in and you would just
build up a little wall, a little stud wall underneath
the window to fill in the gap.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Right.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Sure, that what I just described, that's exactly how every
window in your house was framed to begin with.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Oh, that's interesting. Words.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Every window in everybody's home started as a doorway, okay,
and then so in other words, the studs, they go
all the way to the floor of the header.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
It's all there.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
And then a window was put in, and a little
what we call a cripple wall was built underneath the window.
The point is removing that little piece of wall which
is not structural, and taking that window out and boom,
you're ready for a door. I mean it's a minimal change.
Do they still call it cripple wall? Yes, yes they do.
(11:34):
They do. Hey, it's the construction world. We have our terms.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I heard this in Pennsylvania. I'm sure it's gonna, you know,
spread across the country. That you can't use when you're
selling a home. Nowadays, you can't say room with a
view because of the people who are I guess site impaired.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I don't want to say blind, but you know you.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Can't use room with a view, and you can't use
there's another one room with a view and walking closet
because the people.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Who aren't able to walk. Yeah, well times are changing.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
H do you know what what are you gonna call it,
I don't know. A spacious closet, yes, an inhabitable closet.
That's probably somebody just going way over that. You know,
that has not that has not actually become a reality.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Realtors have to live in a different world than I do, right,
because they have to deal with all sorts of people.
But let me tell you, I was just working on
a walk in closet today. I don't care what you
call it, roll in, walk in, crawl in, toss in, Okay,
but you know it's a walking closet.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Let's just let's just call it what it is.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I want to ask you about something I've always heard
when it comes to home again. Dean Sharpers was with
us the house whisper. I always heard that you build
a pool for yourself, not for value. That you almost
never get the value out of building a pool in
your in your backyard.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Is that true? Uh? Not exactly?
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Okay, Ultimately, I mean, if you're gonna yeah, okay, I'll
say this, sure it's true, because you know what, you're
gonna need a good You're gonna need to stay in
that place for a good twenty twenty five years in
order to recoup the value. So you're gonna build a
pool for you. Definitely on the on every single list
of things not to do to upgrade your property before
(13:30):
you sell. At the top of that list in a pool.
Install a pool, Okay, I mean pools these days. I
mean you blink, and we've spent over one hundred thousand
dollars on just a just an average sized pool, okay.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
And there is no way, no.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Way that that's gonna raise your property value by one
hundred grand.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
No way. But we don't have a pool.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
But the friends of mine that do, I always ask
them how often they use them, and if they don't
have young kids. I always get the response of three
to four times a year.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Yeah, yeah, it's pretty typical. I'll tell you why, or
tell you tell you along those lines. Every time I
design a pool for a client, I'm always, you know,
angling it with the home. I'm getting it across outside
of open vistas, and They're like, you're treating this thing
like a water feature. I'm like, cause that's what it is.
(14:25):
I don't care if you're an Olympic swim team family,
if you are in the pool eight hours a day,
you are still out of the pool another sixteen plus
hours of that day. So by the numbers, every swimming
pool is first and foremost a visible water feature, and
that's what I design it for. And secondarily, yeah, people
(14:47):
occasionally jump in if.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
It's if because I've got a pool, And yeah, that
three to four times a year is probably pretty accurate.
And you know, I've got five, maybe at most ten
years left in this place. Is that at some point
do I do I consider just filling it in?
Speaker 6 (15:03):
You know what, you you might want to consider filling
it in if it's just completely taken over.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
The backyard isn't that expensive though, if you're.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Trying to sell a house and it's not as expensive
as you think, but you're trying to sell a house
and and basically, you know, the realtor has to say
has to say something like, well, there really isn't a
backyard because the pool is just it's wall to wall
pool back there. That's never a cool thing. And so
that's something to think about. I usually suggest that we
adult a pool.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Okay, But you know what, I think you're on to
some of the here, because I think there are a
lot of families with kids that purposely look for a
home without a pool because they don't want that that danger.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
I mean the funny thing is you think about the
pool for the kids, right ultimately, but not when the
kids are young. So it's it's just a weird it's
a weird thing.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
It is beautiful though, when the lights you're on in
the summer. It's so beautiful to have the pool, but
you never use it. Yeah, well, water feature. There you go,
and it's expensive to have a guy come buy and
then to you know, you know, the pump breaks down,
the heater doesn't work, it leaks. You know, there's a
lot going on to have that much water in your backyard.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
An awful lot, which is why most pools these days
that we build are shockingly to a lot of people
old school. Most pools we have five feet across the
whole way deep five feet deep.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Let oh wow, that's interesting. You know.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Also I discovered because we had a house in Tarzana,
they did out of a pool and the diving board
was falling apart.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
So I took the diving board down.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I called twenty five companies to have them reinstall the
diving board, and all of them refused.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
No, you can't.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
If you've got a diving board right now on your pool,
use it till it breaks and somebody is is paralyzed.
Nobody will replace it. No, it's not legal to replace it. Wow,
they are grandfathered in. You take it away, you can't
put it back the end. I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Do you have a diving board krozer new h Then
you're screwed. Yeah, that's you're right, you know that's the
it's the paralyzer.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
But our jacuzzi is on the deep end side of
the pool, so we can go from the jacuzzi, we
can dive into the pool.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Wow, what's Dean he's got He's got three fireplace.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
In his house.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Well, you know what he's doing it right, he's living the.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Right jacuzzi deep pool and he's got a fire kuzzi,
three fireplaces.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
God, all right, Dean's gonna stay with us.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
We're live on KFI every Saturday morning six to eight am,
Sunday nine am to noon.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
It's the favorite show of.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
A lot of listeners of ours, especially Mark Thompson's brother.
He does not listen during the week He only listens
to Dean Sharp on weekends. I think that's a huge consulate.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Does the House Whisperer, and he's on every Sunday morning,
every Saturday morning six to eight am, and every Sunday
morning from nine am until noon.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
See real quickly.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I know that this wasn't on the list of things
we're going to talk about today, but I have a
question for you. I think a lot of people won't
be experiencing the same thing. When should you be concerned
about cracks in a wall? I know we all have
earthquakes and walls. You know, where the joints come together,
they do crack. Should you be concerned about small cracks?
And or does it get to a point where you
(18:33):
know something in the wall that you can feel is moving,
or you push on it and the crack disappears, or
it gets bigger?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
When do you when? When?
Speaker 5 (18:40):
She?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
When do you bring somebody in to look at stuff
like that?
Speaker 6 (18:43):
If a crack forms in a wall that you know
where you put your eye up to and you can
see the neighbor's house, you should probably get it at
number one, number two.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Right, Okay?
Speaker 6 (18:56):
If there's a crack in a wall where the two
surfaces like the dry wall right right, and the two
surfaces they haven't just spread open, but they're uneven with
each other, like something's sticking in right and like on
a slab, we would call that uplift where one side
is higher than the other. Oh, then that's probably something
that you should look at. But what we what most
(19:16):
people get freaked out about what we call spider cracking. Uh,
that just happens. It happens, gonna happen after an earthquake.
It actually happens more often than not in new homes,
and it's got to be one of the number one
things that new homeowners, I mean of a home that's
just been built, you know, call the builder back for
(19:37):
like a year later they're like, we got cracks coming
off the top of our door jams crack over there
in the corner. This house is falling apart. No, it's
just the lumber is drying out. The house is settling
and and some of it works its way through. Those
are completely nonstructural cracks. And just got to know the
reason I said. You know, you can see light through it,
(19:59):
or you can see the name Bab's house, or there's uplift.
Just everybody needs to know. Drywall is not a structural product.
It's a skin that we put on top of walls.
So a lot of stuff can go wrong with drywall
that has nothing to do with the house falling apart.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Okay, well, a house continue to settle though for years decades.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
A house will continue to settle, and mostly when we
say settle, a house will settle over a year or two.
But you know, new homes are notoriously built with what
we call green lumber, wet green lumber in other words,
not kiln, dry and lumber. That lumber will dry out
over a number of years, and as it does, it
(20:38):
gets a little shorter, it changes dimensionality just a little bit,
and eventually it's enough to you know, sometimes send a
crack or popping, Like a home is like ten years
old and you're sitting in your living room and you're like,
what the hell does that sound? It sounded like, you know,
rats ran across the ceiling or something, and it was
just a whole but lot of sets that all of
(21:00):
a sudden happens, So it can happen. Very rarely does
it happen in a house that's older than twenty thirty.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
You know last night I was at a hardware store
and I bought one of those cedar planks to replace
in a you know, a dog eared thing and for
the backyard, for the fence. And I couldn't believe how
heavy those things are.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
It was.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
It was really damp, it was really wet. They used
to let those things dry out before they sold them.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Yeah, but you know it takes time and money. Okay,
it takes time to let wood dry out naturally. Okay,
because it's about drying naturally in an enclosed area where
it can't brain can't get to it. We have to
deal with this with furniture grade would all the time
one inch of thickness of dryness per year. Wow, I
(21:50):
mean okay, So if you're not going to do that,
you're not gonna have that laying around for a year
or two. Then you have to kiln dry it, which
means you send it through another and that's a whole
another layer of expense. And so that's why most lumber
at the lumber yard is what we call green lumber.
And it could be anywhere you could pick up one stud,
like you're picking up two by fours right in the
(22:11):
home depot and like four studs are you know, pretty light,
and you pick up another one you actually feel the
moisture on your hand and it weighs like six pounds heavier.
I couldn't believe it. That's just the nature of the
beast and in that's that's the way it works out
these things.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
But when you put up fencing, you know that redwood
fencing with with wet lumber, doesn't it shrink over time?
Speaker 6 (22:32):
It will shrink over time, yeah, it will, and you'll
get little gaps.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
And then real quickly.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
For our our friends who have gone through, you know,
these fire disasters, I heard a lot of people having
to replace walls and ceiling and floor because of smoke damage.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yep, that's a pain in the ass, Yeah it is.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
I mean the smoke causes, you know, on average, far
more damage to a home than flames do. Now, obviously,
if your house burnt to the ground, you're like, Dean,
that wasn't smoke. Okay, I understand that. But anytime, but
there's a fire in one part of a house, just
one part of a house, and you're like, well, that's
(23:13):
where the fire was. But if the smoke made it
through the rest of the house. It all has to
be dealt with. I mean, just it's difficult to get
smoke out of anything, and so yeah, it's a serious deal.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Those companies that do restore homes like that are very
good at.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
What they do.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
They are they are they specialize in just that they
know how to get in there, how to treat it,
they know how far to go, and so, you know,
remediation companies that have a great reputation have have well
earned it.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Buddy, I'll be listening on Saturday. I really appreciate coming on.
Thanks Bud talk. There we goes Dean Sharp. The house
was for Saturday morning, six am to eight am. Sunday
morning nine am to noon. When we come back, Twala's
coming on with us. He's filling it from Moe Kelly
And as I always say, the last honest guy in radio,
that's what the show should be called, The last honest guy.
(24:04):
Who is the last DJ? The last honest DJ. Remember
there was a song the last DJ he plays what
he wants to play? Was that Jim Ladd?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, it's Jim Ladd. Yeah, the Jim Ladd of Talk
Radio to Walla. The last DJ I heard a guffa
from him in the back.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
He knows it's true. That's why you heard the goffalks.
He knows it's true.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Mo Kelly's filling in tomorrow for Bill Handle, so Tuwalla's
taking over and I to see you many, sir, look
at you, And I always say the last honest guy
in radio, because when I listen to you and Moe
Kelly and the whole crew, when everybody agrees on something
and then I hear a long pause, I hear.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
It's just not the way it is.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Like.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I know you're gonna like to say answer, but you
guys are wrong here. Man.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
Look, I can't hold it back. I cannot put a
filter on for the people. The people need the truth
at all times. Yeah, at all times.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
You and I.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Your daughter is probably about the same age, maybe a
couple of years younger. And how old is your daughter fourteen?
Should be fifteen, just okay, especially about four years younger
than my daughter. But you and I went through the
same thing where we both even went to the school
to complain because my daughter and your daughter at some
point during their school career, they were carrying around thirty
to forty pound backpacks.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
Yeah, they were giving those Scoliosi's devices to carry around.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
That's what it's gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
They think they think you and I are paranoid, but
we're not. We're just we're just worried about their future.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
You see your child walking with a hunch, and it's
because they're carrying the backpack. That's not a good thing, right,
That's not a good thing, especially in a world where
there are such things as computers. I don't understand how
lausd is constantly complaining about needing more computers. They got
this huge budget, got iPads up for everyone, all of that,
especially during COVID, and now you still need books and backpacks.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
What are we talking about. I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
They You know, at Burrows High School, they had problems
in the eighties, nineties and early two thousands of people
keeping drugs in their lockers. So they took all the
lockers out. There's not a single locker in the school.
Remember we had we had lockers. Winters say yeah, yeah,
lock keeper books at school. Now they got to take
them back and forth because there's no lockers.
Speaker 8 (26:25):
Now, see, I can that I can understand, right, But
but but if there are lockers, and you have classrooms
that are on different floors, and you have short bell periods,
and you've got these kids that have to lug all
of this stuff around there in lies of problem, That's
when I went into the office and I'm yelling at
my daughter's Oh my.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
God, I'm so embarrassed. Oh my god, Please say no,
why are you cursing?
Speaker 8 (26:48):
And it's just not really bad because I got really
because I don't like the well, sir, I don't want
that to be automatically. I know you're about to give
me some line of crap that I don't want to hear,
and I'm like, I'm I need a solid reason and answer.
Why these kids that's just my kids. Why are all
these kids carrying around backpacks that way more than they do.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
And they carry them around up downstairs all over the
you know, the campus. I picked up her backpack and
I could barely pick it up. Yeah, I could work
out with my daughter's backup. Literally a thing has got
to be like sixty seventy pounds. But I do miss
the lockers because you know, when you and I went
to school, I'm a little older than you, but you
remember when it was your birthday, they'd decorate your locker,
or if you want to, you know, if you became
(27:28):
a you know, the quarterback, you know, you got a
special like sticker for your locker.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Was all of that.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
I love the first day of school, decorating the locker,
that's right. I love back when the lockers had the
slot and if there was a girl you would like
you know, yeah, my little notes into the locker, passing
notes in the lockers. All of that was a right
of passages, part of what made us who we are.
And even being late to class because you're standing and
sharing secrets and you know, talking trash at the locker.
That's what it was about. It was the meeting place.
(27:53):
We're meeting up at the locker, that's right. Any place
you want to know what's going on, meet me at
my locker.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
You used to say that after class, right, And you
felt better if you had a better position in that
lock on your locker than the rest of the school, like, oh,
I'm close to the cafeteria and your way the hell
down at pe.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
You know.
Speaker 8 (28:11):
The one time I hated having a locker is when
my locker was underneath this one jerk of a guy,
And anytime I was bending over to pick, they would
always come and kick me from behind and knock me down.
And this him and his friends would run down the
hall just like I forgot about that. But there was
upper and lower locker.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah, and if you have the lower one, you know,
if the guy open up and you bang your head
on that on the door, on that sharp metal corner, I.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Can't remember that. You're bleeding? What's on the big show tonight, Bob?
You know?
Speaker 8 (28:42):
I think tonight's show is a show that you will
really really like it. There's a show for fathers. It
is a show for mothers at a show for parents
for small business owners. Of course, I have to talk
about the dismantling of the education department, working within education,
having a child that is currently going to school, what
that means big picture, but actually what it means to
(29:04):
you and I more locally, and what it means to
us just as far as governmental overreach is it is
it not? But more importantly than that, I think a
story that you will relate to the most. There is
a story I saw of a kid who got jumped
walking home fourteen year old young man got jumped and
beaten almost within an inch of his life. And I
(29:25):
saw that story and it's sent to shiver down my
spine because I think about the times where my daughter,
like and her and her friends want to walk over
to local bobo shop that's like maybe a block away
from her school, and I just think to myself, there,
before the grace of God, what ifs just some punk
kids decided to run up on my daughter and just
start pounding on her. This is a kid who was
(29:45):
minding his own business. So these criminals, these these thugs,
they even be found and they need to be locked up.
So we have to get in that because for me,
that's something that as a parent, it's my worst nightmare
come to life. Some kids just out for two trouble
jumping on my kid. Oh no, I wouldn't be here
right now, that was my kid. I'd be in the streets.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
When I see girls fighting, I always imagine my daughter
in that fight with her hair being pulled. It makes
me sweat and anger like like nothing else in the world. Yeah,
girls fighting, Yeah, that that bothers me to no end.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
And and and there and the people not breaking it up. No,
people no, they're not breaking up.
Speaker 8 (30:25):
They're filming right, they're filming in right for click yeah, yeah,
and views. And this is how it was discovered because
it was on social media. This is how some of
the news outlets picked up. So I got to get
into that because as a father, for me, that is
something that.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I used to walk home. I used to be able
to walk to the mall.
Speaker 8 (30:44):
I could be outside all night, and and that danger
was never was never a parent of me. We knew
which neighborhoods to stay out of. You know, I grew
up right at the height and the beginnings of gang violence,
but we still knew, hey, don't go over there.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
It was easy right.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Nowadays there is no safe space, and we need to
talk to each other about how we're going to do
better to protect our children, how we're going to do
better to stop this, because this is something that we're
seeing more and more in the south Land, groups of
kids showing up at schools and just jumping on other
kids and beating them with an inane.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Of their life.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
And that's why I see when you know the Marriort bring,
you know, touch these the decrease in crime. I'm like,
where I don't see. I see crime every every night
on the station, or every day we talk about a
house that's being broken or a business being broken every day.
Speaker 8 (31:31):
The mayor can't talk about a decrease in crime when
she has sway over metro and there's a stabbing on
a Metro station right the same day or the day
after she talks about the decrease in crime.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Her house has been broken into twice. This is what
I'm saying. It's is this for? Is this for well?
Almost cursed? I say, is this for?
Speaker 8 (31:53):
Blanks and giggles? I mean, why are you saying this?
Because it's not right. It's just not true.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Are you filling in tomorrow as well?
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
All right, so please come back on tomorrow. Absolutely, we'd
love to our Tuala is going to be on tonight
from seven to ten pm and then tomorrow seven to
ten pm. Mo filling in for Bill Handle, So get
up early, go to my first of all Amy King
the wake up call at five to six and then
Bill Handle is off. Moe Kelly'll be filling in from
six to nine pm tomorrow. Nice to see it, Bob
(32:23):
talk tomorrow, Yes, sir, all right, mo is out. Tawala
is in and I'm Out. We're live on KFIM six
forty Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now,
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