July 17, 2026 • 34 mins
The Tim Conway Jr Show Hour 4 (7.16)
Joe Shelton, CEO/President of Patriot Portable Restrooms, recounts the bizarre Kansas City incident where a man refused to leave a locked portable restroom after a FIFA World Cup watch party. Dean Sharp previews this weekend's show by breaking down the difference between home maintenance and home improvement. Plus, Danny Griffith, co-owner of Sweet Red Peach Bakery in Pasadena, shares how thieves destroyed the bakery's rooftop commercial air-conditioning system, leaving the beloved family business fighting to stay open.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps. 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
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outhouses you see. You seem at the kia of form
all the time. You know, if you leave the key
of form, they have like forty outhouses outside. And then
once the crowd leaves, one 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
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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 way they keep them safe
and they keep people safe. So 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.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
We'll give you ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
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.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
He knows a lot about this.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
He's the CEO and president of Patriot Portable Restrooms.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Joe, how you.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Oh, I'm doing great.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I'm doing excellent. I appreciate you asking. Have you ever
heard of anything like this before in your life?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
No, I've seen a lot of things, but this one
takes the cake.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Okay, tell us give us the details. Why was in?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Why was this guy in that outhouse for what was
it eight or nine hours?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
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 1 (01:58):
I thought when I originally saw the story, I thought
that was a euphemism for something dropping them out and do.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
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
(02:25):
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 and 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 2 (02:46):
So now where did this happen, Joe? Did this happen
outside of Kansas City?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah? This was the event was a soccer watch event,
meaning that I think is probably like a beer a
beer garden type event where everybody came out and watched
the soccer game. We had about eight eight toilets there
and this was just us cleaning up after the weekends.
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Uh U charades.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
So this guy is lucky to be alive.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
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. Uh, you could be killed down there,
you could, you know, with the fumes and that water
that could that could seriously could kill you.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Well, I mean it was hot out. Let's say that.
I don't know that you would die. I mean you
could pretend. I mean, I don't know. I don't think
you could die, but you definitely are going to be
blue afterwards. I mean the chemical Uh do you get
that stuff on you? It's sick. So there's a guy
walking around Kansas.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Now how how was he unable to get out? So
he jumped in 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 3 (04:05):
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 like a bathtub, right, And
don't 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
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a great interview from him. They washed him down with
the fire hose afterwards, and he went on his way.
So we don't know if this was a drunken bet
he lost, he picked the wrong team. Don't really know
other than he made the statement that he was after
his mountain dew.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Wow, 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 3 (04:59):
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
the euphemism. Maybe he wanted a little bit a different
kind of dude, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
This is great.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
So when the cops show up, they see him, then
they call the fire department and the fire department has
to come out with a saw with a chainsaw and
tear that that toilet seat up and that outhouse up
to get this guy out.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
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. He's in
the tank. And my guy looked at the cop and
the cop looked at him like are they crazy? Like
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they just heard the guy talking, right 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 backup
and then requested the fire department, uh, the Great Fire
(06:08):
Department of Kansas. And we want to thank the police
department for participating in and you know, helping this guy
out of the toilet.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, I guess, uh, you know, as happens, you know occasionally.
But did did did you make that guy pay for
the damage of that outhouse?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
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. No one had a Joe.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I'm glad we have you on the line separate if
you I always wondered how how people got into this business.
Did you start with one out house and then you
bought two, and then twenty and then thirty?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
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.
I've tipped over, lifted up in four cliffs, back trucks,
backed up and locked in, and so I know how
kind of how that guy feels in some ways.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Sure, how many do you want? By the way, how
many are in your business?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Well, we're now a nationwide business. You're a family owned business.
My dad's or a generation, my kids are part of
the business. So I mean, of course, you start with
one toilet and the truck and a lot of grit,
and you just work your way through it. And it
takes a team. It's not just me. I mean all
the drivers and all of the guys in the sales
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office and everything. There's a whole team of people that
really make it happen. And it's a big family.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
We try to we try to keep it that way.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
And real quickly. I don't know, I don't have any
idea what this costs. If I wanted to put an outhouse, uh,
you know, I I want to call Patriot portable restrooms.
You want to put one outside of my house because
there's a lot of homeless guys around, What does that
cost me?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
A week. We're similar to a gardener in the sense that,
you know, we we show up every week, we clean
it just like a gardener would. And uh and but
the difference is we take away the dirty stuff. They don't.
They don't take it away. And it's a couple of
hundred bucks. Okay, And you could secure yourself a portable
toilet for your event or or a construction site, or
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just to keep the gardener right out of your bushes.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
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 us below you.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, we got a lot of improvements. Yeah, we got
restroom trailers. Now we've got handicap trailers. 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
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played inside it.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
That's great. Have you had to expand the size of
it because of how big people have gotten in the
United States?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Oh? My, gosh. Yeah, I mean there's regulations. Of course,
everything's got our regulation and so but yeah, we do
have larger ones. We have the handicap ones for some reason.
I'm sorry. You need a little bit of space.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I could talk to you for an hour. One last,
last last questions. How many portable toilets or outhouses you own?
How many are in the Patriot game the.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Patriot across the nation. We've probably gotten five to ten thousand.
We're still a small family business and we're just we're
just slowly growing.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
So excellent. But I really appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I know that you've been pulled by every news station
and to make time for us is really cool.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Really appreciate man.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, no problem, longtime listener, man, Is that right? Oh? Okay,
I was delivering toilets listening to you keep me awake
while I was driving around delivering those.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
We'll keep promoting Patriot Portable Restrooms.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yep, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
All right, thanks, all right, take care. That's Joe Shelton.
He's the CEO and president of Patriot Portable Restrooms. What
great publicity for that guy and his company that 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 got to rely on your expertise here.
(10:57):
What does a bottle of mountain dew go for fifty today?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Like nineteen bucks?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah, okay, guy jumped into a portable toilet.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I just don't think it was a literal mountain dew. Yeah,
you know what I think it was.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
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 rolls.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
What a night for that man? What night? God Almighty?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
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 4 (11:33):
Baby.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
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 2 (11:48):
Dean, how you bob? I needed that extra four minutes.
There 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 3 (12:00):
Go.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Oh is that right? You worked that far to sound?
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yeah, is that right?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Well we do we do design it. I mean we're
we're designing a house in Kentucky right now. But as
far as consults go, yeah, we'll drive by the way.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I call it the best fifteen dollars you could ever spend.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
H 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 Great? Right, 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,
(12:38):
it was written here for me. I was just reading
what you wrote.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Oh hey, let's say real quickly before we get into
you know, the topic today. Do you know anything about
these water mains and 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
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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 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 piping in your house, right okay,
and the reason is that you're like, well, okay, this
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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 leaking, 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. Right, but you know,
I know that you have you know, there's no dig
pipe repair where you shove a or a trench less
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pipe lining as.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
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 you see the volume that goes through that pipe?
One hundred thousand gallons a second? Yeah, yeah, that's incredible.
It's a lot. Yeah, it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
I mean all this you want up to eighteen million
gallons of water gone, all gone, 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 2 (14:18):
Yeah. 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 I have
a little you know, I get 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. And
(14:41):
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,
good yeah, so yeah, so you know, and I guess
you could say, well, it improved my house because I
had something broken and now not. Okay. Yeah, But if
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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. Why aren't houses getting substantially better. Right,
And the reason is very very simple. It's design that's
missing and the design question. And I'm not putting it
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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 that everything in a
house eventually fails, right, some system fails, a pipe gets
worn out, 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
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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
thing that we're replacing should it have been there in
the first place. That's interesting and we got to at
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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 time to redo that. So
you're about to drop on the average house these days
(16:29):
about one hundred grand monty cabinets and countertops in a kitchen. Okay,
in doing that, if you don't stand back and say
something at and people are going to 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 3 (16:47):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Interesting? 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 kisch, you catch 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 1 (17:08):
That's great, Okay, get oh we got to 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. That's right, 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
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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 whether he's on every Saturday and Sunday right
here on KFI in the mornings, and we'll come back
and talk to him.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Dean Sharp is with us.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Dean, before we get into those questions, I asked you,
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 2 (18:07):
You know, we're going to have it built.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
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 background 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 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're not going to like this.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I said how much?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
He said, for everything, labor, parts, everything, seven hundred and
fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Whoam? Can you believe? All right, that's a hard no.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
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 2 (19:26):
I thought that was really cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And
you know 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 3 (19:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
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 2 (19:52):
But like the one big thing the bones. I'm just
going to say bones.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
You know, people get worried about like should I remodel
the kitchen before I sell the house? Oh, I guarantee
you're gonna spend all this money, and the one buyer
who's gonna walk in and want your house, you're gonna
hear them say, yeah, everything's great, but man, I hate
that kitchen. That thing's gonna go okay.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
And then well, and then what about buying a house?
What is the one thing when you look at 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 2 (20:20):
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 houses get and this is
a good thing for buyers. Right, houses get devalued all
the time because the drywalls in bad shape, or you know,
the window screens are torn, or you know whatever, rooms
are dingy and they haven't been cleaned, or you know,
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these things are meaningless. These are not structural elements. These
are just blemishes that can get handled.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
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 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, you know,
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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 1 (21:18):
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 were fine.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah, pressure regulators, I guarantee you right now everybody who's
listening to us, half of the homes that are listening
to us have a bad price.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
And that's the cheapest thing you can do to help
your pipes in the house. Yeah, because you know, they
wear out, They wear out. They're actively restraining city pressure
for years in 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
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over eighty psi, then your pressure is actually doing damage
to your system and your appliances. So you don't want
that good of pressure, and especially if you live in
the foothills where they have to pressure rise that water
to push it over the hill.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yeah. 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. Oh yeah, 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
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about eight bucks.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Yeah right.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
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 I screw that on there
and find out. You open up the valve and find
out what your water pressure really is.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
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 2 (23:16):
Any as long as nothing else is running, any hose
bid 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
I appreciate you coming on. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
All right, Bud, All right, 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
(23:51):
be on for six hours.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I'd be listening.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Last night I watch I record two, four, five, seven,
nine eleven, and I watch all the news stations.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I'm addicted to it. I'll admit it.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
I'm addicted to local news. And I've met a couple
of people in local news. Mark Brown, who I think
is one of the outstanding anchors.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
He's on every night.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
He comes into my living room every night eleven o'clock
for a half hour, and I know the guy.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Text him. He texted me.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Back, Yeah, we've got a sort of a mild friendship going.
And he had a guy on last night that I
immediately grabbed my pen and wrote down the name Sweet
Red Peach Bakery in Pasadena, and it was a horrible story.
And mister Glover is with us, You with.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Us, sir.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Yeah, Danny Griffin.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Oh, Danny Griffin. I thought it was Danny Glover. I
thought you were named after the actor.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
I wish, I wish I wouldn't be in this position
to road chick. Hey, you got to cry when you
want to laugh? Or is it cry or laugh when
you want to cry?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Either one.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
It's got to be hotter than hell in there right now. Look,
you've gone, You've had a really, you know, tough. You
and your wife are really tough.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Eighteen months, you know.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Oh man, it's just undescribable. So you know, we're franchisees
of sweewear Peach, We know the founder, and so we
invested right and we chose this location because my family
on my great grandfather's side, the Turners, they've been in Pasadena.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Since eighteen ninety eight.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
And I have a little and I have a little
history in Pasadina myself, but it wasn't the best history.
I lived here as a seventh grader in nineteen eighty two,
but we lived in a domestic violence shelter with my
mom and brothers and sisters, and we lived in a
travel lodge here by Wilson Middle school. So you know,
I didn't think I was gonna come back full circle
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as a business owner here and then to get delayed
because of the eating fires and see your whole customer
base go through what they went through. It's just been
a nightmare, and it keeps getting worse and worse.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yeah, I noticed that. You know, I'm familiar with the
sweet Red Peach in Inglewood. I know there's another one
in Carson, but you have the location in Pasadena, and man,
that looks like a terrific place. But so you had
the Altadena fire and that sort of delayed you and
probably cost you a lot of money. And then recently,
I think this past weekend or sometime earlier this week,
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somebody went up and took all the copper piping out
of your air conditioning unit.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Yeah, I guess I'm in a row business because you know,
we got spider man, I don't know what's going on.
We've got guys going on roofs in the middle of
the night taking electric you know, LFE chance penitentiary chances
to get a copper coil. Evidently the copper coil is
a very expensive uh pieces those inside of an air
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conditioning unit. I didn't know that. I guess I'm ready
for HBAC school now, I guess right. I'm trying because
I really want to cry, and I'm sitting in my
car with the AC on the only AC I can get.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Is the building owner going to help you out? Or
is that your responsibility to fix it?
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Well, it's a unique situation because the building owner they
put it up there for us and then started through
their UH subcontractor HBAC guy. But then most vcs or
tenants are responsible for the maintenance of the units. But
it's it's kind of like a great area because you
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may be responsible for the maintenance of them, but are
you responsible for protecting them from analism?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Right?
Speaker 4 (28:01):
So I don't know if that's in the least. So
it's a great area. But they, you know, they they've
been really responsive and listening, and you know, we're losing customers, man.
I mean, I had a lady come in there yesterday
and said, I'll just come back tomorrow. Another lady said,
almost really hot in here. And you had to explain
almost go through the entire story for every customer that
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comes to the door, and the more customers come in
the lobby the worst it gets because you're like, oh
my god, these poor people, and then they looking at
you and say, are you okay? You're sweating like a dog.
Do you need a power or they're asking me to
do am I home gred? It just looks really bad
serving people when you're looking like that, it looks really bad.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
So the guys steal the air conditioning or the copper
piping from the air conditioning unit on the.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Hottest day of the year.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Go figure, it's the worst. Yeah, we didn't notice it
because people complain and say it's too cold in there,
because bakries are supposed to be that that Chris aired
and nice, nice kind of chill and you get your
favorite dessert and it's like you get out of there.
But here it started to you know, the day went on,
the moves start changing with my customers, and I kind
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of noticed it on their faces and then and then
the customer was apparently waving their face and I say,
oh wow, I go to the bag.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Hey is the woman is the woman that was on
the news last night with you? Is that your wife?
Speaker 4 (29:31):
It better be quickly for the U haul church and
get my stuff. There's my fiance. But he's been an
extended it's been extended. I'm gonna be at the extended
stay of the night. I won't hurry up.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Full circle in Pasadena, full circle.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
We mad to do the ceremony in here with the baby.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
That's great. I'm glad you kept your sense of humor
about this man.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
That is great that you that you're able to cause it's,
you know, just one thing after or another after another.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
It just sucks. So you set up a gofund me.
Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (30:06):
What we had to because you know, we didn't want to.
I was totally against it because you just see, you
know how some people just are now they're they become
insurance agents and now they're analysts and life coaches and
just everybody chiming in. And it's like people asking questions,
well what about your insurance, not knowing that it's liability
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issue going on, and you just got to explain, man.
But as as we were contemplating it, seting it up
with washing dishes, like, man, this Greece is not coming off,
and then you notice not a hot water heat that
goes out. So she said you should just walk up
and leave. But yeah, we can't do that because we
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don't have the finances to cover everything. We need to
stay here to sell, just to cover the things that
are rising. And then I go to the back and
look at the temperature to walk in and it's supposed
to be at forty degrees and it's going up. I'm like,
wait a minute. Numbers don't lie. People do. And I'm
looking him, I'm like, wait a minute. I said, oh
(31:10):
my god, the AC is not the walking is not
supposed to work in these type of temperatures because the
AC is been doing a day and a night is cool.
So we're overworking all the equipment here. So things are
failing because of the heating here. And then we had
a doctor come in today and she said, this is
not faith in here. You guys. You guys know heat
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stroke symptoms.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
So they're like, well you don't. We don't want you
here by yourself. And I don't want to chase money
and put your life on the line, you know, because
I'm a little season. I'm fifty five, and it's like
I'm gonna ask athlete a unov for Jerry Tartanian and
I played at Cuinchall High School. Wow basketball. But but
I'm a little older now. I looked in the mirror
saw Gray. I'm like, Wow, you don't want to be
laid out up in there trying to keep this business open.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
You know, it reminds me Danny.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
We did a story a couple of weeks ago on
in Garden Grove where that tank blew up or almost
blew up, and you know, I'm sure you follow that story,
and the fire department got so many people calling them
suggesting on what to do with it. They finally asked
us and the news reporters, hey, can you go on
the air and ask these people to stop calling with
their suggestions on how to put this out? You're you're
(32:19):
going through the same thing on on on gofund me,
where everybody's got a suggestion on what you should do.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Well.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Those things are on the Instagram page that we looked
at a couple of the comments and I let the
let my fiance handle that. She's just phenomenal with words
and she knows how to deal with people. I do too,
But I think a lot of people are more people
are really sympathetic for when people love. You know, our
ladies in this country are just wonderful and holding up
the man. They the best and I just think I
(32:49):
just let her just run with this. Man. She's phenomenal,
she's beautiful, She's easier on the eyes than me. That's
why I'm glad she's doing the radio. I mean, I'll
take one where they can't see me. Danny.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
We're going to keep promoting the hell out of this
and keep following this story.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Man, you need a break.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
I do, Man, I want to take a break. But
if you take a break anywhere past fifty miles, that
may say you're using the funds for that.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Right.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
They come in here and see all everything failing, man.
So we just trying to keep thinking perspective and keep
from crying in We're believers, man, We believe in our
Lord Jesus Christ, and we understand that you cannot have
a testimony without a test And my life has been
full circle, man. You know, I was in a Foster
Home and Compton in the eighth grade. Then I became
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a teacher around the corner from the Foster Home, man,
and it's like I'm back full circle in a city
where I lived and not the best circumstances, and now
have a business, a business here and things are not
going with the best circumstances, but God is gonna have
to victory at the end. I'm a faith guy. My
name is Daniel. My mother named me that for a reason.
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I'm perseverance and determined. So we're gonna get through this. Man.
I just thank the community, Saint Gabriel community. We've got
people driving here from La Oh, Good Tom down, people
buying stuff. And you know, if you don't want to
donate anything, or if you're questioning something, or if you
don't believe something, coming here. Feel the heat by cupcake.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Come come feel the heat because the heat is real.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
The copycakes are great.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Come feel the heat with me.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
And bring me a sweet team, bring me some lemonade.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
That's you all day.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Let's you be your slogan, sweet red Peach, Come feel
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It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps. 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
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outhouses you see. You seem at the kia of form
all the time. You know, if you leave the key
of form, they have like forty outhouses outside. And then
once the crowd leaves, one 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
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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 way they keep them safe
and they keep people safe. So 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.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
We'll give you ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
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.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
He knows a lot about this.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
He's the CEO and president of Patriot Portable Restrooms.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Joe, how you.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Oh, I'm doing great.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I'm doing excellent. I appreciate you asking. Have you ever
heard of anything like this before in your life?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
No, I've seen a lot of things, but this one
takes the cake.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Okay, tell us give us the details. Why was in?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Why was this guy in that outhouse for what was
it eight or nine hours?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
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 1 (01:58):
I thought when I originally saw the story, I thought
that was a euphemism for something dropping them out and do.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
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 and 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 2 (02:46):
So now where did this happen, Joe? Did this happen
outside of Kansas City?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah? This was the event was a soccer watch event,
meaning that I think is probably like a beer a
beer garden type event where everybody came out and watched
the soccer game. We had about eight eight toilets there
and this was just us cleaning up after the weekends.
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Uh U charades.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
So this guy is lucky to be alive.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
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. Uh, you could be killed down there,
you could, you know, with the fumes and that water
that could that could seriously could kill you.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Well, I mean it was hot out. Let's say that.
I don't know that you would die. I mean you
could pretend. I mean, I don't know. I don't think
you could die, but you definitely are going to be
blue afterwards. I mean the chemical Uh do you get
that stuff on you? It's sick. So there's a guy
walking around Kansas.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Now how how was he unable to get out? So
he jumped in 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 3 (04:05):
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 like a bathtub, right, And
don't 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
(04:27):
a great interview from him. They washed him down with
the fire hose afterwards, and he went on his way.
So we don't know if this was a drunken bet
he lost, he picked the wrong team. Don't really know
other than he made the statement that he was after
his mountain dew.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Wow, 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 3 (04:59):
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
the euphemism. Maybe he wanted a little bit a different
kind of dude, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
This is great.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
So when the cops show up, they see him, then
they call the fire department and the fire department has
to come out with a saw with a chainsaw and
tear that that toilet seat up and that outhouse up
to get this guy out.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
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. He's in
the tank. And my guy looked at the cop and
the cop looked at him like are they crazy? Like
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they just heard the guy talking, right 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 backup
and then requested the fire department, uh, the Great Fire
(06:08):
Department of Kansas. And we want to thank the police
department for participating in and you know, helping this guy
out of the toilet.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, I guess, uh, you know, as happens, you know occasionally.
But did did did you make that guy pay for
the damage of that outhouse?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
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. No one had a Joe.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I'm glad we have you on the line separate if
you I always wondered how how people got into this business.
Did you start with one out house and then you
bought two, and then twenty and then thirty?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
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.
I've tipped over, lifted up in four cliffs, back trucks,
backed up and locked in, and so I know how
kind of how that guy feels in some ways.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Sure, how many do you want? By the way, how
many are in your business?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Well, we're now a nationwide business. You're a family owned business.
My dad's or a generation, my kids are part of
the business. So I mean, of course, you start with
one toilet and the truck and a lot of grit,
and you just work your way through it. And it
takes a team. It's not just me. I mean all
the drivers and all of the guys in the sales
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office and everything. There's a whole team of people that
really make it happen. And it's a big family.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
We try to we try to keep it that way.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
And real quickly. I don't know, I don't have any
idea what this costs. If I wanted to put an outhouse, uh,
you know, I I want to call Patriot portable restrooms.
You want to put one outside of my house because
there's a lot of homeless guys around, What does that
cost me?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
A week. We're similar to a gardener in the sense that,
you know, we we show up every week, we clean
it just like a gardener would. And uh and but
the difference is we take away the dirty stuff. They don't.
They don't take it away. And it's a couple of
hundred bucks. Okay, And you could secure yourself a portable
toilet for your event or or a construction site, or
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just to keep the gardener right out of your bushes.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
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 us below you.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, we got a lot of improvements. Yeah, we got
restroom trailers. Now we've got handicap trailers. 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
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played inside it.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
That's great. Have you had to expand the size of
it because of how big people have gotten in the
United States?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Oh? My, gosh. Yeah, I mean there's regulations. Of course,
everything's got our regulation and so but yeah, we do
have larger ones. We have the handicap ones for some reason.
I'm sorry. You need a little bit of space.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I could talk to you for an hour. One last,
last last questions. How many portable toilets or outhouses you own?
How many are in the Patriot game the.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Patriot across the nation. We've probably gotten five to ten thousand.
We're still a small family business and we're just we're
just slowly growing.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
So excellent. But I really appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I know that you've been pulled by every news station
and to make time for us is really cool.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Really appreciate man.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, no problem, longtime listener, man, Is that right? Oh? Okay,
I was delivering toilets listening to you keep me awake
while I was driving around delivering those.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
We'll keep promoting Patriot Portable Restrooms.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yep, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
All right, thanks, all right, take care. That's Joe Shelton.
He's the CEO and president of Patriot Portable Restrooms. What
great publicity for that guy and his company that 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 got to rely on your expertise here.
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What does a bottle of mountain dew go for fifty today?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Like nineteen bucks?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah, okay, guy jumped into a portable toilet.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I just don't think it was a literal mountain dew. Yeah,
you know what I think it was.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
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 rolls.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
What a night for that man? What night? God Almighty?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
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 4 (11:33):
Baby.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
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 2 (11:48):
Dean, how you bob? I needed that extra four minutes.
There 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 3 (12:00):
Go.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Oh is that right? You worked that far to sound?
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yeah, is that right?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Well we do we do design it. I mean we're
we're designing a house in Kentucky right now. But as
far as consults go, yeah, we'll drive by the way.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I call it the best fifteen dollars you could ever spend.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
H 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 Great? Right, 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,
(12:38):
it was written here for me. I was just reading
what you wrote.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Oh hey, let's say real quickly before we get into
you know, the topic today. Do you know anything about
these water mains and 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
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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 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 piping in your house, right okay,
and the reason is that you're like, well, okay, this
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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 leaking, 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. Right, but you know,
I know that you have you know, there's no dig
pipe repair where you shove a or a trench less
(13:44):
pipe lining as.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
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 you see the volume that goes through that pipe?
One hundred thousand gallons a second? Yeah, yeah, that's incredible.
It's a lot. Yeah, it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
I mean all this you want up to eighteen million
gallons of water gone, all gone, 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 2 (14:18):
Yeah. 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 I have
a little you know, I get 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. And
(14:41):
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,
good yeah, so yeah, so you know, and I guess
you could say, well, it improved my house because I
had something broken and now not. Okay. Yeah, But if
(15:02):
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. Why aren't houses getting substantially better. Right,
And the reason is very very simple. It's design that's
missing and the design question. And I'm not putting it
(15:25):
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 that everything in a
house eventually fails, right, some system fails, a pipe gets
worn out, 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
(15:46):
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
thing that we're replacing should it have been there in
the first place. That's interesting and we got to at
(16:07):
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 time to redo that. So
you're about to drop on the average house these days
(16:29):
about one hundred grand monty cabinets and countertops in a kitchen. Okay,
in doing that, if you don't stand back and say
something at and people are going to 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 3 (16:47):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Interesting? 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 kisch, you catch 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 1 (17:08):
That's great, Okay, get oh we got to 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. That's right, 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
(17:29):
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 whether he's on every Saturday and Sunday right
here on KFI in the mornings, and we'll come back
and talk to him.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Dean Sharp is with us.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Dean, before we get into those questions, I asked you,
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 2 (18:07):
You know, we're going to have it built.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
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 background in design, and she said,
(18:30):
why is the kitchen on the river? The living room
should be on the river. 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
(18:52):
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're not going to like this.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I said how much?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
He said, for everything, labor, parts, everything, seven hundred and
fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Whoam? Can you believe? All right, that's a hard no.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
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 2 (19:26):
I thought that was really cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And
you know 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 3 (19:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
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 2 (19:52):
But like the one big thing the bones. I'm just
going to say bones.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
You know, people get worried about like should I remodel
the kitchen before I sell the house? Oh, I guarantee
you're gonna spend all this money, and the one buyer
who's gonna walk in and want your house, you're gonna
hear them say, yeah, everything's great, but man, I hate
that kitchen. That thing's gonna go okay.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
And then well, and then what about buying a house?
What is the one thing when you look at 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 2 (20:20):
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 houses get and this is
a good thing for buyers. Right, houses get devalued all
the time because the drywalls in bad shape, or you know,
the window screens are torn, or you know whatever, rooms
are dingy and they haven't been cleaned, or you know,
(20:43):
these things are meaningless. These are not structural elements. These
are just blemishes that can get handled.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
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 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, you know,
(21:11):
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 1 (21:18):
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
(21:39):
just had to replace that for a couple hundred bucks
and we were fine.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah, pressure regulators, I guarantee you right now everybody who's
listening to us, half of the homes that are listening
to us have a bad price.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
And that's the cheapest thing you can do to help
your pipes in the house. Yeah, because you know, they
wear out, They wear out. They're actively restraining city pressure
for years in 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
(22:12):
over eighty psi, then your pressure is actually doing damage
to your system and your appliances. So you don't want
that good of pressure, and especially if you live in
the foothills where they have to pressure rise that water
to push it over the hill.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yeah. 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. Oh yeah, 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
(22:46):
about eight bucks.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Yeah right.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
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 I screw that on there
and find out. You open up the valve and find
out what your water pressure really is.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
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 2 (23:16):
Any as long as nothing else is running, any hose
bid 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
I appreciate you coming on. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
All right, Bud, All right, 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
(23:51):
be on for six hours.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I'd be listening.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Last night I watch I record two, four, five, seven,
nine eleven, and I watch all the news stations.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I'm addicted to it. I'll admit it.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
I'm addicted to local news. And I've met a couple
of people in local news. Mark Brown, who I think
is one of the outstanding anchors.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
He's on every night.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
He comes into my living room every night eleven o'clock
for a half hour, and I know the guy.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Text him. He texted me.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Back, Yeah, we've got a sort of a mild friendship going.
And he had a guy on last night that I
immediately grabbed my pen and wrote down the name Sweet
Red Peach Bakery in Pasadena, and it was a horrible story.
And mister Glover is with us, You with.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Us, sir.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Yeah, Danny Griffin.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Oh, Danny Griffin. I thought it was Danny Glover. I
thought you were named after the actor.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
I wish, I wish I wouldn't be in this position
to road chick. Hey, you got to cry when you
want to laugh? Or is it cry or laugh when
you want to cry?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Either one.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
It's got to be hotter than hell in there right now. Look,
you've gone, You've had a really, you know, tough. You
and your wife are really tough.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Eighteen months, you know.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Oh man, it's just undescribable. So you know, we're franchisees
of sweewear Peach, We know the founder, and so we
invested right and we chose this location because my family
on my great grandfather's side, the Turners, they've been in Pasadena.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Since eighteen ninety eight.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
And I have a little and I have a little
history in Pasadina myself, but it wasn't the best history.
I lived here as a seventh grader in nineteen eighty two,
but we lived in a domestic violence shelter with my
mom and brothers and sisters, and we lived in a
travel lodge here by Wilson Middle school. So you know,
I didn't think I was gonna come back full circle
(26:03):
as a business owner here and then to get delayed
because of the eating fires and see your whole customer
base go through what they went through. It's just been
a nightmare, and it keeps getting worse and worse.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yeah, I noticed that. You know, I'm familiar with the
sweet Red Peach in Inglewood. I know there's another one
in Carson, but you have the location in Pasadena, and man,
that looks like a terrific place. But so you had
the Altadena fire and that sort of delayed you and
probably cost you a lot of money. And then recently,
I think this past weekend or sometime earlier this week,
(26:39):
somebody went up and took all the copper piping out
of your air conditioning unit.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Yeah, I guess I'm in a row business because you know,
we got spider man, I don't know what's going on.
We've got guys going on roofs in the middle of
the night taking electric you know, LFE chance penitentiary chances
to get a copper coil. Evidently the copper coil is
a very expensive uh pieces those inside of an air
(27:10):
conditioning unit. I didn't know that. I guess I'm ready
for HBAC school now, I guess right. I'm trying because
I really want to cry, and I'm sitting in my
car with the AC on the only AC I can get.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Is the building owner going to help you out? Or
is that your responsibility to fix it?
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Well, it's a unique situation because the building owner they
put it up there for us and then started through
their UH subcontractor HBAC guy. But then most vcs or
tenants are responsible for the maintenance of the units. But
it's it's kind of like a great area because you
(27:54):
may be responsible for the maintenance of them, but are
you responsible for protecting them from analism?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Right?
Speaker 4 (28:01):
So I don't know if that's in the least. So
it's a great area. But they, you know, they they've
been really responsive and listening, and you know, we're losing customers, man.
I mean, I had a lady come in there yesterday
and said, I'll just come back tomorrow. Another lady said,
almost really hot in here. And you had to explain
almost go through the entire story for every customer that
(28:24):
comes to the door, and the more customers come in
the lobby the worst it gets because you're like, oh
my god, these poor people, and then they looking at
you and say, are you okay? You're sweating like a dog.
Do you need a power or they're asking me to
do am I home gred? It just looks really bad
serving people when you're looking like that, it looks really bad.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
So the guys steal the air conditioning or the copper
piping from the air conditioning unit on the.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Hottest day of the year.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Go figure, it's the worst. Yeah, we didn't notice it
because people complain and say it's too cold in there,
because bakries are supposed to be that that Chris aired
and nice, nice kind of chill and you get your
favorite dessert and it's like you get out of there.
But here it started to you know, the day went on,
the moves start changing with my customers, and I kind
(29:15):
of noticed it on their faces and then and then
the customer was apparently waving their face and I say,
oh wow, I go to the bag.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Hey is the woman is the woman that was on
the news last night with you? Is that your wife?
Speaker 4 (29:31):
It better be quickly for the U haul church and
get my stuff. There's my fiance. But he's been an
extended it's been extended. I'm gonna be at the extended
stay of the night. I won't hurry up.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Full circle in Pasadena, full circle.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
We mad to do the ceremony in here with the baby.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
That's great. I'm glad you kept your sense of humor
about this man.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
That is great that you that you're able to cause it's,
you know, just one thing after or another after another.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
It just sucks. So you set up a gofund me.
Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (30:06):
What we had to because you know, we didn't want to.
I was totally against it because you just see, you
know how some people just are now they're they become
insurance agents and now they're analysts and life coaches and
just everybody chiming in. And it's like people asking questions,
well what about your insurance, not knowing that it's liability
(30:29):
issue going on, and you just got to explain, man.
But as as we were contemplating it, seting it up
with washing dishes, like, man, this Greece is not coming off,
and then you notice not a hot water heat that
goes out. So she said you should just walk up
and leave. But yeah, we can't do that because we
(30:49):
don't have the finances to cover everything. We need to
stay here to sell, just to cover the things that
are rising. And then I go to the back and
look at the temperature to walk in and it's supposed
to be at forty degrees and it's going up. I'm like,
wait a minute. Numbers don't lie. People do. And I'm
looking him, I'm like, wait a minute. I said, oh
(31:10):
my god, the AC is not the walking is not
supposed to work in these type of temperatures because the
AC is been doing a day and a night is cool.
So we're overworking all the equipment here. So things are
failing because of the heating here. And then we had
a doctor come in today and she said, this is
not faith in here. You guys. You guys know heat
(31:30):
stroke symptoms.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
So they're like, well you don't. We don't want you
here by yourself. And I don't want to chase money
and put your life on the line, you know, because
I'm a little season. I'm fifty five, and it's like
I'm gonna ask athlete a unov for Jerry Tartanian and
I played at Cuinchall High School. Wow basketball. But but
I'm a little older now. I looked in the mirror
saw Gray. I'm like, Wow, you don't want to be
laid out up in there trying to keep this business open.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
You know, it reminds me Danny.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
We did a story a couple of weeks ago on
in Garden Grove where that tank blew up or almost
blew up, and you know, I'm sure you follow that story,
and the fire department got so many people calling them
suggesting on what to do with it. They finally asked
us and the news reporters, hey, can you go on
the air and ask these people to stop calling with
their suggestions on how to put this out? You're you're
(32:19):
going through the same thing on on on gofund me,
where everybody's got a suggestion on what you should do.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Well.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Those things are on the Instagram page that we looked
at a couple of the comments and I let the
let my fiance handle that. She's just phenomenal with words
and she knows how to deal with people. I do too,
But I think a lot of people are more people
are really sympathetic for when people love. You know, our
ladies in this country are just wonderful and holding up
the man. They the best and I just think I
(32:49):
just let her just run with this. Man. She's phenomenal,
she's beautiful, She's easier on the eyes than me. That's
why I'm glad she's doing the radio. I mean, I'll
take one where they can't see me. Danny.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
We're going to keep promoting the hell out of this
and keep following this story.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Man, you need a break.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
I do, Man, I want to take a break. But
if you take a break anywhere past fifty miles, that
may say you're using the funds for that.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Right.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
They come in here and see all everything failing, man.
So we just trying to keep thinking perspective and keep
from crying in We're believers, man, We believe in our
Lord Jesus Christ, and we understand that you cannot have
a testimony without a test And my life has been
full circle, man. You know, I was in a Foster
Home and Compton in the eighth grade. Then I became
(33:33):
a teacher around the corner from the Foster Home, man,
and it's like I'm back full circle in a city
where I lived and not the best circumstances, and now
have a business, a business here and things are not
going with the best circumstances, but God is gonna have
to victory at the end. I'm a faith guy. My
name is Daniel. My mother named me that for a reason.
(33:53):
I'm perseverance and determined. So we're gonna get through this. Man.
I just thank the community, Saint Gabriel community. We've got
people driving here from La Oh, Good Tom down, people
buying stuff. And you know, if you don't want to
donate anything, or if you're questioning something, or if you
don't believe something, coming here. Feel the heat by cupcake.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Come come feel the heat because the heat is real.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
The copycakes are great.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Come feel the heat with me.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
And bring me a sweet team, bring me some lemonade.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
That's you all day.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Let's you be your slogan, sweet red Peach, Come feel
the heat. We're live on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
This is KFI.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
This has been the Conway Show on demand on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
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Speaker 1 (34:34):
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