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Pest Control Tips with Doug Dufur · Garden America Saturday

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Garden America, the country's most listened to gardening show,
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  Speaker 1: are your hosts, Brian Maine, John Bagnasco, and Tiger Palafox
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  Speaker 1: on the Garden America Radio and Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: Well, welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends.
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  Speaker 2: We're glad you could attend. Come in side, come inside,
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  Speaker 2: Welcome once again to Garden America. Happy weekend to you.
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  Speaker 2: The boys are back in town, back in studio from
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  Speaker 2: the iHeartMedia and Entertainment Studio, San Diego, California. It's John
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  Speaker 2: Bagnasco Tiger Palafox. I think I'm Brian Main, Tiger Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: We've been talking irrigation this morning before we went on
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  Speaker 2: the air.
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  Speaker 3: I got that how much we need it because we
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  Speaker 3: don't have any rain?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we need irrigation because of this. No, John, how
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  Speaker 2: is your irrigation?
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  Speaker 4: Well, Tiger set it up so bad mouth to be
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  Speaker 4: right here. It works well except for are one area
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  Speaker 4: because of the wind.
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  Speaker 2: The wind.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, well, but but you won't you, won't you. I
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  Speaker 4: don't think you can. Guess why the wind made it
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  Speaker 4: not work.
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  Speaker 2: Guess why the wind.
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  Speaker 4: Tiles on my roof. The bluis cementile off the roof
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  Speaker 4: came crashing down right on a sprinkler head and broke.
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  Speaker 3: All right, wait, but that's the reason why it doesn't work.
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  Speaker 3: There's a broken sprinkler.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because because the wind, the wind knocked the cement shingle.
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  Speaker 2: Let's back up. The wind knocked off a cement shingle
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  Speaker 2: and your home is how old?
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  Speaker 4: Three years?
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  Speaker 2: Kind of give any warranty or guarantee on that roof.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I have to look at up.
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  Speaker 3: Against against tornadoes.
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  Speaker 2: That's a strong wind.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I was thinking. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 4: I have one tree that Tiger planet, that was my
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  Speaker 4: favorite tree that is blown over and I haven't stood
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  Speaker 4: back up. And the reason I haven't stood back stood
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  Speaker 4: it back up is Tiger says he's going to come
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  Speaker 4: over something. He's waiting room, which no, which the I
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  Speaker 4: did have to stake the bogan via back up. But
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  Speaker 4: the one you plant, the pink trumpet tree, Oh, there's.
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  Speaker 2: No place to tie it to support it in the meantime,
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  Speaker 2: you just.
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  Speaker 4: It's it is tied, but everything's blown over.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's there's been some winds out there, like yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know John saying.
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  Speaker 4: That area along my driveway everything was planted with a jackcamera,
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  Speaker 4: so I think the roots only go down so far.
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  Speaker 3: They're in this.
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  Speaker 2: Little bowl under the jack camera effect, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And then you know, speaking of wind though, you know
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  Speaker 3: when we were traveling through Europe, and you know, you
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  Speaker 3: see it when you travel kind of everywhere where they'll
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  Speaker 3: have those hedge rows and they're all just leaning. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: because you know whatever wind direction is the most common,
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  Speaker 3: and it just blows the hedge or the tree in
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  Speaker 3: one direction. That's that's amazing, you know, because it takes
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  Speaker 3: a lot, but they'll they'll do it.
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  Speaker 4: We don't use hedgerows here, but that's everywhere you go, right,
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  Speaker 4: Yeah in Europe. Yeah, live.
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  Speaker 3: Instead of fences, they put up the separation.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and put up fences if they have vegetables.
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  Speaker 2: How is your week besides things blowing off the roof now?
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  Speaker 2: And then.
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to think, I you know, I I felt
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  Speaker 4: like I was having withdrawals because you had a whole
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  Speaker 4: week where you could not work outside. Oh, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: what's the point. Everything's just blowing everywhere. Yeah, don't. I
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  Speaker 4: can't pick things up because the wind just blows them
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  Speaker 4: down again. So yesterday, finally the wind stopped blowing, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to assess the damage and help things recover,
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  Speaker 4: standing back up, started planning again.
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  Speaker 3: You know those things that come up through your life
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  Speaker 3: with age that all of a sudden you hit things
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  Speaker 3: and you're like, oh, I'm just getting old. I think
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  Speaker 3: this is one of those times for me in the
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  Speaker 3: sense of, you know, I'm outside, there's the hot, dry air, right,
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  Speaker 3: and my eyes are just like killing me. Like I
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  Speaker 3: just cannot keep them wet.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean, something that had did not occur.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah before, when there would be Santa Ana wins in
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  Speaker 3: San Diego, it didn't really bother me, you know. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's just dry air, hot dry air. And
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  Speaker 3: now when I walk outside during a a you know,
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  Speaker 3: Santa Anna or a dry spell, I have I like,
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  Speaker 3: I never bought eye drops before, and now I have.
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  Speaker 5: To buy eye drops.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know that I cannot survive with that education.
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  Speaker 2: I remember, I don't know when it was, but I
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  Speaker 2: would start sneezing, and then like cold sneeze again and
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  Speaker 2: maybe a dare so later sneeze and oh, well, you're
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  Speaker 2: you've got an allergy. You're allergic to something. I go,
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  Speaker 2: I've never had an aur never been allergic to anything. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you look into all of a sudden, it could just start.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, well, what is it? No, you got to
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  Speaker 2: kind of figure it out. It's like, yeah, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: like one of those things the trigger. Careful about the
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  Speaker 2: eye drops you buy over the counter.
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  Speaker 4: You want refreshed plus, okay, don't use Okay, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: My eye doctor said, do not buy most anything off
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  Speaker 2: the shelf. Really yeah, and John is right, you know.
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  Speaker 4: What fresh plus is off the shelf, but it's a
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  Speaker 4: little more expensive.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a little more I think accepted with doctors.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, okay, because putting any any eye drop in
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  Speaker 2: your eye could be detrimental. Okay, when's the last time
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  Speaker 2: you went to the eye doctor.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a while. Yeah, I need to go back.
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  Speaker 2: I guarantee.
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  Speaker 5: What are they going to tell me though, that you
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  Speaker 5: need that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, because because it's a slow process and
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  Speaker 2: you don't even realize it. And then so the day
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  Speaker 2: that you do get the glasses. It's it's amazing. It's
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  Speaker 2: an epiphany, you'll say, because I remember I said, does
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  Speaker 2: everyone see it like this? They go, wait a minute, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's normal. Here's one for you. Do you drive at
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  Speaker 2: night at all?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, the next time we're driving at night and there's
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  Speaker 2: an overpass up ahead of you and there's the green
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  Speaker 2: free waist sign, look at it and see how close
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  Speaker 2: you have to be until you can read it.
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  Speaker 3: Until I can read it, uh huh, And then I'll
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  Speaker 3: go to the eye doctor and then I'll be able
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  Speaker 3: to read it two miles away.
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  Speaker 2: I guarantee you've got the eye problem. Yeh yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: don't you think he does?
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  Speaker 4: You know I missed my ophthalmology class?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah you do.
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  Speaker 3: Do you wear it? Do you wear glasses or anything?
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  Speaker 2: Context? Not?
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  Speaker 4: Only do I don't work context?
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  Speaker 2: Or you don't.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't worn context for ten years.
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  Speaker 2: And you have you have an eye of surgery done?
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  Speaker 2: Didn't you?
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  Speaker 3: Or do you just have good eyes?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 2: No, nobody has good eyes over forty.
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  Speaker 4: So I had lens replacement. Okay, So they is that cataract? Well,
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  Speaker 4: I had a because I needed to have a cataract operation.
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  Speaker 4: They did the lens replacement at the same time. They
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  Speaker 4: said you'll never get cataracts again. And because of that,
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  Speaker 4: I don't need glasses to read, so I can wow
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  Speaker 4: read close.
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  Speaker 5: So you had a surgery to fix everything.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so therefore you know contacts, no glasses and
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  Speaker 3: why do you wear glasses over getting a surgery?
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  Speaker 2: Brain easier. I don't want to get the surgery. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to poke around my eyes.
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  Speaker 4: Just him to do one eye at a time.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Dana had it done. She had it done
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  Speaker 2: and she works.
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  Speaker 4: It happens as you become a pirrate r.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Dana can see far away, she can see close up.
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  Speaker 2: I would say, what does this say? Here? Read this?
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  Speaker 2: Why get glass?
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  Speaker 4: You know?
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  Speaker 2: Why do that when I can have somebody read it
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  Speaker 2: to me? But I just like the glasses put them
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  Speaker 2: on learning that.
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  Speaker 5: Why why should I so?
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  Speaker 2: Any medical questions on our Facebook page here Garden America.
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  Speaker 3: America health Care, Yeah, healthcare share.
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  Speaker 4: Hopefully the health questions will refer to plants. Yeah, plant
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  Speaker 2: So but what if you have now this time of
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  Speaker 2: the year, I'm not sure how prevalent it is. What
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  Speaker 2: if you have you're dealing with pests. Do we have
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  Speaker 2: an answer for pest problems? Tiger?
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  Speaker 3: That's why this show exists.
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  Speaker 2: Because our guest today is going to be.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna be talking with Josh with Josh is
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  Speaker 3: with Dougs Bugs, a pest control company here in San Diego.
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  Speaker 3: But we're gonna be talking about like critters were talking
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  Speaker 3: about past. We're gonna talking about a lot of things.
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  Speaker 2: It will relate to almost everybody listening or watching.
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  Speaker 5: I guarantee, I think John's got the quote of the week?
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  Speaker 5: Cueued up and ready.
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  Speaker 2: Do you ever have the quote of the week?
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  Speaker 4: I do the quotes from garden writer Josephine Noose and
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  Speaker 4: she said, anyone who thinks that gardening begins in the
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  Speaker 4: spring and ends in the fall, it's missing. The best
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  Speaker 4: part of the whole year for gardening begins in January
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  Speaker 4: with the dream.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, Well, let's see. The dream for those under six
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  Speaker 2: feet of snow.
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  Speaker 5: Is to get out and guard those of us out here.
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  Speaker 2: We can still pitdle around in the garden. I know
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  Speaker 2: you do every day. Well you I try to get
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  Speaker 2: out there and do something, what you know, like my
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  Speaker 2: choice or words filter himself?
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  Speaker 3: Y is he totally filtered.
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  Speaker 4: I did you know.
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  Speaker 2: What it is he cleaned. He never used to clean
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  Speaker 2: the filter, I said, John, it's like a fish tank,
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  Speaker 2: or it's like water. You gotta clean the filter otherwise
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  Speaker 2: it's going to go right through and you can tell
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  Speaker 2: it his filter is clean. We got about a minute Togo, So.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, but yeah, Josh is gonna be talking about critters.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about past you know, and how they
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  Speaker 3: associate with the garden. Because people don't always think like
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  Speaker 3: when they have ants, when they have spiders, when they
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  Speaker 3: have all these things. Sometimes we can start attributing it
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  Speaker 3: to what's happening in the yard, and why then it's
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  Speaker 2: All right, we are back after that break here on
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  Speaker 2: Guarding America, kicking off your weekend. Thank you for joining us,
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  Speaker 2: taking time out to talk a little gardening. And right now,
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  Speaker 2: Tiger with Josh, we're going to talk about those darn pests.
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  Speaker 2: So Josh is ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we have Josh joining us with Dougs Bugs. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: San Diego based pest control company servicing all the San
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  Speaker 3: Diego County for your termite, spider, ants, critter problems. Josh,
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  Speaker 3: good morning, Thank you for joining us.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, thank you for having me. It's great to be here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so Josh, tell us a little bit more
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  Speaker 3: about Dougs bugs. I mean, you know, I think we
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  Speaker 3: kind of have an idea of what pest control companies
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  Speaker 3: do for the most part, But you know, what are
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  Speaker 3: some other things that people don't always associate with a
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  Speaker 3: pest control company that maybe you can inform us about.
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  Speaker 7: Well, it's probably easier just to talk about like the
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  Speaker 7: services that we do offer. We do, you know, just
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  Speaker 7: like the general treatments that you're probably familiar with, like
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  Speaker 7: you had said, the ants, spiders, roaches, things like that.
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  Speaker 7: We also do provide both commercial and residential treatments. So
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  Speaker 7: if it's not just your home but your business that's
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  Speaker 7: being affected, we can.
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  Speaker 4: Help you out there.
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  Speaker 7: We do provide full termite treatments. We do like subterranean jobs,
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  Speaker 7: We do the fumigation tenting around homes, and then we
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  Speaker 7: also dabble into some of the more specialized treatments as well,
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  Speaker 7: so that would be things like rodent control, gopher control,
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  Speaker 7: we treat for bed bugs, treat for mosquitoes, some of
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  Speaker 7: those kind of more niche and difficult things to target
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  Speaker 7: as far as like what we specialized in. Though if
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  Speaker 7: I had, if I had to pick any one thing
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  Speaker 7: that I'd say we stand out at doing, it's actually
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  Speaker 7: just getting the job done right the first time. I
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  Speaker 7: know that might seem kind of shocking to hear is
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  Speaker 7: like a specialty, but I feel like it's it's actually
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  Speaker 7: not that common for companies to really nail that point right.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Josh, let me ask you a question, because you know,
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  Speaker 2: you talked about all the things you do, and something
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  Speaker 2: that did not come to my mind until you mentioned
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  Speaker 2: it were bedbugs. Now that grosses a lot of people out.
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  Speaker 2: It's very creepy. Is it a big problem? Or bedbugs
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  Speaker 2: really something that a lot of people deal with or
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  Speaker 2: that you see on a daily basis.
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  Speaker 7: Definitely not a daily basis. No, So California being a
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  Speaker 7: bit more of a friendly climate outside, you know, things
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  Speaker 7: don't just have to live indoors to survive winters here.
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  Speaker 7: You know, it very rarely dips below freezing and so
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  Speaker 7: a lot of bugs can survive outdoors. Now, bedbugs are
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  Speaker 7: specially adapted to live indoors, but it tends to be
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  Speaker 7: worse in areas where humans are more concentrated, so like
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  Speaker 7: metropolitan areas. Not to name drop a state too hard,
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  Speaker 7: but Baltimore or not. Baltimore, Maryland is apparently like a
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  Speaker 7: haven for for bed bugs, but they are they are
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  Speaker 7: very real pests. It's actually kind of unfortunate because the
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  Speaker 7: way that a lot of like sciences and pest control operate,
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  Speaker 7: you know, a lot of funding and efforts and things
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  Speaker 7: go to thwart you know, critters that are bad for us,
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  Speaker 7: like things that spread disease or could destroy your house
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  Speaker 7: or something like that. And bed bugs are a little
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  Speaker 7: bit different in the sense that they actually don't spread
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  Speaker 7: any diseases. There's not a single pathogen that they are
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  Speaker 7: known to spread. And really what's what's terrible about bedbugs
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  Speaker 7: is the impacts they have on your mental health. You know,
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  Speaker 7: if you if you can't sleep at night, you can't
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  Speaker 7: function right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're just sitting there and you think these things
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  Speaker 3: are crossing. You're exhausted, you're starting to so loose it.
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  Speaker 2: And if all the places to have to deal with that,
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  Speaker 2: your bed is supposed to be safe. Yeah, and that
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  Speaker 2: is that is very creepy. Hey real quickly, John, and
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  Speaker 2: we do we have questions coming in.
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  Speaker 3: We have a lot of questions. Yeah, we haven't even
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  Speaker 3: really introduced Josh yet, so we Josh, just to queue
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  Speaker 3: you up.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people you know, on.
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  Speaker 3: Our on our Facebook chat. It just started blowing up
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  Speaker 3: with questions. But I do want to like give us
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of moment to be able to kind
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  Speaker 3: of introduce you and a little bit about you and
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  Speaker 3: your background. You have this passion for pest control, which
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  Speaker 3: you know, I mean is really amazing because we need people.
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  Speaker 3: We need people like you to help us and you know,
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  Speaker 3: help us understand like what you just said. You know,
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  Speaker 3: yeah you don't want beg bugs, but you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's not the end of the world when people think
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  Speaker 3: it is you. We can come out, we can help you.
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  Speaker 3: Where did this passion for pest control come from? Josh?
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  Speaker 7: You know, it's hard to to pick any one particular
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  Speaker 7: thing that made me passionate about it. It's kind of
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  Speaker 7: more of just it just checks like every box for me.
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  Speaker 7: And I'm kind of a weird guy where you know,
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  Speaker 7: I don't I can't. I could never imagine sitting behind
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  Speaker 7: a desk eight hours a day typing at a computer,
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  Speaker 7: doing spreadsheets or anything like that. Like I'm the kind
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  Speaker 7: of guy that just needs to be outside doing stuff
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  Speaker 7: with my hands, and that very much is this job.
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  Speaker 7: It's a very very hands on career where you're you know,
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  Speaker 7: you're working directly with animals, You're working directly with like
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  Speaker 7: heavy machinery, chemicals, and most of all this is probably
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  Speaker 7: what surprises most people people it's very much a customer
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  Speaker 7: service job. You are not gonna dodge human conversations by
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  Speaker 7: by being in pest control. It's very much about getting
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: along with people and you know, getting them to give
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: you the right information and then providing solutions for them. Yeah,
• 16:57
  Speaker 7: so all of that just kind of checks every box
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: for me. Some of my background is I went to
• 17:03
  Speaker 7: I actually did go to college. I have a bit
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: of a unique opportunity to have a little bit more
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: of like an educated perspective when it comes to pest control.
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: The degree I got was a Bachelor of Science and Biology.
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: I wanted to study like wildlife sciences and animals and
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: things like that. I had difficulty getting a job coming
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: out of college, and lo and behold, pest control is
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: always hiring. If I actually had to pick one particular
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: item that made me go into pest control, as funny
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: as this sounds, it was it was for health insurance.
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: You know, when you're a broke college student and you
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: you haven't found work in a year and you need
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: health insurance and it's kind of like a big, big
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: beacon attracting you.
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: To the job.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, that that is great. Hey, you know we all,
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: we all, you know, have our breaks in other ways
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: or not. You gotta do what you're got to do, exactly,
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: So let's let's jump right in. I know we have
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: a lot to cover, Josh, but we also, like I said,
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: got a lot of questions that came in.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna be here for a while, Josh.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: And Uh and Tanya. I'm gonna read this question because
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: I think it actually hits a few different aspects of
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: maybe uh pest and pest control that we can associate
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: with here. And the question is I've lived on my
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: street for sixty years and never had a problem had
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: this problem before. There has been an explosion of crickets.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: When they were outside, we could deal with them, but
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: lately they've been coming inside. I have been using cicket
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: sticky traps and getting good results, but also thinking how
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: bad this would be if I wasn't catching so many.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: My question is why so many? And why are they
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: coming inside? Now? Any suggestions besides sticky traps though we
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: have had we're happy with those results. So so, you know,
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: I think that you know, this is a great question
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: because you know, yeah, it's directed towards crickets, but I
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: think that this happens with other varieties of past through
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: the year or there are probably big years and bad
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: years associated with these pets, so you know, kind of Oh, Josh,
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: and just let you know, we only have about a
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: minute left of this spot, so we can get started.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: But I'm going to cut in and we're going to
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: take a small break.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no pressure.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: Josh should probably mention it to the Tanyas and San
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Jose perfect.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna think.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: You know what, why don't we just take that break now? Okay, Hey, Josh,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: hang in there. As far as the break gonna be
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: a quick break for Facebook Live a bit longer for
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: a biz talk radio. We all got to come back
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: with Josh because again we've touched a very hot topic
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: with our people on Facebook Live this morning. A lot
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: of questions, so hang in there, we will get to
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: your questions. It is a Garden in America Brian Main
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: and John Bagnascar or Tiger Peala Fox taking a break
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: for our friends on biz Talk Radio. Stay with it.
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: Welcome back to the Garden America Radio show with Brian,
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: John and Tiger.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Well, welcome back from that break on biz Talk Radio
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Facebook Live. Thank you for tuning in a lot of people. Again,
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: they're very interested in this topic because after all, it
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: touches most everybody who's tuned in. So again, glad to
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: have Josh on board, Tiger as we continue and go
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: back to the questions and addressing Josh.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Josh, So our question came from Tanya and San
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Jose and had to do with a large population or
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: a large influx of crickets. So you know, I think
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: that you could probably take this topic and run with
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: it with a few different ways.
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: So Josh, go ahead, Oh man, I already have so
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: many loads of Actually I actually first want to kind
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: of segue off of that because it'll it'll loop back
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: around the same topic. So what what you're experiencing right
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: now with the crickets is actually really widespread in San
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: Diego right now, but with a slightly different pest. So
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: if you've noticed, especially over the last few months, the
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: temperature has dropped significantly, and it is still dropping quite
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: a bit. You know, it'll be seventy seventy five during
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: the day and then it's hitting like forty degrees at night.
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: When that happens, the exterior of your home is no
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: longer suitable for a lot of living things. And actually,
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: in San Diego right now, unfortunately, a lot of homeowners
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: are discovering that they have these issues with their homes
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: where there's screens missing in their crawl space, vents, or
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: their plumbing is not perfectly sealed off under their kitchen sink,
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: and actually rodents as of recently have been like the
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: biggest headache for us. Not headache, I mean, it's business.
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: It's good for us, but it's almost getting ridiculous where
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: we are like a very small company. So for us
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: to get like a new call for business is a
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: bigger deal than you know, one of these larger brands
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: getting just a single call for business. But I would
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: say on average, I've been getting at least one new
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: account a day with just rodent issues and nothing else. Wow,
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: And that's never that's never happened. I mean I've been
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: I've been in the industry for almost seven years, and
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: in that time, I've never seen like this this high
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: of a volume of that issue taking place. But to
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: circle back around to the crickets, it's kind of the
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: same thing. You know, bugs are. They're not warm blooded
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: like us. They're cold blooded, so the ambient temperature kind
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: of directs them. It basically makes their life decisions for them.
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: If it's too cold outside, they they will not survive,
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: and so they need to come in. So for the
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: most part, the probably the reason why you're seeing crickets.
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry again, I think you said in your garage
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: and they're starting to get into your home.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah. No, they were just outside our home and now
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: they're actually coming in.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right right.
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: So a lot of that just has to do with
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: very like rudimentary exclusion issues, things like you know, making
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: sure your garage door sits flush across your driveway, installing
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: like door sweeps and metal skirting at the bottom of doorframes.
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: Generally speaking, if you can get things sealed up to
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: about a quarter inch or less, that will prevent pretty
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: much anything from entering your home.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Okay, And you're saying as a general rule, whether it's
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: crickets or mice or you know, fleas or cockroaches or
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: any of these things. You're saying, right now, the temperatures
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: are getting low, they're looking for warmth, They're going to
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: try to get in your house. There's things you can
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: do to keep them out. But nonetheless, during this time
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: of the year, you're probably fighting on all those aspects
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: of it that because they're trying to get in the
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: house to get away from the cold.
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, there is a lot though, that can be
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: done to prevent that. It just you know, it fires
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: a lot of prep work.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Uh huh. And what about what about some of the
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: products that maybe you guys use. I mean, is there
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: is there things designed that are to be almost act
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: as a barrier outside the home that you know, you
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: guys can apply and use.
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: Oh man, yeah, that is That's also a really funny question,
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: uh to touch on, because I feel like, uh, chemicals
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: and really just testicides in general are a very misunderstood
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: topic when it comes to test control. Maybe maybe this
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: will only touch with a younger audience. But when it
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: comes to invertebrates, so like bugs, spiders, insects, things like that.
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: Excuse me. A lot of the times it it's almost
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: like you're you're playing Pokemon, where you know these things
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: have certain behaviors or characteristics, and you just have to
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: find a product that is going to take advantage of
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: those behaviors or characteristics. So, for example, you know, if
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: you have like an ant issue, you would not use
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: this same products to treat an ant issue as you
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: would like a scorpion issue, because they're just two radically
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: different bugs. Ants are more numerous. You're gonna have way
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: more ants on your property than you are scorpions. I
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: don't care who you are, where you live. That's that's
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: just a fact, we hope.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: So if you if you ever go to a property
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: that has more score than ants, let me know, Josh,
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: because I will never go there.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: That's great.
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: But as far as crickets go, though, it's I'm not
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: gonna lie to you. Crickets are kind of easy in
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: the sense that they really are susceptible to most common products.
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: I'm not sure if you want me to like name
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: drop anything that I would use in particular, I'm a
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: big fan of a product called Alpine WSG. It's not
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: something that's going to be available to most of the
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: general public, I think, especially in California, you're not likely
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: to get your hands on it, and it is a
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: little bit pricier as far as pesticides go. But there's
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: just so many things that I love about it. It's
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: a very diverse product. You can use it for a lot.
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: It has very few use restrictions, which in California is
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: a really big deal about. The only thing you don't
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: want to do with it is spray your plants with it,
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: as it is like a systemic poison. It will poison
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: like pollinators and anything that drinks from like the flowers
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: of a plant. But like, aside from that, it's it's
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: one of the lower impact products as far as like
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: your own health and safety is concerned, and it will
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: definitely get rid of some crickets.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: No, I think that's great information to share because you know,
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: even you know, we have people listening all over the country.
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: All over the world.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah that you know, if you know they call up
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: a pest control company, that gives them the ability to say, hey,
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: you know, what are you going to be using and
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: you know, if they say some other product be like, oh,
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: have you ever heard of what was it called Alpine
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: WG WSG?
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: It's w Alpine water Soluble granule.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you'd be like, hey, would you you ever consider
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: using this? And they can go, oh, you know, yeah,
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: you know so, So it gives our listeners a little
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: bit of U information on it.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: So cause you know, one of the first questions, Josh,
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: you know this year for time and time again, well
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: is it safe? Can I use it around you know,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: my pets and my kids and me? And and that
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: that's the first question. We deal with that in our
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: industry in terms of fertilizers and so on and so forth,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: organic versus chemicals as well. So obviously top of mind
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: with your customers. Correct.
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, And actually to help maybe further answer that question,
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: if you ever ask an exterminator whether or not the
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: product they're applying is safe, their answer, by law has
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: to always be no, there, but just by definition, right,
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: and you have to peak like a lawyer. Yeah, Oh,
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry, go.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Ahead, No, no, no, you're you're right. I mean, by definition,
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: the reason why you're using.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: It because it's kill It's like this is it safe
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: to drive your car.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: No, no, it's a little different.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: But yeah, so Josh, just just to piggyback onto the
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: cricket conversation. If they do get into your homes, what
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: what are they eating? What are crickets looking for?
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say that's one of the questions
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: that's coming up now. I mean, aside from escaping, every question.
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: You're gonna ask me, is I'm gonna have like some
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: something to add where I'm like, well, it could be this,
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: or it could be with with crickets, it doesn't quite
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: matter as much with some other bugs. But the species
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: is actually very important. There are types of crickets that
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: just simply won't invade your home. They have everything that
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: they need outside and they're not and they're large, and
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: they're not likely to come indoors. As far as what
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: most crickets are eating, though, they typically are just feeding
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: on like grain products. They'll eat like the seeds from grasses,
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: they'll eat like decaying plant matter. They kind of think
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: of them as almost like herbivore scavengers, where they'll just
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: eat whatever kind of plant material is available to them.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Got it. And and so when the weather warms up
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: is it a natural thing for now the population to
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: decrease inside your home because now they can be outside
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: and they don't want to come inside your home. Is
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: that kind of a natural cycle, Or once they're in there,
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: you've got to get rid of them because they'll just
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: keep coming back.
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: Again. Man, it's like a yes and no to that.
• 29:19
  Speaker 7: So with bugs being cold blooded, what you're gonna notice is,
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: and this is true anywhere, it actually happens less so
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: here in California because our weather is more tempered throughout
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: the year. But what you'll notice is a natural bell
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: curve exists where you know, in the colder months in
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: the winter, there's very little bug activity outside, and that's
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: in direct response to the temperature. When things are colder,
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: bugs actually live longer lives. They don't need as much food,
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: they live very slow, kind of methodical lives, and then
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: when it heats up there that kind of flip flops
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: where they instead become very active. They consume a lot
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: of resources and they then reproduce really quickly. So you
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: may end up with fewer crickets inside your home during
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: the summer, but that's because there's gonna be way more
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: outside your home.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: Got it. Hey, we're gonna have to take another break
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: right now, Josh, we get back, we'll continue talking with
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: Josh from Doug's Bug Company.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Doug's Bug Company, Thank you Josh for being here. And
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: again those questions comments keep on coming. We've got to
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: John and Tiger monitoring those questions. We'll get to as
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: many as we can, hopefully all of them before the
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: show's over. Do stay with us, going to take a break.
• 30:32
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• 30:35
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• 30:38
  Speaker 6: Re Welcome back to the Garden America Radio Show with Brian,
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: John and Tiger.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: All right, we are back. Thank you boy. Great show
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: in terms of the interest today, so we'll do our
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: best to keep you informed with one of our experts
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Josh and again Tiger. We've got questions, we've got comments,
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: so let's get back to it.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think that we could probably go on
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: hours about one subject, but I do want to keep
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Josh moving because we do have a few other other
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: things to touch. So, you know, Josh, you were saying,
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: you know, wintertime bug population inside less outside, summertime normally outside,
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: you know, and less inside you know, maybe in a
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: few questions down the road, we'll get back to ants,
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: because ants in the summertime come inside whole nother issue.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: But we do have a question from our listener, Lilah,
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: and she mentioned gopher ConL We mentioned gopher control, but
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: do you also do rabbit or squirrel? And if not?
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Why so you know what what other pest do you guys?
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: What other critters do you guys do?
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: Josh?
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: Well, actually, so what you're describing is kind of an
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: offshoot of pest control where there are like there's licensing
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: and permits that we can get to do what's called
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: live removal or live trapping, and that would be the
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: approach with an animal that's considered to not be a pest.
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: And believe it or not, there's actually a large number
• 32:44
  Speaker 7: of animals that kind of fit that criteria here in California.
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: One that I know people are never thrilled to hear
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: about our vols. They're kind of like this lawn test
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: that will chew up your grass, and at least legally speaking,
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: in California, they are not consider to be pested that
• 33:01
  Speaker 7: you cannot hire us to come out and remove a
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: bunch of them or kill them or anything like that.
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: But through the California Fish and Wildlife you can get
• 33:10
  Speaker 7: what's called a trappers permit, and then that allows you
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: to do live removal of things like possums, skunks, raccoons,
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: I don't know, bobcats if you get lucky enough, you know,
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: there's all sorts of crazy things that can end up
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: in someone's yard.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: And so do you guys do any of those services
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: or no?
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Man?
• 33:32
  Speaker 7: That's that is something that actually a lot of customers
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: have been asking me about for quite a while. I
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: technically do not have that license yet, and I keep
• 33:40
  Speaker 7: saying I'm gonna get it, and it just keeps getting
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: pushed back. That being said, though, you know, I'm I'm I'm.
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: I was born in Florida, So I'm down to just
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: wrestle any animals that you have. I can always show
• 33:53
  Speaker 7: up with and just glove up and remove something from
• 33:55
  Speaker 7: a cross space. That's not an issue. I just currently
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: don't have the licensing to track anything.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Well, in Florida, you've got the black panther right.
• 34:05
  Speaker 7: Right, And that's that's why I think I'm not scared
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: of anything we have here exactly.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I watched Uh, what was that shoe, tiger something,
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: tiger king.
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know what happens down there.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: So, but regarding gophers, because we you know, we we've
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: talked a lot about gophers, gopher John John's what's your
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: count up to sixty seven? Now sixty four with the
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: gopher hawk over here. John's been very successful.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: But I'm open to other ideas. You've got any other ideas?
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, is there is there anything that you've run into,
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: Josh that maybe is successful and just just the idea
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: of keeping them away, you know, maybe you know, I
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: get it, like once they're there, trapping, baiting, poisons, whatever
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: it is. But I mean, is there anything out there
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: that you're like, hey, if you start with this, you
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: just won't ever have the problem.
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah, So that's that is also a little bit of
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: a difficult question to answer. So everyone always wants a
• 35:05
  Speaker 7: like an easy solution, right, They want to know that
• 35:07
  Speaker 7: they can just put X y Z outside their home. Uh,
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: and it's just going to prevent unwanted things from coming
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: on at the property exactly. But but this is a
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: this is the way you have to think about it
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: is you know, these these animals aren't just you know,
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: they don't just decide, Oh, I'm craving you know, your
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: potatoes that you're growing in your backyard, So I'm just
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: gonna decide to kind of waltz on over and eat
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: these Like these are animals that are very much fighting
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: for their lives, like they we sometimes forget, you know,
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: because we get to live in like these nice safe
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: homes that the world outside is not always so friendly.
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: So you know, if you were starving to death, like
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: you know, you're on death's door, you're not going to
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: make it much longer. And there's a cheeseburger on a
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: plate right in front of you, but there's a real
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: nasty smell, you know, in a perimeter around that that cheeseburger.
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: Are you not going to eat the cheeseburger because of that?
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're going to take it chance? Yeah yeah, yeah, you're.
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: Yeah. And so because of that, you know, there's there's
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: all of these myths that you'll read about, especially on
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: the internet, where unfortunately what's happened is misinformation can very
• 36:13
  Speaker 7: easily spread when it comes to pest control because it
• 36:17
  Speaker 7: is entirely possible that you try one of these myths,
• 36:21
  Speaker 7: uh and your issue goes away. There is always a
• 36:23
  Speaker 7: small chance that that just occurs. And so when that
• 36:26
  Speaker 7: works for you, you then think, oh, well I did this
• 36:29
  Speaker 7: and I no longer have this issue, so it must
• 36:31
  Speaker 7: have prevented it or removed it or did something, and
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: so then you share that. But again it's uh, it's
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: it's not so much about like creating an unpleasant smell
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: or something like that, and especially with gophers, a lot
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: of it is just creating physical barriers. You know, I'm
• 36:49
  Speaker 7: a big fan of if you have a gopher issue
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: where they're eating the food in your property, you know,
• 36:55
  Speaker 7: build some plant beds. If you have the materials and
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: the time, you can create like a raised plant that
• 37:01
  Speaker 7: that's on stilts or is just simply off the ground,
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: or even is on the ground and just has a
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: wooden bottom to it. You know, gophers are tough and
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: they can tunnel through a lot, but they're not going
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: to get through like four inches of wood.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Okay, good to know, So do your work beforehand, and yeah,
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: you know, hopefully. And you know, it's funny because when
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: we talk about repellents across the board, because you know,
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: we talk a lot about you know, you know, gophers,
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: we talk about rabbits, and deer and you know other
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: things that eat plants. And you know, when I talk
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: to people about repellents, I say, you know, repellents are
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: different for everybody. I mean, you know, like you just said,
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: if I see a cheeseburger and it smells bad, that
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: probably isn't going to hold me back from eating a
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: good cheeseburger, so I'll go after it. But you know
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: some people that'll work where you know, if I see
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: a cheeseburger and there's somebody standing there with like you know,
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: you know, yeah, and in the way I associated. Some
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: repellents are are fear based, right where like they put
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: urin or other things where like animals think that there's
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: these predators in the area or death and that's gonna
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: scare me a little bit more, and I might not
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: go for that cheeseburger. And you know where sometimes these
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: products are you know, flavor based where they put a
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: spray on top of a leaf, you know, and you know, yeah,
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to eat that because it doesn't taste
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: good when I when I take in. So you know,
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: every repellents different. You just got to figure out the
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: critter that you're going for. Hey, Josh, we are going
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: to take another break. We still do have a lot
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: of question questions to get through.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: So we're going to back up and take them in norder,
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: I would assume.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, ok, yeah, when we get back from the break, Josh,
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: you know, let's kind of regroup back to the whole
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: ant questions. I know in southern California during the summertime,
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: that's a big issue, all right, but we have to
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: take a break now.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, BIS Talk Radio the break especially for you news
• 38:52
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• 38:54
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• 38:56
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• 38:59
  Speaker 2: thank you for joining us. Those on Facebook Live, questions, comments,
• 39:02
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• 39:03
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• 39:06
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• 39:08
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• 39:10
  Speaker 2: and John Bagnasco Taget Palafox, spending part of our weekend
• 39:13
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• 39:57
  Speaker 2: back those on the BizTalk Radio if you just join,
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: and yes we're talking pest control today, So again you're
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: not too late to join us if you did miss
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: the first hour the rest of us on Facebook Live,
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: We're going to keep on going and get to your questions,
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: your commons. So let's re establish things, reconvene Tiger and Josh,
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: and here we go again.
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so too.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: You know we're talking with Josh with Dougs Bug Company.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: Dougs Bugs is based down here in San Diego. You know,
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: we've gotten a lot of chatter online. I did want
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: to hit Carla, you did ask about the Owen joil,
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: and Dougs Bugs actually replied to your question on the
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: Facebook chat. So that's the other thing for you listeners
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: out there. Yeah, if you are listening to this and
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: you miss something or you might want to find more information,
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: go to our Facebook page.
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: Right you can see past shows. You could scroll through
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: the chat.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, some of the questions are answered right there in
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: the chat, even though we might not answer them here
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: on air. But Dougs Bugs did have a great answer
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: to your orange oil question, Carla. Josh before the break,
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: I'd mentioned we also had somebody ask about ants and
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: ants in the summertime in California are a big issue,
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: and is it why would they be coming inside in
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: the summertime now.
• 41:12
  Speaker 7: So the ant issue in California is actually one of
• 41:16
  Speaker 7: our worst problems as far as pests go. The particular
• 41:20
  Speaker 7: ant that you are likely experiencing is an invasive species
• 41:23
  Speaker 7: called an Argentina ant. They were shipped over on a
• 41:27
  Speaker 7: lot of fruit transportation between our country and Argentina, which
• 41:31
  Speaker 7: is where they originate from. And what's so problematic about
• 41:34
  Speaker 7: these things is that they are, first and foremost, they
• 41:38
  Speaker 7: have one of the highest rates of reproduction. You know,
• 41:41
  Speaker 7: instead of there being like one or two queens navigating
• 41:44
  Speaker 7: the colony, they have a ratio it's something absurd. It's
• 41:49
  Speaker 7: like one queen to every thousand workers, or five hundred
• 41:52
  Speaker 7: workers or something like that. So it's not uncommon for
• 41:55
  Speaker 7: there to be these mega colonies that exist where there's
• 41:57
  Speaker 7: hundreds and hundreds of queens all reproducing and creating all
• 42:01
  Speaker 7: of these workers, and these ants they kick out. Like
• 42:05
  Speaker 7: native species of ants, we start to see, you know,
• 42:07
  Speaker 7: fewer of the ants that are less problematic that kind
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: of fit in with the environment here, because these things
• 42:13
  Speaker 7: are just so overwhelming and they take over. And another
• 42:16
  Speaker 7: aspect with that too, is they are they're very social
• 42:20
  Speaker 7: with one another. If you were to relocate a colony
• 42:23
  Speaker 7: that exists in Argentina and bring it up here to
• 42:27
  Speaker 7: the US. They would immediately start cooperating with the other
• 42:29
  Speaker 7: argentine ants that are already present, right, so when they
• 42:32
  Speaker 7: find each other, they don't fight over resources. They just grow.
• 42:37
  Speaker 7: But they do actually have some of their own weaknesses though,
• 42:40
  Speaker 7: as far as like treating and prevention and removal and
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: all of that goes. Probably the number one thing that
• 42:47
  Speaker 7: I can recommend is not overwatering outside, especially during the
• 42:51
  Speaker 7: summer months. I understand that, you know, everyone has sensitive
• 42:55
  Speaker 7: landscaping and I'm not gonna I can tell you what
• 42:58
  Speaker 7: will prevent pests, but I'm not going to tell you
• 43:00
  Speaker 7: you like what the plant in your yard. But you know,
• 43:04
  Speaker 7: we live in a desert climate. Water is our most
• 43:06
  Speaker 7: limited resource, and when you're overwatering, you're basically creating an
• 43:10
  Speaker 7: attractive environment.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: For these ants.
• 43:13
  Speaker 7: And once they take hold on your property, you know
• 43:16
  Speaker 7: they're going to hide underneath a stepping stone, underneath your driveway,
• 43:21
  Speaker 7: under a walkway, something like that, and they're going to
• 43:23
  Speaker 7: be very hard to notice until they're already inside your home.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: So they really so this Argentine Ants specifically loves these
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: really cool, damp areas where maybe if you had a
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: desert skate, you might not have as big of an
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: ants problem because they just wouldn't like the yard at all.
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: Is that what you're saying exactly?
• 43:41
  Speaker 7: The two best landscaping products I can recommend, again, not gardening,
• 43:47
  Speaker 7: but just for pest repellent purposes is pea gravel. It's
• 43:53
  Speaker 7: you actually kind of ironically already touched on the only
• 43:55
  Speaker 7: pest that will do well in pea gravel, and that
• 43:57
  Speaker 7: is crickets. But anything else will not do well down there.
• 44:02
  Speaker 7: And then artificial environments too, like turf, are also not
• 44:06
  Speaker 7: suitable for most bugs.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: Oh really, so putting down like a synthetic turf, you know,
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: we're normally in a lawn, you would have an ant colony,
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: a cricket colony, fleas, everything else. In a synthetic lawn,
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: none of those things that are in there, they don't
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: survive underneath that that black tarp, so you know, it
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: eliminates some of those issues. Is that what you're saying exactly?
• 44:27
  Speaker 7: Maybe to clarify, it doesn't mean that you'll never see
• 44:30
  Speaker 7: a single ane in your yard. You have turf, you know,
• 44:32
  Speaker 7: they can still safely walk across it, but they're not
• 44:35
  Speaker 7: likely to create a colony there.
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: I was gonna say, I think we're all adults here
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: and understand that we know that we'll never get rid
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: of every bug, you know, in our yard. I mean,
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: you know, so, Josh, I mean, you know, me owning
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: a landscape maintenance company is probably a little bit like
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: you guys in your pest management company, where people say, hey,
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: can you do me a favor and you know, clean
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: the spiderweb off of this stuff? As you guys are here,
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: I got no qualms about it. Yeah, no, Brom, We'll
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: take a broom. We have a we have one of
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: those webers that we just walk around the property with
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: and hit the eves and you know, the light pillars
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: and whatever it is that they want the spider webs off.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: And I think that's a great management to some degree.
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: But you know, the next day they're there, you know,
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: they're they're they're back again. And you know, so spiders,
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: you know, I mean, you know, as landscape company, they're
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: just part of the landscape for us. But people really
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: have this hang up on spiders. But you know what,
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: what do you what do you think about the spiders
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: in the landscape.
• 45:32
  Speaker 7: Josh Oh, I think spiders are wonderful. I am one
• 45:36
  Speaker 7: of those exterminators that you know, if it's not a
• 45:39
  Speaker 7: black widow, or well, if it's just not a widow,
• 45:42
  Speaker 7: DC's in general.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: How about a brown cruse spider? I'm sorry, brown recluse.
• 45:48
  Speaker 7: Uh, those don't exist here. We uh, we actually just
• 45:52
  Speaker 7: don't have those. So that's an interesting topic to kind
• 45:55
  Speaker 7: of offshoot onto. So if you would look up every
• 45:58
  Speaker 7: single documented brown cluse fight that's ever taken place in
• 46:01
  Speaker 7: San Diego, it has always been from someone that lived
• 46:05
  Speaker 7: in like Texas, Oklahoma, you know, somewhere in the South
• 46:08
  Speaker 7: where these things do live and they thrive. They moved here.
• 46:12
  Speaker 7: They probably moved packages and boxes out of the basement
• 46:14
  Speaker 7: where these things are likely to recur, and they get
• 46:17
  Speaker 7: shipped over here with them, and then that's when the
• 46:20
  Speaker 7: bite occurs, when they're unpacking into their new home.
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: Oh. So, like a brown recluse couldn't like live in
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: San Diego or like reproduced kind of a thing.
• 46:28
  Speaker 7: There is no sustained population of brown recluse here. The
• 46:32
  Speaker 7: closest that we have is if you go way way
• 46:35
  Speaker 7: way out to like the border of Arizona, so like
• 46:38
  Speaker 7: the eastern southern California, there is a desert recluse that
• 46:42
  Speaker 7: lives out there, but it's it's not medically significant the
• 46:45
  Speaker 7: way a brown recluses interesting.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: Good, Yeah, that's good to know.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: But the widows you do need to be careful of.
• 46:52
  Speaker 7: Well, it's it's it's specifically black widows.
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: I always say that.
• 46:57
  Speaker 7: Unfortunately, widows don't get the pass for me when it
• 47:00
  Speaker 7: comes to relocating, because you know, at the end of
• 47:03
  Speaker 7: the day, it is my job to you know, get
• 47:05
  Speaker 7: rid of these things, make sure people feel safe in
• 47:06
  Speaker 7: their homes and all of that. And I don't want,
• 47:09
  Speaker 7: you know, to charge someone one hundred dollars for a
• 47:11
  Speaker 7: treatment and then they walk out the next morning and
• 47:14
  Speaker 7: there's another spider right there that that looks scary. But
• 47:18
  Speaker 7: but yeah, pretty much any other spider that's not you know,
• 47:20
  Speaker 7: a brown, black or false widow, I just chuck it
• 47:24
  Speaker 7: over the fence.
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And and you know, because the spiders are actually
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: doing they're doing a good good job of some of
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: these other issues. You know, when people talk about crickets,
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: when people talk about you know, these other pets, spiders
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: are their natural predator, right, so you know, I mean
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: don't get me wrong, Like you don't got a spider
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: killing ten thousand ants.
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: But but they're keeping a little bit of check going out.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: Well, they're doing their own kind of past control service
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: for you as well, in a very small degree.
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you mentioned in the landscape, they're fine. In
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: the landscape.
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: It's your bathtub you have a problem with, John, No,
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: my wife doesn't.
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: Want them, you know, under these you know, up by
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: the door jams.
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: And yeah, and and and you know, I hate to
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: say it, but like some like Janine can't handle a spider.
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: Like I'll see a spider in our room and I'm
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: like leave it. I'm not you know, Jennine's like, no,
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: it cannot be in this room. And and kind of
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: like I think, Josh, kind of like it to what
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: you kind of hinted with the bed bugs. It gives
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: her that sense of I cannot be in this room
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: knowing knowing this is in here, you know, kind of
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: a thing. So so so yeah, so, Josh, I think
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: we have what about a minute before our next break.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: We got about a minute and a half minute, and
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: make sure we're keeping up on the questions too.
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, when we get back from the break, Josh, I
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: kind of want to queue you up because, like I say,
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: we got these people and it's nice, but I think
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: Doug is actually monitoring some of the Facebook questions too
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: and giving some answers, which is really helping us out.
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: You know, when it comes to the landscape, Josh, what
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: are some things that people need to consider, like buy
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: their house to maybe prevent some of these issues from
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: having in their home. I mean, you mentioned pea gravel,
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: you know, would you recommend a pea gravel barrier around
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: the house? I mean what about like branches touching the
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: home and things like that, Like are those creating bridges?
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: So when we get back from the break, I want
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: to hit on some of the things that you would
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: maybe tell people to watch out for in terms of
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: the landscape so the you know, whatever pests, we can
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: prevent it from coming in.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: Got to get back with Josh after this break quick
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: break here on Facebook live a bit longer on biz
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: Talk Radio, So do stay with us. Thank you so much,
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: a lot of interest this morning. I want to thank you,
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: Josh doing a great job and answering those questions in
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: terms of past all kinds of pests, whether the rodents insects, whatever.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: So we all got to take a break here in
• 49:42
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• 49:45
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• 50:54
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• 50:58
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• 51:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so Josh with Doug's bug is joining us. And
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: you know, before the break, I was saying, Josh, what
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: are some things that people can do to their landscapes
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: surrounding their house that maybe would prevent some bugs from
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: getting in?
• 51:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so that is that is also a very potentially
• 51:15
  Speaker 7: deep question, one of the one of the most important
• 51:20
  Speaker 7: things that I can think of. You you touched on
• 51:22
  Speaker 7: this a little bit, but it has to do with
• 51:24
  Speaker 7: plants touching the exterior of your home. I'm I'm a
• 51:28
  Speaker 7: big fan of, you know, growing your own food. If
• 51:31
  Speaker 7: you have an orange tree in your backyard, you know,
• 51:33
  Speaker 7: keep it alive, eat it, eat the oranges. Like things
• 51:36
  Speaker 7: like that, but there are there's still are wrong ways
• 51:40
  Speaker 7: to go about that. Like if you have an orange
• 51:43
  Speaker 7: tree that's growing within a foot of the foundation of
• 51:45
  Speaker 7: your home, it's inevitably going to have tree branches that
• 51:48
  Speaker 7: reach up onto the roof. And that's an issue because
• 51:52
  Speaker 7: you know, you have rodents outside that are looking to
• 51:55
  Speaker 7: eat those oranges, and if you're putting their food on
• 51:57
  Speaker 7: a ladder that then gives them access to the interior
• 52:00
  Speaker 7: of your home, you're kind of just creating your own
• 52:02
  Speaker 7: problem there. But that issue extends to more than just rodents,
• 52:07
  Speaker 7: because even if you are paying for a fest service,
• 52:11
  Speaker 7: like we have some limitations of what we can offer.
• 52:14
  Speaker 7: So like the paid services that would come to your home,
• 52:17
  Speaker 7: the service that we actually perform is what's called structural
• 52:20
  Speaker 7: test control. It's not agricultural. We have certain licensing that
• 52:24
  Speaker 7: allows us to do what are called landscape treatments. But
• 52:28
  Speaker 7: one consistent limitation that we are all faced with is
• 52:31
  Speaker 7: we cannot treat anything that can potentially be consumed by people.
• 52:36
  Speaker 7: So if you have something like herbs growing in a
• 52:39
  Speaker 7: plant that around the foundation of your home, or you
• 52:41
  Speaker 7: do have these fruit trees that are close to your house,
• 52:43
  Speaker 7: and are touching it. If you then have ants, let's say,
• 52:46
  Speaker 7: that are trailing up that tree and into your house,
• 52:49
  Speaker 7: we basically can't do anything about it other than, you know,
• 52:52
  Speaker 7: suggest that you cut back the tree branches or maybe
• 52:55
  Speaker 7: do it ourselves if you'll allow us. But there's a
• 52:59
  Speaker 7: lot of like common sense things like that to try
• 53:02
  Speaker 7: and uh try and keep in mind.
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and and you know, I mean because like what
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: you just said, I mean, the ants are there for
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: whatever reason, whether there's scale or mealy bug or some
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: other kind of pest on the plant. And now you
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: just provided it to that bridge into your home where
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: now yeah, now they're looking for the food that's left out,
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: or you know, the the stuff in your teenage daughter's
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: room that's just stuffed under her bed. Not naming any
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: names to us, you know, Like I'm like, you know,
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: why are there ants in your room? I don't know, Dad,
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: Let's take a look. Why is this plate left under
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: your bed? You know? But you know, I mean, but
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: you gave them that opportunity to get in there, So
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: if you can prevent that opportunity, they'll stay outside there.
• 53:47
  Speaker 5: They're perfectly finding.
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: Harvesting mealy bugs or whatever it is that they're on
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: the tree for you know, don't give them the chance
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: to come in the house. Now, now you mentioned you
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: know also before overwatering, so so does moisture ride up
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: next to the house also create a problem for anything
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: like termites or any of these other critters. Should you
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: kind of keep it dry away from the house?
• 54:10
  Speaker 7: Oh yes, that is also a very very potentially deep
• 54:15
  Speaker 7: topic to get into. So one of the more damaging
• 54:19
  Speaker 7: and significant types of termites that you can get in
• 54:21
  Speaker 7: your home are what are called subterranean termites. They're most
• 54:26
  Speaker 7: likely to occur if you have a crawl space under
• 54:28
  Speaker 7: your house, but even on a slab foundation, you can
• 54:31
  Speaker 7: still end up with them. And there's a lot that
• 54:34
  Speaker 7: attracts them. I mean, having like mulch around the exterior
• 54:37
  Speaker 7: of your home. It locked in moisture and it's food
• 54:41
  Speaker 7: for them. So it's kind of like a double whammy
• 54:43
  Speaker 7: having molts around the exterior. I'm trying to remember what
• 54:47
  Speaker 7: the actual number is, but I believe the moisture content
• 54:50
  Speaker 7: underneath your home needs to remain under thirty percent twenty
• 54:54
  Speaker 7: eight percent if you're to get like a humidity reader
• 54:57
  Speaker 7: down there. But anything above that will create a suitable
• 55:01
  Speaker 7: environment for these termites. And a lot of that does
• 55:05
  Speaker 7: kind of start and end with how you care for
• 55:07
  Speaker 7: your lawn and your garden and you know, just any
• 55:11
  Speaker 7: soil that exists outside your home.
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, so you know, monitoring that right up next
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: to the house is super important. But it just doesn't
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: look as pretty, Josh. So we still do have those
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: people that plant right up next to the house, you know,
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: we don't. I don't want to see my foundation. So
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna plant this star jasmine right.
• 55:29
  Speaker 5: Here and it'll be okay.
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: But you gotta Hey, then you just got to be
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: willing to live with the bugs, you know, you just
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: got to be able to, you know, withstand that. So
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: so Josh, tell us a little bit more about how
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: people can get in touch with Dougs Bugs. Maybe some
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: contact information we had. I don't know if I'm listed it.
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: One one of our listeners from Orange County was like, hey,
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: would you ever you sound amazing and knowledgeable, would you
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: ever come up here and help us out in Orange County?
• 55:56
  Speaker 5: So how do people get a hold of Dougs Bugs?
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: Well, I hate to.
• 56:02
  Speaker 7: Say this, but we're we're not servicing Orange County right now.
• 56:06
  Speaker 7: It's a little bit of a stretch for us. We
• 56:09
  Speaker 7: are a very small local company. We're based off of
• 56:12
  Speaker 7: Rosecrans in Point Loma and that's actually where I want
• 56:16
  Speaker 7: to stay. Close to seventy eighty percent of our business
• 56:18
  Speaker 7: is is just in that that Point Loma ob area.
• 56:23
  Speaker 7: We we've slowly been expanding and growing north a little ways,
• 56:28
  Speaker 7: like I know now we go as far north as
• 56:30
  Speaker 7: like like del Mar sometimes up into Encinitas areas like that,
• 56:36
  Speaker 7: but that's that's still a ways away from Orange County.
• 56:39
  Speaker 7: And it's it's hard for us to grow because we
• 56:42
  Speaker 7: are a small company. You know, we can't just like
• 56:45
  Speaker 7: decide to open another office up there. We would need
• 56:48
  Speaker 7: you know, brand new employees and vehicles and and and
• 56:51
  Speaker 7: all of that stuff. But you know, continuing to use
• 56:55
  Speaker 7: us helps us to slowly and organically grow. We don't
• 56:59
  Speaker 7: do any of the like aggressive sales tactics. You know,
• 57:01
  Speaker 7: we're not knocking on your door telling you to sign
• 57:04
  Speaker 7: a two year contract for pest control or anything like that.
• 57:07
  Speaker 7: So all of our growth is just through like word
• 57:10
  Speaker 7: of mouth, you know, good good opportunities like this and yeah,
• 57:16
  Speaker 7: and you know, the more that people decide to support
• 57:18
  Speaker 7: the business. The more that we're able to grow and
• 57:20
  Speaker 7: maybe one day we will be servicing Orange County.
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: You never know exactly.
• 57:24
  Speaker 5: And and Dougs bug dot dot Dougs bug Co.
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: So Doug's bug company, but just ceo dot com is
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: your guys's website. So you know, if you're looking for
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: more information or looking for an opportunity for Josh to
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: come out and maybe help you out with your best problem,
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: visit their website and they have all the information to
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: get ahold of them. Uh, Josh, thank you very much
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: for joining us. Lots of great information. Doug, thank you
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: for joining us on the Facebook chat and answering. So
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: if you're still on the Facebook chat you don't see
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: your question answered, you know Ug's right there, he'll answer
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: it for us.
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: So Doug's going to hang in there and we appreciate that.
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So Josh, have a great rest of the weekend.
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: You take care all right?
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: Thank you? Josh. Wow. We you know you you bring
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: somebody on or you tease at the newsletter and you'll
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: wonder how much interest is this going to garner? Safe
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: to say we hit it out of the park.
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know it's it's kind of like a
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: gardening thing where there I hate to put people on
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: the spot like that, but it is like, oh, is
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: my plant being underwatered or overwatered? It's well, I mean,
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: you got to tell me some more information. Kind of depends,
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: you know, And that's a bit about pest control. But
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: it sounds like he's such an expert that if if
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: you have an opportunity to meet someone like him to
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: come out and help you, he's going to give you
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: the solution.
• 58:44
  Speaker 5: That's correct, you.
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: Know, especially because they're a small company compared to a
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: huge company coming out there's a little more intimacy involved.
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: You almost feel like I got a good one on
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: one with him. Chances are I'm going to see the
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: same guy come back again if I need to use them. Yeah,
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: you know, we talked about the water, so on and
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: so forth with hands, which we can talk about more,
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: but we gotta take a break. So we gonna take
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: a break from biz talk radio after that. Two more
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: segments whatever is on your mind? Here we go. Big
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: thank you to Josh and Doug and again taking a
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: break BIS Talk Radio. Guard in America back after the
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: all right, batteries not included, we are back hit his
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: Garden America. We've got two more segments. This, by the way,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: is the longer segment of the next two coming up.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: So do stay with us quickly on the ant thing
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: in the summertime. What's the first thing that you hear
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: Normally when we see ants in the house, somebody says, ah,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: you know why they're here. They're looking for water.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 4: You know what my problem is with ants at home
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 4: because of all the roses and containers during the summer,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 4: occasionally a colony will get in one of those containers
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 4: because those are being watered every day.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: And it's that soft soil that you know what I mean,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: You would you rather dig through hard dg and clay
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: or happy frog exactly?
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: Happy frog? Really yeah, you know it's funny those answers.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: All they have to do is push out their little
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: cavern in their hole where you know, your native soil.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 5: They got little jackhammers and you know, going to work.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 4: Tarot granules work real really well.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: I've always loved the tarot product, right, yes, yeah, I
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: mean you know, and you know what they mentioned in
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: terms of if you can find where they're coming in
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: and you put that tarot bait station in your home,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: right there. They just go to that and then they
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: never go anywhere else in your house, which is wonderful.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: You just kind of control it, you know, from coming in.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: Sometimes it's kind of hard to find the source though,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: so you got to kind of even keep You put
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: it one place and then you see where the trails
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: coming from, then you move it closer to the you know.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: And you talked about Janine and Spider's not I can't
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: live with the Spider's not gonna whatever. I'm kind of
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: the same way with ants when we have them, even
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: if they're in the house and Dana's like freaking out
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: and I know they cannot stay here. We have to
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: get rid of them. And I'm just I guess because
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: when I grew up it was very common to have
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: ants in the house and I still have them in
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: your pants right occasionally. But I'm like, no, I can't
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: tolerate ants. I mean, I'm not I'm not saying them
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: on the side, no problem. I'm not saying that I'm
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: not going to get rid of them. It's just to me,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: it's like, well, if I don't do it now, I'll
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: do it later in the afternoon or whatever. And She's like, no,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: right now. We have to get rid of them.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 4: I think.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: I think the worst thing about ants in the house
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: is that you just have to constantly be cleaning up
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: after yourself if you have them in your house, meaning
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: meaning like if you don't have ants in your house,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: and you leave that dish on the counter, you know,
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: and you go to bed.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: At night, Yeah, you come up in the morning, they're
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: going to be all over it, all over it, and
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: that's you know.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: It's another one. Make sure the lid's tight. Oh yeah, yeah,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: if you open the honey, yeah. Yeah.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: So that's my biggest thing with the ants is like
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: I like to be able to go to bed at night,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: put a put a plate near the sink, and then
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: just like when I get up in the morning, I'll
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: throw it in the dishwasher, I'll wash it or whatever
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: it is.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 5: But when you have ants, you you cannot leave any
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 5: of that stuff out.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: I'm glad we don't have fire ants.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah right, Oh my gosh.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: And they they actually hurt they would they did? They
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: come in They come in like south right, Louisiana, down south.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: They moved into Texas.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 4: They started in Florida, Florida, yeah, and then started to move.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, that was a big chapter
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 4: in Rachel Carson book. Yeah, Silent Spring in nineteen.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: Sixty one, way back in sixty one.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And they had started and the government decided that
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 4: they were going to start a campaign to eradicate fire
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 4: ants before they moved or west. And they started aerial
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 4: spraying of either dieldrin or aldron, one of the chlorinated hydrocarbons.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 4: And they went over entire landscapes and neighborhoods. They had
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 4: birds dropping.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 5: Dead out of darees, lizards and everything.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: And it wasn't until they realized how many things were
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 4: being killed that somebody checked and saw the chemicals they
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 4: sprayed did not kill fire ants.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, you know it just some of the
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: things that have been done. Yeah, just so ridiculous and stupid.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: That's how we evolved, that's how we learn the strongest,
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: that kind of thing.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I hate to say it, but it's true.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 5: I mean, I was just talking.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: I was at a meeting this week and just by
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: weird coincidence, they brought up the idea of you know,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: when cigarettes were were removed from advertisements.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: Nineteen seventy one.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 3: Correct, good, good, job. You don't even it was a
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: little trivia section of this meeting. Yeah, nineteen seventy one,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: exactly what it was, you know. But then the person
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: posted there were cigarette ads before that that it was
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: like doctor recommended or like you know health, you know,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 3: you know, if you have these issues, this will help you.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 4: You go to a doctor's.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: I can go to Google right now and show you
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: one of those ads.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, nine out of ten doctors preferred jeffter Field.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah exactly, you know.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and there was everybody was smoking, and I mean,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 3: I don't know if it was ignorance. I don't know
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: if it was people lying to us, but it was
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: just they didn't you know, to some degree they didn't know.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 4: And so then you learn and they you know, people
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 4: were more trusting back then too. Now I think there's
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 4: a lot more skeptical.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, because of those laws, and you know what to
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: prove that point, because you know, you know, pop culture
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: says a lot about where you are and what the
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: reality is at any given time. Yeah, you go back
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: to watching any old TV show, movie, whatever. Everybody smoking, Yeah,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: everybody's it was like you you had a cigarette, everybody
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: was smoking and drinking but but.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: It goes back to kind of like what we're talking
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: about with the products that people use in their gardens.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: You know, because you're.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 5: Told it works. You know, Miracle Grow, you're told it works,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 5: You're you know, you know, all these products you're told
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 5: they work, that you trust that they're looking out for
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 5: the best. You trust you're going to work and they're
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 5: going to you know, be effective. But sometimes we have to,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 5: you know, do worry about the repercussions overall.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: That's what I like that. I like the direction our
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 3: industry is moving into where you know, we're more specific
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 3: as far as whether the problem is the fertilizers were
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: more or focus on feeding the soil not just the
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: plant anymore. We're more willing to just let bugs coexist
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 3: with our plants. I like that because I think that
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: we're going to see a better landscape overall in general.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: The one thing that John's story about the fire ants
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: that just sent me off was, Oh, then they discovered
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: that it doesn't really kill them at all. Yeah, okay,
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: so what did they do beforehand? Wouldn't you want to
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: take a group of fire ants in the controlled environment?
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: But I think they probably just assumed because it killed
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: everything else.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the strongest thing we have.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, is that kind of like the d DT experience
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: that we went through, but did did kill everything.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 4: Well. DDT was very effective against mosquitoes and that's what
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 4: they originally started for malaria control. But again back to
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 4: Rachel Carson's book DDT, the main problem with it was
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 4: humans stored it in their fats yea for thirty forty years.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 4: So if food you ate had DDT in it, it
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 4: was there, you know.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: Virgue there all the way over and it just accumulated.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 3: Kind of like they talk about the fish, the fish
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: in the ocean.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 5: It's the food, the mercury, the mercury.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, the.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: Higher on the food chain are the fish is the
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 3: higher content to mercury. And that's the thing thing with
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 3: the DDT is you just kept getting it. And if
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: you kept getting it, next thing, you know, you're sixty
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: years old and you know it's not doing well.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: Getting back to the cigarette thing for a second, nineteen
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: seventy one all advertising radio TV for the most part,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: I believe, but for the next couple of two or
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: three years, you could still have like a sign or
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: a poster like at the stadium after nineteen like a
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: billboard or it was a billboard the Marlborough Man that
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: for some reason was okay for a while, and they
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: gradually phased that out as well. But two people on
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: a beach smoking cigarettes and playing volleyball, Yeah you didn't.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: You didn't see that anybody.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: I love, I love the lifestyle that they like thought that, like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: if you spoke, you're definitely going to be playing volleyball.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, your life's going to be so much better. Hey.
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  Speaker 4: Quickly back to the DDT thing there, the USDA outlawed
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  Speaker 4: DDT residue in milk because they felt milk was going
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  Speaker 4: to children and you know, you don't want to be
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  Speaker 4: giving children, you know, who have have much smaller bodies
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  Speaker 4: are going to be more affected by poisons. So it
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  Speaker 4: was outlawed. And then there was no more milk that
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  Speaker 4: did not have so they put a limit on what
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  Speaker 4: it could be. Then there was no more under that limit,
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  Speaker 4: and they raised it three or four times before they
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  Speaker 4: actually could have milk. And then finally they came out
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  Speaker 4: with the statement that said it's not important to check
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  Speaker 4: for DDT.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they're like, oh goodness, we dug ourselves a
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  Speaker 3: hole in now we're in.
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  Speaker 4: And as they were doing doing tests, they wanted to
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  Speaker 4: find have control all subjects. They could not find anyone.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't have it.
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  Speaker 4: It didn't have DDT except eskimos, Oh my goodness. So
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  Speaker 4: they brought eskimos down from Alaska and used them. But
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  Speaker 4: they lived. I think they went through a three month
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  Speaker 4: testing period down here. They did their tests, and they
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  Speaker 4: found out when the eskimos left they had DDTS. Started
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  Speaker 4: their faith.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, speaking of advertising, it used to be
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: in radio the first twenty years I was in radio,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: but it goes back a lot further than that. You
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: could only advertise beer and wine. You could not mention bars,
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  Speaker 2: couldn't mention happy hour, couldn't mention well drinks, couldn't do
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  Speaker 2: any of that. And of course that went by the wayside.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's all fair game, but you couldn't. It was
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  Speaker 2: beer and wine that was it. Don't promote hard liquor.
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  Speaker 3: Whoa, yeah. I mean, it's funny, funny the way things
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  Speaker 3: we evolve as a society and move in different directions.
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  Speaker 3: But I do like the direction that we are moving
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  Speaker 3: into with our industry because I think we've learned you
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: know we've learned we've got to take ca soil right plants.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 3: You know, plants in plants need bugs just just like
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  Speaker 3: we need plants.
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  Speaker 2: We gotta take a break here, right right, And one
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  Speaker 2: more segment. Don't mean to catch outs if you can
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  Speaker 2: one more well that Doug, you know what that Doug's
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  Speaker 2: pass controlsh made time. Goodbye, really quick, We're going to
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  Speaker 2: take a break this Talk Radio. Brian Main, John mcnascar,
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: Tya Pelafox, he Ur Gardener, Boys and girls. This is
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: the plant segment already flew right by.
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  Speaker 4: There's so much we talked about.
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  Speaker 2: It was a lot to talk about it.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 4: Now let me ask you to bite my tongue several times.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: Of course, the filter is working. You changed the filter
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  Speaker 2: last night, was it last night you changed?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the old one was clogged up.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well it was clogged. But still the old filter
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: allows certain things to get through.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there are a lot of holes.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: That that you don't want to get through. So besides gophers, John,
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: that's your place. What what's your other biggest past that
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: you have to deal with?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know we mentioned dance, but taro is a
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 4: shirt sure control for them. As I replant a plant
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  Speaker 4: into a larger pot. Now, I put soil on the
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 4: bottom of the pot. Then I put it sprinkle in
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 4: tarot granules, and then I put in more soil and
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 4: then put the put the plant in there. And I
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  Speaker 4: find that's a great job.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I do it on every single plant.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because they they love living up in those pots. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean sometimes not only when you when you buy
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  Speaker 3: a plant from a nursery and you take it, you
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  Speaker 3: just see the colony. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Since I've been doing the tarot, I also do
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  Speaker 4: not have troubles with saw bugs and earwigs the way
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 4: they were because they were huge too.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and it so so it lists those on the
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 5: packaging as well, which is really nice.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So I like taro for you know, in taro, I'm
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 4: trying to think now, I think the chemical used to
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 4: be delta metherrene, and I'm not sure if it still is,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 4: but that was a synthetic pyrethrite. And you know, pyrethrins
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 4: come from mums, chrysanthemums, so they were organic pesticides and
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 4: this is a synthetic organic. Yeah, it makes sense. But
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 4: so it's a little safer, but still the most effective
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 4: thing I've ever found corn syrup.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: That's good for you. Basically, John and I have talked
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: about this before. I remember as a kid in the garage. Okay,
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: first of all, I'm a kid. I'm gonna get into things,
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: you know. Yeah, yeah, of course, five six, seven, eight,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: nine years old. I can't tell you how many bottles
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: we had, probably fertilizer, probably you know, rat poison, mouse poison,
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: brown bottles with a skull and crossbone. Man, just take
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: the lid off and use it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And it's like really living down in PB you
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 3: guys probably had a pretty good rodent pop problem.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And sam Beach is one of those areas where, you know,
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 3: dense population, a lot of like, you know, kind of.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: Learn to live with it too. After a while, you know,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: I'm saying, yeah, whatever what is, let's have sandfleet. Just
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: brush it off. You'll be back in the day. It's like,
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: you know, brush it off, you'll be okay, hit my head, yeah,
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: you know what, shake it off, You're fine.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 3: There was a YouTube video recently, and I think it
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 3: was somewhere in Europe, and it was a police officer
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: in a grocery store. They were in the like cheese
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 3: aisle or something, and they were called in there because
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 3: there was a critter, but they couldn't tell what the
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 3: critter was. It was up in the fridge. So this
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 3: police officer is pulling on this critter, see it pulling tail.
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  Speaker 3: It came out it was a coyote. It was in
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  Speaker 3: a refrigerator in the cheese out of a grocery store
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  Speaker 3: and the police they didn't know what they were pulling on,
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 3: but until it came out. It was a coyote that
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 3: when running through the whole grocery store. Now, but you know,
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 3: then this person came on, who was a critter?
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  Speaker 4: Accipert coyotes in Europe, I don't again, I don't, aren't
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  Speaker 4: they North American.
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  Speaker 3: Man, It's probably then somewhere.
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  Speaker 5: But it wasn't cal then a wolf. No, it wasn't
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 5: a wolf.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: It was well a canine.
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  Speaker 3: But but here was the thing. The critter exer said,
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 3: there is like a ninety nine percent chance that a
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 3: coyote will never bite you in the sense of like
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 3: they just they're more scared.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 5: They're a skittish creature.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 4: But if you're pulling on their tails, well.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 3: But no, this coyote, even with this guy pulling on
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: a seal, it got pulled out and then it ran away.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 3: It did not try to bite the person. My dog
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 3: bites me more than this coyote did. But but it
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 3: was just an amazing thing that Like I was like,
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 3: if I see a fluffy tail and I can't see
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 3: the head, you don't.
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  Speaker 5: Know what it is on its tail?
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  Speaker 2: No, no way.
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  Speaker 4: Ever, I like coyotes personally.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because they help get rid of some of the
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: population of what well, squirrels and wrappings.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 4: They are horrible.
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  Speaker 3: They just have you know, they just can't do a
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 3: road runner though, I can't get them.
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  Speaker 2: What are you gonna I thought you were going to
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: start a zoo at some point up there. You're gonna
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: build cages and put some animals on display.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 4: I wish the fur coats were still popular because you
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 4: got a gopher gopherts think they'd be Yeah, they'd be rare.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Is that a gopher coat?
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  Speaker 7: That is?
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  Speaker 2: That's fabulous?
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  Speaker 4: You get the colors in there.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 5: Well, we had a big Nosco original.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: They make them in Fallbrook. Yeah, exactly, the only place get.
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  Speaker 3: Them farmed, a table farm, a closet, you know.
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  Speaker 5: Clothing right there?
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, gophers are you know?
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  Speaker 3: I think animals take them away for you, Like you
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  Speaker 3: don't even put them in your trash.
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  Speaker 4: Kid, You just leave the Oh no, no, that would
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  Speaker 4: be mean. I think to just kill a gopher and
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 4: then just trying to survive. But if you're using it
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  Speaker 4: to feed another animal.
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  Speaker 5: And I love that, you just leave it and then
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 5: it's gone the next day.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, every single day.
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  Speaker 4: It's never once left over.
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  Speaker 2: Now I would imagine some Well, how many species of
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: snakes do you have? I know you have rattlesnakes, right,
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: but I'm just thinking some snakes. Three that I know
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: snakes would eat it off. Yeah, you have wild hogs
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  Speaker 2: up there? Hawks? Oh you know what. I had a picture,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, the predatory, yes, exactly, I should.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 4: Have shared with you. Had a video of in the
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 4: chicken coop. Jesse called me and he says, you know,
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 4: I need help. I got to get something out of
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 4: the chicken coop. So I went down there. He wouldn't
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 4: tell me what it was. He says, I just want
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 4: you to see. And it was a falcon in the
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 4: chicken coop, in the chicken cook very really a beautiful bird.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 3: They are pretty.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 4: But I said, you know, all right, hold the door open.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 4: Let's feed the chicken so that they'll be they're not
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 4: going to run out when you open the door. So
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 4: they were preoccupied, and we sent them over to one
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 4: corner of the coop and then I said, I'll go
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 4: around and chase the hawk this way or the falcon
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 4: this way, and you open the door and it'll fly out.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 4: Well my first attempt, instead of going the other way,
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 4: it came right at me, which can be scary. Oh yeah,
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 4: So I just stuck down and then I got a
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 4: broom and pushed it a little bit and it ended
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 4: up going out.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 3: Did it get one of your chickens?
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: Though?
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 4: No, No, it was a falcon. Not how did it
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 4: get in there? They were about this big. I guess
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 4: they could get a chicken.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 5: But so it was going for the food of the
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 5: chickens probably, I would think.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 3: So it wasn't going for the chicken.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: But how did it get in? It was a small eniptic.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 4: Well, see that's another question. How did it get in?
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 4: Because we've had bobcats out there, and if a hawk
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 4: can get in, you would think bobcat could get in.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: Wow, look at we have to say bye bye, YadA yo, sayanara,
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: and all those other ways to say goodbye. Hey, thank
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: you so much. Want to thank Doug's past control. Thank you.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 4: You know, Veronica wondered if that was a fox, if
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 4: it was zero rather than it was, so it must
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 4: have not been Europe.
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  Speaker 2: All right, all right, well we're going to figure this out.
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  Speaker 2: We come back next week. We'll spend a whole week
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: thinking about that. Thank you for joining us. We do
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: appreciate it. Have yourself a good rest of your weekend,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: a great weekend. We'll do it again next week. We
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: will reconvene, as we'd like to say here on behalf
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  Speaker 2: of the entire crew. I'm Brian Main, Tiger Pellafox, John
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