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Outdoor Lighting with Tori Moreyra [3.1.25] · Garden America Saturday

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  Speaker 2: back to the weekend. What's going on? Do you know?
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  Speaker 3: Did the mikes used to get hot? And that's why
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  Speaker 3: they say hot mic? I mean I know what it means,
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  Speaker 3: like meaning the mic is on, so you know, watch
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  Speaker 3: what you say.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting term. You know they also tell us, you know
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  Speaker 2: from day one in radio, always assume your mic is on,
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  Speaker 2: oh yeah, because you turn it off. But sometimes it
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  Speaker 2: may not be off, and a lot of people, hundreds,
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  Speaker 2: maybe thousands of people in the industry have gotten in
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  Speaker 3: Politicians will get in trouble all the time for that exactly.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I call it a mic league.
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  Speaker 3: There's the famous scene in Nodding Hill where you know,
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  Speaker 3: they're shooting a movie and you know, privately having a conversation,
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  Speaker 3: but they're all miked up, so everybody else can hear
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  Speaker 3: the conversation. And you know, I mean, that's the funny thing.
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  Speaker 3: I used to do little TV spots and stuff like that. Right,
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  Speaker 3: they mike you up. Sure, you know you have to
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  Speaker 3: go to the bathroom, You're gonna.
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  Speaker 2: Take a break, turning your mic on and off.
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  Speaker 3: Well yeah, but like at the same time, like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you got to go take a break, have a bite
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  Speaker 3: to eat or something like that. Like you're miked up
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  Speaker 3: the whole time. So unless you turn it off, or unless,
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  Speaker 3: like you say, somebody else turns it.
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  Speaker 2: It's like in football or hockey, they'll have the players
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  Speaker 2: miked up.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Now, look, if if I know I've got a mic on, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: am I gonna be a little more dramatic?
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  Speaker 3: Am I?
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  Speaker 4: Am?
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  Speaker 2: I gonna, you know, play to the crowd, or am
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  Speaker 2: I just gonna be myself and forget that I have
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  Speaker 2: a mic on?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's fun, it's fun.
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  Speaker 2: So we are miked up for the next hour and
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  Speaker 2: a half for short. Here Now John is in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, at the La Arboreta in the area. Go now,
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  Speaker 3: get there?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 2: How come he never calls in?
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  Speaker 3: I know it's too much for him?
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  Speaker 2: How do I do it? You know? Well, John, you
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  Speaker 2: would call, We could call you on this phone.
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  Speaker 3: We should call our guests.
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  Speaker 2: You know, speaking a guest. By the way, Interesting, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to talk about outdoor lighting.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, isn't that kind of a fun, fun topic
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  Speaker 3: because it's nothing that we always talk about, and not
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  Speaker 3: everybody knows the ins and outs, and some people get
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  Speaker 3: just so overwhelmed by you know what it maybe takes
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  Speaker 3: because they think they have to have an electrician to
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  Speaker 3: install it. But the nice thing about outdoor lighting is
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  Speaker 3: what we call low voltage lighting. So it's not that
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  Speaker 3: you know you're gonna break fuses or you know, shock
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  Speaker 3: yourself to death. It's it's only twelve volts normally, you know,
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  Speaker 3: what's a battery the nine volts and you stick those
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  Speaker 3: to your tongue all the time and there's nothing wrong
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  Speaker 3: with you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I get a little kick out of it. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the ninth volt. I think that's what we put in
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  Speaker 2: our smoke detector. Yeah, yeah, probably yeah, ninethfaul.
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  Speaker 3: So twelve olds is lovolts?
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  Speaker 2: Is that something your company does as Yeah, yeah we do.
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  Speaker 3: And so you know, this is.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting because in talking to you before the show this morning,
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  Speaker 2: I'm finding out I used to think there's really nothing
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  Speaker 2: I can have Tiger do in my condo, just based
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  Speaker 2: on the fact there's not a lot of property. I
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  Speaker 2: handle it myself. Yeah, And I did a little deep
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  Speaker 2: dive with you this morning, and I may be hiring
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  Speaker 2: you in a few months for something because I realized
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  Speaker 2: that you do more than just stick plants on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: You do lighting, you do tiling, you do the whole
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  Speaker 2: What else do you do that the average person may
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  Speaker 2: not think you do.
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  Speaker 3: So you know the funny thing about landscape contractors, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: they get what's called a C twenty seven license to
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  Speaker 3: be a landscape contractor. Because you know, the state of California.
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  Speaker 3: It's different wherever you are, but of California requires contractors
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  Speaker 3: to have certain licenses. So C twenty seven is what
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  Speaker 3: they call the landscape contractor license, and then you have
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  Speaker 3: you know, electrical plumbing, HVAC, you know, all kinds of
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  Speaker 3: other things from there, and then you have a B license,
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  Speaker 3: which is a builder someone that builds a home. So
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  Speaker 3: the difference between a C twenty seven and a B
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  Speaker 3: is very small because the only thing that is C
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  Speaker 3: twenty seven in A in a B. You know, difference
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  Speaker 3: is is things regarding like certain foundations of homes and
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  Speaker 3: other certain building requirements because you know, for a landscape
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  Speaker 3: you could be building a pergola or a structure, which
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  Speaker 3: is basically a home. You could be installing a barbecue
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  Speaker 3: or fire put.
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  Speaker 2: On, which is the landscape.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, correct, you can install lighting outlets.
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  Speaker 2: Have different licenses for that.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Well, no, but C twenty seven encompasses all those
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  Speaker 3: it does. So when you take the test for a
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  Speaker 3: C twenty seven, you're taking a test on plumbing, heating, gas,
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  Speaker 3: electrical structure, all of that stuff. So, you know, people
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  Speaker 3: don't realize it, but landscape contractors are almost pretty much
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  Speaker 3: just as qualified as like home builders. Now, they might
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  Speaker 3: not have all the experience in a home builder, and
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  Speaker 3: you know there's a lot of things that you gain
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  Speaker 3: after you do it over the years. But in all
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  Speaker 3: other premises, you know, when you're building your outdoor patio
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  Speaker 3: or your your backyard room, that is like building a
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  Speaker 3: room in your home, you know, and they should be uh,
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  Speaker 3: they should be knowledgeable and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Anyways, Well that's interesting, yea, yeah, I may have some
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  Speaker 2: work for you. I may have something just to kind
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  Speaker 2: of spruce things up that's interesting.
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  Speaker 3: And then and then just for some other savvy notes.
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  Speaker 3: So when I went and got my license for California contractors,
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  Speaker 3: I got my B and my C twenty seven, So
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  Speaker 3: so I.
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  Speaker 2: Can call you for plumbing issues. Tiger, my toilet's acting,
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  Speaker 2: come on over. You'd be like, dude, no, yeah, I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: I'm good. I don't need that. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: other companies that can.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I use that when I'm doing somebody else's
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  Speaker 2: major landscaping and they're gonna put a hot tub out
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  Speaker 2: there or exactly. Then I get into that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Very interesting, Yeah, very interesting. So we move on John
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  Speaker 2: to the arp RTOM for what's going on up there.
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  Speaker 3: He's doing the rose not the rose auction. Now there's
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  Speaker 3: a meeting. It was postponed because of the fires recently,
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  Speaker 3: right exactly. So this is a gathering of Rosarians again
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  Speaker 3: for their annual meeting. And you know, what a beautiful
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  Speaker 3: place to put it in as far as the La Arboretum.
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  Speaker 3: And I wonder right now a lot of things are
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  Speaker 3: still dormant. So all the evergreens are showing off up there.
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  Speaker 3: Right now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm seeing a lot of things blooming around town.
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  Speaker 4: Right. Boy.
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  Speaker 2: The ice plant that they they put in several years
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  Speaker 2: ago on some of the slopes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, man, beautiful, Yeah, just full bloom. That little bit
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  Speaker 3: of rain, full bloom, a little bit of rain, a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of warm weather.
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  Speaker 2: Purple flower. I think I had a late bloom in
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  Speaker 2: my Pope, John Paul, you know there's yeah, things are starting,
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  Speaker 2: they're waking up. Hey, today's March first. I know, first
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  Speaker 2: day of spring is what middle of the month, yep, exact. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: So here we go. Now, people listening to us across
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  Speaker 2: the country Midwest, yeah, back East are still thinking like
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  Speaker 2: I'm under six feet of snow and you're talking about
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  Speaker 2: plants and things blooming in sunshine. Now we're supposed to
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  Speaker 2: get more rain this weekend. It was a little bit
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  Speaker 2: raining last night, you know, it kind of spit.
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  Speaker 3: It was thirty three percent chance last night we didn't
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  Speaker 3: get anywhere we live, and then not today, and then
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow I think is another thirty or forty percent chance,
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  Speaker 3: and then it starts to clear up after that. So
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just kind of like some areas are
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  Speaker 3: going to get it, some areas aren't. It just depends
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  Speaker 3: on where you live. Right now, it's not it's not
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  Speaker 3: a consistent across the board.
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  Speaker 2: So outdoor lighting and what's the guy's name again, Tory
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  Speaker 2: with tall lighting, and he's from Argentina.
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  Speaker 3: He's from Argentina, but he lives in San Diego now.
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  Speaker 2: But he moved his company, Yeah, from Argentina to San Diego.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. And and you know when it it's funny
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  Speaker 3: with outdoor lighting because you really only see it at night, right,
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  Speaker 3: so you got to be able to, you know, enjoy it.
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  Speaker 3: So you want to be able to go out in
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  Speaker 3: the evenings, but you see it too when you see
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  Speaker 3: it home with outdoor lighting, it's spectacular when they do
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  Speaker 3: it right, exactly, and it adds a whole new element.
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  Speaker 3: I have some outdoor lighting at my home and I'm
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  Speaker 3: a real cheap skate and.
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  Speaker 2: Uh basic, well, well no a half hour.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no. I like my outdoor. But what
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  Speaker 3: I'm getting is I'm a real like cheap skate and
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  Speaker 3: I'm also trying to conserve so like I mean, some
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  Speaker 3: people have it just come on and off automatically, right,
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  Speaker 3: So whenever it's nine pm, it goes on, and then
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  Speaker 3: maybe at midnight it turns off. And I only turn
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  Speaker 3: mine on when I know I'm going to be in
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  Speaker 3: the yard in the evening. You can see it, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so I can see it, But I wish I would
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  Speaker 3: be a person that just would have it come on
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  Speaker 3: and up because when you look out in your backyard
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  Speaker 3: and I see it at night, it's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I could. I could.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just being I'm trying to be conscious of like
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  Speaker 3: conserving energy. But it also they like we said, it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't use a lot of energy led.
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  Speaker 2: Bowl right now, it's like our patio. So if I
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  Speaker 2: were to put lights up around the lighting glass door,
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  Speaker 2: which is which I could, I couldn't see from the
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  Speaker 2: living room, right And the fact of the matter is
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  Speaker 2: that beyond our patio.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Several years ago we talked the ho way into letting
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  Speaker 2: that hedge grow, because because we could see right through
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  Speaker 2: the parking lot, people would walk by and look right in.
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  Speaker 2: So I called her up one day, the manager, and said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: can you let the hedges grow? Yeah, sure, no problem.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like wow. And the funny part is after our
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  Speaker 2: unit they go back to normal for the other.
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  Speaker 3: They just just for yours for ours.
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  Speaker 2: So getting back to the lighting, if I put lights
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  Speaker 2: up there, I'm not going to see it. Nobody in
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  Speaker 2: the parking lot's going to Nobody can see it unless
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  Speaker 2: we walked out there and turned around.
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  Speaker 3: But what would be cool to do is kind of
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  Speaker 3: against the wall, like where you look through the window
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  Speaker 3: and so now you can see the patio from inside
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  Speaker 3: your house in the evenings. That would be a good idea.
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  Speaker 2: You go, after the papers are done, you can put
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  Speaker 2: some lighting right around there.
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  Speaker 3: Easy to ide, easy to do. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: And we have this all recorded today too.
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  Speaker 2: You saw it. So that's what Tiger does if anybody
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  Speaker 3: Let there be light.
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  Speaker 2: And there was light.
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  Speaker 3: And this morning we have Tory with Pampa Lighting joining
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  Speaker 3: us this morning. Good morning, toy.
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  Speaker 5: How are you, hey, guys, good morning, Thank you so
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  Speaker 5: much for having me on.
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  Speaker 3: Oh thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Outdoor lighting can be a bit overwhelming for some people,
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  Speaker 3: not knowing where to start, how to start, how it's
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  Speaker 3: even involved. They think they have to install outlets all
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  Speaker 3: over their property to make it work. But you've been
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  Speaker 3: doing this for for quite some time now, and you've
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  Speaker 3: moved from Argentina here to San Diego with this with
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  Speaker 3: his industry in mind.
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  Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 5: It was actually a pretty cool story. I well, I
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  Speaker 5: lived in Argentina. I was working for the company at
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  Speaker 5: the time, and the company was going bankrupt. So I
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  Speaker 5: kind of pitched to my old boss to become a
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  Speaker 5: partner and moved to the US to kind of save
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  Speaker 5: the company. A week later, I was on a plane
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  Speaker 5: in La so very scary. Six months later, I bought
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  Speaker 5: the other half of the company. And yeah, that was
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  Speaker 5: like maybe three to four years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Now, so journey, that's what you call a leap of faith.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so totally.
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  Speaker 3: So back in Argentina, what was the lighting company called?
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  Speaker 3: Was it Pampa Lighting there as well?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it was the same name of the company,
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  Speaker 5: but the way it was structured, the way we were
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  Speaker 5: doing all the advertising, the products we were selling. Basically,
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  Speaker 5: once I took over, we changed everything.
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  Speaker 3: Oh okay, And in Argentina, is outdoor lighting just as
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  Speaker 3: popular here as in the US? Or is it more
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  Speaker 3: popular in the US than it is there?
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  Speaker 5: I would say it's more popular in the US, to
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  Speaker 5: be honest, I didn't even know before I started working
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  Speaker 5: for the company. I didn't even know like the industry
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  Speaker 5: even existed, to be honest. So yeah, I would definitely
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  Speaker 5: say it's much bigger in the US than in Argentina.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Now, now let's get into a little bit about
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  Speaker 3: you know, your company, what exactly does Pampa Lighting do.
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  Speaker 5: So we manufacture outdoor lighting fixtures, both for landscape and
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  Speaker 5: architectural and we sell them directly to contractors, designers, developers, architects,
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  Speaker 5: you name it. We sell these all over the country.
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  Speaker 5: We are based out of San Diego, but we we
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  Speaker 5: ship them out all over the country. Whole business model
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  Speaker 5: that we have is that we don't sell to local
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  Speaker 5: distributors like probably ninety eight percent of our competitors. We
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  Speaker 5: jump over these local distributors to sell directly to the
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  Speaker 5: contractor or the designer. So that basically allows us to
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  Speaker 5: cut out that middleman and like all the profit that
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  Speaker 5: they make, we just pass it on to our customers
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  Speaker 5: as a saving.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So on the downside, like we're not on the shelf
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  Speaker 5: of every store in the country, which is a bummer.
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  Speaker 5: But on the other hand, we have a ninety eight
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  Speaker 5: percent customer return rate, so once we do connect with
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  Speaker 5: that contractor or that designer, they usually end up coming
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  Speaker 5: back for more lightning for their future products.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And at the same time, like you say, you might
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  Speaker 3: not be on the show, you know, but where that
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  Speaker 3: fixture is, you know, one hundred dollars on the shelf.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they can get it for ninety dollars from you,
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  Speaker 3: and you guys are really quick about the turnaround because
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  Speaker 3: nowadays with shipping, I mean, you know, you're in San Diego,
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  Speaker 3: but you can get in order out and you know
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  Speaker 3: you can get it to someone within a week or
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: so and you know have it there right.
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean orders on the West coast it
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: takes twenty four to forty eight hours, and then like
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: the further you know, on the East side to Florida
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: to New York for example, it takes about three to
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: four days.
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: So oh wow, pretty bad, even quicker than I thought.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: So so let's talk now a little bit about outdoor lighting.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: You know, oh real quick, before we get into the
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: outdoor lighting ideas, you guys sell lighting, do you guys
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: sell transformers and the other parts that they need as
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: well for the for the lights.
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: Were like the one top shop or anything that you
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: know the people need for outdoor lighting from the light fixtures, transformers, wires, connectors,
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: any types of adapters, dimmers, all the variants for led bobs,
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: which can be a little bit confusing, you know with
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: all the lumens and beam angles and all that stuff.
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: So we Yeah, we stock everything really one top shot
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: for outdoor lighting.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So now let's let's talk about outdoor lighting.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: A lot of people are like, oh wow, I don't
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: have outlets all over my house. I you know, don't
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: want to run power everywhere. How do you even do this?
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: It starts with the transformer, correct.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: Yes, So most of the outdoor lighting that you see
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: out there, especially for residential, it's what's called low voltage,
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: which is twelve olds, which means you don't have to
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: be a certified electrician to be able to work around it.
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: So this can be a great EOI project, you know,
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: for your own home. I So, since these are twelve
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: volts up to twenty four volts, you need a transformer, right,
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: So you that's what you connect to the outlet, and
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: then you run the twelve lt cable all over the
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: yard to do the connections with the lights.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah so that's everywhere. Yeah, So that transformer plugs into
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: an outlet from and then from there you're just running
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: wire through the yard to get the lights to wherever
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: they need to be, right exactly. And and you know
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: that wire that's running through the yard, like you say,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: it's twelve volts. So if you accidentally cut into it,
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: if you you know, if something happens where you know
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: it breaks, it's not it's not like wires in your wall, right,
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: it's very low that's not going to create like a
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: fire or anything crazy. And then and then you have
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: the transformer to protect you back there at the wall too.
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: Right exactly that that's that's exactly how it works. So
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: it's a it can be a great e I wire project,
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: you know, for for somebody that wants to get their
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: outdoor light into their home. That you don't need to
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: be a certified electrician in order, you know, to do
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: this type of outer light.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: And and so speaking connecting to that wire. You know,
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: at some places when you buy lights, they have these
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: little clamps at the end that connect to that wire.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Some some lighting you splice the wire and you just
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: simply connected with waterproof wire. Nuts. What what are your
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: fixtures like?
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: So ours are where you need to spice it. Uh
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: we that's the way that we manufacture these as they are.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: That's the the best way for there not to be
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: a loose connection. Whenever you do the installation, those that
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: come with an existing clip, you kind of take Arsta
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: that down the line, maybe in a couple of months
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: or two, there's going to be a loose connection. So
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: when that happens, it's, you know, it's a it's a huge,
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: you know pain because you need to go out there
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: to the yard, try to find where the problem is,
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: do all the troubleshooting. So ideally the best is to
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: like splice it and do a proper connection so you
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: can sure that's not going to be coming loose.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Perfect Hey, Toory, we're going to take a break. When
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: we get back, we're going to continue talking with Toy
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: with Pampa Lighting about what kind of light fixtures exist
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: out there in the world.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Have lots of activity on our Facebook page. Any questions
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: for us or our guests to Toy and let us
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: know this morning talking about outdoor lighting and hey, if
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: you're gardner, landscaper, a d do it yourself for then
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: this is for you in terms of lighting and learning
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: a lot a lot about it this morning. And yeah,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: it is safe and we'll learn more about that after
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: this break. The break is for BIZ Talk Radio Brian
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Maintiger Palafox, John is off today. Back after these messages
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: on this talk radio, they.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: Would welcome back to the Garden America Radio Show with Brian,
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: John and Tiger.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: All Right, thank you for hanging in there, and welcome
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: to those on Facebook Live Biz Talk Radio. We do
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: appreciate it. Whatever's on your mind in terms of what
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: we're talking about this morning or over and beyond. Right there,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: if you're a facebooker on our Facebook page on the
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: comments section, as we continue to discuss outdoor lighting and
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: how you may incorporate that in landscaping, if that's what
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: you're thinking about doing.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So, Tory, we have one question that did come
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: across a view or on Facebook, and I don't know
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: if you have a solid answer for this, but the
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: question is is is there any research with outdoor lighting?
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Does it affect the plants at all? Like you know,
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: I mean meaning you know, they're accustomed to being dark
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: at night and now you have lighting on, you know,
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: is there any effects on the landscape.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: That's a good question. I've never heard that coming. I've
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: never seen that being a problem with any of our
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: contractors or any of our gardeners. So I don't want
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: to confirm, but I would say no, since that hasn't
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: been a problem in the last four to ten years.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: That we've been we've been doing this.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I will say on that that you know,
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: we're talking a very minimal amount of lights.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: We're talking LED now right, well the most.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Part, well not just like LED, but I mean when
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: you walk into a backyard that has landscape lighting, this
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: is not a stadium, you know, meaning there's still dark spots.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: There's still areas where you can trip and fall because
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: you can't see your feet. You know, we're not talking
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: you know, giant lights that are just illuminating the whole
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: and then staying on for you know, the whole night.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: So I think that there's usually such a minimal amount
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: of light that it would in effect. Now I will
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: say though, because of people that are in areas that
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: maybe get some frost or you know, maybe some cold temperatures,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: some tropicals. John's mentioned this, and you know they will
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: wrap Christmas lights around plants and not the new LED
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Christmas light but the warm but the old you know,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: incandescent lights and it'll act, yeah like keep the plant warm,
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: you know, to prevent frost. So so you know, that
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: is one way it could affect a landscape. But I
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: don't think the light itself would affect a landscape.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a lot of what you say, It's not
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: so much you know, to light up the whole thing
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: like a stadium, is more like accent lighting to to
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: to accentuate like the most important parts of the property.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: So that brings us to where we're going next. What
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: are some types of lights? What are some words that
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: people use in the industry. You know, there's uplights, there's downlights.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: What what kind of lights aren't they are there? And
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: what do they do?
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: So, yeah, there's a lot of different lights out there,
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: especially now there's being like new lights design in like
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: new categories created. You know, one of the most popular
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: lights that just started come out, you know are the
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: strip lighting those like strip lights or some people call
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: them the rope lights that go underneath like the steps
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: or the retaining wall. So like, not only is there
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: just like the standard collect the standard categories that you
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: see every single day, but there's new categories that are
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: being made in design on the daily. So it's it's
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: very cool. But to answer your question, you know, one
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: of the most popular type of categories you have spotlights.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: To start, I would say the most popular spotlights is
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: mainly used for uplighting the folk whole parts of the property,
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: so you know, trees, big statues, flags, any part of
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: the that's more going to be like iconic of the property.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: That's when you use the spotlights. Then you go to
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: uh to the path lights. The pathlights are used for
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: walkways and pathways a lot of people using for driveways too,
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: basically to mark down the area so you don't trip,
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: there's no trip hazard and you can just you know,
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: just walk safely at night. Essentially, you then go to
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: flood lights. Floodlights get confused a lot with spotlights. The
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: difference with floodlights they're also called wall washers. They're mainly
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: the difference with the spotlight is the spotlight is more
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: of like the focal type of beam, where the floodlight's
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: more it has a much softer bulb and it has
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: it usually has a frosted lens, so the beam is
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: going to be much more diffused, and it's great for
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: rockbit flambits and like small walls too, you know, in
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: ground lights. In ground lights they're called in ground well
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: lights too because they go in the ground completely submerged,
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: their flushed depending on like the cap on the top,
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: you can use them either for path lighting, you can
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: use them for uplighting. There's a lot of different uses
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: for this light depending on the cap that you use
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: on the top. You know, there's different situations where you
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: would use this, Like you don't want to use this
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: for a tree that's going to be losing a lot
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: of leaves in the winter because the leaves fall on
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: top of the well light, so they're going to color
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: it up. In that case, you want to use something
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: like a spotlight that's going to stick out just a
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: little bit more. But yeah, like a lot of the
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: well lights are used for pathways and I personally I
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: like to use them for or uplighting walls on the
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: walls on the house.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And also to hit on that note because we've
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: run into this situation for people that have young kids.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: I know you mentioned about the leaves falling. You know, obviously,
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: you know you've got to have an uplight that sticks up.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: But for properties with young kids and they play in
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: the backyard a lot, those in ground lights for uplights
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: are great too, because you know they're not knocking them over,
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: they're not dragging stuff and then you know moving it
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: or breaking it. Yeah, So they're excellent for that uplighting,
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: but in the environment where kids are not going to
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: break them kind of a thing. Yeah, totally.
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: And it's not just kids, it's the dogs, the gardener,
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: it's the foot traffic if you live somewhere like Yeah,
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: the other day we did a house where this customer
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: had a lot of foot traffic because she was like
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: right by school. So all the kids that came out
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: of school, they would like get over the lights and stuff.
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: So we had to put the ingrown light there so
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: the kids went, you know, yeah, you're playing around with it.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, So in ground anything else.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: Uh, Yeah, there's you know, there's a lot more all
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: the lights like sconces, you know that go on the walls.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: We we do a lot of sconces on the pool
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: cages over on the East coast, like in Florida. Then
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: we do a lot of like one twenty vault Wisconsins
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: for like the houses in California for that type of style.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: And the pillar lights too, and then you go into
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: step lighting and the heart escape lighting. All of those
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: that go underneath, well, the heart escape A lot of
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: people call them under cap lights too. They go like
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: underneath the topstone of the the retaining wall. That one
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: is very popular and it's used a lot. Then you
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: go to step lights that within step lights, you have
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: different categories depending on you know, how you want to
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: install these. Some of these come with the junction box
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: in the back, so you need to install them before
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: you do the concrete pore if you were to have
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: you know, concrete steps. Other step lights that we have
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: or what's called a surface mounta light so you just
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: screw it onto directly onto like the face shell of
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: the step. So yeah, there's a lot of different types
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: of categories for outdoor lighting for sure.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: And then and then within the category, you know, I
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: tell people a lot because I work a lot more
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: with like the uplights and the path lights, you know,
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: and like you say, there's a lot of other options
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: out there, but you know, the pathlights, you know, you
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: could have a huge range in price because you could
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: have a pathlight that's just a simple up pathlight, little
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: umbrella top and then you know shine light. But then
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: you can have it you know, made out a bronze,
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: very ornate, and so you know, you can have one
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: light that does the same job and it could be
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: you know, one hundred and one hundred and twenty dollars.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: But you could have another light that looks way different,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: maybe made out of a different material, and it could
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: be three four hundred dollars, and and it just depends
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: on the look that you want, right, So, you know,
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: and I tell people, you know, the lights that you see,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: you know, the you know, it's going to depend. It's
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: kind of like you're you're you know, Dana mentioned the
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: dripping fauce at your house, but like a faucet at
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: your home, you know that people are gonna see. You
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: might spend a little bit more money on that faucet
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: because people see it. You want it to be nice.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: But meanwhile, the faucet in the garage sync, you're gonna
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: get the basic faces. You know, it works, it puts
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: water out, you know. So so yeah, there's a huge
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: spectrum in that we have.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: About a minute.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: We have about a minute before our next break toy, right,
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: And one of the things I want to get into
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: it after the break is, you know, the difference in
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: lights out there too, because like you mentioned before that
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: the lights that you sell you can change the bulbs in,
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: which is a critical aspect of outdoor landscape lighting where
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: the lights that they sell at a lot of box stores,
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: they're set in and you can't change the bulbs. It's
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: an led that's in there, and when you need to
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: change the bulb or the light, you have to change
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: the whole fixture, which brings us to a whole realm
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: of other things that we are going to talk about.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: So when we get back from the break, we're going
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: to continue chatting with Tory with Pompa Lighting. I did
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: put the website online, yep. It's right there so people
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: can click on it and see some of the light
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: fixtures that we may be talking about.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Okay, and we've got one more segment as far as
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: bistalk radio concern for our number one here on Garden
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: America Facebook Live. It's one continuous show, so do stay
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: with us talking about outdoor lighting with Tory and a
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: lot of great information so far, and hopefully you're learning
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: something so that when you consider this or go out
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: to deal with somebody else, you've got the information and
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: the education behind me. Back after these messages supporting us
• 30:53
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• 30:55
  Speaker 6: Of America, Welcome back to the Garden America Radio Show with
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: Brian John and Tiger.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Just like that, we are back. Hope you had a
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: good break. Thank you BIS Talk Radio. This by the way,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: as I mentioned before the break, the final segment segment
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: of hour number one, I should say news coming up
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: top of the hour. We come back at six minutes
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: hour for six minutes after the hour for hour two
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: on Garden America on BIS Talk Radio. I'm going to
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: toss it to you because I've got to get something
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: out of my mouth. My tongue is getting in the
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: way with Tori.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: With Pampa lighting. And before the break, I had mentioned
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: you gotta be careful because some of the lights that
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: you may buy nowadays from a box store online, they
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: don't necessarily come with the option to change the bowl.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: You know, it's not right, you know, it's it's a
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: set in led board. They tell you the looms, they
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: tell you the wattage, but you don't have the capacity
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: to be able to change that. So when you buy that,
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: if it ever goes out, you have to buy a
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: whole new fixture. You don't just have to buy a bulb.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: But at the same time, it doesn't give you the
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: same control over the light that you may for one
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: of the fixtures that you sell Tori, So why is
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: it important for you to be able to change that bulb?
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: You know, just going back to your question, there's like
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: two main types of outdoor lighting fixtures or I was
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: just I wouldn't say outdoor lighting fixtures, but two types
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: of fixtures in general. Right, So you have those fixtures
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: where you call them integrated, where the LED is built
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: into the light fixture. So whenever that LED goes out,
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: you know, five six, seven years, you need to replace
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: the whole light fixture. Where the other category is called
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: drop in, so it's a drop in bulb essentially, when
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: the LED goes out, instead of replacing a two hundred
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: dollars fixture or like one hundred and fifty dollars fixture,
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: you just replace a ten dollars bulb. And there's a
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: lot of people that like integrated more. They say you
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: get more of a punch on the lighting. I don't
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: completely agree, and I don't think it's worth it. There
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: are some situations where to have an LED you need
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: more space within the housing of the light picture. So
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: there are a couple of situations where there's no way
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: around it. You need an integrated light picture for those
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: smaller type of lights. So one of the lights that
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: you'll see out there a lot that's going to be
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: integrated out of step lights, but you just have different
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: types of lights. But yeah, whenever we can stay away
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: from integrated, we do because as I said before, I
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: think it's a much smarter to change out a ten
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: dollars ball than light picture that's going to cost you
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: one hundred and twenty dollars.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Carla's got a question. Did you see the question?
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: No, I'll get to that, okay. But also Tori, being
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: able to change the balls gives you options, right, because
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: they sell different bulbs. Why what what is the difference
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: in bulbs?
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: Well involves you have different type of like specs that
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: come with the bulbs, which when you have a drop
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: in light fixture, you can play around with the ball
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: to get the exact right want right. So to give
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: you an example, our spotlight, they come with the five
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: bulb twenty seven K that's the color temperature and then
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: the men being beam angle is to thirty six degrees,
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: so that's like the default bulb. And then when we
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: sell that bulb, if the customers like, hey, I want
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: more more power, I want more lumens, or I want
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: a beam that's going to be a little bit wider,
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: you can change out the bulbs, so it kind of
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: allows you to play around to get the best you know,
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: light attack for your property. Right, Yeah, going back to
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: your questions, you have the wattage, So the wattage is
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: related to the lumens, which is going to be how
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: bright the light is. Then you go to color temperature
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: ninety I would say ninety five percent of the jobs
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: out there that we do or more are twenty seven
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: hundred kelvin. Then it's like a warm white, and then
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: you go to the beaming. All right, So depending on
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: the size of the tree or depend or what you're
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: trying to uplight, you can go with the more narrow beam,
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: which would be a thirty six degree beam, or a
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: wider beam, which would be like a sixty degree beam.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and all these make the difference when you're in it,
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: when they're out there in the landscape and you know
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: you're trying to shine you know, up a tree or
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: you know, maybe a bush. You know, like you say,
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: you're going to use difference. The color is a huge
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: thing too, because you know, I mean nowadays it's so
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: hard because the a lot of LEDs give it that
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: like blue look in a lot of times you don't
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: want that for your landscape. You want a warm, you know,
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: natural kind of look. Hey. So the question that came
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: across from Karla is does your company sell solar lights
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: or is are those dirty words in your in your industry?
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: What do you think about the solar lights that are
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: out there on the.
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: Market, solo lights. I we don't sell solar lights, but
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: this is my opinion on solo lights. I think so
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: solo lights are the future. I think there is going
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: to be a move over two solar lights in the future.
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: But what I do think is I don't think the
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: technology is the there yet for there to be good
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: solar lights.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: So problem with solo lights is they work okay, is
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: for the probably first six months and then all the
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: all the light comes out of one single LED. That's
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: the problem with solo lives. So after about you know,
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: four or five months, you really see the light output
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: of that solar light come down a lot. So are
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: the solar lights good now? No, they're not good? Are
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: they gonna be good?
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: One?
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: They're still not there yet, but they will get there
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: for sure.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, the technology is catching up,
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: but at the same time, like I agree with you,
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: it's not there yet. And also I almost feel the
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: solar light companies are shooting themselves in the foot because
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: you know, I mean, like we talk about, you know,
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: you could have a fixture and it could be one
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: hundred and you know, twenty dollars. Okay, you know the
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: solar light fixtures that you see, they're like, oh, you know,
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: eight dollars, ten dollars, and it's like it'd probably be
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: better off putting something really good together and selling it
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: for one hundred and twenty dollars then then to have
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: their price point be so low that, like you say,
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: they're just putting out one that you're going to change
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: every six months or eight months because they're just not
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: that good.
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: The other problem with that is not just you know,
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: how much light it gets out or the quality of
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: the light fixture it looks, because when you have a
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: solo light, you need to have that solar panel, and
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: let's be honest, that's that that panel does not look
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: at Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean. So that's
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: another kind of tricky part for the solar lights, how
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: they how they design a good quality light that the
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: solar the solar panel kind of blends into the design
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: of the fixture, which again I said, like, we're still
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: a long way away from that.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so hey, we are going to have to take
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: another break break, right, we got a news break when
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: we can. When we get back, we're going to talk
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: about some of Tory's favorite light fixtures that he has
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: on his website and how people can buy them.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: And again those on the Facebook Live you have any
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: more questions comments as we come back after the news
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: break on talk radio to wrap things up with Tory,
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: but get your questions and now and after that, after Tori,
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: it's going to be Tiger myself for the rest of
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: the show, so do stay with us obviously BIZ Talk Radio,
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: Facebook Live and again coming up on biz Talk Radio
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: News top of the hour six minutes after we come back,
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: and much quicker on Facebook Live. John is off this week.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: I'm Brian Main Tiger Palafox. Welcome, thank you for joining
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: us here on Guard America. Well we're back. If you're
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: tuned in on BIS Talk Radio and just joining the show,
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: this is our two Welcome those on Facebook Life that
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: come and go. We appreciate you for hanging in there
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: as we get back to our conversation with Tory outdoor
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Lighting and then wrapping things up Tiger.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so Tory your website Pampa lighting dot com. People
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: can go on there shop the different fixtures. You have
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: the price right there. Can people buy directly from the website.
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so the people buy directly from the website, and
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: then contractors and designers. Developers have the option to create
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: a contractor account. We have two different programs, one for contractors,
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: one for designers. Contractors get a discount on you know,
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: the product price, get the free shipping, and all the
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: orders get a better customer service, you know, a couple
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: of other perducts, and then designers. Since we don't sell
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: two local distributors, we don't get the exposure that all
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: of our competitors get by being in the shelves. So
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: what we did is we created this designer program where
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: we pay designers to spec out our product. So every
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: time a designer spects out our product and then the
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: third party contractor buys the lights, we give that designer
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: a commission. That's basically to make up for the lack
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: of exposure that we have by not selling to the
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: local distributors.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: Got it. What are some of your favorite lights that
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: you guys do so.
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: So one of the you know, one thing that has
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: been very trendy right now are the light fixtures with
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: the two tone color. So if there's called Stelvio BAB,
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: so BAB stands out for black Antique Brass, So it's
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: a light fixture that has a little bit of so
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: it's like a black light fixture with the antique brass
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: details and I just think it looks very modern. It's
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: been selling very well, so it's really the only company
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: that has that, so that's been very popular. So the
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: Stelvio BAB spotlight, Stellvio s H BAB pathlights, those have
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: been very very good products that just came out and
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: they've been selling very well. Other lights that's very very
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: trendy right now that it's been a boom probably in
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: the last you know, four or five months, have been
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: the strip lights, strip lights. It's something that's very trendy
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: right now. And then we almost do strip lighting on
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: every single project, so those sell very very well. I
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: like the strip lights, the one that's called Neon side Flex,
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: the striplet that bends, so when you have those ninety
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: degree corners on those steps, there's no need to cut
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: it like to cut it. It just bends sideways. So
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: whenever you're doing the installation, it's so so easy to do.
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: Okay, And so with the strip light, is it the
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: same kind of principles as the other lights where you
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: can use that twelve that twelve volt line and then
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: connect it to the end of the strip light. Now
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: can it be incorporated, like can you continue that line
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: and then have uplights on that same or does it
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: have to be a dedicated line.
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: That's a great question, Tiger. Well, we a lot. You know,
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: most of the companies out there that the manufacturer striplights
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: do what's called that twenty four vault DC current. It's
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: just like the specs of it. When you do twenty
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: four DC, you need to have a separate line with
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: a separate transformer just for the strip lights. Right. That
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: makes the whole inflation process a lot more difficult and
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: a lot more expensive because you need to waste a
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: lot more wire and then you need to get a
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: new transformer just for the strip lights. Right when we
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: design these, since we already sell you know, the like
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: fixtures that are twelve volts AC. We wanted to make
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: sure that the strip lights that we design are twelve
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: say right. So we did a lot of research, a
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: lot of development, and you know, the two main models
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: that we have right now on the website are twelve
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: ball SAC which to answer your question, yes, they can
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: go connected to the same line and the same transformer.
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: So that way for whoever's doing, you know, the strip lighting,
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: you can connect it to the same line as the
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: spotlights and path lights and all the other line.
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: That's amazing because, like, like you said, we ran into
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: that problem all the time where people want to have
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: that strip light, but they didn't realize that you had
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: to have a completely different lighting system to incorporate that,
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: and and you know, it was difficult to make it
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: all work together. So that's awesome.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: That's so.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: And even if you you know, even if you do
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: have an existing lighting system with a transformer, this is
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: something that you can add on to it, So that
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: makes it awesome as well. It doesn't have to be
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: you know, you don't have to do a new install
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: with all of the products that you have. It could
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: be add on to there as well. Which which again
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: I want to mention, you know, because twelve volts pretty
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: plug and play. Even if people have an existing system,
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: the products you sell, they can be incorporated into what
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: they have now, right Yeah.
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, of course, as long as the transformer solve
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: all ac which I would say like nine percent of
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: them are. Yeah, you can add our lights to your
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: your existing system.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: No problem. Cool, Hey, lots of good information. I shared
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: the website. You know, people you know, go on and
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: cruise the different products. People can order them online, work
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: with your favorite contractor or designer as well. And you're
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: updating stuff all the time. I mean, you know, this
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: is always changing, so there's always new styles, new colors,
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: all that stuff. Right, so you know the website you
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: visit today might be different in a month from now
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: for sure.
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: Hey, thank you very much for joining us Stry. Have
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: a great rest of the weekend.
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: I appreciate you guys having me on today.
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: Yeahah yeah, great job. Thank you very much.
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: Thank you guys.
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: Okay, take care bye bye.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: Well see, add a whole nother element to your patio there, Brian.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: Here's the deal. We we have listeners and viewers all
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: over the country, all over the world. Yeah, Okay, you're
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: not all going to have access to toy. But what
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: he explained to what he told us this morning, you
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: can now take that information to wherever you go and
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: you have an arsenal of information to make the right decision, Yeah,
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: to ask the right questions to whoever you deal with.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: Because I learned a lot. I mean, this is great
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: that you don't have to be, you know, somebody walking
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: around with one hundred thousand dollars in your pocket to
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: set up a good system with the technology that's available today.
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: And you don't have to have all the ins and
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: outs and knowledge you know that, you know, I mean, yeah,
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: it might be good to have a professional lighting person
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: out there for to help you. But like if you're
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: just trying to do something simple and.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: You could do it yourself and you can get creative.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, with that and that whole that whole rope light
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: and strip light that he mentioned, that is a big
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: thing because that is something very popular right now.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: People have them in their houses, they have them in
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: their rooms. I've got one across the bottom of my aquarium. Yeah,
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: it's like five feet.
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but that one has to be plugged in to
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: an outlet. It does, and it has a little transformer
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: box that came with it, right, and everything else. Well,
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: the beauty behind his system is it was difficult in
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: the past to incorporate those into the landscape, but it
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: seems like nowadays they've found a great product that you
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: can just if you already have an existing landscape lighting system,
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: you just plug this into that.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: Let's get back to the solar lighting. He talked to Oh, yeah,
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: this is funny. Yeah, because a year ago. For the
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: past couple of years, I've gone to the dollar store
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: and they set souls right, Yes, and they laughed about
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: about a year. Yeah, Okay, they're a dollar. I don't care.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: But he's right in terms of how long this was
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: going to last and how they they eventually will fade away. Well,
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: we've had these now for over a year, and just
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: by luck, they look as good as they have. It's
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: amazing different times of the year, angle of the sun
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: less less. I mean, you know, I know they're a dollar.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: I don't care, But he's right about the long term
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: with solar in terms of that, and I would imagine too,
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: with solar, once they get it down, they could go
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: on and off by themselves, right, they do. They do
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: go on with what I mean without a time, without
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: having a hook up a timer, Well, they.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: Do already because usually what they have and this is
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: something that is good to know for the landscape lighting
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: people too, is there's a couple of ways for your
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: system to turn on and off. Okay, so you can
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: manually turn it on and off, you know, you know,
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: either hook it up to a light switch or or
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: something where you can turn it on and turn it
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: off manually. You can set it on a timer where
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: it turns on at eight pm and turns off at two.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: You know. You can put it on a photo cell,
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: and this is where the solar ones come in. Right.
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: A photocell senses daylight and when it gets to a
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: minimum lighting amount, the system turns on and then when
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: the light comes back out, then the system turns off.
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: That's the you know, or you can do a hybrid
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: of both where maybe you want it to turn on
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: when it's dark, but you don't want it on all night,
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: so you set it to turn off at ten pm
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: or eleven pm. So those are the ways that the
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: systems can be controlled. But the device that you're incorporating
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: with the solar is what's called a photo cell and
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: you can incorporate those into your timers.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so many ways to go. Yeah, let's see, we're
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: close enough to a break, so let's take the break
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: right now. Okay, back with Brian and Tiger or whatever's
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: on your mind. What do you want to talk about.
• 49:51
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• 49:53
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• 49:56
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  Speaker 2: As we have discussed in the past.
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: You know, the outdoor lighting topic is a big thing
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: for a lot of people with this whole I forget
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: what it's called, but in Arizona they it's called like
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: a dark sky city or something.
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, when you're when you're out beyond well.
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: Well, what the you know they're finding is that a
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: lot of our urban areas are very they have a
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: do a lot of light pollution. They have a lot
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: of light pollution.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: I think Carla mentioned that in terms of not being
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: able to see the stars anymore.
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what you know, we're kind of getting at
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: with is that, you know, you're supposed to have lights
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: turned off at night because you know, there's animals, there's
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: the idea being able to see the stars.
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: It's it's an natural thing that's supposed to occur.
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so you know, I mean when it comes
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: to the landscape lighting, Yeah, that is something that you know,
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: you do want to consider. And that's why I said,
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: maybe maybe it's on from you know, dusk to eight
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: or nine pm. Yeah, you know, and then turn it off, turn.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: It off when you go to bed. But here's the
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: thing you can. You can There's there's a lot enough
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: lights out there that you can tone it down too.
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: I would imagine, Well.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: That's just it is. You know a lot of the
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: light we're not telling you to, you know, completely illuminate
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: your backyard so you can see it from space.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: These aren't spotlights, you know.
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: But if you can have a couple of lights that
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: you know, accent some trees and maybe illuminate some areas
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: that you may trip if you're working through the yard,
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: then that's all you kind of really need to need
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: to have.
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: So Tiger, do you recall and I'm not sure when
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: these were phased out, and I know that there was
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: probably good reason. Do you remember, like, let's say there
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: was a grand opening someplace. Oh those big lights, big
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: SEARCHUS light lights.
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: I think they have them going on a snap Dragon
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: last night because they have that women's soccer game going
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: on this weekend.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: Because I have not seen those. I mean when I
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: was a kid for miles away and you'd go, I
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: wonder what's happening over there, it would be like a
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: supermarket or a mall grand opening or some car lot,
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: and these things were like you know, it was like
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: the bat light which were stationary obviously, but you could
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: see these things for miles. You don't see it don't
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: seem as often anything. Yeah, and they would really pinpoint
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: a location. Is there such a thing as light pollution?
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm wondering because you don't. And they were
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: lit by like a you couldn't really stare into it
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: much like a candle.
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: Like a candle about there's no candle they can do that.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: There were fire giant.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: Light bulbs, not a fire candle, but it was a
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: different kind of a bulb that looked and was shaped
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: kind of like a candle, putting off all this light energy. Yeah,
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: well it wasn't you didn't light a match, and you know.
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: You had to tow those trailers behind a truck.
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I just don't. You don't, but you you
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: thought you saw them.
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: So yeah, they're having that big event at Snapdragon this
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: week this weekend. It's the She Believes Soccer tournament, right
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: and there. You know, it's funny living over there by
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: snap Dragon. I see a lot of the prep work
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: that they do before events. So they have to like
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: practice their their lighting, they have to practice their video boards,
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: and all that other stuff it is. And so I
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: see them doing that. And last night when I looked
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: over there, I saw search lights. Yeah.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: So speaking of lighting, Yeah, you know, they measure you know,
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: horsepower with engines, and I think there is a way
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: they measure light, like you know that loom candle candle light.
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of like you say, a horsepower.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's what I remember with these search lights.
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: You just don't see them much anymore, but you could
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: see them for a long way. Yeah, and they would draw.
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: Your ten thousand candles ten thousand candles exactly.
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: I would we caught up? What I have to keep
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: turning my head to look at the computer here.
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: Oh, I think we caught up. There were a few
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: things I was going to read. You know, Carlo was
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: mentioning the whole light pollution thing, and you know, you
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: can turn off your lights, but you can't turn off
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: the city's lights, which you know, the I think the
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: cities are becoming more savvy to it. And like I said,
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: I know for a fact, in Arizona they have a
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: rule that you know, you cannot have so much light
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: in a commercial building and a private residence and all
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: that other stuff because they do try to keep the sky.
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, ton it dark.
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: Maybe maybe our listener from Tucson can tell us what's that.
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: Well, that's why when you drive out to the mountains
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: at night, when you're way away and you look up
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: and you can see the Milky Way, you can see
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: so much of what you don't normally see obviously within
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: the city.
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah exactly. And then uh, John and Bonnie Livingston, we
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: use strip lights to accent outdoor steps at night and
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: they work great, you know.
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: And they can bend them. That's that's the key. You
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: can bend them as well.
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they can fit into everything. Lisa wrote that her
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: ace where she lives carries fertilom, you know, so you're
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: sure to go in there, and and Veronica mentions that
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: she remembers those spotlights. Search lights use a carbon arc
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: to create the light. One huge candle. As you know,
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: you were saying you.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: Were making fun of me.
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean you were saying, it's a candle.
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: You know what.
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: The listeners and viewers have explained.
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: It perfectly, Yeah, exactly. So, Yeah, I think we're all
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: kind of caught up. As you said, spring is right
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: around the corner. Things are starting to bloom. We didn't
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: we have not gotten the rain that we normally have,
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: but that didn't stop things when we did get that
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: rain to start turning into spring. So things are starting.
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: Now a little more. We need to We need a
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: little more.
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, there's no doubt about it.
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: So so now is when you start myself, Maybe you
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: go outside a little more, look around what needs to
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: be done.
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah before stand the weeding, Yeah, standing.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: Before too long you'll be needing to water a little more. Yeah,
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: hopefully not for a month or two. Yeah, inland, yeah,
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: probably even sooner. Yeah.
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: I was out in Poway this week and they had
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: a massive Santa Ana wind blowing through there. Yeah, and
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: it was very dry and very warm.
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: Because even yesterday it was windy.
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: I'd go out for a couple of walks during the
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: day around the complex and uh, I'm like, where did
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: this wind come from?
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah? So yeah, that hot, dry wind will definitely wike
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: out moisture of plants real quick, So make sure to
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: stay on top of the watering for that, because it's
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: always good to keep your plants well hydrated, right, Brian,
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: that's how you.
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: Like to well hydrated? Yeah, absolutely, but don't over water.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: You know, you have more problems overwatering sometimes than you
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: do keeping up on the water. Most plants will tell
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: you there's there's indicator plants obviously that the droop and
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: let you know, I mean sun patients I think are
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: one of those.
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you talk about that.
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: That will tell you I need water. So maybe my
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: buddies around me need water as well. Yeah, but just
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: be You know, anybody that's been doing this for any
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: amount of time knows well.
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: And you kind of learn the schedule of the plants.
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: You know that you know when they come out, you know,
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: are they gonna need more water? You know, they start
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: emerging flowers or leaves. You kind of go from there.
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: But I love it when the plants become naturally accustomed
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: to wherever they're at. Those paintbrush lilies that John gave
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: me a few years back, now where I had one,
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: there's three blooms.
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: I've got four blooms on my big one. Oh, really unbelievable.
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: And this started off in a little think about a
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: year ago. I transplanted it. Yeah, and it just took off.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: I mean it's huge. I can't even pick it up
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: to move it. It'll take a couple of people to
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: pick it. I put it in a big pot and
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: I've got three or four blooms on there. Just beautiful.
• 59:02
  Speaker 4: Yea.
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: We got to take a break, all right.
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: We've got two more segments, a quick show, whatever's on
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: your mind. Always you know, we're open for business here,
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: Facebook Live, questions, comments, love to hear from you. John
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: is off this week. He's back next week. We'll catch
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: up with John. Next week. We're gonna take a break.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: I'm Brian Mate Tiger Palafox.
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: This is Garden America.
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: We have returned from the break. It is guarded. Okay.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: We thank you for joining us. Hope your weekends off
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: to a good start. Many of you begin your weekend
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: with us. We appreciate that spending part of your time.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: And again, John back next week. He's up at the
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: La Arboretum, and then we'll find out about the rose
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: situation happening up there. John will give us details. We
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: always encourage him to call us, but you.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: Know, yeah, he always forgets about us. John and Bonnie
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: posted this is something good for people to know. Up
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: in Rogers Gardens in Newport Beach. Tomato mania is going
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: on right. Oh you had one, no we have not yet,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: Oh not yet. It happened in a few weeks down
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: here in San Diego. But you know, tomatomania, great event
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: at of opportunity to get some new rice, some different
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: prices of tomato plants get you going for the season.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: So if you're in Newport area, go visit Roger Gardens.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: You must have a sweet one your one of your favorites.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: Uh sweet aperteeth, efteeth. We talked about I think a
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: good one.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we did talk about that. I think was that
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: one you gave me a couple of years ago.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: Yes, John John really enjoys that one too. Yeah, but
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: then there's the you know this on gold all those
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: other ones too. I am not a huge sweet tomato fan,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: so meaning you know, I'll get one for the season,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: but usually my focus is going to be more on
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: the slicing tomatoes.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: Now, slicing tomatoes are excellent for like hamburgers.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: And might not I just do salt, a little bit
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: of salt on my.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: I'm just thinking to get really creative if I could
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: get a hold of a real sweet tomato, yeah, and
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: prepared like let's say a hamburger or something for somebody
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: and not even tell them what I'm doing. If they
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: would go, wow, this is this is a different taste.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: What is this? So that would be a challenge though,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: because you'd have to get a sweet slicing tomato, I know,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean, because a lot of the
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: sweet ones come more cherry. They're small, and they're small.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: But if you could get a sweet slicing tomato, yeah,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: And or you can get a sweet tomato and turn
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: it into more of like a salsa than you can
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: put on the burger you so it's more like a
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: not a paste, but like you know, like a then
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: it would.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: Be the sweet slicing tomatoes.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: We'll have to have about that, you know what. That's
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: an interesting question.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll have to have them on from Tomato Madia
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: and see what the what the sweetest slicing.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: Tomato or if somebody's working on that.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, or was working on it in a lab like
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: you say, like you always like to envision them in
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: little coats.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: They got their goggles, there's their steam and speak and beakers.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's there's things bubbling. Yeah, for sure. They have
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: those metal tubes going. Did you those glass tubes?
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: Probably before your time, You remember chemistry sets.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right before by time chemistry has been around si.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: No, I mean that they sell to kids back into sixties.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the ones that actually had things that blew
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: up and.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: They had poison, mercury and all kinds of stuff. Boy,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: the things we did back when, the good old days,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: when you had.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: Lawn darts, yeah exactly, slip and slides, when you actually
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: could create an explosive from the chemistry set that you
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: bought at.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: Right and maybe even accidentally put it in your mouth
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: and taste it.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah exactly. Yeah, those chemistry that they had crazy stuff
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: in them. Oh yeah.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: You can go back and you can research commercials on
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: YouTube and yeah, there's a guy that's got a channel
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: and all he runs is commercials from the fifties, sixties
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: and seventies. Oh really, and you're thinking to yourself, Wow,
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: those products are long gone.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: And that really existed for a while.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: You know, we laugh at it, but it's like, no, no, no,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: that was a real thing. People were selling, you know,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: these items.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: And when we were kids too, we would get bows
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: and arrows. Oh yeah, yeah, and we had there was.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: A they did not have the suction. No, real and there.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: Was a big grassy area at the cat and Ran
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: hotel back in the day before they you know, all
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: the construction, and we would go there and like point
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: them up in the air and shoot it as high
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: as we could. Yeah, where's gonna land. We don't know,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: hopefully close. It's probably just as irresponsible as taking a
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: gun and firing it up in the air and helping
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: the bullet doesn't land.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: On somewhere on someone. But the things we did as
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: kids that you know, yeah, and nowadays it's yeah, exactly nowadays,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: they took all the fun out of it, all the
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: life all the life threatening.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: Food, like riding in the back of a pickup truck
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: with no seat belts.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah. But but I mean, you know, it's funny because
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: you know, back to kind of gardening. It goes back
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: to some of those some of those weird things that
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 3: used to exist. And I mean we've talked about a
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: number of chemicals and products you know, over the years
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: that have come and gone, you know, whether it's bugs
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: or fertilizers. But even then, if you you know, and
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: we've talked about the plants, meaning you know, we talked
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: about eucalyptus trees, and we've talked about these giant hedge
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: trees that it's like, no, these are not smart to
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: plant in our landscapes, in our yards. But even then,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: there's the there's the really you know, obscure products out there.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 3: I mean that have come and gone. You know, nursery
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 3: cans used to be metal. You know, they used to
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: be metal cans with these really jagged sharp edges on them. Uh,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: you know. And you know, just the idea that used
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: to buy things in bear Root where you take it
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: home and it was wrapped in paper bag and.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: You talked about chemicals. I remember as a kid in
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: the garage. Oh yeah, fertilizers like yes, in a in
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: a almost like a beer bottle color brown with a
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: skull and crossbones. I had no idea what the product was.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: I think I had enough sense to stay away from it.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: But you know, just draw it on the shelf someplace
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: anybody could get their hands on it.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. So you know, I mean, it's it's it's
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: evolution of our knowledge of these things over the years,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 3: you know. But even then, when it comes to gardening tools,
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: you know, whether it's saws or pruners or or or
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: different tools, as well that people use in the garden.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: You know, we're evolving every year with how to make
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: them work better or you know, what works better and
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: what doesn't, And then you know that's I'm still waiting
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: for the self digging shovel though, it's just not there yet.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: You know, there's there's a difference between a better product
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: and a product that is safer. Sometimes they go together,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: sometimes they go together, but sometimes because it has to
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: be safer for new regulations, it can become an irritant.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: I remember back in the nineties doing a whole new
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: renovation on our house, almost top to bottom, and the
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: guys tell me, Okay, we're putting in these new toilets and.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 7: They're oh, they're like the low flow California rules. I'm like,
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 7: what do you mean low flow? He goes, well, you're
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 7: not gonna like it. Yeah, And so he showed me
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 7: and I went, are you sure everything went down? He goes, yeah,
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 7: but compared to the old ones, yeah, yeah, so there
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 7: was something to conserve water. Yeah, but in terms of
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 7: convenience and in terms of is it better, well not really.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: Now we're used to it. Yeah, now I don't know
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: the difference, and that was thirty years ago.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 3: Low flow toilets, low flow shower heads, remember those too, Yeah,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: trying to get enough water pressure. Yeah, exactly, like the
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 3: little hose is spitting on you to take a shower.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: You know, speaking of what you said something a few
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: minutes ago about we've learned not to plant those in
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: certain areas. Yeah. Now, were you referring to close to
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: the house, close to the sidewalk?
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just in general general you mean root systems just
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: like that. Yeah, it could be closed your house could
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: be close to your sidewalk. Could you just in your yard?
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: You know, if you've got a small yard, having a
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: sixty foot tree, that's gonna have a thirty foot cannopy
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: is probably not the best.
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  Speaker 2: There was a eucalyptus tree. It should come down the
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: steps the pathway to our house, right to the right,
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  Speaker 2: which we had them take out. I'm gonna guess eight
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  Speaker 2: nine years ago. Yeah, And I mean you're talking about
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: close to the house and the foundation.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. Oh. I was at a house in
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: La Joya this week and I was walking through. They
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 3: were asking me questions, and I saw their water meter
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: on the street where it was and they had a
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 3: Washington Palm starting right there. I think I feel like
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: it was attached to the water meter.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, you guys, you got to get
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: this out asap. They didn't live there either.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: So it's an older a tree, right older.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: I mean no, it's a new one. It was only
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: about four feet tall. But I was I was saying,
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 3: they don't live there. I'm like, this could ultimately break
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 3: your water meter and you could have water flooding for
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: hours before anybody gets to there.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: And it's not going to be an easy shut up.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: So I said, you gotta you gotta remove that asap.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: But they just were like, oh, they just saw, you know,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: it was a volunteer and they just were like, oh,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: it wasn't bad. I'm like, no, this is not good.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: And then there was one across the streets that that's
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: what it's going to turn into into.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: We've got about a minute until the break. We've got
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: some comments and questions. I want to make sure we
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: spend most of the next segment, which is our final segment,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: catching up, catching up on whatever we did miss So
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: hang in there. I'm referring, of course, to those on
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: Facebook Live. We've got about a minute is the one
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: you can answer Tiger that you see quickly before the
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: break and we can carry it over over. If we
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: have to.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: Received a pot of tulips for Valentine's Day, how can
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: I keep the tulips for next year? Will they grow
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: in allied gardens? You could, but you have to dig
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 3: them out and refrigerate them next. They have to be
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: cool to be cooled, otherwise they will not bloom. So
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 3: we can get into that a little bit more after
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 3: the break. But the short answer is yes, you could.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: The long answer is a lot more working.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: Do you want to do that? You want to do that? Okay,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: we're going to take a quick break and one more
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: segment to close up, close out the show, I should
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: say and get to your questions your comments on Facebook Live.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: Bryan Maine, Tiger Palafox, this is an always will it
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  Speaker 4: Mary? Take care?
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• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: in store for the Facebook questions and comments. Tiger, we
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  Speaker 2: talked about tulips just before the break.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So back to the tulip question. So tulip question.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: Tulip bulbs, like some of the bulbs, require chill to
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 3: be able to bloom.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: So many hours of chill right now, yes.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 3: And so in allied gardens in southern California, we do
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: not get that chill. So you know, where they are naturalized,
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 3: you know, they'll have snow and they'll have frost and
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 3: you can leave them in the ground and the next
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: season the tulips will come up. Because that doesn't happen
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 3: here in southern California. What you have to do is
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 3: simulate winter. So what that means is right around December,
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 3: you would go out there, dig up your tulips, put
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 3: them into a paper bag, throw that in the back
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 3: of your refrigerator for about three months or so.
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  Speaker 2: So make sure you have room, yeah, you know, make
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: room for them.
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  Speaker 3: And then you can take them out of the refrigerator,
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 3: put them back in the ground and then they would
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 3: come back up and they would bloom. And you know
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 3: you could do that.
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  Speaker 2: But you got to replant them again. Would would you
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: just not want to go on and buy more bulbs?
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 3: Well, that's just the thing is, you know, the bulbs
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: that you purchase from a garden center or online. Normally
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: they should be listed what's called pre chilled, so they're
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 3: already been they've already been refrigerated, or they've already they've
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 3: been grown in an area where the chill has been done,
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 3: and so when you buy them, you know they will
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 3: bloom every year. So it just depends on how important
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 3: that bulb is to you and and how much energy
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 3: you want to put into it.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: It's like orchids, you want to just buy another one
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: when this one dies, or you know, have seen better.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 3: Days, exactly so, so so I think that that answers
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 3: the question. And there's a whole group of bulbs that
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 3: follow those same principles, so you know, watch out for
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: watch out for those. Marguerite wrote she loved the pineapple tomatoes.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 3: It was sweet and large, and there there there is
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 3: a few tomatoes with the name pineapple in it and
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 3: that are usually larger and they do usually have a
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 3: very sweet flavor to it. So that's a good recommendation.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 3: Is anyone selling grafted tomatoes anymore? You know what, Carla,
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 3: I don't. I'm not sure. I don't see them, and
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 3: you know we do not, so I I think that's
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 3: kind of a tough thing to find. But Loghouse Loghouse
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 3: Plants where that was, we were still doing several years
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 3: up there. So if you maybe reach out, she might
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 3: have some She might have some people that are still
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 3: selling selling them that you can buy them online from
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: the Loghouse Plants. So check with Alice at Loghouse and
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: for no not run uh, Tom And wrote, the old
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 3: Hollywood search lights were called cleague and used carbon rods.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 3: Most today's search lights use xenon mercury or argonne gas.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: See, I knew we bring up a topic and someone's
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: going to explain it to us and clear the air.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 3: Yep, exactly, So I think we're all cut up right there.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: Then okay, we've got let's see you. Four five said
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: about four minutes.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 3: Through Sue just that I have a hard time throwing
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 3: away plants plants away, which which again you know you you,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 3: you know you have that same problem, Brian.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: But sometimes you.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 3: Just gotta do it.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: Sometimes you gotta cut the cord.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, you just yeah, And I mean if you
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: pick something to replace it that makes you happy. You
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 3: don't remember the old plant, No, you don't remember the
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 3: old plant that you didn't like and didn't do well
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 3: for you or was struggling. You just only see that new, beautiful,
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 3: wonderful plant that you're happy is there.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: So you think about that unless you've got some nostalgic
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: thing tied to it was a gift from so and so,
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: or these were given to me in remembrance of.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 3: And those are very important that you know. If that,
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 3: if that was a tulip that was given to you
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 3: and it's a memory, sure you're gonna do everything you
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 3: need to do to keep that tulip alive and healthy
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 3: and fun, and you're gonna dig it up every year
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 3: and you're gonna replant it every year. But if it's
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 3: just a tulip that you bought at the grocery store
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 3: because you thought it was pretty and you were like,
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna dig this up every new one, yeah, exactly.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: So as everybody asks me on a Saturday, what's the
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: store for you? After the show?
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 3: Got soccer last soccer day game of the season for
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 3: Isaac h he's got a sleepover birthday tonight and no,
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 3: it's a friends. We got lacrosse in the morning. Tossia
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 3: had her middle school dance last night. We got it's
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 3: fun filled weekend, you know, and then you know yard work.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 3: Like I said, I'm gonna be weeding this weekend. I'm
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 3: gonna ge out there and we stay on top of that.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's moist, right, Yeah, it's easy. Yeah, well
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: you know what you got. You know, I'm not sure
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: anybody's ever said this, but you have to be in
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: shape to have kids, especially kids your age. You got
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: to be in shape because you're always going.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 3: It's you don't realize you're a schedule. I'm sure in
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 3: the house, right yeah, in soccer, lacrosse. Every once in
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 3: a while, I have a little break and all of
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 3: a sudden, I'm I'm like, I have all this energy
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 3: and I can't go to sleep, and I'm like, well,
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 3: it's because I've been running around all day like I
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 3: normally I am.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: So it's one side to do something.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, fix something, Yep, that's what I'm gonna do.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 3: You're gonna fix something.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna get I'm gonna buy bathroom lighting because the
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: fixture up there, this one light bulb keeps well, not one,
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: there's several. They keep burning out or they just don't
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: they don't stay very long and they're LEDs.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so's the fixture.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the it's that little circuit that there's four lights.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: So it's that one individual. It's not worth it. I'm
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: gonna go out and buy another one. Yeah, and put
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: it up because because and then I'm gonna seriously look
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: at the paper situation in the patio. Would love to
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: have something done by the summer. We got the fountain there,
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: We just have to move the plants.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, you're gonna have to move the plants for
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 3: that work.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: But yeah, that's that's something. And just get ready for
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: the warm weather. Get ready, you know a.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 3: Little bit of rain, little warm weather.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: I did a commercial this past week which I thought
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: was a little silly because the opening sentence was, summer
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: is right around the corner. Oh yeah, okay, okay, spring
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: is right around the corner. Yeah, summer is a little
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: bit off in the future. And I thought, you're getting
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: ahead of.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 3: Yourself the whole season. You're bypassed.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: Well, I was talking about summer season, kids and activities
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: and things like that. I would have written it this way,
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: with summer not too far away, not right around the corner.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 3: They want that sense of urgency though they want to.
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 3: That was probably stuff, right. It was a summer camp
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 3: in stressing out us parents to sign our kids up
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 3: for all the summer camps.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: Everyone's getting rushed, everyone's getting rushed. Fourth of July decorations
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: up already. Yeah, exact, Hey, we're gonna We're gonna call
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: it quits, or at least close out this show for
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: this week, this this particular segment, this particular show of
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: Garden America. John is back next week. He's in Los
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: Angeles this weekend. So until then, enjoy the rest of
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: your weekend. Thank you for joining us. We talked about
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: lighting today after lighting, learned a lot. Enjoy it. Like
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: I say, the rest of your weekend, have a safe week,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: and we'll reconvene next week right here in the iHeartMedia
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• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: I'm Brian Maine's Tiger Pela Fox. We'll see you next
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