Episode 133: Trees

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Welcome back to Record of my
Father.

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Today we're going to be talking
about trees.

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I remember 1 specific time when
we planted an apple tree in the

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backyard and the apple tree made
the most sour apples I've ever

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eaten in my life.
And then you couldn't.

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They were inedible.
And then you told me.

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But this is what all apple trees
are like.

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And I'm like, I don't think this
is what all apple trees are like

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I.
Just lying to you.

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Yeah, I think that that was a,
that was a pretty quick witted

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1.
Yeah.

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So it's very.
Quick witted, you said that I'm

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like, how do they get?
Sweet.

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I used to love little sour
apples because we make sour

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apple.
My mother would make sour apple

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pie, which is just really, you
add a lot of sugar to it too,

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but it gives you the bite and
also the sweet and it's really,

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really amazingly good.
If you have, if you cut them

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off, but they're a little tiny
green, you know, they're maybe 3

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inches.
Not, they're not like the big

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giant four and five inch red
apples or the galos or anything

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like that.
But since we're talking about

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trees, I have to read.
I think that I shall never see a

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poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is

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pressed against the earth's
sweet flowing breast.

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A tree that looks at God all day
and lifts her leafy arms to

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pray.
A tree that may in summer wear a

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nest of Robins in her hair, upon
whose bloom snow has lain, Who

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ultimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,

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but only God can make a tree.
Joyce Kilmer, That's that poem.

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You know, when he when people
think about trees, when I think

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about trees, weirdly, that's
like the first thing I think of.

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I don't think of like a ogre or
any other tree.

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Who's Joyce Kilmer, A poet, A
great.

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American poet, come on, don't
you know that she wrote a, a

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bunch of flippant shit like
that.

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That's sort of, they didn't
consider it really good.

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But The thing is, I think she
did it in the 30s and, and it

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became a, you know, it's one of
those things that it's not a

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great poem, as poems go, because
of the rhyme scheme and because

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of what it says.
But it's not.

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What do you say it took off?
Because simple minds like simple

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things, I guess.
I don't, you know.

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Hey, I don't know, simple minds
like poetry.

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I can't say that much.
Well, they they like, you know,

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Kurt short, interesting things.
Well, that was like where the

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sidewalk ends with.
Oh, gosh.

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Shel Silverstein.
Yeah.

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And that was that really, I
think, reinvigorated the

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American public back when we
were literate in poetry 'cause

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this had a bunch of very
interesting drawings, very good

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illustrations as well.
Where the talk walk ends.

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Yeah, if you look at that, if
you look at that, I.

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Never looked at that.
If you see the cover and the

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style of which the artistry kind
of is one of the cover, it

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definitely is.
You'll you will be familiarized.

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I think it came in like 2005 or
something, but that really

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changed the market for poetry
74.

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Oh, never mind.
Where the Sidewalk Ends refers

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to a famous 1974 children's
poetry collection by Chyle Shell

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Shell Silverstein. 1974 Really.
Yeah, I guess it got reaped.

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They say illustrations are
crazy.

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That represents the structure of
adult world, which is the

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sidewalk.
Why did?

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That feel like that that came
out in 2005 because it feel like

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it was re released or something
crazy. 1974 Wow.

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When you start to look at like,
what's controversial about it

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stems from its dark humor,
satirical take on death, drug

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use, rebellion, and authority,
it's sort of like, you know,

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don't stop where the sidewalk
ends, you know, interesting, you

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know, and, and, and that makes a
whole lot of sense.

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And when you think about it.
And what is the world's number

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one banned books of all time?
Well, it isn't that weirdly.

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Orwell is #1 Huckleberry Finn's
number 2, Catcher on the rise #3

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Color Purple number 4, Great
Gatsby's number 5.

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I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing
is number six.

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So wow, wow, got into ban books
from trees.

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When you think about trees, it's
like I'm, I, I look at for me

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the they mark time in my life by
how big they get, you know, and

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when you plant them, it's like
when you where, where I live

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now.
I've lived here since 98, so

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2728 years and I've seen what
the trees, how they've changed

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over the years.
I have Cedars of Lebanon in the

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back.
I had a pool put in an O5 and

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they were put in then and they
were small and they're like 4

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inches or five inches in
diameter.

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So they're good size.
They're like 12 feet now.

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They're 35 feet and it's very
strange when you look at them

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because it's four of them.
They're all within 10 feet of

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each other.
I've got ones that are that are,

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you know, 2 1/2 feet, 3 feet in
diameter.

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I mean, they're huge.
Yet I've got another 1-6 feet

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away that was planned at the
same time.

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It's 8 inches in diameter.
So, and I mean it's, it's, it's

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essentially the same climate,
the same everything except for

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maybe the soil is different 8
feet away, which is it's kind of

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weird, isn't.
It.

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That, that just does to me.
And, and with the same, we have

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river birches.
We have about 10 river birches

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and, and you can look at them
and 1:00 will be, you know, 2

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feet around, you know,
circumference.

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And another one will be, you
know, 1 foot around.

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And you're like, how is that
like that?

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You know, how do they grow?
You know, and it's like you

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start thinking about it and it's
the, it's the same as the strong

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survive.
You know, they, they develop a

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stronger root system, they get
more nutrients, they grow

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faster.
They, you know, and it's, I, I

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look in, I think that's one of
the things I love about Virginia

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is that the changing of the
seasons where you get to see

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each and every year how the bark
changes on the trees.

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You know, you look at that.
What are they, I want to say

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sapling silk and what are they
called the big trees with, you

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know, gosh, I can't remember
this is what's so that's bad.

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I think the reason why I
mentioned.

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Shel Silverstein earlier is
because there's a cover of a

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book called The Giving Tree and
it's it's beautiful cover.

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It's green on a with a green
tree.

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And one would think that that
wouldn't work, but it does with

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this red apple that's falling
off the tree and this kid is

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catching it.
And that's, that's what always

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reminds me of trees, hence the
apple tree, I guess.

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But yeah, I think about that
Redwood that has been in the

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back since the 70s.
And yeah, wow, more and more,

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it's kind of strange.
I've been looking very similarly

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to you.
I had things in my wardrobe that

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I'm like, Oh my God, I've had
that for five years already.

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I thought I just bought that.
Oh my gosh, I thought I just

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bought that the other day.
I've had that for seven years.

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Yeah, crazy.
Isn't that weird?

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Yeah.
Well, I mean, the same thing

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with trees, yeah.
You, you, you, you look at them

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and it's.
I have trees in the pack that I

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planted as saplings that were
offshoots.

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I have a dawn Redwood, and it's
probably about 130 feet, 140

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feet.
It's probably arguably the

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tallest dawn Redwood on the East
Coast is in my backyard.

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And I mean, it's, it's 6 feet
around 7 feet around maybe 8 at

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the base it but it throws off a
lot of it's not saplings, but it

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throws off seeds.
It's grow and and I get the

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little sprouts and then I plant
them around the yard and I have

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about a dozen around the yard
and anywhere from six feet to

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30.
I mean, I've got redwoods in the

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backyard that are 30 feet tall,
you know, that I planted and

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they were, you know, knee high
to a grasshopper that big.

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Oh wow.
Yeah.

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And I plant 2 together and they
grow together.

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I've got one in particular
that's it's growing up like a

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tuning fork and it's just so
odd.

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And then there's one in the
front that I planted in the

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middle of azaleas and that's
probably that's easily 30 feet.

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And that has I saw when a hawk
landed on the top of it and

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snapped the limb sideways.
So weirdly, when you look at the

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top, it has a little curl in it
and goes up.

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And that curl is where it
snapped.

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And I saw the hawk that snapped
it and that was it about.

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That was probably at about 25
feet because that's now about 5

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feet down from where the top
was, where the top is today, you

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know, And I just look at all
those and then my deodorant

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Cedar's at the top of the hill.
I remember when they were

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originally planted, they were
planted and they were like 8

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feet And we had a person come
and redo the yard and they

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planted them right underneath
the power lines.

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And I didn't think.
And I take you up to the and

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this is when Zach was probably
like 5 years old.

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We go up there to the bus stop
or seven.

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Maybe you were going, you're
riding the bus.

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Then I, you know, you had me
kicked off.

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I don't think it that.
Yeah, that bus sucked.

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It would drive past my street 45
minutes and they go all the way

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up to the reserve and they draw
the kids off the reserve and I

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was the last stop.
I had an hour and 30 minute bus

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ride and I think I was 10
minutes away from the school you

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were. 1.3 miles from the school,
this is crazy.

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And the only reason you couldn't
walk is 'cause you had to go

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over 495 to get to that side.
And it was, it was just, it was

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crazy.
It was crazy that you were the

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the first one picked up in the
morning, the last one dropped

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off.
I think it was that's when I

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really started hating the
bureaucracy.

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Yeah.
Yeah, it was.

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It was just sort of.
Like drop them off at the end of

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the street.
No, we can't do that.

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And you'd be like, whoa, my kid
has a 50 minute bus ride at the

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end of the day.
It was ridiculous.

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And I was retired, so I would go
mess with you and then go visit

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you downtown.
I really like that, going to

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school and having lunch with you
and the other kids and then,

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well.
I remember how we get off the

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bus.
You'd make fun of me for sitting

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on the bus so long.
Yeah, I did.

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I did.
I used to say I was.

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It's.
You're still short.

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You're still short.
So funny.

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But we had but anyway,
back-to-back, back to the trees.

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The the the four trees that are
there.

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There's three.
There's three.

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Others.
Oh, the Cedars.

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Yeah, the Deedor, Yeah, they're
not Cedars.

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They're yeah, they're Deedor
Cedars.

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They when we plant them, they're
8 or 9 feet.

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Doris, our neighbor of ours
looked and said, what?

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Why are they planted there?
And I'm like, well, you know,

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they're playing on the hill.
She goes, well, did you did, did

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the people that plan look up?
And I'm like, what?

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And I see the power lines right
over and above them.

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And I'm like, Oh my gosh.
So I call the guys back and then

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they move them 8 feet to the
left and the right.

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Well, today, 21 years later,
those trees are 60 feet high.

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One of them had grown into the
power lines, you know, 10 foot

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limbs at the top caught on fire.
And so then I, you know, and,

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and, and went out, caught on
fire, went out and people were

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complaining that it was going to
make the thing fall down.

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And I so I contacted men in
power and said, Hey, I got a

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tree, It's catching on fire.
And they're like, call the fire

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department.
I call the fire department.

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Is it on fire right now?
No, but it's all black and it's

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going to catch on fire again.
We don't do that.

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You got to call the you got to
call the power company.

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So then I call the power company
and they tell me, call me.

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I did that for a while.
I finally found somebody in the

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headquarters and I think
Southwest Virginia or North

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Carolina that was the head of
the tree operation.

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I said, yeah, all I want you to
do is cut the top off the tree

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or whatever you got to do to get
it out of the power lines.

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And, and I've been through this.
It took me 6 months to get them

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to put a little blue strip on
it.

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And it took 18 months after that
before they actually did cut the

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top of the tree.
And they just came in cut 20

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feet down and just flat cut it.
Now, weird thing is the trees

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like 12 feet tall now, but it's
growing like a Bush and it's

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just it's huge.
The the limbs are going out 15

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feet on either side.
So it's it's really kind of wild

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looking in itself.
And then you got the other one

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standing in the background.
I still have three very tall

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123.
When you think about, since we

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brought up the religion thing
with Joyce Kilmer, when you

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think about the crosses, you
know, with the three are

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together, that's what it looks
like when you walk out there at

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night at like midnight or 1:00
in the morning.

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I've got three giant trees
faced.

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You know, one in the middle is
taller.

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The two on the sides are there
and they're all spread out

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really wide.
And you can see them against the

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sky at night when the moon's
bright.

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And it's just, it's just a
scene.

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And then I have another one in
the backyard is the same thing

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with the with the Cedars of
Lebanon.

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And they have they're much
sparser on the limbs.

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Then the dealer cedar, the
dealer cedar something you put

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up that you don't want to see
anybody on the other side of it.

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Whereas the Cedars of Lebanon is
something that's just it's just

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a cool looking straight up tree,
kind of looks like a lodge pole

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pine, if you know what those
are.

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Those are in Yellowstone without
the little birds that kill it.

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So and I had AI had a neighbor
who was from Lebanon and he came

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in my backyard.
He goes, Oh my God, you, you

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have my trees, you know, and
that was just such a cool thing,

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'cause he went over and he's
like touched him.

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And that was Wachty.
He's like, these are my trees.

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I'm like, wow, you know, that
was 20 years ago.

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You know, amazed by seeing them.
You know, that, wow, they're

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grow here.
And I was crazy.

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Too is that this is a familial
thing 'cause your brother is

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wow, he's crazy.
He's done something similar

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where he I think he's more on
the scientific side of.

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He knows the scientific names.
Yeah, which is crazy.

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Yeah, it's like, and, and his
backyard is the jungle.

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Just it literally is a jungle.
And he lives in Jacksonville and

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suburbia, you know, where
there's perfect lawns, House,

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house, house, house, house.
And there's his.

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So funny.
And his is just, you know, all

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the trees and ficus trees, and I
mean just every giant thing you

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can imagine.
Banana.

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Trees a year and a half feel
like 5 acres somehow.

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Yeah.
And you go.

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Back there and you, you can walk
10 feet into his backyard and he

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won't be seen from the house.
So you can murder people in his

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backyard and you wouldn't be
seen by people in his house, you

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know, So, but it's
unfortunately, it's mosquito

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heaven for me, for him.
He goes out there in shorts and

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short sleeved shirt.
And I'm like, how do you do

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that?
And he goes, they don't bother

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me.
Like, what, did you beat one up

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or something?
What is it that makes the

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mosquitoes not come to you?
And I mean, it has bamboo and,

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you know, big, big giant bamboo
and a hole like a stand of them

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growing together.
And when the wind blows, if

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you've ever been in a bamboo
forest, it whistles.

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It is a really, really wild
sound, the way the wind goes

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through because it's, it's, it's
a very tight stand and you hear

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that and that's the, the bamboo
moving together and apart

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because it rubs into each other
and, and then the wind comes

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through and it makes that and it
whistles as it goes through.

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And it's just like, well, he has
a watering.

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System too that he built.
That's like artesian well 7 feet

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off the ground or something.
Yeah, When you drill it, you

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drill it down and he, he ran it
up to a sprinkler system because

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when it freezes, one of the IT
kills, it'll kill a lot of the

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vegetation.
Is that he's a palm collector.

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He said he has a round.
I think he said 2 to 300

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different varieties.
I mean, he has every type of

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home you can imagine.
You go in the back and it's just

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it's jungle city.
And I can't tell one from the

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other, but he can.
Oh, that's the OR two most.

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And this is the shock and spiel
blocking spiel and this is the

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jabber slum blah blah.
So and he had his friends in New

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Zealand, friends in Hawaii,
friends in southern Florida, the

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guy that invented the Whirlpool.
He is a avid tree collector.

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And the Whirlpool he invented.
Whirlpool.

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I think it was the Whirlpool.
He was the whatever the original

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Whirlpool hot tub was, He did
that.

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He was that.
Yeah.

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And he made his millions and
moved to Florida, bought 10

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acres or 20 or whatever it is.
And he has this huge.

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I did interview that guy.
Gosh.

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Well, Edwin tells a story about
going down there to meet him in

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his house and he shows up and he
can't see his house from the

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road, even though it's like
maybe 50 meters from the road.

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And it's kind of like Edwin's
you, you go to the door, you go

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inside and Edwin had his his
stuff he left in the car and he

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goes and he finds it and he said
it's it's like 8:00 at night, so

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it's dark, so you can't see.
And I knock on the door.

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I go in and we talk and they
were sitting there talking

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everything.
And then I eat a brownie and he

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has these brownies and I really
like brownies.

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So I had a bunch of brownies and
then then he has to go get his

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stuff out of the car because
he's sleeping inside, you know,

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but he forgot to eat and get a
suitcase.

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And he's like, oh, I'm going to
go get my suitcase.

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Well, turns out the brownies
were loaded.

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So he goes out and he goes out
to his car and he doesn't have a

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problem getting to his car and
he gets his suitcase and he

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comes out and he can't find the
house.

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He couldn't find the house.
So he he laid down and went to

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sleep in the front yard.
And I'm thinking like, Oh my

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God.
And this is when he was like in

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his 50s.
This was not like, like I

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remember, I remember waking up
in a Bush when I was like 19 and

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I was face down in a Bush and I
was just over the top of it,

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just hung over the top of it
face down.

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And that was that was bourbon
and California since 1,000,000.

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And Quaaludes don't mix those
three.

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It's it's a bad combination.
It is a complete somebody just

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walks in as soon as they, they
hand you the bong, you're taking

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a hit and then the lights go
out.

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And then somebody cuts the
lights on and it's 15 hours

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later and you're in a Bush and
you hear the birds chirping and

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you're like, oh God, it's early
605.

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What happened?
And then you would start

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wondering.
And then you get up and you

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realized you killed the Bush and
you can sneak out of there as

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fast as you can.
And the neighbors are all

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complaining.
Who killed our Bush?

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It's like, wasn't me.
I don't remember.

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Somebody could have been
sleeping in before me.

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I don't know if it was just me
that did it.

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There might have been somebody
else, you never know.

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Trees are wonderful, you can
sleep in them too.

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Yeah.
Well, I remember first time I

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ever shot an animal, a deer in
Southwest Virginia and I went

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down.
It was our uncle Bob's Parson

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was our was the uncle and I went
down, sat in the crook of the

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tree.
I had a 3030.

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He said he can shoot anything on
my side of the property, don't

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shoot anything.
And he had like 400 acres.

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So I go to the back corner of
the property where he tells me

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to go and he just sit.
I sit, was sitting in the crook

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of a tree and it was shaped.
It was like it, it was like

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this, you know, so you just
could sit in the tree and I'm

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sitting in the tree and I, I
bought some food with me.

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I, I, I don't, I forgot what I
had like crackers or something

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like that, which you always eat
when you're, and you're just

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killing time because the, the
sun is just starting to rise.

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And I'd gotten a little stoned.
So I'm sitting in the tree and I

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see this deer walking down the
hill, maybe 100 over 100 yards

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away.
And I'm seeing I'm like, whoa,

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OK, the Hunt's on.
And so I'm waiting, you know,

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I'm going to wait for me closer.
And he comes down, he's on the

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other side of the fence.
And then he said, don't shoot

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anything on that side.
That's really not my property.

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They don't care.
But I'd rather not piss him off,

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you know, it's that kind of
thing.

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And then the deer hops over the
fence, comes forward and I'm in

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the crook of the tree and
there's a limb.

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I just put the gun on the limb.
I have a box sight.

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It's a 3030.
It's it's like the old cowboy

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Western ones where you do that.
And I.

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Slide in the round and I just
sit there and I wait and I pull

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the trigger and the deer falls
immediately and then the sound

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verberates because you're you're
in these huge.

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You know, it's, it's, it's, it's
2 or 300 yards to the top of

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each hill, side by side by side
in Southwest Virginia.

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It's really, really beautiful
country run down there.

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And I'd heard all the stories
from all my buds that when you

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shoot a deer, if they've dropped
too quick and if their tongue's

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not out, if they don't, if
they're not, if they don't have

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it sticking out and their eyes
aren't open, they're not dead,

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they're faking.
And, and it, it didn't and the

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eyes were, the eyes were open, I
think, but the tongue wasn't

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sticking out.
I was worried and so I got close

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to it and I have the rifle and
I'm waiting for to jump up and

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run away because, you know, one
shot that has never happened.

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No one gets like that.
Well, I, I go up and I kick it,

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it doesn't move.
I kick it again, doesn't move.

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I grab by the leg and I because
I had to set the rifle down at

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that point.
Then I pull the deer a little

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bit and I realized that all the
blood had pulled underneath it

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and I couldn't see it and it was
just literally floating in its

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own blood.
And so I run back at the uncle.

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He comes, he brings his tractor
there, throw it in the back of

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the tractor, take it back and we
hang it up and do the skinning

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thing.
And when he gets to the and he

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gets down because he sees the
the shot, the shot, I was trying

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to at an angle through the neck
and then through the top of the

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heart.
I ended up hitting it just just

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above the front, right shoulder,
left right.

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Yeah, right shoulder.
And it went right to the top of

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the heart.
It it literally he pulled the

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heart out and shows it to me.
I don't have a photo of it.

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That'd be kind of cool.
I have some photos from that

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time.
I should probably send those for

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this.
It'd be kind of cool.

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But it I he holds up the heart
and goes, wow, that's a good

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shot.
How close were you?

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And I was showed him and he was
like, Oh my God, that was, you

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know, incredible shot.
Extremely lucky.

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I don't know, you know, whatever
it was, we, we, we all get lucky

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in our thing.
But anyway, I love that tree.

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I'd go back and sit in that tree
again anytime.

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It was just sort of like this.
Really rarely you sit in a tree

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that's that comfortable, you
know, you sit back and you just

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go, wow, this is nice.
You know, we think about the

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trees that have affected our
life through time.

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Do you have any?
You had a climbing tree in the

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backyard.
I remember that.

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Oh yeah, we built the the tree
house in the back.

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Built the tree house around.
It's not saps.

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I'm trying to remember the name
of.

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00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:17,360
It starts with an S What?
What kind of tree is that?

441
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,120
Did it have the spiky balls on
it?

442
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:31,120
No, that was the chestnut.
No, I don't remember.

443
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,040
Sycamore.
It was a Sycamore tree.

444
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:39,240
Giant Sycamore, maybe, maybe 4,
almost 5 feet in diameter.

445
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:44,840
That was a big tree house too.
We build a 8 foot, first level

446
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:49,400
was 8 foot, second level was 16
foot and I built railings around

447
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:53,280
the top sides on it made it all
that and a bag of sand.

448
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:55,280
Well, it.
Originally had walls, didn't it?

449
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:59,960
Yeah, it had walls.
And then my uncle, your, your

450
00:24:59,960 --> 00:25:04,400
uncle said nothing good is going
to happen with walls there when

451
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:05,960
you're you're getting to be at
11 or 12.

452
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,280
And he goes, They will just do
bad stuff if they're out of

453
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:09,800
sight if you take the walls
down.

454
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,920
Oh, was that really what?
Yeah, yeah, he and, and, and

455
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:16,200
they were always a pain in the
ass and all that stuff.

456
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:19,080
So I took the walls down and I.
Never didn't know what

457
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,480
instigated it.
Yeah, that kind of like did it

458
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:26,160
and then you we had the jumpy,
upy, downy thing and that was

459
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,920
there as well.
And you guys got the bright idea

460
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:33,960
that you could jump from the top
level onto the jump?

461
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:35,280
Yeah, you do.
You were jumped from the front

462
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,320
first level, which I worried
from.

463
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:43,600
No problem jumping from 8 feet
onto the trampoline.

464
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:47,280
But when you went to the 16
foot, there was deep concern

465
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:48,760
that somebody was going to be
dead.

466
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,640
Or nobody ever did though.
Nobody ever jumped, but they all

467
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:53,960
talked about it.
You know you would, you guys, if

468
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:59,320
you got stupid enough.
I remember Wes goading you to do

469
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:03,040
it when I was there.
And when I heard that I was, I

470
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:06,200
know you well enough that you
know, oh, I'm tough for all.

471
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,160
I'll do it because I'm stupid,
you know, and, and I I would

472
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:10,240
have done it.
I was.

473
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,000
Thinking that I wouldn't do
that, but yeah.

474
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,360
But it's like, well, I make up
most of the stuff I talk about

475
00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:15,640
you.
Do make up a lot of history,

476
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:16,920
this is true.
Yeah, yeah.

477
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,480
I love that tree that we took
that down.

478
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:21,480
Yeah, that was a great tree
still there.

479
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,200
And it's still there.
And I had, we moved here, there

480
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,720
was big maples and they have
since died.

481
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:34,040
You know, we had a Japanese pine
tree in the back that crawled

482
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:38,400
along the ground for about 40
feet and went up and it was just

483
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,000
wild looking.
But that died, you know, and,

484
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,680
and I mean really it's you don't
think about it, but a lot of

485
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,880
trees, and I've heard this
differently from arborist, they

486
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,280
have like an average life
expectancy, like dogwoods live

487
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,680
35 years.
That's why when you look around

488
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,160
and my old dogwoods, they're all
hollow and they're filled with

489
00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,640
chipmunks.
That's where they all live and

490
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,200
they eat the berries, but they
hollow out the centers and all

491
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,400
the dogwoods are dying, you
know, so I have a whole new

492
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,120
round of them.
I put in about 10 or 15 of them

493
00:27:09,120 --> 00:27:15,200
around the yard to, you know,
next generation and to redo it

494
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:16,800
to make it come back to where it
was.

495
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,680
And I look at the trees in the
back and I'm thinking about

496
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:21,560
doing something in the spring
with Scotch Pines.

497
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,640
I don't know why I'm got a thing
for Scotch Pines and putting

498
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,040
four or five of them in the
backyard.

499
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:27,880
I like the ideas.
It's a great screen.

500
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,960
I have about.
I have a few acres of land and I

501
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:35,080
have a house directly behind me
in the far backyard.

502
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,040
There's give me one second here.
Hold on.

503
00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:42,520
And I mean, the thing I like
most about Scotch Pines is that

504
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,840
they grow really fast and
they're really cool looking and

505
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,240
they got really fat.
You know, they're, they're just

506
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:52,960
a beautiful looking pine tree.
And I used to have just the old,

507
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,840
they called them scrub Virginia
Pines that we had around here.

508
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:58,800
And we used to have about 30 of
them.

509
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,280
And their average, they live
about 45 years.

510
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:05,360
So they're all planted in the
early 60s.

511
00:28:06,120 --> 00:28:11,960
So they lasted to, you know,
right around 2000, 2001, 2002.

512
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,080
It was like everywhere I looked,
I was taking them down.

513
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:18,240
My white Pines are at 1 white
pine over 100 feet.

514
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,200
You know just which is just a
really.

515
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:22,960
Tall.
Now what is a white pine?

516
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:25,640
A white.
Pine is going to be.

517
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,680
It's got a smoother bark, like a
almost a Gray.

518
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:31,360
Tinto, I know what you're
talking about.

519
00:28:31,360 --> 00:28:33,000
Does it look kind of like an
Ironwood?

520
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,600
Yeah, it's kind of like the the,
the, I would say the bark is

521
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:40,800
kind of, you know, not the same,
but you know, we have iron

522
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,240
ironwoods in our backyard too,
But, and that's how you know

523
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,160
that.
But there it's smoother.

524
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,720
Like Pines.
You don't expect the trunk to be

525
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:50,360
smooth, but a white pine is
smooth.

526
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,960
And then you have the real long
needles and they have a, they're

527
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,040
sort of a more whitish hue to
them.

528
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,440
They're thick.
They grow really fast.

529
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,880
They grow faster than Scotch
Pines, I believe, you know, So

530
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,680
you're talking a couple feet a
year, which is pretty cool, you

531
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:10,480
know, you know, but like my, my
redwoods are growing 3 feet, 4

532
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:15,800
feet, 6 feet, 10 feet a year.
I mean, you're like, whoa, you

533
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:19,200
know, and that Redwood is like
the, the tallest one I have is

534
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:23,400
probably from 61 or 62 when the
house was first built.

535
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:28,200
So and then big old Magnolia,
love Magnolia.

536
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,400
They have that when they blossom
and you smell.

537
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,200
You know, I heard someone tell
me that I thought it was a lemon

538
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:36,880
smell and she said it smells
like.

539
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,160
What?
Smells like semen.

540
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,840
I was dating somebody.
We were walking along and I just

541
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,880
thought that was very odd to
have that kind of response.

542
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:53,560
And I was like, man, I love the
smell of Magnolia.

543
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:55,760
It smells.
You love that lemony smell and

544
00:29:55,760 --> 00:30:00,120
she goes smells like semen.
And I'm like that just seemed

545
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,240
like a very odd response.
That's great that you know what

546
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:07,120
that smells like.
Smelled enough of it to.

547
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:12,400
Well, yeah, you can draw all
sorts of conclusions about that,

548
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:16,360
but it was very, it was very
funny, you know, and whatever is

549
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,400
it, we have some fruit trees.
Most of our fruit trees rot

550
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,440
though.
I mean, the 'cause we have so

551
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,520
much water here that it rots out
the roots and unless you have a

552
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:27,560
really strong root system, they,
they rot.

553
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:31,600
And and I, I don't grow fruit
for me or for the wife.

554
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,800
We have Cherry Tree that grew
for a while, but maybe 12 years

555
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:40,360
and then the squirrels and the
birds would just the day that it

556
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,920
got ripe, they would get it.
I have a lot of Raspberry

557
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:47,800
bushes, not trees.
I start looking around the yard

558
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:52,680
and see all the different things
that are growing here and like

559
00:30:53,640 --> 00:31:00,720
we had the Korea sweater, which
is a Dogwood from I think South

560
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,600
Korea, something like that.
We have a few of those.

561
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,960
I mean, the, the, the number of
trees and the names that have an

562
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,280
Atlas pine.
It's maybe 100 feet tall

563
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,120
straight up.
I mean just amazingly looking

564
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,320
thing with little sparse needles
on it.

565
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,240
About that long.
Probably have The Hollies.

566
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:26,160
I I just love The Hollies.
At least 30 big Hollies every

567
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:27,920
holly.
I I mean, and the, The Hollies

568
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,960
I'm counting or at least 15 to
30 feet.

569
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,560
Remember the the tree that fell
across the driveway?

570
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:36,440
Can you remember that?
Yeah, that was Swamp Maple.

571
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,360
That was.
Fell across from the front that

572
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:43,840
was one the neighbors was AI
think it was an Elm that fell up

573
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:47,040
the top of the hill and that was
another one Elm tree.

574
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,400
Yeah, I believe it was an Elm,
or it might have been an oak,

575
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:51,760
but it because it was hollowed
out.

576
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:55,720
That thing was 1000 years.
And that fell across the top of

577
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:59,160
our driveway a day and a half
before, the day before we were

578
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:00,880
supposed to hop on a flight to
go somewhere.

579
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:02,880
I forgot we were Vietnam or
something like that.

580
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,680
And I called the emergency guy
and he comes over and he cuts

581
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,840
out a pass so we can get out.
Because, you know, otherwise we

582
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:10,720
would have been too stupid to
use a taxi.

583
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,480
We, we need to drive a car out,
you know, that kind of stuff

584
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:18,120
anyway.
But that was just all the

585
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,320
different lot, a lot, a lot of
trees.

586
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:25,080
And I'm, I'm growing a lot more
dogwoods and more varieties.

587
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:31,880
I, you know, I just got into
this, the peacefulness of

588
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:37,840
walking around with you.
You can't, I'm a mile maybe from

589
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,480
495 and I can't hear it because
I'm down low.

590
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:46,400
I'm in a swamp and it's just
like I'm in the woods and yet

591
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:47,840
I'm 13 miles from the White
House.

592
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:51,000
So it's kind of cool that you
know that.

593
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:56,920
And there's so many trees just,
and all around me the homes that

594
00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:00,560
are going up or just they're not
Mcmansions.

595
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,040
They are friggin mansions.
They're giant.

596
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:07,800
I mean, on the corner is a 50
some 1000 square foot house.

597
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:12,600
There's 20,000 next door on one
side, 15 on the other side.

598
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:17,440
But they, they scrape the land
clean, they put up the house and

599
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,680
then they put in the little
bushes and the trees around it

600
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,640
afterward.
Whereas, you know, and then all

601
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,440
the birds and all the animals
come to my house.

602
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:31,760
And we have the, the, the
plethora of raccoons and possum.

603
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:36,000
Now I've seen possum recently.
We have, of course, the

604
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:41,240
groundhogs, chipmunks, at least
three foxes.

605
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:45,240
Now the wife saw a what do you
call them?

606
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,040
Kai Wolf's, which is coyotes and
wolf together.

607
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:50,000
Yeah, I don't even.
Know the existence so.

608
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:51,920
Recently.
Maybe.

609
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:55,360
And now I'm, I know the Great
Falls is we're, we're, we're

610
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:59,200
across the street from the park,
Great Falls where they have a

611
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:03,880
lot of deer and they pull the
herd every year.

612
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:10,080
And when I first came here, I
had a deer herd of 12 in my

613
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:13,880
front yard and then they whacked
them all.

614
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,760
Then I didn't have any and it
slowly grew back up and then

615
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:18,520
they whacked them all.
And now I'm in.

616
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:23,800
But the last herd I saw was six
that were hanging out in the

617
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:29,400
front and then the two which
I've never seen this eight point

618
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:35,520
bucks, big giant, giant, you
know, male deer traveling

619
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:38,719
together, which seems very odd.
That is very, very odd.

620
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,880
It's mating season too, so we're
we're seeing a lot of weirdness

621
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:49,360
go on and, and they, those
horrible bastards I had put, I

622
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:54,480
had a, my last year's Christmas
tree was a deodor cedar and I

623
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,880
planted out in the front and
they just ate one whole side of

624
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,280
it and stripped and broke the
top off and everything.

625
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,280
So next time I see a deer, I'm
throwing a hammer at him.

626
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,680
I'm going to take him down.
I'm taking the deer down.

627
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,960
Old Man Brown's going to take
the deer down and I'm going to

628
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:09,960
make it.
I'm going to make it.

629
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:16,480
I'll I'll do a poem in that Send
Yoshi out after him.

630
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:21,320
My little 10 LB dog that that
will do so much.

631
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,040
Wow.
So what kind of when you you're,

632
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:27,760
you're West Coast, so you see a
whole different variety of trees

633
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,560
when I don't?
Even think palm trees are native

634
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,720
out here to be.
Honest, you have a lot, you have

635
00:35:31,720 --> 00:35:32,720
a lot.
Of they brought them out of

636
00:35:32,720 --> 00:35:35,520
here.
But yeah, we have a.

637
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:38,200
Lot of I wonder I don't.
Think they're native?

638
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:40,160
I think.
There's all over there.

639
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,480
That's what I've been hearing is
that they're not native to this

640
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:46,240
area.
But you know, what I want to see

641
00:35:46,240 --> 00:35:49,560
again is a monkey puzzle tree.
Big big fan of Monkey Puzzle.

642
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,640
Neighbor had one, remember.
That I love monkey puzzle tree.

643
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,600
Edwin has one grown right
outside of.

644
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,040
That's why I think that might be
my favorite tree for the name,

645
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,400
but also for the look of it.
It's hurts like I want you to

646
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:01,200
touch.
It can't touch it.

647
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:03,560
Yeah, Climate.
Yeah, That's a cactus tree.

648
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:05,520
Yeah.
But you can't, you can't really

649
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,680
have them in Virginia, can you?
I mean.

650
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:13,720
I mean, the neighbor had one and
it was probably it's 40 feet

651
00:36:13,720 --> 00:36:15,760
tall.
It was huge.

652
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:20,040
The you know, before they clear
cut the whole property and took

653
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,280
it down.
That was a beautiful tree.

654
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:27,560
But everything you know there is
gone except for at the far back

655
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,400
and at the very front.
They left some big trees.

656
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:32,840
One of them looks like it's
dying.

657
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,240
So in a square foot house.
Yeah.

658
00:36:35,240 --> 00:36:37,880
I'm going to watch that tree
fall down on that house because

659
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:40,840
I can see it right now.
The limbs are on the and the on

660
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:42,480
the side do.
They move in yet?

661
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:45,640
No, no, they're still doing,
they're still working.

662
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:47,080
They were working there the
other night.

663
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:51,680
It was like Sunday night and her
working up in the really why

664
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,400
don't you work during the week?
You know, and I'm thinking that

665
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,400
he's like finished with his
crew, so he's just doing the

666
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:58,840
rest of it.
A lot of, a lot of times the

667
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:02,400
builders here will they build
one house and then they, they do

668
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,840
all the kitchen themselves or
something like that.

669
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:09,160
But they have real job.
So they, they, so they finish it

670
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:10,920
themselves.
And that's how they make a lot

671
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,280
of money because putting in the
kitchen is 50 grand or 100

672
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:15,960
grand, whatever it is.
But if they order the stuff and

673
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:19,120
put it in, it says in 20 or 30
grand and you know, hey, if you

674
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:23,160
can do it in two weeks, it's 20
or 30 grand, you know that.

675
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:24,680
Makes sense?
Yeah.

676
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,000
And then you're marked up to
when you sell it, it's like,

677
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,680
wow.
So yeah, you go like, whoa.

678
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,840
So they're they're, they're
building slow and you know, they

679
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,840
still have to put a pool in over
there, which is interesting.

680
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:38,080
I'll see if they get to that.
That's going to.

681
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:41,400
Be weird looking.
Yeah, Well, I have a lot of palm

682
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,400
trees.
I picked pine trees between me

683
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,520
and them.
I have the garage, so I don't

684
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:49,720
see that.
But we have our driveway and the

685
00:37:49,720 --> 00:37:52,080
whole front area is completely
blocked.

686
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,360
You can't.
You can see the top floor of

687
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:58,760
their house, but and it's tall.
I mean it's three stories.

688
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:04,240
So it's, it's a very tall
square, you know, rectangular

689
00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:10,040
house, just very modern esque, I
would say with glass balconies,

690
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:14,840
you know, no character anymore.
Yeah, no, it's, it's, it's, it's

691
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:17,280
unusual, but it's, you know,
made with trees.

692
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,800
So hey, you gotta think about
that.

693
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,360
All the wood, you know, that
comes and goes away.

694
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,920
I mean, I remember when they,
the, the house on the corner in

695
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:28,480
the front, it was 12 acres and
they, they clear cut all that

696
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:33,160
big giant trees and you know,
there was oaks and Pines and,

697
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:39,600
you know, sycamores and there
may have been, may have been

698
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:46,600
Elms, I'm not sure, but all cut,
all gone, you know, giant, giant

699
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:49,240
trees.
And it changes the, the

700
00:38:49,240 --> 00:38:51,960
neighborhood, you know, but our
neighborhood changed when sewer

701
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:54,840
came in.
You know, that's changed all of

702
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:56,240
the different things that have
happened.

703
00:38:56,240 --> 00:38:58,200
You know, and I think about all
the different trees when I

704
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:02,800
growing up and my mother Chard
we had my mother was a she was a

705
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:07,560
horticulturist.
She class of 49 horticulture

706
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,640
from Virginia Tech.
You know that's.

707
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,160
Such an interesting degree to
get at that time, yeah.

708
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:17,280
First, her first want to
graduate with a horticulture

709
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,400
degree, I think from Virginia
Tech.

710
00:39:19,720 --> 00:39:23,920
And she used to tell the old
stories, like how they kept

711
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:25,720
trying to talk her out of it and
they wouldn't let her get the

712
00:39:25,720 --> 00:39:28,320
classes and that the men need
those classes and that she

713
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,840
should take her back, you know?
Oh, yeah.

714
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,720
Really.
We think about discrimination

715
00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:38,320
today.
And not even in their league.

716
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,840
Well, I remember she was a part
of the chorus or something too,

717
00:39:42,240 --> 00:39:47,440
because there was the whatever
it was the the vinyl, the vinyl

718
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,680
disc where she's singing in
there with a group of people.

719
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:55,560
Oh.
Well, the thing I remember is

720
00:39:55,560 --> 00:40:02,640
the story that she had one, one
horticulture class and she'd go

721
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,440
in and there's maybe and it's an
amphitheater.

722
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:08,000
So there's like 150 students,
right?

723
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:13,360
And you have the guy that wrote
the book on Hortic on Parkland

724
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:20,520
and trees and everything, and
she being the lone woman in the

725
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:23,000
class.
They had a signed seating for

726
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,440
her where she had to sit, which
was in the middle of a row

727
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:31,280
midway up.
And every morning it was 8:00

728
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:32,400
class, Monday, Wednesday,
Friday.

729
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:34,480
And she said, oh, gosh, I ruined
the day.

730
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:36,240
I had to go there.
It couldn't be late.

731
00:40:36,240 --> 00:40:38,240
I had to be early.
I had to, you know.

732
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:42,800
And as the bell rang, he would
come in and he would say, Miss

733
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:47,160
Brown or no, Miss Houston, I
have a question for you today.

734
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,160
And she would then stand.
He would ask the question.

735
00:40:52,240 --> 00:40:56,480
She would then stand from the
middle of the row, walk to the

736
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:59,560
aisle because you can't hear a
woman in the middle there.

737
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:03,080
You know, for some reason, he
would make her do that.

738
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:05,240
She would stand and answer the
question.

739
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,640
He would immediately say, you're
wrong again.

740
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:10,560
She would go and sit back down.
Oh.

741
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,320
My gosh.
Clat and the men, it's all

742
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:16,960
there's 149 men in her.
There might have been one other

743
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:18,920
woman, I don't remember, but I
think it was just her.

744
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:22,400
She'd sit back down and then
he'd ask and another guy would

745
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:25,280
lift his hand up and he'd say
pretty much the same thing.

746
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:31,440
Well, now you have it right.
Every day, every day, the start

747
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:35,760
of every class.
I mean, they were very, very

748
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:37,280
sexist.
I mean, you think about from the

749
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,920
60s when they were throwing
people out of the, the marathon

750
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:42,720
because they're women.
You know it shouldn't be in

751
00:41:42,720 --> 00:41:43,800
there.
Oh, I forgot about that.

752
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:47,520
Yeah, this is.
This is this is the late 40s,

753
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:50,760
you know, this is women wanting
to be Park Rangers.

754
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,080
What the Hell's wrong with them?
You know, and you're thinking to

755
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:59,000
yourself like, and that's kind
of been my love for, for, you

756
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:02,880
know, parks and trees and
vegetation stuff.

757
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:06,960
And she had this amazing knack
that you'd be walking in the

758
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,800
backyard or yard.
And we were 192 Randall, which

759
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:12,960
later became 14 two O 8 Randall
Drive.

760
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:15,200
And she had Clover all over the
ground.

761
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:22,040
And she'd walk along and stop
and go, oh, look down and pluck

762
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:25,160
A4 leaf Clover.
She had like a dozen of them.

763
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,240
Everywhere she went, she'd just
stop and go.

764
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:31,360
Oh, and lean down and pull it
out of a patch of Clover.

765
00:42:31,720 --> 00:42:34,040
And I'm like, my God, that's
weird.

766
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:37,640
I mean, I think she was a witch,
but we didn't know it, you know?

767
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:42,880
But just that kind of ability to
see that pattern and to know and

768
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:46,400
she knew all the the she's like
Edwin where Edwin knows, oh,

769
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:50,040
it's the Raffia's flop flop.
And I'm like Edwin, it's palm

770
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:50,600
tree.
Shut up.

771
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:55,640
But he would know the variety
and know that this variety is

772
00:42:55,640 --> 00:43:00,080
not and doesn't occur naturally.
It was where they took a palm

773
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:05,720
from Western W Indies and they
crossed it with an African palm

774
00:43:05,720 --> 00:43:07,800
because they didn't have a lot
of water.

775
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,880
And those palms thrive more when
you grow.

776
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:12,960
They grow faster but with less
water.

777
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,600
And it was like that.
There was always a reason as to

778
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:22,680
why you would, you know, cross
pollinate different plants or

779
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:24,280
just to see.
It's like, and he would do this

780
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:27,520
with plants that grew in the
north to plants in the South

781
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:30,720
because he wanted to see if he
could get a stronger palm that

782
00:43:30,720 --> 00:43:34,240
would grow in Virginia, you
know, and we have them here, but

783
00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:37,680
they're not, you know, in hard
winters they die.

784
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:40,400
You know, that's just the way.
It is, yeah.

785
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:43,280
Well, it gets started about
what, 10��?

786
00:43:44,240 --> 00:43:46,320
Well, sometimes.
I mean there's no way palm

787
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:48,280
surviving that unless it's a
hybrid.

788
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:50,920
But even the hybrids are like,
they're not going to be able to

789
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:53,440
do that.
And this, this, this episode's

790
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:55,440
going to play tomorrow.
Today's 20th, right?

791
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:57,240
Tomorrow's 21st.
I think it's the 20th.

792
00:43:57,240 --> 00:43:59,240
There's the 21st one or the
other, I don't remember.

793
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:05,480
Anyway, 22nd, I'm, I'm way out
anyway, it's going to snow here

794
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:08,360
on Saturday and Sunday.
It's supposed to be a couple

795
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:11,960
feet, you know, So that's what
I'm wishing for, I think.

796
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:13,640
That's the first time in a long
time since like.

797
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:17,280
It's 14 to 17 inches or five to
10 inches on one day, 4 inches

798
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,200
one day, three inches or 6 the
other day.

799
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,680
So it looks like it's going to
be about 20 inches total.

800
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:24,720
Maybe we'll see.
I'm just hoping.

801
00:44:24,720 --> 00:44:26,520
I love snow.
I just want to roll out and go

802
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:29,960
and make angels in the snow and
throw snowballs at your mother.

803
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:34,280
So she pissed off at me.
Take the dogs out until the

804
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:38,360
Yoshi gets covered in snowballs
and can't and then the trees.

805
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:42,120
When you see the trees in the
winter time when you're walking

806
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:46,640
around, remember when we walked
up to the court?

807
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:51,400
Who is it?
See his house?

808
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:55,880
Remember when it snowed about a
foot and you and I went up there

809
00:44:55,880 --> 00:45:00,440
and I had AI had a a glass of
bourbon and went up there and we

810
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:02,680
knocked on the door and said
come out and play it like 11:00

811
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:05,240
at night.
I don't remember that.

812
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:08,560
Yeah.
Oh, my gosh, Neighbors, we're

813
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:09,440
weird.
Yeah.

814
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:11,760
Well, you know, because it's, I
mean, to me, it's like when the

815
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:15,560
snow's out, it's deep and it's
late at night and you can walk

816
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:18,200
into a forest.
It's just a there's just a

817
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:22,240
certain special thing about it.
And that's what I always do when

818
00:45:22,240 --> 00:45:25,640
I go in the backyard around the
holly trees and the palm pine

819
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:29,400
trees and just look up and just
see, wow, beautiful place.

820
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:31,680
Beautiful, beautiful.
That's why I like the deeper the

821
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:33,960
snow, the better.
And you'll hear the animals

822
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:38,480
coming or see them, and the
beauty is just as long as you're

823
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:41,080
not freezing to death, you got
to wear a ton of clothes not to

824
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:42,480
freeze to death because that's
always the.

825
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:45,600
And once you get wet underneath
the jacket, it's just over.

826
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:48,240
Yeah, well, you got to not not
piss yourself.

827
00:45:48,240 --> 00:45:50,320
That's always a it's.
Hard to do that though.

828
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:55,640
You know that and I'll be doing
the snow blower all day Sunday,

829
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:57,320
probably pissing off the
neighbors.

830
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:59,320
I'll go out there like 5:00 AM
or something.

831
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:01,000
I won't use it, I'll just start
it up.

832
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:07,160
No way.
No, no, not going to do that.

833
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:08,600
Not at all.
No.

834
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:11,240
No, no, no, can't do that.
Not I'll just get up when I get

835
00:46:11,240 --> 00:46:13,880
up and go out and see where it's
at and deal with it.

836
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:17,200
It's what I do and run across
and do a neighbor and then see

837
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:18,920
if the neighbor of the street
needs something.

838
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:21,200
I, you know, they're all like.
That might be the best

839
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:24,240
investment you ever made, Yeah.
I would I would say so in.

840
00:46:24,240 --> 00:46:27,800
Shoveling that driveway that
was.

841
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:33,320
That sucked.
I went to a show in your city,

842
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:37,080
now LA, and it's snowed 2 feet
here.

843
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:41,840
And before we had a snow blower
and your mother was here by

844
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:49,640
herself and with you and she was
upset say the least, because you

845
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:51,960
want to go play and you can't
really go play because you can't

846
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:54,800
go up the driveway because it's
2 feet deep, you know.

847
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:57,320
And you dug it out.
She dug it all out by was that

848
00:46:57,320 --> 00:47:00,640
2012?
No, that was like before that.

849
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:04,080
O five, O 6. 05 I'm.
Sure, it was earlier, you know,

850
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:08,960
12 was when it was me and I'd
later that when I came in, I

851
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:10,240
bought it.
I bought it right then and

852
00:47:10,240 --> 00:47:11,360
there.
I was like OK, I'm going to go

853
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:15,080
get the best one I can find.
And I got 1 and and I overpaid

854
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:17,040
and got ripped off.
But it works perfectly.

855
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,960
It's worked forever and it's a
giant 1.

856
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:23,520
And I do neighbors stuff, and I
did the neighbors for a while,

857
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:26,920
'cause, you know, they're old
and now I'm old, so.

858
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:28,080
Now they're dead.
It's great.

859
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:30,640
Yeah, now they're dead, you
know, So wow, that's.

860
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:36,560
That is depressing seeing that
neighborhood get turned over

861
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:43,320
into just these apartment style
houses that are like 50

862
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:44,720
bedrooms.
There's that one in the front.

863
00:47:44,720 --> 00:47:49,200
I swear that's 50 bedrooms.
That's crazy when they put that

864
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,960
house up, it's on the corner of
Georgetown Pike and Saigon Rd.

865
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:55,200
Why such a terrible?
Location too.

866
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:57,680
I mean people you want to.
It was 12 acres open.

867
00:47:57,720 --> 00:48:01,640
I thought it was a row of
townhouses because it looked

868
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,000
like a row of townhouses.
They built a Chateau.

869
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:09,040
And then I realized it was only
one house and and I used to pour

870
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:11,400
concrete.
So the cool thing is, is I went

871
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:15,680
over there and I looked at the
walls and a typical basement is

872
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:19,160
8 feet.
You have 8 feet poured walls.

873
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:24,080
They took panels, they poured
they and they put 8 feet and

874
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:25,720
then they put 6 feet on top of
that.

875
00:48:25,720 --> 00:48:32,800
So the basement, the basement is
14 foot walls, solid concrete.

876
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:39,840
And I would tell you that it's,
it's the footprint is, you know,

877
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:43,400
it's the house is you think it's
100 yards long.

878
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:47,160
It's got to be, yeah.
It's probably 100 yards long, so

879
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:50,960
think about concrete going the
outside all the way around on

880
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:54,800
100 yards long in the back and
the side to side it's probably

881
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,360
70 yards wide.
It's huge.

882
00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:00,480
It's just a monster house it's
going to have.

883
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:03,160
Seen a bigger house in my life.
If you go down Old Dominion

884
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:09,960
there, there are houses there
that have 6 car garages, 6 Whoa,

885
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:13,280
whoa, you know, Seinfeld or
something.

886
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:15,440
I don't know.
Well, people want to live

887
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:17,400
indoors and they don't want to
live outdoors and stuff.

888
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:20,800
And I'm more of a, you know,
we're, we, we have a great place

889
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,040
and we have a place we can run
away to, which is here the

890
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:27,200
studio, you know, so you, you
have that I can look out the

891
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:28,960
window and see trees.
I'm going to plant trees out

892
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:30,840
these windows so I don't have to
look at the neighbors.

893
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:34,440
That's what we do, right?
That's what you got to do.

894
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:36,440
Do the right thing.
You got to you got to, but you

895
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,760
got to plan a big enough,
because every animal around here

896
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:42,640
eats everything I plant, you
know, and it's like you got to

897
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:45,840
let them have their their you.
You got to pay the toll, so to

898
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:47,880
speak.
You know, I want to keep as many

899
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:51,160
of these alive as I can, you
know, and keep it going, you

900
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:52,680
know?
Keep it rocking.

901
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:54,920
What's your favorite?
If I if I was to think, if you

902
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:56,960
were to say what's your favorite
tree, I would have to say that

903
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:59,680
dawn Redwood in the front.
When I sit underneath it, I have

904
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:02,760
a Fred Flintstone bench.
It's like a big giant stone

905
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:04,800
bench.
Mine would be the same, Yeah.

906
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:06,960
No, I completely.
You sit under there in the and

907
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:10,920
and just.
Or the spiky ball one 'cause I

908
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:13,520
would run barefoot when I was a
kid and then I'd step on them I.

909
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:16,760
I I cut that down because of
that.

910
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:19,320
I killed it.
Yeah, I did.

911
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:22,840
My wife's like and, and I was
out cutting trees down and I

912
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:25,720
said, well, it's a chestnut and,
and, and the chestnuts are full

913
00:50:25,720 --> 00:50:28,720
of worms anyway.
And so I cut it down.

914
00:50:28,720 --> 00:50:31,720
I still have four of those
around the property, but they're

915
00:50:31,720 --> 00:50:33,640
on the edges, so to where no one
walks.

916
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:36,160
But they would fall down and
they'd fall down in the yard

917
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:39,200
where the grass was like 2 1/2,
three inches deep.

918
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:41,160
And then you wouldn't see him.
And then I'd just hear the

919
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:43,920
scream when you steered on it.
You.

920
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:45,840
Could fall off the skate park
too and fall on them.

921
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:49,200
Yeah, skate park.
And that's going now.

922
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:51,520
So yeah, everything's.
Going Things have come and gone

923
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:53,240
here at the Brown House.
That's what I.

924
00:50:53,240 --> 00:50:55,280
Would do is I'd build a glass
Dome next.

925
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:58,920
Really cool glass Dome in there.
Where?

926
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:02,720
In the In the backyard.
Oh, build a glass.

927
00:51:02,720 --> 00:51:04,680
I'm gonna put up my Scotch.
I'm, I was thinking about making

928
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:09,440
a forest where the park used to
be, you know, bringing the birds

929
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:12,480
back because they have a lot of
birds and I want to increase the

930
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:15,840
amount of birds and I got like
10 butterfly bushes now.

931
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:18,880
So I have butterflies.
I have probably, you know,

932
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:22,640
there's multiple families of
hummingbirds that fight all the

933
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:24,160
time.
They're the funniest little

934
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:26,240
rats.
There's no reason for that to be

935
00:51:26,240 --> 00:51:28,440
open back there either.
You can do a bunch of trees.

936
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:29,280
That'd be pretty.
Cool.

937
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:31,520
Yeah, no reason.
And I was going to tell them to

938
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:33,920
stop mowing that area and see
what it looks like if it's a

939
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:36,840
foot tall, because then all the
chipmunks will come back and all

940
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:40,960
the the groundhogs it'll, it'll
have and they'll have a place to

941
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:44,320
hide, which will then encourage
the Hawks to come and hunt in my

942
00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:49,400
backyard, which I have seen that
where you see the I go out there

943
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:54,680
and I'll see a pile of blue Jay
feathers or I'll see a pile of

944
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:59,040
dove, just feathers around in
the circle.

945
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:02,760
Nothing else just got whacked
by.

946
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:05,680
And I just saw a hawk earlier
today when I was walking the

947
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:07,360
dog.
It was the biggest hawk I've

948
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:10,280
seen around here and it had a
gold tail, not a red tail.

949
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:11,880
So I don't know what kind.
I haven't looked it up yet.

950
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:16,120
And it was about 30 inches.
I mean, it was big.

951
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:18,280
It was really big.
It was big enough that I thought

952
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:20,760
that it could be a danger to our
dogs.

953
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:23,200
That's how big.
And my dogs are 10 lbs.

954
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:27,480
So I'm thinking like, that's a
big, you know, 8 foot wingspan,

955
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:33,880
you know, wow.
But we have like a little force

956
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:36,440
between me and two of the
neighbors on the right hand

957
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:38,080
side.
And I happen to own about a

958
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:40,920
chunk of that land.
So they can't, nobody can do

959
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:42,560
anything to it.
So you got to let threes just

960
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:46,280
and not be messed with.
And that's where my Billy

961
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:48,000
Woodpeckers live.
That's where all the different

962
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:49,000
things are.
Yeah.

963
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:51,680
Wow.
Well, we've run.

964
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:53,360
We've run.
I've said my favorite tree.

965
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:55,800
You've said yours.
We we've looked at the different

966
00:52:56,200 --> 00:53:01,680
things and it's I love trees.
Me as well me as.

967
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:03,480
Well, I love burning them too.
I love firewood.

968
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:06,320
Oh man I remember one year we
collected all the Christmas

969
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:10,480
trees from around the neighbors
and then we did AI think it was

970
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:15,840
13 or 14 and then we did a
drunken Christmas tree burn and

971
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:18,680
that might be one of the best
memories.

972
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:21,080
Oh my gosh of.
Drunken Christmas burn.

973
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:26,720
I love that.
We used to do this out in what

974
00:53:26,720 --> 00:53:28,080
is the big springs where Seth
lived.

975
00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:32,600
They would, he would collect for
a month and he would have like

976
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:38,320
150 or 200 Christmas trees and
have a burn that was 30 feet

977
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:39,800
high.
But it's in the middle of a big

978
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:43,720
giant field, whereas mine is
surrounded by trees that I

979
00:53:43,720 --> 00:53:45,480
remember I threw 1 Christmas
tree on.

980
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:49,800
I sat it in the middle.
I sat it up on the fire and it

981
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:51,920
caught on fire.
And there were guys working on

982
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:55,000
the neighbor's house.
The neighbor's house is maybe

983
00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:59,800
50-60 yards away.
Good, good distance, not like 6

984
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:02,240
feet away.
And they were on the side and

985
00:54:02,240 --> 00:54:04,200
they were working on the siding
or something.

986
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:07,160
And when I lit that off, they,
they got off their ladders and

987
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:13,520
came over to see if we were OK.
It's causing trouble, man,

988
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:15,720
always causing.
That's all we want to do, man

989
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:17,160
cause trouble.
Well, as.

990
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:20,360
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991
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992
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