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Dad, I can't believe it.

This is season two, which means we just did 10 full episodes about a healthy lifestyle. Dr. Furman, thank you for joining me.

It's my pleasure to be here. And thanks for sharing your time with us. He's here all the time, as he is my co-host. So, Dad, how are you doing today? Tell me.

I'm having lots of fun. I love the summer. It's a great summers. It's a great time of year. Why is that? Well, you can do so much. You can like swim, go to the beach, the water's warm. But I also like that I'm picking food off my trees and eating them. I get such a kick out of like, I'm eating peaches and figs and nectarines, riple off the tree without having to go to a store. And just when you grow it yourself, there's something like just great about that. And especially you can't eat a fig unless you've eaten figs. You can't appreciate a fig unless you've eaten a fig off your own fig tree where it's ripened on the tree. Because you can't, figs don't taste it if they pick them hard and ripen in the store. So everybody should have their own fig tree where it's ripened on the tree because you can't figs don't taste if they pick them hard and ripen in the store so everybody should have their own fig tree even if they is that your stay-at-home order get your own victory even if they live in northern climates they could plant it in a pot they can put the pot on a on a dolly it's called a plant dolly and they can wheel it in the garage or in or in a shed in the wintertime you used to do that when we lived in New Jersey. Right. So, things are just fun. And you can't blow growing a fig tree. It's so easy to grow. This is hilarious to me because you have wanted your own fig trees flourishing for as long as I can remember. I was literally 10 years old watching you build this. Do you remember that greenhouse in the middle of our property, the white thing?

And you were just, the whole point of that greenhouse was to get fig trees. Yeah, it failed. It didn't work. Every year it failed. And you would try it again and again. Then I wrapped the fig trees in like burlap and then I put out garbage panels over and I buried the garbage pail on dirt. and I did everything

and they still died down

until I realized

the system of those

big pots with undollies

when you wield it in

because I try to make it grow

in. garbage bale and dirt and I did everything and they still died down until I realized the system of those big pots with undollies where you wield it in because I tried to make it grow in that was later yes that worked much better but now that but now in San Diego the difference is I can grow different varieties of figs that ripen different times of the year wow and I even know the terminology like for a breba fig you know what a a breba fig means? Nobody knows that word.

No, I actually do not know.

It grows on the hardwood, last year's wood. So it grows earlier. So you can pick it in May or June. And then you have the new figs that grow on the new growth. And those are the main fig crop that now is ripe this time of year. Oh, wow. And so what I'm enjoying is I have so many giant ripe figs of different styles,

but I can feed them to all the guests.

I can give them away to neighbors. this time a year. Oh, wow. And so what I'm enjoying is I have so many giant ripe figs of different

styles that I can feed them to all the guests. I can give them way to neighbors. You're growing that many that you're willing to give them up. Yeah, I love to grow enough that I could share with other people and say, I could give it to my neighbor and say, here's a tremendous gift, but you've got to taste this great fig and they go, wow, that's so nice of you.

I was a recipient of your tremendous gift.

I gave you a box of fig.

Yes, free for fig and they go, wow, that's so nice of you. I was a recipient of your tremendous gift. I gave you a box of fig. Yes, free for me and free for Jacob, my boyfriend. And they were the size of apples. They were the size of my head. So when I was eating one of these figs, I was like, okay, am I going to eat a full one? Am I hungry enough? And I start eating it and I was low-key thinking it was a full meal because it was so big.

It was never ending. I had to actually stop eating it, save half for later. Really? It was delicious. It was the green one. What type of fig is that? Those are called jelly figs. It was like jelly on the inside. Did people make jelly from that fig? fig, could I just mash it up, muddle it?

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