Charlie:
All right, George sent us a note here from Pearland. He says, “What’s your take on the Nuvo H2O water softener that uses citrus instead of salt?”
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Tom:
You know, if you put the two together you can have a margarita, citrus and salt.
Charlie:
One more ingredient, baby.
Tom:
Yeah, that’s true. I have no idea. Never heard of the system.
Charlie:
Yeah. I mean, I can’t imagine citrus is going to be as effective as salt in softening water.
Tom:
I don’t know. I’d have to really look into it, but it doesn- … Charlie, you know my philosophy.
Charlie:
No, Tom, tell me what is your philosophy that I’ve heard for the last 30 years.
Tom:
The test of time.
Charlie:
Yes.
Tom:
Buy what works-
Charlie:
Believe me, no one’s-
Tom:
Let the other people experiment with their money.
Charlie:
No one’s been more tested by time than yours truly sitting next to Tom. But seriously, I mean this sounds like a new-fangled thing and-
Tom:
How many new-fangled things ’til softened water have come out in these last thirty years? You had magnets, then you have the ones that plug in, then you … Now, maybe we have citrus.
Charlie:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).
Tom:
After thirty years, if it really works and you can get one on every street corner like you can a good water softener, then the time is right.
Charlie:
The other thing about the salt is it’s, like you say, it’s a proven, simple system. It works.
Tom:
It is, and I tell you what, with the system that I have, with that Kinetico, the little bit of salt it uses is actually less than a normal salt system which … with softened water, a gallon of water-
Charlie:
That’s a good point, because I looked up this website for this thing before the show.
Tom:
Yeah?
Charlie:
You have to buy the cartridges from them.
Tom:
Oh yeah, there’s always one of those things. Remember this, a gallon of water that’s softened with a typical water softener in Houston has as much salt as a piece of white bread in a Mrs. Baird’s package. If you go out for a Mexican dinner, don’t sit there and tell me you’re worried about salt. Quite frankly, filter your water. Have you seen the … Two weeks in row now, one was black sludge in the area here in town. The week before that was brown water and it’s where people live, and it came out of their faucet. Get a K5 drinking water station to filter your water if you’re going to drink it.