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Speaker 1: vintage and retro. But right now I want to go
Speaker 1: back to the phones and I want to talk to Tim. Hey, Tim,
Speaker 1: welcome home.
Speaker 2: Hi there, I need a recommendation. I'm working on a
Speaker 2: nineteen seventies track home in San Diego. We're tearing We're
Speaker 2: gonna tear out all the dry wall on the interior
Speaker 2: of the house. It was a mouse and to get
Speaker 2: rid of all the mice and insulation inside. My question
Speaker 2: would be when I go to re build this place.
Speaker 2: I know house wrap is a great thing, but what
Speaker 2: would you recommend if I'm down to the studs. I
Speaker 2: don't want to take the stucco off the outside because
Speaker 2: it's perfect. What do you think about that?
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're just so your goal is to just
Speaker 1: better waterproof the house or vapor vapor proof the house.
Speaker 1: So what are you looking for for the house wrap?
Speaker 2: Well, just because I'm taking the whole the entire house
Speaker 2: down to the studs, the ceiling, the drywalls coming off,
Speaker 2: the ceiling, the walls, there's nothing going to be left
Speaker 2: but the stucco and the So I just wonder if
Speaker 2: there's you recommend some try to seal it some way
Speaker 2: before I put the dry wall back on and insulate.
Speaker 1: I got you, I got you. Okay. Yeah, so your
Speaker 1: bear stud on the inside, but the outside sheathing, all
Speaker 1: all of that, the sighting, all of that, the stucco,
Speaker 1: it's all staying put. Okay, So from the backside. So yeah,
Speaker 1: a couple of things. One, yeah, if you want to
Speaker 1: do your due diligence on this, uh and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: inspect every exterior wall stud bay. Take a look at
Speaker 1: the condition of the paper that is backing the stucco,
Speaker 1: the back of the stuck stuck the backing on the
Speaker 1: stucco and uh and uh you know, get yourself, I
Speaker 1: mean literally, you can get down and dirty with this.
Speaker 1: You can. You can get yourself a big five gallon
Speaker 1: bucket of like red Guard waterproofing membrane. It is. You
Speaker 1: can find it at the big box store. They're they're
Speaker 1: they're available everywhere nowadays. Red Guard. It's not cheap, but
Speaker 1: it's a wonderful brush on waterproofing membrane. Uh. And what
Speaker 1: you could do is you can backbrush the backside of
Speaker 1: all of that paper, fix any cracks. Uh. And it
Speaker 1: will also go up against the studs and help seal
Speaker 1: things so that every stud bay would essentially be sealed
Speaker 1: unto itself before you reinsulate those walls. And that would
Speaker 1: do an amazing job. Another option, and this is a
Speaker 1: little bit trickier, and you're going to hire a company
Speaker 1: to do this, would be to arrow seal and I
Speaker 1: say arrow e a E R O errow seal the
Speaker 1: house while it's in this state of stripped studs. And
Speaker 1: what happens there is this company will come in. They
Speaker 1: will basically uh uh seal up all the windows and doors.
Speaker 1: They will set up a pressurized fan membrane on one
Speaker 1: of the door exterior door openings, doors or windows, and
Speaker 1: they will pump the house full of pressure. They'll pressurize
Speaker 1: the air inside the house, and they will have these
Speaker 1: basically kind of like fine calking compound emitters, silicone emitters
Speaker 1: in every single room, all spraying and making this very
Speaker 1: fine mist. And what happens is it's kind of like
Speaker 1: I equate it to like you know those cans that
Speaker 1: you use to blow up a tire right that has
Speaker 1: gone flat on the freeway. It's a foam. It goes
Speaker 1: inside the tire and because of the pressure, the foam
Speaker 1: finds the holes and it seals the hole. It's not
Speaker 1: a permanent thing for a tire, but it's the same concept.
Speaker 1: So once they pump the house full of air pressure,
Speaker 1: that air wants to leak out. It wants to leak
Speaker 1: out every hole, every crack, every little thing everywhere. And
Speaker 1: if you simultaneously fill a room with this uh calking
Speaker 1: compound mist, guess what happens. It drives that compound into
Speaker 1: all of those cracks, they build up and you can
Speaker 1: air seal, a rodent seal, bug seal the entire house
Speaker 1: and talk about energy efficiency. That's a great way to go.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: You can also if you just want to go Bay
Speaker 1: for Bays stud for stud and do this diyat yourself.
Speaker 1: That's totally totally a thing you can do. But you
Speaker 1: can have a company come in and in one day,
Speaker 1: just a few short hours, boom hit the entire house
Speaker 1: all at once, and have the confidence of knowing that
Speaker 1: man our house, no matter how old it is, it
Speaker 1: is sealed up. And I applaud you for wanting to
Speaker 1: do that at this stage, because you know what, once
Speaker 1: you've stripped down the whole house and you've got all
Speaker 1: of these stud walls bear, now is the time to
Speaker 1: do something exactly like that.
Speaker 2: Tim, Yeah, it looks like it's my one chance to
Speaker 2: do it now. This is still okay. I'm removing all
Speaker 2: the ceiling drywall and insulation from the attic also so
Speaker 2: that pressurized system is still workable like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's workable that way as well. Now. Sometimes some
Speaker 1: people want to put the ceiling lid on Before they
Speaker 1: do that, just be to keep it all in the
Speaker 1: usable air space, But I would call the company and
Speaker 1: talk to them about your your options, you know, as
Speaker 1: far as that goes.
Speaker 2: Okay, that leads me to one more little question about this.
Speaker 2: I'm also going to remove all the roof tile. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna i'd like to put foil faced plywood on the
Speaker 2: roof surface and remove all the roofing and put the
Speaker 2: replace everything with foil fate plywood to keep the heat
Speaker 2: out of the attic. Do you have any thoughts on that?
Speaker 1: Uh, it's it's a great way to go. That Foil
Speaker 1: backing is standard practice now for us new home full
Speaker 1: remodel redo. We wouldn't we would not resheet we I
Speaker 1: mean our company would not resheet a roof without using
Speaker 1: the foil backed OSB sheathing up there, because it really
Speaker 1: does when it comes to infrared. Now, it's just foil
Speaker 1: and so it's not going to be an insulator like
Speaker 1: resisting heat rising up through the house or anything. But
Speaker 1: what the foil does is it knocks out a huge
Speaker 1: chunk of infrared which which brings additional unnecessary heat to
Speaker 1: the attict. So yeah, it is a it is a proven,
Speaker 1: uh proven effective building material that that we use every time.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, appreciate your your help with those two things.
Speaker 1: Thanks all right, Tim, Good luck with all that. Buddy.
Speaker 1: You're you're you're thinking right, you're thinking properly about this.
Speaker 1: You got it all stripped out. Now is the time
Speaker 1: to do some major rehab that helps everything before you
Speaker 1: close all those walls back up. All right, when we
Speaker 1: come back, more of your calls your Home with Dean Sharp,
Speaker 1: the house Whisper.
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Speaker 1: We're talking antique vintage retro today on the show, just
Speaker 1: giving you tips and some wisdom along the way. How
Speaker 1: to incorporate it, how to handle it, what your options are,
Speaker 1: how to understand it better. We're going to return to that,
Speaker 1: of course in just a bit, but right now taking calls.
Speaker 1: I want to go to the phones. Let's talk to Michael. Hey, Michael,
Speaker 1: welcome home.
Speaker 3: Oh thank you for taking my call. I have a question.
Speaker 3: I have a refrigerating at vacant guest house. If I
Speaker 3: turn off, would I create a problem when I turn
Speaker 3: on later on, like you know, several months from now.
Speaker 1: No, it shouldn't. If if you make sure that you
Speaker 1: have cleaned the inside of that thing to the point
Speaker 1: of sterile keep it, you know, and before you after
Speaker 1: you clean it, before you close it up, you make
Speaker 1: sure you keep the door open and let it dry
Speaker 1: out completely. Because the thing is a refrigerator that has
Speaker 1: been in use, has been used, you know, moisture develops
Speaker 1: inside and then as long as as long as you
Speaker 1: keep the refrigeration on, then that moisture never turns into mold, mildew,
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. But once you've got moisture trapped
Speaker 1: inside this box that is completely sealed up, the moisture
Speaker 1: has zero places to go, and you raise the temperature
Speaker 1: inside that box, you're literally creating a situation where mold
Speaker 1: and mildew, you know, want to grow because it's got
Speaker 1: enough air to do it. And then some people come
Speaker 1: back months later and open it up and find, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, what did we do. So it can totally
Speaker 1: be done. Totally totally be done. It's not an issue
Speaker 1: of the refrigerator motor at all. Just unplugging and not
Speaker 1: using a fridge that's not a problem. But you just
Speaker 1: got to make sure that it's cleaned up on the inside.
Speaker 1: And some people, by the way, if it's unused, some
Speaker 1: people will prefer to clean it and then just slightly
Speaker 1: prop opened the door so that airflow continues in there
Speaker 1: and it's not completely sealed up. So as long as
Speaker 1: it's clean and dry, no problem unplugging a fridge for
Speaker 1: an extended period of time.
Speaker 3: Okay, I appreciate it. I have another quick question. I
Speaker 3: have we remodeled the kitchen many years ago, and we
Speaker 3: could create a wet bar, but we have not used
Speaker 3: it for many years. I turn the water on. There's
Speaker 3: no water come on. So if I guess, if you
Speaker 3: don't use it, you lose it.
Speaker 1: No, all right, don't don't, don't fool yourself. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: but yeah, so what has happened. Very likely there's still
Speaker 1: water there. There's still water. So don't think, oh, let's
Speaker 1: just tear this out and just we'll get a saw
Speaker 1: and we'll just cut those pipes off because there's no
Speaker 1: water in them. Oh yes there is, Oh yes there is.
Speaker 1: Here's what happens though. An angle stop. An angle stop
Speaker 1: that's the official name for the valve that's down below
Speaker 1: the sink. Okay, that's the valve that transitions from the
Speaker 1: water in the pipes to the hose that leads up
Speaker 1: to the faucet. Angle stops are notorious for wearing out
Speaker 1: just as they sit in place, because let's face it,
Speaker 1: if you know, in an ideal situation, we turn that
Speaker 1: valve on and you know, maybe twenty thirty years later
Speaker 1: we go back to do we decide to change the
Speaker 1: sink out. That's the first time in thirty years that
Speaker 1: this valve has been operated. So what is most likely
Speaker 1: the case is that the valve is frozen, or even
Speaker 1: though the valve the top a knob is spinning, it's
Speaker 1: not actually closing the valve down, or I should say
Speaker 1: opening the valve up in your case, because you're going
Speaker 1: to it was closed a long time ago and now
Speaker 1: it's just spinning and it's not opening. But I guarantee
Speaker 1: you there's water back there. So what you've got is
Speaker 1: a situation where totally you can completely get rid of
Speaker 1: that wet bar if you want, but if you want
Speaker 1: to reactivate it, you have to shut the maine down
Speaker 1: for the house and actually replace the angle stops so
Speaker 1: that it lets the water through.
Speaker 3: Okay, I appreciate the information, been very helpful. Thank you
Speaker 3: very much.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Michael appreciated. Good luck on all that you're
Speaker 1: doing there. All right, y'all. When we come back, let's
Speaker 1: dive back into antique and vintage and retro. And I've
Speaker 1: still got some more pearls of wisdom for you. Your
Speaker 1: Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
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Speaker 1: You are Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. That's me.
Speaker 1: We're talking antique, vintage, retro, nostalgic dec today, and they're
Speaker 1: huge subjects. I mean, each one of those categories is
Speaker 1: a major subject. What I'm doing is sort of introducing
Speaker 1: you to the genre genre. Why are you laughing at me?
Speaker 1: Why does she laugh at me? I know I'm a
Speaker 1: nerd anyway, I'm just introducing you to this stuff today
Speaker 1: and giving you some tips and hopefully some perspective as
Speaker 1: to what you can do if you are one who
Speaker 1: leans towards loving antique, vintage in all storms of nostalgic design.
Speaker 1: So a few more tips for you here, pearls of wisdom.
Speaker 1: One of the things that you should decide right up
Speaker 1: front when you are working on a house and you're thinking, okay,
Speaker 1: what's the effect that we're going to get here. Oddly enough,
Speaker 1: not a lot of people think this through. Decide whether
Speaker 1: you want to create a hundred year old house or
Speaker 1: a new house with one hundred year old design sensibility. Wait,
Speaker 1: isn't that the same thing? No, I'm going to say
Speaker 1: that again. Decide whether what you want to create in
Speaker 1: the end is the look of a of a hundred
Speaker 1: year old house, meaning someone looks at it and says, WHOA,
Speaker 1: this is old, or a brand new house that just
Speaker 1: happens to look like it was built, you know, one
Speaker 1: hundred year old design? Does that make sense? Am I
Speaker 1: making any sense? What's so? The point is this, You
Speaker 1: got a lot of antiques out there, a lot of
Speaker 1: vintage stuff that's distressed. That's like weathered barnwood. There's a
Speaker 1: perfect example. Weathered barnwood is a very vintage look. Right,
Speaker 1: So if you're going for that vibe, then somebody walks
Speaker 1: in and it's like, woh, that thing looks like it's
Speaker 1: a one hundred years old. That's not the case though,
Speaker 1: if you are trying to do a hundred year old
Speaker 1: design motif that looks like it was just built yesterday. Right,
Speaker 1: So you understand what I'm saying, so when that barn
Speaker 1: was built, wherever that weathered barn would come from, when
Speaker 1: that barn was built one hundred and fifty years ago,
Speaker 1: it looked brand spanking new, but it is clearly one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty year old design and craftsmanship gone into
Speaker 1: the barn. So what you've got to decide is whether
Speaker 1: you want the barn looking brand new circa one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty years ago, or whether you want the effect
Speaker 1: to be this thing's been sitting here for one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty years, and you see how weather it is.
Speaker 1: It's got that patina. A brand new nineteen twenties built
Speaker 1: has is a house with no patina, Okay, a house
Speaker 1: who's point and focus is to really give you that Hey,
Speaker 1: look you're in a one hundred year old room. That's
Speaker 1: a room with patina, That's what I'm saying. So that's
Speaker 1: one of the most foundational decisions you make from a
Speaker 1: design perspective before you start acquiring vintage and antique pieces
Speaker 1: for decor, because they need to lean one way or
Speaker 1: the other. Are they fully restored so they look brand
Speaker 1: spank and new, or do they look their age? Okay?
Speaker 1: There you go. Another thing that you're always trying to
Speaker 1: do if you're striking for that to vintage or antique feel.
Speaker 1: And this is regardless of whether you're looking aged or not.
Speaker 1: In the home is to conceal as much twenty first
Speaker 1: century technology as possible. Nothing ruins the effect of a
Speaker 1: vintage room like a big old flat screen TV. Right,
Speaker 1: But I want you to have your TV in your
Speaker 1: vintage living room or family room. I just want you
Speaker 1: to find a creative way of having it there, so
Speaker 1: you go out and get yourself like a Samsung frame
Speaker 1: that is a TV that's specifically designed to look like
Speaker 1: a painting as it hangs there and not being used.
Speaker 1: Or we find a way to hide the TV in
Speaker 1: a cabinet behind bifold doors, whatever the case may be,
Speaker 1: so that when it's not movie night and TV night,
Speaker 1: the room really holds up and holds to its vibe.
Speaker 1: So hiding twenty first century technology is a challenge, but
Speaker 1: a great discipline of craft when it comes to creating
Speaker 1: a new old look. There you go. Craftsmanship in general.
Speaker 1: Craftsmanship in general is the truest vintage element that we
Speaker 1: strive for when we're leaning towards vintage and antique. I
Speaker 1: mean let's face it, the old phrase. You know, they
Speaker 1: don't make them like they used to. I just try
Speaker 1: and imagine a world. I mean, I know, find join
Speaker 1: craftsman today. They are few and far between.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: If you live here in southern California, by the way,
Speaker 1: it's on you, because they're out there, they're here, they
Speaker 1: are here. You may not be able to find this
Speaker 1: kind of thing in the middle of the Midwest in
Speaker 1: a small rural town, but you can find it here
Speaker 1: in southern California. So if you're looking for it, you
Speaker 1: got to look beyond the big box stores and the
Speaker 1: big commercial builders. You can find that fine craftsmanship here.
Speaker 1: It's a small pool, but it's here, and so that's
Speaker 1: on you. But I think craftsmanship in general is the
Speaker 1: thing that we missed the most from a bygone era.
Speaker 1: It's almost as if we really enjoy the comedy of
Speaker 1: John Mulaney. He has a bit where he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you wake up. It's like nineteen ten. You wake up,
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, it's the olden times, and what
Speaker 1: are we gonna do to there's literally nothing to do.
Speaker 1: There's nothing to do today, and so it's as if
Speaker 1: you have nothing better to do. Than to wake up
Speaker 1: in nineteen ten and do everything slowly with incredible care.
Speaker 1: That is the byproduct of living in olden times. And
Speaker 1: I think that just sort of holds true. I'm sure
Speaker 1: that wasn't the case. I'm sure they had plenty of
Speaker 1: things to do, but it certainly was a time when
Speaker 1: you know, we were up in Solving this week. There
Speaker 1: is a clock store in Solving. I call it a
Speaker 1: clock store. I think it's Renaissance antiques. If you get
Speaker 1: a chance to get to Renaissance antiques, you will be
Speaker 1: blown away if you are a lover of clocks and
Speaker 1: music boxes and antiques in general. They have an exquisite collection.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's the kind of stuff I'm staring
Speaker 1: at a grandfather clock and thinking how long did the
Speaker 1: clockmaker take to make this piece? And the answer is
Speaker 1: usually months and or years, and that is just kind
Speaker 1: of an unheard of thing these days. Right. So, ultimately, craftsmanship,
Speaker 1: the truest vintage element that we're actually going for, that
Speaker 1: puts us right there in that place. And that means
Speaker 1: that when you are handling these things, when you are
Speaker 1: and I don't mean physically handling, I mean your incorporation
Speaker 1: of these elements into your home. Do them with care,
Speaker 1: not slipshod, not just you know, just sort of you know,
Speaker 1: half cocked as you go. Do it with care. Do
Speaker 1: it with care, take time, and do the details right,
Speaker 1: and you will be infinitely rewarded. In the process of
Speaker 1: acquiring vintage, retro and antique things, take the care and
Speaker 1: when it comes to fitting it well in your house,
Speaker 1: research research, research, research, research. You need to become a
Speaker 1: student of not only so you can identify antiques and
Speaker 1: vintage stuff when they come along, but so you understand
Speaker 1: the original intent of what these things were and you
Speaker 1: can incorporate them well and not abuse them as they
Speaker 1: become a part of your home.
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Speaker 1: Welcome home, Hey, thanks for being with us on the
Speaker 1: program today. Another three hours spent talking about your home,
Speaker 1: all of its potential, all these different facets of things
Speaker 1: that we can do. What was that, Tina, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: she's mouthing something from and I'm not getting it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: when the time comes. Yeah, oh, I thought you were
Speaker 1: reminding me about the video, so you inadvertently did it.
Speaker 1: You did it you reminded me up on social media
Speaker 1: right now, we just did a quick video raising the
Speaker 1: subject of an antique piece. Do you preserve it and
Speaker 1: don't touch it or can you do stuff to it
Speaker 1: and incorporate it into your home and honor it? Does
Speaker 1: it honor it or destroy it? So you got to
Speaker 1: look at the video and you have to make up
Speaker 1: your own mind. We just use an example from our
Speaker 1: little guesthouse bathroom there and you can figure it out.
Speaker 1: That's on all of our soot, well not all of it.
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, Okay, last thoughts now on vintage and
Speaker 1: antique for the day, doing that kind of authentic work.
Speaker 1: I touched on it right before the break. I just
Speaker 1: want to underscore this when it comes to doing this,
Speaker 1: you know what, if you have a passion for it,
Speaker 1: then you've just got to dive in and research, research, research, research.
Speaker 1: It all comes down to research and educating yourself along
Speaker 1: the way, and believe me, that is a constant process
Speaker 1: for me. Constant, all right, And I know a lot,
Speaker 1: but I am constant. If there's one thing that absolutely
Speaker 1: everybody could say that is true of Dean is that
Speaker 1: he is just a consummate student when it comes to
Speaker 1: these kinds of things. I don't like calling myself a
Speaker 1: master of anything, but I will proudly tell you that
Speaker 1: I am a student of a lot of things because
Speaker 1: I love learning and if you're going to pull off
Speaker 1: some things, you really really got to understand them from
Speaker 1: down below. I remember back in the very I mean,
Speaker 1: this has been the way it's been for my whole career.
Speaker 1: In the early nineties, I got the first large research
Speaker 1: project that I was ever handled at handed as a designer.
Speaker 1: I was personally in charge as the design director of
Speaker 1: a build. We were building a twelve thousand square foot
Speaker 1: eighteenth century Tuscan villa in Brentwood Park. And long before
Speaker 1: we broke ground, I was a regular fixture at Hennessy
Speaker 1: and Ingles. And if you don't know what Hennessy and
Speaker 1: Ingles is, it is a it's in the arts district downtown.
Speaker 1: It is I still believe the largest art architecture and
Speaker 1: design bookstore in the Western United States, and I was
Speaker 1: like there, it was literally kind of like a hey, dean,
Speaker 1: you just headed back to your table in the back
Speaker 1: yal see. That's how Haffen. I was in there, pouring
Speaker 1: over every detail, every book I could find, every detail
Speaker 1: of eighteenth century Tuscan villa architecture, from cornice to columns, hinges,
Speaker 1: door profiles, you name it. So all of that to
Speaker 1: say that you know authentic construction or restor and the
Speaker 1: integration of antiques and vintage items into all of that.
Speaker 1: It's a tricky thing, right, and when you pull it off, man,
Speaker 1: it's masterful. But you can also just toss something in
Speaker 1: a room without much care and you end up looking
Speaker 1: like a thrift store just with a bunch of dusty
Speaker 1: old antiques lying around. I don't want that for your home, right,
Speaker 1: We're not after that. We're after you know, showstoppers that
Speaker 1: really really add to the character and the story of
Speaker 1: your home. Not even many architects go there. By the way,
Speaker 1: when it comes to authentic construction and restoration, I think
Speaker 1: the folks who probably do it the very best, and
Speaker 1: I actually learned this from them, Hollywood set decorators and
Speaker 1: production designers. They are the ones that have to go
Speaker 1: in because you know, audiences nowadays so sophisticated that you know,
Speaker 1: if you accidentally put a nineteen thirty model telephone in
Speaker 1: a house that's supposed to benineteen twenty seven house these days,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get emails, you'd be like, oh, buddy, I
Speaker 1: just happened to be a telephone officionado. And you know
Speaker 1: that's the thing. So I like doing my best to
Speaker 1: research things to the inth degree so that we can
Speaker 1: do things as accurately as possible. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I want to integrate. So I would be the guy
Speaker 1: to take the right phone for the right era. But
Speaker 1: maybe maybe if it's your thing, paint it blue instead of,
Speaker 1: you know, to incorporate it onto a blue wall and
Speaker 1: the blue phone if that's the art piece that we're
Speaker 1: going for. So you know, it all depends on that
Speaker 1: sense of artistic flexibility. Are we trying to just create
Speaker 1: a museum piece or are we really integrating it to
Speaker 1: a news story? And there you go, and that's at
Speaker 1: the heart of what we're talking about today. All right,
Speaker 1: are you ready for this? Teeny teen is going to
Speaker 1: videotape this because we've been putting these up online and
Speaker 1: that's always kind of a fun thing. So here is
Speaker 1: my closing thought for you today. Definitely not a masterpiece
Speaker 1: of master craftsmanship, just a thought, and it's just the
Speaker 1: thought I had sitting around the fire this morning. I'm
Speaker 1: wearing my hoodie that I wore at the holiday show
Speaker 1: with the shoulders that can display a velcrow patch on
Speaker 1: each shoulder. You see that there's a little veltrope. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's cool or stupid, honestly, but I'm
Speaker 1: having fun with it. And now I have this growing
Speaker 1: collection of patches to choose from depending on where my
Speaker 1: head and hard are at on any given day. Today
Speaker 1: we've been talking vintage, which always makes me look forward
Speaker 1: and backward at the same time. So today's patches are,
Speaker 1: let's see here, my favorite childhood memory is my back
Speaker 1: not hurting. That's a good one. And then on the
Speaker 1: other shoulder, it says be rave enough to suck at
Speaker 1: something new, which I think are two great bookends to
Speaker 1: what we're talking about today, looking back and looking forward,
Speaker 1: like it or not, if you're more than twenty years old,
Speaker 1: you've actually started down the road of becoming vintage. You
Speaker 1: might only be twenty eight and feeling in the prime
Speaker 1: of your youth. But to it, like I said earlier
Speaker 1: in the show, to a thirteen year old, you're already
Speaker 1: old and you are headed toward ancient quickly. That's upsetting
Speaker 1: to me. Oh, our Andrew Caravella, don't worry, buddy, You
Speaker 1: and I we're both vintage, by the way, I suck
Speaker 1: at my back, not hurting. Just for the record, There
Speaker 1: you go. There it is. So there's no turning back
Speaker 1: the clock. But that's okay. It's not the worst thing
Speaker 1: to be vintage.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Vintage is a word taken from wine making. It means
Speaker 1: that time has brought a thing to its full depth
Speaker 1: of flavor. Right, So yeah, time has passed, but that's
Speaker 1: what you need to make a fine wine. Difference between
Speaker 1: juice and wine is time. So try not to fear
Speaker 1: being a bit vintage. Age has a depth and a
Speaker 1: dignity about it. And if we allow time to pry
Speaker 1: some of the vanity out of our hands, then instead
Speaker 1: of always obsessing with outward youth, there's more room for
Speaker 1: the far more important task of becoming inwardly young again.
Speaker 1: So here are my tips. Don't fear growing old, only
Speaker 1: fear growing unteachable. Don't fear not being at the center
Speaker 1: of things, only fear not finding your own center. Don't
Speaker 1: fear growing old, only fear growing unadventurous. Don't fear inflexible joints,
Speaker 1: only fear an inflexible mind. Don't fear growing old, only
Speaker 1: fear growing sour. Don't fear the presence of gray, only
Speaker 1: fear the absence of wonder. Don't fear growing old, only
Speaker 1: fear wasting time. Some people have always been old. I
Speaker 1: think by that standard, others will never be old. That's
Speaker 1: who I want to be. That's my hope for you. Today.
Speaker 1: It's the only day we've got. It's the only today
Speaker 1: we have. Let's not waste it. And by the time
Speaker 1: it's done, we'll all be a little older, or maybe
Speaker 1: a little younger. It's all up to us live in
Speaker 1: the past or build ourselves a beautiful life. Well, you
Speaker 1: all have a great Sunday afternoon, and we will see
Speaker 1: you right back here next week. This has been Home
Speaker 1: with Dean Sharp the House Whisper. Tune into the live
Speaker 1: broadcast on KFI AM six forty every Saturday morning from
Speaker 1: six to eight Pacific time, and every Sunday morning from
Speaker 1: nine to noon Pacific time, or anytime on demand on
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