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Speaker 1: sources for all of this gear that we're talking about today. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I promised I was going to do two things. One,
Speaker 1: I'm going to go to the phones in just a
Speaker 1: couple of seconds, but first I wanted to take a
Speaker 1: couple of minutes to talk about the balance of safety
Speaker 1: and functionality when it comes to construction in general or
Speaker 1: building in general. And this is on the heels of
Speaker 1: a strongly recommending the last item on the gift guide
Speaker 1: that I just talked about, which is for a table saw,
Speaker 1: a featherboard attachment, and a push block so that people
Speaker 1: can keep their hands away from that dangerous, dangerous blade.
Speaker 1: But not just that. The reason I was touting it
Speaker 1: so strongly is that this is one of those rare
Speaker 1: instances where not only does a safety device keep you safer,
Speaker 1: but it also improves the actual cutting process for your
Speaker 1: end results. And when you can get both of those
Speaker 1: happening together at the same time, it is a win
Speaker 1: win times one hundred. Otherwise, generally speaking, safety equipment can
Speaker 1: sometimes get in the way of the job that you
Speaker 1: want to do. And so is that me saying that
Speaker 1: you should just ignore safety equipment. No, not at all.
Speaker 1: You got to protect yourself. But I'm just letting you
Speaker 1: know from an experienced pro and all of you pros
Speaker 1: out there, you guys know exactly what I'm talking about. UH.
Speaker 1: There's a balance that has to be found between keeping
Speaker 1: ourselves safe and UH and keeping the job flowing properly
Speaker 1: because some gear can get in the way. The metaphor
Speaker 1: that I like to use or the analogy, I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is, UH is, UH is athletics. Just
Speaker 1: think of a football player, professional football. Okay, we wrap
Speaker 1: our football players in pads, in protective gear. There are
Speaker 1: thigh pads, there are hip pads, their shoulder pads. You know, face,
Speaker 1: there's a helmet, there's face masks, all all of this
Speaker 1: to protect them from what's going on out there. Okay,
Speaker 1: we could protect them more than we do. We could, literally,
Speaker 1: we could. We could build a an armored coating for
Speaker 1: a football player that would guarantee that they never get
Speaker 1: injured ever. But guess what, by the time we do that,
Speaker 1: they would also not be able to move or run
Speaker 1: down down the field, or catch or kick footballs. And
Speaker 1: so every source of safety device has to have a
Speaker 1: limit where it protects and doesn't actually hinder range of
Speaker 1: movement and visibility and all of these kinds of things.
Speaker 1: So you get it right, We want the gear as
Speaker 1: safe as possible, and we also want to be able
Speaker 1: to move and function and get the job done. And
Speaker 1: every bit of safety equipment is somewhere riding on that line.
Speaker 1: So whether it's a set of gloves that i'll talk
Speaker 1: about in just a little bit, or any kind of
Speaker 1: safety gear that you add to your equipment set, just
Speaker 1: be aware you can over insulate yourself from risk to
Speaker 1: the point where you now you're not even doing the
Speaker 1: work well. And sometimes I make the argue you can
Speaker 1: so overinsulate yourself that now you're working with a tool
Speaker 1: that all this stuff is supposed to protect you from,
Speaker 1: but you're fumbling with it awkwardly and you're probably increasing
Speaker 1: the risk of getting into trouble with that tool and
Speaker 1: getting injured in the first place. So there you go.
Speaker 1: That's my spiel on safety gear. There has to be
Speaker 1: a balance. Think of it like an athletic competition. We
Speaker 1: want all the protection that is critical and probably not
Speaker 1: a single ounce more beyond that in order to stay
Speaker 1: functional along the way. And it's always a balancing act. Okay,
Speaker 1: shall we go to the phones. Let's at least start
Speaker 1: a call if we can. Let's talk to Laurna. Hey, Lorna,
Speaker 1: welcome home.
Speaker 2: Hello, Thank you for answering. My problem is we live
Speaker 2: in a sixty four year old house and it started
Speaker 2: developing cracks around our windows, the walls, significant cracks, and
Speaker 2: on the ceiling, and we are trying to decide what
Speaker 2: to do. First, should we get a building inspector. We've
Speaker 2: called it a contractor and he said, oh, this is shocking.
Speaker 2: What should we do?
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so let's just back up. So when
Speaker 1: we say significant cracks, describe one to me. Is this
Speaker 1: a crack that has opened up or is it just
Speaker 1: a crack that is significant because it's long, or is
Speaker 1: it significant because there are so many of them everywhere?
Speaker 1: Help me better understand what these cracks look like.
Speaker 2: Okay, there are many of them. The most significant one
Speaker 2: is on the ceiling in our living room. It is long.
Speaker 2: It's about four feet long, and the widest part is
Speaker 2: about an eighth of an inch open, almost maybe a
Speaker 2: quarter of an inch.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, And what does the contractor tell you in
Speaker 1: regards to what the source of these cracks are?
Speaker 2: In their opinion, the contractor really doesn't know. He said
Speaker 2: he's going to measure them. He measured them, took pictures,
Speaker 2: and it's going to come back in three months to
Speaker 2: see if they're developing getting bigger. And if they are,
Speaker 2: then we don't know what our next step is. If
Speaker 2: they're not, then he has ways that he can fix them,
Speaker 2: like maybe putting a sheer wall and trying to close
Speaker 2: up the whole area. But they're all over. They're in
Speaker 2: our bedroom windows, they're in the living room. We also
Speaker 2: have a patio outside that seems to be cracking.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, and let me ask us you when
Speaker 1: did these start happening.
Speaker 2: I'd say the first ones about six months ago.
Speaker 1: And then they've continued. And so can you connect these
Speaker 1: to any particular event that happened? Was it after you know,
Speaker 1: a little earthquake? Tembler? Is it was it after heavy rains?
Speaker 1: What where's your house?
Speaker 3: By the way, pardon.
Speaker 1: Where's the house by the way, Oh, the.
Speaker 2: House in Santa Clarita. We live a little bit on
Speaker 2: the slope too.
Speaker 1: A little bit on a slope in Santa Criita. And
Speaker 1: how old is the house?
Speaker 2: The house is sixty four years old?
Speaker 1: Four years old? That's right, you said that.
Speaker 2: Sorry, wonderful old house. Kind of theiler style.
Speaker 1: Oh, an Eikler style house, a little.
Speaker 2: March windows.
Speaker 1: Okay, I got you, I got you, all right? That
Speaker 1: Actually that helps a lot. All right, Lorna, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: We're up against the break. I want everybody thinking about
Speaker 1: your house, and we're going to go. Here's some news,
Speaker 1: and when we come back, I'm going to address this
Speaker 1: the best that I know how and give you some
Speaker 1: guidance along the way. Can you hang tight?
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, okay, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Lorna, you stay, but everybody stay put.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on the program. I know how
Speaker 1: valuable your Sunday mornings are to you. They're just as
Speaker 1: valuable to me. And we consider it an honor and
Speaker 1: a privilege that you have decided to spend a little
Speaker 1: time with us talking about that wonderful place that you
Speaker 1: call home. We're going through our house Whisper Holiday gift
Speaker 1: Guide this weekend. Can't get through the whole thing. I'm
Speaker 1: just highlighting certain bits along the way. The entire gift
Speaker 1: guide is waiting for you at our social media page
Speaker 1: on Instagram and Facebook. Right at the top of our posts,
Speaker 1: you will find the gift guide. Also on the KFI website,
Speaker 1: a downloadable version that you can utilize the links to
Speaker 1: actually get to directly to the sources of this gear.
Speaker 1: It's a good gift guide this year, all tools and
Speaker 1: gear this year, and we're gonna get back to that
Speaker 1: in just a bit. But also taking calls right now.
Speaker 1: I've been talking to Laura about her house. She's got
Speaker 1: a sixty four year old house out in Santa Clarita,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, well, I should say, in
Speaker 1: the last few months, uh cracks, cracks starting to occur
Speaker 1: on windows, on the ceiling, and the you know, a
Speaker 1: reasonable question, which is what is going on? How serious?
Speaker 1: Is how do we fix this? And and so on? So, Laura,
Speaker 1: are you still with me? I am, yes, Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: So you said it's kind of an Ekler sort of
Speaker 1: style home, which is kind of story, yeah, single story,
Speaker 1: kind of a modernist ranch home, low profile modernist ranch
Speaker 1: home at sixty four years. So I'm going to try
Speaker 1: and I want to do diligence to help you out
Speaker 1: so that you feel safe. But I also want to,
Speaker 1: you know, calm your nerves a little bit in regards
Speaker 1: to this stuff and warn you about a couple. Okay,
Speaker 1: you got a nice, big open ceiling, and you've got
Speaker 1: a crack that I'm guessing has formed near the center
Speaker 1: of the ceiling.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's also attached to a fireplace that we had remodeled.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, place in the middle of the room.
Speaker 1: Okay, so the fireplace in the middle of and you
Speaker 1: had it remodeled, yes, how long ago?
Speaker 2: The fireplace we did about four years ago.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right. So here's the thing. A house that's
Speaker 1: in its sixties, not unlike people in their sixties, start
Speaker 1: creaking and sagging a little bit. This does not mean
Speaker 1: that there is seriously any structural issues going on. Okay.
Speaker 1: A house that has a large open ceiling constructed back
Speaker 1: in the nineteen sixties or here literally for you, like
Speaker 1: right at the end of the nineteen fifties, especially in
Speaker 1: a modernist kind of minimalist profile. Sixty years later, for
Speaker 1: those ceiling joys to begin to sag just a little bit,
Speaker 1: maybe not perceptibly, but enough that it actually pops the
Speaker 1: seam on the dry wall that's up there. Totally common,
Speaker 1: not unusual at all, and nor is it a sign
Speaker 1: of structural failure. It's just a little bit of sagging.
Speaker 1: The same around cracks that appear around windows and doors.
Speaker 1: And when we say around windows and doors, I am
Speaker 1: again you didn't say this, but I'm guessing these are
Speaker 1: angular cracks heading out of the corners of the windows,
Speaker 1: out against exactly this is from the house just standing
Speaker 1: there for sixty plus years. It shifts a little bit,
Speaker 1: It shifts a little left, it shifts a little right
Speaker 1: in imperceptible ways. And the corners of windows and doors,
Speaker 1: where those jams come together with the framing is what
Speaker 1: we call a knee a knee joint in the structure
Speaker 1: of the house, and it's the most likely place for
Speaker 1: a little hairline crack to appear. And so when it
Speaker 1: comes to hairline cracks in stucco and dry wall in plaster,
Speaker 1: I am rarely, if ever concerned. And what I mean
Speaker 1: by hairline, I don't care how long they are. They
Speaker 1: could be four inches long, they could be twelve inches long.
Speaker 1: But when they're not separating and coming apart and there's
Speaker 1: no gap in them, then it's what we would call
Speaker 1: a settlement or a shifting crack. Okay, there's no hair line, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so these are opening up hairline exactly. So that's why
Speaker 1: the right person to call at this point, okay, just
Speaker 1: to alleviate your fears and to address the whole issue,
Speaker 1: because I'm guessing that could be a number of things.
Speaker 1: It could simply be the house, which in nineteen sixty
Speaker 1: built very differently in terms of seismic and lateral shift
Speaker 1: resistance than we build houses today. So that house simply
Speaker 1: could be age. And maybe it's just that, maybe just
Speaker 1: a little bit of reinforcement here there maybe something about
Speaker 1: the slab and the subfloor maybe shifting. That's a little
Speaker 1: bit greater concern. But here's what you don't do. Don't
Speaker 1: call a contractor out yet. Okay, not a contractor. I
Speaker 1: want you to find in Santa Clarita. There are plenty
Speaker 1: of them. A reputable structural engineer that does residential work,
Speaker 1: and I want you to call them and engage them
Speaker 1: and say we would like you to come out and
Speaker 1: do a consult for us out our home and look
Speaker 1: around our home and evaluate these cracks and give us
Speaker 1: your best view of why they're occurring and what's going on.
Speaker 1: The structural engineer. Console's going to cost you a couple
Speaker 1: three hundred dollars for them to come out for a
Speaker 1: bit and to look around. And it's worth its weight
Speaker 1: in gold because and not that there there there are
Speaker 1: plenty of honest contractors in your area, but there are
Speaker 1: also not honest contractors in your area. Contractors who will
Speaker 1: come in and say, oh my, yeah, well you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to rebuild this ceiling and we're going
Speaker 1: to have to do this and do you know, and
Speaker 1: start actually giving you a picture of damage repair way
Speaker 1: beyond potentially the scope of what really needs to happen.
Speaker 1: So what you want is a non vested professional expert opinion.
Speaker 1: The structural engineer is going to get paid what they're
Speaker 1: going to get paid. They are not looking to turn
Speaker 1: it into a bigger job. They're not the ones going
Speaker 1: to do the repair work, so they have no vested
Speaker 1: interest of telling you, yeah, you got to do some
Speaker 1: serious work here or no, this is fine. They're simply
Speaker 1: going to give you their honest, professional opinion, and it's
Speaker 1: an expert opinion about the bones of the house, and
Speaker 1: that's what you want. That's what you want right now,
Speaker 1: And not to say that there probably aren't a few
Speaker 1: little things that could be done before you patch these
Speaker 1: drywall cracks to help ensure that they don't reoccur, especially
Speaker 1: when it comes to the one out in the middle
Speaker 1: of the ceiling doors and windows. I'm not half as
Speaker 1: concerned about, honestly, but I want it to get a
Speaker 1: serious look at. When it comes to the mid span
Speaker 1: of ceiling joys, there may be something we can do
Speaker 1: up above them to stiffen them or to keep them
Speaker 1: from sagging anymore, so that when you spend the money
Speaker 1: to patch the drywall, we don't actually have that crack
Speaker 1: come back six months later, which is something that obviously
Speaker 1: we want to avoid doing. Okay, so we want whatever
Speaker 1: settlement and shifting has happened, we want to ideally make
Speaker 1: sure it doesn't go any further and then do the
Speaker 1: patch work. That's when you call a contractor or a
Speaker 1: drywaller or whoever to come out and actually get the
Speaker 1: work done. But the professional opinion that I want ahead
Speaker 1: of time is actually just from an engineer to give
Speaker 1: you some peace of mind that the house is in
Speaker 1: the shape that it's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, all right, okay, thank you very much, all right, Laura.
Speaker 1: And believe me, these are not the kinds of cracks
Speaker 1: that you're describing that you know you have to worry about.
Speaker 3: You.
Speaker 1: We better get them out here next week, otherwise this
Speaker 1: thing is going to fall down on us. Not the case.
Speaker 1: Get through the holidays, enjoy your holidays, get somebody scheduled
Speaker 1: to come out in early January, give an honest look
Speaker 1: for you, and then take it from there. It's probably
Speaker 1: an age really, not to mention, not to say that
Speaker 1: something shouldn't be done, but it's probably age related, all right.
Speaker 1: Chall When we come back back to the Holiday Gift Guide.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 4: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Hey, guess what we just did. We just made a
Speaker 1: little ax video. No, not an axe murderer video, a
Speaker 1: little axe video. We've got an Ax twenty four inch
Speaker 1: Bushcraft ax on the Gift Guide this week or this year,
Speaker 1: and I just did a little one minute or video
Speaker 1: which Tina's going to be posting where everywhere Instagram, Facebook
Speaker 1: and TikTok within moments. Tina says she's going to get
Speaker 1: it up in about five minutes. It'll be there, and
Speaker 1: you can check this one out visually, and I give
Speaker 1: you a little little history lesson on why certain actss
Speaker 1: look a certain way. Anyway, all right, back to the
Speaker 1: gift guide. We are just just skimming the surface. There
Speaker 1: are thirty really really great items on the Gift Guide
Speaker 1: this year, all worth checking out. You can check them
Speaker 1: out on social media at Instagram and Facebook and downloadable
Speaker 1: on the KFI website, our little corner of the KFI website.
Speaker 1: So follow along with us as I discuss this gift
Speaker 1: guide with you. Okay, here's a solid tool, a great tool,
Speaker 1: one of those tools again where I'm usually hesitant to
Speaker 1: recommend the does everything tool because you know, okay, if
Speaker 1: it does everything, it probably does everything, so so this
Speaker 1: one would be one of those exceptions. Number sixteen on
Speaker 1: the Gift Guide is the arrow cart wheelbarrow. It's a
Speaker 1: wheelbarrow ish or is it a dolly and a hand
Speaker 1: truck or is it yeah, exactly all of those. Is
Speaker 1: it a wagon. This is a brilliant little uh a little,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a brilliant tool. It is a combination
Speaker 1: hand truck, dolly wagon and wheelbarrow. Now, the only place
Speaker 1: that it falls short in my opinion and out of necessity,
Speaker 1: is that as a wheelbarrow, it's not a gigantic wheelbarrow,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't hold you know, like you know, three
Speaker 1: cubic yards of stuff. But for most homeowner applications, you
Speaker 1: just don't need that much of a wheelbarrow. This is
Speaker 1: for most applications plenty enough. And it's a two wheeled wheelbarrow,
Speaker 1: so it's super stable and it can be treated more
Speaker 1: like a wagon that you move through the yard because
Speaker 1: the handles are adjustable and adaptable, and it makes a
Speaker 1: great hand truck. All of these are are items that
Speaker 1: I would say, and this is why I love this one.
Speaker 1: It's one hundred and seventy dollars item. It's well made,
Speaker 1: it's well reviewed. I've seen them in action. But all
Speaker 1: of these items, a handtruck, a wheelbarrow, these kinds of
Speaker 1: gardening carts. They're not things that you know, you go
Speaker 1: to every day, every day, every day and because of that,
Speaker 1: you know, having all three or four sitting around in
Speaker 1: your garage or in your tool shed takes up a
Speaker 1: lot of space. This guy right here combines three relatively
Speaker 1: infrequently used tools into one that does it all really,
Speaker 1: really well and saves you a bunch of space at
Speaker 1: the same time. So that's why it made it to
Speaker 1: our list this year. That's the Arrow cart Wheelbarrow one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy dollars. Check it out, look it up online,
Speaker 1: or see it on the Gift Guide as well. Where
Speaker 1: else are we going here? Okay? Always I'm a looking
Speaker 1: for ways of turning a garage which is otherwise used
Speaker 1: as a garage into a really effective workshop space for
Speaker 1: those DII wires and woodworkers and hobbyists that you love.
Speaker 1: Talk about a brilliant way to get a work table
Speaker 1: a workbench going on in the garage on project day
Speaker 1: that otherwise totally gets out of your way. I've recommended
Speaker 1: this on the Gift Guide before it is back by
Speaker 1: popular demand. Number twenty one on the Gift Guide is
Speaker 1: the Bora. The company's name is Bora b O r A,
Speaker 1: the Bora Centipede portable workbench platform. It's about one hundred
Speaker 1: bucks for the large format one. This essentially think of
Speaker 1: the way that at like an easy up you know,
Speaker 1: canopy expands with all the little you know, like the
Speaker 1: cross scissoring expansion. This guy is a is one of
Speaker 1: those kinds of things, not a canopy, though it stands
Speaker 1: only like kind of like a collapsible camping. It stands
Speaker 1: about thirty thirty six inches tall, and it collapses down
Speaker 1: into you know, probably a ten by ten square and
Speaker 1: literally can just be sitting off in the corner of
Speaker 1: the garage or hung or put in a cabinet somewhere.
Speaker 1: But you pull this thing out, it expands out and
Speaker 1: it becomes a platform for a four x eight sheet
Speaker 1: of plywood. And the combination of that sheet of plywood
Speaker 1: and this base underneath it, you now have a massive,
Speaker 1: well stabilized temporary workbench for as long as you want
Speaker 1: to work it. And then off comes the plywood, collapse
Speaker 1: these legs down and just store them in the corner
Speaker 1: of the garage. It is brilliant. It's super strong. I
Speaker 1: think it has an over two thousand pounds weight capacity
Speaker 1: on it. You can put your table saw up there,
Speaker 1: you can put your microsaw up there you can load
Speaker 1: lumber up. I mean, it is a real, really brilliant
Speaker 1: device made out of relatively lightweight reinforced fiberglass legs and braces,
Speaker 1: and you got to check it out. The Bora Centipede
Speaker 1: portable workbench platform for about one hundred dollars. It's brilliant
Speaker 1: and it's going to make somebody a di wire's eyes sparkle. Gloves.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about gloves real quick. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: repeat what I said earlier in the show about safety
Speaker 1: and the balance of safety and dexterity. You already heard
Speaker 1: me say that if you hadn't go back and listen
Speaker 1: to that in the podcast, but this is a perfect
Speaker 1: example of that. My favorite overall work gloves for woodworkers
Speaker 1: and anybody who's doing a di wire or just general
Speaker 1: around the house work is by Ironclad and it's the
Speaker 1: framer glove. Now, what's different about it is a beautiful
Speaker 1: reinforced cloth framing glove, protective glove, protection on your palm,
Speaker 1: protection on your fingers, pre articulated fingers. That means that
Speaker 1: the glove was created with the fingers in the slightly
Speaker 1: bent condition, because that's the natural form of your relaxed hand,
Speaker 1: not straight out. A straight glove actually causes fatigue on
Speaker 1: your fingers when you're not doing anything because your fingers
Speaker 1: are naturally bent, pre articulated fingers. But here's the key.
Speaker 1: The your index finger, your ring finger, not your ring finger,
Speaker 1: your index finger in your middle finger and your thumb.
Speaker 1: The tips are exposed. Okay, so here's the thing. Now,
Speaker 1: could they be covered over like a regular glove and
Speaker 1: better protected. Yes, But you think about all the work
Speaker 1: that you do when you're when you're reaching into tool
Speaker 1: bags and you're reaching for tools and feeling around for
Speaker 1: a screw or a nail or whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: It is this little tripod of your thumb, your index finger,
Speaker 1: and your middle finger, those three digits right there. If
Speaker 1: the tips are exposed so you can feel everything with
Speaker 1: those guys, then you know what you have the maximum
Speaker 1: situation where you have maximum dexterity. And then everything else
Speaker 1: is completely covered and protected. And even those fingers are
Speaker 1: three quarters protected. It's just the tips of your fingers,
Speaker 1: the last knuckle out that is exposed. So does it
Speaker 1: expose them, sure, but your whole hand is protected and
Speaker 1: you've got the dexterity of those three exposed surfaces different
Speaker 1: than a mechanics glove in which all of the fingers
Speaker 1: are exposed. That's more than you need for construction. But
Speaker 1: these three this is literally, in my opinion, the world's
Speaker 1: most brilliant and useful protective glove for a woodworker, a carpenter,
Speaker 1: or anybody just doing heavy work around because of the
Speaker 1: combination again of enough safety and enough dexterity for both
Speaker 1: to be great. And these gloves are I think a
Speaker 1: pair which will last you a long time. About twenty
Speaker 1: seven dollars a great gift. And again, the reason I'm
Speaker 1: explaining all these things to you is when these gifts
Speaker 1: get opened up on Chris Morris morning to that loved
Speaker 1: one who you gave them to. Now you've got the
Speaker 1: story behind it, and you can sizzle these gifts for
Speaker 1: them so that they get excited about why you purchased
Speaker 1: this particular thing for them and all the good reasons
Speaker 1: behind it. All Right, when we come back more of
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four House Whisper Holiday Gift Guide.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 4: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Welcome Home, Where did three hours go? What a wonderful
Speaker 1: time spent with you this morning talking about this year's
Speaker 1: House Whisper Holiday Gift Guide. I have just enough time
Speaker 1: to get a couple of more in. The gift guide
Speaker 1: has way more items on it than what we were
Speaker 1: able to discuss this morning. You can find it again
Speaker 1: online at our social on Instagram and Facebook both home
Speaker 1: with Dean that's our handle. You can go there. While
Speaker 1: you're there, why don't you follow us and like and
Speaker 1: leave a comment and say Merry Christmas and enjoy the
Speaker 1: gift guide. You can view them both there and also
Speaker 1: on the KFI website, our little corner of the KFI website.
Speaker 1: Find the house Whisper page there and you will find
Speaker 1: the gift guide downloadable. And the advantage there is that
Speaker 1: the links are live, so you can just click on
Speaker 1: them and go right to the purchase sources that we found,
Speaker 1: although you can find these things in many other places,
Speaker 1: so there you go. Also just did a little video
Speaker 1: that's going to be uploaded soon on Instagram, Facebook and
Speaker 1: TikTok about one of the items on the gift guide,
Speaker 1: a little axe, a little woodworking ax that was just
Speaker 1: it's one of those things that if you've got a
Speaker 1: woodcutter in your family. This will just blow them away.
Speaker 1: It's just one of those very very special things because
Speaker 1: it's great and also I get to explain to you
Speaker 1: a little bit about what happens with the head of
Speaker 1: an ax as it does its job. All right, Laying
Speaker 1: all that aside, I've got just enough time to get
Speaker 1: a couple of more items in. Here's something I mention
Speaker 1: it every year, and I probably always will. There's such
Speaker 1: a temptation this time of year to buy toolboxes for
Speaker 1: loved ones who are di wires, and I just want
Speaker 1: to remind you. I mean, I got nothing against it,
Speaker 1: but I just want to remind you that tool boxes
Speaker 1: with the locking lids and the handles and all of that,
Speaker 1: those are really designed initially for professionals who load up
Speaker 1: their tools, throw their tools in the back of a
Speaker 1: pickup truck and head off to other places. For the
Speaker 1: average homeowner work in your project at home, a toolbox
Speaker 1: with the lid and the latches and all of that
Speaker 1: stuff and it's limited storage capacity is not actually the
Speaker 1: best way of handling your tools at your project at home.
Speaker 1: This is what I love, way way better, and that
Speaker 1: is a five gallon bucket literally Yep, no better. I
Speaker 1: don't care where you get at your local hardware store,
Speaker 1: the big box store. Buy that three dollars and seventy
Speaker 1: five cents five gallon bucket, and then get them a
Speaker 1: bucket boss bucket tool organizer. It's heavy duty Cordura insert
Speaker 1: that laps over the outside of a bucket and basically
Speaker 1: becomes a set of tool bags for your project at home.
Speaker 1: And the reason why I love it is that you
Speaker 1: don't have to This is not for transporting off to
Speaker 1: some off site job site. This is for the drill
Speaker 1: gun to go in the bits few tools. You can
Speaker 1: put nails down in the bottom, all of the supply,
Speaker 1: all of it there, and then you carry it around.
Speaker 1: You can even have a seat top for it so
Speaker 1: that when they're sitting there working on their project, they've
Speaker 1: got a place to sit as opposed to kneeling or
Speaker 1: getting on their knees. A bucket boss for home projects
Speaker 1: is I'm gonna say ten times better and more efficient.
Speaker 1: And I know this for a fact because I would
Speaker 1: never use one of our toolboxes here at the house.
Speaker 1: I always just grab the five gallon bucket, throw my
Speaker 1: stuff in there. If I'm not wearing my tool bags.
Speaker 1: It's going in the bucket boss, and it's getting carried
Speaker 1: around the house or to wherever I'm my project because
Speaker 1: I keep everything with me. It doesn't hold just the tools.
Speaker 1: It's the screws, it's the trash, it's the everything. It
Speaker 1: is just literally one of the best construction and building
Speaker 1: inventions ever, and I mean the fanciest, nicest, craziest, long lasting.
Speaker 1: Bucket Boss is like a fifty dollars insert into a
Speaker 1: three dollars bucket, so worth its weight in gold. And
Speaker 1: then the last thing is and I want you to
Speaker 1: check this out. I don't have time to tell you
Speaker 1: about it in depth, but a new evolution in terms
Speaker 1: of tool bag designs. Right, you can get a tool
Speaker 1: bag with a nice padded belt so it doesn't do
Speaker 1: as much damage to your hips. Or you can add
Speaker 1: to that classically a pair of suspenders that takes a
Speaker 1: little weight off your hips and puts it more on
Speaker 1: your shoulders. But these days, the guys over at Diamondback Tools,
Speaker 1: you just got to go to the diamond If you're
Speaker 1: a toolist, you got to go to the Diamondback tool
Speaker 1: website and check out the seven Zho one tool vest.
Speaker 1: This is a vest. It's breedable, it's flexible, it doesn't
Speaker 1: get in the way, but it provides so much better
Speaker 1: support than a tool belt or suspenders. This vest integrates
Speaker 1: tool pouches. Plus it's the best of suspenders, but even
Speaker 1: better than that. You just got to go check it out.
Speaker 1: It's very, very high tech. It's one hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: dollars item. Okay, it's a life time purchase item, but
Speaker 1: it is worth its weight in gold. Yet again, I
Speaker 1: know I say that a lot about everything I'm talking
Speaker 1: about here, because these are only really good options. All right,
Speaker 1: enough of that for today. I don't have anything deeply
Speaker 1: philosophical to tell you here at the end of today's program,
Speaker 1: but I do have an update on sharp family life.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, and I know some of you like to
Speaker 1: hear that kind of thing, so I will leave you
Speaker 1: with this thought today. Here is the holiday report from
Speaker 1: the House that Love built. Here, Tina holding the camera
Speaker 1: right there, my greatest grit, my greatest Christmas present. She
Speaker 1: continues to make a strong recovery from her surgery. I
Speaker 1: could end the good news right there, and that would
Speaker 1: be enough. I also have to say thank you for
Speaker 1: so many amazingly kind cards and flowers and gifts and
Speaker 1: well wishes, and believe me, she is feeling all of
Speaker 1: that love. Two of our favorite humans, Christie's mom Jan
Speaker 1: and our dear friend Angie, are both out from Ohio
Speaker 1: this week, which is always an absolute joy for our family.
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving was lovely. We deviated from the turkey this year,
Speaker 1: as we are prone to do, and my culinary team,
Speaker 1: my crack culinary team, which consists of my daughter in
Speaker 1: law Christy, my dear friend Sarah, usually Tina, but she
Speaker 1: was on the sidelines this year. We all pulled together
Speaker 1: a fantastic fenel salad, traditional lamb shepherd pie, lollipop drumsticks
Speaker 1: of sticky lemon chicken, roasted Brussels sprout and celery root
Speaker 1: hash and Southern corn bread and top it off with
Speaker 1: some German chocolate, pecan pie and roasted apples. Angie contributed
Speaker 1: to cranberry Daker mix, so Angie and Jan brought her
Speaker 1: a game with the cheeseball and her unbelievably addictive Chex mix,
Speaker 1: which I beg her for every year and she always
Speaker 1: pays off. So a highlight of Thanksgiving was our eight
Speaker 1: year old granddaughter Olivia. We already talked about this earlier
Speaker 1: in the show, producing a series of investigative journalist videos
Speaker 1: called villager News, in which she reported on each of
Speaker 1: Tina's violations of the doctory recovery orders. And I have
Speaker 1: a feeling she has inadvertently started a new family comedy tradition,
Speaker 1: because we've all been using villager News when we are
Speaker 1: whistleblowing on each other's mistakes. Now in the family yesterday
Speaker 1: with small Business Saturday. To celebrate it, me and Tea
Speaker 1: designed a new sofa for the family room with the
Speaker 1: help of our friend John Shoemaker at Arizona Leather. While
Speaker 1: I'm on the topic of small business, can I just
Speaker 1: remind you that there is so much more to life
Speaker 1: than being able to buy twenty four pairs of socks
Speaker 1: for eight dollars from a multinational corporation. When you shop local,
Speaker 1: you're doing so much more than helping a small business.
Speaker 1: You are investing in your own quality of life. Whether
Speaker 1: it's the pleasure of collaborating on a sofa with a passionate,
Speaker 1: trusted expert like John at Arizona Leather, or the way
Speaker 1: we always feel when we sit down at Maide in
Speaker 1: Italy and Westlake Village, or at em On High in
Speaker 1: Moore Park, or being greeted by name by the baristas
Speaker 1: at five oh seven Coffee, or the folks at Ace
Speaker 1: Hardware or Bert's Pharmacy or Michael's Bicycles, or countless other
Speaker 1: such experiences around our town. Tina and I have intentionally
Speaker 1: kept our own business small, precisely because for us, it's
Speaker 1: all about these amazing relationships with our clients, almost all
Speaker 1: of which become dear friends. This is a quality of
Speaker 1: life that only relationships and care and passion and pride
Speaker 1: in craftsmanship and real human contact can create, and it
Speaker 1: is irreplaceable. So on that note, in an hour, we're
Speaker 1: gonna go off to acquire this year's Christmas tree first
Speaker 1: stop five oh seven Coffee with some kind of wonderful beverage,
Speaker 1: headed over to Christmas Ranch Tree Farm on Peterson, which
Speaker 1: is our family owned local Christmas tree farm. After getting
Speaker 1: the tree set up, we're gonna have some form of
Speaker 1: warm dinner, probably some fire pit time, and I think
Speaker 1: we're going to watch another installment of The Lord of
Speaker 1: the Rings, which just this week. Olivia has now officially
Speaker 1: become the third generation of sharps to discover the magic
Speaker 1: of and which her father and I are extremely excited
Speaker 1: to offer our guidance through Middle Earth and reliving our
Speaker 1: own joy of this through her eyes. So anyway, that's it.
Speaker 1: That's our Villager News report for today. If there's one
Speaker 1: common denominator in all of this, it's this people.
Speaker 3: People.
Speaker 1: I would encourage you to find yours, to know and
Speaker 1: be known in your community, because those are the kinds
Speaker 1: of people who will help you build yourself a beautiful life.
Speaker 1: Have a wonderful First of December twenty twenty four. We
Speaker 1: will see you right back there. 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
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app.