WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:04.080 KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp, the 2 00:00:04.120 --> 00:00:07.719 house whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app. 3 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:10.400 It's Amy King. 4 00:00:10.839 --> 00:00:13.439 Let me tell you a little story about Dean Sharp. 5 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:17.760 When I first started doing my morning show wake Up Call, 6 00:00:18.039 --> 00:00:20.440 I was hoping that one of the great hosts here 7 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:22.359 on KFI would agree to get up really early and 8 00:00:22.359 --> 00:00:23.679 be a regular guest on the show. 9 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:25.199 Well, it turns out that none of our. 10 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:27.440 Great hosts wanted to get up, which was sad, but 11 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:29.000 I mean it was okay, I mean, I get it, 12 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:31.160 it's five o'clock in the morning. Well, after all the 13 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:36.119 great hosts passed Dean shop me an email and volunteered 14 00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:38.960 to do a weekly spot on Friday mornings. So naturally, 15 00:00:39.119 --> 00:00:43.640 I continued to look elsewhere. I asked hosts from other stations, 16 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:47.600 unemployed weathermen, several members of the janitorial staff, even the 17 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:49.560 Kiosk guy who lets us in the parking garage, but 18 00:00:50.079 --> 00:00:52.960 no luck. So, yeah, Dean Sharp is a regular Friday 19 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:55.200 morning guest on wake Up Call, and I have to 20 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:58.960 say our time together every Friday morning is extremely adequate, 21 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:01.840 and I really look forward to wrapping up the eight 22 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:04.680 minutes or less that I have to really love to 23 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:11.280 spend together. So congratulations. House Whisper listeners. Dean is always there. 24 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:16.840 Live streaming and HD everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It's 25 00:01:16.879 --> 00:01:20.719 the House Whisper Holiday Home Show live. 26 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:23.840 From KFI Studios here in Burbank and the helpful Honda Lounge. 27 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:26.400 And yeah, we got a live studio audience. These guys 28 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:26.959 are live. 29 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:34.920 I'm hanging out with some very special friends, some of 30 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:36.400 some of the people who mean the most of me 31 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:37.799 here at KFI. 32 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:41.879 And you just heard Amy King, Amy King. 33 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:47.280 Good morning, welcome home, Thanks for having me. I love 34 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:48.159 this holiday party. 35 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:49.519 Thanks for that glowing review. 36 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:50.840 Hey, anytime. 37 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:56.840 Amy and I spend Saturday, Saturday morning, Friday mornings together early, yep, 38 00:01:57.079 --> 00:01:57.599 we get. 39 00:01:57.560 --> 00:01:58.239 Some feedback here. 40 00:01:58.239 --> 00:02:00.840 That's probably professionals here. 41 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:04.280 So on Wake Up Amy host Wake Up Call right 42 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:07.159 from five to six Monday through Friday. 43 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:10.159 Brilliant, wonderful show. 44 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:13.080 Hey, if you got to be up that early, let's 45 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:13.680 have some fun. 46 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:16.280 Six people are like, yeah, I listened to that show. 47 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:17.599 Oh you know what, if you don't have to get 48 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:18.840 up that early, I don't blame it. 49 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:22.400 And twelve other people were applauding or like, good for you. 50 00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:26.520 Good for you, Good for you. I heard it's wonderful 51 00:02:29.199 --> 00:02:31.800 you how long you've been doing wake Up Call now 52 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:34.800 about a year and a half, and it's wonderful. 53 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:35.800 Thank you. 54 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:40.039 I sure have fun, you know, we hopefully let you 55 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:42.439 know what happened while you were sleeping, so you're all 56 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:44.800 caught up before you get your day started, and have 57 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:46.840 a little fun and go in and see some cool 58 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:49.680 things and talk to some fun people, and of course 59 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:51.879 talked to about some unfun things. But we get to 60 00:02:51.879 --> 00:02:54.120 dive a little deeper into some of the topics of 61 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:56.719 the day, which I think is a good opportunity for 62 00:02:56.759 --> 00:02:57.360 people to learn. 63 00:02:57.360 --> 00:02:59.319 And we've got some really great people who helped teach us. 64 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:02.639 And you get to do an entire hour of radio 65 00:03:02.759 --> 00:03:05.319 before Bill Handle comes on there. That's right, that's right, 66 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:07.000 and deal with all that stuff. 67 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:09.199 Hey, Bill's a hoot, Bill's a hoot. 68 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:09.759 That's one. 69 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:12.599 That's a that's a word. Yep, it is one word 70 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:14.560 to describe Bill. 71 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:22.639 Neil knows. Neil knows what I'm talking about back there. Yeah, yeah, uh. 72 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:26.800 So what what was uh what was holidays like for 73 00:03:26.879 --> 00:03:27.560 you growing up? 74 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:28.039 Growing up? 75 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:29.159 Where'd you grow up? 76 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:33.240 Grew up? Well in uh Walnut Creek for. 77 00:03:33.199 --> 00:03:36.199 A while, and then was little house on the prairie. No, 78 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:37.039 that's Walnut Grove. 79 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:39.319 Oh how did you know that? 80 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:42.199 By the way, because everybody when I moved up to 81 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:44.919 Medford after we lived in Walnut Creek, everybody goes a little. 82 00:03:44.639 --> 00:03:46.280 House on the prairie. 83 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:50.800 So yeah, I don't know if you noticed. 84 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:55.479 I'm very aware of this, that that when any woman 85 00:03:55.520 --> 00:04:02.120 pulls out the dumb male voice. I can tell when 86 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:05.120 Tina's like describing something, she's happy about it, something I said, 87 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:08.000 and she's telling a friend. She's like, oh, Dean said this, 88 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:11.400 and it's kind of high and lofty, and then there 89 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:14.400 are other times when he's like when she's like and 90 00:04:14.439 --> 00:04:19.720 then Dean came along and said whoa, And I'm like, 91 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:21.480 all right, if a shoe. 92 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:23.879 Fits, that was a swing and a miss, all right. 93 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:24.360 Yeah. 94 00:04:24.519 --> 00:04:30.160 So growing up, yes, smaller family, very lots of traditions. 95 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:33.240 We did lots of traditions, and I've continued those to 96 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:36.439 this day. We still get together with my family, my 97 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:39.920 immediate family, which is not very big, and have a 98 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:43.120 wonderful thing. We do as traditional, like we go to 99 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:44.720 church on Christmas Eve, and then we come home and 100 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:45.319 we do fon do. 101 00:04:45.480 --> 00:04:47.199 That's actually a newer one. We introduce that. 102 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:51.040 Yeah, we introduced that one about ten years ago because 103 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:53.480 Mom had to come home and do all the cooking 104 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:56.600 after going to a church service, and I said, well, 105 00:04:56.600 --> 00:05:00.199 why don't we do fondu and then everything's made, have 106 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:03.079 to heat up the cheese and like everybody loves it, 107 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:05.000 and so that's that's become a tradition. 108 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:07.279 And like Christmas. 109 00:05:06.839 --> 00:05:11.240 Presents, we always did family Christmas gift exchange on Christmas 110 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:15.399 Eve and then we did Santa Presence on Christmas Morning, 111 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:19.160 so we spread it out as long as we can, and. 112 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:22.240 We used to have to. We also used to have 113 00:05:22.279 --> 00:05:23.720 to perform for our presence. 114 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:27.360 Whoa what so what is this? 115 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:29.079 Well, we had to. 116 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:33.399 Do a talent in order to earn a Christmas present. 117 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:39.319 So I played the piano very rudimentorily. 118 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:42.959 I'm not great, but I played. 119 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:48.560 Adequately, yes, yes, yes, and uh and Rob played the 120 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:50.759 violin and then he played the piano. And Mom cannot 121 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:52.560 play the piano at all, but she tries every year. 122 00:05:52.639 --> 00:05:53.360 It's really fun. 123 00:05:53.959 --> 00:05:54.920 So we all and then. 124 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:58.680 My dad who played White Christmas like nobody's business, and 125 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:00.680 God rest his soul. We miss you every year at Christmas. 126 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:03.319 Dad he would get on there and he was one 127 00:06:03.319 --> 00:06:05.360 of those people who played by ear, so he'd just 128 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:07.639 sit down and he'd play, and it was just the 129 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:08.480 most beautiful thing. 130 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:09.920 That's one of the things I missed the most. 131 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:10.800 Yeah. 132 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:14.240 Now, you guys didn't get presents based on the quality 133 00:06:14.240 --> 00:06:15.040 of your performance. 134 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:16.800 No, we just earned them. 135 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:19.439 And one year we kind of went outside the box 136 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:20.600 a little bit because I was like, I don't feel 137 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:22.480 like playing the piano this year, and so some of 138 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:27.040 us got together and we reenacted the Saturday Night Live 139 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:31.040 Classics Get Sweaty Balls Wow. 140 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:35.160 Which we can't even reenact here on the air. Nope, Nope. 141 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:37.240 It was good though. 142 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:39.199 Yeah, that was a family, except for my mother. 143 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:42.360 She was sitting there the whole time, going, children. 144 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:43.519 Here's a. 145 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:49.680 That's the one thing that that never happens in my household? 146 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:55.120 Is that sweaty No? No, no, no, no, no, is that. 147 00:06:57.000 --> 00:06:59.480 My mom who's sitting back in the back row there, 148 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:05.800 waved out everybody. Mom, Yeah, uh, there's no shocking her. 149 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:08.800 No, no, she'd like take over the skit. 150 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:11.360 So if we're playing Cards against Humanity, you're all in. 151 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:14.759 Oh my gosh, yes, she's in we were sitting I 152 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:16.839 don't even know how long ago, what it was ago, 153 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:18.959 you know, we just this is my mom, right, she's 154 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:22.079 she We're at a restaurant somewhere and they started playing 155 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:25.319 an Ed Sharon song and all of a sudden she's like, 156 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:27.720 Darcy will confirm this. All of a sudden, she's like 157 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:30.240 moving back, and I'm like, Mom, what are you doing? 158 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:32.920 What are you doing? What's going on? She's like, Sharon's 159 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:33.800 my jam. 160 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:35.600 I love it. 161 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:37.839 She's like seat dancing in the restaurant. 162 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:40.439 He's the best. So yeah, so that's one thing that's 163 00:07:40.439 --> 00:07:45.000 never gonna happen in our house, which is no, that 164 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:47.839 could very well happen, okay, but but we're never gonna 165 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:52.199 be We're never gonna have the fun of like offending mom. 166 00:07:52.439 --> 00:07:53.399 Oh okay, I got you. 167 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:57.279 I'll be like, oh what was that? 168 00:07:58.040 --> 00:07:58.480 What was? 169 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:00.399 No, that's not gonna happen. It's gonna be the other 170 00:08:00.439 --> 00:08:02.560 way around. Actually it's gonna be the other way around. 171 00:08:02.600 --> 00:08:05.240 It's like, Mom, sit down and put your pants back on, 172 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:12.279 please please. So that's yeah, that's just the way it happens. 173 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:16.120 Uh So that was that was your child? 174 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:18.959 Do you do anything now that's different than when you 175 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:19.360 were a kid. 176 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:22.519 I mostly do the same things. 177 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:24.839 I mean, I decorate, but I'm I in fact, I 178 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:29.920 broke it a Christmas tradition for you what today because 179 00:08:29.959 --> 00:08:35.360 I have my my my Christmas Disney spirit, and I 180 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:40.159 am very much against doing Christmas before Thanksgiving is over. 181 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:42.919 I'm a one holiday at a time person. Okay, all right, 182 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:45.240 that's fine, So I broke it just for you. 183 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:46.600 Well, but it's the same. 184 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:49.399 I mean, we decorate the house and we uh, you know. 185 00:08:49.399 --> 00:08:51.240 I do my tree, and I thought it was really 186 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:55.200 interesting listening about the trees because I don't have any 187 00:08:55.320 --> 00:08:58.440 ornaments on my tree that don't mean something specifically. But 188 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:00.960 that's great, right, so, But but I also do the 189 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:03.080 same kind of thing because I have the theme like 190 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:06.039 I do the real tree. Part of it's really because 191 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:09.559 I don't have a place to store an artificial tree, 192 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:11.840 but I do the real tree and it's blue and 193 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:12.600 silver themed. 194 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:15.360 So you've got a base theme. 195 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:17.159 That's my base. That's what I was thinking when you 196 00:09:17.159 --> 00:09:17.399 were saying. 197 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:20.000 I was like, I've got my base theme, and then everything, 198 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:22.320 all the ornaments means something, even if they like I 199 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:25.080 didn't get an ornament at a certain place, they all 200 00:09:25.159 --> 00:09:29.320 mean something to me, Like if I have a store 201 00:09:29.320 --> 00:09:31.840 bought ornament like a Christopher Radcot, do you guys know 202 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:34.120 who he is? The Oh my gosh, I love his stuff, 203 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:36.240 and I think right after nine to eleven there I 204 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:39.759 got an ornament that was a heart with American flag 205 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:42.440 on it because it meant something, you know. So everything 206 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:43.919 that I buy means something. When we got to go 207 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:48.440 to Jerusalem, I bought ornaments that were stars and a 208 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:50.360 Nativity out of the olive wood. 209 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:52.480 So everything has a reason. 210 00:09:53.159 --> 00:09:58.720 Yeah, And that's, by the way, one of the iconic quotes. 211 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:01.879 That Another iconic quote that has kind of shaped my 212 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:08.399 design philosophy William Morris, who was a late nineteenth century 213 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:14.600 textile designer, very famous textile designer and design and architectural critic. 214 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:18.559 He said this, and you guys should take this home 215 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:22.080 with you for sure. And I'm going to misquote him here, 216 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:23.360 but I'm not going to take the time to look 217 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:26.519 it up. But essentially it is have nothing in your. 218 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:27.679 Home that is. 219 00:10:29.240 --> 00:10:33.799 Not useful or beautiful that you consider beautiful. That's it, 220 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:38.600 all right, So that's the idea. The idea is like 221 00:10:38.679 --> 00:10:41.080 have nothing on your tree that you don't consider you know, 222 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:45.519 just absolutely beautiful. Just don't go there, right, So many 223 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:50.240 people who don't consider themselves minimalists would become minimalists in 224 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:52.440 a sense if they followed that rule, if they just 225 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:55.679 kind of edited the fluff and just stuck with the 226 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:58.399 things that and I like to say, you know, well, 227 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:00.120 I've got a story. Maybe I'll tell it on the 228 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:02.840 other side of the break of where I've been asked 229 00:11:02.840 --> 00:11:05.639 in the past, because you know, the wealthy clients are 230 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:10.720 like here, I'll tell it now, wealthy clients who are like, din, 231 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:13.639 design me a library, and I'm like, great, show me 232 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:15.440 the books. It's like, well, we don't have any books. 233 00:11:17.720 --> 00:11:19.399 And there was a time when I would have done that, 234 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:21.240 and now I say show. 235 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:21.639 Me the books. 236 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:24.679 Because if we're going to design a library, it's going 237 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:26.200 to be for your books, all right. 238 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:27.360 Right, because you've got to care about it. 239 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:30.159 So one of the things we do again that sets 240 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:33.879 us apart, like for a custom design, is that if 241 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:35.639 you got books laying out in your house, don't have 242 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:38.399 prop books laying around, okay, because I'm going to come 243 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:39.799 into your home and I'm going to pull one off 244 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:41.480 the shelf and I'm going to say, hey, what do 245 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:43.799 you think about this, right, and I'm going to give 246 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:46.919 you your tests, right, and so you don't have to 247 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:49.720 quote anything from it, but you should be able to 248 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:51.879 tell me what that story is and why that's meaningful 249 00:11:51.960 --> 00:11:54.480 enough to be sitting on your shelf. That's authentic living 250 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:55.519 in a real home. 251 00:11:55.600 --> 00:11:58.279 Right. It may not be a magazine spread. Who's getting 252 00:11:58.320 --> 00:11:59.000 pushed over here? 253 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:03.360 Somebody's getting Okay, we're gonna find out that story during 254 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:05.679 the break, and then we'll tell everybody after the fact. 255 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:08.519 All Right, we gotta go. Uh, you can hang around sure, 256 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:09.840 all right, Amy. 257 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:13.679 King everybody your home Dean Sharp, the House Westper. 258 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:18.279 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 259 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:19.879 KFI A M six forty. 260 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:26.840 It's the House Whisper Live Holiday home show here at 261 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:29.519 the KFI studios in Burbank, California. 262 00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:31.200 The helpful Honda Lounge. 263 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:35.759 Uh, hang on a second, Hang on a second? Oh, 264 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:38.120 I lost the thing? Where is the all right? 265 00:12:38.120 --> 00:12:40.720 Okay? 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You guys, this year you always 278 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:22.440 like push in a did you know the same thing 279 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:24.679 that they always do. Oh by the way, Amy King, 280 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:31.279 everybody forgive me just hanging with my buds today. Every year, 281 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:36.720 despite the fact that there's just this plethora of design 282 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:40.519 differential between trees and just so many of them, but 283 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:43.679 they always try and find one more thing, one more 284 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:47.519 thing every year. And this year there's a distinctive theme, 285 00:13:47.720 --> 00:13:49.679 especially when you walk in the store right down that 286 00:13:49.799 --> 00:13:54.480 center aisle of candy and food stuff on trees and 287 00:13:56.519 --> 00:14:01.320 exactly so I know you're showing Neil so this yeah, right, 288 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:05.399 The audience is like, what the heck is that? This 289 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:09.320 is a little rice crispy square here and check out 290 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:13.440 these check out these donuts, all right, these glazed donuts okay, 291 00:14:13.480 --> 00:14:16.120 And you're like, oh my gosh, and and they're all 292 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:19.080 they're all foam squishy. 293 00:14:19.159 --> 00:14:20.440 Yet the audience is like, oh. 294 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:22.159 So there's stress balls too. 295 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:25.600 They are they're stress ornaments. I love it anyway. So 296 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:28.399 there's this there's like a whole slew of you're gonna 297 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:32.080 walk out of the store like dying to go to 298 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:35.039 to a cafe and order you know, pastries and stuff. 299 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:38.240 Uh, they're all over the place. So what led to 300 00:14:38.279 --> 00:14:42.480 that theme this year for you guys? Somebody tell me. 301 00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:47.639 Yeah, we haven't really done a whimsical theme in a while. Well, 302 00:14:47.639 --> 00:14:49.919 we've done gingerbread maybe a couple of years ago. And 303 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:54.279 this time we thought we'd bring in candy cane and 304 00:14:55.200 --> 00:14:57.000 you know desserts that go in with that, but the 305 00:14:57.039 --> 00:14:58.960 candy cane with the red and white, but throwing a 306 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:02.159 little pink in there, and then you lead your way 307 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:05.240 into a bit more of the pastels. So we have 308 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:09.879 in the candy cane theme area, we have about six 309 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:14.559 seven decorated trees, all different, some red white, some red white, pink, 310 00:15:14.759 --> 00:15:17.639 some just in the pastels, you know, just to kind 311 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:21.559 of give you know, the customers different ideas or designers 312 00:15:21.600 --> 00:15:25.600 whoever might be coming in. And so it was something 313 00:15:25.639 --> 00:15:28.919 playful for us that I think has really our customers 314 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:30.639 really gravitated towards this year. 315 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:33.480 Yeah, there's nothing. I think you hit it right on 316 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:33.960 the head. 317 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:36.639 I mean, there's nothing more playful than like, you know, 318 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:40.360 childlike foods and candies, I mean, and candies of all sizes, 319 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:44.120 and they're all these are hyper realistic. These But you 320 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:47.639 guys have got like those wrapped Christmas candy, like the 321 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:50.399 hard Sucker candies with you. 322 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:52.039 I don't even know how to describe them. 323 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:54.080 It's a twist on either a twist on either end. 324 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:55.159 Right, that are like this big. 325 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:58.519 They're like, oh cool, They're like twelve at fourteen inches across, right, 326 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:00.279 so all sorts of scale. 327 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:05.799 Do you have the little oh shoot, what are they called? 328 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:06.120 Now? 329 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:09.480 I can't think they're the little green mints that are 330 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:12.159 wrapped Andy's mintce do you have those? 331 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:15.519 Forget it? 332 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:17.720 Can I share it? Can I share a Christmas story 333 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:18.240 about those? 334 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:18.720 Yeah? 335 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:21.639 Okay, So there's another Christmas tradition. 336 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:24.279 Mom always wanted to have candy out at Christmas time, 337 00:16:24.759 --> 00:16:28.759 but she didn't want us kids to eat it because 338 00:16:28.759 --> 00:16:30.840 they entertained a lot, and so she told us that 339 00:16:31.240 --> 00:16:33.320 the little green strip in the middle of the Andy's 340 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:34.759 mint was poison to children. 341 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:36.720 Oh, my gosh. 342 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:39.399 So I never ate an Andy's mint until I was 343 00:16:39.440 --> 00:16:39.960 like eighteen. 344 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:44.000 Wow, you know what, we're going to do a whole show, 345 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:44.320 you and I. 346 00:16:44.360 --> 00:16:47.799 We're gonna we're gonna go deep on just that, just 347 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:49.240 that we're going to get to the bottom of that. 348 00:16:50.360 --> 00:16:53.080 I have never heard a story where mom is like, 349 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:56.360 and those are poisoned by the way, poison for you. 350 00:16:56.559 --> 00:16:57.919 It works, just for you. 351 00:16:58.039 --> 00:17:00.559 Oh and she also she also counted or said that 352 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:03.000 they counted the gold coins that were in the train 353 00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:05.680 and if there were any missing, then we didn't get 354 00:17:05.799 --> 00:17:06.640 Christmas presents. 355 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:07.440 Wow. 356 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:09.519 Wow, that's why Neil calls her the warden. 357 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:10.240 You know what? 358 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:13.160 Those are the kind of parenting decisions that really just 359 00:17:13.200 --> 00:17:14.599 stay with you for a lifetime. 360 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:16.240 They really do. 361 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:19.519 They're like, if you have a pool and you told 362 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:21.480 that lie to your kids, that there's a chemical in 363 00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:24.039 the pool that turns purple and follows you when you 364 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:24.759 pee in the pool. 365 00:17:25.480 --> 00:17:26.359 That's not true. 366 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:31.200 Olivia, Olivia, my granddaughter sitting. Don't ever let anybody tell 367 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:33.599 you that there's a chemical in the pool that turns 368 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:35.400 purple when you pee. You just pee in the pool 369 00:17:35.400 --> 00:17:39.079 if you want. No one will notice if you pee 370 00:17:39.079 --> 00:17:43.720 in the pool, I promise. She's like, why is my 371 00:17:43.799 --> 00:17:46.119 grandfather telling me to pee in the pool? I do not, 372 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:49.799 So I did not mean to when I told you 373 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:52.559 when I just called you guys losers al de combe, 374 00:17:54.519 --> 00:17:58.519 I did not mean to imply that in any thing 375 00:17:58.599 --> 00:18:00.519 but a joking way. I get it all the time 376 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:04.000 where here you guys have gone like over the top 377 00:18:04.119 --> 00:18:06.720 to do all of this kind of stuff. And then Amy, 378 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:12.680 who has a traumatic childhood story about poison mints, ask 379 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:15.000 you if you have the one thing that you didn't 380 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:18.119 actually been and sorry, and it's the one thing. 381 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:19.079 It's the one thing. 382 00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:19.519 Yeah. 383 00:18:19.880 --> 00:18:23.079 And I think that poison mints made it on the order. 384 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:25.720 I think they got cut from the order. Yeah. 385 00:18:25.759 --> 00:18:27.880 But we actually get that all the time, and people 386 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:31.920 listeners take the show very seriously. I'm when I given 387 00:18:31.920 --> 00:18:36.119 out information, Like recently we did a fireplay show. I 388 00:18:36.200 --> 00:18:39.720 spent three hours talking about what I thought were the 389 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:43.680 most relevant things to discuss on fireplaces and I'm sure 390 00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:47.200 shooting right. Like, the day does not end before I 391 00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:50.559 get an email or a comment on social media saying 392 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:53.160 I heard you talk at fireplay show. You failed to 393 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:56.759 mention this particular element today, And I'm like, Wow, that's 394 00:18:56.920 --> 00:18:59.880 just that's just the way it goes, right, So seeks 395 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:00.680 but are listening? 396 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:02.599 So next next year? Andy's mints? 397 00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:05.640 Yes, they look so pretty on the tree. 398 00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:09.319 Trying. Let's try and remember that, shall we? Where are 399 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:12.480 we at? Oh, it's time to take a break. 400 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:15.480 Can you hang on a little? Mon Absolutely happened, super fun? 401 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:16.559