Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp, the
Speaker 1: house whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 2: It's Amy King.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you a little story about Dean Sharp.
Speaker 3: When I first started doing my morning show wake Up Call,
Speaker 3: I was hoping that one of the great hosts here
Speaker 3: on KFI would agree to get up really early and
Speaker 3: be a regular guest on the show.
Speaker 2: Well, it turns out that none of our.
Speaker 3: Great hosts wanted to get up, which was sad, but
Speaker 3: I mean it was okay, I mean, I get it,
Speaker 3: it's five o'clock in the morning. Well, after all the
Speaker 3: great hosts passed Dean shop me an email and volunteered
Speaker 3: to do a weekly spot on Friday mornings. So naturally,
Speaker 3: I continued to look elsewhere. I asked hosts from other stations,
Speaker 3: unemployed weathermen, several members of the janitorial staff, even the
Speaker 3: Kiosk guy who lets us in the parking garage, but
Speaker 3: no luck. So, yeah, Dean Sharp is a regular Friday
Speaker 3: morning guest on wake Up Call, and I have to
Speaker 3: say our time together every Friday morning is extremely adequate,
Speaker 3: and I really look forward to wrapping up the eight
Speaker 3: minutes or less that I have to really love to
Speaker 3: spend together. So congratulations. House Whisper listeners. Dean is always there.
Speaker 4: Live streaming and HD everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It's
Speaker 4: the House Whisper Holiday Home Show live.
Speaker 1: From KFI Studios here in Burbank and the helpful Honda Lounge.
Speaker 5: And yeah, we got a live studio audience. These guys
Speaker 5: are live.
Speaker 1: I'm hanging out with some very special friends, some of
Speaker 1: some of the people who mean the most of me
Speaker 1: here at KFI.
Speaker 5: And you just heard Amy King, Amy King.
Speaker 2: Good morning, welcome home, Thanks for having me. I love
Speaker 2: this holiday party.
Speaker 5: Thanks for that glowing review.
Speaker 2: Hey, anytime.
Speaker 1: Amy and I spend Saturday, Saturday morning, Friday mornings together early, yep,
Speaker 1: we get.
Speaker 5: Some feedback here.
Speaker 2: That's probably professionals here.
Speaker 1: So on Wake Up Amy host Wake Up Call right
Speaker 1: from five to six Monday through Friday.
Speaker 5: Brilliant, wonderful show.
Speaker 2: Hey, if you got to be up that early, let's
Speaker 2: have some fun.
Speaker 5: Six people are like, yeah, I listened to that show.
Speaker 2: Oh you know what, if you don't have to get
Speaker 2: up that early, I don't blame it.
Speaker 1: And twelve other people were applauding or like, good for you.
Speaker 1: Good for you, Good for you. I heard it's wonderful
Speaker 1: you how long you've been doing wake Up Call now
Speaker 1: about a year and a half, and it's wonderful.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: I sure have fun, you know, we hopefully let you
Speaker 3: know what happened while you were sleeping, so you're all
Speaker 3: caught up before you get your day started, and have
Speaker 3: a little fun and go in and see some cool
Speaker 3: things and talk to some fun people, and of course
Speaker 3: talked to about some unfun things. But we get to
Speaker 3: dive a little deeper into some of the topics of
Speaker 3: the day, which I think is a good opportunity for
Speaker 3: people to learn.
Speaker 2: And we've got some really great people who helped teach us.
Speaker 1: And you get to do an entire hour of radio
Speaker 1: before Bill Handle comes on there. That's right, that's right,
Speaker 1: and deal with all that stuff.
Speaker 2: Hey, Bill's a hoot, Bill's a hoot.
Speaker 5: That's one.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a word. Yep, it is one word
Speaker 1: to describe Bill.
Speaker 5: Neil knows. Neil knows what I'm talking about back there. Yeah, yeah, uh.
Speaker 1: So what what was uh what was holidays like for
Speaker 1: you growing up?
Speaker 2: Growing up?
Speaker 5: Where'd you grow up?
Speaker 2: Grew up? Well in uh Walnut Creek for.
Speaker 3: A while, and then was little house on the prairie. No,
Speaker 3: that's Walnut Grove.
Speaker 5: Oh how did you know that?
Speaker 3: By the way, because everybody when I moved up to
Speaker 3: Medford after we lived in Walnut Creek, everybody goes a little.
Speaker 2: House on the prairie.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I don't know if you noticed.
Speaker 1: I'm very aware of this, that that when any woman
Speaker 1: pulls out the dumb male voice. I can tell when
Speaker 1: Tina's like describing something, she's happy about it, something I said,
Speaker 1: and she's telling a friend. She's like, oh, Dean said this,
Speaker 1: and it's kind of high and lofty, and then there
Speaker 1: are other times when he's like when she's like and
Speaker 1: then Dean came along and said whoa, And I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, if a shoe.
Speaker 5: Fits, that was a swing and a miss, all right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So growing up, yes, smaller family, very lots of traditions.
Speaker 3: We did lots of traditions, and I've continued those to
Speaker 3: this day. We still get together with my family, my
Speaker 3: immediate family, which is not very big, and have a
Speaker 3: wonderful thing. We do as traditional, like we go to
Speaker 3: church on Christmas Eve, and then we come home and
Speaker 3: we do fon do.
Speaker 2: That's actually a newer one. We introduce that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we introduced that one about ten years ago because
Speaker 3: Mom had to come home and do all the cooking
Speaker 3: after going to a church service, and I said, well,
Speaker 3: why don't we do fondu and then everything's made, have
Speaker 3: to heat up the cheese and like everybody loves it,
Speaker 3: and so that's that's become a tradition.
Speaker 2: And like Christmas.
Speaker 3: Presents, we always did family Christmas gift exchange on Christmas
Speaker 3: Eve and then we did Santa Presence on Christmas Morning,
Speaker 3: so we spread it out as long as we can, and.
Speaker 2: We used to have to. We also used to have
Speaker 2: to perform for our presence.
Speaker 5: Whoa what so what is this?
Speaker 2: Well, we had to.
Speaker 3: Do a talent in order to earn a Christmas present.
Speaker 3: So I played the piano very rudimentorily.
Speaker 2: I'm not great, but I played.
Speaker 3: Adequately, yes, yes, yes, and uh and Rob played the
Speaker 3: violin and then he played the piano. And Mom cannot
Speaker 3: play the piano at all, but she tries every year.
Speaker 3: It's really fun.
Speaker 2: So we all and then.
Speaker 3: My dad who played White Christmas like nobody's business, and
Speaker 3: God rest his soul. We miss you every year at Christmas.
Speaker 3: Dad he would get on there and he was one
Speaker 3: of those people who played by ear, so he'd just
Speaker 3: sit down and he'd play, and it was just the
Speaker 3: most beautiful thing.
Speaker 2: That's one of the things I missed the most.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, you guys didn't get presents based on the quality
Speaker 1: of your performance.
Speaker 2: No, we just earned them.
Speaker 3: And one year we kind of went outside the box
Speaker 3: a little bit because I was like, I don't feel
Speaker 3: like playing the piano this year, and so some of
Speaker 3: us got together and we reenacted the Saturday Night Live
Speaker 3: Classics Get Sweaty Balls Wow.
Speaker 5: Which we can't even reenact here on the air. Nope, Nope.
Speaker 2: It was good though.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was a family, except for my mother.
Speaker 2: She was sitting there the whole time, going, children.
Speaker 5: Here's a.
Speaker 1: That's the one thing that that never happens in my household?
Speaker 5: Is that sweaty No? No, no, no, no, no, is that.
Speaker 1: My mom who's sitting back in the back row there,
Speaker 1: waved out everybody. Mom, Yeah, uh, there's no shocking her.
Speaker 5: No, no, she'd like take over the skit.
Speaker 2: So if we're playing Cards against Humanity, you're all in.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, yes, she's in we were sitting I
Speaker 1: don't even know how long ago, what it was ago,
Speaker 1: you know, we just this is my mom, right, she's
Speaker 1: she We're at a restaurant somewhere and they started playing
Speaker 1: an Ed Sharon song and all of a sudden she's like,
Speaker 1: Darcy will confirm this. All of a sudden, she's like
Speaker 1: moving back, and I'm like, Mom, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? What's going on? She's like, Sharon's
Speaker 1: my jam.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 5: She's like seat dancing in the restaurant.
Speaker 1: He's the best. So yeah, so that's one thing that's
Speaker 1: never gonna happen in our house, which is no, that
Speaker 1: could very well happen, okay, but but we're never gonna
Speaker 1: be We're never gonna have the fun of like offending mom.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I got you.
Speaker 1: I'll be like, oh what was that?
Speaker 5: What was?
Speaker 1: No, that's not gonna happen. It's gonna be the other
Speaker 1: way around. Actually it's gonna be the other way around.
Speaker 1: It's like, Mom, sit down and put your pants back on,
Speaker 1: please please. So that's yeah, that's just the way it happens.
Speaker 1: Uh So that was that was your child?
Speaker 5: Do you do anything now that's different than when you
Speaker 5: were a kid.
Speaker 2: I mostly do the same things.
Speaker 3: I mean, I decorate, but I'm I in fact, I
Speaker 3: broke it a Christmas tradition for you what today because
Speaker 3: I have my my my Christmas Disney spirit, and I
Speaker 3: am very much against doing Christmas before Thanksgiving is over.
Speaker 2: I'm a one holiday at a time person. Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: that's fine, So I broke it just for you.
Speaker 1: Well, but it's the same.
Speaker 3: I mean, we decorate the house and we uh, you know.
Speaker 3: I do my tree, and I thought it was really
Speaker 3: interesting listening about the trees because I don't have any
Speaker 3: ornaments on my tree that don't mean something specifically. But
Speaker 3: that's great, right, so, But but I also do the
Speaker 3: same kind of thing because I have the theme like
Speaker 3: I do the real tree. Part of it's really because
Speaker 3: I don't have a place to store an artificial tree,
Speaker 3: but I do the real tree and it's blue and
Speaker 3: silver themed.
Speaker 5: So you've got a base theme.
Speaker 2: That's my base. That's what I was thinking when you
Speaker 2: were saying.
Speaker 3: I was like, I've got my base theme, and then everything,
Speaker 3: all the ornaments means something, even if they like I
Speaker 3: didn't get an ornament at a certain place, they all
Speaker 3: mean something to me, Like if I have a store
Speaker 3: bought ornament like a Christopher Radcot, do you guys know
Speaker 3: who he is? The Oh my gosh, I love his stuff,
Speaker 3: and I think right after nine to eleven there I
Speaker 3: got an ornament that was a heart with American flag
Speaker 3: on it because it meant something, you know. So everything
Speaker 3: that I buy means something. When we got to go
Speaker 3: to Jerusalem, I bought ornaments that were stars and a
Speaker 3: Nativity out of the olive wood.
Speaker 2: So everything has a reason.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's, by the way, one of the iconic quotes.
Speaker 1: That Another iconic quote that has kind of shaped my
Speaker 1: design philosophy William Morris, who was a late nineteenth century
Speaker 1: textile designer, very famous textile designer and design and architectural critic.
Speaker 1: He said this, and you guys should take this home
Speaker 1: with you for sure. And I'm going to misquote him here,
Speaker 1: but I'm not going to take the time to look
Speaker 1: it up. But essentially it is have nothing in your.
Speaker 5: Home that is.
Speaker 1: Not useful or beautiful that you consider beautiful. That's it,
Speaker 1: all right, So that's the idea. The idea is like
Speaker 1: have nothing on your tree that you don't consider you know,
Speaker 1: just absolutely beautiful. Just don't go there, right, So many
Speaker 1: people who don't consider themselves minimalists would become minimalists in
Speaker 1: a sense if they followed that rule, if they just
Speaker 1: kind of edited the fluff and just stuck with the
Speaker 1: things that and I like to say, you know, well,
Speaker 1: I've got a story. Maybe I'll tell it on the
Speaker 1: other side of the break of where I've been asked
Speaker 1: in the past, because you know, the wealthy clients are
Speaker 1: like here, I'll tell it now, wealthy clients who are like, din,
Speaker 1: design me a library, and I'm like, great, show me
Speaker 1: the books. It's like, well, we don't have any books.
Speaker 1: And there was a time when I would have done that,
Speaker 1: and now I say show.
Speaker 5: Me the books.
Speaker 1: Because if we're going to design a library, it's going
Speaker 1: to be for your books, all right.
Speaker 2: Right, because you've got to care about it.
Speaker 1: So one of the things we do again that sets
Speaker 1: us apart, like for a custom design, is that if
Speaker 1: you got books laying out in your house, don't have
Speaker 1: prop books laying around, okay, because I'm going to come
Speaker 1: into your home and I'm going to pull one off
Speaker 1: the shelf and I'm going to say, hey, what do
Speaker 1: you think about this, right, and I'm going to give
Speaker 1: you your tests, right, and so you don't have to
Speaker 1: quote anything from it, but you should be able to
Speaker 1: tell me what that story is and why that's meaningful
Speaker 1: enough to be sitting on your shelf. That's authentic living
Speaker 1: in a real home.
Speaker 5: Right. It may not be a magazine spread. Who's getting
Speaker 5: pushed over here?
Speaker 1: Somebody's getting Okay, we're gonna find out that story during
Speaker 1: the break, and then we'll tell everybody after the fact.
Speaker 5: All Right, we gotta go. Uh, you can hang around sure,
Speaker 5: all right, Amy.
Speaker 4: King everybody your home Dean Sharp, the House Westper.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 6: KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 4: It's the House Whisper Live Holiday home show here at
Speaker 4: the KFI studios in Burbank, California.
Speaker 5: The helpful Honda Lounge.
Speaker 1: Uh, hang on a second, Hang on a second? Oh,
Speaker 1: I lost the thing? Where is the all right?
Speaker 5: Okay? By the way, today's food brought to you by
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Speaker 5: Also today's show sponsored by.
Speaker 1: The good folks at Aldick Home. I got Brian gold
Speaker 1: and Might up here. Brian one of the owners at
Speaker 1: al Dick mighta their design director for everything that happens
Speaker 1: over at al Dick. You guys, this year you always
Speaker 1: like push in a did you know the same thing
Speaker 1: that they always do. Oh by the way, Amy King,
Speaker 1: everybody forgive me just hanging with my buds today. Every year,
Speaker 1: despite the fact that there's just this plethora of design
Speaker 1: differential between trees and just so many of them, but
Speaker 1: they always try and find one more thing, one more
Speaker 1: thing every year. And this year there's a distinctive theme,
Speaker 1: especially when you walk in the store right down that
Speaker 1: center aisle of candy and food stuff on trees and
Speaker 1: exactly so I know you're showing Neil so this yeah, right,
Speaker 1: The audience is like, what the heck is that? This
Speaker 1: is a little rice crispy square here and check out
Speaker 1: these check out these donuts, all right, these glazed donuts okay,
Speaker 1: And you're like, oh my gosh, and and they're all
Speaker 1: they're all foam squishy.
Speaker 5: Yet the audience is like, oh.
Speaker 2: So there's stress balls too.
Speaker 1: They are they're stress ornaments. I love it anyway. So
Speaker 1: there's this there's like a whole slew of you're gonna
Speaker 1: walk out of the store like dying to go to
Speaker 1: to a cafe and order you know, pastries and stuff.
Speaker 5: Uh, they're all over the place. So what led to
Speaker 5: that theme this year for you guys? Somebody tell me.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we haven't really done a whimsical theme in a while. Well,
Speaker 8: we've done gingerbread maybe a couple of years ago. And
Speaker 8: this time we thought we'd bring in candy cane and
Speaker 8: you know desserts that go in with that, but the
Speaker 8: candy cane with the red and white, but throwing a
Speaker 8: little pink in there, and then you lead your way
Speaker 8: into a bit more of the pastels. So we have
Speaker 8: in the candy cane theme area, we have about six
Speaker 8: seven decorated trees, all different, some red white, some red white, pink,
Speaker 8: some just in the pastels, you know, just to kind
Speaker 8: of give you know, the customers different ideas or designers
Speaker 8: whoever might be coming in. And so it was something
Speaker 8: playful for us that I think has really our customers
Speaker 8: really gravitated towards this year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's nothing. I think you hit it right on
Speaker 5: the head.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's nothing more playful than like, you know,
Speaker 1: childlike foods and candies, I mean, and candies of all sizes,
Speaker 1: and they're all these are hyper realistic. These But you
Speaker 1: guys have got like those wrapped Christmas candy, like the
Speaker 1: hard Sucker candies with you.
Speaker 5: I don't even know how to describe them.
Speaker 1: It's a twist on either a twist on either end.
Speaker 5: Right, that are like this big.
Speaker 1: They're like, oh cool, They're like twelve at fourteen inches across, right,
Speaker 1: so all sorts of scale.
Speaker 2: Do you have the little oh shoot, what are they called?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 3: I can't think they're the little green mints that are
Speaker 3: wrapped Andy's mintce do you have those?
Speaker 5: Forget it?
Speaker 2: Can I share it? Can I share a Christmas story
Speaker 2: about those?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, So there's another Christmas tradition.
Speaker 3: Mom always wanted to have candy out at Christmas time,
Speaker 3: but she didn't want us kids to eat it because
Speaker 3: they entertained a lot, and so she told us that
Speaker 3: the little green strip in the middle of the Andy's
Speaker 3: mint was poison to children.
Speaker 5: Oh, my gosh.
Speaker 2: So I never ate an Andy's mint until I was
Speaker 2: like eighteen.
Speaker 5: Wow, you know what, we're going to do a whole show,
Speaker 5: you and I.
Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna go deep on just that, just
Speaker 1: that we're going to get to the bottom of that.
Speaker 1: I have never heard a story where mom is like,
Speaker 1: and those are poisoned by the way, poison for you.
Speaker 5: It works, just for you.
Speaker 3: Oh and she also she also counted or said that
Speaker 3: they counted the gold coins that were in the train
Speaker 3: and if there were any missing, then we didn't get
Speaker 3: Christmas presents.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's why Neil calls her the warden.
Speaker 5: You know what?
Speaker 1: Those are the kind of parenting decisions that really just
Speaker 1: stay with you for a lifetime.
Speaker 5: They really do.
Speaker 1: They're like, if you have a pool and you told
Speaker 1: that lie to your kids, that there's a chemical in
Speaker 1: the pool that turns purple and follows you when you
Speaker 1: pee in the pool.
Speaker 5: That's not true.
Speaker 1: Olivia, Olivia, my granddaughter sitting. Don't ever let anybody tell
Speaker 1: you that there's a chemical in the pool that turns
Speaker 1: purple when you pee. You just pee in the pool
Speaker 1: if you want. No one will notice if you pee
Speaker 1: in the pool, I promise. She's like, why is my
Speaker 1: grandfather telling me to pee in the pool? I do not,
Speaker 1: So I did not mean to when I told you
Speaker 1: when I just called you guys losers al de combe,
Speaker 1: I did not mean to imply that in any thing
Speaker 1: but a joking way. I get it all the time
Speaker 1: where here you guys have gone like over the top
Speaker 1: to do all of this kind of stuff. And then Amy,
Speaker 1: who has a traumatic childhood story about poison mints, ask
Speaker 1: you if you have the one thing that you didn't
Speaker 1: actually been and sorry, and it's the one thing.
Speaker 5: It's the one thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And I think that poison mints made it on the order.
Speaker 5: I think they got cut from the order. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But we actually get that all the time, and people
Speaker 1: listeners take the show very seriously. I'm when I given
Speaker 1: out information, Like recently we did a fireplay show. I
Speaker 1: spent three hours talking about what I thought were the
Speaker 1: most relevant things to discuss on fireplaces and I'm sure
Speaker 1: shooting right. Like, the day does not end before I
Speaker 1: get an email or a comment on social media saying
Speaker 1: I heard you talk at fireplay show. You failed to
Speaker 1: mention this particular element today, And I'm like, Wow, that's
Speaker 1: just that's just the way it goes, right, So seeks
Speaker 1: but are listening?
Speaker 5: So next next year? Andy's mints?
Speaker 2: Yes, they look so pretty on the tree.
Speaker 5: Trying. Let's try and remember that, shall we? Where are
Speaker 5: we at? Oh, it's time to take a break.
Speaker 1: Can you hang on a little? Mon Absolutely happened, super fun?
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 3: And then I want to share with you something, some
Speaker 3: advice that you gave me last year that I took
Speaker 3: that it will be applied at Christmas this year.
Speaker 5: Good.
Speaker 1: And then I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna ask you
Speaker 1: for a commitment in front.
Speaker 5: Of all of these people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not a marriage proposal, I promise, but a
Speaker 1: commitment to do something with me this year.
Speaker 5: Involving Disneyland, which I know you love.
Speaker 2: Sure I can do that.
Speaker 1: She's like, Yeah, Disneyland, I'm all about asolutely all.
Speaker 5: Right, y'all.
Speaker 1: You're Home with Dean Sharp the House Whisper. It's our
Speaker 1: live holiday home show.
Speaker 5: More to come.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 6: KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 5: You're Home with Dean Sharp the House Whisper.
Speaker 4: This is our live I have audience Holiday Home show
Speaker 4: that we do every year.
Speaker 5: We got a live audience right.
Speaker 4: Here at KFI Studios in Burbank and.
Speaker 1: The helpful Honda Lounge, and we're having some fun. I'm
Speaker 1: spending time with, you know, one hundred people that I
Speaker 1: really enjoy and some of my best buds here at
Speaker 1: iHeart at KFI up on stage with me right now,
Speaker 1: Amy King, and this entire show, by the way, brought
Speaker 1: to you by al Dick Home, the good people at Aldick.
Speaker 5: This beautiful tree up here that we've.
Speaker 1: Been talking about all show long, and we'll talk about
Speaker 1: it some more if we can. You had something you
Speaker 1: wanted to talk to me about advice I gave last
Speaker 1: year absolutely so.
Speaker 3: As you know, Diana and I've talked about this before.
Speaker 3: One of the things that I love about Dean is
Speaker 3: that he not only shows you big picture stuff, but little.
Speaker 2: Things and things you can do every day.
Speaker 3: Maybe you're not going to do a complete home remodel,
Speaker 3: but it'll go, Hey, this is a really cool thing
Speaker 3: that I found that you could do and you can.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not going to bust the.
Speaker 2: Bank, and you can still do it.
Speaker 3: Last year we were talking about a self watering tree
Speaker 3: and I don't know about you, but keeping that tree,
Speaker 3: the live trees watered all the time is a pain
Speaker 3: in the butt. I've got this cool tree stand that's
Speaker 3: like the best and easiest tree stand I've ever had.
Speaker 3: But the water reservoir is only like six inches across.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's small, so you have to water it
Speaker 3: every day religiously, sometimes twice a day, and getting to it.
Speaker 2: And you have to get down on your hands and
Speaker 2: knees and get to it.
Speaker 1: But no, there are some like there are like funnels
Speaker 1: that they make for trees now, which can strap to
Speaker 1: a branch or to the trunk and come up like
Speaker 1: two or three feet and come out on one side
Speaker 1: of the tree, so you can pour from there, and.
Speaker 2: Then you have to be careful that you don't over before.
Speaker 1: I've done that too.
Speaker 3: So last year Dean told me about told all of
Speaker 3: us about this this thing that looks like a Christmas
Speaker 3: package but it's really a reservoir for water and it's
Speaker 3: a self and he happens to have one.
Speaker 5: Okay, we did not coordinate this, and I brought.
Speaker 3: The one that I bought because I wanted to say, Dean,
Speaker 3: I took your advice.
Speaker 1: This is the.
Speaker 2: Coolest thing it holds. What does it hold? Like two
Speaker 2: gallons of water or something?
Speaker 1: Two gallons of water And I'm gonna describe I mean
Speaker 1: it literally is it looks.
Speaker 5: What's brilliant.
Speaker 1: There are several things that are brilliant about it. This,
Speaker 1: by the way, we get the name right. This is
Speaker 1: called you can find this online. It's the Ho Ho
Speaker 1: ho h two O tree filler. Okay, it's so cool.
Speaker 5: So you see what's inside. See what's inside. There is
Speaker 5: a reservoir and a pump, and it's a smart pump
Speaker 5: as well, so it.
Speaker 3: Only waters when it needs it, so you're not going
Speaker 3: to flood your room exactly.
Speaker 1: Here's the power cord and then there's a hose that
Speaker 1: goes into the reservoir and it has a along with it.
Speaker 1: Right there, there's the key right there the sensor that
Speaker 1: is an electric continuity water sensor. And as soon you
Speaker 1: put this so that these two tips are near the
Speaker 1: top of your bowl of the water reservoir, and as
Speaker 1: soon as the water connects between these two, it shuts
Speaker 1: off the pump. And when it drops below and it
Speaker 1: evaporates and drops below, then it repumps water.
Speaker 5: Back in and the and the key is that.
Speaker 1: Number One, you can just forget about watering the tree, right,
Speaker 1: you don't have to do that. It's perfectly watered all
Speaker 1: the time. Number Two, this sets like out on the
Speaker 1: outskirts with the rest of the presents. That's why it's
Speaker 1: disguised as a present, right, so you don't have to
Speaker 1: crawl under the tree. You don't have to do anything crazy.
Speaker 1: It just sits in there amongst all the other presents.
Speaker 1: And right on the top here there's it's a little
Speaker 1: Santa pattern with reindeer. Right on the top here is
Speaker 1: Rudolph and there's a no a cutout for his nose
Speaker 1: because the water I need water indicator is right underneath it.
Speaker 1: So as you just walk by the tree, if you
Speaker 1: see Rudolph's nose has lit up red, then you need
Speaker 1: to refill the reservoir in the thing.
Speaker 3: It is brilliant, brilliant, especially like if you go, if
Speaker 3: you leave home for a few days, which I usually
Speaker 3: do around Christmas, and when I come back, my tree
Speaker 3: is well, it's turned into the Christmas stick. It's it's
Speaker 3: just ingenius and so I can't wait to use it
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 1: So I brought this with me and not knowing that
Speaker 1: Amy was going to bring hers whether so I talked
Speaker 1: to everybody about this last year, right, and that's why
Speaker 1: you went and got one, ye, But I hadn't used
Speaker 1: it yet because I talked about it before Christmas.
Speaker 5: So now we've gone.
Speaker 1: Through a full Christmas, a full month and a half
Speaker 1: almost of having the tree, and it was flawless.
Speaker 5: It's flawless.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just it's a very simple concept
Speaker 1: to pump and a reservoir. But you know what, it's
Speaker 1: just one of those ideas that is arriving just when
Speaker 1: it should and it's just so simple and so smart
Speaker 1: and so anyway, about my full endorsement to this little company,
Speaker 1: and you should find it online if you do live trees, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you should find this on and it will just be
Speaker 1: a joy to you, right And well.
Speaker 2: Then your tree will look like that all season.
Speaker 1: Exactly, even if it's a live tree. So yeah, the
Speaker 1: ho ho ho what a name? H two oh tree filler?
Speaker 5: You know what you brought this up, Amy, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: canda hand that to Yes.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring out a couple of more things before
Speaker 1: we're done with this bit. I brought some what I
Speaker 1: call secret decorating gear de core. Little things like that
Speaker 1: that make a huge difference. Right, some of you have
Speaker 1: asked me about this, and I want to show you.
Speaker 5: I don't have time.
Speaker 1: I should have set this up beforehand. But this right here,
Speaker 1: we call it the marshmallow. This is a Bluetooth speaker.
Speaker 1: Okay it is. You can find it on places like
Speaker 1: Amazon for like thirty five dollars. Okay, for those of
Speaker 1: you who are listening, I'm holding a blue black Bluetooth
Speaker 1: speaker with a metal case around it that is the
Speaker 1: size of a jump marshmallow.
Speaker 5: That's why we call it the marshmallow. I turn this on.
Speaker 5: And for those of.
Speaker 1: You who have a gas log fireplace, right, if you
Speaker 1: want the full manty out of your gas log fireplace,
Speaker 1: you turn this on. You said, don't put this in
Speaker 1: the fire, but the will. The metal casing is well
Speaker 1: insulated enough that you can set it on the front
Speaker 1: edge of the firebox. Okay, it's gonna get warm, but
Speaker 1: I promise you it's all good. And then all you
Speaker 1: do is just take assign one of your mobile devices right,
Speaker 1: bluetooth it to this speaker, and pull up on YouTube
Speaker 1: one of those twelve hour crackling log fireplace videos.
Speaker 2: I know, isn't that a c.
Speaker 1: Set it to the right volume and you just let
Speaker 1: it run. And unless you are literally one foot away
Speaker 1: from the fireplace, If you are more than a foot
Speaker 1: away from the fireplace, this omnidirectional speaker is going to
Speaker 1: throw that sound through the firebox out into the room
Speaker 1: and anybody who walks.
Speaker 5: And I now have had friends.
Speaker 1: Who've come over and said, I didn't think you had
Speaker 1: a real wood fire wood burning fireplace. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: won't you catch up then listen? So yeah, uh, literally
Speaker 1: you want to crackling, but don't, don't. Don't buy the
Speaker 1: stuff that oh this stuff crackles in the fire when
Speaker 1: you sprink, you know, it does for like twenty eight
Speaker 1: seconds and then you're done. Right, The little thing basically
Speaker 1: what I call fireplace pop rocks. Right, they last for
Speaker 1: like two minutes and then it's over. And you can
Speaker 1: buy fireplace log crackles speakers. Don't do that because they
Speaker 1: are super low fidelity, okay, and the pattern repeats itself
Speaker 1: every twenty eight second.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's just terrible.
Speaker 1: Don't buy a just get a little micro bluetooth speaker.
Speaker 1: Put it in the front corner. Of the firebox and
Speaker 1: run one of those twelve hour YouTube videos through it.
Speaker 1: You will thank me for it. It's super fun. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna do it every time. But and the battery
Speaker 1: on this guy lasts like nine hours, right, and then
Speaker 1: it's rechargeable to regular USBC recharge anyway. A couple other things.
Speaker 1: This has changed radically life. Look at this little guy
Speaker 1: right here. I'm holding this little plastic nubbin about the
Speaker 1: size of a nickel in my hand. And this I
Speaker 1: took the time last year to get a hundred of
Speaker 1: these guys and slide them onto our Christmas lights. The wires, Okay,
Speaker 1: you take the cap off and you lay the wire
Speaker 1: in that little groove and then you put the cap
Speaker 1: on and it just clamps it down and you put
Speaker 1: one every three to four feet on your outdoor Christmas lights, right,
Speaker 1: and so you know, hooks nails all, yeah, forget it.
Speaker 1: Because on the back of this thing a is an
Speaker 1: earth magnet, okay. And every roof, every roof has edge
Speaker 1: metal right around the edge of the roof. That's metallic.
Speaker 1: And this little guy is metallic. And that's it. And
Speaker 1: that's how you put up your Christmas lights every year.
Speaker 1: Just literally, but it took me. I told you guys
Speaker 1: that we'd already put up our Christmas lights on the
Speaker 1: outside of the house. It took me a half an hour, okay,
Speaker 1: because they're all just all set with this, and I
Speaker 1: just reach up.
Speaker 5: And I'm just like, no, I'll be I have a
Speaker 5: one story house. Okay, So it's gonna.
Speaker 1: Take a little longer if you've got to get up
Speaker 1: on ladders everywhere. But the point is no more fiddling
Speaker 1: with hooks and gutter hooks and all of this kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. It's metal. They hold, They hold incredible. I mean,
Speaker 1: these aren't just weak magnets. They hold incredibly well. So
Speaker 1: if you go online again, I don't remember the specific
Speaker 1: brand of this one, but if you go online and
Speaker 1: just look for Christmas light magnet clips, right, you're gonna
Speaker 1: find them. You're gonna find a slew of them. You
Speaker 1: can get a whole bag of one hundred or two
Speaker 1: hundred of them. They're gonna last forever. And that's the
Speaker 1: other cool thing is that, you know, like if you
Speaker 1: get to the end of a row and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'd like to support this a little better. As I
Speaker 1: turned the corner and then you just move the magnet over,
Speaker 1: Just slide it over, give a little extra support. So anyway, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a brilliant. One more thing, back to the fireplace.
Speaker 1: You've heard me talk about embers, and when I say
Speaker 1: embers psychologically speaking, talk about design that affects us psychologically
Speaker 1: without knowing it. Right, the one of the I think
Speaker 1: the primary thing that separates are subconscious when we're looking
Speaker 1: at a gas log fire set from a real burning
Speaker 1: log fire, is not the realism of the logs.
Speaker 5: That's fine.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's where the flame is coming from, that's fine.
Speaker 1: But most important of all, what you don't see on
Speaker 1: a gas log set is a bed of burning, glowing
Speaker 1: coals underneath the logs, right, you just see now. Of course,
Speaker 1: every log set comes with embers, right, which is that
Speaker 1: fluffy insulation kind of stuff. But this stuff right here,
Speaker 1: platinum bright embers. Okay, these are made out of ceramic wool,
Speaker 1: and literally you pull these out, and you pull off
Speaker 1: these thin little squares of this material and you set
Speaker 1: this on top of the the embers that came with
Speaker 1: your log set. When flames hit this thing and heat
Speaker 1: hit these things, they glow brilliant orange, glowing and they'll
Speaker 1: last for a couple of years before you have to restart.
Speaker 1: I think that whole bag, which I only used half of,
Speaker 1: was like thirty dollars online. So again, if you want
Speaker 1: an uber realistic gas log fire set, then you put
Speaker 1: these embers down at the bottom and people will walk
Speaker 1: in and just like there it's crackling, it's making sound.
Speaker 1: These don't make sound. But you got the Bluetooth speaker
Speaker 1: and you got this going on, and you got a
Speaker 1: real wood fire going on in your home. All right,
Speaker 1: We got to go to break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: more of the Holiday Home Show and some closing thoughts
Speaker 1: for everybody. Don't go anywhere your home with Dean Sharp,
Speaker 1: the house Whisper.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 6: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: We're doing today's show in front of a live studio audience.
Speaker 1: I'm actually talking to our audience in between bits here
Speaker 1: while we're on break, and had a great question just
Speaker 1: come up about where do you start? Where do you
Speaker 1: start with a big design project. In this case, it
Speaker 1: was the yard, And you know, I gave some ideas
Speaker 1: about where to start with this. But here's the thing
Speaker 1: that I was about to say, and then it was
Speaker 1: time to come back. So I'm going to share it
Speaker 1: with everybody. And this is probably one of the most
Speaker 1: valuable things that I've ever shared with you on air,
Speaker 1: and I will continue to share it again and again
Speaker 1: and again as a you know, I'm a designer and
Speaker 1: I'm a builder, and so I can see the process
Speaker 1: from both sides. I'm also a homeowner, so I can
Speaker 1: see it from all three sides, and I get it.
Speaker 5: Okay. I never want to.
Speaker 1: Give you designed advice that just doesn't attach to the
Speaker 1: real world. And I never want to build so pedantically
Speaker 1: that we just ignore what it is to have fantastic design.
Speaker 5: The two have to just mesh with each other. There
Speaker 5: is a.
Speaker 1: Thing it applies to many many industries, especially the construction industry,
Speaker 1: that we call the iron triangle. It's iron because it's unbreakable.
Speaker 1: It's an unbreakable triangle. It's a rule, and this is
Speaker 1: a rule that you can try. This is my son
Speaker 1: Jason Sharp by the way, and my granddaughter Olivia sitting
Speaker 1: up here for our last segment of our show. Hey
Speaker 1: give him my hand. Jason builds out a lot of
Speaker 1: our designs. He's the CEO of Dreamsmith Holmes. And so
Speaker 1: here's the iron triangle. Three sides to this triangle. One
Speaker 1: side cost, one side quality, the other side time. That's
Speaker 1: it cost, quality, time, And here's the rule. You can
Speaker 1: have any two sides you want. Just know that you
Speaker 1: will pay for those two sides with the third side
Speaker 1: of the triangle. So, if you want your project done
Speaker 1: incredibly well, quality and incredibly fast time, get ready to
Speaker 1: write a big check. Okay, cost, the cost goes up. Okay,
Speaker 1: I want the best quality in the shortest amount of time.
Speaker 1: The cost goes way up. Okay to do that can
Speaker 1: be done, but it goes way up if you want
Speaker 1: it fast and cheap. Okay, time and cost. All you
Speaker 1: have to do is sacrifice quality.
Speaker 5: That's it.
Speaker 1: You'll pay for it with the quality of the project.
Speaker 1: All right, most of us, most of us who are
Speaker 1: normal human beings, would like the best possible value, the
Speaker 1: cost as low as possible, but the right cost and
Speaker 1: the best quality. But why I can't get you to
Speaker 1: understand that you pay for that with taking your time. Okay,
Speaker 1: but that's the great lesson of the iron triangle. Take
Speaker 1: your time, because design matters most, it really does. I
Speaker 1: know it's become kind of a catchphrase that I throw
Speaker 1: out there, and I keep throwing it out there because
Speaker 1: I keep wanting remind everybody that that's the case. But
Speaker 1: the fact of the matter is that, I mean, Tina
Speaker 1: and I did a little remodel on our tiny little cottage,
Speaker 1: and we're designers. We do this for a living, and
Speaker 1: we spent two and a half years kind of planning
Speaker 1: it out, getting ready and thinking it through and editing
Speaker 1: it and so on. Now, I'm not saying you have
Speaker 1: to take that much time, but the point is this,
Speaker 1: I want you to pump the brakes.
Speaker 5: Okay. Homes are not just about.
Speaker 1: The materials that you get and the new new stuff
Speaker 1: and the stuff that you see in the magazines.
Speaker 5: I say this all the time. You know, the home
Speaker 5: improvement industry is multiple billions of dollars in the United States. Okay.
Speaker 1: And for an industry, for the home improvement industry to
Speaker 1: be as large as it is financially, why aren't home's
Speaker 1: actually improving that much?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 1: It's because there's something that you can't can't find on
Speaker 1: the shelf at the home improvement store. It's time your time,
Speaker 1: take time to plan it out, to edit it to
Speaker 1: go back to look at it again and again and
Speaker 1: again and take your time if at all possible. And
Speaker 1: I know some people aren't in that position.
Speaker 5: I get it.
Speaker 1: But if you can't, if you can spend your time
Speaker 1: on your project and then roll out the process from there,
Speaker 1: because it will make all the difference in the world,
Speaker 1: I promise you that.
Speaker 7: And a lot of the time it comes down to
Speaker 7: the layers that you apply that you need time to
Speaker 7: adjust to seeing each layer go on and then deciding hm.
Speaker 5: Hmm.
Speaker 7: That kind of changes what I thought I wanted exactly.
Speaker 7: So as you start to maybe I'm gonna do this
Speaker 7: a little different, live.
Speaker 1: Differently in your house, it'll it'll shift your consciousness because
Speaker 1: design does shift your consciousness, right layers All right, real quick,
Speaker 1: I just need to thank everybody who's been a part
Speaker 1: of the show today because we are running out of
Speaker 1: time and I want to thank all of my guests.
Speaker 1: Sharon Bellio, Neil Savedra, Amy King, my buds, thank you
Speaker 1: guys for being here, our sponsors today, Brian Gold and
Speaker 1: Mida from Aldick Home.
Speaker 5: Everybody give Aldick a big shout out.
Speaker 1: And by the way, just a reminder before we go
Speaker 1: that' at one o'clock. From one to two thirty, we're
Speaker 1: all going to be at Aldacombe on su Palvida. Come
Speaker 1: find us, say hi, give us hugs, take a look
Speaker 1: at Aldick.
Speaker 5: It's an amazing place.
Speaker 1: So for everybody who couldn't be here today, you can
Speaker 1: find us at Aldacombe this afternoon. To my family, who's
Speaker 1: been exceptionally great for me this week because Tina's been down.
Speaker 1: It's just been a crazy week and I appreciate you
Speaker 1: guys massively. Christy was going to be here, she's not
Speaker 1: here because she's with Tina this morning. So anyway, all
Speaker 1: of that, I love you guys immensely. Livy high five
Speaker 1: right here, all right, all right, a little sip of coffee.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna leave you with a thought. Today we've been
Speaker 1: up here again talking about Christmas and design and decor.
Speaker 1: And it should remember, I said earlier, asked more questions.
Speaker 1: It should beg the question, what the heck does this
Speaker 1: guy know about Christmas?
Speaker 5: Anyway?
Speaker 1: Is even qualified to talk on this? And of course
Speaker 1: I'm not qualified to speak on it, but it's a
Speaker 1: good question to ask, right, So what do I know
Speaker 1: about Christmas? Well, when I was younger, I knew a
Speaker 1: lot more than I do now. That was back when
Speaker 1: I knew everything. Now I've lived long enough for life
Speaker 1: to teach me that I don't know much about anything
Speaker 1: and clearly right.
Speaker 5: And I know you guys can relate to me on that.
Speaker 5: So what do I know?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 5: I know this.
Speaker 1: I know the weather has changed. I know that summer
Speaker 1: is over, Autumn is here, winter is coming. There's a
Speaker 1: chill in the air that wasn't here yesterday, and it's
Speaker 1: getting colder, it's getting darker. I know that for thousands
Speaker 1: of years, in the very coldest, very darkest places, people
Speaker 1: like you and me have wrapped their arms around those
Speaker 1: they love to wait it out. That, by the way,
Speaker 1: is not make believe. That is not a story. That's
Speaker 1: what this season does. It prods us at our most
Speaker 1: basic needs. It exposes how fragile we are as people.
Speaker 1: It uses the cold and the dark to push us together,
Speaker 1: hopefully to remember what really matters most in this life.
Speaker 5: Food, warmth, love, hope.
Speaker 1: So then, is it silly for places like southern California,
Speaker 1: where it never gets too dark or too cold to
Speaker 1: set out blow up snowmen next to palm trees and
Speaker 1: to pretend that we are somehow somewhere in the frozen north.
Speaker 1: I say, no, it's not silly at all. It's not
Speaker 1: at all silly. And I'll tell you why, because we
Speaker 1: all feel it, don't we, the cold and the dark,
Speaker 1: even if it's not about the weather, right, Because the
Speaker 1: cold and the dark are never just about the weather.
Speaker 5: It's life. And so for thousands of years, in the
Speaker 5: very coldest and darkest places, we come together. We light fires,
Speaker 5: we share food, We give gifts to one another. We
Speaker 5: adorn our homes with evergreens and lights and anything that
Speaker 5: twinkles and shines and keeps our hope alive. That is
Speaker 5: not make believe. That is what the season does to us.
Speaker 1: And if our hearts can rediscover the things that really
Speaker 1: matter most, then despite the cold or the dark is dark,
Speaker 1: we celebrate. And that is real magic, real magic, the deepest,
Speaker 1: most unlikely magic. So what do I know about Christmas?
Speaker 1: I know seasons change without our asking our permission. I
Speaker 1: know that together our hearts can endure it. I know
Speaker 1: finally that no matter what you're going through, no matter
Speaker 1: how harsh the weather, the seasons will change again, because
Speaker 1: that's what seasons do, and whatever season you're in, this
Speaker 1: too shall pass. But until then, let's thank the cold
Speaker 1: and the dark for how it pushes us. Let's conjure
Speaker 1: this kind of magic. Make this season a celebration of
Speaker 1: what's most important. Let's draw close. Let's wrap arms. Let
Speaker 1: food and friendship warm you. Let evergreens and twinkling lights
Speaker 1: in the darkness keep your hope alive. And before you
Speaker 1: know it, the seasons will change again. New life, new warmth,
Speaker 1: new opportunities. And so I know this about Christmas. For
Speaker 1: thousands of years, in the very coldest and darkest places,
Speaker 1: people just like you and me always find a way
Speaker 1: to build themselves a beautiful life. I hope you guys
Speaker 1: a very very happy Holidays, Happy Thanksgiving, and to everyone
Speaker 1: who is listening, have yourself a beautiful day.
Speaker 5: We'll see you right back here next week.
Speaker 1: This has been Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
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