Speaker 1: KF I am six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp,
Speaker 1: the House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 2: Hey kids, how would you like me and Uncle t
Speaker 2: Bones to tell you a Christmas story?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Ding Dog.
Speaker 2: Twas just before Christmas, nearly eight years.
Speaker 1: Ago, and we were in studio just doing our show.
Speaker 1: Went out in the hall. There arose such clatter and
Speaker 1: I yelled in the mic, thank's the matter?
Speaker 2: And what do our wandering eyes?
Speaker 1: Did appear a.
Speaker 3: Man so handsome for radio and unbelievably thick hair?
Speaker 1: Did he write that?
Speaker 2: Mark Thompson exclaimed, Oh does this guy have a sister?
Speaker 2: And I knew in that moment.
Speaker 1: He must be the house whisper Ding Dog.
Speaker 2: With this guy, he sat down at the mic and
Speaker 2: got right to his work.
Speaker 1: Doing talk radio without being a jerk.
Speaker 2: The listeners were inspired with every word that he said, while.
Speaker 1: Visions ever remodels danced through their heads.
Speaker 2: He arose from the mic and then all his new friends, we.
Speaker 1: Hope you'll come back again and.
Speaker 2: Again, And I heard him exclaim as a way he did.
Speaker 1: Rome, I'll see you next weekend And to all, welcome home,
Speaker 1: Welcome to our annual house whisper Holiday Home Show coming
Speaker 1: to you live from KFI Studios here in Burbank, California,
Speaker 1: from the helpful Honda Lounge. And here is our live
Speaker 1: studio audience. Let's hear it, everybody. Unbelievable, you know what.
Speaker 1: It's living proof that there are crazy people everywhere in
Speaker 1: the world to get up on a Sunday morning and
Speaker 1: come down here to spend some time with us, sipping
Speaker 1: my coffee. So glad that you are here and of
Speaker 1: course glad that you are listening to us from wherever
Speaker 1: you are today. Today on the show, it is the
Speaker 1: Holiday Home Show. It's gonna be loose, it's gonna be casual.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk some holiday decor because I have got
Speaker 1: the guys from Aldick Home here. Aldikom sponsored this entire
Speaker 1: show today. Let's hear it for alda Combe Craig. Can
Speaker 1: we bring up Brian's Mike here, Brian Gold from Aldcombe.
Speaker 1: How you doing, Brian good? Thanks for having us. Absolutely Bro.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be decorating this gorgeous seven and a half
Speaker 1: foot ah Gold label, the one the tree that you
Speaker 1: hear me talk about when I do spots for Aldick
Speaker 1: all the time. It is no joke this tree. It
Speaker 1: is just an amazing, amazing tree, as is everything at
Speaker 1: Aldick and for the first hour here, and only the
Speaker 1: first hour, because when you are a professional decorator of
Speaker 1: decorating wizard like Mida and Rosie here, it only takes it.
Speaker 1: They're going to be going slowly in order to decorate
Speaker 1: this tree in an hour, but we're gonna do it,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about it as we do it, and
Speaker 1: by the time we're all said and done, when this
Speaker 1: tree is decorated, we're gonna give it away to somebody
Speaker 1: here in our live audience this morning, and that's gonna
Speaker 1: be fun as well. We're gonna make sure did you
Speaker 1: guys get Raffle tickets this morning? No? All right, so
Speaker 1: then you're not gonna get the tree. It's just not
Speaker 1: gonna happen. We're not taking calls today because we're gonna
Speaker 1: be taking questions from our live audience when the time comes,
Speaker 1: so that's gonna be a cool thing. I gotta turn
Speaker 1: the clock that you can see from space around. We
Speaker 1: are here in the Helpful Honda Lounge, not our normal studio,
Speaker 1: so please forgive me let me introduce you to our
Speaker 1: awesome team. Elmer is on the board. Elmer. Good morning, buddy.
Speaker 4: Dan, good morning, Good morning everyone.
Speaker 1: How's it going down there? Well, happy to be here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wish I could see you. I can see you.
Speaker 1: Oh what I can't? I can't. Okay, Producer Richie right here, baby,
Speaker 1: I normally say, producer Richie standing by to take your calls.
Speaker 1: But he's standing by with the roaming mic to take
Speaker 1: questions from our audience this morning. And everybody who asks
Speaker 1: a question, well a good one, gets one of our
Speaker 1: new T shirts today. Look at that, Look at that
Speaker 1: stee that What did I tell you before we started?
Speaker 1: I just showed you the T shirt? And everybody's like ooh,
Speaker 1: And everyone who was listening is like, I can't see anything.
Speaker 1: We got some new T shirts. We'll put them online
Speaker 1: for you guys, so you can check them out. I
Speaker 1: would normally say, sitting across the table from me is
Speaker 1: my best friend in all the world, the co founder
Speaker 1: co owner of House Whisperer, and my design partner and
Speaker 1: my best buddy. But Tina had a unexpected urgent surgery
Speaker 1: this week. She's fine, she's fine. Everything is good. She's home,
Speaker 1: she's recovering. She just wasn't in shape to be able
Speaker 1: to make the try. Appeared to the studio. See if
Speaker 1: we were doing this at my house today, everybody could
Speaker 1: see Tina. But no, you guys don't get to come
Speaker 1: to my house. So anyway, Tina patched in, we may
Speaker 1: patch her in again. Are you there? Can we hear her?
Speaker 1: Let's see hello? There you are?
Speaker 3: Hi.
Speaker 1: Hey, you are live on the air with everybody, So
Speaker 1: say your good mornings as you do.
Speaker 5: Well, welcome home everybody, So glad you're there.
Speaker 1: How are you feeling.
Speaker 5: I'm feeling pretty good all things considered.
Speaker 1: Good good you want to tell anybody about what's going
Speaker 1: on with you?
Speaker 5: Or just had a surgery that I didn't expect to have,
Speaker 5: and so I'm very sore. I'm walking slow, but I
Speaker 5: am doing well. I'm sitting in a chair right now.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I'm doing okay, and I think I'll be
Speaker 5: all better probably in I would say I'm gonna be
Speaker 5: walking around pretty normally in.
Speaker 1: A couple of weeks. Yeah, at the rate you're going.
Speaker 1: I threw my back out last night after a week
Speaker 1: of worrying about her and all of this stuff, and
Speaker 1: and she's like, you know something, I think my phone
Speaker 1: dropped on the floor, and she's like, you want me
Speaker 1: to get that. I'm like, no, now, I don't want
Speaker 1: you to get it. You're the one who's supposed to
Speaker 1: be laying in bed. So anyway, all right, babe, love you,
Speaker 1: love you. We'll talk soon, okay. All right, So this
Speaker 1: is what's going on today. We're gonna talk some decor
Speaker 1: with Brian throughout the show. We're also going to have
Speaker 1: some special guests when we come Can we turn off
Speaker 1: Tina sound because you know what, if she talks normally,
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear some cussing. We're gonna talk some decor
Speaker 1: with Brian. I'm gonna have him set up the tree here,
Speaker 1: set it up for you mentally before we go. When
Speaker 1: we come back from break, I'm gonna have a very
Speaker 1: special and up here with me. You just heard her
Speaker 1: in the intro to the show, because Sharon Bellio was
Speaker 1: with us this morning, and so Sharon and I are
Speaker 1: going to talk about the holidays a little bit and
Speaker 1: have some fun while she's here, and we've got some
Speaker 1: other fun guests coming as well. So, Brian, the tree,
Speaker 1: I talk about it all the time. I could read
Speaker 1: your spot right now. If you want, but I would
Speaker 1: rather not do that. I just want you to tell
Speaker 1: us why it, tell us what makes these trees so special?
Speaker 1: Why are you guys so passionate about these particular trees.
Speaker 4: These trees we designed ourselves. So we're family owned and
Speaker 4: operated retail store Christmas Store in the Valley and looking
Speaker 4: out on the marketplace for the best Christmas trees. Because
Speaker 4: everything we sell is the best quality. We just weren't
Speaker 4: finding it on the market and we had to design
Speaker 4: it ourselves. So for these we designed everything down to
Speaker 4: the gage of the wire, the lights themselves. They're the
Speaker 4: only trees where the lights are designed for Christmas trees.
Speaker 4: Everyone else just uses a regular string. They wrap it
Speaker 4: around and the lights end up where they end up.
Speaker 4: These the lights are shaped like a hand, so you
Speaker 4: put a light at the end of each prominent tip, so.
Speaker 1: The wire comes up hidden as it is, and then
Speaker 1: splits out and ends up with a light at the
Speaker 1: tip of each major branch. Correct.
Speaker 4: So even if you were a world champion Christmas tree lighter,
Speaker 4: you couldn't do it this way.
Speaker 1: And then well you can't do you just you can't
Speaker 1: do this with a linear stringline, right, Yeah, And.
Speaker 4: Then what we do too is we designed it where
Speaker 4: each branch has its own string. Because the lights themselves
Speaker 4: are not replaceable. What we've done is made the string
Speaker 4: as small as possible because things happen. I have a
Speaker 4: crazy little dog, I've got little kids. Things happen. That's
Speaker 4: just the beautiful thing about life is things happen.
Speaker 1: And if a.
Speaker 4: Wire got cut or a light got broken, it would
Speaker 4: only affect one branch. We give you a couple of
Speaker 4: strings in the box, you could fix it quickly yourself.
Speaker 4: And it's just the best way to own a Christmas tree.
Speaker 1: Because it's going to last and last and last. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's got that durability to it. The other thing I
Speaker 1: love about it, and this gets into some of our
Speaker 1: decorating ideology, is the fact that since the lights are
Speaker 1: all located at the tip of every branch, you could
Speaker 1: leave a tree just like this, I mean it's gorgeous
Speaker 1: just as it is, without any ornamentation on it whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Or you could literally, as you guys do at the store,
Speaker 1: pack this thing with all sorts of ornaments and it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter either way because the ornaments never bury any lights,
Speaker 1: which always happens with a string light as well, So
Speaker 1: when this thing is fully decorated, you guys will see
Speaker 1: that all the lights are still visible. And it's little
Speaker 1: things like that that just make all the difference in
Speaker 1: the world.
Speaker 4: And having enough spacing between the branches too, so most
Speaker 4: online retailers those trees are really full and fluffy because
Speaker 4: they look good in photos. You can't see him in person. First,
Speaker 4: then you bring it home and you can't fit an
Speaker 4: ornament inside it. These we design them to have the
Speaker 4: spacing so you can decorate it like a professional like
Speaker 4: Rosie exactly.
Speaker 1: So we talked about that yes a little bit on
Speaker 1: yesterday's show when I was talking about live trees, like
Speaker 1: people who are buying live trees or real trees. The
Speaker 1: fact that you've got to make a choice. You've got
Speaker 1: to make a choice between something like a Douglas fur
Speaker 1: which looks just totally full and great, or a noble
Speaker 1: fur something like that that is tiered. Right, some of
Speaker 1: them are incredibly tiered, like super spars. And the difference
Speaker 1: being knowing how you're going to decorate the tree, right,
Speaker 1: because if you're planning on putting big ornaments on a
Speaker 1: Douglas fur, it's going to be problematic because you're literally
Speaker 1: like shoving them into the branches. You got to trim
Speaker 1: it or you have to branches, yeah, to make room
Speaker 1: for it, right, to make it like that. So you
Speaker 1: guys have the advantage of being able to create fullness
Speaker 1: and spacing all at the same time. I love it
Speaker 1: because the inner core of the tree is very full,
Speaker 1: and then you've got select branches that are sticking out
Speaker 1: from that fullness that leave just enough room for whatever
Speaker 1: you want to do.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 1: There really is a huge difference when it comes to
Speaker 1: picking a tree. So this sounds like an Aldic commercial,
Speaker 1: it is. It's just and I hope you guys are
Speaker 1: all following us over to Aldiko. In fact, I hope
Speaker 1: everybody who's listening right now knows that after the show
Speaker 1: today from one to two thirty, we're going to be
Speaker 1: over at Aldick and watching the craziness that's going on
Speaker 1: over there, right and it is crazy town over there
Speaker 1: right now. It's amazing that these guys are here, that
Speaker 1: we pulled them away from the store. But we're going
Speaker 1: to be over there just looking at the winter wonderland
Speaker 1: that is Aldick when we get there, and you'll be
Speaker 1: able to see just how amazing all of that is.
Speaker 1: All right, are we ready to go? Yeah, we're ready
Speaker 1: to go. Here's the thing. When we come back from
Speaker 1: the I'm going to be sitting down with one of
Speaker 1: my dearest friends here at the station, Sharon Belli. Oh,
Speaker 1: and I'm just so glad that you all here. You
Speaker 1: have tuned in to the House Whisper Live Audience Holiday
Speaker 1: show here at KFI.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: At iHeart Studios in Birdbank, California and the helpful Honda Lounge.
Speaker 1: Welcome home. Thanks for joining us on the program today.
Speaker 1: We're just having a really really casual show. I have
Speaker 1: always put myself under this burden to share absolutely as
Speaker 1: much information as I can get out of my brain
Speaker 1: with you about your home. Today is going to be
Speaker 1: a little bit of an exception to that rule, because
Speaker 1: today is like the one weekend a year that I
Speaker 1: kind of take off from content. Just we're celebrating the holidays.
Speaker 1: We're kicking off the holiday. Of course we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about We've already talked about some substantive things and
Speaker 1: we're going to continue to do that, but more than that. Today,
Speaker 1: we're going to take some time to talk to our
Speaker 1: live studio audience. We're going to take some time to
Speaker 1: talk to some of my dear friends, and I have
Speaker 1: one of them sitting here at the table with me
Speaker 1: right now here. She is. Now you heard her voice
Speaker 1: in that little intro that she and Conway did for
Speaker 1: me very graciously at the beginning of the show. She's
Speaker 1: really the brains of the outfit. I think you can
Speaker 1: all know that. Oh goscha, everybody. Sharon Bellio, thank you
Speaker 1: so much.
Speaker 4: It's so fun to be here.
Speaker 1: Buddy, thanks for inviting me. Oh my gosh, this is fun.
Speaker 1: I was so honored when you said you could make
Speaker 1: it up here because you live down in oc Yeah.
Speaker 2: I live in Irvine, so it's an hour drive. But
Speaker 2: on Sunday mornings you get here in like a half
Speaker 2: an hour.
Speaker 1: So it's true that would be nice, but it's still
Speaker 1: a Sunday morning for you to come out.
Speaker 5: It's okay.
Speaker 2: It's beautiful out and it's so nice to see everyone.
Speaker 2: This is a great turnout. And there were delicious burritos
Speaker 2: were were there?
Speaker 1: Yes? Oh you didn't get any? No? Oops? Who did
Speaker 1: the burritos? Michelle, is there a spot I'm supposed to
Speaker 1: read to acknowledge the burritos? Okay, I'm going to acknowledge
Speaker 1: the burritos shortly. Okay, they were good.
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm doing really well?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm ready for the Christmas, the holiday season.
Speaker 1: How do you guys celebrate Christmas? Well? Oh, here here's
Speaker 1: a better question. How do you celebrate Yeah? How do
Speaker 1: you celebrate Christmas now? And how did you do it
Speaker 1: when you were a kid, And what's the difference.
Speaker 2: We Honestly, the traditions were really strong when we were young,
Speaker 2: you know, Italian, Irish, Italian family decorating the tree. One
Speaker 2: thing I have an issue with now that.
Speaker 1: Are you telling me that the Irish and the Italians
Speaker 1: have strong opinions on things? Very very conflicting too.
Speaker 2: One thing I wanted to bring up about the tradition
Speaker 2: was when I grew up, you know, you had Thanksgiving
Speaker 2: and then the day after Thanksgiving you.
Speaker 1: Put up the Christmas tree.
Speaker 2: Well, people like putting trees up a little earlier, and
Speaker 2: so it's a big debate in my house because I
Speaker 2: would like to put the tree up a little earlier
Speaker 2: to enjoy it longer. But my husband's like, no, one
Speaker 2: holiday at a time. We'll put it up after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: But I was at a party last night and they
Speaker 2: have what they call fall trees up where they put
Speaker 2: the clear lights, and yeah, like like you know different.
Speaker 1: Fall that's what we do, do you? Yeah, when did
Speaker 1: you put it up? When did you start that up? Well? Well, okay,
Speaker 1: because of Tina's surgery, Yeah that was that, you know.
Speaker 1: And I said, okay, we gotta get a jump on it, right.
Speaker 1: And I used to be in the other camp when
Speaker 1: I was young and staunchly opinionated. Are we getting feedback
Speaker 1: between these bikes? Okay? I used to be at the
Speaker 1: other camp. I'm like, I'm not going to give into
Speaker 1: this commercialism just because Costco has Christmas trees in mid October.
Speaker 1: And now I'm like, when are the trees coming to Costco?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Because I am ready. I have lived enough decades now
Speaker 1: where it's like, you know what, I'm ready for some
Speaker 1: holiday cheer. So what we do is we we first
Speaker 1: we kind of scatter the whole autumn thing around. Right.
Speaker 1: We'll go down to the local farm and the vegetables
Speaker 1: stand there. We'll bring home a bunch of pumpkins and gourds,
Speaker 1: and at Underwood Farms out in More Park, we grab
Speaker 1: corn stalks, bunch of the corns, so we'll just like
Speaker 1: spread those all over the place. So there's your autumn thing.
Speaker 1: And then last week I put up all the lights
Speaker 1: on the house and there we got a tree, an
Speaker 1: outdoor tree that sits in the in the backyard and
Speaker 1: it's just clear, clear, white, just white, you know. And
Speaker 1: my neighbor Rodrigo, came across the street. He's like, Dean,
Speaker 1: what are you doing. Man, it's like two weeks before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: People are very I got to get the jump on it.
Speaker 1: But he decorates really well too, and I think he
Speaker 1: thought I was racing him, and I'm like, no, I
Speaker 1: don't want to do that, bro. I explained to him
Speaker 1: that Tina was gonna have surgery, and I just got it,
Speaker 1: you know, I gotta get this all out of the
Speaker 1: way first. But I kind of, I really, I'm all
Speaker 1: for it now. I'm all for it, you know, the
Speaker 1: idea of like why not, why not?
Speaker 2: Why not just bring such joy and like comfort to people?
Speaker 2: And I know I was at a party last night
Speaker 2: in her house was all decorated for autumn and had
Speaker 2: the trees, like you said, with the gores, and they
Speaker 2: were like painted silver and it was gorgeous. But the
Speaker 2: guests were divided, like, no, you can't do that. But
Speaker 2: then you know, after Thanksgiving she'll put the colors on
Speaker 2: and the ornaments, and I'm like, why not, it's.
Speaker 1: So beautiful, Yeah, exactly. So our lights are up now.
Speaker 1: The Christmas garland isn't up yet, but the lights are up,
Speaker 1: and there's the pumpkins are still laying out right, so
Speaker 1: it's still very autumny, just kind of a bright, sparkly autumn.
Speaker 1: And we don't have our tree the tree yet. But
Speaker 1: that's the interesting thing. If you go ahead and actually
Speaker 1: put ancillary stuff right, you start getting into the mood.
Speaker 1: And we're still build into it. I think we're still
Speaker 1: going to hit the tree right after Thanksgiving. Yeah, right here,
Speaker 1: because like the tree farm that we love to get
Speaker 1: our tree from, they don't even they're not even open
Speaker 1: until the day after Thanksgiving. So I can't even get
Speaker 1: that tree right now because we get a live tree
Speaker 1: and so but it's not like we're missing out because
Speaker 1: everything is there and then things will transition and that's
Speaker 1: so that's one of the lessons today is that it
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be all or nothing. You can layer
Speaker 1: in Christmas layering in one of you know, I say
Speaker 1: it all the time on the show. And by the way,
Speaker 1: this year, I'm committed to getting this done. I am
Speaker 1: committed to getting a video series of Tina and I
Speaker 1: and some others walking through Disneyland doing the The House
Speaker 1: Whispered Design tour of Disneyland. We're going to put up
Speaker 1: a series of videos. But one of the things that
Speaker 1: Disney does really well at Disneyland, right, Tina and I
Speaker 1: were there two three weeks ago. A few waths were up,
Speaker 1: the snow was on the castle, the lights on the
Speaker 1: castle were just white. Yea, not the whole multic you know.
Speaker 1: So Disneyland layers it in, layers it in all for that?
Speaker 2: Are you all for that? The layering in kind of Yeah, let's.
Speaker 1: Do the Christmas creep. That's what we're after, the Christmas
Speaker 1: creeping of the decrees. Yet it the Christmas creeping, all right.
Speaker 1: I got so much more to talk to Sharon Bellio
Speaker 1: about and we're gonna do it when we come back.
Speaker 1: Your Home with Dean Sharp the House Whisper.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Home With Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 3: KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 1: Dean Sharp, The House Whisper At your service, you have
Speaker 1: stumbled upon the annual House Whisper Holiday home show with
Speaker 1: a live studio audience coming to you live from the
Speaker 1: KFI studios in Burbank, California at the helpful Honda Lounge.
Speaker 1: And we were just spending some time talking to Sharon.
Speaker 1: Sharon is still with me, Sharon Bellio from the Conway Show. Yes,
Speaker 1: thank you. This is my morning to just have fun
Speaker 1: my friends. And so if you tuned in for tons
Speaker 1: of home advice, stay tuned because it's more interesting than
Speaker 1: normal because there's less of that and more of my
Speaker 1: friends like Sharon bell You. But one question that I
Speaker 1: was literally just talking to our studio audience about and
Speaker 1: it was time to get back on the air, and
Speaker 1: I thought, you know what, So somebody asked if there
Speaker 1: was anything special that our families did around the holidays
Speaker 1: and that made them, you know, exceptionally special. And my
Speaker 1: answer was yeah, but not anything beyond what you guys
Speaker 1: would all know that the idea of like, hey, have
Speaker 1: some good meals together, spend time with family together, you know,
Speaker 1: open a present on Christmas Eve. And you know, one
Speaker 1: of the things that I hope that I communicate on
Speaker 1: the show all the time is this concept that homes lives.
Speaker 1: They're built with very small pieces by brick. Not that
Speaker 1: we build homes with brick in southern California, please do
Speaker 1: not do that. But they're all built piece by piece,
Speaker 1: and then you step back one day and you're like, wow,
Speaker 1: look at that, Like we got a whole house here,
Speaker 1: and it looks great, right because we put in the effort.
Speaker 1: And that's really the discipline of craftsmanship. By the way.
Speaker 1: It's not just oh, what an amazing artist that person is,
Speaker 1: or Hey, how gifted they are with their hands and
Speaker 1: how they do this or that. The real challenge of
Speaker 1: craftsmanship is the ability to do that amazing thing ten
Speaker 1: thousand times in a row. Because that's what goes into
Speaker 1: making a house, right. It gets kind of banal and
Speaker 1: mundane at moments, and you just got to remember what
Speaker 1: it is that you're doing and what you're working toward,
Speaker 1: and you make every nail count, and you make every
Speaker 1: cut count and all of those kinds of things. So
Speaker 1: the point was that it's always the little things that count,
Speaker 1: and for us, our big secret, if there is one,
Speaker 1: is that the sharps just keep showing up even when
Speaker 1: we're not invited. We just keep showing up. We just
Speaker 1: keep showing up for life. And So what I was
Speaker 1: about to share and now I'm going to share on
Speaker 1: the air for everybody, is this very simple truth. I
Speaker 1: think it is that because life is made out of
Speaker 1: these tiny bits, really tiny bits. And of course there
Speaker 1: are mountaintop moments, sure, but mostly life is tiny bits
Speaker 1: of things, one after the other, day after day. Design.
Speaker 1: As a designer, I am keenly aware of this. The
Speaker 1: whole concept of a design, no matter what you are designing,
Speaker 1: whether you're designing homes, designing interiors, designing landscape, designing radio shows,
Speaker 1: designing any form of art, designing anything right, designing your life.
Speaker 1: The very essence of what design is is a manifestation
Speaker 1: of intention. That's what it is. Design is intentions formulated
Speaker 1: and made manifest into the world. Right, so someone looks
Speaker 1: at it and says, oh, whoa wow. You know, and
Speaker 1: in a good design you can see that intention. You're like,
Speaker 1: we intended this to have this effect, right, And and
Speaker 1: I think that's that's what I link as a designer
Speaker 1: in my life just sort of life philosophy to showing up.
Speaker 1: I just keep showing up right and every day imperfectly, incredibly,
Speaker 1: imperfectly and hit and miss, but you just keep having
Speaker 1: intentions for the day, having intentions for your life, having
Speaker 1: intentions for what you're doing, and you keep plucking away
Speaker 1: at it, and before you know it, you can kind
Speaker 1: of erase some of the mistakes and highlight the you know,
Speaker 1: the wins, and you keep building on the good stuff
Speaker 1: and editing out the bad. And then one day you
Speaker 1: step back and you're like, wow, we've built ourselves a
Speaker 1: pretty beautiful life out of this and it's working for us. Right,
Speaker 1: That's really That was really the heart and soul of
Speaker 1: why I ever wanted to do this show. And anyway,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to answer that question. So everybody, no, no,
Speaker 1: stop it, stop it all right, So back to the
Speaker 1: interesting people. Sharon Bellio from the Conway. Thank you, Sharon
Speaker 1: produces literally one of the finest radio shows in the nation.
Speaker 2: Okay, and yeah, uh ding dong dong ding dong. Yeah.
Speaker 1: See, I always hate to say that because it just
Speaker 1: did and I don't know, it just falls short, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the guy has.
Speaker 2: To say we had somebody email Tim and say could
Speaker 2: you stop with the he haws? They forgot what it was.
Speaker 2: It was ding dong. It's like, yeah, he has it's
Speaker 2: ding dong.
Speaker 1: Really, yeah, you know what there's this Okay, I'm going
Speaker 1: to share this on the air. The second thing I
Speaker 1: probably learned in radio from Robin when she was teaching
Speaker 1: me about all of this, because I was so new
Speaker 1: to it and no clue what I was doing. Was
Speaker 1: She's like, you know, we have this little inside joke
Speaker 1: and radio. Why do we call them listeners? That's the question.
Speaker 1: Why do we call them listeners? And I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't understand what that means. She's like, you will, you
Speaker 1: will understand. So, like a faithful fan of the Conway
Speaker 1: Show calls and says, stop it with the he haws.
Speaker 1: It's like, are you listening to you? Listen to the show.
Speaker 1: I've literally gotten emails from listeners who have said, Dean,
Speaker 1: listen to your show from day one, day one and
Speaker 1: love your show. We've been listening to you for almost
Speaker 1: eight years now. I'm just wondering, do you intend a
Speaker 1: dude design on this side? Yeah, yeah, we do, we do.
Speaker 1: It's incredible, it's amazing.
Speaker 3: They missed that.
Speaker 1: So all right, so I know this about you. You
Speaker 1: actually worked with a Conway before you worked with this Conway.
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 2: I worked with the I worked with the iconic Tim
Speaker 2: Conway before I met Tim Conway Junior.
Speaker 1: How wild is that? That's pretty wild with both. How
Speaker 1: many years was that before you met Tim?
Speaker 2: You already looked up on IMDb? What year was that?
Speaker 1: I forget? I was like ninety seven or something.
Speaker 2: Okay, ninety seven. There was a movie called Dear God
Speaker 2: with Greg Kannee you that they worked in the post
Speaker 2: office and they were getting letters to Santa and so
Speaker 2: was it just Santa?
Speaker 1: I think it was. He was like a con man
Speaker 1: who got community service.
Speaker 2: And he had post office and so they they got
Speaker 2: this group together and they were answering all the emails
Speaker 2: and helping out all these people. And Tim Conway was
Speaker 2: in this movie. And I got the part because I
Speaker 2: knew Gary Marshall, the incredible talented Gary Marshall, and he
Speaker 2: gave me a part. But Gary works where he just
Speaker 2: would walk up to the table and he's like, all right,
Speaker 2: you're talking, you're talking, and then somebody's gonna come in.
Speaker 2: He just wanted you to improv everything, and so I
Speaker 2: had this scene in this cafe and Tim Conway was
Speaker 2: doing what he does best, and he's just improving stuff
Speaker 2: and I'm on a phone and he comes up and he.
Speaker 1: Grabs the phone for me.
Speaker 2: It ended up getting cut from the movie, but I
Speaker 2: was able to work with Tim Conway. And then another
Speaker 2: time I was producing the Lakers broadcast and Tim was
Speaker 2: doing a Tim Conway was doing an episode of Yes
Speaker 2: Dear with former Governor Gray Davis, and at halftime they
Speaker 2: did a scene on the court and so I went
Speaker 2: down and I asked him to come on our halftime show.
Speaker 2: And my dad huge fan, like everyone, a huge fan
Speaker 2: of Tim Conway. And I said, would you call my dad?
Speaker 2: And he's like, sure, yeah, get him on the phone.
Speaker 2: So I called the house and he's in the bathroom
Speaker 2: and so I'm like, get him out of the bathroom.
Speaker 2: Tim Conway's on the phone, and so Tim Conway spoke
Speaker 2: to my dad for like five minutes. So I have
Speaker 2: a picture of Tim Conway on the phone with my
Speaker 2: dad and he was just the sweetest man that he
Speaker 2: could ever meet. And then flash fast forward, did I
Speaker 2: work with Tim Conway Junior? How wild is that?
Speaker 1: That is wild. By the way, if you look up
Speaker 1: your IMDb it says flame. It's really lame. It says
Speaker 1: that you're you're undercast for for that movie. You were
Speaker 1: cast as regular customer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a regular customer that ended up, you know,
Speaker 2: being cut from the regular customer.
Speaker 1: You are anything but a regular customer. I will tell
Speaker 1: you that right there. Oh my gosh. So what's the
Speaker 1: what's the most unique thing about working with Tim or
Speaker 1: just doing the show? Well, here's here's what I gotta
Speaker 1: say this, guys. You know, you guys know that I'm
Speaker 1: on with Tim every like Thursday Thursday. Yeah, that we
Speaker 1: do say they were They have been so embracing, so kind,
Speaker 1: so generous. Tim is an amazingly generous broadcaster. He's the
Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is that for somebody
Speaker 1: so iconic, right to share the mic with so many people.
Speaker 1: And you think about all the shows here and I'm
Speaker 1: not so not dissing anybody else here at KFI, but
Speaker 1: of all the shows on KFI, you guys have the
Speaker 1: one show where there's an entire cast of characters. Every night.
Speaker 1: You're on the air all the time. You know, Croze
Speaker 1: is on the air all the time.
Speaker 2: Angel And Yeah, Fush is the most inclusive person I've
Speaker 2: ever worked with, you know, because he finds everyone around
Speaker 2: him more interesting to talk to. He'll like, on the break,
Speaker 2: go down to the kitchen and come back with somebody
Speaker 2: and you know, have him tell your story, tell him
Speaker 2: about your shoe that just broke. And I don't know
Speaker 2: how he does it. He makes it sound really you know,
Speaker 2: exciting and important, like, well, what happened with the shoe.
Speaker 2: He's just he does that. He invites all local media
Speaker 2: to come on his show. He's not worried about competition.
Speaker 2: He just he wants the interesting story told. And that
Speaker 2: is like so unique in this business.
Speaker 1: And he's been so good to me.
Speaker 2: You guys, well, he has a lot of respect for
Speaker 2: you and.
Speaker 1: What you do. He just he's a fan of DIY
Speaker 1: and that kind of thing. He's like, you're gonna get
Speaker 1: him on the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, whenever he runs into what problem we got to
Speaker 2: get DNA.
Speaker 1: On and and so we talk and then after I
Speaker 1: go off, he just keeps talking. He's like that guy,
Speaker 1: that guy, he's such a liar. All right. Anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got to go to break and when we come back,
Speaker 1: more of the House Whisper Holiday Home Show live from
Speaker 1: KFI Studios here in Burbank.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 3: KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 1: Welcome home, you stumble into the House Whisper Holiday Home
Speaker 1: Show with our live studio audience here in Burbank, California,
Speaker 1: at the iHeart Studios in the helpful Honda Lounge. I
Speaker 1: got to make sure I say all these things, by
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Speaker 1: gave the Eggenberg burrito with the side of their housemade
Speaker 1: crack sauce. That doesn't sound right. It was good. It
Speaker 1: was good. I did not get one of those burritos,
Speaker 1: I think all neither did any of our listeners. Just
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Speaker 1: There you go, give it a track. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: keep saying it because I like that Eggenbert. It's a
Speaker 1: good name. Sharon Bellio is with me right now in studio. Hello,
Speaker 1: the unbelievable Sharon Bellio. Immensely talented, immensely intelligent, intuitive, performer
Speaker 1: and producer of The Conway Show and a very very
Speaker 1: kind person and one of my dear friends here at
Speaker 1: the station, and so she was very very kind to
Speaker 1: come on. So hang out. We're going to talk to
Speaker 1: these two core guys and if you have a question,
Speaker 1: chime in. Brian Gold from al To Combe and Mida Meda, Mida,
Speaker 1: all right, Mida, you guys got to share that, Mike.
Speaker 1: So during the first couple of segments of the show,
Speaker 1: they've been decorating this seven and a half foot Christmas
Speaker 1: tree here, an amazing looking tree that we're going to
Speaker 1: give away to somebody out here before we're done today.
Speaker 1: But the point is this, Okay, I see, I see
Speaker 1: kind of swirly things coming out, and we got to
Speaker 1: describe this because it's radio, you know, and there's all
Speaker 1: sorts of ornamentation, but it's sort of like their their
Speaker 1: clumps of ornaments that are almost on branches and they're
Speaker 1: swooping at different angles. Talk to me about the theory
Speaker 1: or the ideology of decorating a Christmas tree. How do
Speaker 1: you appro what's you know, because I know you're the
Speaker 1: wizard at Aldick who is in charge of all of
Speaker 1: this stuff.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I thought, you know, this morning, we could
Speaker 6: do something a little bit more fanciful. You know, with
Speaker 6: the different textures that we have at the store. We
Speaker 6: do offer a lot of traditional you know, the reds,
Speaker 6: the greens, and beautiful trees decorated in that way with gold.
Speaker 6: But you know, I thought, you know, we could do
Speaker 6: something a little bit different. So we have these great
Speaker 6: garlands that Rosie has put in. And Rosie's one of
Speaker 6: our talented designers. I can think it up, but I
Speaker 6: can't do this, and so she is awesome at doing
Speaker 6: all of this for us. So she started with the
Speaker 6: garland and it's you can wire that in and some
Speaker 6: people use ribbon, but we use the garland for this
Speaker 6: tree and incorporated color with these textured glitter stems that
Speaker 6: we have. And she's just starting to play some butterflies
Speaker 6: for us.
Speaker 1: So one of the things I've noticed that you guys
Speaker 1: do that a lot of beautiful it's true of a
Speaker 1: lot of beautiful trees, is that you've got the conical
Speaker 1: kind of plane of the tree, right this shape, that
Speaker 1: triangular cone shape. But you guys never hesitate to break
Speaker 1: that wall, as it were, with stuff that's like leaping
Speaker 1: out from the tree, whether it's whether it's feathered branches,
Speaker 1: whether it's reeds, whether it's like sparkly things like this.
Speaker 1: So the tree is filled with and we got it, Richie.
Speaker 1: We need to put some of this up on social
Speaker 1: so that people can see it. But yeah, so there's
Speaker 1: the cone of the tree and then there's all this
Speaker 1: stuff sticking out of it, which I don't know, a
Speaker 1: lot of people just don't don't have the courage to.
Speaker 6: Do that, I don't think, right, And I think that's
Speaker 6: the great liberty at the store. You know, some of
Speaker 6: these trees are just for show. And you will see
Speaker 6: some nine foot upside down Christmas trees that we have
Speaker 6: at the store, and it's not for everybody, but it's
Speaker 6: definitely you know, it's a wild kind of tree. And
Speaker 6: we have designers that come in from New York and
Speaker 6: Florida to come help us design these trees.
Speaker 1: So I've had people say that an upside down Christmas
Speaker 1: tree is sacrilegious, and I've had to say, Okay, can
Speaker 1: I just clarify that Christmas trees have no direct tie
Speaker 1: in with any religion whatsoever, first of all, and secondly,
Speaker 1: if you live in a small space, and now it's
Speaker 1: one thing we used to you know, you guys are
Speaker 1: the first ones who've ever done this that I am
Speaker 1: aware of. But for a lot of clients we used
Speaker 1: to take and we'd have to retrofit a regular tree,
Speaker 1: which is difficult to do to hang it upside down
Speaker 1: from the ceiling. You guys, don't actually hang your trees
Speaker 1: from the ceiling. You actually have designed a tree that
Speaker 1: people can buy that's on its own stand, but it's
Speaker 1: upside down with.
Speaker 4: A specil thin heavy they're nine feets all in all
Speaker 4: the weights at the top. But it's still super secure
Speaker 4: and right, so super awesome tree.
Speaker 1: So why would you use an upside down Christmas tree
Speaker 1: if you're not just a you know, like a decor wacko. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's why you would use it. Space savings, an upside
Speaker 1: down tree takes up all of its space on the ceiling,
Speaker 1: and by the time you get down to the floor,
Speaker 1: it's just this one little thing, all right, and then
Speaker 1: all the presence can go around. It can fit all
Speaker 1: around it without taking up any more space than a
Speaker 1: standard tree. Okay, And you can decorate an upside down
Speaker 1: tree really wildly because gravity makes things look different when
Speaker 1: they're hanging upside down from well, they're not hanging upside
Speaker 1: now when they're hanging from an upside down tree. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a bold maneuver. But that's one of the things
Speaker 1: you can get it out. You can actually buy a
Speaker 1: pre designed upside down Christmas tree. And I'm telling you
Speaker 1: if you live in a little apartment or you've got
Speaker 1: a tight little space, you know, and once you see it,
Speaker 1: you realize, oh it just it feels it feels right,
Speaker 1: it feels good. It's not like it's like, oh am
Speaker 1: I living in like a batman villain's layer. Year you know,
Speaker 1: it's not a weird thing. Does it sound like a
Speaker 1: weird thing? Do you use?
Speaker 2: When I initially saw it, it was like what are
Speaker 2: they doing? But yeah, you get used to the idea
Speaker 2: and I agree with you a small spaces.
Speaker 1: It's just another way of presenting your tree. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: really really wild. And then you guys leave gaps. I mean,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of trees at the store when
Speaker 1: there are no gaps whatsoever. In fact, this year, Brian
Speaker 1: Brian was telling me earlier I was at the store
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, and he's like, oh, in
Speaker 1: this tree, Dean, we haven't done this one for a while.
Speaker 1: Which is a tree that you can't see the tree
Speaker 1: at all.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Right, it's literally just ornaments. Just there's a tree in
Speaker 1: there somewhere, but somewhere. And so you guys decorate them
Speaker 1: very fully, but quite often some of the elegance is
Speaker 1: like holding back and letting some negative space show up
Speaker 1: in a tree. And so the idea that you've got
Speaker 1: these I don't know how I would call them kind
Speaker 1: of almost fountain drops of ornaments in clumps down the tree,
Speaker 1: and then right next to it on both sides you've
Speaker 1: got exposed green. It's really beauty. Do you guys think
Speaker 1: it's a good looking tree? Yes, it's a good looking tree.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna come back to our decor experts
Speaker 1: at Aldick In just a bit, but you know what,
Speaker 1: We're at the top of the hour, first hour already, right,
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