Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp, the
Speaker 1: House Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We've had
Speaker 1: some great calls. I need to spend some time back
Speaker 1: on our new stuff list, because that's the theme of
Speaker 1: today's show, new Stuff. I spent almost the entire first
Speaker 1: part of the show talking about Superwood because it has
Speaker 1: so many applications. If you missed that part of the show,
Speaker 1: definitely go back in the podcast and listen. You're gonna
Speaker 1: want to hear that. Now we're gonna switch from the
Speaker 1: very very serious implications industrial planetary implications of Superwood to
Speaker 1: something that's just fun and pleasant but no less technologically.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, the website is light l I g h T
Speaker 1: dot bio Light dot Bio. That's where you can see
Speaker 1: this and the thing that I'm talking about here are,
Speaker 1: in fact, the fire fly petunia. Okay, if you know
Speaker 1: what a petunia looks like. Petunias are lovely flowers. They
Speaker 1: work everywhere as annuals. Annuals meaning you know, they have
Speaker 1: their growth season and then a good frost and a
Speaker 1: heavy winter is going to take them out, and so
Speaker 1: you replant them every year as an annual for spring
Speaker 1: and summer and into you know, early fall in almost
Speaker 1: every region everywhere here in southern California. A petunia, it
Speaker 1: could really be considered kind of what would we say,
Speaker 1: a gentle a gentle perennial. In other words, if you
Speaker 1: live in an area where you don't get any frosts
Speaker 1: that hit petunias, will you know, hold on year round
Speaker 1: and they can really be a perennial that just stay
Speaker 1: there and keep on growing and keep on being a
Speaker 1: beautiful flower. There are great groundcover kind of colorful flower.
Speaker 1: They come in all different kinds of colors. They spread slowly,
Speaker 1: but spread nonetheless. They only get about ten to twelve
Speaker 1: inches tall, generally speaking, but they spread very thickly and
Speaker 1: very beautifully. Now, all right, it's all well and good,
Speaker 1: and if you put a landscape light on them at
Speaker 1: night you can enjoy them with the rest of your
Speaker 1: landscape in the evening. Unless unless you have gone to
Speaker 1: light dot bio and ordered yourself a glow in the
Speaker 1: dark petunia. Yeah bio. Luminescent petunias, Uh, they are called
Speaker 1: the firefly petunia, appropriately so because these petunias have been
Speaker 1: genetically engineered to glow in the dark, using the same
Speaker 1: essential bioluminescent molecule that fireflies use to glow in the dark.
Speaker 1: These petunias don't flash on and off. They don't flicker
Speaker 1: on and off. They just glow.
Speaker 2: And no they're not.
Speaker 1: They don't glow because like glowing the dark stuff that
Speaker 1: we use where it's got to absorb a certain amount
Speaker 1: of sunlight during the day and then they just glow
Speaker 1: for a while. No, they are always bioluminescing. They glow
Speaker 1: from sun up to sundown as long as they are
Speaker 1: alive and glowing, and it is just something everybody needs
Speaker 1: to go and check out.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: They're not cheap right now, Nor are they like some
Speaker 1: kind of Jurassic Park experiment.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: When we say genetically engineered, we simply mean that they
Speaker 1: have found a way of splicing the petunia gene together
Speaker 1: with a gene from a bioluminescent mushroom, Okay, and as
Speaker 1: a result, they've given these petunias that bioluminescent of vibe
Speaker 1: and they are just really a sight to behold. Imagine
Speaker 1: a bed of flowers in your backyard or your front
Speaker 1: yard that simply are gently and beautifully glowing green during
Speaker 1: the night, and you got to check it out. You
Speaker 1: just got to check it out, all right. Light dot
Speaker 1: Bio is the website, and go check out the Firefly Petunia.
Speaker 1: It's getting near the end of their stocking season, by
Speaker 1: the way, so you can purchase it directly from them.
Speaker 1: And I think they're running some sales right now. Not
Speaker 1: that that means that they're cheap, but it's just one
Speaker 1: of those things you gotta check out new stuff in
Speaker 1: the area of landscape beauty for your home. How about
Speaker 1: imagine the day when you know all of our homes
Speaker 1: have got the kinds of plants growing in them that
Speaker 1: are not only drought tolerant and that work well but beautifully,
Speaker 1: but also kind of like you know from James Cameron's
Speaker 1: avatar right Pandora, where the whole forest lights up at
Speaker 1: night because it is simultaneously beautiful in the daytime in
Speaker 1: bioluminescent plant life at night. Well, this is one step
Speaker 1: in that direction, the Firefly Petunia. Find it at light
Speaker 1: dot Bio. Okay, I got more for you. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about cutting edge televisions. You know that's always an interesting subject.
Speaker 1: Is there such a thing anymore? Or have we just
Speaker 1: gone all the way. Now, there's a couple of interesting
Speaker 1: developments in TV technology that you need to hear about.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about it right after.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to the program this morning. I hope you've
Speaker 1: been with us for a while. If not, you've missed
Speaker 1: some really really interesting things, everything from super wood that
Speaker 1: could change the way that we build and fly and drive,
Speaker 1: and all sorts of stuff in the future too, simplicity
Speaker 1: in the beauty of bioluminescent petunias that glow in the
Speaker 1: dark at night. So where do we go from here?
Speaker 1: In our show this morning?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Dedicated to new stuff? Well, I got some more stuff
Speaker 1: for you. I want to talk to you about some
Speaker 1: television technology that is relatively new. And why is Tina
Speaker 1: coming here with a big smile on her face?
Speaker 4: What do you?
Speaker 2: What do you? What are you smiling about? There? Bud?
Speaker 1: Wait, nobody can hear you? Get in here, Get on
Speaker 1: your get on your mic. What do you what? What's
Speaker 1: the deal you've got that like the cat that caught
Speaker 1: the mouse?
Speaker 2: Smile on your face? What's going on?
Speaker 4: So? I was listening to this guy on the radio
Speaker 4: and he was talking about these bioluminous and petunias. Yes,
Speaker 4: and I just bought some. It comes into three path
Speaker 4: of they said, smaller plants. I need lots of sun
Speaker 4: and some tender care. But yeah, we're gonna try them out.
Speaker 2: All right, and we'll video it.
Speaker 1: We'll do some videos. Are glowing our own glow in
Speaker 1: the dark. But yeah, you know what I didn't do
Speaker 1: any research on is whether glowing the dark plants at
Speaker 1: night attract you know, no, not mosquitoes, but critters. Right, Like,
Speaker 1: if you're a critter looking around to mess with things,
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, let's go to the glow and the
Speaker 1: dark stuff.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess we're gonna find out, Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: TVs Okay, Uh. This website address is too long to
Speaker 1: give you because it's one of those where it's buried
Speaker 1: in a larger website. But if you go to well,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. If you look up the LG that's
Speaker 1: LG right, the tech company, the signature O led TV,
Speaker 1: you will find the world's first now in production. And
Speaker 1: it ain't cheap.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting that you run out and buy this
Speaker 1: television I share this with you because this is cutting
Speaker 1: edge stuff. And every time I have ever shared cutting
Speaker 1: edge stuff with you on the program on a certain
Speaker 1: date in time, right, a couple three years later, suddenly, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's just the thing now, right, And that's why I'm
Speaker 1: sharing it with you, to encourage you that this kind
Speaker 1: of stuff is coming. One of the biggest problems with
Speaker 1: living in the digital media world that we all live
Speaker 1: in it from a designer perspective, okay, is what we
Speaker 1: do with the big black mirror, that giant black mirror
Speaker 1: that's so huge and so beautiful and so fun to watch.
Speaker 1: But when we're not watching it, is that even a thing? Yes,
Speaker 1: it is, when we're not watching it. What do we
Speaker 1: do with that when it's just taking it, when it's
Speaker 1: dominating a right, we find a way to hide it.
Speaker 1: We find a way to cover it up. Sometimes we
Speaker 1: turn to like the Samsung the Frame, which is a
Speaker 1: TV that mimics during the daytime, when it's not being watched,
Speaker 1: mimics a beautiful piece of artwork hanging on the wall.
Speaker 1: That's a totally effective way to do it. Or perhaps
Speaker 1: now we will have yet another option from LG which
Speaker 1: is a transparent TV. It's a transparent TV that stands
Speaker 1: on its own structure in a room, is completely viewable,
Speaker 1: high depth, you know whatever. K I think it's four
Speaker 1: K at a considerably large size when it's being viewed
Speaker 1: day or night. But when you turn the thing off,
Speaker 1: it becomes a transparent piece of glass. It also has
Speaker 1: some really funky and cool video elements that can be added,
Speaker 1: and artifacts during the day that can be added that
Speaker 1: just kind of show up in the glass that you
Speaker 1: know as plants or this or that, some cool stuff.
Speaker 1: But it is, yes, you heard it, it's transparent, Okay.
Speaker 1: So when it's off, it's a pane of glass set
Speaker 1: handsomely in kind of a contemporary you know book what
Speaker 1: looks like a bookshelf frame, free standing in the middle
Speaker 1: of a room, wireless to all of its speaker components.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and it has a limited application and a
Speaker 1: very very big price tag right now, Okay, limited application
Speaker 1: and big price tag.
Speaker 2: But for those of you.
Speaker 1: Who are like, yeah, okay, get practical, Dean, like I said,
Speaker 1: I have never introduced a technology here on the show,
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to electronics, don't they all initially
Speaker 1: come out with limited applications, limited esthetics and an incredibly
Speaker 1: high price tag.
Speaker 2: Yes they do.
Speaker 1: So I'm not telling you to go out and buy
Speaker 1: this for your home today. Maybe somebody is, certainly one
Speaker 1: of my clients might tap me on the shoulder tomorrow
Speaker 1: and say, hey, Dane, let's get our let's get our
Speaker 1: hands on one of those. Sure, sure, no problem. But
Speaker 1: the point is, I thought it would be interesting to
Speaker 1: share with you. Yep, even in the flat screen television market,
Speaker 1: even in a day and age when we are making
Speaker 1: television screens massive in size, wall size and proportions at
Speaker 1: times super bright, super super high death and you know,
Speaker 1: one inch thick or less these days, even in this world,
Speaker 1: there is room for it to go further. And uh,
Speaker 1: this gets like, you know, starts to go into like
Speaker 1: minority report area where the TV when it's not on
Speaker 1: is just a clear pane of glass that you can
Speaker 1: see right through in the room. Yeah, it is weird
Speaker 1: and uh, and yet it's true. And so they've worked
Speaker 1: out the cabling and the and all the power supple
Speaker 1: to it in such a way that it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: I got a contemporary application right now, But it's a
Speaker 1: beautiful thing, all right. One more along those lines is
Speaker 1: you know I talked about everything being super high deaf.
Speaker 1: Here's a problem with super high deaf. Number one, most
Speaker 1: of you are using super high deaf the wrong way,
Speaker 1: which we found out with our friends when we were
Speaker 1: traveling to Santa Fe. We sat down and talked to
Speaker 1: them about why the movie that they were watching looked
Speaker 1: weird to them. Okay, so number one, most of you
Speaker 1: are using super high deaf in the wrong way. I'm
Speaker 1: going to tell you and solve that problem for you
Speaker 1: when we come back. And secondly, one of the problems
Speaker 1: with super high deaf televisions are watching anything old on them,
Speaker 1: old movies, and by old, I mean you know anything
Speaker 1: that existed before the High Death four K eight. Hey world, Okay,
Speaker 1: they look weird.
Speaker 2: They look.
Speaker 1: Like they're vibrating, they look like they've got strange edges.
Speaker 1: They just super high depf brings out every single flaw,
Speaker 1: every grain of old film, every distortion of old videotape.
Speaker 1: Is there a way around it?
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 1: AI has solved that problem. And there's a company, a
Speaker 1: very large I tech company that you are familiar with,
Speaker 1: who is now selling an AI television that's smart enough
Speaker 1: to make old stuff look right, all right, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that using your TV right and that new technology
Speaker 1: right after.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: You are Home with Dean Sharp. The house Whisper. Home
Speaker 1: is the name of the show. The House Whisper is
Speaker 1: the name of your host. It's not my name, it's
Speaker 1: the thing. It's the thing they call me. I'm Dean Sharp. Hi,
Speaker 1: welcome home. We are talking new stuff today on the program,
Speaker 1: and we've talked about everything from super wood that could
Speaker 1: radically change manufacturing, home building, home living home structures into
Speaker 1: the future, to glow in the Dark petunias, which could
Speaker 1: just it's going to change my garden apparently because Tina
Speaker 1: just announced to me that she boughts some off of
Speaker 1: the light Dot Bio website, so I guess that's the
Speaker 1: thing that's happening soon. And also I talked to you
Speaker 1: about transparent televisions just before the break, and I still
Speaker 1: got some TV news for you. The thing, the side effect,
Speaker 1: the unexpected side effect, as everybody talks about, you know,
Speaker 1: higher and higher and higher resolution television sets, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, can I just say I get it? You know,
Speaker 1: we go from from four K to eight K. Now
Speaker 1: we're moving into eight K televisions. Uh, you know, it's
Speaker 1: all well and good. It's all well and good. Uh.
Speaker 1: And and if you're just and I guess if you're
Speaker 1: a if you're a video nerd or a visual nerd,
Speaker 1: then you know you long for the day where there's
Speaker 1: sixteen K and thirty two K and sixty four k,
Speaker 1: uh and so on. Actually, several years ago, Apple introduced
Speaker 1: what they call the retina display, which I believe is
Speaker 1: five K. I could be wrong about that five K
Speaker 1: the retina. We got to find out what the retina
Speaker 1: display is. But the point is this an Apple Retina display,
Speaker 1: which is somewhere in the lower ks, the lower thousands
Speaker 1: of resolution is actually and they were absolutely one hundred
Speaker 1: percent accurate about this indetectable pixelation with the human eye.
Speaker 1: So the point is, at some point you reach the
Speaker 1: threshold of what a human eye or an audio visual
Speaker 1: terms also audio terms of what the human ear can
Speaker 1: actually distinguish, and you know you're there. You're there at
Speaker 1: the threshold. So if you keep doubling the resolution and
Speaker 1: tripling the audio quality, it all goes.
Speaker 2: To waste on us. At some point.
Speaker 1: And so that, by the way, is a very valuable
Speaker 1: bit of information. When you go out shopping and you're
Speaker 1: one of those people who are attempted to just pay
Speaker 1: unbelievable amounts of money for the latest and greatest thing,
Speaker 1: the thought that one day you will bring home a
Speaker 1: twenty four thousand dollars television flat screen, and my five
Speaker 1: hundred and forty dollars flat screen looks exactly the same
Speaker 1: as yours does. I'm just saying because we've all gone
Speaker 1: beyond the threshold, and what's beyond the threshold of our
Speaker 1: visual acuity is simply that it's simply beyond the threshold. Okay,
Speaker 1: So you can't tell the difference between the two. So
Speaker 1: here's the thing, though, there are things in life that
Speaker 1: are that are sub four K and a K definitely technologies.
Speaker 1: For instance, when most directors are setting up their motion
Speaker 1: pictures and their makeup effects and their special effects and
Speaker 1: their environmental effects and so on and so forth, they're
Speaker 1: thinking in terms of motion picture screen quality. They have
Speaker 1: a certain resolution quality that they're looking for, and a
Speaker 1: four K, even now a four K TV can go
Speaker 1: way beyond that. That's why you watch certain films and
Speaker 1: maybe it's your thing to watch a film and see
Speaker 1: it differently than the way you would see it in
Speaker 1: the theater, But that's not my thing, you know, because
Speaker 1: as an artist, I want to see the art the
Speaker 1: way the artists intended. Okay, So we were with some
Speaker 1: friends this week and we were like, hey, do you
Speaker 1: guys keep your TV? Because the TV we were looking
Speaker 1: at was all set up weird at its highest possible resolution.
Speaker 1: Do you guys keep your TV always cranked up? The jutter,
Speaker 1: the jutter on your TV always cranked up to the maximum.
Speaker 1: And they're like, we have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: We have a four K TV, so that's just the
Speaker 1: way things look. And I'm like, actually not so. In
Speaker 1: your video visual settings on your television, your display settings,
Speaker 1: right the video settings on your TV, there is a
Speaker 1: place where you can go to and it's usually under
Speaker 1: expert controls. Okay, don't let that cause you any fear.
Speaker 1: Go to expert controls and you will find a setting
Speaker 1: for jutter, jutter, jutter. And if you have been sitting
Speaker 1: there watching TV and watching movies looking like they were filmed,
Speaker 1: like with video cameras for soap operas and not enjoying
Speaker 1: that experience, then you need to get into your jutter settings.
Speaker 1: Set it to manual on set it the jutter ju
Speaker 1: t ter down to zero. Okay, it does not change
Speaker 1: the resolution of your TV. You haven't just reduced four K.
Speaker 1: You're still seeing everything in four K. What the jutter is,
Speaker 1: it's kind of a It's a setting that where the
Speaker 1: sampling rate on the television is such that it removes
Speaker 1: blur motion blur, and that's an unnatural thing because we
Speaker 1: see motion blur ourselves. And it also affects the way
Speaker 1: that everything is receiving light refraction off of the screen.
Speaker 1: Suddenly a four K television with the jutter turned down
Speaker 1: to zippo or one, maybe suddenly the film the production
Speaker 1: looks the way that Hollywood intended it to look. Okay,
Speaker 1: and knowing that it's there now means you can change
Speaker 1: it whenever you want. So, if you're watching a nature documentary,
Speaker 1: crank that baby up, because the bald eagles are not
Speaker 1: wearing make and you will not be able to see
Speaker 1: them look weird. But if you take your average movie
Speaker 1: star on screen and crank the jutter way up, you
Speaker 1: will actually see the mistakes that the makeup artists have
Speaker 1: made you will and you don't want to, so turn
Speaker 1: it down.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Also, when you're watching sports, go ahead and crank it up.
Speaker 1: Crank it up if you want to see every detail
Speaker 1: with the minimal amounts of blur, but rank it back
Speaker 1: down when it's time to watch, you know, that latest
Speaker 1: blockbuster film. And yes, you are welcome. It's in your
Speaker 1: settings for not in your settings for Netflix and Apple
Speaker 1: TV or any No, it's in the television settings. You
Speaker 1: get the TV remote, you go to settings, and you
Speaker 1: go to the video settings, and you go to expert
Speaker 1: controls and you go to jutter jutter. Okay, there you go.
Speaker 1: Now in those in the spirit of that, there's always
Speaker 1: a problem with four K and higher resolutions. And you're
Speaker 1: watching something that was made in the eighties or the
Speaker 1: seventies or the sixties, or a classic film like Casablanca
Speaker 1: or something like that, you're watching these old lower resolution
Speaker 1: or you're watching like video from your camcorder from when
Speaker 1: you were a kid, or when your kids were.
Speaker 2: Even younger, and now your kids out it's all digital now.
Speaker 1: But anyway, lower resolution stuff, you know exactly what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. They look awful on a four K TV,
Speaker 1: except if you get from Samsung, and you go to
Speaker 1: Samsung now, and there are more than that manufacturer, but
Speaker 1: they're kind of the tip of the spear here Samsung.
Speaker 1: You look for a TV that not only is your
Speaker 1: four or AK, but you see the words smart AI upscaling,
Speaker 1: smart AI upscaling.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 1: It's an AI algorithm inside the television that knows when
Speaker 1: you're looking at something of lower resis what does the
Speaker 1: AI do? It gets into every pixel and it intelligently
Speaker 1: removes distortions, It removes missing artifacts that shouldn't be there,
Speaker 1: like scratches and dust, and it sharpens everything to a
Speaker 1: simulated four K resolution. And if you actually look at
Speaker 1: the you watch the the the commercial that's actually on
Speaker 1: the Samsung website for their smart A TV, you'll see
Speaker 1: exactly what. It's a family sitting there and mom and
Speaker 1: daughter look very similar, and you swear you're watching the daughter,
Speaker 1: the young daughter at her high school play or whatever,
Speaker 1: and you realize what you're watching is mom's video from
Speaker 1: when she was in elementary school during her play, an awful,
Speaker 1: low quality, degraded video that looks like they filmed it
Speaker 1: on their digital camera.
Speaker 2: Yesterday. Okay, that's smart stuff. There.
Speaker 1: There's a use of AI without it taking over the
Speaker 1: planet and controlling our lives. All right, So smart AI
Speaker 1: upscaling takes everything old and brings it into high deff
Speaker 1: the way it that it should be, or the way
Speaker 1: that it originally looked. It's pretty amazing stuff and you
Speaker 1: got to go check it out. And for the rest
Speaker 1: of you who aren't interested in that, who're just dealing
Speaker 1: with your existing four K TV, turn down the jutter
Speaker 1: and watch films the way that they were meant to
Speaker 1: be seen in the theater.
Speaker 2: All right, there you go. All right, we got more.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1: information you need there. All right, a couple of questions
Speaker 1: left over here from our stuff today, our new stuff list,
Speaker 1: specifically the TV tech stuff. Just to reiterate that AI upscaling,
Speaker 1: the new AI upscaling televisions. They use artificial intelligence to
Speaker 1: enhance the resolution of lower resolution content, making it appear
Speaker 1: more detailed and sharper on the TV screen. So instead
Speaker 1: of just simply enlarging pixels, it analyzes the image, adds
Speaker 1: new details where needed, and creates a higher resolution image.
Speaker 1: And it's really a remarkable thing, not absolute perfection, but
Speaker 1: such an improvement, such an improvement. And again to underscore
Speaker 1: you've got control of whether or not your television is
Speaker 1: giving you images the way that the producers of the
Speaker 1: content intended, which, in my opinion, is always the best
Speaker 1: way to see a piece of art, to see a
Speaker 1: piece of art the way the artist intended, as opposed
Speaker 1: to looking at it in in extreme conditions that are
Speaker 1: beyond And by controlling this, you are not reducing the
Speaker 1: four K or the eight K or the whatever K
Speaker 1: of your resolution. You're not. You know a lot of
Speaker 1: people say, well, there's no need to do that, because
Speaker 1: then I might as well have just bought a you know,
Speaker 1: a seven eighty pixel television. That's not the case. That's
Speaker 1: not the case at all. The resolution of the TV
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with the jutter effect that I
Speaker 1: want you to get control over. So you go into
Speaker 1: your control settings of your actual TV screen. You go
Speaker 1: to video and you will find the jutter controls that
Speaker 1: usually under expert controls, and there you can reduce it down.
Speaker 1: All right, one last thing I'm gonna throw at you,
Speaker 1: very very quickly. It's just it's interesting to UH to
Speaker 1: look at here, and that is UH one or more
Speaker 1: thing of How about an AI based smart health analysis
Speaker 1: toilet seat.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 5: Tina's just like what what, Yeah, I have to spell
Speaker 5: this out true lou t r u E l o
Speaker 5: O truelu dot com.
Speaker 1: It's not the only one out in the market, by
Speaker 1: the way.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: And what we're talking about is a is I'm sorry, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a it's kind of a camera system that analyzes
Speaker 1: what gets dropped in the bowl.
Speaker 2: Okay, uh.
Speaker 1: And it analyzes urine and stool samples for health related information.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And if you are sitting there saying wow, that goes
Speaker 1: beyond anything that that that area of my body is
Speaker 1: the last place in the world I ever want a
Speaker 1: camera looking that's not it's not looking at you, it's
Speaker 1: looking at the toilet bowl. But they have found ways
Speaker 1: of analyzing changes in stool and urine and that may
Speaker 1: indicate various health conditions, potentially aiding an early diagnosis, monitoring
Speaker 1: of gastro and testinal issues and other health problem I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just thought i'd share with you at the end,
Speaker 1: because you know, it's a thing. Go take take a
Speaker 1: look at a toilet seat that you can add to
Speaker 1: your existing toilet. That tells you way more than you
Speaker 1: want to know about what's coming out of that end
Speaker 1: of you the truelu dot com t r U E
Speaker 1: l o o dot com and the the Inventor is
Speaker 1: there and he has quite an interesting little video and
Speaker 1: a self confession about himself too. That's always that's always
Speaker 1: worth five minutes a fun All right.
Speaker 2: Here we are at the end.
Speaker 1: I'm going to leave you with this thought today, and
Speaker 1: for those of you who are watching this on video
Speaker 1: as an after all, because we're going to post this
Speaker 1: on social media. We didn't have time to set the
Speaker 1: cameras up, so Tina's holding the camera handheld, so I'm
Speaker 1: going to be looking up and down from my notes
Speaker 1: here as I read this off to you. But anyway,
Speaker 1: here we go. Every time I gaze at something very
Speaker 1: big or very old or both, like the night sky,
Speaker 1: or here in southern California, the Pacific Ocean, or the
Speaker 1: Grand Canyon, which we were at a few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: or ancient cliff dwellings in Bandali, or New Mexico, which
Speaker 1: we had the privilege of seeing just a few days ago,
Speaker 1: or a grove of giant sequoias, or the countless peaks
Speaker 1: of the Eastern Sierras where I spent much of my childhood,
Speaker 1: or sometimes just an oak tree that may be growing
Speaker 1: just down the street. If I gaze at something very
Speaker 1: big or very old, if I look long enough, long
Speaker 1: enough to measure my physical stature against it, or the
Speaker 1: length of my life against such a thing, it makes
Speaker 1: me feel very small, very small. It makes my whole
Speaker 1: life and existence feel small. It's at first a very
Speaker 1: uncomfortable and disruptive feeling, like I'm facing a truth that
Speaker 1: I don't normally see about myself. That I am, in truth, insignificant, unwanted,
Speaker 1: or unnecessary. That's what it feels like at first. But
Speaker 1: then that changes a little bit. I never stop feeling
Speaker 1: small or insignificant, or at times unnecessary, but I do
Speaker 1: stop feeling unwanted. It's not that such great things are
Speaker 1: longing for me to be there with them, but I
Speaker 1: do realize they don't particularly have me in mind that
Speaker 1: I'm there, or that they mind at all that I'm there.
Speaker 1: Such things hold no bias against me, and I am
Speaker 1: welcome to be there and to be a participant, however
Speaker 1: puny my role of whatever is happening there. That works
Speaker 1: out to be the case. So, in a word, it's humbling.
Speaker 1: It's not discouraging or depressing, just humbling, and over time
Speaker 1: I've grown to deeply appreciate that feeling what that does
Speaker 1: for me. I think of such experiences as a small
Speaker 1: dose of what's known as the overview effect. The overview effect,
Speaker 1: if you've never heard of it, is what happens to
Speaker 1: astronauts who have had the awesome and terrifying privilege to
Speaker 1: be far enough away from home to see our entire
Speaker 1: planet as the fragile blue world, with its paper thin
Speaker 1: atmosphere under which all of human existence has ever taken place,
Speaker 1: every life, every death, every human thought and feeling, every
Speaker 1: everything floating on a tiny round wrath in the infinite
Speaker 1: blackness of space. That has an effect on you seeing
Speaker 1: such things. Changes when entire cities are just specs of light,
Speaker 1: When you see that the world is so small, when
Speaker 1: you realize the lines between countries don't actually really exist,
Speaker 1: When you realize at that moment that there is no
Speaker 1: us and them, there is just we, and that we
Speaker 1: are all in this together. That is why the vast
Speaker 1: majority of those who have seen such things come back
Speaker 1: preaching the same message. Lift up your eyes from your
Speaker 1: small life, see the world for what it is, See
Speaker 1: your life for what it is, and let's find a
Speaker 1: way to be here together. Because the truth is there
Speaker 1: is no us, there is no them, there is only we.
Speaker 1: But I have never been to space. I have no
Speaker 1: plans to go there. So for me, I make sure
Speaker 1: I regularly get myself to the things that are very
Speaker 1: big or very old or both. To see myself in
Speaker 1: that way. It's not hard to do, no matter where
Speaker 1: you live. They're all around it. So why would I
Speaker 1: want to make my life seem so small? Because it's true,
Speaker 1: that's why. And it's humbling, and that's good, that's very
Speaker 1: very good. And you know what also gets smaller my problem.
Speaker 1: It's always a beneficial side effect of the humility, the
Speaker 1: humility of experiencing awe and wonder in my life. So
Speaker 1: just a suggestion, that's all. It's not the worst thing
Speaker 1: to get a change in perspective and experience a little
Speaker 1: of your own overview effect the kind of thing that
Speaker 1: makes you make the most of what you have, what
Speaker 1: little we really have, And it's the kind of thing
Speaker 1: that gets you busy building yourself a beautiful So I'll
Speaker 1: leave you with that today. I hope you have a
Speaker 1: fantastic afternoon and enjoy the day, take it for all
Speaker 1: that it is. Don't be afraid of feeling small, because
Speaker 1: you are, and make the most of the life is
Speaker 1: in your hands. And we'll see you right back here
Speaker 1: next weekend. This has been Home with Dean Sharp, the
Speaker 1: House Whisper. Tune into the live broadcast on KFI AM
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