WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:04.040 KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp the 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:11.000 House Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app today on 3 00:00:11.039 --> 00:00:14.759 the show, We're gonna have some fun today. Today is 4 00:00:15.119 --> 00:00:20.000 one of my regular fixtures every year. We usually do 5 00:00:20.039 --> 00:00:23.519 it maybe once or twice a year. New stuff. I 6 00:00:23.559 --> 00:00:27.719 got a pile of new stuff for you, new stuff 7 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:34.000 related to home building, home design and decor, outside landscaping, 8 00:00:34.039 --> 00:00:37.479 all just all sorts of new stuff. And has there 9 00:00:37.479 --> 00:00:41.200 been any special event that has prompted this, Nope. I 10 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:45.759 simply keep this list going throughout the year. I always 11 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:49.399 have a list sitting on my computer of new stuff 12 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:52.799 that we've looked into that has fascinated me, that's caught 13 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:56.679 my attention. And when the list gets long enough, I'm like, yep, 14 00:00:56.799 --> 00:00:59.719 that's a show, and so let's do a new stuff 15 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:02.520 show and clear the board as it were. So that's 16 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:04.959 what we're talking about today, and of course it will 17 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:07.719 also leave a little bit more room than normal I 18 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:11.599 hope for your calls. So we'll be taking calls today 19 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:14.680 as we always do, and maybe a few more than normal. 20 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:19.760 The number to reach me eight three three two. Ask 21 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:23.439 Dean A three three. The numeral two and then you 22 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:28.959 just spell out, ask Dean. Eight three three two Ask Dean. 23 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:33.319 Producer Matt Toffler is standing by. The phone lines are 24 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:36.359 open right now. You can jump in the queue. You 25 00:01:36.359 --> 00:01:39.400 can listen to the show while you wait, and anything 26 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:41.439 that you've got on your mind. The cool thing about 27 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:45.079 calls is you get to set the agenda. So I'm 28 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:47.200 talking about new stuff, but you and I, we don't 29 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:48.959 have to talk about new stuff. If you call in, 30 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:53.040 we can talk about design issues, instruction questions, we can 31 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:57.840 talk about architecture, we can talk about landscape, anything atall. 32 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:00.280 We talk about you know, what color the friend on 33 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:04.000 your pillow on your sofa should be, Anything and everything 34 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:08.879 related to home. That's what I'm here for. So throw 35 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:12.280 your head scratching questions at me and we'll put our 36 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:14.800 heads together. You and me, we'll figure it out. Eight 37 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:18.240 three three two ask Dean. And the phone lines are 38 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:22.039 open right now. All right, let me introduce you to 39 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:26.360 our awesome team. Elmer is on the board. Good morning, Elmer, 40 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:30.800 Good morning Dean. Did I did I catch you by surprise? There? 41 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:31.360 Bud No. 42 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:36.199 I was waiting for it, anticipating it. 43 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:38.000 Good to be with you, my friend. Good to be 44 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:43.039 with you likewise, like I said, producer Matt Toffler, not 45 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:46.479 near a microphone. I don't think he is Matt near 46 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:53.479 a mic Matt, Yes, there you are. Good morning Matt. 47 00:02:54.120 --> 00:03:00.240 Good morning Dean. That is the beautiful voice that you're 48 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:02.919 going to hear when you call in. Matt will tell 49 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:05.120 you everything you need to know, set you all up 50 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:06.960 so that you can come on the air with me 51 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:09.639 and we can talk about your home. So Matt is 52 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:12.639 standing by waiting and looks like, is there a call 53 00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:16.759 already coming in? Maybe? Maybe my buddy Eileen Gonzales at 54 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:20.199 the news desk, Good morning, Eileen, Good morning Dean. How's 55 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:22.759 it going. It's going good. How are you? How are 56 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:23.719 you doing good? 57 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:24.759 Just waking up? 58 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:27.879 Still working on it. Beverage of choice over there in 59 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:28.439 the booth there. 60 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:32.159 Yeah, today I switched it up. I'm doing a yerbamate. 61 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:36.080 It's exciting, isn't it? 62 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:39.759 Your bamt. That's like a whole thing. Yeah, that's a 63 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:43.159 oldish Have you ever done have you ever actually like 64 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:48.800 gone down into South America and you know Argentina, Brazil 65 00:03:48.919 --> 00:03:52.759 where where erbamates are like the culture and shared like 66 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:54.319 a communal yerbamt. 67 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:56.840 No, but I've seen it. I'm familiar with how they 68 00:03:56.879 --> 00:03:59.560 do it. They put in these like wooden mugs, right, 69 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:01.400 put it in wooden mugs. 70 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:05.240 Yeah, it's kind of tea and for them, and it's 71 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:08.759 more popular than coffee, which is amazing in South America 72 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:11.719 that you know, where so much of our coffee comes 73 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:15.960 from South and Central America. And uh, and everybody's got 74 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:20.319 their own little stainless steel straw that they that they 75 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:22.680 that they use and it's kind of it's kind of 76 00:04:22.680 --> 00:04:23.319 a cool thing. 77 00:04:23.639 --> 00:04:26.360 Well I'm just using a paper cup today, so all right, 78 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:28.519 not getting fancy here, but yeah. 79 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:31.079 No, it just it just just sparked all of that 80 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:33.920 thing in my brain where I just connect all the dots. 81 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:34.920 Yeah, it's pretty cool. 82 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:38.319 How the tradition of it's pretty cool. Yeah, College students 83 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:42.839 South American college students swear by yurbamonte because they they claim, now, 84 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:46.879 I I've had it a few times, but never never, 85 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:49.600 I mean I've never really gotten you know, hooked on 86 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:53.959 it per se. But they claim that just the chemical 87 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:57.720 compounds in urbamonte, you know, the caffeine has its full 88 00:04:57.720 --> 00:05:00.560 effect without it, and it smooths you out same time, 89 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:02.839 wakes you up and smooths you out so you never 90 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:05.480 get the nervous jitters. Have you ever found that I think 91 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:07.959 I've heard. I'll keep you posted on that. All right, 92 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:11.560 tank it, tank as much as you can in the 93 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:15.759 next half hour, and then report back in. Let me 94 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:20.360 know how you feel. We'll do all right. Now, This 95 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:23.519 is when I normally say, you know what, I think 96 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:27.720 everybody needs to write some emails in because my partner here, 97 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:31.879 she's been a little loose with with getting into the 98 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:34.639 studio on time. She's around here, somewhere. I don't know 99 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:37.000 where she is, but this is when and she told me, 100 00:05:37.319 --> 00:05:39.319 she said, hey, I got to make a call, but 101 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:41.879 don't worry. I'll be in there in time to say 102 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:46.360 hi to everybody on the air. And no, no, she 103 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:48.600 didn't make it. But this is when I normally say, 104 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:51.759 my better half, my design partner, my best friend in 105 00:05:51.800 --> 00:05:54.439 all the world, Tina is here. And Tina is here. 106 00:05:56.439 --> 00:06:00.639 That is the shadow of her spirit moving through the halls. 107 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:04.959 But uh, she's close by, so again she will have 108 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:07.839 to disrupt the show when she finally gets in and 109 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:10.279 I can tell everybody that she's here. But she's here, 110 00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:12.920 She's here, I promise she's here. We'll prove it in 111 00:06:13.079 --> 00:06:17.199 just a bit. All right, new stuff plus your calls today. 112 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:19.879 Here's the number one more time eight three three two 113 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:25.519 ask Dean eight three three the numeral TWOEP ask Dean 114 00:06:26.600 --> 00:06:28.240 new stuff right after. 115 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:33.120 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from KFI. 116 00:06:33.319 --> 00:06:36.079 AM six forty. 117 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:42.920 Uh TARTI she got a TARTI slip welcome home. Tina's here. 118 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:47.040 I am here, here, I am Oh look at that 119 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:47.759 excuse you. 120 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:51.600 I had an important phone call. I know you did. 121 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:54.360 I told everybody you had an important Well. I didn't 122 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:55.920 say it was important. I just said you had a 123 00:06:55.920 --> 00:06:57.600 phone that's important to me. And I said that you 124 00:06:57.639 --> 00:06:59.120 told me you're going to take that call, and that 125 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:01.319 you promise you would be in here on time. And 126 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:03.399 then I wasn't. Then you weren't. I was standing at 127 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:05.160 the door. You're like, it's too late. I'm like, ah 128 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:07.199 on dart. You were standing at the door as we 129 00:07:07.279 --> 00:07:10.519 went to break, looking at me like huh me, time 130 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:13.439 for me now, I'm like, skill away, just go away, 131 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:16.959 just go away. But here you are here. I am. 132 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:18.920 As much as I want to be upset with you, 133 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:26.839 I'm too cute. Yeah, pretty much, pretty much pretty much. 134 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:31.360 You're just too adorable. You're too much my friend. That's right, 135 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:36.560 that's a problem. Sometimes it's just a problem. Anyway, everybody, 136 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:41.720 as promised, Tina delivered here. She is well, I delivered 137 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:43.920 her to you. She did not do this. It's me 138 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:47.639 to give me the credit. But Tina's here, so everybody 139 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:50.800 can relax. Okay, Yes, they're going to keep on. They're 140 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:52.959 going to keep listening now because they're like, well, Tina's 141 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:55.000 not showing up. But it's something you listen to that 142 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:59.959 jackass talk for three hours alone. So anyway, all right, 143 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:05.519 there you are good, Go your way, go your way now. 144 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:09.160 Literally she's leaving the studio again, what is the deal? 145 00:08:10.360 --> 00:08:15.160 Oh my goodness, all right, she'll be back anyway. Hey, 146 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:18.240 follow us on social media. We only do the good kind. 147 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:21.560 Just a reminder, we're on all the usual suspects. You know, 148 00:08:21.639 --> 00:08:23.800 I'm not going to name them all. We're probably there. 149 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:28.600 Home with Dean is the handle, same handle for all 150 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:30.560 of them. So you can find us. 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Go to house Whisper dot design for 162 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:12.320 more information or to sign up for an in home 163 00:09:12.360 --> 00:09:16.279 console house Whisperer dot Design. And one more time. The 164 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:19.600 number to reach me this morning eight three three two 165 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:23.759 Ask Dean A three to three the numeral two ask Dean. 166 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:27.120 Phone lines are open now, Producer Matt standing by taking 167 00:09:27.159 --> 00:09:31.080 your calls all right, right off the top, I might 168 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:33.879 as well just share with you the thing that everybody's 169 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:35.919 wanted to talk to me about this week since I 170 00:09:36.039 --> 00:09:38.000 brought it up. I brought it up on Conway, we 171 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:40.039 talked about it, and I brought it up on wake 172 00:09:40.120 --> 00:09:44.200 up Call with Amy King. We talked about it right 173 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:48.919 at the top of the pile of new stuff. Superwood. Superwood. 174 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:54.519 What in the world is superwood? Well, it is something 175 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:59.279 that I think I think is quite likely going to 176 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:03.639 revolution ize certain aspects certain not every aspect, but certain 177 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:08.279 aspects of home building and home construction on a lot 178 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:11.440 of different levels, the residential level, and maybe even into 179 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:16.600 commercial and industrial levels as well. Super Wood, first of all, 180 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:21.519 is not a wood, a one particular kind of wood. 181 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:24.200 It's not like, oh, somebody have figured out how to 182 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:26.480 grow a different kind of wood. No, no, no, no, 183 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:31.519 it's better than that. Actually, it is actually a process 184 00:10:32.039 --> 00:10:36.679 through which any kind of wood virtually can pass in 185 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:42.799 order to give it superior quality, strength, to weight ratios 186 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:45.879 and things like that. So understand this that superwood is 187 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:51.039 a process. It's patented, I believe, it's developed by a company. 188 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:52.440 And you can check this out. If you want to 189 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:54.840 check it out more thoroughly than I have time to 190 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:57.799 go in detail here on the show, you can go 191 00:10:57.919 --> 00:11:00.600 to I believe. Let me just make sure this link 192 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:06.759 is correct here inventwood dot com. Yep, that's true. Invent 193 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:10.879 wood dot com is the website. It's the only place 194 00:11:10.879 --> 00:11:13.399 where you're going to find it. It is the home 195 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:17.639 of Superwood. Superwood is put together by a research team, 196 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:21.840 and that research team has now received funding, not a 197 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:26.080 not an unbelievable amount of funding in today's world. It's 198 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:30.039 something like fifty million or sixty million or so, which 199 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:32.799 is enough to get the ball rolling if you're serious 200 00:11:32.840 --> 00:11:35.279 about actually producing a product. But you know in the 201 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:37.919 end they're going to have to sell it and and 202 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:40.279 it will grow from there. But here is the thing 203 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:44.840 about superwood. What's the deal. Superwood is a process that 204 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:54.840 densifies regular timber, engineered to be stronger than steal and 205 00:11:55.360 --> 00:12:00.440 resistant to fire and rot and pests. Yeah, it's amazing, 206 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:03.480 and it's really what it is the brilliance here. It's 207 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:07.159 not an entirely new technology per se, but it is 208 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:11.360 a combination of a couple of different technologies. Now if 209 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:15.720 I can set these the scene for you for a while. 210 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:21.200 Now you've heard me talk about thermally treated lumber. Thermally 211 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:24.360 treated lumber is when we take a species of wood, 212 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:27.279 any species of wood, even species of wood or maybe 213 00:12:27.399 --> 00:12:31.480 especially species of wood that you wouldn't normally expose to 214 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:38.679 outside weather conditions, and we put it under a moisture 215 00:12:38.840 --> 00:12:45.200 and heat intense heat process pressure process by which many 216 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:48.000 of the well, let's just say in terms of food, 217 00:12:48.120 --> 00:12:52.720 carbohydrates and sugars in the wood are converted under high 218 00:12:52.759 --> 00:13:00.639 heat and pressure into a form which renders them unsceptible 219 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:07.320 to moisture, damage, to rot, and to bugs, to like termites, 220 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:10.759 that kind of thing. That technology has been around for 221 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:13.240 quite a while now, because I've been talking about it 222 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:17.200 for years and years, and I've had the pleasure of 223 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:22.200 using thermally treated lumber in order to produce certain effects. 224 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:24.480 Like we want a certain deck to just look a 225 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:27.720 certain way, and so we pick a species of wood 226 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:30.399 that is just perfect. But it's like, normally you're scratching 227 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:33.039 your head saying you shouldn't put that wood outside. That's 228 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:35.399 not the right wood to put outside. But it's okay 229 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:38.519 if we use the thermally treated version of that wood, 230 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:41.360 because it changes the way it behaves, all right, So 231 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:45.240 set that process to the side. Okay. Pressure and heat, 232 00:13:45.399 --> 00:13:50.000 pressure and heat, okay, does some incredible things to natural materials. 233 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:53.639 And then there's another process. There's a process and you know, 234 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:55.519 I had to look this one up because unless you're 235 00:13:55.559 --> 00:13:58.519 in the publishing industry or something, you wouldn't know about this. 236 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:04.399 But there's a process of soaking wood or boiling wood 237 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:09.720 in a couple of different chemicals, and those chemicals tend 238 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:15.480 to hollow out what's called the the lignans and the 239 00:14:15.559 --> 00:14:20.639 hemi cellulose, okay, inside of a piece of wood. And 240 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:22.960 this is a process that's been around for a long 241 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:28.000 time because apparently it's the beginning of taking wood and 242 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:31.279 creating paper pulp. Okay, this is like the process of 243 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:34.879 being able to break down wood into paper pulp. All right. 244 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:38.960 So if we take this process of boiling wood in 245 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:43.399 these couple of chemical steps, and as a result, what 246 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:47.559 we remove is not all the cellulose, but most of 247 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:52.320 the hemicellulose and the lignans in the wood, which, by 248 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:57.159 the way, fyi are the yummy parts if you're a termite. 249 00:14:57.240 --> 00:15:00.279 All right, So what we're doing is we're removing that's stuff. 250 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:05.399 So imagine, imagine, if you will. Everybody has seen a 251 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:09.039 piece of wood that has been devastated by termites. Right 252 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:12.120 you actually touch it, it feels a little spongy. The 253 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:14.679 reason it feels spongy is because there's all sorts of 254 00:15:14.759 --> 00:15:20.360 hollow tube tubules channels in it now where hemicellulose and 255 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:25.039 lignans used to be but have been eaten up. Okay, 256 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:30.320 So now we take that piece of spongy wood and 257 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:35.600 then we put it under the heat pressure. Okay, because 258 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:40.440 the heat and intense pressure, and the heat and the 259 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:45.240 intense pressure causes the walls of those empty cavities to 260 00:15:45.960 --> 00:15:50.159 molecularly bond with each other again, So we can reconnect 261 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:52.919 the wood. Now we can press it down. The wood 262 00:15:53.200 --> 00:15:57.840 ends up, as I understand it, reducing in thickness by 263 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:02.799 four fifths. It ends up one fifth the dimension that 264 00:16:02.879 --> 00:16:07.320 it was before the process. But what we get, what 265 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:10.000 we get on the other side, Well, i'll give you 266 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:11.799 the specs right after. 267 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:16.240 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 268 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:17.799 KFI AM six forty. 269 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:22.240 We are having some fun this morning. We're talking about 270 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:24.840 new stuff, which is something I do from time to 271 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:27.600 time as soon as my list of new stuff gets 272 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:29.799 large enough to say, hey, I got a whole show 273 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:33.159 of it. Now. So today's the day? Here? The uh 274 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:36.080 is today? The yes, it is. It's first day of 275 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:42.000 June twenty twenty five. Holy cow, Where where is the 276 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:47.399 year going? Oh? My goodness, already in June. Well, it's 277 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:49.919 it's a beautiful weekend here in southern California. I hope 278 00:16:49.919 --> 00:16:53.120 wherever you are that the weather is treating you as 279 00:16:53.200 --> 00:16:57.519 well as ours is. Here we whine and complain because oh, 280 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:00.720 it's too hot. It's too hot. It's it's going to 281 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:04.839 be like seventy eight today most places in socol. So yeah, 282 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:07.160 I know we are whimps when it comes to that. 283 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:10.799 It's lovely here, and it's going to stay lovely for 284 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:13.119 most of the week as far as I know, mid 285 00:17:13.160 --> 00:17:16.640 seventies ish most of the time. Yeah, of course it's 286 00:17:16.640 --> 00:17:19.000 going to get hot. Summer is on its way. Summer's 287 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:26.559 like only that's close, right, like two three weeks away. Yeah, okay. Anyway, 288 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:32.319 we have left you hanging with this first item on 289 00:17:32.359 --> 00:17:34.960 the list, which is worthy of, you know, a few 290 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:39.920 segments to discuss it. Super Wood was tossed across my 291 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:44.680 desk quite a few weeks ago. I don't just see 292 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:47.200 a thing and then run and talk to you about it, 293 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:50.440 because I like to look into things first, just to 294 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:54.200 make sure that you know, I'm not promoting something that's 295 00:17:54.440 --> 00:17:58.119 not real or fad or whatever. I had some conversations 296 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:03.079 with the folks over it invent would. I've read several articles. 297 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:06.039 I'm staring at one from Scientific American right now that 298 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:10.680 was written back in February of twenty eighteen, when the 299 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:15.440 process was first being discussed and released to the larger 300 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:19.359 scientific and industrial community. So I'm telling you this is 301 00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:21.680 a real thing. It's a legit thing. And again, it's 302 00:18:21.720 --> 00:18:25.200 not a wood, it's not a species of wood. It's 303 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:29.160 not some way that we've figured how to genetically modify 304 00:18:29.200 --> 00:18:31.799 and grow a tree. More on that later. I do 305 00:18:31.880 --> 00:18:35.079 have a plant on our list today that's been genetically 306 00:18:35.119 --> 00:18:39.559 modified that we'll talk about in a bit. But super 307 00:18:39.559 --> 00:18:42.319 wood is a process, and it really is a brilliant 308 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:46.880 combination of a couple of processes that already exist. One 309 00:18:47.519 --> 00:18:50.720 the way that we take wood and boil it and 310 00:18:50.759 --> 00:18:53.559 get it ready to make paper pulp. And by the way, 311 00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:56.119 for those of you science nerds out there who are 312 00:18:56.160 --> 00:19:01.440 wondering what are those chemicals, the the two step process 313 00:19:01.480 --> 00:19:05.160 starts with boiling wood in a solution of sodium hydroxide 314 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:09.759 and sodium sulfite. That's a treatment very similar to the 315 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:13.440 first step in creating a wood pulp used to make paper. 316 00:19:13.880 --> 00:19:18.279 So that's been around for long, long, long long time. Secondly, 317 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:22.240 the thing that's also been around is putting wood under 318 00:19:22.960 --> 00:19:25.680 high heat and high pressure. And if you do these 319 00:19:25.720 --> 00:19:30.279 two things one step after the other, if you then 320 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:35.640 take the boiled wood, which as a result, has largely 321 00:19:35.759 --> 00:19:41.559 lost most of what's called hemi cellulose okay, and lignins, 322 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:44.799 which are the yummy parts that bugs want, and also 323 00:19:44.839 --> 00:19:48.559 the areas that are most susceptible to moisture and rot 324 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:51.240 and all that kind of stuff. We've removed that now 325 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:53.799 from the wood. But now the wood is full of holes. 326 00:19:54.240 --> 00:19:57.720 And if you then take that wood under heat and pressure, 327 00:19:58.799 --> 00:20:03.920 then those walls collapse that are holes maintain that compression 328 00:20:04.119 --> 00:20:07.960 as it's gently heated, and the pressure and heat encourages 329 00:20:08.039 --> 00:20:13.000 the formation of chemical bonds between large numbers of hydrogen 330 00:20:13.079 --> 00:20:18.440 atoms and neighboring atoms in adjacent nanofibers of cellulose. I'm 331 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:21.279 just reading this off of this Scientific American article here 332 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:26.279 therefore greatly strengthening the material, and the results are impressive. 333 00:20:26.440 --> 00:20:30.640 The wood three times as dense as the untreated substance. 334 00:20:31.559 --> 00:20:37.359 They've increased its resistance to being ripped apart by more 335 00:20:37.400 --> 00:20:42.240 than ten times. It comes it becomes fifty times more 336 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:47.319 resistant to compression, twenty times as stiff as it was 337 00:20:47.400 --> 00:20:52.440 in its natural form. It's more scratch resistant, more impact resistant. 338 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:56.759 It could be molded into almost any shape, which is why. Yep, 339 00:20:57.000 --> 00:21:02.279 the automotive industry and the aerospace industry both now taking 340 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:09.039 a serious look at superwood. Imagine the wings of a 341 00:21:09.160 --> 00:21:11.680 jumbo jet. I mean some people were like, oh, that 342 00:21:11.720 --> 00:21:14.200 makes me uncomfortable, but instead of being made out of 343 00:21:14.200 --> 00:21:19.119 carbon fiber or aluminum, that they're made out of superwood. 344 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:23.119 Or imagine driving in twenty or years or so a 345 00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:28.640 car whose frame stronger than any car ever made before it, 346 00:21:28.680 --> 00:21:33.359 whose frame is essentially constructed from and molded from the 347 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:41.200 factory out of superwood. These are all realistic, serious things 348 00:21:41.240 --> 00:21:44.519 that are being looked at right now. In lab tests, 349 00:21:44.839 --> 00:21:52.279 compressed samples of superwood incredibly moisture resistant. So let me 350 00:21:52.319 --> 00:21:55.599 look at this test result here. Lab tests compress samples 351 00:21:55.599 --> 00:22:00.759 exposed to extreme humidity for more than five days swelled 352 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:04.599 less than ten percent, and then in subsequent tests a 353 00:22:04.640 --> 00:22:09.559 simple code of paint eliminated the swelling entirety, entirely. Okay, 354 00:22:09.880 --> 00:22:13.359 So it's not as though it can be absolutely exposed 355 00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:23.119 raw to the elements without any consequence, but a change 356 00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:30.599 of dimension because of extreme humidity that is minimal, I mean, 357 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:34.079 that is incredibly minimal. And then one code of paint 358 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:38.319 completely shut down that process altogether. Okay, here's another thing. 359 00:22:39.240 --> 00:22:43.279 Five layer plywood made out of superwood, a very very 360 00:22:43.319 --> 00:22:49.279 thin plywood stopped bullets fired into the material, Okay, which 361 00:22:49.400 --> 00:22:53.880 means that they are actually researching the potential of using 362 00:22:53.960 --> 00:22:58.200 superwood as a low cost armor. Now, the material doesn't 363 00:22:58.279 --> 00:23:03.839 protect as well as kevlar of the same thickness, But 364 00:23:03.839 --> 00:23:08.880 but it only costs five percent as much to UH 365 00:23:09.319 --> 00:23:13.319 to produce as the equivalent thickness of kevlar. All right, 366 00:23:13.759 --> 00:23:16.799 And and this one gets really funky and weird. Okay, 367 00:23:16.920 --> 00:23:18.799 really funky and weird. Well, you know what, Should I 368 00:23:18.839 --> 00:23:23.119 save it? Should I save it? All right? Let's talk 369 00:23:23.160 --> 00:23:27.079 about making glass for your windows out of super wood. 370 00:23:27.680 --> 00:23:31.000 No not no, not not the window itself, the glass. 371 00:23:31.720 --> 00:23:35.039 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 372 00:23:35.119 --> 00:23:36.319 KFI A M six. 373 00:23:36.359 --> 00:23:43.400 Forty Welcome home. Yes, we are nearing the top of 374 00:23:43.440 --> 00:23:47.759 the hour. Yes, that does mean that right after this segment, 375 00:23:47.839 --> 00:23:50.079 right after our next break, I will be going to 376 00:23:50.160 --> 00:23:54.720 the phones. Yes, our number is eight three three two. 377 00:23:55.200 --> 00:23:59.920 Ask Dean, eight three three the numeral two, ask Dean, 378 00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:03.839 And yes, I am going to conclude my thoughts and 379 00:24:03.960 --> 00:24:06.759 share with you what's going on with this whole thing 380 00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:11.119 super would because today's show new stuff, new stuff, and 381 00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:15.960 superwood it has. It is well worth the time that 382 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:17.799 I've given to it so far. And believe me, I've 383 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:22.359 just scrap scratched the surface. So where as I at, 384 00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:25.759 I've now forgotten officially where I was at. In this description, 385 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:29.200 we've talked about its strength. We've talked about the fact 386 00:24:29.279 --> 00:24:36.359 that this process has essentially rendered wood, any species of 387 00:24:36.359 --> 00:24:42.960 wood that undergoes this process moisture incredibly moisture resistant, rot resistant, 388 00:24:43.519 --> 00:24:51.240 termite and pest resistant, while creating a material stronger than steel. 389 00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:53.839 Now people always ask, what does that mean? Stronger than steel? 390 00:24:53.960 --> 00:24:57.920 Stronger than steel? Simply means pound for pound stronger than steel, 391 00:24:58.039 --> 00:25:02.200 dimensionally stronger than steel. So here's an ibeam of a 392 00:25:02.200 --> 00:25:06.240 certain size, and then here's a piece of superwood or 393 00:25:06.279 --> 00:25:09.960 an ibeam made of superwood the exact same size. Guess what, 394 00:25:10.119 --> 00:25:12.680 the wood stronger than the steel. That's what it means, 395 00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:17.720 and considerably eighty percent lighter than the steel at the 396 00:25:17.759 --> 00:25:22.160 same time. Yeah, it's pretty incredible. Now there are questions, 397 00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:24.000 and now what I want to do is I want 398 00:25:24.039 --> 00:25:27.119 to answer the questions or the concerns. On the other 399 00:25:27.160 --> 00:25:31.119 side like, okay, Dean, but but what is this going 400 00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:34.720 to do to things? I mean, aren't we already clear 401 00:25:34.759 --> 00:25:38.880