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 1: We are talking about the best of the Consumer Electronics
Speaker 1: show that just wrapped up a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas. And as promised, Elmer's favorite. Oh he's
Speaker 1: been waiting for this. Ye, it's time to talk robots, Elmer. Robots. Okay,
Speaker 1: what can I tell you about? There were so many?
Speaker 1: All right, all right, calm down, people. There are so
Speaker 1: many robots at CES this year. Too many to go
Speaker 1: into great detail on the ones that relate to home,
Speaker 1: the ones that caught my attention. Let me just hit
Speaker 1: him real quick here. Rumbas Conway asked me about this
Speaker 1: on Thursday night. Hey, what's going on with Rumbas with
Speaker 1: robotic vacuums. Everything is going on with robotic vacuums. Rumba
Speaker 1: has of or their latest model out there that can
Speaker 1: vacuum and also now hot water mop that's a common
Speaker 1: thing that is being seen mopping tile floors and hard
Speaker 1: surface floors with hot water. They return to their docking
Speaker 1: area where the water, the dirty water is drained out,
Speaker 1: the mop is cleaned, new, clean, water is placed in
Speaker 1: all automatically and then boom back off onto the floor.
Speaker 1: They go so vacuuming and mopping and now being guided
Speaker 1: with AI. So it's not just a blind mapping of
Speaker 1: the household. It is also an intelligent sensing of things
Speaker 1: in the way. Oh a chair got moved. Oh, we're
Speaker 1: gonna work our way around it. Just to guarantee a
Speaker 1: better cleaning experience with these, we've also now got like
Speaker 1: the robo Ockum robotic vacuum can do that. Plus it's
Speaker 1: got a robotic arm that comes out of the top
Speaker 1: to grab stuff that's on the floor. Let's say you
Speaker 1: know somebody left a sock in the hallway. Well, instead
Speaker 1: of it trying to run over it or try to
Speaker 1: avoid it, it'll pull up next to it, out comes
Speaker 1: the arm. It'll pick up that sock, take it to
Speaker 1: a predetermined location like a hamper, give it, boom, put
Speaker 1: it where it belongs, and go back to doing its job.
Speaker 1: Pretty cool, pretty cool stuff, a little weird, but pretty
Speaker 1: cool stuff. Also, what has improved robot vacuums considerably is
Speaker 1: the fact that some of them, like the beat bot
Speaker 1: can oh I'm sorry, the robo rock can push itself
Speaker 1: up and make a floor level transition change. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not climbing up a six inch stare. But if
Speaker 1: you've got one of those, you know, irritating floor level
Speaker 1: transitions where the wood is higher than the tile or
Speaker 1: the linoleum's way down, you know that has in the
Speaker 1: past foiled other robotic vacuums. The robo rock can actually
Speaker 1: lift itself up a couple of inches and get over
Speaker 1: that transition, so really nothing nothing standing ends in its way.
Speaker 1: So that's cool stuff. Before I get to pool cleaning
Speaker 1: and robotic lawn mowing, I gotta share this with you, Okay,
Speaker 1: one of the things that really caught my eye. Tina,
Speaker 1: you're gonna want to look this up on your phone
Speaker 1: right now. Okay, Tom bought tombot. Okay, it's a very
Speaker 1: simple name of a company. It is. H there's this guy,
Speaker 1: I forget his last name, Tom, but yeah, just a
Speaker 1: sincere guy driven by the fact that his aging mother,
Speaker 1: suffering from Alzheimer's had a beloved pet. Here, grab a
Speaker 1: my teen so you can comment on what you're seeing there. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, he's got an aging mother with Alzheimer's. She
Speaker 1: got to the point where it was not safe for
Speaker 1: her or the dog for her to have her beloved
Speaker 1: pet anymore. Okay, so what did he do? It inspired
Speaker 1: him to create a robotic puppy, and so he created
Speaker 1: I forget the name of it, but of what he's got,
Speaker 1: but it's tom Bod is the overall name this puppy.
Speaker 1: It's modeled after an eight week old Labrador Retriever. It's
Speaker 1: about that size. It is in no way, shape or
Speaker 1: form looks like a robot. It's all wrapped and fuzzy.
Speaker 1: It is warm. That's one of the commentators at cees
Speaker 1: she was shocked when she touched it to petit that
Speaker 1: it's warm. It's warm to the touch. It moves its mouth,
Speaker 1: it moves its tongue, it moves its head, it wags
Speaker 1: its tail, it does a whole Yeah, it's ears moved.
Speaker 1: There's a whole series of things, and it's just the
Speaker 1: beginning platform for him. His goal is to provide safe
Speaker 1: pets that don't require the maintenance that somebody with Alzheimer's
Speaker 1: or dementia may not be able to give them, but
Speaker 1: gives all the psychological and emotional feedback that that an
Speaker 1: actual puppy or pet would do and therefore increases health.
Speaker 1: And then his goal is for future models to UH
Speaker 1: to put into that puppy monitoring UH and UH and
Speaker 1: other health giving purposes like making sure that meds are
Speaker 1: being taken properly and that there's no confusion or safety monitoring,
Speaker 1: all these kinds of things. His hope is that his
Speaker 1: will be the very first robot with an FDA approval
Speaker 1: as a healthcare device. And it's adorable, I think they.
Speaker 1: I think he's named it Jenny Jenny, Okay, but is
Speaker 1: it not adorable? It's really cute. It's really cute, and
Speaker 1: it's not just designed you know for some you know, uh,
Speaker 1: you know digital native young person to oh, I would
Speaker 1: like to have this instead of a real No, this
Speaker 1: is really focused on people who are aging in place,
Speaker 1: people who benefit from a pet but couldn't take care
Speaker 1: of a bit. It's really really I thought, just a
Speaker 1: beautiful idea, and I hope that he does really really
Speaker 1: well with it. So there you go. All right, when
Speaker 1: we come back, let's talk about the let's talk about
Speaker 1: the robots that are going to mow your lawn and
Speaker 1: clean your pool. Really big changes this year in both
Speaker 1: of those categories. We'll do that right after.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: We're talking about the best of CEES the Consumer Electronics
Speaker 1: Show for Home. I'm not taking anybody's job, no tech
Speaker 1: advisors jobs. I'm just talking about the home based elements
Speaker 1: here and what works best for us. We're talking robots.
Speaker 1: I also got to mention this robotic pillow. This is
Speaker 1: not a robot pillow in the sense of like it
Speaker 1: grabs you and reads your mind. But again AI soaking
Speaker 1: into everything. This is a air bladder pillow system with
Speaker 1: a little bit of a quiet compressor controlling it, and
Speaker 1: and it changes the angle that your head is at.
Speaker 1: May tip it back, some may move it forward, may
Speaker 1: roll it to the left, or roll it to the
Speaker 1: right a little bit. Why would it do that? Apparently
Speaker 1: it's a very comfortable pillow, But why would it do
Speaker 1: these other things? Because it's listening to you, and it
Speaker 1: is the first person, not your partner, but it's the
Speaker 1: It is the first thing to hear you when you
Speaker 1: start to snore, or when your partner starts to oh, Tina,
Speaker 1: stop it, here we go, here we go. She's like, uh,
Speaker 1: where do I sign up? So these are about six
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, so you know it's got to be worth
Speaker 1: it to you. But the idea is this that usually
Speaker 1: in a large number of cases, snoring is the result
Speaker 1: of you know, a weird occlusion of air at the
Speaker 1: bottom of your laynx okay, and and changing head position.
Speaker 1: It can resolve it okay, without a big deal. So
Speaker 1: this thing is listening and as soon as it hears
Speaker 1: even the beginning of a little bit of snoring, and
Speaker 1: it recognizes it while you're still asleep, Tina, this pillow
Speaker 1: would be gently No, it doesn't tap me. You're the
Speaker 1: one who taps me and wakes me up. Can we
Speaker 1: make this clear? Can we get this pillow? Because I
Speaker 1: don't want to get woken up anymore? You know, I
Speaker 1: get elbows, knees, taps like, hey, hey, dean, Dean, what
Speaker 1: I was white asleep? I was I was totally asleep.
Speaker 1: Oh you're snoring. Rollover. Well, the pillow will actually start
Speaker 1: moving my head left right back until it stops hearing
Speaker 1: the snore, and then it'll hold it there. So ideally,
Speaker 1: the idea is that it doesn't wake you up because
Speaker 1: you don't hear the snow and it doesn't wake me
Speaker 1: up to change positions. It just makes it happen. That's
Speaker 1: six hundred bucks. But if it's worth it to you,
Speaker 1: there you go. So you can look up the robotic
Speaker 1: snore pillow. I don't remember the name of it. I
Speaker 1: lost my note on its name. Here motion pillow. Look
Speaker 1: up motion pillow. You'll find it. And it's interesting. It's interesting.
Speaker 1: I think it was listed at six hundred. It may
Speaker 1: be less than that, but that's the idea behind it,
Speaker 1: and I think that's a pretty good idea. All right,
Speaker 1: robots for your pool and your lawn. We've had robotic
Speaker 1: lawnmowers out for a while now. All I can tell
Speaker 1: you is with new terrain controls, better wheels, better robotic
Speaker 1: abilities to lift themselves over obstacles and to deal with obstacles,
Speaker 1: and of course all with AI situational censoring. Now, lawnmowers
Speaker 1: that go out and handle the lawn. They don't have
Speaker 1: to be carefully pre programmed. You just send them out
Speaker 1: on their first day adventure. They'll find it, they'll work
Speaker 1: it through. Then you can edit their program down a
Speaker 1: little bit. But yeah, now these are not lawnmowers that
Speaker 1: catch material. They're mulching lawnmowers, meaning they cut the grass
Speaker 1: and just leave it right there in place, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, for those of you who did not know,
Speaker 1: is the healthiest thing for your lawn in general, for
Speaker 1: a lawnmower to mulch the grass and put it back
Speaker 1: into the soil as opposed to just always taking away
Speaker 1: those blades and then bagging it and throwing it away
Speaker 1: in the trash and letting it go to the landfill somewhere.
Speaker 1: So it's a mulching lawnmower. When they need a charge,
Speaker 1: they find their station, they back in, they sit down,
Speaker 1: they charge up, they clean out, they maintenance themselves, and
Speaker 1: then off they go on their regular schedule. And instead
Speaker 1: of whacking off massive portions of lawn maybe once a week,
Speaker 1: these lawnmowers we are likely going to go out two
Speaker 1: or three times a week and do their work and
Speaker 1: just keep things at a regular maintenance level, which is
Speaker 1: also less shocking to the grass as well. So robotic lawnmowers. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe the most impressive service robot that I saw at
Speaker 1: CEES this year would be the beat Bot robotic pool cleaner.
Speaker 1: It is dang impressive. The robotic pool cleaner. So Beatbot
Speaker 1: has designed this pool cleaner no longer hooking it up
Speaker 1: to a hose and a vacuum system through your pump.
Speaker 1: You don't have to go out and put it into
Speaker 1: the water and make sure the program is running. It
Speaker 1: has its own docking station. It has its own launch
Speaker 1: ramp into the pool and also out of the pool,
Speaker 1: so it sits, it charges, it does everything it needs
Speaker 1: to do, and then down the ramp it goes and
Speaker 1: into your pool. This thing the best way to describe,
Speaker 1: but it is a little AI driven submarine. It uses
Speaker 1: submarine technology to take on water in order to submerge,
Speaker 1: to to expel water from it in order to surface.
Speaker 1: It can find neutral buoyancy at any point it needs
Speaker 1: to in the pool. It can climb the walls of
Speaker 1: your pool. It has brushes to not only clean the
Speaker 1: surface of every square inch of the pool, but also
Speaker 1: the edge tile, the waterline tile, and also cover over
Speaker 1: the water surface and take off floating debris. And because
Speaker 1: it's AI driven, it's not again like the rumbas, it's
Speaker 1: not just blindly covering the pool. But if it's done
Speaker 1: its job and it looks back and sees, oh, there's
Speaker 1: three leaves still there. How did I miss those? It
Speaker 1: turns around, goes back and gets them, and then deals
Speaker 1: with that later. All of this surfacing, submerging eleven hours.
Speaker 1: It can work inside the pool eleven hours, not hooked
Speaker 1: up to anything. And it's about the size of a
Speaker 1: you know, like an indoor you know, kitchen trash. Can
Speaker 1: climbs out of the pool, charges itself back up and
Speaker 1: back in. It goes whatever it takes. Incredibly intelligent robot
Speaker 1: for pool cleaning, the beat Bot Robotic pool Cleaner. You
Speaker 1: got to check it out. It's dang impressive. All right,
Speaker 1: I still got more, Still got more on the list.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about it right after.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 2: KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1: Having a little fun today. We're talking about some smart
Speaker 1: home tech, the best of cees for homes from this
Speaker 1: just recently finished up Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, the
Speaker 1: annual show that happens every year this time of year.
Speaker 1: We were kind of preoccupied with wildfires here in southern California,
Speaker 1: so we kind of skipped over this one. But I
Speaker 1: want to make sure that we're covering some of the
Speaker 1: best and newest and brightest things coming out of CES
Speaker 1: as it relates to your home. Let's get back to it.
Speaker 1: A lot of interesting AI controlled and LED, very very
Speaker 1: high tech LED floor lamps coming out. All I can
Speaker 1: tell you is that, you know, just keep looking at
Speaker 1: the lamp stores, you're going to see these things trickling
Speaker 1: in go V g o v ee go V Lighting
Speaker 1: had some really interesting floor lamps, very kind of contemporary
Speaker 1: in design, but a floor lamp that projects subtle wave
Speaker 1: motion effects onto the ceiling in any room. This is
Speaker 1: not like some crazy light show, just subtle, very soothing.
Speaker 1: A lot of people find it very soothing to see
Speaker 1: those that wave effect, like as they're relaxing in their
Speaker 1: living room or even going to sleep night. Very interesting
Speaker 1: kind of health slash design, slash decor oriented things starting
Speaker 1: to come out on the market, things like that Anchor Solid.
Speaker 1: The company is called Anchor Solid. They had on display
Speaker 1: a backup power battery. Now, this is a portable backup
Speaker 1: power battery, but one that can be easily wired into
Speaker 1: a house through a automatic transfer switch, so it could
Speaker 1: function like a fully built in backup power battery. But
Speaker 1: also it's portable and it's not that big. It's got
Speaker 1: wheels smaller than most portable generators, and it has I
Speaker 1: got to say, a really impressive six thousand watt output
Speaker 1: for this battery. It can if it's hardwired into the house,
Speaker 1: then it can be charged and ready to rock and
Speaker 1: roll when it is just plugged into the grid, and
Speaker 1: then it can actually be programmed, like all good backup
Speaker 1: batteries should be, to supplement power in the evening when
Speaker 1: power from the grid is that it's most expensive, so
Speaker 1: it can save you money on your power bill. Whether
Speaker 1: or not you've got solar or not, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: It will still help to save money by adding power
Speaker 1: to the house so you don't have to use as
Speaker 1: much power when it's most expensive from the power company.
Speaker 1: It can be paired with another anchor battery side by
Speaker 1: side to give an extremely impressive twelve thousand watts of power.
Speaker 1: That is enough output to actually, you know, get the
Speaker 1: air conditioner up and running to handle the probably just
Speaker 1: about every thing potentially in a house, including some two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty amp items. However, when I say that,
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that it's running at all at once, Okay,
Speaker 1: it just means you have to be selective. You're going
Speaker 1: to drain it like crazy, really fast. But the point
Speaker 1: is as a whole house backup battery system, this will
Speaker 1: allow you to move from one thing to another to
Speaker 1: another and potentially have everything you know if you cycle
Speaker 1: them properly, kind of up and running it or at
Speaker 1: least at your disposal if you need it. I was
Speaker 1: very impressed with these batteries. They have a relatively quick
Speaker 1: recharge time. They have a they've got their own solar
Speaker 1: panel if you want to buy that assessory, so you
Speaker 1: can set them out in the yard and allow them
Speaker 1: to recharge. They claim a full recharge in about three hours,
Speaker 1: less than three hours. That's impressive too. They are worth
Speaker 1: taking a solid look at anchor solid backup power battery.
Speaker 1: A lot of people and so Cal especially asking about
Speaker 1: backup generators and what do I do? And I know
Speaker 1: the fires are miles of miles away from me, but
Speaker 1: with all these wind events, the power company is shutting
Speaker 1: down the grid in our area. We went three days
Speaker 1: without power, that guy went two days without power. What
Speaker 1: do we do with backup power? And this is one
Speaker 1: of those solid, very intelligent options worth taking a look at.
Speaker 1: So the anchor solid backup battery here's something for renters. Renters, Okay,
Speaker 1: you want to have more automated lighting control in your home,
Speaker 1: be able to let's say, turn on and off of
Speaker 1: lights or a series of lights without having to get
Speaker 1: up you know, maybe without even having to be home
Speaker 1: app based control, which is getting really really common these days.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. If you're a renter. Typically, you know,
Speaker 1: we got to change out the light switch with a
Speaker 1: smart light switch, which means wiring stuff into a place
Speaker 1: that isn't yours. How do we get around that. Well,
Speaker 1: one of the ways to get around it is by
Speaker 1: you know, plug in outlets and actually controlling smart light bulbs.
Speaker 1: But another way to get around it now is by
Speaker 1: a company third Reality. It's called it's a thread based
Speaker 1: snap on light switch remote controller. And this is the
Speaker 1: thing that just snaps onto on top of a light switch.
Speaker 1: You know, whether it's traditional or decor. I think it's
Speaker 1: Decora based light switch. The wide paddle switch is not
Speaker 1: the it's so much the old style, but it snaps
Speaker 1: on to the top of a light switch. And of
Speaker 1: course it itself has a button on it so that you
Speaker 1: don't lose the functionality of the light switch. You still
Speaker 1: reach out and just hit it and on it goes
Speaker 1: and off it goes. But this device is app controlled,
Speaker 1: which means now you have a device that's essentially flipping
Speaker 1: the light switch for you, and that's literally what it does.
Speaker 1: It manually flips the light switch for you. And the
Speaker 1: cool thing. So if you're a homeowner, this is probably
Speaker 1: not the thing that you're looking for, But if you're
Speaker 1: a renter, now you can start adding automation to your
Speaker 1: home lifestyle without investing in somebody else's infrastructure because these
Speaker 1: things you can take with you wherever you want to go,
Speaker 1: and it leaves no marks or no hassles behind, and
Speaker 1: there's no wiring. So third reality snap on light switch
Speaker 1: remote controllers. Another thing that I thought was fascinating and
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people would find very very
Speaker 1: practical is by Dreoh. It's an AI driven personal fan. Okay,
Speaker 1: what does that mean? Well, if you've heard me talk
Speaker 1: about heating and air conditioning during those seasons, right, especially
Speaker 1: air conditioning, I will usually in the course of having
Speaker 1: an air conditioning conversation tell you that those of you
Speaker 1: who just want to cool down, you can't afford to
Speaker 1: upgrade your AC system or it's broken down. And those
Speaker 1: of you who just want to cool down by the
Speaker 1: use of a room fan, right, an oscillating fan. I've
Speaker 1: told you the most important thing you need to understand
Speaker 1: about a fan is it needs to be blowing on
Speaker 1: you in order for you to feel cooler, because a
Speaker 1: fan that just recirculates air in the room does not
Speaker 1: actually cool the room at all. Okay, fans only cool
Speaker 1: you because they need to blow air across your skin,
Speaker 1: so evaporation is increased. Therefore, the moisture that your body
Speaker 1: is putting out leaves, and as it leaves, it cools
Speaker 1: your skin. That's why fans feel good when they blow
Speaker 1: on you. But if you turn a fan in the
Speaker 1: opposite direction, you can run it all day long and
Speaker 1: you will never feel a temperature difference in the room
Speaker 1: because they're not cooling it. They're just moving the air around.
Speaker 1: So a fan needs to cool you needs to be
Speaker 1: pointed at you. Well, here is a new fan. It's
Speaker 1: a fan. You look at it and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: that looks like a you know, it's a fan. It
Speaker 1: would otherwise be an oscillating fan. Technically it does oscillate.
Speaker 1: The head moves, but instead of just wagging back and
Speaker 1: forth blindly. This fan because of its sensors, because it
Speaker 1: has AI built into it, it knows where you are
Speaker 1: in the room, and so the fan follows you, not
Speaker 1: physically follows you in the room, as it like it
Speaker 1: has wheels and it's trailing behind you. But wherever you
Speaker 1: set the fan in the room, it will find you
Speaker 1: where you're sitting, and it will blow in your direction.
Speaker 1: If there are three people sitting in the room, it
Speaker 1: will divide its attention between the three of you. It'll
Speaker 1: blow on you a little bit, and it'll it'll rotate
Speaker 1: over here and blow on her a little bit, and
Speaker 1: then back over here and blow on him a little bit,
Speaker 1: and everybody gets the benefit of the fan. It spends
Speaker 1: all of its time targeting you. Also, the AI allows
Speaker 1: it to do something really cool, which is control its
Speaker 1: velocity because not only does it know where you are
Speaker 1: in the room, it knows how far away you are
Speaker 1: from it. So if you're sitting right next to it,
Speaker 1: it's going to crank itself down to low. If you're
Speaker 1: sitting all the way on the other side of the room,
Speaker 1: it's going to crank itself up to high so that
Speaker 1: you get the max benefit from what it has to offer.
Speaker 1: So you know what, that's a smart fan, AI driven
Speaker 1: smart oscillating room fan. The company is dre oh d
Speaker 1: r EO. Check it out the AI personal Fan. All right,
Speaker 1: I've got one other item to share with you. It's
Speaker 1: an interesting one. I don't know, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know about this one, but it's worth mentioning because
Speaker 1: I've talked a lot about, you know, the electrification of homes,
Speaker 1: the trend in that direction, and you've heard me talk
Speaker 1: a lot about induction cooktops. A downside if there is
Speaker 1: one of an induction cooktop is that it requires two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty amps, It requires rewiring, adding you know,
Speaker 1: more voltage to your to get to the cook top
Speaker 1: than was previously there. That can be costly and that
Speaker 1: can disrupt a lot of things. How about an induction
Speaker 1: cook top and electric oven that you can just plug
Speaker 1: into a one twenty standard outlet? Is that possible? Let's
Speaker 1: talk about it when we return.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on Demand from
Speaker 2: KFI AM six.
Speaker 1: Forty So so very very cool of some of the
Speaker 1: things coming out of cees this year, right, is it
Speaker 1: not super cool, some things relevant to our home smart
Speaker 1: home stuff, a lot of it not, but in general,
Speaker 1: the one thing I wanted to close with before we're
Speaker 1: done today is an induction free standing range. So we
Speaker 1: got an oven below, an electric oven below, and then
Speaker 1: and a full size induction cook top up above. Not
Speaker 1: an unusual thing. You find those in appliance stores all
Speaker 1: over the place these days, But this particular range is
Speaker 1: one that doesn't require a two hundred and forty volt
Speaker 1: wiring setup. Now, how in the world do we get
Speaker 1: by with that? Well, this range and let me get
Speaker 1: my note here. It is made by Copper Appliance Company.
Speaker 1: It's called Charlie. I don't know why, but it is.
Speaker 1: I guess more AI stuff these days need personal names
Speaker 1: because they're like thinking. It's the world's first induction of
Speaker 1: it in stovetop that uses only one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: volt power. Charlie's beautiful, by the way, stainless steel, beautiful design.
Speaker 1: Tina fully approves of Charlie woods, wood knobs. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's really really attractive. Charlie has a hidden secret. Charlie
Speaker 1: has its own backup battery. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: on the full back or if it's underneath. But Charlie
Speaker 1: has a backup battery, and so what's the point And well, yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: Charlie still operates during a power outage. That's nice, but
Speaker 1: that's not the main thing. The main thing is that
Speaker 1: Charlie is sitting there with its backup battery fully charged
Speaker 1: during the day and then when it comes time to cook, Charlie,
Speaker 1: when it comes to the induction of and in the
Speaker 1: electric oven, makes up for the fact that it doesn't
Speaker 1: have a two hundred and forty amp connection or two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty volt connection by I keep saying amp,
Speaker 1: I meant fold sorry, by supplementing the one twenty power
Speaker 1: supply with power from the backup battery. And it can
Speaker 1: do this for several hours before the backup battery poops
Speaker 1: out and needs to be recharged. So, in other words,
Speaker 1: for a normal cooking cycle, for most things that you cook,
Speaker 1: Charlie can actually do this. And so the idea is,
Speaker 1: the principle is that if this kind of technology finds
Speaker 1: its way into freestanding ranges like this induction ranges, then
Speaker 1: you can just swap out your existing electric or gas
Speaker 1: range for an induction range cook top and an electric
Speaker 1: oven without having to rewire your kitchen for two forty
Speaker 1: And that's pretty intelligent because that can be a pricey thing. Now,
Speaker 1: the downside is, and this is always true with every prototype.
Speaker 1: I think Charlie costs six thousand dollars and there aren't
Speaker 1: many ranges out there in that range except you know,
Speaker 1: the ultra luxury kind of stuff. But the point is
Speaker 1: not that you should run out and buy Charlie today.
Speaker 1: My point is we've crossed another threshold, another threshold that
Speaker 1: which technologically we can get you that induction cooktop, which
Speaker 1: is a brilliant way to cook, by the way, and
Speaker 1: we can do it without rewiring your kitchen. And if
Speaker 1: you know that that's doable and fully proven technology right
Speaker 1: now here today with this one oven in cooktop combo,
Speaker 1: well then you know others will follow. If it's a
Speaker 1: good idea, others will follow, and the price will drop
Speaker 1: and drop and drop, and they'll never be the exact
Speaker 1: same price as a regular range, per se, but what
Speaker 1: they will be is less than a regular you know,
Speaker 1: buying an induction and then rewiring your house in order
Speaker 1: to accommodate it. And that's pretty brilliant. So that was
Speaker 1: worth noting right here at the end of the program,
Speaker 1: and there you go. So there's my list of the
Speaker 1: best of what Cees had for homeowners. You can go
Speaker 1: online and find all sorts of additional stuff, and I
Speaker 1: encourage you to do so if those are things that
Speaker 1: are interest to you. Okay, hey, remember to follow us
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Speaker 1: I'm going to leave you with this thought. Today. On
Speaker 1: Tuesday of this week, I had to head into La
Speaker 1: on some business to meet a new colleague and also
Speaker 1: see an old one who, through our years of working together,
Speaker 1: has become a friend. Now, I have a great deal
Speaker 1: of respect for my friend. I don't know him really well.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're not close close friends, but I like
Speaker 1: to think that I'm a pretty good judge of character,
Speaker 1: and he has always struck me as a kind, loyal,
Speaker 1: soft spe spoken man with an unrelenting work ethic who
Speaker 1: has very patiently and very successfully navigated his business through
Speaker 1: five plus decades of every kind of turmoil and a
Speaker 1: lot of uphill climbs and a minefield of obstacles that
Speaker 1: a lot of business owners frankly don't have to navigate,
Speaker 1: but he did. He has the kind of eyes that
Speaker 1: I tend to notice. I noticed them the very first
Speaker 1: day I met him years ago. He has those eyes,
Speaker 1: eyes with depth, eyes that do not allow him to
Speaker 1: hide his intelligence, and a deep wild intensity that is
Speaker 1: buried under a very, very calm exterior. But also that
Speaker 1: project kindness and patience and a wealth of experience. Have
Speaker 1: you ever looked into somebody's eyes and thought, this person
Speaker 1: has seen a lot of life, a lot of joy,
Speaker 1: a lot of pain, just a lot. And he and
Speaker 1: I have often met eyes during business meetings while others
Speaker 1: in the room just droned on, and I always think
Speaker 1: the same thing. I think to myself. You seem to
Speaker 1: think that just because this man is not talking, this
Speaker 1: means it's your turn. It is not your turn. Don't
Speaker 1: you realize he knows far more about this than you
Speaker 1: are pretending to know. So we've never said that out loud.
Speaker 1: He would never say that out loud. He's a class act,
Speaker 1: and I would like to think that I am too
Speaker 1: in that regard. But it's true. My friend is deep,
Speaker 1: my friend is strong, my friend is a wild thing.
Speaker 1: And though I think he'd be the last to say
Speaker 1: that of himself, you know, the truth is when someone
Speaker 1: with those eyes smiles at you, as he often does,
Speaker 1: if you're paying attention, it can break you wide open.
Speaker 1: Now he has done well for himself and his family,
Speaker 1: and now in his seventies, as he's been making plans
Speaker 1: to step back from the business and take a well
Speaker 1: earned rest. Just a couple of weeks ago, his house
Speaker 1: and a lifetime of possessions burnt to the ground in
Speaker 1: the Palisades fire. Ah. I called him the day after
Speaker 1: it happened, and I very much wanted to see him
Speaker 1: on Tuesday and give him a hug and see for
Speaker 1: myself how he was doing. And I gotta say he
Speaker 1: looked tired. He was quieter than usual, but he was fine.
Speaker 1: He just looked at me with those eyes and he
Speaker 1: smiled one of those smiles, and he said, well, time
Speaker 1: to start all over again. And I broke. I did.
Speaker 1: I broke because I could see the weight of it
Speaker 1: written on his smiling face. I broke because he has
Speaker 1: been through enough. He's earned his rest. But life just
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to care. And it's not fair. It's not so.
Speaker 1: As I was driving home, half heart broken for my
Speaker 1: friend and half ashamed at how I let my own,
Speaker 1: much smaller struggles get under my skin, two of my
Speaker 1: all time favorite quotes came to mind, and this is
Speaker 1: the point of my little story. The first, from the
Speaker 1: author D. H. Lawrence, goes like this, I never saw
Speaker 1: a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A small bird
Speaker 1: will drop frozen dead from a bow without ever having
Speaker 1: felt sorry for itself. My friend is a wild thing.
Speaker 1: He's quiet, and he's strong, and he's wild, and I've
Speaker 1: never seen him feel sorry for himself. The second is
Speaker 1: from none other than the late comedian Joan Rivers. I
Speaker 1: was never a big fan of her comedy, but it
Speaker 1: turns out I'm a huge fan of her philosophy. Because
Speaker 1: Jones said, I wish I could tell you it gets better,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't get better. You get better. I don't
Speaker 1: know what you're up against right now. Just know, whatever
Speaker 1: it is, your life can be amazing, not because it
Speaker 1: gets better, but because you can get better. Be a
Speaker 1: wild thing, a wild thing doesn't feel sorry for itself.
Speaker 1: A wild thing can lose everything and smile at you
Speaker 1: and say, well, time to start over again. A wild
Speaker 1: thing knows that the secret to building yourself a beautiful
Speaker 1: life is not that it gets better, but that you
Speaker 1: get better. And so I hope that for you today,
Speaker 1: everybody gets there, have a great Sunday afternoon. We'll see
Speaker 1: you right back here next week. This has been Home
Speaker 1: with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. Tune into the live
Speaker 1: broadcast on KFI AM six forty every Saturday morning from
Speaker 1: six to eight Pacific time and every Sunday morning from
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