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: Oh Oh, Marry.
Speaker 2: Christmas House Whisper fans, it's your old friend Santa Neil
Speaker 2: bringing you Seasons readings. You know that magical elf. Dean
Speaker 2: Sharp and I have been good friends for many a
Speaker 2: year now. And yes, I recently had his sister on
Speaker 2: my Halloween show. Why because she talks to ghosts? And yes,
Speaker 2: I may have implied the Dean walks I'm outside in
Speaker 2: his underwear in the middle of the night and actually
Speaker 2: whispers to houses like some kind of lunatic. I may
Speaker 2: have also implied, and his wife Tina and his entire
Speaker 2: home design career is just a fit of his imagination.
Speaker 2: But after speaking to Dean's attorney, I'm here to tell
Speaker 2: you it was all just a bit of fun, and
Speaker 2: I have to go ahead and read the following. Any
Speaker 2: mention of mental health or professional qualifications of other hosts
Speaker 2: on the Forek Report is done purely for the purpose
Speaker 2: of entertainment, and any similarity any persons living or dead,
Speaker 2: or otherwise psychologically compromised.
Speaker 1: Is entirely coincidental. Is that enough?
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, Every Christmas, everybody.
Speaker 1: Okay, I am sixty Deem Sharp the House Whisper. You
Speaker 1: have stumbled upon The House Whisper Annual Holiday home Show.
Speaker 1: We've got a live studio audience right here at the
Speaker 1: iHeart Studios in Burbank, California, in the helpful Honda Lounge.
Speaker 1: We're having some fun this morning. I am spending time
Speaker 1: visiting with some very special guests, some very special friends.
Speaker 1: We've got the folks from al dick Holm who've sponsored
Speaker 1: the entire show for us. Today. They're up on stage
Speaker 1: decorating this extraordinary Christmas tree that we're going to be
Speaker 1: given away to one of our studio audience members today.
Speaker 1: That somebody's going home with this whole thing? Am I
Speaker 1: included in No, you are not. I would happily do that,
Speaker 1: but then you know, lawyers and stuff, I got it,
Speaker 1: that whole thing. We don't want that. And so hey,
Speaker 1: the voice you just heard apologizing for, by the way,
Speaker 1: exactly what he said on his show, Exactly what he said,
Speaker 1: the underwear and everything, the underwear and everything. It's totally true.
Speaker 1: The lawyer may have been a little made up, but
Speaker 1: the Fork reporter himself nil savedra. Everybody get up here, Neil,
Speaker 1: come on up, Come on up, come on up. Oh
Speaker 1: take your time. You know, we got plenty of time.
Speaker 1: It's just radio, you know, just I'm dramatic.
Speaker 4: It's drama. I'm building the drama. Look I brought you ornaments.
Speaker 4: Look at your guests.
Speaker 1: You know what. Everybody in the studio quest sir, This
Speaker 1: house whisper ornament today. Oh yeah, people are listening saying again,
Speaker 1: yeah again, not for us. Thanks a lot, Deane.
Speaker 4: I like how you keep telling you everybody welcome home,
Speaker 4: and these people think they're staying. Listeners are like, we
Speaker 4: could just stay here, he said, welcome home.
Speaker 1: That's right, it's our home.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: You got to mow the lawn out front.
Speaker 1: So how you doing, Bud?
Speaker 3: I'm doing well. Happy holidays? How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm good.
Speaker 3: Look at that tree. I know where is Tina?
Speaker 1: Tina's home recovering all that surgery. Thanks thanks for remembering well.
Speaker 4: No, I didn't know until I saw it on her
Speaker 4: social media.
Speaker 3: What was she having you removed from her?
Speaker 1: Or what's the she was trying? Good when you're trying
Speaker 1: it was a fight, it was.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 4: I sent her good wishes and love and positivity.
Speaker 1: There you go, thank you appreciate.
Speaker 3: And I'm going to say it the P word prayers.
Speaker 4: I said, it got a problem with that, okay, marry
Speaker 4: christ Mass everybody, I said it, look at me.
Speaker 1: You had to go there, didn't you know? You just
Speaker 1: had to go and just say divisive things.
Speaker 3: You know. It's funny.
Speaker 4: I saw somebody say, you know, we're gonna put the
Speaker 4: Christ back in Christmas, and I said, how about let's
Speaker 4: put it back in Christianity first? There you go, Look
Speaker 4: at that boom con traversy on the show. I don't
Speaker 4: worry you, Dean.
Speaker 1: I'm good, glad to be on your show. Neil, Well,
Speaker 1: it's what I do. Always happy to be a guest
Speaker 1: on the show.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: So what do you like to eat, Dean?
Speaker 1: Humble pie apparently a little bit of crow. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: what's going on at the Savadra house this holiday season?
Speaker 3: Everything?
Speaker 4: It seems, you know, we have my son's birthday. He's
Speaker 4: going to be eight this month, at the end of
Speaker 4: this month, so there's that. My father in law is
Speaker 4: going to be eighty, so we're calling it the Big
Speaker 4: eight oh eight.
Speaker 1: Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 4: And then the holidays fit right in there as well.
Speaker 4: So and I don't have to cook anything this year
Speaker 4: for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: Why is that?
Speaker 3: Because I'm smart, Dean, because I find other.
Speaker 1: People to do it, because you're phoning it in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're done right. I talk about the food. They
Speaker 3: can make it now, so I don't have to cook anything.
Speaker 4: He's cooking my mother and actually, you know what I think,
Speaker 4: Corner butcher Shop is cooking. But it will be at
Speaker 4: my mother in law's place, so it'll be at my
Speaker 4: in laws. But yeah, it's looking forward to. Then we'll
Speaker 4: probably do Christmas, Christmas at my brothers and just wanting
Speaker 4: to see people.
Speaker 3: But I'll cook at home just for.
Speaker 1: The heck of it. Is there any is there any
Speaker 1: like one thing that repeats every year that you say
Speaker 1: is like, this is a cornerstone of the Savedra.
Speaker 4: Holiday experience, you know, when when we're lucky enough, if
Speaker 4: you have those one things. And this was something that
Speaker 4: I wasn't crazy about when I was younger, but I
Speaker 4: love now. If my mom makes a soup, so a
Speaker 4: meatball soup is really delicious. And when the weather changes,
Speaker 4: that reminds me a lot of homemade tortillas things like that.
Speaker 1: So there's not a lot of personal time just eating.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, screw the family. I know who they are.
Speaker 3: Make me food, put me in a corner generally. No,
Speaker 3: I'll be fine.
Speaker 1: I'm wiping my forehead because it's just warm up here.
Speaker 3: Oh are you allergic to handsome? I can move?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, it's not that. It's just that it's
Speaker 1: a little warm under this thick coaff of hair, you
Speaker 1: know how. Oh, I'm sorry, No, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I gotta be honest.
Speaker 1: I forgot.
Speaker 4: I've never met anybody that wears a two pay that
Speaker 4: talks so much about their hair.
Speaker 3: They usually like to just let it slide.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for you, you let your a long time.
Speaker 3: Also brought to you by Al Dick.
Speaker 1: They're so lifelike they did they did Rosie's Day one.
Speaker 1: By the way, our little Al Dick's story here, right,
Speaker 1: You know that when these guys got started, by the way,
Speaker 1: the name Al Dick, it's very creative. Okay, two friends,
Speaker 1: Al and Dick started a flower shop and it's soilk
Speaker 1: flower business like in fifty one fifty one or fifty two, right,
Speaker 1: fifty one on Melrose in La right, and massively successful
Speaker 1: from day one. You know, got the attention of designers
Speaker 1: like me and the studios, right, I mean, these are
Speaker 1: so realistic. They've they've been so committed to to quality,
Speaker 1: the highest quality over the years that you know they're out.
Speaker 1: You've seen you whether you have never been to Aldic before,
Speaker 1: if you've watched television or watched movies, you've seen their
Speaker 1: stuff and just assumed those are just plants. Those are
Speaker 1: those are flowers on the you know, uh, because the
Speaker 1: studios buy their stuff, Designers bring their clients there all
Speaker 1: the time. And a little startup back in the fifties,
Speaker 1: a little a little startup in Anaheim called Disneyland. Hit
Speaker 1: them up? Is Disney Disney I think it's pronounced there's
Speaker 1: an accent, does not yeah something anyway, Well, it's a
Speaker 1: it's like an it's like an amusement park in any anyway.
Speaker 3: Uh, they.
Speaker 1: Aldi know you guys were were well, not you, Brian,
Speaker 1: because look how young you are. Okay, Brian has hair
Speaker 1: too good. But in fact, if we were a count
Speaker 1: who has hair on stage, let's see.
Speaker 4: Let's count how many of them? It looks real on one.
Speaker 3: Two two.
Speaker 2: Two?
Speaker 1: All right? If anybody who has seen you knows now
Speaker 1: why you wear that hat all the time.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 4: You have to accessrize otherwise people don't know which ends up.
Speaker 1: It's a cessrize for you. It's a cessriz or sunburn.
Speaker 1: It's one of the two.
Speaker 3: It's this hat or melanoma. There it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So anyway, Al Dick nineteen fifty two get hit
Speaker 1: up by Disneyland to do the Swiss Family, Robinson.
Speaker 3: Tree, Holy Smoke, and.
Speaker 1: Weirdly enough the under the underwater plant life in the
Speaker 1: Lagoon for the submarine ride. Right, that's aldi com like
Speaker 1: from day one. You imagine what it takes to be
Speaker 1: a small startup business and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: Disney comes to you and says, hey, would you like
Speaker 1: to do two major features at our theme park next week?
Speaker 1: What's a theme park?
Speaker 3: Exactly? What? This guy's good? I give it a week.
Speaker 1: You're doing what in an orange grove? What are you doing?
Speaker 1: So anyway, Yeah, that's that's the little story about how
Speaker 1: Alda got their start, right, and the store on Melrose
Speaker 1: went and went went, and then they had to move
Speaker 1: to the valley and I begged them to move to
Speaker 1: another location where there's actually parking. Brian, right, we're hoping
Speaker 1: Santa brings us like you're not going to do it.
Speaker 1: You're not going to do it, or we'll find one
Speaker 1: we've always asked, and you're like, man, man, you know.
Speaker 4: They're branching out into every Trader Joe's parking lot.
Speaker 1: Here's the we just need to parking. I gotta tell you, Okay,
Speaker 1: as far as so when we say Aldick is the
Speaker 1: most beautiful store in Los Angeles, in southern California, it
Speaker 1: is okay on the inside, on the inside, And so
Speaker 1: I think it just like you prep everybody's expectation. Cause
Speaker 1: you're driving down SEPULVIDN get a little bit of south
Speaker 1: of Roscoe, and then you see, uh, the the Harbor
Speaker 1: Freight sign and then the Al Dick sign right under it,
Speaker 1: and you're like, am I going to Harbor Freight. I'm
Speaker 1: parking in the Harbor Freight parking lot. Look at this
Speaker 1: Rando them warehousey kind of building. And then you walk
Speaker 1: inside and it's like where dude. You know, So you
Speaker 1: have a good way of just setting expectations at a
Speaker 1: certain level and then just blowing everybody away.
Speaker 5: And we can tell when people walk in and then
Speaker 5: their mouth opens and they don't move for you know
Speaker 5: ten or fifteen seconds, we know they're new.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: People come down there. People, hundreds of families actually get
Speaker 1: dressed up in their best holiday clothes every year and
Speaker 1: take their photos at alder No. They do. They come
Speaker 1: and these guys love it. They're like, yeah, come on in,
Speaker 1: it's fine. They's not like they're not renting out space.
Speaker 1: Just find a tree, don't get in the customer's way,
Speaker 1: and take your holiday photos. So all right, all right,
Speaker 1: we gotta go to break. We're gonna let Neil wipe
Speaker 1: his head down and when we come back a little
Speaker 1: bit more with the Fork reporter himself, Neil Savedra. Here
Speaker 1: on the House Whisper Holiday Home Show.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 6: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on the program today. It is
Speaker 1: our annual House Whisper Holiday Home Show with a live
Speaker 1: studio audience right here in Burbank, California, at the iHeart
Speaker 1: Studios and the helpful Ponda Lounge. We are spending the
Speaker 1: morning talking about Christmas decor. I'm talking to some of
Speaker 1: my best buds around here at the station, right up
Speaker 1: on stage with me right now Neil Savadra the Fork
Speaker 1: reported himself.
Speaker 4: Happy holidays, Good morning everybody. What a good looking crowd.
Speaker 4: I'll stop it, stops standing except one. I'm not going
Speaker 4: to point them out, not pandering. You know who you are, sir.
Speaker 1: All right. So here's the thing. I've been talking to
Speaker 1: the to our studio audience here during the breaks and
Speaker 1: answering some questions, and we just had a really really
Speaker 1: fantastic question. A young woman said, how do you and
Speaker 1: forgive me if I get this right, you know wrong,
Speaker 1: how do you how do you engage a young male
Speaker 1: into the idea that that the design really matters and
Speaker 1: that it makes a difference. Uh. And because I assume
Speaker 1: I didn't get a chance to ask you, but I assume, Richie,
Speaker 1: maybe we get a mic over there. I assume that
Speaker 1: that we're talking about somebody who is now who is
Speaker 1: this person? Let's just let's my husband, Oh, your husband? Okay?
Speaker 1: And and your husband just doesn't want to do a
Speaker 1: holiday decor. He doesn't or any decur where what it
Speaker 1: looks like he's pragmatic over design. Yeah, okay, all right, good,
Speaker 1: well not good but fine, all right, got it? Got
Speaker 1: the question, and I wanted to share this on the air.
Speaker 1: I thought it would be a good thing. Plus I
Speaker 1: ran out of time, so we're here. Uh So here's
Speaker 1: the thing this is. I don't know if this is possible,
Speaker 1: but I try and actually do this every week on
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: The the the phrase that you hear me repeat all
Speaker 1: the time. That is the model of our new T
Speaker 1: shirt this season. Right, design matters most no one. If
Speaker 1: I was going to lecture him, if I was going
Speaker 1: to sit your husband down and lecture him, no human
Speaker 1: being lives to whom design does not matter. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: just the idea that we get in our heads, especially
Speaker 1: men get in their heads that it's like, no, I'm practical. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. What we see, what we take in
Speaker 1: through our eyes, what we take in through our senses,
Speaker 1: it affects us. It affects us psychologically, It affects us emotionally.
Speaker 1: It is unavoidable. I do this for a living. I
Speaker 1: affect people's emotions. That's the weight, actually that any good
Speaker 1: designer should carry with them when they do their job,
Speaker 1: is the fact that things that you're doing are going
Speaker 1: to matter. I had a mentor when I first started
Speaker 1: my first big, big project. It was this house in
Speaker 1: Brentwood Park. Right around the corner from OJ's house is
Speaker 1: a brand new twelve thousand square foot home in Brentwood Park.
Speaker 1: And it was upon me to design this place. And
Speaker 1: my mentor, Jim Shaw from Turtle Creek, Texas, he just
Speaker 1: a beautiful man, and he would say to me, all right, Dean,
Speaker 1: here's what you need to know. You've got to understand
Speaker 1: when we do these things, that decisions you and I
Speaker 1: are going to make here on this project every day
Speaker 1: are going to affect the way people move through their
Speaker 1: lives for as long as they live in this space.
Speaker 1: He's like, if somebody gets up in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night and he is thirsty for a glass of water,
Speaker 1: they're going to walk down our hallway, They're going to
Speaker 1: walk into our kitchen or in this case, private kitchenette
Speaker 1: suite off of the master bedroom. But the point is
Speaker 1: the flow, the way we move, what they see, where
Speaker 1: the lights are, everything about that experience is going to
Speaker 1: be a remnant of decisions you and I make today,
Speaker 1: and it's going to affect them. It's going to have
Speaker 1: some subtle but ongoing effect in their lives. And so
Speaker 1: that was one of those iconic pieces of advice that
Speaker 1: that kind of shape you right, and and I've never
Speaker 1: forgotten that lesson. That was a powerful conversation we had
Speaker 1: that day because the whole weight of the whole time,
Speaker 1: I'm like, thanks, Jim, this is my first project. Thanks.
Speaker 1: You know, all my stupid decisions and I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: are gonna affect people forever.
Speaker 3: But one missed color and they're getting a divorce. Go boy,
Speaker 3: exactly build something exactly right.
Speaker 1: And I thought, I thought, until I got on the
Speaker 1: radio and they record every single show, Oh you ever
Speaker 1: do in posterity, I thought, uh, you know, it would
Speaker 1: never get worse than building a house. And then it's
Speaker 1: there fifty years later and all the mistakes you've made,
Speaker 1: people are still walking through it. But now so I
Speaker 1: guess maybe radio was a natural fit because now you
Speaker 1: can go back and listen to the first show I
Speaker 1: ever did, and just like.
Speaker 4: Also most design matters on the first show built from there?
Speaker 4: Can I ask a quick question? How many pillows on
Speaker 4: your damn sofa?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: Oh it doesn't. I am also kind of a minimalist.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying as a man, I thought I'd jump
Speaker 4: in here.
Speaker 1: No, No, I just I but.
Speaker 3: You are Pillow.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm just saying there's a difference between design and decorating.
Speaker 3: I agree with you, Neil, I'm actually the one. My wife.
Speaker 4: It's reversed. My wife is very pragmatic, very you know. Listen,
Speaker 4: I want to be able to go from A to
Speaker 4: B and and I'm like, this thing makes me happy.
Speaker 4: Why do we have a full sized Darth Vader in
Speaker 4: the living room?
Speaker 3: It makes me happy.
Speaker 1: So I've never met a human being to whom design
Speaker 1: doesn't matter on some level. Someone right, you know, there
Speaker 1: may be you know, you know, I don't want to
Speaker 1: be all sexist when I say this. I'm just stereotypical.
Speaker 1: But women are less than men. Oh that's what you say. No,
Speaker 1: I thought you were saying that. I want that's how
Speaker 1: Conway does it. I don't want to be sexist, but
Speaker 1: women are.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 1: What I was going to say, thank you is a joke.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: We all the world is run by women, especially me
Speaker 4: when I get home.
Speaker 1: No, guys are very Some guys are very passionate about
Speaker 1: their cars. They're very you know. So if you find
Speaker 1: the one thing, find the Achilles heel of passion where
Speaker 1: it's like watch that thing. I know, I got to
Speaker 1: watch this thing four times a week. Okay, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying your husband, I'm just saying, whatever that is. Some
Speaker 1: where in every human being's life, there is something to
Speaker 1: whom design matters most. Okay, because it affects them. It
Speaker 1: affects their you know, they get all out of They
Speaker 1: don't care what color you put on the pillows on
Speaker 1: the bed, but it makes a big difference what kind
Speaker 1: of rims are on the truck. Okay, that's design and
Speaker 1: it affects us. And my point is to everybody is
Speaker 1: that everybody needs to open up their eyes to the
Speaker 1: fact that you don't just turn off the effect of
Speaker 1: design when you walk away from the one thing that
Speaker 1: you recognize it in. It affects you everywhere, twenty four
Speaker 1: to seven, all the time, at all times. Now, it
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that designers are, you know, secretly changing your
Speaker 1: lives at every corner, or that your mood doesn't override
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. It's simply saying this that if
Speaker 1: you can help your spouse, your partner, somebody in your
Speaker 1: family to see the fact that the way the living
Speaker 1: room looks, the way the house looks when you walk
Speaker 1: into it, is having an effect. It is having an effect.
Speaker 1: So just try and live in a world in which
Speaker 1: there we strip away all the color, We strip away
Speaker 1: everything about the except the utter utility of a space.
Speaker 1: Like if somebody claims, like I'm a pragmatic all right,
Speaker 1: let's take all the color out of the room. Let's
Speaker 1: not worry about natural light flowing into the room. Let's
Speaker 1: just have the absolute bare bones utility there. We got
Speaker 1: to toilet, we got to sink, you know, we got
Speaker 1: a place to look in the mirror maybe, and a
Speaker 1: place to sleep. You know what that is. It's a
Speaker 1: prison cell. It's a prison cell. And guess what they
Speaker 1: send people there to not have a good time.
Speaker 3: Okay, they're super cold inside.
Speaker 4: You have to go to the bathroom in front of
Speaker 4: every I've been told they're super cold inside.
Speaker 1: We have to talk. We have to talk about your
Speaker 1: time of job. Anyway, So does that make sense what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, it makes sense. Indoctrinate him with your show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go. Just just let me add but it's
Speaker 1: not about I think a lot of guys just get
Speaker 1: it in their head that it's about proof and whatever,
Speaker 1: and or they feel like they're going to get feminized
Speaker 1: by the design problem. And that's just so not the thing.
Speaker 1: It's just so not the thing. It's just everything, you know,
Speaker 1: this is designed. This might everything around us that isn't
Speaker 1: just naturally growing somewhere has been a process of design
Speaker 1: that some somebody else has has kind of thought through,
Speaker 1: and we just need to recognize that it's everywhere, and
Speaker 1: they all affect us. They all affect us on every level.
Speaker 1: That's the That's the best I can do is to
Speaker 1: just try and open somebody's eyes to the fact that
Speaker 1: that you can't make hardline divisions between one thing to
Speaker 1: the other to the other. You're just not aware enough
Speaker 1: of yourself that you are being affected by it the
Speaker 1: way that you are. Okay, because otherwise, just go live
Speaker 1: in a prison. If you want to prove that you're
Speaker 1: a spartan pragmatic be there and see how that affects
Speaker 1: your mood.
Speaker 4: Again, they're cold, and you have to go to the
Speaker 4: bathroom in front of her, right, Neil.
Speaker 1: That's enough from you, my friend. Uh No, we haven't
Speaker 1: had enough of Neil, trust me, you have.
Speaker 3: My wife is thrilled right now. She's always out of
Speaker 3: the house.
Speaker 1: We will be back right after the News with more
Speaker 1: Neil Savedra from The Fork Report and more of The
Speaker 1: House Whisper Holiday Home Show.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 6: KFI a M six forty.
Speaker 1: Live streaming and HD everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You
Speaker 1: are Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. We are
Speaker 1: having our holiday home show. All right, I got her
Speaker 1: to get our hoop a little bit more. This is
Speaker 1: our annual holiday home show. We're just having some fun today.
Speaker 1: Normally I hold myself to pumping out as much in
Speaker 1: as possible. This is the one day every year to
Speaker 1: start the holidays off that I get to spend time
Speaker 1: with some of our favorite listeners who are here in
Speaker 1: studio with us today. Tander Pander, Tander insert candering here,
Speaker 1: and then some of my U some of my favorite
Speaker 1: friends here at the station. Neil Sevadra is sitting on
Speaker 1: the UH. I was about to say the dais the
Speaker 1: das it is sitting here at the dais.
Speaker 3: Well with you and I.
Speaker 4: It ends up being yet like it does become a
Speaker 4: little bit of a roast. Yes, yeah, so it is
Speaker 4: a day. So it's like Dean Martin's gonna come out
Speaker 4: here any minute. Yeah, I gotta tell you, Dean. During
Speaker 4: the break, I walked up to the Aldic tree. Yeah,
Speaker 4: holy smoke, what did you notice? Okay, first of all,
Speaker 4: you don't see any wires. The lifelike configuration of the
Speaker 4: branches to me is huge. And I, as much as
Speaker 4: I joke, I am the one who likes design and
Speaker 4: pillows and all those things in our house, So I
Speaker 4: that detailed to me. And the way the uh tree
Speaker 4: is imbibed literally imbibed with the light, you know, it's
Speaker 4: infused in there. Rather than them being on the tree,
Speaker 4: they're kind of in the tree. But that is spectacular
Speaker 4: if you get a chance to walk up and take
Speaker 4: a look at that and feel it. And then I
Speaker 4: noticed kind of the old world glass elongated ornaments that
Speaker 4: have have some more modernized colors to them, but still
Speaker 4: have that old school look. It just is stunning, all right.
Speaker 1: So let's put a pin in that there. So we've
Speaker 1: got Mida and and who are you? Oh yeah, Brian,
Speaker 1: Brian Gold from al de Colm, one of the owners.
Speaker 1: So do you guys know the name of those ornaments,
Speaker 1: that kind of ornament that this is the I mean,
Speaker 1: what we're describing here everybody has seen this. This is
Speaker 1: like very Victorian, right, It's like a tear drop and
Speaker 1: then it opens up into a ball, and then there's
Speaker 1: a concave kind of reflecting area, and then.
Speaker 5: The column reflector. But the shape is a finnial this
Speaker 5: long ago.
Speaker 1: That's where fine, I'm just gonna go with Finiel. I
Speaker 1: don't even care.
Speaker 3: Sounds like an old Irish guy's name. My name's Finel.
Speaker 1: It is, yeah, it is. He's the guy that his
Speaker 1: head used to be shaped like that old finial.
Speaker 4: The final yeah, and the sprigs coming out of there.
Speaker 4: It just is really stunning. But that tree is meticulous,
Speaker 4: just the tree itself without anything on it is a
Speaker 4: work of art.
Speaker 1: It is now, Brian, is this one of the this
Speaker 1: all of your trees do this? I'm sorry I don't misspeak,
Speaker 1: but so this is the multicolor that's going on right now?
Speaker 1: Or you actually got a combo of white one the
Speaker 1: light palette. Half of the lights are white interspersed with
Speaker 1: the multicolor. So it's a brighter version of multicolor than
Speaker 1: what you'll see and do these transition also not this
Speaker 1: one does not okay, but you have treat So this
Speaker 1: is one of the things I saw this. This is
Speaker 1: why you guys got to come to Aldick after the
Speaker 1: show today. Anybody who was listening to me right now,
Speaker 1: you come on down to Aldacomb. We're going to be
Speaker 1: there from one to two thirty today. But one of
Speaker 1: the trees that just kind of like stop me in
Speaker 1: my tracks. And there's always something every year that stops
Speaker 1: me in my tracks when I go to alc at
Speaker 1: Christmas time. So you've got tree that will transition from
Speaker 1: the white lights to the multicolor, which a lot of
Speaker 1: trees do, right, But most trees don't fade from one
Speaker 1: from the light to the multicolor. They just pop. It's like,
Speaker 1: oh it's it's white, and then oh you can also
Speaker 1: turn it to the multicolor. You're like, you've got some
Speaker 1: trees whose lights transition, and if you catch it midway
Speaker 1: through the transition, when it's moving from the white diodes
Speaker 1: over into the multicolored diodes, you end up with this
Speaker 1: amazing pastel pastel lights. Wow.
Speaker 4: Right, because it's not because the easy right, because that's
Speaker 4: that means it's RGB is what makes them the different
Speaker 4: colors in the LEDs. Right, So you have to actually
Speaker 4: have white.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's two diodes in every light, right.
Speaker 5: And then stell mode is you're telling the white diote
Speaker 5: to go at fifty percent and the multicolor to go
Speaker 5: at fifty percent. And if you look at each light,
Speaker 5: it's a little different. It'll be a little bluish, a
Speaker 5: little whitist, or a little pink as a little whitist.
Speaker 3: It's a pretty back to rich on tech.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's amazing. Love it that.
Speaker 4: Have you ever seen one like that before? Because you've
Speaker 4: got to check it out because the truth because it's
Speaker 4: not cheap to do.
Speaker 1: I mean, the transition is beautiful as it goes through,
Speaker 1: but you can also freeze it at that and just say, hey,
Speaker 1: we're doing a pastel motif on the tree, which is
Speaker 1: just utterly that's.
Speaker 3: Going full board.
Speaker 4: That's that's for going above and beyond just going Look,
Speaker 4: you can go from white to color to be able to.
Speaker 3: Transition from that. I agree, that's the geeky stuff. I love.
Speaker 1: Now, you guys do all sorts of themes, right, there's
Speaker 1: so many how many trees are in the store right
Speaker 1: now decorated everyone in a different.
Speaker 5: Theme, about fifty different themes fifty different decorated trees that
Speaker 5: people can.
Speaker 1: And that's right off of that's not the tree lot.
Speaker 1: The tree lot.
Speaker 5: That's about probably about sixty three now, I think we
Speaker 5: started with seventy. But certain styles are selling out of size.
Speaker 1: So when we say there were sixty three trees in
Speaker 1: the tree lot, we don't mean that's all they've got. Okay,
Speaker 1: oh thank you, my friend. This is coffee that just
Speaker 1: came and as you can see here on the radio, ah,
Speaker 1: that's good. Oh it's got a little a little foamy
Speaker 1: thing going on. You gotta what's up, Neil? I'm just
Speaker 1: a little parched. Neil would like some table side service.
Speaker 3: I should have said something there, all right.
Speaker 1: So they when we say that there are like sixty
Speaker 1: plus trees in the tree lot, it doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: that's your stock, right, It means undecorated trees, shapes, species,
Speaker 1: lighting configuration. These are sixty different kinds of tree that
Speaker 1: you guys can that somebody can come in and buy
Speaker 1: kinds of trees. Right, that's a massive selection. People are like,
Speaker 1: how do you have sixty different kinds of pre lit tree? Well,
Speaker 1: it starts out with different sizes and also how many
Speaker 1: species do you know how many species of trees you've got.
Speaker 5: It's probably almost twenty.
Speaker 1: Twenty different species of trees, all right. So if you're like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: i'm a noble fur, I'm a blue cypress person, I'm
Speaker 1: a yep yep, it's right over there, right, It's that.
Speaker 5: Kind of it's different shapes for people looking for smaller
Speaker 5: spaces where you can group the trees up to the
Speaker 5: big wide trees, to the layered trees. Our problem is,
Speaker 5: I think we fall in love with trees too much,
Speaker 5: and we just we don't say no, We just keep
Speaker 5: growing the tree a lot. Then we encroach into mitas space.
Speaker 4: So wasn't there just a recent story about a particular
Speaker 4: favorite Christmas tree that is now becoming extinct? There was
Speaker 4: something I had heard that maybe there was a species
Speaker 4: that is dying off or they're having a hard time
Speaker 4: keeping up. Another great excuse to use an artistic tree,
Speaker 4: the one that's manufactured, so you.
Speaker 1: Could still find it. You can still find your favorite species.
Speaker 4: Something recently i'd heard that maybe one was dying off,
Speaker 4: or that a particular Christmas tree. Another great reason to
Speaker 4: have something that you can I had.
Speaker 1: Heard that I don't remember what the species is. But
Speaker 1: I know this, like my one of my favorite Christmas trees,
Speaker 1: the favorite tree throughout Europe is the Nordman. Yeah exactly,
Speaker 1: And you're looking at me like, what the hell is
Speaker 1: a Nordman? That's my point. There are a few lots
Speaker 1: around southern California now that are starting to carry Nordman's,
Speaker 1: But there are so many trees across the globe, across
Speaker 1: the Western Hemisphere, and that you're not going to find
Speaker 1: that species because it's not shippable to your local you
Speaker 1: know tree place, right, But you can find them at
Speaker 1: Alda there they are right there. Okay, all right, can
Speaker 1: you hang on if I get you a coffee? Can
Speaker 1: we I don't need a coffee. I just busting is
Speaker 1: you're just whining his chops, You're just whining.
Speaker 3: I just thought it was funny.
Speaker 1: Do you whine this much on your own show?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Because I don't listen, So yeah, just.
Speaker 3: Your schamburger.
Speaker 1: Okay, more with Nil Savedra, the Good People at Aldick
Speaker 1: Home and the House Whisper Holiday Home Show.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 6: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: You're listening to the House Whisper live holiday show here
Speaker 1: from the helpful Honda Lounge KFI Studios here in Burdbank, California.
Speaker 1: We've got a live studio audience. Great, great people with us.
Speaker 1: Uh not as good as you, though not as good
Speaker 1: as you are. Listeners, They're not as good as you,
Speaker 1: they really aren't. So you keep listening. We're almost as
Speaker 1: good as you, sir, Yes, well most of Yeah, No
Speaker 1: one's as good as that guy right there. No, he's
Speaker 1: one of my clients, so I've paid to say that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: here's somebody not as good as nil Savedra. Everybody. This
Speaker 1: is the this is the one weekend a year that
Speaker 1: I just get to hang out with some buds and
Speaker 1: and you know, not worry about what we're accomplishing other
Speaker 1: than you know, doing something semi interesting.
Speaker 4: But you and I do geek out about the tech
Speaker 4: artistic you know, it's one thing to be able to.
Speaker 4: This is a masterful This tree is a masterful combination
Speaker 4: of what we talked about the the about the.
Speaker 3: Function of having a tree in your house.
Speaker 4: But the design of these lights we were geeking out
Speaker 4: about that they're three milimeters rather than five.
Speaker 3: So the brightness is one thing.
Speaker 4: All those things is what makes that tree look like
Speaker 4: you want it in your home?
Speaker 3: Yeah, rather than and.
Speaker 1: So I was like size matters, Neil, I was going
Speaker 1: to get a three foot tree.
Speaker 4: But the thing, the thing there is that that's what
Speaker 4: you remember the early LED technology looked like they were
Speaker 4: vibrating or the blue was off or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's so far.
Speaker 3: Look how warm then? And that right?
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's beautiful. It's a beautiful tree.
Speaker 3: By the way.
Speaker 1: Uh. This whole show today sponsored by our good friends
Speaker 1: at Aldac Home, including this tree. I've got one of
Speaker 1: the owners, Brian Gold with me right here and and Maida,
Speaker 1: who is there?
Speaker 3: You are?
Speaker 1: What's your official title again, Queen Queen of All Design
Speaker 1: Elements Creative Director. I knew it was something like that.
Speaker 1: So Brian, uh, you guys, sad just you knock this
Speaker 1: tree out of the park. It's got butterflies on and
Speaker 1: it's got it's got a whole mixture of things. Either
Speaker 1: one of you just chime in when it comes to
Speaker 1: themes on a tree, right. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people have a lot of people like to imbue their
Speaker 1: their holiday decre with things that are very special to them,
Speaker 1: like very personal to the family. And that could be
Speaker 1: like all different kinds of styles and elements. How do
Speaker 1: you do that and have a sexy designer tree that
Speaker 1: like would show up in a a in a magazine,
Speaker 1: Because that's one of the things I think there's a
Speaker 1: disconnect between the two. It's like, well, yeah, I'd love
Speaker 1: to have one of those, But if I did that
Speaker 1: at home, then we'd be excluding all of our stuff,
Speaker 1: which is like maybe off brand for that style of decor,
Speaker 1: or we just do our whole family thing and it
Speaker 1: looks exactly the same every year. Maybe that's great, but
Speaker 1: what can can those two roads meet?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 7: Absolutely when you walk into the store. This time we
Speaker 7: went a little bit whimsical, but the thought process behind
Speaker 7: this beautiful, really modern led branch tree, white tree, and
Speaker 7: we put candy canes in it and it's and it's
Speaker 7: real and we have these beautiful bubblegum ornaments that glow
Speaker 7: so when you walk in. I mean, yes, it's about
Speaker 7: the decoration and you know what colors we use, but
Speaker 7: it's also for me. I want to evoke something in
Speaker 7: someone when they walk in, whether it's an emotion, a memory,
Speaker 7: you know, and really just be a part of And
Speaker 7: I think like you mentioned.
Speaker 3: You know, can it can they meet?
Speaker 7: I think absolutely, and having that whimsical area for us
Speaker 7: at the front. This year we got a lot of that,
Speaker 7: you know, whether it was I think mostly it was
Speaker 7: the adults that walked in.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 7: The kids were like, oh wow, yeah, you know cup,
Speaker 7: but I think to see you know, I like to
Speaker 7: stand behind some of these rooms that we have and
Speaker 7: just kind of hear you know, you know what what,
Speaker 7: Oh my gosh. Sure it takes them somewhere and I
Speaker 7: love that.
Speaker 1: So so what you're talking about is surprising for a
Speaker 1: lot of people that you would think of a store
Speaker 1: like yours, the kids would just go crazy in and
Speaker 1: they do.
Speaker 3: They love it.
Speaker 1: They're just like, all this stuff is so cool. But
Speaker 1: where it really hits home is adults walking in because
Speaker 1: it evokes nostalgia, right and just reaches right into you
Speaker 1: and just like pulls on something deep in you that
Speaker 1: has been there since your own childhood. And those are
Speaker 1: just powerful, powerful emotions that you that when you interact
Speaker 1: and react to a piece of design like that. Uh
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna get technical, not like five millimeter three
Speaker 1: milimeter technical.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I really like talking about it. Like front folks,
Speaker 3: but video games is Star Wars.
Speaker 1: But we'll get I got to tell you a story
Speaker 1: about a patch that I just got from my for
Speaker 1: my hoodie. Remind me of that, Okay, patch, hoody patch, hooty,
Speaker 1: remind me tom So I get a technical on the
Speaker 1: decor side. Uh, the question of whether you can do
Speaker 1: a theme and maintain your own stuff is just a
Speaker 1: matter of ratio. That's all it is. Okay, there's a
Speaker 1: and this applies to every form of interior decor anywhere,
Speaker 1: exterior decor as well. It's what we call in design
Speaker 1: roughly the eighty twenty rule. It's not a law, it's
Speaker 1: just a guideline. It's a rule, the eighty twenty rule.
Speaker 1: And the eighty twenty rule is this, you can get
Speaker 1: real serious about a theme, about a direction, and go
Speaker 1: into a space and communicate that story that you're going
Speaker 1: to try and communicate eighty percent of the stuff there
Speaker 1: following that storyline. And if you do that, well, if
Speaker 1: you do the eighty percent along whatever theme that you want,
Speaker 1: then the other twenty percent can be dotted and bejeweled
Speaker 1: and accented with your stuff, personal family stuff all over
Speaker 1: the place, and they don't fight with each other. It's
Speaker 1: almost as if the eighty lays down a canvas for
Speaker 1: the other things to just appear. And it's when we
Speaker 1: think again, I think we talked about this earlier. It's
Speaker 1: like the all or nothing approach, Well, it got to
Speaker 1: be this. It's got to be that Sharon and I
Speaker 1: were talking about, like when do you start decorating for
Speaker 1: the holidays? Well, how about roll it out in stages.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be everything goes up today or
Speaker 1: everything has to wait till, you know, after Thanksgiving. So
Speaker 1: the eighty twenty rule is just that, it's the idea
Speaker 1: that you need about ish eighty percent of a of
Speaker 1: a of a continuity of a theme, and then the
Speaker 1: other things dropped in they don't distract, They only kind
Speaker 1: of enhance. They kind of they just accent it along.
Speaker 1: So you think about like your favorite family heir loom,
Speaker 1: ornaments or that little thing you know some people do,
Speaker 1: like an ornament every year that has their names on it,
Speaker 1: and you know, whatever the case may be, you don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about your stuff clashing. It's when everything
Speaker 1: becomes just a patchwork quilt that we sort of lose
Speaker 1: the story, right, we kind of we lose it at
Speaker 1: that point. And I find from a decor perspective, it's
Speaker 1: one of the foundational rules of architecture. You hear me
Speaker 1: talk about it sometimes hierarchy, Okay. Hierarchy simply means that
Speaker 1: in any piece of art, any piece of art, something
Speaker 1: has to be more important than the other things. Okay,
Speaker 1: something directs your attention to it first. That's what we
Speaker 1: call hierarchy. First glance, second glance. Usually with a good design,
Speaker 1: you get maybe three hits look here, look here, look here,
Speaker 1: and then I gotta let you go, and then you
Speaker 1: can just look anywhere, you know, and if you don't
Speaker 1: quite understand what I'm trying to communicate, it's like this picture,
Speaker 1: the Mona Lisa. When you see the Mona Lisa, anybody
Speaker 1: who looks at the Mona Lisa, nobody looks at her
Speaker 1: hands first, ever, ever, ever, ever, No one just like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, look at those hands, or look at
Speaker 1: what's going on in the background there. No one ever
Speaker 1: looks there first. And the intent was for you to
Speaker 1: look one place and one place only, right right in
Speaker 1: that face and that we is that a smile? We
Speaker 1: don't know, And you're captivated and kind of captured right there.
Speaker 1: It's your first hit. It's your second hit when you
Speaker 1: start figuring out whether she's smiling or not and what
Speaker 1: she's smiling about. And then you might drift down and
Speaker 1: take a look at her hands, and that's at that
Speaker 1: point she's like, hey, my eyes are up here, buddy.
Speaker 1: And then and then uh, and then you you know,
Speaker 1: if you stand there long enough, you're looking at everything
Speaker 1: that's hierarchy. Okay, So the idea of a Christmas tree
Speaker 1: is no different than anything else that you guys do
Speaker 1: in your space, which is, let's pick a theme. We
Speaker 1: could change it every year if you want to, but
Speaker 1: let's pick a theme. Let's roll with that, and let's
Speaker 1: let's say that that the overall vibe of the room
Speaker 1: is going to communicate this and then just drop in
Speaker 1: like a gallery anything that is meaningful to you. And
Speaker 1: I promise you they won't fight with each other, they'll
Speaker 1: they'll be accented and they kind of work together. Does
Speaker 1: that make sense? Yeah? So that makes oh oh, I
Speaker 1: get to shake Neil's hand about that. All right, look
Speaker 1: at that. We're at the top of the hour. When
Speaker 1: we come back, I've got some more favorite guests of mine.
Speaker 1: Some more buddies, and we've got more to talk about
Speaker 1: by way of decor, and we're going to hand out
Speaker 1: these beautiful ornaments that Neil made for us. Let's hear
Speaker 1: for Neil Savager. Everybody, you are Home with Dean Sharp,
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