February 2, 2025 • 28 mins
Dean talks about the burning of France 'Norte Dame Cathedral and everything that stood out at the Consumer Electric Show. Dean gives the silver lining result of the ancient European structure after the fire. Dean talks about AI being everywhere at the C.E.S. when to expect to see some new changes with home security features such as home security cameras, entry locks, facial recognition, and palm reading.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp The
House Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app Welcome Home.
I am Dean Sharp the House Whisper. I design custom homes,
build custom homes, and I am your guide to better
understanding that place where you live. Today on the show,
(00:22):
we're gonna have some fun like we don't always. Yeah,
I know, but here's the thing. Something happened a couple
of weeks ago. And no, I'm not talking about the wildfires, right.
We've spent a lot of time talking about those and
we will continue to, including today a little bit. But
something happened a couple of weeks ago that happens every
(00:45):
year this time of year, and because our attentions were
so focused on the wildfires here in southern California, we
just kind of skipped right over it. And that is
the big, the one and only, the massive consumer electronics
show that took place in Las Vegas. Does it every year,
fills the entire Las Vegas Convention Center. The only show
(01:08):
that is as big as CEES is one that I
attend also every year regularly, which is the International Builders Show,
which is coming up in like three weeks from now
and every year I cover both in terms of specifically
the things related to your home. So today we're gonna
(01:30):
talk about some practical things mostly let's have admit it,
mostly some toys for you from the Consumer Electronics Show
cool things for smart home tech. As we go through
the show today, I've got a list. You'll enjoy it,
I guarantee it. Also, though, I'm actually gonna start with
(01:51):
kind of something I didn't quite get to yesterday on
yesterday Morning's program or the previous episode. If you're one
of our pots cast listeners, I really have been itching
to talk to you about Notre Dame Cathedral and just
just briefly, just briefly, and what does that have to
do with your home something? It's architectural design anyway, I
(02:16):
just really want to talk to you about it, and
we will today as well, So don't go anywhere. What
are we serving up for you today? Follow us on
social media as always, we only do the good kind,
the uplifting, informative, inspiring kind Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, you know,
all the usual suspects. Home with Dean is the handle
for them all. And of course, if your home is
(02:38):
in need of some personal house whisper attention. Then you
can book an in home design consult with me and Tina,
the one and only Tina. You just go to house
Whisperer dot Design. All right, let me introduce our awesome team. Elmer,
of course, is on the board. Good morning Elmer, Good
morning Dean. How you doing, Bud good. I'm excited for
(02:59):
this episode. Yeah, I know, right, we were talking before
the show. You know you're an electronics kind of guy. Yeah,
so I don't know if I'm going to unveil that
personal robot that you want. There's a lot of there
might be some cool stuff. There will be. There will be.
Elmer was telling me before the show. He's like, I
(03:20):
really just want a robot, but one that doesn't kill me.
It's true, it's a concern, all right. Anyway, exactly exactly, Uh,
Producer Richie, he's just sending me weird text messages through
(03:41):
the studio wall. So anyway, he's standing by ready to
take your calls. And yes, we are also taking calls
today as well. Here's the number eight three three two.
Ask Dean eight three three the numeral two ask Dean,
and of course Eileen Gonzalez at the news desk. Good
morning Eileen, Good morning Dean. How's it going. I'm doing well.
(04:02):
I'm doing well. How are things with you? How is
your weekend going so far? Just relaxing, doing no work whatsoever.
There's no such thing as that for me on the weekends. Yeah, say,
because I Leen, and I work through every weekend weekends,
and I work my other job as soon as I
get off of this one. So there you go, exactly.
(04:24):
So anyway, glad you're here, Bud, Glad you're here. I'm
happy to be here. And sitting across the table from me,
there she is my better half, my design partner, the
co owner and co founder of House Whisper be Whisper
Whisperer btw btub uh, there is Tina. Oh, excuse you,
(04:50):
welcome home. I wonder if every week we have to
explain why there is an elephant sound with your name.
I don't think we do. No, we're just gonna leave it.
We hit it every once in a while. For people
who are brand new to the show, they'll just have
to You just have to hang with us for more
than a couple of weeks because it comes up. But
there it is all right. Y'all, let's dive into it.
(05:12):
When we come back. I want to talk to you
about Notre Dame Cathedral, no Tra damn Dame Cathedral, Notre
Dame now Tre Dame. Uh, just a little something that's
been on my mind. Yesterday we did we spent some
time talking about some architectural and design news here in
(05:33):
southern California. Actually only had a chance to kind of
do a deep dive into a structure that means a
lot to me, Wayfair's Chapel on the Palace Fertes Peninsula
that has been subject to the Portuguese been landslide that's
happening out there, along with hundreds of homes being subject
to it. We had callers call in about it. Anyway,
(05:54):
it was if you missed yesterday's show, definitely catch it
because it was a lot of good stuff happening and
calls yesterday as well. But I really wanted to talk
about Notre Dame as well as part of my you know,
design stuff in the news. So we'll do it. We'll
do that first and then we'll get into the consumer
electronics show for Homes for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Right after you're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Dean Sharp, the house whisper here to help you take
your home to the next level. We got a bunch
of stuff going on this morning. We're going to be
talking very shortly about the consumer Electronics show that just
took place a couple of weeks ago in Las Vegas.
And what are the implications of what was unveiled there
for your home, for any home, for smart tech in homes.
(06:48):
There's a bunch of it. We're going to get there. Also,
we're going to be taking calls today as we do normally.
Here's the number eight three three two. Ask Dean eight
three three the New World two. Pep, ask Dean A
three three two. There she goes again, ask Dean. I
don't know why that makes Tina laugh. Why does it
(07:09):
make you laugh? It's his buddy. Every time I married
the right person. All right, But first, like I said
before the break, I want to talk to you a
little left over from yesterday's program, where I was hoping
to cover a little bit more, you know, architectural and
design news, some local, some not so local. I really
(07:31):
really wanted to talk to you about Notre Dame cathedral.
Now I know what you're saying, great Dean. What in
the world does a Notre Dame cathedral, which by the
way is in Paris not here? What the world does
that have to do with anything with my home? And
I will tell you this, my friend, an awful lot.
(07:53):
Any piece of great architecture, by the way, has lessons
to teach you about any other piece of architecture, which,
of course we hope your home will become. Here's one
example right in here. Do you know how long it
took to build Notre Dame. It's a classic story of
many many cathedrals. In fact, this is not the longest
(08:14):
time ever spent building a cathedral, by far a European cathedral.
But ninety seven years Notre Dame was under construction. They
started building it in eleven sixty three. They finished in
twelve sixty, ninety seven years later. Here's the thing to
(08:34):
learn about that. I have been fortunate to have traveled
quite a bit around the world, seen some pretty incredible
things here and abroad. I will tell you never once
have I run across a structure that where time was
stretched in order to create it, in which it was
(08:56):
not excellent, and in fact I could flip that and say,
never once have I seen a structure or encountered a
structure that was built overnight that is heralded as architecturally
excellent as they say, right, Rome wasn't built in a day.
And I, in our fast food culture and our fast
(09:18):
home improvement culture, am constantly encouraging you, exhorting you, begging
you to take time. I know you want to get
it done yesterday. But if you really want your home
to shine, if you really want it to be the
excellent thing for decades of your life, that it becomes
(09:42):
a partner in living your beautiful life, then by all means,
please take the time to do it right. So that's
a lesson. And there are other lessons like the volume
of a space like a cathedral, and the way that
volume has a psychological effect on us, and where we
can find volume in height in your home instead of
(10:06):
expanding square footage can make a huge difference. It also
save you a lot of money. The use of light,
drama story cathedrals are nothing if not gigantic stories to
be told. So all of that applies. But mostly what
I wanted to share with you is something that you
may or may not have known. I think most of
(10:28):
us know that about five years ago, a little over
five years ago, Notre Dame caught on fire. And you know,
we're very familiar with structures catching on fire here in
southern California. Now it's all fresh in our minds. The
thing with Notre Dame is that it burnt. It's largely
a stone structure, but there's a lot of wood, old
(10:50):
oak ceiling across the entire cathedral, and that ceiling burnt
completely and completely collapse in. And then the French government
took a very very wise approach. They took time to
figure out how they were going to restore the cathedral,
(11:11):
and they decided to restore it in exactitude with the
not present building standards, but the way it was built originally,
so that it wouldn't be mismatched and have strange stresses
on other parts of the structure, which is wise. They
also added fire suppression systems, which is also very very wise.
(11:32):
But here's the thing, the silver lining, as it were,
that came out of this. Something happened as a result
of that fire that has never, in my knowledge happened
in the history of ancient European architecture. Something happened that
(11:54):
is different about Notre Dame than any other cathedral or
you know, eight hundred plus year old structure on the planet.
Do you know what that is? We'll talk about it
right on the other side.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Thanks for joining us today. It is a beautiful but cool,
sunny day here in southern California. I hope wherever you
are you are feeling good about your weather as well.
We've got some rain coming. We could use a little
bit more rain, not too much, too fast, because of
our fire scars. Somebody asked me, by the way, why
(12:38):
is that a big deal? I mean, they said, I understand, Okay,
some plants are gone, so the water moves faster on
the surface, But why is it an extra concern now
after a fire? And the reason is this, here's the reason.
It's not just that ground cover is missing from open areas.
(13:01):
It is in fact that the soil, because of the
heat of the flames, has been glassified. Sand content in
the soil has essentially melted and hardened the top layer
of soil, and so after a fire, immediately after a fire,
and this all breaks down. It all, it will all
(13:23):
break down, but the heat has kind of tempered and
hardened the surface of the soil. And then if we
get a lot of rain right after the fact, I mean,
you know, within weeks, like is what's happening now, And
then those soils shed water much faster, and so instead
of absorbing that water, they shed it off and the
(13:46):
water starts moving on the surface, and then we get
ground movement, floods and things like that. So just FYI,
the more you know, all right, I'm gonna finish up
my thought on Notre Dame Cathedral that I left you
hanging with. Did you know, I mean I said right
before the break that something historic has happened there that's
(14:07):
never before been seen in the history of medieval European architecture.
And it is a byproduct, as it were, a silver
lining of this disaster. And it was a disaster. And
so in no way am I saying that I'm happy
(14:29):
that Notre Dame encountered its devastating fire. But if you
have to find a silver lining, this is it. This
is what happened. The roof at Notre Dame Cathedral was lead,
and as it burned, it melted and as it collapsed,
(14:49):
and in the burning process, the flames also distributed lead
dust everywhere. So it wasn't just a matter of all, right,
let's clean up the roof debris and start rebuild the roof.
Every nook and cranny of the interior of Notre Dame
Cathedral was covered in soot and ash but also dangerous
(15:12):
lead dust content, which meant has met I mean, workers
for the last five years have been working with hazmat
suits as they restore and clean. So they had to
figure out a way. And by the way, Notre Dame
is built primarily other than the wood of limestone, of
a local, locally sourced limestone, and that limestone is pretty bright.
(15:35):
It's pretty bright. It's got a slight gray, sort of
gray tan tint to it, but it's a very very bright,
lovely limestone. And so they had to figure out how
we going to get it clean without destroying it because
limestone is not the strongest of stones, so we can't
just you know, pour harsh chemicals all over it. And
(15:55):
the last five years have been spent meticulously brushing down
and cleaning everything, and then of course repairing what stonework
was damaged in a restorative process so that everything goes
back the way it was. So it's cleaned and it's safe,
and the soot is gone. But guess the soot of
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the and the ash from the fire is gone. But
guess what else is gone? And here is the point
that's so exciting. Eight hundred years of candle and oil
lamp soot is gone from the inside of Notre Dame Cathedral.
In other words, for the first time in European history
(16:43):
to my knowledge, and for the first time absolutely in
the history of Notre Dame Cathedral. If you visit it now,
you will do something extraordinary. You will see an eight
hundred year old cathedral the way it looked when it
was built eight hundred years ago. Not the old, sooty,
(17:06):
dirty building that has survived down through time, but no,
a fresh clean So people who have been to Notre
Dame before and who have walked in again say, oh
my god, what is going on here? Why is it
so bright? And they're astounded. They're astounded by what has
(17:28):
happened to this cathedral because it has been restored by
default by the cleaning process, back to its original condition,
not just original structural condition, its original esthetic condition. So
if you are so fortunate as to be able to
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travel abroad and you were thinking about, oh maybe France,
maybe Paris will be on my wishless, I'm just telling
you you have a treat in store. And if you
you are unable to travel abroad, then there are a
ton of documentaries and videos and things online that you
can source out, and I encourage you go check it out.
(18:11):
Go check out the documentaries to talk about the whole process.
Go look at footage of Notre Dame now and it
is reopened to the public, and look at it and
just sort of wonder at how amazing it is that
we have now seen something our generation have seen something
that no one else has seen before, which is an
(18:34):
eight hundred year old structure looking the way it did
on day one. Pretty amazing stuff, Pretty amazing stuff. All right,
That's all I wanted to share with you. Don't tell
me that isn't interesting, of course it is. All right.
When we come back, let's dive into something very, very different,
which is the stuff that I've gleaned from all of
(18:58):
the hundreds of thousands of things on display at this
year's Consumer Electronics Show. Some of the things that are
most pertinent to our homes, smart home tech and all
the like that's coming.
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Forty Welcome home. Hey, we're gonna be going to the
phones in just a bit. Just so you know, we've
got room on the callboard for you. If there is
something about your home that's got you scratching your head,
burning question, you should get some ointment for that, but
I will also help you with it as well. The
(19:38):
number to reach me eight three three two Ask Dean
eight three three the numeral two ask Dean A three
three to ask Dean. We'll be hitting the phones shortly.
Right now, let's dive into the best of the Consumer
Electronics Show twenty twenty five as it relates to your homes.
(20:01):
With all of our attention focused on wildfires. The CES
show in Las Vegas that happened a couple weeks ago,
came and went without much fanfare from southern California, but
it was a banner year for tech, especially when it
comes to smart home tech. So what is the first
thing you need to know? Reporting on CEES. This shouldn't
(20:23):
surprise you, but it has to be said. AI was
the undisputed king of cees this year CES twenty twenty five.
Everywhere AI was everywhere like a virus, infecting every bit
of hardware, every new concept and methodology. And I'm not
(20:47):
trying to be negative about it, That's not my intention.
I'm just saying it was viral. I mean viral. Now
is when I can confidently tell you is when we
are going to begin seeing on regular basis artificial intelligence
seeping into everything. Some of it will be silly and ridiculous,
(21:11):
and that's always just been the case, all right, that's
not a dis on AI. It's just all smart technology
that has ever come out. Some of it is silly
and ridiculous, but other parts of it are going to
be utterly brilliant and some of it downright practical. Here
is Here are a couple of items. The company Tapo.
(21:33):
T a Po introduced some home security door locks and
cameras that you know, not a new thing again, so
what makes them special? AI? AI has added a whole
new flavor to them. I saw a home security entry
lock that you know, what have we had in the
(21:55):
past keyed yes with your key biometric where you to
stick a thumb up there and it reads your thumb
and unlocks the door. We've seen I locks you know,
based on you know, put your eye up there, you know,
very kind of mission impossible esque, right, Uh. But more
(22:16):
commonly it's been the biometric lock, which have been a
little bit hit and miss in the beginning, but now
we're getting pretty dang reliable. But what do we have now?
Now we've got facial recognition AI facial recognition where literally
you're just get close enough, stare into the camera for
a second and it's like, oh, oh, Dean, it's you.
(22:38):
Of course I'm gonna unlock the door. Uh. And in
addition to that, if that isn't your cup of tea,
palm repetition recognition, palm reading not not your fortune, but
apparently a pattern of not only the lines the prints
in your palm, but also a pattern of just under
(23:01):
the skin that it is able to detect. So all
you do is just hold your palm up to this
little pad. You don't have to touch it, it's non contact,
but just you know, an inch away, and boom, recognizes
who you are and open the door. Goes so very
very interesting, these biometric ways of doing security, the camera
(23:24):
side of things, I thought was really creepy. No, no,
useful AI on home security cameras. What does that look like?
It's this this product from Tapo. These cameras, and the
cameras aren't any different than you know, every other home
(23:47):
security camera out there. And then, of course, you know,
we've talked about the fact that home security cameras have
gotten every year easier and easier and easier to install.
You buy, when you plug it in, but bom, give it,
give it your Wi Fi work and next thing you know,
you're up and running. You can get alerts on your phone.
That's how they work these days, super super easy and
not very expensive anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
So.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
These cameras have intelligent AI commentary. Oh that's great. That's
the last thing I need is my camera's commenting on me. No, no, no.
The kind of commentary they mean is informative stuff like
instead of you getting a notification person at the front door,
here's the notification that you get. Three individuals are conversing
(24:34):
on the front porch. What three individuals are having a
conversation on your front porch before you even get to
the door, and then put your eye against the people.
That's the kind of stuff we're talking about here is
one that I think a lot of parents will find
imminently valuable. Put a camera, one of these security cameras
(24:59):
on a flex arm above a crib in a nursery. Right,
So now we've got a camera watching the little one
as they sleep, and you get a message from from
that camera that says your child's face might be obstructed
by a blanket. You see what I'm saying. That's smart
(25:21):
stuff and that has value, I mean real practical value.
So cameras with the AI commentary in which more and
more these AI systems are able to watch and discern
certain important things about what's going on in your home.
(25:43):
Along these lines, I think there was one more camera
that I had here. Let me see. Oh Akara the
company Akara, and it's spelled aquar. Akara looks like a Quara.
Akara has a ports camera, again extending the AI intelligence
(26:04):
with what they call package delivery detection and package theft detection.
So in other words, you know, it's not just person
at the front door. Tina and I get that alert
all the time. We get, oh, person at the front door,
and then we say, oh, it must be must be Amazon,
must be ups Because we were expecting something. Well, now
(26:24):
we don't even have to guess at that, because now
the alert comes through with package delivered on the front porch,
a package, not just a person, just to detect the
fact that there's a package there. And then about four
minutes later it'll say package removed from the front door
when it gets stolen. But that's the truth. It has
(26:50):
package delivery and package theft detection. So it is going
to tell you, oh, you remember that package and I
told you about a half an hour ago, got sat
on the front porch. Yeah it's gone. Now somebody just
took it and here's the guy. So yeah, these are
the kinds of AI intelligence that's being put in technology
(27:14):
that we are already very very familiar with and taking
it up, taking it definitely, I wouldn't say to the
next level, taking it several levels up as far as
its ability to communicate accurately and precisely what's going on
with your home. Okay, when we come back, you know what,
it's time to take a couple of calls. So we're
going to take some calls, and when we come back
(27:35):
to CES, I want to talk about the one one
television that I thought was of massive interest to a
lot of homeowners. TVs are always the thing, right, I mean,
there's eight thousand of them at every ces, But this one,
for a very specific reason, caught my attention. We'll talk
(27:56):
about that when we return to the subject. But right
after this next news break, we'll be going to the
phones eight three three two. Ask Dean A three three
the numeral two. Ask Dean your home with Dean Sharp,
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KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp The
House Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app Welcome Home.
I am Dean Sharp the House Whisper. I design custom homes,
build custom homes, and I am your guide to better
understanding that place where you live. Today on the show,
(00:22):
we're gonna have some fun like we don't always. Yeah,
I know, but here's the thing. Something happened a couple
of weeks ago. And no, I'm not talking about the wildfires, right.
We've spent a lot of time talking about those and
we will continue to, including today a little bit. But
something happened a couple of weeks ago that happens every
(00:45):
year this time of year, and because our attentions were
so focused on the wildfires here in southern California, we
just kind of skipped right over it. And that is
the big, the one and only, the massive consumer electronics
show that took place in Las Vegas. Does it every year,
fills the entire Las Vegas Convention Center. The only show
(01:08):
that is as big as CEES is one that I
attend also every year regularly, which is the International Builders Show,
which is coming up in like three weeks from now
and every year I cover both in terms of specifically
the things related to your home. So today we're gonna
(01:30):
talk about some practical things mostly let's have admit it,
mostly some toys for you from the Consumer Electronics Show
cool things for smart home tech. As we go through
the show today, I've got a list. You'll enjoy it,
I guarantee it. Also, though, I'm actually gonna start with
(01:51):
kind of something I didn't quite get to yesterday on
yesterday Morning's program or the previous episode. If you're one
of our pots cast listeners, I really have been itching
to talk to you about Notre Dame Cathedral and just
just briefly, just briefly, and what does that have to
do with your home something? It's architectural design anyway, I
(02:16):
just really want to talk to you about it, and
we will today as well, So don't go anywhere. What
are we serving up for you today? Follow us on
social media as always, we only do the good kind,
the uplifting, informative, inspiring kind Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, you know,
all the usual suspects. Home with Dean is the handle
for them all. And of course, if your home is
(02:38):
in need of some personal house whisper attention. Then you
can book an in home design consult with me and Tina,
the one and only Tina. You just go to house
Whisperer dot Design. All right, let me introduce our awesome team. Elmer,
of course, is on the board. Good morning Elmer, Good
morning Dean. How you doing, Bud good. I'm excited for
(02:59):
this episode. Yeah, I know, right, we were talking before
the show. You know you're an electronics kind of guy. Yeah,
so I don't know if I'm going to unveil that
personal robot that you want. There's a lot of there
might be some cool stuff. There will be. There will be.
Elmer was telling me before the show. He's like, I
(03:20):
really just want a robot, but one that doesn't kill me.
It's true, it's a concern, all right. Anyway, exactly exactly, Uh,
Producer Richie, he's just sending me weird text messages through
(03:41):
the studio wall. So anyway, he's standing by ready to
take your calls. And yes, we are also taking calls
today as well. Here's the number eight three three two.
Ask Dean eight three three the numeral two ask Dean,
and of course Eileen Gonzalez at the news desk. Good
morning Eileen, Good morning Dean. How's it going. I'm doing well.
(04:02):
I'm doing well. How are things with you? How is
your weekend going so far? Just relaxing, doing no work whatsoever.
There's no such thing as that for me on the weekends. Yeah, say,
because I Leen, and I work through every weekend weekends,
and I work my other job as soon as I
get off of this one. So there you go, exactly.
(04:24):
So anyway, glad you're here, Bud, Glad you're here. I'm
happy to be here. And sitting across the table from me,
there she is my better half, my design partner, the
co owner and co founder of House Whisper be Whisper
Whisperer btw btub uh, there is Tina. Oh, excuse you,
(04:50):
welcome home. I wonder if every week we have to
explain why there is an elephant sound with your name.
I don't think we do. No, we're just gonna leave it.
We hit it every once in a while. For people
who are brand new to the show, they'll just have
to You just have to hang with us for more
than a couple of weeks because it comes up. But
there it is all right. Y'all, let's dive into it.
(05:12):
When we come back. I want to talk to you
about Notre Dame Cathedral, no Tra damn Dame Cathedral, Notre
Dame now Tre Dame. Uh, just a little something that's
been on my mind. Yesterday we did we spent some
time talking about some architectural and design news here in
(05:33):
southern California. Actually only had a chance to kind of
do a deep dive into a structure that means a
lot to me, Wayfair's Chapel on the Palace Fertes Peninsula
that has been subject to the Portuguese been landslide that's
happening out there, along with hundreds of homes being subject
to it. We had callers call in about it. Anyway,
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it was if you missed yesterday's show, definitely catch it
because it was a lot of good stuff happening and
calls yesterday as well. But I really wanted to talk
about Notre Dame as well as part of my you know,
design stuff in the news. So we'll do it. We'll
do that first and then we'll get into the consumer
electronics show for Homes for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Right after you're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Dean Sharp, the house whisper here to help you take
your home to the next level. We got a bunch
of stuff going on this morning. We're going to be
talking very shortly about the consumer Electronics show that just
took place a couple of weeks ago in Las Vegas.
And what are the implications of what was unveiled there
for your home, for any home, for smart tech in homes.
(06:48):
There's a bunch of it. We're going to get there. Also,
we're going to be taking calls today as we do normally.
Here's the number eight three three two. Ask Dean eight
three three the New World two. Pep, ask Dean A
three three two. There she goes again, ask Dean. I
don't know why that makes Tina laugh. Why does it
(07:09):
make you laugh? It's his buddy. Every time I married
the right person. All right, But first, like I said
before the break, I want to talk to you a
little left over from yesterday's program, where I was hoping
to cover a little bit more, you know, architectural and
design news, some local, some not so local. I really
(07:31):
really wanted to talk to you about Notre Dame cathedral.
Now I know what you're saying, great Dean. What in
the world does a Notre Dame cathedral, which by the
way is in Paris not here? What the world does
that have to do with anything with my home? And
I will tell you this, my friend, an awful lot.
(07:53):
Any piece of great architecture, by the way, has lessons
to teach you about any other piece of architecture, which,
of course we hope your home will become. Here's one
example right in here. Do you know how long it
took to build Notre Dame. It's a classic story of
many many cathedrals. In fact, this is not the longest
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time ever spent building a cathedral, by far a European cathedral.
But ninety seven years Notre Dame was under construction. They
started building it in eleven sixty three. They finished in
twelve sixty, ninety seven years later. Here's the thing to
(08:34):
learn about that. I have been fortunate to have traveled
quite a bit around the world, seen some pretty incredible
things here and abroad. I will tell you never once
have I run across a structure that where time was
stretched in order to create it, in which it was
(08:56):
not excellent, and in fact I could flip that and say,
never once have I seen a structure or encountered a
structure that was built overnight that is heralded as architecturally
excellent as they say, right, Rome wasn't built in a day.
And I, in our fast food culture and our fast
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home improvement culture, am constantly encouraging you, exhorting you, begging
you to take time. I know you want to get
it done yesterday. But if you really want your home
to shine, if you really want it to be the
excellent thing for decades of your life, that it becomes
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a partner in living your beautiful life, then by all means,
please take the time to do it right. So that's
a lesson. And there are other lessons like the volume
of a space like a cathedral, and the way that
volume has a psychological effect on us, and where we
can find volume in height in your home instead of
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expanding square footage can make a huge difference. It also
save you a lot of money. The use of light,
drama story cathedrals are nothing if not gigantic stories to
be told. So all of that applies. But mostly what
I wanted to share with you is something that you
may or may not have known. I think most of
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us know that about five years ago, a little over
five years ago, Notre Dame caught on fire. And you know,
we're very familiar with structures catching on fire here in
southern California. Now it's all fresh in our minds. The
thing with Notre Dame is that it burnt. It's largely
a stone structure, but there's a lot of wood, old
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oak ceiling across the entire cathedral, and that ceiling burnt
completely and completely collapse in. And then the French government
took a very very wise approach. They took time to
figure out how they were going to restore the cathedral,
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and they decided to restore it in exactitude with the
not present building standards, but the way it was built originally,
so that it wouldn't be mismatched and have strange stresses
on other parts of the structure, which is wise. They
also added fire suppression systems, which is also very very wise.
(11:32):
But here's the thing, the silver lining, as it were,
that came out of this. Something happened as a result
of that fire that has never, in my knowledge happened
in the history of ancient European architecture. Something happened that
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is different about Notre Dame than any other cathedral or
you know, eight hundred plus year old structure on the planet.
Do you know what that is? We'll talk about it
right on the other side.
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You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Thanks for joining us today. It is a beautiful but cool,
sunny day here in southern California. I hope wherever you
are you are feeling good about your weather as well.
We've got some rain coming. We could use a little
bit more rain, not too much, too fast, because of
our fire scars. Somebody asked me, by the way, why
(12:38):
is that a big deal? I mean, they said, I understand, Okay,
some plants are gone, so the water moves faster on
the surface, But why is it an extra concern now
after a fire? And the reason is this, here's the reason.
It's not just that ground cover is missing from open areas.
(13:01):
It is in fact that the soil, because of the
heat of the flames, has been glassified. Sand content in
the soil has essentially melted and hardened the top layer
of soil, and so after a fire, immediately after a fire,
and this all breaks down. It all, it will all
(13:23):
break down, but the heat has kind of tempered and
hardened the surface of the soil. And then if we
get a lot of rain right after the fact, I mean,
you know, within weeks, like is what's happening now, And
then those soils shed water much faster, and so instead
of absorbing that water, they shed it off and the
(13:46):
water starts moving on the surface, and then we get
ground movement, floods and things like that. So just FYI,
the more you know, all right, I'm gonna finish up
my thought on Notre Dame Cathedral that I left you
hanging with. Did you know, I mean I said right
before the break that something historic has happened there that's
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never before been seen in the history of medieval European architecture.
And it is a byproduct, as it were, a silver
lining of this disaster. And it was a disaster. And
so in no way am I saying that I'm happy
(14:29):
that Notre Dame encountered its devastating fire. But if you
have to find a silver lining, this is it. This
is what happened. The roof at Notre Dame Cathedral was lead,
and as it burned, it melted and as it collapsed,
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and in the burning process, the flames also distributed lead
dust everywhere. So it wasn't just a matter of all, right,
let's clean up the roof debris and start rebuild the roof.
Every nook and cranny of the interior of Notre Dame
Cathedral was covered in soot and ash but also dangerous
(15:12):
lead dust content, which meant has met I mean, workers
for the last five years have been working with hazmat
suits as they restore and clean. So they had to
figure out a way. And by the way, Notre Dame
is built primarily other than the wood of limestone, of
a local, locally sourced limestone, and that limestone is pretty bright.
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It's pretty bright. It's got a slight gray, sort of
gray tan tint to it, but it's a very very bright,
lovely limestone. And so they had to figure out how
we going to get it clean without destroying it because
limestone is not the strongest of stones, so we can't
just you know, pour harsh chemicals all over it. And
(15:55):
the last five years have been spent meticulously brushing down
and cleaning everything, and then of course repairing what stonework
was damaged in a restorative process so that everything goes
back the way it was. So it's cleaned and it's safe,
and the soot is gone. But guess the soot of
(16:18):
the and the ash from the fire is gone. But
guess what else is gone? And here is the point
that's so exciting. Eight hundred years of candle and oil
lamp soot is gone from the inside of Notre Dame Cathedral.
In other words, for the first time in European history
(16:43):
to my knowledge, and for the first time absolutely in
the history of Notre Dame Cathedral. If you visit it now,
you will do something extraordinary. You will see an eight
hundred year old cathedral the way it looked when it
was built eight hundred years ago. Not the old, sooty,
(17:06):
dirty building that has survived down through time, but no,
a fresh clean So people who have been to Notre
Dame before and who have walked in again say, oh
my god, what is going on here? Why is it
so bright? And they're astounded. They're astounded by what has
(17:28):
happened to this cathedral because it has been restored by
default by the cleaning process, back to its original condition,
not just original structural condition, its original esthetic condition. So
if you are so fortunate as to be able to
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travel abroad and you were thinking about, oh maybe France,
maybe Paris will be on my wishless, I'm just telling
you you have a treat in store. And if you
you are unable to travel abroad, then there are a
ton of documentaries and videos and things online that you
can source out, and I encourage you go check it out.
(18:11):
Go check out the documentaries to talk about the whole process.
Go look at footage of Notre Dame now and it
is reopened to the public, and look at it and
just sort of wonder at how amazing it is that
we have now seen something our generation have seen something
that no one else has seen before, which is an
(18:34):
eight hundred year old structure looking the way it did
on day one. Pretty amazing stuff, Pretty amazing stuff. All right,
That's all I wanted to share with you. Don't tell
me that isn't interesting, of course it is. All right.
When we come back, let's dive into something very, very different,
which is the stuff that I've gleaned from all of
(18:58):
the hundreds of thousands of things on display at this
year's Consumer Electronics Show. Some of the things that are
most pertinent to our homes, smart home tech and all
the like that's coming.
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Forty Welcome home. Hey, we're gonna be going to the
phones in just a bit. Just so you know, we've
got room on the callboard for you. If there is
something about your home that's got you scratching your head,
burning question, you should get some ointment for that, but
I will also help you with it as well. The
(19:38):
number to reach me eight three three two Ask Dean
eight three three the numeral two ask Dean A three
three to ask Dean. We'll be hitting the phones shortly.
Right now, let's dive into the best of the Consumer
Electronics Show twenty twenty five as it relates to your homes.
(20:01):
With all of our attention focused on wildfires. The CES
show in Las Vegas that happened a couple weeks ago,
came and went without much fanfare from southern California, but
it was a banner year for tech, especially when it
comes to smart home tech. So what is the first
thing you need to know? Reporting on CEES. This shouldn't
(20:23):
surprise you, but it has to be said. AI was
the undisputed king of cees this year CES twenty twenty five.
Everywhere AI was everywhere like a virus, infecting every bit
of hardware, every new concept and methodology. And I'm not
(20:47):
trying to be negative about it, That's not my intention.
I'm just saying it was viral. I mean viral. Now
is when I can confidently tell you is when we
are going to begin seeing on regular basis artificial intelligence
seeping into everything. Some of it will be silly and ridiculous,
(21:11):
and that's always just been the case, all right, that's
not a dis on AI. It's just all smart technology
that has ever come out. Some of it is silly
and ridiculous, but other parts of it are going to
be utterly brilliant and some of it downright practical. Here
is Here are a couple of items. The company Tapo.
(21:33):
T a Po introduced some home security door locks and
cameras that you know, not a new thing again, so
what makes them special? AI? AI has added a whole
new flavor to them. I saw a home security entry
lock that you know, what have we had in the
(21:55):
past keyed yes with your key biometric where you to
stick a thumb up there and it reads your thumb
and unlocks the door. We've seen I locks you know,
based on you know, put your eye up there, you know,
very kind of mission impossible esque, right, Uh. But more
(22:16):
commonly it's been the biometric lock, which have been a
little bit hit and miss in the beginning, but now
we're getting pretty dang reliable. But what do we have now?
Now we've got facial recognition AI facial recognition where literally
you're just get close enough, stare into the camera for
a second and it's like, oh, oh, Dean, it's you.
(22:38):
Of course I'm gonna unlock the door. Uh. And in
addition to that, if that isn't your cup of tea,
palm repetition recognition, palm reading not not your fortune, but
apparently a pattern of not only the lines the prints
in your palm, but also a pattern of just under
(23:01):
the skin that it is able to detect. So all
you do is just hold your palm up to this
little pad. You don't have to touch it, it's non contact,
but just you know, an inch away, and boom, recognizes
who you are and open the door. Goes so very
very interesting, these biometric ways of doing security, the camera
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side of things, I thought was really creepy. No, no,
useful AI on home security cameras. What does that look like?
It's this this product from Tapo. These cameras, and the
cameras aren't any different than you know, every other home
(23:47):
security camera out there. And then, of course, you know,
we've talked about the fact that home security cameras have
gotten every year easier and easier and easier to install.
You buy, when you plug it in, but bom, give it,
give it your Wi Fi work and next thing you know,
you're up and running. You can get alerts on your phone.
That's how they work these days, super super easy and
not very expensive anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
So.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
These cameras have intelligent AI commentary. Oh that's great. That's
the last thing I need is my camera's commenting on me. No, no, no.
The kind of commentary they mean is informative stuff like
instead of you getting a notification person at the front door,
here's the notification that you get. Three individuals are conversing
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on the front porch. What three individuals are having a
conversation on your front porch before you even get to
the door, and then put your eye against the people.
That's the kind of stuff we're talking about here is
one that I think a lot of parents will find
imminently valuable. Put a camera, one of these security cameras
(24:59):
on a flex arm above a crib in a nursery. Right,
So now we've got a camera watching the little one
as they sleep, and you get a message from from
that camera that says your child's face might be obstructed
by a blanket. You see what I'm saying. That's smart
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stuff and that has value, I mean real practical value.
So cameras with the AI commentary in which more and
more these AI systems are able to watch and discern
certain important things about what's going on in your home.
(25:43):
Along these lines, I think there was one more camera
that I had here. Let me see. Oh Akara the
company Akara, and it's spelled aquar. Akara looks like a Quara.
Akara has a ports camera, again extending the AI intelligence
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with what they call package delivery detection and package theft detection.
So in other words, you know, it's not just person
at the front door. Tina and I get that alert
all the time. We get, oh, person at the front door,
and then we say, oh, it must be must be Amazon,
must be ups Because we were expecting something. Well, now
(26:24):
we don't even have to guess at that, because now
the alert comes through with package delivered on the front porch,
a package, not just a person, just to detect the
fact that there's a package there. And then about four
minutes later it'll say package removed from the front door
when it gets stolen. But that's the truth. It has
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package delivery and package theft detection. So it is going
to tell you, oh, you remember that package and I
told you about a half an hour ago, got sat
on the front porch. Yeah it's gone. Now somebody just
took it and here's the guy. So yeah, these are
the kinds of AI intelligence that's being put in technology
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that we are already very very familiar with and taking
it up, taking it definitely, I wouldn't say to the
next level, taking it several levels up as far as
its ability to communicate accurately and precisely what's going on
with your home. Okay, when we come back, you know what,
it's time to take a couple of calls. So we're
going to take some calls, and when we come back
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to CES, I want to talk about the one one
television that I thought was of massive interest to a
lot of homeowners. TVs are always the thing, right, I mean,
there's eight thousand of them at every ces, But this one,
for a very specific reason, caught my attention. We'll talk
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about that when we return to the subject. But right
after this next news break, we'll be going to the
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