November 9, 2025 • 30 mins
We do not light rooms, we light things. Dean talks about setting the mood with sexy lighting for your home during the festive season
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp, The
House Whisperer on demand on the iHeartRadio app. I Am
Dean Sharp, The House Whisperer, Custom home Builder, Custom home Designer,
and your guide to better understanding that place where you live.
Here to remind you, every home has a path forward.
Design is what unlocks it and once you see it,
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that's when everything changes. So glad you're with us on
the program today. How are you doing? How are you today?
On the show, We're talking about some fun and interesting things,
a very very very actionable items here. We're talking about
looking toward the holidays. Here things you can do to
your house to improve the quality of the holiday experience,
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specifically in lighting, home theater, and major appliances. These are
things that I'm suggesting, with the exception maybe having a
major appliance installed that you don't have to call the
contract for. You don't have to tear up the walls
you don't have. This is stuff that you can take
action on and get done, and not just for the holidays,
but that's going to raise your game for your house
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for years and years to come. We had some great callers,
some very animated callers, I should say, and am grateful
for that as always. And now we're going to dive
back into this smart and Sexy for the Holidays list
for you. Before I do that, though, I want to
give some more tickets away too. Our House Whisper Holiday
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Home Show. It's a live audience event. We do this
every year on the Sunday prior to Thanksgiving. This year
is no exception, Sunday, November twenty third, which is what
is that? Just that's like two weeks away now, right?
All right? Is that right? Let me look here. Yeah,
that's a couple of weeks away, Sunday, November twenty third
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in iHeart Studios right here in Burbank, the Home of Home.
We are doing a live show, as we always do,
but we're gonna do it with a live audience that
I would love for you to be a part of.
It's going to be in the helpful Honda Lounge up
here on the fifth floor. You can visit the Home
of Home and hang out with me and Tina and
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the team, enjoy some refreshments. We may have some special
guests with us, who knows. And there's gonna be an
expert advice from the decor Pros that Aldac hom Aldick
is sponsoring the entire event. As they do, they're going
to be here to give advice to you. You can
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watch the Aldic Pros decorate an ah Gold seven and
a half foot Christmas tree, literally the world's finest Christmas trees.
They're going to decorate it during the show. We're going
to talk to them about what they're doing and how
they're doing it, and then one of those lucky audience
members there with me will get to take it all home. Yeah,
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it's a good thing. Anyway, I want to give away
some more tickets, and by that I mean we're going
to open this up to four more winners, and that
means you and your plus one. So we're gonna give
away eight more seats to that the Holiday Home Show event,
and we're gonna do it right now. Our call screener
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is ready to go. Here is the number to reach me.
Eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three three the
numeral two. Ask Deing eight three three two, Askding if
you would like to be a part of the Holiday
Home Show coming up on November twenty third. Call right now.
The first four calls that we take are gonna win
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seats for themselves and their plus ones. Ready go all right,
there you go, All right, Now back to biz for
the rest of us. Here while people are calling in
to win those seats, where where is my note? Where
is it? Where is it? Where here it is? Okay,
I'm gonna finish off lighting very quickly. Here. I've given
you the main, the you know, the main full spread
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shot here. Talk to you about the number one rule
of life lighting design for any home, and that is
that we don't light rooms, we light things. This applies
to any room that you're in. It also applies to
the hallway. Okay. And you're like, well, wait, the lights
in the hallway are for the floor. No they're not.
They're for the walls. They're for the walls. They'll bounce
onto the floor. You get the floor and the room
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as a secondary byproduct of lighting the walls properly. And
I talk to you about how to find the right trim,
a new trim for your recess candlights that is a
gimbal trim that's aimable. And this now, especially down the hallway,
is true. I want to take those center hallway recess
lights and I want to put an aimable trim on
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them so that they will aim towards the artwork on
the walls, the family photos on the walls. And if
you don't have anything on your walls, now you get
a chance to do. We're turning your home into a
gallery and it's going to change the way light inhabits
your home, I promise you. Now you want to add
on to that, you can throw some color changing smart
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bulbs and or smart switches into the mix. We live
in an age and I don't want to make this
too complex to you. And if it sounds too complex
for you, then guess what. You don't need to do it. Okay,
But for those of you who are looking to take
it up yet another notch, there are smart bulbs out there.
Smart bulbs, smart bulbs that communicate to your Wi Fi system, okay,
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that activate on your personal home assistant. Now, who is that? Well,
I'm not going to say their names out loud, other
they're going to start reacting. But you know what I'm
talking about. The personal home assistant who you call out
to on your smartphone. Okay, whether it's Apple, Android or
the like, Okay, you know their names, each of these systems,
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and we all have smartphones. Each of these systems have
a control for home home control devices. And the cool
thing about it is if you add color and dimmable
smart bulbs to any room lamps, some of those recess
can lights and so on, then you can set scenes
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for a room. Okay, now this may sound like you
know theater, and it is. It is. It's great theater,
and you talk about setting a scene for a room
and pre program scenes. So I'll tell you. I'll give
my living room as an example. I've got four or
five different scenes set up in that living room, depending
on what we're doing in there. I have a scene
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called conversation, and conversation has the chandelier at a certain
level of intensity, It has the lights on the art
at a certain level of intensity. It has the fireplace scances.
As the sofa sconces at a certain light, they all
adjust and I've taken the time to just pre adjust thements,
like ooh, this is lovely lighting in this room for conversation,
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and we call that scene conversation. Now, all I have
to do is walk into the room and if it's
time for that, I say the name of my personal assaysant.
Hey set the room for conversation and guess what, vump
all the lights changed to that. Now, if it's time
for movies, I have one called movie night. I've got
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one called Cozy. And for safety and security and just functionality,
I've got a scene for the whole house that's just
called bright, and it's like, hey, set the lights to bright.
There are times when you know I'm not home, if
Tina's home alone or something like that, and she hears
a bump in the night and is just concerned about
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like what's going on, any concern whatsoever. All she has
to do, laying in bed is say call out the
personal assistant and say set the lights to bright. And
every smart bulb and smart switch in the house throws
the lights on one percent. The whole house lights up
as if there was a prison break going on, and
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that gives her a peace of mind and security. And
if there were somebody in the house, it would shock
the hell out of them and give them pause that
you know somebody's on to them. So the point is
these lighting scenes, these are smart scenes. They are smart
way of juging up the inside of the house just
by utilizing smart switches, controlling dumb bulbs or smart bulbs
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run by a dumb switch. Either way, they're all controlled
via Wi Fi and your personal assistant, and they are
a wonderful way of stepping up your game. All right,
when we come back, let's talk about home theater and
things we can do to improve that whole vibe time
in front of the screen. We'll do it right after
this your Home with Dean Sharp, the house whisperer.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Welcome back to the show. Glad that you're here. Hey,
I've got a special announcement for you, a little bit unexpected.
We had a phone glitch. We did this happens Welcome
to live Radio. We had a phone glitch right after
I basically said the phone lines were open for our
holiday show ticket seats and so we were only able.
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We only had time to give one away or one
set away. So we need to do it again. And
that's good news for you if you didn't get through
the first time. So let me take a look here.
Checking my list, I'm updating it, checking it twice. I've
got five more sets of winners. Sets of winners. That
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means a winner is you and your plus one. I've
got five more slots available to give away on today's show,
and I'm just throwing it open right now, right now, okay,
the number to call in to win a ticket to
the Holiday Home Show on Sunday, November twenty third. You'd
be in our live studio audience in iHeart Studios, Burbank,
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hang out with us, refreshments, fun and the possibility of
winning the seven and a half foot ah gold Christmas
tree by al de Home that they're to be decorating
right here in front of us all during the show.
All of that and more, plus Tina of course, all
of that. You can call in now. The number to
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reach me eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three
to three the numeral two Ask Dean eight three three
two Ask Dan. The phone lines are open now, right now,
only for Holiday Home Show potential winners. Call now if
you want to see in that live audience show on
November twenty third. There you go, ready and go all right,
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and Nikki, we've got five to give away, five to
give away. All right, Let's get back to our smart
and sexy setups for the Holiday Lighting Home Theater major appliances.
I want to talk about home theater. How can we
make changes to your screen experience, your big screen experience
for the holidays without breaking the bank, but in significant
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ways and ways that go beyond the holidays. Most home
that I walk into these days are their home theater
system is being driven by a sound bar. And that's
a great thing. Soundbars have come a long long way,
I mean, wow, a long way. We have sound bars
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now that emulate Dolby at Most and do it amazingly well.
Sometimes eleven point Dolby at most room location sound bars.
And I don't want to get in I'm not doing
a home theater show today, so I don't want to
get into all the uniqueness of what Dolby Atmost is.
But the point is, if you're used to the idea
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of surround sound, Dolby Atmos is the latest iteration of
surround sound, just you know, kind of on steroids. It's
a brilliant system. It's a completely different, non channel related system,
and sound bars do an amazing job of taking care
of that. And they're small, they're compact, they sit right
under your screen. Maybe you've got a couple other left
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and right speakers involved, maybe you don't, but here is
the thing. If we really want to enhance the audio
or I should say, the big screen experience, you might
be expecting that I'm gonna say, get a bigger TV
or you know, get a five K or get an
eight K. Now, I'm I'm confident you've probably got a
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decent flat screen, And if you don't, you can go
out and get a decent flat screen for not a
lot of money these days, right, because they're just kind
of there it is, you know, run on down to Costco,
pick up the one of your choice, choosing. But what
most people don't realize is that sound. Sound, oh, sound
is so much of the home theater experience, way more
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than most people really are cognizan enough. And even if
you have a great sound bar, there's one thing that
a great sound bar and just cannot get done because
of its size. And even though they can do a
decent job putting together base tones, nothing replaces a subwarffer.
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A sub wiffer is an independent speaker that is dedicated
only to base and a sub wharfer is just, you know,
irreplaceable when it comes to an exciting full theater experience
in a room. When it comes to big screen, so
if you don't have a sub wharffer in your room
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that you've got your big screen in, then I want
to encourage you get your hands on one. Now, what
is that going to run? You? A decent one? And
I mean this, I mean really, I mean the solid, decent.
You know, subwhiffers can be thousands and thousands of dollars,
or you can get a you know, these cheap o
things that claim to, you know, be okay at you know,
for like fifty or sixty bucks. I want you to
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stay away from both of those options. I'm going to
tell you right now, you can pick yourself up a
decent I mean a really decent performing powered subwarfer for
about two one hundred and fifty dollars. Right for two
hundred and fifty dollars, you will change the way the
room resonates with sound. And the cool thing about the
sub whilfer experience is it's omnidirectional, meaning you don't have
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to locate it in any one particular place. As long
as it's in the room, it's doing its job, all right.
More on that and home appliances right on the other side,
hang tight your home with Dean Sharp the house whisper.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
We are talking about things we can do before the
holidays without calling the contractor or tearing up the house
to significantly impact and improve your holiday experience at home. Plus,
these aren't things that are holiday decorrelated. These are long
lasting things. We're we're just up in the ante for
your home period for months and years to come. So
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we've talked about lighting, I want to finish up, talk
about home theater, a little bit about subwiffer, and a
couple other items on the home theater apartment, and then
we're going to transition to some news on major appliances,
So don't go anywhere. Also, I have been told that
it's time to give away four more tickets. That's eight
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seats you and your plus one to the Holiday home
show that is coming up in just two weeks Sunday,
November twenty third, at the Helpful Honda Lounge at iHeart
Studios in Burbank, our normal Sunday morning show done in
front of a live studio audience that I would love
for you to be a part of. And you can
win your seat by calling in right now we're giving
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away for those tickets. That's eight seats. The number to
reach me eight three three two. Ask dean eight three
three the numeral two. Ask dean. It's going to be
a great morning. We do this every year. And get this.
You hear me you talking about the Aldic gold Christmas trees.
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How there's no tree like them on the planet. Well,
Al Dick is sponsoring the event. Their decorator is going
to be here decorating a seven and a half foot
amazing ah gold Christmas tree full of led lights, and
somebody sitting in that studio audience is going to take
that tree home with them, all of the decorations included.
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So that is our gift to you, courtesy of Aldac Home.
All right, that's happened in Sunday, November twenty third, from
nine to noon in the morning, our normal showtime up
in Burbank. And so here we go. The number to
reach me eight three three two, Ask dean eight three
to three the numeral two. Ask dean. First four callers
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win those seats ready and go. All right, while that
is happening, let's get back to these things that we
can do to the home I mentioned a subwarfer. And
the joy of a subwhiffer is not only does it
round out the base tones that you know sound bars
underneath the screen just aren't enough. That they're just not
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big enough at some point, at some point, as brilliant
as sound bars are for studio sound inside a home
theater experience for Dolby at most, you know emulated sound,
at some point the laws of physics take over and
you just need a bigger speaker than a little two
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inch diameter speaker to produce full resonant base. You need
a big speaker. And those big speakers, when they come
in boxes and sit on the floor, they are called subwoffers.
Now there are wall based sub whiffers as well, But
the point is, the nice thing about a power a
self powered subwhiper wolfer is that you can tie it
into your home theater system. You can plug it in.
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It has its own power driving the base, and you
will round out that experience because your small speakers do
great on mid range and treble, the higher pitch frequency.
But the sub whiffer when it starts to contribute mmmmmmmmmm mmm.
So a decent sub wharfer you can buy for just
a little over two hundred dollars and change forever the
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way the room sounds. And so I encourage you to
consider that option. And if you don't know what a
subwarfer sounds like, get on down to your local and
I like best buy or home stereo store and have
them play that soundbar with and without a subwiffer participating.
And the cool thing is, subwhiffers are omnidirectional. That's what
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I said right before the break. I just wanted to
explain that a little bit more. They sit on the floor,
you can cover them up for the most part. You
can set something on them. They can be in the
corner of the room. They can be under the coffee table,
they can be behind the sofa wherever. They don't need
to be aimed at anything. They are simply pumping out
base tones throughout the room. And those base waves are
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large enough that nothing shuts them down. This is why,
by the way, when you know somebody's got a big
subwhiffer built into their car right and they're playing the
hippity hop music, oh my gosh, I can't believe I
said it that way. That's why you can hear them
from like two blocks away right as they're pulling up
behind you. But all you hear is the bass, right,
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You just hear the When they actually pull up next
to you, you hear the rest of the music. That's
the higher frequencies which are easy to reflect and deflect
off of surfaces. But those base waves, it doesn't matter
where they are. They're coming through. And that's how a
subwiffer works in your home theater room as well, So
it doesn't matter where you put it, and that gives
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you lots and lots of options to tuck it away
somewhere that doesn't mess up the rest of your planning
in the space. Okay, what else can we do to
the big screen experience? Well, we can control the lighting
in there as well. And I don't know if you
remember this when you were young, but my parents, who
knew nothing about lighting, they somebody had told them it's
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good to have a TV light sitting up on top
of the TV, right, because that's when TVs you know,
were like thick, they had you know, tubes in them.
So we always had this TV light that was lighting
the back wall. And I used to think, okay, whatever,
and my mother would always say, turn on the TV light, Okay,
you don't want to ruin your eyes, And turns out
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she was totally right about that. There is a thing
it is called bias lighting. And the point is this,
you may mistakenly think that the best scenario for watching
movies on your big screen at home is totally dark
room and just nothing but the TV on the screen on.
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But actually that produces a pretty good amount of ice
strain ultimately, because the contrast between the light coming off
that screen and the zero light in the rest of
the room. It's basically like being out in the dark
of night and a car coming at you with headlights.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
The contrast between the light, the brightness and the darkness
is severe. And if you're staring at car headlights for
two hours straight, you're gonna get eye strained because your
eye is trying to negotiate that heavy contrast between the two.
That could all be resolved by just throwing a little
bit of backlight. Now, there are led lights actually that
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can mount on the back of flat screen TVs and
literally backlight the wall behind the TV. And that's what
it's for. It's called bias lighting. It helps reduce ice
strain by lowering the contrast. But you can also do
it with home lighting as well. The idea is, don't
watch the big movie event at home in a totally
dark room, unless my one caveat you actually have a
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full home theater. Because when some of you are saying
to me right now, well wait, when I go to
the movies, there's no lights on, you're right. But the
screen is the entire wall. It takes up your entire
field of view. So you're not wrestling with the darkness
of the theater and the contrast to the screen because
the screen is so big, it's taken up your entire
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field of view. But at home, there's a lot of
dark to the left, right, up and down, below and
above your flat screen TV. And so that's why that
wall should have some soft, just soft ambient light on
it that brings it up just a few notches to
avoid eyestrain and make the whole thing more pleasure. There
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you go, It was real, Mom was right the whole time.
All right, when we come back, let's talk about appliances
real quick, shall we sounds good. We'll do it. Your
Home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp, on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
We are at the end of another three hours spent together. Man,
it just flies by, does it not? Time flies when
you're having fun. So glad that you've been with us
this morning. Hopefully advice thus far has been transformative for you,
giving you some new ideas, some new license, some new
inspiration for what can happen to your home before the
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holidays hit. I got just a little bit more, just
a little bit, little bit of an update on appliances. Okay,
not an appliance show. Just want to update you on
some things. If you're thinking about changing out an oven
this holiday season before the holidays hit, probably the latest
and greatest thing that's out there. And I believe me,
I'm not telling you have to go in this direction.
I'm just letting you know that these are there. Is
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the speed oven. Every appliance guy will tell you, Oh yeah,
speed ovens are the thing. What is a speed oven?
A speed oven is a microwave and convection oven combination.
In other words, it actually produces traditional heat on convection fan,
but also it's a full functioning microwave. And you can
find these on their own as one offs wall built
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built ins countertops. You can also find them as a
part of a combo unit with a more traditional oven
below them. Some of you are saying right now, oh, yeah,
I got one of those. I did those years ago.
Those aren't new Dean, You know, I got a microwave
that's also a convection. Yeah, but the speed oven is
a little different, and it's not the fact that it's
bringing anything other than the convection in the microwave. It's
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the fact that now the logic programming of the oven
uses them both in the same cooking cycle. Hence the
term speed oven, because people are looking these days to
cook their food faster. So, as you know, the microwave
gets in and excites water molecules and so has a
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way of being able to cook food from deep inside
in places that conventional heat can't reach. But a microwave
can never make your food crispy and brown it on
the outside, so the conventional convection oven takes over. So
when you set up these cooking combos, you have to
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relearn a little bit of how to cook with one
of these, but it basically cycles on and off from
convection to microwave, convection to microwave and then finishes with convection,
so you can get the food cooked quicker, more thoroughly
and browned at the same time. So there you go.
Just so you know those things. That's the thing. It's
out there, it's happening. You can get yourself a pizza
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oven these days that you can, I mean a legit
eight hundred Boonie now makes an indoor electric pizza oven
that can reach temperatures of eight hundred and fifty degrees
and that is impressive, and you just plug it in
to a regular outlet to do that. New generation built
in ovens with air fry, convection and high heat pizza
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searing settings are out there too. Specifically, the frigid air
Gallery now just a regular oven, but you can set
it to do air fry mode, and you can also
set it to reach seven hundred and fifty. For most ovens,
seven hundred and fifty degrees is the self cleaning mode,
but the kitchenaire is able to reach that for pizza
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cooking purposes. And as always, lastly, with ever increasingly lower
price points, happening induction cooktops. If you're thinking about replacing
the gas cooktop, induction cook tops are dominating, They're more efficient,
they're faster, they're more powerful than gas. That's all I'm
going to say. I'll let you figure it out on
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your own and we'll talk about that, of course again
next time we do our appliance show. But I've been
talking to you about the oncoming dominance of induction cooktops
for a long time. Well, it's here. It's here, and
when you're not using it, it's more countertop for you,
which is awesome as well, so well worth considering them
as we go. All right, let's talk for a moment
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about you know why we're all here. I'm going to
leave you with this thought today. If today's suggestions about
judging up your home for the holidays are doable for you,
that's great. If they're not doable, nah, don't let that
get you down. Never forget that the best things in
life are free. Now, a few years ago, we were
hanging out at Ventura Harbor, as we do from time
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to time, and we ended up taking a one hour
narrated harbor cruise. The point of a harbor cruise is
to get out on glassy, smooth water and sip a
warm drink and listen to the captain tell interesting harbor
fax and a few dad jokes as your cruise by
big expensive boats and even more expensive waterfront houses. Now,
I suppose the attraction of staring at rich people's stuff
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has always been about imagining what it might be like
to own a great, big house and a great big boat,
and what it might be like if we were on
the inside of that life, looking out the windows at
the silly people on the harbor cruise. So as we
glided by one of these big homes with its big
boat out front, I remember our captain making a comment
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that sounded something like this. During the holidays, I do
this tour at night when all these homes are lit
up with twinkly lights, and it's beautiful. But the other
thing is at night you can see in those windows
when those people are home. You can see what they're doing.
And you know what most of them are doing. They're
watching TV. I mean, here, you have this multimillion dollar
waterfront home with a multimillion dollar boat parked outside, and
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most nights, most of these folks are just doing what
I do every night. Can you believe that? I remember
him saying that so well, because he was incredulous. He he
almost outright offended at the thought of people wasting that
wealth by doing normal things. Apparently he was not convinced
that the best things in life are free, but I
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think they are. I remember when Tina and I were
first getting started. Money was scary tight. There were so
many days when a splurge would be getting a coffee
out at a coffee house instead of making it at home.
And on one of those days, while we were sitting
and sipping, we both realized that what we'd be doing
on a day like this, if we had millions of
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dollars and could be anywhere in the world that we
wanted to be. The answer was we'd probably be sitting
somewhere sipping a coffee together. And that realization really changed us. Now.
I know it's fun to dream about things that seem
foreign and fantastic, and I'm the last person who's ever
going to tell you not to dream, but I also
want to remind you that those dreams can also be
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very easily distractions from the truth that pretty much all
the best things in life are free. You know who's
got it tough. Anyone so obsessed with getting somewhere other
than where they are that they miss out on the
richness hiding in the simplicity of life. Right now, it
is very very likely that if we were in the
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Big House, we'd be watching TV. I know we would,
because Tina would not be missing her true crime documentaries.
So the point is this, the best things in life
really are free. The trick is you have to show
up and bring some gratitude into the moment in order
for the simple wonder of the moment to make you rich.
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I'm not right here right now enough, but I'm trying.
The older I get, the more it becomes my greatest
ambition just to show up and breathe it all in.
I think I'm getting a little better at it. I've
had some successes, and when I succeed I know without
a shadow of doubt that I'm rich in that moment
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and that I'm building myself a beautiful life. And I
want that for you too. Get out there, enjoy this
beautiful fall day, no matter where you find yourself, get
busy building yourself a beautiful life, and we will see
you right back here next weekend. This has been Home
with Dean Sharp the House Whisper. Tune into the live
broadcast on KFI AM six forty every Saturday morning from
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Here to remind you, every home has a path forward.
Design is what unlocks it and once you see it,
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that's when everything changes. So glad you're with us on
the program today. How are you doing? How are you today?
On the show, We're talking about some fun and interesting things,
a very very very actionable items here. We're talking about
looking toward the holidays. Here things you can do to
your house to improve the quality of the holiday experience,
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specifically in lighting, home theater, and major appliances. These are
things that I'm suggesting, with the exception maybe having a
major appliance installed that you don't have to call the
contract for. You don't have to tear up the walls
you don't have. This is stuff that you can take
action on and get done, and not just for the holidays,
but that's going to raise your game for your house
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for years and years to come. We had some great callers,
some very animated callers, I should say, and am grateful
for that as always. And now we're going to dive
back into this smart and Sexy for the Holidays list
for you. Before I do that, though, I want to
give some more tickets away too. Our House Whisper Holiday
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Home Show. It's a live audience event. We do this
every year on the Sunday prior to Thanksgiving. This year
is no exception, Sunday, November twenty third, which is what
is that? Just that's like two weeks away now, right?
All right? Is that right? Let me look here. Yeah,
that's a couple of weeks away, Sunday, November twenty third
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in iHeart Studios right here in Burbank, the Home of Home.
We are doing a live show, as we always do,
but we're gonna do it with a live audience that
I would love for you to be a part of.
It's going to be in the helpful Honda Lounge up
here on the fifth floor. You can visit the Home
of Home and hang out with me and Tina and
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the team, enjoy some refreshments. We may have some special
guests with us, who knows. And there's gonna be an
expert advice from the decor Pros that Aldac hom Aldick
is sponsoring the entire event. As they do, they're going
to be here to give advice to you. You can
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watch the Aldic Pros decorate an ah Gold seven and
a half foot Christmas tree, literally the world's finest Christmas trees.
They're going to decorate it during the show. We're going
to talk to them about what they're doing and how
they're doing it, and then one of those lucky audience
members there with me will get to take it all home. Yeah,
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it's a good thing. Anyway, I want to give away
some more tickets, and by that I mean we're going
to open this up to four more winners, and that
means you and your plus one. So we're gonna give
away eight more seats to that the Holiday Home Show event,
and we're gonna do it right now. Our call screener
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is ready to go. Here is the number to reach me.
Eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three three the
numeral two. Ask Deing eight three three two, Askding if
you would like to be a part of the Holiday
Home Show coming up on November twenty third. Call right now.
The first four calls that we take are gonna win
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seats for themselves and their plus ones. Ready go all right,
there you go, All right, Now back to biz for
the rest of us. Here while people are calling in
to win those seats, where where is my note? Where
is it? Where is it? Where here it is? Okay,
I'm gonna finish off lighting very quickly. Here. I've given
you the main, the you know, the main full spread
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shot here. Talk to you about the number one rule
of life lighting design for any home, and that is
that we don't light rooms, we light things. This applies
to any room that you're in. It also applies to
the hallway. Okay. And you're like, well, wait, the lights
in the hallway are for the floor. No they're not.
They're for the walls. They're for the walls. They'll bounce
onto the floor. You get the floor and the room
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as a secondary byproduct of lighting the walls properly. And
I talk to you about how to find the right trim,
a new trim for your recess candlights that is a
gimbal trim that's aimable. And this now, especially down the hallway,
is true. I want to take those center hallway recess
lights and I want to put an aimable trim on
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them so that they will aim towards the artwork on
the walls, the family photos on the walls. And if
you don't have anything on your walls, now you get
a chance to do. We're turning your home into a
gallery and it's going to change the way light inhabits
your home, I promise you. Now you want to add
on to that, you can throw some color changing smart
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bulbs and or smart switches into the mix. We live
in an age and I don't want to make this
too complex to you. And if it sounds too complex
for you, then guess what. You don't need to do it. Okay,
But for those of you who are looking to take
it up yet another notch, there are smart bulbs out there.
Smart bulbs, smart bulbs that communicate to your Wi Fi system, okay,
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that activate on your personal home assistant. Now, who is that? Well,
I'm not going to say their names out loud, other
they're going to start reacting. But you know what I'm
talking about. The personal home assistant who you call out
to on your smartphone. Okay, whether it's Apple, Android or
the like, Okay, you know their names, each of these systems,
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and we all have smartphones. Each of these systems have
a control for home home control devices. And the cool
thing about it is if you add color and dimmable
smart bulbs to any room lamps, some of those recess
can lights and so on, then you can set scenes
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for a room. Okay, now this may sound like you
know theater, and it is. It is. It's great theater,
and you talk about setting a scene for a room
and pre program scenes. So I'll tell you. I'll give
my living room as an example. I've got four or
five different scenes set up in that living room, depending
on what we're doing in there. I have a scene
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called conversation, and conversation has the chandelier at a certain
level of intensity, It has the lights on the art
at a certain level of intensity. It has the fireplace scances.
As the sofa sconces at a certain light, they all
adjust and I've taken the time to just pre adjust thements,
like ooh, this is lovely lighting in this room for conversation,
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and we call that scene conversation. Now, all I have
to do is walk into the room and if it's
time for that, I say the name of my personal assaysant.
Hey set the room for conversation and guess what, vump
all the lights changed to that. Now, if it's time
for movies, I have one called movie night. I've got
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one called Cozy. And for safety and security and just functionality,
I've got a scene for the whole house that's just
called bright, and it's like, hey, set the lights to bright.
There are times when you know I'm not home, if
Tina's home alone or something like that, and she hears
a bump in the night and is just concerned about
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like what's going on, any concern whatsoever. All she has
to do, laying in bed is say call out the
personal assistant and say set the lights to bright. And
every smart bulb and smart switch in the house throws
the lights on one percent. The whole house lights up
as if there was a prison break going on, and
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that gives her a peace of mind and security. And
if there were somebody in the house, it would shock
the hell out of them and give them pause that
you know somebody's on to them. So the point is
these lighting scenes, these are smart scenes. They are smart
way of juging up the inside of the house just
by utilizing smart switches, controlling dumb bulbs or smart bulbs
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run by a dumb switch. Either way, they're all controlled
via Wi Fi and your personal assistant, and they are
a wonderful way of stepping up your game. All right,
when we come back, let's talk about home theater and
things we can do to improve that whole vibe time
in front of the screen. We'll do it right after
this your Home with Dean Sharp, the house whisperer.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Welcome back to the show. Glad that you're here. Hey,
I've got a special announcement for you, a little bit unexpected.
We had a phone glitch. We did this happens Welcome
to live Radio. We had a phone glitch right after
I basically said the phone lines were open for our
holiday show ticket seats and so we were only able.
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We only had time to give one away or one
set away. So we need to do it again. And
that's good news for you if you didn't get through
the first time. So let me take a look here.
Checking my list, I'm updating it, checking it twice. I've
got five more sets of winners. Sets of winners. That
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means a winner is you and your plus one. I've
got five more slots available to give away on today's show,
and I'm just throwing it open right now, right now, okay,
the number to call in to win a ticket to
the Holiday Home Show on Sunday, November twenty third. You'd
be in our live studio audience in iHeart Studios, Burbank,
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hang out with us, refreshments, fun and the possibility of
winning the seven and a half foot ah gold Christmas
tree by al de Home that they're to be decorating
right here in front of us all during the show.
All of that and more, plus Tina of course, all
of that. You can call in now. The number to
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reach me eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three
to three the numeral two Ask Dean eight three three
two Ask Dan. The phone lines are open now, right now,
only for Holiday Home Show potential winners. Call now if
you want to see in that live audience show on
November twenty third. There you go, ready and go all right,
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and Nikki, we've got five to give away, five to
give away. All right, Let's get back to our smart
and sexy setups for the Holiday Lighting Home Theater major appliances.
I want to talk about home theater. How can we
make changes to your screen experience, your big screen experience
for the holidays without breaking the bank, but in significant
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ways and ways that go beyond the holidays. Most home
that I walk into these days are their home theater
system is being driven by a sound bar. And that's
a great thing. Soundbars have come a long long way,
I mean, wow, a long way. We have sound bars
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now that emulate Dolby at Most and do it amazingly well.
Sometimes eleven point Dolby at most room location sound bars.
And I don't want to get in I'm not doing
a home theater show today, so I don't want to
get into all the uniqueness of what Dolby Atmost is.
But the point is, if you're used to the idea
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of surround sound, Dolby Atmos is the latest iteration of
surround sound, just you know, kind of on steroids. It's
a brilliant system. It's a completely different, non channel related system,
and sound bars do an amazing job of taking care
of that. And they're small, they're compact, they sit right
under your screen. Maybe you've got a couple other left
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and right speakers involved, maybe you don't, but here is
the thing. If we really want to enhance the audio
or I should say, the big screen experience, you might
be expecting that I'm gonna say, get a bigger TV
or you know, get a five K or get an
eight K. Now, I'm I'm confident you've probably got a
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decent flat screen, And if you don't, you can go
out and get a decent flat screen for not a
lot of money these days, right, because they're just kind
of there it is, you know, run on down to Costco,
pick up the one of your choice, choosing. But what
most people don't realize is that sound. Sound, oh, sound
is so much of the home theater experience, way more
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than most people really are cognizan enough. And even if
you have a great sound bar, there's one thing that
a great sound bar and just cannot get done because
of its size. And even though they can do a
decent job putting together base tones, nothing replaces a subwarffer.
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A sub wiffer is an independent speaker that is dedicated
only to base and a sub wharfer is just, you know,
irreplaceable when it comes to an exciting full theater experience
in a room. When it comes to big screen, so
if you don't have a sub wharffer in your room
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that you've got your big screen in, then I want
to encourage you get your hands on one. Now, what
is that going to run? You? A decent one? And
I mean this, I mean really, I mean the solid, decent.
You know, subwhiffers can be thousands and thousands of dollars,
or you can get a you know, these cheap o
things that claim to, you know, be okay at you know,
for like fifty or sixty bucks. I want you to
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stay away from both of those options. I'm going to
tell you right now, you can pick yourself up a
decent I mean a really decent performing powered subwarfer for
about two one hundred and fifty dollars. Right for two
hundred and fifty dollars, you will change the way the
room resonates with sound. And the cool thing about the
sub whilfer experience is it's omnidirectional, meaning you don't have
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to locate it in any one particular place. As long
as it's in the room, it's doing its job, all right.
More on that and home appliances right on the other side,
hang tight your home with Dean Sharp the house whisper.
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We are talking about things we can do before the
holidays without calling the contractor or tearing up the house
to significantly impact and improve your holiday experience at home. Plus,
these aren't things that are holiday decorrelated. These are long
lasting things. We're we're just up in the ante for
your home period for months and years to come. So
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we've talked about lighting, I want to finish up, talk
about home theater, a little bit about subwiffer, and a
couple other items on the home theater apartment, and then
we're going to transition to some news on major appliances,
So don't go anywhere. Also, I have been told that
it's time to give away four more tickets. That's eight
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seats you and your plus one to the Holiday home
show that is coming up in just two weeks Sunday,
November twenty third, at the Helpful Honda Lounge at iHeart
Studios in Burbank, our normal Sunday morning show done in
front of a live studio audience that I would love
for you to be a part of. And you can
win your seat by calling in right now we're giving
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away for those tickets. That's eight seats. The number to
reach me eight three three two. Ask dean eight three
three the numeral two. Ask dean. It's going to be
a great morning. We do this every year. And get this.
You hear me you talking about the Aldic gold Christmas trees.
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How there's no tree like them on the planet. Well,
Al Dick is sponsoring the event. Their decorator is going
to be here decorating a seven and a half foot
amazing ah gold Christmas tree full of led lights, and
somebody sitting in that studio audience is going to take
that tree home with them, all of the decorations included.
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So that is our gift to you, courtesy of Aldac Home.
All right, that's happened in Sunday, November twenty third, from
nine to noon in the morning, our normal showtime up
in Burbank. And so here we go. The number to
reach me eight three three two, Ask dean eight three
to three the numeral two. Ask dean. First four callers
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win those seats ready and go. All right, while that
is happening, let's get back to these things that we
can do to the home I mentioned a subwarfer. And
the joy of a subwhiffer is not only does it
round out the base tones that you know sound bars
underneath the screen just aren't enough. That they're just not
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big enough at some point, at some point, as brilliant
as sound bars are for studio sound inside a home
theater experience for Dolby at most, you know emulated sound,
at some point the laws of physics take over and
you just need a bigger speaker than a little two
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inch diameter speaker to produce full resonant base. You need
a big speaker. And those big speakers, when they come
in boxes and sit on the floor, they are called subwoffers.
Now there are wall based sub whiffers as well, But
the point is, the nice thing about a power a
self powered subwhiper wolfer is that you can tie it
into your home theater system. You can plug it in.
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It has its own power driving the base, and you
will round out that experience because your small speakers do
great on mid range and treble, the higher pitch frequency.
But the sub whiffer when it starts to contribute mmmmmmmmmm mmm.
So a decent sub wharfer you can buy for just
a little over two hundred dollars and change forever the
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way the room sounds. And so I encourage you to
consider that option. And if you don't know what a
subwarfer sounds like, get on down to your local and
I like best buy or home stereo store and have
them play that soundbar with and without a subwiffer participating.
And the cool thing is, subwhiffers are omnidirectional. That's what
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I said right before the break. I just wanted to
explain that a little bit more. They sit on the floor,
you can cover them up for the most part. You
can set something on them. They can be in the
corner of the room. They can be under the coffee table,
they can be behind the sofa wherever. They don't need
to be aimed at anything. They are simply pumping out
base tones throughout the room. And those base waves are
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large enough that nothing shuts them down. This is why,
by the way, when you know somebody's got a big
subwhiffer built into their car right and they're playing the
hippity hop music, oh my gosh, I can't believe I
said it that way. That's why you can hear them
from like two blocks away right as they're pulling up
behind you. But all you hear is the bass, right,
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You just hear the When they actually pull up next
to you, you hear the rest of the music. That's
the higher frequencies which are easy to reflect and deflect
off of surfaces. But those base waves, it doesn't matter
where they are. They're coming through. And that's how a
subwiffer works in your home theater room as well, So
it doesn't matter where you put it, and that gives
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you lots and lots of options to tuck it away
somewhere that doesn't mess up the rest of your planning
in the space. Okay, what else can we do to
the big screen experience? Well, we can control the lighting
in there as well. And I don't know if you
remember this when you were young, but my parents, who
knew nothing about lighting, they somebody had told them it's
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good to have a TV light sitting up on top
of the TV, right, because that's when TVs you know,
were like thick, they had you know, tubes in them.
So we always had this TV light that was lighting
the back wall. And I used to think, okay, whatever,
and my mother would always say, turn on the TV light, Okay,
you don't want to ruin your eyes, And turns out
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she was totally right about that. There is a thing
it is called bias lighting. And the point is this,
you may mistakenly think that the best scenario for watching
movies on your big screen at home is totally dark
room and just nothing but the TV on the screen on.
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But actually that produces a pretty good amount of ice
strain ultimately, because the contrast between the light coming off
that screen and the zero light in the rest of
the room. It's basically like being out in the dark
of night and a car coming at you with headlights.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
The contrast between the light, the brightness and the darkness
is severe. And if you're staring at car headlights for
two hours straight, you're gonna get eye strained because your
eye is trying to negotiate that heavy contrast between the two.
That could all be resolved by just throwing a little
bit of backlight. Now, there are led lights actually that
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can mount on the back of flat screen TVs and
literally backlight the wall behind the TV. And that's what
it's for. It's called bias lighting. It helps reduce ice
strain by lowering the contrast. But you can also do
it with home lighting as well. The idea is, don't
watch the big movie event at home in a totally
dark room, unless my one caveat you actually have a
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full home theater. Because when some of you are saying
to me right now, well wait, when I go to
the movies, there's no lights on, you're right. But the
screen is the entire wall. It takes up your entire
field of view. So you're not wrestling with the darkness
of the theater and the contrast to the screen because
the screen is so big, it's taken up your entire
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field of view. But at home, there's a lot of
dark to the left, right, up and down, below and
above your flat screen TV. And so that's why that
wall should have some soft, just soft ambient light on
it that brings it up just a few notches to
avoid eyestrain and make the whole thing more pleasure. There
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you go, It was real, Mom was right the whole time.
All right, when we come back, let's talk about appliances
real quick, shall we sounds good. We'll do it. Your
Home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper.
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We are at the end of another three hours spent together. Man,
it just flies by, does it not? Time flies when
you're having fun. So glad that you've been with us
this morning. Hopefully advice thus far has been transformative for you,
giving you some new ideas, some new license, some new
inspiration for what can happen to your home before the
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holidays hit. I got just a little bit more, just
a little bit, little bit of an update on appliances. Okay,
not an appliance show. Just want to update you on
some things. If you're thinking about changing out an oven
this holiday season before the holidays hit, probably the latest
and greatest thing that's out there. And I believe me,
I'm not telling you have to go in this direction.
I'm just letting you know that these are there. Is
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the speed oven. Every appliance guy will tell you, Oh yeah,
speed ovens are the thing. What is a speed oven?
A speed oven is a microwave and convection oven combination.
In other words, it actually produces traditional heat on convection fan,
but also it's a full functioning microwave. And you can
find these on their own as one offs wall built
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built ins countertops. You can also find them as a
part of a combo unit with a more traditional oven
below them. Some of you are saying right now, oh, yeah,
I got one of those. I did those years ago.
Those aren't new Dean, You know, I got a microwave
that's also a convection. Yeah, but the speed oven is
a little different, and it's not the fact that it's
bringing anything other than the convection in the microwave. It's
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the fact that now the logic programming of the oven
uses them both in the same cooking cycle. Hence the
term speed oven, because people are looking these days to
cook their food faster. So, as you know, the microwave
gets in and excites water molecules and so has a
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way of being able to cook food from deep inside
in places that conventional heat can't reach. But a microwave
can never make your food crispy and brown it on
the outside, so the conventional convection oven takes over. So
when you set up these cooking combos, you have to
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relearn a little bit of how to cook with one
of these, but it basically cycles on and off from
convection to microwave, convection to microwave and then finishes with convection,
so you can get the food cooked quicker, more thoroughly
and browned at the same time. So there you go.
Just so you know those things. That's the thing. It's
out there, it's happening. You can get yourself a pizza
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oven these days that you can, I mean a legit
eight hundred Boonie now makes an indoor electric pizza oven
that can reach temperatures of eight hundred and fifty degrees
and that is impressive, and you just plug it in
to a regular outlet to do that. New generation built
in ovens with air fry, convection and high heat pizza
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searing settings are out there too. Specifically, the frigid air
Gallery now just a regular oven, but you can set
it to do air fry mode, and you can also
set it to reach seven hundred and fifty. For most ovens,
seven hundred and fifty degrees is the self cleaning mode,
but the kitchenaire is able to reach that for pizza
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cooking purposes. And as always, lastly, with ever increasingly lower
price points, happening induction cooktops. If you're thinking about replacing
the gas cooktop, induction cook tops are dominating, They're more efficient,
they're faster, they're more powerful than gas. That's all I'm
going to say. I'll let you figure it out on
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your own and we'll talk about that, of course again
next time we do our appliance show. But I've been
talking to you about the oncoming dominance of induction cooktops
for a long time. Well, it's here. It's here, and
when you're not using it, it's more countertop for you,
which is awesome as well, so well worth considering them
as we go. All right, let's talk for a moment
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about you know why we're all here. I'm going to
leave you with this thought today. If today's suggestions about
judging up your home for the holidays are doable for you,
that's great. If they're not doable, nah, don't let that
get you down. Never forget that the best things in
life are free. Now, a few years ago, we were
hanging out at Ventura Harbor, as we do from time
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to time, and we ended up taking a one hour
narrated harbor cruise. The point of a harbor cruise is
to get out on glassy, smooth water and sip a
warm drink and listen to the captain tell interesting harbor
fax and a few dad jokes as your cruise by
big expensive boats and even more expensive waterfront houses. Now,
I suppose the attraction of staring at rich people's stuff
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has always been about imagining what it might be like
to own a great, big house and a great big boat,
and what it might be like if we were on
the inside of that life, looking out the windows at
the silly people on the harbor cruise. So as we
glided by one of these big homes with its big
boat out front, I remember our captain making a comment
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that sounded something like this. During the holidays, I do
this tour at night when all these homes are lit
up with twinkly lights, and it's beautiful. But the other
thing is at night you can see in those windows
when those people are home. You can see what they're doing.
And you know what most of them are doing. They're
watching TV. I mean, here, you have this multimillion dollar
waterfront home with a multimillion dollar boat parked outside, and
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most nights, most of these folks are just doing what
I do every night. Can you believe that? I remember
him saying that so well, because he was incredulous. He he
almost outright offended at the thought of people wasting that
wealth by doing normal things. Apparently he was not convinced
that the best things in life are free, but I
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think they are. I remember when Tina and I were
first getting started. Money was scary tight. There were so
many days when a splurge would be getting a coffee
out at a coffee house instead of making it at home.
And on one of those days, while we were sitting
and sipping, we both realized that what we'd be doing
on a day like this, if we had millions of
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dollars and could be anywhere in the world that we
wanted to be. The answer was we'd probably be sitting
somewhere sipping a coffee together. And that realization really changed us. Now.
I know it's fun to dream about things that seem
foreign and fantastic, and I'm the last person who's ever
going to tell you not to dream, but I also
want to remind you that those dreams can also be
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very easily distractions from the truth that pretty much all
the best things in life are free. You know who's
got it tough. Anyone so obsessed with getting somewhere other
than where they are that they miss out on the
richness hiding in the simplicity of life. Right now, it
is very very likely that if we were in the
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Big House, we'd be watching TV. I know we would,
because Tina would not be missing her true crime documentaries.
So the point is this, the best things in life
really are free. The trick is you have to show
up and bring some gratitude into the moment in order
for the simple wonder of the moment to make you rich.
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I'm not right here right now enough, but I'm trying.
The older I get, the more it becomes my greatest
ambition just to show up and breathe it all in.
I think I'm getting a little better at it. I've
had some successes, and when I succeed I know without
a shadow of doubt that I'm rich in that moment
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and that I'm building myself a beautiful life. And I
want that for you too. Get out there, enjoy this
beautiful fall day, no matter where you find yourself, get
busy building yourself a beautiful life, and we will see
you right back here next weekend. This has been Home
with Dean Sharp the House Whisper. Tune into the live
broadcast on KFI AM six forty every Saturday morning from
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six to eight Pacific time, and every Sunday morning from
nine to noon Pacific time, or anytime on demand on
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