November 23, 2025 • 28 mins
Dean kicks off the holiday season in style, broadcasting live in front of an energetic studio audience from the iHeartMedia Lounge! Special guest Brian Gold, Vice President of the iconic Aldik Home, joins Dean to talk everything festive: the hottest trends in holiday décor, how to make your home feel warm and luxurious without breaking the bank, and why this year is all about rich textures, bold ornaments, and bringing the magic indoors. Think Ralph Lauren, or as Dean likes to call it, adulting Christmas. Plus, meet Rosie from Aldik Home – she’s decorating a stunning 7-foot designer Christmas tree LIVE on stage throughout the entire three-hour show!
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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 iHeart Radio app. It
is the House Whisper Holiday Home Show.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
WHEA.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
We have a great group of people here sitting comfortably.
This lounge has been redesigned since past years. If you've
been to this show in past years, you remember seating
in rows, just kind of like sitting in a theater setup.
And we are at half capacity now because we got
rugs and cafe tables and leather Chesterfield sofas. Everybody is
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very comfortable. Everyone here will be asleep in twenty minutes.
That's just the way it's gonna go. I am Dean Sharp,
the House Whisper, custom home Builder, custom home designer, and
every week, of course, your guide to better understanding that
place where you live. You know what weather home for
you is a castle or a cottage.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
You know why, because luxury does not a great home make.
It is design that matters most. I invite you to
think about it this way. I was thinking about this
a couple of weeks ago. Somebody asked me to to
kind of summarize that idea in a shorter.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Thought you know, we talk about the home.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Improvement industry, and this show, I guess falls in the
general category of the home improvement industry, home improvement, home
Improvement TV, you know, all of that stuff. But this
is how I see it, how I view it. New
parts for your home. You're fixing stuff that is home repair.
That's not home improvement. That's just repair. A new code
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of paint that is home maintenance. That's just keeping it up,
keeping it rolling. But design, introducing new design, change alteration
in that sense that that is home improvement. That is
why I say when it comes to transforming a home,
you know, it's fun to you know, change out the
(02:05):
toilet to a new toilet, but that is not transformation
of a home. That's not changing the radical story of
a home. And that's what we're all about helping you
do every single week here. Good design makes all the difference.
Every house deserves it, every house should enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
And because good.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Design is so powerful, once it's at work in your home,
then every house has a path forward to becoming a
great home. I believe that with all of my heart.
That's what we've been preaching here for the last nine years,
and we will continue to do exactly that today on
the show. We've got a live studio audience here. Let's
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let them hear you again. We're gonna have a lot
of fun with them. We're going to be taking questions
from our studio audience today, whatever questions they've got about
their house. We also have our sponsor of today's show,
our very very special guest and my good friend, Brian
Gold from al Dick is your mic on.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Brian here, there you go. Brian Gold from al Dick
is here. Let's hear it for Brian.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Brian has brought with him his chief designer and also.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Our tree.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
And it's a seven and a half foot tall What
the species is this one?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
That one is a teller ride spruce.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
A tell you ride spruce. There are so many there
are night. There are seventeen seventeen different species of trees
at Aldic, all of them available from three.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Foot up to seventeen foot.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh now you're gonna correct me fourteen feet fourteen okay,
from three to fourteen feet. This is a seven and
a half foot tell you ride spruce. We're going to
be decorating it during the show here so that you
all can enjoy that. So that everyone who's listening can
enjoy the decorations that you can't see. But we're going
to be talking about holiday decort on the program and
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decorating the tree, and then by the end of today's show,
one of you is taking this tree home with you
and you have to take it home today. You have
to shove it in your car with all the decorations
on it. It's gonna be great. We're gonna film the
whole thing and then we're gonna post that later. No,
we'll get it to you, but it's gonna be great. Okay,
So no calls today because we're gonna take questions of
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every ilk from our live studio audience. So that'll be
fun when the time comes.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
What else?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Elmer is down in the basement making it all happen
and sitting, i would say, across the table next to
me at the table, my design partner, my very best friend,
co owner, co founder of House Whisper, my best buddy
in the world.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Tina is here.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Welcome home.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
So we just got out of like two weeks of
crazy weather. Now what are you laughing at?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I don't know, you know, yeah, I know, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah, it's what season is it it's fall y'all.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I don't know why I find that so music. It
just makes my heart skip a beat every time she
says that. Okay, so let me tell you where we're
going today. I want to start talking about decorating for
the holidays, like a pro Okay, holiday decor trends ideas
for twenty twenty five. You know, I'm not one who's
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big on trends and fads when it comes to home design,
because you know, you're spending tens or hundreds of thousands
of dollars to alter your home.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
The last thing in the world.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
You need is for a designer to come in the
year after and say, oh, oh, you did an all
white kitchen. It's so that was so last year. You're like, no,
that stuff doesn't count. But there are trends when it
comes to decor ends that kind of flowed in and
out through the year, and I really liked this year's trending,
So I want to talk about that a little bit.
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It's been given the name some people have given it
the name Louf the Ralph Lauren esthetic, which is just
kind of deep plaids and muted, dark, darker colors, very
kind of sophisticated. Also things like long tailed ribbons and
deep jewel tones and monochromatic gift wrapping.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Okay, what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Just means one print, no print, basically one color on
the paper and then a complimentary paper color, ribbon color
and just kind of sophisticated and cool and what I'm
calling adulting Christmas on some level. So that's a trend
we'll talk about. But also I want to talk to
you guys about some tech that will help you with
your decor and other things. And then Brian is going
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to give us advice on how to how pros decorate
trees and their approach to the whole thing what we're
actually watching as we do it. We're gonna do all
of that and a bunch more. There's our music, your
Home with Dean Sharp. The house Whisper will be right back.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
We have a live studio audience full of real, live people,
not the simulated live studio audience that you that you
hear cheer on Saturday mornings. These people are actually live,
which means if they were live, how can I prove
this to you because I can ask them to applaud
again right now. Okay, So there it is, so you
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see proof of life. We are offering proof of life.
We will all send out Instagram photos with the newspapers
and today's date. Thanks for joining us on the program
today we're having some fun. We do this every single
year on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. Our show is sponsored
by Al Dick Home, the most unique decore center that
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I have ever encountered in my life, and one that
is probably, I hate to say, the biggest secret, because
we've been getting your name out there, Brian a lot
over the last few years, so you're not really a secret,
but I will say this, it still remains.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
So such a secret.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Al Dick is sitting very modest location over on Sepulvida
in Van Eyes, in between Sataquoi and Sherman Way, Sataquoian Roscoe,
Sataquayn Roscoe, right next to Harbor Freight. Oh yeah, okay,
and you can drive by it and you're like, oh, well,
I wonder what that place is. Well, that place is
(08:42):
a massively historied place. Al Dick started. Two guys, two friends,
Al and Dick. That's where the name comes from back
in the fifties, Is it your grandfather?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yep. My grandfather and his business partner Al Okay, start
on Melrose just a business to sell little decorated floral
arrangements for TV set which back then we're enormous cabinets
that were ugly, right, and he wanted to put some.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Of the thing that sat on top with the TV
light that my parents always used to yell at me
to turn on.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yep, So that's how it started.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
That's how it started.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Silk flowers yep, but the best silk flowers in town.
And not long after they got going hugely successful and
got noticed by all of the West Side designers out
there who were looking for things for their clients. And
to this day designers are I mean, if you want
to find some of the just a place where you
(09:44):
will bump into some of the finest designers in the
state of California.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Just go and hang out at ALI.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
It's not like we're wearing name tags or anything, but
you will bump into them because they're there doing stuff
all the time. In fact, while I'm there today, I
have to check on four trees for a client in Calabasas.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
That we just had finished up for us. So I
got to.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Talk to Tayo and deal with those trees as well,
not Christmas trees, interior trees that are custom designed for room. Anyway,
al Dick is this amazing place. Silk flowers all year
round during the spring and summer. You guys decided to
pick up patio furniture, and of course decided, well, they
went on this nationwide search for the best patio furniture
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that you could find. And there's a hundred reasons why
that's the case with summer classics patio furniture, but it's
literally the best patio furniture you can find. And then legendarily,
oh by, I'm getting ahead of myself on Meilrose. While
they're still on Meilros, they get noticed by this little
production company called Disney And in the fifties, and you
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guys ended up doing the all.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Of the Swiss family Robinson.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Treehouse at Disneyland.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
And didn't you guys do the underwater the underwater plants
for the submarine ride as well. Yeah, so that's Aldick, right,
and so and yet you might actually, well there's a
chance you'll run into some celebrities at Aldick. We're not
gonna say their names on the air, but that happens
too because their designers drag them in to verify some things. Anyway,
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aldc is a seriously cool place, not the easiest place
to describe in just three words, because you know, silk flowers,
custom foliage, patio furniture, and then come October first, a
winter wonderland. There is no place anywhere in this state,
anywhere you know in the United States that I'm aware of,
(11:45):
that has the kind of concentrated decor and artistic decor
that you guys do. How many decorations Okay, let's divide trees.
How many decorated trees do you guys have in store
fully decorated right now?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I think there's fifty three fully decorated Christmas trees that
you could shop right off of. So our designers, like
Rosie are redecorating them all the time, so you could
come in week to week and it'll look different.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Also because because Rosie's continuing to add stuff, and.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
We might sell out of those ornaments that Rosie's putting
on this tree now, and then she'll put different ones
on there, so that the look will change. It'll kind
of evolve as the season goes on.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
But every tree has a very very strong artistic theme
to it. You guys just never never disappoint when it
comes to the kind of stuff that you're doing playing with.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Trees, right, Yeah, I mean, fifty three ideas is a lot.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
That is a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I might have like three, but our creative director mighta
She's a powerhouse of creativity and inspiration, and she's got
a vision for all of them. She might have like
a photo of an artwork or a dress or something
like that that she's trying to get that feeling from
for each tree that she picks the palette for exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
And that's actually one of the things that we'll be
talking about today, which is one of the guidelines for
decorating your home, and that is pick a theme, pick
a theme, just go with it this year. Pick one theme,
pick a primary color, and work around that and you'll
find this kind.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Of unity in this beauty.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
But when we get over there today to see that
theme and Rosie's working a theme up on this tree
in front of us right now, same color families, same
kind of themes. Doesn't afraid to not afraid on a
seven and a half foot tree to go big. I
mean that's how big are those ornaments?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Rosie?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Those are like eight nine inch diameter ornaments? Yeah, those
are big. Not afraid to go big and bold. Anyway,
a lot to talk about today. Al de Combe is
our sponsor of the show Beautiful Trees, Beautiful decor for
your home, and we'll talk more when we return your
Home with Dean Sharp the House Whisper.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Forty today live from the helpful Honda Lounge at iHeart Studios,
Los Angeles. It's the House Whisper Holiday home show. We
have a live studio audience. Great, great folks here all right?
Where were we at? We were talking about Aldacombe Aldick
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sponsor and vent. I've got my very special guest, Brian Gold,
one of the owners at Aldick here with me in studio.
Rosie is decorating our tree. She is here just working
her magic and this tree. Everybody just got their raffle
tickets for this tree to be given away before the
end of the show today.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
So that's gonna be great.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
So Aldick, I only got half of my question out, Brian,
so you've got thirty, oh wait, fifty fifty fifty fully
decorated trees on display, and bins and displays full of
decor all around them, all through the store. And then
you've got the tree lot, which is in the back
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section of the store. And how many trees are sitting
in the tree lot.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
There are sixty undecorated trees in the tree lot, every
size of every style that we have, except for the
fourteen foot it was just too big. We ran out
of space.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Do you have one fourteen foot?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yeah, well, we don't have any decorated or on.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Display, but in the lot you have no, not at all.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
We have the twelve.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
The twelve, that's why.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Okay it scruntch down a little bit and look up
at it.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
You could just imagine the fourteen.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Okay, So the tree lot, and when you say you've
got sixty trees, you have a lot more than sixty
tree You just have sixty sample trees out there for
people to see.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
And so do I get this right? I got this
right right?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Seventeen different species, correct, which is just so many? That's
that's like, what fourteen more species than you get at
your local tree lot in your neighborhood. So every imaginable
species of tree.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
And sixteen more than people are expecting to see.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I think that's true.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
You have to whittle it down and.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Then these are amazing tree.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
So let's talk just for everybody's sake, because people are
in the mood every year to buy a tree. Let's
talk about what makes an outstanding artificial tree.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Okay, So for us, we hadn't found any artificial trees
on the market that we're up to our standards with
the rest of the products that we carry, so we
had to design our own. So all of our trees
we design ourselves. Which we're in a unique position where
we're just a single store capable of influencing how these
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products are made, where we hear directly from the customers
what they're looking for, what's important to them. They wanted
stronger branches, they wanted more realistic shapes, they wanted spacing
to decorate. A lot of the trees you see online
are just like solid bushes. You can't fit an ornament
inside of it. You're just decorating along the outside.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Okay, I'm gonna pause you there because we've just tripped
over one of the important to core principles at least
when it comes to a tree, right, is that most
people go to the tree lot and they're like, let's
find the fullest tree, the fullest tree, right, And so
because you're looking at your evaluating the tree empty. Right,
So like doug Firs, Douglas firs are the kind of
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the classic super full tree, right, But a lot of
people go with Noble furs when it goes to like
a natural tree lot because they've come to understand that
those tiers and those spaces in between, that's like, that's
what Rosie is taking advantage of right now to fill
with ornamentation so that it actually fits. So everybody was
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looking for the full tree, but you've had the opportunity
to design them intentionally with space.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Even our fullest looking tree we've designed with the space
to fit ornaments inside. So it kind of fools you
that it's a big full tree, but you can still
decorate it just like how Rosie's doing right now with
those eight inch ornaments. And we've also designed the lighting system.
So our biggest competition, I would say on Christmas trees
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are the online retailers. And if you research how people
feel about them, they buy a lot of unlit trees
from those retailers because they don't trust the lights. They've
had a bad experience with the lights from those retailers.
So we've designed our lighting system where each branch has
its own string, and we provide extra light strings in
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the box for if you know, life happens if a
pet choose a wire, or your son or daughter breaks
a wire or something like that, you could just string
a new string on there. It only affects one branch.
And then this year we've had the functionality to do
the warm white multicolor and even the pastel, which has
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been kind of a game changer for people that that pastel.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I mean, I am completely enamored with the pastel. Okay,
So if you guys don't know what pastel is or
what it looks like, we can change this one right.
Oh oh oh okay, So so this tree is capable
all right, I'm going to try and get this right here.
Let's see this tree is capable of warm white that's
what you guys are looking at now, or.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Full multicolor. Okay, Oh gair audience are like, oh all right.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
But here's the thing. So many, i'd say most trees
on the market. Maybe I'm maybe I'm mistaken, But most trees,
they'll they'll blink on or they'll like this will fade
down and if they go if they can do both,
that'll fade down, and then the whites will fade up. Yeah, okay,
the whites will fade down to nothing, and then the
multicolor will fade up and the then there's all.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Those disco effects.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Right, But what happens if we cross fade from multicolor
to white?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
In other words, it never dims down. Let me get okay,
let's see what happens here. What happens if we cross fade?
So if this multicolor fades too white, then what happens.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Is it's happening right now. It's going to happen very.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Slowly we get halfway through. First of all, the tree
never goes dark. And secondly, at the mid stage between
white and cross fade, I'm going to get this wrong, Brian.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Where is here? You hit the right button?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Here at the mid phase, when it's half white, you
get this pastel and I don't know what it is
about it. It just has this kind of vintage cool
glow to it.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Were dipping your toe into multicolor without having to go
all the way over.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
There without fully committing.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
So yeah, amazing lights, amazing trees, and I love now
you guys are you're introducing more species that are kind
of a little bit more amorphous with like the uneven
branches sticking out. They're not perfect cones anymore, right, It's.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Kind of that naturalistic look is kind of more popular.
So one of our trends kind of trending with the
Ralph Lauren type of trend that's going around, is this
more natural textures, natural shapes, a little bit of more spacing.
This tree in particular, it'll have a long branch right
next to a short branch to kind of give you
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that spacing a little bit more natural looking than a
perfect looking tree.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And the other thing too, and this is whether you're
decorating your own tree at home with your own lights,
or you're looking for a tree like this to shop for.
The other thing about your trees is that there are
lights at the tips of every one of the branch
to correct so that you can pile ornaments onto this
tree and you never end up covering up a light.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
They're the only trees that are made with light strings
specific for Christmas trees. Everyone else uses long strings that
they wrap around so the lights end up where they
end up. You see the spider web of all the
wires going across the tree. These the light strings are
shaped like a hand, so you can put a light
at the end of each prominent tip. And when you
fully decorate it, you're not hiding any of the lights, so.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
It's just maximizing all of those efforts.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
All right, We're going to talk more about Christmas decor,
Holiday decor and stuff that you can find at Al Dick.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
When we return. You are Home with Dean Sharp the
house whisper.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Got a group of great people here. They haven't fallen
asleep yet.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
But they are sitting on very comfy furniture. All right,
I got a couple of things I gotta say here. Wait,
let me get my I need to mention this on
the air. We are having our special Aldic Home Holiday
Show live broadcast today and I just want to thank
Dots Cafe and Bakery for providing our breakfast fare this
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morning for our guests.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
How was the food?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Celebrate all your holiday celebrations with Dots Cupcakes, Dot Cupcakes
dot com and Dots Oh is this the right one?
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Speaker 2 (23:36):
Thank you Dots for doing all that you do.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Also, you know what season it is? It's a pastathon season.
The fifteenth annual KFI Pastathon is here. Chef Bruno's charity,
Katerina's Club, providing more than twenty five thousand meals every
week to kids in need in southern California. Your generosity
makes it all happen. Our live podcast is giving Tuesday.
(24:02):
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Come on down if you want to participate and hang
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showing up FYI TENA and I in the afternoon doing
my normal bit on Tim Conway, so I'll be dropping in.
Tim will be starting at four from four to seven
I think, and I'll be dropping in spending some time
with Tim. So we'd love to see you guys there
if you want to come down and check that out.
The Anaheim White House is at eight eight seven South
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Anaheim Boulevard in Anaheim.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
How can you help?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
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Speaker 2 (25:00):
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Speaker 2 (25:57):
Forward slash Pastathon. All right, I got that done.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Let's dive back in. Got time for a couple more questions.
For Brian, where were we trees? Lighting h and all
of the species of trees that you've got all seventeen?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Do you remember them all by name?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Yeah, let's hear it. Oh, we have Astral Noble, Bryce Canyon,
Snowy Bryce Canyon, Deluxe, Flocked Arctic Forest, Sierra Telly Ride, Spruce,
Summit Pine, Snowy Summit, Pine, Angel Pine, King Noble, Virginia
for Princeton Fraser. Then we have Ridgeline, Snowy Ridgeline, Durango
(26:43):
for Tows, Snowy Tows, Blizzard Pine. What am I meant?
How many did I get to?
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I think you went over seventy because you had a couple.
You added a couple of snowy's in there.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yeah, I made a few, which at first I thought,
you can't.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Just say snowy.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yeah, snowy is the flocked version though, right these trees.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
It's just in a different part of the mountain that
got the snaw and.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
The flocking is so talk about the flocking too. It's
lifetime flocking.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
So it's flucking that is not designed to clog up
your vacuum when you set it up. So I set
up all of the trees in the tree lot with
my dad, and you wouldn't know that we set up
a flock tree, unlike you buy one at target or
something like that, and once you open it out of
the box, then you're getting the vacuum out. Like this
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is going to be an ordeal for me to set up.
Let me put the dogs outside or something like that.
So I can set this tree up.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
And it's beautifully done too.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It's not too heavy, it's not too light, right, it's
not completely uniform either, so it really has the Again, again,
the whole point of an artificial tree is to do
our best to simulate the real thing, right.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
And having been to the factory and watched them do
the flocking, it's a lot of work. It's a lot
of They set the tree up, they fluff it out,
look pretty, then they start to kind of hand apply
it on there. It takes a long time for them
to do it. It's they do a great job, all right.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
We uh, okay, we're gonna go to break. When we
come back in the second hour, I want to start
talking to you about techniques and theory behind decorating a tree.
We also may have a special guest dropping by, and
we have our live studio audience here with us. More
of our holiday home show when we return your Home
(28:29):
with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. This has been Home
with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. Tune into the live
broadcast on KFI AM six forty every Saturday morning from
six to eight Pacific time and every Sunday morning from
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House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app. It
is the House Whisper Holiday Home Show.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
WHEA.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
We have a great group of people here sitting comfortably.
This lounge has been redesigned since past years. If you've
been to this show in past years, you remember seating
in rows, just kind of like sitting in a theater setup.
And we are at half capacity now because we got
rugs and cafe tables and leather Chesterfield sofas. Everybody is
(00:40):
very comfortable. Everyone here will be asleep in twenty minutes.
That's just the way it's gonna go. I am Dean Sharp,
the House Whisper, custom home Builder, custom home designer, and
every week, of course, your guide to better understanding that
place where you live. You know what weather home for
you is a castle or a cottage.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
You know why, because luxury does not a great home make.
It is design that matters most. I invite you to
think about it this way. I was thinking about this
a couple of weeks ago. Somebody asked me to to
kind of summarize that idea in a shorter.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Thought you know, we talk about the home.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Improvement industry, and this show, I guess falls in the
general category of the home improvement industry, home improvement, home
Improvement TV, you know, all of that stuff. But this
is how I see it, how I view it. New
parts for your home. You're fixing stuff that is home repair.
That's not home improvement. That's just repair. A new code
(01:44):
of paint that is home maintenance. That's just keeping it up,
keeping it rolling. But design, introducing new design, change alteration
in that sense that that is home improvement. That is
why I say when it comes to transforming a home,
you know, it's fun to you know, change out the
(02:05):
toilet to a new toilet, but that is not transformation
of a home. That's not changing the radical story of
a home. And that's what we're all about helping you
do every single week here. Good design makes all the difference.
Every house deserves it, every house should enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
And because good.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Design is so powerful, once it's at work in your home,
then every house has a path forward to becoming a
great home. I believe that with all of my heart.
That's what we've been preaching here for the last nine years,
and we will continue to do exactly that today on
the show. We've got a live studio audience here. Let's
(02:46):
let them hear you again. We're gonna have a lot
of fun with them. We're going to be taking questions
from our studio audience today, whatever questions they've got about
their house. We also have our sponsor of today's show,
our very very special guest and my good friend, Brian
Gold from al Dick is your mic on.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Brian here, there you go. Brian Gold from al Dick
is here. Let's hear it for Brian.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Brian has brought with him his chief designer and also.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Our tree.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
And it's a seven and a half foot tall What
the species is this one?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
That one is a teller ride spruce.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
A tell you ride spruce. There are so many there
are night. There are seventeen seventeen different species of trees
at Aldic, all of them available from three.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Foot up to seventeen foot.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh now you're gonna correct me fourteen feet fourteen okay,
from three to fourteen feet. This is a seven and
a half foot tell you ride spruce. We're going to
be decorating it during the show here so that you
all can enjoy that. So that everyone who's listening can
enjoy the decorations that you can't see. But we're going
to be talking about holiday decort on the program and
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decorating the tree, and then by the end of today's show,
one of you is taking this tree home with you
and you have to take it home today. You have
to shove it in your car with all the decorations
on it. It's gonna be great. We're gonna film the
whole thing and then we're gonna post that later. No,
we'll get it to you, but it's gonna be great. Okay,
So no calls today because we're gonna take questions of
(04:25):
every ilk from our live studio audience. So that'll be
fun when the time comes.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
What else?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Elmer is down in the basement making it all happen
and sitting, i would say, across the table next to
me at the table, my design partner, my very best friend,
co owner, co founder of House Whisper, my best buddy
in the world.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Tina is here.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Welcome home.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
So we just got out of like two weeks of
crazy weather. Now what are you laughing at?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I don't know, you know, yeah, I know, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah, it's what season is it it's fall y'all.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I don't know why I find that so music. It
just makes my heart skip a beat every time she
says that. Okay, so let me tell you where we're
going today. I want to start talking about decorating for
the holidays, like a pro Okay, holiday decor trends ideas
for twenty twenty five. You know, I'm not one who's
(05:34):
big on trends and fads when it comes to home design,
because you know, you're spending tens or hundreds of thousands
of dollars to alter your home.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
The last thing in the world.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
You need is for a designer to come in the
year after and say, oh, oh, you did an all
white kitchen. It's so that was so last year. You're like, no,
that stuff doesn't count. But there are trends when it
comes to decor ends that kind of flowed in and
out through the year, and I really liked this year's trending,
So I want to talk about that a little bit.
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It's been given the name some people have given it
the name Louf the Ralph Lauren esthetic, which is just
kind of deep plaids and muted, dark, darker colors, very
kind of sophisticated. Also things like long tailed ribbons and
deep jewel tones and monochromatic gift wrapping.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Okay, what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Just means one print, no print, basically one color on
the paper and then a complimentary paper color, ribbon color
and just kind of sophisticated and cool and what I'm
calling adulting Christmas on some level. So that's a trend
we'll talk about. But also I want to talk to
you guys about some tech that will help you with
your decor and other things. And then Brian is going
(06:53):
to give us advice on how to how pros decorate
trees and their approach to the whole thing what we're
actually watching as we do it. We're gonna do all
of that and a bunch more. There's our music, your
Home with Dean Sharp. The house Whisper will be right back.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
We have a live studio audience full of real, live people,
not the simulated live studio audience that you that you
hear cheer on Saturday mornings. These people are actually live,
which means if they were live, how can I prove
this to you because I can ask them to applaud
again right now. Okay, So there it is, so you
(07:41):
see proof of life. We are offering proof of life.
We will all send out Instagram photos with the newspapers
and today's date. Thanks for joining us on the program
today we're having some fun. We do this every single
year on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. Our show is sponsored
by Al Dick Home, the most unique decore center that
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I have ever encountered in my life, and one that
is probably, I hate to say, the biggest secret, because
we've been getting your name out there, Brian a lot
over the last few years, so you're not really a secret,
but I will say this, it still remains.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
So such a secret.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Al Dick is sitting very modest location over on Sepulvida
in Van Eyes, in between Sataquoi and Sherman Way, Sataquoian Roscoe,
Sataquayn Roscoe, right next to Harbor Freight. Oh yeah, okay,
and you can drive by it and you're like, oh, well,
I wonder what that place is. Well, that place is
(08:42):
a massively historied place. Al Dick started. Two guys, two friends,
Al and Dick. That's where the name comes from back
in the fifties, Is it your grandfather?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yep. My grandfather and his business partner Al Okay, start
on Melrose just a business to sell little decorated floral
arrangements for TV set which back then we're enormous cabinets
that were ugly, right, and he wanted to put some.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Of the thing that sat on top with the TV
light that my parents always used to yell at me
to turn on.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yep, So that's how it started.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
That's how it started.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Silk flowers yep, but the best silk flowers in town.
And not long after they got going hugely successful and
got noticed by all of the West Side designers out
there who were looking for things for their clients. And
to this day designers are I mean, if you want
to find some of the just a place where you
(09:44):
will bump into some of the finest designers in the
state of California.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Just go and hang out at ALI.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
It's not like we're wearing name tags or anything, but
you will bump into them because they're there doing stuff
all the time. In fact, while I'm there today, I
have to check on four trees for a client in Calabasas.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
That we just had finished up for us. So I
got to.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Talk to Tayo and deal with those trees as well,
not Christmas trees, interior trees that are custom designed for room. Anyway,
al Dick is this amazing place. Silk flowers all year
round during the spring and summer. You guys decided to
pick up patio furniture, and of course decided, well, they
went on this nationwide search for the best patio furniture
(10:29):
that you could find. And there's a hundred reasons why
that's the case with summer classics patio furniture, but it's
literally the best patio furniture you can find. And then legendarily,
oh by, I'm getting ahead of myself on Meilrose. While
they're still on Meilros, they get noticed by this little
production company called Disney And in the fifties, and you
(10:51):
guys ended up doing the all.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Of the Swiss family Robinson.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Treehouse at Disneyland.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
And didn't you guys do the underwater the underwater plants
for the submarine ride as well. Yeah, so that's Aldick, right,
and so and yet you might actually, well there's a
chance you'll run into some celebrities at Aldick. We're not
gonna say their names on the air, but that happens
too because their designers drag them in to verify some things. Anyway,
(11:23):
aldc is a seriously cool place, not the easiest place
to describe in just three words, because you know, silk flowers,
custom foliage, patio furniture, and then come October first, a
winter wonderland. There is no place anywhere in this state,
anywhere you know in the United States that I'm aware of,
(11:45):
that has the kind of concentrated decor and artistic decor
that you guys do. How many decorations Okay, let's divide trees.
How many decorated trees do you guys have in store
fully decorated right now?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I think there's fifty three fully decorated Christmas trees that
you could shop right off of. So our designers, like
Rosie are redecorating them all the time, so you could
come in week to week and it'll look different.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Also because because Rosie's continuing to add stuff, and.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
We might sell out of those ornaments that Rosie's putting
on this tree now, and then she'll put different ones
on there, so that the look will change. It'll kind
of evolve as the season goes on.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
But every tree has a very very strong artistic theme
to it. You guys just never never disappoint when it
comes to the kind of stuff that you're doing playing with.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Trees, right, Yeah, I mean, fifty three ideas is a lot.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
That is a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I might have like three, but our creative director mighta
She's a powerhouse of creativity and inspiration, and she's got
a vision for all of them. She might have like
a photo of an artwork or a dress or something
like that that she's trying to get that feeling from
for each tree that she picks the palette for exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
And that's actually one of the things that we'll be
talking about today, which is one of the guidelines for
decorating your home, and that is pick a theme, pick
a theme, just go with it this year. Pick one theme,
pick a primary color, and work around that and you'll
find this kind.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Of unity in this beauty.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
But when we get over there today to see that
theme and Rosie's working a theme up on this tree
in front of us right now, same color families, same
kind of themes. Doesn't afraid to not afraid on a
seven and a half foot tree to go big. I
mean that's how big are those ornaments?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Rosie?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Those are like eight nine inch diameter ornaments? Yeah, those
are big. Not afraid to go big and bold. Anyway,
a lot to talk about today. Al de Combe is
our sponsor of the show Beautiful Trees, Beautiful decor for
your home, and we'll talk more when we return your
Home with Dean Sharp the House Whisper.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Forty today live from the helpful Honda Lounge at iHeart Studios,
Los Angeles. It's the House Whisper Holiday home show. We
have a live studio audience. Great, great folks here all right?
Where were we at? We were talking about Aldacombe Aldick
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sponsor and vent. I've got my very special guest, Brian Gold,
one of the owners at Aldick here with me in studio.
Rosie is decorating our tree. She is here just working
her magic and this tree. Everybody just got their raffle
tickets for this tree to be given away before the
end of the show today.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
So that's gonna be great.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
So Aldick, I only got half of my question out, Brian,
so you've got thirty, oh wait, fifty fifty fifty fully
decorated trees on display, and bins and displays full of
decor all around them, all through the store. And then
you've got the tree lot, which is in the back
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section of the store. And how many trees are sitting
in the tree lot.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
There are sixty undecorated trees in the tree lot, every
size of every style that we have, except for the
fourteen foot it was just too big. We ran out
of space.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Do you have one fourteen foot?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yeah, well, we don't have any decorated or on.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Display, but in the lot you have no, not at all.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
We have the twelve.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
The twelve, that's why.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Okay it scruntch down a little bit and look up
at it.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
You could just imagine the fourteen.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Okay, So the tree lot, and when you say you've
got sixty trees, you have a lot more than sixty
tree You just have sixty sample trees out there for
people to see.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
And so do I get this right? I got this
right right?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Seventeen different species, correct, which is just so many? That's
that's like, what fourteen more species than you get at
your local tree lot in your neighborhood. So every imaginable
species of tree.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
And sixteen more than people are expecting to see.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I think that's true.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
You have to whittle it down and.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Then these are amazing tree.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
So let's talk just for everybody's sake, because people are
in the mood every year to buy a tree. Let's
talk about what makes an outstanding artificial tree.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Okay, So for us, we hadn't found any artificial trees
on the market that we're up to our standards with
the rest of the products that we carry, so we
had to design our own. So all of our trees
we design ourselves. Which we're in a unique position where
we're just a single store capable of influencing how these
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products are made, where we hear directly from the customers
what they're looking for, what's important to them. They wanted
stronger branches, they wanted more realistic shapes, they wanted spacing
to decorate. A lot of the trees you see online
are just like solid bushes. You can't fit an ornament
inside of it. You're just decorating along the outside.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Okay, I'm gonna pause you there because we've just tripped
over one of the important to core principles at least
when it comes to a tree, right, is that most
people go to the tree lot and they're like, let's
find the fullest tree, the fullest tree, right, And so
because you're looking at your evaluating the tree empty. Right,
So like doug Firs, Douglas firs are the kind of
(17:36):
the classic super full tree, right, But a lot of
people go with Noble furs when it goes to like
a natural tree lot because they've come to understand that
those tiers and those spaces in between, that's like, that's
what Rosie is taking advantage of right now to fill
with ornamentation so that it actually fits. So everybody was
(17:57):
looking for the full tree, but you've had the opportunity
to design them intentionally with space.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Even our fullest looking tree we've designed with the space
to fit ornaments inside. So it kind of fools you
that it's a big full tree, but you can still
decorate it just like how Rosie's doing right now with
those eight inch ornaments. And we've also designed the lighting system.
So our biggest competition, I would say on Christmas trees
(18:24):
are the online retailers. And if you research how people
feel about them, they buy a lot of unlit trees
from those retailers because they don't trust the lights. They've
had a bad experience with the lights from those retailers.
So we've designed our lighting system where each branch has
its own string, and we provide extra light strings in
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the box for if you know, life happens if a
pet choose a wire, or your son or daughter breaks
a wire or something like that, you could just string
a new string on there. It only affects one branch.
And then this year we've had the functionality to do
the warm white multicolor and even the pastel, which has
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been kind of a game changer for people that that pastel.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I mean, I am completely enamored with the pastel. Okay,
So if you guys don't know what pastel is or
what it looks like, we can change this one right.
Oh oh oh okay, So so this tree is capable
all right, I'm going to try and get this right here.
Let's see this tree is capable of warm white that's
what you guys are looking at now, or.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Full multicolor. Okay, Oh gair audience are like, oh all right.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
But here's the thing. So many, i'd say most trees
on the market. Maybe I'm maybe I'm mistaken, But most trees,
they'll they'll blink on or they'll like this will fade
down and if they go if they can do both,
that'll fade down, and then the whites will fade up. Yeah, okay,
the whites will fade down to nothing, and then the
multicolor will fade up and the then there's all.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Those disco effects.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Right, But what happens if we cross fade from multicolor
to white?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
In other words, it never dims down. Let me get okay,
let's see what happens here. What happens if we cross fade?
So if this multicolor fades too white, then what happens.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Is it's happening right now. It's going to happen very.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Slowly we get halfway through. First of all, the tree
never goes dark. And secondly, at the mid stage between
white and cross fade, I'm going to get this wrong, Brian.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Where is here? You hit the right button?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Here at the mid phase, when it's half white, you
get this pastel and I don't know what it is
about it. It just has this kind of vintage cool
glow to it.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Were dipping your toe into multicolor without having to go
all the way over.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
There without fully committing.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
So yeah, amazing lights, amazing trees, and I love now
you guys are you're introducing more species that are kind
of a little bit more amorphous with like the uneven
branches sticking out. They're not perfect cones anymore, right, It's.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Kind of that naturalistic look is kind of more popular.
So one of our trends kind of trending with the
Ralph Lauren type of trend that's going around, is this
more natural textures, natural shapes, a little bit of more spacing.
This tree in particular, it'll have a long branch right
next to a short branch to kind of give you
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that spacing a little bit more natural looking than a
perfect looking tree.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And the other thing too, and this is whether you're
decorating your own tree at home with your own lights,
or you're looking for a tree like this to shop for.
The other thing about your trees is that there are
lights at the tips of every one of the branch
to correct so that you can pile ornaments onto this
tree and you never end up covering up a light.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
They're the only trees that are made with light strings
specific for Christmas trees. Everyone else uses long strings that
they wrap around so the lights end up where they
end up. You see the spider web of all the
wires going across the tree. These the light strings are
shaped like a hand, so you can put a light
at the end of each prominent tip. And when you
fully decorate it, you're not hiding any of the lights, so.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
It's just maximizing all of those efforts.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
All right, We're going to talk more about Christmas decor,
Holiday decor and stuff that you can find at Al Dick.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
When we return. You are Home with Dean Sharp the
house whisper.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Got a group of great people here. They haven't fallen
asleep yet.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
But they are sitting on very comfy furniture. All right,
I got a couple of things I gotta say here. Wait,
let me get my I need to mention this on
the air. We are having our special Aldic Home Holiday
Show live broadcast today and I just want to thank
Dots Cafe and Bakery for providing our breakfast fare this
(23:20):
morning for our guests.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
How was the food?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Celebrate all your holiday celebrations with Dots Cupcakes, Dot Cupcakes
dot com and Dots Oh is this the right one?
Dots Cafe Bakery, Dots Cafe Bakery dot com.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Thank you Dots for doing all that you do.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Also, you know what season it is? It's a pastathon season.
The fifteenth annual KFI Pastathon is here. Chef Bruno's charity,
Katerina's Club, providing more than twenty five thousand meals every
week to kids in need in southern California. Your generosity
makes it all happen. Our live podcast is giving Tuesday.
(24:02):
That's December second. That's is that Tuesday. That's Tuesday, from
five am to eight pm at the Anaheim White House.
Come on down if you want to participate and hang
out at all of our hosts today, our all of
our hosts. All of our hosts will be broadcasting on
Tuesday from five am to eight pm. I will be
(24:24):
showing up FYI TENA and I in the afternoon doing
my normal bit on Tim Conway, so I'll be dropping in.
Tim will be starting at four from four to seven
I think, and I'll be dropping in spending some time
with Tim. So we'd love to see you guys there
if you want to come down and check that out.
The Anaheim White House is at eight eight seven South
(24:45):
Anaheim Boulevard in Anaheim.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
How can you help?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
You can donate anytime you go to KFI AM six
forty dot com Forward slash Pastathon, and remember one of
your donation goes to Katerina's Club.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
You can also go to any.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Smart and Final donate any amount at checkout, even in
Arizona and Nevada, Okay, all of the Smart and Finals.
And you can go to any Wendy's restaurant in southern
California donate five dollars or more to Caterina's Club and
get a coupon book from Wendy's. And also starting Monday,
(25:22):
that's tomorrow, you guys can bid on exclusive auction items
on the KFI website. The auctions are going to be
opened through December second, and this year, Tina and I
are putting ourselves out there to go to a Dodger
game with you. So if you want to hang out
with us at a Dodger game next season three peat
(25:44):
it's three Peat season, then you can find us there
and bid us up and we'll hang out with you
at a Dodger game this coming year. Find all the
details at KFI AM six forty dot com.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Forward slash Pastathon. All right, I got that done.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Let's dive back in. Got time for a couple more questions.
For Brian, where were we trees? Lighting h and all
of the species of trees that you've got all seventeen?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Do you remember them all by name?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Yeah, let's hear it. Oh, we have Astral Noble, Bryce Canyon,
Snowy Bryce Canyon, Deluxe, Flocked Arctic Forest, Sierra Telly Ride, Spruce,
Summit Pine, Snowy Summit, Pine, Angel Pine, King Noble, Virginia
for Princeton Fraser. Then we have Ridgeline, Snowy Ridgeline, Durango
(26:43):
for Tows, Snowy Tows, Blizzard Pine. What am I meant?
How many did I get to?
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I think you went over seventy because you had a couple.
You added a couple of snowy's in there.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yeah, I made a few, which at first I thought,
you can't.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Just say snowy.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yeah, snowy is the flocked version though, right these trees.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
It's just in a different part of the mountain that
got the snaw and.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
The flocking is so talk about the flocking too. It's
lifetime flocking.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
So it's flucking that is not designed to clog up
your vacuum when you set it up. So I set
up all of the trees in the tree lot with
my dad, and you wouldn't know that we set up
a flock tree, unlike you buy one at target or
something like that, and once you open it out of
the box, then you're getting the vacuum out. Like this
(27:30):
is going to be an ordeal for me to set up.
Let me put the dogs outside or something like that.
So I can set this tree up.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
And it's beautifully done too.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It's not too heavy, it's not too light, right, it's
not completely uniform either, so it really has the Again, again,
the whole point of an artificial tree is to do
our best to simulate the real thing, right.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
And having been to the factory and watched them do
the flocking, it's a lot of work. It's a lot
of They set the tree up, they fluff it out,
look pretty, then they start to kind of hand apply
it on there. It takes a long time for them
to do it. It's they do a great job, all right.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
We uh, okay, we're gonna go to break. When we
come back in the second hour, I want to start
talking to you about techniques and theory behind decorating a tree.
We also may have a special guest dropping by, and
we have our live studio audience here with us. More
of our holiday home show when we return your Home
(28:29):
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