November 23, 2025 • 30 mins
The tree is now fully decked out in real time by Rosie (and it’s gorgeous!). Dean and Brian take your calls on everything from mantel styling to outdoor lighting disasters. Dean shares his pro tips for ribbon techniques, ornament placement, and why you should always decorate from the inside-out. The excitement peaks when Dean draws the winning raffle ticket – one lucky audience member walks away with the spectacular, fully-decorated Aldik Home Christmas tree (valued at over $2,000) to take home today!
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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. We
have to find it and once you see it, that
is when everything changes. And guess what has changed For
today's show. We are live in the Helpful Honda Lounge
(00:21):
at iHeart Studios, Los Angeles, in front of a live
studio audience because it is our annual House Whisper holiday
home show, Love and Life Love and the people who
are in studio with us, So glad that you have
joined us here and on the air. Also sitting next.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
To me, Amy King, Hello morning.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
And sitting on the other side of me, Brian Gold
from Ald Comb, who is the sponsor of our show today.
All right, So Rosie's done an amazing job on this
tree here, decorating it, the seven and a half foot
tall tree. Brian. We talked about the big stuff being
in close. We've talked about kind of uneven, We've talked
(01:01):
about the eighty twenty pal. Is there anything else we
need to know about tree decor in general that we
haven't covered so far?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
We don't have it here, but adding ribbon to a
tree just kind of makes it feel more elegant and luxurious.
So naturally we didn't do that here for the live
studio audience, but if you come see at the store,
we have ribbon all over.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Ribbon is a very very powerful tool.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I said at the outset of the show that this
year things are trending kind of in what we call
the Ralph Lauren direction. I think it's a goofy way
of saying it, but I guess that helps people kind
of envision that look right, deep plaid, right deep but
deep muted plaids right nice?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Is it a hound's tooth? Is that what it's called? No,
it's not.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well, no it can be.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
But but I love the idea of those of that
kind of a ribbon, A plaid ribbon, a muted color
that just strings its way through the tree.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Right beautiful, These deep jewel tone colors and a lot
of ribbon, A lot of velvets, deep burgundy and forest green,
A lot of black ribbons are almost black green ribbons.
Ribbon talk about the powerhouse of decor for very little
(02:20):
cash outlay, just buying the right spool of ribbon, and
then bows, tying bows all over the house, all over
the tree, and all around the house. And this year,
by the way, those bows meaning I think of bows
kind of moving through time stylistically, the way that men's ties,
you know, moved through So now is not the year
(02:41):
for the big fat bow tie like nineteen seventies. You
know that you would see on a guy a bow
tie at a wedding, that big, gigantic bow tie. Now
is the time for thinner ribbon and more elegant bows
and long tails on the bows. And not that neon red,
not the neon red, deeper, darker. You know, before you
(03:04):
came here, we were talking about that. This is kind
of this whole Ralph Lauren. Look, it's sort of you know,
my term for it is sort of adulting Christmas, and
that there's a little bit more It's like this tree,
there's a little bit more sophistication and to it. And
that doesn't mean that it's not fun and that the
kids can't have a great time playing around it and
all of that, but it brings a little bit more
(03:25):
depth to it. Okay, a little bit more depth. And
by the way, if your grandma and grandpa now, and
and you know I would it's probably ghost for me
to say, get selfish at Christmas time, because that's not
exactly what I mean, but I do mean this. The
kids are coming over for a couple of days, right
(03:45):
to enjoy the tree or maybe day up. But you're
going to have the tree up for the rest of
the season for you, primarily for you you. So I'll
just say this, I'm not gonna say be selfish about it,
but don't leave yourself out of the equation. Do your
decor in a way that you want to do your decor,
and then invite the younger you know ones in alongside that.
So and I want that to be true of your
(04:06):
whole home. Right, That's why we were just talking about
during the break kind of what our consults are all
focused in. Custom home design is all about making this
about your life, all right, I want this. It doesn't
mean that your life excludes other people's lives, but it
means that we figure out what's going on with you,
and we build this thing, we tailor this thing around you.
(04:28):
And again, costs, there's always a way, right. Ribbon is
a perfect way to save money. And do I mean
you could put ribbon up just everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, all
around the house. You can use it as garland. You
can take a very plain garland and add ribbons to
it and it's something amazing, right absolutely.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
And you know what else I just was thinking when
you said be selfish, I mean, of course, who wouldn't
want a tree like this in their home?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I mean it's just spectacular.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
But if you want to, and you're like my mom
and you have several trees, why not designate.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
A tree for the kids?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah? Why not?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And then they can play with it decorated put you know,
the andy kins.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And they can knock it over and you're like, damn, oh,
you have a tree for the cats. You don't have
to be all stressed out. No, no tree for the cats.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Why?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I don't know. It just seems that mine doesn't.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
She does not, or he does not knock the tree
over anymore. The first two years he did. He thought
it was the coolest thing to jump in and just
knock it over.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
The thing about cat you never know what they're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Right, Well, he's grown up now, he's ready to adult.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Our cat leaves everything alone except the most sensitive little
plant that sits on our dining room table. We call
him Bob. He actually is there for the studio. When
we do video in the studio, Bob is in the background,
but he grows better on our dining room table and
Bob is this I don't even know what he is.
He's this tiny, little sensitive of all the things in
(05:50):
the house. Domino jumps up on the table and he
starts rubbing against Bob, just like you're gonna kill him.
You're gonna kill the plant. Cats are good at defying expectations.
That's what they're good at, all right, So, wow, that
was noisy. The idea of saving money and letting it go.
(06:11):
So things like ribbon are one of those things that
can go an awful long way in a design process
and add a lot of class without you know, breaking
the bank.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
And even the types of ornaments, so I would say
half of the ornaments in this tree are plastic ornaments,
which are good for the grandkids as well. But the
ones that we have designed for us, they don't have
a seam on it. So we have the factory sand
the seam, because every plastic ornament has a seam, and
then put the color and then the finish so it
looks like glass and you can decorate it like a
(06:45):
glass ornament.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
That one was class.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I wouldn't tapped on them.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
You found the one glass ornament.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
But if I see kids running around in the store,
I hand them one of those plastic ornaments and say
can you hold on to this for me? And then
they just hang on to it and walk around.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
That is that is both wise and manipulative.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Sometimes they throw it on the ground and you know
that you made the right choice of giving them plastic one.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah, and so again you know not to toot your
horn anymore. But that is one of those things that
set Aldick apart, right, You've got I literally do have
to go around the store and tap on things because
it all looks like.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Glast I noticed that last year with the tree that
there was a lot of plant. I was like, this
is plastic and it looks like this beautiful ornate.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, delicate.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Actually the bigger pieces, you know, it sound like a
bombing off in the store when those fall off a
tree or something drops one or something. They're all plastic,
just to make it so that people can enjoy it
a year after year.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
So do you guys just call them plat You have
a term for them, just durable, seamless, shatterproof, seamless, shatterproof.
That's a nice way of saying they're plastic, but they
look like glass and they look great. All right, We're
going to continue this conversation. On the other side. You
are Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Having a great time here, and I am so glad
you've joined us on the air as well. We're talking
holiday decor. I want to get back to Let me
get to my little list here, my little outline. See,
we've talked about the eighty twenty rule. Oh here's a
thing that I don't know if you and I talked
about this on Friday, Amy or not, Amy King. By
(08:32):
the way, everybody, but I mentioned getting selfish about your decor,
which you know is probably antithetical to the spirit of
the holidays. But what I mean by that is that
you know what decorated the house for you, and Amy
had a great idea, like you want to you want
a tree that's more durable in kid proof than you know,
(08:55):
get a smaller tree and put all the kid's presence
around that so you can have you know, your JUGI
memory bull adult tree and then you know, you don't
have to exclude other people. At the same time, you
don't have to exclude yourself, and you shouldn't exclude yourself
and your own home from having the decor that you want. Okay,
that's just something I'm trying to encourage you towards. So
(09:17):
not self selfish is the wrong word. But well, like
you said, don't leave yourself.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
You're the one who is going to be looking at
this for the next month.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
That's right, absolutely. And on that note, all right, something
that is growing that I am all about encouraging is
backyard holiday decor. Okay, we are we are as a
culture kind of consumed with decorating the fronts of our houses,
which I'm all for because it just contributes to the
(09:44):
spirit of the holidays for the neighborhood. Right, Everything you
do in the front of the house essentially is your
contribution to the neighborhood and lifting spirits. And so people
walk by and your neighbors get to look over and
they just get to see, you know, something special, the lights,
the you know, the inflatable whatever it is that you do.
But in the spirit of decorating, for you, if you
(10:09):
spend most of your time out in front of your house. Great,
but not who does? But who does? And so how
about wrapping some of those lights, some of that decor,
some of that huge into the backyard where you spend
time with your family, with your friends and doing that.
So this is something that Tina and I have done
for years now. We wrap our lights all the way
(10:33):
around the house. In fact, technically, I think there's a
little bit more going on in our backyard right now
this year than there is going on in the front yard.
And there's plenty going on in the front yard, but
the backyard is this place where holiday in terms of
holiday decor, that's where you can sit and see one, two, three,
(10:53):
like four different decorated trees and lights. We've got a
little guesthouse in back it's lit up, so that's kind
of like our neighbor, you know, facing us, facing the backyard.
The point being, why not spend a little bit more
energy in the backyard, because that's if you've got family
and friends coming over for the holidays, that's likely where
you going to spend your time anyway. So light up
(11:14):
the party, light up the party zone. Does that make
sense to everybody?
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Yeah, and even most kitchens you know they face out
into the back or you know, family rooms don't face
out to the front as much, so then you get
to see the lights yourself exactly. Yeah, my mom does.
My mom who does the five six trees. Yeah, she's
got it all. She's got lights around her deck and
the little Christmas tree out there, and that's where she
(11:37):
spends her life. You know that you were saying where
people spend their time in their homes. She spends her
time in the kitchen, in the in the family room,
and that's what.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
She gets to look at every day.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
We get to pull that off too because we've got
these little outbuildings in our back. I mean, that's why
we bought our property because it's a little bit larger
piece of property. Had this tiny, little nine hundred and
forty square foot house on it, but you know it's
like a third of an acre, which is a big
piece of property for a nine and forty square foot house.
So there's a lot of yard back there. And so
now we have outbuildings. We have the studio that we
(12:08):
normally do the show in. It's a little building sitting there.
We've got our garden room, which is essentially a shed
that that we jushed out where Tina does her puzzles
and we read and hang out. It's our kind of
like a Dean and Tina's clubhouse back there in the backyard.
And then then the chickens have their own hen house.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Back there is the henhouse decorated the hen.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yeah, there's a right hanging on the hen house door.
The chick in by the way, that's the name of it.
I N N the chick in no vacancies at the moment.
And then then then there's the little casita, the guesthouse
in the back. So and when the holidays come around,
you know, we throw up some some bling and lights
and jush and it's like a little Santa's village back there,
(12:50):
kind of like that's what people have commented on before.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
So now you just need a snowmaking machine exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I got to have a snowblower come over the top.
But we don't. Actually, we're not the you know, I'm
not like Neil where we go all out with all
of the theatrics. I Mine are a little bit more
sedated and muted, but but fun, fun. We're just try
and strike a middle of the road there. Let's talk
about eating let's talk about dining room tables, because the
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table is a huge place for the holidays. We got
Thanksgiving coming up this week and then other feasts following.
What's new and trending this year as far as table
design has a lot to do with the table cloth,
we'll talk about that. On the other side Your Home
with Dean Sharp the house Whisper.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
It is the annual holiday home show. Thrilled that we're here.
I've got Amy King in studio with me, my very
special guest, Amy, my boy, my colleague here at the station.
I show up on wake up call every most Friday
morn It's just about every Friday morning. We're talking about stuff,
talking about the weekend ahead and everything, and Amy is awesome.
(14:06):
I've also got Brian Gold from al Da Combe sponsored
the show here in the studio, and we're just talking
holiday decor and we're having fun and helpful things when
and kicking off the holidays today. So I wanted to
shift the conversation over to food and to the not
talking about food, but talking about the dining room and
the dining room table, especially a lot of folks, have
(14:28):
so many people over, and you're gonna vibe with this
because you know, there's always the challenge, like, Okay, your
dining room table is only so big, but now the
whole family's coming over, so we got to either set
up the card tables. We're going to figure out a
way of extending the dining room table and making it
longer temporarily. And then what do you do. I mean, theory,
you can work that out, but then how do you
cover all that up and make it actually look lovely
(14:49):
after the fact? And usually it comes down to table cloths,
right that are doing the line's share of the work,
because now you've got the folding table right next to
the real dining room table and you're matching them all up.
And by the way, let me just give you a
tip on that, matching up the folding table with the
dining room table. And they're not exactly the same width. Okay,
(15:12):
length is easy, right, because you're just adding one to
the other, but they're not exactly the same width. So
if you're gonna judge that up just the right way,
then you head on down to the local big box
store the lumberyard, and you pick up a very inexpensive
sheet of quarter inch masonite, like a four x eight
sheet of quarter inch masonite, which is very smooth, very lightweight,
(15:35):
and you simply cut it to the same width as
the dining room table and lay that on top of
the folding table, and then cover the whole thing with
a tablecloth or table cloths overlapping, and it's all uniform
and it just likes one big banquet table, and then
you store that away for next year. In fact, you
want to do it even fancier, so you're not storing
(15:56):
away a giant sheet. You can actually cut it down
the middle lengthwise and then duct tape it back together
again on both sides, so now it has a hinge
and you can just fold it up and shove it
in the garage and shove it in for storage, and
you get those tables uniform. But the trending thing for
this year, which I think is always a great idea,
is if you want to add another really cool look
(16:17):
to the dining room, what is trending along with the
whole Ralph laur An adulting Christmas look is a floor
length table claus table cloths that are dropping all the
way to the floor on all sides.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Good for hiding under for the kids, good for hiding
under for the kids.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
The kids have a lot of fun before and after,
maybe during dinner, I don't know. But the tablecloth dropping
all the way down to the floor, that alone, by
the way, can take an average banquet table and real
I mean, that's an old wedding reception trick that takes
an average banquet table and turns it into something completely different, because,
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first of all, obviously the table is that irrelevant. It
doesn't matter what the table looks like, because the table
is now just a scaffolding that holds the meal and
holds the drape of the tablecloth over it. Also, when
you do that, okay, if you think about the geometry
of getting a tablecloth that's long enough and wide enough
(17:15):
to drop to the floor, those corners are going to
plete out and they're going to kind of blossom out
at each corner as the sides intersect the length of
the long and you're going to get these beautiful kind
of triangular pleats falling down to the floor at every
corner as the two gather together. And that amount of
(17:37):
material is also something that you can rooshe does anybody
in the room know what the word roushe means, nicky
does Oh my gosh. Okay, So a rooshing a piece
of fabric means that when you've got extra fabric, you
can gather it. You can pull it up, you can
twist it, you can pin it, you can do all
(17:57):
sorts of funky little things with it, so you don't
have to allow it all to sit all the way
down to the floor. You can actually gather up a
couple inches, pin it from the backside, just a safety
pin on the backside, and end up creating this beautiful,
just gorgeous pleated whole dining ensemble with full length tablecloths.
(18:18):
So whether you roosh the fabric or whether you just
let it run over, whether you're running two tablecloths long
and you've compensated for the odd shaped table or the
odd with the table with a piece of masonite to
cover the top, however the case may be even all out.
And that is a that's a big trend this year.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
And what about color.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Color is something that I would suggest, if you're anywhere
near the rest of your decor, that you let it
go with the let it correspond. It doesn't have to
match direct on. But if you're working one of those themes,
then you know, if you're working the Ralph Lauren theme, okay,
you don't have to buy the expensive plaid for the tablecloth.
(19:02):
That might be a bit busy. I think I would
probably go with one of those deeper, richer colors, maybe
even a velvet okay or chineel.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
And then you could accident boom with you really cool.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Look you you're like the a student up here.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, better than I ever did in school.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
So then yeah, and then you're then your your your candles,
your place settings, the plates, they literally become the twenty
in the eighty twenty rule, right the the the eighty
percent is the tablecloth. The twenty ends up becoming everything
that you're putting on the table. And at that point,
the more monochromatic and uniform the tablecloth is, the more
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everything else on top of it pops. So again, this
is a trick and a technique that does not have
to break the bank. It's super super elegant. It's like,
I just think of it like it's a it's a
woman wearing one of those just black velvet dresses, just
the long black velvet dress, very classic, very elegant, and
(20:05):
then you know the necklace that she's got on and
the ear rings and the lipstick and the hair that's
the twenty and everything just pops around that and it's
just amazing.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
And I love the idea of using a colored tablecloth
as opposed to the classic white, which is beautiful, but
just for the season. You know, it just sort of
feels more like fall and more like winter if you're
using one of those colors.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
I agree. And as a whole, I mean, just as
a whole, I spend a lot of time in the kitchen.
We love cooking, and I have found this as a trend.
It's not at all again a rule, but as a
trend as a whole, I think the more cook's kitchens
you run into, the more often you find people plating
(20:52):
their food, like restaurants plate their food, which is more
typically just on white plates because you want the food
to be see that. That's the thing. Think about that
in the typical restaurant, you're getting served these beautiful meals
on generally speaking, light or white flatware. That's the eighty
twenty rule of food presentation happening right where the eighty
(21:15):
percent is the canvas. There's just the plain white plate,
and then all the jug that's happening on top of
it is the pop. So that translates to another level
where we've got the colored tablecloth of some beautiful tone,
and then we're putting white plates. But on top of
the white plates go all the good food. And so
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it's just a hit after a hit, and it's sort
of a repeating pattern that's scalable, that's getting smaller as
we go.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I'm getting hungry, all right, making me think of the
dining room table.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I hear you, and well it's time to go for
a break, so we can get you a snack, right, kay,
all right, y'all, you hang tight. There's more to come
your Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
It is the House Whisper Holiday home show. We've had
a blast. Can you believe we're at the end of
the show. We are at the end of the show.
This is the last few minutes of the show, and
there's only a.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Few people napping in those really comfortab A few well, you.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Know, that's where we take the break and I go
around with the mic and I just bunk them on
the head and wake them up and we're like, hey,
wake up. You guys have been great. By the way,
give yourselves a hand please, I got a lot of
people to thank today. I'm going to do that in
a second when we get to my closing thought, which
(22:40):
I'm going to read to you today. I normally sort
of half read them half just kind of roll with them.
I like writing them down because I don't want to
miss anything along the way. So you guys who are live,
you'll forgive me if I'm I'm reading because it's just
it's meaningful for me to do that, especially every time
we do this holiday show. But my thanks to Amy
King for dropping in and being my very special Win
(23:01):
Studio guest today hanging out. Thanks for having me, and
for Brian Gold from Aldick Home and everything that they
have done this year. Any closing thoughts, Brian, tell us,
give us a give us a little info about the store,
where are you at, what are your hours, your holiday hours?
(23:22):
What's going on at al Dick right now? Because it's
pretty amazing And by the way, before I forget to
say it again, in about an hour, Tina and I
are going to be down there. We're going to be
at Aldi today. If we weren't able to come and
be a part of our studio audience today and everybody
in our studio, Audien's want to invite everybody down. Come
on down to Aldick, get a hug, say hi. We're
going to be there from one to two o'clock today
(23:44):
checking out all the goodness. I mean, we're in there
all the time, but today we're there just because of
the show today and to kind of embrace you when
you come on by. So check it out, Brian, what
do you got going on?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
So first I'll ask the listeners when is the last
time you walked into a place and thought wow, or
thought wow, they really outdid themselves here, they really gave it.
They're all probably not in a long time, at least
in my experience. I haven't been to a store in
a long time where I thought this is incredible. And
you could give yourself that experience. You could provide that
(24:19):
experience to your kids. Have them walk into a wonderland
and they kind of immediately get it, and they start
running around and they're laughing at giggling and all that
and it's just a short drive down Suppulvita Boulevard in
Van Eyes and just come and take a look and
experience a magical Christmas with fifty fully decorated Christmas trees,
(24:41):
sixty Christmas trees in the back. If you want to
talk to somebody for an hour about Christmas trees, we're
happy to do that and explain it and talk your
ear off until you tell us the stop. And yeah,
it's just a magical place.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
And this is all true, by the way, And people
like Rosie who just did this amazing job on this tree. Yes,
it's designers like Rosie who are walking the aisles and
available to just talk to you about, like overcoming your
Christmas decor issues, help you put us something together. Just
amazing stuff. Also, those fifty fully decorated trees, I mean
(25:17):
this is a tradition. A lot of families get all
dressed up, jushed up and come down just to take
their family holiday photos in front of aldic Christmas trees.
And they don't mind at all. They're like, bring it
on down, come on down and do it. And this year,
in addition to the trees, you guys got Santa's sleigh
sitting in the back. So we've got a full blown
sleigh that you can all sit in with your family
(25:39):
and take your shot. So it's a really it just
it really is a little slice of happiness. If you're
looking for a little bit of happiness today, spend an
hour or two at al dec home. Youah, of course
you'll take something home, you will take something home with you,
but most importantly, just go down there and man, it
will jump start even the scroogiest of hearts and minds
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this year. It really really will. It's amazing stuff. Okay,
do we have is Michelle and here? Do we have
a drawing for our tree? Or we're gonna do that
after We're gonna do that after we go off the air.
All right, Just no, you weren't here, so you didn't
win the tree. But somebody here is gonna win the tree.
So I'm just gonna making you jealous about the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
All right.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
I got to launch into my closing thought today or
else I'm not going to get it out of my mouth.
I like to leave a little thought sometimes at the
end of the show about why it is that we
get together in the first place. So I will leave
you with this thought today. I don't know about you,
but for me it has been a year. Tina was
(26:43):
not here last year because she'd just gone through a
very serious and completely unexpected surgery. Isn't it good to
see her back in her chair again. In addition to that,
a lot of very good friends around here lost their
jobs last year right before the holidays. And then instead
of the new year turning a corner and bringing some
(27:06):
relief for the Sharp Clan, Nope, twenty five pretty much
doubled down on the chaos and the hits just kept
on coming. It has been a year. Nevertheless, despite the year,
we are here and I'm grateful for a lot of things.
And let's start with Let's start with you, all of
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our listeners, who for nine years have invested your time
and your trust in me to help you with your
most precious possession. And for daring to believe a kid
who grew up in a double wide mobile home in
a landfill when he says that design matters most and
there's always hope and there's a path to transforming an
ordinary house into an extraordinary home. It's true. I am
(27:49):
thankful to all of my colleagues here at KFI. From
the legendary Robin Bertolucci, who got me into this mess
in the first place, to the amazing people have been
with me at every turn, some of whom are here
right now, Michelle cbe Amy King sitting right next to me,
Roy Nicky, so many others, so many others. I'm thankful
(28:10):
for our sponsors like Aldick, who've trusted me to be
their voice and carry their banner and tell their stories
through the years. I am thankful, of course, for my family,
who I count as friends, and to my friends, who
I count as family. For me, friendship is everything. The
rules of friendship govern every meaningful relationship in my life,
(28:31):
and I can honestly tell you that right now I
have the finest family of friends that I have ever
had ever. And speaking of friends, there is one right here,
my favorite human being, my best friend in all the world.
I am most thankful for Tina, for whom I have
learned so much, without whom I would not be me,
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and without whom this year would have turned out very,
very differently. Look at us, babe, I'm really proud of us.
This year has been a year and still here we are, smiling,
still laughing, after thirty years together, it's still just a
couple of kids building sand castles and whatever comes. You
know what, it's you and me. If you have add
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less than a perfect year, I want you to be encouraged.
The holidays are here. That's not trite sentimentality for me.
The holidays are built for tough times. The holidays are
born from tough times, when seasons change from warm and
sunny to cold and dark without ever asking our permission.
These rituals and traditions are the magic that we conjure
(29:39):
to break the spell of tough times. It's why we
share our food. It's why we light lights, It's why
we give gifts. It's why we count our blessings and
hold our loved ones tight. We do these things every winter,
sometimes in celebration of the year, sometimes in spite of
the year, but always grateful that we've been given one
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more day to build ourselves a beautiful life. So let's
get to it. Everybody, Thank you for coming, Thank you
for listening. Have a great week. We'll 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 six to
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KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp the
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have to find it and once you see it, that
is when everything changes. And guess what has changed For
today's show. We are live in the Helpful Honda Lounge
(00:21):
at iHeart Studios, Los Angeles, in front of a live
studio audience because it is our annual House Whisper holiday
home show, Love and Life Love and the people who
are in studio with us, So glad that you have
joined us here and on the air. Also sitting next.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
To me, Amy King, Hello morning.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
And sitting on the other side of me, Brian Gold
from Ald Comb, who is the sponsor of our show today.
All right, So Rosie's done an amazing job on this
tree here, decorating it, the seven and a half foot
tall tree. Brian. We talked about the big stuff being
in close. We've talked about kind of uneven, We've talked
(01:01):
about the eighty twenty pal. Is there anything else we
need to know about tree decor in general that we
haven't covered so far?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
We don't have it here, but adding ribbon to a
tree just kind of makes it feel more elegant and luxurious.
So naturally we didn't do that here for the live
studio audience, but if you come see at the store,
we have ribbon all over.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Ribbon is a very very powerful tool.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I said at the outset of the show that this
year things are trending kind of in what we call
the Ralph Lauren direction. I think it's a goofy way
of saying it, but I guess that helps people kind
of envision that look right, deep plaid, right deep but
deep muted plaids right nice?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Is it a hound's tooth? Is that what it's called? No,
it's not.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well, no it can be.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
But but I love the idea of those of that
kind of a ribbon, A plaid ribbon, a muted color
that just strings its way through the tree.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Right beautiful, These deep jewel tone colors and a lot
of ribbon, A lot of velvets, deep burgundy and forest green,
A lot of black ribbons are almost black green ribbons.
Ribbon talk about the powerhouse of decor for very little
(02:20):
cash outlay, just buying the right spool of ribbon, and
then bows, tying bows all over the house, all over
the tree, and all around the house. And this year,
by the way, those bows meaning I think of bows
kind of moving through time stylistically, the way that men's ties,
you know, moved through So now is not the year
(02:41):
for the big fat bow tie like nineteen seventies. You
know that you would see on a guy a bow
tie at a wedding, that big, gigantic bow tie. Now
is the time for thinner ribbon and more elegant bows
and long tails on the bows. And not that neon red,
not the neon red, deeper, darker. You know, before you
(03:04):
came here, we were talking about that. This is kind
of this whole Ralph Lauren. Look, it's sort of you know,
my term for it is sort of adulting Christmas, and
that there's a little bit more It's like this tree,
there's a little bit more sophistication and to it. And
that doesn't mean that it's not fun and that the
kids can't have a great time playing around it and
all of that, but it brings a little bit more
(03:25):
depth to it. Okay, a little bit more depth. And
by the way, if your grandma and grandpa now, and
and you know I would it's probably ghost for me
to say, get selfish at Christmas time, because that's not
exactly what I mean, but I do mean this. The
kids are coming over for a couple of days, right
(03:45):
to enjoy the tree or maybe day up. But you're
going to have the tree up for the rest of
the season for you, primarily for you you. So I'll
just say this, I'm not gonna say be selfish about it,
but don't leave yourself out of the equation. Do your
decor in a way that you want to do your decor,
and then invite the younger you know ones in alongside that.
So and I want that to be true of your
(04:06):
whole home. Right, That's why we were just talking about
during the break kind of what our consults are all
focused in. Custom home design is all about making this
about your life, all right, I want this. It doesn't
mean that your life excludes other people's lives, but it
means that we figure out what's going on with you,
and we build this thing, we tailor this thing around you.
(04:28):
And again, costs, there's always a way, right. Ribbon is
a perfect way to save money. And do I mean
you could put ribbon up just everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, all
around the house. You can use it as garland. You
can take a very plain garland and add ribbons to
it and it's something amazing, right absolutely.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
And you know what else I just was thinking when
you said be selfish, I mean, of course, who wouldn't
want a tree like this in their home?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I mean it's just spectacular.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
But if you want to, and you're like my mom
and you have several trees, why not designate.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
A tree for the kids?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah? Why not?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And then they can play with it decorated put you know,
the andy kins.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And they can knock it over and you're like, damn, oh,
you have a tree for the cats. You don't have
to be all stressed out. No, no tree for the cats.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Why?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I don't know. It just seems that mine doesn't.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
She does not, or he does not knock the tree
over anymore. The first two years he did. He thought
it was the coolest thing to jump in and just
knock it over.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
The thing about cat you never know what they're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Right, Well, he's grown up now, he's ready to adult.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Our cat leaves everything alone except the most sensitive little
plant that sits on our dining room table. We call
him Bob. He actually is there for the studio. When
we do video in the studio, Bob is in the background,
but he grows better on our dining room table and
Bob is this I don't even know what he is.
He's this tiny, little sensitive of all the things in
(05:50):
the house. Domino jumps up on the table and he
starts rubbing against Bob, just like you're gonna kill him.
You're gonna kill the plant. Cats are good at defying expectations.
That's what they're good at, all right, So, wow, that
was noisy. The idea of saving money and letting it go.
(06:11):
So things like ribbon are one of those things that
can go an awful long way in a design process
and add a lot of class without you know, breaking
the bank.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
And even the types of ornaments, so I would say
half of the ornaments in this tree are plastic ornaments,
which are good for the grandkids as well. But the
ones that we have designed for us, they don't have
a seam on it. So we have the factory sand
the seam, because every plastic ornament has a seam, and
then put the color and then the finish so it
looks like glass and you can decorate it like a
(06:45):
glass ornament.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
That one was class.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I wouldn't tapped on them.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
You found the one glass ornament.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
But if I see kids running around in the store,
I hand them one of those plastic ornaments and say
can you hold on to this for me? And then
they just hang on to it and walk around.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
That is that is both wise and manipulative.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Sometimes they throw it on the ground and you know
that you made the right choice of giving them plastic one.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah, and so again you know not to toot your
horn anymore. But that is one of those things that
set Aldick apart, right, You've got I literally do have
to go around the store and tap on things because
it all looks like.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Glast I noticed that last year with the tree that
there was a lot of plant. I was like, this
is plastic and it looks like this beautiful ornate.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, delicate.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Actually the bigger pieces, you know, it sound like a
bombing off in the store when those fall off a
tree or something drops one or something. They're all plastic,
just to make it so that people can enjoy it
a year after year.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
So do you guys just call them plat You have
a term for them, just durable, seamless, shatterproof, seamless, shatterproof.
That's a nice way of saying they're plastic, but they
look like glass and they look great. All right, We're
going to continue this conversation. On the other side. You
are Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Having a great time here, and I am so glad
you've joined us on the air as well. We're talking
holiday decor. I want to get back to Let me
get to my little list here, my little outline. See,
we've talked about the eighty twenty rule. Oh here's a
thing that I don't know if you and I talked
about this on Friday, Amy or not, Amy King. By
(08:32):
the way, everybody, but I mentioned getting selfish about your decor,
which you know is probably antithetical to the spirit of
the holidays. But what I mean by that is that
you know what decorated the house for you, and Amy
had a great idea, like you want to you want
a tree that's more durable in kid proof than you know,
(08:55):
get a smaller tree and put all the kid's presence
around that so you can have you know, your JUGI
memory bull adult tree and then you know, you don't
have to exclude other people. At the same time, you
don't have to exclude yourself, and you shouldn't exclude yourself
and your own home from having the decor that you want. Okay,
that's just something I'm trying to encourage you towards. So
(09:17):
not self selfish is the wrong word. But well, like
you said, don't leave yourself.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
You're the one who is going to be looking at
this for the next month.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
That's right, absolutely. And on that note, all right, something
that is growing that I am all about encouraging is
backyard holiday decor. Okay, we are we are as a
culture kind of consumed with decorating the fronts of our houses,
which I'm all for because it just contributes to the
(09:44):
spirit of the holidays for the neighborhood. Right, Everything you
do in the front of the house essentially is your
contribution to the neighborhood and lifting spirits. And so people
walk by and your neighbors get to look over and
they just get to see, you know, something special, the lights,
the you know, the inflatable whatever it is that you do.
But in the spirit of decorating, for you, if you
(10:09):
spend most of your time out in front of your house. Great,
but not who does? But who does? And so how
about wrapping some of those lights, some of that decor,
some of that huge into the backyard where you spend
time with your family, with your friends and doing that.
So this is something that Tina and I have done
for years now. We wrap our lights all the way
(10:33):
around the house. In fact, technically, I think there's a
little bit more going on in our backyard right now
this year than there is going on in the front yard.
And there's plenty going on in the front yard, but
the backyard is this place where holiday in terms of
holiday decor, that's where you can sit and see one, two, three,
(10:53):
like four different decorated trees and lights. We've got a
little guesthouse in back it's lit up, so that's kind
of like our neighbor, you know, facing us, facing the backyard.
The point being, why not spend a little bit more
energy in the backyard, because that's if you've got family
and friends coming over for the holidays, that's likely where
you going to spend your time anyway. So light up
(11:14):
the party, light up the party zone. Does that make
sense to everybody?
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Yeah, and even most kitchens you know they face out
into the back or you know, family rooms don't face
out to the front as much, so then you get
to see the lights yourself exactly. Yeah, my mom does.
My mom who does the five six trees. Yeah, she's
got it all. She's got lights around her deck and
the little Christmas tree out there, and that's where she
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spends her life. You know that you were saying where
people spend their time in their homes. She spends her
time in the kitchen, in the in the family room,
and that's what.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
She gets to look at every day.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
We get to pull that off too because we've got
these little outbuildings in our back. I mean, that's why
we bought our property because it's a little bit larger
piece of property. Had this tiny, little nine hundred and
forty square foot house on it, but you know it's
like a third of an acre, which is a big
piece of property for a nine and forty square foot house.
So there's a lot of yard back there. And so
now we have outbuildings. We have the studio that we
(12:08):
normally do the show in. It's a little building sitting there.
We've got our garden room, which is essentially a shed
that that we jushed out where Tina does her puzzles
and we read and hang out. It's our kind of
like a Dean and Tina's clubhouse back there in the backyard.
And then then the chickens have their own hen house.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Back there is the henhouse decorated the hen.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yeah, there's a right hanging on the hen house door.
The chick in by the way, that's the name of it.
I N N the chick in no vacancies at the moment.
And then then then there's the little casita, the guesthouse
in the back. So and when the holidays come around,
you know, we throw up some some bling and lights
and jush and it's like a little Santa's village back there,
(12:50):
kind of like that's what people have commented on before.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
So now you just need a snowmaking machine exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I got to have a snowblower come over the top.
But we don't. Actually, we're not the you know, I'm
not like Neil where we go all out with all
of the theatrics. I Mine are a little bit more
sedated and muted, but but fun, fun. We're just try
and strike a middle of the road there. Let's talk
about eating let's talk about dining room tables, because the
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table is a huge place for the holidays. We got
Thanksgiving coming up this week and then other feasts following.
What's new and trending this year as far as table
design has a lot to do with the table cloth,
we'll talk about that. On the other side Your Home
with Dean Sharp the house Whisper.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
It is the annual holiday home show. Thrilled that we're here.
I've got Amy King in studio with me, my very
special guest, Amy, my boy, my colleague here at the station.
I show up on wake up call every most Friday
morn It's just about every Friday morning. We're talking about stuff,
talking about the weekend ahead and everything, and Amy is awesome.
(14:06):
I've also got Brian Gold from al Da Combe sponsored
the show here in the studio, and we're just talking
holiday decor and we're having fun and helpful things when
and kicking off the holidays today. So I wanted to
shift the conversation over to food and to the not
talking about food, but talking about the dining room and
the dining room table, especially a lot of folks, have
(14:28):
so many people over, and you're gonna vibe with this
because you know, there's always the challenge, like, Okay, your
dining room table is only so big, but now the
whole family's coming over, so we got to either set
up the card tables. We're going to figure out a
way of extending the dining room table and making it
longer temporarily. And then what do you do. I mean, theory,
you can work that out, but then how do you
cover all that up and make it actually look lovely
(14:49):
after the fact? And usually it comes down to table cloths,
right that are doing the line's share of the work,
because now you've got the folding table right next to
the real dining room table and you're matching them all up.
And by the way, let me just give you a
tip on that, matching up the folding table with the
dining room table. And they're not exactly the same width. Okay,
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length is easy, right, because you're just adding one to
the other, but they're not exactly the same width. So
if you're gonna judge that up just the right way,
then you head on down to the local big box
store the lumberyard, and you pick up a very inexpensive
sheet of quarter inch masonite, like a four x eight
sheet of quarter inch masonite, which is very smooth, very lightweight,
(15:35):
and you simply cut it to the same width as
the dining room table and lay that on top of
the folding table, and then cover the whole thing with
a tablecloth or table cloths overlapping, and it's all uniform
and it just likes one big banquet table, and then
you store that away for next year. In fact, you
want to do it even fancier, so you're not storing
(15:56):
away a giant sheet. You can actually cut it down
the middle lengthwise and then duct tape it back together
again on both sides, so now it has a hinge
and you can just fold it up and shove it
in the garage and shove it in for storage, and
you get those tables uniform. But the trending thing for
this year, which I think is always a great idea,
is if you want to add another really cool look
(16:17):
to the dining room, what is trending along with the
whole Ralph laur An adulting Christmas look is a floor
length table claus table cloths that are dropping all the
way to the floor on all sides.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Good for hiding under for the kids, good for hiding
under for the kids.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
The kids have a lot of fun before and after,
maybe during dinner, I don't know. But the tablecloth dropping
all the way down to the floor, that alone, by
the way, can take an average banquet table and real
I mean, that's an old wedding reception trick that takes
an average banquet table and turns it into something completely different, because,
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first of all, obviously the table is that irrelevant. It
doesn't matter what the table looks like, because the table
is now just a scaffolding that holds the meal and
holds the drape of the tablecloth over it. Also, when
you do that, okay, if you think about the geometry
of getting a tablecloth that's long enough and wide enough
(17:15):
to drop to the floor, those corners are going to
plete out and they're going to kind of blossom out
at each corner as the sides intersect the length of
the long and you're going to get these beautiful kind
of triangular pleats falling down to the floor at every
corner as the two gather together. And that amount of
(17:37):
material is also something that you can rooshe does anybody
in the room know what the word roushe means, nicky
does Oh my gosh. Okay, So a rooshing a piece
of fabric means that when you've got extra fabric, you
can gather it. You can pull it up, you can
twist it, you can pin it, you can do all
(17:57):
sorts of funky little things with it, so you don't
have to allow it all to sit all the way
down to the floor. You can actually gather up a
couple inches, pin it from the backside, just a safety
pin on the backside, and end up creating this beautiful,
just gorgeous pleated whole dining ensemble with full length tablecloths.
(18:18):
So whether you roosh the fabric or whether you just
let it run over, whether you're running two tablecloths long
and you've compensated for the odd shaped table or the
odd with the table with a piece of masonite to
cover the top, however the case may be even all out.
And that is a that's a big trend this year.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
And what about color.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Color is something that I would suggest, if you're anywhere
near the rest of your decor, that you let it
go with the let it correspond. It doesn't have to
match direct on. But if you're working one of those themes,
then you know, if you're working the Ralph Lauren theme, okay,
you don't have to buy the expensive plaid for the tablecloth.
(19:02):
That might be a bit busy. I think I would
probably go with one of those deeper, richer colors, maybe
even a velvet okay or chineel.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
And then you could accident boom with you really cool.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Look you you're like the a student up here.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, better than I ever did in school.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
So then yeah, and then you're then your your your candles,
your place settings, the plates, they literally become the twenty
in the eighty twenty rule, right the the the eighty
percent is the tablecloth. The twenty ends up becoming everything
that you're putting on the table. And at that point,
the more monochromatic and uniform the tablecloth is, the more
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everything else on top of it pops. So again, this
is a trick and a technique that does not have
to break the bank. It's super super elegant. It's like,
I just think of it like it's a it's a
woman wearing one of those just black velvet dresses, just
the long black velvet dress, very classic, very elegant, and
(20:05):
then you know the necklace that she's got on and
the ear rings and the lipstick and the hair that's
the twenty and everything just pops around that and it's
just amazing.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
And I love the idea of using a colored tablecloth
as opposed to the classic white, which is beautiful, but
just for the season. You know, it just sort of
feels more like fall and more like winter if you're
using one of those colors.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
I agree. And as a whole, I mean, just as
a whole, I spend a lot of time in the kitchen.
We love cooking, and I have found this as a trend.
It's not at all again a rule, but as a
trend as a whole, I think the more cook's kitchens
you run into, the more often you find people plating
(20:52):
their food, like restaurants plate their food, which is more
typically just on white plates because you want the food
to be see that. That's the thing. Think about that
in the typical restaurant, you're getting served these beautiful meals
on generally speaking, light or white flatware. That's the eighty
twenty rule of food presentation happening right where the eighty
(21:15):
percent is the canvas. There's just the plain white plate,
and then all the jug that's happening on top of
it is the pop. So that translates to another level
where we've got the colored tablecloth of some beautiful tone,
and then we're putting white plates. But on top of
the white plates go all the good food. And so
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it's just a hit after a hit, and it's sort
of a repeating pattern that's scalable, that's getting smaller as
we go.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I'm getting hungry, all right, making me think of the
dining room table.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I hear you, and well it's time to go for
a break, so we can get you a snack, right, kay,
all right, y'all, you hang tight. There's more to come
your Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
It is the House Whisper Holiday home show. We've had
a blast. Can you believe we're at the end of
the show. We are at the end of the show.
This is the last few minutes of the show, and
there's only a.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Few people napping in those really comfortab A few well, you.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Know, that's where we take the break and I go
around with the mic and I just bunk them on
the head and wake them up and we're like, hey,
wake up. You guys have been great. By the way,
give yourselves a hand please, I got a lot of
people to thank today. I'm going to do that in
a second when we get to my closing thought, which
(22:40):
I'm going to read to you today. I normally sort
of half read them half just kind of roll with them.
I like writing them down because I don't want to
miss anything along the way. So you guys who are live,
you'll forgive me if I'm I'm reading because it's just
it's meaningful for me to do that, especially every time
we do this holiday show. But my thanks to Amy
King for dropping in and being my very special Win
(23:01):
Studio guest today hanging out. Thanks for having me, and
for Brian Gold from Aldick Home and everything that they
have done this year. Any closing thoughts, Brian, tell us,
give us a give us a little info about the store,
where are you at, what are your hours, your holiday hours?
(23:22):
What's going on at al Dick right now? Because it's
pretty amazing And by the way, before I forget to
say it again, in about an hour, Tina and I
are going to be down there. We're going to be
at Aldi today. If we weren't able to come and
be a part of our studio audience today and everybody
in our studio, Audien's want to invite everybody down. Come
on down to Aldick, get a hug, say hi. We're
going to be there from one to two o'clock today
(23:44):
checking out all the goodness. I mean, we're in there
all the time, but today we're there just because of
the show today and to kind of embrace you when
you come on by. So check it out, Brian, what
do you got going on?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
So first I'll ask the listeners when is the last
time you walked into a place and thought wow, or
thought wow, they really outdid themselves here, they really gave it.
They're all probably not in a long time, at least
in my experience. I haven't been to a store in
a long time where I thought this is incredible. And
you could give yourself that experience. You could provide that
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experience to your kids. Have them walk into a wonderland
and they kind of immediately get it, and they start
running around and they're laughing at giggling and all that
and it's just a short drive down Suppulvita Boulevard in
Van Eyes and just come and take a look and
experience a magical Christmas with fifty fully decorated Christmas trees,
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sixty Christmas trees in the back. If you want to
talk to somebody for an hour about Christmas trees, we're
happy to do that and explain it and talk your
ear off until you tell us the stop. And yeah,
it's just a magical place.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
And this is all true, by the way, And people
like Rosie who just did this amazing job on this tree. Yes,
it's designers like Rosie who are walking the aisles and
available to just talk to you about, like overcoming your
Christmas decor issues, help you put us something together. Just
amazing stuff. Also, those fifty fully decorated trees, I mean
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this is a tradition. A lot of families get all
dressed up, jushed up and come down just to take
their family holiday photos in front of aldic Christmas trees.
And they don't mind at all. They're like, bring it
on down, come on down and do it. And this year,
in addition to the trees, you guys got Santa's sleigh
sitting in the back. So we've got a full blown
sleigh that you can all sit in with your family
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and take your shot. So it's a really it just
it really is a little slice of happiness. If you're
looking for a little bit of happiness today, spend an
hour or two at al dec home. Youah, of course
you'll take something home, you will take something home with you,
but most importantly, just go down there and man, it
will jump start even the scroogiest of hearts and minds
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this year. It really really will. It's amazing stuff. Okay,
do we have is Michelle and here? Do we have
a drawing for our tree? Or we're gonna do that
after We're gonna do that after we go off the air.
All right, Just no, you weren't here, so you didn't
win the tree. But somebody here is gonna win the tree.
So I'm just gonna making you jealous about the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
All right.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
I got to launch into my closing thought today or
else I'm not going to get it out of my mouth.
I like to leave a little thought sometimes at the
end of the show about why it is that we
get together in the first place. So I will leave
you with this thought today. I don't know about you,
but for me it has been a year. Tina was
(26:43):
not here last year because she'd just gone through a
very serious and completely unexpected surgery. Isn't it good to
see her back in her chair again. In addition to that,
a lot of very good friends around here lost their
jobs last year right before the holidays. And then instead
of the new year turning a corner and bringing some
(27:06):
relief for the Sharp Clan, Nope, twenty five pretty much
doubled down on the chaos and the hits just kept
on coming. It has been a year. Nevertheless, despite the year,
we are here and I'm grateful for a lot of things.
And let's start with Let's start with you, all of
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our listeners, who for nine years have invested your time
and your trust in me to help you with your
most precious possession. And for daring to believe a kid
who grew up in a double wide mobile home in
a landfill when he says that design matters most and
there's always hope and there's a path to transforming an
ordinary house into an extraordinary home. It's true. I am
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thankful to all of my colleagues here at KFI. From
the legendary Robin Bertolucci, who got me into this mess
in the first place, to the amazing people have been
with me at every turn, some of whom are here
right now, Michelle cbe Amy King sitting right next to me,
Roy Nicky, so many others, so many others. I'm thankful
(28:10):
for our sponsors like Aldick, who've trusted me to be
their voice and carry their banner and tell their stories
through the years. I am thankful, of course, for my family,
who I count as friends, and to my friends, who
I count as family. For me, friendship is everything. The
rules of friendship govern every meaningful relationship in my life,
(28:31):
and I can honestly tell you that right now I
have the finest family of friends that I have ever
had ever. And speaking of friends, there is one right here,
my favorite human being, my best friend in all the world.
I am most thankful for Tina, for whom I have
learned so much, without whom I would not be me,
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and without whom this year would have turned out very,
very differently. Look at us, babe, I'm really proud of us.
This year has been a year and still here we are, smiling,
still laughing, after thirty years together, it's still just a
couple of kids building sand castles and whatever comes. You
know what, it's you and me. If you have add
(29:16):
less than a perfect year, I want you to be encouraged.
The holidays are here. That's not trite sentimentality for me.
The holidays are built for tough times. The holidays are
born from tough times, when seasons change from warm and
sunny to cold and dark without ever asking our permission.
These rituals and traditions are the magic that we conjure
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to break the spell of tough times. It's why we
share our food. It's why we light lights, It's why
we give gifts. It's why we count our blessings and
hold our loved ones tight. We do these things every winter,
sometimes in celebration of the year, sometimes in spite of
the year, but always grateful that we've been given one
(30:03):
more day to build ourselves a beautiful life. So let's
get to it. Everybody, Thank you for coming, Thank you
for listening. Have a great week. We'll 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 six to
(30:26):
eight Pacific time, and every Sunday morning from nine to
noon Pacific time, or anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio
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