May 18, 2024 • 26 mins
Dean talks about biophilic outdoor living as he defines what biophilia means and how it has become very popular in homes.New generation of individuals are spending about 17% less time outside than other generations and its causing major stress/learning disabilities. Dean shares how humans have a natural connection with biophilia realm. Also, background noise equals stress such in urban living areas. Dean adives a caller on what type of paint to use when painting a porch near a lake.
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KFI AM six forty. You're listeningto Dean Sharp the House Whisper on demand
on the iHeart Radio app. Well, here we are KFI AM six forty
and live streaming in HD everywhere onthe iHeartRadio app. Welcome to home,
(00:22):
where every week we help you betterunderstand that place where you live. Did
I say that in a resigned tone? I felt like I was. I'm
like, welcome to home. Iguess if you got nothing better to do,
welcome to No. I didn't meanthat. Welcome home, Dean and
(00:43):
Tina. I will not try andhide this from you. A little tired
this morning, a little bit.We all feel that way from time to
time on a Saturday morning. Rightyeah, our friends, our good friends,
our dear friends. Family really keptus out a little late last night
for those of us who have toget up at four am. And you
(01:07):
know who you are. And Isay that within complete impunity because our friends,
our dear friends, they are notlistening to the program right now.
They are asleep. They will nothear these words. They are not going
to hear any of this. Wecould trash talk them right now, so
(01:30):
good. Anyway, it was afun evening last night. Had a great
time, but yeah, a littlelater then Dean and Tina like to be
up on a Friday night considering thatwe are here now with you. So
there you go. I am DeanSharp, the house whisper, custom home
(01:51):
builder, custom home designer, andmost importantly today your guide to turning your
ordinary house into an extraordinary home.Have I think a treat for you if
you really want to advance your understandingof your home and if your life in
it, especially as it relates tooutdoor living, because that's what we're talking
(02:12):
about this weekend, then you don'twant to go anywhere because we are going
to have a conversation about outdoor living, as we do and have had many
times in the past, but thistime around, I want to take it
from a very specific approach, andthat is from the subject of biophilia.
Biophilia. You, my friend,you, dear listener, you are a
(02:39):
chronic, incurable biophiliac. If youdidn't know that, you need to hang
tight because there is a cure andwe will be talking about that. So
just hang on to that. I'llexplain it all, and of course we'll
also take some calls as we go. If we do it all right.
We're going to bring some light inyour morning. We're gonna make you glad
(03:01):
you were here. The team ishere for you. Sam is on the
board as always. There is ourlive studio audience ready to go. Producer
Richie standing by, ready to takeyour calls. Richie, here's the number
(03:22):
to reach me. We're gonna begoing to the phones as we always do
on Saturday morning. It's a greattime to call in because traffic is light
everywhere. Freeways, phone ways,the whole deal. The number to reach
me about anything you want to talkabout your home design, construction, DIY.
You set the agenda when it comesto calls. Eight three three to
(03:45):
ask Dean. It's just that simple. Eight three three two ask Dean.
A three three the numeral to askDean. Phone lines are open now.
Richie is standing by. He'll tellyou everything you need to know. Popy
into the queue. We'll put ourheads together figure out what's going on with
your home, I promise. HeatherBrooker at the news desk, Good morning,
Heather, Hi, good morning,I'm good. I'm good, I
(04:09):
am my Wow, my voice justsuddenly got a little bit deeper. I
don't know, I don't know whatto happen. But I was like,
good morning. I can relate tobeing up late last night. My daughter
was in a play. She's ina musical this weekend, and we stayed
up later celebrating with her and havingice cream and all that stuff. So,
oh, how you do? How? What was it? Where was
(04:30):
it? She was in Matilda,Matilda the Musical, and she played Missus
Wormwood, Oh, the sassy,brassy mom. And yeah, I have
no idea. She's a bit ofa bit of a natural. No,
yeah, no. So we juststayed out. We went had a little
ice cream after to celebrate, andthen I was like, I gotta get
(04:51):
up it four, I gotta go. So yeah, that's right. You
know, we do this. Wetry to balance our lives right a little
bit exactly, and sometimes you justcan't, you know, I mean,
what is it like fifty weeks outof the year where we have to say
no to staying out late on aFriday night. We're just like, nope,
(05:15):
nope, party poopers, gotta getup. So but every once in
a while, right, you justgotta you just got it. You're like,
yeah, yes, exactly, let'sdo this all right. Well,
glad that you're here, glad thatyou're as tired as I am. I'm
not the only one in the room. And there's another one too, sitting
across the table from me. Thereshe is my better half, my design
(05:40):
partner. That's right, there's herspirit animal, my best buddy in all
the world. Tina is here.Welcome home. How are you feeling this
morning? Not great, but I'mhere. We opened a bottle of wine
last night that was purchased in Italyon our trip to Italy. It was
(06:03):
great and it tasted just right back, just as good. It's not the
wine talking, by the way.It's not that it wasn't that all.
It's just tired. You just can'tcan't stay up that late and get up
at four and not feel this way. So there you go, all right,
y'all, it's going to be agreat morning, a very very fascinating
(06:25):
I think conversation. I think ifyou are concerned about yourself, you love
yourself, you love your home.You want to make both better along the
way. You're not going to wantto miss this conversation. And we will
dive in Cafi Dean sharp the housewhisper at your service man, A little
(06:46):
rough around the edges there on mythroat this morning. Whether you live in
a shed or a castle, whetheryou rent or are the lord of the
men, or I am here tohelp you take your home to the next
level, doesn't matter to me.If you have a home, we are
talking about it today. Oh.By the way, this is adorable.
Sam's son Joey is in studio withus today and he's in there helping his
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dad run the board. And justso you know, Joey, Joey is
picking the music. Get to swingthe mic over to Joey. Good morning,
Joey. How you doing, Bud? I'm good. Yeah, So
you're in charge of all music today, not your dad. Okay, okay,
all right, sounds good. Youjust went your voice just went out
all over the radio, all oversouthern California. How does that make you
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feel? Oh? I know howto say? All right, Joey.
How old is Joey? How oldare you? Joey seven? Seven years
old and he's picking our music.See that's advanced. It's very advanced.
Almost as tall as his dad.By the way, he's seven years old.
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He's almost as tall as his dad. Also, the other win for
this, other than him being adorable, and Sam is basically taking the morning
off, so I don't know,I don't think we have to pay Sam
this morning. And and Joey isnot not SAG. He's not Union either.
He's been on the radio. Soit's a win win for everyone.
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Iheartwins, KFI wins, Sam winsJoey. It's just a big win,
all right. So there you go. Uh, let me give our phone
number out again. We're going tobe going to the phones in a bit
eight three three two. Ask DeanA three three the numeral two ask Dean
A three three to ask Dean anythingyou want to talk about construction, DIY
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design, anything about your home.Okay, So let's have this conversation now
or start it. We're gonna betalking about biophilia today. No, it's
not a disease, and we'll beand that's part one and tomorrow's show or
our next episode on the podcast,we will be discussing all the many beautiful,
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wonderful ways that we can address thatin terms of living outdoors. Really,
the reason I want to talk aboutthis is twofold number one. I
want to discuss the reason that outdoorliving around your home is so important,
not just Oh yeah, it's summertimeand it's fun and you know, let's
flip a couple burgers and spend sometime. Yeah, that's all well and
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good. I just want you tohave a deeper understanding of something that I
think is really affecting our culture ina large way, and it's something that
you can do to make sure youdon't end up, you know, run
over by this train, as itwere. There is a new term.
It's not a new concept, butthere's a relatively new term in the world
of architecture and design. Biophilia.It is a term that has been coined
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not too long ago, and itis growing and it's popularity. You're going
to start seeing articles about it allover. Believe me, we are on
the cusp, as we always areof this. Biophilia simply means, you
know, it goes from Greek toLatin, and it is simply a love
of nature, all right now.Not the kind of love of nature that
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you think, like, I dolove nature. I love getting out for
a good hike, and we go, Okay, that's not what we're talking
about. It is a more scientificand clinical approach to this and what it
has to do. Really if We'rereally going to parse the Greek here,
the bio meaning life or nature inthis case, and philia like the Greek
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word for brotherly love or a familiallove, like you know Philadelphia, right,
the city of brotherly love. Thereyou get it. So biophilia.
Biophilia is really, I think abetter way of translating or understanding it.
It is a partnership with nature,or this unbreakable relationship with nature. Now
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what does that mean. Well,it means this, whether or not you
think yourself as a nature lover,you are on a deep psychological and physiological
level. We are beginning to selfconsciously find this out in more and more
ways every single day, and I'mtalking about scientific studies proving out with some
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really fascinating results. It turns outhumans have an inseparable bond with the nature
around us. And having been inthat relationship for let's say a couple of
million years, the last one hundredyears, and specifically the last twenty years,
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of having our faces buried in ourscreens and surrounding ourselves like never before
with urban noise and all sorts ofthings, it's affecting us. It's affecting
us. So something that we've growncompletely accustomed to we're now depriving ourselves of
and as a result, it's havinga negative effect on us. And we
are going to cure that with ourown outdoor living home design this weekend.
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But we have to do it stepby step so that we understand every little
facet of this that we're dressing alongthe way. It's going to be fascinating.
We will talk more. You're listeningto Home with Dean Sharp on demand
from KFI AM six forty KFI AMsix forty six and live streaming in HD
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everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Hey, You're Home with Dean Sharp. The
house whisper. We are going tothe phones right after the next news break.
Let me give you the number eightthree three two Ask Dan A three
three to ask Dan, eight threethree the numeral to ask Dan. That's
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coming up right after our next newsbreak. Going to the phones. We
got room for you on the board. Give me a call. Anything you
want to talk about regarding your homeinside, outside, upside, downside,
whatever the case may be, design, construction, DIY anything. You set
the agenda, we'll figure it out. You'll figure it out with me.
You will, you will, howmany people do I leave scratching their heads
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like, well, that didn't helpit all zero zero people. Give me
a call. We'll figure it out, all right? Where was I?
Biophilia the love of nature that isingrained in us. That's what that word
means. We're having a two partconversation this weekend about it. Today,
I just want to, you know, in between calls and stuff, I
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just want to kind of warm youup to the thought of it and why
I think it's so important. It'snot as if we haven't been doing biophilic
design for hundreds and hundreds of years. Okay, it's not as if we've
been ignoring that. We haven't.But we're getting better at it. And
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I always appreciate when we finally cometo realize a thing self consciously, awarely,
and as a result, we canreally focus in and do things more
intentionally about it. Right, Andso that's why in the last few years,
biophilia, this hypothesis about our relationshipwith nature and biophilic design is on
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a major rise. Now for me, I'm like, it's about time.
This is one of the things thatyou have heard me talk about for years
and years, bringing the outdoors intoa house, and when we're outside of
the house, building ourselves a kindof a habitat, as it were.
That isn't just about playtime and havinga great time, you know, having
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fun, which obviously that's, youknow, what we want to do out
there, but that it's also servingus on a deeper level. Right,
our generation is fast replacing the relationshipwith nature that we have nurtured as a
species for over two million years.I'm sorry, it's just true. Time
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spent in front of screens, timespent inside, insulated from nature. You
want to know the facts, Hereare the facts. This current generation spending
seventeen on average, seventeen percent lesstime outside than their parents. Okay,
that is a huge, huge number. That's massive. It's a massive number,
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seventeen percent less time outside than theirparents. And science is now beginning
to reveal how a life spent inurban environments consumed by screens is contributing to
unprecedented levels of stress, anxiety,attention to and learning disabilities. All of
these things, it can be traced, at least legs of them back to
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this question of isolating ourselves from thenatural environment around us. Why biophilia.
We have a relationship a relationship physiologically, psychologically with nature, the environment around
it, the outdoor environment around us. Okay, and what this means for
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me, what it should mean foryou. These new revelations mean that landscaping,
outdoor design, outdoor living far morethan just luxuries and whimsies. They're
a matter of health and thriving versusjust surviving. And I would sum it
up this way, to cut oneselfoff from the direct experience of the natural
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world we are now learning is physicaland psychological suffocation on some level, and
we don't want that, all right, So what is the best way for
me to explain what it is thatI'm trying to say? Here, I'm
gonna set up a scenario. Ithink sound maybe the best way to approach
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this. So I'm gonna ask youa question. Here is the question,
and maybe I'll ask this question andthen we'll just let we'll let us go
to break and then we'll take somecalls and when we return to the conversation,
we'll answer it. So I'm reallygonna let you percolate on this.
Okay. Here is a fact thatwe all should know by now that noise,
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noise, background, noise, urban, suburban, whatever the case may
be a background noise, whether it'straffic or anything else. Is noise equals
physiological stress. It does. Andif you didn't realize that, today is
an important day to come to thatrealization. It doesn't matter whether you're paying
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attention to it, whether you claimthat you love the sound of the city
and that and that go being outin the country drives you crazy, It
doesn't matter. Every human being who'sever been through this research has tested the
same way. When noise, backgroundnoise increases your cortisol levels, your stress
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hormonal responses go up. Okay,Noise is physiological stress, period, end
of discussion. It is a scientificfact, and it is a involuntary thing
that happens, right, So youdon't have control over it. So just
because you love and you know,I love it, Tina, I love
going to New York. We wewe jump into Manhattan and we're like,
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this is so fun. Listen tothis place. It's buzzing. That's all
well and good, But it isstress. It is physiological stress. Okay.
And you know, not all stressis bad. I'm not saying that.
I'm just saying when it is aconstant factor of life, it starts
to erode at you? All right? So noise is stress? Okay,
right, So then all of usthese days we think about, well where
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can I get to get to aquieter place when we are looking for quiet?
So here is my quiz question foryou to consider when escaping urban noise?
What what do scientific studies reveal tobe the sound environment most relaxing to
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the human mind? Okay, I'mgoing to give you three options. I'm
sure there are more, but forour sake of our quiz, three options.
What is the most relaxing sound environmentto the human mind when trying to
escape urban noise? Here are yourthree choices. Silence, binaural meditative music,
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like you pop in your headphones oryour earbuds and you play soft meditation
music or bird song. These threethings, silence, meditative music or bird
song. What sound environment is themost relaxing to the human mind? All
right? You ponder that, don'tcheat, don't go look it up,
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just think about it, and we'lltalk about it right on the other side
of calls. And when we comeback, we'll be going to the phones
your home with Dean Sharp, thehouse whisperer, care fine, Dean Sharp,
the house whisper, welcome home.It's time to take some calls.
The number to reach me eight threethree two. Ask Dean A three three
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the numeral two. Ask Dean Athree three two. Ask Dean. Anything
you want to talk about regarding yourhome today, construction design, DIY,
anything at all. Give us acall. Our phone lines are open.
Let's go. Let's talk to uh. Sarah. Hey Sarah, welcome home,
(21:06):
Good morning. I need to knowwhether I should be using interior or
exterior paint on my open back porch. Feeling open open porch. I'm sorry,
what was that I missed the lastpart there. It's the ceiling of
the porch. Ill then get touchedby the weather. But it does get
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those extreme temperatures. Okay, Sowhen you say it doesn't get touched by
the weather, you mean that itdoesn't get rained on directly, anything like
that. Don't get rained on.It doesn't get sun, it doesn't get
anything physically touching it, but themoisture in the air and the rain and
the air. And I live nearLake Erie, so it's real cold and
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real hot. Gotcha? Gotcha?Where where near Lake Erie? I am
Erie County, Pennsylvania. Okay,to help with aging family and inherited a
two hundred year old house. OhI'm jealous. I'm jealous. Now.
The reason I asked is because wehave relatives that live in Sandusky County,
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Ohio, just south of Lake Erie. But Lake Erie is a big place.
I mean, it is a biglake. It stretches a long way.
So that's why I wanted to know. Okay, so you got a
two hundred year hat. So,but this porch is outside. It is
outside. It's just not you know, this is the ceiling area. So
the the the right way to gohere is a really good, great exterior
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paint, just no question about it. You want to use a good quality
exterior paint regardless of weather, youknow, direct sunlight or snow or rain
or what have you. Is strikingthe surface. That's really kind of irrelevant
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because the air it's is carrying allof that stuff with it and the temperature
extreme. So it is outside,it's covered, I get it, but
it's outside, and so a reallyreally good quality exterior paint would be the
way to go there. And ofcourse, well what's on it right now?
By the way, it's got acoat a primer on it. It's
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been there for thirty years and that'sabout it. It's starting to appel at
Okay, so before you paint,Before you paint, even though that primer
is technically primary, let's just pretendlike the primer isn't there. That would
be the wise way to go.Before you paint, you definitely want to
get it all washed down, reallyreally good, probably with a pressure washer,
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pressure sprayer. You just want toget that surface as clean and as
possible, get it patched up anylittle inconsistencies along the way, and then
reprime, and then a couple ofcoats of a good exterior paint and you
should be good to go. Justremember when it comes to painting, you
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know, painting is ninety percent prep, ten percent applying the you know,
a good quality material and buy thebest paint yuke your budget allows you to
buy in which you know, ifyou can, if you can step up
to something like Benjamin Moore or SherwinWilliams for the outside of your house,
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do it without hesitation, because youwon't regret the fact that you will not
have to address that area again fordecades to come. That's what a good
quality paint will do for you ifyou prep the area really nicely. Okay,
I like it. Sarah. Thankyou for your call and for your
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question. From Lake Erie out inPennsylvania and a two hundred year old house,
Tina, mm hmm. Yeah,we like those things around here.
Should we should we start another call? Yeah? We will, Well,
we'll at least get one started.Jose welcome home. Yes, Hidin,
(25:06):
thank you for taking my call.My question is referring to a gas line
that I'd like to put in fromthe from the gas regulator to a built
in barbecue. It's about twenty feetaway from the regulator. And my question
is can I legally mount the gasline the pipe and mount it on say
(25:33):
like unistrut. The unitstrut would beanchored to the concrete on a walkway and
and then the pipe would be clampedto the uh the unistreut. And I
just want to know is something likethat legal or does it have to be
underground. I wanted to keep awayfrom underground because I have a lot of
(25:57):
landscaping and you know, trees andstuff like that, and there's just a
lot of roots. So I wantedto know if I can mount it on
the concrete walkway right up against thehouse. I got you, I got
you all right, everybody think itthrough. Jose. We're right up against
the top of the hour break,so I'm gonna pop you on hold,
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and when we come back, wewill find out if it's legal to run
an exterior gas line exposed mounted tothe house, or otherwise exposed and not
buried, in order to get fromthe house over to your new favorite barbecue.
We'll deal that and so much morewhen we come back. You're listening
(26:40):
to Dean Sharp, the House Whispereron KFI. You're listening to Home with
Dean Sharp on demand from KFI AMsix forty
KFI AM six forty. You're listeningto Dean Sharp the House Whisper on demand
on the iHeart Radio app. Well, here we are KFI AM six forty
and live streaming in HD everywhere onthe iHeartRadio app. Welcome to home,
(00:22):
where every week we help you betterunderstand that place where you live. Did
I say that in a resigned tone? I felt like I was. I'm
like, welcome to home. Iguess if you got nothing better to do,
welcome to No. I didn't meanthat. Welcome home, Dean and
(00:43):
Tina. I will not try andhide this from you. A little tired
this morning, a little bit.We all feel that way from time to
time on a Saturday morning. Rightyeah, our friends, our good friends,
our dear friends. Family really keptus out a little late last night
for those of us who have toget up at four am. And you
(01:07):
know who you are. And Isay that within complete impunity because our friends,
our dear friends, they are notlistening to the program right now.
They are asleep. They will nothear these words. They are not going
to hear any of this. Wecould trash talk them right now, so
(01:30):
good. Anyway, it was afun evening last night. Had a great
time, but yeah, a littlelater then Dean and Tina like to be
up on a Friday night considering thatwe are here now with you. So
there you go. I am DeanSharp, the house whisper, custom home
(01:51):
builder, custom home designer, andmost importantly today your guide to turning your
ordinary house into an extraordinary home.Have I think a treat for you if
you really want to advance your understandingof your home and if your life in
it, especially as it relates tooutdoor living, because that's what we're talking
(02:12):
about this weekend, then you don'twant to go anywhere because we are going
to have a conversation about outdoor living, as we do and have had many
times in the past, but thistime around, I want to take it
from a very specific approach, andthat is from the subject of biophilia.
Biophilia. You, my friend,you, dear listener, you are a
(02:39):
chronic, incurable biophiliac. If youdidn't know that, you need to hang
tight because there is a cure andwe will be talking about that. So
just hang on to that. I'llexplain it all, and of course we'll
also take some calls as we go. If we do it all right.
We're going to bring some light inyour morning. We're gonna make you glad
(03:01):
you were here. The team ishere for you. Sam is on the
board as always. There is ourlive studio audience ready to go. Producer
Richie standing by, ready to takeyour calls. Richie, here's the number
(03:22):
to reach me. We're gonna begoing to the phones as we always do
on Saturday morning. It's a greattime to call in because traffic is light
everywhere. Freeways, phone ways,the whole deal. The number to reach
me about anything you want to talkabout your home design, construction, DIY.
You set the agenda when it comesto calls. Eight three three to
(03:45):
ask Dean. It's just that simple. Eight three three two ask Dean.
A three three the numeral to askDean. Phone lines are open now.
Richie is standing by. He'll tellyou everything you need to know. Popy
into the queue. We'll put ourheads together figure out what's going on with
your home, I promise. HeatherBrooker at the news desk, Good morning,
Heather, Hi, good morning,I'm good. I'm good, I
(04:09):
am my Wow, my voice justsuddenly got a little bit deeper. I
don't know, I don't know whatto happen. But I was like,
good morning. I can relate tobeing up late last night. My daughter
was in a play. She's ina musical this weekend, and we stayed
up later celebrating with her and havingice cream and all that stuff. So,
oh, how you do? How? What was it? Where was
(04:30):
it? She was in Matilda,Matilda the Musical, and she played Missus
Wormwood, Oh, the sassy,brassy mom. And yeah, I have
no idea. She's a bit ofa bit of a natural. No,
yeah, no. So we juststayed out. We went had a little
ice cream after to celebrate, andthen I was like, I gotta get
(04:51):
up it four, I gotta go. So yeah, that's right. You
know, we do this. Wetry to balance our lives right a little
bit exactly, and sometimes you justcan't, you know, I mean,
what is it like fifty weeks outof the year where we have to say
no to staying out late on aFriday night. We're just like, nope,
(05:15):
nope, party poopers, gotta getup. So but every once in
a while, right, you justgotta you just got it. You're like,
yeah, yes, exactly, let'sdo this all right. Well,
glad that you're here, glad thatyou're as tired as I am. I'm
not the only one in the room. And there's another one too, sitting
across the table from me. Thereshe is my better half, my design
(05:40):
partner. That's right, there's herspirit animal, my best buddy in all
the world. Tina is here.Welcome home. How are you feeling this
morning? Not great, but I'mhere. We opened a bottle of wine
last night that was purchased in Italyon our trip to Italy. It was
(06:03):
great and it tasted just right back, just as good. It's not the
wine talking, by the way.It's not that it wasn't that all.
It's just tired. You just can'tcan't stay up that late and get up
at four and not feel this way. So there you go, all right,
y'all, it's going to be agreat morning, a very very fascinating
(06:25):
I think conversation. I think ifyou are concerned about yourself, you love
yourself, you love your home.You want to make both better along the
way. You're not going to wantto miss this conversation. And we will
dive in Cafi Dean sharp the housewhisper at your service man, A little
(06:46):
rough around the edges there on mythroat this morning. Whether you live in
a shed or a castle, whetheryou rent or are the lord of the
men, or I am here tohelp you take your home to the next
level, doesn't matter to me.If you have a home, we are
talking about it today. Oh.By the way, this is adorable.
Sam's son Joey is in studio withus today and he's in there helping his
(07:11):
dad run the board. And justso you know, Joey, Joey is
picking the music. Get to swingthe mic over to Joey. Good morning,
Joey. How you doing, Bud? I'm good. Yeah, So
you're in charge of all music today, not your dad. Okay, okay,
all right, sounds good. Youjust went your voice just went out
all over the radio, all oversouthern California. How does that make you
(07:33):
feel? Oh? I know howto say? All right, Joey.
How old is Joey? How oldare you? Joey seven? Seven years
old and he's picking our music.See that's advanced. It's very advanced.
Almost as tall as his dad.By the way, he's seven years old.
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He's almost as tall as his dad. Also, the other win for
this, other than him being adorable, and Sam is basically taking the morning
off, so I don't know,I don't think we have to pay Sam
this morning. And and Joey isnot not SAG. He's not Union either.
He's been on the radio. Soit's a win win for everyone.
(08:16):
Iheartwins, KFI wins, Sam winsJoey. It's just a big win,
all right. So there you go. Uh, let me give our phone
number out again. We're going tobe going to the phones in a bit
eight three three two. Ask DeanA three three the numeral two ask Dean
A three three to ask Dean anythingyou want to talk about construction, DIY
(08:41):
design, anything about your home.Okay, So let's have this conversation now
or start it. We're gonna betalking about biophilia today. No, it's
not a disease, and we'll beand that's part one and tomorrow's show or
our next episode on the podcast,we will be discussing all the many beautiful,
(09:05):
wonderful ways that we can address thatin terms of living outdoors. Really,
the reason I want to talk aboutthis is twofold number one. I
want to discuss the reason that outdoorliving around your home is so important,
not just Oh yeah, it's summertimeand it's fun and you know, let's
flip a couple burgers and spend sometime. Yeah, that's all well and
(09:28):
good. I just want you tohave a deeper understanding of something that I
think is really affecting our culture ina large way, and it's something that
you can do to make sure youdon't end up, you know, run
over by this train, as itwere. There is a new term.
It's not a new concept, butthere's a relatively new term in the world
of architecture and design. Biophilia.It is a term that has been coined
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not too long ago, and itis growing and it's popularity. You're going
to start seeing articles about it allover. Believe me, we are on
the cusp, as we always areof this. Biophilia simply means, you
know, it goes from Greek toLatin, and it is simply a love
of nature, all right now.Not the kind of love of nature that
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you think, like, I dolove nature. I love getting out for
a good hike, and we go, Okay, that's not what we're talking
about. It is a more scientificand clinical approach to this and what it
has to do. Really if We'rereally going to parse the Greek here,
the bio meaning life or nature inthis case, and philia like the Greek
(10:43):
word for brotherly love or a familiallove, like you know Philadelphia, right,
the city of brotherly love. Thereyou get it. So biophilia.
Biophilia is really, I think abetter way of translating or understanding it.
It is a partnership with nature,or this unbreakable relationship with nature. Now
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what does that mean. Well,it means this, whether or not you
think yourself as a nature lover,you are on a deep psychological and physiological
level. We are beginning to selfconsciously find this out in more and more
ways every single day, and I'mtalking about scientific studies proving out with some
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really fascinating results. It turns outhumans have an inseparable bond with the nature
around us. And having been inthat relationship for let's say a couple of
million years, the last one hundredyears, and specifically the last twenty years,
(11:52):
of having our faces buried in ourscreens and surrounding ourselves like never before
with urban noise and all sorts ofthings, it's affecting us. It's affecting
us. So something that we've growncompletely accustomed to we're now depriving ourselves of
and as a result, it's havinga negative effect on us. And we
are going to cure that with ourown outdoor living home design this weekend.
(12:16):
But we have to do it stepby step so that we understand every little
facet of this that we're dressing alongthe way. It's going to be fascinating.
We will talk more. You're listeningto Home with Dean Sharp on demand
from KFI AM six forty KFI AMsix forty six and live streaming in HD
(12:39):
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Hey, You're Home with Dean Sharp. The
house whisper. We are going tothe phones right after the next news break.
Let me give you the number eightthree three two Ask Dan A three
three to ask Dan, eight threethree the numeral to ask Dan. That's
(13:00):
coming up right after our next newsbreak. Going to the phones. We
got room for you on the board. Give me a call. Anything you
want to talk about regarding your homeinside, outside, upside, downside,
whatever the case may be, design, construction, DIY anything. You set
the agenda, we'll figure it out. You'll figure it out with me.
You will, you will, howmany people do I leave scratching their heads
(13:24):
like, well, that didn't helpit all zero zero people. Give me
a call. We'll figure it out, all right? Where was I?
Biophilia the love of nature that isingrained in us. That's what that word
means. We're having a two partconversation this weekend about it. Today,
I just want to, you know, in between calls and stuff, I
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just want to kind of warm youup to the thought of it and why
I think it's so important. It'snot as if we haven't been doing biophilic
design for hundreds and hundreds of years. Okay, it's not as if we've
been ignoring that. We haven't.But we're getting better at it. And
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I always appreciate when we finally cometo realize a thing self consciously, awarely,
and as a result, we canreally focus in and do things more
intentionally about it. Right, Andso that's why in the last few years,
biophilia, this hypothesis about our relationshipwith nature and biophilic design is on
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a major rise. Now for me, I'm like, it's about time.
This is one of the things thatyou have heard me talk about for years
and years, bringing the outdoors intoa house, and when we're outside of
the house, building ourselves a kindof a habitat, as it were.
That isn't just about playtime and havinga great time, you know, having
(14:58):
fun, which obviously that's, youknow, what we want to do out
there, but that it's also servingus on a deeper level. Right,
our generation is fast replacing the relationshipwith nature that we have nurtured as a
species for over two million years.I'm sorry, it's just true. Time
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spent in front of screens, timespent inside, insulated from nature. You
want to know the facts, Hereare the facts. This current generation spending
seventeen on average, seventeen percent lesstime outside than their parents. Okay,
that is a huge, huge number. That's massive. It's a massive number,
(15:43):
seventeen percent less time outside than theirparents. And science is now beginning
to reveal how a life spent inurban environments consumed by screens is contributing to
unprecedented levels of stress, anxiety,attention to and learning disabilities. All of
these things, it can be traced, at least legs of them back to
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this question of isolating ourselves from thenatural environment around us. Why biophilia.
We have a relationship a relationship physiologically, psychologically with nature, the environment around
it, the outdoor environment around us. Okay, and what this means for
(16:30):
me, what it should mean foryou. These new revelations mean that landscaping,
outdoor design, outdoor living far morethan just luxuries and whimsies. They're
a matter of health and thriving versusjust surviving. And I would sum it
up this way, to cut oneselfoff from the direct experience of the natural
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world we are now learning is physicaland psychological suffocation on some level, and
we don't want that, all right, So what is the best way for
me to explain what it is thatI'm trying to say? Here, I'm
gonna set up a scenario. Ithink sound maybe the best way to approach
(17:15):
this. So I'm gonna ask youa question. Here is the question,
and maybe I'll ask this question andthen we'll just let we'll let us go
to break and then we'll take somecalls and when we return to the conversation,
we'll answer it. So I'm reallygonna let you percolate on this.
Okay. Here is a fact thatwe all should know by now that noise,
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noise, background, noise, urban, suburban, whatever the case may
be a background noise, whether it'straffic or anything else. Is noise equals
physiological stress. It does. Andif you didn't realize that, today is
an important day to come to thatrealization. It doesn't matter whether you're paying
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attention to it, whether you claimthat you love the sound of the city
and that and that go being outin the country drives you crazy, It
doesn't matter. Every human being who'sever been through this research has tested the
same way. When noise, backgroundnoise increases your cortisol levels, your stress
(18:21):
hormonal responses go up. Okay,Noise is physiological stress, period, end
of discussion. It is a scientificfact, and it is a involuntary thing
that happens, right, So youdon't have control over it. So just
because you love and you know,I love it, Tina, I love
going to New York. We wewe jump into Manhattan and we're like,
(18:45):
this is so fun. Listen tothis place. It's buzzing. That's all
well and good, But it isstress. It is physiological stress. Okay.
And you know, not all stressis bad. I'm not saying that.
I'm just saying when it is aconstant factor of life, it starts
to erode at you? All right? So noise is stress? Okay,
right, So then all of usthese days we think about, well where
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can I get to get to aquieter place when we are looking for quiet?
So here is my quiz question foryou to consider when escaping urban noise?
What what do scientific studies reveal tobe the sound environment most relaxing to
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the human mind? Okay, I'mgoing to give you three options. I'm
sure there are more, but forour sake of our quiz, three options.
What is the most relaxing sound environmentto the human mind when trying to
escape urban noise? Here are yourthree choices. Silence, binaural meditative music,
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like you pop in your headphones oryour earbuds and you play soft meditation
music or bird song. These threethings, silence, meditative music or bird
song. What sound environment is themost relaxing to the human mind? All
right? You ponder that, don'tcheat, don't go look it up,
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just think about it, and we'lltalk about it right on the other side
of calls. And when we comeback, we'll be going to the phones
your home with Dean Sharp, thehouse whisperer, care fine, Dean Sharp,
the house whisper, welcome home.It's time to take some calls.
The number to reach me eight threethree two. Ask Dean A three three
(20:44):
the numeral two. Ask Dean Athree three two. Ask Dean. Anything
you want to talk about regarding yourhome today, construction design, DIY,
anything at all. Give us acall. Our phone lines are open.
Let's go. Let's talk to uh. Sarah. Hey Sarah, welcome home,
(21:06):
Good morning. I need to knowwhether I should be using interior or
exterior paint on my open back porch. Feeling open open porch. I'm sorry,
what was that I missed the lastpart there. It's the ceiling of
the porch. Ill then get touchedby the weather. But it does get
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those extreme temperatures. Okay, Sowhen you say it doesn't get touched by
the weather, you mean that itdoesn't get rained on directly, anything like
that. Don't get rained on.It doesn't get sun, it doesn't get
anything physically touching it, but themoisture in the air and the rain and
the air. And I live nearLake Erie, so it's real cold and
(21:52):
real hot. Gotcha? Gotcha?Where where near Lake Erie? I am
Erie County, Pennsylvania. Okay,to help with aging family and inherited a
two hundred year old house. OhI'm jealous. I'm jealous. Now.
The reason I asked is because wehave relatives that live in Sandusky County,
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Ohio, just south of Lake Erie. But Lake Erie is a big place.
I mean, it is a biglake. It stretches a long way.
So that's why I wanted to know. Okay, so you got a
two hundred year hat. So,but this porch is outside. It is
outside. It's just not you know, this is the ceiling area. So
the the the right way to gohere is a really good, great exterior
(22:37):
paint, just no question about it. You want to use a good quality
exterior paint regardless of weather, youknow, direct sunlight or snow or rain
or what have you. Is strikingthe surface. That's really kind of irrelevant
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because the air it's is carrying allof that stuff with it and the temperature
extreme. So it is outside,it's covered, I get it, but
it's outside, and so a reallyreally good quality exterior paint would be the
way to go there. And ofcourse, well what's on it right now?
By the way, it's got acoat a primer on it. It's
(23:19):
been there for thirty years and that'sabout it. It's starting to appel at
Okay, so before you paint,Before you paint, even though that primer
is technically primary, let's just pretendlike the primer isn't there. That would
be the wise way to go.Before you paint, you definitely want to
get it all washed down, reallyreally good, probably with a pressure washer,
(23:41):
pressure sprayer. You just want toget that surface as clean and as
possible, get it patched up anylittle inconsistencies along the way, and then
reprime, and then a couple ofcoats of a good exterior paint and you
should be good to go. Justremember when it comes to painting, you
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know, painting is ninety percent prep, ten percent applying the you know,
a good quality material and buy thebest paint yuke your budget allows you to
buy in which you know, ifyou can, if you can step up
to something like Benjamin Moore or SherwinWilliams for the outside of your house,
(24:23):
do it without hesitation, because youwon't regret the fact that you will not
have to address that area again fordecades to come. That's what a good
quality paint will do for you ifyou prep the area really nicely. Okay,
I like it. Sarah. Thankyou for your call and for your
(24:44):
question. From Lake Erie out inPennsylvania and a two hundred year old house,
Tina, mm hmm. Yeah,we like those things around here.
Should we should we start another call? Yeah? We will, Well,
we'll at least get one started.Jose welcome home. Yes, Hidin,
(25:06):
thank you for taking my call.My question is referring to a gas line
that I'd like to put in fromthe from the gas regulator to a built
in barbecue. It's about twenty feetaway from the regulator. And my question
is can I legally mount the gasline the pipe and mount it on say
(25:33):
like unistrut. The unitstrut would beanchored to the concrete on a walkway and
and then the pipe would be clampedto the uh the unistreut. And I
just want to know is something likethat legal or does it have to be
underground. I wanted to keep awayfrom underground because I have a lot of
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landscaping and you know, trees andstuff like that, and there's just a
lot of roots. So I wantedto know if I can mount it on
the concrete walkway right up against thehouse. I got you, I got
you all right, everybody think itthrough. Jose. We're right up against
the top of the hour break,so I'm gonna pop you on hold,
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and when we come back, wewill find out if it's legal to run
an exterior gas line exposed mounted tothe house, or otherwise exposed and not
buried, in order to get fromthe house over to your new favorite barbecue.
We'll deal that and so much morewhen we come back. You're listening
(26:40):
to Dean Sharp, the House Whispereron KFI. You're listening to Home with
Dean Sharp on demand from KFI AMsix forty
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