May 18, 2024 • 30 mins
Dean advices on running a gas line to a BBQ grill and the installing rules. Dean shares that listening to birds chirping is the best natural sound to help with relaxation. Dean continues with relaxing/ stress-free sounds that helps your mind, body & soul. Dean says that bringing birds into your home helps create a stress-free environment as it works for his family. Plus,, how we as humans are becoming more bioscientific aware of our body and home environments.
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You're listening to Home with Dean Sharpon demand from KFI AM six forty KFI
AM six forty and live streaming inHD everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome
to home where every week we helpyou better understand that place where you live.
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I am Dean Sharp the house whisperhere with you live like I am
every weekend Saturday morning from six toeight Pacific time, Sunday mornings nine to
noon Pacific time. Thanks for joiningus on the program. Today we are
in a conversation that's going to takeus two days, two shows to cover
completely. We're talking about outdoor living, and of course what a great time
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here in late spring to get readyfor spending time outdoors, especially if you
live here in southern California or whereveryou live across our great nation. But
my approach to outdoor living this yearis being influenced specifically and presenting it to
you specifically through the lens of anew designation of architecture and design that we
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call biophilic design. Now that's notdoing anything weird to your house, don't
worry about that. But biophilic designis about designing with the understanding that our
relationship as human beings to nature isvitally important for our physiological and psychological health.
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And so instead of just kind ofwilly nilly whimsy and luxury throwing stuff
in our backyard, we can doit more intentionally, understanding that it's not
just going to give us a goodtime on a Saturday afternoon barbecue, but
that it actually improves our lives ona daily basis. That is, I
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love getting underneath the why that Ithink you do too. It's why one
of the reasons you listen to theshow, because we dig under and talk
about the why of design and constructionas well. So we're gonna get back
into that in just a bit.But right now the top of the hour,
we are going to the phones.I'm talking to Jose who's got a
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new barbecue grill going into his house. And he had a very simple question,
and that is running a gas line, a new gas line extension from
his meter over to the barbecue.Does he have to dig a trench and
bury it or can we run it, you know, on a bracket right
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alongside the edge of the house andthe sidewalk. And is that legal?
So here's a couple of more questions, Jose number one, are you here
in southern California? Are you outof state somewhere? No, Southern California
sent a creative Okay, so you'rein Santa Clarita Valley, And how long
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is the run? And you saidyou were going to mount it. You
were hoping to mount it on thesidewalk right next to the house. Yeah,
it's on a channel, unstrut channel, and run it along and the
length is about twenty feet. Okay, So about twenty feet on a unistrut
channel. All right, So here'sthe story about this. You're going to
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get various opinions on it, andI don't want you to take any of
them as gospel, okay, ButI'm going to give you the general rules,
generally speaking everywhere in the US,generally speaking, running an exterior gas
line as long as we're using rigidsteel pipe for it, not the flexible
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gas lines, never that, butrigid steel pipe, and not polyethylene either,
because it's too vulnerable to damage.But running rigid, classic black pipe
for gas line exterior is okay.Okay, But but there are always mitigating
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circumstances surrounding that, okayness, Okay, number one. And this is going
to vary from state to state.It's going to vary municipality to municipality sometimes.
So this is why this is goingto be an object lesson again.
In this is where you make acall to your local Department of Building in
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Safety and you simply asked the question, in our town here in Santa Clarita,
what is allowed in regards to ahalf inch gas line running out to
my barbecue. This is how I'dlike to run it and get their information,
because they're simply going to tell you. They're going to let you know
you can do this, you can'tdo that. We want this, we
don't want that. Generally, it'sokay now with that, here are the
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caveats to that. Generally speaking,most municipalities are gonna want it sleeved.
Okay, They're gonna want its sleeve, not because the pipe itself. They're
worried about weather exposure. If you'rerunning an exterior pipe, that pipe should
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be regardless of whether there's a sleeveor not, it should be painted or
coated in a way that protects itfrom moisture. Because we don't want any
rust. We don't want any kindof corrosion happening on that pipe, so
it should be painted and protected completely, and it should be maintained in that
condition so that it's all sealed up. But most municipalities are also gonna want
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to sleeve, Okay, not all, and that's why you should check because
I don't know what the specifics arein Santa Clarita. A sleeve meaning you
know, it could be a rigidPVC pipe on top of it, or
a channel, a protective channel ontop of it that is protecting it from
accidentally being bumped or slammed into bya whalebarrow or shovel or an axe or
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whatever the case may be. Obviously, because we don't want that line broken
open. And that's the advantage ofburying the line because it's all protected down
there and nobody has any access toit, so when it's exposed. It's
kind of like when we talk abouta electricity in a garage. It's a
similar logic to it. When you'rerunning electricity in a garage, if you're
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planning on closing the walls up withdry wall so that nobody can actually get
to the wires, then you canjust run like romex soft Romex sheathed cable
in there. But if the wallsare going to be open or the electricity
is out on the surface of thewall, then it has to be in
a rigid conduit, so it's beingprotected from damage. Same with the gas
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line, So there's a good chancethere they're gonna want you to have it
inside a protective sleeve. And alsothere I'm almost I'm almost one hundred percent
positive that they're not going to bethrilled with running it on the ground or
on the sidewalk there at the bottomof the wall. Most municipalities want that
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pipe. They would prefer to haveit attached to the house, okay,
the wall of the house, andup at least six inches from the ground
for the exact same reason because downthere on the ground number one, rain
flooding, all that kind of stuffis a concern. We don't want that
pipe just sitting in moisture or sittingon moisture all the time. And also
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that's where wheels and stuff and feetand all that happens down there. Even
if it's in the corner, it'snot going to alleviate their concern. Up
at least six inches off the wallprovides a statistically a much safer environment for
the pipe. So in general,an exposed gas line, yes, if
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it's rigid black steel pipe coded sealedfrom the environment, probably they're gonna want
to sleeve. And almost definitely they'regonna want it six inches off the ground
as it runs along the house.That's what I suspect that you're going to
run into. But the answers,the real answers to all these questions vary
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from place to place, and that'swhy you call the building department before you
commit to this one. Okay,wow, okay, I thank you so
much for your call. One littlequestion though, I notice you said you
want to run the gap inch gasline, say versus three quarter? Why
why the half inch? Oh?I just said half inch, you know,
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three quarter, one inch whatever,whatever, whatever kind of gas supply
you want running to that that grill, you go for it. Just a
lot of most most adverageised grills dofine with a half inch, but you
may want a three quarter, sosize irrelevant. Run as much gas out
there as as you want. Justremember when sizing up, by the way,
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sizing up a grill, take alook at the specs, find out
what they recommend, and and youknow, don't shirk on it. Because
gas is not a high pressure line. So the volume of gas inside a
pipe is what's critical to feeding agas appliance. It's not going to come
from high pressure shooting through it.It's going to come from the size of
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the pipe. So yeah, thegrill is recommended to have a three quarter
inch line feeding it. Definitely,by all means, run a three quarter
inch line. Otherwise it's going tobe, you know, kind of limping
along. Okay, okay, awesome, Well, thank you so much for
your advice, and I will definitelylove thing to all of us. Thanks
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Ose, thanks for the call,buddy, food for thought, a lot
of food for thought. I thinkyou got a pretty solid plan. It
just made need some tweaks along theway to make sure that it gets done
right in a way that the city'snot going to be upset about. All
right, y'all, when we return, let's answer the question to the quiz
question that I popped to you before, which is in a sound environment where
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we're trying to quiet down. Whatsound environment is most relaxing to the human
mind. Is it quiet, meditativemusic, is it silence or is it
bird song? We'll answer that questionand explain why when we return your home
with Dean Sharp the house Whisper.Kayf I Dean Sharp, the house Whisper
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at your service, Welcome home.Thanks for joining us on this lovely,
cool Saturday morning here in southern California. Hope the weather wherever you are is
a lovely as spring just rolls on. Won't be long. Just what three
four weeks away from summer starting,we've been having a legitimate spring here in
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SoCal and so here we are Mayeighteenth, and we're more than halfway through
the month of May. I can'teven believe it, but it is a
lovely day, and we're talking aboutoutdoor living this weekend. And yes,
I'm going to get into all ofthe goodness, all the good stuff about
decking and furniture and all of thesethings. But I'm taking a underneath the
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surface approach to this because I wantyou to understand something new out there,
relatively new in the world of architectureand design, at least self consciously new
in the sense that we've been doingthis for hundreds of years, but now
we've given it a name, andthat allows us to focus even more intensely
on it. We have the powerof science behind us. Science is always
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a good thing when it comes todesign, because we design for human beings
for us, and the more welearn about ourselves, the more we understand
how to more effectively design for usfor our benefit. And that includes you,
my friend, and what you wantto do with your outdoor living space.
So we're back in the conversation now. When I left this conversation before,
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I gave you a question, itwas a quiz when you're escaping urban
noise, because we all know it'sa scientifically proven fact that background noise is
stress. Noise is stress, okay, whether you like it or not,
Consciously, noise is stress. Thehigher the decibel rating of background noise,
the more cortisol levels rise in yourbody. Your body interprets background noise as
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stress involuntarily, whether you like itor not. So when you are escaping
from that noise and you want alittle piece and quiet, what, And
this is a really important question,really reveals the nature of what biophilic design
is all about. This whole idea, What is the most relaxing environment sound
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environment to the human mind. Igave you three choices. Meditative, binaural
music like in your earphones, silenceor bird song? What is it?
What is it? Have you andyou've had some time to think about it,
what would you pick? Okay,here is the answer. You probably
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saw this coming, But the answeris bird song. The answer is bird
song, not dead silence, No, not at all. Okay, And
this, I think really really illustrateswhat this field of biophilic design is revealing
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to us. All right now,why why are the sound of bird words
more important than silence when it comesto relaxing the human mind? Well,
for that, my friends, I'mgoing to have to hang on. We'll
talk about it. You're listening toHome with Dean Sharp on demand from KFI
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AM six forty KFI AM six forty, live streaming in HD everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. You are Home withDean Sharp, the House Whisper. Thanks
for joining us on the program.This morning, we are doing part one
of a two part series today andtomorrow, or if you're a podcast listener,
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this episode and the one to follow, we're talking about outdoor living.
Tomorrow, I've got a special guestin studio, Brian Gold from Aldac Home.
We're going to be talking about patiofurniture. How do you rate the
good stuff from the bad stuff?And I'm going to continue this conversation aboutdoor
living this year from a very differentkind of of angle, and that is
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I mean, it's something that's alwaysbeen near and dear to my heart,
but something that we haven't spoken thisexplicitly about before, this directly about before,
and that is this concept of biophilicdesign, the partnership of nature with
nature that we have as human beings, that all creatures on this planet have
with nature, but we as humans, we have grown to the place of
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insulating ourselves from nature. We've grownto the place of separating ourselves from nature,
unlike other species and creatures. Andtherefore we are science now shows starting
to suffer in some very unique waystress, anxiety, learning disabilities. The
list goes on and on and on, because in part now, because we've
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separated ourselves from nature and we aremissing that separation now. The way that
I've chosen this morning to just kindof explain what the essence of bio biophilia,
which we all are plagued with.We're all chronic, incurable biophiliacs.
In other words, we have thisrelationship with nature that our bodies and our
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minds need, whether you consider yourselfa nature lover or not, and that
relationship needs to be restored in orderfor us to come to a fullness of
health. Isn't that interesting? Ifwe can learn these principles, then your
design, your plans for outdoor livingthis summer and for the years to come,
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can be altered and adjusted and tuned, fine tune not just to have
fun flipping burgers on a Saturday afternoonin front of the barbecue, but to
fulfill your life on a daily basisin a much more rich and holistic way,
if you want to use that.And by the way, we're not
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talking about weird stuff. I'm notsaying, like, well, Dean,
sure, if we had ten milliondollars, we could build a house shape
like a nautilus shell, and wecould all bathe our feet in wheat grass
juice as we came inside right beforeour yoga meditation. That's not what I
am talking about at all. We'retalking about very very simple solutions, back
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to nature, stuff that are simplefor you to incorporate into your lives,
but so so potent. So theexample that I gave I started with sound
and the fact that urban noise wewant to get away from it when we
when we want to quiet down.And I gave you a quiz. What
are these three things? Meditative music, silence or bird song? What would
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be the most relaxing to the humanmind? And it turns out now it's
not meditative music. I think wewould have guessed that. But between silence,
you know, pop in the noise, canceling earbuds, right, and
just silence, Between silence and birdsong, what is more relaxing scientifically for
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the human mind? Bird song?Bird song? Now, why, if
you understand this, you'll get it. You'll totally get what biophilia is all
about. Birds are hyper aware oftheir environment, right. They're always on
the lookout for problems, right,because they're just most of them are prey.
Most of them are lunch for otherbirds or other things, you know,
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my cat, you know, whateverthe case may be. Birds are
hyper aware of their environment and thepotential dangers that it contains. When danger
is near. Don't know if you'veever noticed this doesn't really matter whether you've
noticed it, by the way,but when danger is near, birds they
stop advertising. When danger is near, birds go silent. They shut up,
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right, because they don't want theirlocations to be identified. That's birds.
Well, after two million years ofcohabitating every day with birds song birds
in the morning, at noon,in the evening, the human brain,
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the human brain looks for bird songas a signal that all is well and
that there is nothing to fear outthere. That is why, in scientific
studies, the brain relaxes, stresslevels decrease even further with the chirping of
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birds in the background than in totalsilence. Because there is an argument to
be made, a strong argument tobe made that total silence. Total silence
is a stress and danger condition.Okay, a stress and danger condition for
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birds. I mean, I meanfor the human brain, because it implies
that, well, there's some birdsright there. It implies that there could
be danger out there. Total silence, now, I'm not talking about it
nighttime when you're trying to sleep.I'm talking about when we are awake and
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wanting to be quiet. This righthere, my friends, is far more
relaxing to the human brain than this. And it doesn't have to do with
your preferences. It doesn't. Ithas to do with the fact that you're
a human being and your species hasadapted and evolved and joined itself, this
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fellowship with nature. Okay, sowe're talking about something involuntary that happens in
the core of your brain that yourbrain is listening for and when it doesn't
hear it. And so therefore,now you put the pieces together, right,
put the pieces together the most relaxingway. And we've all experienced it,
right, We've all experiences it.Up in the morning, it's a
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beautiful spring morning, the sun isshining. You open a window or you
open a door, and you gooutside and there they are, the birds,
chirping and singing away, right,And we don't necessarily think about it.
Okay, most of us don't think, oh, you know why they're
chirping and singing because everything's fine.But your brain knows that, and you
take a deep breath in and there'ssomething deep inside your brain that says,
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you know what you hear that everythingis fine. It's the best news report
of the morning. Everything is fine. Because the birds are chirping and they're
singing and they're going about their business. It means nothing dangerous on the horizon.
Okay, that is the message thatit sends to our brains. So
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what do we do then, right, what do we do. How can
you design your outdoor living space tobring you that additional level of relaxation,
of stress, reduction, of anxietyreduction for your life. Bring birds into
your yard. Buy a bird feederby two, by ten, I don't
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know. We have one, two, three, we have four. We
have four bird feeders in our yardin addition to the fact that we have
large trees everywhere. Our yard isa bird song haven. And let me
tell you, it is beautiful.All you have to do, though,
is decide, you know what theprice that I would pay for a really
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great supplement. I'm just gonna shellthat out, shell it out in bird
seed every month and bring more birdsinto my life because my brain, my
physiology, my health, and thehealth of my family. We will all
love it. Whether we think aboutit or not, it will simply get
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the job done. That, myfriend, is the essence of biophilic design
in your outdoor space. All right, more on this when we return your
home. Dean Sharp, the housewhisper. Kay if I Dean Sharp,
the house whisper. Nothing like aMarriagie trumpet getting you going, Telly.
This is the stuff that my kidloves. This is the theme song to
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one of the video games that heloves, Undertail and it's tomorrow. Oh
my gosh, that's great. That'sgreat. Joey, by the way,
picking all of our music this morning, Sam sung doing all of our music.
Good job today, Joe and hewas happy about it. All right,
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y'all, we are talking Outdoor Livingtoday and tomorrow, two parts.
And if you're listening on the podcast, and why wouldn't you be, by
the way, you know, everyepisode we ever do, every program we
ever do, ends up in podcastform about an hour after we go off
the air. Actually, uh.And where can you find that podcast?
Of course on the free iHeartRadio app, but all so on wherever you listen
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You just go and search for Homewith Dean Sharp and boom there it
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there waiting for You can listen anytimeyou want, day or night, anywhere
on planet Earth and probably off planetEarth as well, I would suppose,
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but I don't know that we haveany verification of that. Anyway, if
you're a podcast listener, it's goingto be today's this episode and the next
one, And if you're listening tous on the live broadcast right now wherever
you are in the country, it'stoday and tomorrow that we're talking about outdoor
living. And I'm taking a littlebit of a scientific approach this year because
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I always want you to understand theunderpinnings of design and why good design works
the way it does and why it'simportant. And there is nothing, nothing
more important about good design than workingwith the human condition to improve our welfare.
So I'm sliding in this relatively newalthough you're going to be hearing a
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lot more about. It's going tobe in the news. You're going to
hear it, and you're going tosee it in your design magazines. You're
going to see it in your guardeningmagazines. Biophilic design. It simply means
that we are becoming scientifically more andmore aware of the way that our designs
affect us in relationship to our relationshipwith nature, which we've been developing before
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millions of years, and yet inthe last one hundred years and then specifically
in the last maybe twenty or soyears, we have been taking a pretty
radical departure away from our daily contactwith nature, and as a result of
that, we're starting to see someproblems. We're starting to see stress levels,
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anxiety level, learning disorders, learningdisabilities, all sorts of things.
So let me throw you just acouple of more things before we are done
today, so you get a senseof it. And of course, in
tomorrow's program, in the Big Show, the Big three hour Show, will
continue this conversation, but we'll alsobe talking about here's what we can do.
Solve it. Solve it, solveit, solve it. So,
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yes, we're all chronic, incurablebiophiliacs. We have a connection to nature,
whether you like it or not.If you are living inside a human
body right now, that body islooking for its pre programmed, evolutionarily established
connection to nature. And if you'redenying it that then you're kind of suffocating
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yourself in a certain way. Sohere are a couple more. You go
out in the forest, right andeverybody's like, I don't know what it
is about walking through a forest,but it just I take a deep breath
and I feel more relaxed. Well, guess what, it's not just your
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emotions coming up with that. Thearoma of a pine forest is created by
certain compounds in the pine tree,certain turpines and other things. It's more
than just subjectively relaxing. The aromaticcompounds emitted by pine trees actually deepen your
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respiration by opening air passages, andthey also contain a mild sedative. So
yes, when you walk through apine forest and you smell that aroma,
you are in fact having the airpassage in Your lungs are dilating, they
are opening, You are breathing deeperyou are, and you are feeling more
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relaxed because you're also breathing in amild sedative. And so yeah, this
is nature. The reason why richpeople live in the big house on the
hill. The best explanation for thisis not just well it's nice. It's
a nice view. Well, yeah, it's a nice view. But why
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is a nice view a nice view? A nice view is a nice view
because up on top of the hillthe high ground, both from a a
tactics point of view, if you'rebeing attacked by anybody else or the other
village or as something like that oranimals, high ground high ground is better.
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Right, So the idea of thebig house on the hill the high
ground with the great view Yeah,it's a luxury. Of course it's a
luxury. But there's also something builtinto us as humans that wants to get
up to that top of that hilland wants to live up there, wants
to be able to see out andknow what's coming at you. That again
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is biophilia. That is our relationshipwith nature. All right, tomorrow,
we're solving all of these little problems. We're going to identify a few more
areas where we're going to talk aboutsite, sound, taste, touch,
texture and all of it. Andwe'll tell you, as a result,
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how do you arrange your outdoor spaceto maximize all of these benefits. And
can tell you what, Man,if you build the layer upon layer upon
layer in your backyard, you're goingto be living in what you yourself will
call eden back there truly truly abeautiful space that everybody's going to want to
spend time in. All right,more of that tomorrow. Until then,
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get yourself out there today and getbusy building yourself a beautiful life. We'll
see tomorrow. This has been Homewith Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
Tune into the live broadcast on KFIAM six forty every Saturday morning from six
to eight Pacific time, and everySunday morning from nine to noon Pacific time,
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or any time on demand on theiHeartRadio app
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharpon demand from KFI AM six forty KFI
AM six forty and live streaming inHD everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome
to home where every week we helpyou better understand that place where you live.
(00:22):
I am Dean Sharp the house whisperhere with you live like I am
every weekend Saturday morning from six toeight Pacific time, Sunday mornings nine to
noon Pacific time. Thanks for joiningus on the program. Today we are
in a conversation that's going to takeus two days, two shows to cover
completely. We're talking about outdoor living, and of course what a great time
(00:47):
here in late spring to get readyfor spending time outdoors, especially if you
live here in southern California or whereveryou live across our great nation. But
my approach to outdoor living this yearis being influenced specifically and presenting it to
you specifically through the lens of anew designation of architecture and design that we
(01:14):
call biophilic design. Now that's notdoing anything weird to your house, don't
worry about that. But biophilic designis about designing with the understanding that our
relationship as human beings to nature isvitally important for our physiological and psychological health.
(01:38):
And so instead of just kind ofwilly nilly whimsy and luxury throwing stuff
in our backyard, we can doit more intentionally, understanding that it's not
just going to give us a goodtime on a Saturday afternoon barbecue, but
that it actually improves our lives ona daily basis. That is, I
(02:00):
love getting underneath the why that Ithink you do too. It's why one
of the reasons you listen to theshow, because we dig under and talk
about the why of design and constructionas well. So we're gonna get back
into that in just a bit.But right now the top of the hour,
we are going to the phones.I'm talking to Jose who's got a
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new barbecue grill going into his house. And he had a very simple question,
and that is running a gas line, a new gas line extension from
his meter over to the barbecue.Does he have to dig a trench and
bury it or can we run it, you know, on a bracket right
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alongside the edge of the house andthe sidewalk. And is that legal?
So here's a couple of more questions, Jose number one, are you here
in southern California? Are you outof state somewhere? No, Southern California
sent a creative Okay, so you'rein Santa Clarita Valley, And how long
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is the run? And you saidyou were going to mount it. You
were hoping to mount it on thesidewalk right next to the house. Yeah,
it's on a channel, unstrut channel, and run it along and the
length is about twenty feet. Okay, So about twenty feet on a unistrut
channel. All right, So here'sthe story about this. You're going to
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get various opinions on it, andI don't want you to take any of
them as gospel, okay, ButI'm going to give you the general rules,
generally speaking everywhere in the US,generally speaking, running an exterior gas
line as long as we're using rigidsteel pipe for it, not the flexible
(03:53):
gas lines, never that, butrigid steel pipe, and not polyethylene either,
because it's too vulnerable to damage.But running rigid, classic black pipe
for gas line exterior is okay.Okay, But but there are always mitigating
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circumstances surrounding that, okayness, Okay, number one. And this is going
to vary from state to state.It's going to vary municipality to municipality sometimes.
So this is why this is goingto be an object lesson again.
In this is where you make acall to your local Department of Building in
(04:38):
Safety and you simply asked the question, in our town here in Santa Clarita,
what is allowed in regards to ahalf inch gas line running out to
my barbecue. This is how I'dlike to run it and get their information,
because they're simply going to tell you. They're going to let you know
you can do this, you can'tdo that. We want this, we
don't want that. Generally, it'sokay now with that, here are the
(05:04):
caveats to that. Generally speaking,most municipalities are gonna want it sleeved.
Okay, They're gonna want its sleeve, not because the pipe itself. They're
worried about weather exposure. If you'rerunning an exterior pipe, that pipe should
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be regardless of whether there's a sleeveor not, it should be painted or
coated in a way that protects itfrom moisture. Because we don't want any
rust. We don't want any kindof corrosion happening on that pipe, so
it should be painted and protected completely, and it should be maintained in that
condition so that it's all sealed up. But most municipalities are also gonna want
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to sleeve, Okay, not all, and that's why you should check because
I don't know what the specifics arein Santa Clarita. A sleeve meaning you
know, it could be a rigidPVC pipe on top of it, or
a channel, a protective channel ontop of it that is protecting it from
accidentally being bumped or slammed into bya whalebarrow or shovel or an axe or
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whatever the case may be. Obviously, because we don't want that line broken
open. And that's the advantage ofburying the line because it's all protected down
there and nobody has any access toit, so when it's exposed. It's
kind of like when we talk abouta electricity in a garage. It's a
similar logic to it. When you'rerunning electricity in a garage, if you're
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planning on closing the walls up withdry wall so that nobody can actually get
to the wires, then you canjust run like romex soft Romex sheathed cable
in there. But if the wallsare going to be open or the electricity
is out on the surface of thewall, then it has to be in
a rigid conduit, so it's beingprotected from damage. Same with the gas
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line, So there's a good chancethere they're gonna want you to have it
inside a protective sleeve. And alsothere I'm almost I'm almost one hundred percent
positive that they're not going to bethrilled with running it on the ground or
on the sidewalk there at the bottomof the wall. Most municipalities want that
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pipe. They would prefer to haveit attached to the house, okay,
the wall of the house, andup at least six inches from the ground
for the exact same reason because downthere on the ground number one, rain
flooding, all that kind of stuffis a concern. We don't want that
pipe just sitting in moisture or sittingon moisture all the time. And also
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that's where wheels and stuff and feetand all that happens down there. Even
if it's in the corner, it'snot going to alleviate their concern. Up
at least six inches off the wallprovides a statistically a much safer environment for
the pipe. So in general,an exposed gas line, yes, if
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it's rigid black steel pipe coded sealedfrom the environment, probably they're gonna want
to sleeve. And almost definitely they'regonna want it six inches off the ground
as it runs along the house.That's what I suspect that you're going to
run into. But the answers,the real answers to all these questions vary
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from place to place, and that'swhy you call the building department before you
commit to this one. Okay,wow, okay, I thank you so
much for your call. One littlequestion though, I notice you said you
want to run the gap inch gasline, say versus three quarter? Why
why the half inch? Oh?I just said half inch, you know,
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three quarter, one inch whatever,whatever, whatever kind of gas supply
you want running to that that grill, you go for it. Just a
lot of most most adverageised grills dofine with a half inch, but you
may want a three quarter, sosize irrelevant. Run as much gas out
there as as you want. Justremember when sizing up, by the way,
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sizing up a grill, take alook at the specs, find out
what they recommend, and and youknow, don't shirk on it. Because
gas is not a high pressure line. So the volume of gas inside a
pipe is what's critical to feeding agas appliance. It's not going to come
from high pressure shooting through it.It's going to come from the size of
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the pipe. So yeah, thegrill is recommended to have a three quarter
inch line feeding it. Definitely,by all means, run a three quarter
inch line. Otherwise it's going tobe, you know, kind of limping
along. Okay, okay, awesome, Well, thank you so much for
your advice, and I will definitelylove thing to all of us. Thanks
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Ose, thanks for the call,buddy, food for thought, a lot
of food for thought. I thinkyou got a pretty solid plan. It
just made need some tweaks along theway to make sure that it gets done
right in a way that the city'snot going to be upset about. All
right, y'all, when we return, let's answer the question to the quiz
question that I popped to you before, which is in a sound environment where
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we're trying to quiet down. Whatsound environment is most relaxing to the human
mind. Is it quiet, meditativemusic, is it silence or is it
bird song? We'll answer that questionand explain why when we return your home
with Dean Sharp the house Whisper.Kayf I Dean Sharp, the house Whisper
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at your service, Welcome home.Thanks for joining us on this lovely,
cool Saturday morning here in southern California. Hope the weather wherever you are is
a lovely as spring just rolls on. Won't be long. Just what three
four weeks away from summer starting,we've been having a legitimate spring here in
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SoCal and so here we are Mayeighteenth, and we're more than halfway through
the month of May. I can'teven believe it, but it is a
lovely day, and we're talking aboutoutdoor living this weekend. And yes,
I'm going to get into all ofthe goodness, all the good stuff about
decking and furniture and all of thesethings. But I'm taking a underneath the
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surface approach to this because I wantyou to understand something new out there,
relatively new in the world of architectureand design, at least self consciously new
in the sense that we've been doingthis for hundreds of years, but now
we've given it a name, andthat allows us to focus even more intensely
on it. We have the powerof science behind us. Science is always
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a good thing when it comes todesign, because we design for human beings
for us, and the more welearn about ourselves, the more we understand
how to more effectively design for usfor our benefit. And that includes you,
my friend, and what you wantto do with your outdoor living space.
So we're back in the conversation now. When I left this conversation before,
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I gave you a question, itwas a quiz when you're escaping urban
noise, because we all know it'sa scientifically proven fact that background noise is
stress. Noise is stress, okay, whether you like it or not,
Consciously, noise is stress. Thehigher the decibel rating of background noise,
the more cortisol levels rise in yourbody. Your body interprets background noise as
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stress involuntarily, whether you like itor not. So when you are escaping
from that noise and you want alittle piece and quiet, what, And
this is a really important question,really reveals the nature of what biophilic design
is all about. This whole idea, What is the most relaxing environment sound
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environment to the human mind. Igave you three choices. Meditative, binaural
music like in your earphones, silenceor bird song? What is it?
What is it? Have you andyou've had some time to think about it,
what would you pick? Okay,here is the answer. You probably
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saw this coming, But the answeris bird song. The answer is bird
song, not dead silence, No, not at all. Okay, And
this, I think really really illustrateswhat this field of biophilic design is revealing
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to us. All right now,why why are the sound of bird words
more important than silence when it comesto relaxing the human mind? Well,
for that, my friends, I'mgoing to have to hang on. We'll
talk about it. You're listening toHome with Dean Sharp on demand from KFI
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AM six forty KFI AM six forty, live streaming in HD everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. You are Home withDean Sharp, the House Whisper. Thanks
for joining us on the program.This morning, we are doing part one
of a two part series today andtomorrow, or if you're a podcast listener,
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this episode and the one to follow, we're talking about outdoor living.
Tomorrow, I've got a special guestin studio, Brian Gold from Aldac Home.
We're going to be talking about patiofurniture. How do you rate the
good stuff from the bad stuff?And I'm going to continue this conversation aboutdoor
living this year from a very differentkind of of angle, and that is
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I mean, it's something that's alwaysbeen near and dear to my heart,
but something that we haven't spoken thisexplicitly about before, this directly about before,
and that is this concept of biophilicdesign, the partnership of nature with
nature that we have as human beings, that all creatures on this planet have
with nature, but we as humans, we have grown to the place of
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insulating ourselves from nature. We've grownto the place of separating ourselves from nature,
unlike other species and creatures. Andtherefore we are science now shows starting
to suffer in some very unique waystress, anxiety, learning disabilities. The
list goes on and on and on, because in part now, because we've
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separated ourselves from nature and we aremissing that separation now. The way that
I've chosen this morning to just kindof explain what the essence of bio biophilia,
which we all are plagued with.We're all chronic, incurable biophiliacs.
In other words, we have thisrelationship with nature that our bodies and our
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minds need, whether you consider yourselfa nature lover or not, and that
relationship needs to be restored in orderfor us to come to a fullness of
health. Isn't that interesting? Ifwe can learn these principles, then your
design, your plans for outdoor livingthis summer and for the years to come,
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can be altered and adjusted and tuned, fine tune not just to have
fun flipping burgers on a Saturday afternoonin front of the barbecue, but to
fulfill your life on a daily basisin a much more rich and holistic way,
if you want to use that.And by the way, we're not
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talking about weird stuff. I'm notsaying, like, well, Dean,
sure, if we had ten milliondollars, we could build a house shape
like a nautilus shell, and wecould all bathe our feet in wheat grass
juice as we came inside right beforeour yoga meditation. That's not what I
am talking about at all. We'retalking about very very simple solutions, back
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to nature, stuff that are simplefor you to incorporate into your lives,
but so so potent. So theexample that I gave I started with sound
and the fact that urban noise wewant to get away from it when we
when we want to quiet down.And I gave you a quiz. What
are these three things? Meditative music, silence or bird song? What would
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be the most relaxing to the humanmind? And it turns out now it's
not meditative music. I think wewould have guessed that. But between silence,
you know, pop in the noise, canceling earbuds, right, and
just silence, Between silence and birdsong, what is more relaxing scientifically for
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the human mind? Bird song?Bird song? Now, why, if
you understand this, you'll get it. You'll totally get what biophilia is all
about. Birds are hyper aware oftheir environment, right. They're always on
the lookout for problems, right,because they're just most of them are prey.
Most of them are lunch for otherbirds or other things, you know,
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my cat, you know, whateverthe case may be. Birds are
hyper aware of their environment and thepotential dangers that it contains. When danger
is near. Don't know if you'veever noticed this doesn't really matter whether you've
noticed it, by the way,but when danger is near, birds they
stop advertising. When danger is near, birds go silent. They shut up,
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right, because they don't want theirlocations to be identified. That's birds.
Well, after two million years ofcohabitating every day with birds song birds
in the morning, at noon,in the evening, the human brain,
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the human brain looks for bird songas a signal that all is well and
that there is nothing to fear outthere. That is why, in scientific
studies, the brain relaxes, stresslevels decrease even further with the chirping of
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birds in the background than in totalsilence. Because there is an argument to
be made, a strong argument tobe made that total silence. Total silence
is a stress and danger condition.Okay, a stress and danger condition for
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birds. I mean, I meanfor the human brain, because it implies
that, well, there's some birdsright there. It implies that there could
be danger out there. Total silence, now, I'm not talking about it
nighttime when you're trying to sleep.I'm talking about when we are awake and
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wanting to be quiet. This righthere, my friends, is far more
relaxing to the human brain than this. And it doesn't have to do with
your preferences. It doesn't. Ithas to do with the fact that you're
a human being and your species hasadapted and evolved and joined itself, this
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fellowship with nature. Okay, sowe're talking about something involuntary that happens in
the core of your brain that yourbrain is listening for and when it doesn't
hear it. And so therefore,now you put the pieces together, right,
put the pieces together the most relaxingway. And we've all experienced it,
right, We've all experiences it.Up in the morning, it's a
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beautiful spring morning, the sun isshining. You open a window or you
open a door, and you gooutside and there they are, the birds,
chirping and singing away, right,And we don't necessarily think about it.
Okay, most of us don't think, oh, you know why they're
chirping and singing because everything's fine.But your brain knows that, and you
take a deep breath in and there'ssomething deep inside your brain that says,
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you know what you hear that everythingis fine. It's the best news report
of the morning. Everything is fine. Because the birds are chirping and they're
singing and they're going about their business. It means nothing dangerous on the horizon.
Okay, that is the message thatit sends to our brains. So
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what do we do then, right, what do we do. How can
you design your outdoor living space tobring you that additional level of relaxation,
of stress, reduction, of anxietyreduction for your life. Bring birds into
your yard. Buy a bird feederby two, by ten, I don't
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know. We have one, two, three, we have four. We
have four bird feeders in our yardin addition to the fact that we have
large trees everywhere. Our yard isa bird song haven. And let me
tell you, it is beautiful.All you have to do, though,
is decide, you know what theprice that I would pay for a really
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great supplement. I'm just gonna shellthat out, shell it out in bird
seed every month and bring more birdsinto my life because my brain, my
physiology, my health, and thehealth of my family. We will all
love it. Whether we think aboutit or not, it will simply get
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the job done. That, myfriend, is the essence of biophilic design
in your outdoor space. All right, more on this when we return your
home. Dean Sharp, the housewhisper. Kay if I Dean Sharp,
the house whisper. Nothing like aMarriagie trumpet getting you going, Telly.
This is the stuff that my kidloves. This is the theme song to
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one of the video games that heloves, Undertail and it's tomorrow. Oh
my gosh, that's great. That'sgreat. Joey, by the way,
picking all of our music this morning, Sam sung doing all of our music.
Good job today, Joe and hewas happy about it. All right,
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y'all, we are talking Outdoor Livingtoday and tomorrow, two parts.
And if you're listening on the podcast, and why wouldn't you be, by
the way, you know, everyepisode we ever do, every program we
ever do, ends up in podcastform about an hour after we go off
the air. Actually, uh.And where can you find that podcast?
Of course on the free iHeartRadio app, but all so on wherever you listen
(24:02):
to your podcast, Apple Podcasts,Spotify, wherever your favorite podcasts are found.
You just go and search for Homewith Dean Sharp and boom there it
is. Hundreds of episodes. Itis a veritable home improvement reference library right
there waiting for You can listen anytimeyou want, day or night, anywhere
on planet Earth and probably off planetEarth as well, I would suppose,
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but I don't know that we haveany verification of that. Anyway, if
you're a podcast listener, it's goingto be today's this episode and the next
one, And if you're listening tous on the live broadcast right now wherever
you are in the country, it'stoday and tomorrow that we're talking about outdoor
living. And I'm taking a littlebit of a scientific approach this year because
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I always want you to understand theunderpinnings of design and why good design works
the way it does and why it'simportant. And there is nothing, nothing
more important about good design than workingwith the human condition to improve our welfare.
So I'm sliding in this relatively newalthough you're going to be hearing a
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lot more about. It's going tobe in the news. You're going to
hear it, and you're going tosee it in your design magazines. You're
going to see it in your guardeningmagazines. Biophilic design. It simply means
that we are becoming scientifically more andmore aware of the way that our designs
affect us in relationship to our relationshipwith nature, which we've been developing before
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millions of years, and yet inthe last one hundred years and then specifically
in the last maybe twenty or soyears, we have been taking a pretty
radical departure away from our daily contactwith nature, and as a result of
that, we're starting to see someproblems. We're starting to see stress levels,
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anxiety level, learning disorders, learningdisabilities, all sorts of things.
So let me throw you just acouple of more things before we are done
today, so you get a senseof it. And of course, in
tomorrow's program, in the Big Show, the Big three hour Show, will
continue this conversation, but we'll alsobe talking about here's what we can do.
Solve it. Solve it, solveit, solve it. So,
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yes, we're all chronic, incurablebiophiliacs. We have a connection to nature,
whether you like it or not.If you are living inside a human
body right now, that body islooking for its pre programmed, evolutionarily established
connection to nature. And if you'redenying it that then you're kind of suffocating
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yourself in a certain way. Sohere are a couple more. You go
out in the forest, right andeverybody's like, I don't know what it
is about walking through a forest,but it just I take a deep breath
and I feel more relaxed. Well, guess what, it's not just your
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emotions coming up with that. Thearoma of a pine forest is created by
certain compounds in the pine tree,certain turpines and other things. It's more
than just subjectively relaxing. The aromaticcompounds emitted by pine trees actually deepen your
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respiration by opening air passages, andthey also contain a mild sedative. So
yes, when you walk through apine forest and you smell that aroma,
you are in fact having the airpassage in Your lungs are dilating, they
are opening, You are breathing deeperyou are, and you are feeling more
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relaxed because you're also breathing in amild sedative. And so yeah, this
is nature. The reason why richpeople live in the big house on the
hill. The best explanation for thisis not just well it's nice. It's
a nice view. Well, yeah, it's a nice view. But why
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is a nice view a nice view? A nice view is a nice view
because up on top of the hillthe high ground, both from a a
tactics point of view, if you'rebeing attacked by anybody else or the other
village or as something like that oranimals, high ground high ground is better.
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Right, So the idea of thebig house on the hill the high
ground with the great view Yeah,it's a luxury. Of course it's a
luxury. But there's also something builtinto us as humans that wants to get
up to that top of that hilland wants to live up there, wants
to be able to see out andknow what's coming at you. That again
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is biophilia. That is our relationshipwith nature. All right, tomorrow,
we're solving all of these little problems. We're going to identify a few more
areas where we're going to talk aboutsite, sound, taste, touch,
texture and all of it. Andwe'll tell you, as a result,
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how do you arrange your outdoor spaceto maximize all of these benefits. And
can tell you what, Man,if you build the layer upon layer upon
layer in your backyard, you're goingto be living in what you yourself will
call eden back there truly truly abeautiful space that everybody's going to want to
spend time in. All right,more of that tomorrow. Until then,
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get yourself out there today and getbusy building yourself a beautiful life. We'll
see tomorrow. This has been Homewith Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
Tune into the live broadcast on KFIAM six forty every Saturday morning from six
to eight Pacific time, and everySunday morning from nine to noon Pacific time,
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