July 30, 2025 • 32 mins
Encino burglars using international crime ring tactics. A.I. is now taking orders at the fast-food drive-thru // Dean Sharp, The House Whisperer, talks about what to do with small spaces. // Dean Sharp, 33,740 sq feet is the largest home he has worked on—insta hot unit that preheats cooled off water.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. So Dean Sharp
is coming up for around six twenty six twenty two
that area, so we'll have him on.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
That'll be a cool guest.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
As always, Crime in the San Fernando Valley continues, The
Encino burglaries continue, and we had a Dodger Pitcher Yamamoto's
house was broken into while he's on the road with
the Los Angeles Dodgers playing Cincinnati and bang, somebody gets
into the back door, shadows a glass door and they're
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in the house. Fortunately they got spooked, someone turned the
light on. They took off before they got anything. But
yet it's another sign that we have not reached the
pinnacle of this. It is still happening every single day
right here it is. We'll do the Dodger Pitcher first,
and then the Encino burglars with Eric Leonard, who did
(01:01):
a great job over there at NBC. But first Dodger
Pitcher Yamamoto's house broken.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Into the LAPD responding to an attempted burglary earlier today
at the Hollywood Hills home owned by Dodger Pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
Private security responded to the break in before police arrived.
The back door glass shattered, but the suspects never got
into the house.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
No one was home at the time.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yamamoto is now with the Dodgers in Cincinnati. This is
the latest in a series of break ins at homes
of high profile athletes, including Patrick Mahomes and Lakers star
Luka Doncic when he was still playing for the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
It doesn't end well. Let's go to Encino.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Let's leave Hollywood, slide over to Encino and find out
if these continue. These break ins, these home burglaries continue
in the Encino Hills.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
The LAPD chief says it's possible groups of local burglars,
who it appears are responsible for many of these recent
break ins, have now adopted some techniques favored by so
called tourist burglars. The foreign groups that had been behind
dozens of home burglaries across southern California in recent years
and had been using their own surveillance cameras to pick
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out homes to target.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
They're replicating the tactics m of the South American burglary cruise,
using jammers, more sophisticated pre incident surveillance where they may
have cameras laid out on the property or on a
car parked on the street across from the target house
for a period of time to be able to determine
pattern of life, one person's going to be home, when
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they're going to be gone.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Chief Jim McDonald told the Board of Police Commissioners today
these groups of thieves suspected in a lot of these
recent cases have been caught with those Wi Fi jammers
that can disable some security cameras and systems, but he
says they've also been cutting telephone and internet or camera
cables and in some cases using this new tactic of
dropping a car off on the street with a camera
running inside to remotely case a home or neighborhood. He says,
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there's also a sophisticated network on the back and to
sell the stolen loot.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Man, oh man, they're good, they're sophisticated, and now they're
concentrating on Encino.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
They go after expensive handbags and jewelry and things that
are easily be for resale, and then the crews generally
transport that stolen property to a warehouse type arrangement very
organized and then distributed from there.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
In a number of notable burglaries in recent weeks, including
the break in at a home in Encino that led
to the murders of American Idol music supervisor Robin Kay
and her husband Tom de Luca. More burglaries have been
reported since then. During one, a homeowner fired a warning
shot and scared off the thieves. In another, we reported
last week, a homeowner's shot and wounded one of the burglars,
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who police say turned out to be a fourteen year
old boy who was later arrested and the laped has
provided some new data that shows there were about forty
more burglaries in the last few weeks compared with the
previous weeks. And that's significant because overall property and violent
crime rates have otherwise has been on a steady decline.
I'm investigative reporter Eric Leonard, NBC four News.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Back to you all right when they say a steady decline, here,
Eric Leonard.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Property and violent crime rates have otherwise been on a
steady decline.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I don't believe that.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I don't think that anybody listening to KFI believes that number.
I think that there are less burglaries being reported. I
don't think there are less burglaries. I think that that
there is popular now and as plentiful now as they
were at any time in the past.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
And I don't know what the answer is. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
They just can't seem to stop it. They can't seem
to even slow it down. But it certainly is unnerving.
I'll tell you that if you live up in the hills,
Studio City, Sherman Oaks and c Ando Tarzana, Woodland Hills,
they know where the money is. They know that flat
landers don't have a lot of dough. It's all up
in the mountains. And you got a beautiful car, and
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you got some jewelry, you got to safe in the
house might be next. And these people who live up
in the hills, they have alarms, they have spikes on
their gate, they have twelve foot gates, They got cameras everywhere,
they got lights everywhere. A lot of them have shutters,
metal shutters to put down over their windows when they're
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not home or home alone at night. And yet these
guys still break in every single night. And I don't
want the answers. We can't go on like this forever.
There's got to be you know, there's got to be
a way to stop this, and so far nobody's been
able to figure it out.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Nobody.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
All right, let's talk about fast food here. Next time
you go through a drive through at fast food, you
might be talking to AI. You might be talking to
somebody who has never been alive. Artificial intelligence might be
taking your order. And they say that the AI taking
your fast food order is better than human beings. They
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very seldom, if ever, get it wrong.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
It's an AI voice system and it takes orders clearly
and quickly.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Well, let me go to the big enning of this here.
Let's back up a little bit.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Order ready, please, The next time you visit a drive through,
you might be surprised who's taking your order. Honestly, it's the.
Speaker 9 (06:16):
Best tool we have ever gotten. I love it. Anything
else for you today, No, thank you, Hey, I've got it.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
At this Wiener Schnitzel in Pico.
Speaker 9 (06:23):
Rivera, we're known for literally cheese dog and.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
Taking your order isn't a person at all.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
She is so smart.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
She knows everything, everything from every menu item down to
the last one.
Speaker 9 (06:34):
Would you like barbecue ranch or buffalo dipping?
Speaker 8 (06:37):
Sat barbecue it's an AI voice system, and it takes
orders clearly and quickly.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Man if I were in charge of a fast food window,
I would be training to get some other gig. This
is going to be very quickly. They're going to change
and get rid of all of those people. If you
can do this with AI and it's that efficient and
it's that inexpensive, those jobs are going away, freeing up
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humans for other jobs.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
As soon as she's taking the order, she's greeting them,
she's upselling them.
Speaker 9 (07:09):
They're bagging, they're cooking, they're making the shape.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
The tech comes from a company called Presto. They're also
working with Carls Junior and Taco John's.
Speaker 10 (07:16):
So from a restaurant perspective, you get greater revenue or
greater check size, and you also have more efficient or
less labor costs, so you get a really significant impact.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
The AI can handle noisy backgrounds and changing environments.
Speaker 9 (07:28):
Twenty one ninety eight. You're all set, Please go ahead
and pull up.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Thank you laws system can that's just going to be
the way it sounds in the future. Our kids and
grandkids or grandkids, i should say, will may never speak
to a human being perfect through Yeah, for fast food.
It's it's it's all going to be you know, robots
and AI and.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
And it's just that's that's just the way it's going
to be.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You know, they don't have to pay the person twenty
two fifty an hour, they don't call in sick. They
can work for you know, twenty four hours a day,
seven days a week. And it's it's what's going to
be happening all these places.
Speaker 9 (08:04):
You're all sacked. Please go ahead and pull up.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Better, get used to that voice. You can hear it everywhere.
If you're a fast food fan like myself and step Foods.
Speaker 9 (08:12):
You're all sacked, Please go ahead and pull up.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (08:17):
What did you what did the the what did the
AI voicter say?
Speaker 9 (08:24):
They asked, leep, go ahead and pull up that right.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Before the he asked them to pull up.
Speaker 9 (08:28):
Yeah, let's see twenty one ninety eight. You're all sacked,
Please go ahead and pull up.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Oh, I thought she said you're all fat. She said,
you're all you're all set.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, let's say, well, yea, let's get the angel new headphones.
She said, he's got a fat phones on again. You're
all say it actually does sound that you're all fa
you're all set. Yeah, maybe she does that just to
insult human beings. Right, they're already into it. You're all sacked,
you're all fat. Hell out of here.
Speaker 9 (08:57):
Please go ahead and pull up, Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 10 (09:00):
Bars system can now do things such as coupons or
special offers or very complicated combos.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, you're all fat, You're all fat.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
It's also really good at up selling thanks to built
in predictive analytics.
Speaker 10 (09:15):
Humans are actually pretty inconsistent and quite.
Speaker 9 (09:17):
Bad up selling.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Our up cells have increased immediately, like.
Speaker 9 (09:19):
So much already.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
When I tried it myself, the system was friendly, but
not exactly playful and not overly robotic. It understood my order,
moved quickly, and yes, upsold me on an all beef dog.
Speaker 9 (09:31):
Would you like to agree to a one all beef dog?
Speaker 8 (09:34):
Oh for sure, I've got my first ever Wiener Stitzel
hot dog.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Look, if Wiener Schnitzel is going AI, they're all going,
all of them.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
That's pretty tasty.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
Of course, there's still the big question. Will this new
AI take jobs from humans?
Speaker 11 (09:52):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yes, I can answer that. Sitting here in Burbank, not
ever spending a second working in.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
The fast food place, I would.
Speaker 12 (10:01):
I don't know about the other ones, but they definitely
upsell you on wider Stitzel. They asked me if I
want the all all premium beef dog every single time? Yeah,
so maybe that one is a bad example, but yeah, yeah,
do you go for the upgrade?
Speaker 11 (10:14):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
It depends how I feel. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
They always ask the chili is really good there? Yeah,
it's actually not bad chili. Fat Burger's got great chili,
Wendy says, king. Yeah, and we Windnership's pretty good. Winter
stitz is pretty good.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
But the chili will this new AI take jobs from humans?
Speaker 10 (10:32):
A lot of what we talk about is labor redistribution,
not labor replacement.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Yeah, it's over.
Speaker 11 (10:38):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demyan from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Dean Sharp is a very popular show here on Saturday
from six am to eight am, and then right back
on Sunday for three hours from nine am until noon.
And he joins us, Dean, how.
Speaker 13 (10:55):
You bub I'm good, I'm good. How are you, buddy?
I'm doing great.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
I of this topic of being able to utilize a
small room, I think a lot of people have these
rooms that turn into big closets, or they keep paper
towels or maybe extra food or jackets during the winter
in there, and they're not used properly. I love the
idea of turning that into something you can use on
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a daily basis, or you know, maybe a little screening
room or a game room or something exactly.
Speaker 13 (11:26):
There are so many things that can be done with
a small room if you know how to do it right.
And let's face it, you know, we see all the
you know, Kardashians and all the big houses on TV
all the time, but the reality is most of us
have normal, too smaller sized rooms. And I got to
tell you you know what, that's when every inch counts
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and a design you know, I spend my time a
lot of my time designing mansions. Mansions do not have
to plan space all that well. And you've got when
you've got ten thousands square feet you're working at, You're like, well,
I don't know, should the hallway be seven feet wide
or eight? I don't know, But I'll tell you what.
Where you have to plan space RVs R. Yeah, have
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to plan every half inch of space. And that's you know,
a radical example. But the point is, the smaller the
space the more disciplined our design has to be to
make it work.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
And what are people doing? Can you make a screening
room in something that smaller? Or is that too small?
You can't get far enough from the screen.
Speaker 13 (12:29):
No, no, you know it's all relative. It's really all relative, now,
you know. I mean, you can't have a great screening
room in like an eight by eight you know, closet.
But but it's all relative.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
You know.
Speaker 13 (12:41):
We're so used to thinking again, like, oh, you know
I need to have the the eight foot diagonal flat
screen to have a really you know, big screening reality.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
But here's the thing. If you have ever sat like.
Speaker 13 (12:54):
In a room where the where the TV, nice big
TV is like fifteen feet away. Right, hold up, you
pick up your phone, all right, put on a put
it on landscape mode, so you're watching a movie on
your iPhone, and just hold it a couple of feet
away from your face and see if it isn't true
that that iPhone, relatively speaking, is the same size as
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the screen that is fifteen feet away. So the point is,
we just got a planet, right, A smaller TV. It's fine.
The smaller screen can still give you a really immersive experience.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
A right, Dean sharpens with us.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I always heard that the molding on a home, whether
it's you know, on the floor up on the ceiling,
makes the room look bigger.
Speaker 13 (13:36):
Is that true? Well, it all depends, It all depends.
Floor molding always helps a room get bigger. Base base molding, okay,
it's always a great idea. And most people are shocked
when I say, I don't care if you've got an
eight foot ceiling, you should have seven inch tall baseboard
in your room. Okay, Really, we use the rule of
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seven percent. That is seven percent of the height of
the wall. That's right about where the height of your
baseboard should be. Most people have tiny, puny, way undersized baseboards. However,
at the top of a wall, if you've got an
eight foot ceiling, it's already, you know, a relatively low ceiling.
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This is not the place where we should run the
crown molding, okay, because molding is something that draws attention
to itself, and a crown mold in a short room
with a short ceiling is only going to emphasize the
fact that that ceiling is only up eight feet tall.
What I do love to do if an owner is
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really really wanting to put a molding on. I love
to use a dry walled in cove molding, which is
just arounding. It's just rounding that corner of the ceiling
to the wall. It's kind of like a psych screen
like you know that we use for photo shoots and
things like that, where you see somebody in the back
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and there's no horizon, right, they're standing in front of
a curved screen that they're actually standing on the screen,
and then it curves up and goes horizontally on the wall,
so you can't see how big the room is behind them.
And the same is true with a really nice cove molding.
At the top of an eight foot wall, you lose
the perspective of where the wall ends and the ceiling begins.
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And that's always good news for a shorter ceiling, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Dean Sharvis with us.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I always heard that in a small room you have
to be conscious of every inch of course, and that
the door opening into that room is going to take up,
you know, some square footage that you won't be able
to use otherwise. Maybe a sliding door barn door is perfect.
Barn door works if.
Speaker 13 (15:44):
You don't need a whole lot of sound safetre in
the room or privacy because you know, they're a little
leaky when it comes to sound. But barn doors work great.
And by the way, barn doors don't have to be
you know, old barney, you know, woodsy looking. We've got
so super contemporary technical barn doors where you don't even
see the hardware. It's just the blank of the door
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sliding on the wall. Or a pocket door is a
great use for a wall into a small room because
then you don't have the door swing again.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, the pocket doors you know, something you would see
on a on a cabinet in the kitchen where you
keep food and stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
That's interesting. Yeah.
Speaker 13 (16:23):
No, I got to say this about pocket doors because
I know there are just like thousands of people just
cringed when I said pocket door because they're like, yeah,
I got one of those in my house near the
laundry room.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
We haven't opened it in thirty years. Yeah, exactly, it's crap.
Pocket doors are crap, not true, not true.
Speaker 13 (16:39):
I just want everybody to know in defensive pocket doors,
it's not the door, it's the cheap builder hardware that
got built into your home. There is great I mean
great pocket door hardware out there, Johnson Hardware fifteen hundred
series gonna cost you about two hundred bucks for the
pocket and the rollers soft open off close. It will
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never come off its track and it will be rolling
back and forth forty fifty seventy.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Years from now. Wow, that's a great idea, you know.
That's the perfect idea for those small rooms are Can you.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Stay with us? Sure? All right?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Dean Sharp is with us every Saturday morning six to
eight am, Sunday morning nine am to noon on KFI
and on COG in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
So the show's expanding. It's great.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
A lot of guys like to listen to it, and
we're talking about small rooms and how to utilize them
so to give you more fun in the house instead
of using it as a closet.
Speaker 11 (17:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Dean Sharp is on every Saturday morning from six am
to eight am and then Sunday from nine am until
noon on KFI here in Los Angeles and COGO in
San Diego, and he joins us, Dean, I got a
question for you, since you work on these big homes,
what's the biggest home you've ever been responsible for, either
designing or building bedrooms? Wise, have you worked on like
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a ten bedroom joint?
Speaker 13 (18:03):
Thirty three thousand seven and forty square feet?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Wait a minute, wait thirty three seven forty yeap, Holy smokes?
How long did that take?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Took? Four years?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Is it close to the ocean? No?
Speaker 13 (18:22):
No, it's actually in it's it's just just above the
the Beverly Hills Hotel on Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Oh, I think I may have seen that house in fact.
Speaker 13 (18:33):
In fact, for those of you who are familiar with
the original movie Get Shorty right, Okay, Danny DeVito his home.
He was a you know, he was a He was
playing a big famous actor that John Travolta wanted to
get into one of his pictures. In the movie, you
can see that house. You can see the interiors of
that house in the original Gets short.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Let me ask you a question. Is it visible while
driving on Beverly Glenn?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
No? Okay, then I have not seen it.
Speaker 10 (19:01):
No.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
No, it's on a loop.
Speaker 13 (19:03):
Crescent Drive loops up above the Beverly Hills Hotel and
then returns back down, so it's kind of on its
own thing.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Oh, I think I have seen that. Then, I have
seen that house, and it did take a long time
to build.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
It's a beast. Yeah, it was a beast. But how
long ago is that? It was a while ago, wasn't it. Oh? Yeah,
that was a while ago.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, because I used to work in Beverly Hills at
Revel Travel and I used to see constant people working
in trucks driving through that area.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yep, yep, that's that big one huge.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I mean, how many AC compressors are on a thing
like that?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
There must be a dozen, there are ten? Ten?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Cod How does that all work out? Are there's ten
different units inside? Or ten compressors feeding one big unit?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
No?
Speaker 13 (19:47):
No, no, ten separate large scale units sitting on the roof.
It's just a flat roof house with a parapet around it.
And so we were able to get all the units
up on the roof. You can't see him. You can
see him from a helicopter, but you can't see him
anywhere from the street.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
That must have been a while ago. I don't think
they allow those on the roofs anymore, at least in Burbank.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
They don't.
Speaker 13 (20:08):
Uh, I don't know, I don't know where we stand
with rooftop package units in Beverly Hills. But yeah, it
was a it was a thing, I tell you. The
scariest part. We actually we delayed building the swimming pool.
We made the entire swimming pool, the grotto and the
bridge out of multi ton granite boulders, okay, and we
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delayed doing the pool until the house. The house was
eighty percent done, and I had to have a crane lift,
you know, craning boulders over my house. Oh man, howat
yard to place them at the pool.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
How nervous? Most stressful three days of that entire project
for me.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, one slips up and it's you know, four hundred
thousand dollars worth of damage and another.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Year straight on through.
Speaker 13 (20:55):
It's got an indoor pool, outdoor pool, the bowling alley, wine, small.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Rifle range at the bottom. It's got a lot going
on there.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
And how's that big thirty three thousand, seven hundred and
forty square feet? Do they have one big tankless water heater?
Do they have a dozen of them?
Speaker 8 (21:12):
Now?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Well, this is back in the day.
Speaker 13 (21:14):
We actually this was pre tankless out there are I
can't I don't remember how many water heaters.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
But believe me, there are a lot of them.
Speaker 13 (21:21):
There are instant hots under every sink in every bedroom,
guest suites, all on sweet baths, and uh yeah, so
hot water is only a half a second away no
matter what faucet you go to. That's just what you
get at that level.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Okay, for people everybody else in the world that can't
afford thirty three thousand, seven hundred and forty square feet,
what is that immediate? What did you mention underneath the
sink for immediate hot water?
Speaker 13 (21:47):
An instant hot, an insta hot, insta hot is a
is a plug in little electric unit that preheats the
already cooled off hot water. And but it does is
it's set up to basically feed you, yeah, about sixty
seconds to two minutes worth of piping hot water until
the real hot water from the water heater actually arrives.
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So you don't actually notice that you're waiting for the water,
the hot water to arrive because the instant hot takes
care of that first two minute run. Oh that's a
great idea and saves water and in time and everything.
But when but you would feel when they where the
new hot water is kicking in is there any late
latency where it's like, oh, here's two seconds of cold
water before you get the new hot water.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
No, No, it works pretty well.
Speaker 13 (22:31):
They're all caulcked out pretty pretty close right on the measure,
and the instant hot senses the water and adjusts the temperature,
so you just don't even notice the transition.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Can you retrofit those?
Speaker 9 (22:43):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yeah? Are the expensive?
Speaker 4 (22:46):
You know?
Speaker 13 (22:46):
You know, I haven't checked on a price in the
last six months, but we do them pretty often. I'm
saying there about a five hundred dollars unit. That's easy,
that's great. Yeah, it's about five five to seven hundred.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I think one thing that I always I always identify
wealthy people that are different from you know, average people
are two things. One if they have a dedicated screening room,
a dedicated theater where they use it just for a theater.
And the other one is a water spigot over the stove. See,
when you're filling pots of water, you don't have to
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carry it from the sink.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, I got a story to tell you about that,
was that? Right?
Speaker 13 (23:25):
So I was building a house that we were designing
for spec a twelve thousand square foot house in Brentwood Park,
and this was this was way back. This is the
very first house I ever had full design control over.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Oh that's cool.
Speaker 13 (23:38):
And right around the corner from OJ's house, literally like
four houses away from OJ's house, around the corner on Rockingham,
and we had this weird idea to I'm not saying
I invented this, because this was already in executive kitchens, okay,
but we had this idea, my boss and I, we
should put a pasta pot filler in this kitchen, okay,
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one over the cook top. And so I went looking
and in every executive kitchen in LA at the time,
they were all using just weird plumbing that just would
not work attractively for a residence. I ended up finding
a and no manufacturer was making them. You couldn't pock
a Cohler or Mowing. Nobody had them. No one had them.
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And so I ended up using one of those janitors
closet like school closet faucets, the one that had the
little hinge in the middle of the faucet. Yeah, but
we took it out and we had it stripped down,
we had it plated with brushed nickel. It cost us
fifteen hundred Bucks to have it plated in brush nickel,
and we hung it over and the day that we
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opened it up to the first band of realtors who
came through, they were just goga and they were just like,
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Look at what they've got over the kitchen. This is
an executive kitchen.
Speaker 13 (24:54):
And now now you know, every plumbing manufacturer has a
pasta pot filler part of their design, you know, scheme.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
So you were like the the shoes sayer, the trendsetter,
the other.
Speaker 13 (25:06):
I am not saying I invented it, because again, it
was in every executive kitchen, but as far as West
La is concerned, we had never actually seen one used
in a home, and we just figured out how to
do it, and yeah, it became a thing.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
You don't be a great TV show, And I was
thinking about this over the last couple of weeks and
this just reminded me of it. But for guys like
you to go back into, you know, twenty thirty forty
years ago when you first started and take a look
at how that house is now, I think that'd be
a great series.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
It would be.
Speaker 13 (25:39):
It would be a depressing one, I guess because a
lot of them have been changed and altered away from
where to go, and it'd be like, oh, really, come on,
come on, that's great, buddy.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I appreciate you coming on, and we'll be listening this weekend.
Thanks Tim, all right, thanks man?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Are there?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
He goes Dean Sharp every Saturday and Sunday right here
on KFI Sunday, I believe, both days, also on Coco
as well in San Diego. Great show and you got
to check it out. Saturday six am to eight am,
and then Sunday at nine am until noon.
Speaker 11 (26:13):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
The Chargers are back on KFI. Yep, we're in NFL station.
And tomorrow's Hall of Fame game against the Detroit Lions
will be live on KFI starting at four pm. Pregame
four to five and the game will start from five
till eight thirty, quarter to nine, and then Moe Kelly
(26:42):
come on at nine o'clock. You're gonna feel you're gonna
hear familiar voice. Matt money Smith does the play by play,
So you're gonna hear Matt money Smith tomorrow here on KFI.
But that Hall of Fame game is a big game
starting off the NFL season every year.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Yeah, Charger fans excited to see the Power Blue. They're
on the field and cant and Ohio tomorrow night. Most
of the league will play their first preseason game beginning
next Thursday. Through the league is since Chargers legendary tight
end Antonio Gates has been inducted into the Pro Football
Hall of Fame, the Boats will play in the Hall
of Fame game tomorrow night against the Lions. Both the
Chargers and the Lions will play four preseason games, while
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the rest of.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
The league will play three.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
It'll be the first NFL game in five months since
Super Bowl fifty nine.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Oh, that's great. The NFL is back, baby, and it
all starts tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
And not sure if this is a good momen for
the Bolts. Last time they played in the Hall of
Fame game back in nineteen ninety four. That's the year
they advanced to the only Super Bowl in franchise history,
where they lost to the forty nine Ers. Despite the
extra preseason game, coach Jim Harbau treating this camp like
any other.
Speaker 14 (27:50):
We've really tried to make it reflect the typical training
camp in terms of volume, workload, meeting time. You know,
for example, if it was the first ten days, we're
eleven hour days, they're nine hour days. Now, volume of
practice two and a half hour practice is an hour
and forty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Oh, they're cutting down. Players got to love that. That's great.
Speaker 14 (28:13):
So we've factored it in to not get too much.
I get too little either, you know.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Throughout the history of the video game Mad in NFL,
no player has been named to the exclusive ninety nine
club more than former Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald. He
achieved the perfect ninety nine overall rating, our record seven times.
Peyton Manning is second with six ninety nine clubs, and
the league might be in trouble this year. Both Bill's
quarterback Josh Allen and Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson both with
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ninety nine ratings. Not Patrick Mahomes. How will he react?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
A couple of.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Eagles making the ninety nine club running back Saquon Barkley
and right tackle Lane Johnson receivers also in the club,
Vikings Justin Jefferson and the Bengals Jamar Chase. No defensive
players last year in the club, but the Browns Miles
Garrett getting in this year. The complete list out of
the players ratings coming out on Sunday and Madden twenty
six releasing their rookie ratings. Here are the Rams top
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five rookie ratings. Half Back fourth round pick Jarquez Hunter
is tied with a third round linebacker Josiah Stewart with
a seventy two rating. Defensive tackle Tie Hamilton's seventy one.
Wide receiver Connatel Mumpfield and tight end Terrence ferguson the
Rams top picks in last year's draft, both with a
sixty nine. As for the charge of rookies, half back
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in the Chargers top pick Omarion Hampton gets a seventy seven.
Wide Receiver Tray Harris comes in with a seventy two.
Defensive tackle Jamari Caldwell, along with wide receiver KeAndre Lambert
Smith both with his seventy rating, and defensive end Kyle
Cannard round out the top five.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
All Right, So the NFL, you know, having a Sunday
where there's nineteen games on there's a game on Monday,
there's game on Thursday, and then Sunday is full of games.
We are back. There are four short weeks and you've
seen how quickly. These past four weeks have gone four weeks.
Was July fourth, right around there, right right around the
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first of July, second July, fourth of July.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
That was a month ago.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
So in a quick month, we're gonna have NFL games,
meaningful you know season NFL games, not preseason, but you
know actual season games, actual you know games on every
single Thursday, Sunday and Monday. The regular season games will
be on in about a month, which is fantastic, all right.
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A noise ordinance out in Temecula. There's that much noise
in Temecula.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Oh, you're right.
Speaker 15 (30:49):
The band those guys cover a Beastie Boys party anthem
has become a rallying cry against the city of Temecula's
noise ordinance.
Speaker 13 (30:56):
I mean, on any given night, it can be three hundred,
fifty to four undred people and it's just the vibe,
especially here at.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Bailey's is just at an all time high.
Speaker 15 (31:03):
Well, last month, the band's regular gigs at local hotspot
Bailey's Old Town dried up. The owners canceled all live
entertainment for the rest of the year after racking up
more than twenty thousand dollars in Fine.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Oh no, that's horrible. I thought Temecula is a party town.
Speaker 15 (31:20):
For violating the city's noise ordinance.
Speaker 13 (31:22):
That's the point where we just decided enough is enough.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
We can't do it right now, so we canceled over fifty.
Speaker 12 (31:28):
Thousand dollars in live entertainment contracts for the rest of
the year.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Oh that's horrible.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
I love Temecula. I thought, man, you guys were parting
twenty four hours a day. I guess there are some
older folks out there that don't like the noise. All right,
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It's KFI AM sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. So Dean Sharp
is coming up for around six twenty six twenty two
that area, so we'll have him on.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
That'll be a cool guest.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
As always, Crime in the San Fernando Valley continues, The
Encino burglaries continue, and we had a Dodger Pitcher Yamamoto's
house was broken into while he's on the road with
the Los Angeles Dodgers playing Cincinnati and bang, somebody gets
into the back door, shadows a glass door and they're
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in the house. Fortunately they got spooked, someone turned the
light on. They took off before they got anything. But
yet it's another sign that we have not reached the
pinnacle of this. It is still happening every single day
right here it is. We'll do the Dodger Pitcher first,
and then the Encino burglars with Eric Leonard, who did
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a great job over there at NBC. But first Dodger
Pitcher Yamamoto's house broken.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Into the LAPD responding to an attempted burglary earlier today
at the Hollywood Hills home owned by Dodger Pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
Private security responded to the break in before police arrived.
The back door glass shattered, but the suspects never got
into the house.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
No one was home at the time.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yamamoto is now with the Dodgers in Cincinnati. This is
the latest in a series of break ins at homes
of high profile athletes, including Patrick Mahomes and Lakers star
Luka Doncic when he was still playing for the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
It doesn't end well. Let's go to Encino.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Let's leave Hollywood, slide over to Encino and find out
if these continue. These break ins, these home burglaries continue
in the Encino Hills.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
The LAPD chief says it's possible groups of local burglars,
who it appears are responsible for many of these recent
break ins, have now adopted some techniques favored by so
called tourist burglars. The foreign groups that had been behind
dozens of home burglaries across southern California in recent years
and had been using their own surveillance cameras to pick
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out homes to target.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
They're replicating the tactics m of the South American burglary cruise,
using jammers, more sophisticated pre incident surveillance where they may
have cameras laid out on the property or on a
car parked on the street across from the target house
for a period of time to be able to determine
pattern of life, one person's going to be home, when
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they're going to be gone.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Chief Jim McDonald told the Board of Police Commissioners today
these groups of thieves suspected in a lot of these
recent cases have been caught with those Wi Fi jammers
that can disable some security cameras and systems, but he
says they've also been cutting telephone and internet or camera
cables and in some cases using this new tactic of
dropping a car off on the street with a camera
running inside to remotely case a home or neighborhood. He says,
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there's also a sophisticated network on the back and to
sell the stolen loot.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Man, oh man, they're good, they're sophisticated, and now they're
concentrating on Encino.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
They go after expensive handbags and jewelry and things that
are easily be for resale, and then the crews generally
transport that stolen property to a warehouse type arrangement very
organized and then distributed from there.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
In a number of notable burglaries in recent weeks, including
the break in at a home in Encino that led
to the murders of American Idol music supervisor Robin Kay
and her husband Tom de Luca. More burglaries have been
reported since then. During one, a homeowner fired a warning
shot and scared off the thieves. In another, we reported
last week, a homeowner's shot and wounded one of the burglars,
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who police say turned out to be a fourteen year
old boy who was later arrested and the laped has
provided some new data that shows there were about forty
more burglaries in the last few weeks compared with the
previous weeks. And that's significant because overall property and violent
crime rates have otherwise has been on a steady decline.
I'm investigative reporter Eric Leonard, NBC four News.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Back to you all right when they say a steady decline, here,
Eric Leonard.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Property and violent crime rates have otherwise been on a
steady decline.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I don't believe that.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I don't think that anybody listening to KFI believes that number.
I think that there are less burglaries being reported. I
don't think there are less burglaries. I think that that
there is popular now and as plentiful now as they
were at any time in the past.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
And I don't know what the answer is. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
They just can't seem to stop it. They can't seem
to even slow it down. But it certainly is unnerving.
I'll tell you that if you live up in the hills,
Studio City, Sherman Oaks and c Ando Tarzana, Woodland Hills,
they know where the money is. They know that flat
landers don't have a lot of dough. It's all up
in the mountains. And you got a beautiful car, and
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you got some jewelry, you got to safe in the
house might be next. And these people who live up
in the hills, they have alarms, they have spikes on
their gate, they have twelve foot gates, They got cameras everywhere,
they got lights everywhere. A lot of them have shutters,
metal shutters to put down over their windows when they're
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not home or home alone at night. And yet these
guys still break in every single night. And I don't
want the answers. We can't go on like this forever.
There's got to be you know, there's got to be
a way to stop this, and so far nobody's been
able to figure it out.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Nobody.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
All right, let's talk about fast food here. Next time
you go through a drive through at fast food, you
might be talking to AI. You might be talking to
somebody who has never been alive. Artificial intelligence might be
taking your order. And they say that the AI taking
your fast food order is better than human beings. They
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very seldom, if ever, get it wrong.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
It's an AI voice system and it takes orders clearly
and quickly.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Well, let me go to the big enning of this here.
Let's back up a little bit.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Order ready, please, The next time you visit a drive through,
you might be surprised who's taking your order. Honestly, it's the.
Speaker 9 (06:16):
Best tool we have ever gotten. I love it. Anything
else for you today, No, thank you, Hey, I've got it.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
At this Wiener Schnitzel in Pico.
Speaker 9 (06:23):
Rivera, we're known for literally cheese dog and.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
Taking your order isn't a person at all.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
She is so smart.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
She knows everything, everything from every menu item down to
the last one.
Speaker 9 (06:34):
Would you like barbecue ranch or buffalo dipping?
Speaker 8 (06:37):
Sat barbecue it's an AI voice system, and it takes
orders clearly and quickly.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Man if I were in charge of a fast food window,
I would be training to get some other gig. This
is going to be very quickly. They're going to change
and get rid of all of those people. If you
can do this with AI and it's that efficient and
it's that inexpensive, those jobs are going away, freeing up
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humans for other jobs.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
As soon as she's taking the order, she's greeting them,
she's upselling them.
Speaker 9 (07:09):
They're bagging, they're cooking, they're making the shape.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
The tech comes from a company called Presto. They're also
working with Carls Junior and Taco John's.
Speaker 10 (07:16):
So from a restaurant perspective, you get greater revenue or
greater check size, and you also have more efficient or
less labor costs, so you get a really significant impact.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
The AI can handle noisy backgrounds and changing environments.
Speaker 9 (07:28):
Twenty one ninety eight. You're all set, Please go ahead
and pull up.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Thank you laws system can that's just going to be
the way it sounds in the future. Our kids and
grandkids or grandkids, i should say, will may never speak
to a human being perfect through Yeah, for fast food.
It's it's it's all going to be you know, robots
and AI and.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
And it's just that's that's just the way it's going
to be.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You know, they don't have to pay the person twenty
two fifty an hour, they don't call in sick. They
can work for you know, twenty four hours a day,
seven days a week. And it's it's what's going to
be happening all these places.
Speaker 9 (08:04):
You're all sacked. Please go ahead and pull up.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Better, get used to that voice. You can hear it everywhere.
If you're a fast food fan like myself and step Foods.
Speaker 9 (08:12):
You're all sacked, Please go ahead and pull up.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (08:17):
What did you what did the the what did the
AI voicter say?
Speaker 9 (08:24):
They asked, leep, go ahead and pull up that right.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Before the he asked them to pull up.
Speaker 9 (08:28):
Yeah, let's see twenty one ninety eight. You're all sacked,
Please go ahead and pull up.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Oh, I thought she said you're all fat. She said,
you're all you're all set.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, let's say, well, yea, let's get the angel new headphones.
She said, he's got a fat phones on again. You're
all say it actually does sound that you're all fa
you're all set. Yeah, maybe she does that just to
insult human beings. Right, they're already into it. You're all sacked,
you're all fat. Hell out of here.
Speaker 9 (08:57):
Please go ahead and pull up, Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 10 (09:00):
Bars system can now do things such as coupons or
special offers or very complicated combos.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, you're all fat, You're all fat.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
It's also really good at up selling thanks to built
in predictive analytics.
Speaker 10 (09:15):
Humans are actually pretty inconsistent and quite.
Speaker 9 (09:17):
Bad up selling.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Our up cells have increased immediately, like.
Speaker 9 (09:19):
So much already.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
When I tried it myself, the system was friendly, but
not exactly playful and not overly robotic. It understood my order,
moved quickly, and yes, upsold me on an all beef dog.
Speaker 9 (09:31):
Would you like to agree to a one all beef dog?
Speaker 8 (09:34):
Oh for sure, I've got my first ever Wiener Stitzel
hot dog.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Look, if Wiener Schnitzel is going AI, they're all going,
all of them.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
That's pretty tasty.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
Of course, there's still the big question. Will this new
AI take jobs from humans?
Speaker 11 (09:52):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yes, I can answer that. Sitting here in Burbank, not
ever spending a second working in.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
The fast food place, I would.
Speaker 12 (10:01):
I don't know about the other ones, but they definitely
upsell you on wider Stitzel. They asked me if I
want the all all premium beef dog every single time? Yeah,
so maybe that one is a bad example, but yeah, yeah,
do you go for the upgrade?
Speaker 11 (10:14):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
It depends how I feel. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
They always ask the chili is really good there? Yeah,
it's actually not bad chili. Fat Burger's got great chili,
Wendy says, king. Yeah, and we Windnership's pretty good. Winter
stitz is pretty good.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
But the chili will this new AI take jobs from humans?
Speaker 10 (10:32):
A lot of what we talk about is labor redistribution,
not labor replacement.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Yeah, it's over.
Speaker 11 (10:38):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demyan from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Dean Sharp is a very popular show here on Saturday
from six am to eight am, and then right back
on Sunday for three hours from nine am until noon.
And he joins us, Dean, how.
Speaker 13 (10:55):
You bub I'm good, I'm good. How are you, buddy?
I'm doing great.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
I of this topic of being able to utilize a
small room, I think a lot of people have these
rooms that turn into big closets, or they keep paper
towels or maybe extra food or jackets during the winter
in there, and they're not used properly. I love the
idea of turning that into something you can use on
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a daily basis, or you know, maybe a little screening
room or a game room or something exactly.
Speaker 13 (11:26):
There are so many things that can be done with
a small room if you know how to do it right.
And let's face it, you know, we see all the
you know, Kardashians and all the big houses on TV
all the time, but the reality is most of us
have normal, too smaller sized rooms. And I got to
tell you you know what, that's when every inch counts
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and a design you know, I spend my time a
lot of my time designing mansions. Mansions do not have
to plan space all that well. And you've got when
you've got ten thousands square feet you're working at, You're like, well,
I don't know, should the hallway be seven feet wide
or eight? I don't know, But I'll tell you what.
Where you have to plan space RVs R. Yeah, have
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to plan every half inch of space. And that's you know,
a radical example. But the point is, the smaller the
space the more disciplined our design has to be to
make it work.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
And what are people doing? Can you make a screening
room in something that smaller? Or is that too small?
You can't get far enough from the screen.
Speaker 13 (12:29):
No, no, you know it's all relative. It's really all relative, now,
you know. I mean, you can't have a great screening
room in like an eight by eight you know, closet.
But but it's all relative.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
You know.
Speaker 13 (12:41):
We're so used to thinking again, like, oh, you know
I need to have the the eight foot diagonal flat
screen to have a really you know, big screening reality.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
But here's the thing. If you have ever sat like.
Speaker 13 (12:54):
In a room where the where the TV, nice big
TV is like fifteen feet away. Right, hold up, you
pick up your phone, all right, put on a put
it on landscape mode, so you're watching a movie on
your iPhone, and just hold it a couple of feet
away from your face and see if it isn't true
that that iPhone, relatively speaking, is the same size as
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the screen that is fifteen feet away. So the point is,
we just got a planet, right, A smaller TV. It's fine.
The smaller screen can still give you a really immersive experience.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
A right, Dean sharpens with us.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I always heard that the molding on a home, whether
it's you know, on the floor up on the ceiling,
makes the room look bigger.
Speaker 13 (13:36):
Is that true? Well, it all depends, It all depends.
Floor molding always helps a room get bigger. Base base molding, okay,
it's always a great idea. And most people are shocked
when I say, I don't care if you've got an
eight foot ceiling, you should have seven inch tall baseboard
in your room. Okay, Really, we use the rule of
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seven percent. That is seven percent of the height of
the wall. That's right about where the height of your
baseboard should be. Most people have tiny, puny, way undersized baseboards. However,
at the top of a wall, if you've got an
eight foot ceiling, it's already, you know, a relatively low ceiling.
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This is not the place where we should run the
crown molding, okay, because molding is something that draws attention
to itself, and a crown mold in a short room
with a short ceiling is only going to emphasize the
fact that that ceiling is only up eight feet tall.
What I do love to do if an owner is
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really really wanting to put a molding on. I love
to use a dry walled in cove molding, which is
just arounding. It's just rounding that corner of the ceiling
to the wall. It's kind of like a psych screen
like you know that we use for photo shoots and
things like that, where you see somebody in the back
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and there's no horizon, right, they're standing in front of
a curved screen that they're actually standing on the screen,
and then it curves up and goes horizontally on the wall,
so you can't see how big the room is behind them.
And the same is true with a really nice cove molding.
At the top of an eight foot wall, you lose
the perspective of where the wall ends and the ceiling begins.
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And that's always good news for a shorter ceiling, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Dean Sharvis with us.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I always heard that in a small room you have
to be conscious of every inch of course, and that
the door opening into that room is going to take up,
you know, some square footage that you won't be able
to use otherwise. Maybe a sliding door barn door is perfect.
Barn door works if.
Speaker 13 (15:44):
You don't need a whole lot of sound safetre in
the room or privacy because you know, they're a little
leaky when it comes to sound. But barn doors work great.
And by the way, barn doors don't have to be
you know, old barney, you know, woodsy looking. We've got
so super contemporary technical barn doors where you don't even
see the hardware. It's just the blank of the door
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sliding on the wall. Or a pocket door is a
great use for a wall into a small room because
then you don't have the door swing again.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, the pocket doors you know, something you would see
on a on a cabinet in the kitchen where you
keep food and stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
That's interesting. Yeah.
Speaker 13 (16:23):
No, I got to say this about pocket doors because
I know there are just like thousands of people just
cringed when I said pocket door because they're like, yeah,
I got one of those in my house near the
laundry room.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
We haven't opened it in thirty years. Yeah, exactly, it's crap.
Pocket doors are crap, not true, not true.
Speaker 13 (16:39):
I just want everybody to know in defensive pocket doors,
it's not the door, it's the cheap builder hardware that
got built into your home. There is great I mean
great pocket door hardware out there, Johnson Hardware fifteen hundred
series gonna cost you about two hundred bucks for the
pocket and the rollers soft open off close. It will
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never come off its track and it will be rolling
back and forth forty fifty seventy.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Years from now. Wow, that's a great idea, you know.
That's the perfect idea for those small rooms are Can you.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Stay with us? Sure? All right?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Dean Sharp is with us every Saturday morning six to
eight am, Sunday morning nine am to noon on KFI
and on COG in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
So the show's expanding. It's great.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
A lot of guys like to listen to it, and
we're talking about small rooms and how to utilize them
so to give you more fun in the house instead
of using it as a closet.
Speaker 11 (17:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Dean Sharp is on every Saturday morning from six am
to eight am and then Sunday from nine am until
noon on KFI here in Los Angeles and COGO in
San Diego, and he joins us, Dean, I got a
question for you, since you work on these big homes,
what's the biggest home you've ever been responsible for, either
designing or building bedrooms? Wise, have you worked on like
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a ten bedroom joint?
Speaker 13 (18:03):
Thirty three thousand seven and forty square feet?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Wait a minute, wait thirty three seven forty yeap, Holy smokes?
How long did that take?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Took? Four years?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Is it close to the ocean? No?
Speaker 13 (18:22):
No, it's actually in it's it's just just above the
the Beverly Hills Hotel on Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Oh, I think I may have seen that house in fact.
Speaker 13 (18:33):
In fact, for those of you who are familiar with
the original movie Get Shorty right, Okay, Danny DeVito his home.
He was a you know, he was a He was
playing a big famous actor that John Travolta wanted to
get into one of his pictures. In the movie, you
can see that house. You can see the interiors of
that house in the original Gets short.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Let me ask you a question. Is it visible while
driving on Beverly Glenn?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
No? Okay, then I have not seen it.
Speaker 10 (19:01):
No.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
No, it's on a loop.
Speaker 13 (19:03):
Crescent Drive loops up above the Beverly Hills Hotel and
then returns back down, so it's kind of on its
own thing.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Oh, I think I have seen that. Then, I have
seen that house, and it did take a long time
to build.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
It's a beast. Yeah, it was a beast. But how
long ago is that? It was a while ago, wasn't it. Oh? Yeah,
that was a while ago.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, because I used to work in Beverly Hills at
Revel Travel and I used to see constant people working
in trucks driving through that area.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yep, yep, that's that big one huge.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I mean, how many AC compressors are on a thing
like that?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
There must be a dozen, there are ten? Ten?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Cod How does that all work out? Are there's ten
different units inside? Or ten compressors feeding one big unit?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
No?
Speaker 13 (19:47):
No, no, ten separate large scale units sitting on the roof.
It's just a flat roof house with a parapet around it.
And so we were able to get all the units
up on the roof. You can't see him. You can
see him from a helicopter, but you can't see him
anywhere from the street.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
That must have been a while ago. I don't think
they allow those on the roofs anymore, at least in Burbank.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
They don't.
Speaker 13 (20:08):
Uh, I don't know, I don't know where we stand
with rooftop package units in Beverly Hills. But yeah, it
was a it was a thing, I tell you. The
scariest part. We actually we delayed building the swimming pool.
We made the entire swimming pool, the grotto and the
bridge out of multi ton granite boulders, okay, and we
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delayed doing the pool until the house. The house was
eighty percent done, and I had to have a crane lift,
you know, craning boulders over my house. Oh man, howat
yard to place them at the pool.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
How nervous? Most stressful three days of that entire project
for me.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, one slips up and it's you know, four hundred
thousand dollars worth of damage and another.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Year straight on through.
Speaker 13 (20:55):
It's got an indoor pool, outdoor pool, the bowling alley, wine, small.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Rifle range at the bottom. It's got a lot going
on there.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
And how's that big thirty three thousand, seven hundred and
forty square feet? Do they have one big tankless water heater?
Do they have a dozen of them?
Speaker 8 (21:12):
Now?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Well, this is back in the day.
Speaker 13 (21:14):
We actually this was pre tankless out there are I
can't I don't remember how many water heaters.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
But believe me, there are a lot of them.
Speaker 13 (21:21):
There are instant hots under every sink in every bedroom,
guest suites, all on sweet baths, and uh yeah, so
hot water is only a half a second away no
matter what faucet you go to. That's just what you
get at that level.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Okay, for people everybody else in the world that can't
afford thirty three thousand, seven hundred and forty square feet,
what is that immediate? What did you mention underneath the
sink for immediate hot water?
Speaker 13 (21:47):
An instant hot, an insta hot, insta hot is a
is a plug in little electric unit that preheats the
already cooled off hot water. And but it does is
it's set up to basically feed you, yeah, about sixty
seconds to two minutes worth of piping hot water until
the real hot water from the water heater actually arrives.
(22:08):
So you don't actually notice that you're waiting for the water,
the hot water to arrive because the instant hot takes
care of that first two minute run. Oh that's a
great idea and saves water and in time and everything.
But when but you would feel when they where the
new hot water is kicking in is there any late
latency where it's like, oh, here's two seconds of cold
water before you get the new hot water.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
No, No, it works pretty well.
Speaker 13 (22:31):
They're all caulcked out pretty pretty close right on the measure,
and the instant hot senses the water and adjusts the temperature,
so you just don't even notice the transition.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Can you retrofit those?
Speaker 9 (22:43):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yeah? Are the expensive?
Speaker 4 (22:46):
You know?
Speaker 13 (22:46):
You know, I haven't checked on a price in the
last six months, but we do them pretty often. I'm
saying there about a five hundred dollars unit. That's easy,
that's great. Yeah, it's about five five to seven hundred.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I think one thing that I always I always identify
wealthy people that are different from you know, average people
are two things. One if they have a dedicated screening room,
a dedicated theater where they use it just for a theater.
And the other one is a water spigot over the stove. See,
when you're filling pots of water, you don't have to
(23:20):
carry it from the sink.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, I got a story to tell you about that,
was that? Right?
Speaker 13 (23:25):
So I was building a house that we were designing
for spec a twelve thousand square foot house in Brentwood Park,
and this was this was way back. This is the
very first house I ever had full design control over.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Oh that's cool.
Speaker 13 (23:38):
And right around the corner from OJ's house, literally like
four houses away from OJ's house, around the corner on Rockingham,
and we had this weird idea to I'm not saying
I invented this, because this was already in executive kitchens, okay,
but we had this idea, my boss and I, we
should put a pasta pot filler in this kitchen, okay,
(24:00):
one over the cook top. And so I went looking
and in every executive kitchen in LA at the time,
they were all using just weird plumbing that just would
not work attractively for a residence. I ended up finding
a and no manufacturer was making them. You couldn't pock
a Cohler or Mowing. Nobody had them. No one had them.
(24:22):
And so I ended up using one of those janitors
closet like school closet faucets, the one that had the
little hinge in the middle of the faucet. Yeah, but
we took it out and we had it stripped down,
we had it plated with brushed nickel. It cost us
fifteen hundred Bucks to have it plated in brush nickel,
and we hung it over and the day that we
(24:43):
opened it up to the first band of realtors who
came through, they were just goga and they were just like,
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Look at what they've got over the kitchen. This is
an executive kitchen.
Speaker 13 (24:54):
And now now you know, every plumbing manufacturer has a
pasta pot filler part of their design, you know, scheme.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
So you were like the the shoes sayer, the trendsetter,
the other.
Speaker 13 (25:06):
I am not saying I invented it, because again, it
was in every executive kitchen, but as far as West
La is concerned, we had never actually seen one used
in a home, and we just figured out how to
do it, and yeah, it became a thing.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
You don't be a great TV show, And I was
thinking about this over the last couple of weeks and
this just reminded me of it. But for guys like
you to go back into, you know, twenty thirty forty
years ago when you first started and take a look
at how that house is now, I think that'd be
a great series.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
It would be.
Speaker 13 (25:39):
It would be a depressing one, I guess because a
lot of them have been changed and altered away from
where to go, and it'd be like, oh, really, come on,
come on, that's great, buddy.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I appreciate you coming on, and we'll be listening this weekend.
Thanks Tim, all right, thanks man?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Are there?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
He goes Dean Sharp every Saturday and Sunday right here
on KFI Sunday, I believe, both days, also on Coco
as well in San Diego. Great show and you got
to check it out. Saturday six am to eight am,
and then Sunday at nine am until noon.
Speaker 11 (26:13):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
The Chargers are back on KFI. Yep, we're in NFL station.
And tomorrow's Hall of Fame game against the Detroit Lions
will be live on KFI starting at four pm. Pregame
four to five and the game will start from five
till eight thirty, quarter to nine, and then Moe Kelly
(26:42):
come on at nine o'clock. You're gonna feel you're gonna
hear familiar voice. Matt money Smith does the play by play,
So you're gonna hear Matt money Smith tomorrow here on KFI.
But that Hall of Fame game is a big game
starting off the NFL season every year.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Yeah, Charger fans excited to see the Power Blue. They're
on the field and cant and Ohio tomorrow night. Most
of the league will play their first preseason game beginning
next Thursday. Through the league is since Chargers legendary tight
end Antonio Gates has been inducted into the Pro Football
Hall of Fame, the Boats will play in the Hall
of Fame game tomorrow night against the Lions. Both the
Chargers and the Lions will play four preseason games, while
(27:22):
the rest of.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
The league will play three.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
It'll be the first NFL game in five months since
Super Bowl fifty nine.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Oh, that's great. The NFL is back, baby, and it
all starts tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
And not sure if this is a good momen for
the Bolts. Last time they played in the Hall of
Fame game back in nineteen ninety four. That's the year
they advanced to the only Super Bowl in franchise history,
where they lost to the forty nine Ers. Despite the
extra preseason game, coach Jim Harbau treating this camp like
any other.
Speaker 14 (27:50):
We've really tried to make it reflect the typical training
camp in terms of volume, workload, meeting time. You know,
for example, if it was the first ten days, we're
eleven hour days, they're nine hour days. Now, volume of
practice two and a half hour practice is an hour
and forty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Oh, they're cutting down. Players got to love that. That's great.
Speaker 14 (28:13):
So we've factored it in to not get too much.
I get too little either, you know.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Throughout the history of the video game Mad in NFL,
no player has been named to the exclusive ninety nine
club more than former Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald. He
achieved the perfect ninety nine overall rating, our record seven times.
Peyton Manning is second with six ninety nine clubs, and
the league might be in trouble this year. Both Bill's
quarterback Josh Allen and Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson both with
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ninety nine ratings. Not Patrick Mahomes. How will he react?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
A couple of.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Eagles making the ninety nine club running back Saquon Barkley
and right tackle Lane Johnson receivers also in the club,
Vikings Justin Jefferson and the Bengals Jamar Chase. No defensive
players last year in the club, but the Browns Miles
Garrett getting in this year. The complete list out of
the players ratings coming out on Sunday and Madden twenty
six releasing their rookie ratings. Here are the Rams top
(29:10):
five rookie ratings. Half Back fourth round pick Jarquez Hunter
is tied with a third round linebacker Josiah Stewart with
a seventy two rating. Defensive tackle Tie Hamilton's seventy one.
Wide receiver Connatel Mumpfield and tight end Terrence ferguson the
Rams top picks in last year's draft, both with a
sixty nine. As for the charge of rookies, half back
(29:31):
in the Chargers top pick Omarion Hampton gets a seventy seven.
Wide Receiver Tray Harris comes in with a seventy two.
Defensive tackle Jamari Caldwell, along with wide receiver KeAndre Lambert
Smith both with his seventy rating, and defensive end Kyle
Cannard round out the top five.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
All Right, So the NFL, you know, having a Sunday
where there's nineteen games on there's a game on Monday,
there's game on Thursday, and then Sunday is full of games.
We are back. There are four short weeks and you've
seen how quickly. These past four weeks have gone four weeks.
Was July fourth, right around there, right right around the
(30:09):
first of July, second July, fourth of July.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
That was a month ago.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
So in a quick month, we're gonna have NFL games,
meaningful you know season NFL games, not preseason, but you
know actual season games, actual you know games on every
single Thursday, Sunday and Monday. The regular season games will
be on in about a month, which is fantastic, all right.
(30:37):
A noise ordinance out in Temecula. There's that much noise
in Temecula.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Oh, you're right.
Speaker 15 (30:49):
The band those guys cover a Beastie Boys party anthem
has become a rallying cry against the city of Temecula's
noise ordinance.
Speaker 13 (30:56):
I mean, on any given night, it can be three hundred,
fifty to four undred people and it's just the vibe,
especially here at.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Bailey's is just at an all time high.
Speaker 15 (31:03):
Well, last month, the band's regular gigs at local hotspot
Bailey's Old Town dried up. The owners canceled all live
entertainment for the rest of the year after racking up
more than twenty thousand dollars in Fine.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Oh no, that's horrible. I thought Temecula is a party town.
Speaker 15 (31:20):
For violating the city's noise ordinance.
Speaker 13 (31:22):
That's the point where we just decided enough is enough.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
We can't do it right now, so we canceled over fifty.
Speaker 12 (31:28):
Thousand dollars in live entertainment contracts for the rest of
the year.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Oh that's horrible.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
I love Temecula. I thought, man, you guys were parting
twenty four hours a day. I guess there are some
older folks out there that don't like the noise. All right,
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